Daily Worker
March 14, 1925
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' ae ee +e ' . a gtd es. - . 4 , sd cea o# we Sys? wie LF ey et . ay * . ¢ a e e = —- -et a” ¢ : Bs y . y ~ t o8 iz has Ee we ve ee 3 = . ra ste 2 “ ‘ : »? + a i a :. J - * 4 ‘ 5 > * A ‘ 5 ’ al ¢ a 3 , 7 " - y ( , : - - 4 ‘ ¢ F f * 1 e - x . - ae e - ~ re - é oo . 7 4 Mite at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 8, 1879. | Er 290 ) Published Ne Bey tet Sunday by THE DAILY WOAKER . ae wa) thes: : F _ me" 14, 1925 PUBLISHIN G CO., 3 W. Washington 1 Chicago, IL Price 3 Cents ‘PENCDAL CTDIME “ieee yo AN lfm PARIS GOMMUNE ||"scw yar sew 1s DEAD IN CHINA, Coll le for | : ' PEKING, China, March 12.—Sun Yat Sen, ‘who died here this COAL DIGGER “The Chicago workers will celeb- morning after a severe iiiness which became worse following an opera- | ie 1 tate. the 64th anniversary of the tion at the American Rockefeller hospital on January 26, was the Se) e.. city . | Commune at the | ternational first president of the Chinese republic. struct | Unity demonstration, March 29th, .. He overthrew the Manchu rulers in 1911 and became president. Y every ' }\ in the Ashland Auditorium. — in- However, he was forced to flee from the Chinese war lords and later A Z ‘ of the | ‘ . (Special to The Daily Worker) :& | cluded in the program wii! be the . established the republic of southern China with its capital at Canton. Whiff of F resh Aid Kills f @ «will © BERLIN, Mar 12.—The conference between the Dawes Pian ilway | Paria Commune pageant, profes- The flag of Soviet Russia is the only foreign flag at half mast “R Pl 9 mee 0 | sp administration ane i the, unions of striking rallwaymen, which. was to De held al singers and dancers, and en- here. A conference of Kuomintang leaders of north Central China ed ot a | yesterday, was postponed until today. Each side seems syleta) Pemble eae Mpc pe: Sagem toh |] will probably be held here soon. : = it and the menace of a complete general strike hovers over all Germany will be three very short speeches, NEW YORK) March 12.—The 54th : (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) hat all The postponement was made, supposedly, to enable the unions to tien. Ieteh play, and: @ motion pieture. sary 6-48 commune, will be. BELLAIRE, Ohio, March 12.—In a tr two late definite -proposals i to prepare to spread the saa to, all, German ‘The proceeds will go to the Labor com ted tm New York City by |. ! reply to a tirade of abuse levelled one for P rail workers. é ) Defense Council. | a gigantic: demopngtration and favor- ; ogainst the progressives in the Unit- we but - Socialists Try to Avoid General In Buffalo the celebration wit be | ing the of Soviet cr ed Mine Workers of America, by im- mene in the. form of an International So- to be held son Square Gar- Strike. 15 ported fakers, from the Pittsburgh nmittee clal_ and Dance, to’ take place Sun- | der. Sunday jon, March 15. agent By T. J QrLAMERTY The officials of the Berlin unions, | ‘day, March 14 at the Labor Lyceum, | The F viet government is | district, J. J. Hoge, candidate for sub» ° y. . . “ " | union who are counter-revolutionary social 376 Wiiliam Street. the direct heiti@ft the lion-hearted district president on the progressive IRKER . democrats, have refused to meet with} the Young Workers League of ds ‘eh aris, “who for two ticket speaking at yesterday's session | : v wa ras dis- HE royal German republic is in| the delegates of the shop committees | Springfield, II1. will hold a gala ju- | months ruled freat metropolis of : . of the eastern Ohio miners’ annual is fall- serious danger. It. would be noth-| of railway workers, which are rank bilee celebration on Sunday evening, | France, and »1 i demands of the convention, declared that the progres- omrade ing short of a scandal to rob it of its|and file organizations largely under) jarch 15 at the White Dental Par- | Americdn ‘workess for recognition of sive elemeets ‘x Gh eee Gee ications are | Communist leadership, on the excuse] 5. 9931, South Fifth St. the Soviet’ - and Peasants’ sph ie £° ees sign to . fig leaf, but present ind ca . ¥ lor, Ve " . . alone, stood for and advocated a na: certain that the nationalists will inherit it that these shop committees are not Many other cities are celebrating | Xepublic,: they: | honor to the 30,- Decides Hutcheson Has 2 000 Bosses F ind Boss- lanai: a sian eablast. wank eu : ive cred-| recognized by the agreement between | the founding of the workers Com- } 300 brave «« i women of the ’ campaign ag ge be cov from the socialists, who to g ; t ounding ' me Sho fell vic ri . | V Sx ¢ and offered a program that would sol- ate it whi: it is. ds, wept the. A lest (Opstinged om: SANS SP decane chat ataae Warematieabins rh: No Case ing is Vain idity the miners’ organization and se- aig ae Fp aegis Bri pene ae - ; : ee cure for them the co-operation of the have deci ee any Oo ABET nan DETROIT, Mi — a= k itally | il. ire wat ; ch, March 12.—In NEW YORK CITY, March 12.—The/| workers in the vitally important ra vere, & perder ty bo aig Thi oe abs , BEF ORE THE REV OLU TION IN RUSS , o - | spit@ of all the efforts of the agents| key of successful struggle by the In-| road industry. | of new death of Herr Eber ° a a te Se | [of Hutcheson to place William Rey-| ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers | Pat Fagan of Pittsburgh, one of the —bookasa of the catholic pice? “ ee ry the . - teil nolds, president of Carpenters’ Loca | Union, the rank and file committee | most loyal lackeys of John L. Lewis ' TT ib, party oy a at yt the royal Union 2140, and vice president of the| of 300, formed to organize the shops,| Made a vicious attack on Alexander id books lob of official undertaker | ) Detroit District Council, into jail for| has opened the door to a new fighting | Howat, the man who smashed the Iso, the German républie. ’ a ; « - defying an injunction they had secur. | tactic in the stoppage of work, which | Kansas Industrial Court act, even the yut pam: ; * @ ¢ ~ Jed against his attendance at any car. j Yesterday began in about 2,000 dress|he had to spend several months in must be N the meantime the German work- LA? penters’ union meetings, Judge Or-| and waist shops, where 30,000 workers | Jail in so doing. It was Howat who The pro ers are getting properly fleeced ta =~ |Mond Hunt today dismissed the con-|sat idle at their machines, while | built up the Kansas district and fore- the. job pay the Wall Street bankérs for their OP tempt proceedings and dissolved the| bosses raged and cursed and vainly | ed the coal operators to come to heel, e before rouble in salvaging si re pes 7 injunction. implored them to work, and about | until omy L. Lewis and his machine ing the putting a prop under German indus- 2,000 shop chairmen met at the Stuy-| im conjunction with the coa! barons, try. The Communists have a candi- a Aves to Violate Injunction vesant Casino and Webster Hall. railroaded Howat from office in defi- ots were date in the field, who stands for the hi “ pee igs of 2 racist = not The shop chairmen. met. to discuss ance of the membership and have of the overthrow of capitalism and the es- at ne not viola e injunc- further action. to force thd members kept him out of office since despite assigned tablishment of a Soviet republic. The tion, but that the injunction violated of “the Wholesale ..Dress Manutac.| ‘2° fact that 95 per cent of the mem- as. The Communists care less for the royal his rights. Therefore, he had refused taneew Geeetladieh.:ineindion the job bers have steadfastly voted for him. blic than do the natton- to recognize it and had broken its , , » branch. Germigs: rom bing houses, to. live up to the agree- Patsy Fagan’s Song. the the only real re- prescriptions without regard to con- , Artes : member alists, yet y are nae + sequences ment they signed. Another point of Fagan’s attack was counted oe aaa * kena Reynolds, however, feels that the Fo Standarize Wages the opposition of the Workers Party om peteni come into power, the eee py | Verdict of A ia denen ‘is CA NAS iF The agreement signed last month,|to LaFollette in the recent national © agents wil have ‘a' real republic and ‘no | provided a specified price be placed | elections. branc bes sham one. They will own and control om ter of indifference and comes along cana ak atantl Ee thiet eae tt one SC etiaten wed teen waked cee 'unctions it. = behind time, as he cares much more : yo | se = s for the verdict of the membership of posed to put every manufacturer on | date declared Fagan despite the faci e as fol- - the same labor cost basis and cu‘:|that the Wisconsin senator refused inent the carpenters’ union, which had over- ; ovis. LOUCHEUR, om en whelming! su ported him and una out the haggling over prices on piec« to have labor write even a line of h, Engle- « French financier in the sense that ngty P work. In many shops this part o yds platform:or do anything else ex- nimously condemn his illegal expul- y shop P f thes avian, S. me ver i meee , _ eer ree by 2 agreement is being ignored. on ate the bills. If the Workers ta pent. Tokhars,: 1a 5 es Pee (eS Fe eee ee,” ey Ae wee ot aed fe Be 3 whom, the besses,| P erves. condemnation for. op: - "France a Fill -, . are. ot De Pa a,” : How the takers feel about it, “‘hdi certed militant action, repeatedly re | representative of labor, what about ark, Eng: af opm ordet to enable the nats im \\) | ing Mutcheson alone with the, yygcai ported that they had “madé éfforts” | "4¢an’s boss Lewis, who was on the 1; North- tidaiary to pay its What reactionaries, James Sharrock,//§$am | to get the bosses to live up to the ag. | Coolidge campaign committee? The a genius this man Loucheur is! And Botterill and Harold (Jelly’, faPish, reement, but could do nothing. Workers Party proved that LaFollette Lye ‘Polish, is it not strange that no other French | they do not disclose, but as they” are No Retreat from What's Won! was only a bourgeois politician who rra Cotta. capitalist expert thot of es ney ' ; to ones who took the matter into the The stirke on the job was the result represented the petty bourgeoisie and hat the Frenc macenn aa : cat ute that section of the labar bureaucrac Side Eng- before? It appears t DIL, : capitalist court, as plaintiffs, they|and the rank and file committee uel ¥ y Ward, .Ar- government faces the problem of find- He Wasn't Afraid of the European Worker ought to be satisfied with the result.!300, responsible for organizing the|‘%@t had not made a good bargain ing funds to meet the maturity of 23 orate But they are today a disappointed | shops is determined not to lose as | with the republicans and democrats. . branch, billions worth of securities due this hats : looking lot of failures. shops after they are organized, by per- The Workers Party alone stood for Jkrainian, year. Four billion francs is much less OZ The trial began on March 3, when] mitting the bosa@s to violate the ag. the interests of the masses of work- oR than e wane sane no Fence J (Continued on page 2) 'Treement. The shop chairmen are oe te H differed English, than nothing. e cr sys h ; elegate Hoge differed very &trong- anian No, # be puzzling, but you've got to hand it WHAT WOULD ge Bi eae cs in conformity ly with the official viewpoint. The to a bunch of burglars who can make Today th ke : plah of the reactionary machine was park ae seins = hays pee eS a STEEL TRUST TO) jncras tececteyer zee 2 rors carey ta, hw wast Me want ian, Scan- Rie Sa THOUT bs terday, they will sit at their machines od_to Raow where or how the leafet , : IN ident w i issued by the progressive miners in m AMUEL VAUCLA » HE gncragpns 1 without doing any work, and will con- behalf of their candidat lolated th west Eng: of the Baldwin Locomotive Works. tinue to do this until the manufac- Pe ee eee hpi miners’ constitution. He wanted to ainian No. He is,a man with a temperament that turers come to time. . sizzles like that of Vice-president motel verre a gg * per bape an, Czech: Dawes. It is not widely known wheth- organized was treason. He favored an rd, Lithu- ef like the explosive weneral, he takes Kansas Bars Japanese. alliance between the railroad workers “ : hen. there’ TOPEKA, Kans., March 12.— Thej|and the coal diggers. Any amount . 6, Lithu- eu, afhernoos Aap OF, BOS WHER Kaet (Special to The Daily Worker) ’ ting. senate passed the Japanese exclusion |of dust raised over the fight with Ukrainian is an important directors’ meeting WASHINGTON. March 12.—In the But he does a lot of talking particu- ; bill prohibiting Japanese from owning | the scabby leader of the Brotherhood ve chang larly about the dissatisfied American , {face of charges that the government | or leasing land in Kansas. The bill |of Locomotive Engineers would not eye . decl is the has missed out on the collection of| pow goes to the governor, weaken the crying need for working y oF. ae ny oe he ee an | |more that $800,000,000 in corporation class solidarity, not alliances between and secre- best paid worker in the world. “What , Re a , fy Thur- we need.” said. Samuel, “is more of axes, g D England Rejects Geneva Protocol. fake leaders but between the rank pagid ss a amortization allowances, the case of GENE : and file of all labor unrons. the men 4 place of the spirit of sacrifice,” This came in Wiad Miikin Stand compete. OVA, Switzerland. March 12.— he new li- partly thru the. nostrils, much after ae ok P > the bureau | Auste® Chamberlain, British foreign who do the work; not those who sit ookstore is ihe manner of a labor faker exuding png the os toines 3 age 3 Sa ei saan minister officially declared today be- (Continued on page 2) prosperity bunk to an audience of mo ye he hose veep caidas te fore the league council that his coun- . unemployed trade unionists. A Pol- cmiehasiice Reger y tam Tea oe try declined to accept the Geneva| A DAILY WORKER sub means « isers. ish woman lost her husband, he said, cds teeaaanantnr “hase a ins protocol. another Communist. ds pond i Soran steel corporation saved millions of nusband. ; : tization al- we me in thought this was terrible. You could san Be liberal amortization a 500 COM R A D ES A k E W A NT E D ! S ary next see the sad look in his eye. , apa * * @ I want to IVE hundred d df AUCLAIN went to bring her con- ‘ uncrea comrades are wanted for an all day rehearsal in con- one unions Etat Leann. alias Goad tasctils Japan Seeks Aid of : nection with the Paris Commune act Saturday March 14, at 67 nt Battle about this,” he said.. “No,” she proud- | But Tak loék at Mim Mow Coolidge to Regain St. Marks Pi., commencing at 4 p. m. ly replied, “we still have our country.” u axe. 8 : Chin R itr d We have made the arrangements in order to accommodate the have told if the American workers could only ; ese auroa ring Union feel this way, when they see their) -— the bloodthirsty slaughter of the bour- hundreds of comrades who have not yet attended the rehearsals. increase of Me As taken awey from them. when | seoisle with their'eforeign interven- (Special to The Daily Worker) Comrades should make it their duty to come on Saturday. The union will they see their comrades killed in a T M RR Oo Ww | tion and thefr murderous Versailles TOKIO, Japan, March 12.