Daily Worker
April 4, 1925
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— — — — 2» max Val. I, No. 71. b at oe een AS ae By T. J. O'FLAHERTY . T is not likely that the thousand aad one agencies that have been en- gaged for several years in the profit- able business of multiplying the tatal- ities incident to the great Russian re volution, and pointing with feigned horror to the comparatively few. a&- sassins and would-be assassins now occupying prison cells in the Soviet republic, will make the welkin ring with the horrible atrocity committed by the Polish government in having its agents murder two working class prisoners, on the way to Russia in ex- change for Polish prisoners béing transferred to Poland. 923 „ F course, the Polish government will disavow the crime just as the Japanese government disavowed the murder of hundreds of reyolutionaries who. were herded into a closed area and then charged by troops with fixed | bayonets on orders from the war department. But the result of the Japanése maszacre was as predicted by the radicals. The revolutionary movement has made such headway in Japan since then that the government, only a few days ago was obliged to pass one of the most drastic treason bille ever placed on any statute 9 The bandit government of Poland wil pay dearly for the premeditated murd- ers of its agents. ' 89 * ADY BATHURST, until recently owner of the most reactionary or- gan in England, the Morning Post, takes Canon Donaldson of Westmin- ister Abbey to task for that gentle- man’s strictures on the moral loose- ness of Britain’s aristOcracy, as re- vealed in recent court ns. The lady is surprised that the crimes of the working class are glossed over while the comparatively few sins of the aristocracy are broadcasted over the world. What the aristocrats may do it this pinpricking policy 1s con- tinued, the lady does not specify, but the action will be drastic. Surely the dear things are not thinking of going to work! eee . 228 — of Freud,” Jung and company, may be interested to — 1 15 1 A mys: PRAM pp * n n 8 1 x ee 4, * o, Uunols under the Act of March * N NEW YORK | EDITION Soviet Trade | Body to Be Formed (Special to The Dally Worker.) MOSCOW, April 2.— The interna- tional policy of the Union of Soviet!” Republic is based on the principles of full equality of rights of all na- tions and taking stock correctly of mutual economic interests, At. is on these principles that the commercial treaty between the Union and Japan is based,” Mr. Ganetzky,! member of the collegium of the peo- ple’s commissariat of foreign trade, said in an interview with a Japanese journalist in Moscow. Trade With Japan Jumps. “There was not much trade done between the two countries before the ar, Mr. Ganetsky observed, but in ‘the recent years the export to Jap- an, first of timber and then of fish- ery products has been steadily grow- ing, and these products have lately been closely followed by agricultural produce, such as oats, flax, seed, etc. At the present time, it is proposed to develop the exports into Japan from not only the Kussian far east, but all the Union. Among the goods to be exported are oil and oil prod- > ucts, salt, iron, etc. Naturally, Jap- (Continued on Page 8) a N 7 J * 9 ae * ¢; ; We publish herewith the first ing world trade union unity. Pe. ® 4 | PREFACE. By A. A. Purcell, President, Inter- national Federation of Trade Unions. HE question of unity of the work- ing class organizations against the powerful attacks of European and American capitalism has become oF. pressing importance. It is more than important: it is fateful for the fu- ture of our movement and the move- ment of the organized workers of the world. In the last few months the pros- pect of securing that unity has de- finitely come nearer. But unity will not be achieved unless the represent- (Continued on page 6.) a uprising un der complete control soon, it was an- —— —
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x oe N A 5 5 “ae , - , But Finally Sticks to * ee > A. * „ “4 9 Minor Charge The three members of the Young Werkers League who were arrested for distributing circulars in front of the Boston Store exposing miserable conditions there, were given small fines and forced to pay the “costs,” in Judge Gentzel’s court, room 1106, city hall, yesterday. Valeria Meltz and Joseph Plotkin were fined $1 each, and Benjamin Vogel was fined 85. When asked why he had been fined more than the others, the judge said that Vogel was from St. Louis and therefore should not have “mixed up in any Chicago affairs,” Letters Ruled Out. The prosecutor tried to drag the letters, which were taken from the three Communists when they were ar- rested two weeks ago, into the trial as evidence, but upon objection of David Bentall, attorney of the Commun- ists, such evidence was ruled out. Bentall showed that the charge was disorderly conduct and the question of the beliefs of the defendants was not involved. The judge seemed inscensed that Comrade Vogel should be wearing a May Day button with a red ribbon on it in court, but was finally persuaded to mind his own business and stick to the disorderly conduct charge. Arrested at Boston Store. The three Communists were ar rested by the private detectives of the Boston Store and turned over to the central station-house police. They were threatened with deportation charges, but upon investigation by the federal authorities it was found that there was no evidence against them and they were held on the “disorderly conduct” charge. French Students to Call General Strike to Get Dean Back PARIS, April 1.— Students of eighteen universities in France were invited today to join the entire Paris University, including the Sorbonne, in a forty-eight hour students’ strike be ginning Thursday as a protest against the suspension of Dean Berthelmey of the law college. The dental, pharmacy, medical and political science colleges already have —agreed to the strike. The action follows the student dem- onstration Saturday in protest against Professor Scelle delivering a lecture on international law because he was an appointee of Premier Herriott. Give your shopmate this copy of the DAILY WORKER—but be sure to see him the next day to get his subscription. _wTrryrYrYeYVTeeYreYrerYrYrrYyryYryTYT-rTreeeeefeefeeeewerereerteeT''*-TTT,T T7777? 4 — + — — — — GROUP MEETS AY NIGHT, APRIL 6 PITTSBURGH, Pa. April 3— While the trade unlons have not succeeded in gaining a solid foot- hold in the industries In Pittsburgh, Pa., the militants nevertheless are quite alive. The metal trades have for some time been a leading factor carrying on actual work for the establishment of the left wing. The militant steel workers are actively repairing for the coming convention of their union the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers. The militants in the needie trades have contro! of the local unione and even the bullding trades are getting on the job mak- ing a beginning in ordering and act- ively distributing 300 copies of the pamphiet “What Wrong With the Carpenters’ Union?” The various groups will meet jointly In the general T. U. E. L. group Monday, April 6, to esta- blish the proper connections be tween them as individual groups. The meeting will be held in the in- ternational Socialist Lyceum, 805 James St., N. 8., 8 p. m. i Arne Swabeck, district organizer will speak on “Late Developments in the American Trade Union Move- ment.” The regular T. U. E. L. busi- ness will also be transacted. British Protest Seen as Counter to U. S. Objection LONDON, England, April 2.—Fol- lowing the protest of the American government to China regarding the punishment of a steamship captain who had caused the death of several Chinese, the British tmperialists, thru the Baldwin government, have also ‘lodged a protest with China. The protest sent by the British ob- jects to the use by Chinese troops of the Chimese railroads in which Eng- lish stockholders have holdings. The British claim these Chinese railroads are still indebted to British stock- holders. The protest is seen as a counter protest to the American objection. The British are anxious to keep the American capitalists from gaining too much control over the Chinese. Vaccinate Mill Slaves. PAWTUCKBT,(R:. I. April 2.—Be- cause one of th employes contract- ed smallpox, 2,700 @mployes of the Manville-Jenckes - tile mills here were vaccinated with smallpox serum. The vaccination was compulsory. Vote On Women’s Bill Soon. SPRINGFIELD,. UL, April 2.—The bill limiting the hours of labor for women in industry to eight hours per day, with exceptions in seasonal and public utilities occupations, will be voted on by the house on April 14, it was agreed by house leaders. NIV“ > 8 an English publication of the National Minority Move- ment that is now sweeping all England, is THE LATEST PAMPHLET WE HAVE RECEIVED. Besides statements by A. J. COOK, TOM MANN, GEORGE HICKS, EDO FIMMEN, TOMSKY and others, this pamphlet of 40 pages includes 14 PHOTOGRAPHS Russia. | . v — THE DAILY WORKER, | 1113 W. Washington Bivd., ; Chicago, III. For the enclosed $ Name: 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. | send — copies Of “UNITY” to: RS SR City State: pp para ibir rains i ri rn iri iri h i i ir hbhbhrhprhprprhp—bprbhbhiite htt bebe be beh be bn dndn tnt tn tnd — — Dr eee eee vy big business. read after you have enjoyed it. 100%. A propaganda novel you cam hand to your shop-mate to THE DAILY WORKER, Literature Department 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, III. THE STORY OF A PATRIOT By Uptow Sinclair. A most interesting story by a master-propagandist, built a- round a red-blooded “he-man,” a hundred-per cent American who turns out to be a spy of Paper, 25 Cents fine U U Y, TEACHERS FIGHT FOR WAGE "RAISE STILL ON NEW YORK, April 2~—The Ricca teachers’ salary bill, inadequate as it is to meet the present-day cost of liv- ing and giving only the miserable in- crease of $25 a year to the large bulk of the teaching staff, is meeting with much opposition now that it has reached the final stage of its fight and awaits the signature of Governor Al Smith. e The joint salary committee of the teachers’ organizations composed of William R. Lasher, chairman, Anna R. | Pettebone, secretary, and Benjamin Mandel, publicity director, have issued the following statement on the latest development in the New York teachers’ struggle to get an increase in their wages: Altho the Ricca teachers’ salary bill was passed unanimously by both houses of the legislature, the bill is by no means out of danger. Before Governor Smith will affix his sig nature to the measure, he must be convinced that the taxpayers of the city recognize the justice of the teach- ers’ claim. Mayor Hylan has come out on two separate occasions against the mandatory character of this legis- lation, alleging that it will increase the city’s tax nate. Reports are being circulated in which the cost of the bill is inflated from $1,500,000 to 317,000, 000. Altho the teachers are asking for an average increase of but 15. per cent, which is far below the increase in living cost, yet it is being widely spoken of as an increase of 20 per cent. Teachers and parents who want to see the Ricca bill signed by the governor should immediately secure the passage ot favorable resolutions by influential lecal organizations civic, political, labor, fraternal and social. Copies of these resolutions would be forwarded at once to the governor, the press and to Mr. William R. Lasher, chairman of the joint salary committee, 3177 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn. Plutocracy Steals Native Riches in the Philippines ‘Continued from page 1.) Stephen Duggan, member of the com- mittee, said here, “The American system provides a ladder from kin- dergarten to university up which any boy or girl may rise according to na- Live capacity.” j Bootblack to President. But the facts give the lie to Dug- gan’s familiar “from bootblack to president” bunk. An analysis of the lumber indus- try, made here recently, discloses that all but three Filipino lumber ompanies have been driven out of the field by foreign concerns.. There ire three large Chinese lumber con- cerns, four Spanish, two English, and ‘Our American, the largest on the is- lands. Incite Fishing War. The fishing fleets of the Philfppines are controlled almost entirely by the Japanese, including the large fleet in Manila Bay. The American con- trolled papers here, and the Wood dictatorship are urging the Philip- pines to gain control of the fishing industry. The Americans of course, plan to have the natives do the dirty work in a fishing war, and then take over the control of the industry, thru Wood's dictatorship. Such is the me- thod of the capitalists to “American- ize” the Philippines. Robbed of Language. The Filipinos find themselves rob- bed of evem their language The fed- eration of women’s clubs, one of the many American organizations form- ing a part of the foreign dictatorship, are engaged in a campaign to make the English language the sole medi- um of expression. “If the people of the Philippines are to develop national feeling, and na- tional institutions, there must be a ‘common tongue—English,” said Vice- governor Gilmore, speaking before this club. The American capitalists have tak- en a cue from the Britisn imperialists and are displacing the existing com- mon tongue of the natives with the tongue of foreign imperialists in or- der to make control of the dependent hation more secure. Steal Native Riches. American imperialism is bitterly combatting the independent party, un- der the leadership of Manuel Quezon, because the Philippine Islands are is- lands of rich in hemp, tobacco, hard | woods, tin, rubber, rice and sugar; because they are the distributing point for United States commerce | with the Orient, and are the militar- istic base for the furtner enlarge- ment of the sphere of American im- perialigsm in the Pacific. Leonard Wood, whose constabulary are even now chasing the Moro na- tives, and who have killed scores of }peasants who were fighting for a de- cent wage, declared in a speech here before the American bar association, Manila branch, that these bloody acts are “attempts to instill in the ‘public respect for law enforcement.’ He said the same thing when his Anrerican cossacks shot down steel strikers. * * nal 4 ss > r we : „ Vv aed 7 RY Bae 7 so 3 * ie ne ile ‘ y ar , wo 4 . Church, Fire Upon Troop Patrol TY Arn 2.—In 2 clash sold and catho- haacalientes five sol- . * 5 * . diers and A number of civilians were wounded. A group of catholics was stationed in th er of a church. As the mounted | neared the church the men in the tower opened fire. The troops re without an- swering the shots” the command- er received orders from General Tala- mantes to captur church. After an exchange of shots the church par- ty was dislodgedy A Spanish priest famed Giraud was arrested, 8 a e 2 th inciting to riot. | of Frosperity WASHINGTON . P.) — April 2.— Stock market collapse and the severe reduction in purchase of soft coal by the industries of the country are two elements in the création of a series of rumors in Washington that the busi- ness outlook is not good. Secretary of Commerce Hoover has felt it wise to amnounce that business is still sound, and that stock market prices are no true index of the indus- trial outlook. Secretary of the Treas- ury Mellon made a similar statement some days earlier. Still the pulse of the commercial speculators in Washington is jumpy, and a regiment of statistical experts for bankers and manufacturers is studying the latest reports to gain an impression of what is coming next. Secretary Morrison of the American Federation of Labor is likewise watch- ing the turn of affairs, as reports come in from many directions indicating that unemployment is growing. He says he has no proof that the total of unem- ployment is greater than has officially been estimated; trade unions do not maintain a service news of unemploy- ment. Nevertheless, the soft coal situ- ation is not indicative of an early de- crease of the army of unemployed. Tells Combine to be Good. WASHINGTON,:D. C., April 2.— Ten coal dock operating companies, handling 80 per cent of the bituminous and anthracite coal prwduced in Penn- sylvania, West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky, are ordered. by the federal trade commission to ease and de- sist” from certain practices, designed to drive’ all Illinois coal and other all-rail coal and the distributors of such coal from the market in Minne- apolis and St. Paul. The combine is known as the Northwestern Coal Dock Operators’ Association. It is ordered to refrain from efitering into any agreement or combination to restrain or suppress competition in the sale of coal at wholesale or retail. IIiinois coal is union mined. The combine has been dominating non- union fields and forcing Illinois min- ers to hunt new jobs. Judge Backs Phone Trust FRANKLIN, Ind., April 2.—The charter of the Indiana Bell Telephone company, remained intact today fol- lowing the verdict of a jury which deliberated only 20 minutes before de- ciding against the state. The judge told the jury that the |’ evidence in the case was not suff. cient to warrant the death of the cor- poration. The state sought to have the charter of the company forfeited and a receiver appointed on the grounds that some of its contracts re- strained trade and created a mon- opoly. British Dislike Greco-American Loan. ATHENS, Greece, April 2.—The Hambros banking interests of Eng- land have objected to an agreement recently completed by the Greek gov- ernment for a loan from an American Wall Street concern, it is reported here. The objection was on the ground that under the last conyention dealing with loans for refugees. Greece was prohibited from concluding any loan without the consent of the league of nations. Blame it on the Girl. INDIANAPOLIS, April 2—John C Klein, driver of the motor car which struck 5-year old Jeanette Hedrick, resulting in the child’s death, today was charged with manslaughter. The charge was changed to involuntafy manslaughter after witnesses told po- lice the girl stepped into the motor ist's path and that he was driving slowly. Soviet-Chinese Trade MOSCOW, April 2—To encourage Soviet-Chinese trade and also to assist the Ekaterisburg Fair, which is an important event in the commercial life of all the Ural district, the Soviet government has ordered that goods sent to this fair from China proper and Mongolia, be passed free of duty. Get a sub—méke another Com- munist! * * — a F 4 * a RKER: : . 0 a 7 W — * Be . 5 * . . ee — 21% Mi Seven-Day Church Ba in Fight to Maintain Work-Week | By J. LOUIS .ENGDAHL. cks Bosses | of “freedom” and libe * a It is now hypocritically and women, should be allo of seven days each week. this paragraph: ers liked it, thrived on it. matter. © * workers know that they the whim of the bosses ism. instinctivel alarm clock. seven is n fight involves hundreds of t The fight in other industries. bles this lie: shoppers. 9 8 O0AV, the same aggregation of “open shoppers” that i made war on the anti-child labor amendment to the federal constitution, is now opening an offensive against the fight of the workers for one day's rest in seven. Up close to the head of the procession anti-labor drives are to be found the religious reactionaries — who cloak the blackest crimes of capitalism under the mantel in both these that grown workers, men to toil any hours they choose, ust as it was urged that children must not be robbed of ‘the god-given right“ to onto industry any time they desired. — . In Washington, D. C., there has actually been set organization that sends out its prop forts to shorten the work-week. euphonious title of “Religious Liberty out to save, as it claims, large sections of the working class from being compelled to toil six days instead Its philosophy is summed up in an nda attacking all ef- arades unter the ssociation” and is American „The right to work and the right to rest are natural God-given rights ‘which are left with each Individual to decide for himself, just the same as the number of hours he is to sleep at night, when he is to retire, when he is to arise in the morning, and how many meals he should eat a day and what combination of food he should take for the benefit of his health. To compel a man not to work when he wants to work, is the exercise of arbitrary authority.” That is the basis on which the big profiteers in the steel trust insisted on keeping the 3 industry until they realized they coul workers in leash. They claimed the twelve-hour day and the seven-day week were good for the workers; that the work- But, rather peculiar, they never permitted the men in the mills to speak their views on this in that eep the week goin no longer 89 e . The employers and their subsidized organizations, like the “Religious Liberty Association,” are 4 ingly hard time of it trying to delude workers in they have any rights under capitalism. Increasing masses o eat, sleep and work at the will and dictatorship, except where they are able to thwart its edicts thru their own organized strength. lf there are any “god-given rights” the boss has them. was the Pennsylvania mine owner, Baer, who once claimed that he ruled over the mine workers thru divine right. Only the powerful organizations of the hard and soft coal miners in that state have liquidated that dream. * * * an increas- to believin It Many workers do not know what is meant by capital- It is a Bolshevik word they do not fathom, know that it is the bosses’hand that sets the fight of the workers for one day's rest in example of this fact. This 7 ousands, But they sho if not There is only one power that permits John D. Rockefel- ler, Jr., to pray in his Fifth Avenue Church in New York City, on Sunday, while armies of workers toil at their jobs in the oil fields, or other branches of the oil industry. power of dollars in Rockefeller's grip, Perhaps, in the words of the Religious Liberty Association,” Rockefeller, Jr., mum- hat is the “It must always be remembered that every man has a natural, in- alienable right to work at any time he wants to work, as well as a right to rest when he wants to rest, without let or hindrance on the part of the state or an Industrial commission.” That is the usual frandulant propaganda of the open Workers have only those rights that they fight for and win. Today the big fight is to win power from the capitalists 8 we 3 workers, in many industries. it parallels the five-day week who control the lives of the workers under capitalism. Struggles for the eight-hour day and the six-day week, are but small preliminary skirmishes in that long war. The war nears its victorious ending for labor in Soviet Russia with the building of the Communist Society. The church in Russia, before 1917, was all on the side of the czardom. Yet the capitalist world feels shocked to think that the Russian workers and peasants should now, in the day their victory, have no use for the church. The “Religious Liberty Association,” in its fight against the “one-day-rest-in-seven” movement, also helps open the eyes of workers to the real mission of the churoh under Amerjcan capitalism. it is thus helping teach the workers a lesson that the church is their enemy. Let the workers profit by this lesson to the limit. Y. W. L. Branches All branches meeting tonight will hear the reports of their delegates from the city central committee meet- ing which was held Tuesday. Vital problems of activity discussed at the city central will be before the branches for action. Questions of organization of shop nuclei, the Young Worker sub drive, the Negro work and many other equally important matters are on the order of business. All branches have reported increase in membership and activity and we can well expect good business meetings tonight. The branches meet as follows: | Are Branch No. 1—6th Floor, 166 W. Washington St. | Area Branch No. 2—1910 W. Roose velt Rd. | Area Branch No. 3—3116 So. Hal- }sted St. Area Branch No. 5—2409 No. Hal sted St. Area Branch No. Blivd., basement. Everybody is welcome. — 6— 2623 Hirsch Joseph Montana, a laborer, was shot in the hall of his home at 1123.8. Pet oria St. The cause of the shooing is Montana is expected to re. aa unknown. oover : Meeting Friday Night | Trust Plans New Road. WASHINGTON, April 2—Reports were curent in Washington today that the New York Central was behind the project to build 344 miles of new rail- road across Pennsylvania east and west and to be known as the New York, Pittsburgh and Chicago rail- road. Railway men saw in the proposed new construction a plan of the New York Central for a shorter route to Chicago. Give your shopmate this copy of the DAILY WORKER—but be get his subscription. MOVIES we Draws Big Crowd SAN FRANCISCO, April 2.