Daily Worker
March 18, 1925
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-_— the Scoville Manufacturing Co, of Waterbury, Conn. The American Thread is RE aE eae ele ie 3 bn ae ies = at Chicago, Illinois under the Aet of March 3, 1879. a Neos; Se aie eee eeataiienD fia ee le VES ae pear re Ma ae ESS sae eee so | j NEW YORK |. EDITION bare Sa F By WILLIAM SIMONS. (Special to The Daily Worker) WILMANTIC, Conn., Mareh © 16,—The American Thread Co. cut the wages of its employes 10 per cent on January 12 of this year. It is typical of the capitalist class which, at the same time that it hugs to itself exorbi- tant constantly attempts to lower wages. | vl the Workers Party at a hearing before the legislative commit tee on labor and an anti-strike bil, revéaled the huge profits of firms like Co. is another of the same type. | Profits are exalted, and human life maltreated, crushed. History of t"e Industry. Willimantic is one of the original. textile centers of America, being one of. the first seven in Connecticut to to become cotton. mill centers before. 1816. The inventjen. of the cotton gin gave impetus to. this - development. The industry was om a-.small scale, consisting of small “fartories. In 1854, the Willimantic Linen Cé. was organized by capitalists from Hartford, Conn. Previous’ to that time, English thread was preferred even by American firms, but the work- ers of Willimantic turned out a prod- uct that was satisfactory. In 1898; the American Thread Co. of Willimantic was organized (possess- ing the properties formerly owned by the Willimantic Linen company), and incorporated under the laws of New Jersey with officials residing in New York and New Jersey. Not even many of the employes age acquainted with the . fact. that. the company is controlled. by a. British company. A woman worker, when asked today about ownership, said the main offices were in N. Y. City. The American: Thread Co was incor- porated on March 10, 1898,. for: manu- facturing cotton, woolen, silk, and lin- en threads and allied business. _ it ‘operates eight plants in Willi- mantic, Stonington and Griswold, Conn’; Holyoke and Pall’ River, Maés:; AS WE B See IT By T. J. O)FLAHERTY pe Chicago Federation of Labor at its meeting last Sunday heard the report of its committee on transporta- tion or to be more correct, the com- mittee that is trying to use the fed- eration in the interests of one set of capitalist political grafters against an- other. The report was made by the vice-president of the federation. It condemned the Dever ordinance and the condemnation was justified. The Dever plan is not municipal owner- ship. It would simply mean that, whereas now, the bankers own the street railways and elevated lines thru their dummy corporations, under the Dever plan, they would own them thru a city corporation. t + + EITHER. the committee nor any one of the delegates who partici- pated in the discussion took a work- ing class angle on the Dever plan which will be submitted to the voters on April 7.° They talked as citizens. The word “citizenry” appeared at least twenty times in Oscar Nelson’s report. The delegates who participat- ed in the discussion looked every inch like businessmen. ‘You could see they were protid of the fact. They were in- terested in the plan from the point ” DEAD: WHEN TOLD ~~ OB AWAITS HIM HAVERSTRAW, N. Y., March 16. George Bower, 75 years old, tried to. get a job for six months. Finally he went to the Interstate park com- ' mission at Bear Mountain Park. The clerk answered unexpectedly that he had a job for Bower ching the tennis courts, when could He report? Bower. slumped © down dead from shock, - Workers Party Runs ‘Candidate in Los. Angeles Elections (Special ‘to The Daily Worker.) © LOS ANGELES, March 16. — The Workers (Communist) Party, Local) Los Angeles, ig ‘entering the city poli- tical campaign « starting here, with three Communist sinters in . the field. , Petitions ‘were circulated for ‘the’ nomination to the, following offices: Emanuel Levin, Workers Party candi- {date for member of the board of édu- cation; Edward Harris, for member of the council, district.number 15, and ‘Sam Globerman, for member of coun- cil, district number 9. ~ =” ; 18, 1925 Published daily PUBLISHING pt Stnday by THE DAILY =” 2113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, WO..KER m Price 3 Conte ¢ Lie to the Fa Fagan | a“ (Special to Daily Worker.) BELLAI he fight against. the hich was mainly adie forkers (Commun- ist) Party, ) @emeduled to begin im- mediately a’ Buksa case was settied by 1 1 convention of sub-District A Union, mf the Ohio Miners’ ‘this could be done the stage | n } set. A red bait- ing ca S& started. An at- tempt was” to whip the dele- gates int of frenzy. Holding the DAIL ‘in his hand, Pat Fagan, who nportéd to do this dirty job,’ ‘tirades of abuse against® the: fessives. He made bitter attacks inst the leaders of the — tionally. His’ attack vee tyro fi the progressives i -by his praise of Workers a . : . . . © : 4 + _ ‘ at 5 : |REACTIONARY LA OR BUREAUCRATS ON JOB WITH SLUGGERS TO WAR FOR RUSSIAN. COUNTER-REVOLUTIONIST 7 The socialist slugging crew at the Raphael Abramovich anti-Soviet meet- ing at the Garrick Theater, Sunday, was led by experienced reactionaries of the labor bureaucracy. Dolnik and Ruffer, business agents of the Joint Board of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, were especially prom- inent. They brought their hired gangsters. But one and all were successful only in making the workers fight back in rage at their cowardly attacks upon women and girls. + The instant that Raphael Abramo/ 4 - : vich stepped to the front of the plat. WEST FR ANKFORT MINE SHUTS DOWN DIVORCING 1,200 FROM THEIR JOBS form.and cleared his lying throat, out of the topmost gallery there rained WEST FRANKFORT, Iil., March 16.—With the suspension of opera- a fluttering shower of leaflets. tion in the Chicago, Wellington and Not Among His Friends. “My friends,” he started off, speak- ing in Jewish. “You are a liar'” piped out the shrill yoice of a woman. “We are nc Franklin Coal company mine, known as the world’s largest .mine, 1200 men were idle today. The men held the world’s hoisting record made on March 25, 1922 when 8,218 tons of of its details during the two hours in. which the Garrick theater rocked with battle. Nor of the thousands who cheered and sang in welcome tc every one ejected into the packed street. Yesterday morning in police court, Max Lerner, director of the Workerr friends of yours!” And the battle coal were taken out in an 8 hour was on, Space forbids the scores of stories shift. Only half of the mines in this district are now working. -_- A DAILY WORKER sub means hectare 0 Party school, was haled (Continued on page 2) another Communist. * Soviet Russia and Sing “The International” Ph: ¥ > ~*~ i . (>. saakem NER me te al err ANTI-RED POLICE RAID FLAYED BY WORKERS PARTY Three Members Held in $10,000 Bonds (Special to The Daily Worker.) NEW YORK, March 16. — Three members of the Workers (Communist) Party are held here in bond of $10,000 each under the old Sullivan law against non-aliens carrying arms. The arrests were made by Captain Gegan of the notorious bomb squad and the “arms” found on the Workers Party members were old rifies rented from the Stanley Costume company for participation in the Paris Com- mune pageant which took place in Madison Square Garden yesterday. That a police official could take such liberties- with the law against a working class organization is added proof that no legal forms are observed by the capitalist government, when dealing with the working class. The following statement was issued by the Workefs Party of New Yors in connection with the arrests: Party Isues Statement. “The Workers« (Communist) Party repudiates as a silly frame-up and a ‘| travesty of justice the much adver- tised exploit of Captain Gegan in the seisure of a few ancient muskets of the model of 1776 and the detention of innocent participants in a theatrical performance under the absurd bail of $10,000 each. “This heroic undertaking received wide publicity in the press as the apprehension of Communists engaged in gun drill presumably in prepara- tion for the overthrow of the United States government. “The whole affair would be an amusing revelation of the antics of Captain Gegan and his merry men and of the susceptibility of the capital- ist press for red scares regardless of —— ae * he ay oe igahhe - —— a a ae bln wert kin de> oak. 5 - =~ j : . ¢.-% vs 7 ‘ ; » j $e - > = (Coritinuéd on page 6.) facts, were it not for the serious con- ~“ of view of what it cost the taxpayers. i4 a anceaetinel e sequences involved for the victims. y. They had. nothing ‘to offer as» a. pro- Man of Vision? pi They were’ playing the role of a “Captain Gegan is living up to his fugiemen for the Og RE reputation of 1919 when he showed ° | ROR A 0g EI te eh My himself an adept at ‘seeng things’ ~~~ .# @ about N the last mayoral election in this, city the official organ n of the Chicago Federation of Labor endorsed Dever as a friend of the workers. But the boys have not been able to agree over the division of thé spoils. They hard- ly ever do. William Hale Thompson is eparing to get back to the city hall. The labor ‘fakers are rallying behind him, except those who are get- ting along nicely on the crumbs that fall from Dever’s table. That is ‘what the scrap is about as far as the offi- cial bureacracy of the trade union movement in Chicago is concerned. - + 7 HE icago Federation of Labor did not have the moral courage to take a vote on the report. submitted by its committee on transportation. They foresaw that is angle of it would. be featured in the press, but they did not care about that, they ad- mitted, with an air of martyrdom. What they were concerned with was, that the rank and file should have an opportunity to pass their judgment on it Of course, this was all bunk. The (Continued on page 2) %, os Phy teh Food Plentiful od Children Healthy (Special to The Daily Worker.) fe LONDON, March ‘16—“Thé'3rath About Russia,” was the title of an ad- dress given by Mr. J. Bromley, M. P., to His constitutents at Barrow recent- ly, reports the London Daily Herald. Mr. Bromley. was one of the seven trade union delegates who visited Rus- sia recently, the others being Messrs. Purcell, Ben Tillett, Herbert Smith, John Turner, A. Findlay, and Fred Bramley. : “Tl dont think,” said Mr. Bromley, “that the delegation’s report will please either those who hold that everything in Russia is beautiful or those who believe in the painful pic- tures painted by the capitalist press.” There was, he said,’ generally a hap- py medium between extreme views, (Continued on page 4) SHRIFT BY SOVIET AMBASSADOR (Special to The Daily Worker) PEKING; February 20.—(By mail.) The Rosta News Agency. learns that the following telegram was sent in reply by L. M. Karakhan, soviet ambas- sador to China, to Marshal Chang Tso Lin’s complaint regarding the ajleged high-handed policies of the Chief Managef of the Chinese Eastern Railway, Mr. Ivanoff. Part of huge throng that jammed Randolph Street Sunday in demon- stration for Soviet. Russia against the counter-revolutionary meeting planned By local “socialists.”’ “Bill” Dunne is seen speaking. Jn the “ A Be ey upper right hand corner is a likeness of the menshevik spy, Raphael Abramovich, the first published in this country. We show it here in order that workers may become acquainted with one of their worst enemies. | BLOOD OF THE MINERS IS ON THE HANDS OF FRANK FARRINGTON SPRINGFIELD, I!l.—Death to 184 miners, and injury serious enuf to cause the loss of 30 days or more of work was the toll taken by Iili- nols coal mines in the fiscal year ended June 30, 1924, according to the state department of mines. Of the injured 474 never returned to were employed but they averaged only 140 days of employment, less than half a normal working year. They produced 72,308,665 tons of which about 71 per cent was under- cut by machinery. Fiu Closes Schools. ANDREW, Iowa, March 16.—Health authorities here today ordered all schools closed in an effort to check John L. Lewis, whom he claimed was the best leader the miners ever had. Whether he meant best for the bosses he did not say. But looking over his activities in the last few years. Tak- ing into consideration the activities of the Lewi# machine in Nova Scota, in Alberta, in Kansas, where their act- ivities resulting in considerably weak- ening the organization, looking over the immense ground the United Mine Workers. has lost in West Virginia, where Van Bitner spends his time | fighting the radicals instead of Rog ing the union, in Oklahoma, taneal union than strengthen it. Give Lie to Fagan Fagan proceeded to attack the pro- gressives, claiming that they retarded the activities of the union in getting the boys who are in Moundsville out of jail. In reply to this bold lie, one has just to read the following letter which was received by John Buksa, Ohio. “Dear Comrade? —_" —s 36 HOMELESS WORKERS ARRESTED NEW YORK, March 16.—Thirty-six mtn who were trying to get a little | sleep on hard benches in the 18ist street subway station while the night | trains roared by were arrested by police raiders and taken to jall. Jesse Silberman found them guilty of to $3 fine or 2 days in jail. Magistrate disorderly conduct and sentenced them | Not one had fine money to pay. SENATE AGAIN REJECTS CAL'S Vote 46 to 39 That War- ren Is Unfit (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., March 16.— The nomination of Charles B. War- ren of Michigan, as attorney general was again rejected by the senate by a Coolidge, who has twice ecen his cabi- net choice discredited by the senate vote, must now either name another Norwegian General Strike to Mediation ——— LONDON, March 16.—The general the sapehiouicdl Post today from Oslo. Demands Aliens Register. Secretary of Labor James J. Davis stopped off long enough in Chicago to repeat his demand that all aliens register each year. Labor sees in this the beginning of a huge industrial es- pionage and blacklist system by the government. the reds which he always failed to substantiate fh court. Gegan after a long period of quiescence is | again in eruption. | “On Friday night this mighty de- \fender of American capitalism SWwoop- (ed down without a warrant upon the headquarters of the Workers (Com- munist) Party, 108 E. 14th street and the Ukrainian Hall, 17 E. 8rd street. and confiscated a few useless old mus- kets that were hired together with |Other theatrical paraphernalia from |the Stanley Costume company, 306 W. | 22nd street, for use in a pageant to |be given tomorrow (Sunday) in Ma- |dison Square Garden in commemora- tion of the anniversary of the Paris Commune. Three of the participants in this pageant who happened to be \Standing near were arrested and held by Magistrate Weil under the enorm- ous bail of $10,000 each. ; In Role of Clown. “These recent exploits of Captairf Gegan, once the facts are known, puts Gegan and his whole crew including the reactionary interests he is serving, in a laughable and ridiculous predica- ment, an assault on inoffensive work- ers participating in a theatrical ai . é . ; re- | CHANG TSO-LIN JAP AND FRENCH “en ‘a aie. +n pote Banat Arkansas and Kentucky, one can eure YEP lean at ar i Rha tatagptown dle pean Atted to function 3 te ape AGENT IN CHINA IS GIVEN SHORT During the year 99,765 miners agape a de yon sr TRUST | AW public mediators, said a dispatch to ,8¢¥M antiquities, most Of them dum- , mies with wooden barrels. “If this is the policy of the bomb Squad, why not immediately jail and | put under bail of $10,000 each every supernumery in a theatrical perform- ance on Broadway who shoulders a musket? Nevertheless, the serious guardians of capitalist law here have incarcerated three workers for that crime, | Permission Obtai ained. ¢t . from Joe Ragus,.one of the militant lority tea _Cool- Sta . . “You are perfectly right to say that all the land except the lots neces-/|the influenza epidemic which in the na ig ‘Ch te wrk: larger majority than rejected Cool hd De ot | “Captain Gegan and the. capitalist : ‘ miners who is in Pp idge’s sugar trust lawyer the first A DAILY WORKER sub Me€ans |interests whom he is serving k th : sery for the railway must be administered by the Chinese authorities. |last few days have brought serious : . . : : g know the The> Letter time. Warren was rejected by the|another Communist. (Continued on page 5.) However, until such lands have been delimited and until it has settled which jillness to 38 children. So far, no on ‘ aate an ubet hyd wots of 46 to 29 ; : (Continued on page 4.) }deaths have resulted. John Buksa, Box 227, Yorksville, | 39. THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLARS BAIL d “I want you #0 attend the meet} nan or*carry out. hisethreat to give MUST BE RAISED FOR RELEASE , (Continue on Page 4.) Warren a recess appointment. , Borah Hits Warren as Unfit, OF NEW YORK RAID VICTIMS . Lineman is Killed. | Senator Borah, in an attack on-War- “ pes ls I ic « . : wi —_— , INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., March 16.