Daily Worker
April 15, 1925
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ipital on ers must ns ° 6 ee ae — 4 ‘of coufse is to. hold .on, ‘along ynder an added “white man’s the affair is, Fg Ee ne * ~ +. . i 3y pic EY, ~ = ro eee! ne ft wy ‘nae ree ae a oF ‘ - ; Bi te4ene? Pew ¥ o. 80.75 AS es i By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. PIRITAIN aia woho into the war to gain a foot of territory or a pound sterling as the spoils of victory. Just to save sctional egies getting their national digni at The’ only thdady the’ cone & ' *s °s . Ss thé headline in one of the morn- ing papers tells us, Britain’s gfip tightens from the Red Sea to India. Those of you who read the bible will | remember that Moses, when fleeing from the Egyptians found in the Red Sea a good ally. With the enemy in the rear, closing up on his people, he was at loss what to'do. But inspira- tion came along and he struck the sea with a rod, whereupon the waters | divided, allowing his army to walk across without wetting their tootsies. But lo; as the bible would say, when the enemy tried to make the grade, Moses wickedly turned his rod loose on the’ river and the wafers rolled over the enemy, drowning them. * * * URING the war, while BEngland was sending troops, sparingly, to the Western front to hold the Ger- mans back, she was sending troops in goodly ‘numbers into the Near Bast, to protect. that. country, from nothing more dangerous than the hot sun. But when the war was. over, France began to get suspicious and this sus- picion increased until“today there is! as mych enmity existing between the capitalists of France and England as existed between the pirates of Ger- many and England prior to 1914. Now of the Near East. oo ge + yebond s god was of an entirely 4it- ferent opinion. ~The latter uses pois-| son gas afd fighting airplanes, while the brad diety is still in’ the stone age.’ However, stones were in the majority for the moment and Balfour fied. Now the peculiar thing about that Balfour was in Syria; over which the French have a mandate when the excitement took place. : + o O doubt he was keeping his weath- er eye open for an opportunity | @ to strike a blow at French influence in. Syria, when the Arabs began to hurl.the Irish ammunition at him. And it is by no means outside the province of practical politics that France had incited the Arabs to rain stones on Balfour who was after a fashion the guest of the French. But when Balfour was compelled to flee for his life French police came along and jabbed the Arabs with sabres and took Balfour away ona French steamer. The Arabs have no love for the French exploiter but of the two evils they certainly don’t prefer the British. Now the British fear their prestige in the East will be impaired because of Balfour’s hasty flight. > * 7 HE British and the French robbers quarrel over the loot in the Near East, and they use the peoples of the East as pawns in their game of pil- lage and murder, but there is only one power making its influence felt in the Near East which is gaining the confidence of the masses as it did in China. That is’ Soviet Russia and Britain is much more afraid of Com- munist propaganda in its possessions (Continued on page 5) Get a sub for the DAILY WORKER from your shopmate and you will make another mem- per for your branch. : LOOKING OVER THE WAR MACHINE TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR MORGAN INDIANAPOLIS, April 13.—Major General Eli A. Helmick, inspector- general of the United States army, was in Indianapolis today to Inspect the troops stationed at Fort Benja- min Harrison. The third field artil- lery, the eleventh infantry and the fifth tank company will pass in re view before the general. Generali Helmick is enroute from Washington to China whére he will inspect the VU. 8. troops stationed eo Bi Shop an mall W.W. | nan American and the Dollar Line. Thea per year. emis per year. WEDNESDAY, at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 8, 1879, " — én NEW YORK | EDITION —_——" 15, 1925 290 Pul =” @meept Sunday by THE DAILY CO. 1113 W. Washington Bivd., WORKER Chicago, IlL Price 3 Cents \STEEL WORKERS’ UNION ASKED TO ADOPT PROGRAM OF THE TRADE UNION EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE definitely to carry their Organization Clash The Trade’ Union Educational The Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers now in/ convention at Pittsburgh, Pa., has before it the won giving to the hundreds of thousands of workers in the steel industry, genuine unionism, industrial in structure and militant in spirit. © opportunity will be taken advantage of or lost, depends, solel: or not the progressive element unites around definite policy, Serum into practice and figh tion to militant action on the part of the hopeless and . l Opportunity of ether or not this upon whether olle¥, organizes itself against all opposi- #6 labor fakers. League in the following statement | By R. BAKER. proposes such a program