Daily Worker
March 28, 1925

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at —..—.——.—..— 1 3, yi - - 4 —— NEW YORK EDITION * “AS WE SEE IT By r. J. O)FLAHERTY 4. a — 0 ofthe many retired rear-admi- — Tals forums of the country recent mitted-thet. wars end used by. cou flict between nations over speheres of influence, markets and concessions. The old salt did not see anything wrong in this and thot that pacifists and others who had moral seruples about slitting. other people’s throats over a “port to export prunes” should be conveniently hanged on general principles. The admiral’s frankness is a delightful relief from the hypoc- ritical twaddle put out by the sanc- timonious , capitalist apologists who reduce all wars in which their own burglars are involved, to crusaders in behalf of civilization, female virtue or religion, , — * = 128 department of commerce now predicts a “great trade conflict” between the chief exporting nations of the world. but expresses confidence in the ability of the United States to hold floating around the opens Commarism Will Beat You, He Declares WARB6AW, Poland, March 26.—Com- rade Stanislav Lanzutsky, Communist member of the Polish diet, has been sentenced to die because of a speech delivered to the railroad workers in Przempl, on Nov. 11, 1923. In his last speech before the Polis diet, Comrade Lanzutsky defied his persecutors with the slogan “Com- munism will defeat you.” Comrade Lanzutsky described the blight of un- employment, hunger and white terror, which capitalism has imposed upon the Polish workers, and declared that the Communists would sieze power and liberate the workers of all nation- What Do You Want in the Col ni ng ja erica! eement? ee are now proceeding betwee the C Chiea and the officials of the Amalgamated Clothing. effort to reach a new wage agreement to ‘se e 0 agreement that expires May 1. The issues brought ta! | negotiations are clearly explained in a statement { committee of the needle trades section of the ri League. This declaration urges the 40-hour week, w piece work, genuine unemployment dustry and shop committee control of the — follows: — 2 You, a fighting member of the Amalgamated Clothin. and think about this leaflet. Our officials are now negoti ment. That agreement effects our very lives. Our o lowing a ‘militant policy of fighting the bosses; are aiding the employers at the expense of the workers, The Amalgamated Clothing Workers was born ageinst the reactionary and corrupt leadership of the: U1 parment bosses Union in an the present in these the national Educational Kk as against of the in- ent in full = Ww — ages, the ante — 0 » will read the new agree- instead of fol- the method of militant fight warment Work- CH 28, 1925 oy THR DAILY 4 Price 3 Cents sshington Biv — . Strikers Feussgac in Past Struggles (Special to The Daily Worker) REPUBLIC, Pa., March 26. -The present strike of the coke _tegion miners against wage cuts hat g his- tory dotted with one strike an- other against the encroachment of the operators. This territory. lays between Uniontown and Brownsville and is the heart of the eoke field. The Republic Iron and Steel Co. was to lead the fight on the miners in its mine at Republic. In Septem- ber 1921 the men struck 100 per cent against a wage cut. “After a week the company conceded and the men won 4 Se rE a KIRKWOOD, WHO FOUGHT WALES’ TRIP, REFUSES PROTECTION. OF POLICE (Special to The Daily Worker) London, Maréh 26. — Numerous threatening letters have been re- ceived by David Kirkwood, labor member of parilament from Scot- land, because of his criticism of the Journey which the prince of Wales is about to take, " became known to- day. ~ Kirkwood 50 the Tetters to the home secretary, Sir Johnson Hicks. Police protection was offered Kirkwood, but he refused it. “INVITE RUSSIA TO ARMS PARLEY, BORAH DEMANDS | DEMAND NEW ELECTION IN DISTRICT 12 Miners Indignant al Farrington Machine By ALEX REID. CHRISTOPHER, III., March 26.— The election returns of District 12, United Mine Workers of America ( nois), published in the latest issue of the Illinois Miner, show a complete repudiation of Farrington leadership. Of a membership of over 100,000, Farrington received only approximate- ly 30,000 votes, one-fourth of the mem- bership. | Farrington Machine Busy. Even despite the fact that the ma chine was busy thruout the district for weeks prior to the election, and dur- fits own. A table of trade statistics W the: Styne. 2 published by the department shows | #lities rotting in capitalist jails. 6 5 ofthe een We, the rebels. dave Full Support to 1622 Strike. 2 ing the election, in spite of the = mme exports. of the United states | The New York workers held a mass | Or lt, ORY Hira would it e 2 On April 1, 1922 this entire section W ö 4 p ö : crooked elections throuout the ery a crowding those of England into a meeting yesterday in the. Central sible to improve the conditions of the responded immediately to the na- or ower 8 F ight f OF | the Farrington machine could only po * corner in every market in the world. Opera House, protesting against Warblers tional strike call by the United Mine § il one-fourth vote of the ee wl This is where the shoe pinches, This] threatened execution of Comrade Lan: ean ack . Workers. The men went into the Polls Only fitty per cent of the rg 4 is why the prince of Wales is follow: | zutsky. rere or oye ota Dex 4 Pay ae — miners’ organization by the hundreds ship voted, and it — safe to * be 2 . at ing Black Jack” Pershing’s trail in The speech of Comrade Lanzutsky, a since’ dest eh rs ** 7 3 — and, with the miners in the other“ WASHINGTON, b. c., March 26— if the reese Hy r a eel 3 South America, ‘This ie why there delivered on December 18, 1924, is giv- os acted *. not 5 — — fields, struggled for the betterment] Soviet Russia must be invited to the Ploxred miners ha 2 e 2 re ed will de a War between the United n below: 1 Workers 8 se 5 1 ot their conditions. international conference to discuss pegs pe a cian . et oe ee ee tolerate collaboration with the boss- Lewis and his executive board saw] armaments and other world probleme, 4 ‘e2o™minous 2 or mahiy ‘wreaths’ British’ ambassadors anzutsky States His Position. J. fit to leave them out of the Cleveland if the parley le to have any effect on Opposition Disqualified. a, lay on the graves of Gedres Washing AM firmly convinced that I haven’t | es. agreement and later in February 1923 European nations, Senator Borah, In Zeigler, one local union gave Far- te te e and Che talkncWe del- a single friend in this house, be-] In recent years, there has been completed his dirty work by calling} chairman of the senate foreign rela- rington 144 votes and John Hindmarch ny dier. " ginning on this side (pointing to right) growing swiftly an unwillingness on off the strike. tions committee told President Cool- | 488—but this vote was disqualified be- he é . 6 and ending on this (ponting to lett) the part our offftials, nationally and Bosses Try Starvatlon—Then Reduc-| idge. | cause the votes were not tabulated in in NE of William Randolph Hearst's — Oe (Continued on page 6) 1 Pommittee tion. Borah was called to the White the required time set by the constitu: nt wishin: bide Andie er Ye 8 45 Those that could get Work did 70. House to confer on the proposed con- tion. The real reason is seen in the er carrying on a campaign for the aboli- L ET QU A RRE LING F ACTIONS OF onds f onation until again the operators prepared for ference of world powers. He told |‘sparity of the vote. de of e Wall. B.C. a an onslaught, but this time they were] Coolidge that if such a powerful na- At Buckner, the ballots were stolen Forbes thinks if he had to work seven | / THE 1 W | W AID INDUSTRI A L Immediate ier the famine/ first going to starve the workers. The) tion as Soviet Russia, exertigg such and other Wallets substituted.’ At 8 dave a.dvecl le would be € Fevointion- 0 . 0 g | stricken Oa peasants on the mine at Republic was closed down on] potent influence, in the eastf/and on local near Middiefork, officers at 0 ‘st. We think not. It is more likely WORKER. SAYS R ] A C CALL West coast of ind is-arged in a May 10, 1924 and did not reopen un-| the European countries, were left out local union counted the 1 . „ thie chit olthanis tae Sin . „1. „. atatement ty the Irish Work- till Nov. 15 of the same year. ot the conference, the European na- were not even members of that local, e boss to show investigating committees | ers’ and t -Famine Relief; At the time the men started to tions might even hesitate to take part. and thruout the state the same con- ! tua She eee e would The Red International Affiliation Committee has issued the following committee at h.Lincoin St., work they were given to understand] Borah declared that recognition was ditlons are reported. ie | revolt if they were forced to rest one | Statement to the membership of the I. W. W.: Chicago. ‘inc ‘ed dollars now ie that the scale of wages was to be the] not necessary in order to extend an | Demand Convention and New Election 3 1 } day in seven. Fellow Workers: It is apparent that the capitalist class thru the “Our | worth one thousm + liars one month same as paid before the mine shut] invitation to the Soviet government Miners are demanding a convention * | — 2 House” injunction against the Seattle Industrial Workers, together with stupid | from now,” caliie 2 Srawrord, down. Their first pay day came to attend. to clean out the daylight burglars. h, f UT Forbes, like any ill wind, blows and factional editors and managers of that publication, have brought the | sseretary of the section of the around and they found that their Joe Divide Spoils. Ballots were thrown out on every al some good. President Willard, | paper to the brink of the rave. | Its situation is said to be so desperate that Workers’ inte “Relief who is | wages: have N Immediately 92 Misarmament. confer- hand on “constitutional’ grounds, and 75 bosom friend of B. 4 O, Bill” J suspend it aid i not given, r April 2. supervising the bn of relief|they struck against the cut. onic not have reduction of arm- | the rs in the district, in spite of it- | ade nd ar ta in Ireta Riis 7 5 ma i Coke Miners piped Pat. 2 ioe moat Euntant work |th® constitution, do not report as ———™ > det wey, eS eae * dine 8 9 i P16 2 x? 7 that the sey- nr burden, othe iaaseaiaiat arti the famous class plan, 2 * * that was to revolutionize the rallrond fisted upon it, for the 2 4 low it to perish. The Worker, and the whole I. W. W. e = not be destroyed by capitalist long as their policies were +h the interests of the wo rang Committing Sulcid pe As long as the Industrial Workers policies harmonized with these inter- ests, the workers supported it thru industry. Forbes has nothing to say about scab. publishers. He gets part of his salary from Hearst who has a six months old strike on his hands in Seattle, where he refuses to recogn- ize the Typographical Union. What- ever concessions the workers have se- cured from their bosses have been won thru their unfons and their collec- ‘ive power and not thru the question- wend See a K 25 ible efforts of fak like Forbes. — aid . t 1 985 with scorn the basic principles ot complete working class uhity and im- placable revolutionary class struggle, and adopted a hostile attitude, a pol- icy of destruction toward all other workers’ organizations, as it turned from struggle against the capitalists to a fight upon Communists and at- tacks, on the workers’ Soviet repub lic of Russia, the workers gradually stopped supporting it. The final, and perhaps fatal suici- dal act was its rather open support of the “injunctionite” split move- ment in the I. W. W. Not until it had weakened itself with the working class did the “Our House” masters dare to attack it. This sick and tottering condition afflicts the whole I. W. W. which is perishing without any outside attack, merely from internal decay under the confused and sectarian leadership of those who will not yield to history (Continued from page 6) COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL CALLS WORKERS TO FIGHT CORRUPTION AND UNITE AGAINST CAPITALISM The executive committee of the Communist International, leading organ of the proletarian revolution, taking cognizance of the disclosures recently brought to light in Germany, wherein it was exposed that the most exalted officials of the Second (yellow socialist) International Were involved in in- credible corruption of the same sordidity as the Teapot Dome case in Amer- ten, has issued the following address to the working class of the world: 0 To the Workers of All Countries: The legal inquiry into the scandalous Barmat case in Germany has be- come an indictment of the leaders of the Second Inftermational. We see no longer in thé dock the usurer Barmat who made use of the blessings of cap- italist democracy of Germany to enrich himself at the expense of the starv- ing masses, but the leaders of the German socidl-democracy who had not only made the most of their political influence to enable this capitalist profiteer to do his work, but have also acc@pted cash for their services. it is the entire leading organ of the Second International that is in the dock, froth Troelstra down to MacDonald, for all of them are mixed up with the international speculations of Barmat. Never before has there been in the international labor movement such shameless corruption and bribery, as we see in this lawsuit of the Second international. HOINELL is the Russian consul in Chicago? Not wishing to leave you long in suspence, he is none other than A.. Volkoff, and he broke into print thru having received an invita- (ion to gaze on some Bolshevik and anti-Bolshevik posters which were ex- hibited yesterday afternoon at the Arts Club, Chicago. The consul has not applied for a berth in a sanata- rium on the ground of overwork; nei- her is he very active in the movement for the recognition of Soviet Russia. No doubt he is making himself gener- ally useful around the Chieago Gold Coast where Russian aristocrats were always in great demand. * * 8 T is reported that the anti-Bolshevik posters, which are being exhibited by some of the wealthiest female parasites in Chicago, were secured (Continued on page 4.) “Soctalists” Unite with Profiteers. Capitalist jobbery, the most abominable exploitation in the closest rela- tionship with social-democrati¢ policy, social-democratic leaders as superin- tendents and advisors of capitalist profiteering firms, an entire large social- AContinued on page 4) N “Se: 2 lict 1 have been in- — — “COUNTRY IS FULL OF COMMUNISTS,” RAPHAEL COMPLAINTS TO BABBITT OMAHA, Neb., March 26.—Profes- sor Raphael Abramovich appreciates Main street. In an interview given the capitalist press before leaving for Denver, the counter-revolutionist complained bitterly about the big cities of America. “The country is so full of Com- munists in your larger cities,” he sald, “that they prevented me speak- ing in New York, Philadelphia, Chi- cago, Pittsburgh and other large centers.” This probably will be sad news for Hillquit-Cahan and company, as these worthies have been insisting that Communism was dying out in America. And now little Raphael finds that “the country is full of Communists!” But there is hope in the provinces, in the villages ruled by Babbitt and the god of Mrs. Bogart along Main street. There every red“ is known and can be rigidly excluded from en- tering the tearoom with the select group gf wealthy Jewish merchants. There is “free speech” and perfect democracy rules over socialism and the police department. And so it came to pass in Omaha, that the chosen few were admitted and the abandoned reds, and every worker were excluded. Workers Urged to to Fight Against Deportation Bill NEW YORK, N. Y., March 26.— A mass protest meeting against House Bi No. 11,796, will be held here on: Friday evening, April 3, in Manhattan. Lyceum, 66 Hast 4th St. This is ‘a deportation bill and one of the most drastic ever put thru Wall Street's house of representatives. The bill is expected to meet with opposition in the senate and the workers thruout the country must be mobilized to fight it. The meeting will be held under the auspices of the Labor Defense Council. . ? Report Mussolini B Better. ROME, March 26.—Premiler Musso- lini has 80 fagtrecovered from his ill- ness that he'-was reported to have appeared: in the chamber of deputies today. The .Commugist deputies endeavor- ed to ipterrapa the demonstration at his entrance. a, : Pee VOU ö * tha ft . A „ ye tims on the West const of Ireland is’ increasing. The money raised by the Workers’ International Relief has not been sufficient to eope with the re- quirements of three-quarters of a mil- lion destitute peasgmts. Help is need- ed at once. The following cable from Helen Crawford, gecretaty of the British section of the Workers’ Inter- national Relief, shows. the need for im. mediate action: “Irish Workers’ and Peasants’ Fam- ine Relief Committee. “Chicago, U. 8. A. “Rush trpediate assistance for Irish famine ‘victims. Need urgent, children dying cold and hunger “CRAWFORD.” On receipt of this cable, the Irish Workers’ and Peasants’ Famine Relief Committee cabled two hundred dollars for use among the famine sufferers. Now, that the machinery for raising funds is established, the eommittee ex- pects to send larger contributions fre- quently until the necessities of the famine victims are taken care of. Give Lie to Free State. In refutation of the statements of prominent members of the Free State government and equally prominent politicians in the conservative wing of the republican party of Ireland that the famine was “greatly exaggerated” the following editorial from the Man- chester Guardian of Feb. 6 is quoted: “Detailed information about the dis- tress in Western Treland, unhappily, shows that there has been no wild ex aggeration. From Donegal to Kerry the potato crop has sither been poor or worthless. Without peat and with diminished milk supplies the lot of the poor peasant is a melancholy and hopeless one. Should the bad weather of 1924 continue into the spring, this year may easily be‘of more evil mem- ory than 79. Threequarters of a mil- lion people inhabitigg an area lying west of a line drawn roughly from Malin Head in the North to Bantry in the South are affected in varying de- grees.” American workers and farmers are urgently requested ta send in their contributions at ones. We want no capitalist charity for these workers and peasants. We want aid from brother to brother and sister to sis- ter, men and women of the same class and common victims of the same robber system, even if divided by three thousand miles of ocean. Send in your donation to the Irish Workers’ and Peasants’ Famine Relief Committee, 19 South Lincoln street, Chicago, Illinois. Farmer Killed by Fall. SEYMOUR, Ind., March 25.—Henry Maffe, 62, a farmer livin; near here died today shortly tbr he fell from a ‘ wap 7 — ting : oh . E 2 2 forced ide months, ‘noth could stop them from ighting as wage reduction. The company tried the old ruse to get the miners to return by threatening to cease oper- ations at this point, but it didn’t work with the men. Today these men are assisting the miners in the other mining camps that are now on strike against wage cuts. Reorganizing Old Locals. Although the betrayal of their struggle by Lewis is fresh in their mind, at the same time they realize the importance of organization. They are reorganizing their old locals and linking up their fight with the rest of the rank and file in the miners’ organization. Japs Plan for Polson Gas. TOKIO, March 26.—The Japanese army plans to spend five million yen ($2,500,000) for poison gas laborato- ries and equipment to be completed in 1928, according to an article today in the Kokumin Shimbun. Fireman Killed. * BINGHAMTON, N. V., March 26.— One fireman was killed and a score of others were overcome by smoke in all- night fires here. Contribution to Joint Bazaar. NEW YORK.—Charles Feldman, a well-known artist of this city, has con- tributed $25 to the joint bazaar, this being the sum that he obtained for painting the portrait of Max Gebaide. The joint bazaar committee acknowl- edges receipt of the sum. INTERNATIONAL WORKERS’ AID MAKES FIGHT FOR LIFE OF POLISH RED NEW YORK, March 26.—The In- ternational Workers’ Aid will hold protest meetings thruout the coun- try, demanding the release of Com- rade Stanislas Lanzutsky, Com- munist deputy in the Polish diet, who has been sentenced to be hang- ed. Comrade Lanzutsky’s only of- fense is that he is a Communist, who advocates the seizure 6f power by the Polish workers, as the only means of stopping the reign of the Polish white terror. Thousands of Polish workers are now languishing in jail because they dared to speak for the workingclass. One member of the Werkere’ Aid committee is Rev. David Rhys Wiill- lams, brother of the Writer and friend of Soviet Russia, Albert Rhys Williams. Lanzutsky Is sentenced beéause of a speech delivered bers Ce load of hay. His skull was fractured. railroad workers’ union. other r en provided by 22 1 — " _ ra the — be tabulated and teh to 1 union not 1 beginning of February of tion year. But—the Farrington * chine says — to hell with the constitu- tion!” be broagheg which does not allow her to militarize the German border and the Ruhr.. England, on the other hand, is anxi- ous to see an arms parley because England teels that the French air- fleet and submarines are a menace to her, as is the American maneuver in the Pacific. English imperialism is anxious to curb this growth of for- eign navies. The division of the spoils extracted from Germany under the Dawes’ plan is also likely to be taken up, as well as the disputes of the large powers over the division of the colonial coun- tries. new election, in order that the dis- franchised members may be permitted to vote as constitutionally provided. Society Pets Soviet Enemies. The begging choir of “Prince” Sergio Romanovsky, cousin of the late czar of Russia, received a large hand- out from the parasites of New York society when they “sang for their sup- per” at a benefit performance in the Plaza Hotel. LIVING IN STEEL TOWNS T is appropriate that in Pittsburgh, the stronghold of the mighty steel trust, there should be organised the first group of Communist worker-correspondents. We hope that this Will be the first of many similar groups that will form lines of communication for the Com- munist press and some day make it unnecessary to depend upon capitalist news services. The DAILY WORKER will be a real mass organ when ali its news is gathered and written by worker-correspondents in every industrial center. This article is the first contribution of the Pittsburg werker- correspondent group. They deal with life and living conditions of the workers. This is the kind of material that the DAILY WORKER wants. it is not intended that the articles and news stories should do more than conform to a certain readable form so far as style is concerned. it is desirable that each correspondent develop his own inclinations but clearness, reasonable brevity and observation expressed in force- ful description should be striven for.—Ed. Note. ee as By MARGARET YEAGER In the heart of the greatest steel center of the world, where thousands of workers toil every day to make a mere living lies the noble town of Braddock, the town where such men as Corey. Carnegie, and Schwab started to make their first millions. Braddock the largest town in this steel center is surrounded by such holes of humanity as Port Perry, Rankin, Bessemer and Brinton, in which towns the majority of actual toilers of the steel mills live while the flunkeys live in the more exclusive towns 2 North Braddock, and Swissvale. Steel Mill is Center. In speaking of holes of humanity, | Coolidge Appointed let me explain a little why such a Woodlock for Rail term is not even strong enough to Trust, Farmers Say express the rotten living conditions | these steel workers endure: All of | these towns are built around the steel mills and most of the workers live within ten minutes of their places of | work. Their homes in most cases consist- ing of two or three rooms, with sani. tary conditions that are very com- monly being shared by as many a three and four families. The homes (Continued on Page 6) WASHINGTON, March 26.—An at- tack upon Thomas F. Woodlock, New York financial writer, given a recess appointment to the interstate com- merce commission by President Cool- idge, was made today by farmers’ or- ganizations. “The appointment means a show- down fight and the end of the Cool- idge myth in the next session of con- gress,” it is declared. r 5 — The miners are also demanding a. -