—C, J. Read, secretaty of the San Francisco conference, International Workers’ Aid, reports a record breaking suc- cess at the recent showing of “The Beauty and the Bolshevik.” “Every seat in California Hall was filled, and the biggest crowd that was ever seen at that hall stayed to the dance. The pictures were highly appreciated and already people are asking when the next one is coming. Show Big Success “If you have time you might let all Chicago know that the San Francisco show was one of the biggest su we have had for many a day. We feel encouraged over our success with the picture, and by the spirit shown by the spectators.” N It should be noted that the San Franciscé committee has shown every film put out by the I. W. A., so pro- letarian movies are no novelty there. met with this sensational success and put everybody on the lookout for the next film. Should Book Movie There are several hundred cities in this country where this Russian film masterpiece has not yet been shown. in some ot them are committees ex- perienced in running workers movies, in others there are able comrades who, if they once try, will find that it is easier to run a ‘successful movie than to put on a good meeting. Every local, large or small, should book this movie at once, by getting in touch with the movie department, In- ternational Workers’ Aid, 19 8. Lin- coln St., Chicago, III. Red French Deputy Repulses Attack of Upholder of Police PARIS, France, April — The Com- munist deputy, Renaud Jean, was at- tacked in the lobby of the chamber of deputies by the nationalist deputy, Perinard. Comrade Jean had de nounced ce interference with Com- munists who were staging a demon- stration at the Sorbonne university. Perinard shouted vile names at the Jean was attacked. The Communist repulsed the attack with one well-timed blow full in the face which shook all the fight out of the nationalist amd forced him to hastily withdraw. Bankers Reorganize Packing Companies in 3rd Big Merger Following the establishment of a gigantic automobile combine by the merger of the Dodge, Packard, Hud- son and other auto manufacturing companies, with the Briggs Body com- pany, and the Goodyear Tire company by Wall Street bankers, and the com- ine of the Standard Oil with the Do- heny Oil corporation, comes the an- nouncement of the reorganization of the Wilson Packing company. The packing concern, one of the “big four” members of the packing trust, will be taken over by a group of bankers, headed by the First Na- tional bank. Important Young Workers League Meet in New York NEW YORK, April 2.—On Sunday afternoon the Young Workers’ League of New York will hold a membership meeting at 105 Eldridge St., to dis- cuss the past work of the league and our present tasks in this district. There will be a general report by the district organizer and discussion of the report. Every member of the Young Work- ers’ League of New York must attend this meeting. There will be taken a roll call, and all those absent will be disciplined. : Out of town branches of District No. 2 . W. L. are invited to attend this meeting. The out of town branches if they can not all atten should at least send one represen tive to the meeting. sure to de him the next day to Admission by membership, only. Soviet Russia; a view Among other subjects: Mexico; the Negro and the trade unions; the situation in the miners-and the textile industry; a discussion of different views of Leninism— plus poetry, photogrophs, cartoons and an inter- national review section—combined in the April issue (and as interesting as eleven other issues in one year) make THE WORKERS MONTHLY well worth the subscription price of $1.25 for six months and $2.00 a year. the recognition of of the developments in Yet “The Beauty and the Bolshevik” . lobby, Comrade 7 3 7 ft 1 0 ae 2 * "a E
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1 1 5 4 A 4 1 1 4 r * o% 2 r * n 2 88 —— NEXT EXPLOSION MAY KILL MEN IN ILLINOIS MINE Panama Mine Ignoring All: Safety Rules By TOM TIPPETT. PANAMA, III., April 2.—If you hear of another mine explosion with scores of coaldiggers blown to atoms, don’t be surprised if the report comes from Panama. The men employed in the Cosgrove Meehan Coal Co. mine here! declare a disastrous blast may occur any minute and have lodged a protest, to prevent it, with the Illinois mine inspector. Tho present owners re cently bought the mine and have in- augurated a system to cut the cost of coal production that breaks the law to such an extent that the men threaten to strike, The Panama mine is the most gase- ous pit in the Taylorville district, ac cording to the state examiner. Three explosions in the past decade have burnt 28 miners to death. Almost every explosion in a coal mine is caused when coal dust which accumulates ip the. haulage ways is set off by gas, accidentally ignited. Coal dust is highly combustible. The state min- ing law requires this dust to be re moved and all haulage ways kept sprinkled with water. This work is done on the night shift to prevent jamming the work schedule of the day force. After the explosions in Panama the old company constantly kept a night crew of 125 men on safe ty work. One gang did nothing but clean roads. Air Courses All Clogged Up. The new company reduced this force of 125 to 12 men. No mine roads are cleaned any longer. Air courses have become clogged and the main air current is now being circulated through an abandoned section of the mine before it réaches one of the working sections. The danger of this lies in the fact that the old workings are full of gas which has been blocked in by conerete walls. That part of the mine is now squeezing (the earth settling inte the worked-out cham- bers). The squeeze has cracked three of the concrete walls. When the erack releases gas the air current will carry it to the werking section. Six hundred men are in that mine on working days. The Panama miners, having gone through explosions before, sent for Another haulage way is “usually dirty.” His recom mendations in part read: “All haul age ways mentioned must be cleaned and sprinkled with water often.” The squeeze section is not ordered closed to the air current but “it must be watched and examined regularly be- fore the men go down.” The miners object and say the earth gettles by day as well as night and that a new air course should be pro- vided. Company Says Profits Come First. None of the changes have been made. The company claims is it un- able to run the mine at a profit if it must abide by the state laws. If the Panama mine blows up again there will be no need for a commis- sion to determine why it happened. The miners, the inspector and the company will know why in advance. Mob Violence. NEW ORLEANS, April 2.—Judge Be- attie sitting in the federal court has denied the right of Sol P. Dacus to a new trial against the Great Southern Lumber Co. for 130,000 for damages growing out of the anti-union mob- bing at Bogalusa in 1920. Dacus with other union labor men was mistreated by a Liberty league, composed of citi- tens and employes of the lumber com- pany when the union tried to secure adequate wages and better housing. Subscribe for the DAILY WORKER! The Latest Issue | Noe | — | is now being mailed. — — This number of the „Communist International“ in addition to: “Seven Years: The First Anni- versary of the Revolution Without Lenin” by GREGORY ZINOVIEV contains articles on: United y States, England, Georgia, China, France and Jugo-Slavia. Single Copy 25 Cents. $2.50 a Year—$1.25 Six Months Order from the Daily Worker Agent in your city or + THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, III. — — : ST . ~ Chicago ee for Life — — — * — a¢ — — “> 3 THE ( ae ee . es 53 5 N nS PO of . 75 ae * ee ea ee DP WEL 2 Here is a small part of the great procession that picketted the Polish consulate (in the background) in Chi- cago, demanding the release of the Polish Communist, Stanislav Lanzutsky, sentenced to death. ** 1 N . SAND HOGS M STRIKE THREAT WIN VICTORY Limit Hours Under Air Pressure Labor . (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW ‘YORK, April 2— The Com- pressed Air Workers’ Union, in which the 3,000 ‘sand hogs’ of New York are organised: Hab won a signal legislative victory in the passage and signing of the Nicol-Phelp bill at Albany, radi- cally limiting the hours under which men may be worked at the higher air pressures in the Caissons and tunnels beneath our jsky-scrapers and rivers and harbors, *, Representatives of the contractors’ | ht the bill to the “pat” ann last tors were aware of the union’s declaration that not a ‘sand hog’ would go into the ‘air’ in the construction of the much adver- tised Brooklyn, to Staten Island tun- nel unless hours were so shortened that the men ‘would be protected in some degree against the terrible ‘bends’ or compressed air illness that laid nearly nine hundred men out in the New York to Jersey City tunnel now nearing completion. The 6-hour day, broken into two shifts, begins at 18 pounds pressure above normal, under the new bill, in. stead of at 21 pounds as in the former regulations. The 4-hour day starts at 26 pounds instead of 30, which means that a large proportion of the men will be on a 4-hour basis as much of the work is done between 26 and 30 pounds. Hours decrease with in- creasing air pressure until 48 pounds is reached, when men will be allowed to work only one hour a day: The bill now signed goes into ef. fect July 1. Stone Abandons Plan to Amalgamate the Two Head End Unions CLEVELAND.—Hope for amalgam- ation of the Brotherhood of Locomo- tive Engineers and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engine- men has been abandoned for the pres- ent by Pres. Warren S. Stone of the Engineers, he declares in the April issue of the Locomotive Engineers’ Journal. Committees representing both organizations to smooth out merging of insurance, pensions and other funds discovered “insurmount- able difficulties.” The Firemen and En- ginemen will consider the question once more in their June conven- tion. For several years both brother- hoods have negotiated wages and con- ditions in common under the Chicago joint agreement. Dr S. ZIMMERMAN DEN ISI ARMITAGE /46¢ 225 N if ‘fy a Aut \AYoE. Pho MY NEW LOCATION Special X-Ray rices — to Gas Workers Given ESTABLISHED 12 YEARS. My Examination ts Free My Prices Are Reasonable My Work is Guaranteed Extracting Specialist 3 of the republic in return DELAY MEANS DECAY AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O’FLAHERTY. Qs (Continued from Page 1) duty. Arthur used to be a radical, or at least something to the left of the socialist party. But lately he has been traveling so far to the right that he is scraping the polish of Victor Berger's heels. Hearst's foremost co- lumnist has an idea that warships are out of date and the airplane is a much more effective weapon for raining death on the heads of any people foolish enough to get fresh with Wall Street’s government, Arthur is an old man, and it would not be fair to post- pone the next massacre until he pas- ses away. > > > T is not so certain that Otta Braun will be the next Prussian premier by grace of the democratic and catholic parties. The socialists offered back the catholic Wirth for the for the Prussian premiership. But the catholics decided to throw their votes to a democrat, leaving the so- cialists up in the air. The latter are now scurrying, around trying to find a market for their seven million votes. If the kaiser isn’t dead broke he can have them. The yellows are out for the dough. 8 Russian-Japanese Trade Is Booming as Result of Treaty (Continued from page 1) an can likewise expect to sell a good many of her products in the U. 8. S. R.: among such products there may be mentioned paper, fishing nets and various fishing. equipment, raw silk and, generally, raw materials for the Soviet silk industry, and so forth. Beats Pre-War Record. “According to the latest customs returns, the general Soviet-Japanese trade turnover in 1923-24 reached 15, 500,000 rubles, which was about three times as much as in 1913. To pro- mote trade relations with the U. 8. S. R. there is no need to organize any special combine of Japanese firms. “Following the conclusion of the commercial treaty, there will be es- tablished a Soviet trade mission in Japan, which will enter upon direct business relations with Japanese com- mercial and industrial concerns. At the same time, however, it would be useful to organize a Ruuso-Japanese chamber of commerce, where Japan- ese businessmen concerned could ob- tain all the necessary information on the position of the market and the respective laws of the U. S. S. R., and which eould enter upon close rela- tions with the Russo-Oriential cham. ber of commerce and other similar organizations. Soviet Trade Commissions. “It is, of ceurse, difficult to say just now how many trade missions the U. 8. 8. R. would establish in Japan,” Mr. Ganetzky further stated, “as it would depend on the actual de- velopment of trade relations. But ! believe it would be useful for all par ties concerned to open Soviet trade organs in some other big commercia’ eenters of Japan, beside Tokyo, such as Osaka, Hakodato, etc.” Collection at Unity Conference for Irish Relief f and Defense The athlection l up at the unity demonstration held in the Ashland Au- ditorſum last Sunday afternoon amounted to $276.50. Those who have had tiekets to sell are requested t. make returns for same as soon as pos- | sible. BIG GAPITAL GRABBING BIG FARM FACTORIES Tenants and Proletariat Increasing “The danger is that it is already too late to find a remedy short of revolution,” writes Herbert Quick in his book The Real Trouble With the Farmers. He sees a class conscious farm proletariat coming into existence as a result of the increase in land val-|! ues due to the complete occupation of all good farm land. Most writers, he pays, are “ignoring the fact that farm tenantry has in- Alt Woworker OPEN SHOP 10 7 DRIVE AGAINST: STRONG UNIONS Miners’ and Building Unions in Line By LELAND OLDS. (Federated Presse industria! Editor) Watch the open shop pincers tight en on the organized coal miners. The golden age for the American invest- ment empire requires a subservient workmg class at hone. Oper shop is the domestic side of imperialism. The war left three powerful labor groupe that could challenge the div- ine right of the money lords: the rail- road workers, the mine workers and the building trades. Other strong un- ions did not so directly threaten basic industry in which the financial dicta- torship is intrenched. Administer “Breadline Cure.“ Open shop strategy since 1920 has been to starve these groups into sub- mission one at time, to administer what the capitalist press calls the “unemployment cure.” First the railway shopmen, the stronghold of the metal workers. In less than a year, about 200,000 were laid off and the railroads either let the work slide or contracted it out at exorbitant cost to nonunion con- cerns. It was an informal lockout which the unions fought oitterly but vainly. After two years in which tens of thousands had little employment or none, the railroads forced the 1922 shop strike. And the government backed the railroads. Heavy Losses in Metal Trades, The metal trades unions test heav- ily in membership, lost their entire right to represen: the employes on & majority of roads, and lost their mil- itancy. Strike action was at a dis- count, co-operation with capital on a poor-relation basis at a premium. Then open shop hit the miners. Un- ion mines in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky and the southwest were forced to part-time, in many ‘instances to complete shut- down, while nonunion mines exceed: ed all records. Later union mines in outlying districts cautiously opened on a nonunion, basis. Recently the Cleveland conference of operators in the central field was put forward as a feeder with the hint that if it proved ineffective toward the capitulation of the union the lock- out would extend to Pennsylvania. creased until it is the controlling fac tor in the condition of the farmer. It controls the majority of the farms in most of our richtest farming districts When to the préportion of farms un- der tenantry is added the other farm areas which ar® mortgaged and the owners of which are in fact if not in law merely tenants, it embraces a vast majority of the farms in the United States, Farm Tenaritry On Increase. “Farm tenantry increases with such rapidity because land grows so valu- able that a poor man cannot buy it and pay for it. Farms in good farm- ing regions are not for people in even moderate circumstances, as working people go. Lands which sold for 35 an acre in my boyhood have been sold in recent years for $500 an acre. Rich people in towns and cities bid with un. varying success against the dirt farmer for the ownership of farms.” Quick points out that this passing of the land into the hands cf the rich is increasing the average size of farms. The 40-acre and 80-acre farms of yesterday have been combined into 320-acre farms worth $100,000 to $150,- 000. Once young men could buy and equip a farm with the savings of a number of years’ labor. Now that fs impossible where land is good. New Farms Cattle Factories The curse of landlordism, he says settles on a region wherever the land increases in value. It results in farms The Pittsburgh lockdut followed. The union has been forced to threaten ex- operative scheme in order to evade the agreement and get jobs. Who is next? There are the build- ing trades, protected so far by the un- usual housing demand. And beyond them the more strongly intrenched railroaders. Peru Feels Cheated Over Award Giving Nitrate to Chile WASHINGTON, April 2.—Public in- dignation in Peru against the Hughes- Coolidge award of the Tacna-Arica nitrate territory to Chile, under the thin disguise of a plebiscite in which only Chileans will vote in large num- bers, has forced Leguia, the dictator president, to send to Washington a note demanding modifications of the award. He asked that American forces be sent to the disputed region to protect Peruvians during the taking of the vote. If his demands were not complied with, he would not accept the award and would take no part in the plebiscite. Ambassador Velarde hesitated to convey this ultimatum to Coolidge. The White House and state depart- ment learned its text when someone else in the Peruvian embassy gave it to the newspapers. Then pressure which lack flowers, shrubs and fruits. was applied, and over the week-end It produces farms which are merely Velarde got new instructions which corn, hog, wheat and cattle factories. Remedies such as lower freight rates, diversification, farm credits an: cooperation, he gays, will eventually only boost the value, of lands and the farmers will be no better off. He cites an instance in which cooperation with a better system of rural credits raise the price of land. 200 per cent, 300 per cent and 500 per cent until it became too valuable for a poor man to hold. The farm United States rental system in the is described as the worst in the world. To find one as bad we must go to prewar Russia It is rack-renting, a system in which the landlord has the legal right to get as much out of his land as he can. It is filling the land with people on a peon scale of living. Franco-German Delegates Break. PARIS, France, April 2.— The. French delegates negotiating for a Franco-German commercial treaty withdrew today, after failure to agree with the Germans over German buy- ing of French. exports. Seven Hurt ip Fire. Seven firemen wer injured by an xplosion that oceurfed at a fire ip the Fillmore Paint shop, 3630 Roose- velt Road. The fire-spread to the Central Park Hand /#agundry, where >) girls were working, but they were toned down the demands to polite re- juests. Peru's government now sug- rests that a native constabulary be organized to control the plebiscite and its preliminaries. This new note was delivered to Secretary Kellogg. But all the world had meanwhile been in- formed that the Peruvians felt that they had been cheated out of their territory by the Hughes-Coolidge de- cision. Bill Lee Now Out for Stone’s Scalp Using Lewis’ Gun CLEVELAND. — The Warren 8. Stone-John L. Lewis war is raging on a new front. Pres. William S. Lee, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, is distributing 2,500 copies of Lewis’ pamphiet charging Stone and his as- sociates with operating a nonunion coal mine in West Virginia. Lee and Stone have been at sword's points for years. Lee has held back from co-op- eration with the 15 mer railway or- ganizations which united to publish Labor, the national rail labor weekly, and réfused to join the Conference for Political Action which sponsored the LaFollette insurgent presidential cam- paign last fall. Get a sub for the DAILY WORKER from your shopmate mharmed. The building was de- stroyed. and you will make another mem ber for your branch. pulsion for locals working a fake co- . sandhill . — B Business Knows Value of Having Unity Against Labor (Special to The Daily Worker.) WASHINGTON, April 2.—Two hun- dred trade associations and 1,100 lo- cal chambers of commerce throughout the country are affiliated with the U. 8. chamber .of.commerce, whose headquarters are in Washington. Three fourths of the revenues of the national body come from associate and sustaining memberships, held by big merchants, manufacturers, bank- ers, etc., in whose name the national officers speak to the governmental chiefs. Cal’s Wall Street Appointee on Job WASHINGTON, April 2.—Rejection at the next senate session of Thos. F. Woodlock, former editor of the Wall Street Journal, as a member of the interstate commerce commissior is apparently the response to the re. cess appointment to Woodlock after the senate twice failed to act on his nomination. Woodlock's appointment has apparently been urged by the Morgan and Mellon interests in the belief that the new commissioner can accomplish a great deal of valu. able work for them before the senate shall throw him out. Weeks to Lease Power Plant. WASHINGTON—Secretary of War Weeks is getting ready to advertise for bids for the hydro-electric power— about 100,000 horsepower— which will be generated at the Wileon dam, Mus- cle Shoals, beginning about July 1. Inasmuch as the power can be dispos- ed of for only a brief time without the consent of congress, which refus- ed to finally enact the Underwood leasing bill, it is anticipated that the General Electric power trust will bid i? this “juice” at a small fraction of its commercial value. ONE! GET A SUB AND GIVE Page Tires COOLIDGE STEEL STOCK GOT HIM $600 LAST YEAR Steel Trust Cleahed Up | $153,114,811 Workers in the steel mills of the U. S. Steel Corp. during 1924 turned over to the owners a profit of $153,- 114,811. Calvin Coolidge’s share of this amounts to $589 while 8 Baker, dean of New York bankers largest stockholder, gets $690,500. Cal’s share on his steel trust hold- ings just about equals the wages on which the average steel worker’s fam- . ily is supposed to live for four months. Baker’s haul would cover the entire year’s budget of 387 families in the steel towns. Profits Double the Investment. Profits of the corporation since its organization in 1901 have totaled $3,- 517,348,727 or more than twice the capitalization, nearly half of which was water. Out of this enormous total $2,087,771,000 has been avaliable for dividends on the preferred and common stock. This represents about four times the actual investment rep- resented by stock at the time of or- ganization. The corporation has paid $1,176,473,763 in cash dividends. The water in the common stock has been squeezed out by annual appro- priations for new construction out of surplus profits. These have totaled $1,210,662,572, thus placing behind the common stock which originally repre- sented little if any investment a value of around $238 a share. Thus the real investment represented by the com- mon stock has been put in by under paid workers and overcharged con- sumers and the $595,960,000 in cash dividends to common stockholders has been little more than legalized robbéry. Story Told by Figures. Figures of interest to labor im the last two annual reports are: * U. 8. Steel 1924 1923 Products sold 842,969,442 992,916,162 Net profit 153,114,811 179,646,674 Cash dividends. ... 