and such (Special to The Daily Worker.) action: PHILADELPHIA, April 13— One eee thousand two hundred M. T. W. Long- The T. U. E. L. Statement. shoremen tied up the Delaware water front when the Jarka Stevedore cor-| TH most basic industry of this ‘country, the steel industry, is con- poration refused to recognize or per- mit the members of the Marine Trans- trolled by the most ruthless, reaction- ary combination of employers. The port Workers’ Union of the |. W. W. to wear their buttons on the job. The | Workers in this industry are practic- ally unorganized, and left at the Jarka Stevedore corporation is a ‘not- orious anti-union firm with headquar-|™ercy of the bosses. The organization / which should embrace all steel work- ters in New York and is one of the outstanding opponents of the M. T. W.|°T8, has not succeeded in bringing within its folds one-fourth of one per in Philadelphia, The strike affects the following | °¢@t of these workers. This is due to steamship lines: the Munson Line, | the face that the organization pursues American-Hawalian Line; United|the wrong methods. It has become American Line, German Lloyd, Ger- | ®48ged and bound and held in the icy grasp of the dead hand of a hopeless- ly reactionary officialdom which re- recognize the union and have their |fUse8 to move one step forward. Pres- ships loaded, but the American-Ha- (Continued on page 4.) walian line refuses to budge. ; The M. T. W. is determined not to Money in Mail Order Business. send a man back until all lines are Directors of Montgomery Ward & ready to settle. About 200 scabs have managed to slip thru the picket lines, | ©OMP4ny, Inc., today declared an ex- tra dividend of $5.25 on account of ac- among them a number wearing the I. cumulated dividends on the class A L.A. buttons, The strike is the outcome of an |stock, payable May 1, to stock of rec- intense organization campaign con-jord April 20. This is addition to the ducted during the last six weeks that |regular quarterly dividend of $1.75 on the stock. has increased the membership of the COMMUNIST SEAMEN’S CLUB SENDS GREETINGS TO Tdi: DAILY WORKER The International Seamen’s Ciub, with headquarters at Nicolaieff, Soviet Russia, has sent its greetings to the DAILY WORKER in the following letter: “Dear Comrades: We were very glad to receive your letter. In. receiving your letter we Russian workers feel a great satisfaction be- cause we are able to see once more that we are not left to ourselves in this world, and that we are not the only section of the world’s workers which tries to develop revolutionary action. We shall be able to build a world’s wor! ane Oy stp government. 7” " opp a eute® ‘that Srity“by the world’s + of the workers will we be able ~ to get rid 'Sf the world’s capitalists and their chains. Forward, comrades, to the final ‘pattie! “Long five the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics! “Long five the staff of the world’s Communist Party as the vanguard of the world’s proletarian revolution! “Cement stronger the ranks of the world Communist Party! “with. Communist greetings, we are, yours fraternally, " “SEAMEN’S CLUB OF NICOLAIEFF, U. S. S. R. “A. F. SATSKIN, Secretary.” MINISTERS QUIT AS WORKERS AND FASCISTI FIGHT Farinacci Would Exile Communists Five of the above lines are ready to 2 fhe wer Fires » eae» M. T. W.:to,.abmost 5,000 members. George Speed, Ben Fiétcher and Bob Chestnut are in charge of the organiz- ation campaigh‘and the present strike. Several conferences have been held between the ‘strike committee and Superintendent..Nolan of the Jarka corporation... The strikers are stand- ing firm and are showing the old wobbly spirit of determination that is bound to win the strike within a few days. Little trouble was experienced with the Philadelphia stevedore companies when the organization campaign start- ed, with the result that 3,500 long- shoremen wearing .the red M. T. W. buttons are loading the ships for the (Special to The Daily Worker.) ROME, Italy, April 13.—Street bat- following stevedore companies: Mur-}tles between fascisti and Communists phy Cook Co., Furness Withy Co.,! -ontinue to be reported thruout Italy. Union Stevedore Co., MacCarthy Three more fascisti have been re- ported seriously injured in the towns of Biella and Revo. The fascisti at- tacked crowds of workers and were repulsed. At Bologna one Communist and one fascist were killed in the street fight- ing. Deputy Farinacci, secretary of the fascist party, has issued a manifesto asking that all Communist leaders be exiled. The recent retirement of the fas- cist minister of war, Gen. di Giorgio. who was forced to resign because of opposition in the senate to Mussolini's army bill, will soon be followed by the resignation of Finance Minister de Stefani, it is reported. The finance minister at Mussolini’s demand, issued regulations to govern the stock exchange. Because of these regulations, the transactions on the stock exchange . practically ceased. Mussolini