Daily Worker
February 28, 1925
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$5883 17 — erke 1 vt w 2 “4 ¥ * . * — 1 * * 18 e 2 5 44 15 — ꝗ—— — at Chicago, Minos under the Act bt March 3, 818. _ NEW YORK EDITION RY 28, —.— =" Published daily exce Senday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1 1 a ashington Bivd., Chicago, III. Price 3 Cents 1 WE SEE IT T, is encouraging to note the. ret’ sponse of readers of, The DAILY Te. Oe the appeal for- reef for the workers. and 8 7 to proceed with the task of funds. The committee is busy ting the necessary material ready delivery. In the meantime any con- tributions sent to the Workers’ and Peasants’ Famine Rélief Committee, 19 South Lincoln street, will be appre- ciated. One reader who sent in a} check wanted assurance that it would not pass thru the sticky fingers of the Knights 3 Columbus. No dan- ger. * # money collected by the Work- ers’ and Peasants’ Famine Relief Committee will be disbursed under the supervision of the British section of the International Workers’ Aid. That organization ‘has established headquarters in Dublin. None but workers and radicals will have a hand in its distribution. Like vul- tures the capitalists and their hench- men seize on every tragic circum- stance like a famine, to increase their popularity by doling out charity. This despite the fact that most of this suffering is due entirely to the ex- ploiting bourgeoisie. Our appeal for assistance to the workers and pea- vante in Ireland is a frank class ap- peal. 7 — 7 N connection with the Irish famine -it might be pointed out that this famine-stricken section is the most lic part ot Ireland. This need e taken as proof that the famine sor Sa It is not. But it it has et prevented fam- | u famine’ h 2 2 ing ed the misery of the Russian pea- sants and workers on the _ atheistic Gommunist government. The famine was a visitation from God! It would be well for the catholic workers and peasarfts of Ireland if they had an atheistic Communist government in- stead of the collection of Christian hangmen who now run the Free State. ss ¢ * NE good feature of the work of the International Workers’ Aid with which the Irish Workers’ and and Peasants’ Famine Relief Commit- tee is affiliated is that it brings those priest-dominated workers and pea- sants into touch with the radical movement in a very practical way. The American government recognized his when it sent its relief organiza- ‘ion to Russia and used its food and money to, destroy the Soviet govern- ment. The capitalists have been drug- ging the minds of the Irish people for generations with prayer and demoral- izing them with charity. Side by side with relief we will carry on a cam- paign of education designed to show those exploited people that only when they strike to get rid of capitalism and follow the example of their Rus- sian comrades will they be able to get rid of chronic want and periodical famines. * 7 — JALMAR BRANTING, one of the leaders of the Second Interna- tional and leading foe of Communism was eulogized by conservatives and liberals and even by some so-called radicals after his death. One of the eulogists is none other than Hoeg- lund. recently expelled from the Com- (Continued on Page 5.) | ina, Seyi Londenlierald The Union of Russian Land Work- ers is taking steps to assist the work- 1 peasants in the west of tre- who are now stricken by famine, according to a story im the London Daily Herald of February 15. .The headlines in the Herald read: “Send Help to Ireland!” “Starvation Hor- rors in Famine Are Growing”; “Liv- ing like Rats” and Mes. Crawford Appeals to Labor M. P.’s.” The Workers“ International Aid with which the Irish Workers’ and Peasants’ Famine Relief Committee in the United States is affiliated is actively engaged bringing food and clothing to the starving péople in the famine area. The following. heart- rending story was told dy Mrs. Helen Crawford, secretary of the I. W. A. to a Daily Herald reporter: “Surely it was the good God that sent ye here this morning!” Such was the cry of the mother of a starving family in famine-stricken Donegal, when handed food by Mrs. Helen Crawford, who, as British sec- retary of the Workers’ International Relief, has been touring the desolate wastes of Ireland. The incident occurred at Teelin, a village visited by Mrs. Crawford in the, course of a 300-mile motor tour. “The car came to a halt outside a little shack,” Mrs. Crawford told the seni! Herald yesterday. on his face dréw “On investi n, we er his mother ‘had-féir other all practically ‘ half-famished; an shivering in rags. There had not U a crust of bread in the mead for days. We handed over some tood. ‘The look in the eyes of the hungry .chil- dren as they devoured it was some- thing one will not soon. forget, Ruined Fishermen. “The name of the family is Dona- ghey. The father was away, gather ing sticks, which he would have to drag many miles. He is one ot the fishermen of the district who have been ruined by the operations of big trawling syndicates.” (Continued on page 5) SEEK POSTER DESIGNS 10 AID RUSSO-CHINESE EXHIBITION AT HARBIN HARBIN, Feb. 26.—The joint com- mittee for the organization of the pending Russo-Chinese exhibition, has started the printing of numer- ous posters whose main idea is the propagation of the rapproachment between China and the Union of So- viet Socialist Republics. A contest for the best designs of such post- ers has been declared, and several prizes will be awarded for the best models presented. The area under the exhibition is to be at least 80,000 sq. yards, in the New Town (Moscow Square). The numerous pavilions, surround- ing gardens, turf, etc. are to be artistically arranged. revolutionary worker. Give us your order NOW! THE DAILY WORKER, MARCH IS THE MONTH OF REVOLUTION || And on March 5 HERE will be a special 12-page issue celebrating the 6th anniversary of the Commuist International. it will include features about the history of the Communist inter- national, Women’s Day (which falls on March 8), articles on the Paris Commune—a special issue of information and inspiration for every Price: 2 cents a copy in bundle orders. Fill out, clip and attach your remittance to this blank. BBO BBP : —Uf᷑ LP LLL LLL LL LE LLL LL LL LL LL T K PEE 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, III. R 3 C. |. ISSUE OF MARCH 5, to be sent to: U ( Street 1 A ˙ ˙ N Kt ww eanateule copies of the SPECIAL “hk bare- : * * — elared that the treaty ended the un- | rous meetings to verer eee laws. in hie speech here before the joint ses- sion of the Indiana house — gen- tries from which we permit immi- . gration. Davis ebe the admittance of farmers, skilled and unskilled la- borers only when that kind of labor ‘eannot be found in my United States. 2 JAPS CEL SOVIET HIT OLD PALS Marks End of | American Power (Special to The Daily Worker) TOKIO, Feb. 26.—At the recent great celebration in honor of the Soviet-Japanese treaty, speakers of leading positions in public life called the treaty the beginning of Japan's breaking loose from Anglo-American influence. The celebration was-attend- ed by thousands of Japanese most prominent in politics, journalism and industry. tgp Mayr! 8 were Soviet . n C | = — ¢ Kn * * — at Peking. p * * Ts ’ friendliness caused by the ill-advised Japanese military intervention made at the request of the American and British governments. It was also stated that the Wilson- ian doctrine of self-determination of nations had been but the hypocritical covering applied by the Versailles treaty solely at the expense of Ger- many, and that only by the superior power of the Red Army had Soviet Russia been prevented from becom- ing a similar victim. Subscribe for the Daily Worker:! ~ 7 . . * 0 FE . * * — 2 ae wR 1 * e 843 * * ' . - t 14 : . 7 A “BREAK ‘STRIKE to Be rch 3 : Tepair men and 0 brs working ey wage scale, esident of the “Union, 7 4 declared seid they were not blu ssioner of Public Works itement that the men red if they did not ret next Tuesday. ad rubbish col. organized into iove toward re- ‘downtown hotels and it was. said at the non-union them in a sym- Increased . epidemic bage and rub- pile up on the m front of all " mss buildings. The @ with rubbish, even ction. r ment has been t the strike- | by the city next t Police Mathew 21 police depart- ment ue works depart- to break the strike. b. section and held late 89. W. Wash- tempted to en e be by mak- ing an. otter: ot u Wages. to the toremen b mer returned to work, but re the demands of the street laborers. This offer was spurn- ed, it is declared. The ultimatum o& Sprague, ordering the men to return to work or forfeit their jobs, was sent to the strikers individually; over the heads of the union officials. A meeting Ras been arranged be- tween Carrozzo wid the garbage and rubbish collectors: employed by priv- ate firms, at whith the question of a sympathetic strike» will be formally considered. SEVERINO, MICHIGAN DEFENDANT, ANSWERS LIES OF “D. OF J.” IN A STATEMENT GIVEN TO THE PRESS (Labor Defense Council Press Service.) In the effort to cancel the citizenship of Angelo V. Severino, one of the defendants in the Michigan cases, the United States district attorney of Cleveland in an amended petition makes his main basis of attack on Seve- rino’s citizenship by stating that Severino, when he took gut a.citizenship paper “did not believe in organized government.” on the fact that A. V. Severino is now a Communist. Severino, on being interviewed, has emphatically stated that in the first place, while he is a Communist today at the time he took out his citizenship This is based presumably papers in 1915 there was no thing as a Communist Party or move- ment existing and that therefore to make his membership in the Com- munist, Party retroactive to 1915 is ridiculous; and in the second place the Communist movement to which he belongs today believes in organ- ized government. Further along in his statement he points out that he has always been a believer in organized government and is a believer in organized govern- ment today as a member of the Com- Munist movement. However, his conception of who shall rule this country differs radical- ly from that of those who are at- tempting to utilize all sorts of un- truths to deport him, his conception being that the workers and farmers shall be the organized government of the United States. To accuse him therefore of being against organized government he pointé out is simply another untruth added to the many lies the powers that be utilized to misrepresent the such charactér of the Communist move- ment. Severino has been a candidate for city councilman and congressman in Cleveland on - various occasions on the ticket of the Workers Party and on the platform ef the Workers Party. Severino is especially well-known in Cleveland for his activity as 2 trade unionist andbas one vitally in terested in the progress of the co-op- perative movement in Ohio. He nas held various officas in the Bricklay- ers’ Union and large co-operatives in the state of Ohio, having been vice- president of the Co-operative Dairy of Cleveland, and atmember of the ar- bitration board of his union, as well as a delegate to de various of their conventions. In view of the activities of Severino to accuse him of not being a believer in organized government is exposing the ignorance of the authorities again. Get a sub in your shop! RATIFICATIONS OF RUSSO-JARANESE TREATY EXCHANGED AT PEKING, CHINA PEKING, Feb. 26.—Ratifications of the Russo-Japanese treaty, by which _dapan formally recognizes the Soviet governmnt of Moscow in exchange for important concessions on the Russian half of the island of Saghalien und other preferred nation treatment, ese Minister Kenkichi Yoshizawa and Leo M. Karakhaf, Soviet ambassador to Peking this afternoon. ’ ' were exchanged Were between Japan- 2 wage ators. the union and non-union fields. The operators are said to be seeking a re-adjustment of wages because, they claim, non-union mines have cut their scales one-third since the Jacksonville agreement went into effect, and thus they say, they are able to undersell union oper- Coal Barons Open War At Cleveland, March 6, On Jacksonville A greement (Special to The Daily Worker) BUTS PITTSBURGH, Feb. 26 operators of western Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio and Indiana the so-called central competitive field, will meet at Cleveland on March 6, in an effort to break the Jacksonville wage scale agreement for miners which is scheduled to run until April 1, 1927, it was learned from reliable sources here today. f Operators of western Pennsylvania have been invited to the meeting, John A. Donaldson, vice president of the Pittsburgh Coal company told the press. Officials of the Pittsburgh Coal Producers Association will meet next Tuesday to decide whether or not they will attend the meeting, Donaldson who is chairman of the scale committee and a member of the executive committee of the Pittsburgh association, said. They fail to state, however, that they have mines in both COAL MINERS’ UNION LOST MANY MEMBERS UNDER JACKSONVILLE PACT lows: wage scale contracts now existing be- tween the United Mine Workers of America and the coal operators whose interests are represented in this con- ference, and heréby extends the same for a period of three years, from April 1, 1924, -to March 31, 1927, in all of their terms: provisions and conditions. further phe otintions the district and sub-district agreements now in effect in the district affected. “2. That an interstate joint confer- ence of the central competitive field shall assemble the second Monday in February, 1927, at Miami, Florida, anc the president of the United Mine Workers of America, and the chHair- man of this joint interstate confer- ence are authorized and instructed to send out notices at the proper time as to the assembling of the confer- ence.” This was the agreement accepted by Lewis in lieu of the proposition for a shorter work day and week and nationalization of the mines made by the progressive miners. Thjs surren- der paved the way for the present grand assault on the United Mine Workers of America. The only re- sult of the Jacksonville pact was to tie the hands of the miners. It was more honored in the breach than in the observance by the operators. Pact Violated by Operators. Before the ink with which the sig- natures were written, was dry, the coal barons began to post notices of wage reductions. Union mines were closed down and non-union pits open- ed. This preparation for the inevit- able assault on the entire union was ignored by Lewis who continued his attacks on the militants within the union. In future articles The DAILY WORKER will show the rapid loss in membership of the United Mine Workers of America thru the traitor- zus class collaboration and union- splitting, policy of Lewis“ and com- pany and will point out the neces- ity for new leadership of the miners’ inion. Negro Lynched as Slayer SHREVEPORT, La., Feb. 26.—Joe Airy, Negro, alleged slayer of N. A. Yarbrough, state highway officer, was lynched today near Benton, La., by a mob after being wounded by a deputy sheriff. FEDERAL JUDGE TAKES TITLE AS AFRICANS SP URN LAGKEYISM | WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 26.— The senate authorized Federa Judge Clayton of Alabama to accept a decoration given him dy the French government. Borah spoke against the resolution, declaring that “lackeyism has gone far enuf.” it has just been learned that the assembly at Cape Town, South Af- rica has told King George to re- frain from conferring any titles upon his subjects domiciled or Wy ing in South Africa and Southwest Africa.” ' ' The Jacksonville pact, which was signed Feb. 19, 1924, at Jacksonville, Florida, between the coal operators of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Western Pennsylvania, known as the central competitive field, one the one hand and officials of the United Mine Workers of America on the Tee reads as fol- “1. This Joint Conference of Operators and Miners of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Western Pennsylvania, as now constituted, hereby reaffirm the execution of this ‘extetids withont LABOR FAKERS AND PRIEST Workers Party Is Feared by False Leaders (Special to The Daily Worker) UTICA, N. V., Feb. 23. (By Mail.)— Thru a local paper a meeting was called of the New York mills textile workers on February 22, It was an- nounced that Joseph White, organizer of the United Textile Workers, would address the meeting at the union hall. When the first workers began to come, one said that he was at the Polish church and the priest an- nounced to the workers in the church that there would be no meeting at the union hall. Polish Priest Mixes In. As only a few workers came around, mass meeting until a week from Sun- day. Then the committee had went 22nd. It is clear that the “leaders” fear to let the workers have a meet- ing after they read the wage cuts. The textile workers of the New York pointed with Organizer White and President T. F. McMahon. These worthies keep telling them: Wait“ and “Wait.” Don't go out on strike,” they keep saying, “there is still a chance for settlement.” This is dis- gusting the workers. Fake Leaders Fear Daily Worker. The strike of the Utica Steam and Mohawk Valley cotton mills held a meeeting this morning at the Labor Temple. When White (Continued on page 6.) Three Giant Radio Sending Stations in Soviet Russia MOSCOW, Feb. 26.—Soviet Russia has three radio sending stations, at Moscow, Leningrad and Nishni-Nov- gorod. These are under the control of the commissariat of posts, tele- graphs and telephones. MINE DISASTER LAID AT DOOR OF GOAL PLUTES Even the U. S. Bureau Blames Operators (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C.,, Feb. 26.— That The DAILY WORKER was jus- tified in blaming the mine disaster in Sullivan, Indiana, on the criminal negligence of the coal operators, be- cause of their refusal to instal safety devices, is more than borne out by a statement issued by Secretary of the Interior Work. When the coal oper ator’s own government is compelled to make this admission it shuld be evident to all that the charges in Communist press against the greedy coal barons do not overdraw the picture. 75 8 ry ‘Work’s statement for lows: "Tt 16 reported that this mine die aster, the greatest in the history of Indiana, was caused by open lights. which ignited gases in the mine. If so, the Sullivan catastrophe empha- sizes the great hazard to the lives of American coal miners in thé contin- ued use of the open flame lamp in mines, “Several hundred thousand open lights are daily carried in the coal mines of the United States. each lamp being a hazard to life ani property thru fire or explosion. Open lights have been responsible for many coal mine disasters in the past. “Reccrds compiled by the burear. of mines of this departmént covering inquiry developed that the committee | flames have been of Local 753 had held a meeting on cause of numerous fires and over one the Friday previous and postponed the hundred explosions in mines, with a to the Polish priest and told him that | mines there would be no meeting on the some instances. was asked t a period of 17 years show that open the contributing | death roll of about 3,000 men and | tremendous property damage, the being entirely wrecked in “Such explosions are preventable The proper steps should be taken not DAILY WORK- | only to guard against accumulations ER and the Workers Party leaflet on of gas and coal dust, but to eliminate | open flames of every kind from mines | because neither gas nor coal dust will mills are very indignant and disap- explode without a flame to ignite them “The true path of safety for coal operators and miners is to follow the policy of keeping every kind of an open flame, whether from matches sparks, explosives, candles, oil lamps or carbide lamps out of coal mines.” Secretary Work further stated that the bureau of mines of the interior department had been issuing insistent and repeated warnings over a long period of years against the danger of open flames in coal mines. He said that future disregard of these warn ings would add to the heavy tol of life, the latest of which occurred in the mine disaster in Indiana. — Prepare For Next War. WASHINGTON, Feb. 26— President Coolidge today re-appointed Major | General Amos A. Fries as chief of the chemical warfare service Get a member for the Workers Party — — STRIKE STEMS WAGE CUT TIDE IN WOONSOCKET, R. I., TEXTILE MILLS WOONSOCKET, R. the United Textile Workers and the ful in steming the wage cut tide. the plants of the Pawtucket Hosiery I., Feb. 26.—A strike of four hundred cotton yarn workers at the Forestdale Manufacturing company plant at have defeated wage cuts of five and ten per cent. the strike is being terminated after the reaching of an agreement between Forestdale it was announced, and management. This is one of the few cases Where textile workers have been success Strikes are continuing at Pawtucket. in company and the Greenhalg Mills and funds are being solicited from workers in surrounding mill towns.