—Ambas- work is both easy and pleasant, but what is more important is a pro- es to lower preventable industrial disaster, when * butchers. sador aateudaira upon assuming his paganda act and ail comrades participating are going to help bring out They cleim they sée judges issue injunctions Admission to thé; pageant may be / duties in Washington, will endeavor the propaganda lesson of the Paris Commune even a8 any speaker can oreign com- against them, prohibiting them from E begin publication of special articles on the great Communist secured by taking a regular one/to secure Coolidge’s aid in wresting do it. ‘striking for more bread and butter, newspapers of the world. The first by Alexander Bittleman month's subscription to the DAILY control of the Chinese Eastern Rail- ee aes t apasperage tions these ‘then they see their wives and chil- will deal with Pravda, the great organ of the Russian Communist WORKER, or one of the foreign lan-| way from Soviet Russia. In order to , : o get ou e altering. in- ren cold and hun ry, while the wives Part This will. be tRiowed by an article by Max Bedacht on Rote guage Cammunist papers. Many ex-/| accomplish this, he will seek to have workers. Come and come on time for this rehearsal. Also bring all iy and night “ wht =e . cellent prizes have» been offered for | the nine power treaty made at Wash- your friends who are ready to help. and children of the employers revel Fahne, official organ of the Communist Party of Germany. Other spon Gen betdead Aieniititabttinn c6li- | inatin GO vented’ to: Cait’ dak tain a | | ‘yments for in luxury atid idleness—then every- articles will deal. with the famous Humanite of France, the Greek @ individuals an 4 ington K — On Sunday all participants in the mass scene will have a mass double day , ing the most ticket-subscriptions to/j| effect. This treaty stipulated that the bh , Madi thing would be nice. But they don’t dail d others. \ renearsail at Madison Square Garden starting at 9 a. m. a feel that way and they will not. They Communist daily and o the pageant. The doors of Madison | railway remain as it had been previ- t Involved (Continued on page 6) | x J (Continued on page 2.) ous to the Chino-Russian treaty. r movement > n by a New- ' ' ediately con- | “D ARIS COMMUNE” Are You Among the 15,000 Who Will Be at the Freiheit Gesang Verein tions: “We actly but we (400 Voiges) suee A One-fat Deed Sscact PRESS PAGEANT sor cRRT oon tthmas ne as if the e-Ac ramatic Opec . y Ukrainians, Hungarians, Armenians, and to the, wal and BALL r . ¥ oto fight to- : 15,000 in the Cast. Greeks. 2 P. M. to AR Hungarian and Freiheit Orchestra ) Paty (100 Artists) DAILY | M. J. OLGIN and BEN GITLOW ch 15, Midnight MADISON SQUA GARDEN ot 5 ees ae r shopmate will speak. | ory a 7 | pidep ps SUPPORT YOUR PRESS! in the evening —_—-
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Se & | # § a 4 bah * > : I RT Ate 7 » r * ion i=. Sa 7 ry >. ¢ ee Anar chi ; 4 ae a3 a ok he | Committee _Shded in the singing of the Interna- 1 ANTI-S0 TT ACK FIZZLES UNEW YORK CITY ; Socialists and ef —_-_--—_-~ NEW YORK, March 12.—A meeting by the new International for Political Prisoners Pi] tionale by a large number of Com- munists at Town Hall. B. Charney Viadeck, the yellow so- clalist, who had been speaking on the same platform as his counter revolutionary-in-arms, Raphael Abram- ovitch, was not allowed to speak, even tho he puffed and stormed and drank cold water to cool his spleen and anger. Meeting Drawis Along The meeting was one of the most tiresome affairs that even liberals oould arrange. Norman Hapgood, who was in the chair, acted like all liber- als: this was a matter that “interest” the liberals and social-democrats, but not a matter that goes to the heart. His was the role of a jovial man bent upon fairness, withbut consideration of the fact that the imprisonment, torture and death of revolutionary workers and peasants are a diabolical crime against the whole working class. The meeting drawled along, with one speaker after the other telling of the terrors of prison life in their own country and appealing sentimentally to the crowd to “awaken public opin- ion. in the United States” to cause a change—in Spain, Hungary, Esthonia, Germany, Jugo-Slavia. An elderly rev- erend told about the laws that are being pressed upon the people of India without their consent. He had to be stopped by the chairman, be- cause the audience was falling asleep. A young Irish doctor produced the first spark of enthusiasm when he de- clared that the “Irish people showed how men could fight and die for their rights.” Baldwin Reads Paper Roger Baldwin, head of the Amer- ican Civil Liberties Bureau, read from a type-written statement “so that he might not be misquoted.” He enumer- ated the enterprises that he support- ed in Soviet Russia and his restraint from participating in any political discussion on Soviet Russia. But now he demands that liberty of press, speech and thought be restored in Soviet Russia. Cries of “Three Cheers for Soviet Russia” filled the hall. “Long Live the Soviet government” interrupted him. Then Viadeck, the smirking, oily agent of the capitalist class was given the floor. He immediately was booed. Between the hisses and boos, he man- aged to say “Friends and Comrades” —and that was the end of his speech. Each time he opened his mouth, the hall was filled with cries of contempt, and cheers for Soviet Russia. This continued for ten or fifteen minutes, while Vladeck walked up and down the platform and drank cold water— swallowing his chagrin and anger at the same time. The Communists do- minated the meeting. The liberals, anarchists and socialists left the hall, while cries of “Join the Workers (Communist) Party,” and cheers for the Soviet government sounded in the hall and balcony. Cops There in Plenty Cops were there in plenty. But the cops did not know what to do. Town hall is in a section of the city in which the police are not yet accustom- ed to meet with such demonstrations. They quieted the comrades who were attacked by socialists who can only use their mouths half-heartedly when speakers attempt to put proletarian prisoners in Hungary, Spain and Ger- many on a par with active counter- revolutionaries in the prisons of So- viet Russia, who are incarcerated for attempting and organizing to over- throw the first workers’ state. In this meeting, with its letHargey and sleepiness, is a manifestation of what the liberals, anarchists and so- cialist traitors can do to enlighten the “people” of this country on the brutal- ities and atrocities of the capitalist governments against the revolution- ary movement and on the torture in- flicted upon the Communists; and if this meeting is a specimen of their dastardly attempt to assail Soviet Russia and line up with the counter- revolutionary movement of the world -——-then Soviet Russia need not worry. The Communists will be present at all the meetings of these full and half-baked counter-revolutionaries and will demonstrate that the workers of the United States are with Soviet Russia. Pian Meeting March 19 The Workers Party, the Interna- tional Workers’ Aid and the Labor Defense Council will hold a meeting in Central Opera House on Thursday, March 19, and will tell the workers of the city the truth about prison- ers and prisons in Soviet Russia. The workers will demonstrate that the Viadeck, Abramovitches, Gordins, Ca hans and Norman Thomases,; and the anarchists and liberals, are of one type—no matter how much “sympa- thy” with the Soviet government they pretend to entertain. Does your friend subscribe to fhe DAILY WORKER? Ask him! VIET —— ee | E ight Years Ago Today ARCH 12, 1917.— The army regiments and the Imperial guard in Petro- grad (now Leningrad) Russia, Join the revolutionary workers. The ozar’s The committee of the duma is formed. A new crisis develops. The bourgeols parties of the duma, the Russian near-pariiament, decided to stem the revolutionary tide by making common cause with the workers on a sort of fifty-fifty basis. The czarist power was to be curtailed. The workers were to accept the middie class leadership. The workers had not as yet realized the full significance of the creation of the Workers’ re- volution, the Soviet; they submitted to the leadership of the moderate lib erals who opened operations under the form of the provisional government, ministers are arrested. based on the parties In the old totally tl was forced to abdicate, but the moderates proposed to retain the czar’s brother as the titular head of the state. erates further thought and talked of continuing the war for the old imperial- istic alms. The Workers’ Soviets, by this time existing in all important cities, objected. The soldiers stood with the workers. They were tired of war. The Soviets were now Councils of Workers, Soldiers, and Peasants. The Pro- visional Government and the Soviets were silently but’ clearly contending fer a decisive contest. The Provisional Government, now headed by Alexander Kerensky, a vaciilating, politician, feared the Soviets.. The Soviets had no confidence in the Provisional Government, but weren’t ready to challenge it. unrepresentative duma. Czar Nikolal The workers objected. The mod- GREEK RAILWAY WORKERS’ STRIKE VERY EFFECTIVE Government Broke Its Promises (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) ATHENS, March 12.—The railway strike which has cut off Greece by rail from the rest of Europe now is jeopar- dizing American relief operations. Charles Howland of New York, chair man of. the refugee settlement com- mission, and other members who left Athens for Macedonia, were strand- ed at Larissa when the train crew joined the strike. The government has dispatched a special train, guarded by troops, to rescue Mr. Howland. The strike also paralyzed a relief train operated by the American Near Bast. Relief. Shipments of building materials and agricultural implements consigned to the refugee settlements have been held up. The government threatens to em- ploy refugee labor to break the strike. The railway workers have many ded mands, among the leading ones a de- mand for the payment of the increase | in pay granted by a government com- mittee some time ago, but never put into effect. A strike was in prospect long ago, but was delayed owing to the promise of the government to abide by the award and pay the in- crease retroactively. But the govern- ment did nothing but promise. and file control by Communists has forced the strike against the will of the reformist head officials of the union. Reynolds, Militant, is Not Guilty, Says Detroit, Mich., Judge (Continued from page 1.) Reynolds was summoned . before Judge Hunt for contempt of court in disobeying the injunction forbidding him attending his own local or the district council, from whence he had been barred by an order of expulsion issued by Wm. L. Hutcheson, pres- ident of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners. The Judge A Poor Sport At ever session of the court, car- penters filled the courtroom and drap- ed themselves around the windows. The hearing played to a standin; room only audience Reynolds lawyer, Maurice Sugar, offered the court to leave the decision to a vote of the carpenters present, with a handicar requiring a vote of nine to one for Reynolds, but the judge was net sport enough to accept. To the plea of the plaintiffs that the union needed “protection” from the “invasion” of Reynolds, the de- fense introduced the petition to the court passed by a mass meeting of Detroit carpenters, saying, “We assert that we can keep any person from our meetings whose presence we do not desire. We have demonstratd this to the plaintiffs in this case, and have satisfied the police whom they called in, that the only undesired and dis- orderly elements attending the vari- ous meetings, have been the plain- tiffs.” The legal point of the defense turn. ed largerly upon the right to assem- Rank io ble, which could not, according to the claim, be abridged by any law or court order. Michigan Debates Execution. LANSING, Mich., Mar. 12.—Crowd- ed gallaries are expected tomorrow to hear the house debate on the capi- tal purtishment bill. The bill is simi- lar in phraseology to two bills which failed of passage by close votes at previous legislative sessions. If the bill becomes law, Michigan will execute slayers except in cases where conviction is obtained on cir- cumstantial evidence. Attorney Genera! Gets $50.000 SPRINGFIELD, IL, March 12.—The first two bills to become law were signed today by Governor Len Small. One appropriated $60,000 to the of- fice of attorney general in addition to those already made for expense to July 1, 1926, : | Big Paris Commune Pageat in New York City This Sunday (Uaiadinned toon Page 1) quare Garden will be thrown open m THE DAILY aA ca - : ‘ - 2 t . ha d Sy, ’ 2 ° ° The March Issue ~ of the WORKERS MONTHLY 1—The British Confer- ence on World Trade Union Unity By Wm. Z. Foster Some explanations of the great headway of the Minority Move- ment in England and a picture of this body by the author who attended this conference. (With photographs) 2—Class and Klan in Her- rin By Thurber Lewis Pertinent’ facts on some rea- sons for “Bloody Williamson.” 3—Kellogg in Paris--John- son in the Senate By A. Bittelman “The vat of America’s ‘en- taglements’ in th@ affairs of Burope was in the bag of Dawes Plan all the time” says the author—-and explains it. 4.Ten Years of the Amal- - gamated By P. Yuditeh Reviewing past and present currents in a great union. 5—Negroes in American Industry By Wm. F. Dunne Facts and keen views on one twelvth of our population with some especially fine writing— and striking photographs. 6—The Prison Story the Wobblies By Harrison George About jail and Wobblies; some statistical reference to other jail inhabitants and a look into a present leadership of . the . . W. (With drawings by Maurice Docker) 7—The Communists Take the Lead in Minnesota tion, expulsions pdurea cratic méthod—a picture of a Left Wing battleground. 8—Industrial Depression or Prosperity By Eair R. Browder Facts and counclusions in a keen analysis of the present economic situation. 9—Lenin and the Wave of Marxism By Manuel Gomez A study of what Lenin has contributed to Marxism. 10—The Carpenters Face Their Leaders By J. W. Johnstone The Left Wing struggle ag- ainst reactionary leadership— and expulsions. New 11—The History of the Russian Communist Party By Gregory Zinoviev Another installment of this Communist classic by the pre- sident of the C. I. 12—Canada and the British Empire By Tim Buek A great deal of light on British and American Imperialism. Poems By Lang ton Hughes, Robert L. Wolf and Jacqueline Perreauit An Administration Delegate Reports By Jim Waters and a Striking Three-Color Cover By Glarolamo Piccoli Recent winner of a thousand dollar prize in sculpture. These and Other Features in THE MARCH ISSUE —_— --— — SINGLE COPY 25 CENTS SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 a Year $1.25 Six Mos. THE WORKERS MONTHLY 1113 W. Washington Boul: vard Chicago, Ill. For the enclosed ............ send me the WORKERS MONTHLY ee months. NAME STREET CITY STATE .........
