Daily Worker
March 21, 1925
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ae sor ore we Oe Ce Z2me6 nf rfeQro@ooeor*.*. ~— i i i ee ee asa? i RAZaseta it 129 ON RURAL PATROL AS By MANUEL aoe.’ Some woman is writing a series of romantic fairy tales for the Chicago Daily News glorifying the “American cossacks.” 7 It is part of the propaganda referred to in these Wen yesterday. Big Business admits openly that the state police force which it is trying to set up in Itinois thru the medium of the Dunlap bill is patterned after the mounted constabulary of Pennsylvania (known to all workers as “American cossacke”), and it therefore becomes necessary for the prostitute publicity agents of capitalism to spread the word that the Pennsylvania troopers are AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O’)FLAHERTY HE British working class have no reason to be proud of the accom- plishments of the labor party while it functioned as His Majesty’s govern- ment. But it is an ill wind that does not blow some good, and one of the blessings that the elevation of Mac- Donald and company to the govern- ment brought to the workers, was the elimination of Frank Hodges from the official leadership of the Miners’ Federation of Great Britain. = * * UTSIDE of the Metal Workers’ Union of Germany, the M. F. of G. B. is the strongest industrial un- jon in the world, at least numerically. At the height of its power it, num- bered over one million members. But Frank Hodges, its secretary, until he became civil lord of the admiralty, almost wrecked the mighty union, when he betrayed it on “Black Fri- day” in conjunction with J. H. Thomés, his Wann. * * N Hodges decided to become the nominal head of His Ma- jesty’s navy, the miners requested him to relinquish his post as secre- tary of the union. Tho he must have known that his tenure of office in Downing street would be short, he on to regret his decision. — is now in Hodge’s place and it looks a6 if the ex-civil lord of the king’s navy is destined to remain for a long time to come on the outside looking in, 8 = *@ Hm London Daily, Herald carries very interesting news on the strug- gle between the old reactionary offi- cialdom and the left wingers. A. J. Cook, is now in Hodge’s place as sec- retary of the miners. He is a fighter and a staunch supporter of the Brit- ish minority movement, which is or- ganized along the same lines as the Trade Union Educational League here. In.fact the T. U. E. L. is the model for the left wing in the trade union movement of Europe. In this respect at least the American revolu- ad tionists have been able to make & contribution to the arsenal of the urmy of labor in other countries. — — * NE of the biggest industrial bat- tles in the history of Great Britain is expected to take place before the end of the year. The miners will be the first to step into the breach. Cook is leading the offensive. Like a good general he is seeking allies, among the transport workers and railway- men. This is the Communist program, the program that the Communists have been advocating for the past few years, That the British work- ing masses are. ready to accept it testifies to their growing class con- sciousness, to the influence, of the Communists and parficularly to the desperate situation in which British capitalism finds itself. — * 7. NEW. Triple Alliance is the im- mediate aim of the militants who want to face the enemy with a united | front. Therefore, a battle royal is being waged inside the ranks of the British trade. unions. Frank Hodges „ Jined up with the coal operators, and’ is fighting Cook and his support- ars. Hodges wants a five-years’ truce. Like John L. Lewis of the U. M. W. „ A., he does not mention the miners Ir show any concern for their needs. He talks of the “country” and the Andustry as a whole.” Cook says in effect, “To hell with the operators and the epitome of honor, integrity, kind- ness, courage and gallantry. But the workers do not call them “cossacks” for. nothing. Constabulary Don’t Protect Farms. The DAILY WORKER has proof accumulated by labor organizations over a long period—that the Penn- Sylvania state constabulary is 4 ma- chine for strike breaking and terror- ization of labor. As a rural police “protecting farms and flresides“ it does not function at all. Because the wealthy Illinois “law and order gang“ declare that they have gone to Penn- sylvania for their model in drawing up the Dunlap state police bill, and because Pennsylvania ig in fact the classic example in the United States of the workings of a state constabu- lary, it is worth while for workers to look a little into the record of the “American cossacks.“ Here it is: The Pennsylvania state police is an outgrowth of the notorious “coal and iron police,” an industrial, private police organization maintained by the corporationg to suppress and intimi- date the workers in the steel mills and the coal mines. The activities of this force against the workers brought it into such evil repute.that the industrial barons began advocat- ing the establishment of à regular state constabulary which would have a brighter gloss of respectability and decency, while being maintained and used in the selfsame manner as the old “coal and iron police.“ A Private Army Legalized. Thus, shortly after the great min- jers’ strike in Pe ed coal sale nauor dender who — ‘first superintendent of the state po- lice, testified several years later that he got his plan of organization from the royal Irish constabulary—going to Ireland and spending three weeks in barracks to study methodé; organ- ization and rules and regulations. The royal Irish constabulary was, ag everyone knows, a foree used by England to keep the Irish in subjec- (Continued on page. 2.) SA WR ee 2 Rivas + ee i. 1 e A * * ——— Px 22 — W e ne CO., aT a a a Bivd., "onleage,, - * * ree . (Special to The Daily Worker.) COPENHAGEN, Denmark, March 18.—A general lockout thruout Den- mark goes into effect tonight follow- ing the failure of this morning’s ne- gotiations between the employers and workers. There were already 50,000 out of to work today, and it is expected that this number will be . by the Loan Goes ers end of the week. NEW YO 19.—The gov- A lockout in Sweden covering a | ernment of F contracted large number of industries aleo with the Colt” company to, went into effect today. buy $3,000,000. machine guns and small pment, Frank C. Nichols, int of the com- Repeal of Search pany, annow on his return 9 e and Seizure Act n, been Reported to House cent!y ioaned F | of which is ft SPRINGFIELD, In., March 19.—Re-| chase ot war peal of the Illinois search and seizure concerns. act of 1919 and the prohibition en- Over wer forcement act of 1921, by a referen- been spent dum of the people, was advanced in 2 the state legislature today when the * Pasi’ * house committee on license and mis- 9 cellany reported favorably on the prey 2 3 iz bills. No further action was expected. a — 4 4 da * for a week or two. — Ukrainia, ernment has re- $30,000,000 much bent in the pur- from American Anon dollars has American loan ud the army bud- 900. ment has been us campaign of rom the country peasants born in Ge! „ Russia, and oth- er nations. Only those who are Postpone Radio Probe. known to be } guardists are ad- NEW YORK, March 19.—The fed-| mitted. ae eral trade commission’s hearing of| The American is looked upon charges against eight companies ac- cused of attempting to establish a monopoly in the radio industry was postponed today until May 18. as an attempt of American capi- talists to com with French im- — for the: domination of Po- WORKERS (COMMUNIST ) PARTY URGES NEED OF CO-OPERATIO i TWEEN | MASSES AMERICAN AND CHINE. The Central Executive Committee of the We has issued a statement on the need for co-operation of 8 Chinese and since the death American masses and the problems facing the Chinese 9 ** wala of their great leader, as follows: ~ — a * YUN. Yat Sen, leader of the N party of the Chinese people, Kuo- mingtang is dead. His life was devoted to the cause of Chinese „ e and no one in- ividual the p Sin . t’ oe — of the party of Chinese inde- pendence. Sun Yat Sen was the foe of the rob. ber capitalist nations. He fought steadily and bravely against all the schemes of imperialism for the en- slavement of the Chinese masses. He and the Kuomingtang party was the staunchest bulwark of the Peking government against the plots of the imperialist banditti, altho his (Continued on page 5.) Estimate 1,900 Dead; Workers Are Destitute (Special te The Dally Worker.) WEST FRANKFORT, I., Marck 19.—The ®lackened: figures of con JAP RULERS HIDE DEATH TOTAL IN DEVASTATING-FIRE THAT MADE e ot tere g. 10,0 TOKIO WORKERS HOMELESS g miners, clad just ag they were when called from the mine pits, were today probing the ruins of their homes, try ing to find the bodies of their lovec The storm let a trail of one thou TOKIO, March 19.—The Japanese swept Nippori, working class suburb workers were rendered homeless and never make public the figures on the number of workers killed in the fire which sand known dead workers and mem. bers of their families in its wake Fire, still burning today, added to the most terrible catastrophe the south- ern Illinois coal miners have ever government has not end probably will SOVIET RUSSIA REPRESENTED AT SUN'S FUNERAL Many Workers A l Sun Yat Sen’s Burial PEKIN, China, March 19.—The Sov- iet Russian ambassador to China, Kar- akhan, and other Soviet representa- tives, were the only diplomats in the funeral procession for Dr. Sun Yat Sen, dead leader of the Chinese re- publicans in their fight against the intervention of foreign imperialism. The leaders of the Kuomingtang party, which Dr. Sun headed, were said to be reluctant to conduct chris- tian services for Dr. Sun Yat Sen, but deferred to the wishes of Dr. Sun's wife. High officials were noticably absent from the funeral services, but an enor- mous crowd of workers ‘attended. The official ceremonies will begin in four (Continued on page 2) | days. ‘BRITISH LABOR’ AMERICAN FEDERATIONIST MAKES OUT OF TURNER | BUT IGNORES WHOLE DELEGATION In the March number of the American Federationist (appropriately printed with a yellow cover), the official organ of the executive council of the A. F. of L. republishes an article dug up by the ever busy reactionaries, from that weceptacle of filthy lies against Soviet Russia, the Jewish Daily Forward. The article is entitled “What British Labor Saw in Soviet Russia.” But instead of telling what “British labor” Saw, it tells what the Jewish Daily (Continued on Page 4) known. of Tokio yesterday. More then 10,000 ö ö New Disaster Appalis. REDS ARRESTED Miners who are used to sudden death, visited without warning in the AT ABRAMOVICH have known the hardship of unem- ployment, strikes and lockouts, were appalled today at the wreckage ane death left by the cyclone. =e ployes of the Heinz: pickle factory at How the Princeton, mtinois, were killed or fa. . . _tally injured. The fact Police Beat Him By» ¢ factory was com were at work. Three members of the Workers | wae a aud E. i. ¥alroad sho (Communist) Party who were arrested West Frankfort and the M — sia when Raphael Abramovich tried b een entirely wiped out, with hun to make an anti-Soviet speech at the dreds of employes Killed or injured. Douglas Park Auditorium, were —4 The towns of West Frankfort. wit! i 8 N 4 Harris’ heard the testimony with 15,000 population, in the heart o : the Southern Illinois’ coal mining dis of Ethel Birn, Marie Polishuk and Joe Lawndale police station and released — — — adding on 350.00 bond, and then heard the orror an testtmony of Lieutenant Byrne and his death. Here dead bodies were stil! “Case dismissed,” was all he said. dead strewed the streets. . Joe Search told Judge Harris how Many Mine Towns Hit. he was standing peaceably in front Many were killed and injured in the man seized him and started to beat Gorin, Gorham, De Soto, Bush, Hurst him. The detective pushed Search to West Frankfort, Benton, Logan, Par- the sidewalk and slammed him against rish, Thompsonville, McLeansboro the curb. Search, not knowing that towns in Indiana, Tennessee, Missou the man was a police officer, pro- Fi. tested. | Early reports said that the storm hundreds injured in the fire. murky coal pits, miners who for years Word reaches here that 100 em- Search Tells | pletely demolished while the men at the demonstration for Soviet Rus- railroad shops at Murphysboro hav: missed in Judge Harris’ court in the | 18,000 population. und Murphrysbor: Search, who had been taken to the iet Were almost completely wipe riot squad who made the arrests. twisted in the wrecked houses, and of the auditorium when a plain clothes | al, mining and farming towns ot the back of an automobile parked iat) Carmi, Crossville, Illinois, and other Seeing the detective beating the boy, hit Dowell, Illinois, ful, force, but no Ethel Birn and Marie Polishuk remon- details were received from that town strated with him, they teld Judge Har- Duquoine, - Illinois, the coal minin; ris, and were immediately arrested center near Christqpher, was said to and driven in the patrol wagon to the be in the path of the storm. Lawndale police station, where they The disaster came at a time when were confined, until midnight, when the southern Illimois %toal miners George Maurer, secretary of the La- were »penniless and deeply in debt bor Defense Council, put up 350.00 owing to the long continued unem (Conte on page 6.) (Continued on page 2) TRADE UNION EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE “CALLS FOR SUPPORT OF FIGHTING NOVA SCOTIA-COAL MINE STRIKERS Outlining ‘he titanic struggle that confronts the Nova Scotia coal miners in the struggles with the British Empire Steel corporation, the national committee of the Trade Union Eduactional League has called on all workers a come to their support in a statement issued as follows: Oi) 3 Cine ai® Statement by the National Committee, Tradé Union Educational League. ‘ R years the British Empire Steel corporation and thé Canadian govern- ment have, by united effort, tried to crush the militant fighting miners of Nova Scotia. In 1923, with the aid of the reactionary John L. Lewis, they were able to break the Steel Workers’ Union, and now all the powers of “BESCO” and the state are being mobilized to complete the job by reducing the miners to the same helpless position as the steel workers. “BESCO” is brutally frank in its purpos and confident of the result. ‘capitalism stark naked. We ) Vice-president McLurg of the British Empire Steel corporation says: can’t stand the gaff. We hold the cards. Let them stay out two months or six months, it matters not. Event- ually they will come to us.” Here is hold your jobs, we have systematically starved you, your wives and children are hungry, you will come to us at our terms, says the beast BESCO. This is a challenge to the working class of North America. The British (Continued on page 6) HUGE TOTALS OF — DEAD AND INJURED IN CYCLONE AREA "BENTON, I., March 19.— Esti- mates of the dead and injured gath- ered for the DAILY WORKER in ’ yesterday’s cyclone provided the following death totale: Towns Dead Injured Ilinois, West Frankfort, II. 150 2,200 Murphysboro, III. 125 1,800 De Soto, II 250 800 Vergennes, II. 38 90 1 36 70 Annapolis, Mo 3 41 Royalton, II.. 3 20 Carbondale, III. 25 61 Biehle, Mo. 10 27 Cape Girardeau, Mo. 12 41 Carmi, III. 2 11 Biumfield, III. 7 24 Caldwell, III. 2. * 9 16 Logan, III. 0 29 Thompsonville, III. 9 32 _Batimated Farms... 50 100 SS fatale * —— — Serer sr | Princeton, Ind. .......: 98 172 Owensville, ine 64 112 McLeansville .............. 18 27 Poseyville 5 30 RS Ee RL 200 . 3 10 Missouri. Altenburg 10 Kentucky. Springfield : 2 25 Lexington : 1 ? Buck Lodge 3 20 Keytown ...... a 2 18 Tennessee. Ganetia .2:2..<...ii. TROT 30 80 Angle 15 40 Withan .... 3 60 Oakgrove ..................... 10 25 ib SP eRe 20 0 10 K ceectertikis cee £2 10 B. & 0. JOHNSTON TO SPEAK BEFORE ‘PROGRESSIVES’ Tattered Remnants of C. P. P. A. Meet (Special to The Daily Worker.) CLEVELAND, O., March 19.—The hopeful remnants of the local C. P. P. A., facetiously termed the “Collect- ion of Peanut Politicians of America,” are going to stage a commemorative ceremony here on Friday, where the aspiring and expiring progressive party of Cuyahoga has inviting his tattered majesty “B. and O.” John- stone, to speak. Because the sick man of Wisconsin ‘arried this city, the petty bourgeois ind labor bureaucracy of this section still think that they can wedge into power somehow if only they keep try- ing. Respectable—But Ancient Hash. The roster of the party’s executive looks like a dish of very ancient hash. Albert Coyle is the chairman, while the rest are an assortment of yellow socialists and ex-socialists, labor “leaders” and hungry office seekers in whose breast hope springs eternal. Max Hayes, of course, is present, with Henry Raisse the publicity man for the Cleveland Federation of Labor and Marie Wing of the “progressive” councilmen. Johnston has fallen upon evil days “They CHARGE LEVIN CONSPIRACY WITH BOSSES put Militants Out to Aid Employers The bosses in the Chicago clothing shops are in close conspiracy with Sam Levin, manager of the joint board of the Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers, to deprive left wing workers of their chance to make a living by work. ing at their trade. This is known to be the reason behind the score or 60 of workers taken off their jobs by or- ders of Levin, who proceeds under the excuse that these workers had no right to distribute leaflets issued by a local of the A. C. W. Degpotism Causes Storm. Against this monstrous’ despotism of control over the very lives of the workers, and the treacherous collusion with the bosses to wipe out all resist- ance to the class collaboration schemes which threaten the workers’ standards, the members of the A. C. W. are storming by hundreds at the office of msn tions, deman that such tyranny shall be and the members, alt still ini good standing, be restored to their jobs in the shops. The workers demand that no mem- ber of the union shall be robbed of his chance to make a living by any such high-handed act of Levin, whose collu- sion with the employers in this in stance to drive the militant members of the union out of the union by tak- ing away their jobs and forcing them to starve or to leave their trade, is so (Continued on page 2) pouring out execra- — IN W. VA. MINE Rescuers Believe They Will Be Found Dead BARRACKSVILLE, W. Va., March 19.—The stark tragedy ever looming in a miner’s everyday life staiked in this little town today, leaving dull despair in its wake. Thirty-four men are still entombed in the Bethlehem Mines corporation, where they were caught 300 feet be- low the surface by an explosion Tues- day night, and unless all signs found in the mine fail, the miners will be brought out dead, according to many of the rescue workers. Fire which broke out in the mine late yesterday was holding back res- cue work today. Fire has been discovered in one of the headings of the No. 41 mine of the Bethehem Mines corporation, R. M. Lambie, chief of the West Virginia inspectors, declared tonight. He added the blaze had not extended over a large area and was expected to be brought under control in a short time. The fire was encountered in the right heading, Mr. Lambie said, where it is believed twenty-two of the thirty- four missing miners were working when entombed by an explosion last night. The other twelve men are thofight to have been working in the left heading. Battle Tangled Wreckage. Thruout the day rescue crews bat SMled with tangled wreckage and fallen timbers which must be surmounted be- fore it can be determined whether the imprisoned men are dead or alive. Leaders in the rescue work have abandoned hope of reaching them to- night. They say ‘they did not expect to reach that section of the mine un- til some time tomorrow. The mine had been penetrated ic a depth of about 2,000 feet at that time, with an estimate made that res- cuers had twice that distance yet to = ie Hope of Workers Dwindles. As the rescue work progressed hope virtualy faded that any of the men would be found alive, no signal of any kind having been received from sections not yet explored. The Only possibility that some of them may have survived hinged upon the slendet hope that they might have been able to erect makeshift brattice work be- fore “black damp” that followed the blast penetrated thruout the workings. A heavy rain added to the discom- fort of hundreds of dry-eved men (Continued on Page 2.) PHILADELPHIA POLICE BREAK UP COMMUNIST OPEN FORUM ON THE PRETEXT OF WRONG SIZED FLAG By B. HERMAN. (Special to The Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., ducted every Sunday evening at the by the Philadelphia police Sunday, American flag that must be displayed rect size. The Pennsylvania law calls for a the Workers Party Open Forum was er and make for the shortage which he unconditionally refused. It was pointed out that hundreds of meetings have been held in the same hall with the same size flag and they were ne- ver molested, but this made little dif- ference to this righteous minion of the law. A large audience was present to hear Comrade M. J. Olgin speak on the “General Staff of the World Revolu- tion” when the disturbance was made by the police department. The chairman of the evening, Com- rade S. Sklaroff, explained the situa: tion to the audience after all efforts were exhausted to borrow a proper sized flag, and assured them that the open forum would continue next Sunday in spite of this unwarranted and outrageous action of the police. Philadelphia audiences are quite ac- customed to such disturbances and (Continue on Page 2) March 19.— The Workers Party Opeh Forum con Grand Fraternity Hall was disrupted March 15, on the flimsy pretext that the at all public meetings was not the cor- flag 66 by 52 inches, while the flag at about 10 inches under size. The city detective who ordered the meeting dispersed was offered the committee to pin two flags togeth a compromise by ITALIAN METAL STRIKE ENDS WITH INGREASED WAGES FOR 120,900 (Special to The Daily Worker.) MILAN, Italy, March 19.—The strike of 120,000 metal workers which for a week has paralyzed the metal industry, is declared off by the socialist union of metal work- ers which accepted the wage raise of two and one-fifth liras per day previously accepted by the fascist union, which is much smalier. Give your shopmate this copy of the DAILY WORKER—but be sure to see him the next day to ge et his subse ription. THREAD MILL OWNERS MAKING 40 PER CENT PROFIT PLEAD POVERTY TO FORCE WAGE CUT By WM. SIMONS. (Special to The Daily Worker) of late, and since his February defeat at Chicago, and the ever-growing an- tagonism among the members of his union to his pet “B. and O.” plan of class collaboration with the capital- ists, has not especially added to his popularity. WILLIMANTIC, Conn., March 19. that the American ( Thread Co are patriotic Americans or compel patriotism. The road of the (Communist) Party ticket, received 8 is English-owned. The entire life of Willimantic is such as to develop Not all workers in Willimantic know Practically all of them non-@onformist is a hard one. It is true that William Z. Foster, candidate for president on the Workers votes in the straw vote taken by the As a politician he ‘has proven a American Thread Athletic Association, but in the main the workers are (Continue on Page * (Continued on page 5.) ** eS oe an - * 9 — —
