Daily Worker
March 19, 1925
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New York, calling the attention of the may not think it good manners to] against all hecklers of the working! About a thousand men and women | the “Bomb Squad,” acting under or- confirmed Sargent as attorney gen- membership of the organization to the open wide their mouths in loud guf-|class. But the meeting was broken | arched before the mill gates at 7 : : ders of the federal government, was eral by a unanimous vote. expulsion of Local 5 from the New faws as some senator hurls a poetical} up by the indignant workers. o’clock this morning. Then to the determined, if possible, to prevent the York joint board, on the flimsy charge 7, effusion at the head of the somnolent The Pesky Workers Will Get In. : “ Gem Theater for a meéfing. Strike’ P st 7 nae b Whe verformance of the pageant—and of issuing a leafiet. chairman of the august senate. A big Heavy police guard and large forces|leader Kelleher, organizer for the 0 i > ae a N Above all to prevent another demons. Ut 8 re action of Levin will only have cheese sandwich, with a generous! of detectives were the shock troops] United Textile Worker cautioned the Il nase. tration of Communist and working the effect of solidifying the growing 2 Feb. 1, at the Lenin Memorial meet the Hillman machine, on a nation- mine owners in wide scale. guest to stop up the main avenue into] tors were admitted only after passing She showed how companies used their the stomach with the piece of cheese a civil service examination and mem- | power to fool and defeat the workers. The confe om ing. 5 It the object of this hys th and if tears of laughter come, who bers of the Workers (Communist) Announcements were made by Amy the ‘central b jinous flelds sche- 10,000 in Demonstration , — attack on the economic lives 10 can say that the onion is not to] party and sympathizers were rigidly| Hooker, of the local textile council duled to be hei n Cleveland, Ohio.| About 10,000 workers and Commun- of the members was for the purpose blame? This may not be a scientific as t ti t i local yesterday to org a drive to re. hi d h t- of preventing the news to get to the h. ; kept out. Therefore, if things hap- o meetings of various locals and ist sympathizers attended the mee — N he explanation, but. it’s quite plausible. pened, they were the natural reaction the textile council. duce miners’ ges and break the] ing, which was enthusiastic from be- ‘ * mbership, it will fail disastrously 9 lot other workers to Abramovich’s Workers Party Speaker. Jacksonville, Flagmgreement-with the] cinning to end. The chairman of the Will Pick Equally Con-| The leaflet issued by Local 5 is a on HE coal barons’ conference which | ies. The Workers Party speaker and dis- United Mine wom of America, has meeting, Comrade Juliet Stuart Po- servative M po document, setting forth the 2. wag scheduled to take place yes- And things happéned. Untermann, trict organizer of the. Workers. Party been postponed. _. | yntz, ridiculed the “antics of the po- an 2 of the expulsion in moderate in terday in Cleveland, has been called the chairman, as usual with pacifists, | Was called upon, due to the interest in The failure 0 .. operators of Ill; tice bomb squad,” her statement being WASHINGTON . ete ee It states that the reason he | off. The invitation was issued by the threatened force and violence. It was his figures about profits made and nois and Ine an participate at this greeted with boos for Captain Gegan 8888 * aa te March 17.— _— by Hillman for the expulsion m- | Ohio coal opensfors. The western not long in coming. Most of the au-|how it concealed its real earnings, he time | the @pstponement of the} of the squad. basa ‘ica nally admitted 2 because Local 5 issued a leaflet. er | Pennsylvania group accepted. Indiana dience walked out, when hecklers | was asked to continue, his talk last-|¥8 h ohe nee. ; “We have an international army of * ay after two severe But did not Hillman issue leaflets when agreed to send delegates, but with so were beaten up Three workers were ing for 40 minutes. The linois ors take the po-} workers, armed with a program, or- py age at the hands of the senate he was fighting Harry Cohen and the o- many reservations that the Ohio boys bell’ and ai badly beaten e Gh the it sition, it, was need, that the] ganized, disciplined and working to- owed Charles Warren to with-| Forward gang? After recounting the m- became disgusted and called off the * 41 — the workers ures, showing — le up aivi Jacksonville... ment has only 2 ard the world revolution and the petit. bi r r- whole thing. The Illinois operators arrested will be charged with lese|dends on common stock were 20 per little over a n, and since the] foundation of Conimunist society,” she 2 . 1 88 2 the 8 — — — Amalgamated, the 8 refused to send representatives. Evi- Illinois mines 50 per cent shut] said. ejecte arren, et calls attention to the following este upon the dignity of His Ex- cent, amounting to over a million and me: ¥ , en is dently the operators have no stomach anak Aleck — defying the la quarter each year. The figures on down now with post of those fun-] Comrade Moissaye Olgin gave of 2 oben aioe : 83 0 oe eye wae ga e constitutional debility of the Second|the profits of the American Thread | ing vos s ed 19 historical sketch of the struggles för ment. Nie tne Thrown Out of Work. ‘er the nibbling tactics that have en- International and telling Protéssor] Co. and the English Sewing Cotton nern i . wis Bed) the estabiionhment of ‘the COMMUN, | "Ths Senate objected to such an ap- 1. About the suffering and need ad — e hs 8 * on in Abramovich that it he don't like Ame Co., Ltd., are given in another article to atteng. when the workers took power from pointment, on the ground that it © the unemployed and how work- ibled them to smas e union in rica, why don’t he go back to Russia.|in the DAILY WORKER. The Indiana nd Illinois operators the capitalist class and became the would be a violation of the “constit ers are being thrown out of work for nd West Virginia ant other places. ‘rhe “Purity Congress.” |. The lack of educational opportunity plan to institut heir wage cutting} dominant class. The army fraternized | tional rights“ of th t no rason or rhyme. — 2 „ «@ Thought It e “Purity Cong tor the textile town boys and girls | Campaign later, 4 time when the with the workers and turned their on er ae W dass] . (eee HE head of the Indiana association} The defendants enter a plea in was revealed, as well as the toil of | Miners have t Fut of work almost} guns against the bourgeoisie and their] cabinet posi * engaged in a bitt tr 2 . batement, that understanding ; in r tro leaders, General Thomas and oth auen. er struggle against igs Phil H. Pemna, considered the | aba A (oontiuued on page 2.) continuously tor e years. — J leaders, Gene an ers. | A new appointment is t the corrupt officials of the union and om best strategist among the coal mag-| the yellow | socialist artare fF art . — * a ne cont er nee 160 inal ea The R i Fis hoisted in Paris * announced ay i IN moses ie eon he a egg at ax nates. e 1 . 1 3 . 2 I 8 A te “aoe * Allie * 7 7 88 ed. to 3 uss * 4. entin ca —— ot the workers It that Coolidge will officials promised Hillman that they eatin Wee eA r - = — | | Se 2 a | K yal to tha would help him carry thru the fifty „ the non- un lo 0 oh d Western Per ished — tee ante darge corporations. The senate ju. cent dues proposition, Hillman made * other parts ot the country than by ANCE RUNS “The Illinois opyrators feel that the Citizens. The bourgeoisie retired set diciary committee today approved the bence with them. risking millions of dollars in a battle admitted treachery to the wut | wage scale is toochigh, Rice Miller Versailles, known to the workers ot nomination of Herman J. Gall “3 How our official with the best aggregation of fighting | they thought that the professor: ow 4 RIVERA RAGG the whole world for that infamous I oway, , Officials reduced to n- ‘ president of the Hlinois coal operators of Indtana, as assistant attorney gen-|naught the gains made in th nen on the American contifeyt. The inviting them to the “Purity! Ooh : said treaty of that name. Then came 1905 f era}; Those who were rumored slat- strike in which th + oe American miners have given their]gress” suggested by his comradem in ; in! Russia, when the country was od siat- e members of the ol, PARIS. F n ed for the attorney genefalsnip tnclud- | Amalgamated made such b L masters a taste of their steel. That treachery, and were merely tryink to „ France, March 17.—Span- Roumania Extestis Moratorium. shaken to its foundations. After a] ing John Sargent, ex attorney genera’ zi y Sacrifices on the bosses would even dream of cross-} purify the fetid atmosphere of- Re ish troops have been attacking the decade of revolutionary struggle, | of — vam Baath mc 4 be a 4. How, when the firm of J. Freed- he ing them, is a reflection on their re-|phael’s presence. I Riffian rebels since last Friday with BUCHAREST, Houmania, March 17. came the overthrow of the czar, fol- idge, or Thomas Swan. the e man and other firms threw workers . actionary and crooked leadership and 2 ln |. no success, says a dispatch from —The moratorium on commercial] jowed by Nov. 7, 1917, the greatest | tive dean of the Yale law Pixar out of their jobs and when thé remain- a 10t on the rank and file. Hines Fires 300 Employes. Tanaier : debts in Roumania, ts to be extended day in the history of mankind.” tee eriticiem ing workers refused to work until they 2 8 WASHINGTON, D. C., March 17 oe for another three» months, following] Then depicting the struggles of the levelled at Warren for his activities f. 1 Pu — UT if the rank and file of the min-] Director Hines has told President Abd-El-Krim is preparing a coun- the passage of a law to that effect by | Russian workers and peasants, Com-] as an agent of the sank? trust 8 fictals actually compelled other union ‘ot ers’ union think the bosses have | qoojigge that 200 employes have veen] ter attack in eastern Morocco to- parliament. rade Olgin said that, “if a conflict be-| idge wrote Warren a letter express- — n 2 * ee N alled off their dogs they will be mak - gropped from the personnel of the U.] ward Tafersit. The Riffian troops tween the bourgeoisie of the world ing his confidence in him Ris Sgn ein aot ge of ing a big mistake. Things are devel- S. Veterans Bureau. occupy the immediate frontiers on Kurds Are Defeated. and Soviet Russia arises, the prolétar-| Vice-president Dawes was again ab- cause the Columns of the official oping nicely for thé operators. Why| m, war veterans are being de-] each side of the road, making an ad- CONSTANTINOPLE, March 17. — iat of all countries will say to their sent from the senate today, having organ of the Amalgamated has been = should they resort to open conflict lared “rehabilitated” and released| Vance by the Spaniards impossible. |The Kurdistan rebels have been] bourgeoisie ‘hands off Soviet Russia. | attended the drawings for the Davis closed to the members of the union > with the union as a whole when they from training schools in large, num- Rivera has ordered airplanes and | ousted from all villages within five Benjamin Gitlow spoke about the} cup tennis matches. Local 5 was obliged to appeal directly ean bite it off one chunk at a time? bers. Many of them are unable to artillery to the front to attack the miles of Diabekir in Armenia, it was| White Terror and the International to the membership. This was the ~ Frank Farrington is sending commis- 1 a living and face starvation. Riffians. announced today. (Continued on page 2) Anti-Kiansmen Acauitted. crime in the eyes of Hillman, tho it u — sions around to study super power“ PITTSBURGH, Pa. March 17 . was no crime for the manufacturers while thousands of Illinois miners are é r, March F1.—Sc-ito get their information about union „ inemployeds John L. Lewis has in- Sick Workers to Stay at Home. AMERICAN ‘LIBERTY’ IN ACTION ven men wore acqul"rd «? charges affairs from the general officers. The vited 150,000 miners to get out of the LONDON, March 17.—King George ‘ — rioting ix connection with the ku | Hillmanites ordered the members to industry and look for jobs somewhere | Was sufficiently recovered from bron- " I klan disorders during which se- stay away from a mass meeting called else. Lewis will undoubtedly claim chitis today to hold privy council, ver- I peopl were killed in Carnegie to demand that he put a stop to the that his leadership has frightened off With Queen Mary, the king is ex- > in August, 1923. Thorns Abbott, 2 firing of workers from the shops. The the coal barons. But the coal barons | pected to depart before Sunday for klansman, ge killud at Carnegie, in|business agents were ordered to are already violating the Jacksonville |the south of France where he will em- August 12 Abhott attacked som-|threaten those who attended with agreement in the pits. The miners|bark on a Mediterranean cruise to townspeople and they returned the loss of their jobs. But the members 8 must wake up. complete his convalescence. fire. were not frightened. Hence the ex - 8 @: 9 pulsion. f MUSING editorials appear in the Seek Jury in Mail Robbery. me Cane Education Minister. Raising Smoke Screen. * capitalist press over the success-| WAUKEGAN, II., March 17.—Work TIENTSIN, China, March 17.—More Sam Levin is now trying to make s * ful failure of Abramovich at the Gar- of selecting a jury to hear the charges than a hundred professors attacked Trade Union Educational League issus 1 * ick Theater last Sunday. One would against the four men accused of the and severely caneg the minister of [out of the distribution of the Local 8 imagine by reading those editorials murder of Russell Sage Dickey, ex- education today betause of his policy Five leaflet in Chicago. It is true y hat free speech was inviolate in the | press-messenger, during the attempted towards government education. (Continued on page 2) United States; that such things only f holdup of the Chicago and North- 3 happen in Russia, and that the western railroad’s viking express ati Russians are Asiatics, hence their | Kenilworth last New Years’s eve, con- WORKING CLASS GIRLS CARRY BANNERS (Continue on Page 2) tinued in criminal court here today. F OR IRI SH F AM INE VI CT! M 5 W H U L E ASK BLOOD TO SAVE LIFE OF COAL MINERS’ DAUGHTER AT SPRINGFIELD SPRINGFIELD, III., March 17.—A child's lite was at stake here today. Lillian Ero, 10, motherless daughter of a Kincaid, III., coal miner, was slowly bleeding to death, physicians said. They issued an appeal to the public press or volunteers to submit to a blood transfusion. For a number of years the little girl has suffered severe nose bleeding — ü — +spells. Doctors believed one trans- fusion would, save her. MINE EXPLOSION f ane Se. eee See INDIANA TAKES TWO tests, but the child’s pti - ' mix with that of the relatives, the | MORE WORKERS’ LIVES ort = 5 — case. She is a very bright little girl who realizes her con- TERRE HAUTE, ind., March 17. dition. Her face lights up when a —Two shot firers are believed to jrelative takes a blood test and again have been killed last night by an /is overspread wah sadness wher she explosion in the Shirkeville No. 1 |hears the blood will not mix with her mine six miles northeast of here. own,” said Dr. Henry Aschauer. The cause of the explosion has “When one of these bleeding spells not been determined but it was re- comes on we have to, administer a ported to have been caused by a serum used on horses. A very small “windy shot.” ; dose is enough to make a scream in pain, but Lillian never whimpers. 4 Sub And Give One! She wants to live.“ FREE STATERS GORGE THEMSELVES While the bourgeois Free State Irish nationalists were gorging them- selves yesterday with foor and drowning their cares in libations from the cup that cheers and inebriates, in honor of St. Patrick, a group of young working class girls, of various nationalities paraded up and down in front of the deserted city hall advertising the fact that a famine existed in Ireland aud that 760,000 workers and peasants were destitute. | amine stricken region. The Free State supporters in the United States are nourishing the fie] The signs were carried by girls now tion that there is no famine in Ire- attending the Workers Party school land. Their stomachs are full, 80 | at Workers Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch they have no cause for worry. es-] Boulevard. Their names are: Ruth terday, they were presenting the cap-|Fern, Eva Bittelman, Valeria Meltz italist side of Ireland’s face to the Marguerite Lewis, Marguerite — world. and Catherine Polishuk. The signs carried by the members Crowds gathered as the girls march- of the Workers Party told a differentjed up and down Beside the building story. They pointed to the fact that which was closed in honor of Mayor the Irish Free State government was/Dever'’s patron saint. The inscription more concerned with putting a trea fou the signs were read by passersby son bill” thru parliament than wich and a general air of sympathy was feeding the hungry Irish peasants; | noticeable. that the American capitalist press The demonstration was under the was silent about the famine whilejdirection of the Chicago local of the the DAILY WORKER devoted cob Irish Workers’ end Peasants’ Famine umns of space to stories from the/ Relief Committee, A Workers School Students. rue * ; K —_, « * . : . — — 35 „ ba . — - »> * . * N 2 P P ~ ’ . 3 . * — N — . — — Ss 0 * & * te * — — — t 8 — eee — — > 0 =~ — we — — *