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. * P tis é 4 * tee : - 5 a ~~ - ~ * 4 a 4 - Be : - THE DA iy WORKER oe tr eenwer eS | eS ; Rah tee 2 Erbe : ‘ . Sir r > “ ad ro ¥ -OF THE TRADE INION EDUCATIONAL LEAG —_ WESTERN DISTRICT LEWIS TALK LIKE|L THIS, DID YOU? Cock; Head sot British| Miners, Means It ee ec If | ‘Atnetioah thither ‘is 56 die couraged as to think that all miners’ union officials are just naturally and necessarily crookéd, like Lewis, and wants to know’ What & genuine fight- | ing militant would’ act like, if Lewis were given the gate, ‘let him read the following from a speech of A. J. Cook, secretary of the Minérs’ Federation of Great Britain, spoken “before an aud- fence of railwaymen at York, on Feb- Tuary 22. He said: .. | “We shall demand a living wage, and we shall seek the assistance of all the trade unions with that end in view. “We must, however, , act quickly. We require industrial: organization, 100 per cent strong, both nationally and internationally: that must be our immediate object. “The master class will Gght you as they fight the miners. The miners’ | struggle for a living wage is also the struggle of the railwaymen. “We are all members of the same great working class fraternity; no one must be allowed to stand in the way of our close co-operation and unity. Force Needed “I do not desire strikes and suffer- ing, but I know from past experience that we can only achieve our desires when we are strong enough to take what we want. “We hear that the miners and their families cannot be fed on propaganda. Neither can they be fed on these ever- lasting inquiries which lead to no tangible result. “The miners will not agree to longer hours and lower wages; they will not help the employers in this everlast- Ing struggle of competing with their tellow miners abroad.” “Deliver The Goods” “The aims and objects of the work- pre’ movement were to help and final- ly to emancipate the working class. “Was every individual who dared to pecommend proposals for bringing the movement into line with current eco- pomic events—national and interna- Monal—to be charged with being a Oe desis Bk, ‘ , Pig tru test ot day mbvemedt is] to foes it fanction when necessity aris- es? “The rank and file are calling upon the leaders to deliver the goods. The yoods must be delivered “Bither the labour, movement, pol-, tically and industrially, is different from*other movements has a distinct and clear programme and policy, has @ mission to perform, or we are an erganized band of frauds and hypo- prites. No Faith In Spirits “Nowadays, to become a sane, sens- Ible, respectable trade union leader, ome is expected to repudiate past ideals and beliefs and all one has hitherto lived and worked for. “One has to tone down to be a ‘statesman.’ It is a virtue to go slowly, very, very slowly; it is a virtue to be reactionary, and a vice to be progres- sive. ‘... One leader, has said that all is well as long as the spirit of socialism is with us. Well, I have little faith in spirits, I want to be fed on facts. “Hither capitalism is good or it is bad; the conditions of the workers provide the answer. ‘The fact was that capitalism—na- tional and international—continued to exist only at the expense and suffer- ing of the working masses.” We Remind You We remind you that A. J. Cook, head of the British miners, is a Com- munist, and that John L. Lewis, head of the U. M.“W. of A., expels Com- munists. Little Teddy Was Always Ready ‘“‘to Send in Troops” —_—_-_—_- eee Federal troops were ready to be rushed in against the striking teams- ters in Chicago in 1905, it is revealed in a letter written at the time by President Theodore Roosevelt, now published under a Charles Scribner's Sous’ copyright. “Of course I earnestly hope I shall not be obliged to send in troops,” Roosevelt wrote to Henry Cabot Lodge, “but I shall do it AT ONCE if the need arises.” The strike lasted from April 6, 1905 to July 22 and ended in compromises, with the employers having the edge. “eematers, freight handlers, express drivers and department store drivers were involved at different times. Mayor Dunne had policemen ride on the wagons of strikebreakers. No troops were used. RED REVEL of the FOSTER JUNIOR GROUP of Brooklyn, N. Y.—March 28, 8 P. M. at JURISDICTIONAL ROWS LEAD 10 ‘DUAL UNIONISM But | ‘Hutcheson Fights Amalgamation SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., March 12. —The building trades department of ‘the A. F. of L. has served an uitti- matum upon the State Building Tra- des Council of California to reorgan- ize itself and to change its laws at its next convention to be held at Mon- terey, Calif., March 18, 1925, to con- form to the laws of the building tra- des department. The California State Building Trades Council was organized upon its pres- ent basis by the notorious labor faker P. H. McCarthy. It is just now that the building trades department has found out that the laws of this state organization conflict with those of the department. This fight against the California Building Trades Coun- cil is part of the ruinous jurisdiction- al dispute between the carpenters and the sheet metal workers over the placing of hollow metal trim in build- ings. Not A Solution But Dissolution The solution of jurisdictional dis- putes offered by the building trades department and Wm. L, Hutchenson, | president of the carpenters’ union, is to conduct ruinous jurisdictional wars, which means that either the carpent- ers’ union or or the sheet metal workers’ alliance ig destroyed, or se | weakened that they will give up their claims on this work. The: fight itself naturally weakens the trade union movement as a whole, demoralizing and destroying whatever little unity there now exists between the building trades unions, thus strengthening the employers’ position and laying the basis for the “open shop” in the building industry. It is no secret that the forming of independent dual carpenters organ- izations is being encouraged by those who support the sheet metal workers in this suicidal battle. Hutcheson is silent, mt phe iat face of these attempts rival carpen union. Be is too’ busy expelling the Com- munists, members of the T. U. E. L., and all his political opponents. ) Who Helps Dualism?—Hutchesen And the excuse offered by him for fthese illegal expulsions is, generally, that those expelled advocate dual unionism. This is spite of the fact that the progressives within the car- penters’ union are the only group which consistly fights against the dual union theory, and has been actually respousible for holding within the carpenters’ union large numbers who, sickened with the corrupt and crooked Hutcheson administration, would have otherwise lent a willing ear to the dualistic propagandists. The progressives within the build- ing trades point out the only solution for these demoralizing jurisdictional disputes, amalgamation. Amalgamation of all the building trades into one organization covering the entire industry upon a depart- ment basis, is the only method by which the unity of the building trades workers can be achieved and jurisdic- tional disputes eliminated. This is one of the planks of the progressive carpenters’ program and one of the reasons why Hutcheson is expelling them without hearing or trial. Notes on the Los Angeles Movement LOS ANGELS—According to Broth- ‘er Koffman, business manager of Bak- ery Local 458, the Bakers’ joint board of Los Angeles and vicinity is arrang- ing a bazaar and dance to take place on Saturday, April 11, in the Los An- geles Hall, 1956 E) First street. A number of theatrical acts will be pre- sented. The Bakery Workers fight the fol- lowing firms; Los Angeles Pie Co.; M. & M. Pie Co., Murray Baking Co.., Hulsom Bread, and R. B. Ward com- pany. Support of the labor movement is needed. Everybody should visit the bazaar and help mak the affair a rous ing success. Remember March 2ist! Capmakers and Millinery Workers will have jointly a dance at Co-opera- ition Center. The four left wing branches and Workmen’s. Circle will have their dance March 28 at the Co-operation Center. Painters’ Campaign. The fourth general vice-president and two general organizers of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paper Hangers have been directed by that Organization to come to Los Angeles and coniuct an organizatior campaign. They will receive the com- plete é6o-operation of the local organ- izations. ° COLUMBIA HALL | Ste~~ 4 Diake Aves. Brooklyn, MN. Y. | Patronize our advertisers. JOBLESS SHOULD STAY AWAY FROM BUTTE, MONTANA Central Labor Officials Tell of Unemployment The following letter has been sent out by the Butte Central Labor Coun- cil: “During the past few months vari- ous interets have been flooding the country with literature telling of the unlimited opportunities that are being overlooked in the state of Montana. “These advertisements are mislead- Hing, and, in common with other like movements, are but misrepresenta- tions for the purpose of separating the unwary from their coin and crowding the industrial centers with unem- ployed. Abandoned Farms. “As far as land is concerned, all land of any value has been taken up, and much of it is now in the posses- sion of exploiters. “One may go into almost any part of the state and find abandoned farms and this is particularly true of the country immediately surrounding the city of Butte, the state’s principal in- ] dustrial center. “Every winter thousands of farmers come into the industrial centers to try and earn a living, something most of them' have been unable to do on the farm. Speaking of Butte, this coun- cil wishes to inform anyone contem plating coming here for the purpose of bettering his condition, to investi- gate conditions before coming, and not be influenced by the lying advertise. ments sent thruout the country by ag- encies hostile to the organized labor movement. Heavy Unemployment. ~ “At the present time there is a large number of unemployed in Butte. These men cannot find employment ‘here and it will be some time before iat opens up on the e. Wages e lower than in many other places i mining is the chief industry, and fhuhdreds of men are rustling the Hines and unable to find a job. | “At thd present time there is very little building activity, and no large amount of work in sight for the com. ing season. ‘Hundreds of buildings are vacant Many are totally abandoned to vandal. ism. Anyone contemplating going in- to business can easily find locations in the very heart of the city. Suitable storerooms seem to be 4 drug on the market. We therefore advise anyone coming here to make sure they can pay their way and at all times have the price of a return ticket in their possession. “Fraternally yours, “PETE CONNORS, President, “CLEM BURKARD, Secretary.” Buzzle-Hornism in Politics of Central Coungil, Los Angeles LOS ANGELES, Cal.—The Los Angeles Central Labor Council is again demonstrating the political treachery of the so-called Gomper’s slogan “Re- warding friends and punishing ene mies”, Recently the Chamber of Commerce called a conference for the purpose of nominating a “non-partisan, efficient business man” for mayor. There were forty-eight organizations present at that conference, and among all these parasitic organizations the Central Labor Council was also represented. Of course it is needless to say that the left wing delegates apposed it. What Is A Buzzle-Horn? However, Sec’y. Horn and President Buzzle who represented the Central Labor Council stated that they were somewhat disappointed, as they had hoped that they would not dare to nominate injunction Judge Bledsoe and ‘would nominate Gregory Cryer for re-election for mayor. It must not be forgotten that Mayor Cryer is not a fool. Prior to that Chamber of Commerce Conference he ' appointed Bro. Horn, Sec’y. of Central Labor Council, as a member of Civil Service Commission, which is con- sidered one. of the highest political gifts that could be given to a loyal labor leader(?). Take Your Choice—Both Bad So as it stands today, organized labor will support Mayor Cryer for re-election and organized carpenters will support the candidate nominated by the Chamber of Commerce. At the Central Labor Council the following motion was offered by Brother Caplan of the Office Em- ployes’ Union: “Moved and Second- ed that this«ecouncil go on record against supporting, assisting or en- dorsing on behalf of the labor move- ment, any candidate for any politica] office in the forthcoming civic election unless that candidate is a member of organized tabor and if to date any such candidate has already been en- | ? caialecns OF WAGE CUTS DESPITE COPS 3,000 Leaflets Given Out at Carshop Gates PULLMAN, March 12.—After 3,000 “Strike st Wage Cut” leaf- lets had been distributed to workers in the Pullman ar shops today, a flivver squad attempted to arrest two comrades who were in charge of the distribution. % The Pullman-Owned cops followed the two girls who had been giving out the leaflets in front of the main gates of the Pullman works at 11ith street for about eight blocks to see that no more Were handed to the workers. In spite of this, however, the comrades managed to drop a huge pile of leaflets under the nose of the officers, and the workers scrambled for them, altho ‘the officers threaten- ed them. a Institute Wage Cuts. A series of wage cuts was put into effect in the Pullman shops recently. Almost every department of the large works suffered heavily, whether the workers were @mployed on piece or time jobs. Beginning Monday, March 16, the hours in the Calumet shop at 115th, (part of the Pulman works employing 1,500 workers) are to be lengthened from eight to nine. The wages are to remain the same. The workers all ex- press dissatisfaction but there is no unified opposition or organization in the shop that can back up a fight against this virtual wage cut. In view of these conditions prevail- {ng in the Pullman shops the workers seized the leaflets”eagerly when they heard what they contained. Many words of encouragement were given the comrades passing out the leaflets. Men Keep. Literature. None of the printed propaganda was thrown away by the men. This was observed by a large number of Pull- man detectives and policemen who chased away the children who were helping in distribution at several of the gates. threatened to arrest two girls who ¥ at the main gate. Nevertheless, @&. street car conductor who had the distribution and} read wlinpated Sympathy the leaflet which led to him, came ‘up to the erie ab te potcemes were talking to them ‘took some of the leaflets. He said; “No cop can scare me out of reading these. ‘This is Foster’s stuff, isn’t it?” Against Wage Cuts. At the 116th street shops where two young Italiam*comrades were dis- tributing the leaflets, a well dressed man waved them aside. “I’m against that,” he said. A shabby worker in back of him looked at him with a grin and said, “Well, I'm against you. Give me one, kid?” The Pullman City Central commit- tee had ordered 5,000 for distribution, but ,because of the unusual interest shown by the Pullman cops, this plan could not be completely carried out. Bookbinders. Election in Court. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 12.— Whether a writ of mandamus shall be issued on the election board of the Bookbinders’ International Union, whose headquarters are in Washing- ton, to throw out the vote of Local 25, New York City, and declare John B. Haggerty of St. Louis, to be elected international president, will be deter- mined by the supreme court of the District of Columbia within a few weeks. Walter N. Reddick, incumbent presi- dent, claims re-election by a margin of 475 votes in a total of over 10,000 cast. The point at issue is whether Local 25, which went overwhelmingly for Reddick, was fn good standing when its vote wag taken and counted. Haggerty’s chief stPength in the elec- tion was in the big locals in New York St. Louis and Chicago. NOTICE | The T. U. E. L. is short on copies of the following Labor Heralds: March, April, May, and October, 1923. We ask the readers of this page to send in these copies so as to complete our files. Mail to the Trade Union Educational League, 1113 Washington Bivd., Chicago. Thanks. dorsed that the endorsement be with- drawn.” Brother Horn and others argued against the motion. Brother Glober- man, of the Cigar Makers’ Union, sup- ported the motion. He said, “The present mayor is no better than Judge Bledsoe. If Mayor Cryer would be elected for judge, he would also is- sue injunctions, and as long as you will not trust yourselves you will get to nowheres.” Bro. Weich, of Cap Makers’ Union, alse supported the motion. Other delegates smposing the mo- tion argued that sge want to elect a “good boss”, and.t!Mayor Cryer is a “good boss”. Thimiis the caliber of organized labor ‘taders” in Los Angeles. t Needless to say the.motion was defeated, a EASTERN r DISTRICT © MINERS SUPPORT A PROGRAM, NOT POPULAR MEN District 1 ‘Midiers Tired of Fake Progressives On February 27, the T. U. B. L. section of the DAILY WORKER pub- lished the Progressive Miners’ Dis- trict No. 1 election statement. The miners of District 1 in their last election supported and put into of- fice Rinaldo Cappellini because he was popularly known as a progressive. However, his progressiveness turned out to be nothing but a thin election veneer which soon wore off when once he occupied the district presidential chair. This election is being conducted upon the dasis of a program. The following letter explains the method of campaign being carried out by the progressive miners of District No. 1: To. all local unions, District No. 1, U. M. W. of A. “Dear Sirs and Brothers:—District No, 1 of the United Mine Workers of America is again about to choose the leaders of the union for the next two years. “In the past we supported and elect- ed men who were popular or knew how to make fine speeches at union meetings. “Rinaldo Cappellini is the latest example of our choice based on the popularity of leaders. The day after the election, he and others in the past, have betrayed the miners and comb- ined with the corrupt Lewis machine. ;The