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* aed 2 3 7 . ; * „ | . 4 214 1. : g . — j 127 5 me, * * * * nl * 1 39 — 7 = 2 * 9 0 aa * ’ an * 7 7 7 r * 2 oa . r + So ie ae wn, = > wasn 5 ¢ * 7 0 ‘ Be. er A. * aa —.— ae | . 1 8 ö : HISTORY Lenin Training School of Permanent Value — OOo Gommenoing today, 11 a. m., Com- rade Bitteiman will give hie course on the History of the American Com- munist Movement which will last for the eight remaining days of the echool. The outlines of the fret several lectures of Comrade Bittelman’s course, we understand are already on hand in mimeographed form so that the students will have the advantage of that additional help in the course. The preparing of the course in this manner will assure the party of a permanent contribution in this direc tlon which will be preserved for fu- ture use and elaboration. It is planned to get as many of the courses completely outlined as possible and prepared in a form avail- able to the students and for future use. The schedule today ig as follows: § a. m.— Trade Union History and Tactics— Dunne. 10 a. m.— Party Organisation and Structure Abern. 11 a. m History of American Communist Movement—Bittelman. 12 m.—Lunach. 1 p. m.—Leninism—Gomez. 2 p. m.—BHlementary Marxian Boo- nomics—Lerner. Comrade Lerner has announced the following lectures already given by him for the past four days and also the lectures to follow. 1. Commodities. 2. Money or Circulation of Com- modities. 3. Production of Surplus value. 4. Co-operation (includes manufac- ture). 5-6, Development of Machine Production, Friday and Saturday. 7. Concentration and Centraliza- tion, Monday. 8. “Primitive Acoumulation,” Tues day. 9. Average Rate of Profit, Wednes- day. 10. Division of Surplus Value, hursday. 11. ern Capitalism—Imperial- ism, Friday. 12. Summary of World Economic | Situation, Saturday. Browder to Give Last Lecture in Economics Course, The last lecture of his course, £om- rade Lerner announces will be given by Comrade Earl Browder, editor of the Workers’ Monthly and acting ex- ecutive secretary who is no doubt, the one best equipped at the present time in the party to speak on this subject. Comrade Browder’s lecture will be based on reports of Varga, economist of the Communist International and on his own research in that fleld. All students are requested to read Com- ,ade Browder’s article in the March Workers’ Monthly dealing with the aconomic situation in the United States in preparation for this lec- ture. The article is entitled “Indus- trial Depression or Prosperity.” 34 Coal Miners Still Entombed | in W. Va. Mine (Continped from page 1) women and children, who waited tire- lessly for hours behind the police lines to hear some word from inside the shaft. The rain drove to shelter thou- sands of spectators but relatives re- tained their positions apparently un- mindful of the downfall. Three Suspects Arrested. Three men were placed under ar- rest today in connection with the ex- plosion. Their arrest followed the report of a possibility that the dis- aster had been caused by a bomb, an evident attempt at a frame-up. The report was promptly denied and it was said that an accumulation of gas was believed to have caused the explosion. Officers declared, however, that sufficient credence had been given the report to cause the arrest of W. D. Emonds, Clarence Whetnel and A. G. Kendall. They are being held in the county jaid pending further in- vestigation. No specific charge has seen placed against them. The mine has been operating on a zon- unſon basis since last October. —— eee Newark Workers To Hold Dance on Saturday Night NEWARK, N. J., March 19.—The dance of the Workers (Communist) Party will be held here on Saturday eveyging, March 28, at 8 p. m. The dance will be held in the New ark Labor Lyceum, 704 South 14th St., Newark, N. J. Admission will be 36 cents. 25 * Aq 7 2. : . >: ‘oe @y 1 1 „ 1 * 14 1 vas in 4 1 1 1 5 . “9 a ee * . ‘ 7 . | 2 * . 5 2 N 2 4 * 5 * N N ** — W 7. ’ ; ö | ‘A . > io ° * 1 NEW YORK, March 19.— Rear Admiral William L. Rodgers, debating at Town Hall with Scott Nearing on preparedness incautiously made the ad- armies and navies. mission that commercial rivalry is the cause of wars and the reason for Said the read admiral: “We must maintain armed forces to retain freedom in our business relations with the rest of the world, without dictation from nations wielding greater force. To keep an unshakable hold on our traffic, inde- pendent of rival great manufacturing nations, we need a great merchant fleet. Our riches and our complex economie danger from other nations. industrial organization put us in War is likely to come to us in re- sisting what we regard as an attempt to take unfair economic advantage of us.“ Use State Police to. Break Strikes (Continped from page 1) tion; it was a frankly brutal weapon for use against a colonial people. What has deen the history, from that day to this, of the mounted state police of Pennsylvania?—those 220 hard-riding, hard-headed and straight- shooting officers, all proud of their jobs and of their organization,” to quote Major Adams’ fervent speech to the guests of the Illinois cham- ber of commerce. Signed affidavits of police brutalli- ties and interference with workers’ rights cover Pottsville, Allentown, West Chester, Hazleton, Erie, Wilkes Barre, McKees Rocks, Philadelphia, Mt. Carmel, Reading, as well as the coal strikes in Westmoreland county and in the Ligonier and Allegheny valleys. They were set forth in a 14l1-page book issued ten years ago by the Pennsylvania State Federation of Labor, entitled The American Cos- sack.“ Evidence has been accumu- lating rapidly since then. Examining a map of the state of Pennsylvania, one finds at the western end, the city of Pittsburgh and nu- merous steel centers, and also coal mines. In the east there are Wilkes Barre and Scranton, the center of the great anthracite coal flelds and also several important gteel centers. The great agricultural sections are locat- ed to the north and down thru the center of the state. No Cossacks in Farming Districts Where do we find the police bar- racks and the sub-stations from which the Pennsylvania troopers travel? In the great steel and coal mining sec- tions of the west and east. Along the northern border of the state there is no sub-station in a space of about 200 miles. Most of the farmers of Pennsylvania have never seen a state policeman in their lives, but every in- dustriak worker—every steel worker and coal miner—has had plenty and bitter experience of them. It is obvious that the 220 troopers whom Major Adams speaks of as naking up the constabulary in Penn- syivania at the present time are not sufficient for any rural highway pa- trolling. The farmers early discov- ered that the state police was not intended for their protection in any and bearing in mind the large terri- torial extent of the state of Penn- sylvania, as well as the small num- ber of men in the force, the reader will see that the cossacks had little or no time for rural policing. A Few Among Money. Practically the entire state police force was on strike duty for three months, from March 15 to June 9, 1916, in the anthracite and bitumin- ous coal regions during the miners’ strike of that time. : During the street carmen’s strike at Chester, 143 members of the con- stabulary were on strike duty for six weeks, from April 16 to May 25, 1908. During the strike at the Standard Steel Car Works, McKees Rocks, 41 of the constabulary troops were on strike dyty for.two months, from July 15 to Sept. 14, 1909, and 44 addition- al troopers were on strike duty from Aug. 23 to Sept. 13, 1908. During the strike at the plant of the Bethlehem Steel Co. of Bethlehem, Pa., 91 troopers were on strike duty from Feb. 27 to April 18, 1910—eight weeks. Always On Strike “Duty.” During the strike of the miners in the Westmoreland district, which last- ed sixteen months, 101 troopers were on duty for a period of three months, 84 were on duty for four months and 57 for 16 months—from March 9, 1910, to July 1, 1911. During the anthracite coal strike of 1912, 205 troopers were constantly on strike duty from May 7 to May 21. During the strike of the molders at Erie, Pa., 40 troopers were dn strike duty from Aug. 22, 1913, to March 9, 1914, and 22 were on duty from Aug. 22 to Nov. 16. During the strike of the Wilkes Barre Street Railway employes in 1916, 228 troopers were on strike duty for a considerable length of time. The above are just a few instances which will serve to show the pur- pose for which the state police is used in Pennsylvania. They suggest a to- tally different kind of troopers from the constabulary of the fairy tales in the Daily News. Tomorrow I will write of the crimes against the workers perpetrated by the Pennsylvania cossacks in the sense of the term. Reading the following paragraphs great steel strike and the miners’ strikes. Charge Sam Levin | Is in Conspiracy With the Bosses (Continped from page 1) plainly in the interests of the em- ployers with whom Levin has already | announced an alliancé, pursuant to his policy of collaboration. Conspiracy Between Bosses and Levin. These bosses have not been able to conceal their part in the conspiracy to deprive the militants of a chance to make a living in their chosen trade. The following workers are so far known to have been put upon the street to starve, and there are many more whose names the DAILY WORK- ER will give later: Bramorski was taken out of Meyer and company by Levin. He is a mem- ber of Local 38. H. L. Kahan and J. Lieberman of Local 39 were thrown out of work by Levin from the shops of Hart, Schaffner and Marx. J. Pinto, Local 270, and 8. Miller and E. Levin, both of Local 152, were also deprived of their living by Levin in taking them out of Hart, Schaffner and Marx. S. Simonian, Local 39, was robbed of his living earned at Rosen- wald and Wiel ;Helen Kaplan of Local 39 was turned out of employment at Edward V. Price; G. Resnick, Local 39, was taken out of Edward E. Strauss; A. Rudman and W. Savanov- sky, of Local 144, were deprived .of work at Alfred Decker and Cohn; and Clara Shapiro, of Local 39, was taken by Levin and put in the unemployed army from her job with Plotke Broth- ers. And there are many others. Sympathizers Also Victimized. Besides, even those who express dis- approval of this outrageous action of Levin, are themselves penalized, and members are inguiring how far this will go and the whole Chicago market is in an uproar. J. Bilsky, a member of Local 39, was, by Levin's order, taken off from shop chairman because he felt that Levin was committing a crime against the membership by rob- bing union members against whom no regular charges are made of their chance to earn a living at a trade of their choosing. 105 APPLY FOR ONE JOB : PHILADELLPHIA, Pa., March 19.—One hundred and five men applied Tor the position of night watchman here when John Maneely, 247 North 12th St., put a small advertisement in one of the local papers. | Scornfully Levin tells these workers, just as a boss or a prison guard might talk: “Go get a job from Local 6 in New York!” The bosses say: “We are will- ing for you to work for us.” But, none the less, their shop managers are sending the victims to Levin them- selves, and telling the workers that they cannot work until they get an O. K. from Levin. A carefully prepared game to pass the buck from one to another. Definite Action Coming. Against this combination between Levin and the bosses the workers are filling the shops and the manager’s office with uproaring protest. The left wing is crystallizing this protest into definite action for a finish fight to check the autocracy of the Levin machine in depriving union members of the opportunity to earn a living at their trade. The example of New York is cited as showing how the persistent effort of the officials to destroy the fighting spirit of the A. C. W. can be checked. In New York there are fully 20,000 tailors strongly behind the fight of Local 5 for a united and militant union, and the coat makers have again formed a joint board of their own to take up the fight on the reactionaries. Protest Meeting Monday. In Chicago the workers who have been taken down from the job by Levin are calling a mass meeting of the members of the Amalgamated to consider the disruption and expulsion policy of the officials and the latest outrage of taking members off their jobs. The meeting will be held on Mon- day, March 23, at 8 o’colck in Temple Hall, corner Van Buren and Marsh- field streets. All members of the Amalgamated should attend this meet- ing and express their opinion of the present situation in the union. Take Machinery to Russia. NEW YORK, March 19— The groups of Russian-American farmers who left New York during February under the organization of the central bureau of the Technical Aid Society to settle on co-operative (communal) farms in different parts of Russia, took with them machinery and capital valued a $91,161. Their departure was planned so that they will arrive in Russia in time to assist in the spring planting of crops. The Technical Aid Society has organized 25 such settlements for the peasantry. 1 7 1 8 rh ‘ 8 5 pe 1 7 le f * 8 USbr * But Stri * Welcome Red Aid SHANGHAI, China, March 20.— The Japanese owners of the lexule mills, in which 40,000 Chinese workers re- cently von their demands for abgli- tion of brutal overseers who whipped the workers to make them s,eud up, and wen also an increase in wages after 1epeated mass demonstrations, have been trying to secare a “red scare” by charging that the strike was “ordored from Moscow.” These foreign capitalists from Japan have a newspaper which says that a Bolshevik official of the Chin- ese Eastern Railway aided the strike by directing the workers what to do to win. : The paper also charges that “Mos- cow” subsidizes students and faculty members in the Chinese schools. This peculiar “defense” of the Chinese by the hated Japanese, who themselves have subsidized and over-awed China with armed force for years, only amuses the Chinese workers. They say, “Moscow aids us, Japan oppresses and exploits us. It is not hard to choose between the two.” Navy Chief Defends Oil Steal in Teapot Dome Bribery Trial CHEYENNE, Wyo., March 19.—Tea- pot Domers who helped steal the Wyoming ofl land from the govern- ment testified here in behalf of the Sinclair Oil company, which is on trial charged with corrupting cabinet of- fers. One of those who testified for the oil trust was Rear Admiral John K. Robin- son, chief of the engineering bureau of the navy department, who himself was implicated in the oil lease frauds. Robinson was the “liason officer” who acted for former Secretary of the Navy Denby in preliminary negotiations with Fall regarding transfer of naval oil lands from the navy to the in- terior department. Robinson defended the oil steal. His testimony was given by deposition. Reveals Pacific Plot. In his deposition Robinson stated that domination of the Pacific re- quired oil reserves for the American navy at Unalaska, San Diego and Honolulu.” Robinson,stated that these reserves “must be,built up to insure! American naval cy in the Pacific in the event of an Anglo- Japanese alliance.” 15,000 NEW SUBS LY JUNE 15! Philadelphia Police Break up Forum to Protect Flag’ (Continped from page 1) accepted this latest example of Penna “democracy” in a good spirit by giv- ing liberally to a collection and mak- ing the hall thunder with the strains of the International as they left. Next Sunday, March 22, Comrade Rebecca Grecht will speak in the same hall on the subject of “A Century of Class Struggles.” Care will be taken that a flag of proper dimension, color and number of stars will adorn the walls of the Grand Fraternity hall next Sunday. Workers Party open forum hag be- come an established Communist in- stitution in this city and has been growing in size and interest every week. Philadelphia readers of the DAILY WORKER are invited to attend these meetings which are being held every Sunday at 8 p. m. Admission is free. Comrade Rebecca Grecht will be the main speaker at the celebration of the Paris Commune which will be held Saturday, March 21, at 8 p. m., in the Eagles’ Temple, Broad and Spring Garden streets. 15,000 NEW SUBS BY JUNE 15! Illinois Employers Plot Formation of Anti-Strike Police SPRINGFIELD, ni., March 19.—The Iilinois Manufacturers’ association. which has been the principle booster of the anti-labor state police bill, has written a letter to all Illinois employ- ers urging them to work for the bill's passage. The employers are endeavoring to pass the bill in order to create a strike breaking agency. The letter to the members of the association states:—*“Attention is di- rected to the fact that the state police bill still slumbers in the senate com- mittee on military affairs. If you want prompt action on this measure use your influence to force a favor- able report from the committee.” “Communicate not only with each member of the committee, but also write your senator and house mem- bers urging them to use their in- fluence with the members of the com- mittee to get favorable action.” The association letter then gives a list of the names of the members of the house military,gaffairs committee. > vy a * ** } 1 B 1 oar 5 d i 3 Capitalist Apolo By J. Louis ENGDAHL 11 ps 1 Bodin * ist gist ~ ; 1 9 > Ne i pe vx as n A : = — * 3 * * =) Sy € 7. 9 . 1 3 it 1 Pe LP tay?) * * . 1 a 5 J . : f 1171 1 3 ; Se MRE i 4 3s 7 1 ‘ail. * a we . * a4 : -% ~ ae, ‘ 1 v? a : 1 * * * Ob Ax, the employers’ propagandists are working over- time trying to put a silver lining on the blackYcloud of 1 T ey seek to persuade the worker who is a 8 out o 1 that he isn't so bad off after a d if he is dow and out, that is his fault, they-blatantly Howl. | This school of capitalist apologists finds an unsarupul- ous exponent in the ex-editor, ex-college president, George W. Hinman, who conducts a financial column for the Hearst publications. In fact, however, this column is funnier than any of the Hearst comics. It would be funnier still if some workers didn’t read the stuff and a few probably believe in it. It becomes humorous only thru ability to dieset it. 89 8 This Hearst writer tries to explain away the fact that there are 2,000,000 unemployed in the United States. He does it with the sleight of hand peculiar to the tricksters of circus side shows. This Hearst mountebank thus dis- poses of one million of the unemployed as follows: “Half of the two millions are unemployed because they are un- employable, because they are too sickly or mentally defective, be- cause they are too lazy or too restless to stick to any steady employ- ment, because they are what in the Southwest are called five-day or ten-day men—that Is, men who no sooner earn a few dollars, than they quit work to spend the money.” Hinman includes here the part-time unemployed, which is estimated to total not one or two, but ten mil- lions in the United States. The human wreckage on in- dustry’s scrap heap, the “sickly or mentally defective,” as Hinman calls them, will resent the stigma that Hearst's charlatan seeks to . upon them. Hinman O. Kis“ the brand of “unemployable” that every exploiter places on used-up labor. He joins his master and his class, on every occasion, to denounce aid to these victims of capitalist in- dustry as Bolshevism. Equally outrageous is the Hinman attack on the casual worker, who builds the railroads in summer, reaps the nation’s crop in the fall, toils in the for- ests in winter, following the job wherever it is to be found. It is this aggravated form of wage 9 drives many to “take to the road,” causing them to be despised and hunted by the ruling class. a * * „ That railroad work, for instance, cannot be done in winter, extending it over the year, “is no fault of the rail- way business,” argues Hinman. He gives evidence of the usual bankruptcy of capitalism, in solving its labor prob- lems, by declaring, “IT IS THE FAULT OF NATURE AND THE CLIMATE.” But neither nature nor climate takes the trouble to feed, house and clothe the working class. The workers are, therefore, indirectly told to find a way for themselves. : ) 7 Then it is claimed that perhaps 300,000 or 400,000 of the two million are in the building industry, with its seasonal work. This is a confession indeed. it should be taken in connection with the standing attack against the wages of building workers, which the bosses cl ‘to be so high. When Hinman makes his next attack on wages in the build- ing industry, he will not mention the seasonal character of the work. He will not tell how many days these workers are unemployed during the year. on “There is something oe: of course, but what is “wrong” is not man-made business, but nature-made weather. That sentence, for which Hinman claims author- ship, is really published in the Hearst, press. It is doubtful if such piffle could get by anywhere else, except on the bench of the United State supreme court, now presided over by Chief Justice Taft, who joins Hinman in leaving the un- employment problem to god and nature. 8 * 2 * This Hearst propaganda, setting forth so clearly the in- ability of capitalism to solve its contradictions, should awak- en the workers to the need of finding their own solution themselves. The Communist solution depends neither upon nature nor the weather. it depends upon the working class will to take control over its own destiny. When workers’rule, thru Communism, after having abolished exploiters and their profits, there will be no unempleyment; which is today the most harrassing brutality under capitalism. Time not devoted to useful labor will then become leisure to enjoy life. Man- kind will then labor with joy because work will have become — | School It is signed by John M. Glenn, secret- which serve as demonstration farms ary of the manufagturers. * — a pleasure. That is a time worth fighting for. Coal Miners Are Hardest Hit By Devastating Storm (Continped from page 1) ployment. The Chicago, Wellingtor and Franklin Coal company mine at West Frankfort, known as the world’s largest mine, had just shut down two days before the storm, throwing 1,20( more men out of work. Less than half of the mines in southern Illinois were operating before the storm. Many tipples were destroyed, mak ing it certain that many thousand more will be thrown out of work. In almost every town and village children paid the greatest price. Hundreds of children met quick death when the powerful twist er enguifed them in the timbers and rock of village schools. More than 100 pupils perished at De Soto, thirty at Parrish, and scores more were killed at their desks in Mur phrysboro, West Frankfort, Vergen nes, Bush and Logan. 300 Orient Miners Killed. Three hundred miners were report- ed killed at the Orient mine near West Frankfort. Dozens have become insane from the shock. Doctors and relief workers from Chicago and St. Louis have arrived, and are sending the wounded to the cities. Many are reported dying hourly. Herrin: and Marion . were both in the path of the storm, but no word has been received from these towns. Subscribe for the DAILY WORKER! 5 B. & O.“ Johnston Says He'll Speak Before the Progressives (Continped from page 1) worse failure than as a labor union official—and that is saying a lot. The International Association of Machin- ists are overwhelmingly opposed to his treacherous scheme to aid the bosses at the expense of the workers, and in the coming election within the union he is certain to be defeated largely because the machinists are utterly opposed to his program and his conduct in office. Too Late to Fool Anybody. The C. P. P. A., which catered to the small business and professional class, and which openly avowed its hostility to the working class and to any effective program of struggle against capitalism, has been rejected by the working class as a whole, It is too late in the day for Johnston to try any beguilement upon organized labor, after the continuous murder of working class control and working class programs in the C. P. P. A. dur- ing the election campaign. Bronx, N. Y., Comrades Attention. Michael Gold, famous journalist and poet, will speak at the Bronx open forum on Sunday, March 22, at 8 p. m., at Workers Hall, 1347 Boston Road, on “New Literature and Dra- ma of Soviet Russia.” All welcome. Submarine Finally Floated. