Daily Worker
March 16, 1925

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we a 7 “by Mail, $8.00 per year. » by mail, $6.00 per year. Ofice at Chicage, Miinets under the Act of March 2, 1 , b 4 & * se a 1 oe ee LENORE ASF Oe o thee ie hyde ™ Pe & 3 af? 1h Se eee ; = 3 Ga! i 7 + aa mk *t, se - : + . - PF a = Daily ! Worker Annual & scription Drive Starts on March 15! GET IN ON IT! Hi 16, 1925 =>” Published daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WOnKER PUBLISHING CO,, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, iL Price 3 Cents | AS WE SEE IT ‘By T, J. O)PFLAHERTY | Weenies the Italian workers, who were led into a phantom utopia by the promises of fascism a few years ago, are coming to their senses. Thére are big strikes in Italy, in the heart of the industrial section of that. country. The so-called fascist unions are co-operating with the non- fascist unions. 100,000 workers have downed tools. They are not peace- fully inclined. They do not spurn violence as something unethical. That is One lesson that the fascisti have ‘not untaught them. * ¢ *# ’ HE employers are angry. “You are biting the hand that fed you,” is what they are-saying to the fascisti leaders. Signor Federozoni, acting head of the fascisti government (Mus- solini is said to be dying), has called a meeting of employers. He tells them that they must compromise in order to save the fascist regime. Just as the president of the United States would call the coal opera@ors or the rail magnates together and = advise them to surrender a little to the strikers until after the election. The slack could be pulled in later. eo 8 »& IG events are destined to take place in Italy soon. Fascism does not feed the hungry stomach of the worker. Fine phrases about the glory of Italy do not magically resolve the class struggle into nothingness. The old battle remains, the battle between the exploiter and the exploited for the difference between the pay envelope and what..goes into the_ employers’ jeans. ‘The dictatorship of the bour- geoisie in Italy, under the leadership of the fascisti, is doomed to faitfure. It is collapsing. The dictatorship of the workers and peasants in Russia under the leadership of the Commun- ists is destined to succeed. It is suc- ceeding. 2s 2 Ts capitalists are only a few was an easy task. But capital- sm, besides developing the machinery of produttion, also developed the minds of the workers. Education of a sort was necessary if the compli- cated machinery of production was to be managed. The workers learned to read. They read more than the cap- italists’ bargained for. But all their knowledge did not come from reading. Most of it came thru experience in the daily struggle for bread. . - > HE workers are fast losing that feeling of inferiority. They have seen the Russian workers and peas- ants throwing off one of the most powerful and oldest tyrannies ip the world. They see them slowly but surely marching onward to a greater degree of comfort, gained thru their own efforts. They have seen them defeat a world in arms. It has a cheer- ing effect on the morale of the work- ers of other countries. The socially useless minority can no longer con- vince the workers that but for their brains and generalship the industrial | machine would go to smash. * > ” society. While the efeet Sah Ne afticted- with: the slave mind, ruling the many by the TODAY SEES OPENING OF THE SECOND ANNUAL “BUILD THE DAILY WORKER SUB CAMPAIGN” One year ago, the American revolution- ary labor movement, smaller then, weaker, less experienced—gave its energy to better establish it, new born champion—the | DAILY WORKER. _ its ability, adding six thousand new sub- | scribers to the only English Communist daily newspaper in the world, to better fight it’s battles, to be the standard bearer of the growing, militant left wing in every step of it’s progress in the year to come. It built to the best of How Well the Workers Built— can be attested by the great service the DAILY WORKER had given in every struggle for the working class in the year just passed. No battle of the American workers proved too small for the DAILY WORKER to champion—no struggle so large the DAILY WORKER would not dare to enter. All this aid to the American workers was rendered by a militant newspaper that was all this time struggling to grow, to gain strength and life—and oftimes giving: most of it’s energy to fight for existence alone! That fight is over! The successful campaign for funds has insured the existence of the DAILY WORKER for the coming year—but it has insured it’s existence alone! | In the Year to Come— the DAILY WORKER must grow! The puny youngster of yester- day, is the youth of today. The DAILY WORKER fed with the life-giving strength of thousands of new subscribers will be the giant of tomorrow! Only with ITS strength will come the strength of the Communist movement in this country. The re- volutionary: movement today will grow—only small! the DAILY WORKER. rw ey. * 7 “4 ‘ 7 - 4 . > - ¥ou—Militant Labor! --. Sey : ; “— a adn ~"* = wa Your field fof aétion is the field that will bring most to revolu- with the growth of

f As 2 a : ae St gall > ve Sona 4 7 tionary labor. “Build the DAILY WORKER,” in this campaign iv’ to be your. stronger, anid it feater standard bearer in the future. Make it will fight your battle better in the days to come —until the day}, The eyes of the world revolutionary labor will watch you! ROWING POWER OF PROGRESSIVES ANGERS FAKERS Renegade Socialists in Control at Bellaire By MAX SALZMAN, BELLAIRE, Ohio, March 15.—The ever growing power of the progress- ives in sub-district 5, District 6 of the United Mine Workers of America, has had the same effect on the officials of | the Ohio miners’ union as a red rag HE black dictatorship in Italy is|on a bull. going to smash. But it is not likely that it will go without a struggle. When the workers come into power there and establish their dictatorship, many of those allegedly “progressive” people who now attack the fascisti be-. cause they have trampled on the ‘ights of free speech and free press, will turn their gums on the dictator- ship of the proletariat of Italy as they have on the government of Soviet Russia. os + * NE would think by reading the effusions of the liberals and the hypocritical Yellow socialists, that the (Continued on Page 6) Never in the°history of this sub-dis- trict has these been such a well-oiled machine, bent on putting out of the miners’ union, its most militant mem- bership, because it gave opposition to the renegade socialist reactionary leadership. From the opening of the conven- tion, every speech made was a direct attack on the progressives. From the report of Frank Ledvinka sub-district president, former yellow socialist (Continued on page 5.) Get a sub—make another Com- munist! LEFT WING CONTROL OF GARMENT WORKERS’ LOCALS FIGHTING THE BOSSES WITH MILITANT TACTICS “BULLETIN. NEW YORK, March 15.—The strike on the job of the dress goods workers of New York City, conducted by the left wing.Local 22 of the international Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, has been ended with a victory. for the workers, according to an announcement of the union officials. * ¥ * *e By ESTHER LOWELL NEW YORK, March 15.—Over $5,000,000 worth of dresses for spring and Easter trade are held up unfinished in New York contractors’ shops by the strike on the job of 15,000 or more workers who are demanding that the jobbers in the industry live up to the agreement sigued Feb. 2. All dress manufacturing shops in New York are idle. The dress shops in which ensembles, or dresses with matching coats, are made, algo arp (Continued on page 2) | PARTY SCHOOL OPENS TODAY: SCORES OF STUDENTS ATTENDING Today the Workers (Communist) Party Intensive Training Schoo for party members begins at 722 Blue Island avenue. Students from many sections of District 8 and other dis- tricts are pouring Inte Chicago, two coming from Detroit, one from Cleve- land, and many from other cities and camps. Coal miners predominate among the out of town students. While Monday's session will be held at 722 Blue Island avenue, Tuesday and every day thereafter, the classes will meet at the Work- ers Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Boulevard. Today every student must report at 722 Blue Island avenue at 8:30 a. m. Sharply at 9 a. m. Comrade William F.. Dunne will open the the school in the name of the Cen- tral Executive“ Committee. Monday’s schedule of classes, which will be followed also for the Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday sessions, is as follows: 3 9 A. M.: Trade Union History and Tatics. Instructor, William § F. Dunne. s 10 A. M.: The International Com- munist Movement. Instructor, Max &edacht. 12 Noon: Recess one hour for lunch, 1 P. M.: CLeninism. Instructor, Manuel Gomez. 2 P. M: Marxian Economics. Ip- structor, Max Lerner. Pope May Become Fox Trot Fiend When the Radio Unloads Jazz ROME, March 15.—Whether Pope Pius will like jazz via the ether was a question in the vatican today. As the beautiful radiophone set presented the pontiff by George, cardinal Mun- delein, of Chicago. was being set up. Jazz is a part of the Spanish, Swiss and German programs which the set can pick up, in hardly lesser measure that it is a part of the daily enter- ternment of Americal radio listeners. The pope's set will be ready for his “se Sunday. ht . 1S’ UNION ‘ig JEUEWARY’S LETTER So wit phend has become the revolt of th® frank and file of the United Brotherhecod of Carpenters and Joinére, that the fakers of the general Mistration are being pressed to thé wall. Proof of this exists in the! circular letter, forced out of Frank Buffy, general secre- tary in the Fiuteheson machine, now being sent to Scores of locals and district counsilg which have joined in the prote the outrageous ex- pulsion poli¢y against the members of the T. U. EB. L. and all other progressive Gafpenters. The Duffy letter tries In great detall to “expiain away” the inex- cusable autocraty of the Hutcheson policy, and advances the hoary Ile about the T..U. E. L. being a “dual union,” and n@merous other fabri- cations designed to cover up the In- iquity of each case of an expelled member. ~~; The DAILY WORKER, Trade Unions Educational In its League section, be Tuesday, will run a short articles by J. W. Johnstone, nt secretary of the . Trade ty Educational League, anewering i Duffy. di liar for whe 7 ous items of the ® and exposing that i. iis. va DLS DICKS p Tote NEW YORK, March 15.—It was a man by the name of Sullivan, tho not of the firm of Gilbert and Sullivan, who framed the statute making It a violation of section 1897 of the penal code, of the state’ of New York for an alien -to carry @rms. Sullivan was not a pacifist, but he was particular as to who sho@ld carry the artillery. Sullivan teirng dead, the DAILY |WORKER reporter was unable to get iis views on whether he had intended that antique ‘ron-ware, antedeluvian cutlery, or pre-Volstead steins came under his conception of lethal weap- ons. Anyhow, three members of the ‘Workers Party are under arrest charg- ed with planning to overthrow the government of:the United States. Alaske and the Isle of Pines, with fifty muskets, which had to be handl- ed carefully owing to old age and hardening of the arteries and swords that may have been borrowed from the archives of the Ancient Order of Hibernians or the Clan-na-Gael. Might Be Hibernians. At first Sergeant Gegan, chief gen- eralissimo of the bomb squad, did not know whether he had run into a cheka nest or a meeting of the ar- rangements committee for the St. Patrick's day parade. The accents of the culprits however convinced him that they were under the instruc- tions of Moscow; and preparing to carry out of the orders of the wicked Zinoviev, which«were captured in the nick of time’ by the ex-Sherlock Holmes of the: state department, Charles Evans’ Hughes. The aforesaid instructions had for their aim the planting of the red flag on the White House where the red fag of the auctioneers Fall, Denby ind Daugherty had so long flaunted its (Continued on page 2) King’s Premier and Socialist Leader Wear Same Pants tion as leader of the governmental social-democratie’ party, occupied by Hjalmar Branting, who died recently, will be assumed until the next party congress by his successor as Swedish premier, Richard J. Sandler. Increase Amount of Freight MOSCOW, Feb. 20.—(By Mail)— The. transport section of the state planning commission has fixed total quantity of freights to be carried in the working year 1924-25 at 4,500 million poods (49 per cent of the 1913 figure), that is 9 to 10 per cent above the quantity of the previous year. another Communist, —_ ere.» STOCKHOLM; March 15.