Rank and File Nominations Committee calls upon the member- ship of your local to nominate men who stand for principles and a pro- gram, men who for years worked as miners and understand the problems and the needs of the rank and file. “These men are but little known outside of their local unions, but, these men stand upon a program that holds solution for the problems of the miners in District No. 1 as well as for the miners in the entire coun- try. “Enclosed you will find the progres- sive program upon which we ask you to nominate and support these candi- dates. “Read the program, and if you agree with it, pass a motion to nominate these men as candidates for district president, vice-president and secret- ary-treasurer. “For district president, Bernard Zaleskas, L. U. 838, Nanticoke; “For district vice-president, Witcurias, L. U. 846, Nanticoke; “For district secretary-treasurer, Phillip Sabatelli, L. U. 306, Old Forge. “Support and nominate a program and not a popular man. “Please notify us of your action. Fraternally yours, “Rank and File Nomination Com- mittee, 175 S. Meade street, Wilkes Barre, Pa.” John ee Knit Gunde Woskers Open Organization Drive in Philly PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—Philadelphia Knit Goods Workers’ Union has launched an organization drive in the knitting’ industry of this city. The Knit Goods Workers’ Union was organized about six months ago by a group of militant workers as a first step to offset the sweatshop conditions existing in the many textile shops since the former union was dissolved several years ago. Negotiations are being carried on with the International Ladies’ Gar- ment Workers for affiliation and a charter is expected within several weeks. It_is expected that affilla- tion with the L L. G. W. U. will help to strengthen the union considerably, but, the membership of this small fighting organization realize that a charter will not organize the trade. The present organization drive has been carefully planned and will be opened up with the. drsctrrpution of cir- culars at the shops and followed up with a number of mass meetings. The Young Workers’ League has been in- vited to help in this drive and an en- thusiastic response to this invitation is assured. The office of the union is located at 1018 Cherry street where further information about the union can be secured. Chicago, Notice! On Sunday afternoon, March 29, at Ashland Auditorium, there will be an international unity demon- stration and benefit entertainment. No branch is permitted to arrange any conflicting dates of any kind whatsoever. Affairs already fixed must be changed. The complete strength of the party .must be mobilized at this affair as a fitting ‘answer to the Abramovich attack. Miners Will Fight to Stop Violations of Agreement by Bosses McDONALD, Pa.—Officials of the United Mine Workers are respon- sible for the deplorable conditions in the mines here today. They con- tinually refuse to adjust the grievan. ces and allow the operators to break one clause of the agreemnt after an- other.. The agreement calls for one loader to a room or two men for two rooms, but in place of this two men are put in one room. This method is a favor. ite of the operators to weaken the organization in Western Pennsylvania The rooms being low, two men shov- eling at the same time results in many accidents by hitting one another with the shovel. Beside the danger in this method the miners also lose much time in waiting for the cutter to make a cut in their room. For this forced idleness, they should get paid at the rate of $7.50 per day, but instead they must hang around until most of the day is gone before they get any coal to load and not a cent for the time they put in waiting The local pit committee is unabk to put a stop to this condition, becaus: the operators know that the men will! not be supported by the district of- ficilaldom in any kind of -a fight. When the grievance is brought to the at tention of the district officials, the only answer that the men can get is that “nothing can be done at this time;” and the alternative that the miners have is either woérk under those conditions or quit their jobs. It is up to the miners themselves to take the leadership away from such officials and put men at the heac of their organizations who will at all times fight for the men in the pits. And the way by which we the miners can take the leadership away from Officials is for a rank and file mine committee, representing every- one in the mine and elected to fight, be created and coupled up with other such mine committees, and a militan: movement formed which will not be fooled or tricked or beaten by bosses or fakers. Barbers! Why Don’t You Organize the Manicures, Also? NEW YORK CITY, March 12.—The Barbers’ International Union, is mak- ing ‘an effort to organize the 2,000 workers in the beauty parlors of the metropolis. Masseurs, masseuses, cos- meticians and hair dressers are to be lined up. The organizer says, “Everybody in the beauty parlors, with the except- ion of the manicures, is included. The women in most of the places are poor- ly paid and there are conditions that call for improvement.” | ~||MORE CARPENTER " of ws ~ 5 * ~ — Sarena aa j ‘ LOCALS ENDORSE. DETROIT DEMAND ~ 37 Demand that Expul-. sions Stop The fight against the expulsion policy of Wm. L. Hutcheson fs re ceiving the support of the rank and file of the carpenters’ union every: where. So far, 78 local unions, cov- ering 32 states, agd two Canadian provinces, have reported to the T. U. E, L. section of the DAILY WORKER that they have endorsed the resolu- tion sent out by Local Union 2140 of Detroit against the expulsion policy and demanding the reinstatement of the expelled. Last week we published the list of those received up to that time. Follow- ing are those received since then. Undoubtedly hundreds of locals not recorded here have endorsed the re solution. Read last week's and this week's list. If. your local is not men- tioned notify the T. U. E. L. section of the DAILY WORKER. Birmingham, Ala., Local 103. Wallace, Idaho, Local 220. Wood River, Ill., Local 1808. Newport, Ky., Local 698. Lawrence, Mass., Local 111, Duluth, Minn., Local 361. Niagara Falls, N. Y., Local 322. Madill, Okla., Local 1827. New Kensington, Pa., Local 333. Oil City, Pa., Local 830. Peckville, Pa., Local 1678. Bellingham, Wash., Local 7656, Everett, Wash., Local 562. Seattle, Wash., Local 1335. Breese, Ill., Local 1675. Huntington Park, Calif., Local 1500. Los Angeles, Calif., Locals, 2337, 158, 426, 1976 and 884. Porterville, Calif., Local 1688. Santa Monica, Calif., Local 1400. Springfield, Mo., Local 978. Hastings, Nebr., Local 1672. Manchester, N. H., Local 931. Jersey City, N. J., Local 139, Lima, Ohio, Local 372. Portland, Oreg., Local 2154. Lenoir City, Tenn., Local 1961, Ogden, Utah, Local 450. Blue Field, W. Va., Local 1228, Janesville, Wisc., Local 836. Rawlins, Wyo., Local 659. Davenport, Iowa, Local 4. Victoria, B. C., Local 1598. Ardmore, Pa., Local 465. Dunne In Douglas Park. William F. Dunne will speak on the Dawes’ plan before the Douglas Park English Branch, Monday evening, March 16, at 3118 W. Roosevelt Road, at 8:15 p. m.. All workers are wel- come. Admission will be free. This is one of a series of lectures now being arranged by the Douglas Park English Branch, all subjects of discussion will be of current events, thus making them of vital interest to all. Questions and discussion will follow all lectures, RUSSIAN WORKERS RAPIDLY MAKING INDUSTRY GROW Progress in All Lines Over Difficulties GERTRUDE HAESSLER For the Federated Press MOSCOW.—The opinion expressed by optimistic economists toward the end of last year, that Russia will be able in the course of two years to bring her production back to the pre- war level without any financial aid from foreign countries, is now be- ginning to be generally accepted since the economic improvement achievec during the first quarter of the new fiscal year (October-August), 1924-25 has become felt. Crisis Overcome The supply crisis in light industry caused by the low level of production in light industry has been overcome All during last year there was al- most chronic famine on the market for increased agricultural production on the one hand, and an unexpectedly rapid development of the net work of distribution, especially of the co- operatives on the other, caused an extraordinary demand for the products of light industry which the latter was unable to meet. It has however in creased its production to such an ex: tent that the supply practically meets | the demand. | As far as heavy industry is con- | corned, the prospects are even brigh- | ter. The most important of these ithe metal industry, fulfilled the first ‘quarter of the program of produc- |tion some time ago, and is now work- ing on a program increased by 15 per cent. This is also giving tile coa’ and mineral output a great impetus. Certain indu_tries, such as the man ufacture of flax products, are-not in aoe their production so rapidly but the enterprises engaged in the with regard to manufactured goods, dustrial manufacture have already reached the pre-war level, and the demand for its products is subsiding. Financial Trouble Being Solved One of ths greatest handicaps to the rapid recovery of industry, the difficult domestic financial situation, is begin- ning to be overcome. At the begin- ning of the year many of the light in- dustries could nt expand sufficiently because it was impossible to grant them sufficient state credits. A great deal of money was tied up by the eo-operatives, which had received ex- tensive credits but could not pay their debts, their default amounting to about one half the monthly production. At present the co-operative societies have liquidated their indebtedness to a great extent with the result that in- enterprises have increased their deposits in the banks and de- creased their indebtedness to thr workers to whom wages were due. A good harvest would give a still greater impetus to the rapid recovery which Russian industry is experien. cing, but it is impossible to make any predictions at the present time. Mexican Labor F, akers Revel in Government Class Collaboration WASHINGTON, — Canuto Vargas, first labor attache to be appointed by the Mexican government, which has originated this type of diplomatic of- fice, returned to his desk as secre tary of the Pan-American Federation of Labor at Washington to resign from the latter position. A Spanish- speaking worker; presumably from Mexico, will replace him in the secte- taryship. When Vargas moves to the Mexican embassy he will receive from Ambas- sador Tellez his official instructions. He anticipates that one of his re. sponsibilities will be looking after the industrial welfare of the many thou- sands of Mexican citizens employed in the United States. Another will be reporting to his government the de- velopment of labor organizations and institutions throughout the country.
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= —-— - | ENS ae set — a ia Ne las Be ee te ee ee - 7 a Lp, [ anes for Class War Prisoners! Aid for the Victims of Reaction! > And well may that be so. sa a micsctian VVUU ie BR A 2D DD AAS comrades. have its Gallifet. capitalist judges enforcing them. days of 1887. APITALISM reigns supreme secution of capitalism. Communards of 1871. class war of today? ONG live the world! international for our class interests. their dependents. ITH a demand for amnesty of all clase war prisoners and for 1 combined efforts to come to the aid of the tens of thousands of victims of reaction in capitalist prisons the revolutionary proletariat of the world pays homage to the heoes of the Paris Commune on the 54th anniversary of that first great victory of the proletariat. The victims of capitalist reaction and the class war prisoners of today, are worthy suc- cessors to the Commune fighters of 1871 who fell victims of a bloody revenge of the French bourgeoisie. still free and unwounded in the battle lines can not pay homage in a more fit form that in dedicating this day to the aid of our imprisoned HE workers of the United States, too, have all reason to pause for a moment and remember those of their comrades that are lan- guishing in prison for their cause. But it has its criminal syndicalist laws with “good” brought Billings; Mooney, Sacco, Vanzetti and countless others to the stairs of the hangman's scaffold. ‘which hunts down “undesirables” and tears them from their families, often leaving these families im misery and hunger. which, as was the case in Centralia, goes on a rampage of destruction It does not have its bloody May days of 1871—but it has its November in America and consequently the American workers suffer the exploitation, oppression and per- On the eighteenth of March, the workers of the world honor the What better method is there of honoring the dead of the class war of days gone by than to aid the wounded of the solidarity of the workers of the Demand the opening of the prison gates behind which linger your fellow workers for no other crime that that of having fought for their, Collect aid for the defense of these victims and for the’ support of And we comrades and workers The United States may not yet It has its frame-up system which It has its department of justice it has its Legion | On the Day of the “Paris Commune” and International Red Aid. ] During the month of March, and " especially on March 18, the pro- letariat of all countries remembers the heroes and martyrs of the revolution- ary uprisings of the working class, | aimed at the overthrow of the thrones of the czars and kings of the bour- geois social order. |ed to death in prisons and by compul- sory labor. In December 1905 the Rus. sian czar suppressed the uprising of the proletariat, and like his fore-run- ners, the executioners from the camps of the French and the German bour- geoisie—was convinced of the cer- tainty of his victory. ¢ UT the class conscious proletariat did not forget the great cause of the liberation of humanity proclaimed from the barricades of Paris, Berlin and Moscow in 1848, 1871 and 19065. . | The February revolution in France | It repressed its hatred and desire for and the March revolution in Germany | revenge, and when, in consequence of in 1848, the uprising of the Paris*pro-| letariat, the proclamation of the Paris Commune on March 18, are the first milestones in the strug- gle of the working class for power. | The Russian revolufion of 1905, the overthrow of czarism in March 1917 are the next stages thru which the proletariat went prior to October 1917, to the triumph of its dictatorship, the Seviet state, in the’ realm of the former czarist Russian empire. Its power extends over one-sixth of the globe. 2. In June 1848 and in May 1871 the bourgeoisie, with the aid of thei: | well as November 7, are therefore in-| Versailles, where the bourgeoisie Generals Caveignae and Gallifet, sup-|ternational revolutionary holidays of| with their leader, Thiers, had taken oressed the uprising of the working |the entire proletariat, which mark the refuge. ‘lass. Tens of thousands remained on the battlefield, thousands were tortur | the sufferings of the war and the dis- | organization resulting from. the bloody 1871—-these | battles of 1914 te 1917, the patience of the toiling masses came to an end, the workers of Leningrad, under the lead. ership of Lenin and the Russian Com- munist Party—the Bolsheviks—cour. ageously proceeded to the realization of the bequest of the former revolu- tionary generations, and with the overthrow of the power of the bour geoisie, an epoch of the international socialist proletarian revolution was en- tered upon in one country. The day of the Paris Commune, as first concluding strokes of the 75 yeare of history a 4 of the revolutionary fight oe 2s a ne ES ALLE. § pe E and then perjures the victims into penitentiaries just because they garian social democrats, the Esthon- ‘defended themselves and their belongings. The United States does jan, Finnish socialists, who, with their not have its wall of the federals but it has its Ludlow and its Calumet. own hands, organized the military TH ee and the lessons drawn from the defeat of 1871 as well as of the victory of October 1917. The revolutionary workers of all * countries are conducting their present struggle for the abolition of the power of capital and for the dic- tatorship of the proletariat under the leadership of the Communist Interna tional and its sections. Revolutionary Marxism, Bolshevism, Leninism—4: the only direct continuation of the life-work of the first great teachers of the working class, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, the direct partici pants and leaders of the fight of the proletariat in 1848 and 1871. ' Social democracy, the Second In- ternational, has rejected the continua tion of the revolutionary fight which was begun in the preceding revolu- tions. ‘They turn to the workers with the request to reject the class strug- gle. They themselves stahd at the head of bourgeois governments or aid directly in their activity. From their midst have arisen many executioners such as the German social democrats Noske, Ebert and Hoersing, the Hun. slaughter of the revolutionary upris- ing of the working class. HE working class, which carries on the work of the cause of the Paris Communards, must conduct a deter- mined, ruthless struggle against the whole bourgeois front, and with un- flinching will, drive from their midst the social democrats, the watch dogs of the bourgeoisie, who weaken the revolutionary energies of the working class and defiver them defenceless to their enemy class. Only if the working class.unites in the @nly workers’ party, the Commun- ist, will it be prepared for and capable of meeting the decisive struggle against the bourgeoisie. Only then will, it be able to prevent a repetition of the mistakes of the Parisian Com- munards and be able to achieve an equally decisive victory as that which the Russian proletariat achieved in October 1917. 