Daily Worker
March 25, 1925
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O’FLAHERTY —_ ENTLE hints appear in the news dispatches from China on the ad- visability of capitalist intervention to save that country from the warring : generals whose armies number in the; aggregate approximately 2,000,000. What the scribes of the bourgeoisie mean is, that the tremendous unex- ploited wealth of China must be saved tor the pluiderbund whose itching fingers have hitherto been unable to close on the juciest plums because of the opposition of Sun Yat Sen, now lead. NEW YORK, ORTUNATELY for. the capital- ist powers, the history of their re- lations with China.in the past is not conducive to breeding conficence in ‘their future dealings. The death of Sun Yat Sen is a heavy ross to the Chinese masses but the Koumingtang party still remains and the power of the workers and peasants of Russia is behind the exploited masses who stood with Sun thru the many years of his conflict with the greedy capi- talists. ; annual St. Patrick's Fifth Avenue. ** ® HE catholic church which is such a bulwark of “law and order” is proving in France and in Mexico that, when its interests are threatened, it mobile. Relief Committee Leads St. Patrick’s Parade (Special to The Daily Worker.) March 23.—The fam- ine in the west of Ireland was drama- tically brought to the attention of Gov- ernor Al Smith and Mayor Hylan, yes- terday, by members of the Workers Party and representatives of the Irish Workers’ and Peasants’ Famine Relief Committee when, banners describing the distress of 750,000 workers peasants were carried in front of the automobile in which the mayor and governor were seated, as they led the Day parade up Several Irish comrades broke thru the masses on the sidewalks and step- ped in front of the governor’s auto- Smith called the adjutant to remove them, but the demonstrators were not daunted by the military dis-| (Continued on page 6.) MINERS, HOUSED. INTENTS, FACE Factories . per Tipples Lost in Storm MURPHYSBORO, Ill. March 23.— With more than 175 of her dead laid ‘to rest in the St. Andrews and Tower )Grove cemeteries, Murphysboro turned toward its relief work and repneait ation today. Fifty one of the more seriously ink jured were taken by special train to St. Louis hospitals. Funeral services were held from dawn to dusk Sunday Tents. have been received for all the homeless and those who have been road etations and public buildings are equipped only temporarily with living quarters, food and clothing. ~ Industries here must be reconstruct- ed. A force of workmen is employed rebuildnig the Brown factory, the Mobile and Ohio railroad shops, and roundhouse. The M. & O. R. R. shops, division offices and railway station were de- molished. throws its pacifist pretentions to the winds and fights vigorously for its privileges even against the existing governments. In Alsace, school chil- dren ‘were called on strike against th« secularization of the schools and the bishops issued a statemerP denouncing the government teachers for pervert- ing the willg of the children with ra- tionalist ideas. The extreme con- servatives are lined“up with the Aish- ops against Herriot. The cardinals declare that politics must be subordin- ate to religion, which means that the government must _be subordinate to cult factories. MacDONALD, BRITISH SOCIALIST LEADER, PAYS TRIBUTE TO LATE LORD CURZON ‘=m = LONDON, March 23.—Fulsome eulogies of the late Lord Curaen were delivered in the house of commons today by Premier Stanley Baldwin and former Premiers MacDonald and Lloyd George. journed today in Pespect to. the memory of the notorious reactionary re-/| presentative of the British ruling class. it is quite likely that MacDonald’s tribute to one of labor’s greatest foes will result in more trouble for the beneficiary of Sir Alexander Grant's bis- the church. > * 8 I" Mexico the slumbering hostility to the chufeéh which has existed since |. the Carranza reveglt, broke out “mage last week in Mexico City resulting in loss of life. A section of the clergy and the. least supersititious of the catholic population | have decided to sever relations with Rome. . It appears that the Calles government turned wer one of the . richest, fowing sell of losing their property, so they fight or get others’ to fight for them. + ENERAU” pawne intends to carry his fight against the senate fules to the country during the sum- mer in a serigs of speeches. We are also informed that he has presented refractory senatof% with specimens of his famous underslung pipe. Pehaps it is the pipe of peace, or it may be possible that the wily goddess nicotine / js capable of sending the enemies of the vice-president into deep slumber hru the ministrations of the pipe. ‘Beware of Greeks bearing gifts” should be the slogan of the senators whom Dawes wishes to placate with jis briars. badges of servility—thé” and apron, and donned existence must be granted ee proprietors. HE British tory government is go- ing ahead with its project to build the Singapore naval base. This is looked upon as a threat against Japan. Ramsay MacDonald in the house of commons warned the government that Soviet Russia was gaining increasing influence in the Far East and that the building of this base would tend to throw the people of the Orient still closer to the Communist government. This he suggested rather than said, was one of the greatest dangers liable to spring from the tory decision td re. build the Singapore base. MacDonald is a socialist of the Victor Berger- Morris Hillquit type. ~* * HE German campaign for the presi- dency of the republic has opened. The Communist candidate is Thael- mann. Dr. darres, the candidate of the right bloc, insists that he is loyal to the republic but insists also that he must have the right to express his admiration for the old imperial colors and his contempt for the November revolution which sent the kaiser into exile. There is no doubt but in the event of the victory of the right bloc at the polls, that steps will be taken (Continued-on page 6) in the slightest. store in Brooklyn. The first day of the strike small chain settlements fast enough. Lyons fair. of various Ukrainian goods disposed of at the fair. tobacco and medicinal herbs By ‘Giiward "Schwartz. (Special to The Daily Worker.) BROOKLYN, N. Y., March 23:—The retail grocery and dafry'clerks of Brooklyn are out on a g@neral strike. On last Wednesday morhifg at 10 o’clock 500 clerks diséardéad their white coat the union badge of struggle, consisting of*strike picket signs on their chests ard backs. Police Fail to Cow Them, These signs declared that they would work no more for 12 to 15 hours a day, but only nine hours, and that $15 to $25 a week will not be accepted as a wage, but their demand for a $35 minimum to enable them to eke out an by the The interference of police and gang- sters did not affect their militant spirit They declare they will tie up Brooklyn in their fight to unionize around these demands every Many Settlements Made. brought 100 settlements with individual and store proprietors. organizer of the union, David Vacker, says he cannot satisfy the demand for The The strikers meet daily at the of- fice of the union, 204 East Broadway, New York City, and are being ad- dressed by the leading members and officers of the union, the largest per- centage of whom are members of the Workers. (Communist): Party or the Trade Union Educational League. The Ukraine Goes to Lyons. MOSCOW, U. 8. S. R.—The Ukraini- an economic organizations are active- ly preparing for participation in the It is expected that not less than three million rubles’ worth. will be The main items are bristle, horse hair, feathers, . SOLIDARITY WITH FILIPINOS UNDER MURDEROUS MILITARIST RULE OF U. S. EXPRESSED BY COMMUNISTS On the receipt of the news of the massacre of Filipino rice field work- ers, who where making demands upon the landlords of Nueva Ejica, by Philippine constabulary and government troops ordered to the scene by Governor-General Leonard Wood, the central executive committee of the Workers (Communist) Party of America has sent the following statement to the workers’ and peasants’ organization of the Philippines: * Pe * x TO THE PHILIPPINE WORKERS AND PEASANTS: The murder of Macabula, leader of the poor.peasants of the Nueva Ecija j wice fields, proves once again that American imperialism is your deadly enemy, determined to crush all resistance and to bend you to its money-mad NARIMANOY, ONE. OF SOVIET'S LEADERS IS DEAD IN MOSCOW (Special to The Daily Worker.) MOSCOW, March 23.—Nariman Narimanov, representative of the ‘three Trahecaucnstan Soviet re- 4 ie 5 ae “. NS Be cic h *. died here of heart disease. Comrade Narimanoffff was one of the leading Communists of Asiatic Russia. .He formerly served as pre- mier of Azerbaijan, and was the Soviet representative to the Genoa conference in 1921. JOHNSTON TALKS TO JOHNSTON IN ENGINEERS’ HALL By ALFRED WAGENKNECHT (Special to The Daily Worker.) CLEVELAND, March 23.—“Guess we will have to go out and hire an audience.” These were the first words I heard when I entered engineers’ auditorium. I looked towards the speaker and found “B. & O.” Johnston, president of the International Associa- tion of Machinists the person address- ed, A Funeral “B. & O.” Johnston had been brought to Cleveland by the progress- ive party of Cuyahoga county to stir it into life. All the meeting needed was the sweet scent of roses to make it a funeral. LaFollette got a major- ity of 8,000 votes in Cleveland in the presidential election. Eighty political butterflies decor- ated eighty of the twelve hundred seats in engineers’ auditorium to learn what happened in Chicago. In Chi- cago a few short weeks ago Mr. John- ston was turned down cold by the railroad brotherhoods. This frost was no less apparent at his meeting in the (Continued on page 6) BRITONS DOUBT APPEARANCE OF BEN. MUSSOLINE (Special to The Daily Worker.) LONDON, March 23.—The report, of Benito Mussolini's appearance at the celebration of the sixth year of the fascisti organization is received with considerable skepticism - in -Englapd. & is pointed out that strict censorship prevails in Italy and that owing to the recent strike of metal workers the fascist regime igs in greater danger of being toppled over than at any time since the, black shirts marched on Rome. Fascist dispatches say that the dic- tator spoke. enly for-a few minutes from the,balcony of the foreign office | JOBLESS PERIOD} with réligious services over each body, | forced .to sleep in store rooms, rail-| The house of lords ad-| — | Square Garden." “NEW YORK EDITION ' Publighed daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WO.KER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, IL Price 3 Cents 10) ‘that the local scale recom mended n, president Low Scale. imptiy informed sal “had voted st in touch with et matters right, ‘Consider any at- uot the alleged re- y, but declared penters get for théir Iabor, the more the employers: will’have to spend on their luxuries for ‘themselves and their numerous «parasites. Perhaps— but not one carpenter in a thousand believes that Jengen’s insistence on a lower scale for: carpenters than the painters are ing is done from any other motive'than one of self in- terest. In other: words they believe he is making his hay at their ex- pense. ““Milltarist Gets the Job. WASHINGTON, March 23.—General John J. Pershing, commander in chief of the American forces in the world war, today was named by President Coolidge as president of the plebiacit- ary commission which will supervise the holding of a plebiscite to decide the sovereignty of the disputed pro- vinces of Tacna and Arica, between Chile and Peru. Pay for a PROPAGANDA SUB out of your own pocket: to convince your shop-mate. CAPITALIST COURTS SHOW DETERMINATION ‘TO GET’ COMMUNISTS NEW YORK; March 23.—More Communists arecon trial, The cap- italist court issdetermined to get the three yourtg Cemmunists who were arrested on Friday, March 13, for rehearsing fo# the Paris Com- mune Pageant which was such a tremendous success at Madison The “Communists must be shown their places.” The Michigan. «cases are still be- fore the capitalist*courts—and more of the comrades»will be brought to trial in a short time. The cases of Lassen and Vijtaver, Communist edi- tors, are still pending. These three new cases must be defended with all energy. These young comrades face deportation."Such people ought to be shipped out of the country,” said the judge. THEY SHALL NOT BE DEPORT- ED—and they will not be deported, if the class-conscious workers comé to their defense. Funds are requir- ed thousands of dollars will be needed. Send your contributions to the Labor Defense Council, New York division, 8 East i4th St. Collect in the shops, trade unions, and fraternal! organizations. Let the workers know bow.the capitalist government treatm the workers of this country. Agitate—mobilize the workers to the defense of the revo- ideo _- Goattaed om vagy, 1), / | and that 454,009 people cheered him.| lutionary workenme : 3 = ee wet 3 ’ : ih a ; ; - ; i‘ — ee a *STANISLAV LANZUTSKY Polish Communist deputy now facing "; ‘death at the hands of the white terror. LABOR DEFENSE ASKS FUNDS FOR STRICKEN LABOR Miners of the Storm Area Need Aid The condition of the thousands of coal miners and other workers in the storm devastated district of southern Illinois, -was taken up at the last reg- ular meeting or the Chicago Council for Labor Defense and Relief, and the several score of delegates from local unions and working class fratefnal ‘jand political organizations responded with enthusiasm. The local secretary, Wm. F. Kruse, pointed out that such catastrophes | were éxploited by capitalist relief ‘for working class wencies for entt-labor purposes, ce ar cover of the. partiiouske, and ciate instances. This storm-swept. area em- braced also some of the most militant of the miners’ union locals, and the International Workers’ Aid was duty bound to see to it that these militants were not made to suffer by capitalist discrimination. Working class relief needs has been practiced extensively in Europe, and recently the Dortmund mine disaster was made an inspiring demonstration of international solidarity. Aid For Miners. The storm that has just visited in- expressible suffering on a large sec- tion of the union coal_miners and other workers in southern Illinois and the adjecent fields, beat down the workers’ resistance and destroy their union organization, This danger is particularly present in a district such as this, which has been at the forefront of militant struggle against both the bosses and the labor bureaucrats. The Chicago Council for Labor De- fense and Relief therefore calls on the organized workers thruout the state and nation to be on guard against attempts to use the capitalist char- \itable agencies to discriminate against the more militant workems, and calls for a working class relief fund from the labor movement thru the Interna- tonal Workers’ Aid - Start Collections Immediately. Plans were outlined immediately to take collections at dances given by the Workers Party branches in Cicero and on the south side, as well as on Sunday gatherings of Russian, Jewish and [talian workers. Coal mfners from the stricken area will report on the needs of their dis tricts and will canvass local union: and other organizations to raise this fund. All contributions should go to the Il. W. A., 19 8. Lincoln St., Chicago. subscribe! TO PROBE MINE BLAST AS ALL 34 BODIES ARE TAKEN FROM W. VA, PIT (Special to The Daily Worker.) BARRACKSVILLE, W. Va., March thirty bodies had been removed from mine 41 here, wrecked by an explosion last Tuesday night. found and will be removed to the surface late this afternoon, rescue leaders said, following which an “offi- tial investigation” will be started by Governor Gore and other officials to determine the cause of the disaster. is likely to be'| seized by the capitalist class to further | Talk it up—your shopmate will | 23.—Up to 1 o’clock this afternoon | The other three bodies have been — remains unchanged. by the strikers and cheered at every speeoh. Yesterday Chiccolini talked to 500 miners at Allison. He explained the necessity of unity with all other rank and file miners if they want victory. Chiccolini is well-known about the coke region and the mipers know him from the 1922 strike when he fought the Lewis machine. A Victim of Lewis. At the last international convention at Indianapolis, Lewis denied Chicco- lini a séat, altho he had a regular cre- dential from the local of which he is president. The miners do not trust the Lewis machine any more, and rely only in the leadership of the Progressive Min- ers’ Committee who they know will not betray them as Lewis did in 192 Resolved to Fight Under Progressives Once, at least, the workers are opening their eyes and beginning to realize that only under the leadership of the Progressive Miners’ Committee of the Trade Union Educational League and with the guidance of the Workers (Communist) Party, can they have victory. Forty-five thousand miners are re- solved not to allow the bosses to im- pose this dastardly wage cut! | PEASANT LEADERS OF PHILIPPINES HELD BY WOOD'S GOSSACKS March. 23.