—The posi- | aD OVICH. Anti-Soviet Meeting Is Turned Into-an Inspiring Demonstration for Russia MINERS’ CHIEF AGREES WITH COAL BARONS So Does U. S. Depart- ment of Commerce With Président John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers of America and the United States department of commerce substantiating their conten- is badly in need of rellef the coal barons who meet tomorrow in Cleve- land to consider ways and means of breaking the Jacksonville agreement, have everything and everybody on thelr side except the rank and file of the miners’ union and the progres- sives led by the Trade Union Educat- lonal League. Condition of semi-collapse exists in the bituminous coal industry, accord- ing to the department of commerce, which made public surveys covering all the fields of the country. A Sorrowful Tale The industry is over manned and over produced, according to the gov- ernment -surveyors, and the mild weather in February further contri- buted to the decline that is generally noticeable thru the entire industry. » Remedial measures will be « ed next week at Cleveland where operators of the central competitive field are to meet. Among the most pessimistic reports were from the Illinois and Indiana fields. In the former state mine oper- ation for February was described as amounting to a collapse as compared with January. Demand, output and price decline with apparently no bet- ter prgspects for this month. Non-Union And Union In the Indiana district operators complained that “coal is being sold in abundance from non-union fields at prices which cannot be approximated in the union fields.” The non-union fields were said to be still making further reductions in an effort to cap- ture the market. This agrees with the position of the coal operators. Now, let us hear from John L. Lewis. In an article published in last Sa- turday’s Chicago Daily News, the president of the miners’ union de- (Continued on page 2.) FORT-WHITEMAN REPLIES TO LIES OF MACKENZIE Workers’ Republic Editor’s Note—Lovett Fort-W hite- man, who writes of the Mackenzie lecture, is one of the contributing editors of the Chicago Defender, and a well-known Negro writer and lecturer who has just returned from an eight months’ trip that took him to every section of the union of so- cialist Soviet Republics. As a member of the Negro race, active in the work ef combatting the oppression of his raee in the United States, Lovett Fort-White man went to Russia to study the methods by which the race problem has been solved by the Soviet gov- the | ernment. He saw many other things as well and he saw them from an entirely different angle than did be capitalist newspaper correspond- ent Mackenzie. By LOVETT FORT-WHITEMAN. Frederick <A. Mackenzie, 'spondent of the Chicago Daily News, ‘in his ‘much-advertised lecture given (on Friday evening at Orchestra Hall. proved to his own complete satisfac- : ‘tion that the dictatorship of the pro | letariat, as applied in Russia today, is 'a bad thing. It bad for the hundreds of big 2) — (Continued on page tlon that the bituminous coal industry discuss-_ Tells What He Saw in | | DAWES PLAN TRIES T0 FORCE RAILWAY CLERKS TO SCAB ON STRIKERS BERLIN, March 13—(Delayed).— The strike on the German railways became more’ widespread today when the Dawes’ plan management tried to force the clerical workers to scab on the freight handlers. At once these clerical workers walked out on strike, and the shop committee movemeht fed by Com- munists succeeded, in spite of the efforts of the yellow social demo- cratic union officials to prevent the walkout, to tie up all departments in the Berlin freight houses. TO ANSWER LIES OF ANTI-SOVIET SPIES MARCH 28 F orte-Whiteman, Dunne and Minor to Speak An eleventh hour campaign to halt the United States is now in progress on. a dozen tr reaction afy “papers and magazines, such as the Chicago Tribune and the Saturday Evening Post, hardly ever skip an issue without full measure of attack against-the workers’ and peas- ants’ republid. The campaign of the socialist, Ra- phael Abramovich is well known to the workers, and is being answered everywhere a8 it déserves. of creating sentiment against the Rus- sian Communists he is the means of raising favorable isstes in the trade unions and Jewish fraternal izations and of crystallizing dormant sympathy into militant action in de- fense of Soviet Russia. McKenzie Suppresses Facts A more subtle attack pseudo liberals who pose as friends of the Russian revolution and then proceed, from comfortable pulpits and rostrums, to tell the Bolsheviks how a revolution ought to be run. Thus F. A. McKenzie, correspondent’ for the Chicago Daily News, gives “fair” accounts of Russian political prison- ers, while suppressing the fact that the International Red Aid has offered to arrange an exchange of all such political offenders for working class leaders held by the capitalist govern- ments of other countries. In a moment of unguarded frank- ness Mr. McKenzie admitted that the Cook county jail, famed scene of the Red raids of 1919, was much worse than the Russian prisons, both in physical and recreational facilities. Such facts, however, are distasteful to the Greenwich Village anarchists whose worship of the forms of bour- geois democracy makes them view the safety measures of a proletarian revolutionary government in the same light as the atrocities of the fascist and social-reformist defenders of cap- italism. While nominally in favor of Soviet Russia their emphasis upon the “un- fairness” of imprisoning counter-re- volutionists gives the most reaction- ary elements in this country a last fig-leaf excuse for delaying reobdgni- tion and trade. Thus in America also, corre- | the liberal and the progressive give |invaluable. service to the old order while voicing the phraseology of the new. Anti-revolutiouary service from the liberal pulpit or from the reform- ist cabinet is a difference only in de- gree, and not in kind. Liberals Getray Workers The workers learn to recognize their enemies in whatever guise they (Continued on page 5.) Hope for 25 Members. MONTREAL, Canada-—Labor hopes ‘to have 25 members in the next Can- election is expected during the year, A DAILY WORKER sub means | and petty capitalists, of Russia, who #atd the new house will have 245 mem- . |bers, an increase of ten. | the recognition of Soviet Russia by" The out and out : | | | Oorgan- |. WORKERS FILL STREET SINGING INTERNATIONAL’ Dunne Addresses An Open Air Meeting The batte of the Garrick theater, on Chicago’s rialto, will go down as an- other struggle between the working class and the counter-revolutionary go0- cialist Second International, in which the proletariat emerged victorious, with heads bloody but unbowed, as a result of Rafael Abramovich’s at- tempt to slander the name of Soviet Russia before an audience. But, it was only an attempt. In the greatest demonstration staged in Chicago for many years the work- ers, gathering in thousands outside the theater, filled the streets for blocks around, cheering Soviet Russia and refused to yield to repeated charges of palice who rushed to the scene by request of the socialists with auto loads of rifles. Instead the workers stood their ground, tho beaten with clubs in- discriminately used on men and ien, while “Bill” Dunne, editor of the DAILY WORKER, and member of the central executive committee of the Workers (Communist) Party, spoke to cheering thousands that packed the streets from curb to curb. Inside the ‘theater,’ pandemonium reigned among the thousand or so in the audience, only one-fifth of whom seemed actively sympathetic to the counter-revolutionary murderer of the Russian workers, while many hun- dreds were just as actively raising op- Instead | position to his lies. “Heroés” Attack Women. Literally scores of workers, par- ticularly women and girls, were brutal- ly assaulted by black jacks in the (hands of the brave “heroes” of the so- cialist party, who dared not to speak. let alone to answer, the challenges of is that of | lowing the men. At the hour of going to press the DAILY WORKER learns that the fol- were amo! those arrested ‘after being atrocioumy beaten by the ‘socialists and the police: | Katherine |Chilofsky. ’ ' ’ ' | ’ : severely adian house of commons. A dominion | ensued. Max Lerner, O'Flaherty and Maurice The names of the others °\ _ (Continued on page GERMAN POLICE MURDER 7 REDS AT HALLE MEET Ten Thousand Workers Ordered to Disperse HALLE, Germany, March 15.—Seven Communists were murdered here by Prussian police, seven others are dy- ing and thirty-seven were severely /wounded when the police fired into an audience of ten thousand Cemmun- ists listening to speeches of Comrade Ernest Thalmann, Communist candl- date for president, and other Com- munists. The police, under orders from their chief, the conservative Prussian min- ister of the interior, whose party.is exerting desperate efforts to retain control of the Prussian parliament, fired into the densely packed crowd. Two women were among those shot down by the police. The police fired following the ispeech of Comrade Thalmann. while French and English Communists were about to speak. The police ordered the foreign Communists not to talk, but they refused, insisting on their right to free speech. The police, without warning, drew their revolvers and fired. Five men and two women were killed. At least four policemen were injured in the battle that A check-up of casualties indicated that the total list of injured will rua above 100,

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Fascist Workers Def y Leaders and Aid Reds ROME, Italy, March 15.—One hun- dred thousand metal workers are now on strike in northern Italy. The so- cialist confederation of labor has join- ed forces with the members of the fascisti labor unions, and the Com- munists are everywhere taking a lead- , ng part in the strike. In the same zone where the Com- munists fought the fascisti for pos- session of the automobile, radiator, typewriter and other Milan and Tu- tin factories, two years ago, the fas- cisti union workers and Communists are fighting side by side against the metal manufacturers. Uitimatum to Bosses. The unions have given the employ- ers’ association notice that a settle ment must be effected within twenty- four hours. The leaders of the fas- cist party, who came into power by forming an alliance with the employ- ‘ers, have been forced by the rank and file fascist union workers to break the alliance, at least in appearances. De- puty Farinacci, secretary general of the fascist party has been forced to issue a statement indorsing the strike. Minister of the Interior Federzoni is making frantic efforts to save the em- ployers and end the strme. He has called a meeting of the employers, to ask what concession the manufactur- ers are willing to make to send the men back to work. The employers are exerting pressure on the fascist leaders, pointing out that they have made the fascist regimé possible by their support. The strikers themselves are in no compromising mood, however. The fascist workers, the Communists; and all the trade unions are co-operating in the first great strike sitice fascist rule began. The strikers demand an increase in wages, to keep pace with the increased cost of living. Several of the independent manufacturers have given*in to the demands of the strikers, but the manufacturers’ as- sociation has made no move to settle with the hundred thousand employes still out. ; Whether the fascist leaders like it or not, thousands of the rank’‘and file are working under the leadership of the Communists in the strike, and are already talking of taking control of the industries. The strike was started ten days ago in Brescia by the labor unions. Junior Group Leaders Meet Tuesday Night A very important meeting of all the group leaders of the Juniors will be held Tuesday, March 17th at 8 P. M. at Comrade Borgeson’s home, 321 North Avers Ave. This is a specialymeeting of the Junior Leaders where the work of the Juniors will be thoroughly discussed. The matter of the complete reorgan- ization of the Junior Groups into school nuclei, the Parants’ Councils, the educational activities, the summer camp and the securing of more lead- ers for the groups will be discussed at this meeting. There will also be present comrades from the city executive and from ite national committe in order to ef- fect a closer co-operation between the committees so that the work can go forward at an even greater speed among our Communist Children’s groups. — —_——__ —— A DAILY WORKER sub means gnother Communist. ee ee | BRITISH RAIL UNION HEAD LAUDS PROGRESS OF RUSSIAN TRANSPORT | MOSCOW, Feb. 15.