—| ae yok ory ta 87 Saag mag 0 NEW YORK.CITY, March 16.—Thirty thousand dollars must be raised as Chester Harris, 24, a lineman for the ; 2 ‘ bail for the comrades arrested by the New York The advances made by the Workers Party during the last year are in aspirant for the attorney generalship, | ' d ibipetapenaren eqpae. They must be large part due to THE DAILY WORKER. Because of our constant contact American Telephone and Telegraph aie Whe diated gates ote tha’ dial released from the clutches of the law as soon as possible. Funds must be with an ever growing number of workers who read THE DAILY WORKER company, was killed today when the/ responsibility with the president in collected for their defense. The government seems determined to use these the Workers Party has been better able to lead the revolutionary struggle, pole on which he was working was| the naming of c@inet officers. Borah | cases as the first steps against the whole party. According to Captain rae ary Sor ome ps large groups of workers into the conflict for the over- pulled to’ the ground by another fal- aimed his remarks at Coolidge’s at- | Gegan, there is going to be a “clean. mop-up” of radicals in New York City. r ? i . . : 2 ‘ . ‘ One of the outstanding success made by the American working class se er | Compt to enforce his will on the sen No time dare be lost. Thirty thousand dolNars must be raised at once; during the past year has been the rise of THE DAILY WORKER. The first i | ate. ‘ aI | funds must be collected for defense. Comrades, appeal to your trade unions national subscription campaign which resulted in securing six thousand new a EAL Pe | Coolidge called Borah to the White | and fraternal organizations to support these comrades. We must not be DAILY WORKER subscribers was a brilliant achievement. The second an- OMDON. Mash 40-20 . p _ House after the rejection of the cor- | caught unawares, but must prepare for keen struggles. A broad campaign nual DAILY WORKER_sub drive must equal and better this record. Revolu- L ene, aries +0-| poration lawyer, and unsuccessfully en - | against thts new attack on the Communists must be strengthened by ever tionary workers in America are called upon to devote their utmost energy binson’s suit against the Midland! deavored to induce Borah to change | : lidarity of th hol kj i in making the slogan: “15,000 New Subscribers by June 15!” an accom- Bank in an effort to collect $650,000! his vote. “I firmly believe that Mr. Pe eee eee. ee — plished fact. of the money »extracted form Sir} Warren is unfit for this office,” Borah | To work, comrades, Pass resolutions in your unions, Collect funds and ) CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, Harri Singh, in ‘the famous “Mr. A.’ "| said. bail money. Any comrades who themselves can furnish cash or property or | WORKERS PARTY OF AMERICA. blackmail case, will fail in the court | Challenge Cail’s Authority. get others to do so, should report at once. Send all funds and resolutions - of appeals, the laster court announced The president's authorityageeresud- | to the Labor Defense Council, New York division, 108 E. 14th Sty New York | today. (Continue on Page 2) City. : ¥ \ f : 7 ( \ : ~_ we —<————<< a — ns Oe ee eee rm ———7€—~ —— nS SA A —— —
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ce 2 : oes ‘ ‘ , igh. : hays aca o:'4 _ ‘, " SY Pope Offers Commated | Term in Purgatory That Pope Pius Xi is granting “special. indaigences” to American oatholics who actively fight against Soviet Russia, is admitted by the catholic union, an organization which states as its aim “The reunion with the holy church of the separated brethren of the Near East,” and which is raising funds among catholics in this country to spread propaganda against Soviet Russia. “Please contribute generously,” says Rev. Dr. Augustine Count Ga- len, O. S. B. after describing the “horrors” of Soviet Russia. “Remem- ber, too, that as a donor you become a member of the catholic union, and will receive a membership certificate which will entitle you to the special indulgences granted by His Holiness Pope Pius XI, to all our members.” Grants “Indulgences.” Apparently, according to the &. O. B.’s letter, this certificate is to be presented at the gates of purgatory. If only ten dollars has been contributed to the fight on Soviet Russia, ten days are clipped off the catholic’s gentence to purgatory. If $200.00 has been given to fight the workers and peasants of Soviet Russia, however, the sentence is commuted 200 days, “by order of the pope.” The devil is duty bound, according to catholic rules, to honor the pope’s anti-Soviet certificate. “The Catholic News has this to say about conditions in Russia,” says the Ss. O. B. in his letter sent to nearly every catholic in the country, “and about the work of the catholic un- ion. “The present Russian government is making every effort to abolish christianity; they have even estab- lished at Moscow a so-called seminary to train anti-religious teachers. In theory the law promises freedom of workship, but in practice there is a real persecution of christians. The catholic union is intended to be a powerful means of combatting the evil influences thus set in motion.’” Priests Solft Livers. Now comes the dirty work. The priests are soft livers. They need plenty of money for their fine robes | and rich food. But they are in an unfortunate position in Soviet Rus- sia. The priests, who worked hand in glove with the czar in sucking the blood from the Russian peasants and workers, have lost their jobs. No longer is there a master class to which they can sell themselves. No longer can they dope the people with cant about the next world while they allow the imperialists to rob them in this world. The priests therefore need money in Soviet Russia. “America concludes an editorial en- titled ‘To Spread the Faith in Soviet Russia,’” says the pope’s official 8. O. B. in America, “as follows: ‘Every thing depends upon the means that can now be raised for this truly apos- tolic undertaking. The sum of $250.00 contributed for five successive years, would educate a priest in whose works and prayers the donor would share. But every assistance given would ad- vance the good cause.” The S.'O. B. seems to infer that the larger the donation, the more pray- ers will be, wafted on high for the sinful donor. Silk Workers as Wage Slaves. WASHINGTON, March 16.—Aver- age wages in 1923 for the 125,234 work- ers employed (on the average) in the silk manufacturing plants in the United States were $1,013 for the year. The gross profits of the 1,598 estab- lishments employing these workers were $155,434.400 or enuf to have doubled the wages and left $28,680,000 for overhead costs of business. The establishments covered by this report, issued by the department of commerce, census of manufactures, do not include those devoted to knit fab- rics, hosiery and other knit goods made of silk, but include all other lines of silk production. Want Bloomington Labor Temple. BLOOMINGTON, lIllL—The Bloom- ington Trades and Labor Assembly is organizing a campaign among the un- ions for the erection of a labor tem- ple. The local movement owns its priting plant in which its weekly, The Searchlight, is printed. Another hold- ing is a co-operative grocery, meat market and clothing store housed in its own building. Jap Councillor Dies. TOKIO Mareh 16.—General Mirau, privy councillor and prominent poli- tician, died today. He was 80 years old. By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. —— (Continied from page 1.) fact is that the labor leaders are at loggerheads over the issue, or more correctly over Dever and Thompson and their respective backers. They passed the buck to the local unions, knowing that the great majority of them will not have time to consider the question before the vote is taken on April 7. + *¢se ig was amusing to hear Oscar Nel- son charge the officials of Local 556, of the stationary engineers with having “delivered the local” to Dever. Hed this charge been made against Nelson and his reactionary cohorts by a radical, his cries could be heard in heaven. But this kind of language is perfectly legitimate in dirty capitalist politics. They all do it. The gentle- man from Virginia calls the gentle- man from Minnesota a liar and then begs permission to withdraw his re marks. There is no hard feeling after the election is over. It is only one of the many ways the political crooks have of making a living. es s¢ ®# NE of the delegates was so deeply moved over the perfidy of Dever and his cohorts for putting over “the biggest traction steal in history” that he regretted the scarcity of ropes around the city hall. He thought the perpetrators of this foul scheme should be dangling at the end of them. “It seems the revolutionary sentiment that was so prevalent here years ago has evaporated,” he mused. One ex- pected him to recité fhe declaration of independence and bring down the house but he refrained. He did not want to disturb the delegates. : 7. > o ATHER funny tho, that at the very moment this venerable dele- gate was mourning over the days when there was life in the labor move- ment, a lively battle was being waged about two blocks away, with work- ers, who resented the attacks of the stool pigeon, Abramovich, on Soviet Russia doing the heavy part of the scrimmaging. Revolutionary senti- ment is not entirely dead, by any means. It is very much alive. But it is foreign to the officialdom of the trade union movement in the United States. * ¢* s NE delegate thot the Dever ordi- nance would be good for the build- ing trades. Those who favored Dever were afraid to say so openly, A few wanted a vote on the question. 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Pred ab Sh (Ya ee vi : ” t ret ens i -* Pint sal “it hal ae : ine Ga eNO de. ES oe : aes : i. fr See 4 ne oa oy Ns ee ee le , ane aie ‘ . ’ 4 a re) Steel , v wes - — Se ow Fo pa 4 Workers -Officials’’S The Right to Strike By J. “v ers ivi LOUIS ENGDAHL i urrendering | : ia "LOOAN, the pet lackeys of the late Sam Gompers, who toadied to him as president of the American Federation of Labor, are still on the job trying to dictate policies for the American working class. Among those closest to Gompers was the renegade “socialist,” John Spargo, who argues in an article in the March issue of the North American Review, that there will be no an ch regime of President William Green. If any changes develop, he says, they are such changes as would have taken p under Gompers had he lived. , But Spargo cleverly hides the propaganda poison | his effusion. An adept at sophistry he employs it to the utmost in his sapper work for the ra ag class. me argues that the workers must, surrender the “right::to strike” on aq employment. In this category he includes not only the transportation apse ially the rail- roads, but also the coal mines, re-calli e complete capit- ulation of President John L. Lewis, of the United Mine Work- ers of America, in the last great struggle of the coal miners of, “We cannot strike against the government.” 2 * @«e2 @ Spargo knows whereof he speaks. The efforts of the capitalist state to outlaw strikes on public utilities on the ground that they constitute a direct attack against the established order is not new. When the renegade socialist, Briand, before the world war was in power in France, he broke a strike of the French oe workers by calling them to the colors; forcing them into the capitalist military ma- chine, thus making the strike treason against capitalism. It was during the recent short-lived regime of the Mac- Donald (labor-socialist) ministry in Great Britain that secret plans went thru the war department for the intervention of the military arm of the state in future railroad strikes. It is with this encouragement that the railroad owners in Great Britain have been carrying on an aggressive cam- paign for wage cuts. It may be taken for granted that the intellectual stool- pigeon, Spargo, does not speak for himself alone, He voices the sentiments of that great bulk of American labor’s offi- cialdom that is ready to make further and more drastic con- cessions to the employing class. Spargo writes: “We may admit an abstract ‘right to strike’ In the same sense and way as we admit an abstract ‘right to revolution.’ There is the right, also, of society to protect itself against revolution and to crush the revolution that imperils its safety, if it can. “It is not at all an exaggeration to say that the United States of America can as easily contemplate with equanimity the secession of several states, as the cessation of labor for any length of time upon our railroads or in our coal mines.” It isn’t difficult to see where Spargo and those for whom he speaks in official power in the labor movement will be in the future, as they have been in the past, in labor’s struggles. Spargo was with Gompers and the rest on Wall Street's side, urging participation in the world’wart, to savé Morgan's gold. In the fierce combats to come, when labor will struggle to maintain its standard of living, or better it, this whole seg- ment of the labor movement wifl place itself closer than ever at the side of the capitalist ruling class. * 2*® * @ Treason to the whole.working class is being committed by these so-called “leaders” even now in refusing to pre- pare for these coming and inevitable struggles. hen the A. F. of L. executive council recently met at Miami, Florida, it reported “nothing to do.” ! Down in Washington, today, it is reported that no agree- ment has been reached on the jurisdictional squabble as to whether the street carmen's union or the teamsters’ union should have jurisdiction over.bus drivers. And the fight as to whether the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers should be allowed to hire non-union miners in its coal pits still re- mains unsettled. These two instances are typical. Labor's officialdom shows its incapacity in the failure to settle even the most simple internal squabbles of the organized labor movement. Instead they destroy every possibility of a dis- ciplined, organized struggle. They all agree on one point— that the logical solution of amalgamation of craft unions into huge industrial unions must be fought wherever it appears. Thus they prove the best servants of the bosses. 