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J 1 — 5 W ris * 7 * ‘ F ; ‘ — 2 1 pe 3 7 > + * 3 4 5. — — - — — — 7 7 . _. * 1 5 1 7 om ergy 8 ~ - — 8 9 ot i > > * 5 | 17 ae * Shae ee - © * 1 : : ~~ 7 { J i, * 7 GORY BATTLEFIELD Make War on Arabs in Palestine JERUSALEM, Palestine, March 2— (By Mail).—-During the last three months and continuing as this is writ- ten the persecution of the Arabian peasants and Communists has reached unheard of proportions. The zionist organization, a pliant tool of British imperialism, is the leader of this campaign and in De- cember they forced a bloody conflict between the zionist colonists and the Arabian peasants. The zionists have been joined by the zionist party, calling itself “so- cialist” and because the Communists have exposed their schemes for zion- istic colonization and expulsion of the Arabian peasantry a violent offensive against them has been launched. Many Communists and peasants have been arrested, beaten and oth- erwise mistreated. The self determination policy which is supposed to prevail in Palestine has been converted into a warfare of extermination of the Arabs. The Communists have pointed out that the prosecution of this policy must lead inevitably to a bloody war but Great Britain wants to destroy the Arab centers and is undoubtedly aid- ing financially in the campaign. The Communist Party of Palestine has issued an appeal to all its brother parties thru the Communist Interna- tional calling for agitation against the among the national sections of their persecution campaign of the - zionist movement. | N Many of the supporters of zsionism are entirely unaware of the manner in which the movement has become an appendage of British imperialism. Some of the sections have already made known their opposition to such a prostitution of the national desire for freedom. Judge English Took Money from Fellow- Crooks in Courtroom ST. LOUIS, Mo., March 26.—Mrs. Grace Thayer, former secretary to Referee in Bankruptey C. B. Thomas, today resumed her role as witness in the congressional investigation be- ing conducted here into the official conduct of Federal Judge George W. English of East St. Louis. e testified that on numerous oc: | casions Thomas appeared in Judge English’s office and made division of large rolls of money and even sup- plied members of his family with money. | That Charles B. Thomas, former referee in bankruptcy, bought an auto- mobile for Judge English, was told the congressional investigation sub- committee by Julius Seifert, automo- bile salesman. Seifert declared that Thomas, who recently resigned when his office was subjected to attack, paid for the auto- mobile by check and that Judge Eng- lish’s son called for the car and drove it home. Thomas, in a statement later de- tlared the money was merely a loan. Building Strike Still on As Bosses Seek Settlement NEW YORK, March 26.—The strike of the plasterers, and bricklayers against the large Thompson-Starrett contracting company here continues, with representatives of the contract- ing employers making unsuccessful efforts to bring about a compromise agreement. The plasterers and bricklayers dis- pute has tied up $23,000,000 worth of new construction in New York, Phi- ladelphia and Chicago. The dispute has been referred to a committee of four building union of- ficials, representing the masons, plast- erers, bricklayers and cement finish- ers. which has greed to meet with the employers’ association. Klan Rioters Are Found Guilty of Niles Disturbance WARREN, Ohio, March 26.— Ten reputed ku klux klansmen variously indicted on charges of carrying con- cealed weapons, shooting and assault to kill in a riot at Niles, Ohio, Nov. 1, pleaded guilty today. They will be sentenced. Vernon Ahue, alleged klansman, also pleaded guilty of carrying con- cealed weapons and was fined $100 and costs. About forty more men indicted by | a special grand jury are to be tried Thursday. School Children Join Hunt. Evanston and Rogers Park police and school children today were called on to aid in a search for Robert Chapin, 8-year-old pupil at the Lincoln school in Evanston, who has been missing from the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Chapin, since he left for school, four blocks away. ti TO PRISON (Special to The Daily Worker.) WASHINGTON, D. c., March 26. =—-Eight hours hard labor daily for the 7,000 inmates of federal prisons is the objective of Luther C. White, new superintendent of prisons, to whom Attorney General Sargent has entrusted the task of reorgan- izing tie government penal system. More than 50 per cent of the prison inmates are not flow doing eight hours work a day, according to White. The department of justice, under Attorney General Sargent, will push its recommendation for congression- al legislation to diversify industries in the prisons. An iron foundry is planned at Atlanta and several new industries atwother prisons. A duck mill at Atlanta is being enlarged and a shoe plant at Leavenworth is nearing completion. EGYPTIANS IN STRIKE AGAINST WHITE TERROR British Swing Clubs on Demonstrators CAIRO, Egypt, March 26.—Demon- strations are taking place thruout Egypt against the British controlled government’s dissolution of parlia- ment. University and high school students are on strike here, and lorries filled with police are attempt- ing to drive them back to their class- es. Clashes with the police are reported from Tanta and Mehala Kebir, where British troops drove demonstrators for Zagloul Pasha, the leader of the Egyptians against British domination, from the streets: The unrest of the Egyptians is grow- ing, following the ruling of the British controlled government that new elec- tions will not be held on May 23, as was ruled when parliament was dis- solved. The British puppet premier dissolv- ed parliament the same day that it met as soon as Zagloul Pasha was elected president, and it was found that his party had a decisive major- ity in parliament over the British party. , The British officials have decided to change the electoral laws, to make it impossible for Zaglotl Pasha to receive the votes cast for him in the next election, if the Egyptian party is finally able to force the British controlled government to take the issue to the polls. Organize Strong Shop Nucleus of Workers Party at Zeigler The Workers Party in Zeigler, III., District 8 has jumped to the front in the organization of shop nuclei. The comrades there have completely re- organized so that there exists a shop nucleus having 65 members. This shop nucleus of 65 members has 15 comrades formerly connected directly with the South Slav branch, 24 with the Russian, 23 with Lithua- nian. All of these as well as the Eng- lish comrades now function fully thru the nucleus. The secretary reports that the shop nucleus is alive and carrying on all of the party functions. This is a very healthy sign and comes well for the further Bolshevization of the party thru one of the mediums—the shop nuclei organization. Orange Leader May Lose Seat to Labor in Belfast Stronghold BELFAST, March 26.— Premier Craig is liable to lose some of his majority in the northern parliament to the labor party which is contest- ing several seats in this city. As was predicted when the Free State treaty was signed and certain. counties of Ulster separated from the rest of Ire- land, the Belfast workers, hitherto very susceptible to religious bigotry, and easily incited against their cath- olle fellow workers have now turned on their real enemies, the capitalists. Jerusalem College Closes When Arabs Strike on Balfour J ERUSALEM, March 26.— The men's training college here was clos- ed down, and the Arab students have returned to their homes, following their strike against the earl of Bal- four, who is visciting Jerusalem. Bal- four came from England to open the Hebrew university. The Arabs struck as soon as he arrived. England holds a mandate over Palestine. Five Communists Framed Up. LECCE, Italy, March 26.—Seven fascisti militiamen were slightly wounded by the explosion of a bomb. Five Communists were arrested. cE LS HARD | | FOR WORKERS WHO} | SHOP PRESS T WORKERS IN STRIKE Enemy of Unionism and Communism By WILLIAM SIMONG, (Special to The Dally Worker.) WILLIMANTIC, Conn., March 23.— (By Mail.)—This morning’s Hartford Courant contains at attack upon the Communists, sent. special to the Courant by a miserable rat who sends filth to this open shop paper. The dis- patch sent yesterday to Hartford is headed: “Thread Strikers Ban Com- munists!“ The statement is made that the strikers’ committee sent to the police station, asking for police protection against a Communist from the Polish Federation of the Workers Party, B. Lewanski from Boston, when they heard that he was coming together with the writer to the meeting ar- ranged by the strikers, at which a Polish organizer from New York was to speak. Incidentally, it was the first meeting at which a Polish speker appeared, sent by the United Textile Workers’ Union of America, For two weeks no Polish speaker had been secured. When the strike committee heard that Comrade Lewanski was coming, they made sure that they obtained a speaker. Capitalist Press Distortions. Another statement in the capitalist paper was that “Simons attempted to start an argument with one man, but was quickly squelched by the officers and told to be on his way.” The fact is that as Comrade Lewanski was giv- ing out Tribyna Robotnitza, Commun- ist Polish paper, outside of the hall, and telling the workers the Communist position, the reporter for the Willi- mantic Chronicle asked him his name. Lewanski gave it, and not knowing his questioner, asked who he was. I replied that the reporter was from the Chronicle which was against the strike. That hireling protested, and the chief of police came to his aid, telling me to cut it out. I told him that the reporter had started it, and that ended the incident. The Open Shop Courant. The Hartford Courant, because it is a morning paper and has many pages, is relied upon even by workers for their news. About 400 copies are sold in Willimantic and helped to combat unionism in this mill hell hole.’ Every Monday morning this scab paper devotes an entire page to the ads of firms operating on the “Amer- ican” plan. Inéluded are the Cheney Brothers (silks) of South Manchester, Conn., authorized by the legislature a short while ago to increase their cap- italization to $20,000,000; Colt, which recently took a $3,000,000 order from Poland for shooting workers; the In- ternational Silver Co. of Meriden; Lockwood and Brainard Co., which prides itself on being “open shop printers since 1836.” An Enemy of the Workers. At the head of the page, in heavy type, is the line: “Firms Operated on the ‘Open Shop’ Plan.” On the op posite page (12) of the same issue of Monday, March 16, appear two articles against the working class. One headline is, Union Hold Gone in West Virginia Mines—Organized Labor Produced Only 1.6 Per Cent Coal in Southern Region,” based on figures compiled by the statistician of the Kanawha coal operators’ asso- ciation. The other is a column article headed “Open Shop Aim is Co-Opera- tion,” by Willim H. Barr, President of the National Founders’ Association. The “American” Plan of Scab Wages. It speaks of “organization morale” and the necessity of “emancipating employers and employes from the thralldom of unionism.” He prates of the “American plan of. free labor and free industryy,” of its “necessity to the nation and its patriotic useful- ness,“ and of the open shop carrying “the flag of industrial freedom to a tremendous victory.” There is also a cut of an addition to the Burnside school, under the in- scription: “Open Shop Contractor Builds School Addition.” This morn- ing the entire list of open shop firms is repeated. It is this detestable la- bor organ of the open shoppers which is leading the fight against the Com- munists. The Communist DAILY WORKER The DAILY WORKER is the only paper that has pictured the battle now on, as a struggle between labor and capital which will continue until the workers establish a workers’ and far- mers’ government and control the in- dustries of the nation. The other papers simply give as much news as they feel compelled to give, The Providence News made a splurge in the early days, but now gives little space to the strike. Its object was achieved when their pa- per got a place on the stands of the city. The Waterbury Herald, former La- Follette backer, takes a whack at the Communists as is its custom. The Willimantic Chronicle simply prints what it must, refraining carefully from attacking the company or ex- posing its profits. But the DAILY WORKER and the Workers Party fearlessly combat the American Thread Co. They urge that the fight against the company be more determined, 7 4 7 * 7 5 5 * er a Me eS ee eee ae p+ T — 4 22 = fi 9 : ‘ 2 8 ‘ u Oe we ‘ © 4 . ot Ae AT 8 * ” 1 N a = oP * he K aff — + ey SRKER Pa ‘ Wie 8 ö 1 2 SE 10: | STRIKE (epo to The Dally Worker.) STOCKHOLM, Sweden, March 26. —The officialg of the national fed- eration of trades unions, who met here to consider what to do In re- gard to the nation-wide lockout which began last week In five im- portant industries, have refused the demand of ‘the rank and file, ex- pressed by the Communist left wing group, that the officials declare a general strike, The government, meanwhile, is the workers by Its: securing sep- for some trades, such as the tumber yard workers, cloak makers and coal distributors. IRISH WORKERS AND PEASANTS DIE OF FAMINE New York Gets Busy on Relief Work (Special to The Daily Worker.) NEW YORK, March 26.—Word has reached here that deaths are occur- ring in the Irish famine. While the capitalist press denies that there is any famine (altho a few well-informed American papers must admit that the situation is “more serious than the fearful famine of 1881), while the Irish Free State denies that the situ- ation ig at all distressing, while Irish- American politi¢fans declare that Ire- land can get along without alms“ while these well-fed people strut about, the Irish workers and peasants are starving : ; 2 “Deaths from starvation have oc- curred and men set upon relief work in the shape ot toad making have been found too weak from underfeed- ing to handle the hammers for stone breaking.” The relieving officer of a board of guardians reported to his board that “sons of the people in the district are too weak from hunger to give me the information I wanted.” Hungry and Cold. Children. are going about hungry and cold. Their clothing is _ torn. Their homes are cold, for the peat could not be dried owing to the con- tinued rains. And coal cannot be bought by the poor Irish workers and peasants, since it is totally beyond their means. Lae fs 4 a The only cure that the London Times offers is tile Whole sale trans- fer of the population.“ Even if this were feasible what are the workers and peasants to do at the present time? And why should this transfer take place if there is no famine? The situation is so serious that the American workers must act at once. In 1921 and 1922 they generously re- sponded to the call of the Russian OF SW RE ai Si) . 89 551 U their fearful famine. In 1923 and 1924, they aided the starving workers in the Ruhr. They will not forget their struggling brothers and sisters in Ireland. Do not delay! Cauvass the shops, trade unions and fraternal organiza- tions, Collect funds. Help! Send contributions to the Irish Workers’ and Peasants’ Famine Relief Commit- tee, New York Division, Room 32, 108 Past 14th St., N. T. City. Russian Official Tells How Sinclair Broke Oil Contract MOSCOW, March 26.—Comrade Pi atakoff, chairman of the court conces- sions committee, explained in a press interview relating to the forfeiture of Sinclair’s oil concession that in spite of innumerable warnings, the Sinclair company did not carry out the condi- tions of the concession contract, nor did they start exploration in the area covered by this contract. In fact, Comrade Piatakoff remark. ed, it became clear to the Soviet gov- ernment as early as at the beginning of last year that Mr. Sinclair was powerless to carry out some of the obligations undertaken by the com- pany, which had apparently over-es- timated their influence in the politica) world and which failed to secure any support from the American adminis- tration. In May, 1924, a further and final delay of another six months was granted to the Sinclair company for the sake of allowing, them to make good the defaults in the execution of the contract. However, this proved useless again. Volunteers Needed One hundred volunteers needed to be at the Ashland Auditorium at one o’clock Sunday, to prepare for the International Unity Demonstration to be given that afternoon under the auspices of the International Workers’ Aid. Those who are to take part in the Paris Commune pageant are asked to come to the auditorium at 2:00 o'clock this afternoon. Get a sub—make another Com- | munist! workers and peasants for aid during Birth Emancipation of By J. LOUIS ENGDAHLY : 7 er ; * n - 8 „ Ce TEN Se oe ee i as « - : 7 2 ‘fe 7) oe > hart rs 4.2% ey 88 „ * c tae ee ; 55 ** r e out af 2 8 * * N 1 he > . : ‘5 4 ‘ 3 1 sounding title o Control Conference. lives. of scientists that the their letters were made children.” AFFORD THEM.” doubt in the economic conditions. the size of families. italism. „ „ respective ruling classes. workers to go out on the ba wars. 9 °® capitalist system. make most rapid progress. solution. If capitalists fail, however, to factories, or soldiers for their armies, it will not be because the mothers of the working class control childbirth, but because the workers refuse longer to toil under the cap ist master’s whip; because they refuse to fight in capitalist 'ODAY,. there is a gathering of no doubt well-meaning people assembled in New York City under the high- f the International Neo- ‘It is their belief that if birth control information could be generally distributed then many of the world’s ills would disappear. It is u advanced as an escape from econom the pinnacle of “the most important social movement of modern times.” This is of course an o enthusiasm of the fanatic who misjudges forces at work within the social system under which he althusian and Birth © d as a cure for wars, slavery, and lifted to owth of the he economic Recently much space was given to the announcement had discovered a serum which in- oculates against childbirth’ A candidate was sought as the first human being on whom the anti-toxin coul Six young women immediately volunteered. Extracts from public by Dr. James F. Cooper, medical director of the clinical research department of the American Birth Control League. Here are some of them: „Can't you help me? MY CIRCUMSTANCES ARE MEAGER and I'am unable to pay a large fee for anything like this. | have two tiving be used. “| am a young mother of 24 years and have four children. At the rate | am going | shall have at least eight children—and WE CAN'T “If the serum treatment is unsuccessful, you will have to see to it that | won't have to go thru any further ohiid-births, due to the fact that my present circumstances, physical and FINANCIAL, will not per- mit me to become a mother again.” Dr. Cooper declares that last year 50,000 letters were received from women seeking birth control information. No reat majority of these cases, as revealed in the extracts above, the necessity advanced “Financial circumstance that drives most mothers to desire limitation of childbirth. But it is the worst kind of a fallacy to believe that the prob- lems of the working class can be solved thru cutting down ew out of Ris the whip Capitalism needs wage slaves. It will pay in wages what it needs to get them. And those will is demanded to meet the needs of t workers and provide for another generation to follow. Birth control will never free the workers from slavery under cap- be no more than present generation of Wars, also, will be fought just as long as there are rival groups of imperialist nations. Neither birth control propaganda, nor the carrying out of its precepts, will stop soldiers from being forced into the ranke to When: the ht for their eat capitalists need workers for their ital- eS * © To teach workers, precy working class women, that birth control offers an escape fr it will abolish wars, is merely blinding them to the necessities of the real struggle that confronts Salvation for the working class, from all the evils that now torment it, can only come thru the abolition of the present That can only be realized thru the over- throw of the capitalist state; thru the creation in its stead of the Soviet Power, that leads the way to the Communist society. It is only when the workers keep their eyes definite- ly on the goal toward which they must strive, that they will Birth control advocates, thru their propaganda, reveal some of the evils that prevail under capitalism. But it comes to very few of them to understand clearly the problems of labor and to help effectively in their om wage slavery and that e whole working class. Britain. Angry When Egypt Deals Direct with Geneva League GENEVA, March 26.—The Egyptian ministry of foreign affairs has gone over the head of the British govern- ment and sent a note directly to the league of nations here. The com- munication informed Geneva that King Faud ratified the customs form- alities document drawn up by the world powers. Although the United States claims to take no part in league of nations affairs, America took part in and rati- fied the agreement’ of international customs rules. British imperialism is angered, it is reported, because Egypt did not first consult England on the note to the league. “Egypt is trying to rm her own affairs,” was the horrified com- ment of English representatives. Sinclair to Leave on Private Car As Teapot Trial Ends CHEYENNE, Wyo., Mrch 26-—Owen J. Roberts, special Coolidge ofl coun- sel reiterated the charges in the gov- ernment’s bill of complaint that the lease was illegal and consummated as a result of fraud and conspiracy be- tween government officers and a pro- moter of the Mammoth Oil company. He declared also there was fraudu- lent use of quit claim deeds in obtain- ing the lease, naming in this connec- tion John C. Shaffer, Denver and Chi- cago newspaper publisher. The hearing was brought to a close. Sinclair will leave soon with his legal- stadt tm his e at “Sines.” gar 100 tite | : Cal After Foreign Debts. WASHINGTON, March 26.—Despite the evasiveness of France’s attitude and the silence of Italy and Belgium regarding the $7,000,000,000 they col- lectively owe the United States, def- inite indications were forthcoming here today that the administration is planning to remind these countries again that this government desires to negotiate some funding arrange- ments. , The problem presented by these un- funded debts has been discussed in several conferences within the last 48 hours by Secretary of State Kel. logg and Secretary of the Treasury Mellon. — Red Flag Flies on D. of .J WASHINGTON, D. C., March 26.— The red flag seen flying over the department of justice building here startled the government officials un- til it was learned that the flag was not a Soviet plot, but an auctioneers’ flag. The building which is rented by the government on a long term lease is being sold. Carpenter Killed at Crossing LITCHFIELD, II., March 26.— Charles Overstreet, 42, carpenter of Sorento was found near the C. B. & O., tracks by section workers today, fatally injured, his skull fractured and both legs severed. He had lain beside the track for six hours before found. King’s Lackey fil. LONDON, March 26.—Ramsay Mac- Donald, premier during the labor government of Great Britain, is slight- y ill from influenza. He will not be able to attend sessions of the House of Commons for several days, it was said. Get A Sub And Give One! (Special to The Daily. Worker.) LAWRENCE, Mass., March 26.—A noon mill gate rally was held by the united front committee, Albert Weis- bord of the Workers Party, Local Boston, being the speaker. In the eve- ning at a full committee meeting of the united front textile committee it was planned to carry on these noon rallies the next week. It should be understood that the commissioner of public safety has steadily refused to give permits for us to speak, although it is his duty to do so. He has even told Fred Beal, a committeeman, to get out of his office. This outrageous act on the part of this peanut politician has only aroused the workers on the committee all the more and the noop rallies are being held in spite of him. Second Lawrence Meeting. The next rally was held Monday noon, March 23, with Albert Weisbord as the speaker, before the gates of the American Woolen Co. The police were still conspicious by their absence and at this meeting it was announced that a mass meeting for the American Woolen Co. workers was being called for Tuesday evening, March 24. The textile workers have always listened very attentively to Com- munist speakers. The long periods of unemployment have evidently sapped their last resources and left them weakened for the fight: But the ac- tivities of the Communists and milli- tants have aroused them and instilled a fighting spirit into them. Perhaps Lawrence shall yet witness another 1912. MacMahon Praised hy Capitalists. The next step is clear. Already MacMahon, president of the United Tex- tile Workers’ Union, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor has at- tacked the Communists and is receiv- ing full notice by the capitalist sheets. Already the Workers (Communist) Party is recognized as the sole leader imitiating these moves in defense of the workers. London Clinics for Birth Control Show Issue Their Reports NEW YORK, March 26.— Among the reports from foreign countries, presented to the Sixth International Birth Control conference which open- ed at the Hotel McAlpin today, the most interesting were those . which gave the actual working of birth con- trol in those countries where clinics for the purpose have been establish- ed. One of these reports was from the clinic established by Dr. Marie Stopes in London. This clinic opened its doors on March 17, 1921. It is the oldest birth control clinic in any Eng- lish-speaking country. The report covered the statistics for five thousand case#—a number which was completed late in 1924. Of these cases, 4,834 came to the clinic for information to prevent the birth of children on account of disease or extremely adverse conditions or for the spacing out of the family. The remaining 166 came for information which would enable the mothers to have children and it was reported that quite a number of these cases had attained their desire, and that in two cases twins had been born to women who had previously been sterile. The Little Fish May Not Like It, But the Big Fish Are Hungry RICHMOND, Va., March 26.— Mi- nority stockholders in the Chesapeake & Ohio railway, who are endeavoring to prevent the merger ot the road with a number of others under the direction of the Van Sweringen ‘Brothers, received a setback today when Judge William A. Moncure, in chancery court, denied their petition for an injunction to prevew a stock- holders meeting seheduled here for March 30. Rockford Politician Sues After Exposure ROCKFORD, III., March 26.— The publishers of the Rockford Republic have been made defendants in a $1,000,000 libel suit brought by Fred T. Peterson, candidate for mayor, fol- lowing charges made by the Republic against him that he attempted to “shake down” the Tolmie Bros. Con struction company, builders of the na * Coca Cola Prince Hit. ATLANTA, Ga., March 26.—Mys. Clyde Byfield today was granted a new trial by the Georgia supreme court in her suit for $100,000 again Walter Candler, son of the Coca Co king, for an alleged attack on bo the steamship Berengaria. Three Die in Wreck MALAGA, Spain.—Three were killed here and several seri injured in the wreck of a Su 4 train today. * —— — ~ on 2 * * 7 — — „ * tional guard barracks at Camp Grant. |

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munists Worker.) March 26.—A as held by the „ Albert Weis- Party, Local ‘er. In the eve- tee meeting of > committee it on these noon itood that the lic Safety has ve permits for it is his duty told Fred Beal, get out of his act on the part clan has only the committee 100p Tallies are him. Meeting. ; held Monday Albert Weisbord the gates of the The police were pir absence and announced that the American vas being called March 24. have always ively to Com- long periods of vidently sapped and left them ht. But the ac- unists and mili- em and instilled them. Perhaps witness another hy Capitalists. clear. Already if the United Tex. filiated with the of Labor has at- ts and is receiv- capitalist sheets. ‘rs (Communist) s the sole léader is in defense of s for rol Show eir Reports rch 26.— Among reign countries, th International snhce which open- Alpin today, the sre those which ‘ing of birth con- es where clinics e been establish- eports was from d by Dr. Marie ‘his clinic opened 7, 1921. It is the slinic in any Eng- . ed the statistics ase#—a number late in 1924. Ot ame to the clinic prevent the birth unt of disease or conditions or for the family. The » for information the mothers to was reported that these cases had and that in two n born to women been sterile. wh May „ But the Are Hungry March 26.— Mi- in the Chesapeake o are endeavoring rger of the road others under the Van Sweringen a setback today m A. Moncure, in Ned their petition ' D prevew a stock- | theduled here for ~— litician er Exposure March 26.— The Rockford Republic defendants in a t brought by Fred late for mayor, fol- de by the Republic he attempted to Tolmie Bros. Con builders of the na- ks at Camp Grant. Prince Hit. „ March 26.—Mys. ay was granted a Georgia supreme or $100,000 again + in Wreck —— Bee =e 7 5 = 3 * es 5 — * W + - * * 5 * — — * 1 EY WORKER ere. N 1 N N 7 ah COMPANY UNIONS, AND T. M. C. A: rough.“ But not now. The packer has learned that a little “bunk” and “soft soap” go a long way in keeping a bunch of confused wage slaves unorganized and apparently contented. To the police and stool-pigeons have been afided the company union, the Y. M. C. A., employees’ insurance, stock-selling, employee’s club 100ms, and similar schemes of class USED To MEAT PACKERS’ SLAVES CONTENT By TOM MATTHEWS (Member Amal. Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen.) . The strike of 1921-1922 taught the packers the virtues of class-collabor tion. Before that struggle the motto of the meat trust was “treat em SELLING TO KEEP collaboration without any trade or in- dustrial unions to do the “collaborat- ing.” Some Gems of the Packers’ Press. A few random excerpts from recent issues of the “Armour Oval, Published by and for Armour Employes,” will give some idea of the sweep of these new (to the packers) schemes of en- slavement. (The Oval is the com- pany’s bunk-sheet.“) “The difference between a pay heck and a dividend check lies in the fact that you work for the pay check.” — Do not sell your stock. Let divi- dends increase your income.” “With the approach of spring and warm weather, the Y. M. C. A, plant service committee expects to close its activities for the winter season of 1924-1925 with an entertainment for Armour employes and their families to „ A Leather Medal for This. From company union minutes: Em- ploye representative James , of the production division, requested that the lighting switches for the icing dock be moved from the beef loading dock to a more conventient location. He explained that much time was wasted by men going back and forth to turn the light on and off—and that considerable power was wasted be- cause the lights were often burning in the day time.” (!) “The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness. Armour stockholders are continually cheer- ful.” A “Good Thing” All Right. "Don’t forget that the employes’ market is a good thing for the em- ployes.” (This is a scheme for wish- ing unsdlable meats onto the slaves at wholesale prices or better.) “No man ever retired on the money he spent; but money spent for Armour stock brings an income after you have retired.” — +7 In big business like that of the Armour organization, of which we are units, earning power reaps its own re- ward in larger pay checks and steady promotion to the position of greater responsibility.” The effectiveness of such poison as the samples quoted above is strikingly exhibited in the fact that no insignifi- cant number of workers who were ac- tive and even prominent in the strike of 1921-22 are now delegates and offi- cers in the company unions. “Decreased Labor Turnover.” In so-called prosperous times the young workers in the packing-houses often make a practice of the “weekly turnover.” By that, is meant going to work on Monday or Tuesday, quitting on Saturday, drawing pay Monday PITTSBURGH, PA. To those who work hard for their money, | will save 50 per cent on all their dental work. DR: RASNICK DENTIST 645 Smithfield Street. I METAL TRADES GROUP WILL MEET SATURDAY ON ORGANIZATION WORK There will be a special meeting of the Metal Trades’ Group of the Trade Union Educational League Saturday night, Maroh 28, at 7:30 p. m., at the Greek Workers Hall, 722 Blue Island Ave. important organizational problems will be de- cided. morning, and taking a job in the same or another plant on the following day. The packer has learned that this “labor turnover” means an independ- ent spirit in the workmen and less profits. Consequently, the meat bar- ons are showing a new cunning when they apply their class-co-operation schemes under present unemployment conditions when workers are only too anxious to hang onto any jobs to be had. Combatting Unionism. Along with this, the packers have developed a very clever policy in com- batting any danger of re-organization of the packing-house workers. True, the stool-pigeons are still on the pay- roll, but a different psychology is used in dealing with the workers. The worker is now told that the “company is looking out for your in- terests. We will not allow our men to be intimidated by any outside group, be it a labor union or any other organization.” 9 The militant who slips into a pack - ing plant to advocate unionism is told to “quit intimidating’ the men or get out.“ He is fired’ not for unionism, presumably, but for “intimidation,” a new phrase Which the packer is using very effectively. ~ c That “Voluntary” Increase. In the summer of 1923 the packers astounded their workers by announc- ing a wage increase of five cents an hour, raising the wage-rate of un- skilled labor from 37% to 42% cents an hour. : Regardless of what packer propa ganda may say, the fact remains that this raise was in reality won in the strike of 1921-22. The packer wisely foresaw the coming period of unem- ployment, and reasoned that a slight wage increase making up only part of the previous cuts would prevent re- organization of the packing-house workers for some time to come. This five-cent raise was nothing more nor less than a bribe to keep the men from re-organizing. * * * Future articles will deal with or ganization problems of the pack- ing-house workers. Workers in other food trades, such as hotels and restaurants, canning plants, biseult factories, bakeries, ete., should write of their experiences phhi hb bbb hb A AAA BAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AA A AAA AAA AAA AAA AA AA A A for the T. U. E. L. page. By Besides statements by Russia. THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, II. “UNITY!” an. English publication of the National Minority Move- ment that is now sweeping all England, is THE LATEST PAMPHLET WE HAVE RECEIVED. GEORGE HICKS, EDO FIMMEN, TOMSKY and others, this pamphlet of 40 pages includes 14 PHOTOGRAPHS of the authors and the British trade union delegation in 15 CENTS EACH. We have received only a limited number—requests will be filled in order arriving in the office. A. J.. COOK, TOM MANN, asa sbssnbsbhsbh iss isi ih i i iii hhh hhhbhte db pp bh ip php ip hp hp hep he btn ttn tintin tedden La le Al lin lll lll ln For the enclosed $ send. copies of “UNITY” to: Name: | Street: : 22 2 * 1 City: 5 State eee erer ff rt - SATION | AN_APPEAL TO THE RANK AND FILE | | OHGEEWIZOGOSH! — ICANN T TUNE THAT STATION OUT !! Wf, : AMALGAMATE a . INTO INDUSTRIAL UNIONS #- or aN PROGRESSIVE STEEL WORKERS AFTER TIGHE Demand Organization Be ) Effective By WALLACE r. METCALFE WARREN, Ohio—lIf every steel and iron worker, organized and unorgan- ized, would read the history of the great steel strike written by William Z. Foster they would understand the problems confronting the membership in the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers. This book is entitled The Great Steel Strike and Its Lessons and can be secured by writing to the DAILY WORKER. On March 31, 1918, shortly before the general organizing campaign amongst the steel and iron workers started the A. A. of I. S. & T. W. had a general treasury halance of $137,- 879.28 and on March 318t, 1920 short- ly after the strike ended, it had a balance of $344,024.58, which makes a profit of some $206,145.35 made out of the big strike. Perhaps nothing can show better the feeble efforts made by the officialdom of the A: A. of I. S. & T. W. to win the strike. Officials Deserted the Strike The history of this great strike re- cords the fact that at no time was the officialdom of the A. A. of I. 8. & T. W. whole-heartedly engaged in the struggle. The desertion of the A. A. of I. S. & T. W. of the strike when in its critical stage defeated the organization of the steel and iron workers and threw them back into their present unorganized state. This international union was the pivot of the organizational structure and when it withdrew its support the entire structure collapsed. This is the’ background of.the great strike in so far as the A. A. of I. S. & T. W. is concerned. During the great steel strike the A. A. of I. 8. & T. W. en- rolled 70,026 members during the campaign which are considered con- servative figures yet the outstanding fact is that today this international union has a total membership of around 11,000. It has in its general strike fund less than $60,000 yet it made a profit of over $206,145.35 on the great strike. When the great steel strike came to an end Wm. Z. Foster as secret- ary-treasurer of the national commit- tee left in the treasury about $130,- 000, the remains of the strike fund. Up until June 20th, 1923, no real work worth mentioning of education or or- ganization was carried on. Yet about $55,000 was gotten rid of. Finally, on June 20th, 1923, with a great hlare of trumpets, the A. F. of L. announced that with the remaining $75,900 the steel workers would be organized. The campaign was conducted under the control of M. F. Tighe, president of the A. A. of I. S. & T. W. and Wm. Hannon, executive board member of the Int. Ass’n. of Machinists. Neither the A. F. of L. nor the In- field, They let the full burden of the last campaign fall upon the fund left to them from the great steel strike. The organizing staff was loaded up * - 3 1 0 ’ — — — ternationals put any organizers in the. oug record of land, Chieago, falo, « : dawning. Jack Me John McKe progressive Li is the candid for the office sheet and tin receiving thd progressive lo has struggled A. A. of I. 8. ent state of fearless and. workers and is gressives the ruinrfing for t William J. Girard, Ohio, i workers intere movement to \ information on on to save tb organization iron workers. Members of lodges should to support th They should with White ar Unorganized with White ¢ to the progre;: assistance the union LA laid A.A. M@&L 8, : 8 workers scattered per month, with $7.00 per day ex- penses, or in other words $460.00 per month for full time organizers. ‘After a years work the last cam- paign made by M. F. Tighe and Wm. Hannon resulted in the expenditure of the $75,000 and made the inglori- organizing 200 steel Bethlehem and Buf- ‘A New Deal Due The part played by the official- dom or thebA, A. ot I. 0. a . W. during the great strike and its part during the last flasco stamp them as incompetent. and lacking the ability to perform the gigantic task of organ- izing the steel and iron industry. militant rank and file movement has been coming to the front and making pressing demands upon the official- dom, this movement led by sincere and able progressives has made itself a powerful factor in the union and during the recent elections in the A. A. of I. 8. & T. W. the progressive ticket served notice upon the reac- tionary officialdom that a new day is A The union in order to survive must leagn from its past struggles and must not be cajoled by its officialdom into repeating past errors. ives realize that the skilled worker is rapidly becoming a thing of the past and that the future of their union de- pends upon the complete organization of all workers engaged in the steel and iron industry and their amalga- mation with other workers engaged in associated industries. The progressives realize that the gigantic task confronting them de- mands courage and a clear under- standing of the role played by their officialdom during strike and the part they took in the 1923-24 campaign, which resulted in the most stupendous blunder recorded in the history of the American labor movement. Think of it, steel and iron workers! When 25 organizers organ- ize 200 workess at a cost of $75,000! What greater §adictment is needed? The progress- the great steel own—Progressive Gandidate u, president of the rty Lodge, Warren, O. » of the progressives vice-president of the livision. McKeown is endorsement of the es in whose cause he or years to bring the T. W. out of its pres- aos. McKeown is a ne champion of the onsidered by the pro- st capable candidate office. hite, 238 E. Kline St., ites all steel and iron ted in the progressive ite to him for further he struggle now going last resemblance of ongst the steel and A. of I. S. & T. W. 6 ruct their delegates progressive program. mmmunicate at once orkers communicate pledge yqur support e cause. With your ndation fora mighty T. W. Tie is your around in Cleve- pledge their support. | steel workers can be | g convention of the | LUMBER TRUST PROTECTS ANTI- UNION LYNCHERS Court. .Refuses Dacus’ Suit for Redress NEW ORLEANS, La., March 26.— To the long list of crimes committed in the name of the law and of white supremacy against Sol Dacus, a Negro labor leader in Louisiana, another has just been added by the United States federal court here. On grounds which make no pretense of adequacy, Dacus has been denied redress against a group of men who have given him the usual treatment accorded Negro labor organizers in the south. The story of the Dacus case goes back to November 21, 1919, when Da- cus, who was then very active in or- ganizing labor unions among the Negro workers in Bogalusa, joined with white labor leaders in a parade. Someone raised the cry of “social equality.” “Leading citizens” gather- ed a mob, searched out Dacus, burned his house and ran him out of town, in spite of the defense put up for him by the white union leaders, three of whom lost their lives. In filing suit for damages, Dacus named as defendant the Great South- ern Lumber company, a gigantic trust which holds in the Gulf states som. thing of the power that the steel trust holds over the whole country. It is the Great Southern Lumber company that makes and unmakes legislatures, that appoints governors, that controls the lives and fortune of the workers in these states. Sol Dacus knew, it seems, where lay the blame for mob action against the Negro leaders. Dacus, sueing the Great Southern Lumber company for $102,000 brought out in court the fact that he had in secret attended a meeting of the white | Ldyalty League, an association of business men of the city of Bogalusa, and had heard them discuss in detail plans for keeping the laborers in sub- jection. The defense offeed, and the ground | on which Dacus lost his suit, was that what Dacus had mistaken for a mob was really a group of “officers of the law with a warrant for his arrest.” Just what grounds participation in a parade with white labor leaders could give for arrest or how officers of the law, behaving as such, could possibly have been mistaken for a mob or why these “officers of the law” should have BETHLEHEM, PA., PROFIT-MAKING “PARADISE, IS HELL ON EARTH FOR SLAVES OF STEEL TRUST ruled state of Pennsylvania, is one structural steel. Bethlehem, not the one in the “Holy Land,” but the one in the cossack of the world’s largest producers of The Bethlehem Steel shops extend over a distance of 2 several miles long and during the war employed more than thirty serves ~ dellibly stamped with Communism The membership discussed the pre gram thoroughly and agreed to Sup port the candidates running om this program. : The election campaign for @tstriet president, vice-president and secret ary-treasurer is in full swing im the anthracite region and the member ship is being smothered with an ava lanche of glib election speeches thal glitter with promises and make thi unwary believe that the politicians an suddenly becoming angels and an ready to wipe out all the wrongs the committed during the long history o their betrayals. Thru all this hurricane of speeche not a single constructive propositio is being advanced to better the cond! tions of die miners. The progressiv alone have a prgoram that holds ou hope to the miners of District 1. Does your friend subscribe t the DAILY WORKER? Ask him — — — ** m — thought it part of their duty to burn trying to bring to court, are small mat- ters that the federal court did not trouble to explain. | Chicago, Notice! On Sunday afternoon, March 29, at Ashland Auditorium, there will be an international unity demon- stration and benefit entertainment. No branch is permitted to arrange any conflicting dates of any kind whatsoever. Affaire already fixed must be changed. The complete strength of the party must be mobilized at this affair as a fitting answer to the Abramovich attack. down the home of the man they were | “WHAT’S WRONG — — —— IN THE ENTERS UNION?” THE STORY OF ADMINISTRATION CORRUPTION and EXPULSION OF MILITANTS IN THE CARPENTERS’ UNION. CARP | Single Copies 10c 100 Copies $7.00 Order from Progressive Building Trades Worker 19 S. Lincoln Street, Chicago, III. 1. —— ee N — /