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~ ie f * „ 8 . * at - 2 — oa 8 A gar 4 „ \ „1 aig . — 8 4 * Se: % ee - . - ‘ YR od vy ’ 4 * 0 2 * 7 . SS OR LR. r Be, ORKERS Brings (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, March 17.— Not a wheel is turning in the dress goods industry since Tuesday in perhaps the most novel strike in the annals of the class s in this city. Thirty thousand wor mostly women, have downed and are striking on the job, “actually leaving their places of “employment. Altho the strike is won by the jobbers sur- render, not until after the shop chair. men accept the settlement today will work be resumed, : They are to enforce the agreement gained last February 2nd without a struggle, partly because theiremployers knew the helplessness of denying the demands of 30,000 workers solidly organized, but more because they hoped; as of old, to re- duce the agreement to a scrap of paper. 0 The clause in the agreement that means most both to the workers and their exploiters from diametrically op- posite points, of course, is the one establishing a uniform schedule of piece work prices for all classes of work, guaranteed by the jobbers, twhich next to week work would once and for all put an end to cut throat competition between the workers in the different shops of different con- tractors for the same jobber. The clause was to have gone into effect February 24 and the jobbers proceeded to junk it as has always been their custom, with the tolerance and connivance of the union official- dom. The newly elected left wing exe- cutive committee of local 22, Inter- national Ladies’ Garment Workers’ union, however, determined that the workers should enjoy the fruits of whatever advantages they had gained from their exploiters, insist that the jobbers live up to the agreement. The jobbers point blank refused to do this and the strike on the job was ordered immediately. The workers in the shops responded at once to the order in a splendid and universal solidarity. Confronted with this upheaval, the jobbers cowe- red and after conference with the officialdom of the International, try- ing somehow te patch up the differ- ences, gave in, the union agreeing, a piece A most und enraging fea- tures of those conferences is the fal- lure of the officials.to bring into these conferences members of the executive committee of the locals involved in the strike or of the strikers them- selves, Sigman aud Feinberg alone taking it entirely upon themselves to patch up the matter in star chamber proceedings. Thousands of strikers are violently protesting against this high handed method and demand that their exe- cutive committee be consulted before action is taken. In the meantime, the women sit at the machines or stand around in th: shops with folded arms while the bosses wring their hands in utter helplessness, not even being able to introduce scabs as the places are oc cupied by the regular workers who have decided not to make profits for the boss till the jobbers capitulate. Already over $5,000,000 worth of dresses are held up in the shops of the contractors, and this string of dollars are serving as a picket line that the police are not able to hit in the head. Thread Strikers Welcome Speaker for Communists | (Continued from Page 1) ; elderly women to grind their lives in- to surplus value for the absentee stock holders. He urged them to stand together even after winning back the robbed 10 per cent and to fight on for better conditions, until their Ilves were made happier, until they ceased to be mere “help,” mere appendages to the ma- chine. He was given a rising vote of thanks and amidst loud applause, was invited to come back. Future .Meetings. It was announced that Workers Party speakers would be present at future mass meetings. The strikers have at their command the Gem and the Strand Theaters for morning meetings, but the Strand is too small to accomodate them. The present Willimantic strike is the first extensive protest against a wage cut and its outcome will have a great effect on other situations. There is urgent need for speakers. Splendid Solidarity. Additional information shows that on Tuesday morning just before the mill was shut down the yard boss asked about twelye laborers (yard- men) whether they would take the place of the firemen in case the latter quit. Unanimous refusal. The boss went to other yardmen— the same re- sult. They tried the men in the works department, car ters and other — and refused Sy * 1 Made a So the Fight ‘he 2 i . Paine — CS We fe for Worke: By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ia ‘ a . 8 2 n . we eke me N 4 ae ee . 2 2 3 * = 21 2 ‘ * 2 5 ad ie ee oe 2 j 7 —* Pee 4 nites a 4 x 5 se 2 ö i if ae Ch a epee ty : * 1 > We oy al 1 et 2 : ; Must Go e to give up its demand for The works department had not been ODAY, it may seem that it is a far cry from an Abramo- vich meeting against Soviet Russia, in Chicago, and the Kurdish revolt against the Angora Turkish far Asia. But these two events may be bro the the far-flung capital It is easily overnment in together for urpose of comparison, and a better understanding of front against Bolshevism. — 7 understood why out-and-out Boushevik haters, longing for the overthrow of the Russian Workers’ Republic, should be ardent supporters of the Anti-Sovietist, Abramovich. He is one of them. They bitterly resent any Communist interference with their schemes. They rely upon the American capitalist state, with its police, to help them put their lies over. 89 0 But there are a few workers, including some who still follow the grounded “socialist” banner, who feel that no attempt should be made to reply to Abramovich’s attack. This is on the theory that Abramovich should be allowed to have his say. It is argued that the Russian Soviet Republic. is now strong enough to tolerate free discussion; that Com- munist workers and their worker sympathizers should sit idly b and — and hear Soviet Rule assailed, because the Workers’ easants’ Government is safe.“ Around half the globe, however, comes the quick shat- tering of this spurious attitude as the Turkish vernment, at Angora, is forced to vote $44,000,000 ostensibly to carry on its war against the Kurds. It was the Angora government that ousted British imperialism from Constantinople. When the Angora Turks drove the Greek lackeys of London out of Asia, it might also have been ar gued that Angora rule is “safe.” But it is British imperialism that inspires the Kurds to rise against Angora, not for the benefit of the Kurds, but in order that the ritish flag may return to Constantinople and the Dardanelles, precious key to the domination of the Near East. To be sure, the Turkish workers and peasants will never win their complete freedom from oppression until they have created their urkish Soviet republic, with the red flag of Communism flung to the breeze over its domains. The present Angora government dreads this develop- ment. It fears the Communists. it puts them in prison and persecutes them. But Communists see in the present Angora rule a trench against British Imperialism, the beginning of the road leading to the final victory. The vision of the ish imperialists is equally keen. rit- So they plot against An- gora rule, using the Kurds today, or inflaming some other people tomorrow. 89 0 Let those who would be so lenient toward Abramovich, remember that the British inspired attack on the Angora government is not an end in itself but merely the building of another front in the ceaseless attack on the Russian Soviet British imperialism entrenched in Constantinople Republic. ~ once more, opens the way for new interventions in Soviet Russia from the south. The lesson to be drawn is that the victory of 4 sian Soviet republic has not been completely consolidated. It is not delivered from imperiafist attack. In fact imperial- ism is continually, ceaselessly lotting against it. The struggle not only for the protection of the Russian Soviet republic, but for the spreading of Soviet Rule, must there- fore become more, not less, inténse. not be confined and “made safe” in Russia. Labor’s triumph must Labor must conquer the world; not permittting, in the name of free speech,“ but everywhere and all times suppressing every imperialist and counter-revolutionary assault in the cause of the world proletarian victory. . * * * It only needs a complete understanding of this situation tq swing working class support in favor of the Communist position. The capitalist press,—note the editorial expressions of the whole pack,—understand the situation and attack the Communists. For instance, a new Jd Let the workers understand just as clearly and join their own liberating strugg anese ambassador comes from Tokio to Washington, and his first move is to secure Wall Street aid to wrest control of the Chinese Eastern Railway from Soviet Russia. it brings it nearer to home. Let the workers be just as watchful. That should make the issue clearer. The imperialists never sleep. here will be time for the enjoyment of free discussion, and all that it means, when capitalist imperialism has been destroyed, and the emanci- pating banners of Communism wave over every land. There will not only be time for it, but it will only then be possible for the first time in human history. organized, but ‘they disliked the dirty work of being a scab. With all these refusals, the,jig was up; it was im- possible to keep the mills open. The company admitting defeat, closed the mill. Fifth Day of the Strike. The strike lines are still solid. And the Strikers are learning about their enemy. They are being taught to do their utmost. They have with them young and old, the bitterness from years of exploitation, and the deter- mination to fight on until this first skirmish is won. In that fight, the Workers Party of America pledges them its solid support. Demonstration in Peru Against Cal’s Tacna Arica Award (Special to The Daily Worker.) BUENOS AIRES, Argentine, March 17.—Passengers arriving at Santiago from Peru report that serious dis- turbances have broken out aß protests against Coolidge’s award in the Tac- na-Arica dispute. Hostile demonstrations have oc- curred in the streets of Lima and Callao against the United States, and the crowd destroyed the coat ef arms over the American embassy at Lima. Six thousand women demonstrated against the United States in Lima streets. b A DAILY WORKER sub means another Communist. : Employers Spend Thousands Fighting Workers’ Legislation (Special to The Daily Worker.) SPRINGFIELD, III., March 17.—The Illinois Manufacturers’ Association is spending thousands of dollars to de- feat the bill now before the Illinois legislature to limit the labor of women to eight hours per day, six days per week. The manufacturers are con- ducting a strong lobby at Springfield, and are sending a “legislative service” to all manufacturers within the organ- ization, free of charge. The latest letter sent to all mem- bers of the manufacturers’ association shows that the manufacturers are in- terested in only one thing at Spring- field—in guarding their profits by op- posing bills aimed to raise the living of the workers. 1 „The Illinois Manufacturers’ Asso- clation is watching your interests at Springfield very carefully,” says the letter to the manufacturers. “You are urged to read diligently the pink sheet as it comes to you following each legislative day. Let us know regarding any bills in which you are especially interested. Many matters of vital im- portance to the industries are being considered, and the only way that the legislators can act intelligently is to get your expression of views.” The llinois Manufacturers’ Associa- tion admits that the lobby against the 8-hour day for women is being carried on “under the leadership of the as- sociation.” ; N — t the Rus- Rew: See Pe AAV AAR TB me Wr — 25 5 BY ‘ — 9 * r ” 7 1. N 1 * 5 1 FO ie on Concerned Unite to N FROM SABL A een , E . * * * » * J 19 Ws — a an ö — — AGE * Kill Evidence (Special to The Dally Worker.) CHEYENNE, Wyo., March 17—Fed- eral Judge T. Blake Kennedy is sched- uled to rule this morning on the ques- tion of whether Mahlon T. Everhart, wealthy cattleman and son-in-law ot Fall, may be excused from testifying regarding his delivery of $230,000 in Liberty bonds to the First Nationa! bank of Pueblo, Colo,, that are said to have been deposited to the credit of Fall. These bonds are supposed to have passed between Sinclair and Fall in connection with the Teapot deal, fol- lowing their distribution by the Con- tinental Trading Co., a Canadian will- o’-the-wisp corporation that Had a hazy career before its records were destroyed in August, 1923, after a profit of some $2,000,000 had accrued from its brokerage of millions of bar- rels of oil. Everhart, a sour looking individual, refused to answer government attor. ney’s question regarding the bonds on the ground that such answer might tend to incriminate him. Without Pverhart's testimony, which is a highly important link in tracing the bonds from the Continen- tal Trading company thru Sinclair to Fall the government will admittedly be confronted with seemingly impass- able barriers, and it was hinted that the fraud and bribery charges of the government’s case might be faced with collapse if Everhart’s testimony is not secured. After a few preliminary questions Everhart was excused by the court from answering questions on the ground that hig testimony might tend to incriminate hini. War Vets Can't Sell Bonus. WASHINGTON, March 17.—It is il legal to sell soldier’s bonus certifi- cates, the veterans’ bureau ruled to- day. Last November the bureau held that persons, for valuable considera tion could be made beneficiaries but Director Frank T. Hines today over ruled the earlier decision and held that the rights to the adjusted com- pensation cannot be sold. Reports have been reaching Washington from macy places that veterans were of- fering their certificates to the highest bidder’ and in some cases the veter- ans’ bureau hus been asked to redeem the papers. Under today’s decision all such transactions are illegal. Get a sub for the DAILY WORKER from your shopmate and you will make another mem- ber for your branch. 45 WE SEE IT By T. J. O’FLAHERTY. (Continued from page 1.) aversion to freedom of expression on general principles. Aside from the fact that most of those resented the foul presence of the fink Abramovich were neither Russians nor Asiatics, (in fact, there were many Swedes and Irish there); it takes a lot of impudence for any editor to make the claim that this is a land of free speech. What about the numeroug raids on meetings by gov- ernment agents, and so-called patri- otic organizations like the American legion? What about the criminal syn- dicalist laws that adorn the statute books of the majority of the states? — * * TIHERE are hundreds of workers in United States jails for exercising theyrights of free speech. Those who have followed the Irish movement here in America, know that meetings called by one group have been cap- tured by another group and turned into a counter demonstration. Many stratagems have been used to accom- plish this purpose. What happened at the Abramovich meetings is that the majority of those who purchased tickets to see him, became incensed as soon as he barked his first curse against the Soviet Republic, for which the class conscious workers have a reverence that the stool pigeons of the capitalist class do not understand. — * > NE of the staff correspondents of the Chicago Tribune was clean mad because the only Communist 1 haled into court was let off free by | the judge when he looked at the gash on his forehead inflicted by some yel low socialist slugger. As it wag the casualties were not all on the side of the pro-Soviet sympathizers. It ap- pears that the police, when in doubt, swung their clubs. The Abramovich supporters made the mistake of wear- ing red instead of yellow ribbons. The police evidently connecting red with Bolshevism, connected their hardwood with the heads of the mem- bers of the arrangements committee. Abramovich may like to talk, but it looks as if the American workers of the Jewish race do not want to hear him. And nobody else can understand him. He might apply for a job as Calvin Coolifige’s interpreter. Cal is dumb by nature and Rafael by cir- cumstances. — * 4 , 4 2 1 * , aw tse 2 i U7 ra Re e is . * 1 _ ' — * ? * Jal at , 2 K * 5 4 4 1 * 8. 2 * * ary 5 7 * 2 # 8 r * 1 é * x 7 2 . ö 97 o N 1 ~~. 2 ‘ * Ss h * 7 * N “Ss — ——— — il 3 — - — 4@ae & se a ee. oe ee eee ee Sees eo B — a. a a | — ma & « & ef we — 2 * „ 0 eee ee e r e ~~ & os = ige= *”» f - tal