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Page Tw6 es ———— 8 — — VETO PAY RAISE FOR POSTAL MEN But the Cabinet Boost Embarrasses Him WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—President Coolidge has told visitors that he is consulting. Postmaster General New on the postal wage and revenue bill which is about to reach him, and that he is impressed by the fact that the treasury will have to carry $22,000,- 000—the amount of the wage increase for the 300,000 employes from Jan. 1 until April 15, when the higher charges for postal service to the public come into force, The intima- tion is given that he may veto the bill. He can do this by simply fail- ing to sign it, and congress will not be here to pass it over his veto when his ten days period of deliberation has expired. This pocket veto has been used in past administrations against postoffiice workers’ wage re- Ome circumstance favoring the chances of his signing the bill in the fact that at the same time he must consider the bill increasing by $3,000 the pay of cabinet officers and by $2,500 the pay of congressmen and senators. He cannot easily veto the living wage for postal workers and grant the entertainment bonus for the higher-ups. Polis h Soldiers Invade Soviet Russia, But Hastily Retire MOSCOW, Jan. 13.— (By Mail)— Kharkov reports that on the night of January 5, a detachment of the Pol- ish regular army some forty men strong, suddenly and without any ap- parent reason crossed the frontier of the U. S. 8. R. and opened fire on So- viet sentries in the vicinity of the small frontier village of Yampel. Having entered into Soviet terri- tory, assailants came to the local commandmant’s office which they bombed with hard grenades and op ened rifie fire upon. The Soviet guards replied to this shooting, one of the assailants being killed in the ensuing fusillade; after this the at- tacking body was forced to retreat into Polish territory. Immediately upon the receipt of this information the government de- tailed a special commission to investi- gate the whole affair on the spot. Claim Death of Sun Yat Sen Is Nearer PEKIN, Feb. 26.—Sun Yat Sen, dy- ing, South China leader of the na- tional revolutionary movement, was rapidly approaching the end today, ac- cording to his attending physicians. He is gradually growing weaker. Reject Cate“ Farm Scheme. WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.— By a vote of 203 to 175 the house today re- jected the fake co-operative market- ing legislation sponsored by the presi- dent’s agricultural commission, and substituted the pending bill fathered by Representative Dickinson of Iowa. COOLIDGE WOULD To — — KEEP “EMO * — 3 * . 8 4 ‘ : * ‘ * * 2 an "gee tis ; ; paar Pap EN 0 ant be 8 S e high * ne ‘ 1 ro ay bag 2 n Nn 1 Nl — r d Ie Oe ee iy Oe! Ns ea a Be 6 > Samay . e r ,,,, ¶ . ee. eR es |e . N S erg 5 3 i at ee. So ie: Sk ey 2 5 3 ** a Pe es Pe . J 7 ö 72 a ’ 7 2 ‘= * F. PE OE By i; ’ 8 Cx aay e > b ne a 8 N ‘ * 1 * * 7 4 ; THE DAILY WORKER — tee w 2. — ne : (Special to The Dally Werder) WASHINGTON, Feb. 26—The federal courts may be called upon to de termine the legality of the ouster order drafted by the republican leadership of the senate against the LaFollette insurgent bloc, it was learned today. The LaFoallette group is contemplating an appeal to the courts for a | writ of injunction as a “defense” move against the ouster proceedings. The insurgents involved are Senator Lafollette, Wisconsin, and his followers, Senators Brookhart, Iowa; Ladd, North Dakota, and Frazier, North Da- kota, all republicans. Proceeds With the Spanking. In the face of this threat, the re- publican committee on committees is going ahead with plans to bar the in- surgents from all further senatorial services as republicans by depriving them of majority committee assign- ments. Communications have been sent to each of the insurgents asking them whether they desire to be assigned as independents. The communications were signed by Senator Watson, of Indiana, chair- man of the republican committee. None of the insurgents has as yet replied. Bables Cry For Emoluments. The insurgents meanwhile consider- ed filing a suit in the district of Col- umbia supreme court, asking a re- straining order against the republi- can majority. If such a suit is filed, the insurgents will charge the repub- lican majority is depriving them of their rightful emoluments of office without due process of law or with- out authority by law. The emoluments lost by the insur- gents if permanently onsted, would be political prestige and the right to suc- ceed to chairmanships of important committees. “Fighting Bob” Shows no Fight Yet. Filing of the suit it was said, will de- pend on the attitude taken by Senator LaFollette. To date, he has shown complete indifference to the republi- can ouster order altho he will be de- prived in the next congress of his right to succeed to the chairmanship of the powerful interstate commerce committee. It was said too that La- Follette had advised his followers against any overt opposition to the majority’s will but rather to delay their battle until the republican ma- jority sought to confirm the ouster order by a vote of the senate. Expect Coolidge to Decide. Dispute As Hughes Leaves Cabinet WASHINGTON, Feb: 26.—Pressure from all the South American countries has not brought from President Cool idge, thus far, u decision of the Tacna- Arica boundary dispute which Chile and Peru asked from, him as apbiter, but the White House how Binté that a decision may be made just as Sec- retary Hughes is leaving the), cabinet on March 4. Hughes has the responsibility of preparing the case, and Coolidge is expected to make Hughes’ findings his own. This boundary dispute has led to numerous near-wars between the two republics on the Pacific slope of South America, and, whatever the award coming from this arbitration, a loud protest from one or both coun- tries is anticipated when Hughes’ re- port is made known. e | ing, will direct this NEW YORK, ATTENTION! Paris Commune Pageant CONCERT AND BALL Sunday, March 15,™ Paris Commune Spectacle (entire audience participating) ALEXANDER ARKATOV, just arrived from Russia where he produced “The Dawn” with 60,000 workers participat- ISON SQARE GARDEN monster production. Many Other Attractive Features! Admission tickets, with one East 14th Street. Anan nriririrsirr rir ini r iii hi hp hh bhp hb hp bp bebe bebe bende be bebe bette hdd hindi tindindindn didi * 12 : BRONX, N. Y., ATTENTION! = VETCHERINKA, CONCERT & DANCE SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 28 = at WORKERS’ HALL, 1347 Boston Road, Bronx = Ausph..s, Bronx Section, Workers Party. . Proceeds for a library fund. Come and bring your friends along. = . Me th | DAILY WORKER, 75 cents; for sale at all party head- | quarters, party papers, and Workers Party office, 108 For Benefit of Party Press. | Auspices, Workers Party and Young Workers League, 108 East 14th Street, New York City. months’ subscription to the ’ : > a > * a * a a 4 4 a 4 7 4 a 4 7 7 Z a a a > a 4 a a a > . a > 4 4 4 > 4 a > „ a a 7 4 7 a 4 4 a a : Miene aa INDIANS REVOLT AGAINST PANAMA COLON, Panama, Feb. 26—The San Blas Indians have arisen in revolt against the Panama government, fol- lowing the killing of an old Indian named Peter, by the Panama police. The police had arrested the Indian and shot him down outside the gov- ernment house at Porvenir. The word of the killing quickly spread and the Indians are massing against the police on the Island of Naragana. The Indians are well- armed. An American destroyer has been sent to the scene and will use its guns to attempt to supress the Indian up- rising. A few days ago the Indians attacked the capital at Porvenir and in a battle with the police killed six and wounded a score. The Panama government has aided in dispossess- ing the Indians of their land and in- stituting the more modern industrial system, forcing the Indians to work as day laborers or factory workers. * Ward Finds Churches Have Freedom of * 5 7 5 Religion in Russia NEW YORK, Feb. 26.— Professor Harry Ward of Union Theological Seminary, also connected with the American Civil Liberties Union, finds considerable religious freedom in the Russian workers’ republic, in spite of false propaganda to the contrary, the federal council of churches reports in its weekly information service. Ward after a lenghty visit in Rus- sia reports that most of the govern- ment leaders “have a deep and even passionate conviction that religion is a menace to social progress, while at the same time they believe that individuals should have freedom to choose and practice their religion or anti-religion except when it menaces the existence of the state.” Two roots for the anti-religious convictions of leaders of revolution- ary Russia Ward finds in the react- ionary nature of the old Russian church and in the fact that the new leaders “were nurtured intellectually in the time of the alleged conflict between science and religion.” Of the old Greek church, he cites “its ignorance, its apathy to the suf- ferings of the workers and peasants, its position as one of the repressive instruments of the czar’s regime.” Tibet Fights British Influence in Move to Unite with China PEKING, Feb. 26.—Panshen Lama head of the Buddhist church with headquarters in Lhassa, forbidden capital city of Tibet, and spiritual leader of that vast province, who ar- rived in Peking yesterday, conferred with President Tuan Chi Jui today on the possibility of Tibet again re- cognizing the sovereignty of China after years of virtually independent existence. The Pekin press is vigorous in its demand that the central government do everything possible thru the visit- ing living Buddha to overthrow the so-called pro-British party in Tibet and restore the province to Pekin. It was revealed today that Dalai Lama, high dignitary of these sacred Buddhist temples in Thassa, is the leader of a party that is being sup- ported by British influence which is trying to win Tibet away from China. The split between Panshen Lama and Dalai Lama, amounting to a vir- tual schism in the Buddhist church, became so acute and the political situ- ation so serious that Panshen rushed to Pekin in an effort to save Tibet for China. Labor Defense Council, Philadelphia, Preparing for Bazaar, April 3-4 Philadelphia Labor Defense Coun- cil is preparing for a huge Bazaar that will be held Friday and Satur- day April 3, and 4 at the New Tray- more Hall. Friends and sympathizers are re- quested to leave this date open and help collect articles. Allready a radio set, a portable typewriter, several oil paintings, a diamond pin and a num ber of other valuable article have been donated. in Shanghai 18,000 Girls Under 12 Work SHANGHAI, China, Feb. 25.— A commission appointed by the adminis- tration here investigate conditions of child labor reported that there are 4.500 boys and 18/000 girls under 12 years of age in the 275 factories in- vestigated here in Shanghai. Of the remainder, 44,000 are men and boys above 12 years of age, and 106,000 are women and giris above 12 years of age. 7 The children are accepted in the factories when they are six years of age. Im 38 of thé largest cotton in- dustries 7,500 children under 12 and 61,000 women are employed. In the silk industry nearly’ 50 per cent of the children employed are under 12 years of age. a The conditions of work are very severe. The factory hands, including women and children, work over twelve hours a day. Women and chil- dren do night work as well as the men. Flag Wavers Sore at Success of New York Lenin Meeting NEW YORK, Feb. 26.— The red baiting “United States Flag Associa- tion,” in which leading republicans are interested, at a meeting in Car- negie Hall, attacked the Communists, and read a message from President Coolidge wishing them well in their drive to “secure a million patriots to defend the flag in the next war.” Coolidge said in his message that there must be “an eternal readiness to spring to the defense of our insti- tutions.” Mrs. Grace Vanamee, who made one of the speeches nominating Cool- idge at the republican convention, spoke against “red propaganda.” The flag wavers put up a thirteen year old son of a school teacher to speak against the Communists. This youngster felt particularly perturbed that the Communists had such a suc- cessful Lenin Memorial meeting in Madison Square Garden, where fifteen thousand packed the Garden and oth- er thousands could not find room to enter. He charged that Comrade Morris Spector, rteen year old member of the. “Workers, who spoke at the Lenin meeting was a “traitor.” — — Cleveland Vouth Attend Classes in munism CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 26.—The first session of the class in the “A. B. O. of Communism” will be held on Sunday, March 1. t 10:30 a. m., at 5927 Euclid Ave. l comrades who joined the Young’ Workers League after Jan. 1, 1924, must join the class by order of the local C. B. C. Non- members are welcome to join. Officers of all branches, and C. C. C. and C. E. C. members of the Young Workers League must join the func- tionary class which wil meet every second and fourth Tuesday of the month at 5927 Euclid avenue. This is also a decision of the C. E. C. The first session will be held Tuesday, Feb. 24. Young Workers League members are exempt from all other work dur- ing the hours of these two classes and must attend. Comrade C. Weiss- berg, local educational director, will instruct these classes. Jury Has Senate Strike. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Feb. 26. — Marion County Prosecutor Nemy, at the request of republican members of the state senate, today ordered the county grand jury to remain in con- tinuous session until witnesses could be subpoened to testify before the grand jury regarding the strike“ of the entire senate démocratic minority. Subscribe for the WORKER! DAILY ~~? PROPAGANDA PAMPHLETS The Labor Defense Council meets every Thursday at 8 P. M. at 521 | York Ave. and is already showing | signs of real activity. A number of interesting and attractive features Will be arranged at the bazaar among them a Costume Ball that will be held Saturday, April 4. For further | announcements watch the DAILY | WORKER, | — . ̃ — ß — rr — Two Birds to World's of a Feather ‘By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL F ˙· eR Salad ete ws: ae. 1 a 4 „ e a teil y . - te x N oa 1 j * = — — Capitalists * ae eT ODAY, sm bestows its eulogies upon two of its dead; Hjalmar Branting, former “socialist” premier of Sweden, and Medill McCormick, United States senator from Illinois. Let the workers for the moment study the manner in which all sham differences under capitalism are laid awa at these graves; resulting in anti-labor spokesmen of all breeds pouring out their fulsome praise of the services of the Swedish “socialist” and the Illinois republican on behalf of the profit system. * * ° * Branting fought Communism with all the bitterness of one of the chief leaders of the Second (socialist) Interna- tional, who was also a high priest of the league of nations —the black capitalist international; while Theodore Roose- volt, in 1918, urged McCormick's election to the United States senate pledged against “social and industrial Bol- shevism.” The New York Times laments that in Branting, “Europe has lost a sincere democrat and an ardent champion of international peace,” meaning, of course, the democracy that seeks to keep the world enslaved to capitalist imperial- ism, and the peace that is advanced with the same ambition. While the Times, democratic in politics, and one of the most loyal spokesmen of Wall Street, thus lauds Branting, the “socialist”; William Randolph Hearst, the democrat, lauds McCormick, the republican, as “a great and patriotic senator,” linking his name with those of Washington, Jef- ferson, Jackson, Lincoln and Cleveland, examples of all brands of American “tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee“ capital- ist politics. It is Hearst, with his chief echo, Arthur Brisbane, who heaps flowers upon McCormick's remains because he helped keep the United States out of “foreign entanglements,” while Vice President-elect Charles O. Dawes, the Chicago banker, author of the Dawes-Morgan plan for carrying out the peace of Versailles, that gave birth to the league of nations, also sheds tears over McCormick's “distinguished public services.” The differences between all of these capitalist lackeys, from Branting, the “socialist,” to McCormick, elected to the United States senate by Walf Street's favorite, the re- publican party, is so small, the clash of principle is so in- finitesimal, that they can be put on the shelf at will, or wiped out over night. The mourning hysteria of the money lords doesn’t have a difficult time of it in bridging the chasm between Brant- ing and McCormick. Branting Was a boon collaborator with Ebert, Bauer, Richter and other German “socialists” in- volved in the Barmat financial scandal that is Shaking the German républic to its foundations. McCormick as one of the owners, and former editor of the Chicago Tribune, stood ace high with the financial interest of LaSalle and Wall Streets. He voted with the “millionaire bloc” in congress, being one of the “Newberry senators,” putting his O. K.“ on the seating of the Michigan ti-millionaire, Newberry, who bought his election to the U. S. senate, the “million- aires’ club” of the American capitalist state. * 8s So the workers and poor farmers may save their tears. Better unite their numbers and build the power that will not only combat those who take the places of Branting and Mc- Cormick, but that will declare victorious war against the social system of plunder and pillage for which they stand. The fact that both Branting and McCormick attacked Communism should be assurance enough for all workers and poor farmers that they ought to join hands in energetic support of it. Bankers Want Ancient W hipping Post for Bandits, Not Bankers TACOMA, Wash., Feb. 26.—As a re- sult of the murder of the manager of their 38th St. branch, the National Bank of Tacoma will close all their branch banks. Holdups of small country banks, of branch banks, and elsewhere are getting more and more common. . As a result, the legislature consid- ers legalizing the whipping post: the clergy demands the bible be read in the schools; the press asasfls the moral depravity of the present day. Needless to say all these kept mouthers of capitalist propaganda never mention the economic forces, the unemployment, the low wages, which drive men into banditry. eet ee eS 6444484 444444444 Oe . dnd di te te te te in in ee a friends. buy more than one set. lai Lenin. timely pamphlet!) HIS offer of splendid pamphlets at a reduced price is to enable you to give them away to your shop-mate, your union brother and your Tell them to “take it home and think it over.” Each contains valuable material—and if you haven’t got them all in your library, you should Each set includes: 1—RUSSIAN TRADE UNIONS. 2—TWO SPEECHES BY KARL MARX IN 1850. 3—SHOULD CQMMUNISTS PARTICIPATE IN REACTIONARY TRADE UNIONS? By Nico- 4—UNEMPLOYMENT. By Earl R. Browder. (A 5—WM. F. DUNNE’S SPEECH at the Portland A. F. of L. Convention in 1923. 6—WHITE TERRORISTS ASK FOR MERCY. By Max Bedacht. (Just off the press!) Soviet Oil in Big Demand. MOSCOW—(By Mail)—The decis- ive success met with by Soviet oil products in the northern part of Af- ghanistan was the gist of the state ment made to press correspondents at Cabul by a representative of the Rus- sian Oil Syndicate, recently arrived at the Afghan capital. An experiment, which has just been made, he said, in sale of Soviet oii also in the south of Afghanistan, has proved quite successful. A consign- ment of oil products brot to Oabul at the time of the arrival in the capital of the Oil Syndicate's representative, has been rapidly sold out there owing to prices being cheap and lower than those of the British products. An agreement has been concluded, too, for supplying oil products to a num- ber of public institutions. Join the Workers Party! Enclosed $ complete sets of “Six Propaganda Pamphlets”. YRS pamphlet only. NAME:. .. 2 STREET: State Police Bill The Illinois manufacturers’ associa- tion and the Illinois chamber of com- merce renewed their drive to force a “state police bill,” in Illinois which would assure them a force of mount- ed cossacks to break strikes that may occur in their factories. The drive is being concentrated on the Ohicago and Cook county senators, most of whom voted against the cossack bill at the last session of the Illinois legis- lature, ri “Eighteen downstate senators out of thirty-two voted for the police bill at the last session,” said Harvey. T. Hill, secretary of the Illinois cham- ber of commerce. “While only five Cook county senators out of ninete supported the measure.” | Bosses Want Returns. The Chicago representatives in the assembly have had enormous pressure placed on them with their campaign funds. The business interests have organized a club of those who have been robbed, the aim being to show that the city police force in Chicago is not adequate to check crime. . The opponents of the bill point out that in the states which have mount- ed police forces, such as Pennsyl- vania and New York, crime is as prevelent as in Illinois, the police be- ing used mainly to terrorize gtrikers. They give as evidence of the real purpose of the state police the 1919 steel strike, when the cossacks were used to prevent strikers from pick- eting. Refused to Break Strike—Morgan is Hounding Owenby WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 26.— Colonel James Owenby, who testified before the judiciary committee ot the senate against the appointment. of Harlan F. Stone to the supremecourt of the United States, has left ,Wash- ington, declaring that the Morgan and Rockefeller interests are hounding him out of the country. pak) Owenby said that Stone was anfit to serve on the supreme court, be- cause of his previous connections with the J. P. Morgan interests, which he intimated have not been severed. Owenby told how he previously. work- ed for Morgan, amassing a million dollars as part owner of the Woottee Land and Fuel company in Oelorado. Morgan, he said, forced the firm into bankruptcy and then took over the entire ownership of the company in- cluding Owenby’s shares. Stone handled. this transaction, Owenby said. “My row with the Morgan and Rockefeller people commenced when [ refused to join in the movement to hire mine guards to shoot down strik- ers in the Standard Oil mines of Colo. rado,” Owenby declared. Blacklist of Textile Barons Forces Slaves Back to Accept Cut UTICA, N, Y., Feb. 26.