—One ganization here which has been fight: ing for contracts with the large land- owners which would assure a decent living,- have beé@n arrested, charged with sedition. The arrests were made by constabulary sent out by General Leonard: Wood, who has been aiding the landowners, many of whom are American capitalists. The constabulary have been trying to crush the peasants’ resistance to conditions which verge. on actual slavery. Macabula, leader of the rice growers, has been killed, and seven rother leaders were slaughtered by Wood's American constabulary. The peasants organization numbers more ‘than 12,000 tenants. (Special to The Daily Worker) UNIONTOWN, Pa., March 23.—The situation of the coke minede? walkout All the operators have cut wages from 35 to 50 per cent. The miners have not accepted this infamous wage cut, and have aban- doned work about 95 per cent being out on an unorganized strike. approximately 45,000 miners in the coke region. T. U. E. L. Committee Leads Strike, y _ Meetings are being held everywhere by the aid and initiative of the Progressive Miners’ Committee, members who were formerly expelled from the United Mine Workers of America by John L. Lewis and his machine. They are welcomed enthusiastically? There are , death, by the ment because he exposed the brutal POLISH WORKER MUST NOT DIE LABOR’S SLOGAN New York Meeting fo Protest Hanging NEW YORK, March 23.—The work ers of this city will stage a mighty protest against the threatened execu- tion of the Communist deputy Lanzut- sky of Poland, in a monster mass meeting which will Be held In the Central Opera House, Wednesday evening, March 25, under the auspices, of the Workers Party, Young Workers League and the International Work. ers’ Aid. In a statement issued by the ar- rangements committee the Polish gov- ernment is warned that the workers of the world are watching its actions closely and the death of Comrade Lanzutsky will not be without serious consequences to the fascist govern- ment of Poland. “Lanzutsky, Communist deputy in the Polish parliament is sentenced to white guard govern- g@ttion of the Polish © bourgeoisie against the workers and peasants” | reads the statement,-and-“‘fig) ting for the workers is a crime in Poland and also in Spain where Manrin-leader of the Spanish workers is in jail await- ing execution.” Mossaiye Olgin, editor of Novy Mir, Israel Amter, Joseph Manely, Ludwig Lore, Jack Stachel and William Wein- stone will be the speakers. Delay Judge’s Hearing. EAST ST. LOUIS, IIL, March 23.— With one witness mysteriously miss- ing and another dead—killed at Mur- physboro in the tornado there—the congression sub-committee probing the official conduct of Federal Judge George W. English, adjourned until tomorrow. WITH POISON POLISH POLICE KILL WORKERS GAS DURING FIGHT the Communist Party, met his fate. Kamienski. men, who had already been wounded. was used in the class war. MOSCOW, March 23.—In February (Poland), the agent provocateur Kamienski, who had insinuated himself into The police made an attempt to arrest the workers Valtshik and Piarski, whom they suspected of the murder of The two men blocked up the entrance, offered resistance. opened fire, which lasted for several hours, but failed to get at the workmen altho they had the assistance of a military detachment. ployed poison gas, by which means they succeeded in killing the two work in the mining district Dombrova The police Finally they em. This is the first time that poison gas REACTION IN UNION AND CHURCH RESTRAINS TEXTILE WORKERS FROM ‘DISTURBING THE BOSS’ WILLIMANTIC, Conn., Willimantic to all labor papers. spiracy of silence. By WILLIAM SIMONS. (Special to The Daily Worker) March 23.— Willimantic at the beginning of the strike, was no working machinery for giving out news. members of the strike committee that a daily As soon as the writer appeared in he immediately noted that there He suggested to several bulletin be sent out from It_ was soon apparent that all the capitalist papers of Hartford, New Haven and other cities were maintaining a con- The suggestion was repeated to Miss Amy Hooker, chairman of the grievy- ance committee (not called a strike committee), |izer for the United Textile Workers and to Miss Kelleher, organ- of America, from Scranton, Pa. The | arrived. | Red Tape Excuse for Doing Nothing. | This was not done, and the next day, Thursday, I had a meeting with the press committee, where | laid the | plams-for a press bulletin before them, offering wy services to institute it. |The press\committee did not feel au- latter replied that ityjwould be taken | up with President McMahon, when he | $15,000.00 Blast Shakes Up Chicago Stockyards District The stock yards here were thrown into a panic today when a terrific ex- plosion lifted the roof from the build- ing housing the Live Stock Press, inc., shattered scores of windows in ad- | yhorized to act, and referred it to the | _Joining buildings and caused damage | grievance committee that afternoon. | |The understanding in the morning | was that | would be given an oppor- (Continued on Page 6) lestimated at $15,000. Two employees in the press building escaped unin- jured. Gas which accumulated from a leaking pipe, is believed to have caus- ed the blas¢ ee ee tee ~, és ga
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TEXTILE WORKERS STILL UNDER CAPITALISM HEAR HOW WORKERS LIVE IN SOVIET RUSSIAN MILLS The textile workers of America, hundreds of thousands of them, are being driven deeper and deeper into misery, low wages, and extreme ex- ploitation by their capitalist masters in combination with the powers of the capitalist government. a In this moment, when their eyes and hearts are filled with tears of both suffering and anger, a letter comes to them, which the DAILY WORKDR publishes below, telling them how the textile workers of the cotton mills of Soviet Russia live, and how they control their owns, lives thru their own workers’ Soviet governmént which they won by revoltuion. The letter ory tre Coe ts ai NO we i § PETERSBURG” IN UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS only ‘giving you a wrong idea of the BERLIN, March 23.—Letters ad- life of Russian workers, but is even dressed to “St. Petersburg, Russia” distorting facts, I who am myself a worker will endeavor to descrfbe in were returned to the German postal authorities in Berlin with the nota- this letter our factory life to help to give you a right idea of it. _ “Our factory is in the center of the textile industry, in the Ivanovo-Voz- tion “Country and city unknown.” Soviet postal authorities have sent’ the following instructions to Berlin: “St. Petersburg” is now Leningrad. nesensk district. It is a cotton mill All letters addressed to Russia must which employs eleven and a half thousand men and women. After the be addressed to the “Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.” October revolution our workers took the factory into their own hands and kept it going. The workers chose from amongst themselves capable people from the bench, and _ these elected persons became the head of the management. Our workers were not long in realizing that they them- selves were the true masters of this gigantic enterprise. “Once workers have assumed pow- er, they begin to improve the condi- tions under which they have to work and live, and they impfove production at the same time. They formed a protection of labor department which looks after the needs of the workers: provides them with suitable clothes and footwear, fats (if necessary for | the kind of work they perform), etc. We have special rest homes where those whose health has suffered can spend from a fortnight to one month with full pay. Workers who are tu- bercular are sent to sanitoria, and health resorts for longer periods, and they also receive their full pay. In 1924, over 600 of our workers spent some time in rest homes, sanitoria, and health resorts. “Working women—the mothers— are also well looked after, and per- haps their privileges are greater than those of the men. For instance, dur- Wng pregnancy they are given two months’ leave of absence and two months after the birth of the child. During these four months they receive full pay and their places are kept open for them. During the nine months when she is nursing the child, a working woman works only six hours instead of eight while receiving full pay. During this period she re- ceives a special monthly grant. “We have children’s homes and creches where mothers can leave their children and can be certain that they are better looked after there than at home. All this is provided ‘ free of charge. Our working women have been given equal rights with men and are drawn everywhere into social work. In our factory there is not a single organiation without its quota of women. They are on the factory committee, in the club, in the co-operative, etc. There are women who occupy responsible posts such as -~hairman of factory committees, fac- tory managers, etc. In our factory sngineers are only employed as ex- verts. Relations between them and he workers have undergone a com- yléte, change. “Our workers have no longer to ‘bmit to rough treatment by the en- ineers, as the latter are aware that ey will be dismissed for such be- ivior. And the time is not far dis- nt when we shall have our own en- ineers, technicians, chemists, mech- nics, etc., who have sprung from the vorking class. “For young workers there is in our actory an apprenticeship school vhere they get a thoro training and rom where they can enter higher ‘ducational establishments. Their labor is also protected. “The factory has a club where the workers can increase their knowledge. [t has a well-stocked library and a reading room, and all sorts of circles and sections are organied by the workers themselves. The former masters would not have given all this to the workers, and neither will yours. “For the adult men and women there is a higher grade school. The attendance there is not very numer- | ous—about 300 people a day. On leaving this school they will go to higher educational establishments, as the doors of universities and techni- cal colleges are opened wide to our workers. tions of the leader of the world pro- letariat, Comrade Lenin. “Dear foreign comrades, should this letter be reprinted in your press, I will write you regularly every month in more detail and will describe the life of our peasantry. “My comrades and I await your re- ply, and shall be particularly glad to receive a letter from the textile work- ers in your country. “With Comradely Greetings, “Malyshev, Workers’ Correspondent of the Wall Newspaper, Rodnikovsky Rabotchy.” Defies Virgin Island Council’s Demand for Police Force Change NEW YORK; March 23.—Governor Philip Williams of the Virgin Islands, a U. S. naval appointee, is playing the part of a most hard boiled colonial governor. Replying to the Colonial Council's three resolutions calling for investi- gation of the police force, for a new form of government to replace the naval administration, and for a new franchise law extending the popular vote, Governor Williams says coldly: “After mature consideration of the matter contained in these resolutions, I cannot help feeling that the interest of the people of these islands would be better served in some other way... I cannot help but feel that any step 6f the colonial council which might lead to political agitation at the pres- ent time would be unwise.” The governor also failed to give the council satisfaction for a statement recently made by his police chief No- lan that “these niggars down here don’t want law and order.” Metal Manufacturers Grow. MOSCOW, U. 8. 8S. R.—Leningrad reports show that the Northwestern engineering works trust has produced over six million rubles’ worth of vari- ous metal manufactured articles dur- ing the first quarter of the current working year (October-December, 1925), as compared with only four million rubles’ worth produced during the same period of the year 1923-24. Hold Up Drill Masters’ Pay. ““WASHINGTON, March 23.—Presi- dent Coolidge has directed the war department not to spend the $1,332,000 appropriated by congress for pay of members of the national guard in a number of states for armory drills, pending further consideration of the advisability of spending the money, it Was announced today. Traction Crash Killed Seven SPRINGFIELD, Ill, March 23.—With the death Sunday night of Mrs. J. W. Clear, wife of Girard, Ill, garage proprietor, the death toll in the in- terurban crash south of Cartinville on March 20, today stood at seven, Mrs. Clear died in St. John’s Hospital here, from a broken back and internal in- juries. Prepare New Blows at Workers. WASHINGTON, March 23.—The United State supreme court recessed today until April 13. Many decisions will be prepared during the recess. ~ Spanish Air Pilot MELILLA, Lieut. Killed. Morocco, March 23.— “The adult and young workers of Lopez Hildalgo died here to- our factory publish wall newspapers. day of injuries, suffered in an airplane Thru this press many shortcomings | crash. are remedied, production is improved | and old customs and habits are com- batted—the achievements of these wall newspapers are very great in- deed. Production is growing from month to month. “Our workers are anxious in all their doings to carry out the injunc- Zaghulul Pasha Chosen Speaker. CAIRO, March 23.—Zaghlul Pasha was elected speaker of the Egyptian chamber of deputies today. GET A SUB AND GIVE ONE! 16,000 NEW SUBS BY JUNE 16! and four other persons were killed today when their airplane fell in flames | —_--- ~~ s* _wn tl The Dally Worker) ROME, March 28.—The labor situ- ation is almost normal again today, work haying been resumed almost (Special to everywhere, It is stated that the strike will cease today in the few places where the men are still out. Resumption of work is complete in Turin, except at ¢he plant of the Fiat Motor company, nh declared it would end its lockout on Monday. At Trieste and Monfalcone an agreement has been ‘between the masters and the men whit! become effec- tive next ’ } Tho the . ted in only a brief jon of work, there is no doubt that the | stirred up a dangerous hort nest by calling the strike in Lo .. The spell which the fascisti over the work- ers in the last two years was broken and there ig ty in restraining the workers fr | demands for increasing their. a hundredfold. Other ries of workers, espe- cially the textile.srorkers, are now in - agitation declaring that the soaring living costs gy, Sorel present wag- es insufficient. veness of the laboring masses is everywhere appar- ent. * Besides, by stirring up rivalry be- tween the fascist and the socialist trade unions for favor, the masses are inclined in each organization to make excessive demands upon the indus- trialists, lest one group be forestalled by another. In addition, the recent labor agita- tion fostered by the fascisti has alien- ated the support of many induétrial- ists, who have hitherto backed fas- cism, even contributing party funds, considering the gift a kind of insur- ance policy against the possibility of strikes. Plan New Outlet for -Union Kentucky Coal WASHINGTON, ‘March 23.—The Owensboro Rockport and Chicago Railway company filed a brief with the interstate cOmmerce commission today asking authority to construct a line between Bimora, Ind., and Owens- boro, Ky., crossing the Ohio river at a point midway between Rockport and Owensboro on & dge to be built as ms road will provide @ connecting link between the transpertation systems of the north and south, provide another crossing point on the Ohio river, give transportation to large coal fields in Southern Indiana, now without such facilities, give an outlet to the north- ern markets for Kentucky coal and prove of advantage to farming in- terests of Southern Indiana and a portion of Kentucky. Miners Rush to Do Storm Relief Work ae 1s Harrisburg, Ill... March 23. — The mines in Gallet Saree and Hamil- ton counties, y found barely enough men at work to start opera- tions. The miners have rushed to the storm-stricken areas to do relief work. Hundreds more will leave tomorrow. Many miners have refused pointblank to work at their daily tasks and threat- ened to quit if such action was neces- sary to expedite their journey to the stricken districts. Flood Follows Storm at Griffin. GRIFFIN, Ind., March 23.— Flood waters closed in om what once was Griffin from three sides today, wash- ing away wreckage and driving relief workers to safety. But there was little left for the flood to destroy. Qnily one house was left standing that the tornado passed, and all survivors of the storm have fled. Authorities in charge of the situa- tion have forbidden the sale of rail- road tickets to G except to those having Red Cross permits. Five Burn to Death In Firetrap Blaze NEW YORK, March 23.—Five per- sons, including twe women and two children, were burned to death in an East 47th St. firetrap here. Four per- sons were badly burmed when the old ll-family tenement-was destroyed. Including those kilea were Mrs. Katherine Walsh and her 17 months old baby son, Joseph; Mrs. Margaret Otto and her six year old daughter, Blanche, and Thomas Carey. Spanish Dictator Totters MADRID, Spain, March 23.