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8 a | OF THE TRADE 6 | NION ‘EDU Peres po Gt? Cae ® om oes *% ATIONAL LEA _ penters’ HUTCHESON AGENT WITH POLICE IN RAID ON f. U.. l. : } * 80 Second Article Exposing 5 Duffy’s Lies By J. W. JOHNSTONE. Secretary Duffy of the Carpenters’ Union, in his letter to the numerous requests demanding explanations om the many expulsions that have taken place, says, among other things: “You no doubt know that for years we have had to contend with dual and antagonistic bodies to such an ex- tent that they become not only ob- noxious. but dangerous to the growth, development and prosperity of our organization,” Duffy Lies. Any carpenter knows that Duffy lies when he says that the carpenters have had to contend with dual andan- tagonistic bodies. If there is one in- dustry that has been singularly free from dualism, it has been the build- ing trades of the United States. The I. W. W. has never been able to get a foothold in the building industry. And the O. B. U. that swept Canada 1919-20, has no adherents any more among the building trades workers there and never had a foothold in the United States. So to classify the T. U. E. L. with dual organizations is simply an at- temnmt made by Hutcheson, to gain the sympathy of those members not con- versant with the facts. Again he says, “You must remem- ber that there are two sides to every story, and evidently Local Union 2140 injected other matters into these doc uments besides that referring to Wm. Reynolds, in order to get the sym- pathy and support of other local un- fons not knowing the facts.” We Tell the Other Side. We agree with Mr. Duffy, and the “other side” of the story is now being told to the membership thru the medium of the DAILY WORKER, the Progressive Building Trades Worker, the pamphlet What's Wrong in the Carpenters’ Union,” and the resolution sent out by Carpenters’ Local 2140 of Detroit, Mich. The G. E. B., in expelling Reynolds and the Los Angeles carpenters (16), “heard a one-sided story, and expelled them without hearing the story of the expelled. Wm. Reynolds of Detroit did not even know he was being in- vestigated and was expelled by letter from the general executive board in Indianapolis. We would like to ask Mr. Duffy and bis boss, Hutcheson, if this is what they consider “hearing both sides of the story”? Torturing the Truth. Another choice paragraph is, “The ease of the 11 men refered to in Los Angeles is a similar one (as Reyn- elds, Ed.) However, at the Septem- ber, 1924, meeting of the genefal exe- cutive board held in Indianapolis, that case was carefully gone into, after which the board decided they would reinstate these members in good standing providing they gave assur- ' ance to the board that they would sever their connections with the rrade Union Educational League and would not give it any countenance, support, or recognition whatever in the future. This these men refused to do. So they have no one to blame but themselves for being outside the pale of the United Brotherhood.” This is the usual method adopted by the corrupt Hutcheson administra tion to evade the issue in answering the questions asked. Duffy “forgets” to say that Wm. Muir, general organizer, in conjunc tion with the policy of Los Angeles, etaged a raid upon a meeting held by the Trade Union Educational League on March 1, 1924; that 39 men and women, carrying on a peaceful edu- cational meeting, were brutally flung into a patrol wagon, taken down to the police station and forced to tell what union they belonged to. Expelled Without Trial. Two days later Wm. Muir, personal representative of Hutcheson, with the information received from the police, read off a list of 17 names to the Car- District Council, of those whom he asked be suspended. One man who happened to be friendly with Muir, was quietly drop- ped from the list, and the other 16 members not 11, as Duffy states in his letter, were expelled without trial three days after the raid, and upon evidence submitted by the police de- partment of Los Angeles. This happened in March, 1924, and the appeal of these 16 members was not heard by the general executive board until after the convention. This hearing was purposely delayed so that the defendants would not be able tc appeal to the convention. Old and Active Members. Another thing that Duffy con- veniently neglects to mention was that D. Z. McClure was permanently expelled, and that all the members in volved had been in the organization from five to 32 years; that all were active in the union, most of them holding offices such as business agent, local secretary, trustees, and dele- ‘STOOL PIGEON OF THE GOVERNMENT FAILS TO BREAK TEXTILE STRIKE | SPRINGFIELD, Mass.—Striking textile workers at the Chicopee mills of the Dwight Manufacturing company refuse to acept the terms the employers offered them instead of the average 10 per cent wage cuts first announced. Charles G. Wood, federal conciliator, failed again to win the workers to the company view and has gone to Bos- ton to try to revise the company’s proposition with its treasurer. Wood is under suspicion by Mas- sachusetts workers because of his repeated efforts to influence strik- ers at Waltham and othed places to accept company propositions. gates to district and central labor bodies. Nor does Duffy say, that besides the conditions laid down in the above quotation, that the ruling of the G. E. B. carried with it the following: “They shall not be permitted to hold office in any local union or serve as comitteemen of any local union for a period of five years.” Duffy knows full well that if he told the truth about the official decision of the G. E. B. on the Los Angeles cases in his circular letter to the local un- ions, they would immediately de- mand the reinstatement of the expel- led. Another point upon which Duffy re- mains silent is the police raid. But if Duffy is silent, not so with his local lieutenants. Hutcheson’s Agent Accompanied Police Raiders. We are in receipt of a copy of a letter from Carpenters’ Local No. 2203, of Anaheim, Calif., Feb. 23, 1925, signed by J. R. Carothers, Rec. Secy., in which it states, after con- demning the T. U. E. L.: The police of Los Angeles raided a meeting of the T. U. E. L., think ing they were I. W. W.“ s. One of the representatives of our general office was present with the raiders and got hold of the membership role of the T. U. E. L. and also saw some of the members of the Carpenters’ Union in this hall. These members were ex pelled from the Carpenters’ ‘Union and got damn little sypathy trom any but their kind.” . Here we get 1 from. J. R. Carothers that Hutcheson, thru his personal representative, used the polic in raiding an educational meet- ing of the T. U. E. L., upon evidence obtained by the police, expelled with. out trial 16 of the most active car- penters in Los Angeles. Their Kind Multiplies. Carothers says “They got damn lit- tle sympathy from any but their kind.” This is quite true. But their kind are so numerous in Los Angeles that Locals Nos. 1500, 2337, 158, 426, 1976 and 884, endorsed the resolution sent out by Detroit Local 2140 de- manding their reinstatement and con- demning the expulsion policy. Duffy, in his letter, resorts to half-truths which are worse than deliberate lies. Like Wm. Reynolds, the Los An- geles expelled members were put out of the Brotherhood without a hearing or trial, because they held different political opinions to those of Wm. L. Hutcheson and were determined to expose his corrupt administration. In tomorrow’s article, I will take up that part of Duffy’s letter dealing with the Chicago expulsion cages. Hutcheson Frames Up on More Carpenters to Retain His Job NEW YORK CITY.—In spite of hun- dreds of carpenters’ locals and numer- ous district councils that have protest- ed against the expulsion policy of the Hutcheson administration, Hutcheson still continues to broaden out his dis- ruptive campaign. The latest victims to feel the weight of Czar Hutcheson’s | mailed fist are the officers of Local 376 of New York City and Jos. Lap- idus, campaign manager for Morris Rosen, who was left wing candidate for president in the recent carpenters’ election. They have been notified to appear before a special investigating commit- tee selected by the G. E. B., to answer charges of issuing “scandalous and scurrilous” matter during the election campaign. The “scandalous” matter referred to is the election program up- on which Morris Rosen ran for presi- dent. It advocated amalgamation, in- dependent working class political ac- tion, job control, etc. If there are any members of the Carpenters’ Union who have been in doubt in the past as to the basis of Hutcheson’s expulsion policy, this latest act of treachery should convince them that the talk about “dual union- ism” is all poppy-cock and that Hutch- eson merely uses this as a cover un- der which to expel all those members who took an active part against him in the last election. Get a sub for the DAILY WORKER from your shopmate and you will make another mem- ber for your branch, : A. C. w. LOCAL DEMANDS | ORLD UNITY, PRAISING COl MUNISTS AND CONDEMNING ABRAMOVICH ROCHESTER, N. Y.—The following resolution was adopted by the Lithuanian Local of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of Rochester. This same resolution was referred by the joint board to the board of directors: Resolution for International Labor * Rone Elected Unity. “WHEREAS, The labor movement of the world is today engaged in a flerce struggle against the united at- tacks of world capitalism and their imperialist governments under the leadership of the American capitalist class as shown by the embittered campaigns against Soviet Russia, thru the Dawes’ slave plan in Europe, in- tervention in China, and the open shop and wage slasheng drive here in America; and “WHEREAS, In this struggle the combined forces of world capitalism must be met by a united front of the international labor movement, toward which an important step has been tak- en thru the formation of the Anglo- Russian Unity Committee composed of the duly authorized representatives of the British labor movement and representatives of the 7,000,000 Russ- ian trade unionists; and “WHEREAS, The Second Interna- tional ag the agent of world capital- ism betrays the workers by support- ing the treacherous labor enslaving Dawes’ plan, thru vicious attacks up- on workers’ Russia, the Communists’ International, the Red International of Labor Unions, and the Anglo-Russ- ian Unity Committee: This anti-la- bor program being now presented in this country by R. Abramovich; and “WHEREAS, The Communist In- ternational and the Red International of Labor Unions fights ceaselessly and militantly for the full interests of the workers, constantly striving to bring about complete unity of all la- bor against the centralized bosses, rousing the workers against the Dawes’ plan, and supporting in fullest measure the work of the Anglo-Russ- jan Unity Committee: Therefore, be it “RESOLVED, That we endorse the work being done by the Communist International, the Red International of Labor Unions and the Anglo-Russ- ian Unity Committee in behalt of the strengthening and the unification of the whole world labor movement, and be it further “RESOLVED, That we n the actions of the Second Internation- al, the agent of world exploiting cap- italism, and its representative, R. Abramovich.” Union Bricklayer Tells of Treachery in Helping Bosses New York City, March 17. DAILY WORKER: Friends, this union bricklayer is go- ing to give a correct outline of the open shop drive in Massachusetts in 1921, by the chamber of commerce and the building trust combined. Friends, this will substantiate an- other bricklayer’s item in the DAILY WORKER of March 4, 1925, compli- menting Vice-President Thornton with selling the Bricklayers’ Union to scab bosses in Philadelphia in 1924. But in this case all the officers, local and international, were mixed up in the graft that the big builders, the George A. Fuller and the Turner Construction company of New York handed out to these labor traitors. For instance, in Lawrence, Massa- chusetts, Peabody and company were constructing a large job for the Amer- ican Woolen company, when the open shop was declared, and the contrac- tors moved out with the union men. But in came Turner Construction com- pany with New York scabs and took their places. The George A. Fuller company was doing the same dirty work in Boston, and don’t forget that the most aggres- sive tool they acquired to crush those local unions were the international of- ficers, who have special agreements with the big thieves. The writer wishes your co-operation in his struggle towards amalgamation in the building industry, and also a boost in the sales of our valuable paper. I will write you of conditions in New York shortly. Signed: “F.” Painters Give to Prisoners As Much As the Law Allows PHILADELPHIA, Pa., March 17.— Local 587 of the Brotherhood of Paint- ers, Decorators’ and Paperhangers of America, et this city, ag their last regular meeting endorsed a resolution against the anti-syndicalist laws of Michigan and donated $10 to the La- bor Defense Council to help carry on the fight to set Ruthenberg, Foster, Dunne, and the other Michigan de- fendants free. They also donated $10 to the Moon- ey defense, and took up another col- lection for the Sacco and Vanzetti de- fense. The smallness of the donations is due to the clause in our general constitution which hinders us in mak- : ing such donations asks, ent of the 0 istrict Council DETROIT; Mich. — The fight against the expulsiom policy ot Wm. L. Hutch- eson, president of the Carpenters’ Un- ion, is receiving the support of almost the entire membership of Detroit. At the last meeting of the district coun- cil, when the lieutenants of Hutcheson refused to open thé meeting, the dele- gates took the matter into their own hands and eletted Wm. Reynolds of Local No. 2140 as president, and Wal- lace of Local No. 1805 as secretary, and instrubted them to prepare a pro- gram for organizational activity for the next meeting. Hutcheson’s attempt to disrupt the organization in Detroit is still going on. Hutcheson took the controversy into the capitalist courts and said he would abide by its decision. Of course, he fondly imagined that the decision would be in his favor and did not con- sider that capitalist courts are some- times compelled to yield to mass pressure. The decision of Judge Hunt in dis- solving the injunction and dismissing the contempt proceedings against Rey- nolds, forces Hutcheson to adopt new tactics. He has refused to accept the per capita tax of Local No, 1191 until they send théir books to Indianapolis. This move is very obvious. It sim- ply means that Hutcheson is going to try to reduce the delegation td the district co 1 to a point where he can control, it. However, this is a futile maneuver, because there isn’t a single loc in Detroit that supports Hutcheson’s position. Local No., 2140 of Detroit did not ask for, and, vefuses to accept Judge Hunt’s decigion. They have placed their case before the rank and file and will be guided. by their decision. Presidents Hutcheson, in violation of all union principles, appealed to a capitalist cart. It was he that “prayed” forgthe court’s decision. Now that he it, it is up to him to 2 wee Faithful Servants Get Usual Reward from Government WASHINGTON, D. C., March 17.