was forced to step in and remove the measures. A general shake up in Mussolini’s cabinet is expected soon, in an effort to appease the growing op) osition to Mussolini's rule. Stevedore Co., Independent Pier Co. and Daugherty Stevedore Co. hese companies well remember the record of the Philadelphia M. T. W. and were not anxious for a clash when they saw the tide of industrial unionism rise among the longshore- men. The red M. T. W. button is permanently established on the Dela- ware waterfront and the present strike = prestige and power to the union! The Red Button on the Water Front. One needs but to take a walk thru the waterfront to know that the I. W. W. is on the job and has come here to stay. The many longshore- men strolling thru the streets and dis- cussing the situation wear their red buttons conspicuously and smile the old wobbly smile of victory and de- termination that cannot be wiped out by the many mounted police that are in evidence thruout the strike zone. The M. T. W. headquarters is buzz- ing with new life and activity as pick- ets bring in reports and old ex-mem- bers come for their new red cards quite often bringing along other work- ers who have been convinced that the M. T. W. in back on the job to stay. —-- > 4 “BIG TWO” PACKERS IN SIGHT WASHINGTON, April 13.—Iinstead of having a “big five” among the meat packing companies, the United Stated will goon have merely a “big two,” if the proposed Armour-Morris merger"is approved, says the Farmers National Council, in a plea to Secretary of Agricu#ture Jardine to oppose the merger. This “big two” would hartile nearly, 48 pag cent of the interstate siaughter- ee ee Bye ing business. ‘as | mburg Out of Deep Puddle (Special to The f BERLIN, April dolph Hearst is | ular American ame the extreme natio supporting the Germany, Field ft burg. The action | monarchist Sy! /e York, in cabling the ation of the story allowed his name the presidency request of the Ka ists out of a bad “The Ka Helped Hin Hy Worker.) William Ran y the. most pop- the ranks of Malists who are © military idol of al von Hinden. Hearst thru the Vierick, of New aiser for confirm. that Hindenburg go forward for on the urgent! -got the national- Reply. The Kaiser re that he had not interfered in political affairs and would not, so & as he remained at Doorn. The namié of Hearst is now 6 feudal-capitalist- tthe Kaiser back blessed among t monarchists who on the trone. ; Dr. “Wilkelm M 4s the choice of the international be " ers who put the Dawes plan acros@,) He is also sup (Contes Hh page 2) * STRIKEBREAK OF WAR VETERAN Charge Labiow Hater Was Instigator df Outrage MINNEAPOLIS, April 13.—Lawson W. McMillion, state president, World War Veterans of West Virginia, was waylaid at Marlington, W. Virginia, and brutally assanited by a hooded mob alleged to have been led by Lincoln Cochrane, notorious strike breaker and labor hater, according to a telegram to Emil E. Holmes, nation- al president of the organization, from W. L. McCollam, organizer with head- quarters at Marlington. MecMillion’s Condition Serious. As a result of injuries sustained in the murderous assault, McMillion lies in a critical condition at the Marling- ton hospital. In communications re- ceived from the state headquarters at Richwood, W. Va., little hope is held out for the recovery of McMillion. National President Holmes tonight wired the governor of West Virginia demanding an immediate and thoro investigation. Mr. Holmes has also requested the aid of the American ‘Civil Liberties, New ¥ork City, N. Y. Sees Work of K. K. K. The assault on MeMillion was char- acterized by Emil E. Holmes, national _pand groups of the Chinese united in REDS SPEAK AS 5,000 CHINESE MOURN FOR SEN Communists Prominent in New York Parade NEW YORK, N. Y., April 13.—Over five thousand Chinese workérs, mem- bers and sympathizers of the Kuomin- tang Party, jammed to overflowing one of the largest theaters on the Bowery in their memorial meeting to Sun Yat Sen, dead leader of the Chin- ese workers and friend of Soviet Rus- sia. The meeting was preceded by a long parade. The Workers (Communist) Party took a prominent part in both the meeting and the parade. Japanese Reds Carry Banner. The procession in honor of the memory of the first president of the Chinese republic passed thru the heart of Chinatown, from Pell street, where the Kuomintang has its head- quarters, to the meeting hall on the Bowery. Five thousand workers took part in the parade. The Japanese section of the Workers Party had a large delegation in the parade, headed by a wide banner. At the meeting Oliver Carlson spoke for the Workers (Communist) Party, Comrade Nokada spoke on be- half of the Japanese section of the Workers Party, and Comrade Zam spoke for the Young Workers League. Demonstration Nationwide. In Chicago three thousand Chinese, united in a meeting in honor of Sun Yat Sen. The services were under the direction of the Chinese nation- “alist league, which held demonstra- tions for Sun Yat Sen in all parts of the United States where Chinese live. Following a parade the Chinese workers met in the Harbin Square playground. Ng Gon Nge read the biography of Sun Yat Sen. Sun Yat Sen Demonstration. At the Chicago demonstration, as well as in other cities, all factions demonstration was divided inte three |parts. Following the parade, Chinese crowded into the hall facing Harbin Square. The memorial paens, following the Chinese funeral custom, were then de- livered, followed by about twenty speeches delivered in the Chinesc3 language. The parade passed along 22nd St. to Wentworth Ave., and thence to Archer Ave., proceeding along Archer ta -UP ON FOR FIGHT NGAINST CONTRACTORS | (Special te The Daily Worker.) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 13.— John J. McNamara, secretary and business agent of the local Struc- tural tron Workers’ Union, was ar- raigned before Judge Fred C. Gause in criminal court today on four in- dictments, charging blackmail. Charlies E. Cox, defense attorney, filed motions to quash the indict- ments and April 25 was the date set for hearing. The indictments charge McNa- mara with attempting to force local construction companies to employ union men by threats of violence and acts of vandalism. KAROLYI JAILED COMMUNISTS IN WAR ON SOVIETS Sought Socialist Aid Against Commanists Count Michael Karolyi, who recent- ly departed from the United States for Canada, “to tell his story,” in the latest instaliment of his confessions, openly admits two things of import- ance: First.—Instead of aiding the Hun- garian Communists, he proudly boasts that he put Bela Kun, leader of the Communists, in prison, and that he pleaded with the allies to aid him stop the rise of Soviet rule. Second.—-That he pledged himself to admit “socialists” to his “liberal” #overnment, in fact, establish a “so- cialistic” rule, if the “socialists” would agree to unite with him against the Communists. This helps shed a little new light on the role of the “socialists” in Hun- gary, that reached a climax in the “treaty” between the Hungarian s0- Horthy fascist Coreen ge made the basis for a working alliance. between these two forces, with thousands of Com- munists in prison. Karolyi makes his revealing confession in these words: Orders Arrest of Bela Kun. “IT have been charged with being a Jolshevik, and with being responsible for turning the government of Hun- gary over to the Bolsheviks. “Surely, if that were true, my arch enemy Horthy, the dictator, would back to 22nd St. (Continued on page 2) CAL TO REDUCE RED HAWAIIAN SOLDIERS, BACKED BY STORM OF PROTEST FORCING SAVAGE SENTENCES Hawaii, informs the war department “very materially reduced.” Whether arrested as members of the Hawaiian Crouch and Walter M. By LAURENCE TODD (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, April 13.—In his preliminary report on the savage punishment of 40 and 26 years imprisonment, respectively, meted out by a Honolulu court martial to two soldiers for engaging in Communist propa- ganda, Major General Edwin M. Lewis, Trumbull, the men already convicted and sentenced, will be tried before the department has reviewed the first cases, has not been commanding the department of that the sentences will probably be the six or eight remaining prisoners, Communist League, organized by Paul determined. It is evident, that the war department is much dis- turbed by the resentment shown by the press against the army court in this case. Press Makes Excuses. president, as evidently the work of members of the K. K. K. and inspired by enemies of the World War Veterans in West Virginia, inca statement is- sued today by Mr. Holmes. “It is sig- McMillion should come at a time when our organization is conducting a nation-wide campaign against the | hooded knights of the ku klux klan. McMillion has been @ consistent fight- er against the menace of the night | gown wearers and has waged a re- lentless struggle for betterment of conditions of the workers in West Vir- ginja. It is my sineere and honest opinion that this attack is the work of Klansmen and that it was inspired by the enemies of our order in that; state.” f = Report italian Steamer Afire. PHILADELPHIA, April delphia navy yard Officials said this morning that they had heard no more word from the Italian freight steamer Valrossa that wirelessed the navy yard last night she was in distress with flames spreading in her hold. The Valrossa message aiso said she was racing up the Delaware river in an effort to meet aid as soon as possible. The ship gave her position off Bom- bay Hook Point, 65 miles down the river and two city fire boats were dispatched to her aid: Sy ee me nificant that this attack on Comrade | 13.