60,800,852 54,447,071 Undivided profits . 717,960,222 693,650,134 Cash checking acct. 131,357,416 143,499,628 Total wages 442,458,577 469,502,634 Number of employes .. 246,753 260,786 Average wage $1,794 $1,800 Value produced per worker 3,417 3,806 Profit per worker 621 689 New York Solons Fail to Pass the ALBANY, N. Y., April 2.—The New York state legislature closed without passing the 48-hour bill for working women in spite of both parties’ pledges that such a bill would be passed. The republican majorfty, led by the As- sociated Industries, tried to substitufe a joker bill which would have per- mitted employers to work women (permanently) 54 hours a week. The industrial board under what Senator Mastick, sponsor of the 48-hour bill, called “complicated and unworkable conditions” could reduse working hours in certain industries after investigations and hearings. The Women’s Trade Union League fought for the passage of the Mastick-Shonk bill which would have limited working women’s hours in industry to 48 per week. State Spende Millions. SPRINGFIELD, III., April 2.—Seven senate bills making an appropriation of $142,000,000 was passed by the house today and sent to the governor for his signature. * 48-Hour Law The corporation can continue cash dividends for a number of years even if it shuts down altogether. Wages Cut as Profits Pile Up. In the last 10 years the average wage paid by the corporation in creased from $925 in 1915 to $2,178 in 1920 and then fell to $1,794. The av. erage worker employed right through the period received a total of $15,860 for production worth $38,040. He turned over a profit of $7,194 to the owners. In the two years 1916 and 1917 workers averaging wages of $1,041 and $1,295 provided the owners with profits of $1,321 and $1,102 re- spectively. For the entire period of the corpor ation’s history the owners sitting in comfort have received 60 per cent as | much in profits as the hundreds of thousands of workers have been paid for 23 years of gruelling work. 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—— — — — 5 — — err — ——-—ò Ohinese Labor party “the Pekin unity conference. FEI ERENCE LED N KUOMINTANG and Factions “By JACK ARMITAGE. SHANGHAI, China; April 2.—-The (Kuomintang) seems likely to dominate in large part Peace in the orient depends largely upon the outcome of the Pekin conference, In preparation for this the Kuomintang has been strengthened in every way. ‘The prolonged illness, followed by the death of Sun Yat Sen has been re- sponsible for the postponement of the conference. Sun's successor has not yet been chosen, though it is likely that the mantle will descend upon Leu Chung Koi, an ex-governor of Canton, who is chairman of the Kuo- mintang committee of control. To Hear Ali Views. The Kuomintang has insisted that it be a conference representative of every opinion in China. The Chinese Labor party has no fovlish notions re- garding the position of the oriental workers. Asia’s teemiug millions of workers are the proletariat of the world, and its efforts are bent upon the reunification of China as the first step in the betterment of the econ- omic status of the Chinese worker. The control of the: Kuomintang is vested in a committee elected by its members. It is usually assumed that the Kuomintang is controlled by pol- iticlans and militarists at Canton, to whom the term Bolshevik is applied. As a matter of fact, Kuomintang has its headquarters at Aces All Parties Pekin, and the committee of control is drawn from widely scattered provinces, which radical influence is gaining ground. The party has a big following and receives a strong sup port from overseas Chinese, particu- larly in America and Australia. The delegates to the Pekin confer- in all of | steadily | ence aré now assembled to put forth | a workable reunification. The dele- gates represent industry, commerce, education, student organizations, pro- | vincial associations, labor unions, and agriculture. Fu will attend as representatives of the military parties, end the political * parties having representation will be the Anfui, Chihli and Kuomintang. Financiers Against Conference. Most foreign financiers hold that their interests demand the disunion of China. It is true that an outcry is raised every time foreign property suffers the slightest damage at the hands of contending military factions, but while many of these factions re- ceive foreign support, and are sup- plied with munitions of war in direct Tao Quan and Wu Pei contravention of the arms agreement, | such outcries must be logked on ad camouflage. Chang Tso Lin, the Manchurian leader, has declared he will give un- qualified support to the Kuomintang. This will not only strengthen hand of the labor delegates, but neu- tralize the attempts of foreign fin- ance to bring about disruption. At the outbreak of hostilities last Au- gust, it was freely asserted that Chang would endeavor to replace the Manchus on the throne of China. the ] „1 we 4 PC SD 9 P 3 — NS IN 1 FACE OPEN BUILDING TRADE NATIONAL C. SHOP "TGP aM 2-7 CFR Se Vs 5 gr ay wes Oo * RUN BY BANKERS eee to The on Werker)- WASHINGTON, April 2.— Hundreds ot strikebreakers have been re- cruited in Richmond, Baltimore and Philadelphia, according to officiais of the Master a association of Washington, Painters’ Union 68 in the event of a strike on April 6 in support of the to replace members of demand of the union for a wage of $10 a day. Non-union painters in Rich- mond are said to be getting only $5.60. Men of other building trades are likewise being listed to replace union men who may go out when their own demands are rejected within the m- ing fortnight. W. T. Gallmer, chairman of the board ‘of directors of the Federal American National bank, one of the largest in the city, presided at a meet- ing on March 30, of a special commit- tee of the bankers, real estate men, speculative builders and sub-contrac- tors, at which plans were laid for the struggle to break the building trades unions in the District of Columbia un- less the unions drop their demands for a raise in pay. All the allied in- terests pledged support to sub-con- tractors who should refuse to pay the higher scale and take the conse- quences. The painters and other unions in- volved in the demands refuse to give up hope that the bosses will agree to a peaceful solution involving some degree of incfease in wages. They recognize that there is cheap labor available in cities south of the Poto- mac, but they do not believe it can be imported to Washington and main- tained here as a strikebreaking force with any success to ‘the actual build- ers. They consider this maneuver a bluff. Workers Party of Milwaukee Holds. . Membership Meet MILWAUKEE, ..Wis., April 2.—In accordance with the decision of the district executive committee, a gen- eral membership meeting of all party members will take place Saturday, April 4, at 7:30 p. m., at the Miller Hall, 802 State. street. The attendance at the meeting is compulsory for all party members. Branch secretaries: are instructed to cancel all meetings scheduled for that date. All members must attend with- out fail. Only party members in good stand- ing will be admitted. Admission to the meeting will be by membership cards only. The following order of business will be submitted: 1. Industrial work: A—Shop nuclei. B—Trade union activities. Report on the trade union activi- ties will be made by Comrade Jack Johnstone, acting secretary of the Trade Union Educational League. The report will include the situa- tion in the machinists, building, needle trades and other unions. 2. The DAILY WORKER. % May Day celebration. 4. Sub-district, conference. 5. Report on party problems by the representative of the district ex- ecutive contmittee:—G. 8. Shklar, Secretary. GET A SUB AND GIVE ONE! A Luduaadadaadddadddaddddaddidadddadadadadaadaddadaddaaadaadadaddaddddadddddde Organizers. 7 Number One- Is a task of no small importance. Getting a sub for the DAILY WORKER from your shop-mate or member of your union is a task for the very best kind of a Communist organizer. You must state, prove, convince—you must place before the uninformed worker every argument as to why he should sub- scribe to The DAILY WORKER—and to the Communist principles it advocates. But it is the task of every Communist. This is the field in which are found not only the future members of the Workers (Communist) Party, but also— This is the field and work in which are developed the highest type of Communist Getting a DAILY WORKER sub is a task of no small importance! Try it on your shop-mate—it will make a better Com- munist of you! You Nuceeed—l se This Blank NAME FOPATES Fab a year $3-50~6 montis $200 3 montis Ti CHICAGO -k Boo ayear F450 6 months f THE NEW SUBSCRIPTION TO THE DAILY WORK „ SF months STREET — — LS |. ll —— CITY. STATE — — edu r — ' — 2 n | | — 5 CLEVELAND HAS COSTUME BALL SUNDAY, APRIL 5 Dancing, Mus ic, and Gymnasts on Program CLEVELAND, April 2.—More feat- ures are being added to the program for the international entertainment, bazaar, and costume ball, to be held on Sunday, April 5, at Grdina’s Hall, 6021 St. Clair Ave., by local Cleve- land, Workers Party. The Lettish Singing Society has agreed to appear, in addition to the German, Hungarian, Jewish, Lithuan- ian, Finnish, and Ukrainian choruses. Nell Amter and Jerome Land will be among those who will provide instru- mental music. Finnish Gymnasts Appear. The Finnish gymnastic teams will appear, the women’s team being es- pecially proficient in calisthenics, and providing a novel and very interesting drill. The Russian Mandolin Orches- tra, which always receives art ovation, will also be on hand. The committee is arranging for re- freshments during the evening inter- mission, so that anything from coffee and a sandwich to a substantial meal at a very moderate price, can be se- cured. Award Prizes. Dancing is scheduled for 7:30, and the evening will be featured by the numerous national costumes which will be worn by the dancers, for the best of which individual and group prizes will be awarded; and by bal- et dancing by Lillian Krestan, one of Cleveland’s leading artists in this line. Jack Bros. peppy union orches- tra will provide the music. Child Workers Ruined in Health to ‘Pile Up Profits for Employers NEW YORK, April 2.—Half-of New York’s working children of 14 to 15 years have physical defects, said State Industrial Commissioner James A. Hamilton, and these defects are ag- gravated by the work they are doing. Half of the children with flat feet must- be on their feet most of the day; one-quarter of the children with | defective eye sight work under eye strain; more than half the children | with heart defects worked under con- ditions of nerve strain. Almost half the children working, entered industry because the money was needed at home. In summing up his report Hamilton remarks: Sub- jecting the child under 16 to condi- tions of work which tend to break | down rather than strengthen his phy- sical equipment would seem to be false economy.” Prison Strike . Contract Slave System Was Fully Justified CHARLESTON, W. Va., April 2. — An investigating committee of the West Virginia legislature reports that the recent strike of convicts at Mounds- ville penitentiary against illegal | changes of tasks in the contract la- dor shops was “morally justifled“ although many of the convicts have meanwhile been punished. The com- mittee also declares that the contract secured by Isador Gordon, the Bard all and the Kleeson companies were illegal. Gordon is one of the heads of the prison contract labor trust, of which the two companies are known as subsidiaries. The legislative com- mittee finds that the contract Jabor System itself was responsible for this prison strike, and it recommends that the system be abolished. Were Go to PARIS.—The international aero- nautical federation awarded to Italy today six world records for weight carrying by airplanes and seaplanes formerly held by Lieuts. MacReady, Henderson, Stanley, Hardison and Holland of the United States. — Get A Sub And Give One! 7 SE movement in Soviet Russia, and Com- * INSTITUTION FOR 01 CHILD ¥ ty 4 GRC PLAYS was done in Leningrad during tection of motherhood and childhood. area of ten dessiatines. There are at rén’s cots in the institute. — The first anniversary of one of the stitutions, whose business it is to look ELFARE IN _ ai: 1 — 7 LENINGRAD, April 2.—In , spite of extreme economic conditions, much years of revolution with respect te pro- was the establishment of the Institute for Mother and Child Welfare. The premises of the institute consisted of 17 pa The institute is really quite a little township with various types of in- HER AND But the greatest achievement of all spread over an present about 700 mothers’ and child- after healthy and sick children and to brightest, most energetic and militant groups of the Juniors was celebrated by the Foster Junior Group of Browus- do everything for the protection * motherhood. The work of the institute is 3 the direction of the council consisting of prominent medical men, jurists, biologists, and social workers. The institute has a considerable number of departments. There is a consultation room for mothers with children, and pregnant women. Nurses Are Fully Trained In the consultation room, there are fully trained nurses who give th mothers advice on sanitation, hygiene, etc, The waiting room is a large, light circular hall, with picture posters dealing with the protection of mothers and children. The room next to it is the weighing room which is provided with a special children's weighing machine. Chil- dren suspected of suffering from in- fectious complaints are not allowed into the general waiting room, but are taken to a special room divided into separate little boxes. From the weighing room the children go with their mothers into a large light cor- ridor, from which a number of medi- cal consulting rooms may be entered. The waiting room for pregnant wo-. men is at the other end of the cor- ridor and has a separate entrance. Its walls too are covered with slogans and posters. In the same building is the chil- dren’s clinic for special complaints (therapeutic, surgical, nervous and eye and ear complaints). It has also a special entrance. In the main building there are: a surgical department with a splendidly equipped operation room, Rontgen rays cabinet, department for internal complaints, a clinic for nursing chil- dren and a distributing department for children under 12 months. Here the children are examined, kept under observation and then sent to the spe- cial mothers’ and children’s homes. In the large two-storied pavilion to the right of the big avenue the ma- ternity department occupies the first floor. It is well equipped and very light, clean and comfortable. The newly born babies are put in a spe- cial ward away from their mothers. On the second floor is the department tor pregnant women to which women are admitted two months before their confinement if they are in poor cir- cumstances. And then there is an- other department where mothers stay with theid babies for two months after their confinement, also in cases of economic hardship. Here too, every- thing is clean, light and comfortable, white furniture everywhere, slogans and posters on the walls. Separate bed-rooms and a separate dining-room. Five of the pavilions are hotels for mothers with their children, and then there are three pavilions for children only. | Instruction Given Mothers The mothers take duty in turn. They look after the children, work in the linen and in the dining room, and are also encouraged to work in the sewing room, which is in a separate building. Mothers get instriction in sanita- | tion, hygiene, etc., and there is also a school for the liquidation of illiteracy. There is a milk center in one of the pavilions, which 4s beautifully equip ped.—a special room to which the milk is delivered and where it is cooled, a room for the sterilization of milk and for the preparation of milk foods. These rooms are provided with special sterilizers, cooling appar- atuses and separators. Here too the milk is bottled, There is a special bottle-washing room and a waiting room, also a laboratory with the ne- cessary aquipment for scientific work. The outstanding feature of this de- partment is its scrupulous cleanliness, which equals that of the operation ville. This roupb. which has parti. cipated in mauy party affairs, de- monstrated that the boys and girls composing it, not only understand what Communism means and what jes aims are, but also that they pos sess the energy to go forth among the boys and gif—_g ot this country and do the propaganda and organizational work necessary to build up a power- ful youth movement in the United States. 5 9 Shows Fighting Spirit. The Foster group showed its fight- ing spirit in the tableau “Slavery and Freedom” and im tlie two- act playlet “The School.” The young comrades played with zest; and understanding. in the tableau they showed that they well understand the struggle that the workers are engaged in, and the dy- namic enthusiasm’ with which they gave the tableau was catching. The playlet is very effective and was played with wonderful clarity and precision. This little play should be given by every group in the organiza- tion. The three main roles were played by three comrades of the Jun. iors, Louis and Sadie Mikells and Anna Rishen. These three boys and girls played with splendid finesse. We older comrades who haye gone thru the American schools and know what they stand for, once more lived thru our own youthful experiences. It is said that the two young comrades, Louis Mikells and Anna Rishen, in giving definitions of the world capital- ism, parasite, C unism and So- viet, supplied their on definitions, which were as e as Marx him- self has put them, Performance Captivating. The verve with which the children played was captivatiig: Do Commun- ist children excel? Have they the mil. itancy that children should have who are not spoiled by vicious school system? Is the substitute for the Junior Group ‘this country to train children into ts and fight- ers against the g capitalist system? There 4. < despite the fact that some comi@es not only do not appreciate the that is being done by the Junior but also seem to be opposed to the Junior Groups as a matter of principle. The Junior Groups of New York, and particularly the Foster Group, have been given good leadership and training by the ‘Young Workers’ League of New York: Their conscious- ness has been intensified, their vigor | increased. The w#atural, instinctive e spirit has been increased. Pay Heed to Juniors. If comrades of the Workers Party would only pay more attention to the splendid work that is being done by the Junior Groups, particularly of New Tork City, if they would criticize less and help more —if they would answer the appeal of the Young Workers’ League and of the Junior Groups, to send their children into the groups— just as the Juniors and the league ap- peal to the non- party proletarians to do, then the movement would grow with greater speed and enregy. There is no substitute for the Work- ers (Communist) Party; there is no substitute for the Young Workers’ | League. Therg is also no substitute „kor the Junior Groups, despite all sug- gestions of non-partigan schools of | every character. Israel Lifschitz was chairman of the meeting, which he conducted like an adult. During the evening, which was one of tremendous enthusiasm, Com- rade I. Amter spoke about the youth | rade W. Herberg addressed the assem- blage in the name of the district com- mittee of the Y. W. L. The evening was instructive, elevating, inspiring.. All hail to the Juniors! pares about 50 different foods for nursing children who have to be arti- ficially fed. The tasks and possibilities of this institution are enormous. The idea is to train in the institute a cadre of mother and child welfare workers for work in the country. The institute most become a center for the further development of the science of bring- ing up healthy children, a science which is yet in its infancy. Social Work Big Task Apart from scientific work the insti- tute makes social work one of its main tasks. A motherhood and child hood protection nucleus will be organ- “Albanian Garibaldi” Killed. ROME.—A message from Tirana, Albania, today anfiounced the death in a fight with Albanian gendarmerie of Bajram Kurt; knuwn as the Al- banian Garibaldi” He had sworn un- remitting opposition to Premier Zogu after the overthrow of Bishop Fan Noli as premier, Give your shopmaté this copy of the DAILY‘ WORKER—but be sure to see him the next day to get his subscription. * + Chicago, Illinois. — 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 reeipts and note paper for your use containing a full descriptive catalogue of all Communist books and publications from “The Source of All Communist Literature in This ; Country”---the DAILY WO -— Nx. 1113 Wat Washington Ba. a Its walls are covered | room. At present this milk center pre- NEW YORK, April 2.—The Work- ers’ School announces that a course in the Principles and Tactics of the Communist International is now being * ~ BY WORKERS? SCHOOL SATURDAY, APRIL 11 NEW YORK, April 2—The Work- ers’ School will hold a gala spring entertainment and da on Satur- day evening, April 11, at 108 Kast «14th street. This is the first affair arranged by the school at the new headquarters and promises to be a prize event at our workers’ house. Among the many _ interesting features of the evening will be an exhibition of Armenian folk dances by Varya Stepanian, well-known Armenian dancer. Music will be furnished by the orchestra of. the English Williame- burg branch, the farge of which has spread among our ranks thruout the length and breadth of the city. Comrades and sympathizers are urged to make no other arrange- ments for the evening of April 11, and to come to the Workers’ School at 108 East 14th street. Workers’ Educational Centers of Bronx, Harlem, and Brownsville. T0 Trace World Situation. Beginning with an analysis of the crisis of capitalism, the course will munist tactics and the building up of mass Communist parties. A study will tion to shop nuclei reorganization, propaganda work of the Communist Party, the winning of the peasantry, the national and colonial questions, work of co-operatives, among youth, etc. The course will close with an analysis of the special problems and tendencies of the Communist war- ties in the leading countries. The chief text 7 be used {Is the theses of the Fifth Congress of the Cdmmunist International, as contained in No. 8 of the “Communist Interna- tional.” This will be supplemented by other important documents. Classes are as follows: Bronx Educational Center, 1847 Boston Road— Every Tuesday evening, 8 p. m. Instructor, I. Stamler, | Harlem Educational Center, 64 Hast 104th street—Every Tuesday evening, 8 p. m. Instructor, Rebecca Grecht. Brownsville Educational Center, 1701 Pitkin Ave., Brooklyn—Every Monday evening, 8 p. m. Instructor, George Siskind. ized shortly, consisting of represent- atives of factories and works situated in the Viborg district, as well as re- presentatives of social organizations. This nucleus, as a proletarian social organ, is to establish contact between the institute and the factories and works. The social-judicial department which is being organized iu the inSti- tute will make it its business of study and to realize the legal rights of mo- ther and child. : Finally, the institute is undertaking to be the patron over one of the uyezds, to give instruction and render help in uyezds mother and child wel- fare work, and first a rie foremost to organize medical cons tation in the villages. 18 The institute is closely connected with all Leningrad mothét and child welfare institutions; and is, so to Everyone Can Enroll. Comrades and sympathizers are urged to enroll at once. In the prev- ious term classes in-the Elements of Communism were conducted in the Workers’ Educational Centers, The course now offered supplements this study of Communist theory, but may also be profitably taken by those who did not follow the other course. This course will also be given by Comrade Joseph Brahdy at the West Side headquarters, 345 West 39th St., date to be announced. A course in the Elements of Com- munism, with Ray _Ragozin as in- structor, will be given every Friday evening, 8 p. m., A ast n. speak, their scientifle and leading rat center —Yasnaya. quire of secretary, Workers’ School, Room 34, 108 Hast 14th street, or of the Workers’ Educational Centers. * . Friday, ‘April 8. Greek Branch, 722 Blue Island Ave. Polish North Side, 1902 W. Division St. Uruguay Women Ask Vote. MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, April 2.— Within a year women will be given the right to vote here, according to Baltasar Brum, former president of Monday, April 6. Douglas Park English Branch, 3118 W. Roosevelt Road, business meeting. North Side English Branch, 2409 N. Uruguay. Halsted St. Nmeteenth Ward Italian, 921 8. French Stay in Germany. N Loomis St. April 2.— That PARIS, France, France will not evacuate the Cologne area in Germany was intimated by a member of the Foch commission. I dds Number Two-- Is just as important but it’s easier. Get a sub— make another Com- munist! The second task that is asked of every Communist—in or out of the Workers (Communist) Party—in the Second An- nual Sub Campaign is very much easier. You have no doubt tried to convince; you have surely stated the Communist princi- ples and program to many workers you have met. ' You did this as the task of a Communist. But where you may have not as yet succeeded—let the DAILY WORKER do it; you can do it better with “Our Daily.” Pay for a subscription out of your own pocket (if you can) to the worker whom you want to convince. 2 With the aid of the best expression of Communist principles and practice in the DAILY WORKER reaching him every day —you will surely “Make Another Com- munist.“ In Order to Succeed—Use This Blank et — a — KATES - Taboo a year §2.50-6 mantis £200 J montts S800 ayear I4&0 6 monttr f 25 Send this PROPAGANDA SUB to a worker to “Make Another Communist” | NAME Minn PL STREET. Crrv. given under its supervision in the world economic situation and the be made of the organization of he Communist International and the Com- munist Party, devoting special atten- For information and untitniiien in- ; x then take up the problems of Com the I eee eee tete kurgttntt l fünf tat bbc hh HAU ET UREALOL ONDE LOA PA bOGd Tsetstustrttttm TA N ‘ x
