Daily Worker
March 4, 1925
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to seibeleg out, meen NEW YORK 1S ear be thar taben® sealitnoelt Teo eg \ ft bcs : {' Kept Press Wars on Truth As Usual — against the natifnal center of ‘the ; TE present big scab movement. To look g | | at this problem as one which cas be} | handled, as such problems ‘werd hand: ; giled in the past,. a . stor gag as one of Pawtue eMyllez, _9F Blackstone. Valley, or the AnticLabor P Plans ‘Ace district, or the Fall Riyer district—or : | Hatched in Metropolis | 460°", England” problem of those (Continued from Page 1) The Rattlesnake Press Squirms. ments of their government in as To this comprehensive and reason- phases of life under the leadership of}ed document, the capitalist press of the Communists. London brings the vilest attacks. The 3 Victory Ovér Obstacies Times says, “The whole document abounds in childish irrelevancies, but a — = — adds absolutely nothing to the know! the terrible jeter ot heartbreaking edge of Russia which the outside obstacles laid upott’ their effort to fe world i possesses. The Chronicle store industry by tie blockade and | 828. It is a naive document, and armed intervention of capitalist na- where it is not naive it is misleading. tions, which laid waste nearly the The Mail says, that the delegates whole country. Further, the report swallowed what was es —- and fakes up the lying versions circulated| ads, “Tha” Ore 00, ar samanda. te by the Second International espec- return for their trip. It is sheer im- lally concerning Soyiet Georgia. pertinence for the delegates to cite “Lies About Georgia.” the wild and muddled experiments of “In Tiflis,” says the report, “the the Soviet as the way of wisdom.” members of the delegation addressed The Post says, “Purcell and hit a mass meeting of railway workers, | >-icndg will bitterly repent some daj taw from a special stand a et, —that they ever lent the authority of demonstration in the thoro-|+,.ir names to this travesty of fare, This demonstration conveyed truth.” to them the inipression that the Ce. the. ether, band, the te mae ig by cuicdmldik sdsies class newspapers are greeting the re- .. tion which certain reports would ap- port with studious but friendly accept... ,°* r to indicate. Thé demonstration ance. The fact that the unions .ol .* len ered to reflect a strong united Britain are reaching a closer bond. appe 4 with the Russian unions, it is remark apereral of the workers sap “ee = ed, is the reason for the outburst of . enlist papi a | not hysterical lying and misinterpretaties ~ | bear out the general impression cre- on the part of capitalist editors. tr; A pha ph ern Government Claims Rights, that the population of Georgia was} WASHINGTON, March 2—The gov: being held in a state of suppression ernment’s right to preferential rail | districts togéther, would result in dis- aster. To pursie such a policy would (Continued from page 1.) be to-overlook the fact that the mill not even buy there a comprehensive) qwoors’ pian of campaign reaches in directory of the mill towns. (I bot), single front from Maine to Florida the last little pocket textile directory | ry would be to overlook thé fact that to be had in Providence.) Every) the textile manufacturers (with the question is answered, “Oh, you might) nosginie exceptfoti of oe of two small get that in New York.” “old-men” groups) aré so thoroly uni- Where Butler is Czar. fied in this fight that they can and In New Bedford and Fall River— | do play the Southern mate against the you can get much gossip of the ezar-| Northern mills. — like rule of “Old Man Butler” (Cool-| ‘ There is some dispute as to whether idge’s angel) and his tight little clique} the textile industry hes already com- of local cotton-mill squires. pleted the. transition into finance-cap- It seems as tho there in the two old| ital, mondpoly control. In industry mill cities of southern Massachusetts | generally we know that this stage is the only remaining stronghold of| was reached about twenty-five years the old order. You can hear muchj/ago. Many persons claim that the talk of how the “new men” of the/ textile industry in America is a par-| wider world a few months ago