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 19.— The submarine 8-19 aground for more than two months off the Cape Cod lighthouse, was finally floated yester- day and is being towed into Province- GET A SUB AD G ONE! | i 2 — — a ~~ a town, Mass, ‘ : 10 55 (Special to The Daily Werker) BERLIN, Germany, March 19,— Further concessions have n offer- ed Germany by the league of nations in an effort to induce that country to break the Rapallo treaty with Soviet Russia and join the league. The Ger- man treaty with Russia stated that neither Germany nor Russia would enter the league without the other. The league council is said to have offered Germany a place on the coun- cil, and assures Germany “the right to decide in what measure it will con- tribute to the military forcés of the league.“ France is said to be behind the move to häve Germany enter the league, as France sees thereby a chance to postpone the acceptance of a mutual security pact and the eva- cuation of the Cologne area by French troops. ; ‘ AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O’FLAHERTY. (Continued from Page 1) their country; I am concerned with the working class who have no coun- try now, but who have the power to take the country which rightfully be- longs to them. When the workers really own this country, then it will be time to talk about the welfare of the country as a whole.” * . * OOK declares that he is “a humble disciple of Lenin.” This got un- der the tender skin of the yellow so- clalist, Philip Snowden, chancellor of the exchequer in the MacDonald gov- ernment. Perhaps the language of Snowden and Hodges will be more illu- minating to the American working class thah any arguments Commun- ists could advance against them, as proof of their collaboration with the capitalists. Snowden, the king's so- cialist has rallied to the side of the ex-civil lord of the king’s navy. * * s NOWDEN does not write to the London Daily Herald, in attacking Cook. He writes to a capitalist pa- per and no doubt got well paid for it. This is what he says about Hodg- es and Cook: “The greatest catastro- phe which has ever befallen the Min- ers’ Federation was the decision o a- conference following the gene election of 1923 when Frank Hodges was returned to parliament. It was then decided to ask him to relinquish the position of secretary of the feder- ation under some rule which forbide the holder of that office from being at the same time a member of par liament. In consequence the miners lost the leadership of the ablest brain in its organization, and secured the services of ‘a humble disciple of Len- in’ who promises, if left for long un- controlled, to bring that great organ- ization to rack and ruin.” 29 „ „ HIS is not so bad. Another little item. Fred Bramley is telling of his experiences in Soviet Russfa. Her bert Smith of the Yorkshire Miners’ Federation had his watch Stolen. In this respect it seems, Russia ig some- thing like Chicago. The Russian au- thorities were furious and within twenty-four hours Smith was present- ed with a handsome gold watch by Russian trade unionists. Bramley said that the British trade union delegation traveled 7,000 miles thru Russia and were under armed guard for a fortnight to keep off bandits. He said the government was using the profits made from the oil fields in. Batum to revolutionize the housing conditions of the workers there. . o . HESE trade unionists unlike our shoddy intellectuals did not go around looking for petty faults. They could see the big outstanding fact in the Russian revolution; that the workers were the ruling class, that they had their hands on the throttle of power and were building up a new social order, despite all obstacles, and were overcoming the inexperience of a class that was new to power, that was under the iron heel of oppression for centuries. Senator Slaps at Dever , SPRINGFIELD, n., March 1$.—A measure was introduced into the sen- ate providing for municipal ownership of the traction lines of Chicago. It provides for acquiring the surface lines at their “real value.” The bill, introduced by Senator A. Marks, is a slap at the Dever traction ordinance. Another bill provided for preventing the railroads of the Dever ordinance on.April 7, when it will be voted on. This bill wouki force a delay in the ordinance referendum until the people have time to study the provisions of the ordinance. Curzon’s Condition Critical. LONDON, March 19.— The condi- tion of Marquis Curzon still was cri- tical today. Physicians said he had passed a “fair night.” Curzon was op- erated on last week following a col- lopse while preparing for dinner at Cambridge. i GET A SUB AND GIVE ONE! 7 —— — —— > 33288121 72832. Z e e
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8 4 E r F EEE nch . Sy de 1 renee ae eee . . * “f me ke 5 Be - 6 Oa * 1 is “4 + 5 Ii 5 l a , ebay * Pi a 4 4 e 1 Or 6 i oe 7 - - NA * ASSASSINATING HIS OPPONENTS Article 4 4 Answering Duffy's Letter By J. W. JOHNSTONE. The expulsion of Wai. Reynolds of Detroit was quickly followed by the expulsion of F. W. Burgess, business agent of Local 8, Philadelphia, ana campaign manager for Willis R. Brown, candidate in the last election for general presfffént of the Brother- hood. In this case the method of proced- wre was changed. They decided that it would be better to make it appear as if some semblance of investigating the charges placed against Gurgess was being made. The charge was of the usual nature of circulating “scan- dalous and scurrilous literature“ against Hutcheson during the election campaign So thousands of dollars were spent in sending a fake committee into Philadelphia in order to give some le- gality to the verdict of expulsion that had already been reached. This method, to Hutcheson, did not appear vo crude as in the other cases. “Impartial” Committee—Oh, Boy! Just imagine, if you can, an “im- partial” committee composed of First Vice-President Cosgrove, Gen- eral Secretary Duffy, General Treas- urer Neall, and G. E. B. Members Williams and Martell, rendering a ver- dict against the administration of which they are a part. Secretary Duffy, in his circular let - ter to the locals and district councils, d ses of the Burgess case in the following manner: “The case of F. W. Burgess, Local 8, Philadelphia, Pa., is a different one (than Chicago, ete.— Ed.) He issued scurrilous and defamatory literature prior to the last election of general officers, in violation of Par. J, Section 9, of our general constitution. A com- mittee of five, of which I was one, went to Philadelphia in January, on authority of the general executive board, to investigate this matter. It was found that F. W. Burgess did violate Par. J. Sec. 9. The committee had the evidence in the handwriting pf F. W. Burgess in their possession.”’ ow Can Hutch Be Defamed“? The literature sent out by Burgess criticized Hutcheson and pointed out specific acts committed by Wm. L. Huteheson which were detrimental to the Brotherhood. As an example of what Duffy considers “scandalous and defamatory,” we quote the following from the document which Duffy says the investigation committee had as evidence: “To be specific, he (Hutcheson) has ordered members expelled from the U. B. on the grounds that they were members of or aiding members of the Workers Party or Communists with- out charges or trial, notwithstanding that the ritual distinctly says that the obligation does not ‘interfere with our political opinions.’ Hutcheson As Strike Breaker. One memorable and far-reaching incident in 1916, was when the gen- eral president expelled 68 local unions at one time, then brot in Brotherhood men from all over the country to act as strikebreakers. This was done be- cause the members refused to accept the deal made by the general presi- dent with the Contractors’ Associa- tion that forced the members to re- turn to work for 50 cents a day less than the 14,000 men were receiving tout days after the strike started. It is supposed that the general president had good and sufficient reasons for making this deal but the members did not see the advantage in working fot 50 cents a day less when the strike was already practically won without his interference.” F. W. Burgess said many other things about the Hutcheson adminis- tration other than the above quota- tions, which every carpenter who takes an interest in the organization in the New York district knows is true. There is no doubt that if the charges made by Burgess against Hutcheson were not based upon facts Hutcheson would not have violated nor would-he have had any need to riolate Sec. 55 of the constitution. Who Got the $85,0007 Robert T. Brindell, grafter and ex. czar of the New York Building Trades, and now paroled from a penitentiary sentence in Dannemora, was a close associate of Wm. L. Hutcheson, and, at the time of the deal made by Wm. L. Hutcheson with the Contractors’ association of New York, built a new and expensive garage while a member of the Contractors’ association said that it cost them $85,000 to get this Carpenters’ agreement. But of this @lationship betwen Hutcheson and Brindell I will go into more detail in mother article. One by one, Hutcheson is picking out his strongest political opponents, and expelling them under one pretext or another. The constitution stands in his way, so therefore he ignores it. To try to legally expel these op- ponents of his would be impossible and would only serve to expose hie administration. F. W. Bur- (CENTRAL DISTRICT CLASS STRUGGLE OR SURRENDER Levin’ Speaks for the Bosses’ Interests By. A MILITANT. On Tuesday March 17th Local 39 of the Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers of America bad an educational“ meeting. The speaker of the evening was Samuel Levin, manager of the Chicago joint board. Samuel Levin, carrying out the policy of Hillman's administration, was at his “best” at this particular meeting in showing how to dodge the class struggle and show the work- ers that class collaboration is the only way out. Old Stuff—And Rotten Hé told the membership of the un- ion that their interests and the inter- ests of the bosses are identical. The poor manufacturers are suffering, many of them are being driven out of business and forced into bankrupt- cy. The fault of the pitiful condi- tions of the bosses is due to the hor- rible woolen trust! Levin, like John L. Lewis, seeing that the above alone is not sufficient reason to befuddle the membership as to their real reason for their plight, raved about the “surplus of tailors” in the industry. Levin boasted of thé famous Amal- gamated agreements with the manu- factures, especially the clause that calls for negotiations and changes during the time of agreement. Here a member interrupted him and showed Levin, how this clause worked in favor of the manufactures last year and a readjustment Was put into ef- fect. . “Be Satisfiled” Says Sam Levin told the membership that as conditions are in the industry, better- ment is out of the questions and the workers should be satisfied with things as they are. When Levin was: thru, discussion followed. Members ot the left wing ent viewpoint; that of struggle and class consciousness instead of class collaboration. — „No Surrender“ Cries Left Wing The first thing that the left wing showed was that the workers in cap- italist society should not, be respons- ible for the interests of the employer. Instead industry should be responsible for the workers. They further showed that it is the evolution of industry that is driving the small manufacturer out of busi- ness and out of the trade. The big- ger ones, always growing more power- ful and continually taking the market for themselves. The union should point this out to the masses, and teach them that they have nothing to gain from the little boss} he is their enemy as well as the big corporation. Centralization of industry, which is an inevitable thing, wll some day be a benefit to the working class when they take control of industry, In reply to Levin's point that there are too many workers in the trade, the figures of the union shows that the A. C. W. of A. lost 45,000 members since 1919 and since 1921 the mem- bership has been stable and at about 133,000. Left Wing Demand 40-Hour Week The intensification of labor, piece work and new machinery is to blame for unemployment. The solution lies in the working class themselves tak- ing control of production. But at present the most appropriate demand is the 40 hour week. The union leaders should not act as agents of the bosses, but should lead the workers in the struggle against the bosses, A Clear Division The viewpoint of Levin and the viewpoint of the left wing are differ- ent. One, a viewpoint the petty bour- geosie, and the other of the struggle against the bourgeoisie——There is a clear division. Militant:—The DAILY WORK- ER invites you to write more art- icles upon the problems of the needie trades workers. gess,. the campaign manager Now the same So-called “investi- gating committee” is investigating Joseph Lapidus, wing candidate for general president against Burgess. subject matter of my next article. PITTSBURGH, PA. To those who work hard for their money, I will save 50 per cent or all their dental work. DR. RASNICK DENTIST 84s Smithfield Street. TWO VIEWPOINTS; took the floor and put forth a. differ- of Willis K. Brown, knew Hutcheson and his game too well, so he had to go. campaign manager for Morris Rosen who was the left- Exactly the same charges are being placed against him as were placed This will be the T'S HELL HUTCH, BUT YOU ASKED FOR MEDICINE G. E. B. Cannot Expel” Says Court DETROT, Mich — Wm. Reynolds of Carpenters’ Local 2140 and president of the district council in the “post war” period of the fakers’ injunction fight, does not recognize that the capi- talist court added anything to his standing in the Carpenters’ Union by its decision, his deference being to the rank and file decision and not tc his honor. But as Hutcheson and his local pall- bearers, Botterill, Sharrock and the jelly fish which thot it was a sword fish, “prayed” for an injunction, stat- ing in their application that they were “plaintiffs without aid, save in a court of equity,” they should relig- iously observe the decision of that court, part of which is as follows: No Authorization from District Council. 1. There was no authorization by the Wayne County Carpenters’ Dis- its name for that purpose. tion of the constitution and bylaws of quent to the filing of the suit, indi- have been obtained. “2. A careful the bill herein: ized and void. — said: G. E. B. Cannot Expel. = - stitution and laws of the expel a member of the order. constitution, to expel a member. another Communist. | NOTICE of the following Labor Heralds: our files. Blvd., Chicago. Thanks. OF of running up against was the most despicable piece of humanity in the f trict Council for the institution of this suit by any formal resolution, using “A careful reading and interpreta- the district council, discloses no au- thority in the president and secretary as such, and court is of the opinion and judgment that what occurred at a meeting of the district council subse. cates that no such authorization could examination of the constitution, by-laws and rules of the United Brotherhood and of the district council, fails to dislose any general au- thority in James W. Sharrack, indi- vidually, and Harold R. Fish, individ- ually, to institute and file an injunc- tion suit of the character disclosed by and the court finds and determines that the appearance of each of them respectively is unauthor- ‘Under the heading 4, the court “The court has examined the con- United Brotherhood and extensive arguments have been had thereon by both coun- sel at the trial. It may be stated that the court has been unable to find and no reference has been had by counsel to any express provisions in said constitution and laws, authoriz- ing the executive board specifically to “The court finds and determines specifically, that the general execu- tive board has no authority, even by the most liberal construction of the J A DAILY WORKER sub means The T. U. E. L. is short on copies March, April, May, and October, 1923. We ask the readers of this page to send in these copies so as to complete Mail to the Trade Union Educational League, 1113 Washington We Have Just Been Notified: That the latest issue of The Commanist International No. 8 will be in our hands within the next few days. If you want the latest issue of the official organ of the executive com- mittee of the leading world Com- nunist body, get No. 8 Send in your orders at once. We have been advised we can begin shipment on Monday, March 23. SINGLE COPY 25 CENTS Sub Rates: $2.50 a Year $1.25 Six Months Order from the sole agent in this country. The Daily Worker Literature partament .. 1113. W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, Ili. \ 2 ion ss sa sas Si ~~ 1 - = | 5 N ; 1 — RAVER TELLS > WORST BOSS HE WORKED UNDER To the DAILY WORKER: The worst boss I ever had the displeasure orm of a straw boss—or foreman in the engraving’ department of a well- known watch case company here in the middle west with some 30 odd en- gravers under his control. . Some of thé methods used by this jealous minded 100 per cent snob, to break the hearts and minds of the en- gravers under his control were as fol- ows: 4 Double-crossing Boss. All work was done on a piece work basis on bold—and so-called white gold cases, thé’ kind that some people think look so beautiful as they gaze in the jewelers’ window. The engrave- ers at one time received a fair days’ pay for their work, up until this snob, who has all the car marks of a rat, became their foreman. Mr. Gonif, 1 will call him for short, is an expert on what is known as double crossing. He pretended to be your best friend, and that he is doing all he can to help his men get a living wage, but instead he was using every known method to cut them down. Obeys Orders. The engravers at one time made $1.00 to $1.60 per hour, but now they have all they can do to make half that much. I realize that Mr. Gonif, being a straw boss, is a product of the sys- tem, and has to do what he is told in order to hold his job. But he goes way beyond what he is told and in- vents many schemes to make it mis) erable for those under his control. He had a spy system composed of a few dirty suckers that worked in other parts of the factory, who would report to him fee si they happened to see or hear in connection with any of the men in his department. The late Rus- sian czar had nothing on Gonif. Workers Strike. At one time he used the squeeze process to zurh an extent that the workers couldn't stand it any longer, and some of the bolder ones told him so, and when they got fired for their trouble, the’ of the men revolted then and d quit their jobs in e body, but the could pack their tools and get out of the shop the firm had things all fixed up again, by re- instating the discharged men and rais- ing some of the prices a little, and it seemed like a victory for a while at least. Until Gonif began to use some of the cards he still had up his sleeve. — — EASTERN DISTRICT HOUSE CLEANING CONFERENCE ON FOR DISTRICT 5 Wreckers and Robbers Threaten to Expel PITTSBURGH, Pa..— Progressive miners in District No. 5 are out to clean house of the reactionary offi- cialdom. A conference of the progres- sives held in Pittsburgh last Sunday decided to urge the locals to initiate a special impeachment convention. About sevemty delegates represent- ing the largest locals of the district responded to the call to protect their union and help the men that are im- prisoned at Moundsville, West Vir- ginia. The gang had half a dozen drunken plug-uglies to intimidate the dele- gates. They were told either to come in and behave because the progres- sives have nothing to hide, or get out, so they took the latter tip and Fot out. The officialdom is so determined in keeping themselves in office even to the extent of wrecking the whole or. ganization, that they sent out a circu- lar to every local threatening the in- dividuals that participate in the con- ference with expulsion and the re- voking of the charter of the locals sending delegates. The last district convention was packed by bartenders’ organizers, and any one the officialdom could secure. A resolution was passed denying the membership a right to meet and dis- cuss their grievances. The worst criminal syndicalist laws have nothing on this gag law. And on this basi: they hope to discredit some of the best fighters in the organization. Wreckers and Robbers. After a thoro discussion on the in- activities of the officials and the part played by them in wrecking the treasury of the district, the confer- ence urged all locals to initiate im- peacement proceedings by demanding a spécial district convention. One delegate after another gave proof of various irregularities, from grievances of the working conditions to handling of the organization's funds. One of the flagrant betrayals that was pointed out is the desertion of the miners serving in the Mounds. ville penitentiary, who are incarcer- ated for the organization and are be- Sends Work Away. One of the first was to send all the work he could away to be done by en- gravers in New York and Massachu- setts, and in that way cause a short- age of work, so the engravers did not a week for a long time. And when they did see fit to give them full time he took good care to cut the price as fine as possible. Another of his dirty stunts was to promise one thing and hand out an- sachusetts, who proved to be an ex pert in his line, Gonif thru jealousy invented all kinds of lies to report to the superintendent, like a teacher to her principal in order to bring discredit and a cut in wages to the new man, in which as usual, he was successful. Tried to Scare Men. He also had an idea that he could scare the men by looking at them which was quite amusing. The engrav- ers got so disgusted that they began to leave one by one to take other and better jobs. The man from Massachu- setts secured what he thot was a good job with a firm making gold cuff links | good. a in the shop seemed to be happy and content until one day news came that Gonif had been hired to come down there and take charge of en- graving. Caused “Unrest.” The watch case concern had at last got wise to the fact that he was caus- ing too much trouble and unrest among their help who were happy when he left. On the new job it was only a short time before he began to pull off some slimy stunts. One of course was the institution of a piece work system, which was instrumental in cutting our wages in half. A spy system sprung up and dissat- isfaction again became the order of the day. He has now been on that job about a year and the firm is now on its last legs all but wrecked and the {whole thing, if the truth were known, was brot about by the underhand workings of this same Mr. Gonif. So there is one boss | am damn glad 1 don't have to work for any more. George H. Bodine. Elgin, III. Write us a letter —tell us how you work, what are your wages and shop conditions—and then order a bundle for distribution in — shop. 2 conterence went on have to work more than 2 or 3 days trayed by the officials. No Reduction of Wages. In very strong miners’ language the record against anyone advocating revision of the present wage agreement based on con- templated reductions. Everyone pres- ent was determined to fight