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* * Be 1 2 ’ * — r Thirteen Per Cent Less Than Last Year WASHINGTON, April 2—(FP)— Production of soft coal was 13 per cent less, in the week ending Mar. 21, 1925, then in the corresponding week in 1924, says the Geological Sur- rex report. For the week ending Mar. 14, the operators“ reports to the 8 vey showed a loss of more than 7 000 tons, and indicated that the chief reason for the decline was a rapid, softening of the market. “Production decreased appreciably; mia large majority of producing dis- tricts,” says the Survey, and prac- tically all the additional losses were ascribed to no market“ In the week ending Jan. 10 very few districts worked less than half time on the average, many worked two- rds of full time, and some between .e@-quarters and full time. uost recent week not a single district worked three-quarters time, only 10 worked half time, and in several dis- tricts time was reduced to about one third ot the full-time hours.“ In anthracite mining, the present weekly rate of output is about 350,000 tons less than the average of the cor- responding weeks of the last five years. Get an Investigation Out of Cal, But We'll Bet They Get No More WASHINGTON, April 2—(FP)— Bombarded by protests from organ- ised labor and organized war veterans, President Coolidge has finally ordered an investigation of the circumstances surrounding the dismissal of 175 union men from the government print- ing office, March 1, by Public Printer Carter, The Typographical Union of Washington charges that in dis- missing these men Crater violated the law, and asks his removal. In view of the action of the admin- istration with reference to the print- ers, the Machinists’ Union has renew- ed its demand that the dismissal of seven of its members from the print- hi g.office be likewise examined by € plidge. It asks that they be re- s fred to their old jobs. Former “Czar’s Spy Sentenced. CHARKOVO, Russia—The courts to day affirmed the death sentence of Kurliandsky, charged with having posed as a revolutionist under direc- tion of Czar Nicholas and to have been the means of sending hundreds of real revolutionaries to death. Italian War Minister to Quit. ROME—The semi-Official newspaper Il Secolo, said today that it is likely War Minister Digiorgio would re- sign if the senate rejects his army re- form bill. Does your friend subscribe to "ALABAMA GOVERI In the UNITED ATT (Special to The atrived in Cincinnati today to deliver. elements of both parties under the | name of the conservative party. “There is a real danger here,” Gov- ernor Brandon said. “It must be real- And steps must be taken to cope 18 it. The conservatives of both -| partes are alike in. their political be- om and a union should not be dit. fi » “Ido 55 favor government develop ment tion of Muscle Shoals,” said theczoret or: But he expressed himself, as favoring government super- yision,.the work to be done by private parties. Anti-Soviet reat 2 ry at Exposure by the Daily Worker When F, A. Mackeniste: anti. Soviet agent of the Dally News, Wwhochas been trying to take Jake Spolansky's place as that newspapers“ official liar, spoke against Soviet Russia at 4 north side forum, he found that he had 4 hostile audience on his hands. During the discussion period, Georges George Kocalis, and other members of the Workers Party, gave the lie to Mackenzie’s statement that counter- revolutionary prisoners fn Russia: were “in prison for nothing at all.” Pointed questions were thrust at Mackenzie as to why he did not take an interest in the thousands of Com- munist prisoners rotting in the Ru- ropean prisons. He replied he “knew nothing about Communist prisoners.” Comrade Kocalis told the audience that Mackenzie was the representative of a rotteh capitalist sheet, which has no usé for th® working Class, and told of the DAIVYWORKER which de- fends the fntérdsts of the workers. Mackenzie mentioned the DAILY WORKER’ iti ‘his speech and seemed much pertürbed that the workers’ daily had expobéd his anti-Soviet lies. Dancing, ‘Dama and singing gat Wobblies“ air Saturday Eve bean. Old 8 and mew will gather at the West End Women’s Club on Saturday evening, April 4, to enjoy a variety of entertainments to 727 staged dy — * ape 322 and. actors will do their stuff, a pl et “A Woman of Convenience” Wij] Ve staged by good talent, althd the, figors have barred the title, 80 wé baͤnderstand, as being more intriguing, | than the play jus- tifles. Besides this, We Eseralero, will give a select on songs in Spanish and English. And then, there will be a dance on a good floor with a fine or- me DAILY WORKER? Ask him! chestra. ia OUR DAILY PALLEKNS A YOUTHFUL FROCK, Tiel ia Züll 5083. Plaid gingham, flannel or inen could be used for this model. The collat and facing may be rolled is in the small view, or closed to the collar edge. The Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes: 14, 16, 18 and 20 years. A 16 year size requires 3% yards of 40 inch mater- fal. To trim with contrasting mater- ial as illustrated requires % yard 40 inches wide. The width of the skirt at the lower edge with plaits extend- ed ig 1% yard. Pattern mailed to any address on eceipt of 12c in silver ar stamps. 89 „ oe FASHION BOOK NOTICB! Send 120 in 1 2 stamps a tees 1 and con . es, misses’, + ~ a & con- ise on dress- the needie ets ts to A NEAT AND“SIMPLE SUIT FOR THE “SMALL BOY.” 5068, checked gingham, pique, linen and flannel may be used poplin, for this model. Thesmock closes at the right side of the front under a facing or trimming band, a illus- trated. The Pattern is cut in 3 Sizes: 2, 4 and 6 years. A 4 year size re quires 1% yard of 36 inch material with % yard of 36 inch contrasting material for collar and facings. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. Address: The DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, III. NOTICE TO PATTERN BU YERS—The tterns being sold thru the DAILY RKEK pattern department are fur- nished by a New York firm of pattern en Orders are torwarded by the DAILY WORKER every day as re- pr —4 they are mailed by the man- t if — pattern le PITTSBURGH, PA. | Te these who work. .hard for their | money, I. will save 50 per cent on all their dental work. : DR. RASNICK DENTIST 645 Smithfield Street. CINCINNATI, O., April 1—*Bolshe Jet the democratic party must join with the ‘conservatives of the republican ‘| party, under one party name to combat 8 This was the statement of Governor Wmtam Brandon, of Alabama, who AT ‘ 1 * ; SFR Ck BOLSHEVISM r) ism iv growing. The conservatives an address. The governor suggested that a conference of the two old parties be held at Washington at once and the outcome of such conference should be an immediate merger ot the Conservative+- Open Shop Drive in ‘Washington, D. C., to Involve 40,000 Men 30 mombers of the Stonecutters to work with a foreman who has no un- ion card resulted in immediate dis- missal of all members of the union employed by the president of the lo- cul master masons. association, Wil- liam McLeod. Officers of seven other building trades which have, like the Stonecutters, demanded an increase in wages, believe they also may face a lockout. The Stonecutters were told their union would no longer be recog- nized, Dismissal of the Stonecutters took place 24 hours after a meeting of over 100 speculative builders, sub- contractors and financial and real estate men, determined to jointly re- sist any increase in building wages but no other action against the unions Forty thousand men are involved in the impending struggle. April 6, 1,000 Painters are scheduled to go out unless the bosses grant an in- crease from $9 to $10 a day—a de- mand which the Master Painters have rejected. The Steamfitters are ask- ing a raise from $10 to $11, May 31. The Plumbers ask the same raise for May 7. The Rubble Stone Masons want the same for April 1, and the Cut Stone Masons for April 6. The Millworkers are also demanding a raise, as are the Plasterers. — Borah Denies Ant!-Soviet Talk. WASHINGTON, April 2.—Frederick William While; standpat press cor- respondent and radio lecturer on for- eign affairs at Washington, announced Kellogg, “with President Coolidge’s support, stands exactly where Sec- retary Hughes stood, and where Sec- retary Colby stood,” as to recogni- tion of Russia. > Neither the state department nor the White House would confirm this state- ment, but Senator Borah: remarked that Wile was “altogether too posi- tive." Dial Gete His Reward. WABHINGTON—Former Sen. Dial of South Carolina, who voted with the administration on all important is eues during the recent session, when he was a democratic lame duck, has received his reward. He has been named by President Coolidge as a member, on salary, of the special com- mission on Muscle Shoals. Dial voted to give Muscle Shoals to the power trust, under te terms of the Under. wood bill. He is a big owner of cot- ton mills, and is a persistent enemy of public ownership of power, rail- roads or other utilities. Montana Flood Waters Recede. GLASGOW, Mont., April 2:—-Flood waters of the Milk River were reced- ing this morning after reaching their highest point last night and causing a damage of approximately $100,000 in this vicinity. The water covered the first floor of many houses on the lower side of this city and wrought havoc to many of the farms. GET A SUB AND GIVE ONE! WORKER agent. It is: splendid analysis of the present in ite ranks. mail from 1113 W. Washington Blvd. THE 2 * WASHINGTON, April 2.—Refusal of } * 2 , A ‘ * Sx * N 5 ‘ 2 age a — 12. INNS 8 IRISH: FAMII INE FUND qh 1 Cleveland 5 Also Aids Hungry Workers CLEVELAND, ee 2—Painters’ District Council No, 6 and Street Raii- way Employees have purchased tick- jets for the big dance on Saturday, April 4, at Gordon .Square Market Hall, West. 65th and Detroit, for the benefit of the Irish Fan Sufferers. The local branch ot the Irish Work- ers’ and Peasants’ Famine Relief Com- mittee, under whose apepices the af. fair is being run, isjgneking prepara- tions for @ record-breaking crowd at this popular West Side: hall, where Irish and American @apeing will pro- vide all with one ot the best times of the season. ‘edie McCarthy to Speak. The local committee will also hold a mass meeting in themear future, at which John Patrick MeCarthy, now on his way back from the famine region in Ireland, will spead The local capitaliat press is playing true to form by news stor- ies which attempt tosminimize the ex. tent of the famine im Ireland but the wide-awake Irish workers of Cleve- land, are not fooled: by such propa ganda of the British and Free State governments and their: American sym- pathizers, which they have seen many times before. Donations for Bazaar. A bazaar is being run in connection with this affair, and every party mem. ber is to make a donation of merchan- dise or cash for this purpose. A num- ber of the branches will have branch booths, and the donations are to be left either in the local headquarters, at 5927 Buchia Ave or at the branch headquarters. in and good repo Oe made for ad- vance ticket, sal the committee is making prepal tor a big crowd, and for thé "tdst successful af- fair held by Local Cleveland during the season. Adenin only 35 cents in advance (45 cents at the door) for both afternoon and evening.. Enter. tainment starts at Ap. m. / Tied Up by Row Over 33 involved urisdictiongl t about the uncompleted, ood of Locomotive | Engeneers“ Building in Cleveland. The federal court ‘has been asked to pass en the disputes which involve “thesrstructural iron workers, painters, plumbers, brick- layers and steam engineers unions. A plea for an injunctiem was brought by a sub-contracton against the main contractor and seeks to have iron workers hang elevator doors, rather than carpenters. It, is also charged that the painters are domanding that metal window wort” factory be repainted? “’ The building, to have been complet- ed in March, will Wot be opened until June. Similar delays are occurring on the $4,000,000 public Ubrary job. CLEVELAND, Complete Conference Plans. ROME-—Preparations for the Inter- national Parliamentary ahd Commerc- ial Confrerence, Aptil 7 to 21 were completed today. There was no indi- You can get this splendid first number of * pocket library sure to become the most popular working class pub- lication ever issued in this country from your local DAILY A most important statement of the American Trade Unlon Movement by three persons best qualified to write of it. labor and includes the history and program of the new force rising If you have no local DAILY WORKER Agent pe it by THE DAILY WORKER Literature Department cation that Germany will participate. Trade Unions in America By Wm. Z. Foster, Jas. P. Cannon and E. R. Browder 9 The Little Red Library itis a conditions in American: organized Chicago, lil. —— Sharpens Its Own B COMPLETE OUTFITS . $1.00 & Donations for ing: ba#aar are coming | Page ed BUILDERS AT WORK HE STILL KEEPS OUT OF JAIL! Even Tho He Tries it in Boise, Idaho. K have once before brought to the attention of our readers the splendid efforts of a real BUILDER—Comrade Theodore Pierce of Boise, idaho—who told us then what a nest of reaction this town was. Despite threats of jail he sold the DAILY WORKER on the streets and continues doing it as you see by this letter he sends us: Dear Comrades: lam writing today to let you know that | have not as yet found my way to jail for selling the DAILY WORKER as some would-be - ‘capitalist has suggested | would. | am sending you another $1.50 today for the papers l have sold. Increase my order to ten copies daily and send me at once a dozen copies of Upton Sinclair's “Singing Jall Birds” to sell as | go along with the DAILY WORKER. Boise le a stronghold for the would-be sore-head capitalists, who, should they get out of work, would be starving in lees than a month. They are literally owned and driven by their bosses altho the DAILY WORKER is opening some of their eyes and | think le doing them a world of good. Yet many of the “frog-head farmers” think it too radical. | have not been able to take any more subs but have promises of some soon and you can rest assured | will keep after them. Fraternally Yours, Theodore Pierce. C-. 230 ':.¢ The fine spirit of thie BUILDER le one we are glad to bring to the attention of our readers. Boise is a “hard” town—with religion of the fifty seven varities as its cloak of virtue. This comrade is opening up a new territory where it is not easy to be a Communist Ploneer. More success to his efforts and may our movement have more such BUILDERS. 2 0 % @ ON APRIL FIRST these BUILDERS have sent In new subs to fool the system that is fooling so many workers: CHICAGO, ILL.—John Hendrickéon, 3; Walter Schuth. PHILADELPHIA, PA.—Lena Rosenberg, 5; G. A. Fox. ZALTO, MD.—P. Suvorov. MUSKEGAN, MICH.—Walter Johnson. DENVER, COLO.—F. L. Krasick. a DETROIT. MICH—N. Stoyanov. 4 LOS ANGELES, CAL.—S8. Globerman. TRENTON. N, John Brunn, 8. WEST ALLIS, WIS.—Stanley Korade. MILWAUKEE, WI8.—G. 8. Shklar, 7. ROCHESTER, N. v.. Peterson. PITTSBURGH, PA—F. H. Merrick. — Por Sale at All Stores Selling Razors and Bi : : it is no exaggeration to say that there has never appeared in this country such an important journal of information and theory—when, you can find articles by Gregory Zinoviev, Wm. Z. Foster, I. Stalin, Earl R. Browder, Wm. F. Dunne, Alexander Bittelman and other well known writers in one number—as you will in the April issue of THE WORKERS MONTHLY which has just come off the press. We have received a new stock of this splendid pamphlet by the secretary of the Red International of Labor Unions. Order from your local DAILY WORKER agent or by mail from THE DAILY WORKER Washington Bivd. | 2 15c EACH | | 1113 In a splendid Alexander Bittelman, of the central executive com- mittee of the Workers Party, says: “What must you dof What can YOU Do? “Turn to Lenin, he'll tell you. He has built a party and led a movement quered for the toiling masses one- sizth of the ought to know things. you.” — 2 Your Union Meeting | First — April 3, 1925. 237 Bakers and Conf., 3420 W. Roose- velt. 8 Bookbinders, 175 W. Washington t. 29 8090 e 810 W. Harrison $t. 8 Council, 180 W. hin éton. 1 3 175 W. . 70 Carpenters, 2705 W. 35th St. Carpenters’ Dist. Council, 180 W. Washington St. 2200 Carpenters, 4339 8. 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ae aes — ull Bh 7 r 1 1 * Na 1 1118 W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, nei J. LOUIS ENGDAHL | onstration, as initiated by the central WILLIAM F DUNNE Editors as a leader of counter-revolutionary detachments aoe L agp fo aad him, | either the knowledge of languages or | It is true, that (to 12 — = executive committee of the W a Is over. n 1 of the necessary news of what is Fo- I. F. T. U. report): In the pe Communist) Party in the case of ee ebenda gen —. | | Amerigan soldiers who were in Siberia as part TMS Pleasant formality being er | ing on in each separate country.] under review (1922-1924) the nud : W r rr ee — — — ee Jemenof Quits Semenoff “hits°made his peace with the Soviet | is hardly necessary to say that Semenoff’s career p RT , T ‘(Continued from page 1) past, as compared with our continen- tal comrades, has been the lack of 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, ML gov ernment——om Its, not his, terms. ORGANIZER he | _ (Phone; Monroe 4712) . He will be alldwed to return to Siberia, not be- act 1), - : is SUBSCRIPTION RATES cause he can be of any use to the workers’ and N 2 ‘ ac ee a sal) “Gorrespandence Between 7 AT CIT Y CENTR, ie ' By mail: peasants’ government, but, because the Chinese e — he ere ad th msterdam and Moscow. | sat 66.60 per Po wan tik Cnleage * on months workers and peasants; as well as the Japanese, have . the workers pron of i ; : I : eee | tired of having this bandit leader in their territor aware of the urgency of the a beginning in our narat ve o * — — ater — — The Soviet 5 —— responsibility for tlie But u Seems P Police Only — and the need of giving it the | the 1 in the attitude ot mutual All Forms ne of Work : * adress all mail and make out checks to further acts of this white guard as a favor to the Ones Disturbed strongest backing. In this country hostility, we may ae 8 ay Going Forward a THe Say Wo peoples with whom it has concluded treaties. It one of our great difficulties inthe | the third congress al Federation of Trade Unions held at Vienna in the first week of June, 1924. * at | ar | Hines | Continuation of agitation ana dem- ranged, I wag, informed that the decide to do in the Trade Unton International has repeat. . Entered as second-class mall Sept. 21. 1938, at the Post- of the Wilsonian imperialist adventuregwill remem- h 8 een 6 nile Whatever we decide e Un 3 Communist, against the Polish Wh . of March 8, 1878. ae Ae future we must proceed on the basis edly approached the International terror; insistence upon going for wand Office at Chicago, III., under the act arc h 1 hi d Kes No — rm ber Semenoff as the most brutal of the white guar ance 12 streets!