—The strikers of the Utica Steam and Mohawk Val- ley mills, 1,400 strong, have tied up those mills completely, only about 30 hardened scabs, including bosses and second hands showing up at the Mo- hawk Valley mill. Testimony of several girls shows that workers, who left one mill when the wage cut was put into effect, to go to work at another mill where the cut had not been announced yet, are being blacklisted and fired as quickly as identified. - This again proves that the cotton manufacturers’ association is playing one set of workers against another, beating them one mill at a time, and that it has a blacklist system to prevent the slaves—that is all one can call them—from even changing Masters. They are being forced to go back to their “own” boss and take what wages are offered. NN . — — TATA VV TVATVAAVAAAAA Ae * > THE DAILY WORKER Literature Department 1113 W. 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ber of com- re to force inois which ll point out ave mount- s; Pennsyl- rime is as o police be- ze atrikers. of the real vo the 1919 sacks were from pick- ittee of the ntment. of preme court left Wash Morgan and |) hounding » Was anit +. court, de- donnections pests, which en severed. ously work- million he Woottee n —— e firm into K over the ompany in- s. Stone 1, Owenby organ and nced when ovement to down strik- 1es of Colo- le laves spt Cut ‘he strikers ohawk Val- ve tied up y about 30 bosses and at the Mo- irls shows mill when >» effect, to where the od yet, are as quickly the cotton nda rr WN 4 ; 7 1 t 5 — ee e * 8 Naas : _— N 7 Riel ia REY 38 Les, 5 38 E eee * “ ~ 7 W aa Nov ber 2th “our” ship, the — a@ipowners’ Ruth Kaiser,” arrived “et Vladivostok. We hardly got on our moorings when our Russian comrades, inoluding the children from the Com- menist Youth League appeared on the vessel to give us, the German eomrades, a hearty word of greeting “pon our safe arrival. This gave us much joy. Right there we were in- vited to one of the clubs for a social evening. This made us feel as good as K we found ourselves in our Own home circle. We were very much sur- prised by the successes of the Com- munists at Viadiyostok. The “Ruth Kaiser” crew is greatly thankful to the Communist youth who showered upon us entertain- ments in theatres, concerts, lectures, and meetings, and to the little Pion- ers for the hearty attention shown to we. It was real joy to see how the ttle Pioneers work and how well the older generations teach them. I hope that these little Pioneers will accom- plish that which we, the older Com- munists have not succeeded in doing, while the capitalists and fascists stand in the way pointed out by Karl Marx and Lenin. The time is nearing when the “Ruth Kaiser”, will have to leave Viadivo- stok, but we still do not want to sail away without a present for the Com- munist Party of Germany. And then om December 7th @ banner was pres- ented to us by seven unions jointly for the German proletariat. It fell to me to receive;in the name of the R. K.“ crew, as a section of the German proletariat, this banner, to the tune of the Internationale. “You will point out to us the way in Germany. You will bring with you in Germany a new breath of life, there the ranks of other banners. You will pave the ‘way in Germany, through capitalism atid fascism, and lead onward to the ‘world revolution to the call of Marx and Lenin.” We shall joyfully turn this banner ever in the name of the seven Viadi- vostok unions, to the Communist Party of Germany. We shall firmly keep in our hearts ‘the ideals of the Communist youth and of the Pioneers and we shall familiarise the German Communist Youth and Pioneers with them. We thank the Port Bureau for yraising the conselousness of our comrades and telling us the truth about the work of the Russian pro- letariat. We hope to visit Viadivostok again neat yeer, and to bring with us a present from the German proletariat. Let us not forget the call of Marx and Lenin. Long live Communist Soviet Viadi- vostok! Long live the world revolution and the Third International! Signed:—Members of the German Seamens’ Union and of the Ham- burg branch of the German Com- munist Party. Vladivostok, Dec. 12, 1024. Spend Your Sunday Evening at the Dpen Forum. Progressive Miners, TO ALL MINERS OF DISTRICT ea 1, U. M. W. of A. N the eve of the district elections, the Progressive candidates and their supporters call your attention to the serious problems existing in the anthracite flelds and the brazen betrayals by the present administra- tion headed by Rinaldo Cappellini. We call your attention to the sham fight that is now being staged by Lewis against Brennan. Miners! Do not be fooled again by the election tricks of Lewis, both Cap- pellini and Brennan are the tools and supporters of Lewis. Do not be fooled by the glib speeches and the fake promises of these misleaders. They always remember your griev- ances a few weeks before the election and forget them the day after they are elected. Look upon their records of misdeeds and betrayals. Last election you voted for Cappellini. You are still reaping the bitter fruits of that mistake. URING this election campaign WE CALL ON YOU TO SUP- PORT A PROGRAM AND NOT A MAN. No leader or set of leaders who are not responsible to the rank and file can solve your problems or settle your grievances. You must do he job yourselves. Read and study this progressive program, which is the only solution to your grievances. This program was formulated and written by the miners from the pits. By men who suffer and feel the wrongs and grievances that you feel each day. We have selected from among ourselves men for candidates who accept and will fight for this program. If you agree with this program vote for it by voting for these candidates. MINERS’ PROGRESSIVE PROGRAM. RETAINING AND DEVELOPING ' OF THE GENERAL GRIEV- ANCE OOMMITTEES FOR THE BETTER EXPRESSION OF THE NEEDS OF THE RANK AND FILE. The recent strike in the Pennsyl- vania mines has ably demonstrated that the General Grievance Commit- tees are essential for the expression and settlement of the miners’ griev- ances. The grievance committee is in a position to expose the violations of the constitution by the union officials and the violations of the agreement by the operators. The grievance committee is close to, and responsive to the rank and file, therefore, our support should be given these com- mittees, so that they will develop a militant leadership which will enable the rank and file to conduct this fight. The general grievance committees, with the full support and control by the rank and file become the true me- dium for the expression of the will of the miners. The sinister forces now working for the dissolution of the grievance com- mittees must be combatted with all the power at our command. ABOLITION OF THE CONCILIA- TION BOARD. The many years experience with * the conciliation board has con- vinced every miner in the anthracite fields that no just consideration for settlement of grievances has been re- ceived or can ever be expected from this body. Hundrds of grievances are today piled up waiting for settle- ment, many long months and years in some instances, while the miner still works and suffers under the condi- tions and evils the conciliation board is supposed to eliminate. DIRECT SETTLEMENTS OF ' ALL GRIEVANCES BETWEEN THE UNION AND THE OPERATORS WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF LO- CAL AND GENERAL GRIEVANCE COMMITTEES PRESENT AT SUCH SETTLEMENTS. Insofar as we have repudiated the concillation board, which cannot and does not understand the problems of the miners, we insist that when griev- ances are being discussed and set- tled, the rank and file must be repre- sented to better and more effectively present and fight for the interest of the miners. SETTLEMENT OF ALL GRIEV- ' ANCES TO BE MADE STRICT- LY WITHIN 30 DAYS. Our past experiences have shown us that no matter how well we devel- op the machinery for the settlement of grievances, the operators and their henchmen always postpone and de- lay action until new and additional grievances develop and the old ones are forgotten. We call upon the min- ers of District 1 to demand that the settlements of all grievances be mane within thirty days. MINIMUM WAGE AGREEMENT. We demand a minimum day rate tor the contract miners and la- : TIONAL Page Three LEAGUE wages when we must wait for 5 timbers, tools, and other material, or when gas develops in the chambers. The above are the chief reasons why we can not make a shift a day and our wages cannot furnish a decent living for our, families. 6 ABOLITION OF TOPPING. The operators today demand a six inch topping at the breaker and we must put a 9-inch topping at the face. For every car we load, the op- erators recelye a ton and a half of coal for which we are not paid. Abol- ition of topping with the same num- ber of cars to a shift as today, will ) assure us payment for every ton of coal we dig | load. A SIX-HOUR DAY AND FIVE ' DAY WEEK WITH PROPOR- TIONATE INGREASE IN WAGES. John L. Lewis and the operators agreed that there are two hundred thousand miners too many in the coal mining industry. Their solution is to eliminate these “surplus” coal dig- gers by starving them out of the in- dustry. The Progressive miners con- tend that the mining industry must furnish a living wage to every coal miner. This can only be done by a six- hour day with the same wages we re- ceive while working eight hours. This is the only cure for unemployment, shortage of cars and many other evils we are suffering today. The six-hour day and the five-day week must pro- vide work and a living wage for every coal miner. AGAINST THE AUTOCRATIC * AND ILLEGAL REVOCATION OF CHARTERS BY THE PRESENT ADMINISTRATION. The richt to revoke charters pro- vides a powerful weapon in the hands of the Lewis Cappellini machine. Its recent use in the Pennsylvaniw# strike has well demonstrated how this pow- er can be used in the interest of the operators an@ against the just griev- ances of the miners. As long as the union official; have the power to out- law thousands of miners who rebel against the imtolerable conditions and DIRECT ELECTION OF DIS- ' TRICT AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZERS. The power to appeint organizers is another dangerous weapon in the hands of the corrupt officialdom that is being used against the best inter- ests of the rank and file and should be removed without delay. The only remedy for this is to amend the district and the Interna- tional constitution providing for the election by the rank and file of all organizers and traveling auditors. 1 SPECIAL INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION FOR THE .RKIN- STATEMENT of ALEX HOWAT, TOM MYERSCOUGH, AND OTHER PROGRESSIVE MINERS. The expulsion of these militant progressives is another crime in the record of the corrupt Lewis machine and must be wiped out immediately. The only crime Howat, Myers- cough and others have been guilty of was their militant activity in fight- ing for the interests of the miners against the operators and the Lewis machine. Districts 12, 24, 14 and 26 have indorsed this call for the conven- tion. We call upon the miners of District 1 to endorse this call for the special convention and bring these militant Progressives into our union to help us in our fight. ] AGREEMENTS BETWEEN ' MINERS AND TRANSPORT WORKERS. There must be a real fighting al- liance between the men who dig the coal and those who haul it. In the event of a national strike the miners and the transport workers must help one another. 1 NATIONALIZATION OF ' MINES. The growing trustification of the coal industry is threatening to de- stroy the organized miners. Ry in- troduction of modern machinery thou- sands of miners are being eliminated every year. The only solution for these major evils lies in the govern- ment ownership with workers con- ignored grievances, the welfare of the miners and the effectiveness of our union are in danger. The use of the right to revoke char- ters has been repeatedly used by Lewis to: keep himself in power and | to throttle @¥ery militant miner or local that supports a militant program borers that will assure us 4 day’s of action trol of the mines under the direction of competent coal miners in the in- * terest of society. 13 INDEPENDENT WORKING CLASS POLITICAL ACTION. Independent working class political action under the leadership of a rev- ct 1, Election Statement party striving for the abolition of capitalism and the establishment of a workers’ and farmers’ government. ] ORGANIZATION OF THE UN- * ORGANIZED FIELDS. Over one-third of the miners in Am- erica are unorganized today. This situation threatens the existence of our union. We demand that an in- tensive organization campaign be started to bring every miner into the U. M. W. of A. 1 EQUAL WAGES, WORKING ‘ CONDITIONS, AND RIGHTS IN THE UNION FOR YOUNG MIN- ERS. ] RECOGNITION OF * RUSSIA. The Progressive miners demand the unconditional recognition of Soviet Russia, not only because trade with Russia would stimulate industry in this country, but also because the Russian workers by their heroic struggle have abolished capitalist ex- ploitation and now own the industries and run them in the interests of the working class. BEWARE OF SECESSION MOVE- MENTS. The progressive miners are uncon- ditionally opposed to all secession and dual union movements. The unscru- pulous actions of the district and In- ternational officials have created dis- trust and despair among many min- | rs, in some instances this has creat- ed a sentiment for secession from the U. M. W. of A. The. Progressive min- ers warn you against such move ments. We must remain within the ranks of the U. M. W. of A. and set- tle our differences there in a practic- al and constructive manner. THE FOLLOWING CANDIDATES ARE DIRECTLY FROM, THE FACE. THEY ACCEPT AND WILL.. FIGHT FOR THE ABOVE PRO- GRAM UNRESERVEDLY. SOVIET IF YOU AGREE WITH THE PROGRAM, VOTE FOR THESE CANDIDATES. FOR DISTRICT PRESIDENT Bernard Zaleskas, Local 838, Nanti- coke, Pa. FOR DISTRICT VICE-PRESIDENT John Witcunas, Local 846, Nanti- coke, Pa. FOR DISTRICT SECRETARY- TREASURER Local 306, Old Forge, Pa. Olutionary working class political Phillip Sabatelli, Progressive Miners’ Committee. TWO BIRDS WITH YELLOW PLUMES SING NEW SONG Need Big Pay for Gov- ernor, Not Workers (Special to The Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich., Feb. 26. —While reporting on the proceedings of the Michigan Federation of Labor con- vention, Dennis E. Batt and John T. Taylor, delegates from the Detroit Federation of Labor stated at the Detroit Federation of Labor meet- ing Wednesday, February 18, that the convention had adopted a resolu- tion that the governor’s salary be boosted from $5,000 to $15,000 4 year. The two “labor leaders” offered the following reasons for their ac- tion: that we must keep politicians honest with large salaries: that the salary must provide a decent stand- ard of living for the office holder; and that the salary must attract men of proper calibre to the office. But $16 a Week For Sick Workers On the other hand, these proper calibred labor statesmen, saw fit to approve a report which raised the maximum compensation for injured workers from $14 to $16 per week. Thus it appears that in the opinion of these two former revolutionaries, $15,000 is necessary to attract the proper calibred politician to provide a decent living and to keep him honest, while workers can be attract- ed to hazardous jobs with a munifi- cent average “salary” of $832.00 and a promise of compensation when in- jured of $16.00 a week. Honest Workers Not Necessary Comparing the $15,000 for politic ians with $832 for the workers would make it appear that these sober and responsible ex-radicals are more seal- ous for the welfare of capitalist poli- ticlans than for workers injured in the productive process. The $16 maximum compensation is the result of a report of a commission of three appointed by the governor on which John Scanell “represented” la- bor. Scagell is also an ex-radical and as servile a tool as ever represented capitalism in the ranks of labor. Patronize our advertisers. UNITED FRONT AGAINST BOSSES WELCOMED BY TEXTILE WORKERS BUT FOUGHT BY UNION OFFICIALS UTICA, N. ¥.—The leaflet of the when handed out to the striking wor Valley Cotton Mills. General The officials of the United Texti ing ground with the rank and file when all know that the whole group of mill companies are closely organ- ized and working together. A statement issued by the union concerning the Utica Steam and Mo- hawk Valley company, shows clearly that the plea of poverty of the mill owners is pure fake. The authorized capital of this cor- poration was $10,000,000; $7,000,000 Remington Portable Every Featuse Common to the Big Machines Yer it is so small that it 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: Durability and Reliability Compactness and Portability Four-Row Standard Keyboard Ease of Operation Beautiful Work— Alavays Usiverial Service Price, complete with case, $60. Easy payment terms if desired. Order from ; Ins DAILY ' WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, u below the Strike Workers (Communist) Party appealing to all workers to unite upon a broad scale to fight the textile wage cuts with a great general strike, has caused much favorable comment here kers of the Utica Setam and Mohawk idea Gains le Workers are finding it hard to re- strain the workers in the New York mills from making common cause with their striking fellow workers, since the ideas of the Communists are gain- members of the union. The officials have had to do a lot of “explaining” that doesn't explain anything to the workers on strike, who see the New York mills workers going to work of which stock was issued or sold, August of 1901, when the concern was organized and chartered. Since that time, or rather in the period from August 1901 to August 1907 a seven per cent dividend was paid regularly, making a total of $490,000, or for the six year period $2,940,000. From August 1907 to August 1909 a regular dividend of eight per cent was paid annually, or $560,000 per year, and for the two year period $1,120,000 was received by the stock holders. For the period from Augast, 1909 to October, 1917, 10% per cent, or $735,000 was paid in dividends annu- ally, and for the eight year period $5,880,000. From October, 1917 to De. cember, 1923, 12% per cent was paid annually, amounting to $876,000, mak. ing the amount paid in the six- ‘year period $5,250,000. In 1922 a five per cent extra bonus was paid representing $350,000 in money, and in 1923 an eight per cent extra bonus was paid to stockholders representing $560,000. Thus the total received by stock- holders in the Utica Steam and Mo- hawk Valley Cotton Mills in the form of regular dividends and extra bon- uses between the time of organiza- tion, in August, 1901, and December 31, 1923, on the $7,000,000, the amount of stock out, was $16,100,000. Over twice the amount of the original in- vestment in a period of 22 years. Aside from these dividend pay- ments all expenses and taxes were paid as well as corporation taxes to the state and nation, leaving in the company treasury a large surplus over and above this.128 per cent paid out in dividends on a $7,000,000 stock issue during the past 22 years, as well as keeping up improvements on machinery and buildings. It is known that similar profits have been and are being made by all the other companies in the cotton manufacturers association, which, de spite these swollen fortunes, are re ducing the wages of.the workers to line. — — — — aot your ticketg, for Red Revel Bail, THIS Is OE AIM OF T f. U. E. L., HELP-US GET IT! Put Our Daily Ahead of | the Rote Fahne BERLIN At 4 a recent conference While Rowan Splits Union Bosses Speed Up Tunnel Workers TUNNEL CAMP, High Sierras, Cal. — While the only union in the general the Construc Union No. is torn to pieces construction industry, tion Workers Industrial 310 of the I. W. W., by reactionary injunctiOnites of the Rowan faction posing as “revolution- ists,” the big contractors are getting away with the worst kind of slave in Berlin, 62 correspondents and re- porters of the Communist daily, the | Rote Fahne the Red Flag—assem- bled to confer as to the duties and re- sponsibilities of proletarian news gatherers. Many of the final resolutions adopt- driving. This is seen by the way the South- ern California Edison company, build- ing the Florence lake tunnel, the long- est, widest bore in the world, has bamboozled thé construction workers ed by the conference dealt with Com- munist affairs and with plans for the future development of the Fahne; for forming communications | with correspondents in foreign coun- | tries, for extending work amrong the youth and women of the working | Rote | class. The Voice of the Masses. | One resolution, however, reads? “The workers“ correspondent who | lives and works with the working class, whose voice sounds from the very center of the working masses, is the best bond between the newspaper and the working class.” Another reads: The activity of the workers’ correspondent consists in reporting conditions in the shops and mills and mines, in the lives of the workers, and in the bourgeois state. There should be, however, no limit to his purely literary activity. The proletarian journalist and author finds a footing.enly in the Communist press.” A Collective Expression. The Rote Fagne has over one hun- dred contribut@érs, some of whom along with thie editors, Steinicke, Apelt and Gentgth, are in jail at pres- ent, others being employed in factor- les, so that uy were unable to at- tend the first nference of proletar- ian journalists. “Economic Power of Lumber Jacks Fades Into Unemployment TACOMA, Wash., Feb. 26.