4 * t » In the meantime the representatives of the great mine owning interests of the nation meet today in Cleveland, Ohio, to discuss the launching of a wage cutting and “open shop” war against the coal miners’ union. Capitalism pre- pares for the next offensive against the working class. It is time for the rank and file of labor to prepare to move in an effective counter-attack. in A. F. of L. policies under the © s * —_—— % of enthusiastic cheers that echoed and re-echoed from the canyon walls of the loop buildings, and going wild with applause for Bill Dunne, who, mounted on an up-ended iron box, spoke to the throng the message of the Communism and proletarian revo- lution. At about 4:15 Abramovich had had enough, but not so the workers on the streets. They hung around for some time, cheering and singing, filled with joy at their victory. Martin Abern, District Organizer of the Workers (Communist) Party, an- nounced to the crowds that on Sun- day afternoon, March 29th, at the Ash- land Auditorium, a counter-demon- stration against the criminal counter- revolutionary socialists, will be held, where speakers of the Workers Party will address the workers of Chicago, all of whom are welcome, and where there will be no police invited. Harlem Wants Negro Judge. NEW YORK, March 16.—Harlem wants a Negro judge. A petition to Mayor Hylan of New York seeks to have him appoint Louis A.. Lavelle, a Negro lawyer, to fill the next vacancy as city magistrate. : Patronize our advertisers. 2 U. S. Senate Again Rejects Coolidge’s Sugar Trust Lawyer (Continued from Page 1) mit Warren’s name was challenged by Senator King, democrat, of Utah, who inserted in the record a resolution de- claring the act unconstitutional, King said he would not ask for a vote on his resolution, but wanted it a part of the record go that the constitution- al issue could be rarsed if the presi- dent gave Warren a recess appoint- ment. One of the greatest crowds in years heard the closing debate on the War- ren fight. Police reserves had to be called out at one juncture to preserve order. They added a dramatic note to a conflict between the executive and the senate that has no parallel in history. The senate floor was pack- ed, as were the galleries. Defense of Warren fell to a hand- ful of new administration senators— Gillett and Butler, of Massachusetts, and Bingham of Connecticut, princi- pally. Does your friend subscribe to the DAILY WORKER? Ask him? ' 2 : 5 | - « | Workers’ Aid, Clevelan , Is entering into the work o the Irish famine relief, and promise support in every possible way to th work of the Irish Workers’ and Pe: ants’ Relief Committee which is rais- ing funds for the relief of the Irish workers and peasants suffering from ‘the famine now devastating the west coast of Ireland. PORE: McCarthy To Speak. 4 The Cleveland committee is mak ing plans to hold a mass meeting in the near future to be addressed by Jack McCarthy, now on his way back from the famine region in Ireland. I is also planned to hold a dance withir a couple of weeks. In the meantime, the committee is distributing litera- ture on the famine situation, and cir. culating contribution lists in order that the workers of Cleveland regard- less of nationality or place of birth, may have an opportunity to assist their Irish brothers, as the workers of all lands rallied to the support of the Russian workers and peasants in the terrible famine of 1921; and as assistance has been given since to the German workers and the workers of other countries in time of need. A number of Irish workers active in the labor movement of Cleveland are co-operating with the Irish Work- ers’ Aid Committee, and all those whether of Irish origin or not, who wish to assist in this work, should get in touch at once with the secretary of the I. W. A., John Fromholz, 6927 Buclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio, room 18, phone Randolph 4065. DEMOCRAT SHIELD —... CHt WASHINGTON, D. C., March 16,— Sen. Glass of Virginia, secretary of the treasury at the time Henry Ford secured from the treasury a pre-sale yaluation of the minority stock in the Ford Motor Co., told the senate that Mellon’s $11,000,000 claim against Sen. Couzens for further federal taxes on that sale would be paid—if at all— by Ford. The Detroit motor car magnate guaranteed the net price to Couzens, who paid a tax on the valuation set bythe treasury. Glass denounces Mel- lon’s claim, and says that rich men ought to get as much justice from the internal revenue office as poor citizens get. Couzeng has a fortune above $40,000,000. Mellon has $150,- 000,000. Daily Worker and ' Fretheit Ball to Be Held in Boston BOSTON, Mass., March 16— The DAILY WORKER and Freiheit inter- national costume ball will be held here Friday evening, March 20, at Convention Hall, St. Botolph St. Seven prizes will be awarded for the seven best costumes. The first prize will be a seventy-five dollar, three-tube radio set, and there will also be cash prizes. Singing, recitations, refreshments, music and dancing are included in the program. The ball is being held un- der the auspices of the Jewish district committee of the Workers (Commun: ist) Party of Boston. Floods in Africa. LONDON, March 16.—Heavy floods in the upper Natal in South Africa are causing great damage, according to a Central News dispatch today from Durban. The town of Ladysmith is in danger from the rising waters while residents in the lower sections of the Natal have been ordered from their homes. Rushville Fire Does Big Damage. RUSHVILLE, Ill., March 16.—Dam- age was estimated at $100,000 today as a result of the fire which destroy- ed a three-story brick building, oc- cupied by the George Little company department store, and one-story build- ing adjoining it. Three other build- ings were damaged. Jap Labor Fights Capitalist Wars. NEW HAVEN, Conn., March 16. — Japanese labor is for peace and will try to keep peace on their end of the Pacific if American workers do the’ same on this side, Toyohiko Kagawa, Japanese union organizer, told ‘the Yale Liberal Club. Kagawa is on his way to the labor conference in Switzerland. Extradition Treaty With Mexico. WASHINGTON, March 16.—An ex- tradition treaty has been negotiated between the United States and Mexico, it was learned at the state department today. The treaty which provides the extradition of any one violating the narcotic, prohibition or customs laws is ready for signature. Spain’s Dictator Hangs On. MADRID, Spain, March 16—Primo de Rivera, the head of the military di- rectorate of Spain announced that he will refuse to vacate power despite growing opposition. The fascist dicta- tors declare they will hang on as long as possible. 71 es FE I i ese 52 zagoeera
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—— —— —— (ee ES eA JESS SS Se es age ~ s~“~ - fr THE BE TLY WORKER 4 AB y ee CATIONAL LEAGUE IS THE T.UEL. A DUAL UNION? A HOT ANSWER ‘Article One of a Reply to Duffy ( By J. W. JOHNSTONE . The expulsion of William Reynolds of Detroit, Niels Kjar and his four colleagues of Chicago, F. W. Burgess of Philadelphia, and P. Z: McCl and 15 others of Los Angeles, has deeply stirred the rank and file of the Carpenters’ Un‘on truout the en- tire country. Hundreds of local un- ions have demanded that the expell- ed members be reinstated and that Hutcheson be compelled to abide by the constitution. Secretary Duffey, Hutcheson’s hand- “maid, has issued a stereotyped reply trying to explain to all the local unions and district councils, that have demanded further information as to why these expulsions have taken place, The Old, Old Stuff Duffey, in his usual crude way, tries te justify the expulsion of Reynolds “py accusing him of belonging to a dual unfon. In part Duffey says, “When the members openly and above-board admit they hold member- ship in the.l. W. W., the One Big Union, the e Union Educational League, or similar bodies antagonistic to the United Brotherhood, the gener- al executive board has no other alter- native than enforce the law and deci- sion of our convention. “At the last meeting of the general executive board held in Indianapolis, Jan. 25, evidence was submitted to that body showing that William Rey- nolds, a member of Local 2140, De- troit, Mich., is a member of the Trade Union Educational League, an organ- fwation detrimental and contrary to the interests of the United Brother- heod. The general executive board erdered said William Reynolds expel- ted from the United Brotherhood. “In cases of this kind it is not a fecal matter, It therefore becomes the duty of the general executive board to deal with it, and Section 55 does not apply.” When Hutcheson Can't See the sae Constitution | So there you have it. The-conatitu- tion is all right. Section 55, which guarantees the right of trial, in his instance is out of place. Hutcheson, the carpenters’ guardian angel, thru Duffey, says so. So it must be. Just when Section 55 does apply, Duffey forgot to mention. So far as we are able to learn, it has never applied since Hutcheson, the lumberjack, in- fiicted himself onto the Carpenters’ Union. - According to Duffey,-information or evidence was submitted to the G. E. B. showing Reynolds to be a member of ‘he T. U. E. L. And upon that he Wes expelled without hearing or trial. Even a capitalist court will allow a defendant some semblance of a de- fense, but not so Czar Hutcheson. . Not only was Reynolds denied his constitutional right of a hearing, but Hutcheson never even gave him the opportunity to either deny or affirm his membership in the T. U. E. L. let alone consider whether the T. U. B. L. is a dual organization. In fact it is comon knowledge that the’ deci- sion was made by Hutcheson to ex- pel Reynolds and a number of others thruout the country long before the last convention took place, and the G. BE. B. did not wait five minutes on the matter. If the T. U. E. DC, was dual to the Carpenters’ Union there would be no need to violate Section 55 of the constitution. The carpenters of De- troit would be a unit in expelling Reynolds or anyone else connected with the T. U. E. L. if this was the case. But what is the real situation. Ie The T. U. E. L. a Union? Reynolds is president of his local union, vice president of the district council, and every local union in De- troit, and the district council, as well as hundreds of local unions thruout the country have rallied to his sup- port. Hutcheson got out an injunction to restrain Reynolds from attending his local union meetings. This injunction was violated by Reynolds, and he was charged with contempt of court. But so much miass pressure was brought to bear upon the court, that it was forced to Gis- solve the injunction and dismiss the contempt proceedings. It is very easy to say that the T. U. E. L.ds a dual union but another thing to e it. That is why Hutcheson has pot the courage to come before =x: membership of Detroit and try to prove this ridiculous claim. The Difference is Vital and Basic What is a dual union? How does it function? Any organization to be'dual to the Carpenters’ Union must try to occupy the same field,—that is, they must collect dues, issue charters, strive for job control, enter into agreements with employers, call strikes, elect business agents, presidents, secreé- taries, organizers, carry on organizing campaigns, take the carpenters out of ~_ me | | CENTRAL DISTRICT | “RESIGN!” DEMAND OF FARRINGTON, OPEN LETTER TO DISTRICT HEAD COMMUNISTS IN A SCATHING Branch, Christopher, Ill. CHRISTOPHER, Ill.—The following is an open letter to Frank Farring- ton and his District Executive Board, from the Workers Party English “As this branch, being composed of miners, was a party to the attempt to bring about a convention of the Illinois miners to discuss and devise ways and means to help the unemployed, and force the operators to live up to the contract, as the officials seem to have lost, or forgot any contractual power to do so (witness the O’Fallon case on division of work), and also a party to ‘the formation of unemployment councils to help alleviate the suffering of the }etarving miners, their wives and families, and as Farrington and his board find unemployment councils to be dual unions and their advocates are or dered to abandon same, this branch, in a does hereby most emphatically declare as follows: *: An Immediate Convention. “Pirst: That a convention of the Illinois miners should be held at once to devise ways and means to help the suffering miners in the unemployed sections of our district, as the follow- ing facts prove the necessity. “The miners from Sessor solicited aid from the district office and were denied, because of lack of constitu- tional authority. The Sessor miners had been out over a year, and were and are in a hellish condition. “The San Doval men applied for a loan, and gave all the security they had, but it was likewise turned down, because of insufficient security. The men at San Doval are the victims of a lockout because they refused to take a reduction in wages and sur- render their contractual right to take up their case, i. 6, a reduction in wages of the shot firers and exam’s, and the imposition of new and unfair conditions in violation of the contract. “These men were locked out, and have received no work or aid for over a year. Their homes are sold or mort- gaged and starvation and sickness is prevalent thruout the town. Finally, in desperation, they appealed for aid to the district—and were denied. “These two camps are a sample of scores thruout the state. There are many members thruout the state starving, who have been members of the organization long before Farring- ton ever knew what a union was, and ton ever did or ever will and have fought their union battles ‘as MEN, and now in the hour of their) meed, they are denied any aid whatever, and because of this position of FARRING- TON AND HIS BOARD, this, branch felt, and feels now, it was, and is, necessary to call a convention, even if for no other purpose than, the above. Unemployment Councils Not > a Unions. “Second: We deny that aisle stoy- ment councils are dual unions: Far- rington, for his own reasons, May s0 declare them, but he doesn’t con- vince anyone outside his official oil- ers; and he can keep on so declaring, if he derives any pleasure from the declaration. “We do not feel starving miners are much worried about empty declar- ations, and as that seems to be all the Starving miners are to get from the district office, they have not much to be thankful for. “What are these’ unemployment councils? What are they organized for? Who composes them? The an- swer to these questions determines their lack of dualism. The wnem- ployment councils are a voluntary meeting of unemployed miners and members of the U. M. WwW. of A. in and around the mines. There is no char- ter to this organization of disgusted, discouraged, and outraged, unem- ployed ‘workers. “These unemployed workers meet at intervals in divers places to dis- cuss the economic situation from every angle, particularly as it effects the mifieér, and they have proposed the following policy to be used In a cam- paign to educate the public to the justice of our demands: | We Fight for this Policy. “(a) Nationalization of mines. (b) Until the public is ready for same, or we are ready to force its acceptance, the six-hour day, and five-day week, to equalize employment, and give to each person his share. (c) A guar- antee of a minimum weekly wage corresponding to an American stand- ard of living. “These are our immediate demands and when an economic condition arises that prevents the contract from being carried out, it becomes null and ‘have paid into it more than Farring- | ++ void, because of its impossibility. “Farrington and his board hag no policy to help the unemployed. They are policy bankrupt. Therefore, as leaders they are failures, and because, of their failure, the necessity has arisen to organize councils of the un- ‘employed workers to try and help ourselves. “Starve and be Damned.” “Just think ‘of starving desperate fathers being told that they are en- emies of the union for getting togeth- er with their buddies to try and do something for their semi-starved chil- dren. “We have seen a man carried to his grave here starved, and little chil- dren go about more dead than alive because of malnutrition. This con- dition exists all over the state, and yet the state officials refuse to do any- thing about it. THEIR POLICY SEEMS TO BE: ‘STARVE AND BE DAMNED.’ “Farrington has received the con- fidence of the miners, and«che hag be- trayed that confidence by his recent ruling, therefore he has prostituted the high office to which he was elect- ed and in justice to the miners, their wives and little ones, whom he has betrayed and insulted, we call upon him to resign -from the presidency and keep out of the affairs of the miners’ union which he is wrecking by his dirty rulings. An Excuse that Won’t Go. “According to this latest wrecking ruling of the Himalayan expense gentry, if me, even employed, should meet at the switch at their working places and discuss unemployment, they would be dual unionists! The Sub-District No. 5 has an educational bureau, and they talk of the cause of unemployment and its cure. They are dual unionists also! Ye gods, by what perverted process of reasoning have the mighty ones arrived at such a conclusion? They refuse because of their utter ignorance or unconcern to help us, or permit us to attempt to help ourselves. “No money to help the miners’ little children, weak from matnu- trition. Their little, white faces, sunken eyes, and fevered bodies, all too plainly indicate their dan- gerous condition. “But what do you care, Farring- ton? You, who are well fed, well groomed, with your big salary and fat expense account? “Farrington, your drink is the blood of these littie ones. “Farrington, your bread is the bodies of the miners’ families; the money to pay your salaries arid expenses are the lives of the min- ers and their families, buried In paupers’ graves, and dying of starvation. “Their life-giving blood is drip- ping from you, your very soul is red with the blood of the Innocent children of the miners. “No help, indeed, for the miners who built up the treasury, but money for investigations of freak class col- laboration, power plant schemes. Down With Class Collaboration! “Yes, Farrington—class collabora- tion schemes which you hope will perpetuate yourself as a vampire on the jugular vein of innocent children. Common decency calis to high heaven that you resign from the position you have prostituted. The miners wil) never forget the ruling, and the at- tempt to destroy the only weapon they have, Farrington. “You stand convicted before the bar of working class opinion. Resign and save yourself further disgrace. “Yours for justice, “ENGLISH BRANCH, CHRISTO- PHER, ILLINOIS, Workers vised of America.” the United Brotherhood into their organization. In other words, to be dual an organ- ization must take over all the func- tions now being carried on by the Carpenters’ Union. Hutcheson knows that the T. U. E. L. does not do this. That is why he violates the consti- tution, and under this crude and lying excuse expels those who disagree with him politically or who are trying to expose his corrupt administration. This is What the League Is. The T. U. E. L. is what its name implies, an educational organization. It has neither membership, as that term is generally understood, nor does it collect dues,—although if this were done, it still would not make it a dual union. It is a grouping of individ- . ~ « uals who believe in certain ideals, such as amalgamation, independent working class political action, expos- ure of corrupt labor bureaucratic of- ficialdom, etc. It works amongst the organized workers to try thru propaganda and by example to replace the class col- laboration policy of the Hutchesons, Lewises, Greens et al., with the class struggle program advocated by the T. VU. E. L. It works among the unorganized workers to bring them closer to and finally into the trade unions. It is neither dual nor antagonistic, but is complimentary to the trade unions. The Real Reason. It is, however, the uncompromising PANIES CHEAT MINERS Mine Committees Must | Fi ight Both — ELLSWORTH, Pa.—This is a min- ing town Owned by the Bethlehem Steel corporagion, or Charley Schwab, organized the U. M. W. of A,, Local 1190. | miners of this local had a compl about their scale a few months and they tried al ways to find out where the trouble was. They had the state scale inspector come to look ‘OVer the scale, but, when he came, he went first to the coal company’s ce and talked it over with the y’s officials. Then he went to the scale, and, as ex- pected, he oe. ed it. The min then asked to have the empty cars ghed but the company refused for’ about two months, then one good ~ ‘the company officials notified the Miners that the cars were to be weighed. After the cars were weighed the miners found that they lost 400 Ibs 6m each car. The men then decided that perhaps their checkweighman was on the com- pany’s side so the miners decided to have him chinged and put two in- stead of one in his place. The man got $14.00 a-day. They decided to put two men on and pay each $8.00 a day. At the time of the election the miners had‘ no experienced check- weighman in their local so they de cided to havé one man from their own local and one from another local that is idle, The day after the election these two men went to work, but the company’s officials refused to leave both men on the tipple, because the experienced chekweighman was no employe of the company! When the Miners saw that, they all went home ‘and decided not to ZO back until that Man goes on the scale. After thé ‘officials were notified about the OS aeRO or , wets ~- =e
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Letter Gives Lie to the , order is founded. PRAISES waa “th MILITANTS ‘Faker’ Pat Fagan (Continued from page 1) ing in the Temple at Bellaire and do whatever good you can. “There is some controversy going on in the order between certain of- ficials and some of our members known as progressives, therefore I desire to make known that those whom the officials would censure are some of the best, truest and most loyal men we have. Good workers for” the cause, true to their brethren in adversity and loyal to the principles of right and justice upon which our “They have heard our cry behind the prison wall, responding nobly to the call. "Twas they who visited us and ministered unto our every need. “It was these men, the progressives, that stirred the membership to act- ion, finally opening the prison doors to twenty five of our brothers, while some of the officials proclaimed that it could not be done. “T cannot meet the brothers at the Temple and attest in person to the fine and manly way in which they ful- filled their obligation to us men be- hind the walls in Moundsville, I can only hope that the assembly will be imbued with a spirit of fairness and uprightness and sufficient in numbers to sustain those brothers against any unfair attack that may be launched against them and to rebuke those who would attempt to expel from our ranks even the least among us, an act which in itself would violate the obligation, intent and purpose of our noble order to uphold for freedom of thought whether expressed by tongue or pen, and to have all mine workers join our union.” “With best wishes to you personal- ly, I remain faithfully, “Joe Ragus.” Officials Let Down Prisoners This shows that it was the progress- ives who drove the machine into ac- tion. The men themselves say so. In spite of the fact that the machine promised to take care of the men, at a meeting held in Charleroi on Feb. 15th, two men who were released from Moundsville due to the pressure of the progressives, stated that the offi- cials never gave the men the aid they promised them. It was hy stories like these that Fagan did his work. His statements so enraged one of the delegates that ‘he called him a liar from the floor. He was followed by Hargest, secret- ary of his district, who made the same type of talk that he did, thus greasing the machine for the attack that was to follow. y - . +. - ~ -— +2 pas ~~ Short Shrift to Ft an per (Continued from page 1) lots exactly will pass to China, those lands remain under the control of the line, and no one has the right to seize and dispose of them by violence or with the help of armed police force. “In their desire to hand over the lands in question to the Chinese au- thorities, the Russian members of the board of directors made a proposition to that effect as early as November last, but as the Chinese members of the board had no instructions from yourself they failed to endorse the Russian proposal, which resulted in the issue having been protracted till now. It was only after the misunder- standing with the ‘District No. 8’ had occurred that, aceeding to the urgent proposition of the Russian members, the board, on January 12, decided to constitute a commission for the delim- ination of the lands and handing them over to China. “I have approved this decision of the board and appointed a person to be on the said commission, and I may hope that you will also appoint a dele- gate.to represent the Chinese side, there will be a prospect then of set- tling the land question within the briefest space of time. I feel certain that the solution of this question wil! offer no difficulty—not only because the matter is provided for in the treaty but also because we think it just and fair that land taken from China should be restored to her. Somebody Butting In. “As regards the charges you bring against the general manager of the railway, Ivanoff, you have no doubt been incorrectly informed by inter- ested persons, seeing that your com- plaints are disproved by all the real facts, documents and the acting status of the management of the railway. “As a matter of facet, Ivanoff has all thru acted legally and in the limit op rights conferred upon him. The tax which was ordered to levied in ‘Dis- trict No. 8’ exists in. all the other dis- tricts to analogous intents and pur- poses. The district in question had been exempted from that tax for the sole reason to help it develop. The administration of-the railway had spent big sums of money to equip the district and the royalty paid by tné merchants concerned went to defray the expenditure of the railway which ran up to about half a million roubles. “Now after the Chimese authorities seized ‘District No. 8’ without any pre. liminary agreement with the adminis- tration of the railway and then resort- ed to police measures to prevent the merchants from paying the money due to the railway, the general manager should have—on the strength of the existing regulations—caused the car service to be altogether discontinued. | However, being reluctant to cause ruin to the merchants he limited him, self to ordering such taxes to be lev- ied as are enforced in all the other railway districts. By doing so the i. OUR DAILY PATTERNS — A POPULAR STYLE WITH NEW FEATURES. - ee > —" A a 5037. . The stright line dress is still a general favorite. In the model here shown checked flannel is combined with plain fianne!l. 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If In- stead of aiming at a friendly under- standing amd a respect for mutual rights, General Chang Ho-hsiang chooses to have recourse to sheer force, it will be really difficult to fore- see all the consequences of such vio- lent actions. “I may be allowed to voice my deep regret that you should so light-heart- edly make charges against the general manager, Ivanoff, who has, during his short term of office, put the railway under his charge into condition which ought to call forfh nothing else than feelings of sincere appreciation on the part both of the Chtmese and the Soviet governments. It will,suffice to point out that within three months of his management. of the line, Ivanoff has brot down the floating debt of the enterprise from 10.5 to 4.5 million rubles, which evidently testifies to an economic and competent management, | However, if military officers will per- sist in interfering with the commerce. ial business of the railway, a situation is bound to arise that will indeed be threatening to both parties. Quickly Forgets the Past. “Your parallel between the actions of Ivanoff and those of Russian mon- archists only tends to show how rap- idly the memory has been lost of the regime. established on the” Chinese Eastern Railway by the monarchists—~ leed showed maximum en. }@ regime under which the Chinese au- thorities and the population had to obey~the will not of their people but of the czarist officials and when not only the merchants but the Chinese authorities as well depended on the management of the railway. The Rus.- sian revolution swept away the acts of oppression of the czarist govern- ment over the rights of the Chinese people, and this consideration alone should have moved you to refrain from making uncautious charges against those whom the revolution has quali- fied for friendly and brotherly work with the Chinese people. “Referring to your request that wire to the general manager and sus- pend the levying of the taxes, I regret to say that I have not the right to do so as it would constitute a violation of the Mukden agreement. Indeed, the eral manager being subordinate to @ board of directors, I cannot give him any orders over the heads of the board, The only way of settling the matter is that the merchants con- %erned negotiate directly with the mapagement of the line. If instead of tietbling you with unwarranted ana unsubstantial complaints—doing it ugder pressure from outside, those merchants had started negotiations with the management, the question at issue could have been settled long ‘ago “That, however, they refused to do in spite of the suggestion of the man- agement. Constantly encouraged, as jthey were by unfortunate counsels, the merchants failed to avail ‘them- selves of the week’s term accorded them by acting chairman, Mr. Yuan, and vice-chairman of the C. E. R., Mr. Pozdeyeff, for negotiating. Neverthe. less, I wish to ask you to advise them to choose the lawful path of negotia- tions with the general manager, such way being the only one that can lead to a settlement of the matter. “I may assure you that the Russian members of the board of directors are working in a friendly manner together with the Chinese members of the same and understand each other thoroly well. Their joint work, which is done in the interests of both countries, really should not be interferred with by uninvited intervention from out- side. “I wish to ask you, in conclusion, to give orders to the Chinese authorities at Harbin: (1) that they should not interfere with the commercial busi- ness of the railway and violate the Mukden agreement; (2) that a dele- gate be appointed for the delimitation and handing over to China of the rail- way land, (3) that the merchants con- cerned be advised to come to terms with the management of the railway; (4) that the actual assumption of of- fice by the chairman of the board o? directors be expedited, and that fati- ing this a new person be appointed to the post of chairman, as otherwise his absence is harmful to the business. Hopes He Likes Frankness. “On my own part, I have sent in- structions to the members of the board and the general manuger of the % yard. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or staraps. Address: The DAILY WORKER, W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, If. NOTICE TO PATTERN BU YERS—The tterns being sold thru the DAILY TORKER pattern department are fur- joished by @ New York firm of patterns manufacturers. Orders are torwarded by the DAILY WORKER every day as re- ceived, and they are mailed by the man- ufacturer direct to the customer. The DAILY WORKER does not keep a stock of vatterns on hand. Delivery of - terns ordinarily will take at least 19 from the date of mailing the order. not become impatient if your pattera is delayed. 1118 Give your shopmate this copy of the DAILY WORKER—but be sure to see him the next day to get his subscription, 2 Zz railway that they be considerate towards the Chinese merchants, who were made a tool of alien influences interested in bringing matters on the line to a head and whose fault is thus less than the guilt of those who are behind them. , “IT hope you will appreciate frankness of my message.” The Soviet ambassador's telegram last month. Earthquake in Italy. ROME, earthquake was felt today were known to be lost, , the was sent under date of the 23rd of March 16.—A fairly severe in the region of Florence. Some damage to f | property was reported, but no i / “Some Nurse pore Third Tuesday, Name of No. of ng. 21 Brickla ers, 912 W. Monroe St. 58 Carpenters, and Sheffield. 141 Carpen 272 Carpenters, Hall, Chicago Heights. 1786 Carpenters, pares d 26th. ; 402 Engineers, 1 Washington St. 535 Firemen ny Enginemen, 5438 S. 542 Federal manatee, Great Northern Glove Workers’ apint Gouna, 1710 N. W 30 inchester Ave., 5:30 p. Hod Carriers, E. “45th St., "Chi- cago aUP 6 Hod Carriers, 814 W. Harrison > 81 Ladies’ Garment Workers, 328 Van Buren MN. Clark. ana Oilers, 357 N. 147 Painters, 20 W. ‘Rahdoiph St. 180 ne N. .. con ooRtornia and 184 Painters, 6414 3 Halsted St. 191 Painters. N. ae gor. State’ and 275 Painters, 220 521 OW SS den Ave. Painters, Trump 502 Plasterers, qr erio > a Printers ind tampers, 19 W. Railway” Caraidat 78th and Drexel Railway Clerks, 9 s. Cl pies st. 2219 Railway Clerks, $08 ashing- Tonnutiak, 159: oN State s Mp ee i: 234 W + sagged oe. Upholsterers Union, 180, St 39 Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Kedzie 40 Amalgamated hing Workers, 1 . Robe (Note: Unless “Cthetiriee stated, all meetings are at 8 p. m.) Roman Cathaliés Balk at Ownership by State i in Mexico MEXICO CITY, March 16.—The Soledad church has been closed .to worship by orders of President Calles in settlement of the conflict created by the Knights of Guadalupe, follow- ers of the Mexican catholic apostolic church, who recently took over the building by force and ejected the Ro- man catholic priest, Father Silva. President Calles declared Patriarch Perez of the new sect and his follow- ers had broken the*¢onstitution by taking national property under the keeping of the Roman’catholic church without fulfilling the ee of the law. On the other haat the president found the Roman catholic clergy had declared themselves in open rebellion against the constitution, “despising the authorities throu their most prom- inent spokesman.” The Roman catholic clergy, the statement continued; tefused to re- cognize state ownership of the church building and the government’s right to exercise control over church weor- ship and practices. Insane Victi Capitalisns Wash.- f. crowd | : of Ohio COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 16.—The judiciary committee ofthe state héuse of representatives has recommended the passage of the bilkintroduced by Representative Knapp, requiring that all epileptics criminals and feeble minded persons, before being released from any state institution, shall be examined by a competent physician or neurologist. There are thirty ona thousaid fee- ble minded men women and children in this state, according to a survey made by the Cleveland Press several weeks ago. One need not be a profesgional neu- rologist to know that the vast major- ity of these unfortunate individuals are workers who were shell shoked in the war, or were driven insane thru intense suffering in. the hell holes of the steel mills and factories of the sovereign state of Ohio. The vast majority of the thirty one thousand are at large, because the state refuses to provide homes and institutions for them, while the lot of those who are imprisoned is even worse. Inadequate and unsanitary buildings are used to house them, many of the buildings being fire traps. Feeble minded morgns, epileptic and criminally insane people will found as long as workers are ruth- lessly exploited and ground down, as long as capitalism remains the ruler and the workers are aymiserable, im- poverished subject clags. PITTSBURGH, PA. To those who work hard for their money, | will save 50 per cent on all their dental work. DR. RASNICK DENTIST 645 Smithfield Street. Give your shopmiate this copy of the DAILY WORKER—but be sure to see him the next day to get his subscriptions r Madison Square Garden. Delloff, M. Marlash. BUILDERS AT WORK | Builders at Work in New York. UNDREDS of members of the Workers Party and the Young Work- H ers League have been at work selling the special one-month sub- scriptions the last few weeks in connection with the press pageant at . 7 Their names will not be known until their branch agents report them to the DAILY WORKEM New York agency. All DAILY WORKER agents who have not yet done so are instructed to report the record of every member immediately to L. E. Katterfeld, 108 East 14th St., so that the list for the entire New York district may be compiled and published in the DAILY WORKER at an early date. Altho most members confined their energy to selling the special one- month subscriptions during the contest, the comrades mentioned below — also sent in the following regular subscriptions during this same time: Se it aA Chas. Musil, Czecho-Slovak branch $ L. Hirschman, Harlem English. branch > H. F.-Mins, Harlem English branch 2 The following brdéught in one. subscription each: Fred Cammer, A. Kobel, J. Toplensky, M.. Zawoyka, S. Solensky, 8. Shalagan, Leon. Coe- diner, M. Golos, D. Salzer, Lewis Foz, Freda Kabukowa, P. Karklin, Dave Kanner, Meyer Semenoff, Harry Casten, B. Lovrovich, Mary Rubin, 1. Brafman, Max Goldberg, Harry Kah, Bertha Greenberg, M. Malkin, M. What Bromley Saw in Russia (Continued from Page 1) and the medium in Russia was an ex- tremely happy one. Dealing first with the defects which he had found in the Russian system, Mr. Bromley said that it was true that there was neither free speech nor a free press. The Russians frankly ad- mitted this, saying that they refused to allow European capitalism, which had failed to defeat them with the bayonet, to subsidize opposition presses and imported speakers. Political Prisoners. When they saw the menshevik lead- ers in prison Mr. Bromley said that imprisonment of: opponents would far on the British people, and that we would not like our labor party execu- tive to be imprisoned for-holding dif- ferent views from the government. “I received the reply,” said Mr. Bromley, “that if the labor party exe- cutive in this country passed a reso- lution meaning ‘death at sight’ to the leaders of the present government, they might not be long out of prison, even in Britain. “Honestty,” he declared, “I think ] have said all I can against Russia, and now I have much to say in favor of it.” The Trade Unions. The explained that trade unions in Russia held a different position to our own. They were not instruments for fighting capital, but really the instrv- ments thru which the Soviets gov- erned. They provided the workers with houses and medical attendance, and any worker could, in addition to his annual holiday, be ordered by a doc- tor to a rest house or convalescent home for any period up to six weeks if exhausted by work. He saw many of these rest houses. They were scrupulously clean and very beautiful, being mansions of the de parted nobility. Such benefits, he urged, must be taken into account when considering the wages paid. An American woman stenographer told him that £7.a month in Russia was as good as £7 a week in New York. Cheap Food. He explained how, thru the trade unions and co-operative stores, food could be obtained by the workers at cost price, and declared, “There is plenty of food in Russia, not only wholesome food, but even luxurious. “Even in the prisons the prisoners have co-operative stores where money earned by prison work at trade union rates may be spent on cakes, fruit, c?- gars and tobacco.” One point in which Russia is in ad- vance of our own traffic regulations was the law that insisted that, if peo- ple were getting out of a stationery tramcar, all other traffic must stop till it moved on again. It was untrue, he said, that Russia had suppressed religion. It had simp- ly diseastablished the state church, and spent no money on religious teach- ing. All religions were, however, free, and worship went on in the churches as before. He strongly denied the re- ports of the destruction of statuary and art treasures. Woman's Moral Status. Mr. Bromley described as “a terrible slander” the suggestion that woman’s moral status had been degraded in Russia. Marriage was certainly a ci- vil contract, and divorce, tho only if both parties were willing and desirous was fairly éasy; but woman’s moral status was good, and a remarkable change in general morality was evi- dent. There were now no houses of ill- fame, which undey czardom were offi- cially opened and “the rooms and wo- men blessed by priests.” Prostitu- tion had now been wiped out as near- ly he thot as was humanly possible. , The care of the children was re- markable. They looked happy, well clothed, and well fed. The peasants had had the land of the old landowners shared out amongst them, according to the num- ber in the family, and were being edu- cated) jn agricultural science and as- sisted with motor-ploughs. “T have told you tonight,” cancluded Mr. Browley, “what I actually found. I have told you the black side and the bright side, and I firmly believe that there is a’ great future before Russia, and T‘am satisfied that a combination of all the capitalists in the world will never“take it back from the people who have won it.” (Applause.) ° “B: & O.” Johnston to*Read the Will of ‘the Dead C., P. P. A. CLEVELAND, O., March 16.—The still-born progtfessive party of Cuya- hoga county is importing the leading pail bearer at the Chicago funeral of the LaFollette movement to try and reyive the dying spirit of a political hybrid. This individual is no~ other than “B. & O. Bill” Johnston, of class collaboration fame. The advance publicity sent out by the midwives, declares that Johnston is a “fighting leader of the Machinists’ Union.” If Johnston has been doing any fighting it has not been against the bosses, as the decreasing member- ship of his union will prove. Instead, he has been instrumental in forcing the B. & O, plan down the throats of the railroad machinists, forcing them -‘ to give up working conditions wrested from the bosses after hard struggle: and practically forcing the men in his union to give up the right to strike. Johnston has been a consistent op- ponent of amalgamation, even after the; disastrous shopmen’s strike of 1922; he has expelled militants and active members of the I. A. of M. for advocating measures which would make the Machinists’ Union a power that the bosses would fear and he has worked hand in hand with the middle class politicans of the LaFollette type. Trade unionists of this city have been invited to attend the meeting in the Engineers Auditorium, to be held March 20, at which Johnston. will re- port on the conference for progressive political ay: held in Chicago last month. Philadelphia, Notice! Weber Printing Co. 350 N. FIFTH STREET, Philadelphia, Pa. Nadealsaee of f Alien Work- ers Turned C Over by Spies (Special to the , Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., March 16— “In the last six months the deporta- tions amounted to 4,448, an inorease of about one-third over any similar per- iod of our history.” .Such is.the boast of Pennsylvania on the floor of the United States senate yesterday. _ Perfectly satisfied with this accomp- lishment of the capitalist white terror against alien workers, the. senator more workers being deported ‘trom jthis. once heralded “refuge of the op pressed,” but that far more were leay. ing for southeastern and eastern Eu- rope than were arriving, evidently not so enthusiastic over American democ- racy as to wigh to stay, while the net gain from all Europe of &rrivals over departures in the last six months is only 19,203. America Not So Popular. It was revealed that during the last six months no less than 48,120 aliens shook the dirt of democracy off their shoes for good and left for Burope to stay, while only 67,308 of Europe's population, supposed to be wailing at When this figure is compared with the fact that in 1914 alone 801,000 immi- grants arrived from Europe over and above the aliens who went back, the full force of the international working class’ disillusion about the charms of living in América and enjoying the rule of Open Shopper Dawes, the $28 a week avergse American wage and the lynching ‘parties of the ku klux klan, may be realized. “We Get ’Em with Spies.” For those brave souls who try te burglarize their way into the paradise of the 12-hour day and the seven day week of Judge Gary, Senator Reed boasts that an effective net has been put up at the border, and enuf spies and sneaks stationed at points in the interior, to prevent the hardy alien from getting away with it. “There are not enuf of them coming to bring the numbers that are said to be smuggling themselves in. The rum fleet off New York smuggles in a few. There are a few smuggled across the Canadian border. It is very easy to come across on a Detroit ferry, for in- stance if one speaks English and looks ike an American. The inspectors carefully. Lote of Walls to Climb Over. “We are guarding against smuggl- ing by locating our inspectors in Can- adian seaports and Mexican seaports, infinitely better than we could by try- ing to police the border. We have re- cently established a police force of about 250 border police. The Canad- ian border is 3,980 miles long, the Mexican boundary 1,744 mines, the Gulf of Mexico increases the frontier by 7,600 miles, which is comparitively easy for an alien to cross in safety. Stool Pigeons Everywhere. “But it is practically impossible for an immigrant to smuggle shimself in and stay hidden. It is not always thar our inspectors get him, but somebody whose job he has taken or somebody who has a personal reason for telling on._him always informs immigration authorities, and in the end they get him. “We have picked up a surprising numbDer on applications for eitizenship. After a few years they apply for citt- zenship, and then to their astonish- ment they are arrested and deported.” America for “Americans.” The senator, after stating that Ast- atic immigration was no problem be- cause fewer Asiatics ‘want to come to America than are leaving America to go back to Asia, sat down, thoroly pleased that the American Indians are all confined to reservations and are not allowed to drink moonshine or vote for Coolidge. Kurds Forced to Retreat. CONSTANTINOPLE, March 16.— Kurdish troops have evacuated Varto and are in a precarious situation at Palco in Diar Bekar, as the result of resistance offered by local inhabitants, said dispatches received here today. Pick Assistant Farm Secretary. WASHINGTON, March 16.—Refick W. Dunlap, of Kingston, Ohio, was nominated today by President Cooi- idge to be assistant secretary of agri- culture. UNCLE WIGGILY’S TRICKS , > ee —_ ee — — ee — een ee a fi —- * me paricakes ‘A LAUGH FOR THE CHILDREN — * Just a minute, Uncle | > Wiggly, till { play this record.’ ‘ \2 | me " Ce i} | = y iy ( — 4 ~ 1 — Wi sigh pe Bor love weusic |” IR A “ Well, this breaks the record |” of Senator David Reed, a republican. went on to say that not only, were . the gate trying to get in, really came.*% don’t have time to examine them very