to ¢he very end the operators and anyone else who tries to lower the wages of the diggers. In order to prove what class the | operators. school | in a small town in southwestern Un. nois and felt very happy at the thot of getting away from Mr. Gonif for It was a good job and every- government supports, the progressives other, and when the firm hired an en-| demand that the government’s action 4 graver to come all the way from Mas. | of 1919 be reversed aud applied to the In the miners’ strike, the | department of justice declared the fight of the miners for a living wage illegal, and ordered them back to | work, with which Lewis complied. | Make the Government Open the Mines! Today, the miners want the same department to order the mines open- ed by the operators and rive work to thousands of miners that have been thrown out of work because no profits were coming to the coal barons. | A publicity committee was elected to carry on the campaign for the re- lease of the Moundsville prisoners. Every miner present was determined to let every miner in the district know the result of the conference. The following day the capitalist press, in an article on the conference of the progressives, quotes Fagan as saying that those participating in the conference will be expelled. This does not frighten the progressives any they are the more determined to go after the officialdom. | | PLYMOUTH, MASS. WEAVERS WIN TWO-LOOM FIGHT Solidarity 1 Urged to Hold Gains Won PLYMOUTH, Mass. — In an ex- clusive story in the DAILY WORKER was told how the Puritan mills (Amer- ican Woolen Co.) of Plymouth had planned to take the weavers run one fancy and one plain on a two loom basis. A few weavers got in touch with the National Office of the Amalgamated Textile Council and arranged a meet- ing. At this meeting James Reid spoke and got them to elect a com- mittee to tell the agent that they would not run this kind of work on two looms. All the weavers remain idle and did not run any looms until ten o’clock the following Monday morning until the agent arrived. This show of solidarity impressed the agent and he told the committee that he would not attempt to run them until later. He inferred however that when the weavers had time to think they would run them as he ordered. The workers then went to work and the looms were left idle, the workers who operated them were given work on other looms. Wednesday, March 4th, the weavers again met and heard the full report of the committee and voted to lay the report on the table until the following Thursday, March 12. They also voted to have the commit tee empowered to act as an organizing committee with power to call strike if there was any move to start the looms in dispute. Thursday came and with it an immense meeting and a signing up galore in union membership. The following morning the issue was defin- itely settled in favor of the weavers. The disputed work is now being wove on a one loom basis. This seems to indicate that we will not have to fight the Amercian Woolen Co. on this issue. The battle will now be centered on the independent mills, one of which the Nemasket of Middleboro, is now entering on the seventh month of a strike against this system. Organization Is Urged All weavers should line up actively with this movement in the wolen and worsted mills, it is the first time in years that we have had a chance to give the two-loom system a set back. We can now make definite gains if we will only line up the worth while fellows in every mill for a general move. The machinery has been built. A conference of weavers from over 100 mills is now being arranged to work out the plans and organize the proper committee to function as committees of action. While the Amalgamated ‘Textile Councils are the active movers they however, are getting the co-operation of many small independent unions and their own membership is present in nearly every woolen and worsted mill in more or less numbers. But Better Than Money is the Unity of the Silk Workers PATERSON, N. J.—The national or- ganization of the Associated Silk Workers’ Union is prospering. A dance in Paterson Armory netted pro- ceeds from 9,000 tickets. The dues of the members are now 75 cents instead of 50 cents. Ten cents of the increase goes to pay per capita tax to the national or- ganization which is attempting to get all silk workers into the union to im- prove conditions generally and enable the Paterson victors in the recent strike to maintain their gains. Give your shopmate this copy of the DAILY WORKER—but be sure to see him the next day to get his subscription. —— UNION OFFICIALS ATTACK MILITANT TEXTILE WORKERS Defend Lawvenes Mills from United Front By FRED E. BEAL. (Secretary of the United Front Com mittee of Textile Workers) LAWRENCE, Mass., March 19-—-The United Textile Workers’ Union held a meeting here in the Building Trades hall. The meeting had been adver- tised in the capitalist papers for three days, but only a dozen actual textile workers showed up. Michael J. Guilfoyle, president of the local Dyers’ and Finishers’ Union of the U. T. W. was chairman. Robert Watt of the Building Trades acted as secretary. Speech An Attack on Militants Thomas F. McMahon, president of the union and principal speaker, spent the greater part of his two hour speach in attacking the militant work- ers and their leaders, past and pres ent. The latter part of his talk was téken up in attacking the United Front Committees formed and active here, and in other textile centers, His claim and insinuations that these com- mittees are formed to destroy the Uinited Textile Workers’ Union & successfully refuted at the close @f his talk. “Some of our radical friends wag that the employers are parasites, but this is not true; it is the workers whe refuse to join a union that is the par- asite,” declared McMahon. McMahon denied that he had much use for legislation. He said that conditions were worse in Lawrence than in any other textile town or city in New En- gland. For this condition of affairs he blamed the radicals! During his two hour talk very little was said about what the mill barons are doing to the workers. Questions were permitted. I asked the chairman for permission to explain to the workers présent how and why the united front movements had been formed. Immediately McMa- hon jumped up and said that no speech making would be allowed. I then asked if he could cite one in- ‘stance where the United Front Com- mittees here in Lawrence or elsewhere ever had made an attack upon the United Textile Workers’ Union. This he was unable to do. At this point a reactionary labor faker named Menzie demanded that I be thrown out of the hall. A. Mis- serville of the Barbers’ Union came to my defense and wanted to know why I couldn’t tell my side of the story. McMahon again took the floor and said that no representative of the Third International could make a speech in this hall remarking— Thank god I am in a hall where I can’t be thrown out.” A his point the meeting was closed. Workers Party leaflets were distribut- ed to the departing workers, some of whom asked me where our offide was located. The United Front Textile Workers’ Committee held a successful mass meeting for the Pacific (cotton) Mill workers last Friday evening. Meetings will be held at the mill gates on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday in which Comrade Welisbord will appeal to the workers to show a united front of the workers against the united front of the mill bosses. munist) Party! | mun power to the Workers (Com- More Needle Workers May Strike Next Week NEW YORK—Pleaters and stitch- ers, tuckers and novelty workers of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union threaten to strike after March 24 if the present negott- ations with employers do not end sat- isfactorily. The workers ask a 40-hour week with increased wages. At the present the week is 42 hours with single time for the first two hours overtime. Em- ployers ask a 44-hour week. The en- ployers’ association has voted $30,000 to fight the union demands if a strike is called. i Mi Mi Me Me Mell An ln Al sl ll All Alle le le Mi li i i 2 rere — — NOTE We have deen kor- tunate in securing a large shipment of this — — working class drama, by a master propagan- dist at a specially low rate that enables us to sell it at a mark below the usual selling price. Take advantage of it. iii bt hi hh hh hi hb ih hb bh bh bh bh bh + b » - b 4 4 bp bp bp be be be be bet trent N — — — . Singing Ja il Birds A Drama in four Acts By Upton Sinclair About which Mike Gold says: “It is terrible, bitter truth, and some of the scenes brought the tears to my newspaper sterile eyes The play has great sweep, and a real power in moving the heart. Some of the scenes are like a real experience—the loss of one’s friend by death, the pangs of loneliness or prison experienced again.” 16 CENTS A COPY from The Daily Worker Literature Department 1118 W. 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J 1 me — — = misses’, and children’s patterns, a con- cise and comprehensive article on dress- "RAT 180 MAR N 1 34 N 1 a 73 f= + iwy (Special to The Dally Worker.) PHILADELPHIA, March 19.—At the last Defense Conferense meeting it was clear that the Defense bazaar on April 3 and 4, at the New Tray- more Hall, Franklin and Columbia avenue, will be a great success. Numerous articles of value have been donated. Many branches have committees elected for the purpose of soliciting articles and are pushing ahead vigorously towards the goal. Russian and English branches have definitely decided to have booths and reports showed that many other branches will do the same. The sale of tickets is in full swing. Hundreds of ticket books and serial seta. are in the hands of comrades and the race is on. At present Armenian branch leads the race with 60 per cent of their quota reached; Esthonia fol- lows with 20 per cent; German 14 per cent; N. W. 10 per cent; English 9 per cent; Lettish 7 per cent. Sold bazaar tickets must be returned at once, so the branches could be quoted correctly as to the work ac- complished. If any comrade failed to get any list for donations or bazaar tickets, rush to the office and get them and go to work for the defense. The program of the bazaar will be promising and interesting. The con- ference is aiming to get the services of Freiheit Singers, Lithuanian Chorus, some well known vocalists. dramatists angAclassical dancers. And above all, there will be dancing every evening to the International Orches tra. The admission is 60 cents for both evenings; 50 cents at the door for single admission. All the radicals of Philadelphia will be there. | BEAUTY AND BOLSHEVIK AT THE WICKER PARK THEATER IN CHICAGO The famous movie “The Beauty and the Bolshevik” which has drawn a gathering of 7,000 people when it was shown in Chicago sometime ago, is coming back to town for one evening only. it will be shown on the Northwest side, at Wicker Park Theater, 1139 Mil- waukee Ave., on Wednesday, April 15, from 6:30 to 11 p. m. conti- nually. The proceeds will go to the International Workers’ Aid, the Russian Communist daily Novy Mir, and the Polish Communist paper Tribuna Rabotnicza. All friendly organization are re- quested not to make other affairs or mettings on that date. 5 ag K. (Continued from page 1) Forward writer says that one—and only one—delegate, John Turner, 1s alleged to say that he saw. There is not one word of either the summary of the findings of the Brit- ish Labor @elegation, as signed by Purcell and. Bramley, or any intima- tion of even the existence of the com- pendious report issued later, and signed by the delegation as a whole, ing it. Why this twisting and distortion? Why this making of Turner into the voice of “British Labor’? Why this silence and suppression of the collec- tive voice of the British delegation, headed by no less a person than A. A. Purcell, president of the International Federation of Trade Unions—the Am- sterdam International? The answer is, that the mean and lying reactionaries of the A. F. of L. bureaucracy, will stop at nothing to delude the American. workers as to the conditions of their brother work: ers in Soviet Russia. And to do so. they make use of John Turner, who seems to be unable to say the same thing about Russia twice in succes- sion. All to try to prevent-the recog: nition by the United States of the workers’ and peasants’ republic. Turner and his friends on the A. F. of L. executive council may say what they will, but the letter written by general conclusiolis can, therefore, be Turner being the only one not sign.- John Turner to the Pravda, daily or. gan of the Communist Party of Rus- sia, stands against them. A photo- graph of this letter is in the posses- sion of the Workers Weekly of Lon- don, England, where it has been pub- lished—much to the discomfiture of Mr. Turner. The letter follows: John Turner’s Letter. “In saying farewell to Russia I will only express my opinion on one or two points. “1. The British delegation, of which I am a member, came here, not in an individual capacity but representing the General Council of the Trades Un. ion Congress, which body sent us on a twofold mission, viz.: „(a) To attend the All-Russian Trades Union Congress at Moscow ar fraternal delegate in return for the fraternal visit of Comrade Tomsky and his colleagues to the British T. U. C. at Hull last September. “(b) To investigate the Industrial, social, and political conditions at pres- ent existing in Russia, and to Teport on same to the general council, © “Our work is now complete and we leave today for England. “It would, of course, be foolish to imagine that our investigations. have covered the whole ground. Russia ie far too large for any mission to be able to do this in four or five weeks “But we have had every hélp and assistance in getting .at the facts. Fa posal by which we have secured as much information in the short time at our disposal as would have “pos. sible in four or five monthg Without that help and those facilities. Certain 1 * 7 — OUR DAILY ‘PATTERNS FROCK FOR MANY OCCASIONS. 4 \ 4 10 2 if yy af = bh =“ — 2 1 7 6022. Figured crepe or chiffon may be combined with satin or plain chif- fon. One could also use two con- trasting shades of one material. If made with long sleeves, the style is good for taffeta, satin or crepe satin- The pattern is cut in four sizes: 14, 16, 18 and 20 years. If made as illus- trated in the large view for a 16-year size, it will require 1% yard of plain material and 2% yards of figured ma- terial 32 inches wide. If made with long sleeves 1% yard of the plain material is required. If the godet is made of contrasting material it will require % yard cut crosswise. If made of one material and with long sleeves, the dress will require 4% yards. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. FASHION BOOK NOTICE! Send l2c in silver or stamps for our up-to-date Spring and Summer 1926 Book ef Fashions, showing color plates and containing 500 esigns of ladies“, also some points for the the various simple ali valuable hints to the heme FOR MOTHER'S GIRL. 5027. This model is excellent for cotton or wool rep, for poplin, pon- gee and for flannel. A geod develop- ment will be brown flannel with bind- ing of tan suede or sateen. The pattern is cut in four sises: 4, 6, 8 and 10 years. A 6-year size re- quires 2% yards of 36-inch material if made with long sleeves. If made with short sleeves 2% yards of 36- inch material is required. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. Address: The DAILY WORKER, W. Washingten Bivd., Chicago, III. 2 „ „ NOTICE TO PATTERN BU TERS— he patterns being sold thru the DAILY WORKER pattern department are fur - als hed by a New York firm of pattern manufacturers. Orders are torwarded by the DAILY WORKER every day as re- ceived, and they are mailed by the man- ufacturer direct to the customer. The DAILY WORKER does not keep a stock Delivery of pat- terns ordinarily will take at least 10 ~~ from the date of mailing the order. 1113 of patterns on hand. not become impatient if your patters is delayed. Philadelphia, Notice! Weber Printing Co. 350 N. FIFTH STREET, Philadelphia, Pa. 2 — — cilities have been placed at oir: dis. | safely drawn from the information ob tained. “(1) The material conditions of the country are being steadily improved. All the big industries visited indicated clearly the progress being made. Every increase of production means the improvements of the conditions of the workers. It is this fact which has impressed the delegation very strongly. “It is realized that Russia still re- mains relatively poor. This was so be- fore the war. And productivity is not yet, after 7 or 8 years of turmoil, up to the pre-war standard. The improve- ments in the conditions of work for the workers have, in themselves, help. ed to create this position. But pro- ductivity is steadily increasing, and there is every prospect that before long the pre-war output will be reached in a number of industries, and from that point Russia will go on im- proving her industrial position till it becomes one of the best in the world —or at least, that is how it appears to the British delegation. I cannot go without placing on record how much We appreciate the many kindnesses shown to us during our visit. The re- pute of reached us before we started! But the reality has been for greater than anything we could have imagined. No words of our can express our feel. ings of gratitude for the great hospi. tality shown us in every town we vis- ited. It has been almost overwhelm- ing. “We shall, however, do our best to convey to those who sent us some idea of the desiré on the part of the Rus- sian workers for a full and complete understanding among the work-people all over the world. And if our visit shall have done ever so little to hasten this longing for solidarity then it will not have been in vain, “Goodbye, John Turner.” 15,000 NEW SUBS BY JUNE 15! Breakfast Foods, Razors or Candy, All Sure Things By LELAND OLDS Every time you eat a bowl of Quak- er Oats you contribute your share to the profits of a corporutton which in 1924 rolled up a net income of $5,286,- 923, giving its common stockholders & return of over 37 per cent on the par value of their holdings. As 35, 500,000 of the $11,250,000 outstanding stock was issued as stock dividends, 1924 profits represent a return of nearly 100 per cent on the money the owners put in. The Postum Cereal Co. takes an- other bite out of your food dollar if ou use such products as Grape Nuts or Post’s bran flakes. Profits for 1924 amounted to $4,574,194, giving com- mon stockholders over 94 per cent on their investment. Compared with 1923, sales increased only 9 per cent, but profits increased 42 per cent indi- cating that the gain was made at the expense of workers and consumers. How many men paid their share of the $10,000,000 tribute exacted from self shavers by the Gillette Safety Razor Co. can only be guessed from the fact that in the last three years it has sold 20,000,000 razors and 1,063, 780,228 blades. The stockholders’ re- turn amounted to about 27% per cent on the nominal value of the stock. Tracing: the various recapitalizations, however, it appears that a person with a cash investment of $9,000 in the company received a return of about $4,400 in 1924, or 49 per cent. Con- sumers and underpaid workers have increased the value of the original in- vestment over 550 per cent in seven years and in addition have paid the owners in cash dividends $1, 075 on each $1,000 invested. In soft drinks and candy the Coca- Cola Co. and Bunte Brothers featured in 1924. Coca-Cola made a net profit of $5,700,993, equivalent to about 35 per cent on the value of the stock. Bunte gave its common stockholders a return of over 41 per cent. Those are typical of corporations which live by creating mass consump- tion of a trade-mark article through the expenditure of tens of millions of dollars in advertising and sales cam- paigns. Both the cost of the sales campaigns and the exorbitant profits constitute one of the great wastages of consumers’ income produced by the profit system. Subscribe for. the WORKER! DAILY Dr S. ZIMMERMAN DENTIST iW LAI IRN AVE ‘ LAC MY NEW LOCATION Special X-Ray Prices * to Gas Workers Given ESTABLISHED 12 YEARS. My Examination Is Free My Prices Are Reasonable My Work is Guaranteed Russian hospitality had — Arnal closer Franco-British entente. Imperialist E, Entente Hounds Hindu Reds Note—M. N. Roy, writer of the following articlé, was ‘the represent- ative of the Communist Party of India at the Fifth Congress of the Com- munist International in Moscow. Com- rade Roy was expelled from France on Jan. 30th, by order ot the Herriot government, under pressure from Bri- tish imperialism. The following art- icle is issued as an appeal to the French workers to protest against Comrade Roy’s expulsion. Evelyn Roy, in Paris, declared. The expulsion of M. N. Roy is a rank viol- ation of the right of political asylum, which he claimed at the hands of the French government. This violation of the right of asylum on French soil coincides must ,aptly with similiar violations now taking place in the French’ colonies of Pondichery and Chandernagore, seeming to point to a pre-conceived policy inspired by the “The British efforts did not stor vith the expulsion of Mr. Roy; stron; pressure is* being brought to bear foi the expulsion of all those thought to be associated with him in his work for the liberation of India and the Indian people.” * * 8 By MANABENDRA NATH ROY On January 30th I was arrested in Paris in expulsion signed by the French min- istry of the interior on January 3rd, and was immediately conducted to the frontier, without having been in- formed of the reasons for my expuls- ion, and without being given the means to consult a lawyer for my de- fense. Thus, by one stroke of the pen, the right of asylum for Indian political refugees has been destroyed, and with this right, the idea which Indian re- volutionaries held, that France is the home of liberty and democracy for all the oppressed peoples of the world. Hounded From India For twenty years, that is to say since the age of fourteen, I have fought in the ranks of Indian revolu- tionaries to free ourselves from for- eign’ rule, My activity, dedicated to the cause of the 320,000,000 oppressed people of my country, has brought upon me, as upon all Indian revolu- tionaries, the brutal ecution of the English police, I have been im- prisoned several timeg:..In 1915, 1 was forced to fly from India to escape the extreme penalty of the so-called “law” which holds the. Indian people in their present state slavery. The British police have not left me in peace, even in my exile. They have pursued me step by step, from one country to another, from Java to Jap- an, from China to the Philippines, to America, to Mexico ru most of the countries of Europe. Having tak- en refuge in Mexico in 191%, President Carranza, then at the head of the government, gave me protection, and twice refused a demand for my ex- pulsion, presented by the British au- thorities. The exigencies of a revolu- tionary life have forced me on several occasions to adopt different names. The sympaty of the Mexican people and government enabled me to live, and travel with a Mexican name, which protected me to a certain ex- tent since 1919, when I left for Europe with my wife. Since that time, we have lived and travelled in most of the European countries, writing, stu- dying, organizing and making pro- paganda for the liberation of India. We left Switzerland for France in 1924, and have lived here six months, working for our cause, without ever mixing ourselves in the internal polit- ics of this country. Expelled at England’s Order Extracting Specialist DELAY MEANS DECAY \ 1 My expulsion can only be attributed 4to foreign pressure brought to bear upon the French government, as it was brought to bear upon the Amer- ican, Mexican, German and Swiss gov- ernments. The French authorities know whence this pressure comes, but it is difficult to believe that France, has voluntarily agreed to become an instrument of British imperialism. My case is not the ouly one. Acting under British pressure, the govern- ment of M. Poincare expelled and in- terned Indian political exiles who had sought asylum“ in Pondichery and Chandernagore. Can the revolutionary traditions of the great French people accept such acts of oppression a st Indian pol- itical refugees, seek shelter from British persecution on French soil? In the name of all Indian revolu- tionaries, I call your attention to this violation of the right of asylum, and demand the annullation of the order of expulsion against me, and the right fulfillment of an order of N =” > SUILDERY AT WORK” Milwaukee Local Besins campaign with 14 Subs on First Day. Begins to “Daily Workerize the Local. 