— No-sooner has the White House caus- ed Public Printer Carter to dismiss 175 union printers from the govern- ment printing office, thereby reduc- ing the force to 4,000 persons, than officials of Columbia Typographical Union get hold of copies of posters printed by Carter and sent thruout the country, very recently, urging printers to come to Washington to take jobs in this very shop. The administration apparently wanted to get.a supply of non-union labor on hand, waiting and anxious for work, before it dismissed a lot of old experienced hands, who might make a protest at their own unmerit- ed fate. How cruel was this typical Cool- idge order is shown by the case of one man who was within four months of the right to retire on the small pen- sion provided by contributions from the pay envelopes of all government employes. He lost his job and his pension. Others dismissed had serv- ed faithfully for 30 years. Teachers Need More Strikes and Fewer Lawyers to Win Raise — NEW VoRK— With income tax re. turn figures showing an increase of total taxable incomes and a decided increase in the total of very large taxable incomes, Henry R. Linville. president New York Teachers’ Union “Why should not these indica- tions of prosperity favorably affec the wage of teachers? Why should not teachers get at least a living wage for the important and indispens ible social serviee they render?” The Teachers’ Union is backing the Kleinfield-Ricca bill, No. 847, in the state legislaturé which would provide salary increases for New York cit) teachers. Linville says, “The last year record a slow but steady upward Glimb of the cost of living indes curve. “The upward movement of prices is neither temporary nor local but permanent and world-wide, as any ex amination of the statistics publishec in the U. S. Labor Bulletin or in the Canadian Labor Gazette will show.” He asks if the teachers shall he “the only large group to whom justice is again denied?” Abraham Lefkbvitz, legislative chair- man for the ühſon, is sending out a call for immedfate practical demon- strations by tedthers of their power to aid the passage of the salary in- e bi | LOSOVSKY WRITES UPON THE THREE KINDS OF UNIONS Their Attitude Toward Capitalist Society By A. LOSOVSKY. General Secretary of the Red Inter national of Labor Unions. The trade union movement of pre war time was divided on the main lines, between those having a class conscious point of view and those of non-class viewpoint. -Among those with a class conscious viewpoint we can count the principal trade union bodies of Germany, England, France, Italy and the Scandinavian countries, which in their programs, resolutions, etc., pointed out the class struggle and which theoretically, at least, were opposed to class collaboration. The non-class unions, were those which in their programs, declared openly for co-operation between Classes and for social peace: these were the catholic, democratic, protes- tanty and other unions. We should also count here the yellow unions, which theoretically recognized the class and social peace, but, in prac- tice had been conducting a class strug. gle—but not on the side of the work ers; rather on the side of the bour- geoisie. This is the first grouping which divided the great mass of or- ganized workers and which is the primary classification of the trade un- ions existing at that time. . Three Ideological Groups. But this rough division of the class and non-class is, in itself, not enuf if we do not explain what the class unions at that time really were. Examining that part of the unions which, before the war, united about three-fourths of all organized workers on a class basis, we can point out in general three political groupings which had been formed during a long historical period. On one side was trade unionism—taking here trade un- ionism as a certain ideological and po- litical movement—then anarcho-syndi- calism and third, social-democratic trade unions. These are the three dif. ferent clear political divisions into which the class trade union move- ment was divided. Let us take up the characteristics of each of these move- ments. First—Trade Unionism. What do we understand in the trade ufiion literature and politics under trade unionism? This name, which was adopted from the Anglo-Saxon countries, became during the long per- Liod of development of the English and American trade union movement not only an external formula or symbol for a certain trade union in a certain country, but it represented also a certain ideological and political con- tent of the trade union movement. Under trade unionism we understand such a form of the labor and trade union movement which has for its pur. pose only ‘the narrow economic prob- lems of bettering conditions of labor, higher wages, etc Trade unionism is a theory which has grown out of the practical Anglo- Saxon labor movement, which in fact does not have in its program, in theory or in practice, the overthrowal of capitalism, but only the betterment of conditions within the capitalist System. Thinks Capitalism Permanent. So the main characterization of trade unionism (also a characteriza- tion of reformism, which is under- stood widely outside the borders of Anglo-Saxon countries) is the strug. gle within the frame of the capitalist system and the conception of that system as a permanent one within the frame of which we have to struggle and better the conditions of the work ing class. Most of the practical and theoretical wofkers of the Anglo Saxon labor ovement openly con- strued the pro§lems of the trade uniou only in the gense of bettering the conditions of the working class under capitalism and even put up the theory of the existence of three main factors, labor, capital, and society (public). What the trade union leaders under- stood by the “public” somewhat re minds us in Russia of our term “the third element.” There was such a third element in the zemstvo (councils of the rural citizenry), the intelligen- zia, which was objectively counted as revolutionary but which played a somewhat separate role between the two main struggling classes. Under „public“ they understood that part of the bourgeoisie which under the pres- sure of the working class came to the conclusion of the usefulness of the gradual betterment of the conditions of labor in the interests of capital itself. Conditions Force Amalgamation. The further characterization of the trade union form of the labor move- ment in its organizational division (structure) and the domination of the local over the general interest. These local or craft organizations which have been built up déring decades still retain their local power at the present time, notwithstanding the fact that objective conditions force the labor movement to unite the small We Scab Under Caden Label,“ Says Iron Worker of Local 52 NEW YORK CITY.—Last spring the iron workers that belong to Local No. 40 of the International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers“ Union struck for recog- nition of their union. The strike was a direct result of the continuous attempt of the “Iron League” to establish the open shop in New York City. The strike is going already about a year. On February 8, 1925, an attempt was made to erect the steel of the Stand- ard Oil skyscraper at 26th street and Broadway with strike breakers. On the same day the union answer- ed with taking the Ornamental Work- ers’ Local No. 52 on strike. It didn’t take more than a week's time, and we see that Local No. 52 Is already back at work. We thought that the union had won the strike, but when we Game across one struck building and asked the iron workers “why did Local No. 52 go to work without Local No. 40?” they answered me that they did not “go to work but to scab.” “And to scab with a union label,” said another one. MINERS ROBBED AND INSULTED BY BOSS AND FAKERS Unholy Alliance in the Coal Pits McDONALD, Pa.,—Operators and miners’ officials break and disregard the agreement here by the wholegale. But what is a signed agreement among friends? In the Montour mine, number 9, of the Pittsburgh Coal company, the men have to work in water which in many instances is a foot deep. There is no protection for the miner, only what he himself can force the boss to give. When the loaders kick about water in the room and ask for some method to get it out so they can load the coal they are told to drink the water if they: want a dry place to work in! Officiais Won't Let Men Fight Back. This insult is thrown at the miners by the little pit bosses because they know that the miners’ official gang will not allow the men to put up any kind of a fight to enforec their de- mands. If the pit boss is finally forced by any of the men to furnish them with water boxes into which they can bail the water, he does not pay them. Yet all dead work is supposed to be paid for at the rate of $7.50 per day. Not only do the men lose the time that it takes to bail the water out but they also lose a car of coal. Instead of being furnished an empty ear in their turn they are given the water box. Even after the loader pails the water out for himself he zan not get it taken out of the room. Kiux Ignorance Rampart. Here the operators use klan and race prejudice against the loaders who are either fireign born or colored. Practically all of the drivers and day workers are the conceited type born in this country and belonging to the Tlan that is an easy prey for the op- erators. They eie used against the loaders and refuse to haul out the water boxes. All of the honest miners must fight these conditions in the mine by par- ticipating in the affairs of their organ- ization and not leave it in the hands of the reactionary officials, They must build fighting mine committees in each pit to battle both bosses and fakers to a finish. — loose parts, to amalgamate the unions into wider organizations uniting the workers of a whole industry. As a result of the domination of the sec tional interest over the interests of the whole industry, we have now the domination of the narrow economic interests over the interests of the whole class. This is pure trade union. sm. * sees Next week Comrade Losovsky will write about prewar anarcho- syndicalist unions, the ideology of which has, in some measure, par- ticularly of recent years, swayed the Industrial Workers of the World. (I. W. W.) Give your shopmate this copy of the DAILY WORKER— but be sure to see him the next day to get his subscription. | NOTICE | The T. U. E. L. is short on copies of the following Labor Heralds: March, April, May, and October, 1923. We ask the readers of this page to send in these copies so as to complete our files. Mail to the Trade Union Educational League, 1113 Washington Bivd., Chicago. Thanks. | ISTEEL WORKERS ARE GAGGED BY LABOR FAKERS Mike Tighe Whets Up Convention Clique By WALLACE METCALFE. NILES, Ohio.—During the past year the nearest thing to organization dcs by M. F. Tighe & Co., of the Amal- gamated Association of Iron and Tin Workers, was at Detroit, where a few workers promised the officialdom that they “would think it over.” In spite of the thousands of unorganized steel and other workers eligible to join the A. A. of I. 8. & T. W., this is the only “work” accomplished by the officialdom. Lodges known to be favorable to the machine havé been sending in attacks after attacks upon the progressive rank and file organization. These ma- chine lodges have been spewing thei: venom-like propaganda all over the preparing the ground work for the at- tack which the desperate officialdom will launch at the coming national convention. The editor of the Journal has set down these rules for lodge journal agents to follow: “1. Journal agents should refrain from mentioning in their letters mat tere that transpire at any executive session of a sub-lodge, with the ex ception of things of general interest. “2. Mention should not be made of non-attendance at meeetings, non-fay- ment of dues, poor lodge attendance, and the delinquencies of members. “3. Matters of a personal nature, jokes on members, libelous remarks or anything of a derogatory character which might be misconstrued will be eliminated from letters.“ The officialdom are doing every thing possible to prevent the A. A of I. S. & T. W. from becoming an ef fective organization by applying this blind censorship and system of gagg- ing the rank and file. The true condition existing in this once powerful union must be made known to the workers, and its weak- ness must be exposed rather than con- cealed, as the officialdom are attempt- ing to do. When the rank and file once know the true condition of their union they will not be sandbagged by some flighty scribe who cannot see the dif- ference between loyalty to class and loyalty to a sleek officialdom who have long ago lost their vision of what working class unions function for. “Save the A. A. of I. 8. & T. W.!“ is the cry of the rank and file, and “Organize the unorganized!” “Amal. gamate—Agitate—Educate!” will dig up defunct lodges in order to have ‘their’ delegates at the conven- tion. It is expected that no stone will be left unturned to defeat the progressives. But thinking members of this union will ask of M. F. Tighe & Co. the following questions: 1. How many new members have we secured during the past year of your administration? How many new lodges? 2. How many members hawe we lost? Why have we lost them? 3. What have you done for our locked-out and strike-ridden lodges? 4. What about our treasury? What about the censorship you have placed upon our Journal? 5. Why do you cry that the “Rede” are to blame for this deplorable con- dition of decay now existing in our international union, when you know that ONLY the progressive lodgescan show Increased lodge membership? Unorganized and organized steel and iron workers! Place your Soul- ders to the wheel and unite with the progressives by supporting them in their work of educating and organ izing the steel workers. Thread Mill Strike Is a Complete Shut Down Against Cuts HARTFORD, Conn.—The strike of the Willimantic mf workers of the American Thread Co. is so successful that the plant is closed down. Ac. cording to Organizer Mary Kelleher. 90 per cent of the workers are in the United Textile Workers’ Union now. Over 2,000 are out and march daily to the mill at noon for picket duty. Mass meetings of strikers are held daily in Union Hall Watch is being kept at other mills of the American Thread Co. to try to prevent trans fer of werk. The strike started as protest against an average 10 per * wage cut. New York Taler 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 East Tard street, on Thursday evening, March 19, at 8 pb. m. Prominent speakers in English and Italian. especially welcome. pages of the Amalgamated Journal. It is expected that the officialdom Unorganized tailors are f. f SN NR 1 4 aig O