—The St. Paul and Tacortig Lumber Co. has laid | off the night sheet. All local mills are now on the five day week. Camps are not open! Despite the lies of the kept pres§A. business conditions are getting steadily worse. The city enftployment office reports 1091 applying For work and only 401 jobs in Januagfy,, Many of these jobs only lasted a days. — —— the company. advance meer into speeding up, and by this game has saved no less than $6,000,000 for The bosses have even got the slaves to betting against each other's speed. Wagering huge sums on their | prowess as rock drillers, two crews at work on the tunned project have | qompleted construction 22 months in of schedule. Pushed along by “fighting spirit,” increased by their betting, the labor ers have so reduced the finishing time of the bore that it will catch the “run off” from this winter’s melting mountain snows, creating a water storage valued at more than 31.000 VOU. This, coupled with the interest sav- ing on $17,000,000, the tunnel’s cost, will save the company a total $6,000,000, officials said. Pa _ COSTUMES! The Famous — Masques, Individual Costu Little Greenwich — — Masquerade Ball The Event of the Season! will make the hardened denizens of Midnight Surprises????? Saturday Evening, February 28 37 SOUTH ASHLAND BOULEVARD - - =- - Tickets in advance 50c, at the door 75c Get your tickets at the local office, Workers Party, 166 W. Washington Street, or at the DAILY WORKER office, 1118 W. Washington Blvd. ‘EVERETT CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL WARNS WORKERS Lumber Ravens Trying to Beat Millmen EVERETT, Wash., Feb. 26.— The Central Labor Council here, after finding that the lumber mill owners had been advertising plenty ‘ployment in eastern centers follow- ing the demand of their employes for an increase of 50 cents per day, has sent the following circular letter to all other central bodies and the labor press: February 20, 1925. To Central Labor Bodies, Dear Sirs and Brothers: After investigating statements that the number of idle workers of all kinds had been greatly increased in this city and vicinity during the pre- ceding few weeks, the Everett Cen- tral Labor Council instructed its sec- retary to prepare and send out to points in the United States and Cana- da. from which the misinformed, mis- led and unfortunate workers have come, a fair and accurate statement as to the real conditions now existing | here | These men have been here by false and misleading state- ments inspired and published by sel- | of | fish interests for the purpose of per- petuating a low wage standard in the — — COSTUMES!! Red Revel mes, and Groups that Village gasp. of em- | On to the Red Revel! WEST END WOMEN’S CLUB HALL CORNER MONROE STREET lumber and other industries of the northwest. These articles began to appear and the number of job hunters to increase soon after mill operators in. Everett learned that a petition for an increase of 50 cents per day in wages of their employes was being circulated. The employers did not wait for presentation of the petition, but forthwith posted notices at their plants that a five-day week would be inaugurated two days later, “because of depressed condition of the lumber market; yet six of the 14 lumber mills here were then operating night shifts and continued to do so after the short week was established. | Mill workers, whose minimum was es are $3.50 per day while those of | organized common labor in other in- dustries are $6, then began to realize that organization was absolutely nec- essary to maintain decent standards of living. Within the past two weeks the Sawmill Workers’ Union, affiliat- ed with the A. F. of L., has signed up more than 300 members and is the largest union affiliated with this coun- cil. The object of this circular letter is to warn workers elsewhere that the | reports that jobs are plentiful hére are false and that to come here with- out other means of maintaining exist- ence than their wage-earning power will be merely to increase the already too large army of destitute job hunters. Recipients of this letter are re- attracted | duested to give this subject as wide publicity as possible, | Fraternally yours, Everett Central Trades Council, C. H. Packard, Sec. —— — te he te te tn hn te tn te te ha tn he te ~ COSTUMES!! GIDDUP! — rr ~
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CHILD SLAVES IN NEW YORK Schools and State Are Aids to Explotation (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Feb. 26.—The manu- facturers of New York, banded to- gether in the “museum for national safety,” when faced with the fact that 1,983 children employed in their fac- tories.in New York’ state were ser- iously injured last year, instead of taking the children out of industry and paying their fathers a living wage, inaugurated a campaign to “teach the children working in the factories safe- ty precautions.” In conjunction with this huge indus- The unorganized workers in the the Ruhr ind tendent of Police B advising him Anyway, don't let this prevent you from “kicking.” Make it a com- Which it dictated and thru the estab- t hine which exploits little e Ruhr industrialists on account of ' ' : . of education wil! milie are compelled to sien pleages their supposed losses on their mi- that the Workers would hold] radely “kick”—state the facts and the DAILY WORKER force will im- lishment by Americans of sugar, pine. teach the children in the continuation | for definite amounts. But organized cum” (Mission Industrielle pour le meetings under any aud all circum-| mediately get on the trail of the error of ommission or commission and apple and cotton plantations.” ©“ ~'» schools, who are expected to enter in- labor, speaking thru the Tacoma Cen-] Controle des Usines at des Mines) nen, ie jon Feb. 20, dustry when still very young, the safety devices used in the factories. The state department of labor has also enlisted in the campaign to exploit New York’s children on a more profit- able and scientific basis. Trustees of the museum of safety, which declares as it aim “the reduc. tion of work accidents among chil- dren,” include, Elbert H. Gary, chair- man of the United States Steel Corp., William D. Baldwin, chairman of the RITE T HYPOC WEEP OVER “PO BUT FIGHT CHIL PAPERS _ CHILDREN” TACOMA, Wash., Feb. 26.— Charity is said to cover a multitude of sins. But there are limits. ing big salaries, so when this year’s given over to telling how it was ptrely a local aflair. Last year there were too many outsiders draw- drive started most of the ads were But at the end of the allotted ten days they lacked over $40.000 of the required $220,000. Hypocrites Fought Child Labor Law And now the kept press and the backers of the drive are raising a pitiful wail about the “poor children But it doesn’t work. There are very and mothers” wWho can’t be helped. few supposedly charitable organiza- tions involved. The bulk of the money will go to three fake charitable organizations, the associated charities, the salvation army, and the volunteers of America; and four non-charitable organizations, the . M. C. A., the V. W. C. A., the boy scouts and the girl scouts. This is too raw to fool the people. The papers which are now howling about the poor children, hestitated at nothing in attacking the child labor amendment. Thousands for charity but to hell with justice is their motto. Labor Council Does its Duty. tral Labor Council, refused to help the grafters. It reminded them that the bankers and business men back‘ of the drive have always fought for lower wages and longer hours, and that if it were not for such rotten conditions charity would not be neces. sary. Recently the city council refused to do anything to aid the unemployed. It has fought against the union scale of wages for the employes on the mu- MINE OWNERS GOT RICH BY ‘GOING BROKE Got Government Pay and Cut Wages (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, Germany, Feb. 26.—How profitable was the indemnity paid to deliveries to France appears to be revealed by statements by Morus in the weekly Welt Buehne. Morus asserts that, thanks to the payments by the German government to industries in the Ruhr, the coal industry alone made from $35,700,000 to $47,600,000. Get 5 Marks a Ton The coal interests received from the government a profit of 5 gold LABOR LAW —~ Waterbury Police Bow * to Communists WATERBURY, Conn., Feb. 26.— Communist speeches were made at the meeting held recently at 103 Green St., but the police dared not interfere. It was a splendid victory for the Workers Party. . Previous Meeting Stopped. Readers of the DAILY WORKER will rétall that at th meeting a snooping tive, Matthew Holar rade Balys Krasauskgs gan to praise the Wo ist) Party. The district execut District 15, was detern the case, and immediate a strong letter ot protest to Superin- was f rranged, with tl man, Comrade Ida Rothstein, well- known needle trades militant, con- demned the police for their high- handed action in Jantary, and warn- ed them that its repetition would bring on an energetie fight. Waterbury a Profit Paradise. * 3 3 ca fee ; A SS * 7 7 te * N 8 A a BUILDER ‘and you must renew—don’t worry. get the paper. if you' have changed your address. DAILY WORKER office. him your “kick.” and make him do the “kicking” for office explain or apologize. Sy AT » When You Get Disappointed— ECAUSE you have sent in your subscription and receive your paper —and then receive a letter telling you that your sub has expired a 7 — 4 K it may mean that your sub has you. expired and your name has been taken ‘off the list and then your remit- tance arrived and you were again put on the list. Of course if your paper fails to arrive be sure to let us know at once. Tell us the dates missing’ and we will go to the post office to straighten it out. And don’t get disappointed when-you have moved and then fail to Sometimes we fail to get the notice from the post office and WE DON’T KNOW you have moved. Be sure to write us at once These two causes for complaint are not always the fault of the At all times our small force is just flooded with work and errors will occur. But every worker is a comrade anxious to do his or her share and striving hard to please every subscriber. arrange to let you know at once that everything is again O. K. lf you have a DAILY WORKER agent in your branch or city tell But tell him also the facts: names, address, dates— And that will sure make the in fact we will be glad to do it. CHINESE EASTERN RAILWAY UNDER SOVIET CONTROL IN BIG SHOWING IN WEST INDIES Rabbed of Land in Haiti WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 26.— American financiers have established a network of large plantations in Haiti thru which small form owners are being turned into day laborers cial welfare organization, turned from Haiti said in a reports: sued here. The investigator urged system and the gradual expropriation of the land of the people,” the investigator’s report stated. “This same process has been initiated in Haiti since the American occupation thru premissive labs Tax on Big Fortunes to Be Shoved on the Cockroaches by Cal WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 26.— Administration officials, particularly Andy Mellon, multi-millionaire secret- ary of the treasury, are figuring on putting over Coolidge’s scheme to re- duce the taxes on millionaires in- d martes (61.86) cn e tan a Geel HARBIN, Feb. 3 (By Mail)—On the occasion of the New Year, Comrade comes, and load them onto the petty Otis Blevator company, Ptilip T. nicipal power plant. delivered, plus about $24,000,000 in William Simon, district organizer | Ivanoff, General Manager of the Chinese Eastern Ralway, sent a congrat- | pourgeoisie. Dodge, chairman of the Interna- Council Beléngs to the Rich. rs me 5 n 920.940.000 of the Workers Party, spoke on the ulatory message to all departments and employes of the line, reading, in| ‘The campaign is, of course, carried tional Paper company, Robert A. At the request of a few rich taxpay-| on W wage cutting campaign of the capital- part as follows: Franks, Carnegie corporation, Edwin S. Lott, president of the United States Casualty corporation, David Van Schaak, director Aetna Life Insurance company, Lew R. Palmer, Equitable Life Assurance society and Frederic} L. Hoffman of Babs institute. The trustees are either large em- ployers who do not wish to pay com- pensation for accidents suffered by the ers it revoked its plan for a five cents an hour raise for city employes. These few rich men are far more readily listened to than the thousands of workers. The capitalist class steals so much of what the workers produce that they do not have enuf left to live on. So charity becomes necessary; And the same capitalist thieves ask the workers to contribute for charity, Responsible for Dortmund These same coal mine operators are now paying miners $7 and $8 a week and driving them upon a ten-hour shift to produce coal cheaper than any other miners in the world. | It is these Ruhr mine owners who are responsible for the murdgr in the Dortmund pits of 138 miners two weeks “ago, when an explosion that ists, explaining that it was without justification. He then proved by divi- dend figures that the Waterbury Brass companies had Made monstrous profits, the Scovill Mfg. Co, declaring a few years ago a — 9 cent stock dividend. These pro uld provide for the workers agaifst unemploy- ment and lowered Fates. He also showed how Water by was dominat- ~~ ed by a few individualslike the Goss- by the railway during September-De- “The 1924 export campaign proved to be an unprecedented one for the last four years as regards its dimensions and intensity. The work yielded cember was 24 per cent higher than the work for the corresponding period of 1923 and was done with about the same number of goods cars and only some 8 per cent more engines.” The general manager, accordingly, feels it his duty to note that “the Young Workers League Chicago Branches Are Meeting Friday Night The following branches are meeting reducing the sum of taxation in the country as a whole, but the: redisti- buting of the tax burden is the main idea. Altho everybody admits that the final figures on taxpayers for the period of March 15th this year will will appear than the year before, the country can expect to be flooded with tonight: 10 children, or members of insurance] And then steal part of this for agen- , es, and Chases who Were official passing of the whole enterprise to wild tales about the “injury to busi companies who do not wish to pay| cies for capitalist and militarist prop- e direct i new ves = new condtions has cailed forth a Branch No. 1—6th floor, 166 W. ness” and the “flight” of big incomeny pan pay : of German capitalism and brought rectors in a score gt gompanies, in- diu. Washingt remiums on the insured child labor-| #84nda, such as the V. M. C. A. and dustrial, insurance Ihe wonderful impetus of energy, di.] Washington St., speaker, Pete Herd. etc., from the agitators and news- : boy scouts the agents of government and even of „ Insurance ns. hospitals, gence and careful execution, of duties Branch No. 3—3116 So. Halsted St t bi ital Charles W. Laffin, principal of the west side continuation school, is aid- ing in the campaign to * pr the expenses of the employers of children. The children of his school, who are trained at industrial work when very New York Notes. Section affair, Sat., Feb. 28, at 1347 | to their victims. Tom Bell Speaks at North Side Party urged to withstand am to join the Workers Bat leading the fight. iy The Fight i¢ * on. B. Krasauskas wan hen introduc- vage cut, and , which was on the part of all the toilers of the railway—which accounts for the fact that such an intensive and strenuous export campaign could be carried out in the most orderly manner and with speaker, Paul Kline. Branch No. 4—3118 - W. Roosevelt Rd., speaker, Bob Garver. Branch No. 5—2409 N. Halsted St., speaker, John Harvey. Invite Soviet Russia to Fairs. Ukrainian state trading department has received an invitation from the and peons; an investigator for a 0 just re- the United States to stop the exploi. tations of these poor farmers. „American influence in other of the West Indies has meant the growth of the plantations on under the camouflage slogan of show that more million dollar returns MOSCOW—(By Mail)—The Soviet —— — excellent efficiency.” Branch No. 6—2613 Hirsch Blvd. : Boston Road. Concert, yetcherinka |, Branch Monda Ni ht ed to speak on “Ly ia. Freed from . | 4 aa : representative of the Czecho-Slovak: _ 1 young, are soon to enter industry, to and dance. All be there, and let's y 8 '|Czardom.” He presém, A the s ct} | o x, r 8 The subject of the lectures will be lan government at Kharkov to (ake. “do a man’s work for half of a man's have a godd time. from the Commufist @igle. The de- 7 17 Union Meetin 4 part in the international fair to be 7 On Monday, March 2, another lively eee ou g The Immediate Tasks of America’s : : pay. Latin takes these children to] section lecture, Sunday, Mar. 1. ‘ai weg = N tective who was press th six bur Young Workers.“ Everybody is wel- opened at Prague at the end of } visit the “safety museums.” u Doste. Mask 8a: Soon ere, 2 “A 5 nae mie ly policemen thruout & meeting ' gi Fk Th 7 March. 4 ; Im. | 0 : . N f — A. A. Hopkins, director of the mu- Stuart Poyntz will lecture on “The, „e —4 petite ‘hae die “ | uncomfortable as he hi ra ume speak- Fourth Friday, Feb. 27, 1925. . 8 Invitations have likewise been ste acum), amid, “The big problem now is|Modern Conflict — Communism: n The 2 eaker tee is secretary of | „ n he rolutionary Name of Local and Place o - 8 ceived to participate in the Danzig: to edueate the workman, particularly | Capitalism.” ithe ct Chicago Trade Union Edu- | ideas, for which he Md been stop- | No. - eee Work And Then the British fair and the Paris international exhib the new and youthful employe. The] Section Classes, Mondays. at B28 b. K K bed before. But the Workers Party | 269 Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Li L 0 Anoth bition of decorative arts and art’ in- N , “i , ys, -eational League will give his lec-| was ready for a fe so the dick 1564 No. Robey. lon Le u ei merican museum for safety has Tard St. Anna Jacobson, elementary ture on the subject so much in the backed down . 122 Blacksmiths, 64th and 8. Ashland D . * b chosen for its next task the reduction English, 8 p. m. b lai * La! r evastating Howl 2 nay" public eye today—to clearly explain Krasauskas called the Lithuani-| 429 Boiler Makers, 105th and Avenue ; : d eventual elimination of accidents| ‘Tyesdays, at 1347 Boston Read & the position of the Communists in an workers to jon 0 , M take 1 days, ; § 2 © . | forkers to n°’ tie Communist N. > Y * * yA | to children. p. m., Dr. I. Stamler will continue his their principles and tactics. Party, and still no ie e to arrest 1 —— —— Ir nos. Jan. 24.—(By Mail)—Iit 242 19 uA ) . Sixty per cent of the 1,983 accidents [class in the A. B. C. of Communism Each meeting is thrown open for Evidently the detecti¥a@urealized ieee ‘Streets. ! vg reporeve from Teheran that upon Ot KELLOGG’S to children employed in industry last All new party members should attend discussion following the lecture and what a horndt's nest net ad disturbed — rene autos * N ee ate: A Ay ot year, occurred in New York City. this class. : | 3 a n 5 lan capital, Shumſatzky, ambassador this is usually a feature of real in ; and Saturdays, 523 E. 178rad St. 24 1 1 7 The Humoro side. 845 Engineers, 189 W. Washington St. of the Union of Soviet Socialist Rus- ahay CASTOR 011 6 ays, 522 173 It., 24 terest. in wa: 674 Firemen an nginemen, sia i i Spend Your Sunday Evening at the p. m., Eli Jacobson teaches advanced The meeting is an open one to 2 humorous von lent to the Wentworth Avenue. Na in Persia. called on the president . Open Forum English x PO a i meeting at the close, na Woman 45 Fur Workers. * of the Medjilis (parliament) and con- A super-refined castor oil made | : Inglish. which all workers are invited and is who is a speaker for church ele- 118 3 1850 Sherman Ave. Watte on the ‘establishment foe 1 5 1 — held by the North Side branch of the ments, asked what Co ism had t 4 Lithographers, 639 S. Ashland Bivd en Southern Persia of th i a : at I ial Hall, 2406 | °| 237 Bak nd Confectioners, 3420 W e national au purity unchanged. | Workers Party at Imperial Hall, do with the Lithuan The ques- Sacacevett Road. thority of the central government. Tasteless and odorless. Insist on . : A PA TTE 5 re. | Roosevelt | N. Halsted St., corner Fullerton Ave. | tion drew a smile from the audience ee 1 — 100 W. The president of the Medjilis asked Kellogg’s, bottled and y oe 2 N reet. " — be pegs — not wait for an Carpenters’ District Counch, 180 W.] Shumiatzky to convey to the people at the Laboratories. At all 7 8 ~ * BRA answer, but walked haughtily to the Washington St. f the Uni f Soviet Sociali : A BLOUSE FOR THE GROWING GIRL. AL 10 90 t , 175 W. Washington St. 0 © nion o ovie ocialist Rus | 8 [MAN UR IN DIST. 5 1 2 rte Rees: ** 2200 Carpenters, 4390S. Halsted St. „ sia the feelings of gratitude and then prove e fallacy o calism, onductors eeping Car), friendship of the Persian peopl SSS | * „ 10 a. m. ple. , | For the Young Workers’ League. | by showing that her brother, a social- 3 * cae hots, 18 . Washington | Feb. 27—Bellaire, Ohio. | a * milking, cows on a farm, 35 . 180 W. Washing Feb. 28—Powhatan Point. Ohio. | while, who kept her skirts clear from — St. e 0 Dr S. ZIMMERMAN | March 1—Neffs. Ohio radicalism, ownpd a photography | 199 Machinists, 113 S. Ashland Ave | March 1— | ; ; 3 S005 March 2—Yorkville, Ohio. studio. All that was lacking to com- r | Melted D Nr — | March 3— Martin's Ferry, Ohio. | plete the ad w ork statement of the 746 45 Ss. E. cor. Lexington ; ; March 4-5—Dillonvale. address of the tudio, As she again and estern. * ; N DN CALIFORNIA AVE Phone ARMITAGE (466 March 8—Pittsburgh. District or- marched up the\aigle, the audience | 1225 Machinists, 58rd Pl. and Halsted a iy anizational conference. | was in convulsions. Metal Polish s, 119 S. Throop St. itty K | And So a 73 Pattern ‘Makers, 119 8. Throop St. MY NEW LOCATION 1 | | as Won. 310 Plasterers, 180 W. Washington St. 22 I 55 | Settle for the Beauty and Bolshe- | ion sa te in the battle for free am 1 5212 . Halsted * = = 7482877 vik tickets. Bring the money and un- SPeech in darkest Waterbury was won r Special f f ee Get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKeR | by the Workers Party. . —— 18 3837 301 Watchmen (Stock Yards), 3749 8. t i W | : „F Work : 22228. 1 8 b ectricians, 5 onroe : orkers ' 1 4 +++ + ; — , U ! * — py | SACCO-VANZETTI MASS MEETINGS || * 2s ‘itorehis*sti"stin : — — — 38 — ve. 2 > 2 1 } H | Ladies’ Garment Workers, Joint ESTABLISHED 12 YEARS. sett tt BUFF —Fri , Feb. 27— : . W. V 72252 } i ran — Labor Lyceum, 376 William gt. Speakers: | 113 machinists, 1's. A. Hang Bivd. My Examination Is Free 4 Joseph Sttor, James Battestoni, Eustace Reynolds and others. 4 — 288 and SheMeis Ave. My Prices Are Reasonable u 1 . icago ve. Mier, TTT 7 Get your tlekets for Red Revel Balt, the date of mailing the order. Do DENTIST . no jemy | \ . = — — —— —" a - . tee ee A . + > — , g * o * J? of watterns on hand Delivery of pat- become impatient if your pattern is l February 28. oa. 645 Smithfield Street.