—Primo de Rivera, military"dictator of Spain, has not put into force any reforms which he promised the workers of Spain. Rivera decréed reorganization of the municipal gevernment a year ago but made no mbbve to put it into effect. The genera# rules Spain by virtue of the support of part of the army. He has no parliament. | } : _ | ie Feast aind Fascisti Show Unitec Front of the Capitalists || By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL Party for — B Rass it is easy to study the unity of the whole capitalist class thru two such events in New York City as William Randolph Hearst’s “ ambassador to Spain, como de Martino. lin Many bankers, industrialists and their intellectual hire- were present at both affairs, crawlin in homage to two of the bloodiest dictatorships in the world today— Spain and Italy. as ) ected to associate in such earst’s money, taken from millions who believe that his oe the capitalists, paid for u papers fight in their interests one of these affairs, that sho so-called “insurgent” politicians, like 8 S. Copeland, U. S. senator from New York, a Tammany ate of New York’s labor officialdom, along with a melange of “grand dukes ses” from Russia, of the vintage antedating Judge Elbert H. Gary, head of the U. S. Steel corpora- tion, an ardent admirer of Mussolini, must have choked a little as Thomas W. Lamont, of J. P. Morgan & Co., faith in the economic future of Italian fascist rule, news was still fresh of the strike of 100,000 metal workers. The fascisti spell over masses of Italian workers is broken, and Gary knows what that means. this luncheon to Mussolini’s representative, in addition to Gary, Lamont and a host of others like them, there were pre- residents and professors from the ornell Univers of New York, and other “Goose- Dr. James R. Angell, president of ‘hasten showed how much they are being depended on to elp put the fascisti idea over in this country. The cement the American alliance with It sent chancellors, York University, help ror’ rule over labor. The Hearst affair at the alien Ritz-Carlton fell under the censor’s blue ro insofar as the Hearst press is concerned. for the common reader of the Hearst sheets to know the company that the multi-millionaire publisher keeps. Some of his bunk might not then rest so easily upon It is not goo their stomachs. Moore is a Pittsburgh editor; co-worker with Hearst in chloroforming workers into believing that capitalism is good Moore worked the Pittsburgh steel district, and the fact that Gary and the steel trust are still in power is for them. testimony to his success. This man Moore, Hearst's guest, applauds the rule of King Alfonso in Spain, that not only sent the educator, Fran- cisco Ferrer, to death not so many years ago, but today im- prisons and murders workers wholesale to maintain capital- ism in power. , The, Hearsts did,their best to entertain their’ fascist * crowd. The Crystal Room of the hotel was turned into a woodland glen thru the aid of 400 pines cut in Maine and shipped to the party. The jazz orchestras of Lopez and White- man were there. Mrs. Hearst was herself attired as a gypsy bride, in white satin heavily embroidered in gold, and wear- All night long the festivities continued until at dawn breakfast was served, and then Moore went on his way across the Atlantic to speak for American capitalism at ing pearls. the royal court in Madrid. From Morgan, Lamont and Gary to Tammany Hall, with its Senator Copeland and his official labor allies, isn't so great a stretch. It was J. Ramsay MacDonald, the labor-socialist premier of Great Britain, who heard the voices of Poincare and Mus- solini, instead of those of the workers and peasants of Soviet Russia, when he came into power, The united front against the interests of the working That, is somethin learn. The Hearst party to Moore should reveal to them the nature of some more of the feathers to be found in the left wing of American fascism. It might be well to remember the old adage that goes something like this,—‘“He who is not class extends far. with us is against us.” | ypsy Ball,” in honor of lexander P. Moore, and the luncheon given the new Italian ambassador to the United States, Gia- e American on their bellies the great capitalists are ex- mpany. It is the fact that interest the workers, while all man, associ- graced the occasion, and “grand duches- ov. 7, 1917. pi ge while the It is significant that at ew , the College of the City y Colleges,” headed b ale University. Their are to ian “white ter- that the workers must SERVIGES FOR OR. SUN YAT SEN DRAW FIFTY THOUSAND WORKERS CANTON, March 23.—Fifty thou- sand workers here attended a mem- orlal service for Dr. Sun Yat Sen, dead ‘leader of the Chinese against foreign imperialism. Seventy labor guilds were represented at the ser- vices. Governor Hu Han-min of Kwan- tung province, and Wu Chao-chu, secretary for foreign affairs of the provincial government, were among the speakers. Dr. Sun’s testament- ary address was read to the workers in the Cantonese dialect. O’Flaherty Speaks Tonight at North West Branch W. P. Comrade Tom O'Flaherty will be the speaker at the educational meet- ing of the North West Branch, Work-’ ers Party, tonight, at 8 p.m. The meeting will be held in Workers’ Ly- ceum, 2733 Hirsch Blvd. Comrade O’FPlaherty’s subject will be: The Paris Commune. Branch members are urged to attend this lecture and bring their shopmates. © 1. T. U. Takes Hold in New Orleans. NEW ORLEANS, March 23.—The strike situation in New Orleans aé re- gards the newspapers, which have been out of the union fold for the past nine years, has been taken out of the hands of the local printers’ or- ganization by Pres. Lynch of the In- ternational Typographical] Union. Coolidge’s Trade Commission Shields Electrical Trust WASHINGTON, March 23.— What was called a sinister consequence has followed the placing of William Hum- phrey of Seattle on the federal trade commission, thereby making the ma- jority of that body a reactionary one. The commission has announced a change in its rules. Henceforth it will investigate complaints of unfair methods of competition in business only if there exists, in its opinion, “public interest” in such inquiry. Moreover, the commission has noti- By MORRIS CHELOVSKY. The Communists are a part of the working class, its most resolute, most most sacrificing/and farseeing sectian, which due to its historical view of the march of history is able to ‘lead all other sections of the proletariat. To make the above more conctfete and to prove its truth, our party has made a beginning. The Lenin School in Chicago will be a historical land- |mark in the history of our party and the Communist movement in the United States. “A short time ago we would have considered it a dream, but now it is an accomplished fact. More than forty students, every one taking this work seriously, have left the mine, the fac- tory or shop and set himself: to study, not study for the sake of study, but in our party and the proletariat. No matter what is being studied, whether the history of the party, the labor movement, or economics; they are all being studied with a purpose. Unlike the students of the. bour- geoisie who study to attain a higher and more dominating post in capital- ist society and perpetuate that society our proletarian students are studying how best to destroy this society. Our school is not separated from the struggle, but combines the two, theory and practice. The students in Chicago actively participated in the work of the party, branch meetings, city central and the distribution of leaflets as well at the Abramovich demonstra- tions. The Lenin School is a great step in the Bolshevization of our party. The result will be paid to the party a hun- dred fold when the members of the class disband, go back to their various localities with a better and clearer understanding of the class struggle, and like real Communists will set themselves the task of proving the value of the school by a more de- termined struggle against our op- pressors. Workers Join in. Protest Against Child Slavery Many workerg young and old inter- ested attended the child labor mass meeting held in Chicago by the Young Workers’ League. « }.-/ ~- William FF. Dunne, editor of the DAILY WORKER, explained whai the child labor menace meant to the work- ing class of America, telling of con- ditions of child workers in the textile mills and telling of some. of. the ex- tremes to which the capitalist class went in order to defeat the child la- bor movement... Barney Mass, acting secretary of the Young Workers’ League spoke, showing how child la- bor was increasing in America and telling of the work of the Young Workers’ League in its child labor campaign and in organizing the young workers against child labor. John Edwards, member of the national ex- ecutive committee of the Young Workers’ League also spoke. This meeting was arranged by the Chicago league in connection with the anti-child labor campaign of the Y. W. L., which .ig trying to intensify the fight against child labor in view of the great increase of child slaves in | America at the present time. The Young Workers’ League is calling up- on the young workers to join in a unit- ed front fight to abolish child labor in America, under the leadership of the Workers (Communist) Party and the Young Workers’ League. Coolidge to Give Tool of Railroads Recess Appointment WASHINGTON, March 23.-—- When President Coolidge re-nominated Thos. Woodlock, former editor of the Wall Street Journal, to be a member of the interstate commerce commission, on the day senate was to adjourn, the members who had defeated Warren for attorney general were angry enuf fied the senate that while it will in- vestigate the tobacco monopoly’s at- tempt to crush the associations of tobacco producers, it will not carry out the request of the senate—con- tained in the same resolution—to in- vestigate the electric power trust and fhe propaganda for and against public ownership of power. President Coolidge has thus suc- ceeded in killing the federal trade commission insofar as it has been a non-partisan body for investigation of the misuse of power by private mo- nopolies. Mrs. Gompers Withdraws Suit. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 23— Mrs. Samuel Gompers has withdrawn her suit contesting the will of her hus- band, when alive, president of the American Federation of Labor, it is announced here. Mrs. Gompers had contested the will because Gompers left her the minimum allowed by the District of Columbia law, one-third of his estate. The rest was left to Gom- pers’ sons and grandsons. mi | wee ne to reject him too. However, they de- sided on a simple refusal .to call to- gether the committee on interstate commerce to consider his name. The cember. At the same hour came the news that the St. Paul railway had been thown into a receiver’s hands. Wood- lock is looked upon as a masterly in- flater and waterer of railroad corpo- ration values. It will be his task to induce the rest of the commission to grant higher freight rates instead of lower rates, thereby restoring public confidence in thé claim that the rail properties are worth between twenty and thirty billion dollars. Earthquake Shakes Houses QUEBEC, March 23. — An earth. quake occurred here which made buildings tremble and frighten the population. It lasted only a few sec- onds. Telephone service was disrupt- ed, but no one was injured. order to better serve the interests ot’ knew that Coolidge would then give him a recess appointment but they would deal with him again next De- ——
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KY. irt of the | ute, most | & section, view of e to lead letariat. | conctete ! party has ) in School ical land- eee | party and | . in the ld have now it is than forty this work , the fac- ‘to study, dy, but in terests ot!” at society » studying jiety,. | from the vo, theory n Chicago : } work of ngs, city of leaflets emonstra- at step in ity. The rty a hun- rs of the ir various d clearer struggle, will set ving the more de- our op- old inter- bor mass | ne Young | xr of the ) what the the work- ge of con- he textile f.the ex- list class » child la- ss, acting Workers’ child la- | erica and > Young hild labor the young ir. John tional ex- > Young bd by the | with the Mf the Y. intensify r in view . slaves in me. The alling up- in a unit- d labor in ip of the y and the ids itment 3.-~ When ited Thos. the Wall ber of the ission, on ourn, the 1 Warren nery enuf , they de- © call to- interstate me. The then give but they next De- the news had been is. Wood- isterly in- ad corpo- is task to nission to instead of ng public t the rail an twenty uses An earth. -h made ghten the . few sec- 8 disrupt- - president. SEs oo: ANVESTIGATION’ BY HUTCHESONIS -AHOWLING FARCE Article 5 Ansvering Secretary Duffy By ‘J. W. JOHNSTONE In Secretary Duffy’s circular letter to local unions and district councils, “explaining” the expulsion policy of Hutcheson, he naturally did not men- tion what immediate expulsions were contemplated or that the process of expelling political opponents was to continue. Hutcheson’s expulsion cy- clone has swept quite a large territory and does not seem to have spent it- self. Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, and now it has reached New York. Lapidus Victimized “The newest prospective victims are the officers of Local 376 and Joseph Lapidus, campaign manager of Morris Rosen who was the left wing candi- date for general president in the re- cent carpenters’ election, Mr. Duffy notified these members to appear before a special investiga- tion committee of the G. E. B. on March 18th, to answer the charge of circulating “scandalous, scurrilous, and defamatory literature.” (At this writing no word has been received as to the results of this investigation.) This is the same old chestnut that Brindell (Hutcheson’s crony) used when expelling his opponents before he went to the penitentiary, and is also in general use by John L. Lewis, Frank Farrington, and other labor ‘akers. The Reason Behind It The real reason back of this action, however, is seen in the vote cast in Local 876 in the general election— Hutcheson received 8 votes, Brown 4, and Morris Rosen 222, for general And it would not do to allow this sentiment to develop in such a large center as New York with- out at least trying to smash it. Section 55 of the general constitu- tion could not serve Hutcheson’s pur- pose in a local where he could only t.8 votes, so, as in the other expul- sed ‘oases, it is placed in cold storage. The skids have been greased and a ‘ fake “investigation committee” select- ed by Hutcheson to give a legal at- mosphére to a verdict that has al- ready been reached: ~~ ~~ iiiatee “A Falr Trial”? Just consider for a moment the farce that is being enacted. The G. E. B., or rather Hutcheson, because he is the G. B. B., have charged these men with having committed a so-cal- led crime; then they select a com- mittee from amongst themselyes to investigate and prove their charges true (although they are supposed to have investigated+the foundation for such charges before making them). Next comes the pronouncement of sentence and punishment by the same group of men, who also enforce them. After which this same man, or body of meh, pass upon the appeal of the expelled and sustain the first decision. Hutcheson is a staunch republican, a 100 per center, a lover of American “democracy.” He favors the ku klux klan. And it therefore goes without saying that he is opposed to the dic- tatorship of the proletariat. Hutch a Capitalist Among’ Capitalists And, why not? Like his friend and co-partner, John L. Lewis, he is a wealthy man, a raiser of blooded stock, and the carpenters’ union is the means by which he increased his wealth and personal advancement. So anyone who stands in his way must be crushed, no matter by what means. The progressive carpenters ran their candidate for general president on a program of action. The candi- date, Morris Rosen, was unknown. It was the program that the rank and file were asked to consider and not the individual. The local unions were circularized with copies of the pro gram asking the endorsement of their candidate by the local unions on the basis of the program. Following is a skeleton outline of the program: outs “Affiliation to the building - trades department of the American Federation of Labor 2. “Abolition me the of jurisdictional awar &,. “Job control "y 4; “Five daye—forty-hour week. 5. “Uniform agreements to expire at the same time. . 6. “All agreements to be ratified by the rank and file. 7. “A joint drive with other trades to organize the industry 100 per cent. 8.° “Old age pensions. 9 “Reinstatement of the Los An- geles expelied members. (These were the first of the present series of ex- pulsions.) 10. “The right of minority to free- dom of expression within the union. 11. “The right of the general pres- ident to suspend members without trial, to be abolished. 12. “National convention to be held biennially. 13. “Committee on rules to govern convention, to be elected by the del- egates assembled. 14. “Organizers to be elected by barial 3 bogtd | Smith of Minneapolis, : Seeking New Pastures, Picks on n Great Falls By LEFTieT. GREAT FALLS, Mont.,—Brothers: Just a few lines to let you know that Bill Green, Gompers’ successor, has landed in this burg with the honor- able Mr. Smith of Minneapolis “fame.” Undoubtedly the reason for their visit ts to help Brother Ely to subdue the militants and to try and fasten his class collaboration policy on the labor movement of Great Falls. Smith spoke before the Labor As- gembly last Friday. He immediately launched into a bitter attack on the left wing, and the left wing immediate- ly came back and let him know that he would have a fight on his hands if he came here for the same purpose that he went to Minneapolis. Brother Green will no doubt tell us, before he leaves, that the conference table is more to his liking than the field of struggle, and that we must show the boss that it is to his inter- est to please allow us to organize. This probably will be followed up by Smith’s demanding the expulsion of all those who do not accept his policy, but who demand that the fight between capital and labor be carried out on the basis of the class strug- gle. I expect Smith to appear before the carpenters’ union at it’s next meeting. If he does, he will find out that they are not all dead ones. referendum in the districts they re- present. 