1 HE comrades of Local Milwaukee got out to “get a sub” on the first day of the campaign and got a goodly portion of their quota to start with. The local secretary, Comrade G. Shklar, who is also the guiding shows a splendid “first step” that it would do well for every local in the country to follow. To say that this plan will make a better Communist Party of our Workers Party goes without saying. Comrade Shklar’s let- ter leaves little to be said. Read it: Dear Comrades: ‘ce Inclosed you will. please find my check and a statement of 14 NEW subscribers—11 from Sheboygan and three from Milwaukee. This leaves a balance of 11 mew subscribers to be secured from thig city and Milwaukee comrades say that you will not have wait very long for the balance of our quota. The most important problem before us is to make every member of the party a subscriber to the official party paper. Every member of the party should follow closely the problems and latest developments in the international and American labor movement; he should also understand party probems and major cam- paigns undertaken by the party. Naturally no member of the party can do so unless he is a readér of the party paper. EVERY MEMBER OF THE PARTY SHOULD LOGICALLY BE AN ACTIVE AGENT OF THE DAILY WORKER, and this cannot be done unless evefy member is a subscriber to the paper Mmself and always has a copy to show to the prospective subscriber. A good salesman always carries his samples with him and he generally knows his line of merchandise. In view of-this as a’first step in the building up of the paper we should open a campaign to DAILY WORKERIZE THE ENTIRE broadening of the influence of the Cammuniet movement and for a better and greater party. Fraternally yours, G. S. SHKLAR, Secretary. Has your local prepared such a plan? Read this letter of Comrade Shklar to them—to your branch and to the C. C. C...DAILY WORKERIZE YOUR BRANCH AND LOCAL and you will not only make better Com- munist units of them, but you will soon fill your campaign quota as well. — spirit of the local DAILY WORKER committee, writes a letter that PARTY. This will make up for a larger circulation of the press, for 1 public; Must Pay Soviets (Special to The Daily Worker.) MOSCOW, March 19.—The People’s Commissariat of Finance has worked out a basis for the reorganization of farmers’ taxes, the plan ‘for which will be put in operation this year. According to this plan 30 million of the poorest Russian peasants will be completely relieved from taxation and the taxes of another 35 million middle grade farmers will be appreciably: lowered. The first development in this re duction of farmers’ taxation was made on August 26, 1923, when the state authorities were empowered with the privilege of lowering taxes 5 the authorities to decrease the taxes 6% per cent. The state, however, did not take advantage of this right, so the law now makes the exemption of certain classes. of ~peasants and the lowering of the taxes of other classes of peasants compulsory. At the same time the law provides that the most prosperous classes af farmers shall not have any reduction on taxes. There are about 22 million Independent farms in Soviet Russia Of these 6 million are rated as poor est grade, 7 million are rated as be. tween tite poorest and the middle grade farms, 7 million are rated mid- dle grade and 21-3 million are rated first grade farms. Agricultural Taxation. By February 7th, 1925 there were collected 305 million gold rubles from one agricultural tax. The Russian Soviet Social t Republic contributed 205 million of this amount; 10 million came from the White Russian Re- 7 million gold rubles from Transcaucasia and 1% million from Ukraine. Winter Crops According to the reports from the | inspection of crops which took place during February the results of the harvest of the winter crops are ex- pected to be very fair. seit Your Union Meeting | THIRD FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1925. 9 and Conf., 3420 W. Roose- ve binders, 175 W. Washington 8 St. 29 Broom 810 W. Harrison St. Trades Council, 180 W. Washington. Carpenters, 175 W. Washington. Carpenters, 2705 35th St. Carpenters’ Dist. Council, 180 Ww. Washington St. Carpenters, 4339 5 Halsted St. Electricians, Ww. 8 * Electricians, 9 w. canta Electricians, R. 8. Aigen Firemen and 4. 5438 8. Halsted St. Giass Workers, Emily and Marsh- m. akers, wars. e * = Carriers, Monroe and Peoria s. Ladies’ Garment Workers, Joint Van Buren St Board, ; 83 Machinists, 113 S. Ashland Bivd. 113 Machinists. 113 8. Ashland Bled. Painters, 2345 So. Kedzie Ave. Painters, School and Shefield Ave. Painters. 3140 Indiana Ave. Painters, 3140 indiana Ave. Pattern Makers, 119 8. Throop St. $46 Raliway Carmen, Village Saale Kol- 376 Railway RIDE, Village Hall, Kol- 998 Railway Carmen, 5445 S. Ashiand 328 Raliway Clerks, 20 W. Randolph St. THE YOUNG WORKER 679 Railway Clerks, 9 S. Clinton St. Railway Clerks, Ft. rr TA 13 Railroad Trainmen, 1536 K h St. 3349 North Railroad Trainmen, 9120 Commer- cia 367 Sheet Metal were Ashland and an Buren 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, III. 119 Railroad Trainmen, we South Chicag¢ © Trades and Labor This orien of the revolutionary young workers of America is the only paper of the American youth that car- ries on a ‘persistent fight against capitalist mititarism and VO A WEEKLY PAPER The YOUNG WORKER is more interesting than ever before with: more news, an improved international news service, and interesting articles by the leaders of the Com- munist moyement in America. / Every worker young and old will want to subscribe for himself or for a friend. Enclosed find ONE DOLLAR AND A HALF to cover one year’s subscription to the (weekly) YOUNG WORKER. F F ights Militarism * Assembly, 9139 Commerclal Ave. Name 2 Stage Hands, 412 8 Bidg. 12 Stove Mounters, Wolfram Ave. 3 Teachers (Women), — City Address Club Rooms, 4:30 Telegraphers oem)” 312 S. Clark St. City State 719 W. Adams Street, Ummunmummummmunmummum 1 N . Waitresees, 3 P. M. Women’s Union Label League 220 S. Ashiand Bivd. , en stated all meetings are at 8 >. m. ree ee eee Co-operative Farms in t Ukraine. KHARKOV, March 19—At a confer- ence of the representatives of co-op- erative farms, held in February, the fallowing information was given about farming in Ukraine: There are 5,400 co-operative farms, occupying an area of 422,000 dessiatins, on which there are 322,000 workers. The crops of these farms are 40 per cent greater than the crops on indepehdent farms, of which there are 4% million in Ukraine. co ro HEAR BARNEY MASS, Acting National Secretary of the V. W. I.., Machinery for Ukraine. KHARKOV, March 19.— Funds to the amount of 4,312,000 gold rubles have been appropriated for agricul- tural machimery in the Ukraine. One million gold rubles of this amount have been granted already on long term credits. AND E. R. BROWDER, Acting Executive Secretary of the Workers Party Sunday, March 22, to enter and to live in France. GET A SUB AND GIVE ONE! at 8 P. M. Labor Defense Meets Tonight at the All delegates from trade unio 8 p. m. sharp. A well attended committee m which the detalis. and tickets sho gotten from well as those from Workers Party branches are expected to attend the second general Counell for Labor Defense and Relief to be held next Friday night at Greek Workers’ Hall, the March 29th affair were gone over. Posters ns and fraternal organizations as 722 Blue Island Ave., eeting was held last Saturday at reese SS SS SS SSH 8844444444444 OO OOOO OO OOH HOH OOOO OTS the local office, 19 So. Lincaln St. * — r NORTHWEST HALL (Western and North Aves.) Join the Young Workers League in Its Fight to Abolish Child Labor! ADMISSION 10 CENTS. .+* > * * eae 8022820 “CHILD LABOR IN U. S.“ MASS MEETING cent In 1924 the privilege was given to * —_ Ane ee Se ee Se SS 71+ FSS SSS SS SS SS FFE 44444 4 4 4 ee Oe OOO O44 OOH 7 allote The in th starv enous owne keep tllati swep
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. e — n eee e eee es by appealing to the workers to or- do the same “Old Gene” would realize ras Ue ee a Has Rotten Conditions By THOMAS N. AMERKING. (Special to The Daily Worker.) BALTIMORBE, Md., March 19.—T wo members and one sympathizer of the Young Workers’ League of this city employed at the Polland and Kats umbrella factory were fired from their jobs because they dared to raise voices of protest against the rotten conditions and starvation wag- ganize themselves into a trade union, The workers of the umbrella fac tories here are miserably exploited. and are. compelled to work under most greedy conditions imaginable. Employes on time work are paid from $7 to $8 a week, and even those who really rush themselves to death at piece work can make no more than 315 to $17 a week. Overtime Slaves. The workers of the shop are sup- posed to work nine hourg a day, the doors of the factory suppose to open at 8 o’clock in the morning. But one usually finds the workers slaving at their benches shortly after 7 a. m. One also finds the boys and girls in the shop working during the half hour alloted for lunch. The workers are compelled to put in this extra time in order to earn a starvation wage which is hardly enough to keep one alive. The greedy, owners of the shop do not care to keep it clean and sanitary, the ven- tilation is poor, the floors remain un- swept for several days. It was against these rotten conditions that the mem- bers of the Young Workers’ League called upon the shop to prepare to protest. V. W. L. Calle Meeting. 4 leaflet wag issued by the shop nucleus of the Young Workers’ League called all the workers of the shop to a mass meeting to discuss the question of organizing a union. The workers began to think and the boss- es became alarmed. The members of the Young Workers’ League were im- mediately called to the office and 44 ” The agents of the bosses were sta- tioned at the doors of the hall to see who would come to the meeting. Po- lice were stationed at the factory gate to see that no leafiets or copies of the Young Worker are distributed. Are We Disheartened? Nol The action of the bosses did not in the least discourage the members of the league, but rather encouraged them to keep up the fight against ex- ploitation and starvation wages. The workers are called upon to support the Young Workers’ League and Workers’ Party, to read their official organs—the Young Worker and the DAILY WORKER and to at- tend the Young Workers’ League meetings that are held at 1135 Hast Baltimore St., second floor, every Friday evening at 8 o’clock. LETTERS FROM READERS| To the DAILY WORKER: Your adi torial on Eugene V. Debs was sweet truth to me. I cut it out and mailed it to old “Gene.” I marked the worlds: “not a revolutionist—only in the old days” and “just a confused old fighter” with a red pencil. If the readers of the DAILY WORKER, some hundreds or a thousand, would that he was a donkey to get hold of the coat-tail of Hilquit.—Otto Herr- , 1902 W. Division Litheanian No. 5 3140 8. Halsted st. Greek Branch, 722 Blue Island Ave. Saturday, Mareh 21. Social and Dance, Community Hall, $201 8. Wabash Ave., under. auspices of T. W. Br, No. 3, and South ene 386. Frolic and dance, Liberty Hall, 40th court and 14th street, Cioero, ander auspices of Cicero brothers of W. P. and I. W. L. Admission 35 conte. V. W. L. Meetings 8 * — ii 22 ; r a x? ö " 8 * 4 - — * * ry ~ The working ares, branches of Young Worker? tes are —— their activity m tonight and Working Area Branch No. 1, 166 W. Washington St., room 507. Working Branch No. 3; 1910 W. Roosevelt Road. a Working Area Branch No. 8, 3201 8. Wabash Ave. Working Area Branch No. 5, 2409 N. Halsted St. Workers Area Branch No. 6, 2613 Hirsch Bivd. Working Area Branch No, 4, meets every Thursday, at 3118 W. Roose- velt Road. Shop Nucleus Number. Five Functioning Well Shop nucleus No. 5, Chicago made up printers, machinists, janitors and other workers with a membership of 16 is functioning very well. The sec- retary, Comrade D. 1 reports in part as follows: “Our meetings this month have been marked by good attendance and mill- tant and lively discussion. , “Laxness on the aie of a number of our members cl ‘other meet- ings on the month g of the N U. E. L. has be 8 criti. cized by our industrial‘organizer, Com- rade Wirkkula, and others and the nucleus reaffirmed 8 yu in making it com Mat member to attend. RE Tan Ti “Comrade Wirkkula reported that the national committee of ing trades group urged all the print to take the lead who is a subscriber, take one, was passed.” 22310 ef: —— — — Trachtenberg Speaks Sunday nĩt e d States Imperialism (Special to The Dally Worker.) NEW YORK, March 19.—What is the distinctive feature of our age? Is America an Imt Alexander Trachtenberg. will answer these questigns in a lecture on Amer ican Imperialism,” at the new head- quarters of the Workers (commun- ist) Party, 1701 Pitkin Ave., Brooklyn, on Sunday evening, March 22. The lecture will be one of the series of lectures delivered under the au- spices of the Brownsville section of the Workers Party, which is conduct- ing an open forum. Get a sub—make another Com- mann. munist! | INSURANCE REACHES $25,797.99 So far this week, remittances re- ceived. in last-minute collection for the DAILY WORKER insurance policy campaign have brought the to- tal to $25,797.99. Most of the remittances sent are additions to former amounts from the same branches or individuals. The list is as follows: Rochester, N. Y., German $10.00 Cleveland, O., Spanish. 4.00 Singing Society, — Park, Chicago, III. 6.00 iting; Ind., Slavic 1.00 sston, Pa., Ukrainian 13.00 in, Mass., German 15.00 Chelsea, Mass., Polish................ 2.00 Portland, Ore., English. 23.00 Chicago, III., Northwest Eng. 20.00 N. Pittsburgh, Pa., Hungarian 1.00 Fairpoint Harbor, O., Finnish 4.00 Astoria, Ore., Finnish 10.00 ~~ bh hin bb AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA A AA AD A DD DD AA A MAMAAAAA AO eh te | Chicago, II., North English: ae San Francisco, Cal., Armenian Paynesville, Me Finnish. 19.00 Buffalo, N. I. r 1 20.00 Canton, O., oe 2 3.00 J. Littinsky, Brookfya, N. T. 10.00 J. Komisar, Valles Ry — 4.00 G. Zanon, Men a a E. Mekkola, 5 * * 5.00 C. J. Fjeldstad; 1.00 Wm. Smith, Swanton, O ae > J. Meinel, Detroit, Mien W. E. Pesonen, Wing, N. D. .... Geo. Kunnap, Anacortes, Wash. Mrs. Duis Bridgwater, Miles City, Mont. 1.00 Ignatz, Box 688, Livingston, III. 1.00 E. Weiser, Passaic, N. J. Milton Harlan, San Francisco, California Abe Popkin, Bristol, Fa David Millard, Shaft, Pa. L. Buttner, Pullman, II. SPEAKING A South Side Workers’ Get-together! DANCE AND SOCIAL SATURDAY, MARCH 2ist, 1925 ) | — at the — SOUTH SIDE COMMUNITY HOUSE 3201 So. Wabash Avenue Admission 25 Cents. Auspices South Side Branch Workers Patty and Branch No, 3 Young Workers League. — VV N VV OY j 0 1 7 ENTERTAINMENT re list Power? e * 1 7 * 0 a tf hs as * ts.0 * 5 Tr STATE GET THIS SUB! From another worker and the trying will make a better Communist ofryou. — 1 Coe... ——4ä4— ͥ ——— — * —— N — — — . . 7 at 2 o’clock This meeting is of great Ltd., Ermen & Roby, Ltd., Ermen & ra 12 * par * 3 5 5 FF 7 Ty eee (Continued from page 15 : believers in what they have been taught to believe is Americanism. English Sewing Cotton Co, Ltd. The English Sewing Cotton Co. Ltd., owns 1,197,500 shares of common stock out of 1,200,000 (with sole vot- ing power). It was organized July 16, 1897 to take over 14 enterprises engaged in the cotton business. In 1897 it acquired the entire preference and ordinary shares of R. F. & J. Alexander & Co., Ltd., and 1,197,500 common shares of the American Thread Co. It has a controlling in- terest in the following eighteen cot- ton manufacturing companies: F. F. & J. Alexander & Co., Ltd., American Thread Co., Lawrence Ar- den, Ltd., Sir Richard Arkwright & Co., Ltd., Edmund Ashworth & Sons Ltd., Bagley & Wright, Ltd., Wm. Clapperton & Co., Ltd., J. Dewhurst & Sons, Ltd., English Thread Co., Roby (Armentteres) Lied., S. Manlove & Sons, Lied., Marsland, Son & Co., Litd., J. T. Raworth, Ltd., W. C. & J. Strutt, Ltd., Wm. Waller & Co., Ltd., J. E. Waters & Co., and the Geo. Wigley & Co., Ltd. The office of the corporation is in the National Building, St. Marys Par- sonage, Manchester, England. The balance before dividends was in English pounds— 1919— @ 533,743 1920— 730,124 1921— 389,745 | 1922— 348,160 1923— 625,798 Multiply these sums by five to get the approximate American equivalent in dollars. Sure Profits! The workers produce dividends regularly. They see to it that the bond holders ($5,000,000 outstanding) get their 4 per cent a year. They are rated “high” as security, and get the very best rating “Aaa.” The Willi mantic and other workers of the Am- erican Thread Co. are counted on. to come across, whether willingly or un- willingly. Perhaps with the present strike, the manufacturers will not be so sure of themselves, and of the workerg being such sure profit bear- ers. r In the Stocks. The 5 per cent cumulative preferred stocks ($5,000,000 outstanding) are marked good as to “salability.” They pay regular dividends, semi-anually. They are from the next to the best rating, “Aa,” which signifies that they are still superior in all essential re- spects. As 49 the ordinary shares, the rat- ing 18 3 (which means that it suc- cessfully .earned and paid its divi- Workers are subjected to unemploy- IILITITIIIIEIETTITIE ETI er l TTITIT ITI dende during a period of depression.) ment. qd wage reductions, but the movement— | AND THEN-- To convince the worker with whom you have often discus- sed the problems of the labor To bring to another worker's attention the principles that you believe in— Take money out of your own pocket (if yau can) to pay for a sub on THIS BRICK They may be laid off in Bermuda or Florida or amy other place where parasites congregate, but their dividend checks come in on the waves. They Make Me Dizzy. Par value of a share of common is £1 or $5. The ordinary dividends paid for the year ending March 31: 1918—20 per cent. 1919—25 per cent. 1920—15 per cent. 1921—15 per cent. 1922—15 per cent. 1923—20 per cent. Feb. 1924—Interim dividend of 5 per cent. And a stock dividend of 100 per cent in 1919, which means that the dividends really are from 1920 on as follows: 1920—30 per cent; 192130 per cent; 1922—30 per cent; 1923-—4C per cent. A New Declaration of Independence Such is the tale of prosperity fo. the English coupon clipper, like the absentee landlords, who grew fat on the misery of the peasants. The time has comé for the workers of Willimantic to write a new declara tion of independence to declare their determination to free themselves from industrial slavery, not merely rom the hands of Englishmen, but from American and other capitalist textile barons as well. The first ster is to beat the company into submis sion, to get back the 10 per cent cu! and to demand higher wages, still. The life and happiness of a worker must stand before profits for para sites! Soviets Get Tokio Embassy, TOKIO, Japan, March 18.—The key. of the Russian embassy on one of the most commanding sights of the capi- tal have been delivered to M. Kous- netzov, representative of Soviet Rus- sia. Upon the arrival of Ambassadorp Kopp the red flag of Soviet Russia will be raised over the embassy. Does your friend subscribe to the DAILY WORKER? Ask him! | The Spring Issue | of RATIONAL LIVING the workers’ independent health '| magazine, contains a wealth of | good and useful reading matter and is richly illustrated, Its price ‘lis 40 eents a copy, but it will be | mailed FREE as a sample to any new reader. | Editor, DR. B. LIBER Address: RATIONAL LIVING | 61 Hamilton Place New York TITITITITETITTITTTIET IETI TFE FD D FOR POWER! — | NAME — KPAATES . @ pear § 250-O montis £200 3 montis FC 1 — 2 Send this PROPAGANDA. SUS to a worker to “Make Another Communist” SS wenths STREET. cry... STATE * battles. > 1 rern GIVE THIS SUB! For propaganda to extend the influ- ence of the paper that is fighting your aredeeleeeeeeleeeeeeimeceeecee vee %˙ eee eeee mere 1 7 7 7 —