—(By Mail)— Fred Bromiey, the secretary of the British trade union delegation which recently visited the Union of ~ —__ | ~ Soviet Socialist Republics, has sent : a lengthy letter to the people’s commissariat of ways and communi- cation, in which, In the name of the delegation, he favorably comments on all the progress in railway trans- port In the Union witnessed by the English delegates. Red Pageant Press Agent in N. Y. C. Foils the “Dicks’’ (Continued from Page 1) oily charm. As you may remember, these instructions were, that the revo- lutionists should organize in groups of ten. This did not look so good to Gegan, but he pulled a copy of “Hot Dog” out of his pocket and discovered that farther down Zinoviev had in- structed the ten to elect a sub-com- mittee of three to do the dirty work, which perhaps consisted of such soul- tickling diversion as boiling the ene- my in oil, disemboweling him or if he is @ member of the ku klux klan making him take a drink of liquor from a catholic bartendér. Saved the Country. “T’'ve got it,” shouted Gegan, to the raiding army. “I have saved the country again. Get out of the way un- til I get pictures taken, surrounded by the conquered foe, his artillery and carving instruments. I hate like the devil to get my picture in the pa- pers, but I’ve got to hold my job and do my duty.” Every embattled dick seized a gun as the photographers began to click their cameras and the news hounds began to grind out the horrible details of the planned overthrow. Finally it occurred to a reporter to ask one of the grinning culprits when thébloody event was going to start. When he learned that it was on the seventeenth of March, he said, “Aren’t you sure your name is not Roderick Kennedy of the Ancient Order of Hi- bernians, who is one of the principal cavalry men in the parade up Fifth avenue, which will be led by Al Smith?” Herturned to the detectives and said, “Gegan, if you have made a mistake, it will-cost you your job.” It was authoritatively learned, how- ever, that the prehistorft swords and antique rifles were being‘used in pre- paration for a pageant depicting the Parig ‘Commune which will take place today in Madison Squaré Garden. Dicke Got Publicity. The newspaper reporters thot it was a publicity stunt, but the detectives did not care. They would come in for their share of it anyliaw: Be it as it may, three members of the Workers Party were taken to po- lice headquarters. They are Henry Winogradoff, Sol Zalon, and Aaron Dimen. They were arrested at 17 East Third street but the heavy part of the ar- tillery was found at Workers Party headquarters, 108 East 14th street. The Civil Liberties Union, tho it does not believe in the use of arms on general principals, decided that it would not hold strictly to the letter of the law in this case, seeing that the guns were old and more or less useless for shooting purposes. In fact had the Communists intended to use ———— them on an enemy it is quite likely | Plutes Indorse Dawes. In a formal resolution the [linois Manufacturers’ Association, of which the vice-president is a member, in- dorsed Charles Dawes’ stand in favor of limiting senate debate. Dawes’ posi- tion is in line with Coolidge’s policy of increasing the power o: the ex- ecutive office. Left Wing Uses Militant Tactics | Against Bosses (Continued from page 1.) | working because organized cloak-| makers are not involved in the piece-' work problem. Otherwise the tie-up is complete and union heads assert that it will remain so until the jobbers put the uniform wage schedules into effect. To Standardize Pay In the new agreement the jobbers | finally accepted responsibility for! maintaining uniform minimum wage | rates regardless of piece work rates | in all contractors’ shops. The job- | bers are the wholesalers, design the | garments, often cut them and send | them in cut bundles to the contract- | ors, who are actually only foremen | for the jobbers and hire the workers. | Heretofore there has been tremend- | ous competition between contractors and between workers in their shops If a contractor set up shop with $2,000 because of the jobbers’ manipulations ——— he was given a season before he went | bankrupt competing with other con- | tractors. The workers suffered by trol of the offices in the last election | and has maintained the position thru- out negotiations that whatever agree- ment was signed it should be en- forced. The new agreement turned out to be favorable to the workers, with average 15 per cent wage in- creases which the jobbers then tried to evade. The local is also introducing a new method of organizing non-union shops is insisting that all unorganized shops be brought into’the union. A rank and file committee of 300 workers | volunteered to get after non-union shops. Workers from these open shops who strike to get the union agree- ment signed are being paid by the union to go into other non-union shops to organize. So far the new policy has been justifying its introduction. This or- ganization work is being carried on with increased vigor during the stop- page and is aiding the effectiveness of the stoppage a great deal. Bosses Reluctant The jobbers are reluctant to grant union demands and are calling for modification of schedules. They have |tentatively agreed again to accept the ’ having to work for lower wages. By the new agreement jobbers are | ” the union for | ‘© supposed to pay to tween set prices On garments anda members affected the difference be- prices paid workers by contractors in | shops where under-schedule prices are paid. A Left Wing Fighting Plan The lett wing of the local won con- ‘principle of uniform wage schedules it are not yet ready to put into ef- ct those provided in the February 2 agreement. The jobbers are tempor- larily benefitting from the stoppage in up of their stocks by retailers who fear i tneir Faster trade may he lost the increased buying | limited ———— Get a sub—make another Com-| horses and cattle, a i that the guns would have kicked like | | any pacifist. > AL PUSHES WAR ON WORKERS OF FOREIGN LANDS Border States WASHINGTON, D. C., March 15. — The Coolidge administration, follow- ing eight months of enforéement of the law barring foreign-born workers from entering the United States unless specially selected, is further clamping down on immigration. The govern- ment is establishing a force of in- spectors in Canadian and Mexican sea- ports. A police force of 250 border police to “guard the country” has re- cently been established. Deportations have sharply increased. In the last six months deportations were 4,448, or an increase of 30 per cent over any similar period in the history of the country. Chicago Rejects Abramovich And Cheers for Soviets (Continued from Page 1) will be given as soon as ascertained. The meeting of Abramovich ad- jou#ned in total disorder after two hours of continual but fruitless efforts to; ‘convince an audience of workers that Soviet Russia should be over- thrown by the counter-revolutionary mensheviks. At the beginning the array of force was formidable, fifty police and a crowd of “socialist” white guards blocked the entrance, turning away hundreds who looked intelligent. But despite the censors, the crowd which packed the gallery and most of the pit, were demonstratively opposed to Abramovich. Inside, and outside as well, thous- ands of leaflets, exposing the Second (Socialist) International and Abramo- vich as enemies of the workers, liter- ally covered the great crowd, raining down from the gallery on to the out- raged petty-bourgeois business men in the boxes. The devil of Bolshevism had laid a course upon the socialists, and even before Abramovich took the floor, the first item on the program, a violin solo, was a failure. Professor Mendel, like his friend, Professor Raphael was pursued by bad luck. Dressed in a cut-away coat, white tie, fancy waist- coat with pearl buttons and displayinre Spats, the violinist broke his bow, and had to wait for another. Like Sheep to Slaughter. When Abramovich came on, he came like a sheep to the slaughter. He tried to tell the audience that the “revolutionary” parties had control of tussia under Kerensky, and that ev- erything was going along lovely un- til the interference of the awful Bol- sheviks. | Similarly, everything was lovely un- til he attacked the Bolsheviks, then pandemonium broke loose, and con- tinued despite the black jacks of the socialists and the clubs.of th® police. Once in a while, Abramovich managed to get over a few words, then another and another fifteen or twenty minutes of riot. Women screamed as they were struck down by the socialists. Yells of these cowards mingled with the cries of the men, rushing to the pro- tection of the frail women victims. Steadily, by ones and twos, the vic- | tims were beaten and ejected, joining |; the gathering throngs on the street. Get a sub—make another Com- munist! TT Defense an Offense in Land of Fruits and Famous Frameups SACRAMENTO, Cal— Tom Con- |nor, innocent victim of a Jury tamper- |ing frameup, who obtained a retrial after commitment to San Quentin prison, is in Sacramento county jail again, over a week after the legal limit for the transfer expired. The California authorities are using every pretext to hold tim confined beyond the time allowed by law. They are now holding him under the 60-day provision that may elapse before trial, when they might release him on bail. His offense was distributing de- fense leafiets by mail from San Fran- cisco, one of which happened to fall into the hands of a man who was on the jury list for a criminal syndical- ism case, but who dia not serve Yet Connor was convicted of jury tam- | pering. SAN QUENTIN, Cal.—tThe rvegvilar Saturday visit to prisoners ir San Quentin is restored. Friends of the 70 or mocre po iticals there are urged i sec them. _—_—— y A ae are eee. | °*He> 5 ear _# a \ woe? + Sa . 7 4 hy ‘a0 4 € ‘ x Si he pte Se 2 > : tT? td i — ioe Oe oe) ae ey pe * : ie 4 fe e (Special to The Dally Werker) WASHINGTON, D. C., March 15.— At two-thirty o’clock this afternoon -|the genate will decide whether or not Charles Beecher Warren, sugar trust lawyer, is to represent big business as Coolidge’s choice for attorney gen- eral. m The senate is up in arms against Coolidge’s challenge of their “constt- tutional right” to pass upon the prest- dent’s selection of cabinet members. _ Senators Get Sore. “The president says to you, ‘The constitution gives you power to ad- vise and consent, but I will override that power. I will wait until you ad- man you said was unfit,’” said one senator. ' He was referring to President Cool- idge’s personal message to the senate, which declared, “The president is making every effort to secure the con- firmation of Mr. Warren. cided on no other appointment. He will offer him a recess appointment.” The republican senators are loathe to continue the fight for confirmation of the sugar trust lawyer. Their speeches on his behalf have been half- hearted and apologetic. Coolidge’s decision to select agents of the large corporations for places on the cabi- net and supreme court is not so ob jectionable to the senators. Many of them are themselves multi-million- aires, as for instance, Senator Oou- zens. For White House Rule. However, following upon “General” Dawes’ ultimatum for a change in sen- ate rules that would curb the minor- ity’s power, the senators see in Cool- idge’s insistence on Warren a deter- mination to direct the rule of Wall Street solely from the executive man- sion. The senators do not object to the rule of Wall Street, but they want to help direct that rule. They want a hand in the graft. Even the speech of Senator George Wharton Pepper of Pennsylvania, in j favor of Coolidge’s sugar trust agent was half-hearted. Pepper admitted that Warren has spent his life as a servant of big business. “Warren could turn around/and pursue relent- lessly combinatidus which twenty years ago he would™have considered innocent,” Pepper said, “‘If you trans- lated him to the attorney generalship, would he be capable of performing the duties of his office in relation to com- binations outside the law?” | On Side of Corporations. “The trouble is he won’t conceive any corporations to be outside the law,” a democratic senator interject- ed. The’ senate will convene at 10:30 this morning, an hour and a half be- fore the usual time, and will yote for a second time on Warren at 4:30, af- ter four hours of debate, each sena- tor being limited to thirty minutes. Vice-president Dawes was absent from the senate during the exciting debate which was provoked by Cool- idge’s message of defiance. In spite of the exposure of War- ren’s unbroken record as a tool of the trusts and in spite of the fact that Warren attempted to make no defense of the attacks before the senate ju- diciary committee, Coolidge praised Warren's “excellent qualities,” in his statement. Warren was réjected by the senate last week by a vote of 41 to 39. Poland Fights For Danzig. GENEVA, March 15.—The league of nations has decided to request a special session of the world court to decide a dispute between Poland and the German-controlled city of Dansig over the question of mail boxes. The Germans have never accepted the entente arrangement which makes Danzig a “free city” in order to give Poland a corridor to the sea. ( journ and then I will put in office the” He has de-. ing trades were considered at a meet- .