15. “Amalgamation of the building trades upon a departmental basis, along lines laid down by the 1913 con- vention of the bullding trades depart ment. 16. “Intérnational affiliation with the international building trades se- cretariat, to Include the Russian build- Ling trades. 17. “Independent working class po- litical action. 18. “Recognition of, and trade re- lations with, Soviet, Russia.” In all of these 18 points, and in the letter that went to the local unions with the program, Hutcheson or the administration is neither mentioned or criticized. So we get the full mean- ing of what is meant ‘by “scandalous, scurrilous, and defamatory literature,” at least according to the perverted minds of the Hutcheson administra- tion. Jt you atved te Ho, measure that is not endorse any words not in his yocabulary, then it is “scandalous, scurrilous and de- famatory,” Section 55 of the consti- tution, nothwistanding. That section simply does not apply, but it requires the superior brains of a G. E. B. special investigation ¢dmmittee, and the punishment is expulsion. Works for Scabs and With Police Of course Hutcheson is very sens: itive to clauses, 6, 10 and 11 of the progressive carpenters’ program, as it reminds him of his usurpation of power, his signing of the Chicago scab- agreement without the consent of the membership, his expulsion of the 16 members of the Los Angeles locals by telegram on evidence submitted by the police. In spite of the open rebellion of the rank and file against his ruinous and disruptive tactics in expelling the most progressive and the most active members of the union, he is determ- ined to carry out this expulsion policy no matter how much it disrupts or disorganizes the Brotherhood. Opposition Is Uniting This time, however, he is meeting with an intelligent and powerful op- position. The members of the union who voted for Willis K. Brown are lining up with the left wing and are jointly against the corrupt Hutcheson administration, This combined force cast 45,000 votes (official count) in the last election against Hutcheson. It is a force to be reckoned with and one that cantiot be defeated by the expulsion of a few of their leaders. Hundreds of locals are on record against the expulsion of these milit- ants and are demanding their reinsta- tement. Passing resolutions is good, but not sufficient. The’ entire mem- bership must be informed of the si- tuation and mass membership meet- ings should be called, so that this | epee: policy may be stopped. This has already been done in Chicago and Detroit. Committes should be elected to visit local unions and acquaint them with what is going on in their organiza- tion. While Hutcheson is waging a war on the militants, he is in close collaboration with the enemies of la- bor,—as witness his surrendering of the carpenters of Chicago to the Lan- dis award. He was, and still is, a close associate of Robert P.. Brindell, of New York, s* 8 «» In my next article I will deal with Hutcheson’s relations with the crook, Brindell, from 1916 until Brindell went to the penitentiary. Spanish Fascisti Need Money. MADRID, March 23—Bachelors over 25 years of age and childless widowers aré taxed from 20 to 60 per cent un- der the provision of a statute passed here today. . ‘Hutcheson, or use" GREEN IN ATTACK ON I SAYS UNIONS MUSTN’ SPSEser retry: 7 tt ee ee ee - eee ee ee | EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE “Page Thres STRIKE, BUT COLLABORATE WITH BOSSES BOSTON, March 23.—In a plea for class collaboration, naked and un- ashamed, delivered before the Harvard Union, Harvard University, the night of March 20, William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, disavowed the class struggle and the idea that — will be distroyed by a proletarian revolution. Social Pacifism. dS He stated his view of the situation in this way? “The trade union méve- ment has been passing thru that period when physital controversies and the tactics of force ‘were most effective; it is now “ a must seek the conference room, and there, by convince conferees of the justice and wisdom of labor’s position. In such service labor is finding a special need for trained representatives and ef- fective information.” He_ described with warm approval the “B. & O. plan” of “co-operation” in shop responsibility between the B. & O. railroad company and its fed- erated shop unions. Success in col- lective bargaining, he declared, is based upon unreserved recognition of the union on the one hand, and a will- ing concession by the workers, on the other hand, of “the right of em- ployers to control, direct and manage industry to receive a fair return up- on invested capital.” Green Against Proletarian Rule. Referring to the antt-union employ- ers and to “so-called members of the proletariat” who take sharp issue with this conception of trade union rights and duties, Green said the workers in this group are opposed to collective bargaining because “they assert it means wagé slavery.” “They do not believe in wage con- tracts or wage scale regulations,” he continued. “They preach class war and class struggle. They are opposed to the existing social order, to what they term ‘capitalism,’ and pretend to look forward to the time when capitalism will be destroyed and the rule of the proletariat will be substi- tuted in its place. This Is a Lie—Bill Green. “They believe that any improve- ment in wages and working condi- tions which comes to the workers thru the medium of trade unionism and collective bargaining prevents the final triumph of the proletariat and the early realization of their predict- ed millenium. The enjoyment of high wages and humane conditions of employment by the workers is regard- ed by this second group as an ob- stacle in the way of progress while poverty and suffering are looked up- as Green could not offer any proof that his ideas of no strikes and class col- laboration would bring the workers the desired “high wages and humane conditions.” His He that revolution- ists.are not in favor of improvement in wages and conditions likewise was lacking proof. And he failed to men- tion that the criticism levelled at him and his kind by revolutionists, is precisely that their theory and prac- of class collaboration and pacifism in the class struggle totally prevents high wages and humane conditions. “Obviously modern trade union- ism is opposed to these two ex- tremes and of necessity is forced to contend against the vigorous opposi- tion which emanates from these groups. Confronted by hostile em- ployers and the workers’ revolution- ary group, trades unionism is pur- suing its own policy, fighting for pub- lic acceptance of its creed and phil- osophy.” “Dreams” Come True in Soviet Russia In conclusion, Green remarked that “Many wage earners have had dreams of ownership in industry, but even so we all kpow that whatever the own- ership—private, governmental or em- ploye—the vital problem for us is the terms and relations we have with management. To deal with this prob- lem, labor must always have its vol- untary organizations directed and managed by itself. “Working men and women are no longer mere fixtures in industry but instead are intelligent, understanding human beings with a concept of life which emphasizes the cultural and spiritual rdthér stones to success.” .— riod when its leaders osition and demonstration, AVSKY WRITES PON ANARCHO- SYNDICALISM Its Thetey of Union, Par- ty and State By A. LOSOVSKY. (General Secretary of the Red Inter- national of Labor Unions.) _ In the last article I wrote of the “trade unionism” which, prior to the war, was limited to economic views and held no conception of the new so- ciety to be won by a working class revolution, a movement which ac- cepted capitalism as permanent. The second kind of pre-war labor movement, which represents the oppo. site side of trade union movement is known by the name of “anchro-syndi- calism.” If trade unionism is connect- ed with Anglo-Saxon countries, an- archo-syndicalism is connected with the Latin. The birthplace of anarcho- syndicalism is France, there it had its greatest development and _ there also was created the theory which united numbers of workers of the Latin countries. A Healthy Reaction. What are the main characteristics of anarcho-syndicalism? Trade union- ism as we said, is devoted to the in- terests of one craft. Anarcho-syndi- calism—and this is surely ‘the pro- gressive side of it—is devoted to the interests of the working class. It was a healthy reaction of a certain part of the at against the opportun- ism and reformism which had existed in labor. xe nization, trade union as > first character- : lism which dif- festadialan . is: that it puts first the general class. interests and struggles —not for bétterment within capital. ism, but for the overthrow of the sys tem. ‘wn The Syndicalist Fallacy. The second characterization of the anarcho-syndicalist movement within the international labor movement is its anti-politieal character. Anarcho- syndicalists gonsider the union as the primary organ for the class struggle. They believe there are no other organ- izations except the trade unions . which can conquer capitalism. All po- litical parties—-say the anarcho-syndi- calists—beginning with the bourgeois and’ ending with the socialist, and at the present e with the Commun.- ists, are, from the social point of view, mixed organizations; unions represent a purely labor organ. ization. A party is a union of citizens. A trade union wnites the producers. In the party there are may be workers and also people from other classes. In a trade union—only workers. This is why the anarcho-syndicalists place the union ahead of the party. This is why the trade union happens to be the main weapon of the social revolution in their view. Besides that, in the opinion of the theoreticians and active workers of anarcho-syndicalism (of whom we may name Sorel, LaGuardelle, Grifuel) the characterization which differentiates the trade unions is that they not only are the basic stronghold of the work- ing class in its struggle to overthrow capitalism, But also organizations around which the new society will be built.. According to the belief of the anarcho-syndicalists the trade unions will not only make the revolution but will also create the new society. The trade unions will organize production, regulate production within the indus. tries, will govern the public econ omy. This is the social philosophy of anarcho-syndicalism. But this is not all. | Anti-State and Non-State. There is One more characterization of anarcho-syndicalism which is, in full, inherited from the anarchist theory concerning the state: The state, independently of its form or contents, is am enemy. The structure of the state in itself—the anarchists : : always write the state with a capital “S”"—is an organ of exploitation, of one part of the people by the others, and that exploitation is always used against the .workers. Therefore, be- fore the war, ithe question of the dic- tatorship of the proletariat was a very vague and thegretical one. The anarcho-syndicalists were al- ways out-spolen against the dictator. ship of the proletariat, for from their theory, the lat¢er will mean the con- tinuation of exploitation. They are “ments. while the trade | Philadelphia A.C C. W. Joint Board Voting Is One Steady Job PHILADELPHIA, ° Pa., — According to the constitution of the Amalga- mated Clothing Workers of America, only one election is necessary for the election of officers. But according to the joint board of this city, if those elected are left wingers, before they can be installed they must have been elected twice. 4 Two weeks ago Local 140 had their election arid the right wing was badly defeated, so they appealed for a new. election, which was conveniently granted them, and a special joint board committee elected to take charge. We have always had open elections, but this time, at the request of the right wing, the joint board decided to have a secret ballot. Despite all man- euvering, however, it was a complete victory for the lift wing. The T, U. E. L. candidates were elected by an overwhelming majority. ‘The chairman, vice-chairman, se- cretary, treasurer, six out of seven delegates to the joint board, six out of seven local executive board members, of the T. U. E. L. slate were elected. It is hardly expected after this crush- ing défeat that the right wing will de- mand still another election. anti-state, claiming that the state should be destroyed. They thot of the new society which will arise from the gocial revolution as one in which the trade union will play the leading role. They imagined it as a non-state s0- ciety, which would be regulated only by the trade unions and which would be oceupied only by the problems of productions, distribution, etc. Individualinsm Versus the Masses | However, this is only in the future; | but what differentiates the anarcho- syndicalists from the other trade un- ionists? $Anarcho-syndicalism in its direct struggle uses some methods which differentiate it from other movements, First of all, it believed in the initiative of the minority, and according to its ideas that minority with initiatives could in many cases take the place of the mass. The an- archo-syndicalists in general shared the anarchist distrust of the masses. The individual plays the more impor- tant role. This minority with initia- tive can not only start something, drag the masses along, but also build for the masses, instead of them. , This role of the “militant minor- ity” is one of the main characteristics of the anarcho-syndicalist point oi view. And, from this angle, they brot into the everyday struggle things that we do not see in other move- They brot into the struggle an element of adventure which coulc always be seen in their custom of ex- aggeration of the role of the strike. Organizing strikes as often as .pos-' sible, they even created a_ special WHAT THE MINERS” INTERNATIONAL IS AND OUGHT TO BE Dawes Plan is Slave Plan For World By ALEX REID. As a miner who is following the pick, when the boss permits, which is becoming more seldom, and notic- ing that the condition of the miners thruout the world is becoming more deplorable, the same situation pre- vailing everywhere, it might not be amiss at this time to inquire into the cause from well-informed sources. The cause of the bad situation in Europe, which is reflected in America, is neither more nor less than the mon. uméntal disgrace—the prostitute child of the international chamber of com- merce, better known as the despicable and infamous “Dawes’ plan.” The effect of this plan is seen in the German mining industry, which has speeded up to a terrifying degree. Approximately 20 per cent of the miners have been discharged from the industry since 1922, and yet produc- tion has been increased approximately 18 per cent. Wages have been de- creased until the miners receive barely enuf to subsist upon. The average wage of the German miners is $1.25 per day, and their work day has been extended from seven, to 10 and 12 hours per day. The cost of living has increased to the point where wages cannot touch the bare necessities, which is reducing the miners to abject slaves exerting themselves to the limit of endurance. as is seen in the. enormous increase in accidents. On top of this, the threat is made to cut further into their wages, and the importation of men from the sur- rounding countries is steadily going on for use as scabs if necessary. Similar conditions prevail in Poland and other countries in Europe. In Great Britain, France, Holland, and Belgium, the miners are practically starving. Hundreds of thousands of miners are unemployed. Wages are being cut on every hand. The hours of labor are lengthening, and condi- tions, the result of years of struggle, are being lost with every break. The conditions forced upon German labor and the workers in like coun- tries of Europe, thru’ the Dawes’ plan, is the standard being set for the whole world. French, . Belgian, and British miners are unemployed be- cause cheap German reparations coal has taken their market. British and American coal is being undersold in Spain and lHtaly at $1.25 per ton. Competition. is the slogan—and the mine. owners are stressing every means to break the miners’ union so terminology— “revolutionary exercis es,” figuring that every strike is a good thing. They claim that a strike ing class and it drags ™ a certain| and sharpens the social relations and | the struggle between the classes. A careful and long preparation, the) study of the objective conditions of relation of forces and the calculation of the role of the masses and the re calists and considered as of no impor-| | tance at all. - They imagined the social revolution as beginning suddenly, without necessary Organizational, political and other historical surroundings. At last they present the idea of sabotage, or what we call the “economic