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ETD DEFENSE F COMMUNISTS .. and Detroit Are Very Active _. The national office of the Labor De- fense Council is in receipt of a check for $500.00 from Norman Tallenttire, organizer of District 12 (Seattle) of the Workers Party of America, being “the first installment of the collection made for the Michigan Defense thru- out the district. Comrade Tallentire declared this was just a beginning, only a few branches having been heard from. A public meeting was held in Seattle on March 1, at which Hulet M. Wells, John C. Kennedy and Tallentire were the speakers. The following local unions in Seat- tle have endorsed the Michigan de- fense and send delegates to the Labor Defense Council: Machinists No. 79; Boiler Makers No. 104; Building La- borers No. 242; Maintenance of Way; Coppersmiths; and Mill Men No. 338. The Seattle central committee is ar- ranging a big defense affair on Satur- day March 21 and George Vandeveer will be the principal speaker at a mass meeting on March 29. Washington D. C. is planning an affair for the Michigan defense and Mother Bloor is dong her usually good work on the Pacific coast. She reports good meetings in Los Angelés and Santa Barbara. A check for $500.00 was sent in by Detroit as a result of a bazaar held there in conjunction with the Feder- ation of Workingwomen’s Organiza- tions. Howat to Speak. Alexander Howat and Caroline Lowe will be the principal speakers at a mass meeting to be held in Kansas City on Sunday afternoon, April 12. The meeting had to be arranged for the afternoon as Howat is working in a mine and must be back on the job early on Monday. An affair is being arranged in Los Angeles on March 18 under the auspices of the I. W. A. and the Labor Defense Council. The following Los Angeles unions have endorsed the Michigan defense: Machinists No. 311; Upholsterers No. 15; Capmakers No. 26: Milliners No. 48. All the unions mentioned have invited speakers from the Labor Defense Council to address the membership. A DAILY WORKER ub means another Communist. AAA bbAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS ‘eee — oe — ps THOUSANDS OF MAIMED EX-WAR VETERANS STARVING WHILE FARCE OF “REHABILITATION” CONTINUES By a Disabled Ex-Soldier. The world war veterans’ act was expected to grant the disabled ex- soldiers the benefit of vocational rehabilitation for the purpose of enabling them to acquire social and economic independence. The work of the voca- tional rehabilitation ia vested in the hands of the United States Veterans’ | Bureau. The war veterans’ bureau spent a achieved no results whatever. When huge sum of the workers’ money but the disabled ex-soldiers are declared rehabilitated they re unable to be- come self-supportif@ Thousands of them are walking the streets hungry and destitute because of unemploy- ment, and physical and mental dis- abilities and because of the failure on the part of the U. S. veterans’ bureau to give, suitable training to those who are ‘mutilated during the world war. Thru the lack of honesty on the part of the government officials in charge of the work, the vocational rehabil- itation is a farce. They measure the process of vocational rehabilitation by the hands of the clock, allowing a period of three to four years for the disabled soldier to master a trade or a profession. This is absolutely im- possible for the ‘ex-service men .af- flicted with various maladies such ag tuberculosis, chronic indigestion, nerv ous troubles etc. The vocational rehabilitation meas- ure was not passed to benefit the, disabled world war veterans but to give well paid fat jobs to various political favorite# who act within the wall of the veterans bureau schools as Officials and schoolmasters. Thru mismanagement, inefficiency, indifference and graft on the part of the United States veterans’ bureau officials, the disabled soldiers are lit- tle benefited. The majority of the applicants are not given the object- ives desired. Therefore the applicant is compelled to take up a trade for which he is unfit, and the result is failure to be benefited by the voca- tional training. The congressional investigation of the management of the veterans’ bu- reau which took place during Charles Forbes directorship did not remedy conditions in the least. Mismanagement, indifference, inef- ficiency and graft still exist in the United States veterans’ bureau. The public money is spent to support politicians while thousends ‘of Gis⸗- abled war veterans are starving. Warlord in German Election. BERLIN, Germany, March 17.—Gen. von Ludendorff will probably enter the German campaign as the presidential candidate of the Hitlerites, according to telegrams tonight from Munich. Meat Market 4301 8th Ave. AA A BAAD BAA BMA AAAAA AAD BROOKLYN, N. Y., ATTENTION! ; CO-OPERATIVE BAKERY IN THE SERVICE OF THE CONSUMER. Bakery deliveries made to your home. FINNISH CO-OPERATIVE TRADING ASSOCIATION, Inc. 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Orders are torwarded by 1118 “he'd BRITISH UNION CHIEFS EXPLODE GEORGIAN MYTH Find Country Growing in Prosperity The following interesting article is taken from a recent issue of the Lon- don Daily Herald, written by one of its staff writers: A great deal of the preliminary abuse which is intended to destroy the effect of the report of the trade union delegation to Russia is concerning itself with Georgia and the Trans-Cau- casus generally. For the ruin of Georgia under So- viet rule has been one of the Yavor- ite themes of the white propagandist. Only last autumn we were assured that the whole country was in insur- rection, that Batoum and Tiflis were in flames, and—a little later—that the population was being massacred. The delegation found, as their re port will show, that all these stories were baseless, and that, in fact, under Soviet rule, the history of Ggorgia has been relatively peaceful, and that ma- terially it is prospering as it never did under menshevist rule. What Delegation Saw. —which is going forward: the great new machinery at the manganese mines of Chiaturi; the new housing; the new development everywhere. by the capitalist press. tism. So the capitalist press says. the, capitalist does not think. (I. of this ruined country. Mur H is offering the Soviet government. 000 in new railways and new plants. on the signature of the contract. year. Evidence Enuf. ernment. such sums in the country. The capitalist papers may talk. Bu so does the capitalist’s money. union delegation is perfectly right. THE pares The delegation saw the work of re- construction—or, rather, construction power station being built at Tiflis; the All of which will be furiously denied For it is an ‘Artiele of faith here that Georgia is a ruined country, and the Georgian So- viet government a mere bloody despo- But so Three financial groups—one British, one American, one German—have been competing against each other for the right to invest money in the maganese American group—headed by arriman—is probably going to succeed. And these are the terms he He will invest immediately $4,000,- He will guarantee a minimum year- ly output of 800,000 tons. He will pay the Soviet government a minimum annual royalty of $3,200,- 000—-$1,000,000 to be paid in advance The czar’s government, by the way, only got royalties of some $300,000 a That stows what Mr. Harriman and his experts, after three years’ careful study, really believe about the ecou- omic condition of Georgia and the sta- bility and integrity of the Soviet gov- And the Germans are furious to have lost the opportunity of investing And Mr. Harriman's dollars seem to be say-| ¢ ing very emphatically that the trade N * 555 be . . SEATTL HEAR Dk SE SHUSSION ON TREE SPEECH’ When It Works and When lt Doesn't (Special to The Daily Worker) SEATTLE, Wash., March 17.—John C. Kennedy, director of the Seattle labor college, lecturing at regular Sun- day night forum in Labor Temple, on the subject Heresy and Heresy Hunt- ing,” gave a his | review of fights for ideas and opinion and drawing a moral from the lessons of history, showed that wherever organizations or institutions have «instituted po- groms against minority opinion said organization or institution has al- ways suffered a violent reaction from such tactics. y ¢ Aids Spread of. ideas. In fact said he, st activites on- ly succeed in sp ing further the ideas which are attacked and conse- quent disorganization and chaos have obtained as a result of all persecu- tion of opinion. , This liberalistic. bourgéois concep- tion of “free speech“ in the abstract, was, however, pointed out as a mis- take, by members of the Workers (Communist) Party. This misconcep- tion of the role of pure abstraction in the field of class struggle, is seriously wide of the truth. For, it was pointed out, the forces of ascending capitalist society very effectively suppressed the sacred“ and even the “divine” rights of feudal- ism, and the ascending proletarian power in Soviet Russia has quite suc- cessfully and frankly suppressed the bourgeois “opinion” of the capitalist minority. The matter of the effectiveness of the suppression hinges not at all on its “moral” aspect, but upon whether the class which is attempting to sup- press another is historically rising or degenerating in its control of the forc- es of production. If it is rising, as capitalism was doing up to the time of the war, it is quite able to and ac- tually did succeed in suppressing all opposing classes. Working Class fs Rising. But with the apex of capitalism past, and with the capitalist class no longer able to control the forces of production which it itself has generat- ed, the historically rising class is the proletariat, whose power cannot be suppressed by the capitalist class, and which, as in Soviet Russia, becomes dominant and very sticcessively sup- presses the decadent bourgeoisie, opin- ions and all. The mattewot free speech 2 a workers’ organization is quite her matter and should always be coh) Id. 1 In discussion from the floor, many present voiced surprise and regret that the labor council at Seattle was apparently prepared at this time to censure delegates for political opin- ion, and questioned the right of the council to pass upon the fitness of local union representatives, maintain- ing that this was a question for the local union alone to decide which gives the delegates their mandate. The Rev. Sydney Strong stated that a new precedent was being created in the labor movement by introducing the same methods that had driven many sincere people from the church and he further stated that such tactics, if pursued, wourd make honest workers ashamed of their labor move- ment. Commemorate the Commune. Announcement was made that a great gathering organized by a united council of radical workers’ organiza- tions would commemorate the Paris Commune next Saturday night, Mar. 21, to be held in new Finnish hall, Twelfth and Washington streets, John Kennedy and Norman H. Tallen- tire to be speakers with dancing af- ter the program. t PITTSBURGH, PA. money, | will save 50 per cent on al their dental work. DR. RASNICK DENTIST 645 Smithfield Street. BARNEY MASS, of 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. terte ordinarily will take at least 10 days | from the date of mailing the order. Le not become impatient delayed. Give your shopmate this copy of the DAILY WORKER—»but be sure to see him the next day to Delivery of pate | your patterns is NORTHW | ADMISSIO 1 L To those who work hard for their Child Labor Amendment Has Been Defeated by 28 States! Child Labor Is Increasing in America Today! Join the Young Workers League in Its Fight to Abolish Child Labor! COME TO HEAR EARL R. BROWDER, of the Workers Party speak on “Child Labor in U. S.“ SUNDAY, MARCH 22, at 8:00 P. M. at the (Western and North Aves.) * de Questions and discussion will follow the lecture. aas vpices, Young Workers League, Local Chicago. It is also proposed to run a mon- ster demonstration here on Sunday, April 5, where John C. Kennedy, Anna , Louise Strong, George F. Vanderveer, James Duncan and Stanley J. Clark of Texas, are expected to speak. Pro- ceeds of both the affairs will be sent to Labor Defense Counch for the benefit of Michigan defense. — — — the Y. W. L., and EST HALL 8 N10CENTS. “% eee * — * ——ä— — — BUILDERS AT WORK FIRST “BRICKS” SENT IN TO “BUILD THE DAILY WORKER” Fhe Second Annual Sub Campaign Opens The campaign has officially ben opened. The first subs in the three- month sub campaign have been sent in by BUILDERS who by June 15 we expect will add 15,000 NEW subscribers to make the DAILY: WORKER a stronger weapon for the militant American workers. We are proud of the first results in the campaign in this list of names who have fired the first gun, and who have sent in news subs on Monday, March 16. Note the splendid efforts of the first BUILDERS from Milwaukee: Subs John Vaikas, Milwaukee.. 14 S. Globerman, Los Angeles... soe 2 Lena Rosenberg, Philadelphia 2 W. M. Boehning, Chicago 1 Walter Schuth, Chicago...... 1 J. S. Varga, Alliance, Ohio 1 Jos. Kapec, Cleveland, Ohio 1 Geo. Kraska, Boston, Mass. 1 John. Perkovich, Chisholm, Minn 1 Allen Blomkvist, Pocatello, Idaho. . C. 1 Everyday we will list the names of those BUILDERS who have sent in a NEW sub. And every week we will show the comparative standing of the locals with the quota they have been given for the campaign. Watch to see if your branch members are listed and watch the work of your local! ~~ CITIZEN'S JURY SAYS O'NEILL'S PLAY IS GLEAN Vice Body Prefers Bare Legs to Wobblies (Special to The Daily Worker.) NEW YORK, /March 17.—Eugene O'Neil will not have to appear before the New York citizens’ play jury to vindicate his Desire Under the Elms. It is the second play declared without immoral taint by the new jury. Syd- ney Howard’s They Knew What They | 228 Wanted was the first judged clean, although the public was quite un- aware that it was even questioned. Howard, co-author with Robert Dunn of The Labor Spy, has a wob- bly in his play of California. grape vineyards and indulges in a little frankness about the processes of life but has nothing of what is ordinarily called dirty or smutty in his product- ion, O'Neill's play is a realistic study of New England farm life in the eight- een fifties. District Attorney Banton from Texas thought the play was 80 thoroughly bad that it couldn’t be rewritten but the play jury seemed to understand O'Neill better. John S. Sumner, secretary of the society for suppression of vice, al- lowed the play jury plan to be amend- ed so that the producer, author or translator of any play about to be condemned shall be summoned to make a defense statement to the jury. Funds for the purchase of play jurors’ tickets were given by members of Actors’. Equity association and un- announced donors. The first two play juries’ of citizens have vindicated themselves to the artists and to those opposed to polit- ical censorship of the stage. But the really risque plays—producer William Brady frankly admits that one of his productions is “dirty” to catch the crowd and their dollars—have not yet been touched by the citizens’ juries and are playing blissfully on to cap- acity houses as a result of the public- Your U nion Meeting | THIRD WEDNESDAY, MAR. 18, 1925 Name of Local and No. place of Meeting. Amadgamated Food Workers, 214 o. State St., 3 P. M. 38 Amaigamated Clothing Workers, N. Robey St. 179 B. 4 8. 1. we * Derrick, 180 W. shin 181 Beit Line . 62nd and and Clay, Hall, ng. 10 Gaspontare, Western and Lexing- 242 Carpenters, 5443 8. Ashland Ave. 250 Perpontore, Biacker’s Hall, Lake 643. Carpenters, 180 W. Washington St. 1693 arpenters, 506 S. State 1784 ato ers, tess Halsted St. oon irvina c 2 2 ol 45s. Halsted St. Ow 3 S. Ashiand Bivd. 1 ood),. 1619 N. Callfocala 14 87 122 215 8. Ashland Bivd., 798 “Electricians, 127 N. Francieco Ave. 85, Engineers, 60. Chicago, 11405 Michi- Village 487 . ane Enginemen, 9118 com- son 10 — (Mun.), Kedzie apd Bel- 5 Ladies’ — Workers, 328 W. Van B oe "Machinists, 818 W. 58th St. nin 3802 W. Madison St. Ss, 1182 Milwaukee Ave. 51 rt enance of Way, 5324 8. 7 sted ‘Matine Cooks, 357 N. Clark St. 23 Moulders, 2800 W. Madison St. inte n I. 624 Painters, 180 . Washington St. 893 Painters, Moose Hall, La Grange. Odd Fellows Plasterers, 910 W. Monroe St. 19683 Poultry and Game, Water St. 346 1 t. 225 Rallvoad Trainmen, 812 W. versity. 931 Railroad W 73 eet Metal, 14 Ww. Harrison St. 723 8 (Soda), 220 8. 233 Teamsters, 220 8. Achland Ave. 769 Teamsters, 6369 8. Ashland Ave. 8 Wall Paper Crafts, Western Aves. Poles Meet Against England. WARSAW, Poland, March 17.— A demonstration here, in front of the British legation, following a meeting called to protest against the German proposal for arbitration of the eastern frontier question, was broken up by Germany proposed to the allies that a Rhine security pact be the police. ity given to their unsavory character. 2 British trade unions.” | EMM ... —— — | II The Daily Worker, Lit. Dept., 1 Speaking of the Unity Conference of the National Minority Movement in England, in the March issue of the WORKERS MON THL ux. “The whole thing was a blaze of revolutionary spirit, “UNITY!” Published in England By The National Minority Movement negotiated. Wm. Z. FOSTER says: To understand this great movement in England which is only part of the world movement, read the new pamphlet just arrived in this country: With 14 photographs of the authors and the British delegation in Russia. 