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* * * = r (Continued from page 1) “The people,” said Mrs. Crawford, “seem to be cut off from the rest of the world, and live like starving rats in a hole. The countryside is bleak and without timber. The crops ‘have: failed, and the peat, on which the peasants depend for fuel, has been submerged. rn “Bxtensive operations of trawling. syndicates have destroyed the local fisheries, the main source of the peo ple’s living, ‘and the result of it, all is that these poor souls are literally’ and absolutely starving. ett “In one place we visited, a woman lay dying of dropsy. ‘There was no fuel in the house and no food. It was ghastly.” | Mrs. Crawford went on to describe the efforts of the Workers’ Interna- tional Relief to alleviate the awful distress. | J want to emphasise the fact,“ she said, “that with this organization it is a case of the workers helping the workers in their sufferings. We give relief first and investigate afterwards. “Our aim is to help the starving toilers, regardless of religious or poll- tical views. Food Depots Opened. “Over in Ireland,” Mrs. Crawford proceeded, “we have succeeded in opening food depots in the various villages we have visited. “We have taken meal, flour, tinned milk, tea and coal to a number of sufferers. The goods have been co- operative products. “This, however, has been but a be- ginning. The need will be great for months to come. “We have established an Irish com- mittee of the W. I. R., which sits at Unity Hall, Dublin. We are making wide-appeals for help. The sugges- tion: has been made that the miners of Great Britain should give coal. The Union of Russian Land Workers is making an effort to help.” Mrs. Crawford is addressing a let- ter to all labor M. P.'s, asking for their immediate help in the work of organizing meetings with a view to securing gifts of clothing, food and money. The national committees of the W. I. R. in Holland, the U. S. A., Ger- many, and Russia have already made substantial grants. Send in Contributions. The workers and farmers of the nited States are urged to send in contributions and collect funds for the Irish famine stricken. All con- tributions should be sent and all checks made payable to the- Irish Workers’ and and Peasants’ Famine Relief Committee, 19 South Lincoln St., Chicago, III. Kansas City, Mo., Notloe! KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 26.—Ev- erything is set for the Kansas City Workers Party dance on Saturday evening, Feb. 28, at 1516 Grand Ave., for the benefit of the Labor Defense. Talk it up in your union—the members will subscribe. FOR SALE: 40 Acre Fruit Farm 6 cows; chickens; new 6-room house; cheap. Close to Muskegon, Mich. Call Diversey 3929 or write — 304 Start St.. Chicago, III. ENTERTAINMENT AND DANCE Given by The North-West English Branch, W. P., and Area Branch No. 6 of the V. W. . SUNDAY, MARCH 15, 8 P. M. WORKERS’ LYCEUM, 2733 Hirsch Blvd. 7 By T. J. OFLAHERTY. | from the pen of Hoeglund; a eulogy of the traitor Branting: “Lucidity of style, logic of though aand weight of opinion were his qualities as a writ er, while his Political judgment, theo- retical knowledge and devotion to his ‘cause gave him his position as lead- er.“ Branting was about as much of a radical as “Hell an’ Maria” Dawes. In fact, Dawes is the idol and perhaps the paymaster of the Second Interta- tional. 9 „ 0 . ; e Chicago Tribune’s British liar, 1 John Steele, packed out some ‘choice paragraphs from the written report of the labor leaders who re- cently visited Russia and chuckles gleefully over them. But they are not ‘$0 diabolical after all. We are happy to know that this literary ghoul has done his worst. The faet is that the report is favorable and even the para- graphs that would not sound good to the ears of Anthony Comstock or Henry Ford do not get us very ex- cited. ‘ eee CCORDING to the excerpts cabled by Steele, the report says that the dictatorship of the workers’ and peasants is exercised thru the Com- munist Party. This is old stuff. “A authorised physician in a state hos pital provided she can give the medi cal board satisfactory reasons why she should not have a child. Neces- sary reasons are inability to bring up a child or ill health.” It is whispered that abortions can be procuerd in “these United States” provided enuf money is available to overcome the doctor’s fear of landing in the can. 89 „ 0 report says that the Soviet sys- tem is no more Jewish than it is Sengalese, but that the Jews thru their intelligence and competence have secured high positions in the government. Considerable propagan- da is also carried on against the relig- ious dope joints. For all these things we give thanks, as they betoken that AS WE SEE IT es Se. ~ woman can procure an abortion by an the Soviet government is..trodding |. blithely along the high road to prosperity and a better, life for the workers and peasants of Russia and thereby giving aid and comfort to the movement for freedom in all lands, Revere Comrades Plan Red March Membership Drive REVERE, Mass., Feb. 26.—The Re vere branch of the Workers ‘Party will celebrate the month of March in the following way: We will open the month with a po- tato-pancake party on Saturday, Feb. 28, at 8 p. m. at Eagle’s Hall. There will be food, song and dance, A hu- morous wall paper will be read off and woe unto the poor workers in the branch. lecture by Schachno Epstein, editor of the Freiheit on Sunday, March 8, at 8 p. m. During the entire month an inten- sified house to house drive will be carried on for new subscribers and members. All members will be mob- ilized to spend every Sunday between 10 and 12 for the drive. The Paris Commune celebration on Friday, March 27, at 8 p. m. at Bagles Hall will wind up our March activi- ties. There will be a high class con- cert and entertainment and speaker. The Mothers’ League of Revere and the Young Workers’ League will par ticipate. The Mothers’ League is ar- ranging a sociable time for Sunday, March 15, at 8 p. m. and the T. W. L. a lecture on Friday, March 13, at 8 b. m. Comrade Weisbord will be the principal speaker. All affairs will take place at Eagle's Hall. Our slo- gan is 50 members by April 1. We now have 30. — — Does your friend snbscribe to ADMISSION 35 CENTS. i + + + + b+» Db DD DD Db Db be hb i i iin, » the DAILY WORKER? Ask him! In Its New and CHICAGO'S LABOR BANK Can Serve You! Patronize Chioaga's Growing Labor Bank! Larger Quarters | Checking and Savings Accounts Safe Deposit Boxes Real Estate Loans Foreign Exchange eT TT{rTeTT''TT,",.,.,*" 6% First Mortgages Steamship Tickets Insurance in All Branches Consultation on Financial Matters Amalgamated Trust & Savings Bank (Corner Clark and Jackson—111 W. Jackson Blvd.) RESOURCBS MORE THAN $3,000,000 A Clearing House and State Bank. This affair will be followed by a HAVE YOU HIT THIS SPIKE? IT GOES DOWN $3,320! =k : Send this Greeting to th Comintern: — The Daily Worke With one huge wallop of $1,400 and a steady dollar tapping of $179.21, the last spike in the DAILY WORKER’S insurance drive for 1925 was firmly fixed in place Friday. This brings the total to $20,799.99. The $1,400.00 is an anonymous contribution from a workineg- men’s organization, a long-time supporter of the American Com- munist movement. : “Uniess the DAILY WORKER is insured, all Communist or- ganizations in the United States are in iminent danger. The finan. cial demads of our press must be met immediately. No distinct party progress is thinkable while our propaganda organ is in- secure.” Safe for 1925” Here „9 * — lee. This message came with the $1,400.00 and should serve as a spur to all Workers Party branches in their efforts to fill their insurance quota. ees i i i i i i i i i i i ht DADRA AAA I am with you for insuring the DAILY Memittances must reach the Y WORKER office before h 3 if they are to be in- ed in the final rechoning to made in the special March terif edition, is my dollar to HAMMER IT HOME! WORKER TO THE LAST SPIKE! Letters From Page Five Our Readers Miners and “Do-nothing” Policy. To the DAILY WORKER: The head- line in the DAILY WORKER of Feb. 16, “Nothing to Do, Say A. F. of L. Heads” but still drawing their salar- jes is quite 4 contrast to the poor devils in this town walking the streets but out of work with many on the brink of starvation. One hears the cry of complaint and bitterness everywhere. Our [ine of in- dustry grows worse from day to day. Daily more mines close down. Many are on low production. The situation | i desperate. There was some little hope.of im- provement when a new power com- pany about 7 miles from here was about to open up. Some 70 men ap- of pay was to be 35 cents an hour end a 10 hour day. Many refused to start while others driven by absolute need had no other recourse but start. Such work recently has paid $5 and $6 per day. Men with families can’t wee on such wages. And board for single men is $12.50 a week at the camp houses. The company, I am informed, is the West Pen Power which will eventual- ly be linked up with the growing col- ossus, the Super Power, when all the holdings are squeezed out of the small holders and. merge the coal, water and gas units. And if the miners should. go out on strike the water power will be of great assistance in beating the miners. At this time with so many men out of work and in desperate § circum- stances, with the bosses taking every advantage of the men and forcing down their wages, “Nothing to Do Say the A. F. of L. Heads.” There is much grumbling at leaders of labor who find nothing to do when such ser- fous problems confront the workers. Yours truly, Henry Dondery, Morgantown, W. Va. A Conversation. To the DAILY WORKER: On Ash- land Ave., a Negro worker asked me for a match and having this opening I started a conversation with him. He proved to be an ex-salt water sailor, shunted aside after acquiring a stiff limb, and this gave us a good start as I was in somewhat the same boat. We walked along and soon the din- gy stret turned into a rebel turnpike for here was one driven to mental re- volt (and ready for action) by life as he found it. Im contact with his fellows on the sea and in deep water ports he had acquired an ideology something like this: This cursed system must go and in this country the chief thing is to get white and black workers united with that end in view. A standard of liv- ing here that almost equals that of séme of the “best people” in China, Egypt (and other places he had been to) was all to the mustard because the workers here would fight before los- ing out on that very far and that was just what the present capitalist sys- tem could not provide for very long. “Just from work,” I was delaying his home going so we shook hands for the last time and he sang out, “Follow Russia, that is what we will do when our time comes and woe to those who oppose us,” but there was a world of sincerity back of it that one would need to hear to apreciate. Can’t say he had read such a lot, but after being told about the Work- ers Party and receiving the promise of some literature his enthusiasm in- creased. Can we not more and more (as Len- in, our leader did all those years) feel this change coming down upon us and miss as few chances as possible (even in a small way) to prepare for it. Fraternally, Les Fillmore. Capitalism in Joliet. To the DAILY WORKER:—On Jan. 24, 1925, an election was held in Joliet to increase the school tax rate from $2.75 to $4.00 per hundred valuation. plied for work and were told the rate Due to the activities of organized la- bor the proposal was defeated by or- WORKERS! mitt menen | — — ˙ | eee oe Are Sacco and Vanzetti to Die? ANSWER NO! PROTEST MASS MEETING IATA SUNDAY, MARCH 1, 1925, 2:30 P. M. at EMMET MEMORIAL HALL, Ogden and Taylor Aves., South ganized labor by a vote of three to one. | On Jan. 26, 1925, the school board held their regular meeting and there voted to punish the workers’ chil- dren by Abolishing three kindergar- ten classes and also to stop the feed- ing of daily of 30 undernourished boys and girls. In steps our kind hearted capital- ist, Mr. Theodore Gerlach, owner of one of the country’s largest calendar making plants where most of his em- ployes are girls and women working for very low wages, most of them as iow as $10.00 per week. He publicly announced he would give 11,105.00 to continue feeding the poorly nourished Children each day. One of these poorly fed boys has a sister working in Mr. Gerlach’s great plant. She is 16 years old, and is vainly trying to help feed her nu- merous brothers and sisters. She te assigned to printing little cards and until one week ago, was receiving one cent per card, or $1.00 per hun- dred. ; Generous Mr. Gerlach set a new rate of 80 cents per hundred or a flat 20 per cent reduction. He gave as his reason that one very skilled and able worker earned $35.00 for two weeks’ work. This sounds like fic- tion, but it is the brutal truth. Such is capitalism in Joliet. (Signed) Martin P. Morrisey, Joliet, In A Letter to the Los Angeles Times To the DAILY WORKER: The fol lowing is a letter to the Los Angeles Times, which that paper, of course, didn’t print: Did I hear you say that southern California has been viciously lied about? How could that be possible unless it would be to say something good about it? Of course, I speak of southern Cal. ifornia business men and politicians and the conditions in general more particularly of your attitude toward the tourists—and a word about labor. As to your attitude toward the tour- ists, well, I had a room out on WII. shire during November at $7 a week. But on the first of December I was notified that the rent had gone up to $10.50 a week—put up or get out. I. was explained that the tourists would soon be piling in and that they would get $2 a night or $10.50 a week until spring—but the tourists are not com- ing, are they? Now, as to your politics, to say that it is rotten and the editors absolutely indifferent, is to put it mildly. Work 12 Hours Underground. As to the working man and the con- ditions under which he is forced to work in “southern California,” do you know that men are working under- ground in the 6th street tunnel 12 hours a day? Is it possible that Cal- ifornia has no eight hour day tor un- derground work--if not, why not, since it is sheets like yours that con- tiol the politics of the state? You have a law in this state (and I wonder how you ever consented to its enactment except that you knew. it would never be enforced) to the ef- fect that unless a man works seven days, I believe it is, on a job the fee paid to a private employment agency must be refunded. But in most cases these fees are not returned as they should be-—the authorities turn deaf ears to the pleadings of the men for a return of this fee, according to law. Rob Tourists. Where there is smoke there must be a fire smoldering somewhere. All the way from New York to Calffornia I met tourists—the roads were crowd- ed with them—in automobiles,. raving, cursing, and gnashing their teeth— they had been to California and claim- ed that they had been cheated, rob- bed and in some cases abused the same as the animals with the mouth disease. Yes, California is all right. Tt has some good soil and some nice clim- ates. The tourists and workers were not condemning the soil. They were condemning the grafters. Jesse T. Kennedy, New York City. ADMISSION FREE! SPEAKERS: JACK W. JOHNSTONE, Secretary Trade Union Educa- tional League, RALPH CHAPLIN, and an Italian speaker Auspices, Workers (Communist) Party, Local Chicago. + ADMISSION FREE!” = Mii es
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Fublish3d by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING OO, 1118 w. Washington Blvd., Chicago, ML (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: 38.50 months “g .00...8 months By mail (in Chicago only : $4.60...6 months $2.50...3 months $6.00 per year $8.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1118 W. Washington Bivd. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL | WILLIAM F. DUNNE{ nere MORITZ J. LO ER. . Business Manager — — Chicago, Ines Entered as second-class mait Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post Ofice at Chicago, III., under the act ot March 3, 1879. — Advertising rates on application Coal Miners Face Crists The-coal operators have assembled their forces and are determined to revise the Jacksonville agree- ment with the United Mine Workers of America. That such a move would be undertaken by the coal barons has been evident for some time. In all the coal fields there has been a steady but unofficial | revision of the agreement. Working conditions have been changed to benefit the operators and such changes have had the same result as a reduc- tion of wages—the miners dig more coal for less money. These changes have been carried out with the full knowledge of the Lewis administration. In some instances the officials aided the coal operators to carry out the revisions. While exact figures are lacking there is little doubt that thousands of miners are working under what practically amounts to a revised agreement. In districts like the anthracite fields, where there has been mass strikes against unauthorized changes the Lewis administration has revoked charters and otherwise aided the operators. The unemployment in the industry and the steal ing of working conditions that is already an ac- complished fact has encouraged the coal owners to open war on the wage agreement. The miners must now fight or accept a cut in wages that is only the beginning of a series of slashes intended to wipe out living standards they have fought for years to obtain. Here is the final proof of the utter bankruptcy of the Lewis policy. He has deliberately weakened the union by revoking charters and expelling whole districts, he has urged the miners to have faith in the word of the coal capitalists, he has de- nouneed, slandered and expelled Communists and members of the Trade Union Educational League, the most active members of the union. He has said time and time again that the progressive miners were enemies of the union and their program of struggle the road to ruin. But it is Lewis and his payroll gang that has led the United Mine Workers of America far on the road to ruin. It is not too late to turn back. The program of the Workers (Communist) Party and the Trade Union Educational League, their call for action against wage cuts and unemploy- ment, points the way. The United Mine Workers of America face a great crisis. They are at the turning point. If they submit to the demands of the coal capitalists they will have lost the fruit of years of effort. It must not be. The coal miners must rally to the left wing program, they must repudiate the defeatist policies of the Lewis officialdom, they must utilize this issue to build a rank and file move- ment so strong that both the treacherous bureau- crats and the coal barons cannot prevail against it Street Cleaners’ Strike Continues | — . ee — THE DAILY WORKER. when it lands marines to subdue some colonials The Chicago city authorities, like ail other em- ployers, are willing to spend thousands of dollars | for scabs and police protection for scabs rather | than settle with the striking workers who in this | case are the men who do the hardest and most un- pleasant of all tasks—keeping the city clean—mem.- | bers of the Street Cleaners’ Union. | The commissioner of public works has told the union that its members must be back to work by Tuesday or their places will be filled. This means that 2,500 strikebreakers will be recruited if the union does not surrender. It means that the strik- ing street cleaners will have to fight for their right to work at decent wages. Municipal ownership as a solution of the work-| ers’ problems is urged by many reformers. It has been a pet project of the socialist party for years. | It was popularly supposed that «ity authorities would be much more friendly to wage earners than private capitalists. If anything is municipally | owned it is the streets and alleys of the city of | Chicago— the whole sanitary district is a munic ipal | undertaking. | The city authorities appear now in the same | rode as any other boss. They talk glibly of strike- breakers and police as means ef whipping the strik- | ing workers into line. They hare tried to divide | the strikers by offering a small increase to fore- men, etc., as employers always do. If and when scabs are used and the union begins to picket, the heads of the members will be broken just as if the City was a private concern. it is only a small section of the city employes that are striking. There would be a different situa ion if the city workers were organized in a munic ipal werkers’ union and striking as a unit. would not be such a defiant attitude There on the part of the city officials nor could enough scabs be got | together to break the strike. If the street cleaners and, other loves are to cease being beggars at the door of“ city bureaucrats all eity workers. * they must organize a union of —— Every day get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER who has lost what faith he ever had in the work- ing class. awakens. municipal em- | Russians who were giving an exhibition entitle ‘Explaining the Sullivan Disaster | The federal governmen can and does send troops to aid the employers in breaRing strikes, but it has not the power to enforce safety regulations for workers. This is the only conclusion that can be drawn from a statement recently issued by the department of interior dealing with the Sullivan mine disaster. The bulletin says: “it is reported that this mine 9 the greatest in the history of Indiana, was caused by open lights, which ignited gases in the mine. If so, the Sullivan catastrophe emphasizes the great hazard to the lives of American coal miners in the continued use of the open flame lamp in mines... ... Records com- piled by the bureau of mines of this department covering a period of 17 years, show that open flame have been the contributing cause of numerous fires and over one hundred explosions in mines, with a death toll of 3,000 men. Such explosions are preventable.” ö The bureau of mines has a number of specific recommendations for the kind of lamps that are safe and according to its statement, these recom- mendations have been given to all coal mine oper- ators. These recommendations are as follows: “In all coal mines the portable lamps for illumina- tlon should be permissible, portable, electric mine lamps. „in places where fire damp and black damp is liable to be encountered, a permissible magnetically- locked flame safety lamp for gas detection, or ‘equi- valent permissible device, should be supplied to at least one experienced employe in each such place. “Any employe before being supplied wth a per- missible flame safety lamp should be examined by a competent official of the mines to assure the man’s ability to detect gas. “All coal mines, whether classed as non-gaseous or gaseous in any part, should be supplied with mag- netically-locked, permissible, flame safety lamps, properly maintained and in sufficient number for all inspection purposes.” Then comes a statement that every coal miner should paste up where he can read it every day: “The acting director of the bureau of mines has an- nounced that the adoption of the bureau’s recom- mendations depend on securing the co-operation of the industry and the state goverment, since it is well known that the bureau has not authority to make regulations requiring the use of permissible lamps in coal mines.” In 1919 the federal government, of which the bureau of mines is a part, rushed troops into every mining district where miners were on strike if the bosses asked for them. The government issued an injunction against the United Mine Workers of America and tied up its strike funds. Yet this same government, when 51 miners are sent to their death by the coal lords of Indiana, 7 declares it has no means of preventing a similar disaster. It would never do to interfere with the sacred right of the coal capitalists to rob and mur- der, by forcing them to use safety lamps. Our 100 per cent labor leaders claim that Amer- ican government is a “government of ali the people.” Will the coal miners and the families of the victims of the Sullivan disaster believe this much longer? “Our” Efficient Navy The Huron, flagship of Morgan’s Asiatic fleet, has run aground on the island of Palawan. This evi- dence of efficiency will no doubt make Japan think twice before she makes any hostile moves. This reminds us that the navy breaks into print in three ways—when Secretary Wilbur makes a speech, when one of its ships runs aground and that owe money to the American bankers. Perhaps the naval heroes have discovered a new method of putting marines ashore. Enough battle- ships have been aground lately to make this seem plausible. Maybe the new way is to sail onto an island so the brave boys can step right off without getting their feet wet. Tired Rebels | We are in receipt of a letter from a comrade who says we don’t give enough credit to Daniel DeLeon and that Communist defendants should stand on their constitutional rights—whatever they are. He ends his letter with the following sentence: “There is on hurry about me—when the workers see the need of organization and show a little horse sense I will be there with both feet.