terror,” aS a means of compulsion against em- ployers. They have been out-spoken is always for the benefit of the work- } Utopian and Romantic THeory. | lation between the masses and the| there, militant minority, all this has been en-| ™iner tirely ignored by the anarcho-syndi- i the mine he is relieved of it at the | strike. The workers put in a demand The houses the miners live in,|for a 10 per cent increase in wages | mostly like barns, are also owned by! at noon and were notified that th« |company would go bankrupt if the the | against large, strong trade union treasuries, looking at it from the point of view that the trade unions are, as a matter of fact, like plain people, the one that has much money is not very active in the strugge; and therefore, the trade union that has much money in its treasury, wil be afraid of losing it and will not be as militant and ready for strikes as necessary. This is, in short, the characteriza- tion of anarcho-syndicalism within the trade union movement of the world. and which is especially characteristic of the Latin countries, France, Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Mexico, etc. In Italy, notwithstanding the fact that it is a Latin country, the trade union movement took another form. > > * The above article is an excerpt from Losovsky’s valuable book, “The World’s Trade Union Move- ment,” obtainable from the T. U. E. L., 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, iill., for 50 cents. No worker should be without it. Drums Up Wars Spirit miral Fiske, in a public address here, glorified war, and spoke for a larger navy and army. He said that “force is necessary for the United States to take part in foreign trade.” Fiske’s speech was a plea for aid to the fin- | that no organized opposition may pre- vail against them. On this side of the ditch, the Dawes’ plan is getting in its work just as it is in Germany and the rest of Europe. amount of workers into the movement ! The mining districts of West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama |are mostly “open shop,” and the con- ditions of the miners there are hor- rible, working 10 hours per day on | Starvation wages, with no provisions strikes, the realistic calculation of the | fr Safeguarding the life and health of the The miners. companies owning also own the the mines stores, so if a store. |the companies, as likewise the town, the doctor, the judge, the police thugs—literally everything in and around the mines. Hundreds of miners with their fam- ilies are living on the hillsides, with scarcely anything to eat—the lit. | own their jobs. chances to make anything at | crease in | all capitalist countries of the worla today, and then take a look at the cofdition of the Russian miners as shown by the following conditions cited: — _ They have the six-hour steady employment the year round; a voice in the management of the mines and in the determination oi wages; extra pay for production above an established average, closest : shift; | inspection and enforcement of all” safety regulations; two weeks’ vaca tion on pay, or a month if the work is particularly’ dangerous healthy; splendidly equipped rest homes which were formerly the pal- or un aces of the Russian nobility; free medical service; etc. The Russian workers, thru their government of workers and peasants, Why not own ours? The Dawes’ plan for international slavery must be met with militant op- position. And that leads me to ask what intelligent action our present la bor leaders’ propose. Well—here it is: First, the A. F. of L. proposes to | continue to support our “friends” on the enemy ticket and defeat our ene © mies on their own ticket. “Heads, I win; tails, you lose.” Frank Farrington, It is president of | Dist. 12, U. M. W. of A. has a pet” remedy, something like this, for the unemployed and starving miners: Load clean coal, co-operate with the boss, don’t antagonize the boss, and thus reduce the cost of production. John L. Lewis, to show his hove ‘for the miners and to do his bit ta meet the encroachments upon labor, joins hands with and becomes a mem- ber of the campaign eommittee for the election of “Cal” Coolidge, the Boston strikebreaker, the choice of Morgan, Wall Street, the international bankers, and Dawes—all of whom are enslaving the workers of the world. And then he resorts to expelling progressive and forward looking mem- bers of the U. M. W. of A. to further the aims of our enemies. Also, he says there are 200,000 too many min- ers in the industry who must ‘be forced out before these bad conditions can be remedied. What a travasty on “leadership”! The American labor movement stands bereft of intelligent leader- ship. International capitalism must be met by international trade union un- ity, the welding into one organization of the world’s workers with their in- comparable economic and political power. To achieve the realization’ its historic mission, the overtheaantt capitalism, and substitute therefor a system of collective ownership of the things collectively produced and used. with workers’ control of the same éan only be done thru the establishmen’ of a workers’ and farmers’ govern ment. STRIKERS WIN A RAISE AND UNION THRU THE T, U. E. Ly Auto Workers League Beings Union ‘tol PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—Thirty aute mobile workers employed by the Wot fington’s Sons, Inc., have won an i&- in wages after a two how increase was given. Several of the militant workers who have heard suc stories before convinced the 30 work. ers in the buss department to give the company a chance to think it over ” tents, all thru the long hard winter,| and left the shop in a body. Two hours later a messenger tle children without shoes or proper | brought the news that the company clothing, and no school to go to. The | miners in this pitiful condition are| being threatened with further wage cuts and longer hours. And the coal coming from these dis- NEW YORK, March 23.—Rear Ad-| tricts in competition with that from the organized fields, has resulted in unemployment and starvation out lilinois and the coal all over America. was willing to settle by granting a 5 per cent increase and again pointed out that a 10 per cent raise would force them into bankrupcy. The men accepted the 5 per cent increase and went back to work the next day. Immediately after deciding to go thru- | back to work a date was set for 4 union-produced | meeting to organize a union in th: | automobile industry in Philadelphia. - Nova Scotia is on strike against an- | These workers fully realize the other reduction, and conditions there! other and permanent gains can on! are heartrending. The beasts of BESCO, the mine owners of the proy- ince, are organized for a crushing on- slaught against the miners, and the miners have met them by the mines completely. (have withdrawn even in this the ‘and pumpmen, fight which land one of the | tory. Wherever international capitalism ‘rules today, we have a similar condl. tion. Standing out prominently |contrast to such conditions in capi-| |talist countries, however, is that of | the miners in Soviet Russia, the only country which has not been affected | by the Dawes’ plan, and the only country in the world where the min- ers’ conditions of employment . are steadily growing better. Keep in mind the conditions we anciers in their imperialistic projects. | 'all the workers in the trade. stripping |of the men who participated in thi The miners | engineers | |day March 26 at the Carpenters’ be made when they organize all th roy in their shop into a mil tant industrial union that will includ Severa strike are members of the Automobile Workers’ Union organized here sev eral weeks ago. The strike is a splend |promises to be a fight to the finish | id example of what a little bit of mil hardest in their his-| (workers in the automobile industr ‘and will be a good argument for t | building of a strong organization itancy and organization can do for th Philadelphia. The first mass meeting of the mobile workers is called f@® Th 1803 Spring Garden street at 8 p All auto workers in Philadelphia invited to attend. Good speakers the Trade Union Educational will address the meeting. have just reviewed of the miners in | GET A SUB AND GIVE |
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. Ce OR Te ORE le ey ce HAT . = . - - - - . 7” _ * 4 rs id - = * 4 . ‘ie - -_ ‘ —— ne Z : . , 7 g . = "a a on = “a Pa? et ike “% " 2a — " . . a é ? Diet t. f a 4 4 F . [- . a es f z * a * yee: —> is oe - _ al 2 ? - ‘ > i a ‘ et Se 2 fete “Pa os 6 274 od OS vi pe qa y ', “2 spae”, ee ale a ‘ a2" os 2 ee rs : me ha a . - ers 4 * & ¢ ? Te ; r . i 4 of = - © s : and 40 wounded by the white guard- ist. When a protest meeting took place in Berlin, another revolutionist was killed and several others serious- ly wounded. The situation in Halle became so serious, since the workers were aroused and were preparing for ac- tion, that the government, to save its face, had to dismiss the chief of police, who had engineered the blood-bath. Urge Bigger Bulgarian Army. The Bulgarian Zankow hangman government has requested the league! of nations for permission to add 4,000 | more soldiers to the army that keeps the fascist government in power. In | Macedonia, the murder of prominent | leaders of the peasants takes place every day. In Greece, the strikers, led by revolutionary Communists, had to face the police and government troops. White terror is destroying the best fighters of the Spanish workers. In epite of the power of Mussolini, the wotkers of Turin and Milan are out on strike—and are challenging the government. Ia China a strike of the railway- mon is answered by British imperial- fm in Soden tad ‘Denmark tig of {Me Northwest, You cy rorkere) yout tapers ono, "Ao other] gg7%e,Siav® i tile Wurg tare veen| By Charles Schweb , , |and miners are no worse off under | ar} : : aly. D | 80 misied by-Jim) Maurer and Co.. the | omg are taking cme “ Pec United States big business than the farmer may as well jump off his lame renegade socialists, that it is very Celebrates Commune 3 ‘die _ os a ner Sant ae farmers and fruit growers. You are| donkey or crippled old elephant, and} narq to get the slaves to join any palate | orkers are unde nant _join the ks of real fighters for real |; ae - . . eats: OR ios the machines for the/| Joint ranks E r rea BETHLEHEM, Pa., March 23.—The place te place. The revolutionary hired to run tlie 5 | freedom. kind of a revolutionary organization. I 4 c workers and peasants have to face the gendarmerie every day. In Pales- tine, the “holy land,” the imperialists are sheoting down and imprisoning the workers. In Turkey, which re- oeatly fought a gallant fight against the league of nations and had the sup- port of Soviet Russia, the new capital- _and piglet and anything like furniture. | so to speak, altho there are two or- | orig rng vod po ae can rit workers. ; will be held on, March 24, at 5927 Euclid avenue, Room 13, at 8:00 p. m. ist rulers of the country are making | We ™must pay it promptly too,.or we | ganizations in this town and either | °Y Your 80 ist, due to the easy man-|~ Chas. Schwab has got tits iron hand | A meeting of the group of clothing workers of the Young Workers League “er : 4 |are auctioned off to the-highast: bid- | one are real unions, viz.: the A. F. of | 2eT in which the phutes can use their | on the people of this city. He won't a held Avril 1. at 5927 Euclid Ave., Room 13, at 8 p. m. Suet fort “ Pee ee | der. 1 'L. and the American Federation of | 0T8@ns of propaganda.” let anyone go anywhere or read any- | Wit) DO-NOle: OF nt of parieitey Pia sia het of the Young Workers poet peasan ad We could endure being» skinned | Failway Workers. | Hoping you will give this burg a/ thing, that would be of benefit to the | A meotne ef. the spt 2 at 5927 Euclid Ave., Room 13, at 8 p. m Answer This Wednesday Night hin S00 beak Wahiens cee 04 Neither of these organizations are| write up in your paper in order to! working class, He doesn’t care if the | -eague will be held on April 2, a : - tal en 3 Capitalist bullets against the pro- uneniacaiien : Last veeiee this - Colum- doing anything to amount to anything. | help to wake up the Slaves.—George people read jokes, novels or any kind Comrade Papcun will be present at these meetings to explain the’ neces- test and struggles of the workers’ At the same time, new attacks are Relief workers satisfying the heeds of the storm stricken. ody Food and cle . needed. Letters From Our Re The Land Toilers. troduce the paper to our .bourgeois- | minded farmers. To the DAILY WORKER: This 1et. | succeed under the present system. ter is from the fruit growing district | trusts. The only difference is that we are, forced to buy our own machinery and materials and pay exhorbitant prices. On top of that we pay taxes every year for the plow, harrow, mower, sprayer, horse, cow, calf, chickens, pig bia Valley fruit was killed by eae | All signs point to the fact that they “Farmer and Fruit Grower, ‘wick, Wash. From Non-Union Town. To the DAILY WORKER:—I writing this from a * Kenne. In this burg the vn. nase and manu- They still hope to facturers can e@ it the workers to the limit, becau§e of the fact that a great deal of ltt asec: exists among the exploited masses The manufacturers of this burg can ‘easily exploit the slaves of this back _woo's town by simpby playing the so- _cialist party and catholiés against the | Slaves. am | non-union town | Thefe are very few DAILY WORK- | Mussen, Reading, Par “ | eS Btn” oie, ae PETE Yo ko > Se Saas eK Sy Even the graveyards were swept by the storm. Trees and tombstones alike were uprooted. Steel Town Owned Bethlehem city central committet cel- | ebrated the Paris Commune with all branches represented, 50,000 people, of capitalistic publications which poi- including Hun.- | garians, Ukrainians and Jugo-Slovaks. | Of course the population of Bethle- | 'hem is about not interested in the condition of their | who are | CONDUCTED - BY TH Activities of Local Cleveland A meeting of the building trades group of the Young Workers League sity of joininig’the unions, and the necessity of organizing youth fractions, 99 ManaIs <= son the minds of the people. and the necéssity of working with the ‘W. P. and T. U. E. L. frost. In 1923 we shipped a full cro being made on Soviet Russia, because to you city folks. It sounds ie eatinels N- : Bar DAILY WORKER A meeting of the students of the league will be held at 5927 Euclid Ave., , the workers’ and peasants’ govern: | | hile Sg hs eneiin that in 9923.1. PARIS COMMUNE CELEBRATIO I remember the time. when there | Room 13, on April 7 at 8 p. m. Comrade Carl Weisberg will explain the neces- F ment has imprisoned active counter- ‘ e ; revolutionaries, who have conspired and organized to destroy the Soviet government, In this dirty work they have been aided by the governments. ' The answer of the workers of New Yerk to these vile facts will be given ‘next Wednesday night, March 25, at 8.30 p. m. at the Central Opera House, 206 E. 67th St. The Workers Party, oung Workers League and the In- rnational Workers’ Aid have ar- dnged a demonstration and all the lass-conscious workers of New York ust be there. Tell the workers in your shop and bring them to the meet- ing. , imperialist | shipped 1,886 boxes of apples to a New York firm, furninshing my own boxes and lost money on the shipment,, At the rate you are paying for ap- | ples in Chicago and New York 1 |farmers leave /am not the only offe shotld get about $2,000 for my &pptes. But I receive a bill that I owe the New York firm $600.00. ‘ Now then, it costs me Shao 96 cents to raise a box of apples.) thchad- ing high irrigation taxes. So at that rate | am paying over a thousand dol- lars on top of what I paid toerraise my apples. Still, many wondering» Why everything and run away from the land to the Cities. | losing ‘money. are IN DETROIT, MICH, March 23.—Sunday, Maret 29, {demonstration will be held in the House of the Masses, 2 The demonstration will be of the Labor Defénsé, which has charge of the Mich There will be an appropriate musical program. DETROIT, Mich., commemorate the Paris Commune. Irish famine relief. sion will be free. , SUNDAY . m., a Mass : t. Aubin, to | r the benefit and for Admis- at on (Continued from Page 1) purposes, just as it strives to do with the working class in this country. Macabula was killed by agents of AMERICAN COMMUNISTS CALL FOR LABOR SOLIDARITY WITH FILIPINOS was a stand, which had.a few copies of the DAILY WORKER: but that, too, was stopped by Charles Schwab’s agents, ‘If the standholder had want- ted to keep this paper on his oe ‘Hie would have lost his license, and most likely be driven from the city. This shows that nobody but Charles Schwab and his friends rule this city. We have a mayor and other officials, who are elected by the people: but all these officials are bought by the gold coins, that Charles Schwab shows them. That is why Charles Schwab has the power in this city, over all the people and officials. The American constitution . gives freedom of speech, and freedom to sity of the work among the students. A meeting of Junior leaders and members of the Young Workers resges and Workers Party interested in the work will be held on March 31, at 8927. Euclid Ave.,.at 8:00 p. m.. This matter is very urgent and must be given serious attention oe ? * °® 4 Juniors’ Work in Cleveland CLEVELAND, O., March 23.