4 The Paris Commune of 1871 be- ti. @ueathed to the revolutionary pro- letariat the first experiences in the sphere ‘of the organization of its power, its dictatorship. The Paris workers realized that they could not complete their liberation it they built on the foundation of the ex. isting bourgeois state. They over- threw this state and gaye their power a firm basis. Simple workers, abso- lutely tmknown up to that time, cour- ageously took into their hands the lead in the revolutionary commune, beset on all sides by enemies. Two armies were against the com- mune which until the day previously had still been fighting each other; the armies of French and German Capital. But the defeat of the commune can be ascribed in the final analysis to the vacillations in the ranks of the Communards, their refusal to make the decisive attack against fortified The defeat of the Paris Commune ‘ leses for Agitators aris Comm H , Was actually a consequence of the Ee st FI “ r , i PAY Sears . ee : iB Y WORKER ° Ee are weakness of its military organization. Heroism, courage and flaming enthusi asm of the Paris Communards did not suffice alone to Secure victory: the French proletariat at that time did not yet possess an internally firm revolutionary mass party, which might have led it withOut a pause to decis- ive victory. ae pyonne the present period between two revolutionary waves, the revo- lutionary working class, which learned from the experi of this defeat, is preparing for fresh decisive battles, is directing all its energies to organizing its forces, to the creation of a strong Communist Party, te preparing it for the armed struggle. The Russian proletariat has already avoided the mistakes of the Paris Commune, and created a revolutionary party long before the uprising, organ- ized the Red Army, the army of its class, which is armed in accordance with all the rules Of the latest mili- tary technique and absorbed all the experiences of the military struggle. : o The cause of the easy victory * gained by the bourgeoisie over th« Paris Commune was the fact that the Parisian workers were not supported by the workers of France and the workers of other countries. The fact that the French peasantry, which stood apart from the fight of the Parisian workérs, not only did not support the latter, but even sided with the French bourgeoisie, helped the lat. ter to defeat the revolutionary work- ing class. Following the teachings of Lenin, the revolutionary workers entered into direct alliance with the peasants fighting against the yoke of imperial- ism, they support them in this strug¢- gle and strive to bring about the revo- lutionary alliance of the workers and peasants, which conquered in the Oc- tober revolution of 1917 and which will help the workers and peasants of the countries of the West to attain victory, and every day bring it nearer and nearer. The revolting Parisian workers * during the March days of 1871 had no illusions about and no confidence in the bourgeoisie and its govern- ments. Their slogan was the revolt of the working class, the.fight for power. Neither does the a@vance guard of the revolutionary proletariat of the “pres- ent day hatbor any, illustions and de- ceptive hopes. The past year; however, has de- stroyed these illusions in the broad masses of the proletariat. The “demo- cratic-pacifist era,” proclaimed a short time ago, very quickly came to an end. The bourgeoisie of all countries ad- opts the undisguised policy of fascist violence against the working class and prepares for fresh tmperialist wars. HE parties of the Second Interna- tional also support this fascist pol- icy of the bourgeois governments, just as they supported the “democrat- ic-pacifist era” preceding it. In Great Britain the conservative government is militarizing the rail- ways in the fight against striking workers, proclaimed recently the tran- sition to a protective» policy, which will increase the prices of all articles of consumption of the working class, e” and International. and is conducting an open, violent campaign against the revolutionary movement of the peoples of the Hast and of the colonies, subjected to Brit- ish imperialism. HE “pacifist” and. “democratic,” Herriot, supported by the social- ists, is trying to disguise with phrases his open-desertion to the imperialist policy of force introduced by Poin- care. 7 Under Herriot reprisals against th: Communists have begun and are be- coming more and more intensified, the military occupation of the Cologne district was prolonged, but with re- spect to the Soviet Republic, the pol- been imitated. red of the British conservatives has N Germany, as a logical result of six years of social democratic betrayal of the coalition government, power fell into the hands of heavy industry and the Junkers, the party of the Ger man nationalists, of the monarchists. The characteristic phenomenon in the sphere of international politics, is the general offensive of world capital against the colonial and semi-colonial peoples, under the slogan of the “united front” of the whole bourgeois. ie, organized the British conservative government. ACIFIST phrases are completely unmasked by the increased arma- ments on land, sea and air with re- course to the destructive chemical means for future wars; the refusal, in spite of the Versailles treaty, of the allies to evacuate the Cologne district; and the preparations of world capital for an armed attack on Soviet Russia. In view of the increasing reaction in all countries, and the breathless pre- parations for fresh imperialist wars, the working class must close its ranks and march in .a.solid united front under the leadership of its fevdlution- ]ary vanguard, the Communist Party, and the Communist International. ° URING the revolutions of 1848 and 1871,,the bourgeoisie had already manifested that unlimited cruelty of which it is capable in the fight for the maintenance of its pfivi- leges and its power against the work- ing class which ventures to rise up to secure its own liberation. And at present also, the more deter. mined becomes the will of the vant: guard of the working class to ‘Over. throw the bourgeoisie by revolution, the more ruthlessly does the’ bouf- geoisie deal with the fighters for the cause of the workers, no matter whether the bourgeoisie in question is a monarchist, a fascist or a republi- can power. HE prisoners of capital who fell in- to the hands of their class enemies at the defeat of the Hungarian: and Bavarian Soviet Republics, are still languishing in the prisons of Bavaria and Hungary under the most unendur. able conditions. The prisons of Ger- many are filled to overflowing with prigoners who were imprisoned after the revolutionary fights of 1920 and 1921 in the Hamburg uprising and dur. ing the other fights in October in 1923. The prisons of the colonial countries of Great Britain and France are filled to overflowing with revolutionaries who fought for the overthrow of the imperialist yoke imposed by the Eu- ropean bourgeoisie on the colonial peoples of the East. The republics of the German social democrat Ebert and of thé Polish so- cialist Pilsudski, the. monarchies of Roumania and Jugo-Slavia, the: “free” republic of American ‘capital, vie with each other in the effort to Invent the most outrageous persecutions against the Communist ———— of the work- ing class. E social Qunndiel of: Esthonia, whose ranks the Reval uprising of the Esthonian workers penetrated, to. gether with the wealthy peasants and the speculators; and with the full en- dorsement of the Second International, before the eyes of the whole of Eu- rope, mass execution of workers are organized, in most cases simply be- cause they belong to the working class. Cynically and insolently the Hungar- ian social democrats, under the pres- sure of the workers, publish their no- torious agreement with the bloody Hungarian ruler, Horthy, while a spe- cial commission sent by the Second International to “investigate” these base dealings of the Hungarian social- ists, openly endorses the part played by their friends in the bloody settle- ment of accounts with the Hungarian working class. ; HE total number of victims of the white terror during the period from 1918 to 1924 amounts to half a million. In the uprisings in Germany, Finland and Hungary (without count- ing the victims of white terror in Rus- sia), etc., 100,000 people were killed, 150,000 were compelled to leave their country, tens of thousands are in pris- on (7,000 in Germany, 6,000 in Poland, 5,000 in Italy, 3,000 in the Baltic bor der states, and 4,000 in the Balkans. The working class must put an end to this white terror. In the course of the last year the fight for the liberation of political prisoners assumed a violent character. On March 18 our slogan “Liberate all the political prisoners who have suf- feréd in the fight for the cause of the workers and for the liberation of op- pressed peoples,” must resound more powerfully and unite millions of work” ers in street demonstrations and pro- cessions. : The German bourgeoisie and the * social democrats, who are prepar- ing a new campaign against the Com munist Party of Germany, the batter- ing-ram of the proletarian revolution, are having recourse to the great pro- vocative “Tcheka tarial.” Spies and provocateurs of the Ger- man criminal police flooded the ranks of the Communist Party of Germany during the period of the revolutionary events in October 1923, and under in- structions from the social democratic head of the police, organized a number of the most senseless and provocative acts of terror, murder, etc. The German reactionary state ad- ministration,-with the approval of the German social democrats, laid all the blame on the Communist Party of Ger- many in order to provide a formal ex- cuse for fresh mass arrests and a fur- ther prohibition of the Communist Party of Germany. HIS was one of the most, insolent provocations of the bourgeoisie - ; t Revolutionary Communism, Bolshev ims, never had recourse to the meth, ods of individual terror and has al ways conducted its preparatory work for the rising of the working class under the slogan of the struggle and solidarity of. the broad masses of the proletariat. “The. liberation of the working class is the work of the work- ing class itself.” The adventurous policy of perpetrat- ing individual acts of terr.rism against the enemies of the working class* dur ing the period of the first Russian revolution in 1908, | ‘was not character. istic ofthe revolutionary Marxists, Bui Rudsian socialist revolutionaries, whe belong to the reformist Second Inter man social democrats. HE masses of, workers will not al- low themselves to. be misled by the provocative methods of the Ger. man social democratic “secret police, And the renewed attempts to suppress the Communist Party of Germany wil! prove to be as futile as the former. — This attack of Germthan reaction on the German workers will result only in the growth of the sympathy of the workers of all countries for the fight. ing German workers, in further strengthening the slogans against the white terror, we must issue the fol- lowing at our demonstrations on March 18, in all countries: “Down with the provocation of the German bourgeoisie and social democrats,” “Long live the German Communist proletariat.” The with the experiences of all the pre ceding revolutionary. fights of the of the petty-bourgeois party of the nationdl, and aré friends of the Ger , ussian proletariat, armed - workers of all countries, which car ried out the behests of the Paris Com. already reached the eighth year of its power in its tremendous country Soviet Socialist Republics. In spite of the pressure of world capital, which at present is leading the attack with all the weapons of the eco- nomic fight, as well as with lies and denunciations which are spread by the socialists of all countries in alliance with the Russian white emigrants abroad, the Soviet Republic lives on, its economy is becoming more stable the whole world the increasing ability which it has united mto a Union ot- munards who died in the struggle, haw: every day, and it is demonstrating to of the working class to organize the. mendous ‘country. tharceied, 2 1 March 18 is the day of “Inter. * national Red Aid. This revolu- tionary working class mass organiza- tion unites millions of workers in its ranks who realize the necessity of struggle against the white terror, and the necessity of. aiding all the victims of the white terror who were thrown by the bourgeoisie into prison or driv- en into exile. The bourgeois gov- ernments and the, social democrats persecute the International Red Aid with deep hatred, called forth by the fatc that Red Aid is one of the strong. est supporters of the revolution- ary struggle. “Support International Red Aid;” “Workers, join in the ranks of the In. ternational Red Aid;” “Help the poll tical prisoners”—these must be the slogans of every worker on March 18. |March 15 they should turn in all the cash possible by the 14th at the dis- trict office. Only one point will be allowed in the prize contest for each | Subscription ticket paid for on March | 15, whereas one and a half nina PRESS PAGEANT PROMBSES TO PACK MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, MAR. 15 — SD Advance sale of the special DAILY WORKER NEW YORK, March 12 75c one-month subscriptions which carry with them as a premium a ticket to | the Paris commune Garden on Sunday pageant, toric old garden will witness another overflow crowd on "that date. | Branch after branch is calling for more .subscription tickets to sell, |15th will not count at’all in the con- | Party members who never before sold anything have already sold several |*®St, and will not be taken into con- | sets of five each. Numerous individuals that are not members of the Work- | sideration in figuring the percentage | ers Party or the Young Workers League have taken out the subscription of the proceeds to go to each paper. folders and are helping. Over threeé - Members are therefor’ ere | not to hold their money until the fin. thousand folders are now in the hands] <criptions sold, and to bring this rec- of willing workers, many of whoM|]ord to the Garden. have already disposed of thirty and forty subscription tickets each. concert and ball to be held in Madison Square afternoon and evening, March 15, indicates that the his- j208 East 14th street on or before the | Our Thanks to Uj Elore. ,are allowed for every subseription | I ticket paid for at the district office, 14th. Subscriptions paid for after the | the subscription folders are sold. The DAILY WORKER New York The names and records of individu agency has received from our Hun ORIENTAL BRANCH AND als selling ‘will be ‘kept confidential) -srian sister daily a first class sles YOUNG W K until the close of the sabancriptiee Rete. on. domiion. The DAILY | 0 KERS HOLD contest at 9 p. m.. Sunday, March 15 WORKER accepts this with thanks as | FIRST JAPANESE DANGE The winners will be announced at the a token of good will from the Hun- | | grand ball in Madison Square Garden garian comrades. | that night, and the complete list o! all comrades selling subscriptions and the record of every branch will be Our appreciation is also due to | Comrade M. Bortnick, who has made | NEW YORK, March 12.—Branch | five of the Young Workers League | : “|several advertising signs for the| of New York, in conjunction with | published in the party press immedi DAILY WORKER, donating his time. | the Oriental branch of the Workers | afaly thereafter and who has just done some very ar-| (Communist) Party, has arranged So many comrades are making 4/tistic lettering on the DAILY WORK-| a Japanese social and dance, to take | real effort that it has been decided not|pR office door, Room 21, 108 East] place on March 28th, 8 p. m., at | to limit the third and fourth prizes tO] 14th street. New York. 108 E. 14 St. two, but to give the gold plated Lenin Bring in the Cash. A unique program has been ar- | watch charm fo each one that sell All workers selling subscription} ranged for the evening. Everybody at least fifty and the silver plated Len-|tickets for the Paris Commune Page-| is promised an exceptionally good | ing watchy charm to every one that/ant, Concert and Ball, Madison Squar| time. The proceeds will be donated | wils at least twenty-five of the sub | Garden, March f5, are advised that al-| to the DAILY WORKER and the scription tickets. These watchitho the contest does not end until Young Worker. charms will bear a suitable inscrip- tion and will be mementoes worth keeping and handing down to poster- ity To make correct decisions when the contest closes 9 p. m., March 15, it is absolutely essential for the comrade: who have charge of this campaign in the various branches to keep exact Sunday, March 1s, at Ukrainiah Hall, 17 E. 3rd MASS REHEARSAL FOR COMMUNE. NEW YORK, March 12.—Five hundred comrades are wanted at once to come to the mass rehearsals for the “Paris Commune Act,” at Madison Square Garden, street. 8 a. m., at Madison Sauare Garden. Rehtarsal on Friday, Final mass rehearsal Sunday, The parts are easy to learn and record of members selling subscrip- comrades must come. Se tion tickets, to collect for all sub. = ae — = = = 2 aii | Washington St. | arranged by - MITE Y CONDUCTED - BY TH Young Workers League Meetings Tonight, One Lecture on the C. I. A lecture on po sixth year of the | in the clothing factory and a num- | ish, but to turn in the cash as fast as|C@ommunist International is the pro- ‘ber of prospective nuclei in the de- No. 6. a WODKERS NG WORKERS LEAGUE the comrades of the branch will fur- ther discuss the text. city. i |one in a department store and another ‘gram for tonight's meeting of Area/ partment stores where thousands of | | Branch BAYONETS PROD HAITI PEASANTS Working Area Branch No. 1 is one} of the most active branches in the | It has two functioning nuclei, | INTO SLAVERY America’s Marines Are Spreading Terror WASHINGTON, March 12.