15 Cents Each. — — 1113 W. Washington Bivd. 2: ‘Firemen’s Assn., 159 N. State St., | Ave, sergio rriers, District Councll, 814 Hal- rs, 8 and Main Sts., Hall, lue Clerks, 165 W. Washing- 59th St. 900 Railroad Trainmen, 64th and Uni- 159 N. State Ashland Chicago and it was a striking demonstration of the spirit of international unity, now spreading like wildfire among the millions organized in the George Hicks, A. J. Cook, Tom Mann, and other revolutionary and The names of three prominent fig- ures in the American labor movement have been added to the number al- ready engaged in raising relied for the workers and peasants on the west coast of Ireland rendered destitute by one of the most severe famines that ever hit that country. They are Eugene V. Debs, Upton Sinclair and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. Debs in a wire to the secretary of the Irish Workers’ and Peasants’ Famine Relief Committee declaréd himself de- lighted to be of service in this cause, and accepted membership of the na- tional advisory committee of the Irish relief organization. Offered, Services. Upton Sinclair offered his services in bringing the appeal for famine re- lief to the attention of wider masses of the American people. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, who is one of the most eloquent speakers in the country has volunteered to address meetings in behalf of relief work. The London Daily Herald carries an interesting item from the pen of a catholic priest in Donegal, who was peeved because the desperate condi- tion of the peasantry in his parish was brought to the attention of the out- side world by Mrs. Helen Crawford, secretary of the British section of the Workers’ International Relief. Blamed The Peasants. The reverand gentleman blamed the laziness of the peasants for their de- plorable condition. He said they never save their money. But it is no easy job to-save money with a hungry priest in the vicinity. The peasants may be excused for coming to the conclusion that work does not pay, seeing the priests living in luxury and idleness. Several cities are taking advantage of the Irish festival on March 17 to bring the famine situation to the at- tention of the American workers. The office of the Irish Workers’ and Peasants’ Famine Relief Committee at 19 South Lincoln street, is busy send- jing out thousands of letters contain- ing appeals for funds for relief for the victims of the Irish famine. Freiheit Orchestra Plays in New York on Sunday, March 22 NEW YORK, “March 17—Central Opera House will again be crowded with enthusiastic comrades and mu- sical admirers, when the Freiheit Mandolin Orchestra will be heard in its initial concert on Sunday, March 22 at 2 p. m. A group of comrades originally or- ganized by the Workmen’s Circle as a mandolin orchestra, and then expel- led because they dared to play at the celebration of the anniversary of the Russian revolution, have formed this new branch of the Communist move ment. Efforts of the general office of the Workmen’s Circle to break them up failed. In a body they joined the Communist movement, as the Freiheit Mandolin Orchestra, and with some more new members they developed in- to the finest mandolin orchestrd in the labor movement. — Edward Schwartz, correspondent, Harlem Jew- ish Branch, Workers Party. * Dr. A. Moskalik DENTIST S. W. Corner 7th and Mifflin Ste. PHILADELPHIA, PA. — eee Spreading Like Wildfire in England! * Including statements By Edo Fimmen Tomsky world leaders. Chicago, illinois Mu UD UO Uk OU aL — ae 4 — ps oD he „ „„ er a 8
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Browder, acting . of the Workers Party of America, and | Barney Mass of the Young Workers League will be the principal speakers Mayor Dever Refuses to at a mass meeting to be held on Sunday evening, March 22, at 8 p. m., in} Act on Appeal The Chicago board of motion pie- ture censors, which for several years should be interested in it, is taking no action. distinguished itself as. more or less The meeting on next Sunday evening will be held under the auspices of “liberal” in its rulings, has recently. the Young Workers League Admission is only ten cents. taken on a frankly reactionary color,, 3 2 * agp is pau gp ee South Side Reds, a * wre Teas: ais a Old and Younes, Have LABOR DEFENSE AND : It recently. banned the International: Social on March 21 RELIEF COUNCIL 10 Workers’ Aid film, “Prisoners for Pro- | | St. 8 The south side branch of the Work MEET FRIDAY NIGHT 1 stevie 0 1, 1806 8. Rain, Wednesday, March 18. Italian Cicefo, Circolo Giovanile Northwest Hall, corner Western and North Ave., to he aha “Child Labor in | Hall, 14th St. between 5ist Ave. and the United States.” 50th Ct. The child labor e essat wae defeated in 28 states, and tho chlid] Italian Terro Cotta, 2475 Clybourn ; Ave., 3rd Fl., ¢are Bottazzi. labor is increasing thruout the country, the official labor movement which Czecho-Slovak No. 3, 2548 S. Homan Ave. City Centers bemmi tte Meeting, 722 Blue Island Ave., 8 p. m. Thursday, March 19 South Side Minglish, 3201 8. Wabash Ave. ty 7 Bist ‘Ward — 511 N. Sangamon As It the Revolution | Was Scheduled for | Tomorrow Morning! Ir] 12 III — — A — gress” on the ground that the pictures of the storming of the Bastile, might, “tend to incite to riot and disorder.“ Practically every scene in/this film has been passed by this same board ag part of one picture or another, but the combination and titling seems to be too strong for those professional protectors of Chicago’ 8 morals. This ers Party, and Branch No. 3, of the Young Workers’ League, two of the liveliest Communist units in local Chi- cago, are teaming together to run an affair at the south side Community House at 3201 S. Wabash Ave. on Saturday, March 21. The affair has All delegates from trade unions and fraternal organizations as well as those from Workers Party branches are expected to attend the second general Council for Labor Defense and Relief to be held next Russian, 1902 W. Division St. Friday; March 20. Polish Northside, 1902 W. Division St. Lithuanian No. 6, 3142 8. Halsted St. ITILIIILIIE * a — Greek 3 722 Blue Island Ave. Saturday, Maroh 21. Social and Dance, Community Hall, 3201 S. Wabash Ave., under auspices of T. W. L. Area Br. No. 3, and South side Br. of W 2. Admission 280. Cin Have Prominent Place in Art Exhibition Friday night at Greek Workers’ Hall, 722 Biue Island Ave., 8 p. m. sharp. A well-attended committee meet- ing was held last Saturday at which the detalis of the March 29 affair were gone over. Posters and tickets should be gotten from the local of- floe, 19 8. Lincoln street. fact, th three purposes: Organizational, finan- eats Ga 9 0 22 96 cial and recreational. Judging by the ought to place the matter clearly | Pep and enthusiasm with which the within the supposed guarantees of | members of both branches are work- freedom of expression, and if the de- ing it promises to fulfill all three. cision is upheld in the courts will go| In the past, the south side branch tar toward showing the workers the] has been able to rally large num- true hypocrisy of those guarantees. bers of. Negro workers to its mass , Bever Doce Net Act. jmeetings. At the last one held, 23 ap- The decisi N 10 Heations for membership to the party e decision was at once appealed | were made. This affair it is expect-| ) to the chief of police, who in the case ed will result in additional members Grecht, Carlson and ) of “Russia and Germany” cast the de- being won. : Kovecs, Speakers for Rang vote to permit the picture to) Branch No. 8 of the Young Work.“ Philly Commune Day NEW YORK, March 17—The So | clety of Independent Artig q whose be shown. The chief evidently refus- ers’ League is steadily winning young PHILADELPHIA, Pa., March 17.— show opened at the Wafdorf-Astoria ed to interfere because the censors | Negro workers into its ranks. It al Philadelphia Communists and sympa-| root garden on March 6, have a lot to once more replied that the appeal ready numbers Negro members, each would be denied. Under the ordinance of whom are working hard to bring n lessons of the great Paris Commune | Er atulate themselves upon. Their the mayor has the last word, so ap- others into the league. It 1s their belief that once the Negro workers and the Hungarian Soviet Republic, present show is one of the most un- find out that the Communists harbor f on Saturday, March 21, at 8 p. m., in| usual” ones that have ever been pre- no race prejudices, and that they fight | the Eagles Templé, corner Broad and sented. in “New. York. In the first for the interests of all workers, irre- gyring Garden streets. 1 7 . Its size—actually a e of pictures have been hung: Ee ee a * oy Sa Se = TrIrd ITH all the preparations that are being made in our office, all the hustie and bustle and movement—you would think the revolution was scheduled for tomorrow morning! , III * 14 The regular force and many volunteers are busy. Comrades are folding, addressing, inserting, stamping the special sub card folders that you w Il recive in The Second Annual Sub Campaign ere rereielelele: hr a Ss are the tools with which from March 15 to June 15 you will build the revolutionary labor movement in this campaign for 15,000 new subscriptions to the DAILY WORKER. With these you will go to your shop and your union inside and out of the party and to every place there is a worker to “get a sub.” Thousands of others will be doing it with you in every city in the country—and locals will be trying to outdo each other in accomplishment. But This Way it is Much Easier! peal was at once filed with him, thus far without action. From Mayor Dever's attitude to- ward other fights it would seem that the question will have to be settled in the courts. On the same day that | the first appeal was denied, Famous Players-Lasky Co. sent out a manda- moug writ to compel the mayor to is- sue a permit to their Zane Grey pic- ture, “The Thundering Hord.” Many films have been slashed and butcher- ed almost beyond recognition, end- ings have been changed and whole se- quences botched. Will Show Film March 29. Jrorircircir ~~ 4 — r 5 eh, a . — — r r — iv ri itd ' — — — 1 — — — — gardless of color, they will join the] Ollver Carlson, Rebecca recht and Workers Party and the Young Work- I. Kovecs will be the principal speak- ah ‘there. ig, the variety—everything ers’ League in large numbers: These ers at the commemoration. from . the megkest r Negro comrades are striving micht] The speakers will point out that servative.to.the wildest and most dar. and main to bring out a large ‘repre- the ruthless extermination of the pro- ing abstraction. sentation of their shop: 1 letarian revolutionists after the de-] From the point.of view both of ex friends to the affair, so they tan meet teat of the Paris Commune and the ellence and aincerity; this year’s ex- bonafide Communists, both black and Hungarian Soviet Republic is still — the society white, and find out what fii 2 Une being carried on in all the capitalist has yet attempted. „„ . countries of the. world. There are two, features that will be rades from other branches Ae, urged . to turn out and bring there dest prop- An appeal will be made to sup. of special interest to party members. rJ =] — 1 ‘ie LLL SSS RISERS SS SSIS Aaeeeeeeiee eseleleieieferefere! 181 help you to teach the worker more easily we will send without charge to any worker or, any branch a bundle of the DAILY WORKER for one week to be distributed when you are out to “get a sub” and for door- to-door campaigns to worker's homes around your branch. This labor film, “Prisoners for Pro- aganda arguments if 88 ane Rr eg bene W ann = One of the features is the work ot . gress,” is to be shown at the Inter- The program which’ ‘tres pe, [OMe THO J as the comrades and eympathisers, among national Unity demonstration at Ash- land Auditorium, Sunday afternoon, March 29. It shows the Paris up- rising, the Russian revolution, the po- ranged for the night, is, A Speech. There will be ‘plenty of muste? (Aassi- cal and jazz) furnished by the Moung Workers’. League. orchesträ. Also the more preminent of whom are William -SxeBanning, Rose Pastor Stokes, Mane Becker, Walte: Speck, L. Lomwiek, Fred Gardner, revolutionary defense organizations of the proletariat. « 8 i. Write us a letter—tell us how li¢é brutality in breaking up workers’ demonstrations in Germany and France, and the efforts of American there will be some speech making by several well-known. Cämmünlist ora- you work, what are your. wages and shop conditions—and then Jay Van Everd- und several others. The other feature is the low admis- 21 DO: IT THIS WAY ~~ Decide hee many copies of the DAILY WORK- -ER you can use. Fill out the coupon below and send it in.. When you get the copies, stamp them “sample copy and place on them also the stamp pf your branch and its meeting place. Use these for door-to-door distribution ‘every day for one week—then on the following Sunday morning go to the same homes to get your subscriptions. * tors whose especial virtues ate brains order a bundle for distribution in] sion price of 26 cents. The show workers to help the victims of this and brevity. re ata „ Jyour shop. closes March 29. A detailed criticism capitalist violence. American condi- 8 ‘of the pictures” will be submitted tions are also shown, the police in- later. timidating strike pickets in Paterson AN ON-THE-MIN MINUTE PAMPHLET IS and Chicago, the militia in Herrin 77 : with machine guss sovering/ the| BED ACH Bp. SWHITE TERRORISTS Carlson to: Speak streets, the great prisons of Leaven- . worth and Sing Sing, inside and out, EXPOSING WORLD'S ABRAMOVICHES at Harlem Forum together with many of their political of Workers P arty inmates, Haywood, Browder, Ruthen- berg, Gitlow and others. If the courts “The White Terrorists ‘Ask for tor Mercy, cays Max Bedacht in the title NEW YORK; arch ET Re line up with the censors, and the po-|of his new five-cent pamphlet. ‘Do they get it? They do not—he gives them lam open forum continues every Sun- lice so other ways will be found tothe “hell” they deserve. 4 day evening at the Harlem section place the facts shown in this film be- This little pamphlet is-partfcularly timely. It carries today's date line. headquarters ot the Workers Party, fore the workers of Chicasy. Six months from now or perhaps a year changed conditions may place it on 64 East 104 street. On Sunday eve- This film is only one. of fourteen | tne shelves of history, but today it is+ ning, March 22, Oliver Carlson will feature numbers on this gala program hot from the griddle and effectively lead the discussion on Working Class that will mark the answer of Chica- geals with a problem of the minute. Education: Comrade Carlson, whose 4 go’s workers to the attacks of Abram- jrirJIrirird j wie ii ee — —— — — LETTERS FROM READERS| „ „ * 0 in Recognition of Soviet Russia has specialty is education, was in Soviet This 18 practical, constructive work to build 5 ovich, Mackenzie, Gordin and the been conceded by practically every Comrade Dies in. denne Russia and in England, where he saw : ; : 2 ia} other malignors of Soviet Russia. The | nation except the United States, and working class education both in a the Communist movement in this country which 8 ’ meeting on the 29th will be a monster now even Wall Street is growing Centerville, Nova Scotia. capitalist country and a proletarian ‘6 . 2 demonstration for the recognition ot restive. Hughes is out. A change ia] To the DAILY WORKER: Will vou] country. He will tell ot the contrast, you are sure to do when you “Build the DAILY 8 Soviet Russia that will make all the counter revolutionists' very puny indeed. . * 1 — ee expected and it can hardly be for the] allow me a few lines of space in your! and discuss working class education efforts seem worse, 80 reactionary has been our paper to express my appreciation of] in this country. diplomacy.. A last-ditch campaign|* oO comrade who has passed on.] The rest of the program is a very against rcognition is-waged by pseudo- L am today in receipt of a letter from | interesting one as regards both speak- liberals who raise the cry of the im-] Comrade A. J. Woomer, now of the] ers and topics. It is as follows: Mar. Calif . R N prisoned Russian counter-revolution-| Kusbas colony, in Siberia in which he] 29, Can there be Prosperity for the ornia ules ists. tells of the sudden death of Comrade} American Workers?, H. M. Wicks: I. W. W. is Illegal This pamphlet tells cléarly who they Walter J. Lemon. April 5, Religion as an Instrument of are and why they are imprisoned. It] Comrade Lemon went to Russia in] Capitalism, H. Bourgin; April 12, The SACRAMENTO, Cal.