“ i This is the negative attitude of the tired rebel This is neither DeLeonism, Communism, socialism or anything but defeatism. Criticism from comrades who have this state of mind springs from the fact that the Workers (Com- munist) Party is a party of action. We are dis- turbers in that we make it impossible for the tired rebels to sleep until the rest of the working class THE DAILY, the strike, White : ag ' - fa tae 7 IRKER 1 18 Fil RAPS Building Commissi nmissioner Orders Them Scrapped That architects representing build- ing dompany interests and Superin- tendent McAndrew the economy ex- pert, were the only ones consulted re- garding new school buildings came out when Chief De Building, Com- missioner- Robert Ment vetoed the plans because th not comply ' ns. Knight's with the fire veto throws out plans for the eight elementary | Is that the board has been working on for the last three months. The plans were. worked up from a standard type of entary school building prepared by Supt. McAn- drew's staff of buil experts. Upon recommendation jof the superintend- ent they were adopted by the board and the details warked out in the architect’s depa and approved by Edgar L. Martin, ,supervisory ar- chitect. To make the buildings acceptable under the building ordinance, there must be two exits in each classroom and wood shops. Bits from gymna- siums, assembly halls and libraries must lead to street, Tile partitions must be increased in thickness from four to six inches. In addition the health department has objected to the ventilating system, We venture to add that if a commit- tee were appointed on which teachers would serve many other shortcomings in the plans that sacrifice comfort and needs of pupils and teachers would be disdovered. Who is to say what kind of new school buildings go up in the city of Chicago. The architects and manag- ers who can see only economy of space, economy of bullding and econ- omy of material or- the teachers and parents who are concerned with the comfort and the welfare of the chil- dren? — 5 Labor Fakers and Priest Forces to Trick Workers (Continued from Page 1.) ‘ithe DAILY WORK®R could be dis- tributed, he refused“ However, 100 copies were sold in the hallway. White tried to explain byssaying that the DAILY WORKER aud the Workers Party literature would make people | =! “talk” and that it was “against the strike.” 1 Really Afraid Workers Do Understand | 2 When asked to polut out where the DAILY WORKER -.ofany other liter- ature of the Workers Party opposed d not answer. He could not answer, But he tried to dodge by saying that “people don’t understand it, and, # will be bad for the strike.” Apparently, he is really afraid the workers do understand the daily only too well to suit him. However, both the DAILY WORK ER and the Workers Party leafiet, “Strike Against Wagé Cuts,” have been read by many Workers and, far from White’s evasive lies, they all agree that the DAILY *WORKER and the leaflet is the best thing for the textile workers they have ever seen. Illinois Has More Bonus Money. SPRINGFIELD, III., Feb.-26.—The state has approximately $170,000 of the Illinois bonus fund leit with which to pay pending claims, it became known here today following a ccnfer- cnce between the service recognition board and Governor Len Small in which it was decided to offer to the highest bidder, March 17, $1,650,000 in bonus bonds, the unexpended balance of the $55,000,000 bond issue voted by the people in 1922, the bonds are to bear four per cent imterest and are payable in twenty years. Muskegon Runs Defense Benefit MUSKEGON, Mich, Feb. 26.— An all day labor defense program has been arranged in ‘Muskegon, Mich,, tor this Sunday, March Ist, at Modern Woodmen’s Hall, 10, N. Terrace St. There will be spegches delivered afternoon and even by William F. Dunne. A box socigl will be run in the evening. RUSSIAN MOVIES AT GERMAN-AMERIGAN HOME Coolidge is impartial. He is against tlie raise the $7,500 gashouse boys handed themselves and also against the raise the underpaid postal workers want. Was it Anatole France who said that “capitalism gives rich and poor alike the right to sleep under bridges” ? A. news item in the capitalist press tells a story | of the | life led by Russian czarists in Paris. Four | Americans, two men and two women, wer arrested in a den by the police, There were also arreste ‘Art Spectacles.” consisted in the complete absence ef clothes. Be. sides the four Americhus there were thirty-six other | spectators. This is the degenerate’ class that Abramovich is here k defend! Ninety-nine per cent of the art Vork and other big KENOSHA, WIS., FEB. 28 — The famous movies, Polikushka,“ a six-reel story made by the Moscow Art Theater, In Memoriam—Lenin,” showing the life and funeral of Lenin, and a Russian comedy, “Sol- dier lvan's Miracle,“ will be shown SATURDAY, FEB. 28, from 4 to 11 p. m. at the German-American Home, 66 Grand Ave., Kenosha, Wis. These pictures ha the biggest crowds i been drawing Chicago, New | three showings ont at evening. The first will start a p. m. sharp. | Make sure to at Tell your friends about it. t miss the greatest treat in your ife. 7 — — ee — ee = Ammunition for the Workers’ Arsenal By MANUEL ‘GOMEZ. 5 Working Yourself Out of a Job. | OOLIDGE “prosperity” is a monetrous, two-faced thing feeding on misery and bitter want. It Is a craspgontradietion, which every day becomes more hopelessly involved. The United States Department of Labor ‘sent out a report last week call- ign attention to the relatively high degree of business activity, as evidenced in whole prices, in the fact that the steel industry is operating around 90 per cent of capacity, etc. but the report concluded with the rather puzzled remark that “IN SPITE OF INCREASED BUSINESS ACTIVITY, EVERY ONE OF THE BIG INDUSTRIAL CENTERS HAS CONSIDERABLY MORE UNEM- PLOYED WORKERS THAN A YEAR AGO.” . The explanation of this strange phenomenon is now revealed in tabula- tlons published by two different government agencies, the Federal Reserve Union who said it was a menace to Board and the Department of Commerce. The Reserve Board figures were oerything the teachers have fought produced by Leland Olds of the Press in Monday's DAILY. for. WORKER. They show that “the expandifig needs of the country due to the 50 bill nullifies the policy 12 increase of population are being met largely without giving employment to “Mich the teachers have fought fe the increased number of workers whevare growing up.” The ranks of the man) Years, namely, the control ol army ot more or less permanently unemployed have been swelled by 1,600,000 | Salaries by the state legislature. | as compared with the pre-war years. s 6 5 515 makes the various groups Bd WHAT THE CENSUS FIGURES SHOW. . hers the football of docal poli Now let us examine some figures just made public ‘In connestion with thet Tala. A inte Department of Commerce’s bienniel o ** 3 for 1923: 288 oa at Gives Too Hit Much Fe to Superintendents 1 NEW YORK, Feb. 26.— An appeal to all teachers to unite in opposition to the Downing bill was issued by Dr. Henry R. Linville of the Teachers’ . Ithe mercy of the board of su n= Value of manufactures (at N . wt 1919 I tendents, a body for the most aie of ‘ Pi se „ ö 35 943,065,288 62,041,796 political appointees. Even if teachers verage number . | eive an increase because of an ployed „ ene 4% 0 - 9,000,059") TF — proaching mayoralty - campaign, what Total wage payments * « 10,985,806 . : 8,200,824 10,461,787 (N th authori Horsepower of prime movers ........... sat 168,602 (no data) 219,518,182 pad See — we they 5 *) 000 omitted. i bee: dito Strong support of the Kleinfeld bill Thus relatively fewer workers in 1928 een considerably more goods. prepared by the joint salaries con Labor is steadily becoming more productive, pilling up greater and greater mittees of teachers’ associations was masses of wealth with smaller expenditure of energy. Under capitalism this announced by the New York Prin- is no unmixed blessing. The markets for merchandise are limited, even in cipals Association, the Assistant to the present imperialistic epoch, and only a certain;amount of labor can be ab- principals’ Association and the Teach- sorbed with satisfactory profit to the bosses. The goes to swell what Karl ers' Union. Marx called the “industrial reserve army” of unemployed, whose existence is a The Downing bill gives the board. of weapon in the hands of the capitalist to keep down wages. superintendents power to revise While the combined factory prices increased 38.5 per cent between 1921 alaries every five years, The Klein- and 1923, total wages increased only 34 per cent. That is, however, as re- feld bill would specifically fix definite gards TOTAL wages. But inasmuch as the number of wage earners increased| chedules by legislative action at 26.2 per cent during this period the 1923 total wage had to be divided among higher rate of pay than are now in 1,616,668 additional workers, which means that the individual worker received force, a very much smaller proportion of what he produced. | VALUE ADDED IN MANUFACTURE If You Own Part of the Philippines, You Even these striking figures fail to reveal the full extent of what has been taking place. A correct measure of the actual value created by manufacturing 8 Can Worry Over Thi WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—The Phil process is not the aggregate value of products as given above (which includes the same values counted several times) but the “value added in manufacture,” namely the difference between the cost of raw materials, fuel, etc, and the factory price of the finished products. This a ed to 828.888, 18 1,000 in 1923 jppines are very vulnerable and AS COMPARED WITH 818,316,666, 00 IN 1921, AN INCREASE OF 41.1 PER | could be taken away by an enemy,” CENT. Moreover, an important part of the Values created by labor are still] Rear Admiral Hillary P. Jones, chief unrecorded in the totals; they are incorporated in the industrial process it- of the navy general board, today told self for the benefit of future generations.. An inkling of this can be gotten the house aircraft committee. 4 from the fact that the rated horsepower ow of engines, water Wheel, “Of course, we all realize that the Philippine Islands could be taken by an enemy before America could get a fleet there,” frankly admitted Jones. electric motors, etc., used for primary power facturing establishments, has increased 14.4 per cent as compared with the Boom year 1919. The committee previously had told by Brig. Gen. William Mitchel : SUMMARY To sum up. The figures show: (1) ingPeasi assistant chief of the army air vice, that the Philippines, Hawai larger output; (3) decreasing share by th@ wor and other American Pacific poss productivity of labor; (2) n the product of their labor—increasing rate of surplus value, « ation: (4) ‘Increase of the “industrial reserve army.” Substantially the same trends can be noted at the present time, for the most part greatly exaggerated. That is Coolidge “prosperity.” That is cap- . Osea Oh spe FAS Leninism: rotskyism? You can’t understand: = the differences in the discussion that is receiving world interest sions, “could be captured by Japan 10 two weeks.” 70 — Sesso ~Riewbes fa”, You understand fully thé bac x. r ound. theoretical differences and personalities of the Russian Communist Party- unless you know well the history of the n of the party that has made the revolution possible. THE HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN COMMUNIST. 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— d the. German werber. Reset broke up, issue of Oct. 22.is a strange ture of insufficient knowledge, ‘truths, and inglorious- admissions, Its enthusiasm at the record of the labor government accords very poorly with the latter’s day by day record of bro- _ ken: pledges,. compromises, and even betrayals of Wipe Liberalism in excelsis! Let us follow the Nation’ s outline of this “amazingly impressive record.” Foreign Policy. 1. ~ MacDonaldism n — can thru the rout day, reduced wages, A* mployment (as in the case ot the — railwaymen, 143,000 of whom are to be sacked), increased taxes on the workers, who now pay 90 per cent of the taxes, etc., are Ger- many’s share. For England the fol lowing threatens: “the grave danger to British industry and increased un employment, which may result from the Dawes report being put into op- eration” is called to parliament's at- tention by the national union of manu facturers. 7 ARDING Poincare, MacDonald astonished him with “determine: . friendliness” just as the election in France was coming on. The French — of the Dawes plan.) On Russia, the facts were these: When the negotiations nearly it was MacDonald (and Snowden) who ordered the rupture, against Ponsonby’s wishes. He (Mac- Donald) was compelled to “climb down” by prominent trade union lead. ers and labor M. P.s who threatened to expose him to the labor move- ment. MacDonald insisted on full pensation to bondholders despite to 1-100 of*their value; that many ports are now Latvia’s and Esthon- ja’s; that British intervention smashed much of the Russian railways. Mac- Donald’s own party showed up the falseness of British claims in “Rus- sia’s Counter-claims” by W. P. Coates, published by leading labor M. P.s. MacDonald stood completely on Bald win’ Lloyd George’s claims, de spite his election pledges of full rec _ognition, peace on a working basis. extensive credits, etc. Since he Was to be defeated on the Russian treaty he could at least have remained true to his position as a laborite and a so- cialist. If you are to be defeated any way, why not at least retain the con- fidence of the workers? But that is not the way of a yellow socialist. As for disarmament, we can quickly dispose of great achieve ments there. Building five cruisers when the liberals were opposed to it vas not quite the acme of pacifism and disarmament. — The specious excuse of re gould not do away with the real fact that they are a new type, as the Observer said, as complete a revolution as dreadnoughts were eight- een years ago: “practically the whole of our present cruisers will be rendered obsolete” (and then Mac- in time for the next war. ers and e gg Snowden. said | the employment of 15,000 men was the excuse. Ammon (navy dept.) -|gave this away when he said there was “no warrant for any such sug> gestion. „He continued with the teal reason, We have placed “first. and | ‘foremost the needs of the navy.” No “blah” about giving employment. And a tory was heard fo say, “Well, we've no need to turn these fellows. out.” Walsh (war minister) considered the army a non-party question,” and an nounced there would be no policy of ‘further reduction in the fightin; arms.“ This pacifist disarme? employers to let their men off “té join the territorial army.” Thomp son (minister of air) had an attitude “toward the development of the air service which is decidedly sympathe- tic“ (London Times). He was accelerat ing work on war planes and engines and following out Baldwin’s policy in this: intensifying anti-aircraft train. ing; spe’ ling $15,000,000 more on air forces than was spent by the bour- geois government in 1922-23. The labor ministers refused to di- vulge any ‘information in regard to explosives, the mystery fowers” at Littlechampton, relati aircraft | strength, etc. Munitions being made in Australian state factories under the council of ambassadors were none of parliament’s business. The pacifist government would take care of that MPERIALIST POLICY. 1 Capital- ism has not in the least been modified by the labor government. On the contrary, it has if anything benefited greatly by it. A tory gov- ernment would have had to spend much more money on housing, un- employment, and the like than Mac- Donald has. The British bourgeoisie has “got away with murder” thru MacDonald. The labor ial dal also sent armored cars, machine guns, and troops into Ireland to fight against a republic. The labor government “honorably” insisted on carrying out every treaty made by a capitalist gov- ernment preceding it, except when such treaty promised A tion, dominion government, or a lar small measure of freedom. ples of this will be given in items 3, 4, and 5. J. H. Thomas insisted that the Irish question was closed and that his government would give no consideration to complete na tional freedom thru a republic to Ire- land, at that time or in the future. Irish politieal prisoners imprisonee by previous governments, and now held in Halloway and Wormwood Scrubs prisons were kept there de- spite protests to MacDonald and Hen- derson. Only Georgia wrings thefr hearts. To call the Nation’s account of India an “achievement” is rather strange. MacDonald’s bullying and imperialistic ultimatum to India when a word of friendliness was ex- pected could have been sent by Cur- kept the Indian question in “sus pense” is to be absolutely without knowledge of the situation. Agnes Smedley's article in the Nation on the Akali Sikhs some months ago is one instance of “suspense” in tur. moil, Thousands of peasants arero ting in jail stin, some as a result of the 1921 Moplah uprising, some at political prisoners, after a mockery of a trial or none at all. zon or Churchill. To say that he ter The labor government mois accents ficcentuated persecution in India than &ny previous government since the war began. Bombay strikers were | refused the right to form a trade un- ion, under the labor government. Po-“ Aticals were jalled for trying to form a labor. party. Hundreds of strikers were shot and jailed for strikin; when their pay was held back eigh’. weeks and they were starting, as hap. pened in the Cawnpdre and Bombay mills: Police spies were the sole wit nesses at the Communist Cawnpor: trial, where: the defendants were sen- tenced to tour ars at hard labor for doing what is pertectiy legal in England—forming a labor party. In Beghar, 111 poor peasants were ar rested and a complete press censor- ship resulted, with the labor govern ment absolutely silent until exposed. OYS and girls were murdered at Jaito in February, while Sidney Webb expounded British Kultur:“ “Tie believed that the British race had its mission in the world.” Richards (under secy. for India) said the Sikh jathas “were disposed of peacefully,” and it took a tory to bring out that they were “peacefully passed into jail;” Mr. Richards made no answer. The grim massacre of Jaito and the 72 peasants sentenced to death in Chauri-Chaura, the shooting of un- armed workers from armored cars in Bombay, and the Cawnpore Commun. ist trial which illegalized a workers’ * — — npositi ‘ee oe > W te 9 “of | 1 this with wages + ‘tap to twenty cents a day, while profits averaged 63 per cent (Indian Year Book: “profit works out at 63 per cent”). Otherwise the Indian question was in suspense un- der the labor government. Egypt and the Sudan. Along * with MacDonald’s taking the bis- cuit, one might mention this fact: MacDonald continued the govern- ment subsidy to Asquith’s Sudan Plantations Syndicate, which makes only 35 per cent profit; and by a strange coincident, MacDonald found his government supported by As- quith. I dont say that there is any relation between these facts. I simply mention them together. Brit- ish contractors were making fortunes building danis and railroads and tak- ing the land away from the Sudanese peasants. Military planes shot Su- ‘danese and Egyptians because Mac- Donald refused to return the Sudan to Egypt (which was coerced also by British control of the upper Nile): Labor’s premier continued to violate article 8 of the Anglo-Egyptian agree. ment. Serfdom and forced labor made British treatment of Sudan worse than under any previous re gime. a Egypt told the same story. Perse- cution of Communists, and leaders of the Confederation of Labor, police frame-ups, the proposition to send 10,000 troops to “independent Egypt,” the absolute refusal to carry out prom- ises made by some sixty premiers since Gladstone to grant Egypt inde- pendence—this was only a small part of MacDonald's record. In the Social- ist Review for Feb., 1922, one may read some of the “bunk” MacDonald used to pour forth on Egypt: “Here, if the pledged word of England means anything, we went for purely tempor- ary purposes . . the prime minis- anxious to convince his alarmed reactionary colleagues that he had not altogether retained a radi- cal faith, decided to put his mailed boot down upon Egypt . and 1 wrecked all hopes of a settlement.” This exactly characterized MacDon- ald’s actions in Egypt. 9 Item 5, as well as 4, is an admis- * sion of a great negative achieve- ment. Trak ig one of the sore spots of the empire. Its theft from Turkey has resulted in Turkish incursions, ‘and it will be a miracle if war 18 avoided. Oil, and proposed cotton cultivation are the excuses for bomb- 8 amar’ . tne. Coton. ot the information; ing innocent tribesmen and peasants. Mr. Leach's statement of no change in-policy was honest, but very modest. His government treated Irak w than Curzon ever dared | Gel ot the national assembly t repri als and gold failed to persuade e an assembly owned completely by England, until last minute military action. A labor protest forestalled a tory mandate over Irak, which Mac- Donald put across. Curzon and Churchill tried a trick in Persia which failed; MacDonald succeeded, as else where. HE rest of the labor government's foreign policy can only indicated, for lack of space. Included in this record of achievements was: flog ging, forced labor, and shooting of natives in New Guiena; broken pledges of self-determination for Cy- prus; fomenting revolution in Brazil; inciting insurrection in the Turcoman steppes, to discredit Russia and alarm Persia; doing the same in 80. viet Bokhara, and spending enor- mous sums on Afghan rebellions; 12 1 8 2 in Ruhr elections; deporting German workers from Cologne; falsely impris- oning Communists to 27 years in jail, prohibiting meetings of the Rhineland factory councils during the election campaign; answering, in March, a protest sent in January, with the re ply that MacDonald “was obliged for attempting thru its or on the Inter-allied Dan- ube Commission to make all strikes and lockouts illegal in Hungary when the Hungarian government, of bloody Horthy tried to make illegal only strikes in public service; upholding Mrs. Evans in Mexico when she ac tually took up arms against the Mer ican nationalization law, and sup porting the oil agent, Cummins, there to the extent of breaking off relations with Mexico; interfering with boats on the side of the Canton cisti against the South China govern- ment of Sun Yat Sen; compelling Premier Theodore of the Queensland labor government to withdraw the just taxation of great estates; wel- coming the royal murderers of fascist Italy and Rumania; merciless slave driving in Kenya; etc., etc. If I've left out a few minor “achievemen I think dan judge the situa from —— been presented. OMESTIC POLICY. 1. Them tary policy has been d under foreign policy, item 3. As to Singapore, it was chosen as a naval base, after the Washington agree- ment forbade such bases in the Pa- cific. ae ae is about 200 miles naval base project, ostensibly; but it was kept as an oil tankage station. Lord Haldane said of it that it “would be something of great offensive pos- sibility.” It will yet see a naval base. As to the budget, and the prom- tse of a free breakfast table, it ts interesting to note that the taxes on a working man’s £2-10s. was equal (Continued on page 8) » = *