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ae ee i ’ °_,r wel ee ee Be ee ND ON CHILD LABOR ‘All Trades s Behind Com- munists’ Fight NEW YORK, N. Y., March 16—The { Workers Party and the Young Works|Ave.; 3rd Fl, care Bottazzi. ers League of New York district’ following the program outlined by the'| Ave. central executive committee of “the Workers Party/and the national -exe- cutive committee of the Young Work ers League in the campaign against'/ child labor, have already circularized all of the unions and other labor and | fraternal organizations with a letter’ and resolution unmasking the entire’ system of child labor exploitation ex- isting in the United States. The Workers Party and the Young Workers League will carry on astren- wous campaign in this district against child labor, not only by ex- posing the child exploitation that exists in this city, but also by un- masking the bourgeois liberal organ- izations that pretend to favor the abolition of child labor. Only thru the abolition of the entire system of capitalist exploitation will child labor be abolished. The Workers Party and the Young: Workers Leagitie call upon the milit- ant members of the labor organiza- tions of this city to see to it that the resolution is acted upon in their organization, to see to it that mem- bers of the Workers Party or Young f Workers League are invited to speak on the resolution to insure the mo- bilization of their organization behind the Communist campaign to abolish child labor. Among thase organizations acting favorably on the resolution are: Mill- inery Hand Workers’ Union; Glass Bevelers, Mirror Workers’ and Cut- ters’ Union; Bakers’ Union No. 3, A. F. W.; Waterproof Garment Workers’ Union; Workmen’s Circle branches No. 54 and 546; Workmen’s Sick and Death Benefit Fund Branch No. 103. etc. Old Revolutionist and Workers Party Friend Passes Away NEFFS, Ohio, March 13—(By Mail.) —Joe Haviecik, an active sympathizer of the Workers Party died, from na- tural causes at his home Monday even- ing at 10 p.m. He has been an active member of.the miners’ union for the last 16 years having joined the union and worked in the mine since he was 15 years old. In the last miners elec- tion he took an active part in the cam-} paign for the progressives. He leaves an aged father and mother both 66 years of age. His mother is now in a state hospital, having been sent there because of the constant worry that he would be draf- ted in the war to make profit for the bosses. Hundreds of his friends attended his funeral and great masses of flow- ers were placed on his grave. Max Salzman and J. J. Hoge spoke at the funeral. Irish Famine Relief and Defense Meeting in Los Angeles, Cal. LOS ANGELES, Calif., March 16.— Capmakers’ Local No. 26, and the Milliners’ Local No. 48, have unani- mously passed the protest resolution of the Labor Defense Council. The Machinists’ Local No. 311 have also passed the same resolution, and have collected $10.00 on the collection lists. The Upholsterers’ Local No. 15, a un- ion of 400 members, unanimously passed the resolution and voted $25 for the Labor Defense. The Workmen’s Circle branches, and Co-operative Women’s Consumers League, have also voted $15 each for the same purpose. A mass meeting under joint aus- pices of the Labor Defense Council and the International Workers’ Aid will be held March 18; Wednesday eve- ning, in the Symphony Hall, for the Irish Famine Relief, and the Labor Defense Council, to celebrate Parise Commune Week. E. Levin, city or- ganizer of the party, will be the chief speaker, Sid Bush will also speak, (elity educational director of the party), and J. Stevenson, of the San Pedro branch of the party will act as chairman. f ' » Chicago, Notice! The local DAILY WORKER AGENCY f (Thurber Lewis, Agent) has moved to 19 SO. LINCOLN ST. } Phone Seeley 3562 ‘ _ ¥ Call or write for all Communigt | Books and Pamphlets | The Little Red Library The Workers Monthly’ _ - pateg | Pa ) g Local-Chicago Ave. 722 Blue Island Ave., 8 p. m. Bt. St. | St. St. 3201 8. Wabash Ave., under auspices of Y. W. L. Area Br. No. 3, and South Side Br. of W P. Admission 25c. rty Telisities oF | . oS -- Tuesiay, Mareh 17. Rumanian Branch, 2254 Clybourn Wednesday, March 18. Italian Cicero, Circolo Giovanile Hall, 14th St. between Gist Ave. and) 50th Ct. Itdlian Terro Cotta, 2476 Clybourn Crecho-Slovak No. 8, 2548 #. Homan } Clty. Central Committee Meeting, Wednesday, March 19. . Russian No. 1, 1902 W. Division St. South Side English, 3201 S. Wabash v6. $ist Ward Italian, $11 N. Sangamon South Slavic No. 1, 1806 8. Racine “Thursday, March 19 Russian, 1902 W. Division St. Friday, March 20. Polish North Side, 1902 W. Division Lithuanian No. 6, $142 8S. Halsted Greek Branch, 722. Blue Island Ave. Saturday, March 21. | Social and Dance, Community Hall, New York Tailors Meeting Thursday NEW YORK CITY.—The workers in custom tailoring of New York and vicinity, are invited to a mass organ- ization meeting by the executive board of Local No. 1, Journeymen Tailors’ Union of America, to be held at Bohe- mian Hall, 321 Hast 78rd street, on Thursday evening, March 19, at 8 Dp; m. Prominent speakers in English and Italian. Unorganized wid are TF ‘be i EVELAND TO HAVE COSTUME ‘BALL, APRIL 5 All Countries Will Be Represented ‘ CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 16.— Preparations are well under way for the entertainment, bazaar, and inter- national costume ball to be given by local Cleveland, Workers Party, on April 5, in Gardina’s Hall, 6021 St. Clair Ave. The entertainment in the afternoon will include a musical program by various singing societies and musi- cal organizations of the Cleveland workers. The Finnish workers’ ath- letic organization will present a gym- nastic exhibition and special features are being arranged in the line of en- tertainment. The Hungarian, Jewish, and Lithu- anian branches have already promis- ed to have branch booths; and sev- eral other booths are counted upon by the local entertainment committee. The women’s meeting on March 8, de cided that the women of the party should make a special effort to se cure donations of food for the re- freshment stand. Everyone ig requested to come to the ball in the evening dressed in their native national costume. An in- ternational costume ball is somewhat of a novelty in lecal Cleveland, but should be all the more attractive be- cause of that. The admission to the afternoon and evening combined will be 25 cents if tickets are purchased in advance or 45 cents at the door. Tickets have been mailed out but anyone not receiving a supply to sell whether party members or sympathiz- er, should get in touch with the office, room 18, 5927 Euclid Ave., phone Ran- dolph 4065. Let all get together and the hopes of the local entertainment committee will be easily realized to have this local Cleveland's biggest af- especially welcome. fair. “THREAD TRUST CUTS WAGES (Continued from page, 2 Milo and Lake, View, Me.;,.and, Dalton, Ga. (a recent addition)... The, Ameri- can Thread company controjs,the Am- erican Thread company ef Canada, Ltd., incorporated on Sept. 26, 1922, ization of $1,000,000. . Bonds the Best. Just as the bonds of indus slav- ery hold the milk workers.» {Bo are the bonds of the Soneeean® 6) of coupon clippers safe and , sound. The mill slaves are tied to?thé mill town. Profits are securely tied to the bonds. - The rating. given these bonds (36,- 000,000 outstanding) is Aaa (the high- est rating) which means.regular in- terest. The bonds are secured, by a first closed mortgage on all "the com- pany’s fixed assets, namely land, build- ing, machinery and equipment ap- praised at time of issue at over $18,- 000,000. There are 1,200,000 shares of five per cent cumulative preferred stocks (par $5) authorized $6,000,000, which have preference over common in draw- ing dividends. Dividends have been paid regularly, semi-annually since the organization of the company. Robbery. There are 1,200,000 shares of com- mon stock with a par value of $10, total $12,000,000. But par value was increased from $5 in December, 1919. There is paid up, according to Moody’s Manual of Investments, $9 per share. But in December, 1919, when an assessment of $2.50 per share was called, the stock owners paid nothing. They added the $3,000,000 by trans- ferring it.from varioug reserve funds, as follows. From reserve for sett at $1,957,142. General reserve fund, $300,000. Bond redemption fund, $742,858. Tetal,. $3,000,000. In dune, 1921, an assessment of $1.50 per share was made payable July 8, 1921, making the total paid up common ($9 a share). Moody’s Man- ual does not state where this money came.from for the $1.50 assessment. But it is quite safe to assume that the same procedure was followed as in the previous robbing of money by jug- gling profits put in the reserve fund and placing it as capitalization, which is supposed to represent actual cash invested. But the American Thread Co. is Simply following in the footsteps of the other corporations which make such huge profits from the workers’ labor power that they increase their capitalization. They figure: [If this corporation now yields large dividends we will increase ‘the capital arbitrarily, and then the dividend percentage we make will only be half or a third of what it was. We cannot then be accused by ,our workers. of making exorbitant profits. So the American Thread, when saw its profits increase, resorted well known to Wall Street. If-a share prior to 1919, value $5, drew : The Daily Worker =~ | — Sots +e but on the basis of $10 it is only 10 in Canada with an putborised ae this international financial method so $1 as dividends, it was 20 per cent; |munist! vane re hace ce heen percent. Dividends on. common stock were paid at amounts varying from 14 to 81 cents a share in each year from 1900 through 1914, except 1902, when none was paid, according to Moody. , On a par value of $5, this means a dividend of 2.8 per cent to 16.2 per cent for those years. Dividends paid since then are on March 381 of each year. 1915—46c or 9 per cent. 1916—654c, and 27c extra. Total 81 cents or 16.2 per cent. 1917—limonths to Feb. 28, 49%%4c plus 27c extra. Total 76%c or 16 per cent for 11 months. 1918—13 months to March 31. 58%c plus 45c extra. Ttotal $1.03% or 20.7 per cent for 13._months. 1919—60c plug 40c extra. Total $1 or 20 per cent: 1920—75c plus 37%c extra. Total $1.12% or 22 per cent. a $1.10 or 20 per cent. 1922—90c or 18 per cent. 1923—$1.08 or 22 per cent. This is being figured for the years 1920-23 on the old par value of $5 per share of common stock, for the In- creased capitalization is fraudulent. On a $10 valuation, the dividend percentage is decreased by one-half, and’ many who do not know how this was done, fall victims to this error. The record shows bonds and stocks getting regular interest or dividends, even while wages were cut. The rec- ord shows clearly that the cut in wages is without foundation whatso- ever. But when did any capitalist concern need any justification for a wage cut? It has the power. It uses it without pity, without mercy, in the struggle of capital against labor. Waters of Wabash Give Many Families today and the rampant Wabash river continuing to rise slowly here, hun- dreds of families in the low lands fled from their homes to the ye ed districts. Flood damage already had mounted to thousand of dollars, reports reach- ing here today from various sections of the flooded district indicated. Bridges were washed away, roads were undermined and scores of smal] farm buildings swept along in the path of the flood. The Wabash river here stood at 19 feet this morning, with further rise inevitable as 21 feet were reported at Clinton, 15 miles north. Special Junior Group leaders meet- Sday, March 17, 8 p. m. at 2, | 8S orth Avers Ave. i “group leaders must attend, many tg rtant matters to be discussed. ’ vues * ‘iets sub—make another Com 1921—60c plus 50c extra. Total the Watery Blues TERRE HAUTE, March 16.—With miles of the countryside under water - eek. N STEAL a BANKERS PERPET JUAL GRIP Workers Party Has the Only rogram ” . ee While Mayor Dever, enlisting the aid of his politi¢al allies, the Chicago Tribune and thé Chicago association of commerce, Was holding a meeting in the city hall, drilling 50 lawyers ana business men im what to say in favor of the traction ordinance, opponents of the measure pointed out that the Chicago Surface,Lines have no right to their present franchise. The 1907 ordimance, under which the bankers operate Chicago’s tractior system, stipulatés that the stockholc- ers must build;94.miles of extensions. The franchise Bas practically run out, and the Chics Surface Line stock- holders have WRoken their contract. The ordinance provides that if the ex- tensions are nebbuilt, the bankers re. inquish control of the streets. City In Alliance with Bankers. Under this 6, the city coula dictate to the Bankers the terms of a new franchise,,or take over the lines at the city’s own price Instead De ver has formed an alliance with the bankers and wnllet the guidance of his “municipal ondjmance,” would give the bankers a perpetual franchise on the car Hines, with’many advantages they did not previously have. One of these advantages is exemp- tion from taxes. Last year the sur- face lines paid a tax of $2,915,000 and the elevated Mines paid $1,406,132. Under the terme of Dever’s ordinance, however, the stockholders are exempt from this tax, altho the securities held by Samuel Insull and the bankers are more valuable’ than ever, after the or- dinance takes effect. , The Hearst-Thompson alliance, with which the Chigage Federation of La- bor-is flirting;,following Dever’s re fusal to contimue: his political friend- ship with the, Olander-Walker-Fit2- patrick clique, is making ctiticisms of Dever’s. ordinan¢e, but puts forwara no program forthe future control of the traction dines. Communista;Demand Confiscation. The Workers! (Communist) Party demands that the city confiscate the traction, lines;o@nd that the workers who run themealso be given complete control of them, thru workers’ com- mittees formed*within the unions of the traction ‘workers. ANTI-RED POLICE RAID FEAYED BY WORKERS PARTY (Continued from page 1.) facts in the case.” They know that the pageant that these workers were to take part in was advertised for months and that permission to hold it was ob- tained from thé “proper authorities. “They know that the ancient mus- kets were liite@ from a_ theatrical costuming *cémphay, they know that the police depdftment informed the committee in clarge that a permit to use the muskets in the pageant was not necessaty.’