—The Califor strips the lies from the horror tales the spring of 1922. During my stay] Family, Jeannette Pearl; April 19, nia supreme court puts its seal of|now in circulation in anarcho-bour-|im Kuzbas in 1928 I knew him well] The Capitalist, Labor and Communist approval on the criminal syndicalism | geois circles by quoting uncensored and found him a sound Marxian stu-| Press, Ludwig Lore; April 26, Prolet- act by confirming the sentences of 26 letters from the prisoners themselves.| dent and one who could understand] cult, Eli Jacobson. men arrested during the San Pedro] And finally a summary of prison con- and explain, instead of rail at, the — strike in 1923, and convicted of crim-|ditions in the “white hells” of the] many discouraging factors that were) Workers Party inal syndicalism. J. C. Robinson is capitalist world, Poland, Bulgaria the] met in building up Communism in 0 5 ragpesed because he was not in Los Baltie states, Germany-—and the] Russia. Observes Spring Angeles at the time of the arrests. | United States. Under conditions in which the senti- The decision was based on the testi-| Our workers on the firing line in eid mentalist broke and wanted to get at Harlem Dance mony of W. E. Townsend, a protfess- shops and mines and local unions are} back home to America for the chew- 8 cs ional witness, who was not present|going to face this question many ing gum, movie shows and pork chops, 1— nd 5 eit — at the trial. For some time the sec- times during the next few months., men of Lemon's type stood solidly * *. spring festival and dance to — ond district appellate court has held] This pamphlet is a crushing answer and helped to build up Russian So- given by the Harlem English branch, that mere membership m the I. W. W. and should be sold widely. riet industry. est * mace nat iidieas is not sufficient evidence for convic » ‘Willlam F. Kruse. Seeks Hie Relative orkers YFarty on Saturday evening, tion, the third district court that it is. ——— . Harlem Casino, 116th In this decision the supreme court} Airplane Plants Get U. 8. Money. Comrade Lemon was born in On- street and Lenox avenue. agrees with the third district (Sacra-| “WASHINGTON, March 17.— The | ‘27! Canada, and was about 55 years The music will be the best, and will ( mento). No charge except member. war department has awarded. $70,000 of age. He lived for years in Salt satisty everybody, as-there will be | ship was made against any of the to the Curtiss company and $60,000 to Lake City, and was active in the so- | American — 1 N 8 Be af as Demates Gaetan Sor the ember cialist party until the split when he sie of all nationalities. Everybody, « | mental observations airplanes manu- joined the Communist Party. I amj@ven the poores®can afford to be — ber chsh company, end the 66 desirous of getting in touch with his there, as the admission charge will velopment work involved in producing e W these planes, which were considered] A staunch comrade has passed on. He safer and more maneuverable types He was always ready to turn out at 8 - of tor general observation use than the any time and help at any job— Chicago, Notice! On Sunday afternoon, March 29, war built DH types. always on hand for the Subbotnik, at Ashiand Auditorium, there will WORKER.” This Way It’s Ar z FC air, Supreme Court of Much Easier! 8 8 8 5 * t i Tr Fr J Comrades:- For branch of send WITHOUT CHARGE ‘copies of the DAILY WORKER for distribution to get subs in the Second Annual Sub Campaign. Send them to: E Notice! The local DAILY WORKER AGENCY (Thurber Lewis, Agent) has moved to Name LLL LLL Street City the volunteer labor: on Saturday, Fascisti Aid Corporations. always considerate and courteous to f 19 SO. LINCOLN ST. ROME, Italy, March 17—The fascist ( the Bussien workers and peasants.|| be an international unity demon- 4 Phone Seeley 3562 party denies the charges that the gov- Men of his type won the respect of || stration and benefit entertainment. A rer the Russian people. Yours for Com I No branch is permitted to arrange 5 ’ munism, Roscoe A. Fillmore. any conflicting dates of any kind | . Call or write for all Communist os firms and the stock ex ; whatsoever. Affairs already fixed , 8 Books and — — , must be changed. The complete The government announced it has] Get a sub for the DAILY : decided to tax only the dividends paid strength of the party must be by companies. Sums placed in re- WORKER from your ser mea | mobilized at this affair as a fitting The Little Red Library The Workers Monthly The Daily Worker ’ . 7 * 1 — — — serves by corporations will not be and you will make another mem answer to the Abramovich attack. ber tor your branch. 9 | ’ taxed by the fascisti. 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~ 98.00 per year * N DAIL WORKER PUBLISHING | co. * un W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, N. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By mall: $3.50... 5 months $2.00...8 months By mail (in Chicago only): $4.50...6 months $2.50...8 months per year * Address all mail and make out checks to f The Rockefeller Plan The bible-pounding John D. Rockefeller, Jr., was fond of boasting of the company union plan. It would prevent strikes. Perhaps William H. Johnston of the late C. P. P. A. and still of the I. A. M. got his inspiration for his B. and O. plan from the pious multi millionaire. The following news item frim the Colorado Labor Advocate is as good an editorial on “the success” of the plan in the mines of the Colorado Fuel and THE DAILY WORKER 11138 W. Waehington Blvd. * Chicago, ttl linele J. LOUIS ENGDAHL | WILLIAM F. DUNNE{ MORITZ J. LOBB.....« Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, III., under the act of March 3, 1879. <<“ 290 Editors Business Manager Advertising rates ov applicatics | Hillman Machine Wars on Members : The Hillman machine of the Amalgamated Cloth- ing Workers of America is now openly making war on a large section of the membership. Local Five of ‘New York, following its arbitrary suspension from the joint board, issued a leaflet telling the facts of the cas® and @iting many basic grievances of the membership. This leaflet has been distributed in Chicago: coming from a local of the union its distribution is legal so far as the laws of the union| are concerned. Yet, members found handing out the leaflet have been taken off their jobs in the | | Post | — Iron company as could be written on the question: The wages of the coal miners of the Walsen dis- trict have been cut 20 per cent by the Colorado Fuel and Iron company. The company announces that the men asked for the cut. Here are the facts: Four years ago the C. F. 4 l. asked the miners to accept a vountary cut in wages. They passed “peti- tions” thru the mine camps. Some miners “asked” a cut in wages of one-third; others refuses to “ask” to have their living cut. The mines where the men refused to “ask” a wage cut WERE CLOSED DOWN. The men in the Walsen | district remember that time. But at that time so many miners left the state in individual refusals to accept the cut that. the com- pany was forced to go before the industrial board, which always orders what the C. F. 4 l. wants—and ask to have the wages put back up! This spring, labor leaders have known for weeks the C. F. & I. was planning for wage cuts. The old tricks have been used. The mines have been closed. in some cases the rails have been taken out and the mines apparently abandoned. it is the old, honey- coatd threat: Work at our rate or starve. shops by the Hillman-Levin machine. Nothing further is needed to show that the Hill- man machine has accepted and is enforcing the rule or ruin policy that has brought the Interna- tional Ladies’ Garment Workers to the point of helplessness. The charges against Local Five were of the most flimsy, character, one of them being that members of the executive board of the union had picketed a certain shop in an effort to reinstate a discharged worker, infringed on the powers of the national executive board, etc. It is quite ap- parent that the real crime of Local Five was doing something while the Hillman officials talked and thought up schemes for co-operation with the bosses. 3 This latest action of the Hillman maehine brings out the fact that all the campaign of denuncia- tion and expulsion of Communists and supporters of the Trade Union Educatiorfal League is a result of the fighting program of these workers and or- ganizations, their placing of the interests of the membership above those of the officialdom. The Hillman machine does not want to fight the bosses. It prefers to wage war on the most mili- tant and loyal members of the union. To make this fact clear to the membership is a pleasurable duty of the left wing. It is now generally agreed that the league of na- tions is as dead as the C. P. P. A. Both died from natural causes. The European Crisis The metal workers’ strike in northern Italy con- tinues to gain. The only deserters are a few thou- sand fascists while thousands of members of real unions join the strike daily. The attempt of the fascist leaders to fool the workers by support of the strike at its beginning have failed. The metal workers in particular seem to have broken all the bonds of fascist control and regained much of the militancy displayed in 1919-20. The vacillating policy of the fascist leaders in it is the “representation plan.“ it is “industrial democracy.” It is “company unionism.” And the miners are helpless! They are not helpless but between giant corpora- tions and the labor fakers they are confronted with serious obstacles. They will break thru, however. The N. Y. Commane Pageant The New York Commune celebration was a huge success. Even the capitalist press admits this. For the second time this year the Communists and their sympathizers packed Madison Square Garden, the largest indoor arena in the United States. The Communist press and the political prisoners in the jails of capitalism the world over divide the receipts of the meeting. Just before the event the “bomb squad” of the New York City police got busy, raided one of the rehearsals and the Communist headquarters. The police succeeded in making themselves ridiculous and giving much publicity to the pageant, the Workers (Communist) Party and the occasion for the celebration. Three comrades are held in $10,000 bail each for violation of one of the innumerable statutes Amer- ican capitalist government uses for suppression and there is nothing ridiculous about this. It is a very serious situation for the comrades involved and for the party, necessitating the raising of an enormous sum for defense and proving that Com- munists, so far as the capitalist state is concerned, constitute a distinct category of persons who are not allowed even the usual privileges of assembling for the most peaceful purposes. Like the Abramovich meetings the New ‘York Commune pageant has shown to thousands of work- ers the class character of the Communist Party and the capitalist state. Aid for Willimantic Strikers We are carrying first-hand information of ‘the strike of 2,500 textile workers in Willimantic, Connecticut—a strike that seems to be of the most this emergency is a result of the political crisis that grips Italy and More exposures of the direct connection of Mus- solini and prominent henehmen of his with coward- ly murders of opponents are being made. The whole | country is in a state of turmoil with the Commun- ist Party alone to give conscious leadership to the masses. The Italian crisis corresponds with the new wave of strikés and revolts against European cap- italism. It corresponds also with the revival of the imperialist rivalries among the allied nations symbolized by the junking of the Geneva protocol and the dispute over the question of security guarantees for France and her military allies— Poland, Roumania, etc. European capitalism, and consequently world capitalism, is now in the midst of another of those periodical situations in which its instability be- comes evident to millions of workers and farmers. | Every one of these crises brings in sharper relief | the warring factions that, in spite of all effort to- wards a common policy, result in a weakening of the capitalist system. Get a member for the Workers Party and a new subscription for the DAILY WORKER. World Allies It was to be expected that the capitalist press would take up the cudgels for Abramovich. With complete unanimity of its various sections and sub- divisions, the press of the ruling class applauds the action of the police upon whom Abramovich | depe nds for an opportunity to lie about the work. ers’ and peasants’ government of Russia. In the news stories the bias of the capitalist press is not so apparent, but the editorial comment is illuminat- ing showing as it does the unity of thought and action between the socialist party officialdom, the Eecond International and the capitalist class of America and the world. If any work is in doubt as to the alliance be- tween world capitalism and the Second Interna- tional let him read carefully the editorial comment of the metropolitan journals on the Abramovich | meetings. shakes the fascist government. i determined and best organized character occuring in the textile industry this year. Our own cor- | respondent is furnishing the news and the DAILY ‘WORKER is being read with interest by large numbers of the strikers. The DAILY WORKER appears in this strike, not as a mere regorder of events, but as a positive force. It urges the program of the Workers (Com- munist) Party and the Trade Union Educational League, a united front of all the unions and work- ers against the textile barons, amalgamation of the unions into one huge industrial union, a workers’ and farmers’ government. Neither does the DAILY WORKER and the revo- lutionary party for which it speaks neglect the daily needs of the workers. There is much want and suffering among the striking textile workers, they must have money for the relief of the families of the strikers and to carry on their fight. Those workers and organizations that are far from the scene of the struggle in Willimantic can assist their fellow workers by donations of money. Sums collected for this purpose should be sent to William Simons, P. O. Box 183, Willimantic, Conn. “The two outstanding achievements of President Ebert’s career were the crushing of the Liebknecht rebellion and the slow industrial and financial recuperation that finally permitted the rest of the world to help thru the agency of the Dawes plan” writes a capitalist editor in mourning the death of the renegade socialist. It could not have been said better by a Communist, but both achievements rendered Ebert a first class candidate for the rope. | Germany paid the allies $144,977,705 in repara- tions during the first six months the Dawes plan was in operation. The German capitalists have not lqwered their standard of living a bit, but the German workers have. The workers always pay. It is a safe bet that no American socialist paper will publish the full report of the British trade union delegation to Russia on their impressions of that country today. ) Every day get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER ‘acd a member for the Workers Party. : 481 —— 7 „ 1 72 * 4 iy ee he 8 7 aay 4 8 * oe 75 ne | gee ASS “AIDES ( KILL aal Proof Produced Premier Caused Murder (Special to The Daily Worker) ROME, Italy, March 16——The con- fession of Filipo Filipelli, now in jan. charged with complicity in the miur- der of the socialist deputy, Maiteottt, gives further proof that Matteotti was murdered upon Mussolini’s orders, that Mussolini directéd the crime, and that he and his liewténants attempted to shield the actual thurderers. The written confe fon of Filipelli, who until his arr was editor of Premier Mussolini’s biggest newspa* per, Corriere Italiana, corroborates the Rossi Wocument.’ . Printing of the confession is strict forbidden by the fascisti, and it his been made known by the secret printing presses operating in Rome. 5 Murderer Tells Story. The confession shows how Dumini, who is charged with the actual mur- der of Matteotti, under orders from Mussolini, borrowed Filipelli’s auto- mobile, and when hé returned from the murder, Dumini gafdl, “I have act- ed under precise orders from Rossi and Marinelli, who were acting on for- mal authorization from Premier Mus- solini.