—On Tuesday4.March 31, at 8 p. m., a meet- ing will be held. at the local headquarters, 5927 Euclid Ave., Room 13, on “junior work’ ‘under the auspices of the Young Workers League. At this meeting representatives of the Young Workers League and the party will explain the work of the Junior Section and the reasons why. all Communists must support this work? 7 and counteract the effect of the capi- talist propaganda in the _ schools, movies and press. ent at this meeting. Your branch should do its utmost to make the meeting a success. 'The case I have cited is the tase. of organize or belong to any organiza- Plans will be presented at this Yours for a strong Communist chil- Carlson Lectures. | thousands of other land toflers’ in one American imperialism. The poor peas- tion, to every one. That is only writ-| meeting to promote the work of the/|dyen’s nfovement. Workers Party, Sian ‘form or another. ants’ organization, which he led, was ten on paper and not carried out in| Junior sectiom in Cleveland and make/| Local Cleveland, Young ‘Workers’ A series of six lectures on “Im-| And why are we in this predica- fired on by the so-called Philippine “jhe true facts. The American constitu-|it function more effectively. This | League, perialism” will be given by Comrade! ment. It is more the fault of ‘the constabulary reinforced by govern- NEW YORK, March 23-—A Get- | tion was made by these capitalists | will require the assistance of all the J. A. Hamilton, Secretary, Oliver Carison at 521 York avenue,| United States capitalist owhed news- ment riflemen in motor cars, with| together dance will held Sat- | for their own benefit. members of the. party and Young} Geo. Papcun, Secretary. Workers Party headquarters, Phila-| papers and journals. They are. keep- the tacit if not open app~oval of Gov-| urdzsy evening, March 28, at the Stee! Enslaves Town Workers’ League. delphia, beginning April 2. Ali party | ing the toilers in a lethargic sleep so ernor General Wood. You do not need | Workers’ House, 535 Bast 146th St., Charles Schwab keeps all the work- The capitalists-do not overlook the RED REVEL ““and league members or sympathizers who wish to register for the class that they can be more easily robbed. to be informed why. The Nueva Ecija 'movement that General Wood seeks near St. Ann’s Ave, ing masses of this city enslaved, as | possibilities of corrupti the minds of the Once in a while in later years I me # the auspices of the Workers (Com- the Russian czar did before the re-| of the children. We must, thru our FOSTER JUNIOR GROUP should get in touch with R. Baker,!| pave coon a far : Aas" seo, | drown in blood is aimed at the munist) Party, lowee Bronx sec- | volution. Soviet Russia gives free-| Junior section, carry on our Commun- ihave seen a farmer here and there ; e tl Asef of Brooklyn, N. Y.—March 28, 8 P. M. city secretary, or Comrade Herman, of | awakening, and rubbing his eves, very roots of the system of privilege | tion. Admission will be twenty-five | dom to all working masses—women as | ist education among the children. ’ educational committee. Both can be)! located at 521 York avenue. | when he gets a severe jolt in the place 'where his pocket book is supposed to on which General Wood’s masters in | Wall Street, New York, live and grow | fat. cents. well as men—which they didn’t get before. America gives nothing to the All party members, their children, Y. W. L. members and all workers in- at COLUMBIA HALL be. politically against thevlowners of the | YOrking masses, instead, she enslaves | terested in this work should be pres- Stone & Blake Aves., Brooklyn, N. Y. Does vour friend subscribe to | The DAILY WORKER 1 | Despite the lies which are spread | t a them - - e , é, ser ’ | 1e d ) S an eye- - SS . @ : te | property . . f aah arrsrsiri sin sri hihi pb hb ih hihhhb bbb bbb hb bb bb bp bb bp bp bp bp tn ip bp bp bp i bp be i the DAILY WORKER? Ask him! opener, but it is the hardest job to in-|‘° S!0rify American imperialism, al-|" american imperialism fights these| We, the workers of Bethlehem, wo- ARR RRNRERER ENR: mics Marxism, Friday, 8-10 p. International Communist Movement, History of American Trade Unionism, Public Speaking, Saturday, 2-4 p. m. Current Events, Friday, 8-10 p. m | THE WORKERS SCHOOL Workers Party of America, District No. 2 108 East 14th Street, New York City Spring Term Begins April I PARTY TRAINING COURSE Principles of Communism, Thursday, 8-10 p. m. rm. Tuesday, 8-10 p.m., Willlam Weinstone American Economic Social History, Monday, 8-10 p. m. TRADE UNION TRAINING COURSE Wednesday, 8-10 p. m...Solon DeLeon Fundamentals of Communism, Friday, 8-10 p. m Preblems of Trade Union Organization GENERAL COURSES The Russian Revolution, Tuesday, 8-10 p. m... William Weinstone Jacob Minde!l Alex. Trachtenberg ..Oliver Carison -ue& Symposium om Carl Brodsky perenne J. Oilgin +e eUdWig Lore GRAND BAZAAR J, a most feudal conditions reign in the rice fields. Thousands of acres of rice lands are owned by s!ngte indl- while the Filipmo peas- grow and pick the rice are obliged to live under the most abominable conditions, in practical subjection to the owners of the es- tates. Large sums of American capi- tal have penetrated into the Philip- pine rice-growing industry in recent years; in fact, American capttal com- pletely dominates the situation. The native landowners are mere servants of the big rice merchants, export firm8 and bankers. They are, of course, bitter enemies of the exploit- ed peasants. But American tmpertal- ism cannot shirk responsibility for the conditions that prevail m the rice fields. You can well be proud-of the herole struggle which can occupation. We know that the Nueva Ecija mas- 'cause he sees that t ‘ | Wood, viduals and corporations enjoying fan- | | tastic profits, ‘ants who plant, movements not only hecause of the capital directly involved. General pro-consul of Wall Street, irre- concilable foe of Philigpine independ- ence, fears the m nts or the workers and poor peasants aiso be- are inextric- ably bound up with the. movement for national liberation. He knows that emancipation for the @®iling millions of the Philippine Island ig impossible without the overthrom of Amertcan rule and he allies him ta with all the forces of privilege_in he isiancs. On with the strugglé! The Work- ers (Communist) Party of America, organ of the class comseious workers in the United States, extends its fra- ternal greetings to you and assure» you that it will fight side by side with you for the overthrow of American imperialism. Our bat fis your bat- tle. America, Central Executive Commit- tee, Earl R. Browder, Acting .Secre- men and men, appeal to all the work- ers to help us get & freedom of speech, and a right to start and continue any movements for the benefit of the work- ing masses. By A. B.—A Ukrainian Junior member. Give your shopmate this copy of the DAILY WORKER—but be sure to see him the next day to get his subscription. ‘BEAUTY AND BOLSHEVIK’ AT THE WICKER PARK THEATER IN CHICAGO The famous movie “The Beauty and the Bolshevik” which has All friendly organization are re- quested not to make other affairs Renee ea Public Speaking, Tuesday, 8.10 p. m. “Carl Brodsky your brothers in | Down with the profthungry mon- drawn a gathering of 7,000 people GEORGE HICKS, EDO FIMMEN, TOMSKY and others, aalion potter ate Ag on lege p. m. Eli B. Jacobson Nueva Ecija have been carry-| ey kings of Wall Street! when it was shown in Chicago this pamphlet of 40 pages includes ' ; m. ee ! : y ‘ oi 7 ’ : ‘ o ipa Me peter Beng Fiueosay, < Ope eae Ss re? oe ing on against overwhelming odds.| Down with American capitalist ex-| sometime ago, is coming back to TOGRAPHS FE That this struggle has _ borne)! ploitation and imperialism! town for one evening only. it will 14 PHO ducate Y ourself for the Serusele Against fruit can be seen in the revision of | The land to the peasants and the| be shown on the Northwest side, at nee : ; , Capitalism! tenantry contracts to which the land-| factories to the workers! Wicker Park Theater, 1139 Mil- of the authors and the British trade union delegation in lords were forced to agree. That it Unconditional independence for the| waukee Ave., on Wednesday, April Russia. ' j REGISTER EARLY! has alarmed the privileged classes | Philippines! 15, from 6:30 to 11 p. m. conti- 15 CENTS EACH. a a , ih dS ies {a Sag Oe gl - : er thruout the Philippine Islands ts evi-| Solidarity among workers and poor; nually. The proceeds will go to the ion and registratio e orkers School, . . , - , : y . 2 2 ’ Sdueatiadnl Senteeh, and thee warty tee wey orkers | dent from the extre me measures | peasants thruout the world! International Workers’ Aid, the We have received only a limited number—requests which were called up against It, of a| Under the banner of the Commun-| Russian Communist daily Novy Mir, will be filled in order arriving in the office =|scope and brutality unprecedented | ist International! and the Polish C j DULUUEDDEDDVEAAAD HAGA T AANA POND | © rots ommunist paper DALPUAAOUAALEU AUT AAA AOA. since the early years of the Ameri-| Workers (Communist) Party of! Tribuna Rabotnicza. THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., “UNITY!” an English publication of the National Minority Move- ment that is now sweeping all England, is THE LATEST PAMPHLET WE HAVE. RECEIVED. Besides statements by A. J. COOK, TOM MANN, 7~yvyrrryeSeeeeleleeeereerereereerereereereerermeeremeereeerereereeerereereererrerrrrreyryrey-----reyryreyryrereyrewrewrewrewreyreyreyryryryryrTyTyeererrelrelrelrerer YY given by the Czecho-Slovak Section of the Workers Party for the sacre was not the result of “excess | tary. : or meottings on that date, ere . x benefit of “DELNIK”, at the rs bees mysticism, as Pigs — For the enclosed $ Cs copies of “UNITY” to ’ ‘ 1erican newspapers pretend, but . ’ <<) ane Bo Shag Street || was visited upon the organtzed peas- May Day Committee Meets Today Name: ! | ° ’ ; ants to prevent them from gatning . Admission on Ae elle ve 150 sree eens Night 50c fewrceare, at es lands. As one A meeting / May Day Committee will be held -Tuesday, ee ° usic—Doors Open a ; . : sSponde mits, the whole March 24, at 180 | . Washington St. All branch delegates. must City: : ox State: ae Pontest for a $400 Radio Saturday Afternoon Children’s Day Struggle in. NuevaEcija “was purely = wae ne a ¥ ’ an arraying of the lower peasant class attend.—MARTIN ABER, ,» Workers Party, Local Chicago. AAA AAADAAA AAA AA AAA AAA Ahi ith inih hii hh iii ii h th hb ih hhh bhbhbbh tht thrthe tthe be heheh trenton inher hahen Lhe te Mn Late Mella -
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The brain waves of Gompers and Mat- thew Woll, the disappointed crown prince ‘were given the widest publicity by Wright. He was on intimate terms with the department of justice and exchanged infromation with William J. Burns, when that gentleman was chief of the investigation department of the department of justice. The reason given for Wright’s for- eed resignation is the necessity for reducing expenses in the publicity service. Wright is the first of Gom- pers’ personal staff to ‘be given the gate. As a sort of apology for his loss of a very important office Wright is- sued a statement to the Washington correspondents, announcing that he had originally intended to quit his of- fice on April ist but confessed that “circumstances” made an earlier de- parture necessary. He will continue to hold several of- fices he declared, including the editor- ship of International Labor News Service, a scandal sheet issued to bankrupt “labor” sheets. Lies of Chamber of Commerce on Power Exposed by Senator WASHINGTON, March 23.—In the closing hours of the special session of the senate, a spirited denunciation of the trick turned for the electric power trust by the Smithsonian Insti- tution, in circulating a lying report on the financial condition of the publicly owned Ontario hydro-electric commis- sion enterprises, was delivered by Senator Norris. He pointed out the falsehoods with which this report bristled, showed that it is being sent broadcast by the U. S. chamber of commerce, and proved by the sworn testimony of the Niagara Falls cham- ber of commerce delegates before the senate finance committee that Ontario power is sold to factories at one-half the rate paid to American companies by American factories just south of the border. GET A SUB AND GIVE ONE! FOREIGN IMPERIALISTS--USE _,, CHRISTIAN CHURCH. AS T 0.0L “""T0 ENSLAVE Chinese all over the country. nn By sinnao PHKING, China, March 23.—Since the bestnntiig of December 1924 there have been many rumors and signs of a fast growing anti-christian move- ment which centers in the various student bodies and groups of intelléctual It seems as if the Chinese are beginning to realize that the missionary’s purpose is not only to tell them of the glory of God and the pleasure of the other world but is also and mainly to break paths in the wilderness so that foreign imperialism can secure China in its bloody grasp. It is needless to say that in every case of imperialist domination said domination has been secured by first sending missionaries to preach the Against Foreign Imperialism. Only now ate the newspapers be- ginning: to consider the anti-christian movement as a serious and perhaps menacing problem. One of the local papers, North China Daily News, in its issue of January 7, 1925, prints an article (which savors a great deal of Rodney Gilbert) menace and causes of the present an- ti-christian movement. The gist of the article ig that the anti-christian move- ment is becoming very closely inter- linked with a growing a asin a movement. Reading the article we see that a student strike in Yale College in Changsha has “turned into bitter anti- christian movement and anti-forei imperialism propaganda, handbi are sent to all the provinces and tele- grams to all christian schools. Some of the printed matter is a bitter at- tack on all christian education as im- perialistic and urges that all chris- tian schools ought to be closed.” The article goes on to find out the cause or causes of these sudden movements, and discovers what seems to it the three possible causes. Priests Defend Capitalism. They are as follows: 1. That the old mandarins are backing the movement. (This is ab- solutely ridiculous after reading the statements made by the participants in the movement. Such phrases are impossible to have been made by such a conservative group as the man- darins who are fast being entirely obliterated..) 2. “So-called imperialism.” (The author of the newspaper article looks at imperialism as if it were an eth- eral thing existing in the minds of a very small group.) He quotes a let- ter from a prominent;Chinese chris- tian advocating the earnest endeavor on the part of the missionariés “to prove to the people by their actions that christianity and the, spreading of its ideals bas nothing to do with im- perialism and its expansion.” This in my opinion is suggesting something like tearing a limb from thé body and expecting both, body and limb, to 3. “Bolshevik poison” is at the bottom of it all. It puzzles me that, after seven years of continual verbal dysentery directed against the first workers’ and peasants’ republic, the newspapers are not exhausted and the source of the dysentery is seemingly endless. Claws of Forelgn Capital. The second reason which the naive writer calls “so-called . imperialism” doubtless is the only..one of the three that may be or rather is the main cause of the movement. But — OUR DAILY aw ag PATTEKNS A POPULAR MODEL 4716. Beltless straight line dresses are mech in vogue. The style here portraytd may be worn: with any blouse or shirt waist. The pattern is cut in 7 sizes: 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 46 inches, bust eas- ure. To make the dress for a 38 inch size will require 3% yards of 40 inch material. The guimpe will require 2 yards. The width at the foot is 1% yard. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. FASHION BOOK NOTICE! Send l12c in silver or stamps for our up-to-date Spring and Summer 1925 Book of Fashions, showing color plates and containing 500 designs of ladies’, misses’, and children’s patterns, a con- elise and comprehensive articie on dress- making, also some points for the needle e various hints to ai the home " SIMPLE COMFORTABLE SUIT FOR A SMALL BOY 5050. Linen, jersey cloth and flannel may be used for this style. chambrey, poplin, The pattern is cut in 3 sizes: 2, 4 and 6 years. If made as illustrated a 4 year size requires 3 yards of 3 inch material, with % yard of con- trasting material for collar, cuffs, lap and facings. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. Address: The DAILY WORKER, 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, til. * «se NOTICE TO PATTERN BU YERS—The patterns being sold thru the DAILY WORKER pattern department are fur- nished 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 W KER does not keep a stock of vatterns on hand. Delivery ‘of t- terr.s ordinarily will take at least 10 days from the date of mailing the order. not become impatient if your pattern is delayed. PITTSBURGH, PA, To those who work hard for their money, | will save 50 per cent on all their dental work. DR. RASNICK DENTIST 645 Smithfield Stracs gospel, whether catholic or protestant. dealing with the function as before the disconnection | TAIL GUBAN STUDENTS FOR PROTEST AGAINST AMERICAN IMPERILISH HAVANA, bie, March 23.