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* 2 a at 1 — — — — -_ DAY, I was aboard the Russian steamer, Garibaldi, which is load- ing in Hamburg for London. From London she is going back to Lenin- grad with a mixed cargo, containing a lot of machinery, however. All is well ventilated. And Russian steamers have changed their listic | N know names since the revolution. They World, of this vast Elbe harbor with overcrowding. And just coat, | have all been rechristened and re- its slave ships manned by slave D. this ship they have sho have named atter men whose work for the | the crew. Quite a contrast, as you the revolution has gained them immortal- ity. I knew that the Garibaldi was lying in the Hansa harbor, but the Hansa harbor is big and has at least three landings. I asked the boy on the harbor ferry that was taking me across, but he couldn't tell me either. So I had to depend on my own wits tions shape hemselves. 1 to locate the ship. Well, there I FTER I had picked my way across . tise gage | stood, well for’ard on the ferry boat F some slippery and partly sub- | wanted to get a ' 7 : F i 72 i f 3 cleaving the wind-swept and | merged logs and across a number of mh ae . 2 been aboard this steamer a week or g waters of the Elbe with eyes | scows and lighters I managed to get So to peeled for the black funnel and the within hailing distance of the Gari-| most important part. May ise bay Ree psa a of the members tain from her out in the con- red flag of the Garibaldi. You must|baldi. Yes, there was somebody in| ome — ta — Cen know that the Garibaldi is an old her stern. One of the crew, a Russian | Ther want to great pa N 8 5 friend of mine. I have been on her no doubt. I knew they were expect. to me. To give you e Jy taky ot tt, with ber setter on before the same as I have been on the ing me, So, “Hello there, Garibaldi,”| Sid would take too long good as disabled, Karl Marx and the Trotsky. And I hollered at the top of my volce to a eee eh Se der chain had been tied sure enough, just before we got to the | make the sound carry across the tu- | the captain’s. sole a several places with last landing I spied her, a small black | mult and uproar of the harbor. Yes, | Setting the vessel to its 3 f steamer, lost amongst the pretenti- he has Heard me. He is looking my and in the exercise of it he er on the verge o ously looming hulks of her big Dutch,| way. I point at myself and then at | course take such measures as he shall], icht to see and English and Norwegian neighbors.|the ship to make him understand | deem fit to further the desired end. ont. Her crew was fed And only for her big red flag with the | what I want. “Yes, the ship, take me E’S none of that needless}bread and rotte n bright hammer and ‘sickle in the up-|over to the ship.“ Ah, he's got me. were per right hand corner she would have | Yes, he’s making for the boat tossing is fin tape nn ong 9 — 3 neon remained inconspicuous and hidden] down below, alongside of the ship. ee “> teal n has his work and knocked into an from my eager and searching gaze. Five minutes later I’m aboard. 88 “one famed — welfare ot corner without th BOLSHEVIK ship in a foreign were glad to see me back. the ship is identical with that of the | the comfort of the men. And in these and hostile port amongst thou- I'd been on her before. I was ..amen, all do their duty faithfully so called sleeping quarters the foor sands of ships all flying long estab-| asain struck by the fact that on this and to the best of their ability. consisted of a number of planks lished and respectable flags is a new Ship they have no watchman. When : laid across a big hole full of water. and unexpected sight. As a revolu-| You board any other ship in this har-] Any time the men have @ grievance |p, water there was none except It gives you confidence. It conjures| always waiting for you at the top] thing out. If it’s anything serious a up before your mind glowing visions. | of the gangplank to inquire into your | committee is sent to lay the result be- is It makes the blood run quicker thru | business, past history, family connec-|fore the captain. And the skipper is tions, etc. I later asked the sailors | compelled to listen to the men, con- sider the question and do everything ] a satisfactory solution. In fact tionist, it does you good to look at it.] bor, a watchdog of the shipowners isa meeting 18 called te trash the some twenty gallons. no 2 5 5 i 21 =] 5 3 5 “ 4 8 g 1. f 5 * * . ‘Weil, cal and extensive library they led the way aft and down into] board. As you can see the flremen's quarter. gether different from UCH has been written about rules on the ships owned working conditions in Soviet {istic nations. This 11175 141 fits 1 Russia, but to get a real idea of how cratic spirit permeates every “Is this possible,” you say, “a for- workers are treated in and under the Florida As Seen By A Worker By H. C. Fillmore ogy, but fact gained from observing a ridge and by using lots of manure, his best to get as much money as he Much of Florida is flat, uninterest-| how the laborers live; moreover, liv-| and water, right here in the woods, | eam for it, just like a white man.” a ae ing country, with great tracts of gray | ing it out with them. where presumably the birds have al-} . Summing up one may say that. sand covered with pine trees. The] To those Who te so knowingly ways lived quite happily, they started | blacks and whites are coming togeth- relatively high lands are all sand, the] about the Am standard of liv-|® fine, exclusive plantation ot their] er down here, are growing slowly to lower lands black soil shading into] ing I would suggest they try mak- own for the birds. No doubt they | understand one another. pure muck as in the everglades. The ing both ends meet” on a wage of | figure that all the nicest birds in the} Tou might think that an organiza. big planters (there are 6,000 acres of | from 15c to 30c an hour, while paying | Beighborhood will come inside and the tion like this Mountain Lake Club, orange trees in one block owned by $20 a month for a shack to live in| fences and guards will keep unde- n who. have, more one company near Lake Wales) gre/ and with milk ranging from 17e to] sirable persons out and the sweet] money than ‘kno full of hope for the future. The small] 25c a quart. Other food prices being | singing of the birds will help soothe/ would pay the laborers pretty growers and back woods planter is] higher than in Chicago except for | the tired nerves of the poor, weary| The truth is they pay not so optimistic and complains bitter-| meat, which is a trifle cheaper. Even | Millionaires. have to and no more. ty about the state of the market, e] without investing anything the white] Both white and black labor is em-|30 cents an hour and eupidity of the buyers, and particular-| laborers’ children, and himself as) ployed apparently impartially all over | only because living in Lakes Wales 18 ly of the railroads who, he says,| well, show a poor physique. The the place. The southern white laborer | Very high. At Plant City where our (7) charge as much for moving the crop] blacks show up better due to living] who has not been used to working Winter strawberries mostly come from, 200 or 300 miles to Jacksonville as] in poorer dwellings, a lesser desire to | close to Negroes doesn’t know what to | farmer offered me 51.50 a day, trom do from Jax to New York. keep up appearances, and a better | make of this. They say, “The nigger ] sunrise to sunset. Listen to the Lake Wales lies in the Ridge Dia-] knowledge of real food values. 1 the cause of the low wages, he karo syrup king when the park super- trict. That is a distriét where the] Just a few miles from the little] ousht to be segregated somewhere, | iatendent told him that to keep his monotonous level of the wooded plains | town of Lake Wales lies the home of] Perhaps in Africa,” and I would come 8Tounds in order during the summer of Florida is broken by a succession ot] the Mountain Lake Club, where a back with inward malice, “Why 1 he would have to relatively high ridges and valleys be- pack of wealthy northerners make | ‘hink the blacks do very well, indeed. | dT. tween, many of which contain lakes. their winter home. They have lots They seem to do as much work as we | or The “realtors” are impressing their ot room among the wild pine ridges and do it just as well. I rather like | man optimistic psychology on all the cock- and lakes, and have built a fine golf to work and talk with them.” 22 These caretakers are roach business men of the hundreds | course, a great clubhouse and each] One hangover from the old is evi- be ee of little towns that are springing up, | one has his separate bungalow. There | denced in two water buckets, one for 1 3 * * d you ought to fed by northern money. Some of the | we find Edward Bok, the karo syrup|the whites, another for the blacks. | ang pot bell indignant red mush, town laborers are also infected and king, President Suspender King and | Over I go for a drink and when cau- pot belly shaking as he said it are trying to buy town lots and shares scores of others with prominent | tioned against the blacks’ bucket say:| oe ee im orange groves out of their puny | money bags and abdomens. Last win | “These blacks look good and healthy 2 wages. In few other places in Am- ter they gave work to many laborers o me. I was brought up on a farm and erica perhaps does this custom more | and what do you suppose they are do-| we never watered white and black certainly necessitate theh laborer’s ing? Oh, you would never guess. Bok | cows separately.” La FFALIAN-AMERICAN ore family doing without proper food, be- and some others were building a] A truck driven by a black passes 1238 Madison Street cause rents are high (exceptionally so BIRD SANTUARY, that is, they put fand the old line whites tell you of N. E. Cor. Elizabeth gt. im the winter, due to the tourist m- a big crew of men and trucks on and] only few years before such a con- ed 5 St. flux) and so is tood, and wages are ranged the country for miles round | tion would not have been allowed.“ Spaghetti and Ravioli Our low; not far from the absolute min- about and dug up all the huckleberry | You restrain your anger and say: | — imum required. This is not mere lit-| and other kinds of bushes they could] Why he seems to me to drive that erary license; not Marxian phraseol- | find. They hauled them up on top of | ruck just as well as anyone, and does Short Notice 2 — — —
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is shewing what it can do. It proposes to imtroduce electricity into the vil- lage. “Ukhtomtok” (Ukhtom Cur- rent) company has been formed in the volost, and the members of our 1 Village Soviet ve got into touch with this company. They found out what is required and set to work. They collected money among the peas- ants and have already begun to erect the mecessary posts. Towards the spring we hepe to have in our village * 8 little lamp — electricity. ing the villagers and They called ways and means these kulak elements. made must establish a must organize our co-operative. No members, but the state of improved. The peasants began to pay more attention to their child, and revo and Jhilino, as well as a bakery here in Chasovia, As the profits are considerable, the society per, which reflects the life of the vil- lage. This newspaper exercises con- siderable influence over the peasants, |. especially the younger. peasants who are eager to Contribute to it. PECIAL work among women is also carried on. A sewing and general needle work school has been opened for them. While the girls and women sew, knit or embroider, some- one talks to them on political subjects 7 222 Sik ly 2 brigh shine and washed by the green waves of the sea. All the year round it en chants people with the beauty and UR czars and capitalists knew fight than other parts of our country for its liberation. The white 5 letarian health resort where the workers of the Union of Soviet Social- ist Republics can recover their health of a handful of debauched parasites, were converted into sanatoria and rest homes for the workers. The Soviet government granted large sums of money and the neces sary personnel to make these health resorts fit to provide rest and recup eration for the sick. In spite of the — 2 ets os coke 2 tg oF Pate s PEE go 2 > > * * . 0 rd “> * 4 2 * 211 iu met z : i i : 355 This is how we have converted the ist Republics. And from here they go to take part with renewed ‘| strength in the building of the edi- fice for the creation of which every one of us is working—the edifice of a World Workers’ Commune. 12 workers who belong to the | “Third International Club” are principally workers employed in the sanatoria and vineyards, and also members of the Medical and Sanitary Workers’ Union and of the Land and Forest Workers’ Union. Comrades, we would like to correspond with you regularly. We will ask you to tell ug how you live and work, and we for our part will endeavor to tell you about what can be of interest to you concerning our life and work. We TMM : i ? Wee exhibit your letter to our club and we will send you all the answer to these letters. In the dark days of bourgeois repression, let the knowledge that the workers of the Soviet Republics are always with you and that true to the injunc tions of Lenin they are holding high the banner of the first workers’ and peasants’ republics, put courage into your hearts. | Awaiting your reply, With fraternal greetings on behalf Luba Gendina, secretary of the management board. 5 1 . aay FP * Fy s ¥e 4 sor ERE, OY ee ee 1 : 3 f wee ase * or Oe xg * 2 oo Are Sacco and Vanzetti to Die? WORKERS! ANSWER NO! PROTEST MASS MEETING Der SUNDAY, MARCH 1, 1925, 2:30 P. M. at EMMET MEMORIAL HALL, Ogden and Taylor Aves., South 5 P a | BROTHER! | (answer to a letter, a poem—or is it my heart? | do not know.) By JOHN LASSIN. (Translated by Simon Feishin) Brother! The mountains gleam, Fragrant are the trees, You. came, to call me, and I am going. Brother! Oh, yes: Our hearts are one, Our hearts are one, Our lungs are one, And the blood too is one, The hot, the rebellious—our blood. Brother! You gave me your hand, And I feel the contact: How the veins throb, How soft and smooth it is, And clings te mine. It is the hand of A voice that calls, word that rings, that leada, I have no more body, I am only a word light as a flame, It soars, soars inte the far infinity. Brother! In men’s hearta there soars, In slaves’ hearts trembles. . A blaze setting nen oils The chilling hearts. Brother! My brother in the fight, In struggle, You stretched out your hand to me. Brother! We stride forward on stony paths, At the head of daring rebel armies, You, I, we: the slaves... Into inflinity We slaves march, We conquer in the fight, In fever; out of black slavery — Into the land of eternal light. ADMISSION FREE! SPEAKERS : JACK W. JOHNSTONE, Secretary Trade Union Educa- tional League, RALPH CHAPLIN, and an Italian speaker Auspices, Workers (Communist) Party, Local Chicago. ADMISSION FREE! 4
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4 | F committee N N * 0 Heine “Protects” the Over- powered Socialist Workers. EINE (Barrister): On January 8 the strike broke out among the dock workers of Kiel. On January 29 the social democratic leaders entered the strike committee. The social protecting the Leica pcos tional defence. / (Vorwarts, Dec. 12, evening edition.) Kaleer Socialist, Scheidemann as much contained | it to which I could . _, Bive my agreemet “Re out without our Kno! e strike broke | on 4 about it, and depu . were sent to. e We declin- . ed to do this and sent the delegates away. But when our own followers a , begged us to join the strike com mit- tee, we did so with the expressed in- tent ion —here I betray no secret —of putting an end to the strike as apeeckity as possible by means or negotiations with the government. There was a strong feeling against us in the functionaries’ meeting, as “sabotagers” of the strike. The workers wanted to stop the electric supply as reply to Kessel’s commands. if we had not entered the strike committee at that time, this court would not be sitting today, precisely as we prevented Russian conditions in 1918. And no newspaper would exist today which could abuse us. What we did_was done for love of our fatherland! (Vorwarts Dec. 12, evening edition.) CHEIDEMANN: I hear of this ra * leaflet for the first time. When we entered the strike committee, we favored the strike internally. We should have been fit for the lunatic asylum had we done this, after pursuing for four years the \ straight line of defence of native country. Heine (barrister): Did not the greater importance accruing to the strike thru the participation of the social democratic party have the et-. fect of extending the movement? Scheidemann: By our participation in the strike the workers were united, and thus the movement could be much more quickly settled than would otherwise have been possible. If an- onymous wirepullers had got the mat- ter into their hands, there is simply no saying what might have happened (Vorwarts Dec. 12, evening edition.) HAIRMAN: Could you issue the slogan for the breaking off of the strike? Scheidemann: That was entire im- possible. All we could do was to take part, in order to bring the affairs to a favorable end. (Vorwarts Dec. 12, evening edition.) Scheidemann: We exerted every endeavor to induce the general commission of the trade unions to take part. This was in accordance with the intentions of the govern- ment. (Vorwarts, Dec. 12, evening edition.) Ebert Ready to Cry—for the Fatherland! EINE (barrister): Do you remem- ber that Ebert declared that the Philistine view of peace at any price did not come in question for the so- ctal democratic workers? Scheldemann: Yes indeed; he de- clared that national defence was un- conditionally imperative. At this session Ebert was called away to receive important military informa- tion from Major v. Bussche. This information was so affecting that Ebert almost wept when repeating it to the party committee. He said: “Now it is more than ever our duty not to fail at this moment.” it was not that we rejected the workers, and in the interests of na-| | t. CHEIDEMANN: ‘I did net hear Wallrat's speech, tho there is} * of dere own mou . 1 9 er \ aR ra > ; demande themselves as 33 tor these were good enuf in themselves, but we could not agree to the use of the strike. as e of e tion. r Dec. 12, e sation.) e Against the Amnesty. 84 an amnesty a particularly critic: | al point? Scheidemanh: The case was precise- ly the same as today, when our party (Berlin Rote Fahne, Dec. 12.) Their King’s Evidence. R. LANDSBERG (barrister): Did you not consult with Prince Max of Baden on Sept. 23, 1918? unless the social democrats we must hold to national defence. the Noske as Witness. * N was then heard, on preparations for the Jan. strike. He declared: On Ebert’s the party and the government in Sep- tember, 1918. to the strike, for I was his intimate cuss together, I must say that I am surprised at the way in which acter and great patriotism as Ebert has been dragged thru the press and meetings during the last few years. of the dock workers. who N sendin since my relations to the workers. 30,000 mutineers. connection with Mr. Ebert. _ (Vorwarts, Dec. 13.) He Broke Up the Strike. but should support it internally. Witness Noske: any such deeision. Chemnitz in January. lin, insurrection on a broader basis. . Lane, was me ‘eisai tor rejects the nesty demands made on such a large scale by the Commun- ists. Scheidemann: Prince Max of Baden declared to Ebert and me that he would not undertake the government partici- pated. The tenor of his speech was that we had held strictly to the line of defence of native country, and that suggestion I became the intermediary between I am thoroly familiar with Ebert’s standpoint with regard friend, and there was hardly any po- litical problem which we did not dis- a man of such irreproachable char- HEN the revolution set in, after shots were fired in consequence of the events in the navy at Kiel, the admiralty feared—not that a revolu- tion might break out—but that the shooting might bring about 4 strike it was Ebert me to Kiel, e navy might enable me to prevent a rising among As You will probably know, I went to Kiel; I did not, how- ever, find any strikers there, but I say all this for the purpose of illustrating my close ANDSBERG (barrister): It is said that the fictitious letter sent by Mr. Pfutze to Kloth contained the statement that a secret party resolu- tion had been passed, to the effect that the party should externally dis- approve of the strike during the war, That is perfectly ridiculous. The party never came to Had I desired it, there would have been a strike at I do not know who it was in Berlin who suggested nry being sent to Chemnitz during the critical days of January. In Chemnitz the question of a strike was actually being discussed, and, when the move- ment threatened to break down in Ber- it was intended to organize the I at- tribute it essentially to my efforts ar * : fe EET — to organize the strike, . icals reproached me and thus breaking up the strike. (Vorwarts, Dec. 13.) Arrest of Rosa Luxemburg. WW ours. GENERAL VRIES.- BERG: I should like to empha- size the following: One day an agent of the social- democratic party came to us and re- quested the arrest of Rosa Luxem- burg or of another woman. We made the arrest. I was the more astonished that it was precisely Mr. Ebert who then at- tacked us severely in the reichstag, and spoke of the case with the intro- ductory words: Another word on the military terror.“ (Vor warts, Dee. 15.) Upon this von Stein, general of the artillery, former 8 of war, was heard. Chairman: The daisies asserts that from 1916 onwards the German S. D. party deliberately thwarted the meas- ures of national defence. Witness: I cannot say anything about that, as the party leaders did not invite me to their meetings. But there were difficulties enuf. On one occasion, when a metal workers’ meeting was about to be held, we were applied to by an ag- ent of the social-democratic party, Who asked us to forbid the meeting, as their right socialist wing was go- ing to be driven to the wall by the radicals. I prohibited the meeting, and was subsequently severely criticized by Scheidemann in the reichstag for do- ing, so. This I did not understand. (Vorwarts, Dec. 15.) _Groner on Social Democrats. MB retired’ reichminister, Groner, was then heard, and made the following statement: |! am not aware that the social- democrats did any harm to the de- fence of the country. On the con- trary, | have always found Mr. Ebert to possess the fullest under- standing for national defence. Heine (barrister): Do you know anything about Mr. Ebert’s activity for keeping the army together after the breakdown? | Witness: Yes indeed. The present President Ebert did his utmost to car- ry out the wishes of the military head. j quarters. At that time Mr. Ebert dis- cussed the situation with us every day, in full agreement, and endeav- ored to carry out everything which we suggested and recommended. (Vorwarts, Dec. 15.) Hindenburg to Ebert. EINE (barrister): Are you aware ~ denburg, was prepared to co-operate with Mr. Ebert? Witness. General Groner: General Field Marshal von Hindenburg was in entire agreement with this co-opera tion. He was also agreed with our entering into an alliance with Mr. Ebert at that time. I know of a let g the matter out, that. General Field Marshal Hin- son | have lied, myself with you le from the threat-” uld like to remind you of your appeal of Nov. 9, in which you say: | 155 “The new. government. of the reich carnot-fulfill its task unless the whole of the authorities in, and country land a helping band know that many will find it diffiouli to work with the new men who hav undertaken to rule the reich, but ! appeal to their love for our people. if our organizations fail us at this difficuit hour, Germany will be plunged into anarchy and the pro- foundest misery. Help us by fear- less and persevering work everyone remaining at his post, until the hour of release arrives.” This is followed by several points dealing with discipline in the army, and with the necessity of the speedy convention of the national as- sembly. The letter then goes on: “The fate of the German people has been placed in your hands. It depends on r decision Whether the German ich will ee lam ready and eat ta the whole + ped to help you 2 this aim. We all know that the regrettable issue of the war, the reconstruction of the reich is only possible on a new basis and in new forms, What we want is that the restoration of the state is not post- poned for generations by a foolish- ness and blindness completely de- stroying every pillar of our social and economic life . ° “Signed: Hindenburg.” Witness: I can fully confirm the au- thenticity of this letter. (Vorwarts, Dec. 15.) (To Be Continued.) — 3 — ~ — M adison Pharmacy | INC. BETTER W Light Luncheon Served 1154 Madison Street, Corner Ann OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Four Phones Chicago Furnishings Trade Where Your Money Buys the Most Martin’s 651 West North Avenue East of Halsted St. ' | Dr. A. Moskalik DENTIST S. W. Corner 7th and Mifflin Sts. PHILADELPHIA, PA.