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N 5 N. „ 2 m | ‘ * a oe N 2 ae 7+ 18.00 per year _\. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $3.50....6 months ~ a3 months By mall (in Chicago only): r $4.50....6 months $2.50...3 months adress all mail and make out checks to : THE DAILY WORKER 1118 W. Washington Bivd. 3. LOUIS ENGDAHL } WILLIAM F. DUNNE{ MORITZ J. LOEB...... Chicago, ines Editors Business Manager Entered as second-class mall Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, III., under the act of March 8, 1879. — Advertising rates on application The Vultures Gather. The Dever traction ordinance seems to have se- cured the support of every graft-wise labor faker in the city of Chicago. This alone is enough to show the generous amount of loot that is being dis- tributed to put the scheme over. The list of labor officials endorsing the plan is impressive—to any- one that knows the Chicago labor movement: P. F. Sullivan, President Chicago Building Trades il. Michael Artery, Machinery Movers. M. J. Boyle, Business Agent Electrical Workers, Local 134. Arthur Evensen, Bridge and Structural fron Work- ers. John Drexel, Stone Derrickmen and Riggers. Henry Ziehl, Cement Finishers. James J. Conroy, Secretary Chicago Building Trades Council. Save Evans, Steam and Operating Engineers. CAarles Fry, Machinists. Burt M. Jewell, President of the Railroad Shop Crafts’ Union. irwin Knott, Electrical workers, Local 9. Thomas D. Maloy, Moving Picture Operators. James McAndrews, former congressman and trus- tee of the Chicago Building Trades Council. Charles M. Paulson, President of Electrical Work- ers 134. Edward Ryan, President Architectural Iron Work- ers. John F. Schiit, Business Agent of Electrical Work- ers, 713. With a few exceptions this the old Landis award gang, the gents that have been mixed up in every money-getting project that the fertile brains of fakerdom could invent. Most of them are business agents or hold other salaried positions, but the ac- quisition of valuable rental property is their chief occupation. Mike Artery, for instance, bought himself $230,- 000 worth of apartment house just the other day, and Mike Boyle is no piking investor in this form of real estate either. The way these birds are flocking to the traction steal makes us believe that it is even rottener than we thought it was. Big Capitalism’s Party The senate has adjourned but not before a new alignment of forces in the republican party was made apparent. It is evident that the administra- tion leaders believed that the removal of the LaFol- letteites from important committees and barring them from the party caucus had broken up the revolt of the middle-class wing. The weakness of the Coolidge leadership and the influence of issues like the Dawes plan, still in the political background but bound to be productive of dissension, the many anti-trust cases pending but on which action has been delayed, the vigorous militarist policy of official Washington, have pre- pared the ground for a new internal struggle in the party of American imperialism in spite of the disciplining of the insurgents. Borah of Idaho appears as leader of this group and it is probable that he will assume now the role that LaFollette played inside the republican party for sO Many years. He has forced the Coolidge administration to change its policy of non-recognition of Soviet Rus- | sia and in the fight on Warren he appeared as the real leader of the senate opposition. He wants to be president just as all other senators do, he wants it harder than most of them and he is now in a splendid strategic position to riddle the ranks of his opponents. Coolidge is not the “man on horseback” that Perhaps | the republican party needs and wants. Dawes is—or Borah. The Case of Lanzutsky Yesterday we published an appeal for aid for a Polish worker, Stanislav Lanzutsky, whose ex posure in parliament of the brutality and corrup- tion of the Polish government has brought him face to face with the This is the fate that Polish capitalism, the creature of French imperial- ism. hands out to those of the working class who rebel against its tyranny. Lanzutsky is a Communist. He was elected, by the- Polish workers to speak for them and judged en by the elastic code of bourgeois democracy, his trial and the threat of death is an outrage. The Communist Party of Poland is illegal. So are many of the unions. The Polish capitalists and landlords have made every effort to crush all resistance in the working class. gallows. Here is an opportunity for the liberals who prate | forever of the of them prisonment of blessing of capitalist democracy. are much concerned over the im- counter-revolutionists in Soviet Some Russia. Let us see how they react to the persecu- | tion of Stanislay Lanzutsky. In the meantime the capitalist government of the United States and the representatives of Polish capitalism must be made to understand that even from this distance the class-conscious workers are not going to watch the murder of one of their class | in silence. to examine the books pages — to determine profits, combinations in t of trade or any other questions that might be the basis of future legislation. The opinion is the result of an investigation by the federal trade commission to distover the condi- tions in foreign markets affecting the price of grain. The particular company involved, a Balti- more concern, received a favorable decision from the district court and this decision the supreme court upheld. } The case is a sample of the favored position occupied by profit-making concerns as against that of the masses. Trusts and monopolies by rea- son of this ruling can engage in conspiracies to raise prices but the federal trade commission, a body that is probably as impartial as an agency of capitalist government can be, can secure no information of \the transactions by ordinary methods. Contrast this position of exploiting corporations before the law with that of a worker suspected of radical or revolutionary tendencies. He will be thrown into jail after his house has been raided; the police or secret service agents will have rifled his books and papers and the documents so se- cured will be used as evidence against him. The same is true of working class organizations. In the injunction case against the striking rail- way shopmen the department of justice had hun- dreds of agents prying into the books of the unions and strike committees, collecting a, mass of docu- mentary “evidence” that was made the basis of the successful injunction. . Vet there is stil a large section of the American working class that fails to see the class bias in the American system of government. Communists did not create the theory of the class nature of capitalist government for lack of something else to do.. They have merely stated in fan easily understandable formula the facts as they exist. ä The Communists could not prove their case if it were not for thousands of instances like the supreme court opinion mentioned here—proofs fur- nished by the capitalist class and their govern- ment. Light on Fairmont Disaster Mine 41 of the Bethlehem Mines corporation, Fairmont, West Virginia, where 34 miners’ bodies are entombed, re-opened last October on a non- union basis. Incidentally three workers have been arrested by the officials owned by the coal company charged with bombing the mine—a charge so ridiculous in view of the terrible force of the explosion, that the attempt of the company to cover up its negligence is obvious. The association of coal operators has adopted the plan of shutting down mines for a period suf- ficiently long to make the misery of the jobless miners nearly intolerable; the mines are then re- opened on an open shop basis. The Fairmont disaster is terrible proof of the danger of this policy to lives as well as wages of miners. The mines, after a shutdown, are in poor condition. The companies know that those miners who accept their terms are in no position to ‘quibble over safety regulations; they must place their lives in the hands of the superintendents and other petty tyrants. The union has been driven out of the mines; their sole protection is gone. , This is the lesson of the Fairmont slaughter— that the open shop is actually a drive against, not only the wages and living conditions of the coal ‘miners but their lives as well. Workers are cheap! Mines can be insured! Drive the men and to hell with danger from gas and powder! There are more miners where these come from! These are the slogans of the coal operators greedy, murderous and powerful. Stick to the union! Rally to the program of the Trade Union Educa- tional League and the Workers Communist Party! Fight the open shop! The German Elections Seven workers, two of them women, were shot by the German police at a Communist meeting in Halle a week ago. A protest meeting held a few days later was fired on by the police, one more ‘Communist worker killed and three wounded. | These murders occur in an election. campaign where the Communists are expected to cast a huge ‘vote. The slaughter of workers attending peace- ful meetings is committed by the armed forces of the German republic—a democratic form of gov- ernment under which every man and woman has the right to vote. But a word of explanation seems to be neéded here. If the Communists and their supporters meet to discuss the election issues they get shot. Evidently there is a large section of the German population that is outside the provisions of the | franchise. | Having established this fact, the conclusion fol- lows inevitably that in Germany as elsewhere the freedom of franchise, and the other privileges of frees peech and assemblage supposed to accompany it, the whole institution of capitalist democracy is a gigantic fraud. We workers in America can learn much by keeping a close watch on the events leading up to the German presidential elections where Mauser pistols of the police are teaching the work- ing class the real nature of capitalist democracy. x * the genate, has no power SCOTIA STRIKE 1 3 é Brilliant War Against Steel Corporation (Continued from page 1) Empire Steel corporation dangles the chains of slavery before the miners of Nova Scotia and taunts them. “You will be willing to don these chains again,” says this huge octopus, “whether in two or six months it mat- ters not. We haye the militia and all the repressive forces of the state while you have — empty stom- achs.” * Must Not Fight Alone. The miners of Nova Scotia can- not and should not he asked to fight this battle alone. This is merely one of the guns fired in the “open shop,” wage-slashing campaign that has for its purpose the géneral lowering of the standard of living of the Ameri- can working clas# ‘to the level of that of the European workers. It 18 a part of the Dawes’ enslavement plan, and the miners of the world are pick- ed as its first victims. The miners of Alberta, after a six | months’ strike, have been almost de- stroyed. The militant miners of Al- berta were betrayed by the pussy-foot- ing class collaboration policy of the Sherman district administration, who carried out the treacherous policy of John L. Lewis. Now the powers-that- be are throwing all their weight against the Nova Scotia miners. Yesterday, Alberta; today, Nova Scotia; tomorrow, the weakest dis- trict in the United States. Mine Owners Are Active. Already conferences of the most powerful coal barons in the country have been held and plans laid down for the reduction of the standard of living of the miners. The coal opera- tors of the so-called “central competi- tive field” have stated that the wages paid the miners are too high, but that, they will continue the present policy of closing down the mines and working as little time as possible, at legst for the present. his means that they will contin- ue starving the miners of the cen tral competitive field” until they think the time ripe to impose a general wage reduction. The coal barons know they cannot. whip the miners in a body, so they are taking them dis- trict by district. While the coal bar- ons are united In. purpose and in deeds, the coal miners are without national leadership. Yet, in spite of thig handicap, the militant miners can and will rally their f9rces against the united forces ot pal, steel, and finance. rail The Trade Union Educational League calls upon the miners to de- mand of their leaders that immediate preparations be made for a general strike against wage reductions. This is the only way to met the situation. The Jacksonville agreement is a piece of paper conveniently drawn up to hold the miners in check while, at the same time, allowing the coal op- erators to do as they please. The Trade Union. Educational League points out to the miners that once again they are being called up- on to bear the brunt of the new “open shop” drive. If the coal opera- tors are able to destroy the Miners’ Union, or to reducé it to a state of helplessness, this brutal arrogant rul- ing class will continue itg triumphant march thru every industry, bringing the standard of living of all the work- ers of this country down to the level ‘Of the German working class. Support the Nova Scotia Miners. Today, 50,000 men and women are fighting against great odds in Nova Scotia. A defeat for them is a de- feat for you. You must not allow them to struggle alone. Rally to the support of the Nova Scotia miners. Demand that the.-strike be ‘broad- ened to cover the entire coal Indus. try. Demand that a strike alliance be made with the railread workers. Demand the six-hour day and five- day week. | Demand the nationalization of the mines to be managed by experienced miners. 2 Demand unemployment insurance to be paid out of the profits of the industry. 7 Come to the immediate support of the Nova Scotia strikers by holding mass meetings, taking up collections, and donations from your treasury. Send ali donations to Alex A. Me- Kay, Secy.-Treas., Dist. 26, U. M. of A., Glace Bay, Nova, Scotia, Cape Breton, Canada. National Committee, Trade Union Educational League. 1 the Philippino Pe ae ts | _Indorse Candidates in June Elections | MANILA, P. I., March 19.—Altho | Macabula the leader of the Philippine | | peasants’ party, which has been per- secuted by Generdl Leonard Wood's constabulary, is degd, candidates have deen indorsed for the June elections. The peasants’ parfy, called the Ka- tipunan Macabula- silag, has in- ee dorsed Ido for senator, Teodoro San- Every day get a “sub” for DAILY WORKER | diko for governor, Secilio for re- and a member for the Worker Party. — vi 9 n 5 2 a 5 “ }- 7 n s 8 5 ta) © ae * Sey ee oe . 3 Edie: er Pr te he N i ay n — ry Sas >, Ke * Fr F % Tes “ene Aaa, ~ NN ef 1 * ne Ma, ol See i x 332 > 8 e While Irish bouorgeois nationalists were gorging themselves on the 17th of March in honor of a dead saint, members of the Workers Party were demonstrating in behalf of the Rag to Irish workers and pedsants. From left to right are: Eva Bittelman, Catherine Polishuk, Ruth Fern, Marguerite Lewis, Marguerite Dunn and. Valeria Meltz. The Sad Story of Abramovich (Continued from Page 1) bail for each of them and secured their release. ee The detective endeavored to create the impression that Search had kicked them, bat this he denied. Search, on the other hand, displayed a torn shirt and a swollen head to show where he had been beaten. ~ — * Abramovich Fails in St. Louis. ST. LOUIS, Mo., March 19.—The at- tempt of Raphael Abramovich to make a speech here against the workers of Soviet Russia ended in total failure. Only about 150 people came to the meeting, most of whom were work- ers who cheered for Soviet Russia: The socialist thugs and detectives made up most of the remainder of the audience. : Hundreds of leaflets were distrib- uted in and around the hall, which exposed the treachery of Abramo- vich to the working class, and his aid to reign of the white terror in urope. J. O. Bentall represented the Com- munists. * * > Enters Via the Fire Escape. By G. S. SHKLAR. (Special to The Daily Worker.) MILWAUKEE, Wis., March 19.— With his dignity unimpaired, the hero of the Second (socialist) Internation- al, Raphael Abramovich entered Pasa- dena Hall, 12th St. and North Ave., here via the fire escape, to make his local appearance attacking Soviet Russia. The hall was heavily guard- ed by the police force of over twenty men and a large detachment of de- tectives in addition to numerous gangsters of the socialist party. Every worker entering the hall had to pass the cordon of spies, and de- tectives, had to answer questions in Yiddish and German and after thoro scrutiny he was either admitted or re- jected. Over fifty people were turned away, among them were many work- ers who did not belong to the Work- ers (Communist) Party and were not even known as sympathizers, Every person was scrutinized very thoroly by the socialist ochrana. Members of the socialist manner- ‘thor who were scheduled to sing at the neeting were very few as the leader t the choir and a large number of members refused to sing for the coun- ter revolutionist. “Not Actording Menshevik Book” Abramovich started his speech in German and theorized that the Rus- sian revolution is a failure because it of perverted Marxism of the Second International. This was followed by a flow of lies that industry was at standstill in Rus- sia and that the railroads were in poor condition. When the leader of the Second In- ternational began to tell lies that were too apparent, he was interrupted by an indignant worker who called on Abramovich to prove his bluff. This worker was immediately ejected from the hall. But this did not stop other workers in the hall who called Abram- ovich a liar. This was followed by a general commotion and about half ot the audience walked out singing the International. al The socialists at that time got busy under the protection of socialist po- lice. One of the workers was attack- ed and hit by socialist gangsters and later the police followed him up and after handling him roughly, had him arrested. Abramovich Has Hard Time. Nothwithstanding the fact that con- siderable numbers of workers and sympathizers were not admitted and the fact that a large number left the hall or were thrown out, Abramovich was not in accordance with the Meas | had a hard time to continue. Con- 18 tinuous interuptions and questions were coming rapidly and the efforts of the police in ejecting seemed to pour more oil into the fire. In the meantime police and their socialist leaders were busy on the outside. Two more workers were ar- rested and every one was kept busy moving about. Police activity was rough and provoking. : The three workers arrested were all veter aht ot the world war and have eam thei appreciation of democracy @nd freedom in the army. The socialist administration which taru the lips of Comrade Ernest Un- terman promises to give support in case of war have shown their pa- triotism by imposing a heavy fine on these veterans. Veterans Receive Heavy Fine. Patriotism. forgotten the world vet- erans received a heavy fine for dar- ing to. protest against the counter- revolutionary, lies. The fines rang- ing from fiye to fifteen collars. It is interesting to observe that the heavy fine was imposed on Comrade Prodanich who was distributing liter- ature and leaflets. Apparently the judge thought that the man who makes disturbance was not as great an offender as the man who dissemtin- ates the knowledge among the work- ers. — Dictatorship vs. Democracy. The meeting proved a very valuable lesson to the workers of Milwaukee. They had an opportunity to see the social democrats at work. They could see how the disciples of Noske align themselves with the capitalists and use brutal force to suppress the workers. They could see that there is no limit to the brutality of the disciples of the Second (yellow so-. cialist) International—responsible for the murder of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg. The hypocrisy of the white terrorist crying for mercy was fully exposed. The policemen’s club directed by the socialist brain was a weighty argu- ment for the proletarian dictatorship. Most of the workers expressed the opinion that if the, followers of Abramovich find the Solovetz Island too cold for their health that they should be sent without delay to a much hotter climate. Today another bankrupt leader of the socialist movement—the figleaf of the American socialist democracy —Eugetie V. Debs, will speak in Mil- waukee under the auspices of liberal women. Raise Funds! For.the Workers Party Campaign Against Wage Cuts and the ‘Open Shop’ * (THE capitalist class is slashing wages in the textile indus- try! Wage cuts are in preparation for the coal miners of America! The “open shop” is raising its ugly head, threatening the living conditions of every worker! We must distribute a million leaflets, “Strike Against Wage Cuts!” We must organize shop committees! We must initiate amalgamation of the weak craft unions into powerful industrial unions! The party must do the work! bills! The party must pay the Make a collection at once in your branch and send it in to the national office. Take a list to your shop and union and make collettions there! | | All together against wage cuts and against the “open shop“! CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, WORKERS PARTY OF AMERICA, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, III. NAME ADDRESS AMOUNT 2 | alas mne f 8 U i — | ! | 133 “ AS ASRS OEE ES Be es in | 6 | | e | | | | | — —: C ˙ A aie eM 3 f | | ! | | | e ee ete | | — | „ eens g U i : * Sender: . f 0 „ 4 1 Address: 4 1 3
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: i 1 : - i 7% * : e, a TR Sees we he e . 3 ee 5 By OSSIP PIATNITZKY. . (Continued from last Saturday.) this article I will limit myself to a few facts from the German ex- bead In 1923 gine work- shops in Germany were, a few exceptions minus party nuclei, nuclei, but in on factory committees, 8 E n the Communists in the factories were not co-ordinated into one body. HE result was that the discontent- ed workers of these factories and workshops were led and controlled by union representatives and mem- bers of the social-democratic party| who played up to the mood of the workers, proposing radical resolu: tions, etc. But when these humbugs 3 of the move. „ mines and docks; wherever nuclei existed, the leader- the movement was entirely of the nucleus, while in where no nuclei existed, against the agreement of their fas cist trade union with the metal in- dustry employers were under the guid- ance of the factory nuclei of our Big workers’ meetings which 4 : f a uuelel are not very ae The theses and report ot Comrade Zinoviev on the role of the party in the revolution presented at the Sec ond Congress of the Communist Inter- national, Comrade Lenin's statement on the same question and nearly every one of the 21 conditions adopted at the same Second Congress gave to the sections of the Communist Interna- tional minute instructions on the = and r forms of party organization w dha necessary, how they should work, Ar the Fourth Congress of the Com- munist International Lenin point- ed out that the theses on organiza- tion adopted by the Third Congress had remained on paper, altho all the delegates to the congress had ‘voted for them, In fact; previous to the lesson of the German revolution, none of the decisions on the questfon of organization had been carried out by any of the foreign sections of the Communist International, except the parties of countries which previous to 1917 had formed part of the Rus. a. officials and candidates to elective pote are able to carry thru any- they like at the party meet- pang | they convene. E above-mentioned elements see, and qu rightly, in the organization of their co-ordi- nation according to districts in big towns and on a a pity scale in the smaller towns, the end of the almost unlimited control which they exer- cised in the party organizations. In Italy, in Turin and in some French towns, after the organization of nuclei in the workshops the leader- ship of local organizations went entirely into the hands of workers recommended by the nuclei. Thru the failure of some active workers of the sections of the Com- munist International to understand the importance of the organization o. nuclei in the workshops and of Com- munist fractions in non-party work- ers’ Mass organizations, etc., and thru I. Sections should also be stated that in Ger- many and France nuclei publish periodically papers for their or ser- eral kindred factories, which have, in * addition to political articles, also specs ial columns describing factory rt These newspapers are v ‘teresting. In Italy the izations publish N ot newspapers small leaflets on ol subjects, which are distributed among the workers. In Germany, France, Italy and Norway workers’ corre- spondents from factories and work- shops have begun to function and have already achieved a_ certain amount of success. LL this is most decidedly the right way to the transformation of our brother sections of the Communist In- ternational into mass parties sup ported by large sections of the * and rural proletariat. New life has been put nto the party organizations of the above-men- | | The International Marionettes . | 1 2. 8 1 0 8 2 3 —— — anon Fa 8 ee + - ee 937 N i. * 9 + 2 , Ee ) . a" | J a 0 * * 2 10 7 ' — ys 1 4 The British imperialists have organized an anti-Soviet Russia and anti-Turkish bloc of thank Mr. Baldwin for this comedy.” the little Balkan Baldwin is seen pulling the strings while MacDonald is grinding the organ. The 2 is saying to the Turkish worker: “Sometime we ht able to (From Molodaya Gvardia, Odessa Young Communist Daily.) differ from conditions in Russ And finally there is the force of habit. There are even now Communists who imagine that the destruction of the organization of nuclei the destruction of local party org ations. HERE is also another element 4 which resists, and quite con- sciously, the reorganization of the party on the factory and workshops nuclei basis. This element is not very numerous but it is the worst element in the party—party officials and a few members of the party who have become members of par liament, of municipal councils, trade union and co-operative administra- tions, etc. Under the existing old forms of organization party members are not active. They only meet when they are summoned to meetings before elections or campaigns connected with elections. Party members do net discuss and make decisions on all party questions, they very sel- dom meet among themselves and 18 therefore the above-mentioned party — the obstacles which were put in the way of the proposed reorganization by certain obstructive elements of the party, the favorable moment of the labor movement boom in 1919-21 was missed, a time when it would have been very easy to form and consoli- date nuclei in the workshops. Now the organization of nuclei is much more difficult. Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Po- land, and America, Communists constitute a big percentage of the un- employed, which renders the organiza- tion of nuclei still more difficult. There is wholesale unemployment; there is unprecedented terror on the part of employers. Not only Com- munists are dismissed but also all those why sympathize with them if this fact can be established. Employ. ers are helped in the matter of spot- ting Communists. by members of so- cial-demecratic parties and by oppor- tunist trade union officials And yet in spite of all the difficul- ties, this year has witnessed the prac tical reorganization of the party on the basis of factory nuclei in the big In many countries the Young Com- Leagues have acted as the fore runner this matter. tioned countries. They have become imbued with the revolutionary energy of the factory workers. The recent demonstrations of the Paris workers, with whom the Paris party organiza tion has come into direct contact thru the factory and workshop nuclei, have shown how much the latter were need- ed and how important they are for the proletarian and revolutionary Com- munist Party. have chosen the right path. The experience of the Communist nuclei in the west has absolutely proved that these are not something. peculiarly Russian, not adaptable to European and American conditions. They have stood the test also under western conditions. It is necessary to overcome the dif ficulties and to organize nuclei in all the factories, works, offices, shops, barracks, estates, eto, etc—in fact wherever there are wage workers, whether they be men, women, workers, mobilized soldiers, etc, Nuclei - should be co-ordinated into B : : feiss bs (Continued on page 8) al ee ee