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: * 0 * E WORKERS Kellogg Refuses. to Meet Negroes (Special to The Dally Worker.) WASHINGTON, D. C., March 25— © ever-present “Jim Crow” system valent in government departments bobbed up in the office of the secre tary of state in a form that left no room for doubt. Only one week after the inauguration of the republi- can president, who expressed in his inauguration address the pious wish that no class or group of persons may be denied their full rights, the new state secretary, Frank B. Kellogg, has taken pains to make the colored em- ployes in the service of the govern- ment feel their “inferiority.” It is the custom for a new secre. tary of state to meet personally the government employes. There are in the secretary's department sixty-six colored workers. The secretary is- sued an order that all white em- ployes were to meet him at a certain time, and that he would receive all Negro employes of the department in a separate conference fifteen minutes later. Race Line Drawn. In the government capitol, and in- deed in the enire city of Washington, race lines are rigidly drawn. In the senate restaurant, which all white employes may use amd which employs Negro servants, no colored guest is allowed to enter. In order to find a restaurant which will serve him, the Negro must travel perhaps a mile from the capital. Under the Wilson administration, the Negroes in government service were provided with separate wash- rooms, separate stairways, separate elevators. The strict segregation car- ried thru at this time was usually at- tributed to democratic rule. But the republican administrations which have been in power since that time have taken no steps to remedy matters— they have even carried the Jim-Crow policy further. The 114,000 Negroes in Washington are confined to a certain number of blocks, outside of which they may not live. Paterson, N. J., Paris Commune Celebration Takes Place Sunday PATERSON, N. J., March 26.—A big mass meeting to celebrate the Paris Commune will be held here on Sun- day, March 29, at 2 p. m. at Carpen- ters’ Hall, 56 Van Houten street. The Freiheit mandolin orchestra will take part in the program. H. M. Wicks will be the principal speaker. Ad- mission is only 10 cents. Be sure to be at the meeting on time, as a large crowd is expected. Sioux City, lowa Notes SIOUX ‘CITY, Iowa, March 26.— The following were elected officers of the Sioux City local of the Workers Party: Peter Kloopei, chairman, Walter F. Swezey, secretary and DAILY WORKER agent. The local meets every Suday at 4 p. m. at the Labor Lyceum, 508 Jennings St. i SEGREGATES - * 4 a7 4 — CN CC MOTHER BLOOR ORGANIZES.MANY THE DAIL a 9 is 4 y 2, 5 * me WORKERS PARTY BRANCHES: IN hd SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TOWNS By P. B. COWDRAY. (Special to The Daily Worker) LOS ANGELES, March 26.—In three days this month three good healthy locals of the Workers Party were organized in San Jose, Palo Alto and Santa Cruz, all within the criminal syndicalist state of California. places could have been organized at These any time in the recent past just as easily. It was Mother Bloor's vivid story of Russia and her militant state- ment of the world labor movement that was irresistible to the S. P., g. L. P. I. W. W. and other elements of the theoretical past. Twenty-two of these battle scarred boys and girls signed right on the dotted line thus placing themselves, without a qualm, under the leadership of the now powerful and aggressive Communist movement. Others present at each meeting want- ed to sleep over the matter a little, just a conteniplative snooze before attacking the day’s problems, but follow-up meetings are being arranged and these, too, will join the fray. At Santa Crus, Oliver Boyea said: “I was a charter member of the so- cialist party when it was first formed here and I am taking the first oppor- tunity to join the Communists here. They lead in the struggle mow and that’s where I belong.” Nathan L. Griest, S. L. P., and the best grounded Marxian in California, has no hesitan- cy in going with the Communists. Seven of his neighbors at Felton, near Santa Cruz, came with him. Several comrades at Santa Cruz brought Along their children, and it was de- cided to mobilize the children and young workers at the next meeting there. Many Jolin Party The Palo Alto meeting was held in the large living room of Comrade Mrs. Arnott. Eighteen, all deeply interest- ed were present, and it was decided to meet weekly in the capacity of a class in the A. B. C. of Communism with William Thurston Brown as teacher. Palo Alto is a university town, and considered next to impos- sible for us, but several union men were present who will be heard from in their unions. The leadership here is such that good results are sure to follow. Leaders of both Finnish and Italian workers joined here and they will bring others. San Jose is the largest, most in- dustrial, but the most reactionary of the three towns. Large canning and fruit packing industries are located here. Los Gatos, Saratoga, Campbell, Cupertino and Santa Clara are. all towns of the same type and are Mith- in a dozen miles to the west. Powerful organiation will develop here but it will take time and will be @fficult. We met at the residence of Cora P. Wilson. Anna Porter, just back from Russia, and a small but good nucletis is on the job. Just a few comrades in these towns, and the same is true thruout Califor- nia, have been reached with our mess- age, and that through our literature. They are hungry for something to be doing. Santa Rosa and Sacramento still have remnants of socialist party locals, but they are made up mostly of Bolsheviks who function still under the old name, not fully realizing what it means. Any one of .fifty California towns will welcome organization as Mother Bloor can present it to them. Over half of these are in northern Califor- nia. These could be organized as fast | ASWESEEIT . By T. I O'Flaherty (Continued from page 1) Thru the good offices of the Jewish Daily Forward. Among the thrills : | of the Irish movement was gained from a fleeting visit to some back alley in Dublin, have taken issue, not promised at the tea and dance is a | openly tho, with the DAILY WORK- recital of anecdotes concerning the ER, because of its criticism of the high spots in the life of the fascinat- lourgeois Irish republicans. We should ing Rasputin. The merry tales will be told by Captain Ivanenko, brother support the Mary MacSwineys and the De Valeras, whisper these nicnom- of the Baroness Wrangel who arrived | Poops, simply because they are against here a few weeks ahead of Abram- | the Free State. This is the same type ovich to raise funds for the counter- | Who would have the American work- revolutionary bandits who are waiting ers and exploited farmers crawl up another opportunity to against Russia. — — wage HE captain is so broke that ter a Canadian dime. This is what he got for being loyal to the czar. So the gold coasters, chipped in and fixed up a flat for the Ivanenkos. If the captain did not waste his time while studying Rasputin he should never be a stranger to a good meal, this | he | would dive into Lake Michigan af- | side of the social revolution. or until some outraged husband fails to under- stand him. A CCORDING to reports from San ’ | ' ' : Francisco, Mary MacSwiney, lead- | er of the Irish republican party, now touring this country on a fund-raising war | under LaFollette’s coat tail and stay there, simply because he was barking at Wall Street. — — — P of Irish workers in Ireland and in the United States are following the DeValera band- wagon, on the assumption that the republican party is “revolutionary.” Some of its followers are good mater- ial for a revolutionary party, and when such a party is organized in Ireland, a party that will carry on the work started by James Connolly and under the leadership of the Commun- ist International, those workers who see in DeValera a revolutionary lead- er will give him the cold shoulder and leave him to split hairs over docu ‘% campaign to defend De Valera’s oath | ment number one and two until he of allegiance to King George, says that | there is no famine in Ireland, and that the famine stories appearing in the American press are the result of Brit- | ish propaganda. As the DAILY WORK-| little use for the name of James Con- ER has pointed out, there is no funda-| nolly as.the Free State gang have. mental difference between the Free Connolly was the founder of the Irish the so-called It is more of a fac- State government and republican party. is tired. T is significant that those “revolu- tionary” Irish republicans have as labor movement, and because he aim- ed at th® establishment of a workers’ tional fight between rival leaders than | republic and not a bourgeois republic, W struggle over a question of principle. | his name is rarely mentioned except On the famine question both groups | by his old comrades who fought with unite. > « > AN addle brained radicals, who ‘aim to be authorities on the 1estion, but whose knowledge ; him, and by the real revolutionists everywhere. Connolly's name will be to future generations of Irish workers what the name of Robert Emmet was to the nationalists. . H DANCE SUNDAY FOR THEIR LEAGUE WEEKLY CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 26.— The Young Workers League will hold a dance on Sunday March 29th in the Finnish Hall, 1303 West 58th street, for the benefit of the Labor Defense Council and the Weekly Young Worker. | as meetings could be held, but of course it is not best to do this. Fol- low-up” must be arranged and each local must “season” for a time. Our capacity in San Francisco and Los Angeles to give attention to outside territory is still very limited. No really severe struggle has been going on here to develop us. The struggle we have had has been under syndical- ist, I. W. W. and “liberal” leadership. But this is changing. Call For Organization We could mobilize our Young Work- ers and train them to “follow-up” our work as we organize outside towns. But can we spare them from our work in the cities? Also, how many can be induced to give up some of thgir city life, their hikes and pleasures, and do real work in outside towns? Personally I believe everyone who can should “adopt” one or more of these towns and promote an understanding of scientific, practical class-struggle Communism there. In fact any person can, if they have the will, use a Tin Linie for trans- portation and organize their living . among the comrades and give all their time to a circuit of towns. Pveryone so disposed should be spared for this work. It should help instead of bur- den the organization, and would beat a university education for anyone en- ed c... 7 Soon we will visit Santa Rosa and Napa. By “we” I mean Vivian Wilk- inson, Mother Bloor and the writer. and the Bolshevik machine Henry Ford made for us. Miss Wilkinson teaches the Junior comrades of Ala meda county every’ Sunday morning in the Finnish Comrades Hall in West Berkeley. Organization Costs Little Twelve gallons of gasoline at 20c. a gallon and a few cents worth of oil covered the transportation expense to the party of the trip to the three towns organized. Our meetings were arranged by the “tell your neighbor and bring your friend” method. The comrades turned over to us the keys to their kitchens, spare bed rooms and cellars, which privilege we used but did not abuse. In this connection, in case comrades devote their lives for a season to or- ganizational and educational intensive work, our auto mechanic comrades can be of great service. Many a good Ford machine is sold now for a song. Our mechanics should be on the look- out. Such comrades can give some of their spare time to keeping such machines in repair. Lack of money for repairs should not keep comrades off the road. The California climate is delightful, at least there are places where it doesn't freeze much, and the scenery in places is beautiful, and the whole state is ours whenever we haye the gumption and the energy to take it. Away with this pessimism. Wake up, get busy, and we will all feel better. Cleveland Notes CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 26.—A lecture on “Conditions in Soviet Rus- sia and How the Workers Rule” will be given by Comrade John Brahtin of the Workers Party on Friday, March 27th at 8 p. m. at 5927 Euclid Ave., Room 13. This lecture will be held under the auspices of the E. S. Eng lish branch of the Young Workers League. Discussion and questions will follow tse lecture. portunity to get real information on the only working class republic in the | world. Come and bring your friends. ! NEW PULLMAN YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE HAS THIRD MEET TONIGHT Tonight the third meeting of the newly organized Puliman English branch of the Young Workers League Wüll meet in the italian Hall, at 9ist and Dobson streets. Officers have been elected, and the secretary of thé branch has applied to the national office for a charter. About twenty members have joined the Jeague so far, most of them working in factories. Fa Don't miss this op- verybody Imvited Tonight to Y. W. L. Educational Meetings The branches of the Young Workers League meeting tonight will have edu- cational meetings to which everybody is invited. Good speakers and a lively discussion is on the order of business. The various area branches meet 4s follows: * Area Branch No, I—sth floor, 166 W. Washington St. Area Branch No. 3116 8. Halsted street. i Area Branch No. 2409 N. Halsted street. 70 Area Branch Na: 62613 Hirsch Blvd., basement. Branch No. 5 is making this a spe- cial organizational meeting at which Barney Mass will speak on the value of organization for the young workers. He will especially deal with the prob- os of young workers of Montgomery Ward mail order house, The National Biscuit Co. and Sel & Schwab shoe factory. The brauch has invited the young workers of these factories to this meeting and seVeral sympathizers who gave their names to the branch are expected to come to hear Comrade Mass. : 4 $ 0 * Manley Speaks fh New York. NEW YORK, Merch 26.—On Sun- day, March 29, Joseph Manley, Dis- strict Industria‘ Organizer of the Work. ers Party will lecture on the Left Wing in the American Labor Move- ment at the Workers’ Hall, 1347 Bos- ton Road, 8 p. m. All welcome. Get a sub—make another Com- munist! — — — 186 a By DAVID JOHANSSON, .. (Special to The Dally Worker) WORCESTER, Mass., March 26.— The workers of Worcester are wak- ing up. On Sunday, March 29, at 3 b. m., a monster protest meeting will take place at A. O. H. Hall, Trumbull co and Vanzetti. Worcester is the hometown of the infamous Judge Webster Thayer, a servile tool of the capitalist class, There be speak- ers in English and I _. Comrade Alfred Weisboard Boston will speak in English. The meeting will be held under the auspices of. the Workers Party, Young Workers League, Bakers and Confectionary man Circle, International Order of Good Templars, Lithuanian Women’s Progressive Alliance, Lithuanian Literary Workers’ Association, Fin- nish Co-operative Society and Finnish Building Association. Hoover bad Weeks to Aid Electrical Trust Get Shoals WASHINGTON, March 26.—Presi- Coolidge has determined upon a com- mission of six members to investigate Muscle Shoals and report recommenda- tions for its disposal to congress in December, it was learned at the White House today. Definite announcement of the com- mission’s personnel is expected shortly. Secretaries Hoover and Weeks, two engineers amd two men representing agricultural interests“ will compose the commission, it was said. Muscle Shoals will be turned over the elec- trical trust, it is planned. street, demanding the release of Sac-| | Workers’ Union, Independent Work- fiteer! This is what democracy under r i Workers! Unite Against 281 a Se ae (Continued from bare 1) shows you, working men and women, where the policy of the social demo- cratic leaders, the policy of coalition and class truce with the bourgeisie leads to. ween SS The same social democratic leaders who were the bloodhounds of the Ger- man revolution, who’ mowed down. thousands and thousands of German workers and drowned the German re- volution in a sea of blood are now publicly defending the capitalist in- terests of a large profiteering con- cern, Ebert Boasted of Treachery The same Ebert who boasted in Magdeburg of having strangled the first heroic fight of German work- ers during the war, the German muni- tion workers’ strike, stands now ex- posed as an agent of a capitalist pro- whose banner you have been misled many years leads to. Social democratic workers of Ger- many! Into what have your leaders, your Ebert and Bauer, Hellmann and Wels converted August Bebel’s glorious party? In their hands proletarian honor became an object of barter, and socialism a source for personal en- richment and a jumpting off ground for capitalist profiteers. The Communist International has never tired of telling you: The social democratic leaders are the paid agents of capitalism. You were in doubt, you would not EEE > : ; E J 7 * 1 5 5 7 1 * ? . - * 4 A - * i a N 2 12 * is ; capitalism. They the deadly enenfies of the work- » ie not a vestige of Socialist spirit in them. it has gone of capitalist | Working men and women! The so cial democratic leaders are hopelessly entangled in the snares of the bourg- eoisie. There is no longer any way out for them. The process of decay with- in bourgeois society, which is coming so vividly to light in the present Ger- man corruption affairs, has testified to their own corruption and downfall. But For You There is A Way Out! Come out into the fight against the coalition policy and for the revolution- ary proletarian united front. Make common cause in industrial enter- prises and trade unions with your Communist and non-party fellow- workers. Purge the labor movement of cor ruption and treachery! | Bear in mind that these ‘are the same leaders who are the most ene- mies of trade union unity, who are always ready to betray and sabotage working class unity, just as they are always ready to serve unreservedly the interests of the capitalists. Destroy the enemies of working class unity! Open your eyes to the deceit of cap italist democracy! Rally within the ranks of the Com munist International! EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL GET A SUB AND GIVE ONE! _— — * vince him that th the GET A SUB— From another worker. WORKER is his paper, fighting his battles, that it wants him in ranks of militant Make another Communist.” IT CAN BE DONE BY COMMUNISTS! — The Second Annual Sub Campaign Do It These Con- DAILY labor. Two Ways! We can reach 15,000 new subscribers by June 15. We can make “Our Daily” a stronger. working class weapon, a greater teacher—reaching more workers to lead the revolu- tionary movement another step forward in its march to working class power. GIVE A SUB— Take the money out of your own pocket (if you can) to pay for a sub to the sympathetic worker in your shop or in your union whom you want to con- vince. “Make another Com- munist.“ And While You Build the Labor Movement— * For every $6.00 worth of subs ($8.00 worth in Chicago) we will gladly send you a leather binder with patent clasp making all sheets detachable; with pocket for receipts and note paper for your use—co ntaining a full descriptive catalogue of all Communist books and publications from “The source of all Communist liter. ature in this country.” J The DAILY 1113 W. 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| He 7 3 Er WORCESTER, Mass., March 26— James Massel, of the Norton Mauu- facturing Co., in an address here, told business men of his recent trip to Russia. ““Rugsia should be focogalsed by til United States,” Massel stated. “I saw many new vated fields, healthy and well dressed peasants, and unusual industry and activity. in Moscow. “I made several trips to Leningrad, Charkoff, Rostoff and Odessa, and other centers, and I make the follow- ing statement without any qualifica- tions whatever, that in my opinion the railroad accommodations were the best I have had in any country, and I have traveled in nearly every coun- try of the world.” Mr. Massel said that during his stay in Russia he came and went freely as he pleased and was unmolested by anyone. . “Regarding industry,” Massel said “There is considerable activity at the present time in the manufacture of machinery, particularly agricultural machinery, locomotives, pumps, gen- erators and industrial trucks. “As regards import of machinery ‘the polfcy is to buy only goods on the basis of resources that are avail- able for meeting payments when due. So far as I have been able to deter- mine, all payments have been made promptly when due, and government banks will not endorse notes unless they are satisfied that such notes can ‘be paid.” About 65 representatives of the fac- tories of the city were present. | Morgan Active in Austria. VIENNA, Austria, March 26.—Amer- loan bankers are flooding Austria, making investigations regarding pos- sible foreign loans to the country. James Speyer of New York is now here, and Felix Warburg, Morgan representative, has just left. Speyer has stated that the league of nations must indorse any loan to Austria. by Wall Street bankers. New Berlin Envoy Sails PEKING, March 26.—Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman, aged diplomat re- cently appointed United States am- bassador to Berlin will sail from Shanghai.on.April 14 for Seattle. He. will confer with ‘Coolidge before leav- ing for Berlin. Ws Did You Get Your Two New Subs to “Build The DAILY WORKER?” Being Mailed No. peasant houses, culti- the cost of I 11 atin Lanzutsky States His Position 2 pat Oe i (Continued from Page 1) «| with the,self-evident exception of my fraction. comrades. (Voice: and Dom- ba). Bh | am . prosecuted for a speech del- er 28 arranged by the, railroad workers’ union in I on Nov. 5 hs 1923. “I was speaking immediately after the affair of Nov. 6, when an avalanche of strikes covered the whole country. The government of Mr. Wites proclaimed a. regular lynch law against the strikers. In answer to this, the Central Trade Union Commission call- od A gener strike. That strike, really general Jou know, was liquidated very tor the affair at Cracow startled everyone in the country be- ginning with the right groups and end- ing with e left, “Being in empl shortly after this I came to (ue aforementioned meeting of railroad workers, and thought it proper to speak on this matter to tell the assembled workers of the result of these strugetes, to consider with them the mistakes in order that the working class should not make the same blunders fn the future. I point- ed out that ‘when the capital of the whole country marches in battle for- mation and attacks with a homogene- ous front, the working class cannot counter attack With individual groups, but must enter the battle with a united homogeneous front, with all industrial and transport workers in all parts of the country. Then the chances of victory would be absolu- tely on the side of the working mass- es. That is the way I discussed things at the meeting. I also mentioned something else and on this my indict- ment is based. J am accused of capital treason of Article 58 Austrian criminal code, which foresees the penalty of death. This indictment was prepared on a very curious basis, namely this: while speaking I attacked all groups of compromisers and quoted a part of an article published originally in Droga (The Way), a belvedere or- gan, and written by Mr. Holowko, alderman of the city of Warsaw and member of the Polish Socialist party. This very characteristic article, en- titled “The Fear of Power, reads * part as follows: “Never, never yet # for seizing the po y ot govern- ment 80 opportung now. The left should desire re now than ever before. sing class should really . | Ito pay ey | 9 taxes... The go r now should be rept 2 Noe of those classes in whe est it is to keep the mark f bs the time to lower Mall the treas- Whole nd. If er our fear with as heads, we must © of power, we tal our whole soul @aQae : to achieve it“! Communists Will Sleze Power “And finally a warning: ‘And who knows whether our aversion to power will not prolong our nent fatal state to an end that will be a catastrophe. We forget that not all thb left parties in Poland are afraid of power; there is one that is ready to assume it any moment, having in readiness already prepared methods and patterns of governing. Everyone knows that I have the Communists in mind; and, what is worse, looking at Russia we cannot deny that they know how to rule. We must admit that they are fine administrators and psychologists, Everyone sees that political and econ- omical conditions in Russia are stead- ily improving. Who assumes power under difficult conditions, he wins.’ Surrounded by Police “For the second time I quoted here in the diet the same article that I cited at the railroad worker meeting in Przempl. This quotation, supported by witnesses of course is the basis of my indictment! I do not in the least intend to defend myself here and I know that ultimately this question will not be settled by the diet. I see official organ of The Exécutive Committee of the Communist 8 e this very clearly. I know that this is class vengeance pure and simple. I have no illusions and know perfect- ly how much worse we Communists will be persecuted. “I know perfectly that my immunity will be waived in favor of the courts. All the details are clear to me: the diet building is surrounded by police agents since Tuesday (Voice: They are waiting!) Exactly, they are wait- ing! I understand that you gentlemen fighting us think, that with the aid of repression and force you will be able to strangle the Communist move- ment in Poland. (Voice on the right: That's impudénce. Vice-chairman Osie- ki rings). You say that this is impu- dencé: In reply I will say that these thousands of workers and peasants of all nationalities in Poland; Poles, Ukrainians, White Russians, Jews, Germans, who for years are rotting without investigation in jails (Tu- mult) will yet give you the answer to what you call impudence. “When for the first time in 1921 I spoke in this chamber as a Commun- ists on the question of amnesty for political prisoners, I said in conclud- ing my speech: Communism will de- feat you, and today I repeat with all emphasis: The Communist idea is growing stronger and stronger. You have nothing to oppose this great idea. You cannot remove all the sores resulting from the capitalist system. You cannot jail hunger, you cannot jail unemployment, you cannot satisfy the needs of all the workers of Po- land. “You cannot do this and that will be your burial pit. I am speaking here today probably for the last time. I am not deceiving myself on this point and therefore I repeat with the same might, with the same force, that Com- munism will defeat you and in the meantime (further words lost in noise) I cry Long Live Communism! (Yells, banging on desks, Voice:. Im- pudence! Scandal!) Croatian Deputy Dies in Fight on Pachitch Terror VIENNA, Austria, March 26.—The protest of the Croatian deputies against the throwing out of sixty of their number, in addition to two Macedonians, and ten Slovenes from the Jugo-Savia parliament will again be discussed before that body. During the discussion of the expul- sions from the Jugo-Slav parliaments of the Croats and Slovenes by the Serbs, Deputy Vujitch showed that the have one deputy for every 20,000 elec- tors, as compared to one Serb deputy for every 4,000 electors. Another Croatian peasant party del- egate has been mysteriously killed. Deputy Marinkovitch was mortally wounded when he either fell or was thrown out of a hotel window. The Croatian peasants’ party was defeated in the recent Jugo-Slav elec- tion only by the terrorist tactics of the fascist-Serb premier, Pachitch. Kahn Would Exploit Moroccans PARIS, March 26.—Otto H. Kahn, American capitalist, expressed a des- ire to invest capital in French Mo- rocco, in an article printed in a French paper here. Kahn hinted that Amer- ican bankers desirous of exploiting the Moroccan peoples, as a way of settling the French war debt, occasion- ed his visit to the colonial possession. Death Claims 6th Firetrap Victim NEW YORK, March 26.—A sixth victim of the tenement blaze which destroyed the flretrap at 320 Fast 47 St., was claimed by death when Dor- othy Otte, six years old, died of her burns in Bellevue Hospital. Dorothy’s mother and sister were burned to death in the blaze. GET A SUB AND GIVE ONE! English Edition. No. 8. of of the Communist International Lessons of the Election in England. France Since the Fifth Congress. CONTAINING: Seven Years: The First Anniversary the Revolution without Lenin. By G. Zinoviev. By A. Martinov. The Georgian Adventure. By A. Martinov. By Albert Treint. The British Working Class After the By R. Palme Dutt. The Negro in America. By J. Jackson With Editorial Comment. The First Stage of the Civil War in China.—By Semenov. The Situation in Jugo-Slavia. By Boshkowitch. Single Copy 25 Cents. | The Communist international | 3 = = 2 = = Elections. | 2 = 2 = = = 5 = Subscription $2.50 a year—$1.25 * Months. Get it from your DAILY WORKER Agent N by mail from The Daily Worker Literature Department g * | 1143 W. Washington Blvd. 4 ——— Chicago, III. * % THE DAIL ed the election dis- PH LWORKER BRITISH “FIRMS GIVE: HRS 10 GERMAN YARDS Dawes Plan 1 Hammered Down Wage Scale (By the Federated Press.) LONDON— British labor is flicked with the whip of foreign competition just when the leaders of the largest unions are working for a united front in the struggle for higher wages’ A contract for building five 10,000 ton cargo boats goss to a German concern on the ground that the work can be done more in Hamburg. Many British shipyard workers are out of a job and the anti-union forces find the contract 4 made-to-order argument for reducing wages d abolishing trade union onan The ability of the German firm to underbid British yards by from $290,- 000 to $480,000 per boat is still a mys- tery. There is evidence of collusion on the part of the British employers who are bent on undermining the wage movemept, and substituting a downward one, Secretary John Hill of the Boilermakers’ Union points out that the winning German bid was con- siderably above the normal British price per ton and that the lowest Brit- ish bid was inexcusably high. Hill says, “It is all part of some capitalist design which is now being applied not only to shipbuilding but to shipping.” International Situation. Foreign competition underlies the deadlock in the British metal trades negotiations.. The employers’ federa- tion refuses to discuss wage increases unless the Amalgamated Union agrees to consider lowering the standard of working conditions. Among the points the employers want considered are the lower wages and longer week of compe tries, ability of con- ntal countries to undersell owing ithe depréciation of their currenc- ies, abnormal credits given to foreign competitors in their efforts to capture world markets, engineering imports increasing @ ac exports decreasing in value per te pat unemployment in the metal trafles. yf. Cheap ore s Threaten. competition is also the bugbear ofthe British miners in their attempt win a bare subsis- tence wage. average cost price of hard coal 2.60 in Germany com- pared with cost amount price in Gey in 8 to m England, the wage » 42 per cent of the and 65 per cent in ) mine workers put he ay compared with ne 2 the capitalist 0 ven the miners, Roth. press cor an ultimatut mt as follows: “If you don't tei er talk about getting de oC 11 ren get our coal from Germ then where will vou miners be?” Final decision on the miners’ pro- gram awaits the fate of a bill spon- sored by their representatives in par- liament to amend the coal mines’ min- imum wage act. The miner officials are meeting the executives of the other big unions in an attempt at common action. New York Comrades Welcome Freiheit Mandolin Orchestra By EDWARD SWARTZ (Special to The Daily Worker.) NEW YORK, March 26.—An audi ence of over 2,500 greeted the initial concert of the Freiheit Mandolin Or- chestra in New York City. From the very beginning when the orchestra soared forth with the “International” following it up with with selections like “March Militare” by Shubert, the “Lark” by -Clinko, “Serenade” by Drigo and many others, till the very end when the orchestra concluded with the “International” the admira- tion and appreciation of the audience was in evidence. During the intermissions comrades /exchanged congratulations at our new field of achievement. That workers who toil in the shops should have reached such heights of perfection in music was acclaimed by all present. Comrade Schachno Epstein, manag- ing editor of the Freiheit greeted the orchestra in the name of the Freiheit and the Communist movement. Comrade Sal nan, acting chairman, gave a brief review of the Freiheit Mandolin Orcheatra activities and its struggles with the general office of the Workmen’s Circle and its finally breaking away from the leadership of this organization and joining as a body the Workers (Communist) Party. Comrade N. L. Zaslavsky, conduc- tor of the orchestra, to whose labor the success of the orchestra is due chiefly deserves honorable mention at this time. Comrade ZaslAvsky has achieved marvelous results in only a short period of time thru his devo- tion to the orchestra. Ohio Schools to Bar Reds COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 26.—A joint resolution providing for the ex- pulsion of professors of Ohio univer- sities having connection with “any Communist socialist, atheist, or other organinzation of revolutionists,” will be brought before the state legislature it was announced here, The bill will be . BUILDERS at WORK 77 2 PHILADELPHIA, OMAHA AND KANSAS YESTERDAY’S BEST Omaha’T avis in 20 Per Cent of Quota ESTERDAY’S mail brought in a better response than any since the opening of the Second Annual Sub Campaign. From Tom. Mathews in Qmaha, Nebraska, we received 10 NEW subs with a promise that thie is only a part of many more to follow. Twenty per cent of their quota is already filled with one biow in the second week of the campaign which means that local Milwaukee who have been leading until today, have a real competitor on their hands. From Philadelphia, where DAILY WORKER Agent Comrade Rosen- berg is making things hum, we have received 8 NEW subs to add to the number which is growing daily and which the Philadelphia comrades assure us will soon reach the quota. From Pittsburgh, Kansas, in the unorganized territory, where Com- rade J. E. Snyder is now organizing that field, he sends us 6 NEW subs and advice that new branches of the party are being formed in the midet of the rebellious Kansas coal fields. These three cities are the outstanding ones of many others who have sent in NEW subs to “Bulid The DAILY WORKER” as you will see by the list below. in the instance of both Omaha, Nebraska, and Pittsburgh, Kansas, to- gether with the subs comes news of organization and new members. In other worde (that we have often repeated) Whenever you bulld the DAILY WORKER you are doing work that will bring new members and new branches to build the Communist movement in this country. Have you sent in YOUR two new subs as has been done by these BUILDERS who have sent in their sube on MARCH 25. (Numbers by names denote number of subse sent in): OMAHA, Neb.—Tom Mathews (11). PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—Lena Rosenberg (8). PITTSBURGH, KAN.—J. E. Snyder (6). NEW ORLEANS, LA—4J. C. Das (2). BUFFALO, N. Y.—4J. Soininen (2). CLEVELAND, 0.—J. A. Hamilton, J. Dworkin. DETROIT, Mich.—Iida Peterson. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. (Bay District). P. B. Cowdery. PROVIDENCE, R..1.—Ralph Kominsky. SODBURY, Ont., Canada—N. Pernu. * Three of the Largest Corporations Report Last Year’s Business ä (Special to The Daily Worker.) NEW YORK, March 26.—Reports of the 1924 operations and earnings sub- mitted today by three of the largest} American corporations, United States Steel, General Motors and Bethle- hem Steel, confirmed what has already been known about the general decline of business in this country last year. These three representative corpora. tions suffered in the first place by a shrinkage of total volume of business as compared with 1923, placing the first handicap on their ability to show as large profits as in the preceding year. Heavy operating expenses scaled down the net incomes and prof- its were considerably smaller. The following comparisons are sig. us! nificant: — | Dupont of the General Motors point unanimously to the fact that after op- éning the year auspiciously, business last ‘year ran into a slump in the spring and summer and made a good recovery in the last quarter. Thus United States Steel opened the year ope ting at 86 per cent of capacity declined gradually to 55 per cent of, capacity in the third, recovering to 69 per cent in the fourth. Bethle- hem opened year at 74 per cent of ca- pacity, dropped to 31 per cent and re- covered to 80 per cent. Notwithstanding the decline in earn- lunge these corporations were able ma- terially to strengthen their financial position, the chairman of General Mo- tors anpouncing that that corporation ended the year with its financial con- dition. the best in its history. This will put them in a position to take advantage of any general increase in demand for their respective commodi- + United States Steel 1924 1923 Gross income Renn $1,268,711,000.00 $1.571,414,000.00 Net income ........ eee b eee „104, 231,974.00 128,176,519. 00 Earned per share common 11.77 1.42 General Motors Gross INCOME $ 1 . a, a - Le SS M. POPVCKY, noted sin ARTIST KONOFF, doin a splendid violinist; sini iiithiariiiriinpnininhp ip ip ip ip bp bp bende bp be be de bn tn ten tnt ht tenn tna Mn Mindat Joint Benefit Celebration Dance & Entertainment THE DAILY WORKER lind SAZNANIC rate Com- munist Weekly) to be held at Musicians’ Hall, 777 W. Adams Street SATURDAY, MARCH 28, at 7:30 P. M. rem 900 5 will include: ger of Northwestern University; ig cartoons of people in the hall; singing and other features, and DANCING Refreshments will be served. Admission: 25 Cents for Ladies—35 Cents for Men 50 CENTS AT DOOR Auspices, Bulgarian Branch _ ee i eed — — , Workers Party * vy VT TTT rT TITVTTrTrrrrC0r000"0077""""""""" r * „„ ² ; —dAß—bd——ꝙ—ũm ww it pip pba i a nh hh hhh GRAND Centeet for a $400 Radio BAZAAR given by the Czecho-Slovak Section of the Workers Party for the benefit of “DELNIK”, at the BOHEMIAN-AMERICAN HALL, MARCH 26, 27 & 28, 1925 Admission on Thursday and Friday 15¢ Good Music—Doors Open at 7:30 P. M. Saturday Afternoon Children's D 1438 W. 18th Street Saturday Night 500 — Hod Carriers, 1850 Sheree Hye. | . 4 Lithographers, 639 8. Ashiand 1 * — — —— 1