—Haiti’s “progress” under the urge of Ameri- can bayonets is shown in ‘the annual report of John H. Russell, military dic- tator of the republic under his title The lecture will be | young workers work and they will) /as American high commissioner.. This given by Comrade Sidney Borgeson | take up the matter of organization of ; report, dated January 1, has just been ‘these nuclei at the next meeting of | given out by the state department. and questions and discussion are to | /follow. The subject is very timely and ‘one that has had much publicity in the press lately. All members, as well as party members and sympathiz- ers, are urged to’attend this interest- ing meeting. Other branches are having a class on the A. B. C. of Communism. The meeting places and speakers are as follows: No. 1-«Sixth floor, 166 W. Speaker, Pete Herd. Branch No. 3-+8116 8S. Halsted St. Speaker, Nat. Kaplan. Branch No. 6-—A social this branch. Branches 2 and 4 have their meeting nights. Wranch 2 every other Friday and Branch No. 4 meets every Thursday at 3118 W. Roosevelt Road HE Working Jrea Branch of the Young Workers’ League of | Chicago, taking igh the downtown dis- trict is having for its next educational meeting the stuty of “The A. B. C. of Communism:j Comrade Peter | Herd, the educ mal director of the city will start th ussion and then Branch has been manger iv 2 meets No. 1, | ‘the branch which will be the activity | meeting, where the activities of the comrades individually as well as of the branch as a whole, are taken up. This branch has been assigned a quota of 100 subs for The Weekly |Young Worker by May 1, (one-fifth of the amount assigned the whole city) ‘and at the recent Young Workers cele. bration pledged to raise $50.00 for the |weekly. It has already raised some- thing like $10.00 of that amount and gotten in about eight subs. The branch meets every Friday in Room 506, 166 W. Washington. St., Federation Bldg. Everybody is wel- come to attend our meetings. . ——e Boston Juniors Busy. First annual concert and. play ar- ieee by the Junior groups of the Y. W. L. of Boston and vicinity, Friday, March 27, at 8 p. m. at Dudley etreet opera house, Roxbury, Mass. Admission 35 cents. ©) ste ieeiadin ee Get a sub for the. DAILY WORKER from your: shopmate land you will make aitother mem- [ber for your branch, MM ode » It. appears that stabilization of Haitian finances is still under way, af- ter eight years of occupation, and that the national railroad is still un- der process of reorganization. However, “The state of peace which the country has enjoyed since the American intervention, and especielly in the past three years, has continued undisturbed thruout the year 1924, with the result that the Haitian peo- ple’s feeling of security has been for- tified. This is most favorable to agri- culture, for the native peasant, cer- tain of peace and security, has been enticed back to the soil and the re- sumption of cultivation. Encouraged by the feeling that they can now till their lands without fear.of damage to their property or harm to their per- sons, the peasants, during the year just closed, have placed under culti- vation much additional arable land. To a traveler thru the interior the contentment and _ well-being of the peasants are obvious.” Yet only a few weeks ago’ Secre- tary Hughes said that Haiti would not be evacuated by our marines until the people showed a willingness to keep ce se | GENERAL MEMBERSHIP NEW YORK SHOP NUGLEI ORGANIZATION MEETING (Special to the Daily Worker) NEW YORK, March 12.—A gen- eral mentbership shop nuclel organ ization meeting will be held Satur- day afternoon, March 21, at 2 o’clock sharp at the party héadquar- ters, 108 E. 14th St., New York City. This meeting is of great importance. it is held for the purpose of organ- izing the party»-members who work in the factories situated between 14th and 42nd streets into shop nu- clei. Alt party members who work in the above section should attend this meeting. Already over eight shop nuclei have been organized in the city». This is only a beginning. Comrades come to thig meeting so that all the comrades who work in this section can be organized inte shop ‘nuclei thus forming the first shop nuclei section in the Workers (Communist) Party. Comrades don’t forget. Meeting takes place Satur- day afternoon, March 21, at 2 o’clock at 108 E. 14th St., the party head- quarters. The meeting is for party members only. BEN GITLOW, - Shop Nuclei Organizer. the peace. Russell ignores the fact that the killing, looting and general demoralization of native life in Haiti. in these years of the occupation has been credited to American terrorism and reprisal. of the DAILY WORKER—but be sure to see him the next day to | get his subscription. administration and eeennny of a tre. as Give your shopmate this copy zeuwa*o ce 7
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» the farch | * 4 vl Russia’s Enemies NEW YORK, March 12.—More money will be raised here tomorrow in the interests of the deposed czar- ists, when the wives and daughters of the exploiters of American workers, hold a ball for the benefit of counter- Parasites Hold Dance for reyolutionary Russians who would again impose the yoke of czardom on the Russian people. ‘The dance, given under the auspices of the “Russian Refugee Society of America,” will be entitled, “Dance of the Cherry Orchard,” and will glort’ ty the period before ‘the Russian re- volution, when the aristocracy enjoy- ed luxury and the expense of the toil- ing Russian peasants and workers. “Grand Duchess” Maria of Russia, “Baroness” A. L. Frederiecksz, “Prin- cess” Yousoupoff, and “Princess” Iri- na, are patronesses of the “ball, side by side with the American society parasites. Included among the Americans who are helping to raise money for a further attack on the workers’ and peasants’ government of Soviet Russia, are Mrs. George Gor- don Battle, Miss Margaret Woodrow Wilson, Mrs. J. Boarden Harrison and Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson. Italian Rail Union Headquarters Burned by Fascist Gangs ROME—On the night of January 3, a band of fascisti invaded and sacked the headquarters of the Italian Rail- waymen’s Federation at Bologna. The usual methods were employed. After forcing the door the furniture was thrown out of the windows, sprayed with petroleum and set on fire. The building was also seriously dam- aged, and not one of the eight rooms is in a state to be used. The damage is estimated at 150,000 liras. In a report the committee of the federation states, “The result of 30 years’ constant effort has been de- stroyed at a single blow. We are left with nothing but the faith and will that have hitherto helped us to overcome all difficulties and carry on with our work. We shall carry op in the spirit of the Italian railwaymen who honor us with their confidence.” ‘The local DAILY WORKER AGENCY (Thurber Lewis, Agent) has moved to 19 SO. LINCOLN ST. Phone Seeley 3562 Call or write for all Communist Books and Pamphlets The Little Red Library The Workers Monthly The Daily Worker Chicago, Notice! i ior “ iy re ie ~~ S., ad : a uniohs to Place any signs, or to post is “no such a thing as peaceful pi pickets from trespassing on the prop = aNd og on ree aes oe Oe eeaee poe ee ey er a hate te ‘ PASHINGTON STATE ie “COURT DECLARES A Se eTinG ~~ ILLEGAL IN UNA DUS DECREE IA, Wash., March 18.—The supes — The supreme ous decision practically forbids g. It forbids the pickets carrying any signs within 100 feet.of the entrances of the place being Dicketed, and declares that there This reverses the lower court's décision which méely prohibited the erty picketed, or from blocking en- trances. The Name Doesn't Matter. The case at issue was that in which John Hants; who operates four scab second run, tem-cent movie houses in Seattle; 4s fighting ‘the Musicians’ Un- ion. The fight against his scab houses has been ‘dragging: on for over’ two years. The Seattle union has tried to evade the anti-picketing law of 1919,. by placing “observers” to report on union men going into the shows, The decision says eh the name don’t mat- ter. 4 This aentiben: fellewe- one. handed down in 1922 by the Spokane courts in the case of Dempsey’s Pastime restau. rant vs. the Cooks’ and Waiters’ Un- ion, and reverses the King County court decision in the Danz case. All Picketing Is Violation of Law. If allowed: to atand, it means that picketing is made wholly illegal. It is somewhat doubtful if it will go un- challenged by the unions. Hanz operates four theaters, two up- town, one downtown, one on the skid road. His audiences are made ur chiefly of workers. His Star Theater, on the skid road, is always crowded, neither the A. F. of L. boycott on the theater, nor the I. W. W. boycott on California movies seeming to interest the workers. Lumber Trust Gives Lessons on How to Beat the Law SEATTLE, March 12.—Announce- ment has been made that at the an nual meeting of the Douglas Fir Eix- ploitation and Export company, E. C. Griggs of Tacoma was re- elected pres- ident. The federal government started ac tion against this company as a “com- bination in restraint of trade,” about a year ago, but with no results to date. The reason for no results’ mayb. that Griggs, a democrat, was runnin for congress last fall on that ticket. Then, when it was too late to put any- one else up, he withdrew, leaving the Johnson, the author of the anttf- tor: eign-born immigration bill. ing BY ws a q - BUFFALO, NOTICE! : International SOCIAL AND DANCE given. by the Workers Party, Local Buffalo Saturday, March 14, at Labor Lyceum, 376 William Street. Fine Program — Music — Dancing Refreshments. All radicals in Buffalo will be there. | OUR DAILY PATTERNS ADMISSION 50 CENTS, A PLEASING HOUSE OR MORNING re 4887. Linen, gingham, or crepe could be used for this design. It is a good model for stout figures. The pattern is cut in eight sizes: 36, 38, 40, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48 and 50 inches bust measure. A 38-inch size requires 4% yards of one material 32 inches wide. If made as illustrated it will require 3% yards of plain material and % yard of figured material. The width at the foot is 1% yard. Pattern mailed to any address op _ geceipt of 12c in silver or stamps. FOR RENT. FURNISHED ROOM with all modern conveniences. Party member pre-|m ferred. Very reasonable. Address _— 7 ti if A NEAT AND COMFORTABLE PLAY SUIT 4619. This model provides a sepa. rate blouse. The Overalls are sleeve- less and the body portion of the back is buttoned to the waist portion. Seersucker, denim, or gingham could be used for the overalls, and cambric for the blouse, or the entire suit may, be of one material The pattern is cut in 4 sizes: 2, 3, 4 and 5 year@: A’ 4 year size requires 1% yards’ for ‘the overalls, and ge yard for the Dlouse. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. Address: The DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, til. NOTICE TO PATTERN U YERS—The tterns being sold thru the DAILY Wo RKER pattern department are fur- York firm of pattern orwarded by peteres direct DAILY WORKER 2 does not keep a stock of patterns om hand. Delivery of t- terny ordi will take at least 10 days from the date of mailing the order. not become if your pattera ie delayed. FASHION BOOK NOTICE! Send i12c in silver or stamps for our Seek of Fash 4 a Ty m. ashion 8 es and adie. 50 of ladies’ welanen'c! terns, 4 ae aga ‘comprene eked a tlele on Yoo wb dame points for the needle Tiere ail ‘valuable. hints V0 the beme ‘SSccomeien | fields clear for the.lily of reaction, | WOBBLIES ARE PARDONED BUT STILL HELD May Still Be Deported, Tho Unaccused NEW YORK, March 12.—The cases of the five Industrial Workers of the World, war-time political prisoners who were pardoned by President Cool- idge but are still being held held for | deportation by the department of la- bor, will be argued in the federal dis- trict court in Chicago on March 17. Attorney Isaac Shorr will repres- ent the wobblies and endeavor to have the men released. He argues that there is no justification for the deportation warrants since the pres- ident has pardoned the men, can- celling their alleged offenses. Herbert Mahler, Joseph Oates, Pietro Nigra, and William Moran are the men in- volved, If the federal judge decides against the men and remands them to the department of labor, writ of habeas corpus proceedings will be instituted immediately for the release of the men, According to the New York branch of the general defense committee the department of labor is unwarrantedly blocking the release of the men which should have followed the president’s pardon. Sabotage of Bosses Is “‘Good Business’’; of I. W. W., a “Crime” , (Special to The Daily Worker) VANCOUVER, -B. C., March 12.— ‘ Pacific coast logging production is to be cut one-half for the next two months by agreement between loggers, lumbermen, and bankers of British pColumbia, Washington, Oregon and quran. This is necessary in order to.keep prices high on building mate- +rial, and the logical result of an eco- nomic;system based on production for )profit,.as in America, not for use, as ih, Soviet Russia. This is clearly a combination in re- straint of trade, but needless to say neither the American or Canadian gOvV- ernment will bother to interfere. They are too busy framing up cases against rebellfous workers. When a worker slows down on pro- duction, he gets fired. When the work- ing class organizations agree that slowing down on production would be a good idea, as the I. W. W. has been accused of doing, they are charged with sabotage, criminal syndicalism, etc,, and are apt to be sent to prison. When the bosses do exactly the same thing, it shows what good business men they are. This is typical of capitalism which makes laws to oppress the workers, but protects their exploiters. Write us a letter—tell us how you work, what are your wages and shop conditions—and then order a bundle for distribution in your shop. es ete ie AO ENR tare a Re-opened CHESKIS CHESKIS RESTAURANT 3124 W. Roosevelt Road nea WAVADOOEDADDEDUALOOUEVGDADU AAO UELECDAADOELOADADNE AE ACAENEU ADAM Dr S. ZIMMERMAN DENTIST NCUA [ 46¢ ? MY NEW LOCATION Special X-Ray rices a to Gas Workers Given ESTABLISHED 12 YEARS. My ExaminatioéA is Free My Prices Are Reasonable _ My, Work Is Guaranteed Extracting Specialist | DELAY MEANS DECAY ‘ SP ag | TH a t of the state of Wash- tions to the PLENTY Of REAL | PERSECUTION IN THIS COUNTRY] 83 Communist. Cases Alone in 5 States That the criminal syndicalism laws of the various states of this country have not been dead letters on the statute books, is proven by the fact that since the war there have been at least 83 Communist cases alone on which indictments have been secur- ed in at least five ‘states. This has been sfetined from a re- cent survey made “bythe Labor De- fense Council to Weférmine the ex- tent to which prdésbctition under the criminal syndicalim laws has gone on. This estimaté’ does not include many cases in which people have been seized and held under the criminal syndicalism laws of*various states for numbers af days, Wnd have been re- leased because of the complete lack of evidence. ve From Coast to Coast The eighty-three. oases include only those where indictments have been actually secured and where the cases have either been concluded or are still pendifig: Of these eighty-three cases, there have been thirty-two in Michigan, eighteen in Illinois, sixteen in Pennsylvania, five in New York, one in West Virginia and eleven in California. California, of course, has imprisoned scores of I. W. W. under this law. Due to the fact that the defense of these cases has been spread thru the period since the war, it was not definitely known until this survey was made how far-reaching the prosecut- ions under these laws were. In fact, this survey is in itself as yet not complete, inasmuch as there are cases in a number of states, the complete details of which have not yet been received. gidithin U. 8. Not Behind In Persecution Taking into consideration the many hundreds of.,deportation cases, a comple survey. of- which has yet to be made in the future, also a number of cases coming ugder an assortment of other laws which have been utilized for the purpose of prosecuting those who have opinions other than those of the powers that be, we find” that the United States ig by no means the last among. thoge,, countries which have a treme .mass of political prosecutions to the credit. : An putstanding t of great import- ance is that there. still forty-three cases to be tried there are at least;three cases that are being appeale@,to various state courts and three thet. are on appeal to the United. States supreme court. Couple of this withythe news already published several, thmes, that various states, among them notably Idaho, are putting even more,,teeth into their criminal syndicalism Jaws than they have at the present time, this brings home the nature of the work that still has to be done both morally, and financially as far as. concrete defense is concerned, to keep these political defendants from jail and to fight the criminal syndicalist laws. New York Tenants Demand Action on Housing Crisis NEW YORK, March 12—In spite of the fact that statistics show that the number of dwellings in New York is 434.175, and the number of families 1,555,000, the legislature at Albany has failed to provide any rent or housing regulations. The Audobon Community council, the Washington Heights Tenants’ as- sociation, and the Tenant-Taxpayers’ Protective league have sent resolu- legisfature protesting against that body's jinaction in the face of the New York City housing | crisis. English Firm Gets Zinc Concession from Soviet Russia HARBIN, March 12.