“ He ex- of ascertained facts. We must all Federation of Trade Unions with the with: shop nuclei — 290 Advertising rates on applicatiog |¢!ements. Sev eral clashes between “his murderous | plained at I had Gisturbed,| the time go forward gn a sure foot-| request. that the two internationals gardiess of obstructions aud: — bands and the American troops took place in spite | the building .workers, and 22 them ing of facts and reliable information. | should co-operate and form a united des: *faitensification of tada of the fraternization between the officers of both rent — Ag — prow ge we] Besides this there are other rea- front.” But to enter into a nen and industrial work: and dere M ergers armies and the former enlisted men will waste no = — f sons well known to my colleagues on | of these past negotiations 2 take ot the DAILY WORKER drive, w sympathy. on Semenoff no matter what happens Under Arrest. the general council. The so-called yg too far from the present issues, What Wall Street admits is the largest merger in the history of the oil industry has just taken place with the acquisition of the Pan-American Petroleum and Transport company by the Stand- ard Oil company of Indiana, the most powerful subsidiary of the Rockefeller interests. The assets of the Pan-American include besides oil wells and immense concessions of Mexican oil properties, refinerieg and a fleet of oil tankers con- sisting of 31 ships with a dead weight of 272,500 tons, formerly controlled by E. L. Doheny of Tea pot Dome fame. . problems dealt with at the city 4 tral committee meeting, Wo 7 (Communist) Party, local Chicago. at the April 1 meeting. The demonstration before the 1 lish consulate last Saturday on be- half of Comrade Lanzutsky, and the parade thru the Polish working cl. districts with banners and distrid tion of literature, give possibilities & drawing more Polish workers =i As we walked in, Police Chief Me- Arthur met us. Lieut. McLean be- gan his tale of woe. How I had dis- turbed” three different groups of workers on the streets, how I had giv- en out the DAILY WORKER, and. horrors! how 1 bad urged. the bene- fits of a society when the workers would control the factories and mills. He insisted that the DAILY WORK ER should not be allowed in Williman- tic (on this question, the labor fakers agree with him.) | I told him that unfortunately he could not handle this, since the post- al authorities at Washington did not deny the DAILY WORKER the postal privileges. I told the chief that we socialist press in continental coun- tries cannot be. relied upon at the present time (as I know from my personal experience all the time we were in Russia and also in Amster- dam) to give an unbiased presenta- tion of facts. Added to this the con- Auct of the official representatives of he other trade union movements (with certain laudable exceptions) has been one of extreme hostility to proposals emanating from the gener- al council of our Trades Union Con- gress; and that this hostility has led them into acts of trickery—it is best to’ speak plainly—towards our own trade union movement cannot be doubted. To see this it is only neces- and we may re start as from last June. The matter arose in tis way. The report of activities, 1922-1924, gave an account of relations between the Red International of Labor Unions, and the International Federation of Trade Unions, in t ' course of Which was quoted a lettgr from M. Tomsky, pres- ident. of the Russian Federation of Trade Unions; of February 7, 1924, which contained the operative words: What does interest us is the com- mon action of the trade unions of all orientations against, our class enemies. We are prepared to meet your representatives. when and where you choose for the purpose to him. | The liquidation of the emigre counter-revolu- tionary organizations is proceeding at.a rapid pace. Semenoff follows Savinkov and only in those coun- tries where the aristocracy has more money than sense do these elements receive any support. It will not be long before the United States will be the only nation where they can find shelter and pork chops. | It is quite fitting in view of the counter-revolu- tionary character of American capitalist democracy Just as in world politics the struggle centers | that the offspring of the industrial lords should around a re-division of the world between two or mingle with the degenerate scions of the Russian three great imperialist powers so on the American àristocraeq which a workers’ revolution has wiped continent the present period is one of huge con- out in their own land. — — the Communist movement. The next step is the meeting scheduled at Schoenhofen Hall for tonight, April 3, which all party members must sup port. (See other columns for de tails.) a: Build the T. U. E. L. In the ele solidations of industrial gigantic in size and unbelievably powerful. pendent enterprise on a large scale is a thing of the past. combinations already oe Solidarity and Civilization We have to hand it to the so-called backward Two events, one occurring in the United States, peoples when it comes to displaying solidarity. the other in Mexico, have created the opportunity | 600,000 Arabs boycotted the welcome to Lord Bal- for which Standard Oil has been waiting—the elec- four the other day in Palestine; they closed all tion of Coolidge by a huge plurality guarantees a shops and draped their houses in black. They want kindly attitude by the government towards the no British imperialist rule and show their disap- big capitalists under the slogan “no interference | proval with a unanimity that is striking and ef- had the right to’ sell the paper, that I was talking with workers who wish- ed to talk to me; and furthermore, that the Building trades workers were not working then, on account of the rain. I insisted that we were going to tell the workers the benefits of Communism, and the hellishness of capitalism. The chief then. stated that a com- plaint had been made to him about a crowd gathering’ around the Gem sary to read some of the statements they made succeeding our I. F. T. U. meeting at Amsterdam this month. Both Oudegeest and Jouhaux (not to made it speak of Vorwarts) have plain that they regard the so-calle “compromise” our nine months’ endeavor to attai international unity thru the medium of an “immediate unconditional con- ference.” motion carried there as a smart piece of work that defeats of serious discussion of the common struggle to’ be founght against the capitalist offensive. The concluding comment of the In- ternational Federation of Trade Un- d lions report was: As will be seen from the survey, the method and tone of the Russian Nn! reply has for the moment put an end to this correspondence, and has again. considerably reduced the prospects of inaugurating practical In the needle trades, a millinery group, tho small, has now been form: ed; in the Amalgamated, despite the terrific reaction and terror of the Levin-Hillman machine, the left wing is increasing its work. The leaflet outlining the real issues confronting the Amalgamated in connection with the coming wage agreement was dis- tributed by the thousands, as well as another leaflet. Organize and Fight!, distributed on the morning after the 5 ; | 1 ‘ , sluggers of the Levin machine had with legitimate business,“ the rise of the Calles fective. | cone oe morning. I dis-] For these reasons I would welcome discussions. There fs ho owen „ prevented rank oad Sia sieeaiiedl on government and its complete domination by Wa Contrast the militant action of these sons of the | ering of the crowd, since I was mere-| voted to the purpose of supplying | Trade Unions tateing any further Wu Street assures American capital of the pr wilege desert with the cowardly attitude of the millions of cashing in on such holdings as those just ac- quired from Doheney by Standard Oil. Mexico has heen “pacified,” the Standard Oil now has the edge on its British competitor. In other lines of industry the game process can be seen. The General Electric increases its capital- ization and becomes second only to the steel tryst; | the Morgan interests are perfecting another huge merger of-coal, gas, electric power, iron and chem- ‘of Irish in the United States when Lloyd George and other mouthpieces of British imperialism ar- rived. There were a few sporadic protests, but policemen of Irish birth or descent suppressed them and most of the Irish people made no protest at all. Civilization, from the revolutionary point of view, is not gauged by the number of movies and ly selling theeDAILY WORKER. The chief agreed that we had a per- fect right to sell the DAILY WORK ER. Leng before this, the lieutenant, seeing the bone he had pulled, slip- ped out, with his: tail between his legs. I asked the, chiet if I was under arrest any longer, and the reply was that I was not. I walked out, and when 1 told the story to the workers just that information and facts and figures about the problems of interna- tional trade union unity which we s sorely need. Already some of us hay been discussing such a publication; and any steps taken in that direction will, I know, secure the support of a very large number of my fellow un- I mean not only approval, but actual support, ionists. And by “support” steps 80 long at it has only replies of this kind to expect. o ‘To this at one Mr. Fred Bramley e | took exception W. the name of the British delegation; “Std proposed that ‘negotiations with the Russian unions be continued. ‘This’ was supported by Edo Fimmen’ {Intérfiational Trans- port Workers’ Federatſon). The Ger- man and other, delegates were violent- The party as a whole must back 100 per cent every action the needle trades comrades initiate. In the Gar- - penters, our comrades have now been reinstated into Local 181, having; with rank and file support, compelled the corrupt Hutcheson to back down. The machinists’ left wing report good progress in the election eam paign against the Johnston ou while, moreover, thus bringing the Net N N 5 tet one arm restaurants, but by the manner in which t had spoken o before, the melo- n pity 2 N 0 . — —— ve wing program .of amalgamati ical concerns in the south. Gold flows in a steady the masses resist attempts to N them. irama was wef, they laughed. | pared to back it up out of our ha k. |carried, ot which che- following is the against class collaboration (B. *& stream into the United States and is exported in] from this standpoint the workers and | A fitting story ft 4 Gilbert-Sullivan itis ehh: Uhh on eat ee l Will last clausé: 4 O. plan), freedom of expression and the form of loans which force other nations to pay] peasants are miles ahead of nationalities that ape operstta. That we shall do so I have no doubt.| The confereried! ‘rétommends the 88 n . tribute to the American finance-capitalists. the respectability of their rulers. The etek: 4 eee ind to bureau te continue consultations, tn in Independent political action, etc., 1 The American working class is exploited as never before. More commodities are produced at a lower cost than in any other period, the permanent army of u 3 grows even while industry is active. A Correction On March 20 we published an editorial entitled, Lieutenant Mebean ‘figures often as one of the heroes in raids on moon- shiners. But it is said on good au- thority that he Ukes the stuff him- that the labor research department is publishing a special supplement to its Monthly Circular giving in handy form an account of the Am so far as this is compatible with dignity of the International — tlon of Trade U Alon, with the ob- a ject of securing the inclusion of fore the machinists. The barbers’ group is beginning to function and is holding an affair in the near future to get funds for fur- ther work. * -cod Preparations are going self, and is often in. a state not be- sterdam meetin Russia in the International trade g 5 . 2 g and the recent his- forward for a huge moathly Trade Un- | ‘ 5 * rs 8 1 “Wall Street-Calles Socialism,” in which we re- oe a 1 of the law. tory of the move towards internation- r 7 — — ion Baucational — Se camps, student reserv the div 40 , 7 n one occasion last year, he was al trade union unity, together with a 55 Wednesday, April 29 | nation into military areas, the organization’ of e en A 3 by * Neil Senge arrested by the, state police, and a useful summary of thd report of our 9 71 oa The C. 0. 2 reiterated the need | skeleton army sections with their corresponding in “878, mai Of HCO Nearing. charge placed against him by the po- delegation-to the Russian Trade Union This resolution was despatched dustrial subsidiaries, the clamor for~ increased naval armaments, the great maneuvers of the fleet in the Pacific, the thumping of the tom-toms by the capitalist press. The capitalists are torn between two desires. They wish to see industry running at the highest possible speed, but at the same time they hail with joy any slackening as a signal for the beginning of another open shop offensive. In the coal mining and textile industry this scheme is already under way. Our sole purpose in making this reference was to prevent anyone receiving the impression that Scot Nearing was in any way in sympathy with the let- ter, written to The Nation, and signed by Nellie Seeds Nearing. The letter itself was nothing more or less than a glossing over of the betrayal of the Mexican workers perpetrated at the El Paso con- vention of the American Federation of Labor and we would have been fully justified in making a sharper and more extended criticism of it. We had made inquiries from a number of per- sons whom we considered reliable and were in- lice captain. But an angel came to t his aid, and forged the squashing of the charge. ope That angel was the acting mayor of the city, Hickey dy name, who gets the major part of his salary from the American Thread Co. for office work. He gets the rest of his salary, $750 a year, for doimg further office work for the American /Thread Co. in his capacity as acts mayor. And so the charge was:aquashed. Another Guess Coming. Congress. their special supplement. ful work the L. R. D. is doing. And I gladly take the op- portunity of writing this preface to I hope it may be possible for the new publica- tion I have referred to above to be included, at any rate for some time, as a supplement to the Monthly Cir- cular, and so add to the already use- from Amsterdam a letter dated July 16, in reply to Which a letter was sent from the All Russian Cen- tral Council of Labor Unions by its chairman, Tomsky, on the 26. The latter part of this ‘reply runs as fol- lows: We think that it Ig just the con- ditions of unity which’ must form the subject of our negotiations, and THE APPROACH TO UNITY. that to put forth asa preliminary condition our acceptance of the con- stitution and the rules of your in- for the organization of a shop nu- cleus branch (sub-section) from Nu- clei 2, 3, 4, 5 as a meahs of inte- grating and expanding the nuclei ase tivity. Discussion on this question was lengthy, some confusion betraye ing itself among some comrades, whe vonfused the nucleus with a shop committee and reduced the nugleus to a shop fraction shorn of its poli- tical character, “ However, with instructions from th: C. C. C. and D. E. C. to proceed with J the organization of the shop nucleus : Fak , Loot- t i ig t The official labor movement talks glibly of pros- 4 bi t-tenant McLean thought this ge . * = A ** branch, it is likely that the better 1 we" 8 formed that the Nearings had separated due to] Was an open on for reds. But] The beginning of the year 1924 saw 9 function! : perity and sees no sign of the grave danger con he h otiations and to the aims of unit unctioning nuclei will aid materially fronting the whole American working class. The deep-seated political differences. e has another guess coming. In this the world’s trade union movement % * capitalists combine and re combine their forces and multiply their strength. The labor unions under the influence of a leadership that is less awake than the middle-class liberals marches straight to disaster The urge for profits from industry is no longer Scott Nearing informs us that this is not the case, that he and Nellie Seeds Nearing have been married since 1908 and are still living together. We make the correction for the record. We do not desire to drag the matrimonial relations of any- one into political controversy, but persons who ex- connection, it is interesting to ob- serve the charge.brought against the city council by one of the council members: “No one cam be honest in politics, even, in this small city, attested to by the thirty or forty places that are sundered and divided. ionism, while in the more develope capitalist countries the millions. No single organization’ eve Hardly any country, even the most backward, but had its small beginnings of trade un- membership of the trade unions was numbered in if, you, comrades, consider your- self formally bound by the resolu- tion of the Vienna congress, we, a the Russian unions, belng a section of the Red International of Labor Unions, are equally obliged to carry n | out the decisions bf our All-Russian to develop the understanding and ac tivity of the weaker nuclei. The nucleus branch (sub-section) will take up and direct the work of the particular shop nuclei and deal, too, with the general political problems de- fore them in and outside of the shops. : ep bs oF daily selling Hquor in the city, be- ot the loosest kind, linked up th Trade Union Congresses and the |'rish and Miners’ Rellef Task ef the great force it was in this country once upon Press the Pollyanna viewpoint in public journals 1 — — N pt 7 millions of organized mrt Bu. congresses of the Red International Party. a time. A powerful section of the capitalists now on such important issues as the wholesale selling | teel, as in the present strike situation, rope two organizations disputed with | ef Laber Unions. in accordance sin: — 21 l fill their coffers from the interest on foreign loans. of a labor movement to Wall Street by a labor that the enforcement of law comes à bitter animosity for the member-| With thie, “ne ee Tt 22 poi — A — — They can wait while the workers starve during | Oficialdom which wars on the Communists, need | Within their jurisdiction.” — of the Duran trad® unioce- whieh te . * increasing relief activity tor the fam- periods of unemployment, make war on the | not expect us to share their ideas as to what con- 8 * * ists; the International Federation of ly lead to —— 7 mut 3 mes : ine stricken workers in Ireland 8 * KD. em * 1 ‘ful. ocialiste Want Militariem. Trade Unions, with its headquarters| ‘Y ° — pede 8 workers’ organizations and wealten the working | i stitutes the good, true and beauti VIENNA, Austria, April 2— Herr at Amsterdam, was faced by the Red standing and to a closer coming to- the workers affected by the to class so that it cannot effectively resist being used | Butsch, socialist. deputy, and former International of Labor Unions with gether of the two parts of the now in Y IIlinois. The next —1 as cannon fodder. A Center Candidate for the Allies wer ot war, and Otto Bauer, an- ite headquarters in Moscow. In sev. dlvided international trade union | NE of the Chicdgo Labor Defense an¢ A united front against wage cuts and the open | other socialist deputy, advocated mob- erai of the European countries there eee — — our starting i. ot 700 mals 2 A shop is today something more than a defense ot Marx. candidate of the center coalition, seems iltzing every soldier. Bauer declared, | Vere two or three rival federations | P e idea that in our negotia- 4 5 N m The day will come when danger will of trade unions, some affiliated to the | tens We Should discuss the deci- ESS SHINS ee Eee will, of the mass standard of living. It is the first step to he the choice of the American capMalist press threaten us from Hungary and we will I. F. T. U., some to the R. I. L. U.] dens Of both Internationals on the be held April 24, at Emmet Memorial in resistance to the war plans of the rulers whose for the German presidency. , : need every soldier.” The remarks The British Trade Union Congress] °##!8 of equality and mutual atten. | Mall with John Patrick 2 increasing centralization of power in the form It is probable that two other entries will con- were made before a meeting of the was the main support of the I. F. T.] Jon. , turned rom the famine area, 4 0 of mergers in basic industries is a prelude to an- test the finals with Marx—Jarres, candidate of the socialist military society of the Vien- U. while the All-Russian Central Putting the cause of unity of the ape 2 : a ade, ee Oi a a big industrialists, and Thaelmann, the Communist | na garrison. Council of Trade Unions provided the nternational labor union movement 1 sid » three; I were: bis g : —— cit backing forthe e ut | semmnany arma emeerain ant |e "sou ue See 3 - | ‘ : . 2 : : side the European arena where this | * 4 N i ar Weide Gee Leonard Wed Id wot! The allied imperialists favor the election of the E U. E. . struggle of rival organizations was be benefited in consequence of our North Side English, two; Ukrainian| J 1 ö center candidate rather than that of the big in taking place to a greater or lesser | meeting and businesslike negotia- No. 1, one. much good, but he is some improvement on his gustrialists for the reason that it will mean govern- GENERAL GROUP MEETS degree in almost every country, there | tiene, we are of the opinion that it May Day meeting preparations. ar | father. Up to date he has not butchered any ment which, while showing the mailed fist to the remained unconnected with the I. F. Would be more right and just if we going forward. May Day. committed Filipino peasants. [German working class, will be unable to build FOR BUSINESS MONDAY T. U. the trade unions of the United] Were to meet without any prelim. |mocts next Tuesday, April 7, 41 : any real resistance to the colonization of Germany. , States of America, of Latin America, | , conditions on either side. — — ~~ „ HPT RE pete PE agree si oe tage in PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Apri} 2— | Australia and the other Pacific lands, With revolutionary greetings, and factory meeting sn me. Jugo-Slavia is about to borrow $100,000,000 from The industrialists would insist on many more con- General membership meeting of the of Africa other than the Union, of In- For the All-Russian Central Coun- DAILY WORKER drive reported. American and British bankers. Another “inde-|cessions from allied capital than the spineless] Trade Union Educational League is dia. Japan, China, the Far East, and cil of Trade Unions: r in other columns, pendent” nation. social-democracy, an important part of the center] called for Monday, April 6, at 521 the Union of Socialist Soviet Repub- — — — "iby 8 vie — 5 a coalition. York Ave. lics. Prior to 1924, efforts had re- ° ov, Secretary. 9 © peace u ¥ e 1 Cal's $600 steel trust dividends do not in any] The kind of government that the allies want in Comrade Joseph Manley, eastern | Peatedly been made to bring together Rep ö pba st if 3 22 ' cav corres -alne of the Lenn he hasiGe r is » th in war on the workers. but] %'8triet organizer of the T. U. E. . | the two organizations claiming an in- that their Trades Union Congress was ©" ‘mselt the candidate pt: the ! way correspond to the value of the services he has|Germany is one that wi a mers, but) in speak on the “Recent Develop. | ternational scope, and had as repeat. | 4 faithful constituent of the R. I. L. Workers (Communist) Party an rendered it, but being president has to be figured|be soft as butter im the hands of the allied diplo- ments in the Labor Movement.” edly broken down. In the course of | U., second, that the only possible campaign. on its platform. as part of the price. mats and financiers. the last twelve months, however, re- common ground for negotiations was Next meeting of the C. C. C. Wed Every day 75 4 Ldeub“ . the DAILY WORKER acd a member for the Workers Party. - = A The world is moving fast when werld capitalism looks to the German social-democracy, in alliance with the cathplic party to give it the kind of a regime it desires. The T. „ L. in Philadelphia is conductin ‘number of important activities h will be reported and disc at this meeting. All . sympathisers are in- vited. newed efforts for international trade union unity have at last begun to To | conditions prescribed in the show some prospect of success. describe this move towards lasting over the twelve mo Unity equality in status as between the two internationals, thirdly, that the Vienna decision would preclude any meeting or chance of unity, and any sticking The lessons of this will not escape the important the present position to formalities or etiquette would have i. Set a member for the Workers Party and a new | sections of the, German masses and the Commun-| e reached is the purpose o the same effect. Talk it up—your shopmate ““gubscription for the DAILY’ WORKER. ists are dri these lessons home. another Com- : supplement. I oe de continued.) ee “34 | nesday, April 15, 1925, 8 p. m., at 72 Blue Island Ave. Fraternally, Workers (Communist) Party, Lota iE Peet Martin Abern, Secretary. =