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\* E DAILY WORKER. 38 e . asa Fabiiened by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING OO. 1118 w. Washington Bivd., Chicago, ML (Phone: Munroe 4712) — SUBSCRIPTION RATES $2.00...3 montha 33 it (in Chicago only): = rt 1 & months $2.60....3 montha $6.60 per year $8.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 19138 W. Washington Bivd. J. LOUIS ENGDAHE | aitors WILLIAM F. DUNNE{ MORITZ J. LOEB...... snes Manager — Chicago, ines mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- under the act of March 8, 1878. —— as second-class Office at Chicago, III., |= 2 Advertising rates op applicaticn Labor Bureaucrats Scent Profits The executive council of the American Federa- tion of Labor will meet some time this spring or summer to hear the report of the special committee on life insurance authorized by the El Paso ‘con- vention. The organization of life insurance companies by the officialdom of the labor unions is simply an ex- tension of the banking schemes that have made union officials and a considerable section of the la- bor movement guardians of capitalism imstead of its enemies. The B. and O. company union plan is the ex- pression in industry of the business enterprises of union officials. There are immense profits in the life insurance business and with their appetite whetted by the venture into banking the labor fakers have been eyeing hungrily the premiums paid by workers on their policies. The “labor” life insurance com- panies are intended to divert a large portion of these sums into the hands of fakerdom. The Federated Press dispatch, announcing the coming meeting of the executive council, says: “Vice-President Woll and Chairman Perkins of the special committee will bring forward a detailed plan of action, based on the need to keep in labor’s hands the profits on this vast business and to keep the control of billions of investments out of hands that are hostile to every aspiration of the labor movement.“ Just how labor unions are going to keep control for labor when the machinery of the labor unions becomes a vast investment concern is something that requires a little clarification. The best example of how control of the funds of labor union banks are kept in the hands of “labor” is the partnership of the bank of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En- gineers in the Empire Trust company—a Wall Streét concern of which Schwab of steel trust fame is a director. Life insurance, labor banking, the B. and O. plan surely a trio of measures that show conclusively the fact of the surrender of labor officialdom to capitalism; complete proof that “trust-busting” of the LaFollette brand as a protection to the middle- class investor is the extent to which radicalism ravaged the businessmen at the head of the Amer- ican trade union movement. Imperialism impoverishes the masses, but it can afford to and does encourage the labor aristocracy to build fortunes for itself. Except for a vested in- terest in the dues payments made by the members the labor bureaucrats have no interest in the or- | ganized labor movement. Barring this fact they are of the same social eategory as the rotarians, kiwanises and members of the commercial clubs. It is no wonder that they use the same tactics _ a — and then hastened to the real work of the atter- noon, as follows w France also ought to be mae to pay. What is she doing with the money that bélongs to your country at the moment? She id equipping a gigantic army and air fleet that could wipe sut London in twenty- four hours. Japan is organizing Russia and anyone with half an eye could see that. Japan, Russia and enemy airplanes—not Great Britain and her navy as the point for the eye of the 100 per centers present to focus on. France should be made to pay her debt to America thereby ruining her and relieving Great Britain of a rival by a process perfectly painless to the dear old em ire. . All of which is all right with us, Charley, but we are not advertising experts. We are Communists and know that no world war can start that does not drag in Great Britain as a potential if not active rival of American imperialism. The middle class elements who gasped at your utterances may also swallow your suggestion’ that Great Britain and America should unite to erush Soviet Russia but the working class of both countries have a dif- ferent opinion. If you have any doubt as to the attitude of the British workers you gan get, for five shillings, the official report of the British trade union delegation to Soviet Russia upon your return home—a return which we hope you will not delay on our account. Protecting Womanhood American capitalism and its middle-class agencies like the ku klux klan, rotary clubs and other collections of hangers-on exhibit always a wordy concern over the sanctity of the home, pro- tection of womanhood, etc. A mob can always be gathered to beat up or lynch some unfortunate migratory worker fresh from the construction camps who has made the pardonable mistake of approaching some enameled beauty in the age old fashion. But at the state capital of Illinois the chivalrous character of the babbittry is being tested by the agitation for legislation limiting the hours for female labor to eight. Loud outcries come from they say. The head stool-pigeon of Wrigley, the millionaire chewing gum manufacturer, is on the | The poor w orking girls become pleasantly fatigued by long hours of labor, says this madame, and are not inclined to trifle with the dangerous male of the species. Nor is this cleavage between bourgeois ethics and practice confined to the capitalist proper. The southern land-holding aristocracy exhibits the high regard for the morals of working class women and disregard for their persons. The rulers of Missis- sippi or Alabama—we forget which just at the momént—not long ago lowered the age of consent from 17 to 14; but they courageously continue to lynch Negroes for merely looking at a white woman. Shorter hours for women and men, abolition of child labor, all improvements in the conditions of the working class designed to give the workers more leisure and control over their lives, meet with the bitter Opposition of the capitalists disguised by solemn ethical slogans which capitalist society is so ingenious in inventing. When propaganda fails force is used. The outer citadels of capitalism are staunchly defended. Will the mastér class stop at anything to defend its inner arsenals? The lessons of the last eight years say no in clarion tones, but the Communist parties alone have learned these lessons and alone teach them to the working class. THE DAILY 8 the white slavers. Long hours are good for women, |, | job and tells of the moral influence of long hours. | the outside can be . LETTER 1 LS OF LIFE I} HEART OF STEEL:CENTER ä Group of Worker · Correspondents (Continued F. page 1.) are hardly worthy of being | called homes but since that is the term in common use, we will apply it here. Most of these homes are ramshackle, humble dwellings, with walls unplas- tered, containing no gas or electricity, usually water is earried in from the outside from wells gontaminated with the sewage that runs directly past the wells. The poor Worker in some in- stances is allowed a small yard for his children to play im, but in addition to probably ten child the yard con- tains a cess-pool, well, and probably a gutter where the -sewage from the house runs thru. In the summer it certainly must be very enjoyable to be playing in such a dump, where they gap have the com panionship of ultoes, flies, and other sorts of Quite often the landlords of deliber- ately neglect to make repairs on the houses, merely to increase their pro- fits. and tell them that if they desire anything better they should move, which of course, the Worker is not in a position to do. The Negro Colony. Not far from the steel mills is a colony of Negro workers imported from the south. This is the worst hole imaginable to be inhabited by any living creature. The streets are unpaved, no lights at night, but of course, the question of lights does not concern the steel barons since they can easily say that the illumination from our blast furnaces is sufficient light for anyone to see his way. The steel kings did have built 4 number of barracks to house. ‘these Negro workers consisting of. one story, wood- en, one-roomed cages, in which from, bunks arrang e workers are 3 * ed in rows on which t expected to rest, The ventilation is very poor, and on summer evenings these Negroes can be seen sitting outside to cool off after a long day's laboring at the hot beds of the steel mills, at night only to return to a, packed room, vermin considered, to try to recuper- ate for the next ay’s work. Not Fit For Stables. Where the Negro workers have families they are housed in old, zumble down ‘shacks which are not even fit to serve as stables. While liv- ing in these shacks, the children of the exploited workers are told t they can some day become president of the United States, if they are only ambi- tious enough to.try. These children are also soft soaped with the stories of how Carnegie, Schwab, and Corey made their mil- lions. But between starvation, and plenty of worry, they have very little time to consider whether or not these stories told them contain in any way, shape, manner and form any truth. They accept them as a matter of course and look upon them as a myth. The Flunkeys Live Better. Comparing the homes of the flun- keys with the homes of these work- ers the difference ig as between day (Continued from 3 THEN i60k* for peaceful path, instead of labs strug- We hear “No fight for the next ten That means thht the Ynion with the bosses to enforce wage cuts and to t locally, to struggle. gle and workers solidarity. slogans: years!” officialdom is co- operati speed up production. N Conditions in the shop are becom- ing intolerable and impossible to earn a decent livelihood. Brothers and sis- Yet us not allow the Amalga- mated Clothing Workers to disinte- grate into a second United Garment ters! Workers! You can prevent. that! The new agreement is about to be Don't wait till it is too late. Let your voice be heard at the next meeting of your local union against a policy of collusion with the bosses. We, the left wing, in the Amalga- mated workers make the following recommendations for the new agree- signed. ment. 1. Direct Negotiations With Bosses We oppose the present | method of secret diplomacy with the bosses, in The successful way to carry on such negotiations to win the demands of the workers is thru a committee composed of repre- sentatives elected from the local un- kept in touch with every development, a de- termined struggle for the demands wage negotiations. ions. With the members of the workers is assured. 2. Forty-Hour Week. Development of machinery, the unemployment situation. 3. Week Work as Against Piece Work Piece work speeds up production; breaks down the standard of wages divides the workers against one another and Hence, demand week work with a maximum standard of production and minimum and health of the workers; plays into the bosses’ hands: scale of wages! 4. Demand Genuine Unemployment Wages! Capitalist industry lives and pros- pers on the exploitation of the work- We demand that at all times, | that the workers are adequately maintained. The pres- ent scheme of unemployment instr- ance of our officials is totally insuffi- Demand full maintenance of the unemployed at the ers. in and out of work, cient for our needs. while bringing bigger profits to the boss- es, is throwing hundreds and thou- sands into the unemployed ranks. The fortyrhour week, with pay for forty- four, giving more employment to the workers, would also aid in relieving expense. ot the bosses, n distri- bution: thru the union and — com- ee 5. No Suspensions by the /% Manufacturers. a The present system of the bosses: suspending mem without first pre- charges against them, makes the worker a slave in the hands of the boss. Our demand is: No sus- pensions without charges first and a fair ‘trial! 6. _ Abolition of the Two Weeks Pro- bation Clause. 7. Organize the Industry, We demand complete organization of all workers in the industry. 8. ap Committee Control of the Union. Militant policies can only build and strengthen the union. Shop commit- tees, as the basic units ot the union, must be introduced thrubut the or- ganization. Shop committees make it’ possible for all the workers to have a direct hand in running the affairs of the union. Demand that the es- tablishment of shop- committee be written into the new agreement! Demand that the bosses recognize the shop committees as thé union repre- sentatives, empowered to conduct all negotiations for the workers! To gain these needed demands of the workers in the needle trades re- militant workers. The expulsion of the militants, the supporters of the Trade Union Educational League, by the administration serves the interest of the manufacturers and evidences an unhealthy co-operation of the un- ion: officials with the bosses. The membership must prevent the attempt of the officials of our union to get rid of the vital elements, the militants and left wingers in the Amalgamated. Fight against the expulsions of the militants! Fight kor the reinstatement of the expelled. Members of thé Amalgamated Clothing Workers! Rally round the left wing. -Let your voices be heard for a militant and anti-capitalist pol- icy that will stop our retreat before the bosses and will make new gains in the conditions of the workers in the ‘men’s clothing industry! Help Organize the Left Wing. Join, the Trade Union Educational League in a struggle for these de- mandsl io. . National „Committee of the Needle Trades Section of the Trade Union Educational League. Cleaners’ Strike Put Off on Plea of Bosses for Time The strike authorized Sunday night by the cleaners, dyers and pressers in more than 300 Chicago cleaning and dying shops was again postponed by the union officials yesterday when the Master Dyers’ and Cleaners’ Associa- tion asked the Cleaners’ and Dyers’ Union to enter into further negotia- tions looking to a settlement. The executive committee of the un- ion had been authorized bK a meet- ing of the union to carry on nego- tiations with the bosses and if set- tlement efforts failed, to call a strike quires the organized efforts of all the “LESSON FOR US O' Flaherty D Some of Them ns (Special to The Daily Worker.) MILWAUKEE, Wis., March 26. An enthusiastic meeting of workers commemorated in Milwaukee the 54th anniversary of the Paris Commune, The meeting was addressed by Thom- as O'Flaherty who pointed out the historic lesson of the Paris Com- mune in addition to paying a splen- did tribute to * heroic Commhun- ards. Lessons in Paris Commune. The greatest lessons we must learn from the Paris Commune, said O Fla- herty, is that we must build the Com- munist Party. The proletariat can- not win without the leadership of the Communist Party. Another great les- son, said O’Flaherty, is that the prole- tarian dictatorship must crush with- out mercy the resistance of the bour- geoisie to the rising proletarian pow: er. The following resolution was adopt ed at the meeting: Resolution on the White Terror and the International Workers’ Aid. WHEREAS, Thousands of workers are imprisoned thruout the world. by the capitalist governments in their ef- forts to suppress the movement which aims to overthrow the capitalist sys- tem, and WHEREAS, The most useful tools of the capitalist class are the yellow socialists of the Second International, the typical example of which is the spy Abramovich who is now ineffect- ually trying to slander Soviet Russia before the American working class and WHEREAS, The International Work- ers’ Aid is organized to defend the victims of capitalist oppression in all lands, therefore, be u RESOLVED, That this gathering of workers in the meeting assembled the 54th anniversary of the Commune express our solidarity with our comrades in all countries “who are now in the toils of the bourgebfsie and be it further, RESOLVED, That we indorse the In- ternational Workers’ Aid, and pledge ourselves to give it our hearty sup- port. 15,000 NEW SUBS BY JUNE 15! 2 22 „% „360 * — cal to Quarreling Factions — ‘iim Page 1). and -whovyimaginé:that any labor un- ion can prosper and appeal to work- ers upon a policy which sneers at the Russian revolution and opposes the program, of the Red International of Labor ‘Unions, The 25 ber Workers' Industrial Union, ioe last year had 10,000 . now has 4,000 paying dues to general headquarters and only a handful to Rowan’s split lumber un- ion. The General Construction Work- ers’ Industrial Union 310, which last give real aid va the Industrial Work- er; if it did not contemplate turning over its treasury to “Kid”. Howard Hogan, a discredited labor faker of Atlantic City and “Whitey” Lind- strom, a gas-bag “organizer” of Con- struction Workers I. U. 330, who are planning wild schemes of breaking up the Structural Iron Workers’ Union and organizing the pieces in the I. W. W., Howard to get $100 a week and Lindstrom bidding for $66 a week while so ‘engaged. But the general headquarters’ can spare only “moral support” to the In- Monday. Monday, Tuesday and year had about 4.000 b dustrial Worker, and limits its activi- and night. On one hand one sees In y about 4,000 members now tali ’ ists he executive com- has 800 ing d ty to an appeal to members emit as the capitalists proper towards the Communists . : ä how the actual producer of the steel part of Wednesday t as paying dues to general head who are performing a great service to the Ameri-| Strike Relief and the P arty mills live while on the other hand | Mittee conferred with the bosses rep- | quarters, and about 1,500 to Rowan’s Afto cents each to the paper. is ean working class in exposing the alliance of trade union officials and capitalists for castrating the labor movement. The Hartford local of the Workers (Communist) Party of America has collected $171.05 for the Willimantic textile strikers—the lafgest sum yet one sees the luxury ahd wealth of the parasites living from the toil of these workers. The parasites have resentatives but did not arrive at a settlement. Wednesday afternoon they issued split construction union run by P. D. Ryan. ‘These unions are the worst affected by the split. Between these is no support at all. Give Some Real Help—No Tricks. The Red International Affiliation ‘ . P their cars and live far enough from] another call for a strike to begin two the Rowan split has about $3,500 | Committee appeals to the members One of these days the American working class turned in by any one groupp for this purpose. the steel mills that they do not have | Thursday morning. But late Wednes- on hand. The general headquarters of the whole I. W. W., both faétions will hear of great scandals in “labor” life insur- The money was collected by a house canvass and to have illumination from the blast day evening they received a letter has approximately $5,100 on hand. allke to demand that each faction ance and banking concerns similar to those that have discredited the trade union fakers in Ger- many and the Scandinavian countries. The trade union bureaucracy is going to drown in the cesspool of corruption that is already form- ing inside their financial institutions. Every day get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER and a member for the Workers Party. British Hokum for the Babbittry British imperialism is the greatest propaganda machine in the world. ; Thru the Federation of British Industries, with its close connection with the foreign office, goes out the message of empire in many forms. Every middle-class and capitalist Briton is an agent of British imperialism. They can talk about the friendship of the two great Anglo-Saxon na- tions without batting an eye, while American and British business interests eut one anothers throats} in every quarter of the globe where to be had. | These remarks are called forth by the speech of there is loot this is the most important thing im connection with it. There is a thousand times more propaganda value in money given from sources: of this kind than in donations made out of the treasury. Not only the striking workers who receive the very welcome strike'relief are made acquainted 1 ith the role of the party, but workers who are not involved in the strike are told of the struggle, the demands of the strikers and themselves brought in contact with Communist activity. They see the Communists at work doing one of the thousand and one necessary daily tasks of the working class movement—tasks to which no partic- ular glory is attached and on which the limelight does not shine, but which do not escape the atten- tion of intelligent workers. This is one of the ways in which the party ac- quires a mass character. Imperialisms Clashin Mexico President Calles has settled a street-car strike in favor of the workers and the American capitalist one might expect. press gives him much publiciy—not unfavorable as | — | | day. furnaces light their way. Going past the offices of the steel mills their cars stand in rows all set and ready to take the bosses away from that mi- serable neighborhood, while the poor worker starts on hig weary drudge homeward and cannot even then es- cape the tortures of the mills, hav- ing all the smoke and noise still to contend with after He is once home from his long days drudge in the steel mills. 3» Workers Demand New Electi ection As Fascisti Quarrel ROME, Italy, March 26—The cla- mor for new elections is growing here, as month follows month with Premier Mussolini still absent from public ac- tivity and the divigion in the ranks of the fascisti growing sharper every Mussolini's appearance in public did not have the effeet of reassuring Bis followers that be is returning to | said: from the employers offering to go on with the conferences if the strike After consider- able debate the strike was postponed pending the outcome of the confer- call was cancelled. ences. Yesterday the settlement talk went on all day. At the close neither side would say anything further than that the conference would continue today. Ben Abrams, manager of the union, there may or We have arrived at no settlement with the J don’t know; there may not be a strike. bosses.” Rich Rob Millions from Treasury, Is Tax Disclosure WASHINGTON, D. Ci March 26. A “complete revision” of the million class of federal state taxes will be proposed in the next congress as a result of the Couzens’ senatorial investigation of the internal revenue It is dollar” bureau, it was learned today. There are two |. W. W.’s Only Communists Are Concerned No one is trying to remedy this tragic condition of the once proudly united I. W. W.—except the Commun- ists and the Red Internationalists. A general executive board member is on the Pacific coast, but may as well be in China for all he does. Only the members of the Workers (Communist) Party fight for the real interests of the I. W. W. by carrying on an ideological struggle against all splits and disintegration, preaching unity of the rank and file against all factional officials as the first requisite of organization life and growth. Wise Fools Exchange Absyrdities. Stupid officials of both factions think they are making great hits with false accusations against each other of being Communists. Mean- while, the members of the I. W. W. who wish to struggle against capi- talism are joining the Workers Party in every city of any sige from coast to coast. They, as good union men, should supports the Industrial Worker with $1,000 each—$2,000 between them, to be booked either as a loan or a dona- tion, as may be arranged. The vouch- ers for expenditure of this fund to be checked by both factions. And the policy of the paper, for once, to be really non-political and not antt-poli- tical. The Industrial Worker must not be sacrificed to factionalism and .the counter-revolutionary stupidities of those who have shaped its policies in recent years. Neither must any conspiracy, on the part of the in- junctionite split, which ving lost control of the Industrial Worker now tries to destroy it in order to set up a new publication in Portland, this conspiracy must be defeated also. Let Help to Worker Prove Sincere Motive. Let the Rowan split which has $3,500 in cash, and the general head- quarters, which has $5,000, give $1,000 each to the Industrial Worker, as a pledge by each to the whole I. W. W., that they really care to save the In- | | ow continue to carry their I. W. W. union | dustrial Worker and have no mental Sir Charles Higham, English advertising expert,| The answer is that this particular street-car Aber 1 Rison yy dis-. known, however, that «Coolidge will card, but they — that the reservation or factional conspiracies made at a luncheon given in his honor in the La|tem in Mexico City is British-owned. patches state, and, spoke but three — — milliondire friends and Communists are the clearly intelli- in mind. ' Salle Hotel yesterday. Wall Street is going to drive British capital out minutes from an open window, most . _ gent force of the revolutionary work- Ane let the membership remind the te Charlies nrefieted a new war within. tene Mexico with the aid of the Calles cor t. ot his body being hidden from sight. Evasion of existing taxes by mil-| ing class. officials of both factions that ‘there — 2 * — e eee * N 0 — * ern Luigi Federzoni, minister of the in- lionaires and near billionaires, thru Busy Splitting—Not Organizing. must be unity, and that they recog- years but not, of course, between America and In this contest between two imperialisms the work- | teror, and representatve of the “right the distribution of their wealth before The injunctionite faction has estab- | nize the Red International of Labor Great Britain. Japan will attack America andjers are only pawns until they understand the is- wing” of the fascisti who has been death, Couzens said, has made a lished its center at Portland, Oregon, Unions as the organized center of the Germany will attack France. Japan will descend|sues involved. | “joke” out of the present statute. Paris 5 carrying on the violence against the Contrast this action of Calles against British workers inaugurated by Mussolini, is with a swarm of airplanes. wants to capture| capital with his de struction of the Railwaymen’s | hampered in his work by secretary the United States because it is so rich. Union, the discharge of 40,000 of its members and | Seneral ot the fase ‘party, ria rg Having scared the babbittry present with this ter- — preparations for the return of the roads 2 — 8 4 1 rible picture, Sir Charles proceeded to get down to | Wall Street. | . business. The business of the imperialist Briton is| Watch the imperialist labor press and the yellow | Falis in F to take a crack at the most dangerous immediate socialist sheets laud the Calles government ae SAN FRANCIS enemy to British supremacy whenever there are à bat themselves on the back for the great favor they ing into a dead nde bunch of numbskulls around with their mouth’ and have done the Mexican workers by giving them a | her chair Dare and with the I. U. 120 and 310 bulle- tins and aetive propagandists, carries on vigorous efforts to deepen the split. But it wahts a general news- paper. The Industrial Worker, after months of defying headquarters, capi- tulated (with a tongue in its cheék, as seen by the letter to headquarters by C. E. Payne in the general office bul- letin for February), and immediately world’s revolutionary unions to which the I. W. W. should affiliate. For Unity and Revolution, RED INTERNATIONAL AFFILIATION COMMITTEE, 1514 W. Madison St., Chicago, III. and She upon the Panama Canal the Pacifie coast Evidence revealed by the Couzens investigation, it was said, has shown that the government lost millions of dollars in uncollected taxes from the / estates of millionaires, who made ela- borate gifts before death. The gifts were covered by so great à litter of technicalities that all efforts‘ of the government to enforce thecsupposedly safeguarding gift taxeg-ailed.... The rth Faint. Marsh 26.—Fall- she rose from * sixteen- Free Men Who Tarred Girl. BALTIMORE, Md. March 26.— Governor Ritchie has paroled nine men serving workhouse sentences of. year-old girl on sh tor the murder tax dodging will continug, it is said, applied for financial support. one year each for tarring and feather- ears open. The noble advertising e ion devoted tool of American imper em instead of a lackey | of her mother, agu today went into ee long as Andrew M wei matt i Busy With Grab Bag Dualism. ing 1 prepay e ‘ few words to the German repara un of Great Britain. a state of 0 * is treasury head, The general executive board might |in 1 3 — — 8 — ; ä = > | Si et | 9 N ~~. 5 t . 3 1 . 2 7 = 2 2 aaa \ ‘ gee * as — 1 — 4 i 1 rs — — —¼i