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cer) oh 15.— ternoon r or not ar trust usiness ey gen- en half- olidge’s Le large he oabi- t 80 ob. Many -‘million- or Oou- reneral” 3 in sen- + minor- in Cool- a deter- of Wall ve man- bject to ey want ’ want a ' George ania, in it agent “imitted ife as a ‘Warren > relent- twenty nsidered ju trans- pralship, ning the to com- s. conceive lide the nterject- it 10:30 half be- yote for 4:30, af- ch sena- nutes. absent exciting by Cool- of War- tool of ‘act that defense nate ju- praised ” in his s senate } 39. Ig. eague of guest a court to and and ’ Danzig es. The ted the | makes ' to give ts. i .— Juris e build- .a meet- . jurisdic- industry, building F, oT L. ot of de- rred for rnational ‘7 at 1347 with Dr. Stamler ents and re all in- ribe to sk him! bay ~e. + aes 5 ae m3 os ° . ‘ad 79 p Forge GIVE CAPITAL TWO BLOWS! 5 , Secure a subscription from your shop- mate, from the member of your unton or from your friend. Begin at once to actually “go ont and get a sub” from another worker and you will find that it will make a better Com- munist of you. AND THEN— Do what thousands of other workers will do to extend the influence of the paper that advocates your principles of militant strag- gle— | GIVE A PROPAGANDA SUB! Take the money out of your own pocket (if you can) to pay for a sub to another worker to “‘make another Commuanist”—to add an- other member to the Left Wing group in your union, to add another worker to the ranks of militant American labor. “GET A SUB”! The actual trying will make a better Com- munist of you. | GIVE A SUB— “tor propaganda” to make another “Red.” The task is a simple one for a determined Commanist and you can repeat it often be- tween March 15 and June 15. . FPMATVES , PE0O @ pear § 350-0 montis P2co 3 montis 42 MIO --§ S00 ayear F455 6 morlls § 2h, F months NEW SUBSCRIPTION TO BUILD — THE DAILY WORKER NAME STREET CITY. STATE 2 the Weapon or Working “ : 4h : — pe ‘ -— Class Power! — In the past year the Left Wing movement in this country has grown to proportions that threatens the reactionary leadership in many trade unions. In the past year the Workers (Communist) Party has grown, become stronger, gained further influence. In the past year every struggle of the workers in this country has received a stronger support than ever. , In. Every instance— , THE DAILY WORKER proved to be a great weapon of achievement, In the year to come the militant revolutionary movement can make greater strides if the DAILY WORKER becomes larger, if it is stronger. SE area The Second Annual Sub Campaign IT CAN BE DONE BY COMMUNISTS! Everyday We will print the names of those BUILDERS who secure a NEW sub to build for working class power by building The DAILY WORKER. Every Week We will print the total number of subs turned in by cities. From March 15 and Until June 15 It will be a Contest Campaign between all the cities of the country. Quotas have been set. on the basis of the number of subscribers in each city, size of the party there and past work of the local in order to make the winning of the Contest Campaign equal to every single local. In the adjoining columns you will find all the locals listed. Those not listed have a quota of 10 new subs—the minimum set for the campaign. Divide your city quota among branches and shop nuclei— then split the branch and nucleus quota among the members, and PROVE IT CAN BE DONE BY COMMUNISTS! a, ow "7 EER om Vv RR eee ei 2 ee “ + i aS: f % THIS LEATHER, LOOSE-LEAF BINDER Is of a durable, grained leather, gold-lettered, with a patent clasp to make all sheets detach- able and with a pocket for receipts and separate note-paper sheets—and INCLUDING a complete descriptive catalogue of all books.and pamphlets, all Communist publications in all languages and subscription, advertising and printing rates—all of the valuable material in a compact binder for the busy militant Worker in the labor movement Will Be Given Without Charge to every worker securing a whole year’s sub ($6.00)—or two 6 month subs, or four 3 month subs or a total of $6.00 worth of subs which must’be turned in at the same time. Get one for your pocket while you are building the revolutionary labor movement. _— — The Quota to be reached (doubled and tripled) between March 15 and June 15 in the Second Annual Contest Sub Campaign. " (Jot down your quota set for your local) | NAME SOOO 2 yoar $ 240-6 montis $200 3 montis i LWUCAGO -$ Goo ayear F450 6 montts f 25 Send this PROPAGANDA SUB to a worker to “Make Another Communist” DISTRICT 1. Quota Boston, Mass. 200 (Metropolitan District) Maynard, Mass. 20 Revere, Mass. 30 Providence, R. !. 30 Worcester, Mass. 50 Peabody, Mass. ........ 15 DISTRICT 2. UN ta Tid WT @: Eddscnarecsvescoccbocccocitess 1500 (New York District) TPE ile WG. Setbecerscectetescsecnysecececes 30 Elizabeth, Ny. J. ‘ : 30 Jersey City, No Je cccceeua 30 DISTRICT 9. Hoboken, N. J. 15 Duluth, Minn. 80 Union Hill N. J. 15| Superior, Wis. 60 Newark, N. J. 59| Minneapolis, Minn. 200 Paterson, N, J. 30 | St. Paul, Minn. 126 Trenton, N. J. 15 Utica, N. Y. 15 DISTRICT 12 Schenectady, Ni Ve cccccccccccccecesceres 15 | Astoria, Ore. 86 Poctiand, Ore. 60 DISTRICT 3. Seattle, Wash. 60 Philadelphia, Pa. .... ne 1G) OR — = Bethlehem, Pa. ...... mm UE Reading, Pa. 15 DISTRICT 13. Baltimore, Md. | 75 OPTI GHRTIED. cacnccciserescnctccicctsintninin ——— of ” - nenenn » 40 San Francisco, Callf. 160 , Bay District) Los Angeles, Calif. ........ 150 WISTRICT 4. San Pedro, Calif. 25 Pees: Wee... Wai pbnicdscasehendscusccorncescsece 100 Rochester, N. Y. 50 DISTRICT 15. Brie, NY. wereeene 2D New Haven. Conn. — Binghampton, N. Y. 15 Hartford, Conn. 30.00 Bridgeport, COmn, ..cccccccceenerversessenes 30 DISTRICT 5. Stamford, Conn. 15 Pittsburgh, Pa. 250 McKeesport, Pa. - 48) AGRICULTURAL AND UNORGAN- MoKees Rocks, Pa. 15 IZED TERRITORY. Cokesburg, Pa. .... 15] Ormatia, NOBP. ......ccsescssessssccvssoveensecs 50 Cannonsburg, Pa. : 30/ Kansas City, Kans. _ - 30 Ambridge, Pa. 30! Kansas City, Mo. a Moneseen, Pa. 20 | Plentywood, Mont. .....cccccssssssseson 15 Marianna, Pa. ....rservsssersserssssrereererens 15 | Butte, Monte......ccccsceresseeen 26 Braddock, Pa. 18] Denver, Colo. 50 Daisytown, Pa. 30 | Frederick, S. Dak. 20 Ps Mitte Misc cksesenedivecionsesnasbenscoveciad 15 DISTRICT 6. Jacksonville, Fla. 15 Bellaire, Ohio. 25| Richmond, W. Va. | Toledo, Ohio. NE "ees le cdserecccétvodccccncscncaseoceil 15 Youngstown, O. Pe SURININE, WE Oe | cecncnsersvstnseascchovcnlecsiineets 50 Cleveland, O. ...... 450 Cincinnati, O. ....... 50 Akron, O. 40 Canton, O. 30 Warren, O. ...... 30 10) Dillonvale, O. 20 em " FOR THE REST! DISTRICT 7. Grand Rapids, Mich. 60 Space prevents a com- Detroit, Mich. 500 plete list of locals who Indianapolis, ind. 15 are taking part in this MUSKEGON, MICK. ........-ccccccceceeceerrerees 25 campaign. Pontiac, Mich. 25 - potion lf your local Is not DISTRICT 6. mentioned in this quo- Chicago, Ill. tors ta list your quota is Hammond, Ind. - 10 NEW SUBSCRIP- Rookford, Ill. 50 TIONS. South Bend, Ill. 40 Waukegan, Ill. oe Get on the job at once Gary, Ind. cos x and send in the two sh a hing OS SREEAT Cie brick coupons on this icin, WOE, .......ccmincesmmemias Oe page to make one-fifth Solter, Wl. .......-.. 18 of your quota. Granite City, Hl. . , 15 Belleville, Ill. 20 | a O° St. Louis, Mo. 100 West Frankfort, III. 35 Christopher, III. —_ © Zeigier, Ill. 40 FABTES | 5 months STATE sale THE DAILY WORKER. 1113 West Washington Blvd. “‘Labor’s National Daily Newspaper”’ L

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USINESS FIRMS | B ut oS aa Teachers Voice in Education By M. J. T., (A School Teacher.) It seems that under the present “progressive” school administration the teachers as a body may not have a moment to discuss school matters that concern the pupils but may have all the time asked for by any mere commercial concern to listen to pure- ly advertising addresses. I have just come from a schoal assembly hall in which the upper grade pupils were listening to an address by the People’s Gas company. There was absolutely nothing in this address of any value to the stu- dents whatever. They were told what a beneficial concern the People’s Gas company was—how it was owned and managed by the public, how many miles of gas mains it possessed and how much cheaper and better it was to use gas than any form of light or heat. For this'the pupils were excussed fron# lessons for 45 minutes. No doubt every other manufacturing concern in the city will follow suit since McAn- drew and the board of education have proved themselves such able agents of the chamber of commerce. They have cut out every free moment of a teacher’s time even to look over school papers, but there is all the time in the world for any money mak- ing concern to use the school sys- + 4 tem as a cog in the wheel of a blind, greedy, dishonest commerce. | I send this to your paper as I know | all the other papers are owned by this same greedy and dishonest com. merce that regards mankind as exist- ing solely to pile up profits for them. Celebrate Spring In Harlem with a Workers Party Dance NEW YORK, March 15—The best way to celebrate the spring is to go to the Spring Festival and Dance to be given by the Harlem English Branch, Workers Party on Saturday evening, March 21, at the Harlem Ca- * sino, 116th street and Lenox avenue. The music will be the best, and will satisfy everybody, as there will be American jazz as well as dance music of all nationalities. Everybody, even the poorest can afford to be there, as the admission charge will be only fifty cents, including wardrobe. Newspapers Deny Conspiracy. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., March 15. | —~-The complaint of the federal trade ) commission charging conspiracy and | unfair methods of competiton by the Southern Newspaper Publisher’s as- | sociation, the American Association i of Advertising agencies and the Amer- ican Press association, was denied in the formal answer sent forward to- day by the Publishers’ association thru Attorneys Finlay and Campbell of this city. Dismissal of the com- plaint is asked on the part of the officers, directors and nearly 200 mem- bers of the association, representing daily newspapers in fourteen south- ern states. * Studied Oil Industry Here. MOSCOW, Feb. 20-——(By Mail)— : Serebrovsky, chairman of the “Az- neft” (Azerbeidjan Oil Syndicate), has returned from a business trip in America and Western Europe, where he had traveled with the object of studying the latest achievements in the technique of the oil industry abroad and also acquainting the in- terested foreign circles with the posi- tion of the Soviet oil enterprises. Chicago, Notice! 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 ae : Dr. S. ZIMMERMAN DENTIST 2 N. CALIFORNIA AVE Phon 4.4 ARMIT AGt (466 wiY NEW LOCATION Special X-Ray Prices — to Gas Workers Given ESTABLISHED 1z YEARS. My Examination is Free My Prices Are Reasonable My Work Is Guaranteed Extracting Specialist DELAY MEANS DECAY i | 7) Ce as —_ wtrs — ss erect a big house if Moscow, but must be content with’ oné°or two rooms, according to the Size of his family. All house space.is..carefully allotted, with especial resarty far, the worker. The Waiter’s ‘Dignity. Communal feeding is general in Moscow. Meals are served at cost price, so that it is as cheap to feed commufally as jt.is privately. In every large housé,.or “dom”—I mean a house with 100 rooms—there is a “stolovayah,” or dining room, where dinner is served from four to eight p.m. Other meals which require lit- tle preparation are taken privately. Even for these boiling water in a giant urn is always ready. The former palaces*or the rich are now inhabited by the workers, or are thrown open for their inspection and enjoyment on holidays. One inter- esting result of the revolution is the abolition of tips. Posters are display- ed, such as: “To the Visitor:—If you respect yourself, respect also the waiter, and refrain from lowering his dig- nity by offering him a bribe.” Sports, gymnasts, etc., are being encouraged on a large scale. Bunga- lows, or rest houses, for workers and children, occupy what were formerly the gardens and grounds of the nobles. The manual workers are entitled to a week’s holiday at full wage at the end of every five and a half morths. Thou- sands of children spend the whole 3ummer camping out in the country. A keen social life is kept going in Moscow. Cinemas and _ theaters abound. Shops are open and bril- liantly lighted till midnight. Droskies galloping past, tramcars everywhere. Boston Juniors Hold First Annual Play and Concert March 27 By MORRIS GOLDBERG. (Boston Junior Leader) BOSTON, Mass., March 15.—The Junior movement all over the United States is well known to you. 4Ve, the Young Workers’ League of New Eng- land, who are playing a huge part in that movement, can come now and show the results of our work. It is only one year since we began to con- secrate our most active members of the Young Workers’ League of New England.to the Junior field. Now we have nine well functioning Junior Groups in Boston and vicinity. The summer is arriving and we are confronting a great deal of outside work, such as sporting, hiking, camp- ing, and the like. Four our first an- nual celebration all nine Junior Groups are arranging a play and con- cert for Friday, March 27, at Deter Street Opéra » House, - Good Things ‘ 3—Kellogg in Paris--John- cw sk a — - i : \ ; in the The March Issue of the WORKERS MONTHLY i—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 rep sons for “Bloody Williamson.” “son in the Senate By A. Bittelman “The vat of America’s ‘en- taglements’ in the affairs of Europe 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. Yuditch Reviewing past and pregent currents in a great union. S—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 of the Wobblies By Harrison George About jail and Wobblies; some statistical reference to other jail inhabitants and a look into the present leadership of the I. W. W. (With drawings by Maurice Becker) 7—The Communists Take the Lead in Minnesota By C. A. Hathway , The struggle against reaction- ary leadership, political decep- tion, expulsions and bureau- cratic ‘method—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 New 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. oo 11—The History of the Russian Communist Party By Grégory Zinoviev Another installment of this Communist classic by the pre- sident of the C. I. 12—-Canada and the British Empire By Tim Buck A great deal of light on British and American Imperialism. Poems By Lang ton Hughes, Robert L. Wolf and Jacqueline Perreault An Administration Delegate Reports By Jim Waters and a Striking Three-Color Cover By Giarolamo Piccoli Recent winner of a thousand dollar prize in sculpture. These and Other Features 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 I ee months. NAME STREET . CITY STATE — ———— j | >| > -—} “ate eae oo = SF - at we sa tt eS ka an ae CF aoe CK Ge 2