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APRIL 4, 1925. 0 part—no matter what may be the (continued from from yesterday) 12 1 real divisions between 2 do all that lies in your power to find a / FR WOR TRADE UNION wn 5 Congress. * a n 8 As we on our part have the same ö desire, we declare that the chiefest * 2 2 eden 40 We publish herewith the second. inetagment of extracts from the r vering f ciple: in the activities of the trade | the Hull Trades Union Congress, at J Special Supplement to the Monthly Circiilar of the Labor Research -union and workers’ organizations, as _ which a fraternal delegation frdm | ~ Department of the British ‘Trade Union Congress devoted to further we hold, is to get feds of the irre- Russia, headed by Tomsky, was pres- ing world trade union unity, ~~ ! conciiable — in interests r ente referted to tive Gecisions of the : “The Special supplement began with a preface by A. A. Purcell, between labor and capital, this de- I Vienna m , atid used one or two president of the International Federation of Trade Unions (Amster- manding a class war to the knife /2 = &% Qo phrases, of Ke most significant dam) and is composed largely of original documents; correspondence between the wageslave 4nd ‘the les 2a kt 2 Bees between the Red International of Labor Unions and the Amsterdam capitalist classes for the final abo- aye 4 We must 8 1 the most right wing officialdom, reports of conferences, etc. _| lition of the capitalist system and of every opportunity, dignified or The publication of this Special Supplement, the very frank and the emancipation of the proletariat „ | otherwise, to bring every national militant announcement of its purposes by the president of the Amster- from the oppression of capitalist ex- | trade union center within the four dam International, the complete exposure of the treacherous and dis- ploitation and the beggary, barbar- corners of a genuinely united and ruptive tactics of the right wing which it contains, all are indicative lan Gre: slavery whieh ‘Raynes | 1 2 2 Aaa yin 3 of the tremendous hold that the slogan of World Trade Union Unity Ke tram. K tae ae svt en 8 has gained upon the British trade union movement, the most powerful 2 the sc for 4 prop- N ** osal: a complete break with eve and Mr. Hallsworth in the discussion F e K N . E e e eh form of 3 collaboration with the of the British delegation’s report on bourgeoisie, a common fight of the the Vienna Congress. An all-in con- there is a fundamental difference, | clusive and firmly welded interna- workers and their organizations, on | gress was suggested. Finally, the which is much wider than that of | tional trade union movement has a national and international scale | Trade Union Congress unanimously | More or less radical policy. To bring | never hitherto existed. against world capital—and thanks | - agreed to the following statement] these widely different lines of Only our present—as we suppose | to this, the full readiness of all | made from the chair by Mr. A. A.] thought into agreement can be no | —<ommon efforts will lead, we hope, | genuine militant organizations fight- ° Purcell: e — but we are willing to | to an end being put to the split. ing for the emancipation of the | | think 1 ought to take this op- pf). 8 We willingly fall in with your | working class might be rendered | : the significant fact that we you, it is In our view desirable to written form which would serve as We await your reply and parti- ere te have now received from practically have something in writing as a a basis for the coming negotiations. | cularly notices as to when and all those Continental nations where basis for discussion, so that we may We on our part are striving ‘to | Where in your opinion the first ne- the saber movement is in a dis- ane: whore agreement on principles | create unity within the trade union gotiations between your represent- and policy is ble. We would movement on an international a: atives and ours might be held. — = : r Soy ai 122 — N 4 . E be n "correspond \ | pears to me le so 0 vitally necessary. ‘Agreement can be found. tion eg to the Red In- | on the question of unity, it seems From Italy and Germany, and now As you know, the instructions | ternational of Labor Unions or the | desirable to us, however, and it from France, the dissident sections | „nich Wwe received in Vienna, in re- | International Federation of Trade | would be more useful as far as the have intimated their desire for uni- | dard to any negotiations as to unity | Unions as well as those standing | business itself is concerned, if with ~ ty, and if our movement is to fulfil | that might take place, were quite | completely aside from any interna- | the ald of the first exchange of its great destiny, something might | J tnite but ths queston can be left | tional federated bodies, on the ne- | views and opinions—even if such a be done to consummate that-desire. for the time being. We need not cessary condition that these organ- meeting were not to bear any kind in no country is unity so firmly eta: emphasize the fact that the execut- | izations standing apart from these | of binding character whatsoever— blished as in Great Britain, and it tive committee could not, in this | federations recognize the principle the way was to be prepared for all seems incumbent upon this Con- most impgrtant matter, take any | Of the class struggle. further steps towards the goal we 22 ee. cy i ingest hang binding decisions that exceed the We think there is no need to ex- | have in view. * Aer *. Fe bringing together | instructions we received at Vienna plain why we are striving to achieve With comradely greetings, the different el sa! of the tabor without consulting our general coun- | this unification, this alliance of trade President of the All-Russian . cil, and. possibly even 3 be Looking 3 to receiving your reply, With ‘international greetings, For the Executive Committee of the International Federation of Trade Unions: A. A. Purcell, chairman, , J. Oudegeest, Secretary. The reply to this came in a lone? unions with an orientation genuine- ly anti-capitalist. You know as well as we do that the unity of the in- ternational trade union movement is the very first precondition to a suc- cessful fight both against the of- fensive of capital and the fascist reaction and against the capitalist ‘order as a whole. We hold that the best means of Central Council of Trade Unions: M. TOMSKY, Secretary of the All-Russian Central Council of Trade age: As DOGADOV. | | To this again a reply was séat from the Bureau of the I. F. T. U. on cember 1, George Hicks being pres- ent as British delegate in the absence movement in Europe in an effort to establish that solidarity which will make for world peace. |, therefore, suggest to Congress that they em- the general council, through the International Federation of Trade Unions, to take all possible steps to bring the parties together. Immediately after the Hull Con- gress, a meeting of the’ executive com- atl T. U. was held at attaining unity and being able to | of Purcell and Bramley in Russia. The 8 2 — ’ — on Poptdinber 11. The nit hee sa om oy age — create one single Trade Union In- | wording of the I. F. T. U. letter is as 1 „ British delegates put forward prop- the desire of the I. F. T. U. tor “some- ternational would be the convening | follows:— I oba end as a result a letter was sent | thing in writing“ is met by full and general joint congress, of a world wie gather from your letter of July to Moscow: - explicit statement ot principl | togeth-| Sonaress of labor. As to how, when | 26, and also from this last letter, and where this congress could take To the All-Russian Central Council of Trade Unions, Moscow. Amsterdam Sept. 11, 1924. Comrades, Our executive committee, at its meeting on the 1ith Sept. consider- ed your letter of the 26th July, and instructed us to reply as follows:— The desire fer the restoration of the organizational unity of the trade union movement, for the destruction of which we are not responsible, has always been present with us, and has been repeatedly expressed by us. We also agree with what you say: “That the struggle between labor and capital, which is becoming more and more acute, can be suc- cessful only when the forces of the economic organizations of the pro- letariat will be concentrated, and the unity of the — — trade unlon movement achieved. it must, however, be — that between the policy that you, recogn- ize as the basis of trade union act- ivity and that to which we adhere, er with a proposal for an all-em- bracing World Congress of Labor as the best means of obtaining unity. To the International Federation of Trade Unions, Amsterdam Moscow, Oct. 23, 1924. Dear Comrades, We received your letter, of date the 11th of September, on September 20, but as the Presidium of the All- Russian: Central Council of Trade Unions only met in full session on the 23rd of October, we had no op- portunity of replying te you. it was not without satisfaction that we learned of your declaration that you, too, were desirous of cre- ating organizational unity in the trade union movement. * It appears to us to be out of place here to go into details with regard to the party on whose shoulders blame must be laid for the split in the international trade union move- ment. We would only wish to point out that in reality a united, all-in- * place would not be a difficult matter to agree to during the course of the negotiations. We note your view that between “the policy” which we lay down as the basis of our work in the trade unions and yours there exists a fundamental difference, that here there exists a profound abyss, “much wider than that of a more or less radical policy.” 4 The significance of this phrase Is not quite clear to us. For as a matter of fact those differences which exist as between us are noth- ing new—they have been in exist- ence for a number of years now and were probably known to and taken into consideration by the Vienna Congress of your Federation. it is self-understood that in the proper place and at the proper time we will be ready to discuss in all de- tails the differences in opinion which divide us from you. In any case we are pleased to confirm the fact that there is a desire on your that you do not appear willing to af- filiate with the |. F. T. U. on the basis of its rules ang resolutions. Instead of doing so you propose the convening of a joint general con- gress, a world labor congress, to which would be invited not only the organizations affiliated with the I. F. T. U. and the R. Il, L. U., but all other organizations outside these Internationals which recognize the principle of class war. We have already called your at- tention in our fetter of September 11 to the fact that the Vienna Con- gress gave us definite directions for the ning of negotiations on the ques@on of affiliation of the Russian trade unions to the l. F. T. U. It is for our general council which together with the executive commit- tee, constitute the two bodies com- petent to interpret and execute the | decisions of our international Con- gresses, to consider and define its attitude regarding your new prop- (Continued on page 8)
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. ee a? ee eel = ati eS = 5 By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. HE un-Marxian Marxists of the 1 United States and particularly that collection of hothouse theorists, ‘segregated under the banner of the socialist labor party, have unearthed every stray re an effort to prove that Marx and ] Engels were not revolutionists but . d worshipers of the tool of produc- to whose p e march alone could be attributed all the forward leaps of civilization and to which the emancipation of the working class could be trusted without the explod- ing of a fire cracker or even the scratching of a finger. ) Let the tool of production do the work! The reformists masquerading under the camouflage of revolutionary socialism would observe its progress and carefully note down every devel- opment, branding all those who insist- eck on working class organization for the overthrow of capitalism, as crazy adventurers. — Communists have all the admira- tion in the world for the tool of pro- duction and they know that its devel- ‘ opment is more responsible for the changes that have come over the face , of society than all the kings and princes, generals and statesmen that ever lived. But this world is com- posed of human beings as well as in- animate instruments of production and destruction. The master class are in possession of both and when the working class refuse to work the pro- ductive machine at the terms dictated by the bosses, the latter will turn the @estructive machines on them with damaging effect. Hence the need of capturing the governmental power which controls the tools of destruc- tion. The reformists spurn revolutionary action and hold that no permanent progress can be made unless it is done laws of civiliza- — eRey kt In other Lords, the workers are advised to watch the social panorama go by with folded arms and wait until capitalism digs its own graveyard and drops peacefully into it. Whereupon the working class, led by the hothouse theorists will appear, issue a proclam- ation and declare that the co-opera- tive commonwealth has arrived. Marx and Engels, the two outstand- ing giants in the intellectual galaxy of social revolution, up to the time of their deaths and until the star of Len- in appeared over the horizon, received lip service from the many bodies of the reformists until the revolutionary implications of their théories rose out of the seething cauldron of world | war like a pillar of fire. And when the Russian Bolsheviki began w trans- / late Marxism into action ung the leadership of Lenin, all the pseudo- Marxists who worshipped at his shrine while he remained the harmless peda- gogue scurried like rats into their cellars and came forth with little odds and ends that they hoped would prove that Marx and Engels did not believe in the use of every servicable weapon with which to overthrow capitalism, but confined themselves to the ballot alone, which was touted by the re- formists as the high water mark of civilization. * S One of those cave prowlers, an old fossil employed by the socialist labor party to make the teachings of Engels fit the mild mannered socialist patriot- ism of that organization, emerged from his search with a piece written by Engels in 1895 as an introduction .to Marx’s Class Struggles in France, 1848-1850, in which Engels is repre sented to have renounced the idea of force as a “pacifist adorer of legality at any price” as Engels puts it. How this erime was committed the veteran Engels is shown by letters written by Marx’s co-worker to Kar! Kautsky long before the latter turned traitor to the social revolution. In view of the many attempts made by the betrayers of Marxian socialism to pose as the logical successors of Marx and Engels*and transform the revolutionary lions into pacifist lambs, — 4 2 sa’ R 4 ’ * — e e 4 : 5 s P 2 n 2 5 Be ae j tS ES SS — — = ae St ety . et +i = So StS nh ae tie , Oa a gee aa 277 8 . y remark, and debauched | me uterature of pre-war socialism in the following excerpt from A. M. Simons omitted this part of the book in his American translation. Ea * ~ J 1 n * “er rg — 8 — “gh : os a * — * he 5 * 5 2 > oy 8 ä o> “You are having, 80 right lively year in Germany. If Herr ‘impossible: Conflict, dissolution, W aa Eee } (Translated by decorated with white dots. And now they are fluttering in An unemployed worker sets The machines whirr in the air grows thick and envel spring. You learn that... | FOREST OF BANNERS. By JOHN LASSEN OVERTY is displaying its tatters : and now the tatters are fluttering in the wind. The sun glides with sparkling lustre over the tatters, The wind turns up their red, yellow and blue colors. Like a forest of banners they sway in the wind: The workman’s overaiis, the little child’s blue dress bleached from much washing, tattered stockings and sheets which are reaily only patch upon patch; torn union-suits are hanging here and _ khaki colored shirts, blood-red and dank blue handkerchiefs, Oh, how many patches, how many patches! 1 3 : a The shirts, the overalls, the union suits, the handkerchiefs and Simon Felshin) - wind. phonograph to grumbling. Under the low ceiling the the workers, | Only a tiny strip can be seen of the far, far k. How good it le that the wash is fluttering out in the yard. Thus you learn that at least outside there is air, and you see that the sun pours out its radiance with a sparkling freshness of For poverty is displaying its tatters. “revolutionaries,” the “overthrowers,” were prospering far better by legal methods than by illegal means and overthrowal. But let it not be for- gotten, he meant that only for the situation of that time. Whoever will know how Engels’ propositions are to be understood, must compare them with letters of Engels to which I re- cently referred in the Neue Zeit (XVII., 1, p. 7). From these one learns that he protested vigorously against the appearance of being “a pacifist adorer of legality at any price.” Zeit I wrote: “The introduction to Marx’s Class Struggles is dated March 6, 1895. A few week after that the book appeared in public. I had asked Engels to let me have the copy of ‘the introduction fer publication in the Neue Zeit. Thereupon he answered me on March 25: “Your telegram at once answered: With pleasure.’ Per wrapper follows the text in proof with the title: In- troduction to the reprint of Marx’s ‘The Class Struggles in France—1848- 1850,“ by F. E. That the contents of the copy consist of the old articles out of the N. Rh. Z.“ (‘Neue Rheinische Zeitung’), is stated in the text. My text has suffered somewhat from our Berlin friends’ apprehensive doubts about t"e revolution bill, to which in- stances, to accomodate: myself.“ E I was obliged, under the eireum- To understand this, one must remem- * In that passage of the Neue coup d’etat. Of course, they will also put up with less. Tho junkers would be quite satisfied with augumented presents, but in order to obtain these, they will appeal to certain appetitas of, personal ambition, must to a cer- tain extent give way to these wher- ever the factors of the opposition then come into play, and then enters into play the contingency, which is called the involuntary, the incalcul- able In order to make sure of the presents, one must threaten with con- |} flict—has it gone one step further, then the original object—the presents becomes a secondary matter; then stands crown against reichstag, bend or break, then can it become merry. I am just reading Gardiner’s ‘Personal Government of Charles I.“; things of- ten agree to the point of absurdity with the Germany of today. Thus the of the acts committed in parliament. Were Germany a romance land, so lemer) says.” Thus grave and fraught with con flict did Engels regard the situation at that time when the revisionists behind us. | 8821 Nr Koller so continues, nothing is } arguments in respect of the immunity would the revolutionary conflict be in- evitable, but so—we don’t know noth- ing for certain, as Tollymeier (Schor- t make him proclaim, that the era of unconditional legal and peaceful de- velopment has dawned and is forever assured; the era of revolutions lies But when the Vorwarts, in order in- deed to influence favorably the com- f : it i K 111 ze 2. F F | . ask 4781 = i i be 171775 | F F 7 Ess E 8 — * : ere wards revolution, then let us f l a f i Germany,” which, in 1892, but a years before the introduction to Marx’s * may then become so much the complete and final. . 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In-] In any pioneer work there are bound stances of this type are, to name but to occur some things that displease. a few of the dozens mentioned, Eu-|In “Mammonart,” I found a few. Sin- ripides, Juvenal, Moliere, Beethoven, |clair’s social(ist)-patriotism crops out Schiller, Milton, Burns, Heine, Michael-|on page 83. His concessions to the angelo, Shelly, Dante, Voltaire, Hugo, bourgeois liberal (Mrs. Ogi) > become Isben, Tolstoy, Swift, Verhaeren, |irritating, his apologies annoying. His Crane, London, Whitman. Many, like|choice of Bierce, Meredith, Davis, Wagner, who helped build barricades | Ward, Thackeray, rather than of a da in the streets of Dresden, sold out. Vinci, Tschaikovsky, Chaucer, Butler, and their art declined. Wordsworth. Gorki, or others is a bit puzzling, un- Southey, Corneille, Coleridge are some less one explains it on the supposi- examples of the same thing. A few, tion that they were particularly vul- the mere statement of the case in not to arrive at a literature above] like Byron, turned from leisure-class |nerable. However, I realise the un- diane joins belief |elass’ (that will be possible only in ajrefinements to revolution. Some ad- fairness of criticizing “absentee” sub- More 5 1 the socialist society, in a society without/mired rebels, but dared not revolt: | jects, and of complaining because an of the book is; first; to show how ar- classes), but to oppose to this so Mark Twain is the most pitiful ex- author did not write his book as I tists have 2 their living, from called free literature, which is really|ample of this, and O. Henry is an- wanted him to. I shall leave it to the 3 ’ allied with the bourgeoisie, a litera-|other. Others actually fought in revo-|liberals to condemn “Mammonart” be ture bound openly to the proletariat.” luttons, and turned their art to the cause he speaks of Wagner as still So wrote Lenin in 1905, and those who | cause of revolution; Milton, Dante, Itving, or because he defines propa- see the truth in it, must likewise be- Michaelangelo, Byron, Hugo. Shelley |ganda from the Standard dictionary lieve the thesis which Sinclair sets was a revolutionist, ideologically, and rather than from Webster. The most forth to prove. © © : Keats, potentially. It is tragic to see] interesting thing about “Mammonart” | | how idle, vain daughters of the rul-| will be the squeels in the reactionary Ag DOSEN AE Oey the “mas. caveman, and ende with Anstele ing class ruined the lives of ee and Uberal press. And the hardest a thoven, Heine (who was driven to slams will be at the last chapter, “A ters.” Sinclair more than proves his France. His hypothetical placing of ii js contentions, and covers the high | the savage artist makes an interesting syphillis), Ngitzsche, Keats, an Text-book for Russia” because there 7 peaks in the world’s literature, art, addition to Bogdanoff’s theory of prim. ee others. he appeals for action, not merely for and music in the process. Curiously |itive tribal Communism. lis treat! The mass of facts, interestingly in- Passive agreement. He has found the enuf, he does not touch upon any liv- : same fault with art that Marx found ing artists, perhaps due to lack of | | with philosophy: “Philoséphers have The 1 rish F amine Di strict only interpreted the world differently, ee ae ee ee 292 but the point is to change it.“ But the greatest menace in the book is the promise of another, dealing with con- temporary art, and the guardians of the status quo will move heaven and earth to ward it off by “killing” this one. | Chicago By SIMON FELSHIN This is a world city If you go by statistics. But look at its drabness. Bits of light in places, No relief from the flatness... st? a1stiaaw af? shro¢g Here la the rooming house district. Plenty of women to be had At all prices— Chicago has an extra big quota. Cheap cabarats open all night, And plenty of booze. Pawnshops and Greek restaurants. The races of the world are here, And the prostitutes are impartial. one should speak no evil. Yet there- — 1 & Rivers carry lake boats through the — city. as we get it from other lands, ultra- , ; 2 a A marine, have had their birth in courts, Both Fuel and Food Is Needed Here. ane 8 and basked and grown in castle sun- ps go e Lakes. shine; all smell of prince’s fa “4 The bridges collapse before the ships. ment of biblical literature is original, | terpreted, with which Sinclair but se pase ships clair pardon, Whit- Then they are resurrected, — a 8 — and he carefully points out the dual] tresses his arguments, makes the book And the process begins over again. “And the artists producing art will propaganda of the bible, in some] fascinating. It is worth looking into : the relation between Wordsworth as wry Here is a factory district, the seducer and deserter of a young Through the smoke French girl, and as a paragon of piety] Look massive blocks. and an arch-enemy of French immor- Trains cut through them, . ality and revolution; or the connec] And under the bridges. tion between Bernhardt as the mis-} That monster is a grain elevator, tress of Edward VII and as the “great”| That other holds coal— actress of the bourgeoisie; or between] strange shapes. = > ® ameron and the church as the pure] There is strength here, arm of feudal and bourgeois reaction; And even symmetry. or between Shelley’s advocacy of tree] But lock at the dinginess around love and revolution, and the literar-| Where the poor live. lang sabotage of his really vital work; | Rubbish in the alleys, between Raphael's mistresses and And swarms of rats at night. to compare the poetry of Dryden with] How can they tolerate the propaganda of Byron. The former That stench from the Stockyards | soothes a pockmarked patron: Spreading over the city? i ree ee re eee ee er of the u classes. But how To wail the fault its rising did eom- a 0 brs other dene at art? There must draft which I drew up is as follows: mit.” With hardly a relief. not be others.” So does a writer ot Artists of beauty and those of power Byron urges on to revolt an op Bits of light in places, the working class regard artists. And is one classification Sinclair mentions. | pressed race: And darkness all around. Strindberg knew his fellow craftsmen.|By the first he means the art pro-| “Hereditary bondsmen! know ye This is no world city, A few other of Sinclair's arguments | duced for a ruling class firmly estab- not Unless you go by statistics. might be quoted from Brandes, Shaw, | lished, wishing to be entertained, and Who would be free themselves must Heine, Chatterton, Thompson, Nietz-| desirous of restful, flattering, serene strike the blow? Memorial Service For Sun Yat-Sen sche, Spencer, Johnson, Ruskin. (See | art, well matured, and well manured,| By their right arms the conquest} CANTON, China, April 3—The me- , the section on The Poet in his “Cry | technically perfect. Such art is pro- must be wrought?” morial services held here for Dr. Sun for Justice.”) : duced by leisure-class artists or poor] The last quotation is disqualified as Yat-Sen were attended by immense One more quotation for those Com- hangers-on who sell themselves. Ex- poetry by the academicians because, | crowds. munists who are devout disciples of amples of these are, (to choose but a perhaps, it sounds too much like Marx and Lenin till it comes to art] tew, tho he deals in detail with at Marz's battlecry. When the reaction] Give your shopmate this copy ‘and literature. For them I have a least thirty), Sophocles, Aristophanes, |ary artists have become mere names + the nary WORKER—but be word. “In a society which maintains Virgil, Gothe, Shakespeare, Raphael, in mouldy tomes, the rebels will still 7 itself by the power of money, and|Boccacio, Racine, Balzac, James, inspire and vitalize. Only a few) Sure to see him the next day to where the mass of the workers lack l Twain, Conrad. The artist of power!weeks ago, Heines “Silesian Weav-| get his subscription. — — - g