“ 3 Marinelli and Rossil were Musso- ~ | lini’s aides in the treasury depart- ment. Filipelli’s confession adds that Rossi told Fjlipetli that Mussolini knew everything, that Rossi and Ma- rinelli were given orders to commit the murder at a conference with Mus- solini. Mussolini later received from his aides the proof of Matteotti's death at their hands and arranged with Debono, then chief of police, to destroy Matteotti’s bloody garments and other evidence. Here's Confession in Full. The confession in full stated: “On Monday, June 9, Sig. Dumini— the alleged actual murderer of Sig. Matteotti—asked to loan my automo- bile for three days. On Tuesday. mid- night Sig. Dumini came to my room with a bundle and asked, for a place to put the car. Sig. Dumini said: I have acted under precise orders from Sigs. Rossi and Marinelli—who were act- ing on formal authorization from Pre- mier Mussolini. Keep,quiet. Every- thing will come out well.’ “On Wednesday, alarmed, I sought Sig. Rossi, who told me: “1.. That Sig. Dumini used my ma- chine in good faith, “2. That the situation was grave. “3. That Premier a. knew everything. “4. That he ina” . were given orders aft with Fremier Mussolinj, “5. That it was imperative to hush up everything, otherwise even Pre- mier Mussolini would be overthrown. Conferred With Mussolini, “I reported to the police. I learned that Sig. Dumini's victim was Sig. Matteotti, that the order to kill Sig. Matteotti came from the fascist cheka whose chief executioner was Sig. Du- mini, and others well known to Pre- mier Mussolini, that they had con- ferred with Premier Mussolini Wed- nesday, and that Premier Mussolini had received Sig. Matteotti’s passport and other papers ag, proof of Sig. Matteotti’s death. I. They asked me to suppress the facts, as the whole regime and Pre- mier Mussolini’s head Was at stake. I kept quiet. “On Tuesday I saw Sig. Marinelli a conference Debono }who told me he had arranged to de- stroy all the evidence in the Matteotti crime. The evidence consisted of the blood drenched garments which Sig. Dumini had with him when arrested. (Signed) “Filippo Filippelli.” Lame Duck Senator Leans on Coolidge; May Get the Gate WASHINGTON, D. C., March 17.— Secretary of State Kellogg is not standing up well under the strain-of his new job. His 68 years and indif- ferent health are telling upon him. He is surprising his associates in the department by the degree of his lean- ing upon Coolidge for decisions of every kind. This development brings forward once more the suggestion that the president will have to select a young- er, stronger and suré-footed chief of the department before the year is out. Charles Warren, sugar trust agent, would have been that man, had he been accepted by thé senate for the attorney generalship. Now he can- not be confirmed for any high office. Herbert Hoover is still smarting from the discourtesy Which he thinks the White House has shown him in cabi- net reorganization. Mellon is said to be as much opposed to making Hoover secretary of state as is Coolidge. There are hints that Sen. Pepper of Pennsylvania may be the next man to be offered the job, if Kellogg can't stand the pace. Harlem Section, N. V., Activities. Saturday evening, March 21— Spring festival and dance, at Harlem Casino, 116th street and Lenox avenue. Sunday evening, March 22—Work- ing Class Bducatiog discussion led by Oliver Calrson. in English. Regis Harlem Educatiang} Center—Classes in Fundamentals mmunism and Re ate ae Toy ee By CATHALL. SRU : IFTY-FOUR years ago the prolé | tariat of Paris rose, arms in hand in defense of their civic rights, th right to bear the arms that they themselves had forged, and in defense of the republican ides against the re- actionary mob of Bonapartists and royalists who sought to disarm them and re-impose the corrupt rule of autocracy. It is an oft told tale, but one that is sadly in danger of being forgotten in this country with our traditional dislike of revolutionary change; our repudiation of the class war; our bourgeois ideas and theories; and our belief in the good intentions of the master class. T was a glorious event, which should ever be borne in mind and celebrated by the prole- tariat of all countries. The people of France organized and armed their na- tional guard for the defense of their city against the Prussian invader, When their rulers capitulated they sought to deprive the national guard of their arms. The latter resisted and won over the troops sent to disarm them. It was an insurrection, a revo- lution. The Commune was proclaim- ed. For the first time in history the capital city of a great country had a real working class administration. HE public services were re-organ- - ized; jobbery and corruption were rooted out; abuses suppressed, and relief measures carried out to relieve existing distress. Never in the his- tory of Paris was the administration so good, the public services so effi- cient, the public order so admirable however, as during the two months of the rule of the Commune, since so execrated and maligned by the reactionaries and the reactionary press of the whole world. All the time that the work of civil reorganization” was going on there was the military defense claiming ur- gent attention. The Versailles royal- ist and Bonapartist butchers were gathering together their legions for the slaughter. Around three sides of Paris the German eagles hemmed in the devoted revolutionists while ‘en the other side there gathered the masses of rurals and released prison- ers of war. HEN came. the civil war, the fight- ing all along the road from Ver- sailles to Paris. The taking one by one of the forts. The bombardment 10482 N ‘fighting at the barricades. The apt ish massacre of 35, men, women and children in the cemetery of Pere La Chaise, and the overthrow of the Commune in a deluge of fire’ ant blood. All that, however, was for af- terwards, ag were also the ingleserib- |" able horrors of the camp at Satory. the \deportations to New Caledonia and all the other infamies in which the Versailles, indeed brought “Woe to the Vanquished.” « But the defeat was in May. On the 18th of March, we celebrated, not a defeat, but a victory, the triumph— transient it is true, but none the less glorious for all that—of the. prole- tarian revolution; when for once, for just a little while, the people had con- quered and were masters of the situ- ation. | HEREFORE, should the 18th of March be kept, not as a‘ day of mourning, but a festival. The Com- mune was defeated, it is true; but in celebrating the inauguration we do not celebrate its defeat, its failure, but its triumph. Even its defeat, its mistakes and failures have many les- sons for us. Above all things, they teach us to be none the less ready to seize our opportunity when it pre- sents itself, than were the men and the women of the Commune; while at the same time we show the same de- votion as they did. E must profit from their errors by avoiding them, and learn from the stern consequences that befell them not to make the mistake of be- ing too lenient with or of trusting too much to the word of honor or the tender mercies the bourgeoisie. The men and women of the commune have set us a splendid example of courage and devotion. They have shown us how to live and work as well as How to suffer and die—for a cause. The time was not ripe. But who would care to say that they toil- ed and suffered and died in vain? ERE. just fifty-four years later, the International Communist move- ment, in its ever-spreading organiza- tion and strength is reaping the har- vest of the seed that was sown. by the sacrifice and the devotion of these martyrs of 1871. ; We rejoice in their triumph. We lament their defeat; but inspired by their noble example we re-echo with greater, certainty of ultimate victory, of Paris by the Versaillese. The their exultant cry “Vive La Com- mute. ay * De Valera Hits England in St. Patrick Message DUBLIN, Ireland, Mar. 17.— Eamon De Valera, the Irish republican, has issued a St. Patrick's day manifesto. “Shall suicide be the end of an an- cient nation that no external power could directly kill?” De Valera asks. “Shall it be in the hands of men call- ing themselves Irish that the last conquest of our land by England shall be complete?” 15,900 NEW SUBS BY JUNE 15! Panic Strikes the Chicago Grain Pit As Wheat Declines Panic struck the grain pits here today when for the second time with- in a week, the bottom dropped out of the market, leaving traders gasping as they fought to execute orders. An hour after the opening May wheat had declined 11 cents to $1.54. Other grains also were sharply lower. Does your friend subscribe to the brutal treatment of the prisoners, | 0 1 Wane Pay y Raise from Rich, Not Children The finance committee ot the board of education met yesterday afternoon and considered ‘the recommendation from the superintendent of schools to increase the salaries of teachers in the publie schools. The Chicago Teachers’ Federation denounces the attempt of Superin- tendent McAndrew to break up the teachers’ councils, and states that the money to raise the teachers” salaries should come from the tar dodgers and not from the building fund of the board of education. Have Right to Complain. “The record of the teachers of Chi cago gives them the right to resent,” ö says the statement, and they do resent any attempt to pit them against the children by making the teachers appear willing to benefit themselves at the expense of the children: Our twenty-five years’ record of protest against proposals of the board of edu- cation that would injure the children warrants the confidence of the public and deserves its condemnation of any present atempt to break up the organ- izations thru which teachers speak and act.” It is declared that in the face of a $19,000,000 deficit in the educational fund and shockingly overcrowded schools, 36 billion dollars worth of Chicago property that is taxable has illegally escaped taxation. It is de- clared that the board of education is planning to skimp on its school build- ings, crowding 1,152 children into new buildings meant to seat only 816 by platooning the schools. Increase Fire Hazards. “All the children in the school will be kept rotating back ‘and forth from classrooms to dumping places, thereby increasing the fire and panic hazards and danger from the spread of con- tagion and epidemic,” said the Chicago teachers’ statement. “Platoon schools, double schools, and double sessions, larger classes, larger schools and all other shifts and makeshifts are shortsighted attempts to evade the real issue. Every child of school age is entitled to attend a middle-of-the- day school, to occupy a seat in a quiet, uncrowded school, and to have indi- vidual attention from adequately train- ed teachers who are free from petty tyranny and the indignities of bureau- cratic domination.” If the tax burden were distributed over the entire value of the taxable property in Chicago, the present school revenue would be doubled, it is said: and the tax rate could be cut down to one-fifth of the present rate. “Disarm” Parley Discussed. LONDON, England, March i7. — Great Britain’s attitude toward the proposed “disarmament conference” was demonstrated again today in a statement from the foreign office. “Great Britain believes the dis- armament conference should have the widest scope but realizes there is dif- ficulty regarding land armaments. England would be pleased if President ‘Coolidge could surmount this dif- ficutly, the statement reads. Meat Trust Makes Plea. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 17.— Justice Bailey, of the district supreme court, is considering pleas of attorneys for the Swift and Armour packing trust to rescind the consent decree en- tered into February, 1920, which pro- the DAILY WORKER? Ask him! vided for the separation of the meat trust firms. By ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEIN. AST Saturday was the fiftieth birthday of Maurice Ravel, the eminent French composer. I don’t know whether Ravel over in Paris made any observance of the event, but the day was celebrated in Chicago by the Performance of an alborada of his by the Chicago Symphony orchestra on the twenty-first of the regular pro- grams. “Alborada” may be considered the antonym of “nocturne”; it means a piece of morning, and is generally used in connection with music in Spanish style. So wrth work of Ra- vel’s which, while over twenty years old, was given its first Chicago hear- ing. As.with most of the French- man’s work, it is light, rhythmic, skill- ful, the work of a hand that has con- sistently stood for the best in French music. The work of another Frenchman, an infinitely greater musician than Ra- vel, opened the program, the over- ture “The Roman Carnival,” which is the prelude to the second act of the opera “Benvenuto Cellini,” by Hector Berlioz. This was wildly revolution- ary music when it was first played, sixty years ago. Bur roday it sounds romantic, melancholy in the first sec- tion, the solo for English horn, and the dance with whien :t ends, which was so blood stirring to the composer and his contemporaries, is to us flat. The third composition was the Brahms concerto for violin and vio- lincello. A concerto by Brahms is generally an.ordeal, and a double con- certo would seem just ＋ much worse, but this work fools us if we reason thus. It does not stir anybody, unless perhaps it does the soloists, but it does not produce that sense of phy- sical pain which many a work of this nature induces. It is really bearable and somewhat enjoyable music, and was played by that most expert team of Jacques Gordon and Alfred Wallen- stein, respectively the concertmaster and the principal cellist of the orches- tra that played the accompaniment. Then the fourth symphony of Chay- kovski, the apotheosis of the grand style, perhaps the most noble and most expressive of all the symphonies of the Russian master. I for one am glad that Mr. Stock put this symphony jat the end of the program. I remem- ber one concert that opened with it, and I was completely incapacitated for listening to the subsequent. works. The scherzo is a stunt piece for the members of the orchestra, since they play it without Mr. Stock’s baton. But whether or not Stock gives entrance cues to the various instruments with his eyebrows is the secret of the Chi- cago Symphony orchestra. Guy and Pattison Piano Team Perform An appearance of that remarkable two piano team of Guy Maier and Lee Pattison always makes a lead for the reviewer. The first performance of a new work by Arthur Bliss also is worthy of a hearing, and the two the regular concert schedule of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The concerto is not a very import- ant work and melodically is some tra. In the concerto are some new and queerly colored effects, such as the presentation of a melody in the English horn solo under the sustained trill of three flutes and over harmon- ies in the clarinets and a bass in the bassoons. The way in which the solo and the orchestra are welded to- gether is another example of good workmanship. The program opened with the “Spring” symphony of Schumann. There are some fine tunes in this work, dance tunes of the pianistic kind, such as Schumann could com- pose. Following this Maier and Pat- tison played a double concerto by P. E. Bach. ( Following the Bliss concerto was the symphonic poem “Don Juan,” vith its famous horn solo played and practiced and memorized by every horn player where the name of its composer, Richard Strauss, is known. Then the program wound up with the C major triple concerto of J. 8. Bach. This concerto has what can be called peppy music in it. Its slow movement is not so attractive,.but the first and last movements are great. Arthur Shattuck joined forces with Maler and Pattison in this com posi- came together at Orchestra Hall on tion. He is a rgpresentative of a di- minishing. and, let us pray, rapidly diminishing race, the long haired pi- anist. The performances of Maier and Pat- tison ought to be world famous by now. Theirs is a new and delightfu revival of an old art. There is power and good humor in their playing. what weak. Bliss knows his orches- There is also absolute accuracy and nicety of technique in it ee ee r protec sugges It Hitinols of Ma popula Bi have 1 * d 1 ite St. P They food | that | to ca ism’s The ! inter? good. have heads years bours 1 Cc secti a yet ies v dled men, toda: Lie. he ¢ yaw lids. erice ‘oa