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e ea T0 ANSWERTIES OF ANTI-SOIVET SPIES MARCH 23 -_——— — = a Dunne, Forte-Whiteman and Minor to Speak (Continued from page 1) present themselves. Avowed enemy like Abramovich, or fair-minded critic like McKenzie and Gordin and their kind, all look alike if they feed the fires of reactionary attacks on the workers’ revolutionary government of Soviet Russia, Our answer to these reactionary manifestations is in working clase mass demonstrations for Soviet Rus- sia. The workers’ faith in their revo- lution has not wavered and they prove it in hundreds of ctiies and towns in this and all other countries of the world. Chicago, the industrial heart of America, hes been the scene of a particularly active campaign. Me- Kenzie on March 18th, Abramovich on the 15th, Gordin’s articles in every Sunday’s paper, and so on. The workers have not been slow to take up the challenge. Mass Demonstration On March 29th, Sunday afternoon, they will counter with a mass de- monstration that will pack Ashland auditorium to the doors. Three speak- ers, particularly effective on this spe- cial subject, will voicé*the workers’ answer. Lovett Fort-Whiteman, cele- brated Negro author, just returned from an eight months’ tour thru So- viet land that took him deep into the back country where few Americans have ever trod, will answer the lies spread about our revolutionary gov- ernment. William F. Dunne, editor of the first English Communist daily in the world, and Robert Minor, inspir- ing labor artist, co-defendants in one of the latest capitalist raids for Amer- ican political prisoners, will be able to tell from personal experience what the American brand of “personal li- berty” really means. A very full and interesting pro- gTam has also been arranged. There will be singing and dances, dramatics and movies and gymnastics by work- ers organizations..2ome of the talent is professional: of the highest class, most of it is*the best that the Chica- go labor movement has developed in seventy years of work. Doors will be opened at 1:30 p. m., Sunday, March 29th, Ashland auditorium, Ashland Blvd. and Van Buren St., Chicago. Admission for adults 50 cents, for children. 10 cents. Come early if you want to be sure of a seat, the hal] only holds 5,000. Come early to this | Ties | of Pragraggves Angers Faker "| (SOWIE ~ . — . 4 ea » re a . a 4 4 ad fe < 3 - a a, Av tees, i? Si ¥ ae a fae *_* A! : en of AS ena bes Ra oe “ ats ele ts * bs be Lal a a (Continued from 7 who during the war shouted for every worker to go to war, while he made sure he kept on this side ‘of the’ fight’ ing, down was a bitter attack ‘on those men who have given the best years of their ponies the miners’ or- | Sanization. After Ledvinka’s ‘tepeet, which was one of, class peace, having nothing but a discouraging outlook, an addi- tional report was read which con- demned the progressive candidates in the last election, for having issued the following statement: To the Miners of Sub-District 5 of District 6, U. Ms W. of A. Dear Sirs and Brothers: Thé brothers whose names ‘are signed to this program faithfully accept and en- dorse every word in the program of the Progressive Miners on which Brothers George Voysey, Arley Stap- les and Joseph Nearing are running for president, vice-president and sec. retary-treagurer- If you want to see our “organisation grow and all miners organized 100 per cent in one powerful union, if you want an alliance between the miners and our brother railroad. workers, if [you want nationalization of the coal mines, If you want to . organize every. miner in the. United. States in the United Mine Workers of America. If you want our Brother Dominic Venturatto to get proper support as well as the rest of our brothers in the | Moundsville prison you will agree with us and endorse this. program by vot- ing for the following names on .our sub-district ballots and for Brothers Voysey, Staples and Nearing. For Sub-District President—J. J. Hoge, Local. Union, 1840, Bellaire, O. Vice-President—Frank Blahovec, Lo- cal Union 2069, Hopersville, O Secretary-Treasurer— John Gross, Local 2262, Dilles Bottom, O. For Sub-District Board Members— Frank Sepich, Local Union 3562, Neffs, O.; Con O’Kraska, Local Union 2526, Neffs, O. For Auditing Committee—Joe Koby- lak, Jr., Local Union 2059, Hopersville, O.; Jack’ ‘Kostel, Local _ Union 971 Yorkville, 0.;. Daniel. _— Local Union 1696; Yorkville, 0 For Trustess—Vohi Buska, Local Union 971, -¥or! 0.; Dominic Sambuco, Logel alo, 430, Bellaire, oO. Red pate a ‘Speeches. An attemp ade to brand this statement ‘asV¥ ag the officers but any one with an ounce of understand- ing can see that the?¥é is no attacking of the officials fh“fifé'above statement. Making a red4ik ‘waving speech worthy of that’ememy' of workers, W. J. Burns, Ledvinka, did all he could to whip the delegates into a-state o! frenzy against.the, Communists and demonstration to answer the villifiers of Soviet Russia. the Progressives,,.. He .attacked na- tionalization ef ,the coal. mines. He = ©) Lae Fi = oo OUR DAILY | ee PATTERNS. A SMART SPORTS SUIT A SMART TUNIC COSTUME - 6046-4850. Printed voile was used- for this design. Collar and vestee are of organdy: Pattern 5046 was used for the skirt. .The blouse may be finsh- ed with the sleeves short, or in wrist length. The blouse is cut in seven sizes: 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46 inches bust | measure. The skirt is cut in seven sizes: 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35 and 37 inches waist measure with corres- ponding hip measure, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43, 45 and 47 inches. The width of. the skirt at the foot is 15g yard. To make the costume with short sleeves for a 38 inch bust size will require 5% yards of 40-inch material, and 4% yard for vestee and collar of contrasting material. If made with long sleeves % yard more will te required. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps, . + © FASHION BOOK NOTICE! Send l2c in silver or stamps for our up-to-date Spring and Summer 1 Book of Fashions, showing color plates and containing 500 designs of ladies’, misses’, and children’s patterns, a con- cise and comprehensive articie on dress- of the various simple A DAINTY R BROCK FOR FESTIVE: QCCASIONS ia" J 5060. Chiffon or georgette and lace or embroidery could be used for this style. It is also nice for radium silk, taffeta or crepe de chine. The flounc- es are mounted on a two piece under skirt. This pattern is cut in four sizes: 8, 10, 12, and 14 years. If made of one material a i10-year size requires 4 yards 32 inches wide. To make as illustrated requites 3% yards of ma- terial with % yard of lace, embroid- ery or’ contrasting material 32 inches wide. Pattern mailed to any address op receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. Address: The DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. NOTICE TO PATTERN BU YERS—The patterns being sold thru the DAILY WORKER pattern department are fur- sished by a New York firm of patters manufacturers. Orders are forwarded by the DAILY WORKER every day as re- ceived, and they are mailed by the man- ufacturer direct to the customer. The /; DAIL WORKER does not keep a stock ef vatterns on hand. Delivery = - terns ordinarily will take at least 1 0 days from the date of maili th delayed. -_ én a PITTSBURGH, PA. 925} To those who work hard fer their money, | will save 50 per cent me their dental work. 7 DR. RASNICK © making, also some points for the negdic Seeens 30 | . all valuable hints to the home . ~~" ~? -— 27.- OG o7 DENTIST ~ °° ©S#o% e order not become impatient if your pattern is | * was against an alliance between the railroad workers and the coal miners, in spite of the fact that union railroad workers have been hauling scab coal. He said it was time to put a stop to tthe progressives. He was followed by Vice-President Cinque whos report almost exceeded in its class collaboration recommen- dations, those of his superior officen He told. the men that there is seldom a cause for a strike, and this inspite of the fact that the bosses have been continually violating the agreement. Mines Closed Down. At the very time the convention was in session a number of mines were shut down because the bosses vio- lated the agreement in relation to the check-off. When the mines are being shut down one after another, while one coal company after another is an- nouncing that they are going to close their mines on April 1, the officials conveniently forget that the constitu- tion states that one of the purposes of the United Mine Workers is to estab- lish the 6-hour day from face to face. Vice-President Cinque went on with his report telling the men to use the unfon label. He praised it as an American development. He neglect: to mention that the reason other coun. tries did not use the union label is because their unions were better or- ganized. He forgot that the very pa- per that the union officials had their letterheads printed on altho printed by unfon printers is scab made. Altho the state law calls for wash houses in the mines and after some of the mines have been without wash houses, and Many more in a filthy con- dition. he recommends caution. He even blames the miners in part when the wash houses are not in a sanitary condition. = For Class Peace. He recommends in his report a cen- tralized hospital and. loan association to which the rank and file of the min- ers are bitterly opposed. Then the report of the secretary: treasurer, who is a member of the state legislature, drawing pay. from both. the state of Ohio and the miners’ union, all in the same vein, all smack- ing of class peace with the bosses, in spite of the fact that at this very time the bosses are planning to break ‘the miners’ union. Instead of prepar- ing the miners for the struggles that will take place soon after the con- vention, they talk peace, they do not prepare for struggle. The miners have worked very few days. Half of the miners in the state and. there are about 60,000 miners. are out of work. The rest work two, three or four days per week. The re- sources of the miners are nil. The cof- fers of the mine owners are full. They are preparing with their gun- men, with their control of the state government. And yet the officials talk peace. Yet they hint in their re- ports that progressives who want to prepare the miners should be put out of the unions. The leaders of the miners are former socialists. : | Your Union Meeting | Third Monday, March 16, 1925. Name of Local and No. Piace of Meeting. 89 Bartenders, 123 N. Clark St., 8:30 P. M. 1 Bridge and Seructuves Iron Work. ers, 910 W. nroe &t. $4 Boot and Sion 1939 Milwaukee Av 598 Seeogere. Hebrew, 3420 W. Roose- ve Butchers, Bohemian, 1870 Biue Is- land Ave. 17742 Cleaners & Dyers, 113 S. Ashland 4 Glove Workers TH10 N. Winches’r 1307 Carpenters. 180 Sherman Ave. vanst 2505 Carpenters, 180 W. Washington St ers, 4003 Rooseveit sees * Soreaubar, 2705 W. 38t Carpenters, 4039 W. aiieen St. 181 Carpenters, 2040 W. North Ave. 199 Rerpenters, Ss. C. 9139 Commercial ve 416. Carpenters, S. C., 505 S. State St. 419 Carpenters, S. C., 1457 Clybourn 448 Sarwensere, 222 N. West St., Wau- keg 1367 Satsonters 2040 W. North. Ave. 14 Cigar Makers Executive Board, 166 W.. Washington St., 7:30 p. m. 713 €lectricians, 119 S. Throop St. 394 Engineers (Lesometive) 7 S Union Ave., w. Washineten St. 196 Firemen oad Enginemen, Roosevelt Rd., 9:30 a. m. Last g 7: 331 Firemen and Ashland Ave. 698 Firemen and Engnemen. Madison and Sacramento 18 Glove Operators, 1710 N. Winches- ter Ave 76 Hod Carriers, 814 W. Harrigen St. 569 Ladies’ Garment, 328 W. Va Buren St. 74 Lathers, 725 S. Western Ave. 374 Longshoremen, Tug, 355 N. Clark 265 Machinists, 75th St. and Dobson Bivd. 337 Machinists, 1638 N. Halsted St. . 378 pacasenence of Way, 1543 W. 103d eet 723 Maintenance of Way, 202 W. 47th + 175 ¥. Waarinates on St. Piumbers, 535 N. Cicero 101 Painters, 3316 W. North Ave. 147 \ Painters, 19 W. Adamis St. 194 Painters, Madison and Sth Ave. 265 Painters, 205 E. 115th St. 273 Painters 2432 S. edule Ave. 2064 Railway Clerks, 159 N. State St. 51 Sheet Metal Workers, 1638 WN. Halsted St. Sailors’ Union of Great Lakes, 355 N. Clark Street 5 Tailors, — W. Washington &t., 7:30 p. Enalaemen, 64th and SICK AND DEATH BENEFIT SOCIETIES Frauen-Kranken-Unterstuetzungs Verein Fortschirtt Meets every ist & 3rd Thursday, Wicker Park Hall, 2040 W. North Avenue. Secretary. Give your shopmate this copy of the DAILY WORKER—but be sure to see him the next day to | 645 Smithfield Streat.. ,..,,18et his subscription. A ’ Mare Admits Biased on aSide of W orkers ey went into Shicts with a working class bias in 1920, and again in 1924, and I returned with my views. con- firmed, that Russia is bound to make good,” said Mr. A, A. Purcell, a mem- ber of the British trade union dele- gation to Soviet, Ryssia, in a speech at Manchaster, England, recently. “I endorse and reaffirm,” Mr. Pur- cell continued, “the view so frequent- ly expressed an@ mide much of in the capitalist press, that ‘we may have the strength tq cargy thru similar great changes for. our class.’ “The trade ng have accomplish- ed. wondrous things—the workers’ clubs—with their circles for the liqui- dation of illiteraty, preparation of trade union workers, reading of news- papers, libraries, art and music classes, study circlés, plays and living newspapers, le 8 and reports on political, industtial, co-operative and economic subjects, together with the medical departim nt, exposing the hor. rors of the drea disease syphilis, Class sfc * Children. “Then,” Mr. éell went on, “there are classes for the improvement in technique of those boys and girls who are working in the factories as ap- prentices and learners, and from this stage those showing suifable ability are encouraged to go further, and the way is made quite easy for them to go to the highest technical schools or workers’ faculties, and even to the great universities. “The question of cost of fares, books, clothing and lodging does not arise, as these are all arranged between the trade union and the education depart- ment.” Mr. Purcell ‘Went on to deal with the important quate of the technicians in industry.” — “It was my fortune,” he said, “to attend a @rence of these in 1920, and I got to fear that they were holding a mee in December last, which I attended. The chairman and the mover of the vote of thanks spoke in English. “These workers are all members of their particular” T. U., but the tech- nical men hold oc®&sional conferences, and the delegate’ mre drawn from the technical membership of all the unions. *Mi “It is this bédy which the Soviet government is straining every nerve to strengthen and increase numeri- cally. These.arec the men who give you the impressiefroef high enthusiasm for their work."* “ © Electric Dévelopment. “Numbers of huge electricity un- dertakings are raising their towers, with house bofle?4 from Babcock and Wilcox in Britath, ahd firms in Checho- Slovakia, togethér with electrical equipment from” “Metro-Vickers, and 680 on. “Thus,” Mr. iAen summed up, “in education, trainifig of the young, en- couragement tothe technicians, the Russian working ¢fass is moving ahead of all other countfies in Europe. “This is what’they are doing,” said Mr. Purcell, fh’*donclusion. “But so much is said about what they are not “The antiJew pogroms have gone. doing, I will add my quota. There were no Dena Goldfield mas- sacres, and no Armenian massacres. Foreign capitalist moneylenders and exploiters of the farmers and peasants are non-existent. There are no prison- ers in the fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul, not great army threatening the peace of the world, no police or- ganization of widespread prostitution, no provocation with violence by police and spies under the auspices of the government. “In 1908, Kropotkin wrote in the Times that there were from 60 to 90 executions per month, most of which were for the merést offenses. “These and many Other horrors have passed away, under the workers’ re- public of Russia, and, as a conse- quence, I say, long live Russia! Long live the Internatiohal working class! “May we begiven the strength everywhere to do likewise.” —Londonh Daily Herald. Soviet Officials in Turkestan MOSCOW, Feb. 20.—(By Mail)— It is reported from Tashkent, Turk- estan, that the president of the gen- eral committee of 4he Russian Social- ist Soviet Republe has arrived there to take part in the’ work of the first congresses of Soviet of Turkestan and Uzbekistan and’ ®é@t acquainted with the building up $f the newly-formed republics. Owe BUILDERS AT WORK —) & _ an AN INTERESTING EXPERIMENT And a Story of What Happened in Our Office Today. the DAILY WORKER branch and city Agents are the pro- paganda directors of our Party. of this fact. But they are still not°fully conscious For instance, we do not know of a single agent in the country who has gone to visit the subscribers of the DAILY WORKER and the Workers Monthly in his city in order that they buy literature from the catalogue he has. These subscribers are not all party mem- bere—not by two-thirds!—and here is a real field for action where you can also secure names of their friends for getting other subscriptions and making further literature sal Let us tell you what happened only yesterday. A man swept into the office with the gusto of a March wind. He wanted all the articles that were on hand dealing with Russia He stated that he was a worker, feeding for long on the self-acknowledged “world’s greatest newspaper,” the Chicago Tribune, But even ae he read, strange to say, he had common sense enough left to know that the “news” printed about Russia was merely “fiction,” and bad fiction, at that. Accidentally, he had picked up a DAILY WORKER on the street car. He read “As We See it,” and he SAW IT! When he went away, he was loaded down with five copies of the WORKERS MONTHLY, including all the back numbers containing Zinoviev’s “History of the Communist Party;” two old issues of the Soviet Pictorial, copies of “Why Russia Should Be Recognized,” and Foster’s “Russia in 1924,” as well as a receipt for a subscription to the DAILY WORKER! And a copy of “Leninism or Trotskyism.” The readers of the DAILY WORKER and the Workers Monthly are already interested in Communist principles and practice. party membere—you oan learn why not. if they are not And whether they are on not— just pull out a few of the new pamphlets from your little grip and “talk literature.” Try this experiment on your little sub list! LABOR DEFENSE COUNCIL CALLS FOR UNITED FRONT AGAINST THE - SYNDICALIST LAWS IN 34 STATES In its last press service, the Labor Defense Council presented its survey of the Communist cases under the criminal syndicalist laws. In order that a greater estimation of the survey of the Labor Defense Council of the Com- munist cases under the criminal syndicalist laws may be gotten, it is neces- sary to briefly analyze the nature of these cases. The first group of Communist cases, which arose under the criminal syndicalism laws of the various states, were those which grew out of the organization of the Communist parties in 1919 in California, Illinois and New York. Many prominent individ-+ uals who took part directly or indirect- ly in the formation of the left wing group of the socialist party which re sulted in the organization of the two Communist parties at that time in this country and those who took part in the organization of these parties were seized and put on trial. Defended Themselves. In California, eleven were put on trial, and after a long. period of strug- gle in the courts, three were finally convicted and the rest of the cases were dismissed because of either dis- agreement of the jury in the case of the others, or the dropping of the cases for other reasons. In these cases the outstanding fig: ure was Dolson, one of the defendants who defended himself and a number of his co-defendants. In the case of Miss Anita Whitney the matter has been appealed to the United States supreme court and has been there for four years. The other two served their sentences. 1. W. W. Suffered. Severely. Of the California criminal syndical- ist law, little need be said here as everyone knows what prosecutions have been carried on since under this law. The I. W. W. suffered severely under this law and time and again Communists have found this law a weapon used against them. The fame of California, its criminal syndicalis’ law and other laws inimicable to the labor movement has spread to every part of this country. There is no need to point out the necessity of a concen- trated united front on this field. Eighteen Convicted in Iilinois. In Illinois there were eighteen tried and convicted for participation in the formation of the Communist Party in 1919. Of these eighteen, seventeen served for a time, but were shortly released by a pardon from the governor. The other one (Comrade Katterfeld) served time for over a year in Joliet and is now out for a year’s parole. The fact that there was a pardon from the governor in the case of these eighteen, among whom were man: prominent in the labor movement ir this country, does not in any way soften the nature of the law which is still on the statute books of the state of Illinois. Of this law the judge who dissented on the original conviction. Judge Carter, himself states: “The law of thi state is so drastic and far-reaching In its provisions that many ptibiie utterances of the great leaders tm our past history would have been punishable under its provisions,” : ny A The above quotation is enuf to rally all elements for its abolition and against any further attempt to use it against the labor movement. New York Groups Served Time. The third group under the early in- dictments of the criminal syndicalist laws is the New York group, con- victed for taking part in issuing a manifesto for the left wing which fin- ally resulted in the building of the Communist and. Communist Labor parties. Of: this group all served sen- tences of at least two years. The cases of two were finally nolle-prossed after this long sentence, those of Ruthenberg and Fergtison, and the cases of: Benjamin Gitlow has been since pending in the United States su. preme court. The above three groups of cases started the offensive in this country which had 1éd to widespread use o! the criminal syndicalism laws against the Communists, I. W. W. and other sections of the labor movement, no section being absolved from threats of its application. Today there are thirty-four states in which criminal) syndicalist laws are ready for use as weapons against the labor movement In two or three articles following the survey will take in the rest of the cases covered by it up to the present British i Sy o. | Hatred of Natives | in Lhassa, Tibet URGA, Feb. 15—(By Mail)—Tibetan quarters in Mongolia have received news of thé recent outbreak of an an-| ti-British movement in JLhassa, the capital of Tibet. There is a growing feeling of dissatisfaction among the population of Tibet with the insistent penetration of English capital in that country and the activities of British agents. The main channe! for British | influence was Soron-Golong, the Ti-| betan commander-in-chief and prime| minister. UNCLE :WIGGILY’S TRICKS SHAM DEM IS DESPOTISM Soviet Russia Only Workers’ Government By PHILADELPHUS. There is a fundamental differenc« between the political system of New Zealand and that of Soviet Russia. In Soyiet Russia they have the rul« of society by the proletariat and poor peasants—the dictatorship of the pro letariat. In New Zealand society is ruled bs the capitalist class, i e., manufactur ers, merchants, bankers, landlords—e dictatorship of the- bourgeoisie. New Zealand’s Despotism. The New Zealand scheme is not so cialism in any form and has no cop’” nection with revolutionary Commun ism whatsoever. Labor, in New Zea land is the victim of a pernicious sys tem of state capitalism which destroys one of the strongest weapons the working class has to fight its battles r—labor unfons—and establishes a po litical despotism over the workers ir the interest of the minority capitalis' class. Union Part of Government. In Soviet Russia the land, and in dustries are not owned by landlords manufacturers and bankers. Labor unions are increasing and are an in. tegral part of the government and the whole process of arbitration as it works out over there is concerned with the division of the national fn- come among the city workers and the poor peasants. Soviet Russia is a so- cialist nation based on the common ownership of land, industry and fin- ance by the proletariat and poor peas- antry (majority of its agricultural workers) with the Bolshevist govern- ment, their government, § acting always in the interest of the work- ers. A Capitalist Nation. New Zealand is a capitalist nation (state capitalism) founded on the pri- vate ownership of land, industry and finance by the capitalists and the rob- bery of the workers thru a wages system supervised by the capitalist ad: ministration. Compulsory arbitration is the keystone of the New Zealand system. Compulsory arbitration, with the government as arbitrator, backed up by non-labor police and soldiers, and with the economic wealth in the hands of an exploiting class is, invar- iably, on every serious issue between labor and “capital,” arbitration against labor. The fact that the clase conscious revolutionary workers there, have carried on a bitter strug- gle against the New Zealand system of state capitalism is one’ important proof of this point. The rock-bottom condition which makes the difference between state capitalism and revolutionary Commun. ism, is not, primarily, a matter of po litical form, but a matter of property ownership—i. e., which class owns and administers the land, industries. finance—labor or the capitalists. In Soviet Russia the land, houses, newspapers, schools, mines, shops railroads, banks, ships, etc., are owned by the proletariat and poor agricui. tural toilers thru the Soviet state:” A Bogus Democracy. In ner Zealand the government is an organ of capitalist rule and func- tions as a bogus democracy—(Lenio rightly dubbed it a bourgeois democ racy) for the reason that a minority of capitalist exploiters own as pri vate property the economic wealth. Red Star of Hope. Finally, revolutionary Communism— the sole hope of a civilization wrecked by the vicious forces of capitalism. the only star of hope (red star) to the world’s workers, exploited, oppressed and degraded—revolutionary Com munism doesnot and cannot exist un less the masses of common numanity own and control -hru their own Soviet government the tasic factors of life liberty and happiness—-the land, the workshop, finance and education, Soviet Textiles in Persia. MOSCOW, Feb. 20—(By Mail)—aA new Russo-Persian mixed company under the firm of “Irakorms,” whose founders on the Soviet side are the Textile Syndicate and the People’s Commissariat of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, has opened its ac. tivities. The paid-up capital of the so. ciety is one million gold roubles. Its |object is to sel ll Soviet textiles in Per- | Sla. Give your shopmate this copy of the DAILY WORKER—but be get his subscription. A LAUGH FOR THE CHILDREN | “Take a away Uncle Wiggily ! 