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stariat can- ‘ship of the r great les- it the prole- crush with- of the bour- tariah pow. Was adopt Terror and ers’ Aid. of workers 16 world by in their ef- ment which pitalist sys- useful tools the yellow iternational, hich is the iow ineffect- viet Russia rking class tional Work- defend the sssion in all gathering of ssem bled the idarity with untries who bourgeofsle dorse the In- and pledge hearty sup- JUNE 15! * — tT strial Work- late turning id”. Howard or faker of litey” Lind- zer“ of Con- 330, who are breaking up rkers’ Union es in the I. $100 a week r $66 a week quarters’ can t“ to the In- its its activi- ers emit paper. is ‘No Tricks. al Affiliation the members both factions ach faction Worker with een them, to in or a dona- The vouch- is fund to be is. And the once, to be not anti-poli- must not be zm and the tupidities of | its. policies er must any t of the in- ving lost Worker now order to set Portland, this ated also. rove Sincere t which has general head- 0, give $1,000 Worker, as a 1ole I. W. W., save the In- ve no mental conspiracies ip remind the is that there t they recog- nal of Labor center of the ions to which liate. volution, MITTEE, „Chicago, III. ‘red Girl, March 26.— paroled nine sentences of. g and feather- a, Myersville — 2 * Paris , P — ie . Re: 5 — wader the Aok ot March 8 20, -* — & ‘CENTS PO eg — Magazine Section. On all other days, Three Cents per Copy, the lecture room. (Special te The SEATTLE, Wash., March 27.—(By the Central Labor Councll* have won a splendid victory over the coterie of The counoll refused to unseat the Communists. in spite of the vicious tactics of the president who acted as leading tool reactionaries. of the reactionaries, the council by a against it—a two-thirds majority being required to expel—decided that the} local unions had the right to say who their delegates should be. F Machine Defies Rules. As the vote counting finished at the exact hour of adjournment, Presi- dent John Jepsen arbitrarily and in violation of the rules of the council, declared that the expulsion was effective, but the delegates vigorously chal- lenged his decision. Fearing the resentment of the large number of local unions and delegates to the council. Secretary Doyle and President Jepsen wired to William Green, 4 12 AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY NE of those fake labor sheets— there are hundreds of them—sup- ported by the employers recently car- ried a long story on the Communist movement in the United States and did not miss the Workers Party school which today terminates its two weeks’ session at the Workers’ Lyceum in this city. The story began with the arrest of three members of the Young Workers’ League in New York who were rehearsing for the Paris Com- mune pageant, with old guns that would be turned down with scorn by Don Quixote and his ally, Sancho Panza; it ended with a sermon on the menace to fhe present social sys- tem of the instructions given to the students in the Workers Party school. 8 2* ® F the capitalist papers and the fake labor journals are interested in this Communist school, why should not the readers of the DAILY WORKER get a little pen picture of its sessions? No sooner thot than acted on. Will- iam F. Dunne wag delivering a lec- ture on Trade pene ied — Tac- dents acted as chairman. Do capital ist colleges have chairmen while the professor is performing? Let some hod carrier who toted a load of bricks thru some goose step university an- swer, : * * „ HEN Comrade Dunne got thru with his lecture, he produced a cigarette and one of the students of- fered him a light. After “Bill” began to puff at the weed, the chairman ask- ed if there were any questions. There were. Half a dézen students were on their feet. Take it from me, the pro- fessor had to be sure of his “p’s” and “q's.” These were not ordinary stu- dents who go to school in order to learn how to behave in a tea room, or bend the knee at the proper angle when the boss approaches. They were after knowledge, because knowl- edge in the hands of revolutionists means power. * * 5 HE students came from the mines. They eame from the clothing fac- tories. They came from the mills. There were even a few stenographers there, a most precious but rare indus- trial classification—in the revolution- ary movement. They were studying, and studying how to study. On their return, to their homes, they do not intend to sit arount the village stove, and tell wondrous tales of what they say in the big, windy, smoky and wick- ed city. Of the Abramovich meetings in which they fought, of the struggles in which they participated, struggles between militant traye unionists and the reactionaries. They will use the knowledge they acquired to organize ihe workers teach the latter to be- come organizers in turn. é?& FTER all that is the real object ++ of education. It must be purpose- ful. One of the principal points of difference between the Workers (Communist) Party and its decrepit rivals, is the fact that the former looks on knowledge as the light which will guide the feet of the working- class along the road to their emanci- pation. But this knowledge must not be left to its own resources like a rai- sin in a bootlegger’s bottle. It becomes a harmless thing unless it is harness- ed to the class struggle, made a liv- . One of the stu- Dally Worker) Wire.)—The Communist delegates to vote of 78 favoring expulsion to 71 president of the A. F. of L., asking for “confirmation” of the arbitrary violation of the council’s rules. The Communist delegates will pay no attention to Jepsen’s ruling and will continue to attend the council as usual, To say that the office of prest- dent was raped by Jepsen is to put the council last week, when that body decided to allow the defendants unlim- ited time to defend their position on (Continued on page 2) ~- — = it mildly. He overruled the decision of ese WIFE SENT TO JAIL BELLAIRE, Ohlo, March 27.—Be- cause her husband, an unemployed coal miner, commited suicide Mary Sclandi is In the county jal! at St. Clairsville. Scladani, who had been out of work ever since the shut down of the Lorain Coal and Dock company mines 18 months ago, be- came despondent over his growing debts and slashed his throat with a razor. He had attempted to commit sulcide about a year ago but his wife prevented. After the first at- tempt he was in the hospital for several weeks. When his wife found him in the basement of their home yesterday she was so overcome that it was feared that she would become in- sane. | In a etupld but economical at- tempt to take care of her the county officials had her taken to the jail. There her condition is reported as considerably worse. Wu Pel-tu Invited to Conference. SHANGHAI, March 27.—The Chin- Papers here reported that Mar. shal Tuan Chi-jui has sent a wire to Marshal Wu Pei-fu inviting the latter g r at the Ashland Sunday aft- 8 It will be an ational Unity Demonstration st sense of the name. W. ö very national ity will be * in the audi- to come to Peking to attend the com- ing national conference. — Published daily except Sunday by THE DAILY . PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, III. Price 5 Cents „mass“ nel Ab- of Soviet AR ence and on the progiam. They will listen to spl speak ers of two races the same message of the i practise of international of the work efit equally the. funds for the Irish worker = victims of the famine, N defense of those facing jail under the Michigan pate Ust laws. In its very c m tie celebration is page 4) "ON THE SEAT OF TROUBLE * 22 — — 2 tee O. TENT DWELLING STORM VICTIMS IN GREAT AGONY ore Die of Four More Injuries MURPHYSBORO, III., March 27.— The misery of the miners of. this storm ridden town, who have been liv- ing in small refuge tents, was kur- ther increased when an electrical storm descended upon the city, killing one worker and wounding others. The tent village was drenched, and stores of food and furniture exposed in the wreckage were spoiled. Granville Whitelaw, a Negro, was killed by the storm. Some of the tents were blown away. E. G. Dunning who was injured at De Soto, when the storm destroyed his dwelling, died in Herrin today of lockjaw. The death toll at West Frankfort was increased to 136 when Mrs. Virgil Bell died there of her injuries. Asa Cremer, another West Frankfort worker injured in the storm, died last night. The total dead in Franklin (Continued on page 2.) »**+ eee eee eevee ese eSeeeeeeeese eee e444 44444448 444444 SS OS & @ & @ WORKERS! GIVE YOUR EK 0 i i i i i i i ANSWER TO THOSE WHO SLANDER SOVIET RUSSIA! county is now 178. W > * & DEATH AND DISASTER IN COMPETING WITH DAWES PLAN VICTIMS’ SLAVERY (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, March 27.—Fifty one miners dead and twenty eight in- jured probably fatally was the latest report today on the mine ac- cident in Alsace. The men were coming to the surface in an Ore lift when it dropped 450 feet. Japanese and Russians to Meet MOSCOW, March 27—In connection with the report that the Japenese com- mission charged with the handing over of Northern Saghalin to the Soviet authorities has left for its destination, it is announced that the Soviet dele gates will leave Khabarovsk on the 26th of ‘this month. To Give Harding Tomb. WASHINGTON, March 27—Trus- tees of the Harding Memorial associ- ation definitely decided to proceed with the construction of a mausoleum at Marion, Ohio, in memory of the late president. The estimated cost is $600,000. A Paris Commune Pageant. W ”* 2 > © President Coolidge presided at the meeting. 1 „ K e e COMMUNISTS TC ~ oF we 5 Ss’ & 1 : — 28 9 1 . 1 U COAL steamer President Jackson salle to- Entire Section Goes on 99 CARLOADS OF FARM MACHINERY 6 01 NG TO- FARMS OF SOVIET RUSSIA | | . SEATTLE, Wash., March 27—The day from this port at eleven a. m. carrying twenty-two carloads of farming machinery for Soviet Rue ‘sla. The destination of the en ie Viadivostock, shipped via Shang- hai, a neutral port, from the McCor- mick plant of Chicago. it consist- ig of reapers, mowers, binders, rakes and so forth. BARONS IN WAR ON MINE UNIONS Open Shop Basis (Special to The Dally Worker.) TULSA, Okla., March 27. — Ten arge mines in the Henryetta-Okmul- gee coal flelde have broken their con- tracts with the miners’ union and be gan operations on a non-union basis, In addition the largest mines of the southwest have given the miners the ultimatum—“either come to work as non-union men or the mines close down.” The MacAlester, Wilburton, Hart- shorne and Tulsa flelds have already taken this step, and now the strong- hold of the miners’ union of the southwest, weakened by the disrup- tion of the ku klux klan, has been invaded by the coal operators. A wholesale shut down of mines, preparatory to the drive to reduce wages and destroy the miners’ union, was begun in the Henryetta flelds, on Feb. 15. On that date five mines were closed down, and none of these mines has yet been re-opened. When they do, the operators announce, it will be on the non- union wage scale. Last week the Whitehead Mine No. tong a d for the Feleco 7 , Closed down. This was the last of the six mines of the Crow. Coal company, the largest coal company in the southwest, to f close. The Wise-Buchanan, the B and A at Schulter, the Pittsburgh and Mid- way, and the Son Coal company's mines will all be shut down, to re- open on an open shop” basis. The Atlas Star and Consolidated is to close down this week. Henryetta depends on coal as its chief source of income, and the al- ready destitute miners are expected to suffer keenly. FASCISTI PUT BAN ON STRIKES AND AID BOSSES Constitution to Be Changed GET LARGE VOTE IN GERMAN POLL Country Torn . Foreign Intrigue (Special to The Dally Worker) BERLIN, Germany, March 27.—The Communist Party of Germany charges that, the social-democrats are using | the money of the Stinnes industrial group to campaign for their presiden- tial candidate. Otto Braun. The German elections take place Sunday, with Ernst Thaelmann, the Communist candidate expected to poll well over two million: votes. The war-lord Gen. Ludendorf has split the right bloc, which was en- deavoring to consolidate the reac- tionery forces behind Jarres, by insist- | ing on running for president with the | backing of the right extremists. Germany faces many vital issues in this election. One reaction to the British foreign minister Chamberlain's ing Germany's conditions of entrance to the league of nations, is that (Continued on page 2) speech in the house of commons, stat- (Special te The determined to resist the wage cut, and United Mine Workers of America. On Wednesday afternoon a mass charter. The Communist speakers pointed in the United Mine Workers of Ameri STRKE AGARST CUT ROME UNIONS AGAIN INU. M. M. OF A. = Dally Worker) UNIONTOWN, Pa., March 27.—Mase meetings of the striking miners of the coke region, arranged by the Workers Party and the Progressive Miners’ Committee of the Trade Union Educational League, are being held every- where, and are attended by great crowds of enthusiastic strikers. They are under the lead of the Communists, to win not only the strike, but a re-organization of thelr local unions in the Back Into the U. M. W. of A. meeting was held here in Frankiin Hall, and a motion approved to organize in the United Mine Workers of America and to fight with the rank and file of that union by asking for a out that the miners must re-organize ca for a better struggle because it 16 not a local fight, but an entire district strike. Charter To Be Asked. A committee will be chosen and a local establishod at each mining samp. Then, after the election of the miners’ own officers, a charter will be asked from the U. M. W. of A. Day oy day the miners are leaving the workings, spreading the fight against the wage cut. Three additional coke mines owned by the Oliver-Snyder Steel Company near Uniontown, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, have been struck by the men in protest against the pro- posed wage cut. Eight hundred more men came out from the pits, swelling the ranks of strikers in this unorga- nized territory. All men are stand- ing solid, refusing to accept a cut which in reality will amount to $4.00 a day. The wage cut which the operators are attempting to put over would re duce the wages for day work $2.50 per day; on tonnage work 55 cents for a 3% to 4 ton car. For digging and loading such a car in these pick mines the former tonnage price was $1.60 and is now being cut to $1.05. Simul- taneously the companies have in- creased the price on powder 4 cents per pound; the stores owned by the company have increased the price on flour to $12.00 per barrel, and op meat, for steak 60 cents per pound as hoe 45 pound. In this manner the real wag would be reduced about $4.00 a q — es A Command to Buy. Just prior to the strike the com- pany stores issued to the miners appeared to them to be a credit slip for a certain amount of money. Later, however, these slips turned out to be a command to buy that much in the store orslose their jobs. This shows how complete the companies own the territory and determines not only working conditions but econ- omic and social conditions as well. No wonder the rebellion has become so complete. Of course the company has its agents amongst the strikers. Fake meetings are being called from time to time, poorly attended, at which someone proposes to go back to work, and in some instances thru lies and misrepresentations, succeed in put- ting it across. Thus, stories are be- ing spread continually of the strik- ing mines again resuming operation. Holding the Picket Line. However, nd sooner do any such | ROME, Italy, March 27—The fascist — is revising the constitution of Italy, in an attempt to use the gov- cement and the fascist party to di- rectly break strikes. Following the recent strike of the | fascist metal workers, the fascist leaders. who from the beginning of their rule have been allied with the |capitalists, are taking steps to break ifuture strikes. | The revision of the constitution ac cording to the fascigt leaders’ plans, | compels the labor unions to renounce the right to strike, and submit to the arbitration of a “national wage tri bunal,” which would be dominated by the employers. the members of the chamber of —— ties shall be elected from unions’ ‘employers’ associations. As ali fascist unions are outlawed, only f cist workers will be allowed to ‘for the chamber. Write us a letter—tell us how and shop conditions—and ‘your shop. Sunday Afternoon, March 29, 2 P. M. nese & © ene = ease +. + © The change in the constitution also makes the ruling that one-third of you work, what are your wages | Der TEXTILE STRIKE WINNING FIGHT IN UTICA MILLS A Few Bruised Scabis Weave No Cloth (Special to The Dally Wérker) UTICA, N. T., March 27.—The text- ile barons’ attempt to cut wages in this city is meeting with utter de- feat. The signs of this are their fail- ure to get the workers to break ranks and scab, their failure to provoke the strikers by a few armed thugs and their latest announcement according to the mill owners’ usual line of bunk, that they are going to “close down the mills.” The strikers beat them to that. Profeasionals in Provocation. The Utica Steam Cotton mill brought in fourteen professional scabs from New York City. About 600 or 700 strikers were around the mill. The scabs began to shake their fists at the strikers and put their thumbs to thelr noses— looking for a fight. The strikers waited. “Wiese strike breakers carry guns against the law, but the mill owners are the law. The mill owners had no success in provoking a massacre, with all their scabs calling names at the strikers. Another Trick. Then they tried another trick. They got one of the scab gunmen in a covered wagon, and they left it in the street for some time. The scab peek- ed out of the wagon. Nothing happen- ed. Then the wagon was driven to a lunch room to get some food for the other scabs in the mill. The su- perintendent then took three scabs in his car to the lunch room and left them there. Why Scabbing len't Popular. The strikers waited. When thé scabs came out they insulted the strik- ers. Then the fight started. The scabs were beaten with sticks and stones and ran into the mill wheré they stayed all night. Advertisements don’t seem to make anybody want to come to work in thik mill. There are 2,000 strikers in the two mills. The company advertised — misled miners get to the picket line and become fully informed than they return and stand solid with the rest. ing effective work for the bosses con- tinually harassing, and chasing the pickets. 25 cents and 35 cents. coal brought to the coke ovens will with the present retail price of coke $4.64 at the ovens, a raise of 20 cents since December, the profit made by | mated. (Continued on page 4.) The coal and iron police are also do- With the new tonnage price which | the men refused to accept digging and loading of one ton would be paid from Twelve tons of | produce about four tons of coke and the mine owners can easily be est In the three camps near Uniontown, for loom fixers and weavers. None showed up. That’s funny, isn’t it? Beware of Arbitration Betrayal! The mayor of Utica, like all capital ut politicians, is trying to help bé- tray the strikers into arbitration. He has appointed a special committee. And who do you think they are? The committee consists of two law- yers and a preacher. One is Attorney Moses G. Hubbard, Jr., prominent in the strike breaking American legion; William Lee Ross, a former prosecut- ing attorney: and a presbyterian preacher, Philip S. Bird, who is a bird that everybody knows is on the side ot the company. But the strikers have their strike committee, which hag no | need for any aid. It can handle all the arbitration, and must do it. RUSSIA HEARS OF SECRET MEET OF BALTIC STATES AT RIGA TO | PLAN NEW WAR ON SOVIET RULE MOSCOW, March 27.—Soviet circles were aroused today over reports of then |a secret conference in Riga, capital of Latvia, between the Baltic states, order a bundle for distribution in Poland and Roumania for perfeeting war plans against Russia. Soviet officials charged that British officials are backing the conference. ~ SF SSS SSF SS SS SSS SS SSS SSF SFSSSSSSSSSSSSSS .... 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Hg te eNO OT doatlon. 5 a: 4 . : * . rere. LES LEAVES TODAY TO BUILD EMPIRE'S FENCES *. N. * 9 * 5 3 7 * ee 3 3 _ Egyptian Workers Dis- franchised LONDON, England, March 27.—The prince of Wales starts tomorrow on a twenty-thousand mile cruise to Eng- land’s South Atricad and West Afri- cam colonial possessions, in an at- tempt to build the decaying fences of the British empire. At the same time it was announced that Egypt will be forced to accept a new electoral law, patterned after Muasolint’s Italian law, which denies the right of the workers and peasants ‘of Egypt to an equal franchise. The Egyptian law requires both electors and candidates to own a cer- tam sum of money or property and have a certain number of years’ edu- The law disfranchises most cot the follewers of Zagloul Pasha, who is fighting British imperialism in ~Hgypt, and who gained a majority in the parliament which was hastily dis ‘polved by the British puppet king. After 8. A. Trade. The prince of Wales will also visit the South American countries, where the United States capitalists and Brit- ish imperialism have been staging a life and death struggle for South American trade. The American busi- meas interests have recently secured more trade than the Duglish, and hence Wales’ visit. King George is now cruising in the Mediteranean, evidently meditating on the North African and Asia Minor colonial troubles, and Prince George will sail for France next week. Only Prince Henry will be left of the de- generate family to keep the home fires burning. Get a sub for the DAILY WOREER from your shopmate and you will make another mem- ber for your branch. fay , 2 N — Vote Against Unseating Communists (Continued from page 1.) the floor, and arbitrarily limited thetr time to ten minutes each. Jepsen also ruled that the gallery be closed. Quivering, hesitating and confused, still he carried out the gag rule of the coterie of reaction. Gen- eral sentiment of delegates is against unseating, and the delegatés from various locals split these locals’ vote on the question. The reactionaries Account of the Hearing. SEATTLE, Mash., March 23.—(By Mall.) — The report of the strike and grievance committee, acting as the trial board, presented to the council recommended the unseating of H. Price of the Machinists, W. H. Jones of the Painters and Joe Havel of the Bookkeepers, and exonerated Paul Mohr of the Bakers, M. Hansen of the Painters and J. ‘Carlson of the Shipwrights. The recommendations for unseat- ing the three was based on their names having appeared as electors on the ballot for the Workers Party presidenttial ticket last November. O. “democracy” where are your pro- tecting wings! The pervading atmosphere of the council reminded one of the good old fighting days when that body was in the forefront ranks of the labor move- ment of America, tolerance and gen- uine interest predominating. The gal- lery, closed ever since, was ordered by spécial motion opened to the visi- tors. Days of Old Back Again, The fighting spirit of true and tried trade unionists who year after year have been \tearing themselves away from the bosom of their families night after night giving the last ounce of energy left within them after the day’s hard toil for their masters to the up- building of the loca] labor movement, reverberated again in the hall of the Labor Temple. When the set hour of nine o'clock arrived the report of the strike and grievance committee was read by Chairman David Levine, petty shop- As ME SEE IT -: By T. J. O'Flaherty. (Continued from Page 1) ing part of the wor«ers’ fight for emancipation. Therefore, instead of merely learning about evolution, his- torical materialism and the law of sur- plus value, and waiting patiently un- ti. socialism crawls out of the womb of capitalism, the Communists, armed with theoretical knowledge proceed to organize the workers for the fight. And in the fight the masses learn more than they will ever learn in the colleges or schools. Colleges and schools under capitalism are not for the masses. * 8 8 the Communists intended to use their knowledge in aimless discus- sions about the “wherefore of the what is not” or whether a red lizht is really red or may be it is blue, or whether a straigat line gets you any- where, the capitalists and t‘icir press would not bother their heads ab out *hem. The students of the Workecs Party college do not intend to waste their time trying to prove, like a pet- rified “educationalist” of the S. L. P. type—that an-American farmer is not peasant, and that therefore, it is folly to attempt to get him to against the big capitalists, on his robber intentions as those of the mas- burglars, therefore, he should be until the steam roller big capitalist’s steam roller when ben- evolent evolution has done its duty. Our students intend to become Com- munist leaders. Nothing modest about this. But then blushing virgins and shrinking human violets may orna- ment a boudoir, but they are rather out of place in the class struggle. As ' ed Communist Party united only to split again over the question of form- ing a “legal” political party. That was in the year 1921. Bittelman read from a monthly official organ issued by the central executive committee. of the party. A contrast between: the strength of the party then aud now, would be interesting, not merely in numbers, but in effectiveness. ».What a difficult job the C. E. C. had to dig up enough money to pay the print- ing bifi for the publication of a six- teen page monthly? Then the social- ists had a daily paper: Today they have only a struggling weekly, strug- gling not against the capitalists, but for a bare existence. On the other hand the Workers (Communist) Party has one daily published in the Nug- lish language and ten or more in other languages, besides several weeklies and monthiies. * 6 „ 1 hearing Bittelman reciting the history of the inner party struggles, one would be justified in asking the question: Why this per- petual wrangling? The history of the party seems to be one darn faction fight after another. But such is the history of all revolutionary parties. There are always two struggles going on, more or less intense, according to the importance of the issues in- volved. There is first of all, the struggle of the party against the capi- | talists and perhaps no less import- ant, the struggle inside the party to keep it on the right track. One of the objections raised against Marx by some of his “historians” is that he was bitter and dogmatic. The same could be said against Lenin. But they were dogmatic only in the sense that they hewed to the correct revolu- tionary line and had no patience, either with the anarchists who flew off into the rarified atmosphere of iso- Tomsky (leader of the Russian trade lation or with the reformers who flew unions) said at the British Trade Un- into the arms of the bourgeoisie. fon Congress when a faker remarked that the Russian workers were not angels: tions.” 6 > + HE art of speaking effectively in public is invaluable in any cause and in none more so than in the working class movement. Th: a class in public speaking was surriculum of the Workers Party schoo! Thurber Lewis, who was almost born on a soap box, was the teacher. Oth- er people trace their ancestry to kings, pirates or celibate saints, but on Thurber Lewis’ family tree the ora- tors and the agitators have all his oth- er progenitors hanging on to the twigs. Comrade blunt man and when one of his pu- puls looked agonizingly at the lone fly on the ceiling, or took out a laun- dry check instead of his or ber notes the teacher spared not his words. He would excuse them for + rassed at facing an audience, or speak- ing too fast or saying “Now in con clusion” for the sixteenth time, but there was no excuse for not being pre pared. The school will supply the Workers Party with a small army of speakers, unless all signs fall. * * > " ” o ry: Ping emmy OMRADE BITTELMAN lectured on the histery of the movement in the United States By “Angels don't make revolu- | strength and powery ‘its problems Communist a > * HE Workers (Communist) Party of America, has grown in numbers It thrashes out vigorously, within its own ranks until it decides on the right course to follow. Once having decid- ed on that course, it presents a unit- ed front to the enemy and no mat- ter what reservations some of Its in | members may have as to the of the course adopted, “dis- cipline begins where conviction ends.” Those who fail to understand this car- dinal principle of Communism have a lot to learn. * ee HE Workers Party school is an in- Lewis is a plain, | teresting innovation in revolution- ary activities in this country. Its brief session is over, but it is not unlikely mat before long a more ambitious scheme will be involved to turn out trained Communist propagandists for e in the work of organizing the | tery is exploited cipation. The lectures on Communist organization by Comrade Abern, on «<Dinism by Gomez, and on Marzism Bedacht in addition to those al- mentioned should prove of ines- timable value to the students in pre- og themselves for the most worthy career that @ worker could possibly select: That of being a lead- er in the movement to abolish the when the Communist Party and Unit | subject class ig buman history. Z — will meet with further defeats, . * * keeper. It was a jewel as genuine as fake jewels sold in his shop, redeemed, however, by extracts from the writings of the world’s greatest labor leader, Lenin, in which he urges Commun’sts to remain within the unions, thrown in to prove the defendants “guilty as charged.” “The labor movement in taking any action against the Communists must do so for self-protection only. We are not concerned with the political or religious belief of any mémber of or- ganized labor, but we are vitally con- cerned with any group of men or women outside of the organized labor movement assodiate themselves to put over a program which concerns the inner workings of that movement. Quotes Lenin. “The founder of modern Commun- ism and its greatest exponent Nicolai Lenin, in advising his followers while promoting Communism in the ranks of organized labor said: We must be able to withstand their opposition to be ready for any and every sacrifice and even if necessary to practice trickery to employ cunning and to resort to illegal practices, to some- times even overlook and conceal the truth, all for the sake of penetrating into the trade unions to stay there and by every means carry on the work oi Communism.’” He paused, turned to the audience, but was disappointed. It fell flat, no approval and no ap- plause. The above constitutes the crimes of the Communist delegates and upon which ground the committee recom- mended to the council that the three of the six delegates be unseated. Ovation For Communist Statement. As soon as the motion for adoption was seconded and put by the presi- ding officer, Joe Havel, obtaining the floor, declared that he was a Commun- ist and believed in the principles of Communism and branded as lies the statements made at the previous meet- ings by some delegates, that Com- munists disrupt the labor movement. He pointed to Soviet Russia, where previous to the revolution there were one hundred thousand trade unionists while at present there are more than seven millions of trade union mem- bers. By special motion the defendants and members of the strike and griev- ance committee and the accusers were given unlimited time. Havel then con- tinued his speech stating the program of the Communist and pointed out that it was the delegates who made the charges who are consciously and un- consciously tearing down the labor movement and then read the state- ment made by the six Communists. When he finished reading, it was greeted by a tremendous ovation. A Former Wobbly Opposes industrial Unionism. John N. Belanger, business agent of the steamfitters, and former l. W. W., one of the accusers, said that he was once a revolutionist, but is not now and does not want any strikes. He read a page in the Workers Monthly and then pointed to a cartoon in this magazine about the El Paso A. F. of L. convention and stated that the Com- munists are criticizing the officials and that such was disloyalty. Me then stated that it is better to be divided Ae the masters are strongly organ- zed. “The trade unions are like little dogs who bite and run away.” While if they were organized into industrial organizations the employers would destroy them. As it is they are crushed one ata time. He then read a state- ment made by Gompers in 1912 in or- der to prove that Gompers was op- posed to free political opinions in the trade union movement. Balley Attacks Painters’ Union. Wm. Bailey, business agent of the patetrnmakers and another of the ac. cusers, said that in the painters’ local the Communists have obtained control by a nucleus and alluded to the mem- bers of that local as a bunch of dogs. Immediately a delegate from the painters vigorously objected to the calling of their members dogs. Bailey then continued to state that the painters’ local had elected a set of new progressive officers. At this juncture the former president of the council, “Tex” Philips, whose admin- istration was marked by fairness and impartiality, arose to a point of order and made a denial and repudiation of all the statements made by Bailey in connection with the painters’ local, and stated the change was mad: oecause of the desire on the part of the members to make the change. Reactionaries Support Mussolini Bailey then stated that he was not opposed to Communism but to its tactics. “They the Communists” he shouted, “Are calling oll our leaders traitors. They call McDonald a tra- tor, Debs a traitor, Gompers a traitor, Herriot a traitor, Spargo a traitor, Vie- tor Berger a traitor, Hillquit a trai- tor and they call Mussolini a traitor.” The name of Mussolini brough about an exploision of roaring laughter from masses for their own eman- At is time for the labor movement to | watch every delegate and visitor present. James Duncan Fights for Unity James Duncan, former secretary of the council, in a fighting speech said its step. Whenever a labor movement starts expelling members that movement is on shaky grounds.” ean forcefully, “but I am honestly convinced that the Workers Party is going to take the place of the socialist party. | would be a traitor if | would | not be opposed to the expulsion of /Communists. this time he had arrived at the period last form of slavery and free the last are expelled the 4. F. of L. will be | When the Communists weakene — “Tex” Philips, former president of the council, said that the open shop- ders were in the outside but now they fighting in the inside of the trade movement. “If we expel trade because of their criticism, thén the federal govern- ment would be as much justified to expel us from the country for criti- cism.” He urged against such an ac- tion of expuli and pointed to the danger ting the labor move- ment by such action. “I am not a Communist,” he declared, “but I am in favor of amalgamation.” After a brief debate as to whether | to prolong thé session or continue the ‘ase it was decided by unanimous vote to continue it so that careful consi- deration be given the matter and an opportunity afforded all to express themselves. FASCISTI SPIES IN MOSCOW POSE AS COMMUNISTS Big German Firms Are Implicated in Plot MOSCOW, March 27—The arrest is reported in Moscow of three German students, Kindermann, Wolsst, Count Ditmarinen, about whom it has been established on the strength of irre futable documentary evidence in the possession of the authorities and also their personal examination, that they had been sent to Moscow by the Ger- man fascisti of Erhardt, whose mem- bers they are, for espionage and with a view to organizing terrorist acts against prominent Soviet and Com- munist statesmen and leaders. The arrested were in possession of forged tickets of the Communist Party and, besides, had managed to get references and recommendations from Ifberal German and learn- ed men ) e latter’s Rus- sian colleagues with a request to as- sist the students in their would-be scientific “expedition.” At the same time, certain big German firms had undertaken to supply funds to finance this “expedition” in return for eco- nomic espionage by the mentioned students. 2 „ Confess Came to Murder. MOSCOW, March 27. — The papers here report that the recently ar- rested German studeats Kindermann, Wolszt and Count Ditmarinen have stated during their judicial examina- tion that their concrete object in com- ing to Moscow was to murder Stalin and Trotzky. The students when arrested were found in possession of various poisons and revolvers. Anthracite to Work All Summer, Bosses Prepare to Cut Pay POTTSVILLE, Pa.—It was announced by operators that the anthracite mines of the Schuykill region would work every day during the aprpoaching sum- mer, This statement caused some aston- ishment because many of the collieries are now working only half-time. The explanation doubtless is that the wage scale of the miners expires in Septem. ber and the operators are preparing to reduce the wage scale and try to force the union to give way to the “open shop.” It is expected that joint sessions of miners and operators will be held at Atlantic City this summer. Both sides declare that intervention of Governor; * 17 zy uw — * r * n * *. 8 * a oe v 5 aos zat _ * * e i 4 fp 2 r 3 . P 2 As 2 8 Communist e: | As Lanzutsky Stands | at Foot of the Gallows | By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL Idea Grows f f Crows | spo 0) (Special to The Dally Worker.) a DAY, the workers of the whole worl name Stanislav Lanzutsky, Comm Polish diet, condemned to death by the 8 capitalist outpost erected by against Soviet Russia. Workers in many lan munist International, fi Przempl appeared prominently on the bloody map of the world-war as one of the strategic of which the contending armies o the eastern front. veloping class war. It is well to point out that one of the crimes charged against Lanzutsky is that he quoted, for his own purposes, extracts from an article written by Holowko, member of the Polish socialist party, entitled The Fear of Power,“ and one paragraph from this article is well worth repeating. It is as follows: “We forget that not all the left parties le Poland are afrald of power; there ts one that is ready to assume It any moment, having tn readiness already prepared methods and patterns of governing. Every- one knows that | have the Communiets.in mind; and, what le worse, looking at Rusia, we cannot deny that they know how to rule. We must admit that they are fine administrators and psychologists, EVERY- ONE SEES THAT POLITICAL ANDO: ECONOMIC CONDITIONS IN RUSSIA ARE STEADILY IMPROVING, Who assumes power under difficult conditions, he wins.” There you have it. But Holowko, the socialist, tool of that other Polish Second Intérnational socialist, General Pil- sudski, murderer of workers, did not urge that the workers He was urging the socialists and the petty bo- urgeois, in the days when the extreme Polish reaction seem- to seize power and been a dictatorship against the work- seize power. ed to be tottering, ship, which would have ers and poor peasants, as it proved in in the united front against the Commun- present capitalist dictatorship. used Holowko’s article as an argument for the unity of the workers, everywhere thruout Poland, against their oppressors, the open way to complete triumph. It is easy to see in which direction the Polish workers, unemployment. and low wages when they.continue to behold the Work- ers Republic-on their eastern frontier, in which political and economic conditions are steadily improving. socialists today are ists. They are part of the Lanzutsky’s crime is that he in the grip of hunger, they do work, will turn as The American ruling class, ers of labor in Poland, and elsewhere, like the capitalism in all Western Europe, Soviet Russia are improving. tries to save itself thru recognizing Soviet Rule. States, so far, is trying to save capitalism here thru refusing Soviet Republic. A demonstration that the do not know which way to turn. In bloody frenzy, in which the socialists join hands with them, most active Communists, hoping to recognize the capitalists really they take the lives of the this will save them. Nothing, however, zutsky, munist idea grows are also getting more of the truth about the First Workers’ Republic, because Lanzutsky is not only a Polish Communist. He is a soldier of the Com- ng for the world revolution, He is condemned because of a speech made on Nov. 11, 1923, to railroad workers on strike at Przempl, but the sentence of death passed upon him has given power to his voice so that it is now heard on all the continents. * It now appears on another map,—the map of the de- Instead of the thunder of great guns; Przempl heard the voice of the Communist, Lanzutsky, pro- claiming that “The Communist idea is growing stronger and stronger!” and fear numbed the kept statesman not only in Warsaw, but in Paris and London. For if Polish capital- ism falls into the hands of the workers and peasants of Poland, then the foundation rots still more under the capital- ist structure in France and in Great Britain. munist idea before which the capitalist world stands helpléss. 89 °@ can ward off their final defeat. Lan- at the foot of the gallows, truly says, stronger and stronger,” leading the op- pressed of the world to their victory. : we Ron, Italy, March 7. —Commun- ist deputies arose and sang the Inter- national ag a counter demonstration when Premier Mussolini paid a brief visit to the Italian chamber of de- puties. Mussolini’s fascist deputies, out- numbering the Communists by about ten to one, attempted to cheer Mus- solini when he entered. But thru the cheers for the dictator, could be heard the shouts of the Communist deputies, “Long live Communism,” following which the Communists sang the In- ternational. * One hundred fascisti, led by the general secretary of the fascist party, Deputy Farinacci, who has an even more murderous record than Musso- Uni, attacked the Communist depu- ties, and created a riot. * Farinacci tried to choke the Com- munist Deputy Damen to death while others held his hands. The de- monstration for Mussolini was com- pletely destroyed. N Burton K. Wheeler Is Re- indicted in District of Columbia (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, March 27.—Senator Burton K. Wheeler, democrat of Mont- ana, candidate for vice-president on the LaFollette ticket last fall, was re-indicted here today by a federal grand jury on charges that he used his influence as a senator in appear- ing before the department of the in- terior as a paid attorney for Montana clients. 1 Indicted with Wheeler were Edwin . Booth, former solicitor of the in- terior department, and Gordon Camp- bell, a Montana oll prospector, whom Wheeler is accused of representing. The indictment charges Wheeler and his associates entered into a con- spiracy in the District of Columbia “to defraud the United States out of the use and possession” on 10,000 acres of land in Toole County, Mont- ana, which lands were subjected to permits to prospect for ofl and gas. Dever Sells Out Straphangers in Deal with Bankers Mayor Dever has already selected the three members of the board of control who are to represent the “public,” in taking charge of the trac- tion lines under his ordinance, .and the line-up will be three trustees re- presenting the straphangers and six representing the traction bankers, ac- cording to reports. Dever is accused of having reached an agreement with the traction bank- ers to “sell out” the workers of Chi- cago to them. The ordinance which gives the bankers a long term franchise on the transportation system of the city, provides that nine men shall complet- ely control the system. The franchise provides for no method of impeachment of these nine men when once appointed. * are hearing the st member of the 2 7 a ? pe for the possession capitalism struggled on It is the Com- erect their dictator- Germany. The Polish pointing out that this was hand in glove with the slay- upholders of know that conditions in Western European capitalism The United in their Communists to Get Large Vote in German Poll “The Com- Banks Bribed Judge English Who Stole Bankrupts’ Money ST. LOUIS, March 27—The Union Trust company of East St. Louis has been paying Faris English three per cent interest on all bankruptcy money deposited by his father, Judge George English, in their bank, Paul Schlafly, vice president of the institution, told the congressional investigating com- mittee today. The committee is here investigating alleged frauds and cor- ruption of Judge English, who used Pinchot will not be considered this nis position as bankruptcy judge to | year. The governor forced thru a settle ment two years ago which has been declared unsatisfactory to both sides. Slam at British Fascisti LONDON,—British army officers and soldiers of other ranks, as well, are forbidden to join the British fa- scisti, according to an order of the army council promulgated today. Would Export to America MADRID,—Exportations to America will be encouraged, the assembly of Spanish canners was told today by the under-secretary of labor. Giri Admits Killing Babies Wodmont, Md., Marek 27.— Elizabeth 9 am not a Communist” said Dun- | King, 14 was arrested today on charg- es of murdering two infants whose bodies were found hidden here last night. Under a gruelling examination, Mies King admited to police that the |bables had been born to her. Talk it up—-your shopmate will subscribe be, A \ steal money from creditors coming be- fore him. Judge English designated as federal depositories five banks, in all of which he had a personal interest, or from which he received a rake-off. God Makes More Trouble OROVILLE, California, March 27. —With Mrs Edwards Rhodes, “Roar- ing Lion of the House of Judah,” and her husband, Edward arrested under charges of assault with “an instrument capable of doling great bolly harm,” residents of Butte county today de manded of District Attorney William Rothe an immediate investigation of activities of the “Assembly of God” church, known as the “Branding Cult.” Another Rickshaman Killed. SHANGHAI, March 27.— Strong anti-imperialistic agitation is reported from Hankow, occasioned by the mur- der of a ricksha man by a police- man in the British concession there. A big number of proclamations were issued, containing attacks against gat perialism, ~ has been settled, it was announced (Continued from Page 1). Stresemann has completely sold out to the American and British capit- alists and even agrees to the Versail- les treaty, the instrument used to plunder the German people. German industrialists and militar- ists seek the evacuation of Cologne and the Ruhr by the French and the change of the eastern frontier to the letriment of Poland. The chiefs of the general staffs of the Finnish, Estonian, Latvian and Polish armies are to meet in April to discuss co-operation against the German aim of pushing back her 2astern frontier. This group fears that France will no longer be able to sup- port their white guard goverments if the British form an alliance with rmany. Il Lavoratore, Red Italian Paper, Now Appears in New York NEW YORK, March 27.—Il Lavo- ratore, published February as a Com- munist Italian-language daily in Chi- cago, is now appearing as a weekly at 108 E. 14th St., New York. Gevernment Has Its „Conciliators Busy Stopping 60 Strikes WASHINGTON, D. C.—The build- ing trades generally are working out their new wage agreements peacebly, and except in a few isolated cases no trouble in anticipated, according to reports to the department of labor. Conciliators of the department are using their good offices in sixty strikes, threatened strikes and lock- outs which have been brought to the department’s attention. One encour- aging feature for the bosses, is the fact that in most instances work con- tinues during the negotiations for set- tlement. Cal Names Pershing Aid WASHINGTON, March 27.— Pres- ident Coolidge today appointed Bra dier General Jay J. Morrow, former governor of the Panama Canal zone, as a member of the Tacna and Arica boundary commission. Gen. Pershing was appointed to head the commis- sion. Bankers Call on Calles MEXICO CITY, Tex, — Bank circles today where discussing the visit of a group of financial leaders to Pres- ident Calles to learn in what manner the government will return the funds taken from banks as loans in past revolutions. Investigate Prison Horror. INDIANOLA, Miss., March 27,—The brutal treatment of convicts on the state prison farm has become such a glaring public scandal that the Sun flower county grand jury will inyes.- tigate. The convicts are worked under the convict leasing system popular in the Bouth, Claim Printers’ Strike Settled LONDON,-—The printers’ strike, which held up activities of book, mag azine and weekly newspaper publish- Give your shopmate this copy of the DAILY WORKER—but be zure to see him the next day & | subscription, today. ; P _ n a