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aor j . christians make good slaves. The masters are seeking to feed the most willing slaves first and they choose ular brand ot to the partic- opium they in- ele? un artiffetal line of gentile, 1 and eis tightly being drawn and prejudice and witch- craft of old is arrayed to befuddle the uncouth. So long as this sort of horse-play is confined among the various ele- ments of two-by-four bank patrons, known as the middle class, the harm done, tends to weaken the unity and strength of the capitalist state, but of late, thanks to our efficient Mr. A convenient wedlock, ihowévee, be: tween church and state—each. to the contract maintaining their own II home but living amicably together was affected. This wedlock is now and create a condition of intolerance, which for a while holds back the for- ward march of the working class. It after that the deluge. There only re- main. internal military suppression and external invitation to mercenary, troops to hold the working class in leash. We are now passing thru the state of intolerance. When it be- comes clear to the workers that they N the working class ‘begins is the last connivance and calumny— have been misled and that they are wit divided along religious and race but only along class lines, they wil what's to be done. Vp to 1914 the United States indus- trial development was so intense and rapid that the various phases of in- tolerance that were rampant. in Eu- -| rope could not develop here. The Negroes suffered the most up to that time and if there had been no Ne- eroes to roast it can be supposed they would have roasted foreign-born workers or the next ne ba “heroes” pick on. Religious intolerance began to be party | felt in America during the few hard years prior to the world war, when it was a dose 4 t "ec | successfully operating in most west- the tide of industrial unrest that w ’ nize each other. lern democracies. To bring the war to| swepitig the country prior to 1914. im the ma centers, ad- the people, the almigtity on high and With che coming of the great 0 vertisements tor christian the state, have worked ter glave? and with “plenty of jobs” for the help” are not ‘common. _ Evidently ee of Revolutlon. Islaves and profits for the masters and the with a war on hand which gave them tolerance: “mainly, . death to the The war has been fought, workers have returned to jobs which machines and capitalist efficiency have replaced. The world market is ruined and an age of specialization, such as has never been heard of before, is con- fronting the American worker today. »The American land squatter has long ago lost title to his land, and has been reduced to tenantry. Such a condi- tion presents a most fertile soil for n ce er to s | Ng Born inside of the stinking carcags a better subterfuge than internal in- By M. D. Litman the capitalis apologists. They come before the le and tell them that “foreigners,” “catholics” and “Jews” are depriving them from their profits and from their jobs. The smallest and most unprofitable enterprises are in the hands of the so-called foreigners. The Hardest | mine. and farm labor Is being 1 led by so-called’ labor; y there is that politically and — ig norant “native son,” who allows him- self to be misled by this drivel of hatred. To show their patriotism, ‘some “bosses are handing out the “easy” mine and mill and factory jobs to natives and take pride in em- ploying. none but christian, white, Americans.” The Ku Klux Kraze. of race and religious intolerance and germinating from the swamps of southern United States, the klan is agency which has rendered the most service to American capitalism. The old decayed carcass of hats and intolerance was dressed up in a white robe and placed on a horse and is now being paraded wtoang wares the un- couth. * Conflicts must 3 — thie cam- paign that will tend to weaken the capitalist state organism and will make the state a weaker enemy of the working class. Sectional disputes in regards to authority will arise and with it internal warfare into which the working class led by Communists will throw their forces and organize the tirst step towards Communism—the dictatorship of the proletariat. APITALISM, -with its powerful weapon, the school, is burying its poison fangs still deeper into the hearts ot the children by at last estab- | ‘lishing in New Vork City, religious | instruction for public school pupils. At a meeting a few days ago of Roman catholic priests, Jewish rabbis and protestant ministers, it was de- cided that such opiate must be ad- ministered as often as possible to as many scholars as possible. The at- tempt will be made to inoculate the 1,200,000 New York public school children, with this virus instead of 400,000 now receiving such injections -in one way or another. Catholics At it a Long Time It has also developed that the catholics, always working jesuitically, have been for the last two years giv- ing religious opiates to children after school hours. This was announced by no less an official than Dr. William J. O’Shea tendent of schools, who mate me Wet n of how they do it dnd e Idren they are teaching. t Cardinal,Hayes, chief of the opium squad of the catholic branch of wor- ship, has given his “august” sanction to this movement and his Machiavelli, Dr. Lavelle, is the active force carry- ing out the cardinal’s dictum. It was declared with pride that the public school officials are in favor of this religious instruction for the school children .and the immediate establishment of such teachings seems to indicate that capitalism knows what it is doing and that it needs must be done to withstand the onset of labor waking up to the wiles and op- pressions of capitalistic ethics and sweatshops. These medicine men have now ar- ranged for one day a week of religious instruction in one school, P. S. 46, at St. Nicholas avenue and 156th street. They are wily in announcing that in- struction will not be given in the school building; but in places apart, The Jews, protestants and catholics. will have separate classes. It ig also intended not to dismiss classes early to receive this instruction, but it will be dane after school hours. They will catch first, it is said, the part-time class children who, deprived by the niggardliness of the capitalist politic- * iate for the Children N X — 8 N nene var twas.’ N * W 5 . X * N taten a AO UIs ” + 2 1 15 =i 7 c 9247 * _ *TENTION!S — uP, AND AT THEM ? 4. . DN ians, of full-time lessons, will be and given as frequent doses as pos- sible, of this venomous narcotic, 80 that they may be “good,” meaning docile workers for capitalism. Superintendent O’Shea, to calm the people who might de disturbed by this new plan to take possession of their children mind’s minds, says that attendance at these classes will be purely voluntary. But they will work on children they find not attending in a similar fashion to the catholic witch- * pounced upon by the witch-doctors doctors who dangle a devil before the eyes of a terrified child and its mo- ther. | The Mephistophelian horror enters the trustful souls and they are dulled in spirit by the poisonous fear. The parent relents, the child is staggered by fear and successive doses of the opiate render it immobile and thought- less. Thus the public school wil! con- tinue its efforts to create imitative monkeys out of the magnificent po- tentiality of adolescent human brains. Capitalism is forever alive to its interests and it knows the child is its future earner of profits. If it doesa’t receive opiates enough it will join Communists who strike directly at the villainies and abominations of profit- making. It is a frightful step towards bring ing the working class into subjection and its effects will be far-reaching if it continues. In the whole city of New York with ‘ts 7,000,000 people only the Workers (Communist) Party combats this men- ace in an organized manner. —— — —
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pa 2 See ene 1 * é * 4 ‘ - * N * 8 he * N “The Story of a Proletarian Life” | Bartolomeo Vanzetti describes the manner in which Judge Webster Thayer sentenced him to fifteen years in prison on the charge of attempted highway robbery. “There was not a vibration of sympathy in his tone as he did so,” says Vanzetti. “I won- dered as I listened to him, why he hat- ed me 80. Is not a judge supposed to be impartial? But now I think I know—I must have looked to him like a strange animal, being a plain worker, an alien and a’ radical to boot.” The modesty which is part of the make-up of Vanzetti never told him that the reason Judge Webster Thayer hated him was that in addition to be- ing “a plain worker, an alien and 4 radical to boot” oe was a man of fine intelligence devoting that intelligence to challenging the system of which Thayer is part. NE did not need to sit long in the cOurt room of Superior Court Judge Webster Thayer in Dedham while. Bartolomeo Vanzetti was there to realize that the two strongest per- senalities in that court room were Thayer and Vanzetti. The cage in which Vanzetti sat faced the bench on which Thayer sat. Vanzetti never took his eyes from Thayer and Thayer knew it. Thayer is a good lawyer in the sense that he knows the law. He has a fine brain which he has con- centrated on legal problems. Van- zetti has a fine brain which he has concentrated on ideas of brotherhood and the bringing about of a better system of society. Thayer has an education gotten in the best schools and univerities in the country. Van zetti educated himself in the time left him after earning a living for himself. HAYER knows Blackstone, the de- cisions of the supreme court and the statutes of Massachusetts. Van- ; to Vanzetti. He has studied them and said “my teeth were not made for such bones; nevertheless I proceed to gnaw them desperately, and I believe not uselessly.” Vanzetti's understanding of English is far from perfect, Thayer can make the language of Milton and Shake speare do tricks for him that it was never intended to do. The legal im- plications of his slightest remark always seem to be limitless. 7 or enuf of a gentleman to refrain from taking unfair advantage of Van zetti. man nor a good sport. he is trying much more than a mur der case when he is trying Sacco and Vanzetti. On the slightest provoca- tion he will deliver a lecture from the bench on the dignity of the law and the importance of upholding it. To these arguments in defense of capi- talism Vanzetti can answer nothing. But his steady gaze fixed on Thayer is a challenge. It is a challenge of which Thayer is conscious and he always seems to be addressing his remarks directly to Vanzetti. UT on one occasion Vanzetti did answer. It was during the hear- ings relative to the alleged insanity of Sacco. Thayer had just commit- ted Sacco to the hospital for observa- tien. He then delivered a talk on the idea that “this is a government of laws, not men.” Saeco had been on a hunger strike for twenty-nine days as a protest against the frame-up which had put him and Vangetti in prison. Thayer was pointing out that an individual could not step or impede the work- ings of the law. That the law was more important than persons. “The time will never come I hope when one person can make his will felt over his fellows. When the word of one person will have the force of law,” he said. The harangue lasted about eee ae oe a= Pe is * en 3 * * — 7 A 1 o I oe ie SR PRN Sy JJC 5 7 wn is pat? set, 2 * 8 a wp he . N ae <2 a ; 2 eee 8 * Se erie; r Cane IEA SEE ei — — — — — — - : es ** G it 3 ‘arr ote ae. is 2 oj atk, *. 1 24 * * n * ad - - — Barons in New England Nicola Sacco, His Wife and Son. ITH all the advantages on the side of Thayer one would as- sume he would be a good enuf sport But Thayer is neither gentle- Thayer knows and knows well that : “Victims of the Textile Bartolomeo Vanzetti. ten minutes when Thayer this point in his argument. O doubt thru the mind of Vanzetti flashed pictures of the frame-up that had brot Sacco and himself into the cage in the court room as pris- oners and he snapped in a loud,clear, challenging voice, “We are at that time now.” Baliffs hurried about the court room bellowing, “Silence in the court.” The clerk rapped his desk and a guard rushed to the edge of the cage where Vanzetti sat. The judge continued droning out his remarks. UT Vanzetti had at last challenged the bunk of the judge to whom he was compelled to listen. That little scene which was over in a mo ment symbolized vividly the challenge which the working class huris in the face of existing society. It might reached symbolic drama transplanted to real life. Today Vanzetti lies in the Bridge water state hospital for the criminal insane legally a crazy man but in reality suffering from the effects of his years of prison life locked away from the free air he loved. Thayer has rendered his final decision in the case of Sacco and Vanzetti by pass- ing the buck and refusing their de- mand for a new trial saying the su- preme court could reverse him if it wished. ANZETTYIS future seems to hold but two possibilities, Ie in an insane asylum or death in the electric chair unless his class frees him. Thayer's future seems secure. For his part in the now world famous case “The People of the State of Massa- chusetts vs. Nicola Sacco and Bartolo well have been a part taken from «a ‘ meo Vanzetti” he will probably be supreme There his Lines to the Unorganized" “ Unemployed. ~~ — Too many boots, amd your feet are unshod, Too many suits, and you shiver with cold, Toe many houses, you bed on the sod, Teo many meals, so your rations are doled. Over-production—the warehouse is full ; Over-production—you starve on the street; Over-production—a nice little lull With plenty stored up—but nothing to eat. Think of the boss that you love feed- ing fat, While you tighten your belt and go begging a meal; oS Think of the banquet his family it at As you prowl by the shops and are tempted to steal. Overproduction—you speeded like hell ; Over-production—- you took little pay; ; Over-production—you did your work well; over production ot Bosses today! Henry Geo. Weiss. 60 TO YOUR GLASS MOVIES “The Beauty and the Bolshevik” will be shown in the following cities, together with its companion piece, “Russia in Overalls”: East Pittsburgh, Pa., Feb. 28. Gary, Ind., Eagle Theater, March 3, noon to midnight. Milwaukee, Wis., Pabst Theater, March 7, one matinee, one evening show. Neffs, Ohio, March 20. San Francisco, Cal., March 21. Los Angeles, Cal. April 8. Tacoma, Wash., April 19. “Polikushka” and its companion comedy and news reel will be shown: Kenosha, Wis., Feb. 28. Bentleyville, Pa., May 1. “Russia and Germany” is being shown in the Miners’ Union Theater, Galloway, W. Va., Feb. 28.
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sy , 5 Ee pi ee ee 1 1 * „ e 5 * = : 7 3 - . ——ä—ü——ä—ä— — 1 N — 3 (Continued from page 1.) ‘to that of a bourgeois’ salary. Snow- den told the unions he had no money for widows’ pensions; the army need- ed £45,000,000 and the navy 256, 000,000, not to speak of the air forces. fk as. to whose budget Snowden’s The corporations profit tax was | pe also the phone charges re- duced; the McKenna duties reduced } and inhabited house tax withdrawn— all for the benefit of the middle class. For the workers, food taxes were re- duced, and the cost of living some what lowered. With the sliding wage scale prevalent in most industries, @ wage offensive would y re- sult. But even without that, the cap- italists found a way to make up prev- ious prices for the workers. Tea im- ports ‘were. restricted, and prices raised, with terrible exploitation on the colonial plantations and profits as high as 150 per cent (Makum Tea Co.) UMORS of a sugar shortage of 3 million tons in world consump- tion ere floated and the price was jacked ‘up, with fortunes for the re- fine A wheéat-harvest scare was mannfactured, and flour went up 23 per cent from April to August, 1924. The chemical and drug trusts, with a complete grip on the market squeez- ing out all underselftrs. And so it goes. The government went wild pre- venting strikes, and moved not a finger to stop profiteering. Boys are earning 10 to 25s. a week ($2.25-5.75) and agricultural laborers getting such low wages (27s.) that even liberals had to protest and vainly fight the la- bor government for a 30s. minimum wage. And Snowden’s cure was a beet subsidy and a tariff to wipe out unemployment, with more in the beet industry! gust, 1924 the of living generally was as high a before the budget. The capitalist class was the only one to benefit. Why, Snowden told us: * solution oft the. unemploy- ment We m the opinion of the government; is to be found in the full development of all our national and natural resources, and in the scien- tific organization of production, end- ing with the elimination of waste in every sphere and every department.” Sounds “kjind-of-like” Coolidge and Mellon, doesn’t it? Its significance was that it incites wage reductions, increases unemployment by a more efficient capitalist method of exploita- tion, invites subsidies, etc. What tor. les couldn't dare try, Snowden did for them, and labor must be grate- ful! And the rude Communists call him a lackey of capitalism! On education, much was pledged, and nothing done. Regulation of the flow of young workers into indus- try, training and maintenance, and similar pledges meant nothing in their lives. Minors didn’t help elect Mac- Donald and Snowden. — The housing problem was wretch- * edly bungled. The building trades workers were to be bambooz- led, while building material proſiteers were to abandon themselves to an orgy of unregulated profits. Pledges to “commandeer” factories, “ration surplus housing accommodations,” “abolish slums, promptly build an ade. quate supply of decent houses, and re- sist decontrol till the shortage’ is sat- isfied,” all petered out in ineffectual plans to build 2% million houses, if the banks would finance them, the builders listen to reason, the workers surrender wholely to the employers, the next government be willing. We'll take into consideration that the labor government had no majority. But we'll check up on their sincerity by looking at similar instances where they had power. A little case, but in- dicative is this: The workers took over four houses which had been empty nine years, offered to repair them gratis and pay rent for them. Henderson’s police put them out without a warrant. One was a group of man, wife and three children liv- ing in a twelve foot room, with ceil- ing cracked and walls full of holes. 3 3,000 workers In Au- J ee oo pee “ie . Glasgow evictions, (in two — ö ee tories did in a year; the government | refused to support Wheatley’s and tried to keep the law the same) T etc. show the same insincerity and bungling, even ‘dineounting the Aack: of a majority. NEMPLOYMENT, | ' actording to Baldwin, was endemic, | It had broken the backs of previous govern- ments. It increased under MacDon-| ald's rule. Far more than a million out of work, and about 100,000 on gov- or” ernment relief work, at starvation. wages. the dole at - Sheffield, against the wishes of the ‘capitalist. members of} the board of guardians. The same Wheatly telling unemployed to 80 to the work-house. Pledges on. degrad- ing domestic work cracked wide open. | pe Snowden telling the country he» didn’t | mean to keep his election pledges Saxo on unemployment, with an “increase | of 100,000 unemployed from July to August. Shaw telling labor to wait and see” if he had any plan, A they walted, and saw not. His rem edy was the “restoration ot our for- eign trade,” for which the unemploy ed_were duly thankful. Baldwin had said, “If you have a particular rem- edy, you will have the support of the to house and the country,” but they didn’t even dare him, simply propos- ing what he had failed in trade re- vival. unemployed workers’ charter | wa@n’t even looked at by Mac- Donald, and their demands of suit- able housing, reduced hours of work, government relief, occupational train- ing centers, weren't even advocated for their propaganda value in a fa- ture election. Why? Let MacDon- al exposes himself: “Society is al ways badly treated. . . when these grievances (aneinployniont) are — “Radical” Wheatley teducing | ( er tance, of the 8-hour day and the so- called ‘con 7 of the revolution’.” ing: same clique, MacDon-| ald said in 1919 ot Lenin's condemna- tion ot them, Condemnation which was fully deserved and to which 1 fully subscribe.” And then he tried sell out the British workers to fi- nancial imperialism in the same way. HAT. MacDonald should have done was to present labor’s de- mands to parliament, gone outside parliament to the unions and mobil- ized them, brought their pressure to bear on parliament as did the young bourgeoisie in 1832, dissolved parlia- ment if defeated and appealed to the workers again, this time with a pro- gram that would bring them enthuti. astically together under labor’s ban- ner. They might not have won this year, but they would have avoided be- A r and won in another couple of! 1 Bin yo de- changed to a decision to refer the | matter to the next conference. a. Meanwhile the local labor parties have disregarded the last conference decisions and put up ‘Communists as conference of all labor and sotialist and Communist organizations to make the labor movement a class move ment of labor, and not of petit bour- geois careerism and liberalism. the Communist Party moves ahead. The Workers Weekly sells nearly 50,000 copies weekly; a national minority move ment is being started, and shows signs of great support; the united front campaign in the unions and la- bor parties progresses rapidly; with an intensive campaign on and FAMOUS MOVIES 4 — J 2 8 GERMAN-AMERICAN HOME KENOSHA, WIS., TODAY The famous movies, “Polikushka,” a six-reel story made by the Moscow Art Theater, “In Memorlam— Lenin,“ showing the life and funeral of Lenin, and a Russian comedy, “Sol- dier lvan's Miracle,” will be shown SATURDAY, FEB. 28, from 4 to 11 p. m. at the German-American Home, 665 Grand Ave.» Kenosha, Wis. These pictures have been drawing the biggest crowds in Chicago, New York and other big cities. They will be shown in Kenosha ONLY ONE EVENING, FEB. 28. There will be three showings on that evening. The first will start at 4 p. m. sharp. Make sure to attend. Tell your friends about it. Don’t miss the greatest treat in your life. 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