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$6.60 per year —$3.50....6 months _—$2.00...8 monthe ee et By mail (in Chicago only): _ $8.00 per year $4.50....6 months $2.50....3 monthe Address all mail and wake out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1118 W. Washington Bivd. 3. LOUIS. ENGDAHL } WILLIAM F. DUNNE} Bditors . MORITZ J. LOBB.. pi ETO Manager Entered as second-class nail Sept. 21, 1928, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ill., under the act of March 3, 1879. 2 Advertising rates op applicatica — Chicago, Hilinele Bloody German Democracy Six Communists have been killed and thirty wounded in Halle, Germany, and the election cam- paign is just beginning. “Schupos,” the “green police,” so called because of the color of their uniforms, the official terrorist organization of German social-democracy, fired on an unarmed crowd of workers at a meeting where Thalmann, Communist presidential candidate, was to speak. This incident, taken in connection with the col- lapse of the German “republican” bloc, the ex- posure of the social-democrat party as corruption- ists and grafters in addition to their betrayal of the German workers to American and allied cap- ital, the violation of the agreement to withdraw troops by the allies after the social-democrats had prevailed on the masses to poll a majority vote for the Dawes plan, requires no undue addition of undue optimism to make the strong strategic position of the German Communist Party the major event in German political life. The Com- munist Party appears as the party of and for the masses. It is certain that the Communists will cast and count several million votes, sufficient to make an- other election necessary by preventing any candi- date from securing the necessary majority. The government, actuated by this knowledge, is pre- paring for ‘terror during the campaign, directed against the Communists with the object of cowing their supporters. Capitalist terror always meets some success at first, but in this case it will not stop the German Communist Party from rolling up a total vote whose numbers will be actually less than that of its supporters. Election campaigns are not an end of Commun- ist activity as the ruling class of the world knows. All power to our German comrades in the new battle in which they are engaged and which is for them a: bloody and dangerous one in spite of all the “democratic” rules by which it is supposedly governed. -_ Every day get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER and a member for the Workers Party. More Deportations There have been 4,448 deportations under the provisions of the new immigration law in the last six months, states Senator Reed of Pennsyania in an interview given in Washington, D. ¢ The secrecy with which these proceedings against foreign-born workers are veiled is evident. There has been no publicity whatever except in a few cases where the victims were well known and in- terest aroused in their behalf. A new wing of the secret service has also been established, according to the senator. Two hundred and fifty police have been recruited and at all Mexican and Canadian ports squads of inspectors are stationed. Immigration has been reduced to aimost nothing. In the last six months 67,303 im- migrants arrived; 48,120 left the country for per- manent residence abroad, leaving the net increase in foreign-born population only 19,203. The gates are shyt to the working class of europe. This being the case, the question arises of the purpose of House Bill 11796. It establishes new excuses for deportation proceedings and gives the department of labor and immigration the widest powers—powers that it certainly does not need in view of 'the 4,448 deportations admitted. The proposed law then is simply a_ terrorist measure. Foreign-born workers are to be subject to an intensified espionage. Blackmail of aliens by labor department officials is to be encouraged. The principal offense will be joining a union or working class political party. House Bill 11796 has nothing to do with stopping immigration. It is to make easier the persecution and deportation of foreign-born workers already here. workers who have incurred the anger of the bosses. It is another union smashing measure that can and will be used to the limit m the open shop drive that the capitalists are preparing and that is already launched in the textile and coal mining industries. Resistance to wage cuts and the open shop by foreign-born members of unions will be construed Foreign-born workers who have not yet become citizens could be automatically elminated and in unions like the United Mine Workers, the International Longshore under the proposed law as crime. men’s Association, Food Workers and even in many unions of the building trades great inroads could be made on the membership. During the congressional recess the labor unions should marshall all their forces for the defeat of this vicious anti-labor measure. Send in that new “sub” today! é terror |’ The F ederationist on ‘Soviet Russia The officiakdom. of the American Federation of Labor cannot be honest even with itself. In the last-issue of the Federationist, edited by William Green since the death of Samuel Gompers, there is published an interview on Russia with John Turner, head of the Office Workers’ Union of. Great Britain and a disciple of Emma Goldman. Needless to say, the ‘niece is composed of the stereotyped lies and insinuations to which we have become accustomed. The official report of the British trade union '}delegation is not even mentioned in the article in spite of the fact that its favorable character has caused comment thruout the world and drawn a clean line of division between the bureaucrats of the Amsterdam trade unions and the British trade union movement—the most powerful group in the Amsterdam International. The suppression of the statements of Purcell, Bramley and others of the majority report of the British trade union delegation, the publication of the statements of a lone minority of one whose influence in the British labor movement is non- existent, shows conclusively that the Greens and Wolls do not want the truth of Soviet Russia to be known to the membership of the American Fed- eration of Labor, that they fear even the considered and conservative views of British labor men on Soviet Russia and its accomplishments, Purcell is the head of the Amsterdam Interna- tional. His statements are certainly more valuable than those of Turner, yet he will not be allowed to tell what he thinks to the dues-paying union men of the United States if the A. F. of L. bureaucrats can prevent it. The whole incident is illuminating. It stamps the enemies of Soviet Russia in the official circles of the A. F. of L. as enemies on principle and not because of lack of information. This is the way we have always regarded them and obviously we have made no mistake. In no other channel of expression have the im- perialist masters of the American labor fakers shown such outright evidences of their control as in the war conducted on the government of the Russian workers and peasants by the Gomperses, trayal of the Mexican labor movement to Wall Street. Siabe Metal Workers’ Strike The capitalist press is puzzled by the news from Italy. It cannot understand the strike of 100,600 metal workers in northérn Italy who are nominal- ly members of fascist unions. The explanation is simple and for that reason alone would never occur to a capitalist editor. It is that these workers are not fascists, and, never haye.been. After the failure of the huge movement that culminated in 1919 in the seizure of factories and collapsed because the leadership did not under- stand or were unwilling to seize the state power, they were discouraged and disheartened ; their out- look was that of anarcho-syndicalism with which fascism has much in common. |. These workers accepted fascism as millions of workers in other nations acccept capitalism, but they have no love for it. The outlook seemed hope- less,and they waited to see what fascism had to offer. lts castor oil, daggers, black-shirts and clubs did not fill the stomachs of the workers. Its program was, in spite of its military character and bom- bastic utterances, a program of surrender to the capitalists. [It mobilized workers against their own interests. This is a very mild description of the monstrous thing known as fascism, but it will serve for this short article. among ‘the masses. Their program is a- program of struggle not with but against national cap- italism. The strike of 100,000 nfetal workers is the best |possible proof of the effectivéness of Communist activity and the complete breakdown of the fascist leadership among the masses. It is not a huge group of fascist workers that are striking, but a group of workers, essentially revolutionary, from whose eyes the scales have fallen, and who are once more swinging into the international struggle against world capitalism. Fascism in Ttaly dies, but Communism and the Communist Party live. A “Strong, Silent Man” This is the story of how the “strong, in the White House met ah emergency: Warren was rejected by the senate. Coolidge sent his name back for eonfirmation. Coolidge talked with the republican senate lead- ers, heard that the appointment of Warren was im- possible and agreed to withdraw Warren’s name. A few hours later he gave out the information that he would insist on Warren’s appointment. As this goes to press the republican leaders are again in conference with Cal and the “strong, silent man” may change his mind again. Moral: . Election publicity seldom has much basis in fact. | silent man” The mine owners are throwing up a mighty | smoke screen to hide their moves directed toward wage cuts for the mine workers. But the coal dig- gers recognize the attack that is being made upon ‘them just the same. ——— — when the spread, fascisti dictator an excuse to get worse still. | (eldiideaittteene More enemies of Soviet t Russia are being smoked | ‘out from behind the thin mask of liberalism. Let the smoking go on. — Greens, Wolls and Lewises unless it be in the be-- The Communists have never ceased their work|’ Letters From Our Readers The condition of Mussolini was reported worse | propaganda to strike of the metal workers began to/is understandab! Workers in other industries will give the |terpretation on Wit growth of the army of wage workers there grows the element of finalydestruction of the jcapitalist order. The quicker the pro- letarian majority of society increases its relative strength the sharper de- velops the conflict between the ‘éxist- ing forms of production and distribu- tion with this majority of society. > And the sharper this conflict grows the more revolutionary becomes the struggle of this proletarian majority against the beneficiary minority classes in society, the capitalists. And in the same grows the pros- pect of a final victory, of the revolu- tion. The leadiug graups of the capitalist class are fully cemsctous of this. In realization of dangers threatening | their social ord the; capitalists are using their political power to enhance their dominating. position. With the sharpening of the antag: onisms between thé American -work- ers and their immediate exploiters the problems of the é@lass ‘struggle im this country have ineFfeased in numbers , 7a eee tee 2 Le these problems ment of the United States has created secretary of labor has mislead m of workers into the belief that in the cutive department of the country. The deportation delirium of 1919 has done much to dispell such illusions. But to some extent they still persist. ‘But the latest activities of this depart- workers. The capitalists of America fearing the growing dissastisfaction and the the workers among themselves. The department of labor is the outstand- ing agency for the accomplishment of this task. This department plays the colored workers against the white, the immigrant against the native, and at- tempts to Organize “on the basis of prejudices existing and fostered and by the aid of specially designed laws reliable strikebreaking guards within and in te To concentrate on. all of these groups. To this end the | Secretary of Labor Davis has bent alt a department of labor. The appoint-/ ment of a “labor leader” as the_first | department of labor the workers were | the dictatorial given direct representation in the exe- government finds its ‘Ghearest manifes- aanersign on the passage of « sie. bill and on @ bill to member of the “official family” of the breaker president of the United character of the tation, \' | “Fitting into the’ sottes of proposals made by the secrétary of labor, and into the series of laws already passed | 9" ‘by congress, fits house bill 11796, ment should open the eyes of the/pagsed by the house and now up in the senate. The bill is entitled ‘“‘Deporta- tion act of 1926.” - In this bill all hitherto existing re- increasing strength of the American |strictions for the deportation of aliens workers are busily engaged in dividing | ®"° removed. No matter how long an immigrant. may have resided in the éountry; he would still be subject to court to imprisonment of one year or| more;. or in case of unlawful entry. of the immigrant. The bill is designed to extend the power of the police over the imnii- grant and’ thus ‘enable the state to terrorize the alien worker into meek submission’ to the dictates of capitat. The bill establishes the basis for jd “im case of.a conviction in| petrated by the “authorities”: against any immigrant workers, active in the struggle for. the wage workers against capital. : The bill turns the department of la- a bor into a police department for every labor exploiting corporation and prac tically outlaws alien workers. | The bill is just one of a series ot outrageous attacks against the work- ‘ers that must result from a eapitalist government at a time when the class struggle has advanced to a. point where the ruling class openly puts a strikebreaker in office as president, an open shop propagandist as. vite: président, and the councilors of. the most corrupt private corporations. aa members of the official family. of the president. r In. the face of such attacks the ‘workers of the United States must ‘forget differences in nationality, creed, color and politics and combine in a united front action against this Against the solidarity of the capt. talists and their government there only one defense—the solidarity of al the workers native and allen, black and white. —_————> X- RAYING THE CANCER IN THE © “AMERICAN LABOR MOVEMENT. Class Struggle vs. Class Collabor- ation—By Earl R. Browder. Second booklet of the Little Red Library series published by the Workers (Communist) Party of America.