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Versail- used to militar- Cologne and the ir to the staffs of lan and neet in against yack her dars that to sup- rerments ice with A f DW York ll Lavo- | a Com- in Chi- eekly at . 27.— The on the , ) such a . he Sun- ll inyes- ~ d under pular in is copy but 3 u 4 * · 5 Pa, * 14 — 2 am wae ah 4 5 3 ' : 1 1 N 4 — 7 5 . 5 — 5 > a “ — * 7 * + ° a om — 8 — 1 2 A 1 * a % . GETS ON BALLOT IN MICHIGAN Candidates s for State and County Offices DETROIT, Mich., March 27.—¥For the first time the Workers (Commun- ist) Party’s name, the sickle and ham- mer of the party’s vignette and a full slate of Workers Party candidates for state and county offices will be on the ballots in the Michigan election to be held Monday, April 6. For the first time in Michigan, April 6 we industrial and office workers and exploited agricultural toilers will be able to use our franchise exclusively for our class, the working class. The Workers Party is America’s working class party. The republican party that is in power in Michigan and all the United States is the strongest capitalist class party in the world today. The Work- ers Party is not yet a mass party. But in the coming contest at the polls we must show whatever political and moral strength we can. Members of trade unions should be the first to support openly the only American party recognized by the Third International as a revolutionary Party. Let us not forget in the face of our reduced economic condition common to those who work for wages that the Workers Party and all of us of the Working ‘class have history inevitably don our side. Forward to the polls then, working- men and women, and let us boldly mark our ballots for our class, party and candidates. Ramsay MacDonald Helps Labor Haters Bury Tyrant Curzon LONDON, England, March 27.— Ramsay MacDonald, former labor“ prime minister, acted as pallbearer at the funeral of Marquis Curzon, one of England's most tyrannical suppressors of the colonial peoples. MacDonald acted with Prime Min- ister Baldwin, Winston Churchill, rep- resentatives of the king and queen and the prince of Wales and other enemies of the working class. Special Commission Is Appointed to Probe F ate of Muscle Shoals WASHINGTON, D. C., March 27. The special commission which will in- vestigate Muscle Shoals and draft recommendations for its disposal by the government was announced by President Coolidge. It follows: Former Representative John C. McKenzie, Mlinois; former Senator Nathaniel B. Dial, South Carolina; Professor Harry A. Curtis, Yale; William McClellan, New York City; Russell F. Bower, farm bureau federation. phipphrAbbbhbhbhbhhh hh hhh hii pi i i a i pn i in nn nnn nani niin i i hh eb (NEGRO KILLER IS LET OFF BY LILY WHITE SOUTHERN JURY CROSS CITY, Fila. March 7. The first trial growing out of the alleged whipping, shooting and burn- ing of Lewis Barker, a Negro tumber ‘worker and clothing salesman, re- , sulted today in the acquittal of G. W. McCrane, a construction foreman for the Putnam Lumber company, the first of six defendants sched- uled to be tried under an indictment charging first degree murder. A verdict of not guilty-was return- ed in Judge Mallory F. Horne’s cir- cult court. The jury was out more than fifteen hours before returning a verdict. Government Steals WASHINGTON, March 27.—Demand that Chas. H. Burke, former South Dakota congressman, resign his office of commissioner of Indian affairs, in the interior department, is made by Joseph W. Latimer, writer and propa- gandist in favor of liberation of the Indians from bureaucratic dependence. Latimer calls attention, in a circular letter, to the Oklahoma land cases in- vestigated by the house committee on Indian ffairs, resulting in a whitewash, report by the majority and a scathing) denunciation of the bureau and of the Oklahoma probate courts by the minority. In one instance an estate of $1,000,- 000, left by an imbecile Indian, Jack- son Barnett, 70 years old, was divided in half by Burke. To the “widow” Burke allowed $550,000; the other half of the estate became an endowment to institutions of the baptist church. The Indian bureau handles $50,000,- 000 a year, the income of property owned by the Indians worth $1,000,- 000,000. Instead of giving education to the young Indians, the bureau con- trol has devoted most of its energies to employing lawyers outside the bureau, at high feés payable by the Indians, to quarrel over individual estates. ' Broken Bow Escapes Fire. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, March 27. panies’ officials at Broken Bow at 9: 30 o’clock this morning said that the wind had shifted and danger to the from prairie fires had passed. No — of life has been reported. The flres be under control. NEW YORK, March 27 . Brit- ain, pound sterling, demand 478%; cable 478%. France, franc, de 5.80; cable 5.30%. Belgium, franc, de- mand 6.1%5; cable 5.16. Italy, lira, demand 4.09%; cable 4.10. Sweden, krone, demand 26.93; cable 26.96. Den- mark, krone, demand 18.25; cable’ 18.27. Germany, marks unquoted. Shanghai, tael, demand 78.76; cable 74.12%. Get A Sub And Give One! THE DAILY WORKER ie munist to be M. POPVCKY, noted singer a splendid violinist; DAN Refreshments Admission: 25 Cents for Ai ADA AMA BA ABABA ABABA AAA BAA A ABA BABA AAA AAA AAA AAS AD Joint Benefit Celebration Dance & Entertainment Musicians’ Hall, 777 W. Adams Street SATURDAY, MARCH 28, at 7:30 P. M Program will | will Inelude: ARTIST KONOFF, doing cartoons of singing and ot 50 CENTS AT DOOR Auspices, Bulgarian Branch, Workers Party. * SAZNANIC (Bulgarian Com- Weekly) held at of Northwestern 1 posers in the hall er features, and CING will be served. Ladles—35 Cents for Men _-._ eS ee ee ee ee ee ee ee DD De i i i ee i i i i i i = ——— — | Amalgamated GENERAL HEADQUARTERS 81 East 10th Street, New York, N. V. THIS IS OUR EMB An Industrial Organization For All Workers in the Food Industry i i i i i i ee i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i, i Food Workers — . ‚ Min; Witt LEM —Telephone reports from lumber com, ; . Foreign Exehange. . 4 N f ne Loe ee ty rut DAI far ft YEAR OF JAIL FOR SACCO AND VANZETTI Delay Bringe Torture to Framed -up Men BOSTON, Mass., March N. —Long months more of imprisonment for Sacco and Vanzetti, before the Mas- sachusetts supreme court passes on their appeal for a new trial are in evitable from the expected refusal of the prosecution to go ahead with their side of the case. The excuse given for the delay, which is so torturous to Sacco and Vanzetti, is that Judge Thayer has been dangerously {ll and convalescing from a critical operation; and that District Attorney Wilbar who succeed- ed Williams, when the latter was ap- pointed to’a federal district attorney- ship, has not had time to study the case. William G. Thompson, defense at- torney, in a letter to the Sacco and Vanzetti committee, says he has been unable to elicit any information from Wilbar as to whether he will consent to the allowance of certain supple mentary bills of exceptions that are part of the appeal. For weeks before Williams was promoted he was equal- ly unsuccessful with him. Meanwhile Vanzetti, his nervous system upset by the sustained sus- pease, is still marking time in the Bridgewater state hospital. Sacco, likewise, is chafing at the delay, as he sits behind the bars in his little cell at Dedham jail. Knowledge of Birth Control Chiefly for Women, Says Doctor NEW YORK, March 27.—One of the most picturesque figures of the Eng- lish birth control movement is Dr. Alice Drysdale Vickery, one of the speakers at the birth control confer- ence now in session at the Hotel McAlpin in New York. Dr. Vickery is the veteran of the movement. She has seen public opinion change from hatred and contempt of the scientists and sociologists, and today she ad- dressed an attentive and respectful audience when she spoke to the con- ference on what birth control will WD! mean to mankind. Birth control in Dr. Vickery’s opin- ion, is chiefly a question for the wo- are believed, according to reports, tof men to whom belongs naturally the ‘peopling of the world. In the past woman has been helpless on account of her ot that pertains to her biological function, an ignorance which has been preserved mand by men and by the church. Not know- ing how to control reproduction, and naturally desiring to mate early, she fell into a state of dependence. Know- Hedge of birth control methods can now assure to her the possibility of early marriage along with the pre- servation for a few years of her econ- omic independence. Assembly Opens Way to Longer Hours for Women and Children ALBANY, N. Y., March 27.—After killing in committee the genuine 4%- hour bill for women and minors, the republican assembly passed by one vote the fake 48-hour Joiner bill which allows hours for women and minors to be extended beyond 48 hours at the discretion of the industrial commis- sion. This opens the way, especially in the cannery industry, to a conti- nuation of the present long hour regime. Graft charges were freely passed in the corridors and even found express- ion on the floor, Assemblyman John Boyle, Jr., bolting republican, saying: J understand that the lobby for the (Joiner) bill was worth $20,000 last year, Minority leader Block declared that in the name of reform conditions would actually be made worse, point- ing out that the latitude given the industrial commission in the Joiner bill would permit hours to be extend- ed even beyond the 54 set as the limit by the present law. School Year Grows Longer. WASHINGTON, March 27.—Bureau of education statistics show that the average school year in the public schools in the United States has grown from 158 days in 1912 to 164 days in 1922, due to consolidation of schools. Rural schools averaged, in 1912, a year of 134 days. In 1922 they averaged 145 days. Five states still have one-room schools whose average is 120 days or less; 14 states have them open 140 to 160 days, and § states 120 to 140 days. | — 1 PITTSBURGH, PA. To those who work hard for their money, | will save 50 per cent on all their dental work. DR. RASNICK DENTIST 645 Smithfield Street. Dr. A. Moskalik | DENTIST i . W. Corner 7th and Miffiin Sts. PHILADELPHIA, PA. “ ‘ é wh be 2 e ee * * ORKER METAL TR Ra AES. GROU WIL. MEET TONGA ON ORGANIZATION WORK There will 8 special meeting of the Metal Trades’ Group of the Trade Union Educational League tonight at 7:80 p. M., at the Greek Workers’ Hall, 722 Biue isiand Ave. important organizational problems will be decided, Springfield, Comrades Call erence to Help Textile Worlcers (Special to oii nan DAILY WORKER) 122 Muss., March 27— A special meeting for the purpose of helping the textile workers on strife in Williamantic, Conn., was held here by the Workers Party to which the Russian and Jey branches and the Young Wor League sent repre sentatives. A motion was carried in- structing the C. G. G. to send out a call for a conférence inviting sympa thetic to participate. The object of the conference will be to devise ways and means for assist ing the textile workers and their fam ilies. At this conference attended by thirty comrades a collection was tak- en which brot $42.87. This was im- mediately sent to Comrade William Simons who is at Williamantic, Conn. assisting in the fight. ~ Get a sub—make another Com- munist! AN EX-ARMENIAN MENSHEVIK HEAD NOW FOR SOVIETS MOSCOW, March 21—The former president of the Dashnak (menshe vist nationalistic) Armenian govern: ment, Mr. Katshasnuni, author of the/ on book on Armenia entitled “There Is Nothing More to Do for the Dashnak Party,” which has drawn general at- tention among emigrant and broad foreign circles; has returned to Er! van, capital of Soviet Armenia, to take an active part as a civil e gineer in the reconstruction of h country. In conversation with press repre- sentatives Mr. Katchasnuni declared that he had more than a year and a half ago broken with the Dashnaks The situation of Transcaucasia as he actually found it, he said, was excel- lent. Mr. Katshasnun said that the attl- tude of the Armenian peoples abroad towars Soviet Armenia was very sym- pathetic, and that there were no more vestiges of the former anti-Soviet feeling among them except the emi. grant “tops” who by a certain iner tia were still hostile to the Union of Sovet Socialist Republics. GET A 8UB AND GIVE ONE! Keymen’s Union Gets Recruits. ST. LOUIS, March 27.—The Order of Railroad Telegraphers enrolled 424 new members in February. HE DAILY WORKER insurance fund passed the $26,000.00 mark this week with a few hundted dollars to spare, the total being $26,246.89. The receipts were as follows: Oakland, Cah, Bnglish.................. $15.00 McDonald, Pa., English. Philadelphia, Pa. Strby Jewish 4. 00 Belleville, III., English 7.00 Wilkes Barre, Pa., Lithuanian 10.00 Irving Park, Chicago, De Leon Club 6.00 San Francisco, Cal., C. C. G. 13.00 Cleveland, Ohio, South Slavic. . 34.25 Cleveland, Ohio, Bulgarian.......... 5.00 Chicago, II., N. W. English . . 2.00 Sturgeon, Minn., Finnish. 15.00 Detroit, Mich,, Finnish. 45.00 Endicott, N. T., Russian 3.00 Stamford, Conn., Jewish 8.00 Washington, D. C., English. 50.00 Jamaica, L. I., N. T. Finnish. 15.15 | Ashtabula Harbor, O., Finnish... 11.00 Philadelphia, Pa, Italian. 17.00 Philadelphia. Pas N. W. Jewish Ambridge, Pa., Armenian Chicago, III., 8. S. Daglish. Alliance, Ohio, Roumanlan Hudson Co., N. J., German Women : 3.00 1 in power. : : this country. Joddc and send them to 1113 W. Washington Blvd. North Hudson, N. J., German 2.00 Chicago, III., Englewood Eng. 11.00 Hartford, Conn., Armenian........ 2.00 Cliffside, N. J., Lithuanian 11,... 22.00 West Concord, N. H., Finnish... 4.00 Chicago, II., Mid-City 10.00 Martin’s Ferry, Ohio, Hungarian 10.00 New York, D. T. Hungarian. 10.00 Hartford, Conn., Finnish. 6.00 W. C. Br. 622, New Tork. . 1.00 Monson Maine, Finnish. 15.00 Old Forge, Pa., Italian 2.00 Chicago, III., Hungarian 7.00 San Francisco, Calif., English... 4.00 Grand Rapids, Mich., Jewish. 20.00 Marvin Marks, Houston, Tex..... 20.00 Villa Kuntz, Iselin, N. J. , 5.00 A. E. Georgian, Minneapolis. 56.00 Mrs. Duis Bridgewater, City, Mont. O. P. Carison, Houston, B. C. Canada Rob’t. Smith, Bend, Ore Joseph Brodsky, New Tork A. Mihayloff, Spokane, Wash. .... Miles , 10 INSURANCE REACHES 526, 246.0 Previously reported $26,797.99 ees selelarese “THE OFFICIAL OPPOSITION” * the past year, the labor movement in this country has undergone sharp changes. Total, $26,246.89 THE DAILY WORKER 2 2 NAME —— SPITE S o @ rec rere NEW SUBSCRIPTION TO BUILD THE DAILY WORKER F&F SS 3S moti STREET 7 SsSsoccdssseeodddedddddddddddcdecs — STATE fejfeeseclreeieieeeeeeeeeese sel > ¢ s Smeets was leader of the Rhine republican movement as well as editor of the Rheinische Republik. He edited his newspaper in his own home and worked behind a cordon of guards. Despite this precaution, a young man rushed into Smeets’ office, March 18, 1928, and wounded Smeets and killed Smeets’ brotherin-law, Herr Kaiser, who acted as his secretary. Krassin Returns to Paris. MOSCOW, March 27.—It is learned that Krassin, ambassador of the U. 8. 8. R. in France, is going back to Paris next week. He will be accompanied by the So viet experts, with Preobrajensky at their head, who wish to get a pre liminary knowledge of the French ma terfals, figures, te., pertaining to the question of debts and claims and are also to acquaint the French experts with the materials referring to the So- viet counter-claims, in particular with regard to losses from intervention and blockade. The date for the opening of official negotiations has not been fixed yet. Kurde in Guerilla Warfare CONSTANTINOPOLE. — Defensive operations against the rebels are making progress, it was announced today. The Kurds are organizing Guerilla bands against the federal forces. Bullding up ite Fences MADRID.—The Spanish directory is studying the question of betterment of federal salaries. It is planned to increase the amount of work and pay and decrease the number of employes. [Tt clear-cut program and militant policy of the Left Wing, guided by the Trade Union Educational League—with Communists as the motive power—has driven from the field all fake “progressives,” every pseudo “socialist”"—every obstacle that beclouded the issues and prevented the progress of labor in this country. Tear there remain only two definite groupings: NE the old bureaucratic machine:—the seat of reaction, the hand-maiden of Capitalism, the reason for the fact that organized American labor has become the most backward body of labor In the world. 1 other group is the Left Wing: Commmunist-led, militant, with a program that leads to working class power. HE DAILY WORKER has been the spokesman of the Left Wing In its crystalization; has pictured its daily struggles, has taught its principles and practice, has helped ‘to make it.“The Official Opposition” to the reactionary lords of organized labor In Irrer ri > — he — — > — — — IIITITITI IEEE TEILE EI N° longer does the membership of organized labor look to “progressives,” “social- ists” and “independents” to question the leadership of the reactionary bureaucracy T this moment and until June 15 The DAILY WORKER is conducting its Second Annual Sub Campaign for 15,000 new subscribers. country to get at least two subs:—one from your shop-mate or member of your union, and another that you will pay for (if you can): a “propaganda sub” to extend the in- fluence of the paper expressing the new force and growing power in American labor. ywitt you—as a militant worker—do your share? These sub “bricks” to build The DAILY WORKER are for your convenience. Clip them, attach your remittance It asks every militant in this Chicago, 1 ports here state that Lord Balfour is) 2426 Lincoln Avenue One-half poss trem Imperial CHICAGO Madison Pharmacy INC, BETTER DRUGS Light Luncheon Served 1154 Madison Street, | Corner Ann OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Four Phones . Furnishings| LADIES’ MEN'S INFANTS’ Trade Whert 1 Money Buys the Most ! 3 Martin's 651 West North Avenus East of Halsted St.” Chicago }. Dr S. ZIMMERMAN DEwris’I- MY NEW LOCATION Special X-Rey rloes ‘Ray to Gas Workers Given ESTABLIS YEARS. My Examination te Free My Prices Are Reasonable My Work tse Guarantee Extracting Specialist DELAY MEANS DECAY Philadelphia, Notice! Weber Printing Co. 350 N. FIFTH STREBT, Philadelphia, Pa. re rr gt ——_ TES FIO a pear $ 230~C mantis S200 9 monile 1GO ~F Roo ayear ids . to Make Another Communist” NAME 8 — een Send this PROPAGANDA SUB to a worker | —— - : Jesesefereseieselelerescieseieielefen S mevetids- f ay le 8 STATE _ S *

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— — . * „ * e ern 2 = 17 * „ 8 8 66.60 per year — Address all mail and make out checks to ‘SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mant $3.60....6 months 32.00. months By mali (in Chicago only): 00 per year $4.50....6 months $2.50...2 months ; THE DAILY WORKER MORITZ J. LOEB. .......ccmeene--Business Manager Bntered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post | Office at Chicago, III., under the act of March 3, 1878. 0 Advertising rates on application — Secret Deportations Foreign-born members of the Marine Transport Workers’ Unjon in New York are being secretly | deported. They disappear and their friends and fellow workers have no knowledge of their whereabouts until a letter with a foreign postmark arrives. We question if such despotic methods were ever used by any other government in the last hundred years with the possible exception of the czarist regime of pre-revolutionary Russia. g The unions are the principal objects of attack as we Communists told the workers they would be if the war on the foreign-born workers was not halted by militant action. The New York cases are by no means exceptional. It is gradually becoming known to the workers that no foreign-born toiler has-any rights which he can insist the government agencies respect. The co- operation of the labor union officials with the de- partment of immigration and the secret service is an established fact. It was not so very long ago that presidents of labor unions sent out to the locals instructions or requests to deliver to the authorities any worker suspected of illegal entry into the United States—a nattempt to make of every union member a stoolpigeon. Open support of vicious legislation against the foreign-born work- ers has been given by labor officialdom. > The chickens begin to come home to roost. De- portations, secret and otherwise, can and will break union after union in the United States un- less labor demands the repeal of all legislation upon which deportations are based, secures the an- nulment of these laws or else renders them inef- fective by mass protest. Every day get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER and a member for the Workers Party. Revolt Grows in Egypt The puppet government of Egypt set up under King Fuad by Great Britain was repudiated in the elections héld recently. Zaghloul Pasha, leader of the Egyptian independence movement, deposed by the British, was returned to parliament and headed teh cabinet. King Fuad has dissolved the parliament rather than allow the national eabinet to function and the Egyptian independence problem, considered settled by the slaughter of the sympathetic Sudanese and the ousting of Zaghloul, presents itself again in an acute form to British imperialism. The days when national liberation movements among the colonial peoples could be wiped out en- tirely are past. They have a solid organizational character and no longer depend upon sentimental appeals alone. Revolts appear in all of imperial- isms sweated zones of influence, mandated terri- tories and colonies proper. They constitute a great force making for the weakening of world capital- ism. The Communist International, guided by Lenin’s teachings recognizes the colonial masses as the allies of the working class of the imperialist na- tions, as a powerful force for the conquest of cap- italism. The Communist press therefore pays particular attention to all the struggles for liberation of the colonial peoples and oppressed national and racial minorities. Get a member fdr the Workers Party and a new subscription for the DAILY WORKER. A “Labor” Article Under the head of “Communists Still Bore From Within” the last number of the Federation News, the weakly (correct) organ of the Chicago Federa- tion of Labor, the policy of the local officialdom is set forth. ae) Oe Re re were eee | Dawes, Death and Disaster mk vit Fr | : Fifty miners are killed outright and thirty more probably will die in a coal mine disaster in French Alsace, say dispatches. But a short time ago a horrible explosion, after- wards proven to have been the direct result of ig- tion coal” under the Dawes plan, took a toll of 188 German miners at Dortmund. This coal is put on the world market in compe tition with French, English and American coal, mu w. Washington Bivd. _ Chicago, Mines and from the profit comes “reparation” to the 3. LOUIS ENGDAHL } né oon bondholders and financiers of the Paris bourse, WILLIAM F. DUNNB{ breadneedle street in London and Wall Street in New York. To the German miners comes death and disaster—or 10 and 12 hours of labor for from $7 to $9 a week. These are the fruits of the Dawes plan. And the same day’s dispatches tell of the shutting down of more American mines, in an attempt to cut wages. The English miners are driven to the edge of desperation and will soon enter a great struggle to maintain their present pittance of wages and scale of hours. The miners are feeling the Dawes plan first and more forcefully than any other great industry. The American miners have need to look to their fighting forces, They have need to make common cause with the miners of all the world, especially with the en- slaved German miners, to break the world-wide open shop drive that is being made upon their unions and free themselves from danger and starva- tion combined. To accomplish this unity, they must ineyitably overthrow the incubus of Lewisism and fight under the banner of the Red International of Dabor Unions for world unity. The Fascist’s Foes The real opposition to Mussolini and fascism is working class, led by the Communist Party. This statement, made by us many times, is proved once more by the scenes in the chamber of deputies yes- terday. | Only the Communist deputies denounced Mus- solini and staged a demonstration against him. The liberal and constitutional opposition distinguished itself by remaining silent and passive when the combined forces of fascist deputies and guards ejected the Communists. It requires some courage merely to criticize the fascist government as even the liberals do occasion- ally—and mildly—but it takes men of iron to open- ly denounce it and call for its overthrow. Such men have been produced by the ceaseless struggle against Italian capitalism. They are Communists—at one and the same time the shock troops and general staff of the revolu- tion. The Kentucy state authorities have banned poor old Darwin. If you live in the original moonshine state you must either believe in Adam and his rib. or keep your mouth shut. Hawaii There is something else in Hawaii besides ukeleles, hula choruses and pineapple plantations. There are huge fortifications equipped with the most modern machinery of destruction. In the peaceful waters of the Pacific near Hawaii the navy of the United States is conducting the most elaborate maneuvers in its history. Two soldiers are in jail in Honolulu because they wrote to a local newspaper correcting mis-state- ments about Soviet Russia. Hostility towards the Japanese plantation laborers is rampant. The Hawaiian chamber of commerce is as militantly patriotic as any simflar body in continental America. During the war for which the naval maneuvers are a preliminary exercise, Hawaii will be often in the headlines. The close relations of nation and nation under world capitalism are already shown by the feverish interest of the imperialist press in the German elections. School Days In another column is a resolution adopted un- animously by the students of the Chicago Workers (Communist) Party Intensive Training School. Its fourteenth session ended today. The resolution could very well have been matched by one by the instructors experssing their apprecia- tion of the interest and intelligence displayed: by the students. When the school began we remarked that it was one institution where the instructors would learn just as the pupils and we see no reason to alter Many workers who remember the early militant record of the Chicago labor movement will be sur- prised to know the article mentioned is a blanket | endorsement of William Johnston and the B. and | O. company union plan, the union-smashing tactics | of Lewis and Farrington as well as a boost for Czar | Hutcheson, president of the carpanters’ union whose name, by the way, this well-informed editor | spells “Hutchinson.” | This is what we call a good job in one short ar- | ticle. It would be hardly possible to get more re- action into the same number of words. The job is accomplished by attacking the Communists. | The only way the Communists can be attacked | is by boosting the betrayers and oppressors of the working class. Every enemy of the Communist | Party is therefore a friend of capitalism. It is so easy to prove this by articles like that in the Federation News that it is hardly worth the trouble. Soviet Russia would be welcomed at disarma- ment conferences if the workers’ and peasants’ gov- ernment did not actually insist on taking the con ferences seriously | this in anyway. It has been a fine thing for the students, the teachers, the district and the whole, party. The returns from the investment in time and energy required will begin to come as soon as the students return to their homes with the added knowledge and experience they have acquired in as busy a two- week period as they have ever spent. Exposing Poland’s Murder Regime The Workers (Communist) Party is responding splendidly to the call for aid in saving the life of Comrade Stanislav Lanzutsky, now in the mur- derous clutches of the Polish hangmen. ‘News of demonstrations and mass meetings al- ready held or in preparation is pouring in. Before huge crowds of Polish workers the anti-working class character of the Polish government is ex- posed. The landlords and capitalists of Poland may retaliate by increasing the persecution of the Polish Communists, but thousands of workers will know why they murder and jail the advance guard of working class noring safety for speed in order to produce “repara- | Resents Interference from Outside The attack of a sleek and comfort- able catholic pilest on the work done by the Workers International Rellef among the famine-stricken peasants of Donegal in the west of Ireland is vigorously resétited by a reader of the Dally Herald. The Rev. E. Maguire resents the Intrusion of outsiders into what he considers hig private domain. It does ne & BO very good to have non-cathi d indeed people having no co with any reli- gious organiz Ming the hun- gry and lookir r the needy peas- ed by the priests ery penny they Following M Helen Crawford's re- port on the sceies of misery witness- ed by her, in Bonegal, Rev. Maguire sent a letter to the London Daily Her- ald; protesting against her discription of the condition of a certain Dona- ghey family. The letter reads: “This family feceive 10s. a week; the children get a warm meal in school whenever thelr not over-strenu- ous mother sends them out; and do- nations of various kinds have been forwarded them from time to time. “Fortunately, this is not a typical household, embracing, as it does, three ablebodied men, disinclined to do any sort of work exeept fishing, and 80 unthrifty as never to treasure up any part of their earnings. Having no ex- perience of the ‘lives of rats,’ I can only point out that the dwelling, if fairly well kept, would be most com- fortable and salubrious. “We can struggle thru this mild crisis without hysterical appeals.” It will be noted that the holy father blamed the misery on the poor peas- ant fisherman amd on the not Over- strenuous mother” of the children. But a Mr. P. B. MacMorrough, of London has something to say to the priest in an interview to the Herald in that paper’s issue of March 6. It is given here in full: | “Must the bones of these infants and adults protrude thru the skin... before the hierarch and politician give the famine workers official sanction?” This striking question is asked by Mr. P. B. MacMorre who; in a letter to the Herald, makes a vigorous reply to the Rev. B. Mag- uire’s statement concerning the famine distress in Western Ireland, published in our columns recently. Drying Up Sympathy “This,” says Mr. MacMorrough, who conducts from an office in Fleet street, London, a scheme run on co- operative lines for disposing. of Done- gal tweeds, “is a questionable at- tempt to dry up the springs of sym- pathy and good will of the Workers’ International Relief. It is a form of meanness identified with the well-to- do in village life. “Biddy Donaghey's mud-wall cabin,” he goes on, “with its five infants and a n ens 8 3 7 i 2 . 8 1 8 2 5 ra ge nat 8 e ak ae 2 2 Pe 8 8 * 1 . * 7 1 ne) 3 * 95 ae en 3 * 1 3 5 1, 5 ate > tal 3 ae 5 * * wa * — N = = * 1 1 5 6 * th a y 1 * e ee Bk * 4 at F 50 5 * jes 45 ae 25, 1925: absolutely subm executive committee. tice discipline that it should commission will take The following cable was received from Moscow dated March | : SOVIETS SUNDAY = [AMERICAN commission will soon render political decision based on which both factions can and must work together and thru which ong unity will be secured. Minority must to discipline and At same time C. E. C. must so s of central prac- uggles within not sharpen str arty thru measures which could be regarded factional. On the contrary C. E. C. must already now do everything to ad- vance harmonious co-operation of both groups. American ‘steps necessary to re disciplinary cases in connection with party fight. w and settle Majority 8 3 n. American Commission: HUMBERT-DROZ. A Call for Unity and Action By the Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party and the National Executive Committee of the Young Workers League. Comrades: We now call upon every member tive of the position taken by him in O THE MEMBERS OF THE PARTY AND THE LEAGUE. The Communist International will very soon render a de- cision on the questions before the party. The decision will be based upon thoro consideration of the matter in consultation with the delegates from our party representing both points of view on the farmer-labor party issue. Th. matter is in the hands of the C. I. It is not an issue before the party. of the party and the league, irrespec- the discussion, to rally around the and give the C. E. C. and the N. E. C. their utmost support in carrying on this work. We Call for Unity and Action. During the past four months the party and the league have been mak- ing great progress. The left wing in the trade union movement has con- solidated and extended its strength. On every political issue that has aris- en in the life of the American work- ers, the party took the initiative in educating and organizing the workers munist ideology and influence are steadily making their way into the minds of the tolling masses of the United States. We must, however, not rest content with our achievements. We must re double our efforts to strengthen and extend our campaigns against wage cuts and the “open. shop” drive, against child labor, against Negro dis- criminations, against the Dawes’ plan, for recognition of Soviet Ruasia, for amalgamation of the craft unions and for shop committees, for Inter- national Red Aid, for unity of the world trade union movement, instill- ing into all these activities the idea ers under the leadership of a revolu- tionary political party. come the real mass party of the American working class. The Work: ers (Communist) Party must develop into the actual leader of struggles of practical tasks confronting the party, + for struggle against capitalism. Com- of class political action of- the work- It is the duty of our party to be- the masses against capitalism. Our party must root itself more deeply into the daily struggles of the toiling masses. This means still more effort, loyalty, devotion, and discipline, on the part of every member and every unit of the party. | At this moment when the Comin- tern is passing judgment on all dif- ferénces within the party, there can be no justification for neglect of party ‘duty. We must point out the fact that quite a number of comrades that disagreed with the central executive committee on the farmer labor party lasue have permitted themselves to be swayed by these differences to such an extent as to neglect party work and in several instances to even sabotage party decisions and activi- ties. Such an attitude is absolutely not permissable in a Communist Party. Within a few days the decision of the Comintern will have settled al! controversial points. All factionalism and fractional division within the party must be immediately liquidated. The entire party organization must be fused into one organic unity for organized and disciplined work. Forward to unity and struggle! Central Executive Committee, Workers (Communist) Party of America. ‘National Executive Committee, | Young Workers’ League of America. THE TERROR IN- PALESTINE ist) Party of America to the American (Statement of the Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Commun- working class.) The Zionists, assisted energetically by the Zionist socialist party, have four adults; with its bare cupboard | imperialism, is carrying out horrible persecutions of the Arabian peasantry and empty graté; cold, dark, drap, creepy, windswept interior, compares favourably for lowliness with the man- ger! “This hard-working woman,” con- tinues Mr. MacMorrough, “shows an extraordinary skill at knitting. The men? For them there is no work available in the summer, much less the winter. Fishing is more of a tra- gic recreation than remunerative. There is no cash available for re- placements to keep their crazy little craft worthy for fishing. A Contrast “These daring workers venture ‘far out to sea for Ash, insufficient after the share-out to make a day’s meals. The petty ache impose on this cash scarcity and buy salmon for as little as 6d. per Ib., and sell it in Eng- land for 2s to 3s. per Ib. “There are hundreds of families like the Donagheys scattered over the hills of Donegal—that the Irish sing 80 feelingly about and elsewhere, some even worse off hecause of greater iso- lation. : “To decry, whether by design or partisanship, this working class effort of the W. I. R., or to minimize the tragedy of want, is” concludes Mr. MacMorrough, “senseless ferocity.” “No Help from Me,” Cal’s Secretary Tells the Farmers WASHINTGON, D. C., March 27.— Secretary of Agriculture Jardine, new- ly appointed by President. Coolidge, declared in outlining his policies that “the farmers must help themselves.” Jardine admitted the farm crisis had been severe. “Due to a complex- ity of conditiong, the price of farm products during this period has been low,” Jardine said. “While the farm- r has had to pay high taxes and rela- tively high p for the things he ad to buy. May a farmer has been saddled with debt and has had diffi- eulty in m Wer * colonizing the ancient homes of these and the members of the Communist Party of Palestine, the staunchest defen- der of the workers and peasants of Palestine. The Zionists, assisted energetically by the Zionist socialist party, have started a deliberate campaign with the object of exterminating the Arabs and ATTACK AGAINST Big Program for the Unity Demonstration (Continued from Page 1) dedicated to international unity of the working class, commemorating as it does the effort of the workers of Paris to establish their own government in the Commune of 1871. This effort fail- ed for lack of unity of the workers rope—the celebration year after year of this red letter day in proletarian history is a pledge that this must nev- er happen again. J ; The immediate political effect of this International Unity Demonstra- tion is to wipe out the puny efforts of the straggling foes of Russian recog- hition by showing the world that the of race, creed, or politics, stands squarely by its Russian comrades in their struggles. Will There Be Movies? At the time of going to press efforts are still being made to lift the out rageous ban on the motion “picture “Prisoners for Progress” in time for this show. Whether the mayor and chief of police can be moved to action in this short time remains to be seen, If it were a capitalist picture to foster race hatred the story would be differ“ ent. But the pictured information contained in this film can and will be shown, and the audience will have a chance to judge for itself the reasons why the censors object to the film. The rest of the program includes the Finnish and Bohemian gymnasts, the Jugo-Slav Tamburitza band, the Freiheit Mandolin Orchestra and Chorus appearing together the first time on an English stage, and the South Slav chorus. There will be a song and Red Army drill by a large group of Lithuanian children, and a wonderful dance pageant “The Paris Commune” with the: Red Revel danc-. ers and a cast of 100. A one-act Irish play, The Tinker’s Wedding,” is also in preparation by the Studio Players. Lettish Singer and Russian Dancer F. George Laubert, fhoted Lettish baritone, will give three songs in Italt an, Lettish and English. Art Comiacov, formerly of the Pet rograd Imperial Opera ballet, will give a series of four short dances, assisted by two of his advanced pupils, the Hambro will accompany at the plano. Three Speeches. the Workers Party, will feplace Wm, F. Dunne, on the subject, “The World’s Workers Answer the Irish Famine.” / Robert Minor, about to go on tria) in Michigan, and just returned from & supremely successful eastern tour of “Answer Abramovitch Meetings,” has for his subject: “Fight Back the White Terorr.” Lovett Fort-Whiteman, one of the foremost Negro writers and orators, just returned from an eight ‘months’ tour thru Russia and among the east- ern peoples’, will speak on “The Op- pressed People’s Rise Against Capital. ism.” Early Start Expected. The length and richness of the pro gram makes jit necessary to start on time. Doors will open at 1:30, and people with members of their organ- ization. In this they carry out the policy of the British government which fears the rise of a movement for Arabian independence and encourages and fl- nances the Zionist organization in their war on the Arabian peasantry. Last December the Zionists precipi- tated a bloody conflict with the peas- antry and since that time have ar- rested and beaten many peasants and the Communists who exposed the en- counter as part of a deliberate plot to provoke insurrection that was to be put down mercilessly by British troops. The Zionists have instituted a blacklist of Communists and driven them from their jobs and small farm holdings. The Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party of America calls the attention of the American working class to these out- rages occurring in the name of self- determination of small nations. It reminds them that the same per- secutions have been carried under British imperialist auspices in Ire- land, India, Egypt and other British colonies. It calls to the attention of Jewish masses in America particularly the crimes committed against the poor peasants of Arabia and the Com- munist Party of Palestine in the name of Jewish liberation. It calls upon them to repudiate these instruments of British imper- ialist tyranny, to denounce the crim- mals in the most emphatic manner and rally to the aid of the workers and poor peasants of Palastine, to hold mass meetings and protest the outrages against the revolutionary section of the workers of Palastine, the Communists, to put a stop to the cruel and inhuman practices of those who speak in the name of Zionism. Signed: Central Executive Com- mittee, Workers (Communist) Party of America. Give your shopmate this copy of the DAILY WORKER—but be sure to see him the next day to get. his subscription. all volunteers for committee work should get to the hall by 12:30. Volunteers Needed One hundred volunteers needed te be at the Ashland Auditorium at one o'clock Sunday, to prepare for the (International Unity Demonstration te be given that afternoon under the auspices of the International Workers’ Aid. (Continued from page 1) Fayetie county, the wage cut took place already on March 15tn. The miners being entirely unorganized did not know how to meet it until the Communists got busy urging resist- ance. The camps were completely covered with Workers Party leaflets “Strike Against Wage Cuts.” The miners got ready and these three camps were among the first to come out. The Communists are now strong ly taking the initiative in urging the miners to stand solid to organize the strike and to make common cause with the rank and file workers in the United Mine Workers of America. Altho they recognize as well as any. body that the miners in this whole territory were deliberately sold ou by the officials in 1922, still they point out effectively the need of re-estab- lishing the local unions of the mine workers which formerly existed in that county. Communists Organizing for the U. M. W. of A. Even those miners who at that time were victimized and had to seek wor} elsewhere are following this lead ane also recognize that there must be on E one union of the American coal min. ers. Despite the action of John L. Communists Lead Coke Miners ud Lewis and his lieuténants in 1921 which is so well remembered by these unorganized miners they aré gradually becoming convinced of thé correctness of the leadership given by the Communists. Fight to the finish is the slogan of the militants, recognizing that this is only a beginning.of a general drive Hor wage cuts thruout every mining i district of the country. Already ming bosses inform the men that everg company in Fayette county will mak. similar wage cuts on April ist. The Old Battle Renewed. At a mass meeting in Uniontown os Labor Day, 1922, attended by 40,006 Fayette county local miners, these miners demanded to know from the union officials what support they would give to the strikers. The coke miners proposed that in case the unl on was not ready to give the neces- sary support to continue the strike that it would be better to go back orgam ized and maintain the organization im tact. Finally in February the follow ing. year the betrayal was completed. The miners were compelled to ge back unorganized. Now steps are be ing taken to re-establish the union and the fighting spirit of the minerg is today of as high a quality as ever, ANSWER YEELOV thruout France and the rest of Eu- working class of America, regardless , > Misses Lutkus and Muzuka. A. 8. b Earl R. Browder, acting secretary of ;