° Why then these ridiculous’ anti¢és on the part of Gegan, why the brutai“indifference of Magis- trate Well to the facts on the case and the rights of the defendants? The Opening Flourish, & “The Workers (Communist) Party understands that this attack is the opening flourish of a more general offensive which is being launched against the Américan workers after the elections to reduce their wages and destroy their organizations, that it is an attempt to disoredit the Work- ers (Communist) Party as the only party fighting tn’ America today on the side of the Woreers against the cap- italists. “The Workers’ (Communist) Party will not be stopped by these stupid tactics but will’wontinue its fight for the workers ‘against all attempts to exploit and crué#-them. The Workers (Communist) Party of America warns the workers of. this country of the at- tacks that are coming and calls upon them to unite with the Workers (Com- munigf) Party*in determined resist- ance.—Workers (Communist) Party of America, NeWrYork District No. 2.” — | Cal Fires Experts to Make Room for Political Friends waseruec cia March 16.—Follow- ing the examplé.in the interior de- partment, and particularly in the re- clamation service and forest service in the past three years, the Coolidge administration is to get rid of some of the best scientists in the department of agriculture. At least two of these men, internationally prominent in the special fields to which they are devot- ing their lives, age getting out. Press- ure from the top) has made their posi- tions untenable. Jardine, the Rew head of the depart- e, was a membef of -ked commissiofi on hose hazy recom- mendations were rejected by congress. . . A DAILY. 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> ee & pat fe ay ye . > & : ; Bos. Ve >. ye a: zh 2 7 yar ~ if; hed by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING 00. 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, DL (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $3.50....6 months $2.09...8 months By mail ‘ke Chicago only): $8.00 per year $4.50....6 months $2.50...3. monthe Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1118 W. Washington Bivd. 3. LOUIS ENGDAHL |; Batters WILLIAM F. DUNNE { MORITZ J. LOEB. ......cc0nsse-Basiness Manager Chicago, oe: —— @ntered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ill, under-the act of March 3, 1879. @Q200 ° Advertising rates op application Counter-Revolution C ollapses In a dozen cities of America the agent of the ecounter-revolutionary Second (socialist) Interna- tional, Professor Raphael Abramovich, has sig- nally failed in spreading his slandrous attacks upon the first republic of workers and peasants. Despite the open and shameful alliance with cap- “Ttalist polica, this yellow traitor. is rebuffed by every audience where workers are allowed to enter. Just as his efforts to murder enough Russian work- ers to overthrow their Soviet government, despite even the armed assistance of intervention invited in from every capitalist nation, has failed, so has failed the present effort. Hireling of the bourgeoisie, traitor to and mur- derer of the revolutionary workers, the’ shameless rat has thought to succeed in raising new funds and support in America, the land of big business, Strikebreaker Coolidge and “Open Shop” Dawes, unbridled reaction and unexampled ignorance. Abramovich has received his answer. The work- ers of America have met him with curses and ex- ecration, with derision and scorn and overwhelm- ing hostility. Let the bedraggled traitor take his carcass back to his masters, the Curzons, the Bald- wins, the Hugheses and the Scheidemanns, and con- fess that the counter-revolution has collapsed. And let the postscript of this confession be writ- ten into the treaty of recognition of Soviet Russia, a recognition which will be an admission that the Soviet power is too strong to overthrow by force of arms, even of the combined capitalist nations of the world in alliance with the slimy yellow social- ist traitors of the Second International. Abramovich came to America to prevent recogni- tion by this country of the Soviet government. Let him confess his failure and retire to oblivion where his beloved Kerensky, Wrangel ang Denikin and the rest find fitting haven. * s In Again, Out Again Whether Charles Beecher Warren, Calvin Cool- idge’s favorie for the important post of attorney general, is a corporation rubber stamp or not, he acts very much like a rubber ball in this session of congress. No sooner is his name shot into the senate that it bounds out again. This sprinz fever, that has affected the stately senators or perhaps Silent “Cal” is having a little fun in this very unusual way. It is hard to say. The ways of providence are inscrutable and so are the plans of one who does not talk very much and says noth- ing when he does. Charles Beecher Warren, the sacharrine expert, is sour fruit to the senators. They don’t like him. They don’t like Dawes. They don’t like Cal. All this is quite interesting reading matter for’ the philosophical, but for those who are active in) the class struggle on the side of the workers as we | as philosophical, it shows up a weak spot in cap-! italist government which proves that the unity of the bourgeois is a very thin myth. Kilkenny cats were models of peace and harmony compared to the capitalist groups who continually cut each other’s throats and only unite when their joint graft is endangered by the working combination of pirates. Trouble is in store for the “strong, silent little man” who wore a gas mask while the stench from Teapot Dome was smoking out the less seasoned “statesmen” who were looting the during the Harding administration. With a hostile senate and the .chairman of that august body afflicted with the sleeping sickness, “Cal” may long for the quietness of the Vermont hills, the lantern and the old oaken bucket. Who Are the Reds? Time was when the American business man used to shake with fear at the very mention ef the In dustrial Workers of the World. That day is past. Only “in the backwoods and corners of American class or some other oil industry, in the overfearful kiwanis clubs of lowa and Caljfornia can the 1. W. W. raise a shiver any more. The Chicago meeting of the counter-revolu- tionary Abramovich leaves the “revolutionary” I. W. W. out of the picture. The Communists have taken the leadership of the American revolutionary workers. And while for hours the members of the Workers (Commun- ist) Party, and great throngs of workers who sup- port Soviet Russia and admire and assist the Com- | munists, gave royal battle to swarms of sluggers|he represent hired by the reactionary labor fakers, and stood their ground against repeated onslaughts of cap italist police, the 1. W. W. were holding a meeting before a handful of fanatics. Their speaker was advertised as an “anti-bol shevik.” A devotee of Chicago’s Greenwich village, yn ex wobbly, ex-soldier and ex-man—to this pati ful cartoon of nobody the I. W. W: must turn even to retail the slanders their own nifediocrities can not voice — may be an example of | | Silesia and the Shorze Scandal “ithe way government | To such lice as these the fighting masses | fest-it. us TE. And at the same hour, a few blocks from. the battlefield of revolutionary struggle, another puny sect, which, moreoyer, 8 to be the “real” Com- munists, which claims that they support Soviet Russia, were holding a seance, conjuring up from the past the honored name of Marx to bless their “purity.” And this while the class struggle was being fought within a stone’s throw and _ the strength of the, Soviet power being upheld by masses of workers arrayed against the combined forces of reactionary socialism and capitalist state. For the Workers (Communist) Party the in- cident is symbolic of revolutionary power and virility. For the two sects it typifies decay and dis- solution. Lenin has well said that as the broad masses of the working class more and more turns ‘to revolutionary struggle, the sects which ,in previous epochs had an excuse for existence, be- ‘come not only sterile, but actually counter-revo- ‘lutionary. The Workers (Communist) Party is the one and only revolutionary organization of the working class of this country, and as such it will lead the proletarian struggle on all fronts while the sects whine and cavil and die. i . s * . J Kidnaping in Britain Harry Pollit, one of the readers of the British minority movement, which is similar to the Trade Union Educational League in the United States, was kidnaped from a train in the vicinity of a Liverpool suburb by fascisti, held for several hours and then released, according to a story in the Lon- don Daily Herald. The champions of bourgeois democracy pointed with pride to the British government as a model for other governments to follow. People with all kinds of ideas could gather together in Hyde Park and talk their heads off without Jet or hindrance. The police protected them against interference. It is true that in other parts of the British empire ithings did nor run so smoothly. In Ireland, Egypt, ‘South Africa and India, British democracy did not show up to such good advantage. But then, per- haps the Irish, Egyptians, Hindoos and Boers were to blame. The English were law abiding! But those were the days when British imperial- ism sat pretty. It doesn’t any longer. The ruling class of the “tight Tittle isle’ sees the handwriting on the wall. They are getting nervous.. And as usual in such cases, they resort’ to terror. The Britisk fascisti have been organizing for over two years. The old-fashioned leadership of the trade union movement have watched the movement grow without interposing any obstacles in.its way. The fascist movement in England is making no mistake in attaeking the minority movement and its leaders. It recognizes its natural enemy. The British black-shirts are financed by the nobility, the landed aristocracy and the industrialists. So far the labor fakers served their purpose. While MacDonald and J. H. Thomas ruled the political and industrial moyement, they did not feel obliged to call on their cutthroats to use violence. But the right wing is slipping from power and the bour- It is inevitable, | The fascist press of Italy now is explaining the | theft of Silesia from Germany by Poland under the Versailles treaty as a result of a love affair be- tween Count Sforza, Italian foreign minister, and the wife of the Polish ambassador to Italy. This explaination is typical of the middle-class ‘mind which sees only superficialties and which sees history as a series of battles and bedroom amours. Sforza may have sahiaas the wife of the Polish ‘minister, or she may have vamped him with the full know ledge of her husband. Incidents of this kind are not unusual in the higher circles of cap- italism’s retainers where the moral code is slightly below that of the barnyard. The Dennistoun case in puritanical England has thrown much light on in which advancement in official circlés is secured. Husbands need no brains if their wives have beauty enhanced by an undulatory seductive- ness. But Silesia was not given to Poland because an ‘ambassadorial spouse retired in favor of a min- isteria count who in turn retired with the ambas- sador’s wife. Poland received Silesia with its coal and iron for much more practical if less picturesque reasons—reasogs connected directly with the de- sire of the allied imperialists to weaken Germany as a rival and strengthen Poland as a buffer against the workers’ and peasants’ government of Russia. 4 Had it not been for the historical milieu of the period the amatory advances of Count Sforza would ‘have resulted in nothing more serious than a duel ‘between individuals instead of nations. They Are Business Men The chamber of commerce will not be barred from sending delegates to the Seattle Central Labor ‘Council, if the reactionaries can help it. This was ‘proven by that body when the following proposed amendment to the constitution was voted down: “In order to qualify for membership in this body, the delegate shall be actively employed at his trade and must receive tle major portion of his income from wages received from actual work at the trade s, or as an employe of a local union of ; Sy) that trade.” , connection wih the labor movement long ago, but who retain their membership cards and use their evil ‘movement. imfluence in behalf of reaction in the labor While the fakers are busy trying to drive Communists out of the central body they rise mn their hind legs against an effort to clear that organization of the bourgeois vermin that now in- But the delousiag process will take place on “the loop” streets don’t mean anything. “But the }efid before long. . | a THE D : DALY WORKER. workers of t Chicago know who are the ‘vevefe: he Ay a — CRY WILEIMANTIC THREAD § STRIKERS U. S. Send) * Arbitrator to Help. By WILLIAM SIMONS WILLIMANTIC, Conn., March 13— (By Mail)—Whenever workers go on strike, there are always those who try to get both sides to give in a little to settle the conflict. There is already in this city ‘a representative of the United States department of labor, who arrived “today. What will be her rhission? To tell the workers of Willfiniantic to be satis- fied with less than the return of the 10 per cent which *were taken on January 12th? If 80; her task is in vain, Jaa! There is absolutély no foundation for the cut in wagés)‘except the cap- italist urge for mere surplus value. Their bonds are rated the highest, their preferred st pay a regular semi-annual divid their common stock gives an extr@prdinary dividend. They can restore the 10 per cent cut, and still make extraordinary profits, for they were making them before the cut, and they have lafge sums set aside in reserve funds which have been used in similar instances to pay dividends. Arbitration Deadly. Arbitration has never done the workers any good. The “impartial” arbiter has been on the side of capital. There is no group which represents the public interest. The “public” lines up, usually against workers. Arbitra- ,tion is used when all other methods fail to drive the striker into the fact- ory or mill. And now should the workers submit their case to any board, they would lose any hope of winning their demand. The power of the strikers lay in their laying down théir tools, aband- oning the machines and leaving the mills without a wheel turning. There- in lies their power. They have shown the doubting company that they could tie up the mill. They must demons- trate that the company cannot operate the mills without them: If they can do that, they win; if not, they lose, and other reductions) stare them in the face. t was common knowledge of the strikers that if they:did not strike against this