—Stu- dents of Havana University were severely beaten with clubs by po- lice here who endeavored to break up their demonstration against American imperialism. Five hundred students gathered in front of the presidential palace and demanded that a committee be allowed to see the president. They were protesting against fines of $200.00 each which were placed against three of their number for denouncing a parade organized by President Zayas. Zayas, who is un- der the thumb of the American cap- italiste who rule Cuba, organized the parade as an expression of loy- alty to the United States for its recent ratification of the Isle of Pines treaty. The students and many workers had hooted the paraders, and three of their number were arrested and fined. When the students demanded the lifting of the fines, Zayas refused to see them.* The crowd of workers and students shouted “Down with American “imperialism,” and “Send Crowder away.” The police immediately attacked them, and several shots were fired. After a battle with the police, the. students retreated to their medical school, where they ran up a ban- ner inscribed, “Down with the cor- rupt judge.” The government has charged the leaders among the students with “sedition.” no. The main reason, the prime cause of the new-born movement is the desire to decisively stop the in- roads of foreign imperialism which if allowed to continue as in the past will in time have accomplished its aim in regard to China. _Then, the present anti-christian which the student class of China had at last begun, to destroy: “The teeth and claws of foreign aggression, the christian church in China.” Whether the movement will succeed and attain its object is a matter of been started and until it has been rolled into the sea the students and people of China should strive with all their force, with all the power they have at their command. They should strive until they drive the whole crew of foretgn imperialists including the band of missionaries whose purpose, may I repeat, is to squeeze from China the best that she has, into the deep blue sea. The Business of Christianity. One year ago Robert Dollar, one of the foremost capitalists of China and of the Pacific coast on the American side in a speech delivered in Shanghai gave as the reason for the contribu- tion of money by the christian bust ness men in China to the missions in China, that without the christian mis- sionary the christian business man would never have been able to secure any foothold in China. This from a representative of foreign imperialism in China should be enuf to dispel any doubts that may have arisen in the minds of some of the readers of these articles that perhaps I was wrong in making some of the abéve statements. Steel Trust Calls For Strangling of China by Foreigners PEKING, China, March 23.—Com- petition among American, British and French capitdlists for control of China is growing keener. The large Amer- ican corporations, with billions of dol- lars invested in China, are calling for stronger foreign intervention. Each nation is backing a different war lord, and thus further weakening China. The United States Steel Products company, and the Pressed Steel Car company, branches of the steel trust, the American Locomotive company, and the General American Car com- pany, are among the firms calling for intervention, while at the same time they endeavor to suppress the grow- ing sentimént here against any fore- ign intervention. Czrecho-Slovakia Workers Hit. The effects of the Dawes reparation plan are being felt in Czecho-Slovakia. In the Ostrauer district furnaces are closing down and hundreds of workers are left without employment. In the iron and steel.industry workers who demanded higher wages to meet the rapidly increasing costs of living are laughed ‘at, discharged or forced to accent reductions. ogecido Pati: . eis kal gar «~ ’ CHINESE WORKES movement can be accepted as a move time but it is the start. The ball has. ‘ ps» + +» pain iit hihi iii ni ipihis pp pp i bp bb dp ip ip ty bp bp by bp be bn bn te ht Mn ttn tin Min Mind Lehn Mln Mn Ml Ln lin ln All Al ll, Al ~—wwrwererere6e-eeereeerererererererereeeeeeeeeeee eee YS aes ae The Communé, a little anti-Emma- Goldman Mist sheet published in England helps to rub some of the tin- sel off George Bernard Shaw, the intel. lectual tin god of British Fabianism, mer in which the job is @ Sffective, and worthy A TEACUP ERSON. “And the cauge@ of the war was, . . that one sid®Proke their eggs at the large ‘end;... .and the other side broke Si “at the small end.”— Gulliver’s There has @ great deal of dis cussion am lists up and down ‘the recent quarrel ard Shaw andthe ‘Russia, via Zino- viev. This ig 6 be deplored in so far as it indicates.@ still lingering belief in Shaw as the intellectual leader of socialism. So people still persist in regarding as a sort of social Napoleon who tell us when and how we are to mplish our emanci- pation. The cause of all the trouble seems to be that the Russian people have had a revoltition And have endeavored to infuse into it the philosophy of one, Karl Marx, instead of consulting G. B. S. on the matter. Now, to anyone who knows his Shaw, this is an unpardon- able offence. In fact, one could imag- ine George setting up in business, in his own modest way, with a signboard like this: on GEORGE B. SHAW, Limitless, Consulting Bigineer for Modern Revolutions. None Genuine, Without this Brand. Eyidently the Russian people should have written to Shaw stating their complaints, and. he would have diag- nosed their case, sending them several tons of his “Revolutionists’ Hand- book,” with a new preface specially written for them. Then acting on his advice, they would not have planted that stout old oak, socialism, but in- stead, would have gone in for some of the carefully tended hothouse plants of the Fabian nursery, such as mu- nicipalisation, MAtionalization, etc. Shaw If His Regalia. Now that W has definitely don- ned the cap and’ tek i —_—_—— -_ BUILD ERS AT WORK FIRST WEEK OF CAMPAIGN SUCCESSFUL Look for Two Bricks. HE fist week of the Second Annual Sub Campaign carries a bright “promise for the future. About 70 NEW subs were added to our list besides over two thousand short-term new subs which were a hang-over from various local sub campaigns held during February and March and which we do not count among the regular new subs in the present cam- paign. This week proved also one of the best on our records in securing about two hundred renewals on expiring subscriptions. The second week of the campaign is going to at least double the résults, if Monday morning’s mail is any indication. In addition, ten thousand special folders are now going into the mali to reach every reader of the DAILY WORKER and every branch of the Workers (Com- munst) Party in this country. These are sure to bring a response that is going to make “our daily” much bigger, much stronger, better able to build the Communist movement in this country. By the end of the week the campaign should be gathering increasing speed. Readers of “our daily” will be advised of what Is expected of them and branches DAILY WORKER”— will set in motion the campaign to “Build the “to make another Communist.” The gathering momentum of the campaign needs the help of every single reader and every single member of our party. The task set is a simple one for the individual determined Communist, “Get a Sub and Give a Sub”—is a task of securing two NEW subs by June 15, a task so simple in itself but so great in results that means the DAILY WORKER by June 15 will be well on the way to reaching twice it’s present strength and by the end of the year it can proudly lay claim to ranking among the great Communist dailies of the world. if this task is accomplished, you will proudly be laying claim to be- longing to a greater American Communist Party—because you can’t “Build the DAILY WORKER” without buliding the Communist move- ment, When it can be done so easily by getting two NEW subs—what is your Communist answer? The blanks for the purpose are in this issue— look for two “bricks.” of social affairs should pay as much attention to him as they do to Cor- nelius Chips, who, every week, pro- duces wierd and wonderful concoc- tions of alleged humor in the “Lot o’- Fun,” “Funny Wonder,” etc. We must disregard all these dialetical thunder- bolts of Shaw’s, as they have only one end in view, and that is, not socialism, but placing George in a perpetual limelight. Communism is the only hope of the world! All else is illusion! Under the latter title comes Shaw. So let us go ahead with our Communist propa ganda and leave George to bask in the sunshine of some fair duchess’ smile. ails, serious students * Shaw, trading on whatever scraps of >. reputation he still has as a socialist is commanding the ear of many alleg- ed socialists in these isles and lead- ing them into a blind alley. In the past he may have written to make people think, but now he most certainly writes to make them laugh. This is much safer and more profit. able as the master class do not mind anyone criticizing modern society so long as it is only a joke. Whenever anyone attacks it seriously and shows that the only hope is Communism. ushered. in by a proletarian revolu- tion, then, sooner or later he is re- warded with a prison cell. A DAILY WORKER eub means another Communist. NEW SUBSCRIPTION TO BUILD THE DAILY WORKER —— SPITE S 7 a: @ pear § 3 S0~6 montis $2eo 9 montas Ti CHICAGO -$ Boo ayear F450 6 months f 250, F months “—.. ' . > os : ° - A ° rTrTrTrTrTrTrrrTryTrY : NAME STRECT__ asi crry__)) STATE PACKING HOUSE PENSION SCHEME * IS TOTAL LOSS 400 Workers ors Taste Cap- italist Law After a two-vear legal battle four e| hundred pensioners of Morris & Co. with more than 1,000 dependents, lost their fight to force the meat company to continue its pension fund, discontinued in 1923 when the firm was absorbed by the Armour interests. In 1909 Morris & Co. established a pension fund, directing that the employes who were to benefit were to contribute 3 per cent of their wages, that Morris & Co. were to contribute $25,000 to the fund annually \until a total of $500,000 had been reached, and that an employe who had been in the service twenty years and who was 55 years old, was entitled to a life pension with certain provisions for his widow and children after his death. Yesterday Judge Ryner held that the pensioners, who had filed a bill for an accounting in which they asked that the company be forced to re establish the fund, were in court “without equity.” Briefly, his ppin- fon was that Morris & Co. was not bound by any implied or expressed. covenant or contract to continue sup porting ‘t. In 1914 the fund reached $600,000. the sum set in the contract. The fund totaled $1,000,000 in 1923 when. the Armour Morris & Co. Get a sub—make another Com. munist! ‘ interest bought out Crisis in Brazilian Industry, Employers Attack Wage Scales RIO DE JANIPRO, Brazil, Mar. 238. —The Brazilian industrial crisis is bhe- coming more serious. The Sao Paulo factories, which normally produce goods to the value of about $115,000,- 000 in a year, have been cut to eight- een hours a week, one-third normal capacity. The firms are making an effort te avoid heavy losses by the employ: ment of all possible means to gene- rate power in the individual plants, including the installation of engines and tractors. The employes are being forced to continue on a limited basis of work- ing hours, receiving greatly reduced wages. tachable. AAAAnnh nth DhhttetPPDAAAbAAADDbbBbbhdshnbhhhhnnnnnnhnnnnnnnnnannnaty ” The Arsenal of a Communist T his patent-clasp,leather binder, reproduced in actual size (adjoining) is of grained leath- er, gold-lettered and with a pocket for re- ceipts. The clasp allows all sheets to be de- Due to the prohibitive cost of the binder no commission can be al- lowed on subse sent in for which a binder is to be sent. The binder will be sent with- out charge to. every worker sending in a DAILY WOR month subs, or four 3 month subs or a total of $6.00 worth of subs, ($8.00 worth in Chi- | eago) ATONE TIME. ear’s sub to the ER—or two 6 % 1113 W. Washington Blvd. —Eee The Binder Will Include A full descriptive catalogue of all literature, information and prices of all Communist publications in all languages, advertising and printing, and note paper for your use. Here Is a Full Communist Arsenal to help the busy worker in the labor movement to fight for his class and to guide him to a full study of every phase of the principles and practice of Communism. This will also serve you as your proof of service rendered to the labor movement when you “Build the DAILY WORKER.” GET A LEATHER BINDER and build the DAILY WORKER with these sub bricks sent to: THE DAILY WORKER ———_—_—_ Chicago, Ill. — NAME — SPATE S P00 @ year § 3250-6 montis $2.00 9 montis i LHUCAIO Foo a year F452 6 montis § 250, S monthy Send this PROPAGANDA SUB to a worker to “Make Another Communist” 1 aa ? STATE __ — TvrrrYTyrTreyTrrrrrrTrTYrTYF - ss hhh ehh bAs AAA OOOO GGG GOOG GGG OOO GGE ODDO ALL LS i ee ee ee ee eee ? wee PR Te ~ eo Ree: apres oe
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by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING co. 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, I. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES 66.00 per year $3. $2.00...8 months By mail (in Chicago only): 68.00 per year $4.50....6 months $2.50...3 months AAdress all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER * ee W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, IMinele 3. LOUIS ENGDAHL ie WILLIAM F. DUNNE Battots MORITZ J. LOBB.........csessce- Business Manager — Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1928, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill., under the act of March 3, 1878. —- Advertising rates on application The Party of Action The Workers (Communist) Party is probably engaged in the most intensive activity, in its his- er tory. | On the domestic front it is leading the great struggle of the left wing in the Amalgamated Olothing Workers of America against the Hillman machine—a struggle in which whole sections of the union have joined—with Local 5 of New York playing a prominent role. In the United Mine Workers of America it has organized around its program serried thousands of ‘coal diggers; it leads in the fight for unemployment relief, against the open shop drive, against expul- sions, for nationalization of the mines. In the strike of the Willimantic textile workers the party and its press are a powerful influence. In the Machinists’ Union the party supports the center slate of Anderson against Johnston, the shameless tool of the capitalists. It leads the fight against the B. and O. plan and the struggle for amalgamation. In the Carpenters’ Union the left wing, organized | around the Communists, have checked the offen-| sive against the militants in Detroit and Chicago. | The Hutcheson machine has, been defeated tem- | porarily. In the strike of the miners in the Connelsville, Pa., region, the party program against wage cuts has rallied the strikers to it. The party press alone carried the news of this struggle written by work- ers for workers. In Minnesota the party rallies the workers and farmers to save the farmer-labor federation from the middie-cicass politicians, and the Communist program is the program of the whole left wing in the labor movement of that state. In Seattle the party has drawn many workers to it by its fight in the Central Labor Council and its general activity. In New York the party’s school is equipping the comrades with the xnew ledge needed for the party work. In Chicago the district Intensive Training School lasting for two weeks is pointing out the lessons of the struggles the party is carrying omand train- ing the party comrades from all over the district for their tasks. On the international front, the party has de- -feated the counter-revolutionary’ socialists, in their attempt to arouse sentiment, against Soviet Russia and world trade union unity, in a decisive man- ner. The name of Abramovich is a hissing and a byword to the workers of his nationality in this country as a result of the party’s activity. The party is organizing nationwide demonstra- tions before the Polish consulates to protest against the railroading of Stanislav Lanzutsky, Polish Communist, to the gallows for his loyalty ‘ to the working class. : Demonstrations before the Japanese consulates and embassy in protest against the suppression of the Japanese working class by the sedition law recently passed, are also being arranged. All over the United States the party is carrying on the organization of relief for the famine-stricken workers and peasants of Ireland in the face of the sabotage ef the suffering Irish masses by the cap- italists and middle class. The Workers (Communist) claims to be a party of action. It ts. Party of America C ompleting the Chain The New. York Times, that staunch friend of American capitalism, has come out for the B. and ‘ernment of Haiti—under American financial and ‘military control. ’ rs ‘ ” mittee that the march must be a ©. plan. I'he Uniontown territory was left out of the Cleve-| %°" except in ageppderly way. Our oo timsigse4 age hag gg quiet one. President McMahon in his the biggest Irish dances in the city This makes the chain complete. On one end is|land agreement signed after the strike and the) 10 a beck oar EE on cages regularly speech on Wednesday, praised the wae Maggs PL gees ys. Ti , "a1. ae RE YEE: ee