—The conclus- fon of a big contract is reported for the exploitation of the Tetukhe zinc ore mines, by which the concession- aire, Brunner, undertakes to set up a blast furnace and generally to run the enterprise in such @ manner as to have zinc exported as a finished pro- duct and not in the shape of crude ore, as it was done before the war of 1914, when the said mines were worked by a German firm. the courts, that. BUILD DERS AT Wo RK IF YOU HAVE A COMPLAINT— . E sure to send us all details with every letter. if you have sent us money for subscription and your paper does not arrive within a week and we will return it. Don’t wait and become dissatisfied. be sure to write us about it and mention the date the money was sent, the name and the receipt number—if you got one. Or send us the receipt if your paper does not arrive regularly, send us the exact dates missing so we can take the matter up with the post office. if your bundle order does not arrive reguiarly—remember we must have the dates and address it is being sent to. And if you want fast service on all these complants and any others you may have, you can get faster service by putting all complants on separate sheets. complaints on another, etc. But do not fail to complain! and agent the best service possible. In sending subs or complaints be very plainly as this is the reason for write us. til you write us about them Piace the bundle order complaints on one sheet; sub We want to notice all irregularities whether of our office or the post office for we want to give every reader sure to send us your addrese written moet complaints. Whatever the reason you may have for feeling disatisfied be sure to We want the best working class newspaper to have the best servicé. And remember it is impossible for us to know of our errors un- WORKERS CO-OPERATIVE OF GARY RUNS MODEL RESTAURANT, USING PROFITS FOR EDUCATIONAL WORK GARY, Ind., March 12.—One of the main activities of the Gary Workers’ Co-operative Society. which holds a m ass meeting here on March 15, is the running of a co-operative restuarant at 1733 Broadway. The society charges ten dollars per share for its stock, but in order to keep the organization entirely in control of the workers, al-¢— lows every member only one vote, re gardiess of the number of shares he holds. No protfits are allowed sharehold- ers, and no interest is paid on ‘the stock. The food is sold at low prices, and is kept at a high standard of quality.. The Rrofits are put into edu- cational work among the Gary work- ers, and for mutual aid to the workers belonging to the society. All workers interested in furthering the interests.of their class are invited to attend the mass meeting which will be held at 2:00. p. m,, March 16, at}, 215 West 18th avenue. Speakers will tell of the work of the co-operative : in both Russian and English .jan-, guages. Admission is free. All workers are invited to buy, a share.of stock in the Gary Workers’ Co-operative. Papers Lie About _*” “Prosperity,” But «- Poor Seek Charity’ TACOMA, Wash., March 12.—Taco- ma papers constantly tell of the stead- ily increasing prosperity of this city. But the county charity commissioners office proves that they lie. The past eleven months show 584 cases of outdoor relief and 1,905 coun- ty hospital cases. This almost doubles the figures for the preceeding fiscal year. This February shows double the expense of last February. There | is a long waiting list of applicants who wish to enter the county hospital and the county poor farm, both of which are overcrowded now. And this relief, does not reach the hundreds of migratory workers who drift thru the city, vainly seeking work, sleeping in box cars, pool halls, etc. and begging for food. Their only job is keeping cool with Coolidge. Steel Workers Lose $1,500,000 to Bosses By Clever Little Cal WASHINGTON, D. C., March meal President Coolidge did not sign the bill, passed by the house and senate, ‘for payment to the former workers in ‘the Bethlehem Steel company’s plant the raise in wages granted them by the war labor board and repudiated by Chas. M. Schwab and his company. Some $1,500,000 due these steel work- ers is involved. Payment was tO have been made from the treasury, and the government was then to have sued the company for reimbursement. Russia Buys From Persia TEHERAN, Persia, March 12.— Large purchases of foodstuffs’ are being made in Persia for the areas in Soviet Russia where there is a ead lihood for a food shortage. & Bett Your Union Meeting | SECOND FRIDAY, MARCH 138, 1925. Name of Local and Piace of Meeting. Bakers and Confectioners, 3420 W. Roosevelt Road. wine econ 64th and 8S. Ashland Boller Makers, 106th and Ave. M. Boller Makers, 556th and Halsted. Boiler Makers, 62d and Halsted. Building Trades, Council, 80 Ww Washington St. Carpenters’ District Council, W. Washington St. Carpenters, 4339 S. Halsted St, Commercial _— Artists, W. Adams Electriciang, 2901 W. Monroe St. Electricians, 19 W. Adams St. Engineers (Loc.), Madison and Sacramento. Paetnoers, 180 W. Washington St. remen > Enginemen, 565428 ve 2200 14286 19 9 182 683 845 674 Gardeners and Florists, Village Hall, Morton Grove. 21. Garment Workers, 176 W. Wash- ington St., Pp. 84 or Workers, Emily and Marsh- 118 Hod “Carriers, 1850 Sherman St., a Evanston. 7 Janitors, 166 W. Washington 8t. ies’ Garment Workers, Joint Board, 328 W. Van Buren St. 4 Lithographers, 639 S. Ashland Bivd. Machinists, 113 S. Ashland Bivd. Machinists, 113 S. Ashland Blvd. Machinists, 55th and Halsted Sts. Machnists, a E. cor. Lexington and Weste Machinists, 330 Pl. and Halsted. Metal Polishers, 119 S. Throop St. Painters, School and Sheffield Ave. Pattern Makers, 119 8. Throop St. oe mnaravers, 814 W. Harrison 0 p. Rae dh iso Ww. Washington St. Plumbers, 5212 S. Halsted St. lumbers, 92651 S. Chicago Ave. 7 Rallway Carmen, 59th and Halsted Rallway Carmen, Blue Island, J Railway Carmen, 62d and Robey tailway Clerks, 9 S. Clinton St. Rope Splicers, 5608 Milwaukee Ave. 2 Le > nl Ce 315 Plymouth Ct., 7:30 p. Telemvawhers, Oo. R. T. Cort Club, 159 N. State Atiantic Hotel. La an ag atchmen popes Yards), a ~ > ~_ 111 301 Halsted 8t., Local 269, A. C. W.—Meets every 2nd Friday, 1664 No. Robey. (Note—Unless eeperwese stated meetings are at 8 p. m.) FOR RENT. A BEAUTIFUL ROOM. All modern conveniences. 2736 Evergreen Ave. Mrs. Rodinovic. Tel. Armitage 7879. St. 3749 8. all 180 UNEMPLOYMENT IS EXTENS NE STATE REPORTS But Points Hopefully to 4,301 New Jobs Factory industry, at least, is ex panding slightly in Illinois, according to the estimate of the general advis ory boafd of the Illinois state depart ment of labor. But the report admits that there is “extensive unemploy- ment.” The 1,188 manufacturers who fre port to the department, had on the Day roll for the week ending the middle of February, 285,398 workers, or about 40 per.cent of the factory workers of the state, This is an in- crease of 4,301 workers since the prev: ious month’s report. Some Very, Very Thin Gatne The report says, “of forty-four ont of fifty-five industries, practically all recorded a gain.” Presumably, how- ever, the 4,301 reemployed workers, when spread over these forty-four in- dustries, make the. gain thin in each, or very thin indeed in most. The de. partment does not elucidate these fig- ures except by indirection. The leading increase was tm the metal industry, automobile and acces sory products adding 11.6 to the Jan. uary payroll. dn agricultural ftmple ments, the report states, “In recent months the payrolls have been stead- ily increased until operations are now 47 per cent above the low point reach- ed in August 1924. The Rate of Men to Jobe “Operations of the free em ploymen' offices showed there were 178 persons registered for each 100 jobs in Febru. ary, as compared with 188 in January. “In Chicago, 1,418 building permite - authorized $27,220,450 worth of work, which was about $9,000,000 over the figure of February 1924. In the res- idential suburbs of Chicago, principal. ly Oak Park, Evanston and Berwyn, the new projects were exceptionally extensive.” Silent On Miners The report is as silent as the grave on the terrible unemployitient—-rife among the coal miners of the state lof Iifinois. In explaining, “the anomaly of ex- panding industry and extensive un- emplayment,” the report says; “When business after a period of decline changes for the better, all the workers are not taken back at once, but the process is slow and gradual.” Coolidge Demand for Discharging Workers Hits Printers’ Union WASHINGTON, Ma. March 12,.—Colum- bia Typographical Union has protest- ed to President Coolidge the sudden dismissal of 175 of its members from the government printing office, which is almost solidly organized. Public printer Carter is accused by President Smith of the union with violation of the law in this summary move in the so-called “economy” pro- gram. The fact that veterans of the world war are among those laid off is further complicating the siteation. Carter replies that he was ordered to reduce the force to 4,000 men, and that he did so as humanely as was possible. The White House demanded a reduction in operating costs; it is now up to Coolidge, PITTSBURGH, PA. To those whe work hard for thelr money, | will save 50 per cent on all their dental work. DR. RASNICK DENTIST 645 Smithfield Street. For Communist Clarity— Leninism or Trotskyism By Gregory Zinoviev, I. Stalin and L. Kamenev. 20 CENTS A COPY Order from the Daily Worker Literature Dept. UNCLE WICGILY’S TRICKS A LAUGH FOR THE CHILDREN got. awful mce lollypops here, bs Osi 4 " Bat I don’t eat
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A by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING co. 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, ML ¢Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES” By mall: qt per year $3.50....6 months $2.00...3 months By mail (in Chicago only); $8.00 per year $4.50....6 months $2.50...3 months Address all ‘mail and make out checks to . THE DAILY WORKER 1118 W. Washington Bivd. 3. LOUIS ENGDAHL ; ‘ WILLIAM F. DUNNE({ mahere MORITZ J. LOBB....... 290 Advertising rates op application Wages, Prices and Workers Wholesale prices have risen 10 per cent since August of last year. This means that without lockouts, wage cuts or furore of any kind, the wages of the American working class have been reduced ten per cent. In Chicago the price of pork and pork products alone has risen ten cents per pound in the last three weeks. ) In the textile and coal mining industries, to speak only of these two instances, there is a well organized drive against the workers’ wages. It is plain that under the wage system the worker is never secure. The bosses reduce his money wages by unemployment and wage cuts, his real wages— purchasing power——are reduced by increases in the prices he pays for food, clothing and housing. In the old days of competitive capitalism price increases could be discounted by wage increases. Today monepoly control of basic industry is able to make inroads on the living standard of the workers by price fixing and wage cutting at one and the same time. It is true that the average wage of the workers always tends towards the bare sub- sistence level, but the process by which this move- ment is forced is plainer than ever before. The working Class no longer overcomes in “good times” the losses suffered in bad times. The living level sinks lower and lower even in the United States where the ubiquitous “tin lizzie” gives an im- pression of working class prosperity. Competition between the national capitalisms is keener than ever before. The capitalist class of every country is impelled,to war on the living standards of the workers. Every wage struggle is therefore a major political struggle in that upon the success of its wage slashing campaigns depends the immediate future success of the capitalist economy. It is because capitalism is no longer able to grant whglesale wage increases to the working class that the whole power of the capitalist state is mobilized to put down wage movements; it is also for this reason that the yellow socialists and trade union ‘fficialdom play such an important role in the class struggle of the present period. Their refusal to fight the most elementary needs of the working class is not simply-a lack 6f interest in the workers but an actual betrayal of them to capitalism. They mouth revolutionary phrases, but they support cap- italism. The Communists understand the vital nature of the conflicts over wages and hours. Their attitude is not the static one of mere sympathy for the work- ers who are involved, but dynamic in that Com- munists encourage these struggles on the part of| the workers, participate in them and try to give| the whole working class movement a concrete pro- | gram and direction that leads it to pride in itself, hatred of capitalism and the will to triumph over it thru the organized power of the workers and | farmers. Get a member for the Workers Party and a new subscription for the DAILY WORKER. The Reynolds Case The quashing of the contempt charges and the} dropping of the injunction secured by the Hutche- son machine of the Carpenters’ Union against Com- rade Reynolds of Detroit as a result of his militant | activities in the union, is an example of what organ- | ization of the workers’ forces and mass pressure | on the courts can accomplish. Comrade Reynolds and the rank and file that sup- ported him never backed up one inch. The moment the injunction barring him from attending union meetings was issued it was violated. When called into a capitalist court to answer the charges of con- tempt of its orders the militants turned the trial inte an exposure of Hutcheson and his payroll gang t fakers. The rank and file of the union attended the hear-' ings en masse and never for a minute was their) ittitude in doubt. The defeat of reactionaries will the union strengthen immensely the Workers Party and the Trade Union Edueational League in the Detroit labor movement and nationally. The militant car- | penters are not resting on their laurels, however. | They are pushing agitation and organization and using -the interest that has been aroused by the ase to build a bigger and more conscious left wing. Japanese women invaded the meeting of the imperial diet the other day and made the rafters “ing with demands for equal rights. if the men are as active and fearless as_ the women, Japanese tyrannical government is going to have a lot of trouble. <r Every day get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER and a member for the Workers Party. Send in that new “sub” today! . —=—epy The Brake Widens France is threatening ‘to form an alliance with Russia and Japan if her demands for a security pact against Germany are not granted. Great Britain retaliates by circulating rumors in London to the effect that the balance sheets of the Bank of France are forged and that $100,000,- 000 more than the amount of paper money author- ized has been circulated. If continued, the disas- trous effect on the franc of this campaign can be easily imagined. France would allow Japan, as the basis of the proposed alliance, to use her Indo-China ports in the event of war with England or America, thus making the British Singapore base of little value. Such an dlliance, however, would be in direct op- position to Polish interests and the fact that France even mentions it as a possibility is a cor- toboration of our prediction that Poland*is going to be left to shift for herself one of these days. The alternate proposal, that Germany be one of the signers of the security pact is just as distaste- ful to Poland. She insists that if Germany is taken into the allied family that transportation of muni- tions and troops across Germany must be permitted in the event of war with Russia. German nationalism hates and fears Soviet Rus- sia, but Poland is the immediate enemy and Ger- rmany will hardly consent to be another Danzig corridor to the enemy on her eastern frontier. The British dominions have washed their hands of the whole affair and any guarantees made to France by Great Britain will not be endorsed by South Africa, Australia and Canada. In this welter of capitalist diplomatic strife it is of interest to recall the statement of the French press quoted by us recently saying that “France must now choose her allies in the Far East.” It should be recalled also that during the recent in- ternal strife in China, French and Japanese im- perialism united in support of thé same Chinese general. The only thing certain in this complicated European situation is that national rivalries are becoming deeper and the breach between the con- flicting imperialist nations wider. As a result of this, Soviet Russia stands out more and more definitely as the great power without whom even no important temporary settlement can be made. The workers’ and peasants’ government is the biggest force in Buropean affairs. ». The grape fruit will ‘not be the sourest article at the breakfast party of Warren and Coolidge. “State Police Facts” State senators atid representatives in the Illinois legislature have been handed a questionaire en- titled “State Police Facts.” The first question is: “Why does Illinois need a state police force?” The answer, written by some unconscious humor- has never been iit the metropolis, begins: “To patrol our public highways and give every- body in the state the same police protection as is now enjoyed:in Chitago... .” It is pretty well a matter of record that the only people who get police protection in Chicago are unfair bosses, strikebreakers, gunmen and crim- inals. The most patriotic Chicago babbitt cites this fact as a matter for local pride. Whatever was ‘the intention of the compiler of the questionaire ‘he has certainly made clear the purpose of the state police bill. For “protection” read “persecu- tion” and we are reasonably accurate. Another question asked and answered is: | “Will they (the state police) arrest strikers?” Answer: “Yes, if they break the law; no, if they ‘don’t. In other words, they will be treated just as ‘all other citizens.” This would be good news—if it were true. If istrikers could be sure that they would be treated ‘exactly like “other citizens” owning mines, fac- ‘tories and natural resources they would not care how many police there were. But strikers are al- ways outlawed. If there is no law to cover a par- ‘ticular strike there is always the injunction, auto- | matically followed by police or troops. The state police bill is just another attempt, to create a stronger band of mercenaries for the cap- italists of Illinois. They admit this themselves. When this sinister measure has been branded as an assault on the unions and the working class in general one has said all that