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» wt SEW a OR Cree Ne te ys Ne i Abr ers, but as soon as the 52 SECOND SECTION This magazine supple ment will appear every Saturday in The Daily MARCH 28, 1925. catine died. At that time little busi- | ness started in friendly l strik- factory own- Robe Rees bh wantéd law and order, peace 1 5 so the strike was lost after. twelve months of battling. The workers were defeated in a decisive battle and reduced to a state of. serf- dom. Little business has had to give up its “independence” and become the vassal of the millionarie owner of Muscatine. 8 HE button workers defeated the first attempt to use gunmen to protect strikebreakers. The thugs were driven into a hotel and surroun- ed, and only the pleadings of the “best citizens” saved them. They were allowed to depart, only to re- turn later with three times the force- This aroused the entire town and the national guard was called out to pro- tect “law and order.” Apparently the spirit of the strik- ers could not be broken from without. They then resorted to the tactic of the French socialist, Briand, they called the strikers to the colors in the national guard to break the spirit of their own strike. Most of the guardsmen were button workers. . He strike there bes been no Taras are Six button — * about in Muscatine. Some of the finishing plants also have cutting departments. Button cutting plants are being placed in the little hamlets in the country ing the cutting when he is not work ing sixteen hours a day on his rented acres. _ -In the early days of Muscatine, old man Musser owned a lumber yard and prospered. He soon blossomed, out into a lumber baron, owning forest tracts and saw mills, and during the war got mixed up in some deal to grab forests and was “investigated” by the government. Old man Musser left his son a lot of millions and the baronetcy of Muscatine. DAY young Musser is said to be worth a hundred million. He owns two or three button factories, two large sash and door factories, a num ber of banks and forty per cent of the business men have got to “see” him to do business. Old man Musser wag good“ to the , town and gave a library, puvlic park and other trinkets to decorate his do- maln. Needless to say that panels bear his name in big letters to show the beneflcence“ of the departed master. “Sweating System” for Slaves. men and women employed in sash and door factori‘s work nine hours per day, 5% days per week, for from $12.40 to $19.25. In the button factories the average wage for a week of fifty hours is $14.50. Beginners get $2.50 per day. About two weeks ago an expert but- ton cutter, who has been following this work for over twenty years, got $12.85 for fifty hours work. Another good button cutter got $18.00 for a full week and hada family of four to support. A very few of the younger men, by maintaining terrific speed, make up to $25.00 for a full week. This is all piece work and prices are cut every time orders fall off, MUSCATINE, Io WA. HIS town is the graveyard of craft unions and hopes of the workers. Following the button wokers’ strike fourteen years ago the spirit of Mus- twenty button cutting plants and the farmer and his boys are do- which appears to be often how. A gross of buttons in Muscatine js 168 at the factory and all bre es count against the worker. Women make as much as some of the men. They, too, work piece work, si buttons on cards at two cents PAS = sodn as. children get big 3 they are forced into the factories to add to the family wage. With the cost of necessities high in Muscatine the slaves cannot even afford a ten- cent movie. “American Peasants” Cut Wages. There are many small farmers around Muscatine. They come to “town” every Saturday and stand around on “Main Street” visiting. They also come in during the winter to cut buttons, or to cut ice, ten hours a day at $2.25 to $2.50. In order to reduce the workers and farmers still further these small estern Feudalism Gladstine, a Jewish gentleman who owns one of the largest dry goods stores in town, is trying to collect for a fot of material sold to the klan during its days of prosperity. A number of the socialists, who could not afford to pay twenty-five cents a month dues to the party, out of, their small wages dug up $10.00 to help the klan save the country. The present mayor was elected on the republican ticket, which was the klan ticket. He was formerly a mem- ber of the socialist party, then flirted with the democrats before joining the klan and the republicans. HE socialists have had a local in South Muscatine for many years. This suburb is about two miles out, a working class section to which no at- tention is ever paid. There is no side-money in the job of alderman. The socialists have wanted a sewer DAVID COUTTS. town, there is a big task before the Workers Party and the trade union movement, First to revive the hope of a small militant. minority and or- ganize them into the party. Then follow this up with an intensive or- ganization drive for the labor unions, making it a concerted, united cam paign to sweep every worker inte the union. To overcome the power of the feudal baron this movement must take on the apperance, it must ac tually be a revolt, a rebellion against the intolerable conditions now being imposed upon the workers. HESE small towns are a vast reser- voir for scabs and strikebreakers. They must be educated and organized, or their 100 per cent psychology will be used to crush the rising spirit of the city workers everywhere. A unit- ed front for an attack on ignorance is system there for the past twenty needed. THE CHILD SLAVES 75 | (Boe Bea ED Civ plants are being placed out in the country, where the farmer can cut buttons for the boss two or three days and then work on his rented or mortgaged acres the other part of the week. Or he may work: full time dur- ing the winter months in the factory. In this way the wages are kept down to the lowest, the farmer having his house and much of his own food, will work cheap. understand the small farmer's situation: He is a relic of the in- dividualistic, “land and liberty” age. He knows nothing of hours, wages, or- ganization or working conditions. The only money he ever sees is the few dollars he gets for butter or eggs. His other products are mortgaged and Even $2.00 for ten hours looks big to him with his simple needs supplied in great part from his land. So the slave drivers in Muscatine are using the peasant to beat down the prole- tariat in the city. eee: Socialists and Rubber Tired Farmers. N spite of the small wages depriv- ing them of the movies, hundreds of the slaves and smal! business men joined the klan. The organizer got from three to four thousand dollars for membership feés at $10.00 each. The klan is now on the decline and will soon be history in Muscatine. Mr. transferred by check to the banker. COME ON ov BRATS: “16 WHERE — BELONG; 5 years. They got it all “fixed” once, but a petition was circulated which was signed generally and shelved the proposition. They have elected their socialist alderman regularly and this goes to show the outside world that Kaiser Musser of Muscatine loves his socialists. There are many retired farmers, “Rubber Tired,” Dad Walker calls them, living in Muscatiné. The rest dential section has the appearance of prosperity, with good houses on paved streets. Bond issues for paving or sewage in the working class districts are generally defeated by the self-sat- isfied, retired farmer. | Labor Union “Ghosts.” ERE is a carpenters’, bricklayers’ and street carmen’s local in Mus- catine. The Typographical Union, electrical workers and barbers also have a few members. A member of the Typographical Uniqn writes about two columns a week for the local cap- italist daily, which, although it is ap- parently honest, lacks even a sem- blance of inspiration. There is an atmosphere of hopelessness among the workers which gives these little locals the appearance of ghosts. They are the symbol of the vanishing spirt of what was once the scene of a de- cisive battle. s 7 mr * int 75 APNG 8 a * DN Am EO £ Ambassador to China, who conducted the treaty negotiations resulting in Throughout Iowa, and especially in towns like Muscatine and Marshall. close ties between Soviet Russia and the Chinese Republic. |

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, 7 * W a . aie at sie pee 2 s ee + _— : Fu 1 K. aati a — U ‘whiskers yet, nevertheless he was con- — — R By H. 7. F. AHRENS. = N analysis. of the farmers’ pres- ent eednomic position gives proof that he is the victim of a conspiracy by those who are the beneficiaries of the capitalist system and who wish to perpetuate same at all hazards. The present system has served its purpose and outlived it usefulness. The greatest danger of a collapse lies in the inability-to keep the work- ers employed. The country which has a judiciously organized industrialism and cheay transportation, flanked by a. working class which is able and willing to exist cheaply and ia willing to slave during long hours, will be the successfu competitor on the international mar- ket. America is not in. this position. The industries are waterlogged with ficti- tious values. The working class makes more demands on life than other nationals. The products both raw and finished in most cases have to be transported over long distances, T is admitted that America stands before a crisis. There must be greater and more successful competi tion on an ever narrowing world’s market or the industrial worker will only find work during a part of the year. In order to compete on the interna tional market the worker must have: lower cost of living. The farmer now appears as an actor in the great drama, The farmer was deflated for more than one purpose. When the financial czars refused the financing of the grain trade, which financing was only then resumed when cereals had been reduced to one-half of the former price, then was enacted the first act of the great drama. Bread was cheap ened to the breaking point, the wheat grower became a bankrupted pariah. Under the guise of benevolence the he engage in other branches of farm- ing along with growing cereals. Bread had been cheapened to the lowest point, it was intended that the price of milk, butter, eggs, vegetables, meats, wool, etc., should follow the sam course. Then living cost would have been reduced and a reduction of wages would have taken place. wheat growers found it impos- sible to follow this advice, partly on account of inadaptability of the soil and partly because the work of raising wheat left him no time to en- ter other branches. Aside from bread, living expenses are not reduced and the wheat farmer is of all wealth pro ducers the greatest victim, a veritable pariah. Relief and the end is not in sight under the present regime. The deflation of the cereal farmer meant the bankruptcy of over a mil lion within his ranks. Thousands be- came renters of their former posses- sions while multithousands migrated to the cities becoming competitiors on an already crowded slave market. The influence of the industrial workers’ new competitor will be felt at the proper time, for a starving humap will do anything to relieve hunger. If the drive for the open shop is suc cessful, the unemployed ex-farmer will, more than any other factor be the cause of its inauguration. HE third act of the farmers’ drame is about to begin. If a certain nation or individuals are enslaved all nations and all individuals will feel the influence of the unjust burdens. The farmers of America are bound to descend to the level occupied by farm- ers of other countries. The American workers will gravitate to the level oc- cupied by the lowest paid and the worst enslaved since all must compete on the world’s market. are living in a period of transi- tion, the capitalist system is emissaries of the master class were breaking down under burdens never loosed upon him, ther counseled that : Communist viewpoint has been ably shown by Mr. Arthur Brisbane, writ- ‘ng for Hearst newspapers in the ericans in the far west or are the op- portunities all gone? the homestead act and the desert land act, the two brothers (Hodge) took up about 500 acres here, on the | falfa. Mohave desert. J ranch shows what work can produce ‘ism. Under The Hodge the seed company; leave your dairy and chicken ranches, to which you and your whole family are now enslaved; go west near Barstow, Arizona, and take up a desert claim and raise al- The solution is this, not Commun- ee teh __ HUGHES SEES RED AND. FADES QUT } | oe —-. % Asie tp i i a Evans Hughes, was a boy and had just performed the patriotic feat of cutting down a cherry tree, his mother took him to a gypsy and asked her to gaze into the future of her prodigy son. The little Hughes did not wear sidered a very bright child. His faith in Santa Claus was so great that he made a vow not to use any razors at any time of his life and that accounts for his curly whiskers. On entering the destiny shop Mrs. Hughes announced that she wished to EBERT’S EVIDENCE The spirit of the tate social-demo- cratic president of the German repub- lic: produces proof of his patriotism 15 7922 2141123 Well, many years have passed since that memorable day but the fear of red and the warning of the gypsy never left the field of Hughsie’s con- sciousness. He even forbids his wife the use or rouge and his children never wear red ribbons or ties. But as the saying goes you cannot escape your fate. It happened that in a distant coun- try a peasant woman by the name of Russia gave birth to a red giant. The giant, his name was Revolution, from a tiny infant grew to such proportions that soon his head reached the shores of America. His red rays pene- trated the marble stone of the White House laboratory where Mr. Hughes was busy on a new anti-red experi- ment. And for the first time in his life Mr. Hughes saw RED! He was found uncoscious. They called Professor Coolidge, an expert on that particular disease. After fu- tile effort to bring the prostrated Hughes to life the professor pro nounced him politically dead. The fu- neral was held on the 4th of March. during the war. His resting place is Bermuda. iasoos t. Ante B40 ere For IAA 7 ew BUILDERS AT * > ’ WOR N We Have an Agent in the Lehigh Valley He Uses Bolshevik Methods Pravda, the great official organ of the Russian Communist Party has been built up by many methods. But one method has been particularly effective in building the Communist Press in the world’s first workers’ republic. This method we have often pointed out to our BUILDERS and agents as a means by which we can build “our dally in this country. Many of our active Communists, 3 since the addition of the T. U. EZ. L. page have been doing this with splendid results. The method is to write a story on the conditions prevailing in your shop, trade or union and to order a bundle for sale and distribution at the place written The latest agent to follow this sure method to success.in this part icular Communist activity is City Agent A. Hoffman of Easton, Pa., wito™ covers that city, Phillipsburgh, N. J. and his end of the Lehigh Valley: section. He has sent in stories written by himself and by others and orders to foliow. We point out this comrade so that others may follow his splendid example. You will hear more from this active Communist BUILDER who has for a long time been giving efficient work to build- ing up the Communist press in this fare The Second Annual Sub Sampaign In this column you will find the names of BUILDERS sending in NEW subs to “Build The DAILY WORKER” on March 26. Some, you will note by the number, have sent in more than one sub. will your name soon be listed here? BIG PINEY, Wyo.—Chas. Matson (8). PHILADELPHIA, P Lena Rosenberg (3); NEW YORK, N. VI. E. Katterfeld (83). CHICAGO, Ul. — us. Verstegen (2); Sam Hammeremark. MILWAUKEE, Wis.—G. 8. Shklar (2). ; |

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emt A B „re 7 ae ö PPP 8 = C2 %, * e +3 * 7 . r a 2 . W “ft 4 , oP ee ö n f * + Syed * 7 . — bes ‘ pe Ode ** a> > oh : gf * mgs ee 9 ve 2 n n e n T. 0 re et nn 3 72 fe > a 5 co, 8 — “tae Sat — ene * 7 * +4 . mM s Jz 2 : ; 5 — — 4 I 2 4 7 — ** * . 7 ge a OM we ee - ~~ * e 2 4 Bae & | re 3 | | 11 ö i 4 Ht f ST: 11 if E eH te 12 Hi : 4 2 5 RE 4 E 1 25 15 H 150 workers there wag only one Com- munist who was attached ‘to a neigh- boring nucleus. With the help of that nucleus he made 17 new members in three months, which has since made it pos- sible to organize a nucleus in that factory. This case is apparently ex- ceptional, but since the Fifth Con- gress the Federation of the Paris Re- gion has made 3,000 new members with the help of the nuclei. 5 nucleus has a bureau consist- | sponsible for a special piece of work. ‘factory and documentary committees. Each member of the bureau is sec- | gates on the district committee. The retary of one of the commissions and bureau then reports on the work of ing to the size of its membership. A member of the Young Communist nucleus is a member of the nucleus bureau, and vice versa. The bureaus meet frequently. In the large nuclei- such as that of the M. works, the bu- reaus meets almost daily. Each member of the burean is re- In the M. nucleus, the bureau of which consists of nine members, there are eight commissions; political, organiz- ation, newspaper, women’s trade un- ion, foreign affairs, contact with the of the French C. P. therefore responsible for its work. paper is distributed before the arrival’ of the workers, on a day and at a time fixed by the bureau. The same is the case with leaflets. N all the factory offices, as for in- stance, the washing rooms, the cloak rooms, the lavatories, etc., the factory newspaper is stuck up togeth- er with the quotations from Lenin which are printed daily in Humanite, side by side with the title. The factory management has taken measures and is having the offices especially watched. As, soon a a pa- per is noticed it is torn up. Our com- rades then organized “posting.” Every nucleus member has a fixed ing of 3, 5, or 7 members, accord - other in succession every quarter of an hour, and in spite of the vigilance this form of propaganda reaches the whole staff. | ‘ode „ er meets once a week af- ter work, and once a month on Sunday mornings in the case of fac- tories which have several shifts. At these meetings there is always a report on the agenda, usually by a member of the bureau. The secretary or the delegate re- ports on political questions to the con- ference organized once a week by the federation. The same with the dele- the commissions and the work for the Propaganda in the factory is organ- week is determined. Discussion is ized im a secret manner. The factory then opened and a vote taken on the political questions under considera- tion. LTHO our comrades on the whole have not had a theoretical train- ing, the discussion are even more in- teresting then they used to be in the sections. With this new organization the workers understand that the Com- munist Party is their party. This is one of the essential reasons for the increase of our influence in the Paris Region. The workers are not alone in understanding this, it is understood by the employers too. They are con- ducting a furious campaign against the Communist Party which no doubt will end in making it illegal in the time for posting with the result that the newspapers and tracts follow each near future. This is proof that it is proceeding along the right lines. Thoughts in a Cell | 1 * ; ee eee de Seika Mi earth for her to develop her own in- dividuality. The artists of the new generation do not see the woman of today who is gradually breaking away from her dependence on the love relation alone. The new woman besides love demands useful factor in society. | woman of today can no longer field as did the woman of the past, because married life today in_ her opinion only enslaves the partners to each other. To preserve happiness in married life the two must be united in passion, love, respect, comrader- ship and must consider each other as free human beings. To achieve the above conditions, economic independ- 7215 2711 i HH = 11 resistance is strengthened when con- ence is the prerequisite, or else mar- fronted with greater difficulty, was riage can never be a success. laughing sarcastically when she was] ‘Thus the rebellious girl in her cold led into the lonesome cell. She and dark cell turned to Communist thought of the folly of the foolish |writers for consolation, saying to her- servants and slaves of the capitalist | self: It is you who see the new machine who expected to discourage | woman,’ for whom it is not only long- them by using such methods. In her or important merely to be on an equal mind she read thru once more the social plane as man. The new woman article written by Shachno Epstein, | strives equally with the man for the editor of the Freiheit. which appear- emancipation of all the oppressed, that ed in Sunday's issue of March the 8th,) is, the entire working class. The new “International Women's Day.” While] woman tries to free herself from all she was reading this article in her the bourgeois prejudices and stands imagination, she forgot all about] alongside the men revolutionists. For where she was, why she was placed she finds that the battlefield of the in the cell etc. Her mind was busily : 12 eee ae i * li ‘ ¥ verie, She, as well as the rest, were son does not picture the woman cho] et free and went back to the picket line. . Result of Intervention in Ukraine. unis observe actions and 0 —— ot the new — Fob. ment MOSCOW, March 27.—The Ukrain- of the other artists picture only the | lan commission for the relief of the victims of foreign intervention has computed at 65 million gold rubles the HE woman who lived im © n l., el sum of claims, which number was love and whose main interest was —— 3 Over 8 — to attract men. She paid attention“ been regis more to her appearance, in order’ to — PD attract men. The more was used : — . = — — Write us a letter —tell us how suit of his love She did almost every- YOU work, what are your wages thing in her power to please her maß and shop conditions—and ter, his orders were law to her, her lorder a bundle for distribution in find refuge in the matrimonial) 1 a= 1 einer ev capitalist news services. 1 * * ot the workers. “LIVING IN STEEL TOWNS T is appropriate that in Pittsburgh, the stronghold of the mighty steel trust, there should be organized the first group of Communist p We hope that this will be the first of many similar groups that will form lines of communication for the Com- munist press and some day make it unnecessary to depend upon The DAILY WORKER will be a real mass organ when all its news is gathered and written by worker-correspondents in every industrial éentér, This article is.theisecond contribution of thea # -worker-correspondent group. It deals with life This is the kind of material that the DAILY WORKER wants. it is not intended that the articles and news stories should do more than conform to a certain readable form so far as style is concerned. it ie desirable that each correspondent develop his own inclinations but clearness, reasonable brevity and observation expressed in force- ful description should be striven for.—Ed. Note. A TYPICAL SWEAT SHOP for a job the manager, Mr. Pillsbury, Of course the rates are so low that g. By LABORISTO. It would afford any ambitious worker pleasure to get acquainted with one of the most copmlete sweat shops here in the “Iron City,” the E. J. Thompson Automobile Factory, at Lexington Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. introduce the place to the readers of the DAILY WORKER. When I applied Let me promised me the day rate of 75c but later I learned that most of the work was piece work. even men with 10 years’ experience in the trade can hardly make more than ordinary day wages therefore in order to make a little extra after they have toiled for 8 hours and 45 minutes at ing after the rest is of the typical kind grouchy, mean and bullying. It is hard enough to start a new job expecially in a new trade even when the boss is reasonable but when he is mean, hollering, and swearing and tries to discourage you instead of giv- ing helpful criticism, your job be- comes a real hell, particularly when you know that work is hard to ind elsewhere. The company seems to have a great many orders and is putting on men in the metal department. Three of us, who started the same week cauld not claim to be experienced, and got a lower rate, 55 to 75c, while an ex- personality was submerged in his. your shop. perienced man’s day rare may be 80 to 90 cents. We were also put on objected that it was about $6.00 short according to the rate the manager had promised me. I was told, how- ever, that my rate was only 65 cents as not experienced. Pillsbury had said nothing about cutting on my rate. One of the other fellows, a young boy, told me, that his rate was cut from 55 cents to 45 cents. The company had given us no written agreement so what could we do about it? Thanks to the DAILY WORKER, we can at least expose this factory, its management, and their damned methods.