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~ Germany's communist Candidate. | BERLIN.—Comrade Ernest Thael- mann, the presidential candidate of the German Communist Party, was born on April 16, 1886, in Hamburg. At an early age he began his revolu- tionary activist entering the social- democratic | 16 and the Trans- port ‘Workers’ of which he is still a member, at * At first he worked as a docker, then as a sailor and finally as a transport worker. Even after he had entered military service he kept up his work both in the union and in the party, and was denounced to the military authorities as a red by informers. After his mil- itary service was ended, Thaelmann was for a number of years a member of the Hamburg Committee of the Transport Workers“ Union, ahd dele- gate to the Hamburg Trades Council; in the party, in addition to his. local activity, he held the position of dele gate to the national organization. Because of his knowledge of var- ious trades, and with the purpose of detaching him from the political ac- tivity in which he was very definitely telt to be a force to be reckoned with, Thaelmann was offered the post of manager of a large Hamburg con- cern, on condition that he would abandon his political and trade union work. He refused the “honor”’—and thanks to Thaelmann’s energetic work. this same enterprise became one of the leading revolutionary strongholds of Hamburg, and 21 per cent organ ized. At the outbreak of the war; Thael- mann fought bitterly against the chauvinism of the social-democratic leaders. Called to arms, he continued his revolutionary propaganda in the ranks, being finally tried by court martial for it ester and thrown into tinued the fight. ordered by the Spartacus organization to remain and lead the left fight within the inde- pendent socialist party to which he then belonged, he carried on this work with such energy and skill that. largely owing to his efforts, 95 per cent of the’ Hamburg section went over to the Communists. Later, as president of the Hamburg section of the Communist Party, for many years Thaelmann led all the political and economic struggles in which the Communists participated As leader of the Communist fraction in the Hamburg town council, and later, of the Communist fraction in the reichstag. Thaelmann kept up a constant’ fight on behalf of the Ger- man proletariat, and ever since the Hamburg insurrection of 1923, efforts were made to have his parliamentary immunity as reichstag deputy set aside. ~ Thaelmann has aided tremendously in the development of the German Communist Party, and was one of the first to war on the ideology of Brand- ler, the leader of the right wing in the party. The magnificent organiza. tion of the “Fighters of the Red Front” is also greatly due to his ef- forts. In choosing Comrade Thaelmann as red candidate in the presidential elec. tions, the German Communist Party has done this in the knowledge that his revolutionary life, tireless effort, the love that he bears the proleta riat, his unshakable faith in revolu- tionary force are the living expression of the force, the ideological clarity and the tenacious revolutionary will of the German Communist Party. The Halle Massacre. The full facts of the Halle massa cre, in which seven unarmed workers were killed and 40 wounded are now reaching this side. Over 10,000 Communist workers gathered in the People’s Park Hall to hear Thaelmann, the Communist presidential candidate and president of the “Fighters of the Red Front,” | victims, and the funeral expenses Ee ta the strikes that are bréaking o 1 try after industry, and 2 N ing the Communists in the elections, | ‘has thoroly rte the masses. In all the industrial centers ‘great pro- test demonstrations have been held, at one of which, in Berlin, the police again fired on the crowd, killing one and wounding several Workers. On the day of the funeral of the Halle victims, as on the day after the shoot- ing, tens of thousands struck work in the big shops of the city. An im. mense crowd, bearing hundreds of red banners, accompanied the red-draped coffins to the cemetery. At the head marched the “Fighters of the Red Front” of Halle, and the Young Com- munists. 0 The Halle Federation of Shop Com- mittees met to discuss the situation passing resolutſons censuring the Halle social-democratic paper for com ing out in defense of the police chief Runge, and demanding his immediate recall, the arrest of Pietzkner, an in- vestigation participated in by repre sentatives of the shop committees. and, finally, that in future the police should keep away from all men meetings. reichstag and the 5 in the demanded that measures be taken against’ all officials connected with the massacre; and that the state pay compensation to the families of the The dismissal of the social-democratic chief of police, Runge, has already been forced thru. + BERLIN— The bureaucracy of the A. D. G. B. (All German Federation of Trade Unions) has at last carried thru its scheme to liquidate the mili- tant trade union of the youth of Breslau, because it dared. to pass resolutions calling for struggle tor the realization of the demands of the} young workers. It is a second Gotha. It will be re. called that the A. D. G. B. arbitrarily{ dissolved the local union of Gotha, which laid down the demands which became the basic program of the revo-} lutionary trade-unionists of Germany. The only difference consists in the fact that this time the great majority of the union of the youth of Breslau are not Communist® but belong to the opposition in the social-democratic party. WARSAW— The Polish Trade Un- ion Confederation has refused the in- vitation of the Central Federation of Trade Unions of the U. S. S. R. to send a delegation to Russia to study the economic situation of the Russian workers, on the pretext that, under existing political conditions, it “does not believe that liberty of action will be assured the delegation in the U. S. S. R.“ In the course of their answer the U. S8. 8. R. Confederation writes as follows: “The refusal signifies that the Pol- ish Trade Union Confederation has - Dissolve Youth Union. Polish Bureaucrats Sabotage Unity. which is strongly organized in that city. A French and an English refused rapproachment with the Rus sian workers and trade unions. This || British Miners’ Unity. 1 [Session of U. 8. 8. R. = mr TIFLIS—In accordance with the new plan for holding the sesisons of the central executive committee 6f th U. S. S. R. in the various constitu- ent Soviet Repu in turn, the~re- cent (March) was held in 17 . t Kalinin'e Speech. M. I. Kalinin, in his opening speech jointed: out- that the Soviet Union was founded‘ on the equality and mutual confidence of all the nationalities in. |? cluded in it. To realize this equality it was necessary that not only the central authorities, but that all the lo cal authorities and people should un derstand clearly the aims, activities and the methods of work of the So- viet government. Turning to the question of the peasantry, Kalinin pointed out that in the early days of! the revolution, there was no specia) peasant problem, as both peasant and worker had been mainly concerned with assuring the triumph of the No- vember revolution. Now, however conditions had become more settled. but they had also become more com- plex. The government was meeting this problem among the peasants by an endeavor to improve the machin. ery of local Soviet government, by increasing expenditure on education, and now that the improved economic position of the country warranted it, saties, in the course of which the re- porter painted a remarkable picture of progress during the last few years. The success achieved in the restora- tion of the oil industry of Transcau- asia is well known. This progress is being maintained, and the Azneft is about to construct a new oil pipe hne betv.cen Baku and Batum id to erect a new oil refinery. The Zange- zur copper mines have also been set into operation, and already 1,500 workers are employed in them. Pow- ‘erful electric stations are being built, and the leather and textile in- dustries are being rapidly restored. It is proposed to lease the Chiat manganese area as a concession | the usual principle of the Soviet con- cession policy. Fifty-five per cent of the Georgian budget is spent on edu- cation. The number of children at- ‘tending school is more by 150 per cent as compared with czarist days and by 79 per cent as compared with the menshevist period, The number of teachers ig now. 12,000 as compared with 5,000 under the mensheviks. Similar results have been attained in Armenia and Azerbaidjan, _ Electrification of U. 8. 8. R. This year should conclude the first ‘five years’ program of work on elec. trification laid down by the commis- sion on the electrification of Russia, set- up in 1920. This program pro vided for the construction of the fol lowing regional stations: the Volk- hovstroi, Kashira, Nizhni-Novorod, Shterov, and Kiezelov, and the com. pletion of the Utkin-Zavod (now known as Krassny-Oktiabr) station near Leningrad. It will be remember ed that it was one of Lenin’s most earnest desires that the electrification of Soviet Russia should proceed as rapidly as possible, because.only by the application of electricity to indus- try and agriculture could he visualize} the real liberatfon of the workers. n LONDON he movement selene an alliance of workers in England’s key — ¢ A F 1117 iy 5 * TE ropaganda o movement in meee aid of the 2 come to earth and face the present situation.“ Indication of Class Struggle. That campaign was, at any rate, an indication that there was @ class struggle. It was no use for the premier to pretend that peace was possible under present conditions. Peace was possible only with economic security. The conservative party was fortu- nate, Mr. Cook declared, in having a leader who could make such a speech when there was every appearance of — strife and turmoll, but the true test 4 must be by results. Just as the league of nations was be realized because conditions gov- erned men’s actions and hungry men were angry men. Mr. Baldwin had suggested that the miners should purchase and run a col- liery. That, at any rate, was an admis sion of the failure of the class to which the prime minister belonged to run the mines of the country. It was the inten of the miners to have the whole of the mines, under public control, and they would not start with one pit at a time on the instalment system. ‘The miners could not forget Tony- pandy and 1921. While the workers had only the weapon nature had given them to use in their Baldwin’s party and his class had used the army, navy and polite to support the masters in every — gle against them. Overthrow Capitalist System. The miners would go on their organization be ready to act, bag gee ‘Wages sufficient to “live, aud secendly, to take control of the industries of the country, to overthrow the capitalist system and usher in a cooperative commonwealth. “T am glad to notice,“ remarked Mr. Coqk, “that the prime minister does know something about Marx, but I am afraid he has not studied Das Kapital, or he would have to admit that the present situation was prophesied there, and that the Marx- ian law of value had been proved ab solutely correct in practice.” Get a sub—make another * a munist! 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7 LEADERS OF THE U. S. S. R. RED ARMY From left to right: Bubnov, _Unshlicht, S. Kamenev. Buderifty, Voroshllov. By M. K. I chief organizational question 55 I. “ts concerned is the e ot the Communist parties upon the basis of factory nuclei, the consolidation of the nuclei where they are already in existence and working and the organization and consolidation of Communist fractions in the various workers’ and peasants’ organizations. What concrete results have we ob- tained in the reorganization of the Communist parties upon the factory nuclei? Let us consider these gains according to the individual countries. Germany: The reorganization of the Communist Party of Germany began before the Fifth Congress. The ques- tion of the reorganization received nowhere such a thoro discussion as in the C. P. G. According to the report of the central committee of the Ger- many party submitted to the organi- zational department of the E. C. 25 the C. I., 1,092 factory nuclei we formed. up to August 1, 1924. At the present time this number is much higher. The tactory nuclei carry out all the functions of the lower party organs in the workshops. oc cupy themselves not merely with general party questions but also with the needs of the workers in the re- spective factories. They attempt to take over the leadership of the strug- gle against the exploiters and in this way to win the sympathy of the masses of the workers. The fact that the recent terror elections brot such comparatively good resnits for the German party must be ascribed to the work of the factory. auclei. 830 factory nuclei in Germany have their own newspaper (Today this number is still greater). The extent to which the idea of factory newspa pers has been adopted in Germany is shown by the following facts: there are two police and one military nuclei papers issued (the latter is of course strictly illegal). Almost all nuclei pa- pers in Germany are printed. The material for them is supplied by the workerg themselves. The cir¢ulation thean, papers is continually increas- managers and foremen of — they discover them immediate dismis. sal follows. The social democrats and even the fascists have recognized the great importance of the factory news- papers and here and there they them- selves have undertaken the issue. of such papers. The largest factory nuclei endeavor to get in touch with nuclei of the Russian Communist Party, in similar factories and to carry on an exchange of letters with them. Those Communists who do not work in factories (domestic servants, port- ers and the like), are organized in street nuclei. The main share of the party work, however, is already con- centrated in the factory nuclei. The Young Communist League of Ger- many has already carried out the re- organization upon the factory nuclei basis in Berlin, in Thuringia, in the Ruhr district, in Cologne and in Halle- Merseburg. There are approximately 600 nuclei. These factory nuclei of the youth also issue their papers which are for the most part hecto graphed. There are over a hundred ment of the E. C. lot such papers. France: Since the Fifth World Con- gress the C. P. has achieved great auc cess in the reorganization upon the factory nuclei basis. In the Paris 2 trict is has been carried out com- pletely, the former “sections” no longer exist and all comrades are or- ganized in the factory nuclei. The territorial nuclei have been almost completely abolished in the Paris dis- trict. In this Wistrict there are over 500 factory nuclei and 30 sub-districts. In the north there are 80 factory nuc- lei functioning. In other parts of France the reorganization has been similarly taken in hand. Thanks to the factory nuclei, the party work has been considerably enlivened. All nuc- lei members are drawn into the work. Contact with the non-party masses is being established. Thanks to these circumstances the French C. P. has won 3,000 new members since the Fifth Congress. The French factory nuclei have also commenced to issue their own factory papers. In the izational depart- the C. I. there are approximately 80 different factory nuclei newspapers from Paris. In the north there are about ten factory newspapers issued. It must, however, be remarked that the French papers are behind the German in many re spects. They are edited mechanically and often contain no notice whatever of the life in the shops. The workers take very little part in the production of these papers, but nevertheless, the work is going forward. Czecho-Slovakia: Altho the ques- tion of reorganizing the C. P. on the basis of the factory nuclei was ener- getically discussed even before the Fifth Congress, actual nuclei were formed only in Bratislavia and in Reichenberg. The decisions of the Fifth Congress spurred the C. P. to greater activity in this direction. The discussion in- side the party which commenced after the Fifth Congress gave the question of the factory nuclei a great impetus. The party conference adopted new statutes on a Bolshevik basis (factory nuclei as basis of the party, the ac tivity of all members, democratic cen- tralism etc.) Naturally, we are still very far from a complete reorganiza- tion of the party on the basis of these statutes. According to the informa tion of the Rude Pravo there are al. ready a few hundred factory nuclei in existence. According to the decision of the central committee of the C. P. of Czecho-Slovakia, the reorganization upon the new basis must be com- pleted by May 1, 1925. Up to the mo ment only one newspaper has appear- ed from these nuclei. Even for this the workers of the particular factory have apparently made very little con- tribution. Italy: The reorganization of the party is being carried out under illegal conditions. Therefore, it was not pos- .Sible to achieve such success in the time as in France. However, even here considerable success has been achieved. In Turin the formation of factory nuclei was commenced before the Fifth Congress and this work fur thered the influx of new party mem- bers, at the same time the number of members in other towns permanently decreased. After the Fifth Congress the formation of factory nuclei was undertaken all over Italy. At the pres- ent time there are 40 factory nuclei in Milan with 450 members, The entire organization in Milan has a thousand — pic Approximately half of the rship is organized in street nuclei. The Italian factory nuclei are somewhat different from the street nuclei in other countries for not mere- ly are they composed of party mem- bers, but also of sympathizers. This looser form in the ‘Italian nuclei hin- ders them without doubt in their ef- forts to become real Bolshevik party nuclei. However, the factory nuclei carry on a far greater activity than that of the old “groups.” Thanks to the revival of the work of the C. P. I. and the general strengthening of the anti-fascist movement, the mem- bership of the party has doubled itself in the last few months and has now reached 25,000. Great Britain: The C. P. G.B. is directing great attention to the reor- ganization of the party upon the fac- tory nuclei. The formation of nuclei is made very difficult by the numeri- cal weakness of the party. Despite this however, there are 17 factory nuclet in existence in Great Britain. A plan for the reorganization of the whole party has been drafted. V. 8. A: A great discussion is tak- ing. place America upon the question of the re- organization upon the basis of the fao tory nuclei. The reorganization meets with great difficulties on account of the various nationalities among the American workers, and on account of entimes not understand the English language and because of the numeri- At the moment the party actually rep. resents a federation of national sec- tions loosely bound together in which the immigrants are dominant. In con- sequence of this the reorganization must be proceeded with very care- fully. The organizational department of the E. C. of the C. I. is of the op- inion that the national sections must be. maintained, their functions must however be confined to agitation and ers of their particular nationality. The chief political work and the party work in general must go thru the fac- tory nuclei which must organize all [Communists ot a particular factory without distinction of nationality. De- spite hindrances there are already a few factory nuclei. in the United States. The Young Workers’ League is already almost completely reorgan. ized on the basis of factory nuclei. (This is inaccurate, but the Y. W. L. is working hard to this end.—Ed. Note.) Scandinavia: 1. Norway: The Nor- wegian Workers’ Party, from which the Communist Party of Norway or- iginated, was built up upon the basis of collective membership of the trade unions and individual membership was quite unknown. Whole trade union sections have affiliated to it. This cir- cumstance in reality placed the trade unions above the party and was not the actvity of the party members. Therefore, the first task of the C. P. consisted in carrying out the change from collective to individual member. ship. This has already been practic- ally carried out. Work is now pro- ceeding for the formation of factory nuclei; In Oslo (Christiania) there lious districts. The party members in the Workers Party of the fact that the immigrants can oft. cal weakness of the American Party. propaganda work amongst the work-| able to promote the development of, Shop Nuclei and the Communist Parties not working in the factories are or- ganized in street nuclei. There is also one factory nucleus paper. 2. Sweden: In Stockholm there are factory nuclei in the larger industrial centers. Under the old party lead- ership and up to the split there only existed upon paper. The new central committeg is devoting all its attention to the carrying out of the.decisions of the Fifth World Congress relating to the reorganization of the party upon the basis of factory nuclei. The Baltic States. parties of Finland and Lithuania are, for the greater part, and the Commun- ist Party of Esthonia, completely, built up upon the basis of the factory nuclei system. In Latvia the party of the Bolsheviks was organized upon the basis of the factory nuclei, in indepen- dent Latvia, however, the factory nuclei disappeared in consequence of the lack of large-scale industry. They are now being organized afresh. Poland: There were factory nuclei in the old Polish social democracy and also in the Russia Social Democratic Workers Party (Bolsheviki.) However, under the old leadership of the C. P. of Poland the skeleton of the party— the factory nuclei—co ‘peared in many districts, . place came the loosely organiz ed and not very active “free” circles, to which not only party members but also sympathizers belonged. Unfortu. nately, the new leadership of the C. P. which devoted all its forces to the overcoming of the opportunistic devia- tions in the party, does not pay suffici- ent attention to the reorganization of the party upon the factory nuclei ba- sis. The Young Communist League of Poland has achieved much greater success in this connection. The “free circles” and the few women's circles have been completely liquidated. The factory nuclei of the Y. C. L. of Po land shows great activity. Austria: The Communist Party 16 The Communist _ letely disap- | en weak and it is continually, torn b fractional struggles. According to the reports submitted to the organiza... department of the E. C. of the 0. I. there are six factory nuclei in Vienna, including one in the Warcha- lowski locomotive works with 600 members. The Balkans: Bulgaria: The C. P. quickly adapted itself to the new con- ditions of work, the conditions caused by the fascist terror and the complete illegality. The organization of the party on the basis of factory nuclei is in process but has not yet ended. The party members not working in the factories are organized in territorial and village nuclei. Jugo-Slavia, Roumania and Greece: The reorganization of the Communist parties has begun. Factory nuclei ex- ist in all these countries. *°¢s s From this short survey we can see that the reorganization of the Com- munist parties upon the basis of fac- tory nuclei is still in its opening stage. At the same time the endeavor is being made to utilize all party members in the.activity. In this con- nection, as we Have seen, certain re- sults have been obtained, but much work still confronts us. We know what great efforts this cost in the Russian Communist Party. It will cost still greater energy in the west and in America, but nevertheless this work are 38 factory nuclei organized in var- has begun and is proceeding, if only slowly, forwards. : *