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EAR COMRADES: I do not know whether our comrades abroad know how we live. Anyhow I think it is worth while to tell thef about the life of the young Sivash artillerists. Sivash is a bay, a very swampy place where Wrengel had one of his main strongholds. Our division drove Wrangel out by attacking him from the rear and thus settled his fate. Hence our division is called the Sivash division. 9 As to our life, I will not waste words over our every-day routine, but will deal with the main features of our lite. ISCIPLINE is | secured by contin and at every opportune moment explaining to the Red Army men their rights as well as their obligations, their role as the defenders of the Soviet Union. For this purpose we have, in addition to military training, political education classes two hours daily. During these classes Red Army men study the Soviet constitution, the his- tory of the Soviet power and the his- tory of the Red Army and the civil war. The Red Army men are also taught geography, reading and writing, arith- metic and agriculture. In our artil- lery regiment we have no illiterates, but there are illiterate people in the infantry regiments. They are formed into separate groups or squads and are taught to read and write being set free from drill and other work. S more than half of our regiment consists of Ukrainians they are drafted into separate groups in which they are taught in their own Ukrain- ian language. I suppose you have from 5 Army n 1 cording to their ment. The group system is the best kor military training. Definite hours are given to general physical training and to the study of sanitation and physics. N the whole six hours a day are given to study and the rest of the time, if Red Army men are not among the masses they have at their own disposal and may spend it just as they like if they inform their immediate chief. For their recreation there is a club with a number of circles, a school for political education, a dramatic circle, a circle for general education, etc. The club has a library and reading room, it publishes a wall newspaper which does not even spare the com- mander of the regiment if he has been at fault in any way. There is also a military correspondence circle in which all Red Army men who con tribute to the paper belong. In this circle they learn how to write for the newspapers, etc. Once a week there is a dramatic performance in the club, and we also have “youth” socials, “military” socials, etc, The club works for the whole regiment. We must admit that the club of our regi- ment is not as efficient as the clubs of other regiments. N addition to all this we have a Len. in “corner” with various sections in every battalion of the regiment. In these “corners” there are small librar- ies and about 8 different newspapers. Readings and informal talks take place in these “corners,” as well as party, Young Communist and general Red Army meetings. Similar meet- ings are held once a month for the whole regiment. Very frequently (every week) we are taken to the cinema. We also visit the workers in the factory which school, and ‘strict, but it is |" 3 r= Ye athe! a Py ae ** eee aaa 0 r a a 1 5 fig - * . Das 2 >= 3 4 * Se r 8 * . 4 Lae 7 3 charged with having compelled a Red Army man to run about 15 minutes tenced him for exceeding his powers to 12 months’ solitary confinement. Does it happen in your army that G. Koten, Red Army man of the 15th Artillery regiment. Nikolaev, Ukrainian, S. S. R., Jan 20, 1925. N 1— EAR Comrades:—I want to tell you how a working class party member spends his time. 24 hours is a very short time for a worker, for most of us spend 16 hours | or more in the factory. Apart from the regular 8 hour day a great deal of time has to be given to social work, and those who are illiterate or semi- literate Have to give a considerable amount of time to their elementary and political education. We have a time-table for the whole week. On Monday there is a circle of political political economy, the international situation, the situation at home, etc. N Wednesday is the Party Day, which is a great favorite with all the workers. The factory party nucleus organizes these party days. The hall is invariably full to over- flowing with non-party workers who take an interest in the political life of the country. On the remaining days there are: all sorts of sessions, meet- ings in the various literary, economic, political industrial and other com- missions—of course always in accord- ance with the capacities and aims pur- sued.. IE have regularly described in our official press the Pravda and the Robotchaya Gazetta, the work of the nuclei and commissions of the “Dynamo” works, as well as our conditions of life and industrial achievements, The figures which I give below are taken from one of these notices sent to the Pravda. Very significant are the figures show- ing the results of the campaign in labor. The results in the casting sec- tion of our factory during the ten commanders are tried in this fashion? | favor of raising the productivity of months from January to October 1924 ‘ 2 ae on CT is 1 5 Rhee we * ee. SH 5 aja N PPS | e — ee x 1 . * 1 * K ” E N N 3 q — © 7 2 8 1 — A ‘' “4 N : 2 8 . - = — * ‘ A2 ; : : 7 7 = 2 ‘ * N tS Qs F 8480 15 8 * aa 7 — 8 . * 8 9 * sf 2 a — — + , ms : 1 ; AA 4 Lat * —— 3 * — * r Ah N * * 4 a “ 7 * 1 we 1 5 15 A 5 3 1" (>. a 0 * 4.8 ! ; i ar 4 ai 7 8 N vo 1 A> a 1 . * ö 1 / 4 — 4 5 4 N. 48 7 ve 4 } . -. — 4 " : 62 ME. bir 3 * er * 1 "7 * . * . 25 * 1 > ye 5 0 2 ; 4 . Fa . ) ; PS 1 ‘ * 7 . 7 8 i 2 . ’ N N : a N * > — ra) * R io Se. > - > 5 3 1 5 * * > ‘ - 7 5 * : 3 1 " ; ‘ : - 4 4 4 „ 3 —* 3 ie . an A „ ’ ; * P pri ; : ) : a . 7 * 1 1 : 4 1 * 17 0 7 > „ 18 2 ö K iin. 7 ; / : 8 288 . ? ; * 5 5 5 ‘ 55 ’ — 2 1 P * 8 2 8 ‘ wy eet ye 57 8 5 r 1 — 1 + 1 ' - : * * N 7 2 e — * F 9 * 2 ; * 8 ** ry A a a Cyr. * 5 3 1 8 . - a * 8 1 K * * 1 4 Pe Ae ＋ 3 » mm ; „ 3 ; f x 4 r 1 ; _- a YY @ | : t . A 75 J . : . „ - 5 N N 0 428 ue " ‘ / 7 * 5 a 9 1 “re: te 9 1 1 31 a 7 * > : { * if 2 W * %, 10 4 —" * 5 i * 1 = . ¢ ght ’ . * an try . * 8. 2 3 1 5 | K 14 s f i f a 27 zi 8 : : 8 a A } and the remaining hours to the study of special military subjects, for that is our speciality. In the evening we read newspapers, attend lectures, go to the club and are frequently taken ison between the czarist and the pres- ent army. What then has -happened? Now we are all equals, the command- ranks we treat them as our command- * = „. 4 77 Alen Dans + theghet ae ok ota ey Bae our officers and talk with them as with comrades Was there anything then? course a big difference. was the sol There is to it that the code of fabor laws is put into practice and that the protec- tion of labor laws are observed. The slogan of the “Dynamo” workers is “mass production in accordance with the program, maximum economy in connection with extra expenditure.” N our works factory workers as well as the clerical staff do their share ducing amount of damaged goods, concentration and the continuity of operations even by means of three shifts. And what is more they watch carefully everything connected with were as follows: smelting . Cost of production of 1 kigm. of 2 wir Total number of workers Output per worker Ditto In chervonetz roubles Earnings of the corporation Average pay per worker Oct. 1924 29,566: kigms. : 100,400 kigms. 8 pet. 8 pct. bet. 23% pet. 67 copeks 25 cope ks. 108 N 204 kigms. 925 kigms. 75 rbis. 325 rbls. 6,179 rbis. 9,402 rbis. A r. 78 c. 87 r. 05 . This includes skilled workers, semi-skilled workers and apprentices. Thus the pay of a skilled worker Is considerably higher. “ and show what can be done with proper organization, they reflect cred- it on the works production commiss- ion which was appointed by the work- ers’ production conference. |. The organization of the production commission and conference is as fol- lows: Every craft (we have 32) ap- E figures speak for themselves + and to the point. Time will not permit me to give you today a detailed account of the work of the production conference and con- trol committee. This I shall do in my next letter. : With proletarian greetings, 1. Guinessin, Metal turner of the Dynamo Works. 3 poits a craft productron control com- hog 3 Moscow, Jan. 15, 19265. soldiers Bay that there is no compar- ; ing officers are our comrades, in the ers, but when off duty.as our com- rades. We ourselves deal with any eee . Inj of this kind in the czarist army? What} mittee of three. This committee sees in the organization of labor, by re- I(Setween State and Dearborn | dust South of Jackson) » n “Chicago, Notice! | “DAILY WORKER AGENCY | | (Thurber Lewis, Agent) 9 9 19 SO. LINCOLN ST. Phone Seeley 3562 Call or write for all Communist Books and Pamphlets The Little Red Library The Workers Monthly The Daily Worker 1 um AM 5 + i 1 * * Vegetables 1195 E. 7ist Randolph 7059 Owned and controlled by your r fellow worklngmen = * The Spring Issue |RATIONAL LIVING the workers’ independent health tains of — 25 185 az xt Address: RATIONAL LIVING ‘Book Shop 307 Plymouth Court CHICAGO LEARN ESPERANTO Language “An Elementary Grammar” (In English). 180 The Workers’ Ido Federation Room 5, 805 James St., N. 8., PITTSBURGH, A. n — f rr 17 7 * E41 f 5 te 7 N 61 Hamilton Place New York || The Walden | about *
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2S wBEXT - | yr 7 * 8 * ‘SHER TS ake if F J : E l I ig * i in ee 9 U *. 0 * 1 Sob ‘ * ‘ 1 » * * 1 2 J * * 0 * f . * > W 2 t - * ’ & P 4 4 a 4 5 . . 4 5 on ; * i J i = ; "4 * 3 - x . 4 8 * ¢ + , A A l 1 y 1 . 1 . 5 ö f b 4 * 1 Ps A * “ _ ne te 4 ‘ . b ; * =. mov ement, ment, wrote es pe aT, 2 * * 2 2781 i 1 1 N rener ance: the poet Bozymensky, who from being the best poet of the Young Com- munist League, rapidly developed into a true poet of Bolshevism; side, Ivan Doronin, the talented pro- letarian belles lettres writes: Fedor Glatkov, Yuri Libidensky and many ‘Seer, “Tey PT ead d n 7 . * A eee ee es 8 ; N this new proletarian literary 1 > 7 > 4 © « 12 * te : D + : g * > -_ ~ : * 1 | si ö A 9 ** += 4 tormulated in the was given a definite form a - ference as the All-Russian Associa- * * 9 > ¢ 4 — > 1 ; 75 ‘ oe at a * - a ae > . 22 5 9 r t 8 1 Eee Fer. tes? 82 Worse Me Se gg Meet — « ~' : if ea 1 te . 2 ae 1 Sage 5 1 literature, as the proletariat has now something else to do besides thinking about literature. And by the time the munist society which xnows no class- es. The supporters of groletarian liter- ature told the Trotskyites that the non-existence of proletarian literature is impossible, as the working class stands in need now of this pow erful weapon for the purpose of re- acting on the psychology of the masses. They also pointed out that | proletarian literature must not only be, but is already in existence and that Trotsky and his followers le gl * wai . +m wer does not on any account mean that the supporters of proletarian literature are against any contact “fellow - travelers,” Trotskyism. _If already in May the 13th Congress of the Russian Communist Party fav- ored the proletarian literature orien- tation, there is no doubt whatever that the conference which has shown the strength and unity of proletarian literature will contribute considerably — to the realization of this decision ort the party congress. T the conference proletarian lit- erature was reviewed. It showed that this literature is already past the stage of infancy, it is past the period when the voice breaks, it has left be- hind it the period of vacillation, un- steadiness and disunity. In serried ranks it enters the next stage of in- creased creative production. The ; must be deliberately blind not to see it. tasks are difficult, but our strength is unlimited. a — 2 nag —— — BUILDERS AT WO SUB CAMPAIGN GATHERING SPEED Bundles of Sample Copies Going Out ACH day there is more evidence that the Second Annual Sub Cam- paign for 15,000 new subscribers by June 15 is going to hit its mark and very likely shoot past it. Our offer of free copies of the DAILY WORKER for one week to locale is eagerly being taken up and one branch even wired in so they could begin a real membership drive in this manner. If your branch has not adopted this plan, be sure to bPing it up at your next meeting. From Detroit, Milwaukee and other cities we are receiving the as surance of local comrades that they are making the drive and that we will soon hear from them “with a bang,” as one comrade puts it. From New Orleans where a lone Communist and real BUILDER— J. C. Das—is doing his share, we receive two subs to begin with. This loyal builder assures is it is only a beginning for him and that he will “stick until June 15.” | eds Others are doing the same. Our list of sub-getters will soon be reaching army size and here are a few whose NEW subs we listed today: CHICAGO, ILL.—D. E. Earley, Thurber Lewis (3), John Heinrichson. KANSAS CITY, KAN.—M. O. Sullivan. | BUFFALO, N. Y.—Chas. Dirba. REVERE, MASS.—Chas. Schwartz. PITTSBURGH, KAN.—J. E. Snyder. BRROKLYN, N Y.—Paul Scherer. W. CONCORD, N. H.—Jennie Helin. NEW ORLEANS, LA.—J. C. Das (2 subs). Where is your name and where is your local? Get into this cam= paign at once with a NEW SUB that you got out of your own pocket for another worker or that you got out of another worker for the pocket binder which Is being given away for every $6.00 worth of subs that you — s with respect to the national republics of the Soviet Union. But this question Plague Threatens Famine. MEXICO CITY, March 20.—The DENTIST S. W. Corner 7th and Mifflin Sts. PHILADELPHIA, PA. Dr. A. Moskalik. |
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ne 7 F we need any proof that British capitalism is crumbling, it is quite evident from the fact that it has ut- terly failed to house its workers. Prior to 1914 the situation was pretty bad but has since been aggravated by the lack of building and the terrible over-crowding that has followed. Our mining villages and industrial towns are a standing disgrace - to our so-called civilization. A report of an enquiry into the state of the coal industry says: “No one can read the grim atery . of the squalor, over-crowding, and insanitary conditions in which a great part of our mining population live today, without a sense of shame. Long rows of one-roomed houses, built of the stone of the locality, to which sometimes a larder was after- ards added, There was generally no window, or door at the back, the only door being that which led into a cinder-strewn yard—a quagmire in winter. An open gulley carried away all the slops of the tenants. At in- tervals, in the middle of the yard, huts would be erected, divided into privies, ash-pits, and maybe coal- houses, and these might be, but of- ten were not kept in repair. Water could be drawn from a stand-pipe in the yard, one or two for each row of houses.“ OST of the villages consist of “houses of one, or at the most two rooms, and in these, very often, large families have to live. The fol- lowing cases are quite common, In Consett (county Durham) in a house of two rooms, (the upper one being reached by a ladder thru a hole in the floor of the upper room,) there live a man, wife and 6 children, in- . cluding two girls of 21 gnd 23 and a boy of 18. The average room space for the whole county is 0.77 per person, (1921 censup retwins) And in, the . mining and 3 district it is very much less than WM A t. HE county of Lanark tells a si- milar story. In the north-east corner lives 1,539,000 people, (about one-third of; Scotland's population) and the district is a mass of slag heaps, chimney stacks, blast furnaces, and insanitary houses. There are 321,- |. 471 houses in the country, 61,200 single- roomed, 155,285 two-roomed, i. e., two- third of the houses contain at the most two rooms. The mining villages are clustered round the pit-shafts, and the dust and grime penetrates to every nook and makes the task of the women hope- less. Their burden is increased by the tact that practically none of the pits have baths attached to them and the miner, returning home from work, covered from head to foot with grime, and often wet to the skin, has to strip and wash in the room that has to serve for living, dining, often sleep- ing, and sometimes as the only store- house for the coals. The women are incessantly waging war against dirt, working from early morn to late at night, and the position is often ag- gravated by the fact that two or more miners live in the same house, and are employed on different shifts, and this means double work for the wo men. NE of the great evils of most of the mining villages and also many of the agricultural distrist is that the houses are owned by the em- ‘ployers, and so the tenart is com- pelled to leave the house when his work for that employer is finished, whether he has been stopped or left-of his own accord. In the early days of capitalism, when labor was needed for the mach- ines, small houses were rapidly thrown up without any thot of sanita- tion or health. Many of these are still standing today and although condemned years ago, are still occu- pied. Birmingham, a center of the iron and steel trades, is typical of our in- dustrial towns. To cite but two cases from this city are quite sufficient. 1. Father, niother and 4 children i. all sleep in one bed and live and sleep in one room. 2. Father, mother and 9 others of the family, (aged 3 months to 5½ years) have one living room, bed- room and an attic. These houses often have no water supply or sanitary convenience, R the privilege of existing in these hovels; the workers pay, not only exhorbitant rents, but often with health, and life, as the r shows: The city falls easily into en an isions, the central wards, which are mainly slums, the inner circle of un- 95 healthy wards, and the outer circle, the key of a small cottage. ITH the fixed rental, the return on property was small compar- ed to those of industry, and much of the property found its way on to the market. Many of the workers bought their own houses, only to find that T em. | no hope of private enterprise supply- ing the* necessary houses, and the government. took action by passing the housing of the people act (1919), Back-to-back houses where the richer classes live. + Central Middle Outer pet. Pet. Pot. — BLBT 277 0.16 Phthisis — Total death rate, 1914-18 (per 1,000 population) Infant mortality: Death rate (per 1,000 births) Measles (death rate per 1, 000 population) Bronchitis and pneumonia (death rate) 19.3-21.8 13-17.8 9 410.5 134171 94126 60-78 0.56-0.72 0.39-0.46 0.0-0.12 | 3.63-2.68 2.32-3.12 1.19-1.62 1.63-2.63 1.17-1.42 0.67-0.89 %%% %. Infant summer diarrhoe Rents Legislation 8 + 29.57 19.26 3-9 T the beginning of the war, the housing situation began to grow more acute. Thousands of workers flocked into the industrial centers, un- til it was almost impossible to get a room. The authorities erected wooden making it compulsory for the local authorities to supply the shortage. 45,000 houses were built as a result, but on the grounds of economy, the subsidy was curtailed and operations almost seased. The loss on the build. Turning on the Light huts as a tempory expedient,. but these were not sufficent to relieve the position, Rents soon soared but as a reqult of organized opposition on the part of the workers, the rent restrict- ions act (1915) was passed, forbid- ding the increase of rents. The first legislation, however, was to prevent eviction, for the disloca- tion of industry, that followed the out- break of war had caused, much unem- ployment, and to protect the workers the courts (emergency) powers act forbade evictions for non-payment of rent without the permission of the courts. 2 HE rent restrictions act (1915) ap- plied to houses of not more than £35 annual rental, i. e. working class houses. No provision was made for furnished houses, with the result that many were let, containing a few in- ferior articles of furniture, and the landlord had complete control, This act remained until six months after the war, when it was replaced by a further act allowing 10 pet. increase in rent and covering houses up to £70. This was amended in 1920 by a bill to last three years and provided for an increase of 40 per cent and also included a clause making profiteering in furnished rooms illegal. The position had now become so keen that “key money” was aften paid tor the possession of houses, some- times as much as £20 being paid for ing, which was being worne by the state, was estimated at £10,000,000 for the year, the cost of the houses ‘being £1,100 each. Were did the Money go! HIS was the natural question which arose out of the situation. The press said, To the building workers.” This was untrue. The material were under the control of rings who took adventage of the posi- tion to force prices up to the highest possible limit. The following tables to be carted two miles. 2 oe 7 Spe * — 3 — r oi es ee a a mh 3 Sos — ‘keenly in the administration of the direct labor in the building of the house, and thereby effect an economy 5 rent. In carried ou 10 0 ot £1,070. 15 Newmarket, the per house was £761 again st the contract price of Enn to cripple the position, and many of the councils found their building ma- terial held up. The Bradford council tried to solve the problem by purch- their own bricks. These were used by the direct labor that they employed and the surplus Was sold to the con- tractors who were building for them. The rings, however, were not at all in sympathy with the idea, and com- pelled the contractors, under threat of boycott, to refrain from using the bricks. And at one time, the position 85 such, that while the- brickyard was stocking its surplus bricks, a contractor, who was building in the next fleld was waiting for bricks, which, when he received them, had Thru the re- actionary element on the council and the action of the rings, the brickworks had to be sold, having proved a fail- ure to solve the problem. In this way private enterprise exploited the posi- tion at every Nt ee. r 2 12 . houses. : fr Bc 2 9 lack pests not sufficient labor to carry out the work, but the labor available had never been absorbed by the industry. The ministry of labor figures show that in December 1924 there were 86,- 025 building trade workers unemploy- ed, and 25,715 of the public works and contracting workers, while in Au- gust when the trade should be at its best, the figures were 78,068 and 22,- 825 respectively. Labor Government and Housing With the advent of a labor govern- ment the workers looked for some re- lief. Mr. Wheatley introduced his | housing bill granting a subsidy of £6 per year covering a period of 20 years, providing that the houses were let at a rent of about 10s. per he terences were called, Hoth Of” workers and the masters, ad gave their word that they would do all they could to make the scheme a success. mit others into the trade after an in- tensive training, and the masters promised not to force up the price of the materials. In spite of this, the price of bricks increased almost the next day, and other materials soon followed suit. The threats of the gov- ernment were of no avail, but they took no action. They were too busy are a comparison: 1914 1918 Increase 1920 Increase Pct. Pot. Bricklayers (per hour)... 10 12d. 1-6d. 71 2-4d. 165 Laborers (per hour)... 6 1-2d. 1-2d. 115 2-1d. 176 Cost of living. * 100 pet. 125 176 Bricks (per 1,000) . 29.0 58.2 81.6 184 Iron pipes (per ton). . £7 2E 14.1 £2346 232 Slates 64.7 222.2 Iron Bars (per ton) 10 £32 246 Nails, 283 pet., timber 300 pet., baths, stoves, etc., 291 pet. — THER material had risen in a similar manner, and it is clear that the scheme failed because the rings exploited the situation. The re- sult was that the rents of the houses were so high that the workers could not afford to pay them, and most of them were compelled to take in lodg- ers and thus bring the authorities up enslaving the German. workers, to think of the workers at home, and having accomplished their task, were thrown out of office before any ma- terial improvement had taken place. Tory Government and Steel Houses TORY government followed, and Lord Weir, who is interested in the Clyde shipyards, found a method against the question of over-crowding (Continued on page 5.) The rings, however, did their best asing a brickworks for the making of The workers agreed to ad- * 2 2 2 i 1 5 * 7 2 8 an —