were/tial exception. New England cotton scolding the “old men” of New Bed mill owners’ propaganda. plays strong ford and Fall River for refusing to / on the note that they are in competi- co-oridnate their wage-cutting and la-| tion with the Southern mills. But in- bor-baiting and speeding-up with the | dications are strong that this “compe- general campaign of that nature/ tition” is between the right hand and which is now on. _,| the left hand of the same financial in- You can hear how the “old men”) terests. (I shall take this up in a Jat- managed with their political and/er article and try to show the dmaz- banking facilties to freeze out any/ing development of mill-combination: by the Russian Red Army.” road rates in the case of railroads new arrivals who try to start up any/that reach literally from Texas to Parasites Have Hard Lot. that have been aided by grants of sad unwelcome businesses there. Maine.) One section of the report deals| 2°vernment land was upheld by the And you can hear tow Old Man But- H with social and religious conditions supreme court of the United States ler, local king of them all, is quarrel-| _/.2v® Monopoly of Credit, Any person between the ages of 17/t0day in two cases, involving the ing with the Coolidge cabinet about Certainly there exists, and has ex- and 56, having no physical or mental Louisville and Nashville, and Chica- this policy of international finance isted at least since the world war, | _| go, Milwaukee and. St. Paul raflroads. capital which “invests in foreign in-|®9™° S°rt of a banking-capital ar- ry set ada tina rg toch Peeks The roads had sued to recover excess ye ie tn them Bhs to Vans ghee bp 5 4 evs olen at all. He has no vote and receives ee charges on government bust e our own.” ore of this : ‘ th ‘ eo cmd it seems strange Me hear of But-| “” aa! car 0 of a bank credit wn cen re = * nor pay the — who led Coolidge to the White 7 2g nd aig . ote Ny sy bag inte ‘dduaatiim Ghd webteel attend: Some ag a ouse, now quarreling with l- rporatio ION Mich., March 2.—One masz ‘dge'e. Rabe of pasiatee the pie mi little “La-Follette-size” corpora- seurees. as ‘eft Wave. oo Gur” the Ps enteuiay injured, scores were erican finance-capital oo over ey of aa meni deals oe and thaximum house rent and be Hable at/| panic stricken and windows in sur- we ae sae ie aw Fee naataas te 3 oa any time to receive a month’s notice eras ~— ——o were a by an ou hear talk of all that, but you explosion in the natio today. get no general information of vient sociation of America. As to cotton "me Gant tae PD Poinegel a meal| Police intimated the explosion ‘was goitig on in the big labor-defiation| #24 woolen manufacture, it is known outside his home and his theate:| caused by a bomb. drive which now embraces with a sin-| ‘Mat about a year or more ago there ticket will cost him ten times that o! | —— gle plan the entire industry of weav-| ¥°T® negotiations hetween the manu- a worker. He will have no recognized ing and spinning wool and cotton, | ‘#cturers’ associations and the depart- oo. rt will b “You can get that in New York.” ment of justice on. the . ” ee of r, Ate Soe Ge ee rae tla oie alll eon as ; Company Union Movement. price-fixing arrang sete and the f) e| 4 eC f ie SS ia The lot of some of these people, Wh / Yes, you can get that in New York. | #*itrust law—a ques gn ot so-called » who cannot ‘or will’ not fit in with the new system, } en is very lamentable, and at present, they doubtless number many thousan 8. In another place the report says: “Strong propaganda is carried on in the press, schools, colleges and trade join clubs 2 fainst religion generally, and especially as. practiced by the old orthodox church.” Education Given Every Ald. In regard to. education, the report e~ saysy . in compactn , 4] “Bducation is obligatory, and in completeness most cases free, but where the state strength, durabile subsidy is, not,eufficient to cover the : cost, the local Soviet may charge fees i and thebeau fixed on a_ sliding scale, according to of its work, An * the income ef the parents, provided it leads in sale they are workers. In the curriculum and popularity! great attention-is. paid to languages, particularly French, and in some Take any user’s cases English. advice and buy a “Under the heading of elementary. 