cut, another was forth- coming in April. The cut came, Jan. 12th, and the strike did net star¢gintil March 9th, two months in which the company piled up extra profits even while the workers, .em reduced pay, were turning oyt thread to fill orders. Too much time wasyspent on negot- iations with the company, Negotia- tions were ignored bythe company, geoisie are resorting more and more to. violence. | the only language they understand was the international language; Of the strike, Would that it had come sooner! ij Demands!. The return of theveut is the first need. But for two months, the pay was cut. The company must be made to return to each worker the full amount robbed from his pay enve- lope during that period. This demand must be raised so loudly that the com- pany will hear. Now is the time, wher‘labor is lined up against capital in;the strike, to demand decent living wonditions. Where Were They’ Before? The U. 8. department of labor knew that a cut had been given on Jan. 12th. Where were their represent- atives then? Why did they not use any influence they may think they have, so the cut should not go thru? They were silent witnesses, and there- by accessories to the crime of wage cutting and life destruction. But, once a strike begins, a power- ful strike that the workers will win, then these representatives come to “settle” the strike. There can be no settlement of this industrial war, un- til the wage cut of 10 per cent is re- stored. Notice should be etven the Amer- ican Thread company that unless this is done, a demand will be made that , STRUCK THREAD 60. | (Special to The Daily Worker). WILLIMANTIC, Conn., Mareh 16. —There were more: workers of the American Thread company in mass demonstration this morning begin- ning the second week of the strike, than ever before. Not one strike- breaker entered the plant. Only the bosses were visible, hovering around the pickets and wearing a worried look. After a mass demonstration 1,500 strikers marched along the main streets to the Gem Theater where the meetings of the various depart- 4 ments were announced. Plans are under way for securing language speakers to address the strikers. Five hundred copies of the DAILY WORKER with the Willimantic strike story will be distributed to the workers tomorrow. TEAPOT TRIAL BINDS DAWES T0 STANDARD OIL Judge Again Aids Oil Trust (Special to The Daily Worker.) CHEYENNE, Wyo., March 16.— Testimony in the government’s suit against the Sinclair Oil company here brought out that the Standard Oil company of Indiana owns a half in- terest in the Sinclair Crude Oil Pur- chasing company. Government counsel read into the record an auxilliary contract execut- ed between the Humphreys Mexia Oil company and the Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing company and the Prairie Oil and Gas company covering deliv- ery of oil thru the Continental .Trad- ing company of Canada. The Conti- nental company was dissolved as soon as its purpose was served. The evidence definitely connected Vice President Charles Dawes and his family with the Standard Oil trust. Be- man Dawes, brother of the vice pres- ident, is president of the Pure Oil company, which controls the Hump- hreys Mexia Oil company. Dawes Pure Oil company, and Beman Dawes personally, entered into the contract with the Sinclair-Standard Oil com- bination. Vice President Dawes is interested with his brother Beman, in many oil and gas companies. The government’s case against Sin- clair’s Mammoth Oil company suffer- ed a setback when Judge T. Blake Kennedy in federal district court sus- tained the defense objection to intro- duction of bank records from El Paso, Pueblo and Denver as evidence to connect Harry F. Sinclair with the receipt by former Secretary of -Inte rior A. B. Fall, of $230,500 in liberty bonds in connection with the leasing by Sinclair of the famous Teapot Dome naval reserve. 5 —— the company pay the full wages of the strikers for the time that the bar barous action of the company, forces them to be out. That is not a strike; it is a lockout by the American Thread company, be cause the workers refused to be drag- ged into a worse state of industrial slavery. The company took the init- iative; it is the cause of the action. The responsibility for the strike, as well as the infamous wages and other factory conditions, lie with the Amer. ican Thread compan, and its illegit- imate parent, the English Sewing Cot- ton company, Ltd. Nothing to Arbitrate The answer of the strikers should be a ringing, defiant refusal to con- sider any arbitration move. Against arbitration! Restoration of the ten per cent in Wages for the duration of the strike! bat union leaders to accept it. ~- j i activities {n the_policemen’s strike in ROME, March 16—A settlement | which will fail to settle, is the con- sensus among the leaders of the me- tal workers strikq conoerning the |, compromise offer made by the bosses at the instance of the fascist govern- ment today. The govertiment of Mussolini is try- ing to break the fascist unién, which joined with the socialist:union in a strike demand for higher pay, away from the strike, by offering the fas- cist union a raise of two and one- fifth liras a day, and getting the fas- This does not quite settle things, |. however, as the membership of the fascist union is becoming more and more sympathetic to the demands of the socialist union, which, moreover, controls four-fifths of the strikers. Whether the fascist union leaders can get their members back to work as scabs is yet uncertain. LEVIN TAKES A. G, ¥ JOBS FROM WORKERS WHQ AID LOC AL 5 Monday afternoon, Sam Levin, manager of the Amalgamate Cloth- ing Workers Joint Board of Chicago, called H. Bromorski, Helen Kaplan, J. Lieberman, S. Miller, Sam Simo- nian, H. Kahn and J. Pinto into this office and without trial told them their jobs were taken from them, supposedly for distributing the appeal of Local 5, of New York City. Capitalist Press Supports Baldwin and, Cal Coolidge To-the DAILY WORKER: — In the “liberty loving” Cleveland News appeared an article supporting the statements made by Norman Hapgood, Roger Baldwin, and other believers in “free speech and free press,” that there’ ain’t no such thing in Soviet Russia. The Cleveland News, durifig the last presidential election campaign sup- ported that famous’ advocate of civil liberties, Strikebreaker Cal Coolidge. Who's not familiar with. Coolidge’s Boston; “his advocacy of Jim Crowism in the south and his failure to raise his voicé in behalf of the hundreds of Commiinists, I. W. W. and militant trads unionists who are still incar- ceratéd in. the dungeons of capitalist Ammer iva? : ate rs “Avnerican workers are becoming tired of listening to the same old bunk alioiit free. speech and free press. They are’ gradually realizing that in WORKERS’ SCHOOL. | Red Students Visit the Northside | B The Workers (Communist) ,Partwin tensive training school for party mem: bers was officially opened in the name . of the central executive committee of the Workers Party in a ‘speech by William F. Dunne, an editor of the DAILY WORKER, and member of the LC. B. C. Forty-two Communist workers, more than half of whom came “the mines and factories outside Chi- | cago, were present at the opening. ses- sion, and more were expected to..ar. rive before thé second day of inten. sive study began. Workers came from Detroit, Cleve land, St. Louis, Kansas City, Milwau kee, Southern Illinois mining towns, and Chicago workshops to better. fit themselves to carry on. Gommunist propaganda and organization work. The out of town Communist stu- dents were: Comrades Maton, Kia sonya and Telachak from Milwaukee; Angelo from Springfield, Ill.; Arley Staples and Alec Reid from Christo: pher; B. Vogel and S. Urlich from St. Louis; Ruth Reynolds’, Friedman and Pentila from Detroit; Carl Weisberg from Cleveland; R. Rohman from De- catur, Ill.; Gerlack and Podella from Kenosha. Comrade Henry Corbishley of Ziegler, president of the local un- ion of the United Mine Workers there, is ill with appendicitis in a St. Lonis hospital and could not attend. Last night the Communist students attended the meeting of the northside | English branch in a body. The north: west side English branch supplied the lunch for the students yesterday. The students are each being given $2.00 worth of books, cost price, free. The Communist students range in age from youthful members of the Young Workers’ League, to “old tim- ers,” who have fought many a bitter battle on the working class rront. One change has made in the pro- gram for the first ’four days. Com- rade Martin Abern will lecture on or- ganization at 10 a. m. today, Wednes- day and Thursday. The school is meeting at the Workers’ Lyceum, 2783 Hirsch Blvd. The program which will be followed thru Thursday follows: 9 A. M.: Trade Union History and Tactics. Instructor, William F. Dunne. 10 A. M.; Organization. Instructor, Martin Abern. 11 A. M.; The International Com- munist Movement. Instructor, Max Bedacht. <~ * 12 Noon: Recess one hour for lunch. 1P.M.; Leninism. Instructor, Man- uel Gomez. 2 P. M.: Marxian Economics. _In- this-ecountry we have a capitalist dic- tatérship; veiled under the cloak of demoératy, whereas in Soviet Russia,’ the ‘dictatorship of the workers and peasaiits‘is open and frank and no pre- tense fs made of granting civil liber- ties to the enemies of the workers’ republic. It fs. about time that liberals like Roger Baldwin, and those associated with: him, realized that to expect jus- tice from the industrial and financial barons of this country is sheer non- sénse: ‘No more than we can expect it from the black guards and fascists who’ are ruling Esthonia, Finland, Italy and Roumania. Has Mr. Bald- win mentioned anything about the per- secutions of workers ene peasants in those countries? The Cleveland News, the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune are singing the praises of Mr. Baldwin to the sky. Does Roger Baldwin under- stand the significance of the support he is receiving?—Martin Gordon. RED REVEL of the FOSTER JUNIOR GROUP of Brooklyn, N. Y—March 28, 8 P. M. . at COLUMBIA HALL Stone & Blake Aves., Brooklyn, N. Y. structor, Max Lerner. Max Lerner, director of the. school, appeared at the afternoon. session -with a bandagéd eye, result of the slugging at the Abramovich meeting. Comrade Lerner appeared in court in the morning. Herriot Gets League Report. PARIS, March 16.—Premier Herriot received Aristide Briand today for a report on the Geneva negotiations of the league council. Austen Chamber- lain, British secretary of state for for- eign affairs, arrived in Paris at 9:06 a. m., and will confer with Herriot on the security problem at the foreign offiée at 3 p. m. | 10000 WORKERS OF MADRID CLASH WITH COPS IN CELEBRATION PARIS, March 16.—Ejight persons were injured in a battle between po- lice and participants in a parade of 10,000 workers, during which the po- lice fired into the procession in Ma- drid on Sunday, said a message re- ceived here today. The*parade was in celebration of the anniversary of the Paris commune. , Rote Fahne; Our German Communist Daily By MAX BEDACHT IE ROTE FAHNE, (The Red Flag), is the central organ of the Communist Party of ‘Germany. Our brother party "9 Germany has a number of dailies, semi-weeklies and weeklies. But the Rote Fahne is the official mouthpiec® of the central executive committee 6f the Comman- ist Party of Germany” The Rote Rahne ig a child of the revolution. It provés worthy of its parentage. In the memorable Nov- ember days of 1918, when the colossus of the German army succumbed to the | germ of revolt sown by the glorious | the | example of the October revolution of Russian proletariat; in those | ‘This was a slam at the fakers who have severed |"°t¢ days when the socialist Schet- one day—from a sotial democratic deputy William Il and from-that into a min- ister of the Germa public; in the same-days when py sees workers showed signs of a rmination to end the life of the of capitalism, in those days the wa@f@kers of Berlin took possession of t establishment i of one of the —— in Ber- : .. : —_ lin, discontinued the bourgeois sheet afd began publication of the Rote Fahne. Its first editors were Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht. In those days the Rote Fahne was inspirer and leader of the revolution. It voiced the aspirations of the revolt. It unified the army of the revolution and made heroic’efforts to supply that element of leadership which was lack- ing in the absence of a leading revo- lutionary party. The courage, the revolutionary clar- ity and integrity of such leaders as Liebknecht, . Luxemburg, Jogiches, Mehring could not overcome the han- into the prfme minister of |dicap caused by the non-existence of (a revolutionary Communist |especially because in the social de- demann turned his cogt three times in | Party; mocratic party the proletarian masses still saw the rebel of past days. Con- sequently the great betrayal of the _workers by the social democrats, and the tinal assassitiation’ ofthe revolu- tionary leaders by the socialists was the result. In every crisis the Rote Fahne was true to its name. As the banner of proletarian revolt it precedé@ the No temporary defeat could dismay it. Thru the vicissitudes of the German revolution the Rote Fahne survived to this hour. In the days of the Kapp putsch it raised the slogan of saving the “republic.” After the defeat of Kapp and the return of the socialist dignitaries of the.state to Berlin the republic paid its debt of gratitude to the Rote Fahne by an order of suppression. The socialists traitors knew that the Communists entered the campaign to save the republic for the purpose of building a workers’ republic, a Soviet state. Without the Rote Fahne the great campaigns of the COmmunist Party of Germany would have been utterly impossible. Without the Rote Fah ne, the handful of Spartacists coula never have grown.into the Commun- ist Party of hundreds of thousands of members of today. While the party gives leadership to the struggling masses the central committee gives veadership to the party thru its een tral organ, the Rote Fahne. Reaction in Germany appreciates the effectiveness of the Rote Fahne \rebellious masses in their advances. | as @ weapon of the Communist Party. Whenever it contemplates another scoundrelly attack on the workers it takes pains to first suppress this paper. But even if suppressed one day it appears the next with a new name, but with the same old and clear clarion call of the proleterian revolution. The Communist Party of Germany spent great efforts to steer the exist- ence of its central organ over these periods of crises, But it was ‘well re- paid. If was the continuous existence of the Rote Fahne that helped the party over many a serious crisis— especially in the days of the illegal existence of the party. The Communist Party of Germany has succeeded in building up a mass circulation fer the Rote Fahne. The paper speaks to the workers and for the workers, Thru it the workers speak themselves. * The Rote Fahne is a big brother of our,own DAILY WORKER. The Rote Fahne is for the German party what the DAILY WORKER must be- come for the American Communist Party: A leader, a teacher and a spokesmay - ’ i ee ee T= asse Washir contrib quette, needed Morphe Bacchu is talk vice-pr of its dent. all the by the the Da novati pe poli by th glance those pointn est in may 1! open ' faws a effusic chairn cheese slice «¢ guest the st and i ean s blame explar Lill