— 10 cents per copy. 1,000,000 copies of this pamphlet in the hands of as many trade unionists would make trade union Judases of the “Bond Ox Bill” Johnson type hunt hiding places and send up the price of halters. “Imperialism needs and tries to mold a working class that is unorganized and therefore timid, ignorant and therefore fearful, weak and therefore helpless, a working «lass soaked in the sordid profit-making ethics of cap- italism and that ig therefore a vast reserve of cannon-fedder for the wars that imperialism imcites in order to live. mo The United States is the master of the western world!’ Unsatisfied, hun- gry for world power, ‘its ruling class conspires against all other nations and against its owhtworkers. It tries [uals by the bureaucrats thru high- 3alaried research jobs connected with ‘abor financial institutions; the con- rection of the labor movement with he Civic Federation and the ‘Secur- ‘ty League; the united front of the liberal intellectuals with the rotten bureaucracy of the labor movement, the capitalist press and the capital- ists themselves against the only fight- ing segtion of the trade unions—the left wing organized around the Work- ers (Communist) Party and the Trade Union Educational League. Browder, having assembled. this mass of material, all of it having that putrid purplish tinge and bed smell which distinguishes decaying organic matter, puts on his rubber gloves, cuts off characteristic sections, anid one by one examines them with the Marf- ist-Leninist microscope. His findings are all in this little pamphlet, It is doubtful if so much light on the workings of capitaligt agents inside the labor movement was ever contained in a booklet of to create a working ¢lass that knows no other master, # »! Earl Browder has’ shown with the all the hareh disregard of pain to the subject that charadt#rises the best curative surgery,” the methods by which the organiz6@ workers of Amer- ica—the trade unién# “are being cor- rupted, castrated au@‘chained as eu- nuchs to’'the steel ¢Hariot of Amer- ican impérialism. -*"« He has taken the banking and busi- ness schemes to which the official- dom of the various Waions has com- mitted the membership, and which re- ceived the endorsem@ht of the late Sa- muel Gompers; the’ cOMpany unions of the great corporations; the “B. and 0.” plan organized*by William John- son of the International Association of Machinists; the elddoctrine of the “identity of interestsj.of workers and employers; the scab;goal mines own- ed by members ofthe. Locomotive Engineers’ Union, headed by Warren 31 pages. What are his conclusions? final stage of imperialism, has pur- chased outright the upper layer of the labor movement—the officials— and made them part of the middle class, As such they have ho further interest.in the labor movement as an instrument to combat the employers. In return fer their own economic security the labor officialdom are now betraying the trade unions by endors- ing and giving a labor color to meas- ures like the “B. and O.” plan which are only company unions in disguise. As soon as the organized workers are under the influence of this injection } of dope, they will be shackled, their organizations destroyed and when they wake up it will be as industrial serfs, One more point Browder makes so clear that it is hardly necessary to pai the worms at the intellect- mention it here: That American capitalism, in its Se ; 7 These ‘Ailes of, the labor move- |ment who -head ‘the banks and busi- ness corporations ‘which they have started with union funds, capitalist institutions. with no.semblance of a labor character, in ‘which the office employers are after not even allowed to organize, are carrying this same subversive. -policy of their House of Necask masters. into the Canadian smoothing the path of American im- perialism in: its colonial and semi- colonial fields. The betrayal is therefore not con- fined to the United States—it is a gigantic scheme that follows the same lines as the investments of Wall Street. Abroad it weakens the resist- ance of the Canadian and Mexican workers to the tyrannies and robber- At home it debatiches the organized labor movement and. destroys its mi- litancy, leaving thé working class of the United States naked victims of a ruling .class bent ° ‘on* ‘world domina- tion by the sword.“""~ ?: There have been plenty of “studies” by the verbose in: entsia of vari- ous phenomena in the’ labor move- ment. Browder is thé first, because he is a Communist, €é ‘take labor union coruptionism apart and show to the workers what makes it'g0--the money of labor’s enemies. Any worker who reads this little will know more about, what 4 ‘the: matter with the American “fabér*minovement with- in ten minutes >than ivhe spent a year reading *th® diagwoses of liberal surgeons more téidert-dut less truth- eal. 7 wie YUR . | “SEO? U St Dunne a,’ IS Me Se ay _ Increase ‘Textile Production Feb, 20,—(By Mafl)— € Syndicate has he. “production of cotton fabrics in the Course of the present working. year 1924-25. The 1923-24 program’ of” prothiction was based on 1.9 millioti spindles and 52 thousand looms being” in operation. In the 1924-25 program itis ‘laid down that there shall be 8.1 million spind- les and 81 thousand looms. (The following letter was sent in| Tragedy.” Oneal dilates upon “The Russian For convenience of analy- response to some clipping received.) | sis let us group and number the points An Answer to Clippings. To the DAILY WORKER: Dear Comrade: I had noted what the New Leader said about the “Communist split,” and also had skim- med thru or over, the long drawn-out controversy as to whether an effort should be made to organize a farm- er-labor party on a class basis. The one group thot the LaFollette move- it, and the other gioup thot not. I had also noted 6 unbecoming speech of comrade te-comrade in dis- cussing the issue. ,But since bot! groups adhere to thé*Comintern, and since the Comintern is'the central au- thority of the world-Communist move. of dispute. There is no “split.” There are no ee in the Com- munist Party. ‘Os I had noted also éhe Turner inter- view published in ¢ae; New Leader. Turner and one other British delegate to Moscow took am adverse view of ‘Russian conditions, while a majority of the visiting delegates were favor- ‘ably impressed. Have you any idea why Oneal did not: byblish one of the ‘favorable interviews? Thru all their verbiage and unique activities the Communists have one fundamental, well-defined, supreme idea, to-wit; capitalism must be over- ,thrown by force, and all activity in ‘the labor unions, “in litics, eyery- where, and all the time should be at end. This, at least “And it puts an in. fr conduct quite at variance with thefeharge that the) jare merely distur for disturbance sake. One may gtion their wis- ‘dom on occasion, no revolution. | ist will discount ~their controlling si a ment had swallowed the material for | ment, when it speaks here is an end, of his logic, thus: No. 1. Quotes Marx to show that socialism cannot eventuate until capi- talism has produced a good state of industrial development. No. 2. The Bolshevists tried the impossible stunt of jumping to social- ism without the necessary capitalistic industrial development. | No. 3. The Bolshevists made con- cessions to native and foreign capi- talists, which by the logic of No. 1 trial developments. (Lenin called it a “strategic retreat”). No. 4. This act of the Bolsheviki was a “counter revolution,” and a “united front against the proletariat.” Now put 3 and 1 together and ask why No. 4. By the Oneal logic the Bolsheviki ought not to have disturbed capitalism come into possession of all the coun try’s resources, industrialized the na- tion, and possessed itself of all the powers of government—as in, the United States. Do you — with him? } Have you any idea why Oneal did not burst forth in great indignation over the failure of the social demo crats to disturb capitalism in highly industrialized Germany? has been so pacific toward the s0- cialist labor party of England which set in order the Dawes plan for skin- can financial imperialism? Hillgquit logic, as _ follows: from his article on American Imperialism”) No. 1. . .—E .. was necessary to the required indus for 50 or 75 years yet, or until it has. Imperialism is the exercise of sovereignty beyond the country’s boundaries, a phase of modern capi- talistic industrial development. (This is understandable. ) No..2. Imperialism cannot be pre- vented. (This is understandable.) No. 3. We can mitigate the evil by insisting. that government shall not support the risks of our citizens in foreign countries. (This is also under: standable.) But No, 3 srenente No. 1, which No. 2 says cannot be prevented. With very best wishes, L. D. Rattiff. Soviet Timber Export Program Out Stripped By Actual Results MOSCOW, Feb. 13.—(By mail)—The timber expért program for the year 1923-24, which had been provided by the state planning commission as amounting to 33.4 million roubles, has been carried out 115 per cent in val- ue, according to a report made to the central exprrt bureau. There. has been a notable irfcrease in the exports by private merchants, almost entirely from the Far Eeastern territories. As before, England is_still the big- gest market for Soviet timber, having consumed about 65 per cent in value of all the experts of timber from the Union in 1924. The next in the list of Or why he] purchasing countries are Holland and Germany. An interesting item in the mention- ed report is the gradually increasing ning Cermany, and incorporating the/ share of Soviet timber in the markets rest of Europe into the Anglo-Ameri- of the Near East and the appearance ‘of Russian Far Eastern timber in the I have here a choice sample of the @wropean market. (Taken pesr "1 “The March of “Give your shopmate this copy Of the DAILY WORKER—but be um: te see him the next day to) init” wd b 7 = re a and Mexican labor unions. They are, ies of the American capitalists. ‘ 7 onde AS WE SEE IT..| +. m (Continued from page 1.) class war had-no other aim except te establish the right of free speech. If that was the only aim it would be better to teach the workers to always think like their masters who would give them all the freedom for ex: pressing themselves that even the most loquacious would ask for than to urge them to overthrow capital ism. But that is not the alm of the revolutionary working class move ment. Its aim is to overthrow the cap. italist system and establish the rule of the producing classes on its a * 2 ®@ EE speech is impossible in a class society. It can only be possible a classless society. There can be real freedom for all. while one rules another. Can that be su fully refuted? Of course. not. There is no freedom of speech in any cap italist country in the world. That is, complete freedom of speech. The rex son js not far to Beek. The capitalists place such limits on the freedom of action of the workers as they deem necessary to the safety of their regime. This is not theory. It is a fact. ss. 2£¢ ¢ d kp cwaper is no freedom of speech or of the press for the capitalist minor. ity in Russia or for their tools, the socialists. But there is freedom of speech for the workers and peasants who support the revolution. There will not be any freedom of speech in Rus- sia for the opponents of the rile ef the’ workers until that opposition in a world sense becomes so infinitismal that it involves no danger to the So- viet power. The Communists.of Rus- sia might win the applause of the American liberals if they threw away their rifles and said to the Grand Duke Nicolaievich and his capitalist paymasters: “Here Nicky, walk right in, and let’s settle down together and fight it out with our mouths.” Of course, the lampposts of Russia would have long since carried the hanging bodies of those Communists and their followers if any were left alive would be the objects of American “liberal” sympathy as they languished in Rus- sian dungeons or rubbed their frozen toes in Siberia while the daughters of the American capitalists would be having the time of their lives seducing the thousands of Russian nobles who had nothing else to do but risk seduc- tion. s s ss T’S either one thing or the other. This is a fight, not a debate over the theory of evolution or special] créa- tion. There is no free speech in war. Even Villard of the Nation kept his mouth shut as a clam when Wilson was on the war path. He opened it after the war was over to get the class fighters out of jail. For that we give him credit. But he is now doing more injyry to the working cass moventént than ever Palmer or Burleson did, by turning over his magazine to the moat poisonous collection of rattlesnake that ever spewed their venom on Bd viet Russia. ae < eeageey will be free speech in Russia and all over the world when cap- italism is overthrown in the United States, England, France, Italy and Germany. The other capitalist coun- tries don’t matter much. But before that is accomplished the working class will pass thru fire in which the sup- pression of opinion will not be the greatest of evils. In a classless society, the government of people, always ab organ of suppression will give away to an administration of things. When the brotherhood of man will become a reality, there will be freedom of ex- pression but not until then. . . * O we apply the same rule in meag- uring Soyiet Russia that we apply to capitalist countries? Of course not. Like A. A. Purcell, head of the British trade union moyement, we are biased in favor of the working class. The DAILY WORKER is not concerned bore being fair. to the enemy. It -is too busy helping to defeat aim. wo

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