can be said. It must be fought just as the injunction and alk other special measures of repression are fought —as part of the class struggle. | The German railway workers are on strike against the low wage system of the Dawes plan. The workers of Great Britain face a new drive on ‘their unions and wages. The textile workers and ‘coal miners of America are confronted with wage cuts and an open shop offensive. has the same basis the world over. As our cartoonist shows, the foreign-born work- ‘ers are the left arm of American labor. Let the rulers cut it off with House Bill 11796 and they will soon be hacking at the other arm—the native- born workers. | The government of Belgium has refused to let Eamon de Valera speak in that country. We hope the Irish workers who fought to preserve ‘the ‘neutrality of Belgium,” will note the success of their efforts. What could be more appropriate than to have a vic e-president named Laekey come to Chicago to fight the militant members of the Carpenters’ | Union? aes THE DAILY WORKER. The — , HE annivergary of the proclama- tion of the Paris Commune and the celebrations, demonstrations and mass meetings held to commemorate it, have taken on a world wide revolu- tionary political meaning since the Russian revolution and the organiza- tion of the Communist International thé historical offspring of the First International and the revolutions of 1848-71. The Third ¢Cemmunist) Interna- tional has dedicated the anniversary of the commune to the victims of the class war. In all the celebrations held it is the extension of the terror of in- ternational capitatism and capitalist government that must be the subject first on the ordemof business. O mere recital of the events lead- ing up to ‘the commune and the slaughter of the Workers of Parié is permissible. Hotrible as was the mass murder of the revolutionists of the Commune,*“modern history, con- temporary events; furnish just as hor- rible examples ‘In the rivers of blood pouring from the shattered bodies of chousands of ‘Wofkers and peasants who have risen’ ‘against capitalist tyr- anny. : The anniversary of the commune is a day for hammering at the doors of the jails and dungeons of wortd cap- italism. The prisons of the capitalist rulers are filled to.overflowing and the crack of rifles, the rat-tat-tat of machine guns, the thud of clubs, the shrieks of the dying and tortured vic- tims of reaction resound thruout the globe. The death toll of workers roll- ¥) -ommune ag ceca Mejores “Pa: ed up before the wall of “Paris is small compared to the list of work- ingclass victims written in blood by capitalism since 1917. HE ey is not yet. There is ng unemployment among the jailers and executioners. On March 15 in Madison Square Garden, New York, in Ashland Audi- torium, Chicago, March 29, will be held two ' gigantic commune celebra- tions. A party member wid absents himself betrays thosé of his class who have been jailed in the world pata s tionary conflict. On page 4 of today’s issue a pub- lish a “Thesis for Agitators on the day of the Paris Commune and Inter-} national Red Aid.” Every member of the’ Workers (Communist) Party, especially those comrades who are in charge of these demonstrations and those who. will have the privilege of speaking to the masses that will assemble there, should study the thesis with the ut- most care. HE days are past for academic discussion and oratorical glorifi- cation of the revolutionary heroes of yesterday. We learn from their lives, their struggles and their deaths, but as Communists, we live in the pres- ent and face a future which is ours. It is the struggle of today that must be the major theme at the commune meetings’ ‘Nothing is of more import- ance to the world revolution than the army of working class victims of the world wide white terror and the strug- gle in which they died or were sent to a living death. of “democratic’ The commune left for its glorious workers who} class. We remember these aeroic victims with love and gratitude. UT we must not forget that the ttle line has been lengthened since the commune. Regiments, bri- gades, whole armies of the workers are on the front where only the hand- ful of Communards onge. stood. Like the Communards, the workers of Ger- many, France, Italy, Poland, Bulgaria, Esthonia, Finland, Lithuahia, Spain, t, India, China; Indo-Clitha, Java, pines, ali ‘the Countries of the far east, Mexico, Haiti, Chile, .¢ven * Bingland ahd Ameri- ca, have had their ‘blood’ baths—have seen their comrades with whom they fought shoulder ‘to shoulder handed | over the brutal turhnkeys | of the rul- ing class. On the anniversary of the’ commune we do not look back with puzzled wonder that ‘such “atrocities could yhave happened. ‘We live in a world that hag lost all characteristics of the comparatively ‘ peaceful period when capitalism was in its prime. Our world is a bloody ‘world, our rul- ers’ hands are stained a deeper crim- son than in 1848, It is the same class that rules except in Soviet Russia. T rules again by blood and irof. The same class crushed the 1905 revolution: The same class tried to drown in gore the revolution of 1917. It faces now a world wide revolt and its methods are the same in all coun- tries—murder, torture, tombs for the living, shallow graves for the dead. For those workers who gave their lives ‘in the fight we can do but honor their memory and pledge ourselves to see. that they did em die in yain. : But for the living victims we ‘ben and will do something. We will let millions of workers know of the ob. scene tortures they undergo because they are revolutionists and place the interests of the workers and Beasdats first. E will demand freedom tor them and organize to enforce our de- mands. © We wilf:tedch. the lessons ‘of ‘the commune by the living examples of today. We will number name the nations whose jails are led, we will show the. working class what cap- italism has.inj®tore for those who will not be slaves and we will or- ganize our class for disciplined action ,in a war that it cannot evade ex- cept by allowing shackles to be weld- ed on its limbs. HE day of the commune is. the day of International Red Relief. It is the day on which the wo mobilize to free the working class victims of the white terror. On the anniversary of the day when the Communards challenged the capi tilst rulers we renew the challenge and drive against capitalism for free- dom for the imprisoned heroes. of the working class. Down with capitalist terror! Freedom for all workers and -peas- ants jailed in the revolutionary strug- gle! Support the International Red Re- lief! Long live the Commune! ist or a living Sherwood Anderson character who) Communists Urging’ - General Strike of All German Unions (Continued from page 1) the Dawes’ plan management and the rail unions. The real reason, ‘however, for the refusal of these’ socialist leaders’ of the Berlin unions in other industries than railway work, to méet with the shop committee delegates of rail work- ers, is that thesé Communist control- led rank and file bodies are determin- ed to spread the:strike beyond the railway workers ‘into all industries. They openly ann6tince the purpose to tie up all traffic and all production. Dawes’ Plan Strikes a Snag. The Dawes’ plan management pre- cipitated the confilct by raising the salary of the her Officials at the same time théy frefused the Modest demand of thé est paid workers for an incréasé of three pfenfiigs an hour and a rée- ifablishment of the eight-hour day ich the Dawes’ plan stole from the Gérman workers. In thts demand the lower circle of railway officials, Clerks and foremen are fully supporting the demands of the manual workers, their organiza- tion yesterday having voted to ally itself with the strikers. Complete General Strike Developing. With the militant leadership of the Communists within the unions, the sit- uation is such that if a general rail- way strike is ordéred after today’s conference, the Communist program for a walk-out of all union workers in other industries as well appears certain to develop Wwatietat forty-eight hours. 12 toe English Spy Spews Lies About Russia Frederick A. McKenzie, the English spy who was thrown out of Russia for his lies about the workers’ and peasants’ government there, will speak tonight at Orchestra Hall. McKenzie, who is being toured thru the country by the Russian czarist and counter-revolutionary mensheviks who are also supporting Raphael Abramo- vich, spoke recéntly in Chicago be- fore an audience of white guard Rus- sians who fled Russia rather than go to work. Many interruptions occurred during McKenziés talk. Most of the few remaining Chicago socialists are expected to be at the spy’s meeting tonight. Workers Taxed’ For Ebert’s Death. BERLIN, Germany, March 12.— Frau Ebert, widow of the first German president, will réeeive a pension of $141.00 a month. The reichstag as- sumed the cost of the funeral of Ebert on behalf of the mation. The Commun- ists protested om the grounds that Ebert represented not the masses of the people, buty the German bour- geoisie. Ebert's, funeral cost over The class struggle | $10,000. German President Sworn in. BERLIN, Mareh 12.— Dr. Walter Simons was officially sworn in as pres- ident ad interim of Germany today, the ceremony taking place in the reichstag. Dr. Simons will take over the duties of the late President Ebert until the presidential elections, Mar. 29. “Third Degree” Bill. MONTPELIBR,; Vt., March 12. Governor Billings today signed a bill which provides that third degree methods shall ngt be used on a persor e suspected of a fu until the prisoner has had an op lawyer. Patronizewur advertisers. — | oe yemenel unity to consult a LENIN SCHOOL STUDENTS COMING FROM EVERY SECTION OF STATE who ran for international president of excellent opportunity. Most of the comrades coming t¥om, The Chicago intensive Training School which will open Monday morning, 8:30 at 722 Blue Island Ave.. is assured of a representative student body from all oyer the state. Many of these comrades, among whom is Comrade Voyzey the miners’ union and received 66,000 votes, against Lewis, have written in enthusiastically about the necessity of this course and signified their great —_ to take wanes; of this out of town bre active members of the left wing of the trade union movement‘ who come to equip themselves so as to better fight the reactionaries in = their organizations and carry on more effective party work. Comrades attending come from 8t. Lotis, W. Frankfort, O'Fallon, Zeigler, Christopher, ‘Dééa- tur, Dowell, Sesser, Springfield; Gary, Milwaukee, Verona, Waukegan, Oft ent, etc. Among these comrades“ will be such active workers in the mifers’ union as Staples, who beat Phil Mu:- ray in the state of Illinois in thé “ti: ternational miners’ elections; Réid Corbisley, Young, etc. There will dike be members of the Young Workérr League coming from Detroit; Gléve- land and from the rest of the @istrict. To be included in the above, of course, are also quite a mimber of Chicago comrades. Will Aid Party Work. Among other things, the wide repre- sentation from all over the state makes it certain that not only the school will be a great success but that the work of the party will be ma- terially aided in that the comrades from all over the district will give the district office first hand information of the work going on in their loeali- ties and will in turn carry out plans laid down by the district as a unit when they go home from the intensive training course. There is also, no doubt, that afte: the intensive course is finished that all the comrades attending will in turn aid in the establishment of edu- cational work in the localities from which they came, and thus make the educational program as well as the other work increasingly effective. We are now able to publish the out- line of the course on Leninism, which will be given in eight lectures. ‘This course will be a sort of con- the * sthool, courses given as well as bring forth a great amount of new material of its own. @omrade M. Gomez who heads the research department of the national office of the party teaches this course and will prove very valuable to the comrades attending. Course in Leninism. 1. Introductory—The Elements of Marxian Theory—(Dealing principally with the dynamics of Marxism—dia- lectic materialism, the class struggle, etc.) 2. From the Diluted “Marxism” of the Second International to The Revo- lutionar’ Doctrine of Lenin. (Distor tion of Marx’s teachings during period of parliamentarism and stabilzation of capitalism. The world war, Leninism, the Marxism of thé present revolu- tionary epoch; the Marxism of revo- lutionary action.) 3. The State ard Revolution— (Theory of the state; the state and revolution; decisions due to lack of understanding of the nature and func- tion of the state—Germany. I. W. W., ete.) 4. Imperialism The Final Stage of Capitalism—(Economics of imper- ialism; present view of the world; ‘American imperialis catastro- phic climax of imper ism.) 5. “The Vanguard the Proletar. iat” (Role of a revolutionary political party; what kind of a party; com- necting link between the various other’ mobile, discipline and democratic con- tralism; the Russian Communist Party; the Communist International.) 6. (a) Workers and Farmers—(The farmers as allies of the struggle; necessity of linking up the farmers’ movement against big capital with the proletarian revolution.) (b) The Exploited Colonial Peo. ples——-(Importance and necessity of linking up wars for national libera. tion with the proletarian revolution; historical and economic forces on which the (ommunist colonial pro gram is based; the colonies in mod. ern World economy.) 8. Theory and Practice of the Pro- letarian Dictatorship—(Marx on the Paris Commune; former vague ideas of the revolutionary machinery; the capitalist state and the workers’ state, historical apéparance of the Soviets as the form of the state; the period of transition to Communism; the party in the dictatorship; lessons of the Russian revolution. 8. Strategy and» Tactics of Com- munism—(Lenin’s theory; “One step forward, etc., “left sickness;” need for complete severance from opportun- ists; the united front; Lenin’s prac- tice, Brest peace, etc.) Olgin Speaks on the Third International (Special to The Dally Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., March 12.— On Sunday, March 15, the workers of Philadelphia will have an opportu ity to hear M. P. Olgin, speak on “The General Staff of the ‘World Revolu- tion,” at the Workers (Communist) Party open forum. It is not necessary to add that by the general staff of the world ‘revolution is meant the Communist Internatiorial. Comrade Olgin recently returned from Soviet Russia, after having at- tended the Fifth Congress of the Com- munist International. While there he came in contact with the many Communist delegates from all coun- tries, and had an’ opportunity to study many of the Communist Parties. .- “ Altho a large hall has been secur- ed for the meeting, a capacity audi- ence is expected. The forum meets every Sunday evening in Grand Frat- ernity Hall, 1628 ‘Arch street. Get a sub for’ the “DAILY WORKER from your. shopmate and you will make another mem. ber for your branch. 4hammer the lire, AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O’FLAHERTY. wa (Continued from page 1) d haven't got their country. They don’t own factories and they never expect to. — - 7 T is rumored that the prince of Wales will get married after his re- turn from his trip to South Africa and South America. The British rul- ing class are very anxious over the prince’s objections to the matrimonial knot, tho they know he is no woman hater. The fact is, if reports are rea- sonably correct, that he likes them not wisely but too well. King George is seriously ill and a king without a queen would raise the dickens with royal society. One of the nuts the prince must have to crack is getting a wife whose religion will with the creed of the house of Wet- tin. Most of the available unhitched princesses are catholics. * Bee NOTHER rumor turned loose in England is,that Ramsay MacDon- ald will return his endowed automo- bile to the tory. millionaire biscuit manufacturer, Sir Alexander Grant. The auto was accompanied by an en- dowment fund of $150,000, enough. to keep it in gasoline. The sight of the auto is not pleasing to the eyes of the British working class, and as Mac- Donald is not willing to lose his lead- ership, he may let the auto go. Sir Alexander might let him hold on to the $150,000 worth of.stock until his turn to board in Downing street might come around again. If MacDonald re- Ifnquishes his hold on the biscuit shares he is the first social democrat that ever did such a thing. * iz HE fascisti press in Italy is joyous over the deep friendship existing between Mussolini and the American ambassador at Rome. Mussolini is ili, very ill. Ambassador Fletcher ts con- stantly inquiring about him. So pleased was Benito over this, that he called for the largest picture of him- self that could be found, signed it and sent it to Fletcher. Last year when Wall Street financiers -began to Fletcher wired to the state department to call off the wolves. This was done. It should not be forgotten that Fletcher’s predeces- sor Child,; was one of those who gave Mussolini support in his march on Rome. THE BEST YET—The WORKERS MONTHLY, March Issue —_ Still Available—25c single copies $1.25 six mos., $2.00 year. Party Members! Show Your Hospitality! same in touch with the dist Phone: Seeley 3563, plete severance . from opportunism; Lodging for some 30 comrades from out of town will be needed during the duration of-the Party Intensive Training Schoo! in Chicago. The school will last for two weeks commencing March 15 and lodg- ing for the comrades will’ be necessary for that period. Comrades in Chicago who can spare accomodations for one or more comrades and <o party school immensely,.jf you have such accomodations please get office immediately at 19 So. Lincoln St. for this party work will aid the hill po ee a a ee en cee
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