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} _ manifestation. of things all of which make the per * : — — = ~ a 8 ae ee ; 2 r 8 Bide > ~ i a 2 “3 1 ee : F 2 i ‘ . * 1 — pms * F N 2 * rr — 7 ae ee . * M = 1 1 * Ya oe 3 2 9 2 Soc Our Model: Noske. — EINE: It was our whole endeav- or to act as Noske acted so that all violence was prevented, with the exception of the loss of a very new officers’ lives, and as Noske acted when he succeeded in saving the life of Prince Henry of Prussia.” (Rote Fahne, 21 Dec.) Heine is competent, for in his capacity as member of the state court of justice he has already imposed a hundred years of penal servitude upon workmen. Heine: “I myself, as member of the state court of justice, am a judge, and have the right to speak there in polit- ical cases every few weeks. I know very well how pleasant a task it is to judge mildly. “But I know equally well that the main end of justice is to protect the social order, to maintain and firmly establish the state. There can be no deviation from justice, but it is the duty of a judge to consider the polit- ical effects of a verdict.” (Rote Fahne, Dec. 21.) - a ! The Denunciation of Rosa Lux ,[emburg by the Leaders of the Ger- man Social Democratic Party. N the Magdeburg Ebert case General Wriesberg declared on oath that the German S. D. P. induced the 7 aa a2 * . * . WER em — iti ‘ — te 2 * — — n —— a , FFF oe aE RE. RR peers neo Fe F hoa, y Pas ae OF 3 e * £ . — see 7 at bo ¢ * te — J N 5 ¥ oe = 7 . 2 „ — +) 7.22 — THIS is the last instalment of the exposure of the treason of the German social-democracy contained in their own testimony—speeches and letters. os ‘ To crowning acts of betrayal are shown in these briet documents: The arrest of Rosa Luxemburg and the letter of loyalty to the scion of the royal house. Oor of their own mouths . . „ Rosa Luxemburg, The Vorwarts denies this statement, and sees in it another proof of German nationalist and Communist conspiracy. I should thus like to call upon the editors of the Vorwarts to look up the 1916 volume of thé Chemnitzer Volksstimme, edited by Noske and Heilmann. In June and July 1916 Rosa Luxemburg and I were there repeatedly accused of high treason, |» with the openly published substantia- tion that we were issuing illegal leaflets and newspapers. These de- nunciations on the part of Noske and Heilmann were promptly followed by the arrest of Rosa Luxemburg on 10th of July, 1906, and by my arrest about two weeks later. If Noske and Heilmann could pub- lish such denunciations openly for weeks, without being prevented by the committee of the 8. D. P., is it not likely that the party committee itself was co-operating? — Noske, Heilmann, Ebert, Wels, and by the S. D. P., and on the colla- boration with the military authorities the war. Berlin, December 17, 1924. | Ernst Meyer. The Letter Sent by Ebert, Bau and David; to Prince Max of Baden diel BIAS £ 2 ay CUR Royal Highness! On the occasion of the first anniversary of the memorable day which brought the German people the greatest turning point in their history, the leaders of the Reich feel them- selves impelled to recall the faithful assistance rendered by your Royal Highness in those hours of world historical importance. It will then be clear to all it was just the tried and tested political leaders chosen by the people who, clearly realising the real thus await with pleasure a fresh authorities, during the war, to arrest lawsuit for libel from Messrs. possibilities and the lesson of a thou- sand years of history, though they — — — — * 3 a n 4 1 at * asa? * Pe =e ° * a 2 r n 3 41 9 a pee har Ss e626 6 enn Se * ‘> ** F. hs wile OR oe a aE RY ate 8 ECC F 4 8 on . et 80 e e er NS Cage oy Te Se 42 8 4 1 7 * ie * 4 * LA - 8 . os for the regency of the Kaiser's | _ grandson. Your Royal Highness is aware, as nobody else is aware, that neither you nor the representatives of the people the revolution and the republic. As an outward sign of gratefulness and recognition for the great services rendered by your Royal highness to. the people and the Fatherland at that critical period, a special session of the Reich government, held this morning resolved to abandon the previous decision of expropriating Mainau Castle for people’s welfare purposes, and to present this magnificent ancestral seat of your family to you as your permanent and unassailable property. Berlin, November 8, 1919. President of the Reich: Ebert. Qn behalf of the government: Bauer, David. oS, Fs WOON 5 He * is Aren ‘ * A . 278 N 1 N 1 1 — J | 3 — 7 “Aa . was first performed the Opera company put it on at the Audi. torium theater. This fiftieth annivers- ary performance, which took place last Wednesday afternoon, was a not- able one in several ways. It wat performed with a cast mainly of Chi- cago people. It was sung in English; the first time that Charles Henry Meltzer’s translation has been sung here. And it brot out a consummate Carmen. No columns of complex raving can do justice to Lorna Doone Jackson’: interpretation of the name part. I. was magnificent, masterful, ideal. Only two other performances, how. ; were really good. Herber Gould, as Zuniga, the dragoon cap tain, looked a little like the sergeant of police in “The Pirates of Pen- zance,” but he has dramatic ability. voice, and one could understand every word he sang, which disting- uishes his performance from all the others. The Pavley and Oukrainsky ballet did some excellent and spirited work in the first part of the fouth act. . Charles Hart as Don Jose was ade quate vocally but not dramatically. Joseph Interrante, as the toreador was a flivver in every way. His ren- dition of the world’s most famou: tune had about as much of the spirit of joy in it as an obituary notice. This matter of singing opera in English is a significant and excellent It requires a numbe) formance more difficult. First it re quires a good translation of the lib retto. Second it requires singer: trained to sing the English language well, and most opera singers are not trained to sing the language at all Its advantages are obvious. The San Carlo had an 41 transla tion. Meltzer has done an excellen' * F reren . .. * 4 oe * - : . . 3 5 N. x) 2 re Ey * BE IRE KT FP GR IO NIT PM POS FSI a composer whose music is the direc’ : opposite of eve Carmen stands for may be of interest. Says Tchaikovski, the master of gloom and tragedy: „„ . . behold, a Frenchman comer on the scene, in whom the qualities o! piquancy and pungency are not the ‘outcome of effort and refiection, but flow from his pen in a free stream flattering the ear, but touching u: also. It is as tho he said to us: ‘You ask nothing great, superb or grandi ose—you want something And let us réjoice that Tschaikov- ski’s conviction has proven a true one. Verdi’s Aida' Is First Presentation at San Carlo Opera The San Carlo company opened its run at the Auditorium last Monday night with Aida, the Verdi opera. Since most of the kick of the ‘opera occurs In scenes having nothing to iw hw KM | 4 * / r. 3 - Fed teensy, ASS 8 3 Yo . * * * * ‘ * f io = + 8 * * : 3 : 2 , — : . vw 0 , “ Any * — . ; r — : - 1 i The chorus was on the pitch at imes, | Miss Nemerov of the Pavley and Oukrainski ballat company put over some Egyptian dances in approved Ziegteld style. There was some good 2 unnamed blackface danc- And he gets the results. Eat at the GLOBE CAFETERIA Best Foods at Moderate Prices. 14th STREET, COR. IRVING PLACE do with the theme of the story it is not necessary to give that story ex cept briefly. 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r these cities, and have seen the Jew- ish life in them, but in my judgment the heart of Jewish culture and art exis in Moscow. | greatest Jewish theaters in the world are now playing in Moscow They are the Jewish Kamerny theater and the Gabima theater. Of them one cannot write calmly—they are a reve- lation to a student of stage-craft. They marvellous laboratories of the theater, and they are also the finest blooming of the long-suppressed Jew- race-spirit. The Gabima theater gives produc- Vahtangov, a young Armenian reg isseur of the Moscow Art theater who died à few days ago, was the director of both_pieces played at the Gabima. He was one of the great regisseurs of Russia and even tho he was not a Jew, his Semitic blood gave him ar instinctive understanding of Jewish life that makes his productions as au- thentic as if they bad been born in the mind of a native of Palestine, The Gabima is the spiritual center around which a great deal of mystic Jewish Zionism and nationalism re I am not an ad- self. to the Irish national Yeats, or the catholic mystics of the stage like Claudel. These mystics write nobly of infinity, god, the soul. the cosmos, but when one goes under the purple and gold of their imagery one finds the skeleton of the same 100 per cent patriotism and national- ism that has plunged the world into so many ugly, bloody wars. To grow mystical over one’s nation or one’s race is to join hands with the ku klux klan of one's nation and race. One cannot apply a political test to the Gabima, however. It is a great art theater, and a poet and artist finds himself ravished by the beauty ofits perfect performances. About one third of the audience at the Gabima is made up of Russians who do not understand Hebrew, but who this temple of pure, noble devotion to thé spirit of but it is more in the main stream of modern life. It is not slow and stately and majestic with the biblican grand. eur of the Gabima; it is swift, satiri- 15 * 5 4 rf | 4 8 f F productions ot the Jew- Kamerny; Goldfadden’s old play, ; E : sage : 2 ial 5 E 2 g eliminated from the piece; only the fantasy and humanity of the story have remained. | ; The production cannot be compared to anything we have yet seen in Am- erica. The Moscow Art theater and Balieff’s Chauve Souris are not fair samples of modern Russian theatrical art. They are remnants of the old; in Russia the Moscow Art theater is re- garded by the younger men as a sort of museum; where ancient modes of acting and scenery are presented by old people who have learned nothing since the nineteenth century. and other aesthetes poo.) creme in Trade Unions America By Wm. Z. Foster, James P. Cannon and Earl R. Browder Is. with a brief statement of the American trade union movement, a of the history development of the left wing and an exp of the structure and program of its Trade Un- ion Educational League. — © 2 we vi * a N * however, the play has been made into a theatrical symphony. Every thing ts in the key of young, vigor- ous fantasy. The costumes, the scenery, with its planes and levels. the dancing, the singing, the speech, the gestures, all have been planned and harmonized. Nothing is left to chance; each move on the stage, every word uttered, is as skilfully planned . -in advance as a ballet is planned. Granovsky’s ideal has been the syn- ethic theater of which Gordon Craig have dreamed. He has achieved the synthetic thea. ter; a theatre where word, move- ment, music, gesture and dance are woven into a unity from which one cannot eliminate anything; not the gesture of a hand. Only in very technical terms could one convey the great work of Granov- sky. I prefer not to attempt a descrip- tion, but to let the Jewish Kamerny DANCE FOR BENEFIT OF WHITE RUSSIAN PRISONERS IN POLAND The Workers’ Home, together with the White Russian Peoples’ Society will give a concert and dance this Sunday, April 5, at Scho- enhofen Hall, corner Milwaukee and Ashland avenues, for the benefit of the political prisoners in Poland. Many of the White Russians who are fighting for the liberation of the territory forcibly annéxed by Po- land and which is in fact part of the Soviet Republic of White Russia, are suffering in the jails of Poland. Only a few days ago, the capitalist press reported how two of such prisoners who were on their way to ‘be exchanged for Polish prisoners in Soviet Russia, were shot down by the Polish chief of police. All are in sympathy with the lit movemen in Poland are invited to attend this affair and thereby help the victims of the Polish bourgeoisie. The concert will start at 4 p. m. The Little Red Library The first two numbers of this little pocket-size brary, destined to become the most popular of any working class publications ever issued in this country, are now being sold © by all Daily Workers Agents thruout the country. If you have not as yet seen a copy of this splendid little propaganda giant, and have not enjoyed the valuable reading in each, be sure to ask your local Daily Worker Agent for a copy—or @ dozen copies. (They are twelve for $1.00.) They can also be had by mail from THE DAILY WORKER 9 2 11 3 1 . 8 =" * “s * . r ; - > 0 aes - + + x a 2 N speak for itself when it comes here. 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By H. C. FILLMORE have just come in after attempting to sell DAILY WORKER subs from door to door and want to record my impressions while they are still fresh. Let us begin by facing the fact that ‘it’s a real job, this haling a stranger to the door and actually selling and getting the money right away for a sub. Bourgeois firms, selling by agent have understood this so well that al- most invariably nowadays, the agent says, “you don’t have to pay to-day” and “pay the postman or agent upon delivery.” In present day America anyone who is at all easy to sell to, had better crawl in a hole and hide if he wants to survive. To fail to see this, to fail to understand something of the annoyances visited daily on . householders, particulalrly in large cities is to fail to see life. ERSONALLY I am rather hard- boiled and anyone who sells to me from the door step will earn his sale. The idea of this campaign is to distribute the DAILY WORKER from door to door every night for a week and then go around on Sundays and pick up the subs. Subs may come slowly, but one does make contacts, hears the ideas of people outside the party and the ex- perience is invaluable. We went in two’s a man and a girl comrade to- gether and took turns leading off. NYONE who thinks there are no classes in America and that th. | way you get your living, does no largely determine your ideas, your manner of living and even your facia! expression ought to try this. There we interrupt an old boy eat- ing his dinner, nice black clothes, gold watch chain and charm, hands that have long ago lost their callouses if they ever had any, conservative writ- ten all over him and he pompously ad- mits seeing one copy of the paper “would just as soon we didn’t leave any more.” He “don’t think there is any call for such a publication.” tell him we are just tickled to Saddbath to ‘havé his opinion, that there is a growing army of workers of a different belief, that its a mighty nice spring day and then we leave him to go back to his lunch, we hop- ing that his appetite is spoiled. Next we get a liberal lady, the daughter of an old time temperance physician who says her family has been reading off the orthodox track for years, says she liked some things in the paper, very kind and sympa- thetic, pleads stress of work, for not subscribing. Sinclair and Nearing about her calibre. N a young working ‘girl to whom we promise to send a sam- ple Young Worker or two. (Note, have them with you strike when the iron is hot, some other time may be no time), The member of the sheet British Leaders Urge Trade Union Unity (Continued from page 1.) osal for the convening of a world labor congress, The date fixed for the meeting of our general council is February 5, 1925, and the following days. It will be seen from the above cor- respondence that in the course of the six months there was (presumably as a result of the British Trade Union Congress declaration in September) a distinctly more cordial tone in the letter sent by the bureau on Septem- ber 11. On the other hand, there is a perceptible stiffening of the tone in the letter of December 1, The last letter would, it seemed, definitely pre- clude any further move towards an entente; and postpones any further consideration to the meeting of Feb- ruary 5. Undoubtedly this was due to the fact that the negotiations at that time (November and December) proceeding between the British trade unions and the Russian trade unions had placed a new complexion on the situation. To these AngloRussian negotiations we must now turn. (To be continued.) metal work ; the old Weekly Worker and liked it, out of work and broke, probably we have revived interest here. He knows who owns America all right. | Then the two friends, a Russian and an Armenian—the former a read- er of Novy Mir the latter illiterate, both out of work and with an idea that “American workers are 50 years behind.” We say, “Not 50 of the kind of years Europe has had since 1914, our turn here is coming, read the DAILY WORKER to help prepare you for it.“ HEN the maid who asks if it is a church paper and when assured that it is not, feels, confident her mis- tress “would not be interested. The pleasant faced landlady who says she gave the papers, to her room- ers, and will ask them about it when they come in, could probably be ap- proached herself, it we had Crled men, I think, a pamphlet, written in simple common language, illuminat- ing the great improvement coming to- millions of such women with the ad- vent of Communism, would be in order at such times. Mo contacts at more houses. These are average however. We may all see one trouble, these blocks are too much mixed, these folk have different ideas because they have lived differently, maybe a_first class »rypnotist could hold them in conver- ation long enough to study them, and o come to understand them. Perhaps this is a drawback of all arge cities. One idea would be to get 1 block where one kind ‘of workers were living, mine or mill or some in- dustry where they were feeling the capitalist pinchers, ET their stories and slap em in to the DAILY WORKER, the way they told them, let em be raw, who cares? Of course, summing their part up in the world labor movement. but make this plain, these are not yet Marxists. Then, by golly, an agent would be armed with something that had a punch to it, if the workers don’t take an interest in our stuff, it’s the method that’s wrong. We have to “sell” Communism to the masses, the fact that we know these ideas are for their own good doesn’t mean that they know it yet. ‘ | Making Russian Tea | Did you ever see a samovar? No, it ain’t no ukelele, it isn’t for play ing, but for boiling water to,make Russian tea. The soldier in The Beauty and the Bolshevik is shown here making a fire in the samovar. He is using his boot in the true Rus- sian style as a bellows to blow the fire in the samovar. Come and see how it is done in The Beauty and Bolshevik, Wednesday, April 15, from 6 p. m. at Wicker Park Theater, 1539 Milwaukee Ave., near Robey St. Philadelphia, Notice! Weber Printing Co. 350 N. FIFTH STREET, old 1922 strike? F rr e KARL RADEK. A FEW years ‘ago the: — theatre director, Reinhardt, pre- sented “Lysistrata” by Aristoph- anes, at the Deutsche Theater, the play in which the old scoffer and opponent of Athenian democracy depicts a woman’s conspiracy to end the war. All Greece was tired of war and the women decided to end it by a demonstration of solidarity. What could that be? A sex strike. And this sex strike, depicted with ingenious humor, entertains the bourgeois ladies and gentlemen in an extraordinary degree. Old Aris- tophanes had known gifted women, Aspasia, for instance, the wife of resented as a clever woman. But the masses of women who follow her are depicted as pretty kittens This representation does not even 2 with the role of woman in ancient times; she was a mother and mistress of the home, that is, she did a great necessary social work. But as mother and mistress of the home, she was restricted in her activity to the domestic circle, to her family, and therefore she could not engage in concentrated mass activity. Since this time the world has radically changed. Women are working in factories, workshops and offices. The type- writer alone represents a technical revolution. Without the ridiculea lady typist the whole of modern in- dustry and of modern trade is im- possible. During the war wom- an’s importance as a worker in- creased ten-fold. That is why in many countries the war with one full sweep granted suffrage to wom- en. The war is over. Millions or women who played a revolutionary role in 1919 have retired from polt- ‘tics, but they could not retire to a peaceful home for this peaceful rope there is a tremendous housing crisis which is undermining the roots of the bourgeois family. The situation of the working woman has become worse. She is the first victim of the capitalist of- fensive. Her wages are the first to be cut, and when a reduction of em- Pericles. His Lysistrata is also rep- : who have no other weapon than the something of special interest to wo- Pt tq love. — A Most Important Publication from England! The Communist women’s move- ment is in its first stages, and that is the best evidence of how young and weak the Communist movement in general still is. Only the move- ment which embraces that half of humanity, the working women, can revolutionize the world. Interna- tional Women’s Day was therefore created not only to mobilize the. women, but also point out to the Communist men that they are be- traying their pause if they do not support the movement of the prole- tarian women with great féf¥brand~ with great éarnestnéss. The over of the masses or working woin: en into the Communist movement will give it an enormous offensive power. The working woman as a Communist guarantees victory even in the most difficult circumstances. The spirit of the fighting workers in difficult situations depends on the spirit, the endurance, the energy of women, for in a difficult situation a dependent woman 1 cause a defeat. Therefore, all energies to the fore in the fight for the soul of the working women. MOISSAYE OLGIN 10 Mir. He will speak at the Workers’ Home (formerly the Soviet School), 1902 W. Division St., on Friday, April 17, at 8 p. m., on “What did the Russian Revolution Give to the Workers and Peasants?” . —. — SRS rr years. A Descriptive Summary of The Report of the British Trade Union Delegation to Russia and International Trade Union Unity. With Preface by A. A. Purcell, 18 8 A full account of all facts on world between Amsterdam and the Red Inte | Unions. . one of the most important pamphlets in A pamphlet of the Labor Research Department of Eng- land, containing indispensible material for the intelligent worker on the latest developments in the world of labor. 10 CENTS EACH. 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