7 natural science and anatomy, children Remington are given very detailed instructions in the principles of personal hygiene, Portable. sex relationship and the construction ff { of the body. History is confined to Price, with case, $60 the social and political aspects of na ~~," tions, and stories of kings and dynas te ties are superseded by descriptions of | ’ ‘ ‘The real center-of control of every-| Mterchange, of. Dri ge iene = thing pertaining to the textile indus-|>Ut today a vile e biggest or- try is in New York—the center of | 88" of the cate nufacturers’ everything except the phase of textile | 0°#8ts in the word ere, indeed, ‘ labor organization, and that has no| ®t@ the anti-trust oN They have . | e@iiter anywhere. That is, unless you | 8°"° with the rosEs.1of.quisteryear. : take the point of view of capital. If} But more certainly still, there is | you take that point of view, you can complete and unqualified unity of all | find a textile “labor movement” which | *e’"textiie” interests as far as this ; : does indeed center in New York, ane] SReenbes drive..is concerned. The ’ | in one street of New York—Wall| mere fact that & few. months ago the Street. Look at the hideous night-| Old men” of Ne and Fall ? mare, the clamorous, raucus, insistent} River were publi Ided in the 7 ee movement, gaining ground and confi- textile bosses’ press for not quickly defce and boldness every day, which | °@Uf cutting their wages, indicates flaunts the slogan: “Let the Mill| that there was pio no other ex- Agents, Superintendents and Over.| ception to the unity, and the subse- seers be Your Labor Leaders!” This| quent wage-cut in that district indi- is @ company-union movement of such| Cates that the. “old ;men” group fell ufimitigated, swaggering nerve, that | into line, 2AM. Yt you almost refuse to believe your ears The anti-labor drive for a 25 to 30 and eyes when you run across it. It| per cent cut.in)» wages and doubled is one of the biggest and most deadly | production per worker, for the elimi- of events that ever occurred in the/ nation of one-half of the workers . struggle between labor and capital in| from their jobs ahd the installation this country. You might strain the|of “the mill swuperinténdent as your language enuf to call it a fascist move-| labor leader,” is unified and centered ment in a pacifist stage. The pacifist | and its center is the financial district phase of it is surely only a passing| of New York. phase, and finds that form only be-| and this “superintendent labor cause there has not been enuf labor| movement” has a force behind it resistance to make it show its fangs. which is astounding. It has its “cul- the lives and creeds of social reform- Masy payment terms cen be At present this movement is pulling| tyre” It. has developed its “intelli- ~ AVE You ers. arranged when you the glad-hand Sunday-school stuff,| gentsia” specialists in propaganda. “Great care is devoted to instruc Order from with “Inspirational,” “co-operation” | 1 has its literature, big and bold and ftion in art, rendered easy by collec- Th D "| W k and “welfare” talk to the workers rollicking and eynically frank, thriv- tions of works of art bought together e ai y orrer from bosses who hope to get the whole! ing on the untold millions that have under the nationalization of private} 1113 W. Washington Blvd., industry of woolen and cotton manu-| heen wrung, and. afe being wrung, and SENT property.” CHICAGO, ILL. facture tied up in an unbreakable! wi) be wrung from thé slaves of the ) system of scabbery before any coun-| textije mills in a thousand towns YOUR DOLLAR? Another New Pamphlet! e “Work Among Women” Giving a brief report on every phase of activity | among the women of | Soviet Russia. ter-movemenft can establish itself on| ¢,5m Maine to Florida. a big enuf scale to count. New York Hailed As “Rome.” This “superindendents’ labor move- “You can get that in New York.” ment” is completely centralized in Wall Street, New York. I went to New York and got it strong than I dreamied was possible. In And the counter-movement of real ate . : jabor has no center anywhere excep’ the efigns ant ee Cees = the restaurants even the smali-fry so far as the Workers (Communist) ‘ STRI K E Party, with the Trade Union Educa- clerks of brokers’ offices know what F IN Al 4 | tional League and the Young Work this textile wage-cut and speed-up | ers’ League may succeed in giving it Ne ne ge mig BLOW a national head. Up to the present, . , the labor resistance to the monstrous| "@” “Roman Empire” drawing tribute Be fore Marc h 5 scab movement is scattered and frag- trdm all the world. mentary, expressing itself in a few| There in New York, brokers and ; | spontaneous, isolated local. strikes and | head-clerks are, passing from hand to |’ Philadelphia proved its met: | in a lot of confused.grumbling except | bend, and enthusing and marveling Monday by driving home to th in some New England towns where|°Ver, @ copy of the most authorite- DAILY WORKER $225.00 in : the proposal of the Workers Party has| tive of all the organs of big finance in last effort to fill its quota fo: Send a: Greeting té°the wvvvwvwww the insurance caripaign. Th caused a half-dozen united front rank | the textile field. It is the issue of the p Cc ° t was raised at a Work omintems: ee and file committees to be formed,| textile financial paper, Commerce | *™0°uUn : What has been done in this way is| 42d Finance, the last issue of the | *'* Party jubilee with ai HB “The Daily Worke: In addition to the many photographs of good, but it is only a drop in the| 7e@r 1924, and the article is one writ- oter partisipating. the women's groups this attractive pam- bucket. The drive of the mill own-|tem by Edwin Dakin asa forecast ot} Other branches have one Safe for 1% . . | “EO . ers from the Wall Street center has|the future of American world imper- se way. a whieh to lear on ; a includes an appendix — Suggested | now been on for three months in the| !#lism. Its appearance in this, tne oven epg Ape coe Comintern =a : | rogram for Working Women's Study i | most intensified form, and for about| Chief of all the organs of the textile) | ¥ cmemig emegrcen wir tae jae | Circles’’ in that ntry branch of American finance capital,| > e last mighty heave is =a. : | ircies in at COUNCTY. three months more preceding that, el nestbd te rales even halt th | a : : in a less open form. There is no/i™ the midst of the huge “labor-coflat quota. Exactly $21,614.49 — Oo sat | disguising the fact that the bosses |{2é" drive, is significant It is anal) =A solivnunatn Matt ~ oo ; = | One of the most interesting have succeeded in isolating all of the mest pestis Giver of the hopes complete accomplishment to ot 2 H | and attractive of the recent sporadic strikes that have occurred so|@24 dreams of this man-and-child-de-| 94 3+ tne 950.000 drive Pah Seer oP oe far, and most of them have been com- | YOUrimg monster whose claws are felt Many aeeaibiand "on cle SO S tp tas publications from Russia. promised or beaten or hastily surren- |!” my pens . gpa ie ~ “ yet to be heard from. Their 2% = SOS dered to by the bosses to prevent |G! “© Wal of @ & far. , : spreading. There are very few hun-|®Way New England town, that “im or eee todas psn Se 5 a= 2 | 25 CENTS EACH dreds of workers on strike today, The | ¢° pot wevshagee: vga A on te oe ane $25,000 mark. But if their - > = 3 é | employers’ agents are watching these | ©°'® S wages w Pet! contributions do not 5 like a hawk, and would probably sur-|°emt and he must run 72 looma. A} March 3, they will ndiie aie -os THE DAILY WORKER render to-them at least temporarily | Place of 36. | ¥, with Communist negligence! Se - if the chance of their widening out| But it is too long for one wr + Wf the spike remains stili in. Se = "\ Literature Department became impressive; for the wage-cut-| will take up in tomorrow's r tomorrow, it will be a dan- a bes . : ) ting plan is on an elastic, tactical ba-| WORKER the story of this r ¢ signal for the future. Keep as nf Go te: 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Lv Chicago, Il. ) sis. Buteverything depends upon|able expression of , the. impe jhammering! Don’t lay down . & s & 4 > | ot ed : rr widening ‘the labor -resistance. ' re z ae a \ 1 = — ee & ' "
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