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* enn . n : av 3 4 7 4 at 2 1 4 . 8 2 ast gt ~ eal E 2 « ‘ 25 3 ‘> ee > . * * * ry ee RG a K Lee S* rr * RUSSIAN "RED ARMY. DO not know whethet our comirades abroad know how we live. Any- how I think it is worth while to tell them about the life of the young Si- vash Artillerists. Sivash is a bay, a very swampy place where Wrangel had one of his main strongholds. Our division drove Wrangel out by attacking him from the rear and thus settled his fate. Hence our division is called the Si- vash Artillerymen, Discipline is very strict, but it .is secured by continually, and at every opportune moment explaining to the Red Army men their rights as well as their obligations, their role as the detendegs ot the Soviet Union. For this purpose we have, in addition to military training, political education classes two hours daily. During these classes Red Army men study the So- viet constitution, the history of the Soviet power and the history of the Red Army and the civil war. The Red Army men are also taught geography reading and writing, arithmetic and agriculture, In our artillery regiment we have no illiterates, but there are illiterate people in the infantry regi- ments. They are formed into separ- ate.groups or squads and are taught to read and write being set free from drill and other work. Definite hours are given to general physical training and to the study of sanitation and physics. On the whole six hours a day are given to study and the rest of the time they have at their own disposal and may spend it just as they like if they inform their immediate relief. For their recreation there is a club with a number of circles, a school for political education, à dramatic circle, a circle for general education, etc. The club has a library and reading m, it n & a, wall newspaper hich does efi spare the com- ander of the regiment if he has been at fault in any way. There is also a mililtary correspendence circle to which all Red Army men who contri- bute to the paper belong. circle they learn how to write for the newspapers, etc. Once a week there is a dramatic performance in the club, and we also have “youth” socials, “military” socials, etc. The club works for the whole ‘regiment. We must admit that the club of our regi- ment is not as efficient as the clubs of other regiments.. In addition to all this we aii a Lenin “corner” with various sections in every battalion of the regiment. In these “corners” there are small librar- ies and about eight different news- papers. Readings and informal talks take place in these “corners,” as. well as party, young Communist and Red Army meetings. Similar meetings are held once a month for the whole regi- ment. Very frequently (every week) we are taken to the cinema. We also visit the workers in the factory which is our patron. We also visit museums and aquariums (there is a very good one in Nikolaev). This is just the gen- “outline of our army life. Altho we are taken away from our homes we do mot feel isolated. The Red Army which is a proletar- ian army is a school, and young peas- ants are right when they-say: “We must study otherwise we will come back to our villages just as we left them, and what would be the use of that?” And we get a military training and education and become more efficient @s we go on. Thus your bourgeoisie will never be able to take us and our Union unawares. There is still much to write about— our economic situation, our shortcom- ings, the link between the workers and peasants, etc. But I will leave all this for my next letter, that is to say if you are interested in it and if I receive a reply from you. Today I want to describe just one more fact. Not so long ago we had D In this news of the life and struggles who are part of them. : The letters from our Russian sedi tee with interest, but most of the value of them will be arouse no desire to: build the Communist press in 71 similar methods—contributions from rker- These letters from Russia should receive replies. be sent to the DAILY WORKER and will promptly to the proper address. 45 this of binding the workers of both countries ‘with a — bond leet they 1 ee writen y tone 88 There is no in the regiment the trial of the com- mander of the on, co He was an anti-gas mass 7, * +. * Te N 8 po. ge . ; 2 ale AS 1 . — a 821 | month in more detail and will descrwe turies, Russia was an economical- ay + — We «,<

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ee * 7 ees. > 1 * * 85 55 . . S A 3 Zo Se ie 1 * . Thee . 5 * N 3 APHAEL 3 the agent of the Second International, is not satisfied’ with the American Communists. We do not blame him for it. have compelled him to make clear to the American workers in general and to the Jewish workers in particular, where he stands. In an open letter published by him in several papers in the Yiddish and English language, he speaks about “the energetic self- defense of our comrades.” gets, however, to point out that this ts have embarked upon a course of vitupera- tion and vilification,” that the pres- ent writer is “the very initiator of the dirtiest and meanest personal calumnies” spread against him. (Quot- ed from the Yiddish text published in The Freie Arbeiter Stimme, which seems to be the original.) It would hardly be necessary to re- ply to this new sally of a despairing menshevik. We have conducted our campaign in the open before the eyes of all the workers. Those who fre- quented our meetings or read our publications know that we conduct a political campaign, not a campaign of personal vilification. We expose Abramovich as a traitor because he betrayed the great proletarian revolu- tion in Russia and because he kept on betraying the very principles which he asserted to be his sincere convictions at one time or another. I 8 nally heard trom the mouth ot mmovich in 1920, . still : . 1 be WA, 8 was only angry with the Communist government for not adhering to “its own revolutionary laws.” A few months later Abramovich wag engag- ed in a vicious campaign against the Soviet republic as a whole. I person- }. ally heard Abramovich advocating something akin to the new economic We have unmasked him. We He for- tensified my devotion to the proletari- an revolution and gave me a clearer conceptilon of Communfsm and the Communist International. These are facts on public récord, and it is un- to repeat them. Abramo- vich's insinuation will not mislead even his backward readers. His pres- ent letter, however, throws a lurid light on his own personality, and it is therefore that I am compelled to say a few words about it. It appears from this open letter that Abramovich deceived me in 1920. I didn’t wish to tell about it openly, because I maintained that personal affairs should not be brought into po- litical struggles when we have enough material to expose our enemies, I was an intimate friend ot Abramovich in the course ot 15 years, tween 1905 and 1920, and I wished to keep buried the things that happened under the cloak of old friendship, even if sub- sequently we became’ political ene- mies. I therefore, refrained from bringing up the money incident. But — — he was a loyal opponent, not an ene- my of the workers and peasants’ re- public. He lived then on a payok (food ration) given to him by the Soviet government. He told me he worked in some kind of Soviet insti- tution and therefore received a pro- fessor’s payok—a privilege enjoyed by very few in Moscow. Immediately after my arrival in Moscow, in the very first few days, he began telling me that he was going to Germany to do work for the Soviet government. He had .worked in Vienna in 1913-14 in a patent bureau, and considered himself a specialist in patent ques- tions. We did not discuss the spe- cific kind of work he was to carry out for the Soviet government, but that he was being sent abroad and ‘that he was to 2 work for the Sov- iet government Germany. He re- iterated several times both alone with me and in the presence of his wife. More than once he made calculations showing that he was short of funds. True, he said, there would be no rail- A Royal Pastime policy when this policy was yet im- possible. When, however, the N. E. P. was inaugurated by order of the Soviets, Abramovich only intensified his struggle against the Soviets. In is personal conversations Abramovich, in 1920, nearer to the Soviet’ system than to the right wing socialists. Later, how- ever, Abramovich found his haven of rest in the arms of the Scheidemanns and Noskes. This is treason, and it proves that Abramovich is not in earnest about his “principles,” that he uses them as weapons against the Soviet republic. This is what we as- sert at our meetings and in our press, and it is not necessary to dwell upon it in thé present connection. But Abramovich brought in a new element into his desperate struggle. He ſnforms us that “the man who lent him the money and made it possible for him to leave Russia was Moissaye Olgin who was at that time in Rus- sia.” Abramovich, who is so dis- pleased with what he calls personal fights, resorts here to a personal means of attack. He wishes to cre- ate the impression that I was in ac- cord with him in 1920, that I was then an opponent of the Soviets, and that it was therefore that I helped him leave Russia. It is, certainly, unnec- essary to refute those allegations. The American workers sill remem- ber the articles written by myself in 1920, immediately after my return from Russia. They will not have for- gotten my description of the menshe- viki as “barking at the moon.” They will recall that even before 1921, be- ginning from 1918, I conducted a cam- paign in favor of Soviet Russia both in the press and in lecture halls in the English and Yiddish languages. My visit to Russia in 1920-21 only in- assured me that he stood“ Mrs. Snowden ‘Displays a a “Socialistic” Interest. since Abramovich started this story, it is mecessary to make the facts known. Here are the facts. When I came to Moscow in 1920, Abramovich char- acterized himself as a left winger, al- most a Communist. He told me he was even in favor of his party mem- bers joining the Red army in order to combat the counter revolution. When I asked him why he would not do Soviet work under the leadership of the Soviet government, as did, for instance, the famous philosopher and economist’ Bogdanoff, who was not a member of the Communist Party, he explained to me that he would not be accepted. For this he blamed the Communists, who, he said, had poli- tical grudges against him. He per- sonally made believe he was a friend. At the time of my arrival in Moscow, the Bundist Liber-Goldman was in jail. Abramovich told me he dis- agreed with Liber. Later when Liber was freed, I met him in Abramovich’s house. Liber sensed in me a friend of the Soviet system, and therefore looked daggers at me. When he left the house, Abramovich told me that he was nearer to the Commurists than to Liber, and that Liber accused him of being a Bolshevik. In short, Abramovich made the impression that road “expenses between 1 and „the frontier of Esthonia or Latvia, as ernment; true, part of the expenses would be covered by the government; but, the man had a wife and two chil- dren, he would have to buy clothes and to.rent a house in Berlin, which would entail an expense of several hundred dollars. It was on the strength of these assertions and cal- culations that I loaned him $200.00. I loaned them to a friend of the Soviet regime. Not by one word did Abram- ovich betray the fact that he was go- ing abroad to participate in socialist conferences, that he was going with the intention of starting a broad cam- paign against Soviet Russia. Plainly speaking, he deceived me. He knew I was friendly towards the Soviet gov- ernment. He saw me leaning more and more towards Communism. He never said a word about his counter revolutionary plans. When, after an extensive trip over Soviet Russia, I came to Germany in March, 1921, and visited Abramovich's house there, I became aware of my error. By this time Abramovich had published two or three copies of his notorious “Sozialistichesky Vestnik.” He had returned from a congress in Vienna. He was engaged in counter ä this would be cared for by the gov- ties to six months — — * revolutionary work. When he read an article of mine in a -pro-Soviet Rus- sian paper in Berlin, he was dis- pleased with its friendly tone towards Soviet Russia; he considered it sen- timental” and “exaggerated.” Every- thing friendly towards the new regime in Russia was for him both sentimen- tal and false. Already at that time I saw Abramovich in his true colors. I must confess, I was sorry I had loan- ed him money. I said to myself that had I known how he would behave abroad I would not have helped him. But the loan was an accomplished fact. I did not wish to demand the money returned. What's over is over” I thought to myself. I would not have unearthed this incigent even at presént had not Abramovich resort- ed to it in his difficult situation. — In his open letter Abramovich says “It goes without saying that I accepted no commission either from the Com- munist Party or from the Soviet gov- ernment, and that | eould not have accepted any.” However, in 1920, he told me he was going to Germany to carry out a commission by the Soviet government. Abramovich says, “I never received and could not have received any money either from the Soviet government or from the Com- munist Party.” However, in 1920, the money to be received from the gov- ernment entered as an item into his calculations made in my presence. The question is when was Abramovich lying; in 1920 when he borrowed money from me, or in 1925 when he wrote hig open letter? (The money has not been returned up to now.) Once more: We did not want to unearth the whole story, but let Abramovich reap what he sowed. I have followed Abramovicn's activities thruout these years, but I have never believed he could fall so low. He should have refrained from such an ugly step, as is his present letter, even if it be for the sake of past friendship. It seems, however, that when a man begins to fall, there is no limit to his degradation „ er oanh a+ Yn * on aoe 6 ef idea | International Notes | Russia. Heavy Industry Grows. MOSCOW.— The “Bolshevik” works have produced the first specimen tramway switches and siding rails. Hitherto these articles were import- ed from abroad. Rest for Working Men's Wives. KEIV.— The commission for better working class conditions has acquired five rest homes for workers with fam- lies. These houses can accomodate p to 100 families per month. In the ummer season the people’s food de- partment will open in all summer re- sort dining hall where meals will be served at popular prices. This will enable workingmen’s wives to rest from their household duties. Poland. WARSAW—Two brothers of Karl Radek, Afanasy and Vassili, have been Sentenced by the Polish authori- in jail apiece without any charges being brought against them. The two Radeks had been dis charged from the sugar plant in Rev- no where they had been working and were on their way back to their home village, when they were halted and arrested by the government an- thorities. The government had noth- ing against them— besides the fact that they were Karl Radek’s brothers, of course—beyond the vague suspic ion that they might be intending to cross the border to Soviet Russia. The first sentence was three months and a fine of 500 zloti, but since the brothers could not pay the fine the sentence was changed to six months. Comrade Josef Skrzypa, Commun- ist deputy in the Polish parliament, speaking in the name of the Com- munist fraction, demanded the release of the Radeks, and the prosecution of the authorities responsible for their arrest. oy ca Parr 1

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He said recently to me: “I do not see how it is possible for the people to remain long in darkness with such.a work in circulation. It is a beacon for the hand and a guide for the feet.” 1 told him the socialist party had been boosting it for years and he was still further mystified. He said they could not have read it under- standingly. Soon afterward he read Marx's “Revolution of, 1848“ and “Civil War in France,” which were like amen- tal bath, and followed with great de- light, Vols. I and II of “Capital.” Be- ginning when I first met him with a religious complex, he now revels in the full and glorious light of Com- munism and is super-grateful to me for having introduced it to him. The comrades here do not know of him because he walks slowly and painfully. They may soon learn be- cause he is improving. The glow of the new light has ant mated his spirit. A renewed desire to live induced him to go to the hospital and the treatments he is are gradually restoring elasticity to his partially ossified joints, and he wants to join the grow- ing army of Communist workers. In his ward he met a bright young Ital- lan of revolutionary tendencies and now he wants to give him a copy of the DAILY WORKER containing a tothe biet of" inducing him to of our great movement and who, in turn, would benefit others. Verily, how doth Communism grow! I am enclosing you 33 on the sec- ond call for insurance policies, I at first only sent you $1, and your kind acknowledgement made me uneasy in conscience. You said I had done my full duty as a Communist, Oh, how short I am from performing that duty. I should send you at least $10, nay, ten times as much so long as the — is not actually barking at my oor. But I will content myself for the time by doubling my former subscrip- tion, and will hold myself in readiness to answer future calls whenever you may make them.—WMilton Harlan, San Francisco. False Leaders Divide Workers To the DAILY WORKER:—My heart burns within one, as I meditate in silence over the greatest question that confronts the world today, more especially America. It is the organ- means to be black. My brothers you don’t realize these curtains of hell. I see thru a glass darkly. I have never known liberty or freedom. I have often cherished the hope that some day I might be able to exercise those greatest gifts to man. I have travelled from the Atlantic to the Pacific and across the Pacific and the stormy Atlantic. This flame of hate, I met on every land. There is a task ahead. A gigantic one. That is to or- ganize the ignorant colored and white men. Ignorance and superstition seem to reign in the working class. I never _gaw such hate manifested toward colored people by white men. It seems to have been born after the world war. I can only say, there are cer- “The Negro is no good,“ or “Anybody| has had a most favorable effect on U. 8. that carries a black face is an infer-| him. I’m showing it around to others. I can speak the language and ers that it is entirely free from dog- good article on Sacco and Vanzetti dumb, superstitious colored men are such slaves, and so helpless. The white workers is building a wall f hate against his fellow workers. Here in Baltimore, Md., because of this hate, colored people live five and six families in a 4-room house, tho there are thousands of empty houses. A colored person is afraid to try to rent one of them or even ask about a house. If he does, he and his family are liable to be beaten to death by a white- mob, while the police look on. East, West, North and South, they | fidence are all the same. This flame of hate | to 7 is from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and and frankly. It shows the difference Lor. bear, deer and everything you wherever the American white man in our spirit. I have just shown it to] Want so if * has put his foot. Even to foreign a non-Communist friend who is very | have lost of fun h countries he has carried this slogan: much prejudiced against us, and it It 7 way they told us in — get can ior.” That is his religion and his god. | It is a practical demonstration of our | along fine, —James Ford. “Socialists” Now Free. The DAILY WORKER—In their} Let us take the opportunity of sug-| You can buy 40 pounds of beef for last deliverance the socialists say gesting to our readers that on the oc- 30 cents. that in their collaboration with cer- pe coe we 3 oe may : tain capitalistic labor and liberal ele- make upport- | ments, in an effort to put their brand JUST PITY THE POOR | x of capitalism to the front, the party ST when the capitalist press is “demonstrated to the American work- ‘showing how the workers and the “public” alike have robbed the poor | cnues there matism and sectarianism.” Granted. An open confession is’ good for the soul. But what is “dogmatism?” It is to put emphasis on an idea as funda- mental. For examples: Christian - againstcreased 9.6 percent to 51 39.359, 726. er. eS etc. — Lets Take Up a Collection. Materia-Medica e is comes the Columbia Gas and caused by nerve impingement. . company in New York, with Osteopathie dogma— Disease is net profit of only $6,707,273 during caused by want of proper nerve and | tne year. . blood circulation. , Another dogma—Disease is caused by wrong proportions of blood ele- ments. . Republican dogma—Unshackle big business. Democratic dogma— Me too.” consciousness, etc. ship- To be “free from dogmatism” is to] Then crawls the Brooklyn-Manhat o side of their cease emphasizing any particular tan Transit company out of its poor] ships a line below which they were idea. shack to tell us that it got in clear] not permitted to load their vessels. still unsullied?” monthly revenue and in surplus after ‘the shipping interest by LIFTING this “Free from sectarianism.” What charges which characterized the first up, and thereby allowed more is sectarianism? It is devotion to anf twelve months following reorganiza cargoes to be carried at the risk of the organization as an important or NCCS-| tion has continued, the report shows, seamen's lives. Thousands of sea- : 1 ue f. aT fh itis : . and emphasize nothing.— L. D. Ratiif. Let the Traitors Go. To the DAILY WORK#ER: . Altho not a member of the Communist Party I am heart and soul with you, comrades. I understand your sacri- fices and admire your courage. I have faith in you because I feel that you are sincere. Years ago I trusted the Abe Cahans and the Abramoviches, but today these poor weaklings have turned against the workers. Today they sud- denly discovered that Karl Marx and class consciousness are “bunk.” Today they are fighting for wealth, for agrandizement, like the rest of the present day politicians. Today they kiss the hands of kings and wear knee breeches at regal receptions. To- day they are hob-nobbing in “best so- ciety.” But let them go. The leadership of the proletariat ferred dividends, to $3.37 a common share. Another pauper hobbles humbly ! to the arena of the sympathizing “pub lic.” The annual report of the Commer- cial investment Trust corporation for the year 1924, published yesterday, shows net profits applicable to divid- ends on the company’s stock of $2,- 275,146, which compares with $1,858 Telephone Monroe 2284 Genova Restaurant ITALIAN-AMERICAN N. E. Cor. E t St. Spaghetti and Ravioli Our Specialty Special Arrangements for Parties on Short Notice was a balance for the common equl- valent to $5.37 a share. Enough to Move a Stone. Even ‘more deplorable condition: eX pe take ed ö : oo * a $ a, ei 13 = 4X * e* 1 7 : 1 ire me : Pris = ona et te Sots ee oe N r 4 6. * r x a * i. 4 * KA 2 r eo So sree * > ¥3: ee 7

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, ao 6 * N * * N b Claas ntti 3 2 jolla as ae 7 * 2 — ‘ : a 1 4 * EES Pts. — . 2 > ee 1 * 5 * 9 * 57 7 — ; K | — a ; ; 2 , . q — * > * * . - 7 a » 1 — * „ >. 1 . n * aA * ~ e n Memoriam . : Lines addressed to the recent con- fee ae: =< | | Ogre oo con cw. — : ees held after an injection of LaFol- _—— : NEW YORK, (By Mail)—A clothing letteism had failed to rejuvenate cutter who creates cubist conceptions Its shrivelied carcass). of a shoemaker in oll colors on can- vas, an Italian decorator and house. A feeble old Party an Ape once ad- painter who paints bright landscapes | dressed. in off time, and a Scandinavian car. | How much I admire you, I've often penter who makes decorative wood| confessed. cabinets and carves bone or sculptures | The source of your vigour, as I un- marble are some of the workers—un-| derstand, ion men—exhibiting their artistic Is found in a small but most powerful sparetime productions with the Inde-| gland. pendent Artists Society, at the Wal- dorf-Astoria Hotel, New York. For the ninth year this organiza-| sees, tion, which democratically admits ali | Very deaf, very blind, very stiff in the exhibitors without jury or prize| knees, awards upon payment of a nominal | Very weak in the back, weaker still sum, is holding its exhibition. John | in the head— Sloan and the recently deceased Geo, For practical purposes folk say Tm Bellows, early contributors to the rad-| dead! ical artistic magazine, The Masses, were largely responsible for the for- Tm not! It’s a rumour! It’s worse } | mation of the Independent Society to] —it’s a lie! — |give young and unknown artists a0 I would do anything rather than showing die Hs KINDLER, the Dutch cellist. | until recently first cellist of the | “Now, I'm an old Party, as everyone As Madame Butterfly. like the forest music in “Siegfried” Mau , ; ) rice Becker, labor cartoonist, | My business with you, Mister Monkey, one could give Glazunov more credit. has two beautiful paintings from his] to start with, Glazunov’s work is based on apoem San Carlo Opera Mexican experience in the exhibition: | Is to ask if your gland you'd be will- of the Russian author Tutchev. It Women of Tehuantepec and El Cam- ing to part with. : more than interesting to note that in RTUNE GALLO, manager of the] ino, the latter a woman with work- discussing Tutchev the ultra-respect- San Carlo opera companies, will | lined features. m a yellow old Party, but I'd give able gentleman who writes the pro-] merge his two organizations into one] The Japanese Communist, Eitaro l. ™Y lot gram notes for the orchestra, and who for a week’s run at the Auditorium | [ghigaki, has a modern painting in For one-half of the vigor you seem to insists upon calling the prewar cap | theater starting next Monday night. | sombre tones of a Man With the Whip, have got. ital of Russia “Petrograd,” quotes The San Carlo is probaly the best the horseman driving hordes of cower. Tm here with my forceps your secret from none other than Moissaye J. Ol-| travelling opera company in America ing workers into towering factories. to gin, member of the central executive | today. Some of its members, like} (Comparatively few of the D Agree—sniff this bottle, and let me committee of the Workers Party of | Tamaki Miura, are considered the au- dea) with the rich, strong, dramatic begin.” America. | thentic interpreters of certain roles. life of workers. The wealth of mater- 0 5 ial in that field is ignored except for What ho!” said the Monkey, in a few drawings and a water-color of | Manner most rude, A far more important Russian work,| The week’s repertory for Chicago is the “Manfred” symphony of Chaykov-|made up of old timers, the battle ski, opened the second half of the pro- | scarred warriors of a thousand opera six o’clock factory closing. Rose] Tou don't dream that glands would gram, “Manfred” is my favorite among | seasons. The schedule follows: Pastor Stokes has two drawings, one „ do You any good! the composer’s seven symphonies, Its| Mondays, March 30, AIDA~—with | of Anna. You're a shrivelled old Mummy, sans title signifies that it is based on Lord | Roselle, Tommasini, Cervi. Peter Vroldsen, the Scandinavian [. heart. guts and brains, Byron’s drama of thesame name. A] Tuesday, March 31, MADAME BUT-| carpenter, is a bachelor who studied For Parties so circumstanced nothing quotation from Chaykovski will 2 TERFLY—Miura, 8 sculpture.in his spare time, He has a] emains. the litt both of the symphony Wednesday, April ee marble bust of Svea, a Norwegian of Byron's play: | . }CARMEN—Jackson, Hart, Interrante.| working woman, among his works. In- “You final decease would leave mented by the fatal anguish of doubt, ) TRAVIATA—Luechese, « Onofrel, . ; bbs ar, , 2 pyre help “‘Myousate a ology. a Go, seek out a solitude fit to pop off in— 2 ‘a sp ir his soul ‘giola. % 0 ae and TTT Thursday April 3, CAVALLERIA Neither the occult sciences, whose AND PAGLIACCI—Axman, Salazar, Prosper Invernizsi is the Italian In he has fathomed, and by ;Saro, Tommasini, Basiola. . landscapist who paints houses fof} The Workers feel happy to stand you Friday April 3, BOHEME—Roselle, 0 living and paints pictures for his] our comin! any- | Onofrei, Kargau. pleasure. Morris Kantor is the cloth- |7~ on tc 5 3 — N Saturday April 4, (Matinee) — ing cutter whose gauy colored coni- the forgetfulness which alone he co- MARTHA—Lucchese, Kent, Onofrej,|cal and cubical forms express the The Walden vets. The memory of the beautiful | Interrante. shoemaker, Astarte, whom he has loved and lost.“ Saturday, April 4, (Evening)—IL gnaws at his heart. Nothing can lift TROVATORE—Saroya, Salazar, Ba | the curse which lies heavily on Man- siola. De Mette. | ‘BEAUTY AND BOLSHEVIK | Book Shop ; and which unceasingly and] Sunday, April 5, FAUST—Onofrei, ; . Aimed onl delivers him to the tor- | De Biasi, Roselle. a sen AT THE WICKER PARK 307 P lymouth Court ous despair.” The Carmen performance pd es on ee the sym- done in English with a Chicago cast, THEATER IN CHICAGO r State. and Dearborn res ee. too.’ It has the grip using the translation of Charles Henry Just South of Jackson) and the thrill and the passion of Clay- 3 — 3 n bag — movie “The Beauty CHICAGO 0 kovski at his best. Oukrainski and the Bolshevik” which has Second Hand Books Another glorious old timer, re ley and company. : = 1 gathering of 7,000 people K ws better with every hearing, tne 1 when it was shown in Chicago Used Communist, Labor and Eco- 2 rhapsody of Victor Herbert, Mine „Super Kills * ago, is coming back to * — * * — 0 ‘ 2 . wn for one evening only. it will maps in ail languages, 9 closed the program Marianna Movie Show be shown on the Northwest side, at sold and. „ Popular Priced Opera. em ly 8 3 Wicker Park Theater, 1139 Mil- “Daily” Book Exchange Popular priced opera is to have ternational Workers’ Aid, in Marian- yg: hye hay N April 808 James St., Pittsburgh, Pa. its season in Chicago just care na, Pa., after waiting for months for} nualiy. The rine tot wil rs — a _ Easter, when Fortune Gallo’s two Ban an avallable open date, hired a internat! Ng org CLEVELAND, OHIO. Carlo .grand.opera companies 2 theater for the showing of the Rus- —— — — — — te at. de Auditorium on March 59, for sian feature film, and started to ad- * Co- opera an.chgagement, that includes seren vertise. 4 couple of days later the| Peibuns Rabea Paper with Leer 2 nn * * ma- theater manager cancelled the date All friendly organization are re- THE C0-OPERATORS COMPARY . . and was very uneasy in the face of quested not to make other affal damage suits staring him in the face. : Does your friend subscribe to But the threat of a few dollars in * me ttings on that date. sated Dealers in “Ido for Workers” (Textbook in Groceries, i Fruits and threat of the mine superintent, so the German or Russian)..... 50c DRAMA AND DANCE coal diggers will have to — “An Elementary Grammar“ Vegetables same other. pian dt seeing us| (in English) 186 1195 E. 7ist Randolph 7059 GIVEN BY KENOSHA : sian feature film—that has delighted The Workers’ Ido Federation a hundred thousand American work- Room 5, 805 James St., N. S., Owned and controlled by your ie | TSBURGH, fell ki RUSSIAN BR. SUNDAY ers. PITTSBURGH, PA. ellow workingmen ) e ö ARN ESPERANTO A performance and dance will be * international Language : GRAND BAZAAR g given by the Russian branch, Work- The following booklets are received given by the Czecho-Slovak Section of the Workers Party for the ers Party, of Kenosha, Wis., this el ee | benefit of “DELNIK” Sunday, March 29, £:30 b. . ot N . 0 IK”, at the Tatra Hall, 17 North Main’ street, || ‘The Beperanto Teacher... ee BOHEMIAN-AMERICAN HALL, 1438 W. 18th Street Kenceha, Wis, Actore from, Chi- |} Saperante far oung Beginners... bc MARCH 26, 27 & 28, 1925 cago will perform. The proceeds || languages, Uterature in Esperanto. Admission on Thursday and Friday 152 Saturday Night 50c wilt go for the Russian Communist |} 1° — re agebh Good Musie Doors Open at 7:20 P. kx. daily, Novy Mir. Come and have a we 525 7th St., Rockford, itl. 2 Contest for a $400 Radio Saturday Afternoon Children’s Day good time! | | 8 «¢ ö . 9 — — —

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W 8 iy he %. SA. = * 1 * 1 1 bop ie, Sar ae ** Pe — 7297 a Bea: . Uke other eames aa Si By MICHAEL GOLD. | ee years I suffered from the Yan- kee blues. Do you know what this disease is dear reader? It is the state of being in chronic rebellion against your environment. Lou walk down Broadway, for instance, on a fine windy March morning. The sun and keen blue sky and the magnificent skyscrapers give you no thrill, how- ever. You are watching the faces of the people going by. They are dull, pasty, narrow-minded faces—young and old faces behind which you know you will find only one thought—the thought of money. So you do not en- joy the fine morning. The intelligent revolutionist in American inevitably gets feeling sad; for on every hand he is surrounded by greed and stupidity. If he is sensi- tive, de is always fighting the things he meets; the resultds the disease I have named the Yankee blues. NE day I found a few hundred dol- lars and One ie te er “young intellectuals,” to find a cure for these Yankee. blues. I spent six weeks in England, but England failed to cure my Yankee blues. In England one finds conserva- tive old and young men who live in the past.as an escape from capitalism; scholars who write like the Elizabeth- ans, and statesmen who think like bloody Castlereagh, whom Shelley de- nounced as a murderer. I did not like the classic Oxford literature of Eng- land, with his effeminate ways and talk, and his silly scholarship. Neither did I like the new commercialism that is sweeping England—American salesmanship, advertising, and other capitalist innovations. The labor gov- ernment of Ramsay MacDonald de- pressed me, even more than does the American government of Coolidge. I hate liars, hypocrites, labor imperial- ists and such people; men who preach christian pacifism while out of of- fice, and then bomb native villages in Mesopotamia while in office, as did MacDonald. O I left London and went to Paris. : _city Paris, but capi- Gonquered there, also. The American bourgeois has made of Paris his luxury shop and barroom and house of prostitution. Paris is dis- gusting to a man who hates commer- cialism. One sees so many beautiful young girls on the streets and in the dance halls, lovely daughters of the working class who have been trained to regard their bodies as machines for the making of money. The gayety of Paris that American business men rave about is the gayety of a whore- house; it ig tainted with American dollarism. The intellectual life of Paris is dead—most of the young art- ists and writers have fallen into a sterile, superficially brilliant cynicism outside of a few men like Barbusse and Rolland, there is no literary work of any value being done in France, O I went to Berlin. This city was the worst horror of all. The streets filled with gross, overfed bourgeois bodies of men and women; the the- aters stinking with them. In every little stationery store pictures of the kaizer and von Hindenburg and other royalties are for sale. Sad, ragged workers on the street cars; servant girls who work for nothing, just the few tips they get, defeated, ignorant paupers and bloated war profiteers dwelling side by side. Chaos, and the only thrill of hope was the occasional sight of some young Communist on the streets; a young man, bare head- ed, bis shirt open to the cold.winds at the throat; dressed in corduoroy coat and breeches. the uaiform of the young Communists; a bold fear- less stern youth in rough clothes, walking like a si'ent threat among the fewelied, silken bourgeoisie on the streets. O cure there for the Yankee blues. Capitalism at its last gasp, but capitalism still. I decided to go to Russia. One day I got on a boat at a London pier. The red flag flying from the masthead; the ship belonged to the Russian cd-operatives. It is a six- day trip from London to Leningrad. The second day out I learned that our beet was loaded with sixty tons of sides several million dollars in silver coined at the British mint, and other interest cargo. An exciting trip; once we had to pass with our T. N. T. thru five miles of floating, uncharted | mines in the Baltic Sea; the captain did not sleep that night. ag sins Det but not as exciting as coming into Kron- stadt harbor, and seeing the whole Russian Soviet navy at maneuvers, thousands of yonng lads crowding the decks and saluting our dipping flag as we sailed by. My Yankee blues began to leave me in the week I spent in Leningrad. They left me entirely during the three months I spent in Moscow. I now re- gard a trip to Russia as the only sure cure for those capitalistic Yankee blues. USSIA is no Utopia: it is still about a hundred years off from Utopia; but it is on the way to it, while western capitalism is on its way to new wars and a new hell. In Rus- sia you get the feeling of a great mass of social-minded human beings, all working and thinking and planning and fighting and dying for a common great end, and not for petty individ- ual ends. A plan, an ideal; no cynic- ism or discouragement, but a vision; | that is one feeling I got from Russia that helped cure my Yankee blues. In Russia working men may be as poor and poorer than American work- ing men; but they are all learning. something; they are using their minds. They have faith in the fu- ture. They hope. They know no doors are closed to them; that if they show any intelligence they can rise to the top where that intelligence will be used. They know their sons can go to college; they know their daugh- ters will not become prostitutes. They feel and act like free men; they march thru the streets singing in their rough factory clothes; they work in the shops like freemen, knowing that if a superior officer becomes arogant or tyrannical, they can have a voice in dismissing him. They know that if ba taken cto sick or Bee of work, r will, be of. They don thr aang’ 2 30 they don’t try — money for their old age: hess + no need for it. There is much poverty in Russia, but there are. no wage slaves; and all this was another thing that helped cure my Yankee blues. N Russia, too, youth is supreme. The old have died off; the average age of the country today must be around twenty-seven. Youth sur rounds one everywhere, hopeful, strong youth. One sees procession of boy and girl pioneers, from seven to twelve years old, marching proudly behind drums and bugles, under the Being Mailed Pa No. fore. * CA ea ge Ci Ke 4 . tt * 4 4, & 2 2 2T ee’. . a ) N * P 4 „ — Ca © . ’ Fis te > oe f „ 3 iS * . . * 1283 3 ae 5 1 i 1 . * 4 25 * 72 8 e + Te —_ . - 3 i g l i i : “ 2 FE 2 jg : 282 5 in society. too, cured my Yankee blues. No then there was the friendship one found in Russia. I came ex- pecting to find nothing but grim poli- ties, but I found warm friendship too. — of a civilized 3 are mature men and delightful simple | children at the same time. They do they surround one One learns to love the Russians to distrac- tion. They never talk money, they do not judge anyone by his position or his salary; they appreciate the dif- ferences of each natioin; they have no they open their houses to the whole world. They are so eager to learn about the things you know; over the samovar they talk the night things for one; with warmth and laughter. prejudices; 1 ested in football and the theater and Communism; interested in life, and They are the pride and hope of Russia, this new youth. They 2 8 r ees * * . sae — ein ie — oy “ hs — 3 wine 2 it — lle i 1575 . ’ 2 3 tor amusement. 15 8 BR, getting rich quick in a hurry. What a relief from the Yankee blues! And not one of them tried to use me in any way, or tried to make me feel he was superior. who did not feel the necessity of hü- manity working together toward some common end; not one did I find who would not go out simply and quietly to defend the revolution; no heroics, — no bombast, it was just in their bones. After the hurry and ambitions of America the nervous American finds the slow, steady, cheerful con- 3 pats OLGIN SPEAKS HERE FRIDAY, APRIL 17, ON RUSSIAN VICTORY Comrade Moissaye Olgin, co-editor of the Russian Communist daily Novy Mir, is coming to Chicago. He will speak Friday night, April 17, in the Russian language on “What Did the Revolution Give to the Workers and Peasants of Russia?” All friend- ly organizations are requested not to arrange other affairs on that date. + Join The Second Annual Sub Campaign to Build the LY WORKER 15,000 New Subs by June 15! Get a Sub and Give One! i. The Communist International official organ of The Executive Committee of the Communist International English Edition. No. 8. of of the Communist International CONTAINING: -— ~ Seven Years: The First Anniversary the Revolution without Lenin, By G. Zinoviev. „ Lessons of the Election in England. By A. Martinov. The Georgian Adventure. By A. Martinov. France Since the Fifth Congress. 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