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— — — 215 of building houses of steel plates. The en of this type, and it was stated on 5 = 7 | ‘i 15 f f : 110 7 7 5 * ion. on the grounds that these men were members of the En- gineers’ Union, and received the agreed rates of that union. 4 2 * rings once more took advant- age of the situation, and the Light Castings Federation, the only pne that need fear no competition, once more put up the price of their goods. The Fight Against Evictions After the end of the war, evictions became prevalent. The control had to some extent been relieved and it was now easier for the owner to ob- tain possession of his house. Many of the owners were desirous of getting rid and in order to get a better price ork i 8 N ye est fy Akl naw ee“, were however, well organ- ized, and were not prepared to take the matter lying down. They rallied their forces to the scenes of 111 8 ti . | t 255 f bers, either prevented the eviction — ‘Xs 50,000 inhabitants, the main part increase. The workers then organ- pt 1 Es il 1 f imprisoned for the part that they have taken in the struggle. Rent Strikes. revolt also found expression in rent strikes which took place in various parts of the country. A Ten- ants’ Defense League had been estab- lished, ‘to defend’ tenants, in the courts against evictions, and illegal increases of rents. The league was controlled by the social democratic element and was most careful to keep well within the law. In Manchester, a rent strike took place. Two streets were involved. not given the necessary “notice quit,” and the ténants, relying on support of the league, had case. The league refused to support as they said it was u — Saz 1 E 4 25 > * 5 ~ “ ig $s 3 - * a. — > ’ = 2 2 57 > * 3 — 7 all ae 2 >a „ 9 * . 2 LYDEBANK is a town of about of whom are engaged in the Engin- firms and in 1914 they tried to force up the rents. The women of the dis- trict revolted and refused to pay the ized for the fight. in the Clydebank from them by issuing notices of eviction, but they were not so easily beaten. Sentries were posted at the time, the workers could be rallied to prevent it. f The landlords then tried the tactic of suing ‘their tenants in court for debt. On the day of the trial, when the courts opened, hundreds of dun- garee clad men, straight from the workshop, crowded into the court, packing it to the doors. The whole of the workers of the district had rallied to the call. E authorities were aghast. Some- thing must be done, so they got in communication with London. Some thing was done, the rent restrictions act was passed. A victory. for work- ing class solidarity. With the termination of the act, the landlords demanded an increase of 60 per cent, although legally they only could claim 331-3 per cent. This the workers refused to pay and in Au- gust, 1920, the whole of Scotland de- clared a one day’s strike in protest. A legal flaw wag round in the no- ‘tices that had been served on them. The landlord and not his agent should | of is — turu. fought them on the grounds that they > - Ti. : : : Vee . K Tr } * 5 1 2 ek? AP * * a SNS “eit a * * U th 75 911 ' but. nowhere in the country | courts and fought on these grounds. was the fight so pers 6 and ten- The decision was given in favor ot as in the Clyde- the tenant, and although it was car- have signed the notice, and they ried to the county sheriff, the court of appeal, ¢ a” and in October, 1920, to the house of lords, the tenant still had the victory. : * 1923, the government passed a bill allowing the tenant to keep the unpaid increases, but made no allow- ance for the return of those that the landlords had received illegally. It also allowed the right of appeal to the court of the sheriff for the making good of any “bona fide” errors or amission that may have been made. This was fought on the grounds that the errors made were not “bona fide” and as yet no settlement of the posi- tion has agreed rent and he would have to com- mence the whole proceedings again. They cannot evict them, for the scouts are still alert. Te labor council and provost are on the workers’ side, altho there are £70,000 owing in rates, while the landlords have 80 far lost £150,000 and the amount is growing at the rate of £50,000 per month. But the work- ers are determined to carry on the fight until their demand for the pre- war standard of rent is granted. The Communist Party. HRUOUT all the phases of the struggle, the Communist Party has been playing its part, encouraging and supporting the workers in the fight, whether in the constitutional or extra constitutional methods, and putting be- fore the workers its program, such as: Adequate house room for all badly housed and houseless workers. Rationing of all housing accom- modation. a No evictions of the workers. No decontrol of rents. Municipal housing schemes by direct labor. and at the same time pointed out to them that the only hope for the solu - tion of this and all the other evils from which they were suffering was thru the revolutionary struggle for the workers’ republic. SUN YATSEN =| The death of Sun Yat Sen, leader of the Chinese people’s party, Kuo- mingtang, has brought to the atten- tion of the world the mighty role played by him in the Chinese inde- pendence movement. He was an un- cempromising foe of western imperial- ism and the Kuomingtang party, un- der his direction, accomplished won- ders in uniting the Chinese masses. He was a friend of Soviet Rus- sia and was largely instrumental in bringing about the alliance between the two nations. crop, we often sell short in the fall to meet pressing obligations. Then too notice where neighbors have sold all their grain to get rid of weed plants that infest the grain since they do not have the necessary machine for jcleaning and the separation of foul seed. In nearly every such case the farmer has sold his grain at threshing time, but finds no seed in the market till the following seeding time. These farmers are especially hard hit bz such market spurts where they were compelled to sell on a low market and buy back when it is high. The grain gambler has all the advantage ove: the grain grower. IGH wheat prices are lauded as the benefactor of the grain grower. This is only a half truth. A few grain growers may temporarily benefit where they have not sold out tho these are exceptional cases. In time the market manipulation gets the best of every grain grower for it de- pends chiefly on the cost of produc tion as to whether the grain grower makes any profit whatever, and these market spurts have the bad effect of boosting the price of necessities and thus increasing the cost of production for every individual grain grower while only a few have perhaps re- ceived any benefit from the increased price of grain. farmer is wrapt up in a system | of production, he is also a con- a number of cases have come to my High Prices and the Farmer sumer of grains for. he is a grower void 4 ; * — 7 ern the result is that the increased cost of feeding become: ® very unprofitable undertaking. The this transaction usually, for grain and milling companies take their profit, from the grain grower and the feeder who frequently are one and the same farmer. 4 Se whichever way the wheel turns it is not our fortune. The producer is always the loser. is a time of peril for the grain grower, seed is high priced with the general result, that when seed is high much seed is put in the ground. In the event of a good gen- eral crop of wheat it frequently takes several bushel of grain at the time oi threshing to pay for one bushel of seed used at the time of seeding, this is especially true of spring grain seeding. So under present conditions if the wheat market drops with the coming of the next harvest the wheat growers will lose heavily. The farmer has learned all this and acts with cau- tion but he is in a position where he is powerless to guard against the in- evitable. the information of those whe think the farmer will be financially benefitted from the increased price of grain, let us say that that will be carefully avoided by the capitalists that prey on the farmer. For the farmer does not set the price on any- | thing he sells nor does he name the rate on ship- . price on anything he must buy. Con- sequently he invariably finds the mar ket down when he sells and up when he must buy. With no stability in prices the farmer has no control whatever over the cost of production; Often the farmer produces a crop that actually cost him more than he can sell it for. It he fortunately gains a little on one crop, he most passuredly will lose on some other. S farmers, our only hope to get more of the product of our labor is to join with the workers in the other industries for workers’ control. There may sometimes be reason to question whether some farmer is act- ing rational but to know the life that he lives and there is no reason to think that he is not a member of the working class. All power to the dictatorship of the proletariat. ‘BEAUTY AND BOLSHEVIK’ | AT THE WICKER PARK THEATER IN CHIGAGO The famous movie “The Beauty and the Bolshevik” which has drawn a gathering of 7,000 people when it was shown in Chicago sometime ago, is coming back to town for one evening only. it will ö be shown on the Northwest side, at Wicker Park Theater, 1139 Mil- waukee Ave., on Wednesday; April 15, from 6:30 to 11 p. m. conti- nually. The proceeds will go to the International Workers’ Aid, the Russian Communist daily Novy Mir, and the Polish Communist paper Tribuna Rabotnicza. bail vu Feo ee ee,
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ͤ—E—jvũ —— . A Ee S8. D. party could not command when Psa - 2 * N eS er b> tava - N „N r n ; : Se ee , Fern Re me wae ft : 2 (Continued from last week.) Heine Nor the Defense. a PEAKING of General Wriesberg, Heine made the following obser- vation in his closing speech: “This man, with whom we spoke and nego- tiated daily, now declares himself un- able to state anything about the standpoint of the social democratic. party.” On the government councillor Hen- ninger: “We learn about him that he was the actual spiritus rector. And this man wanted to render Mr. Ebert harmless long before: To render th. man harmless Who was the strongest man for the national defense! “We can actually scent the atmos- phere of the time preceding the Aug- ust 4, 1914. Bethman Hollweg de- clared this August 4 to be unforget- table. And the kaiser said that he knew no more parties. And there were still people who could not com- prehend that they had now to shake hands with social democrats. “and Henninger wanted to get him | out of the way, this man who was a model of fidelity to the German peo- ple.“ — (Dec. 21, Rote Fahne). “A Preposterbus Idea.” | wus regard to Noske’s visit to Chemnitz, Heine observed: “It ig a perfectly preposterous idea to as- sert that Noske had any intention of causing a strike in Chemnitz, above all a munition strike, . .”—(Dec. 21, Rote Fahne). Heine (barrister): “It is of course possible that the incitenfént and con- tinuation of a workers’ strike, espec- |. ially a munition workers’ strike, can in time of war be classified as high treason. | “This is possible. It was also the opinion held by the S. D. party during fhe war. I am however convinced it the effects of this strike have been exaggerated.“— (Dec. 21, Rote} Fahne). Magic Formula of Parity. | EFERRING to the resistance of- fered by the revolutionary lead- ers to Ebert’s demand for equal rep- resentation in the strike committee, Heine declared: “Parity, this magic word, heard with such delight by the workers. By means of this magic word the Reich was saved from Bol- shevism on Nov. 10, 1918. With the aid of this magic word the S. D. party Was enabled to exercise its political influence, even where, as in Berlin, its organization had broken down. The it was aware that the command would not be obeyed. Had the social demo- crats at that time issued the com- mand: The strike is a crime, we for- bid the strike—they would only have aggravated the strike. “In such cases it is necessary to employ moral influence with great | * Re 2 ne Lae 7 x 7 petence at dangerous moments. Those Who thine of the Chake eanaet — - 6 3 rit: ea 2828 * 0 r, a tes Aa er * * — . Mat an N 1 2 a a A g eo y= ip Td Ne 72 8 a 5 4. 87 * N ae wha 4 * Le me c= r 2 ’ * | | : 115 g i pie i 7 41 11 that time he recognized very well what we had accomplished. Many of these old officials held out faithfully For the week of March 9th to 15th, the South Slavic and Finnish branch- es of the Workers Party and Work- men’s Circle branches lead in the number of contributions to the Labor Defense Council. Bakers’ Union No. 56 of Cleveland donated $25.00 and Lithuanian Womens’ Progressive Al- liance No. 63, Nanticoke, Pa, $30.00. The Detroit local, Labor Defense Council remitted $69.45 in addition $500.00 as part of the proceeds of teh bazaar which the federation of working womens’ organizations made such a good success. There follows a füll list of organ- izations contributed during the week: Bazaar Proceeds, Detroit, . 00 So. Slavic Bureau, Chicago, Hl. 276.41 Labor Defense Council, Detroit Finnish Branch, Cleveland, O. L. M. P. S. No. 63, Nanticoke, Pennsylvania South Slavic Br., Canton, O. Bakers’ Union No. 56, Cleve- Fer the Workers Fahne). * Svs . — — arty Campaign Against Page Cuts and the Open Shop’ — THE capitalist class is slashing wages in the textile indus- try! Wage cuts are in preparation for the coal miners of America! The “open shop” is raising its ugly head, threatening the living conditions of every worker! We must distribute a million leaflets, “Strike Against Wage Cuts!“ * We must organize shop committees! , We must initiate amalgamation of the weak craft unions | into powerful industrial unions! a oe bills! in to the national office. The party must do the work! The party Make a collection at once in your branch and send it 8 a list to your shop and union and make collections all together against wage cuts and against the open care, and there was thus no other WORKERS PARTY OF — a way but to join the strike committee. ‘ | AMERICA, The influence to be exercised upon 1113 W. Washington Blvd, .—s—-—. the strike was not to be in the inter- Chicago, III. ests of the party, as has been asserted i without a shadow of proof, but in the ty . 9500 : — — interests of the state and the coun- . A NAME - ADDRESS . cb Bi, Rake Pakeed. C. C. d., Toledo, Ohio 15.008 7 2 AMOUNT © ; W. C. Branch No, 234, Dallas 2 1 N Texas 6 * 2 ¥ Bulldoze the Masses! | ace ee ee — - — " | Bridgeport, Conn. 10,00 ITH reference to the leaflet dis- C. S. P. S. No. 9 Cleveland, O. 10.00 — tributed with Ebert's agreement, Finnish Branch, Mohwak, Mich. 9.26 : Heine declared: Finnish Br., Frederick, 8. D.. 6.26 , — “In leaflets one is inclined to ex Finnish Branch, Lowel, Mass. 5.00 aggerate; and Scheidemann did the | W. P. Lith-Br., Berkeley, Cal. 5.00 , * — same thing in his speech of Novem- | Finnish Branch, New London, ber 9. But what else could he have Conn. „ 6.00 5 — said to the masses? Whether the [A. 8. & C. A., Philadelphia, : people had been victorious on Mo-] Pennsylvania . . 6.25 , vember 9, or somebody else, these | Finnish Branch, Ironwood, L. I. 4 : * were mere rhetoric flourishes.“ N. I. . 5.00 * . N (Dec. 21, Rote Fahne). Workmen's Circle No. 225, New 2 * ° York, N. Y. 5.00 ' | Akron, Ohio, C. C. C. W. P... 4.00 A | Wiehe — W. C. No. 63, Brooklyn, N. T. 3.00 a W. C. No. 383 Savannah, Ga. 3.00 Sender: EINE (barrister): “Since the so W. C. No. 315 Brooklyn, N. ¥. 100 8 cial democrats had taken part ini W. C. No. 272 New York City 1.00 Address: . : ee Eo ean — — — „ee eee rr 2 . » es . 2 ——
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— S 71 M2 * 4 OT CORSO ie per. 1 N 2 25 — id kid ‘ na 2 — 5 3 A EO in 4 i ia nt Phat - + « 2 2 . = N. — By IDA DAILES. ANY of us have “learned about women” of Russia from Tolstoi, Dostoievski, Gorki, Chekhov, and other great Russian writers of the years preceding the 1917 revolution. To us, generally speaking, the Russian women fall inte three board groups: the neurotic, amorous woman of so- ciety as typified by Anna Karenina; the victim of the wife- peasant described to us by |; and tne m- teresting prostitute who seemed to be a fascinating subject for most of tne Russian writers. There was much of | history the | not only because of the intrin- — eomaatic types which were de- scribed but also because they were aided by the pens of the masters who presented them. OWEVER, I have just finished reading a little pamphlet entit- led “Work Among Women,” which contains a number of reports on vari- ous phases of the work of the Russian Communist Party and the Soviet gov- ernment among the women of Russia and the Eastern Soviet republics. And it seems to me that there is more ro- mance in the facts, figures, analysis and plans contained in these reports than there is in all the work of all the masters of Russian literature. Here the words are inspired not by literary genius, not by the urge of the artist to express himself, but by the simple necessity of stating what has been done, what the conditions are and what must be done. And it is truly remarkable to learn what has been done under the terrible heritage that was left to the Russian working class, and especially the working women of Russia, by czarist oppression, war, revolution, blockade and famine. ~~ . + the rs * ’ “In the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, Communist women con- centrate all their talents and ener- gies on constructive work, on the social reconstruction of their respec- women workers to the economic and social reconstruction of their respec tive countries. The missed oppor- tunities of many centuries are to be made good over night. “The reports of our women com- rades are nothing but records of hard, practical and fruitful work. This work may seem to many hum- drum, even ‘reformist.’ But those whose souls and minds are open to.. the great symphony of the class con- scious march towards Communism, will be able to detect revolutionary chords even in this everyday work. They will realize that these reports are a record of untiring, self-sacri. ficing and skillful work and a reflex of the creative forces within the women’s movement. All this char acterizes not only the leading wo- men comrades, but also the millions of women among whom they work.” The reports contained in the pam- : NOTE We have been kor- tunate in securing & — large shipment of this working class drama, by a master propagan- dist at a specially low rate that enables us to sell it at a mark below the usual selling price. Take advantage of it. pap AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA glamor of romance about these | tp United States. The contrast between enslaved women of the East and that of the United States in dealing with their governments. But in Soviet Rus- sia formal decrees are not enough. The problem of bringing these women up to the economic and cultural level of the advanced sections of working women is being tackled vigorously and practically. Among other things, east. ern women are being drawn into the Communist university and then sent back to the east to carry on theoretica and practical education and recon- struction among their countrywemen. the Communist Parties of i the western countries have en- tirely different problems to meet in their work among women, every Com- munist can read this pamphlet with interest and profit. Russia will have much te contribute to the of : their own countries. “The Processional” A Cross Section of American Life. Forty-Ninth Street Theater, New York. ciety in 1 THEATER GUILD have once again jarred the conventional and long-established. Last season we had the R. U. R.“ and the World We Live In.“ Now we have The Proces- sional” a jazzy cross section of Am- erican life upon which the critics are furiously disagreeing. The scene is laid in West Virginia a Heart reporter (who is sorry for everybody but can’t do a thing about it). 'n a Yiddish business man afflicted with a jazz-mad daughter (not satis- fied with the “Victerola” that her pa- has bought for her)’n Psinski, the Pol- ish-born strike leader who welcomes a week with the hero “Dynamite Jim” in a cellar as a golden opportunity to “explain the workers’ position in o 2. , ae the Soviet method of dealing with the |, women of with a strike n soldiers 'n sheriff en the daughter of the Jewish busines: cal. It stings and lashes and plays havoc with Babbittry, conservative ante. { industrial jungle with its in- Singing Jail Birds A Drama in four Acts By . Upton Sinclair About which Mike Gold says: “It is terrible, bitter truth, and some of the scenes brought the tears to my newspaper sterile eyes..... “The play has great sweep, and a real power in moving the heart. Some of the scenes are experience—the — death, the e a real 18 CENTS A from — The Daily Work Literature Department 1113 W. 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