te Ries MEY ot Bate PN e ur men ace ' et ants \\ noms ih toa pres ident of the Inte rnational miners and their familie s left to starve or go back | it into the hands of the righteous, he Miss Kelleher, in answer to another | roth for thelr cet on the 9 Relief Committee besides securing Association of Mac hinists and the entire officialdom |to work on the bosses’ terms. | counselled. : - letter forwarded by the Workers | Don’t Disturb His Majesty, the Boss! | valuable publicity for the famine situa- of the American Federation of Labor. In between The miners continued the strike for many weeks | Praying Fer Help Party, stated that the DAILY WORK- One feels as-he-marches along, the \tion in Ireland also did a good “job are the yellow socialists—the Milwaukee Leader|with relief being furnished by the Progressive; ‘Then came the peporation, All thru ER did more harm than good to the pares if, pee sgget pproie cs in exposing the hypocrisy" of the cap- has endorsed the scheme—and the liberal intel-| Miners’ Committee and the Workers (Communist) | the meeting Johnstém had been speak nag ereptoponey a a rs pte a ak ~ still carried on by the gh em “ne athlon 4 _ lectnals. At the other end is the New York Times, | Party. ing much of the time with his eyes Sackese Waste eal sas sect re ‘ie prisoners thru the corners of the al wesc tial ca Aged the most outspoken foe of the working class and| Now they are on strike again. Unorganized, they rg and his arms’outstretched. Was | yient to tell the truth to the working | mouth. Men, women, boys. and girls, their organizations. have refused to accept the coolie conditions offered | hh, one time a salvation army las- class, or to sell its papers where | talk while they march, some of them, Police Bi Bill Hearing Soon. The chain is now around the necks of the workers|them by the coal and steel capitalists. They have, ae - pesca his’ peroretion on Indulg-| workers could be reached. but there is a cr eee qe SPRINGFIELD, Ill, March 23>-The /{ sedi $3 arA Ti anneristh ; and willing hands are drawing it tighter. in this challenge to the coal barons, set an example} and talked poms aiie-the ies ih I pointed out that capitalist papers ee en epaniet glow! Bg Dunlap police bill, which the bamxers _/ Beginning on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad,|that the organized coal miners would do well to} the creator and thie world that el ee ee Oe Fs Mantes 5 rent pontiac woe must not ey Ce ee — ve peas / this couapany ubion scheme, disguised as “co-opera- | follow before it is too late. gave to all the people, Johnston must peasant ng pecs gee be argused from their quiet slumber, oi hee "anions ia Gepactee to”miaae | ‘and sponsored by Johnston, has spread to the In the organized fields the Lewis administration sony a dozen stock perorations. The | 314 a capitalist sheet which for busi-| ter nightly debauchery. The bour- up in the senate military affairs com- Canadian National railways, the Chicago: andjand the coal operators’ association jointly break neck Spey ne speech with was 4) 1455 reasons came into Willimantic | ¢°!s!e’ must yee a eo A un | mittee Wednesday for a public hear- Northwestern and the Chesapeake and Ohio rail-ldown working conditions: jointly they try to drive. ta ew nas Noe ont “e 4 shah, for the first time when the strike be- rey glo gs cea aathat Galives ta ing. The bill aims to provide a force ‘ ; . is au . ’ . > reads. € » Ne 1s 0 g. . _ A. The Strike a Secondary Consideration : CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, March 23,— | mass betrayal of the workers is interesting and| But the union is something else than officials.| D!¢ you ever spit in the ocean?) 4 strike meeting on the 17th of} Every time the Bronx Bnglish|«yignt as well appoint the king of the iNuminating: It is the fighting organization of the coal miners a that'S the Johmston meeting in| March, after the parade, had to be | Branch of the Workers Party runs an) bootieggers ‘to enforce the Volstead, A. “The very existence of a strong and well and the officials must not be allowed to destroy | tr inter tocten, diene cae ee Ss ee a ee eee Oe: ee pt apy nage peed pr metllnn. vpendligne fester why oe. ¢ 7 organized union is evidence of a fund of crea its effectiveness. | eiiatioaals table to the sm He also ected of ms “gery — wee ll AB st porcas Pes ” . The — sald here, = ag —_ to his oe on ie PL \ SES ATO ORS a PEIN The Wenkar ' 7 bs an ae : services. ou per cent o e : other, commenting on Coolidge’s ap- ive and executive capacity among workingme n he Worke rs (¢ om ues ) Party will do and is | believes that between capital and la-| women attend services regularly at| branch has it as its policy to keep) pointment of Charles Warren as at- which has not been draw n On by their jobs. rhe doing all it can to aid the Pennsylvania strikers in | ber there is an interdependence 80 St. Mary’s church. During Lent, they | these anxious comrades and friends in/torney general. Reed objected to War- program in question is designed to tap this for their fight. But the miners should or ganize and | xed and irrevocable’as to make com-| march to church every Wednesday | suspense for at least six months. .|ren because of his interest in the the good of industry as a whole, instead of demand admission as a body to the U nited Mine awe a ae ble ead Ss and Friday night; and to high mass | Now it may be answered: “Our next | sugar trust. damning it up by resistance and repression.” Workers of America. As members of the ufiTon ie peer eg pane | at seven Sanday morsing, the usual) afair is the Anty-Hationaiter's att, ae rth : | ; , ‘orkers Party w t get the goat | hour for going to the mill during the| cert and Ball on Saturday, April 11, Does your friend bscribe t The Times is a little verbose, but its meaning) their splendid fighting spirit and their numbers | | : paige 5 » . i of these lame ducks quack, quack | week. No rest for the wicked. at 1347 Boston Road, Bronx, New York! the DAILY WORKER? Ask him! 18 clear. The B. and O. plan, says the Times, is de-| will add strength to the already large and deter-|in the employers’ Jookingfor| Last night, as | watched the church| City. Admission fifty cents. Now that signed to tap a reserve fund of energy possessed | mined left wing section. [pick-ups in the d goers return on foo , eset was | you know —you must come -« — GET A SUB AND GIVE ONEL . ° ee A ke i a * Ss She « . 3 ee am % > a. , : @ t tensive exploitation as “taking it out of their hides.” Unions as combat organizations of the workers are inimical to the interests of the bosses, but unions that organize for production are welcome as the flowers in May. The B. and O. plan therefore kills two birds with one stone—it increases production | Fry and it makes the union part of the profit-making machinery of the capitalists. No wonder William Johnston is hailed as a “constructive labor leader” by the plute press. But the militant workers already, and the mass of the organized workers soon will understand that the Johnstonites are essentially destructionists. They destroy the unions in conjunction with -the bosses. It is no accident that the New Yerk Times praises the B. and O. plan in its editorial columns just as an election campaign in the Machinists’ Union is in progress, an election campaign in which William Johnston and the B. and O. plan are on trial before the membership. : / Haiti and the Monroe Doctrine The French government, irritated by the pressure of American bankers, demands that the American occupation of Haiti be referred to the league of nations. With the supprgssion of the native population of Haiti by American marines our readers are familiar. Since 1915 the government of the United States has maintained an armed force on that island and conservative estimates of the ‘number of Haitians slaughtered in the process of bringing them to a realization of the superior character of American democracy place the figure at 3,000. The Haitians are Negroes, French is the language of the people and they have revolutionary tradi- tions dating back to the overthrow of the French forces of occupation and the establishment of a Negro republic. In the western hemisphere the American. gov- lernment has never tolerated interference. by | European powers. It has assumed the right of determining unhampered its attitude toward. the other governnmtents and peoples of Mexico, Central and South America and the Caribbean islands. The basis of this attitude is the Monroe doctrine; originally drafted to set forth the position of the United States government in these matters, but now a charter under which American imperialism enjoys the privilege of overthrowing and setting up governments at its pleasure in the nations to the south. In addition to the desire to make a little trouble for its creditors the French government has an- other ax to grind. -If the Haitian question comes before the council of the league a precedent is established for the discussion of other areas of | occupation and the appeal of Egypt against British occupation could be heard. The American finance- capitalists have little to fear from this project even tho the league acts on it. The French will be made to keep. their mouths shut by a gesture of calling the millions of dollars of short term notes held by the House of Morgan, Great Britain will oppose the setting of any such precedent and the Haitians will continue to be murdered by marjnes. The incident is of interest only as showing that the Monroe doctrine Was a guarantee of non-inter- ference by European powers in the territorial ar- rangements of the western hemisphere only as’ long as America did not meddle in European poli- tics. In world affairs American imperialism now holds the center of the stage. European governments know that American government policy drives to- ward placing them in the same position as the gov- Miners’ Strike in Pennsylvania Our news from Uniontown, Pennsylvania, tells of the strike of coal miners in this stronghold of the steel trust. The wages of the workers have been cut from 30 to 50 per cent and a great protest movement, at present embracing about 65 per cent of the miners, is in progress. This coal field is largely unorganized. During the strike of 1922 the miners joined the United Mine Workers of America, but were betrayed by the Lewis administration and its local henchmen. by the workers. ‘Unlettéred petty bosses are ac- ban == customed to describing this process of more in-| ‘that composed the a | it a le At a en > oe we, ea aa WAT IS" HALL oy Sat Se “RB. (Conta tee from Page 1). auditorium of the locomotive engin- eers. Everything connected with the C. P. P. A. seems chilled to the bone. In the hall William Schatz, one of Cleveland’s lonely socialivts was nerv- ously walking up and down an isle. He probably had not yet heard that he had been disedhnected from the C. P. P. A, outfit by his national of- fice. The n that came to notice was a “Ynto the street by one of the audiende,’ who there pur- 0 J ENGI chased two copies of the Workers Monthly, retur a, fave one to a friend, and both th nm hid their noses in them. Wert fon these things be- cause time was , was not coming that was oc Then, going on Coyle, Chairman ¢ the few present tl small, but select workers makes & then that one w cent. He intro¢ nationally know yahoga valley. calling a poli time of year. \Thé the reason the au because the meeting was being held upon the wrong day of the wrong week in the — month. Peter is Long-Minded Peter spoke & tees time. He ex- posed the city cil of which he is a member. He tol@ the eighty staunch and true present, that the council was owned by the New York Central rail- road and the Union Trust company. He is surely right; But a couple of minutes later he entered into a long ig, an audience ~~ seemed all ihe p. m., Albert OF the meeting, told the audience was If an absence of an audience select, sg, one hundred per ced Peter Witt, the humorist of the Cu- *% scolded Coyle for ck meeting at this | argument was that ce Was small was defense of the ¢fy charter and the |~ Cleveland pro onal system of re- presentation. “people's” charter the said, And yet, | must be pre it was upon the of this charter and its proportional’system of election’ of councilmen that 20 New York Cen- tral councilmen opt of a total of 25 were elected at the last municipal election. He closed with a siden for cleanliness in government. Then’ Coyle arose to introduce “B. & O"Johnston. At this point another noteworthy occurance took place, Peter Witt, in full view of the audience, stuék®his: nose into 4, -Monthly, and these gentry some. ’ Hard Time. ee Johnstone was imtroduced as one who believes in things that are right, just and decent; one who brought many groups together into a tremend- ous political movement, Nothing was said as to who drove these groups | apart again. $x “B. & O.” Johnston had a very hard time getting started.’ His speech was like the sputtering of a Ford with two spark plugs fowled. He looked every bit the defeated politician and the first half of his Speech was: flied with references to the probability that many there may be Avho were disap- pointed and discoufmged because of the small vote tte got. This did not cheer the ¢ aristocrats Righteous Finally he said people did not wan class party. The mocratic parties ° and that was proof enough that all class parties were” good. In Eng- land there were’ , but here there were so m justice loving people who had to counted in on any progressive ent, He ad- mitted that there a big job ahead to set the world right side up but said there was no} of a revolu- class parties ROR BRM BE iy 1A 4 r "er T lof the United T * Peete. 7 or, ~- $100,000,000. speculation of their own by unwar wor ass + ete WAGES TH ‘ w wy CROOKED FINAN ST. PAUL ROAD INTO BANKRUPTCY | By LELAND OLDS \ (Federated Press Industrial Editor) | Threat to the wages of thousands of railroad workers comes as the natural result of the dishonest financing which led the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad into receivership March 18. According to a 1914 report, by the interstate commerce commission the company has been d | misleading its stockholders a falsifying returns, to the extent of at least : . " . : > ~ 5 ja ea ear . W-Ren ; _— ieee ze o pre ‘ ‘ 4 ae oe ee i St at > debi RP Pe ob Le We, ies * Dia Rare be “ had IRISH FREE STATE govern- ment has announced that it will re- deem, in 1927, the Irish republican bonds issued during the sharp fight against England, since 1916. Approxi- mately $15,000,000 was raised in this manner in the United States. The subscribers will be requested to invest the.-proceeds in various Irish enter- prises. The Irish Free State has no money to redeem those bonds. But it will secure a loan from Threadneedle Street or Wall Street, and the rm will own the industries that will be established from the proceeds of the bond redemption. The Free State is a business government. >. * ®@ OW many millions has William Randolph Hearst invested in air plane factories? This question will not down, in the minds of.those wha know the kind of patriot Hearst is. Hearst and his good man Brisbane de. vote columns of space daily to howl ing for the biggest fleet of war aircrafi in the world. They now demand that Coolidge repudiate his secretary of war, John W. Weeks, who seems to be closely connected with the battleship builders. Irish Famine Posters in New York Parade Roil Governor Smith \ (Continued from Page 1). play and kept on marching. They were greeted by cheers from the ranks of Irish workers who lined the sidewalk. What the Banners Said The banners carried the following inscriptions: “750,000 Irish workers and peasants are starving.” “The Irish workers and peasants call on their American comrades for aid.” “The DAILY WORKER helps the des- titute workers and peasants “while the capitalist press is silent.” “The Free State goverhment is put ting thru a hanging bill while the workers and peasants are ‘starving.” “Connolly and Pearce died to free Ireland; Whe Irish Free State lives to enslave it.” “Support the Irish Workers’ and Peasants’ Relief Committee.” Comrade Gralton, Byrne, McKiernan and Mrs. Keog broke into the parade - much to the chagrin of the Irish Amer- ican politicians who hate nothing more than an “Abramovich” episode at their respectable St. Ratrick’s Day parade: their annual contribution to the’ cause of Irish freedom. irish Revolution Veteran But Comrade Gralton shouldered -a Thompson machine gun against. the Black and Tans in Ireland, and he and his comrades were not concerned with maintaining the dignity of the murderous Irish Free State govern- ment. They wanted to bring the agony of the starving women and children on the west coast of Ireland to the attention of the working masses of New York, particularly those of Irish birth and descent. Despite the efforts of the adjutant, the banners were carried in front of the governor’s auto within fifty yards of the reviewing stand when the police forced the unwelcome paraders out. But thousands along the averiue saw the banners and the friends of a real Irish workers republic sent up hearty cheers. - Leaflets Distributed Thousands of leaflets telling of the Irish famine were distributed along the line of march and also at several halls thruout the city where dances and other entertainments under the auspices of Irish societies were being held. Communists carried the famine posters in the grand march at one of a , S60 a3