—Phila- | Prompt to the rescue of militarism, the Washington Star offers a theory |in excuse for the 40 year sentence of young Crouch. It suggests that the | trial record, when received after a few weeks, will possibly show that “one or ‘more foreign nations” were involved in the affair. It admits that army ‘officers in Washington feel that the |sentences were “almost unbelievably | severe,” and that the reason for this |must lie in facts not yet reported. , It goes on to quote anonymous per- |sons to the effect that a large majority of the population in Hawaii is hostile ‘to the United States; that a general 'strike of Japanese workers in the | Islands would, if joined* by Germans and Portuguese, paralyze the terrt- | tory’s industries and amount to “a rebellion which might ultimately in. 'volve this country in serious difficult- ies with Asiatic nations.” Then there ‘is mysterious hinting that the Russo- (Continued from page 2) however + Coolidge Is Angel of Scheme to Make Youth Slave Harder PLAN 48-HOUR FRENCH CABINET TO HELP BANK Move on to Legalize Over-Inflation BULLETIN, PARIS, April 13—France still was without a premier tonight and the prospect was that it would be an- other day before the office was filled. The selection of either Senator Anatole de Monzie, finance minister under Premier Herriot, or Aristide Briand, seven times premier of France, appeared certain. * ° . (Special to The Dally Worker) PARIS, April 13— A forty-eight hour cabinet with Anatole de Monzie as premier In order to keep the Bank of France from carrying out its threat to close temporarily was predicted to- day. De Monzie was minister of finance under Premier Herriot, having suc- ceeded M. Clementel. The purpose of the forty-eight hour cabinet would be to legalize the over- inflation of the Bank of France. No Immediate Solrtion. “It is impossible to arriv at a solu- tion before Tuesday night, said one of Briand’s confidential lieut nants as he came out of a conference with Bri- and. “Even if it -were practicable to reach a conclusion to form a tempo- rary cabinet, we must walt for rea- sons of courtesy until the socialists’ executive councils meet.” a * - Herriot Foes Angry at Cal. PARIS; France, April 13.—The con: servative French press, which hither- to has been cordial to President Cool. idge, has issued a tirade against the American president for what the Liberte, the conservative nationalist paper, charecterizes as a “pompous eulogy of the Herriot government.” The nationalists take violent excep tiop"t> Coolidge’s praise of Herriot, ‘who remained as premier only thru socialist support. papers declare that Coolidge would not praise an American Herriot. Cool- idge would not recognize Soviet Rus- sia, they point out, in denouncing his eulogy of. Herriot, and should notaid the schemes of international bankers to inflate French currency. “It is in- finitely regrettable that the conserva- tive President Coolidge. continues to associate himself with these bank- ers,” says Liberte. > a . Statement “Only Personal.” WASHINGTON, D. C., April 13.— President Coolidge’s eulogy of ex- Premier Herriot was his “personal point of view,” Coolidge announced at the White House, and “was not a formal statement.” French and British Imperialists Clash Over Turk Treaty CONSTANTINOPLE, April 18. British imperialism has entered inte regotiations with Turkey for the set- tlement of possession of the Irak oil flelds, in an effort to undermine the Franco-British negotiations. The Turkish ambassador and Lord Birkenhead have started discussion of the disposition of the Irak oil fields, which are claimed by both the Turks and British. The league of nations commission has given its “decision” on the dispute, ceding thé oil fields to Britain, and giving Turkey the Kurdistan district WASHINGTON, pear 13—President Coolidge today was luncheon host to | 36 prominent northeast manufacturers and business men who are preparing to start a nation-wide expansion pro- | gram for the junior achievement work system. The movement aims at restoring old fashioned industrial and home work to the daily programs of the younger generation and has the approval of the president. ,of Sulemanei as a sop, but no one is paying any attention to the league decision. The «majority Bagdad railway, of the stock of the which is being bit terly fought for by the British and French as the key to the Irak oil fields, is now being held by the rep arations commission. France and Great Britain are centering their ef- forts wpon securing from Turkey the right. to -use. the railroad. POLISH TERROR DENIED LANZUTSKY LAWYERS FROM SOVIET RUSSIA | VIENNA, April 12.—-The very day ers not to pay taxes. the terrorist regime in Poland. Chaniet spies testified. One of them, that Communist Deputy Lanzutsky was set free by the Przemysl court he was rearrested on charge of advising work- He has aagin been thrown into prison, to be a victim of During Lanzutsky’s trial, which has heard behind closed doors, five police chi, withdrew statements he had made a | Woman Picket Arrested in Washington | WASHINGTON, April 13.—For the first time in m picket in an industrial dispute in the gity of Washington has been arrested. any years, a woman |/ anzutsky ——@at the preliminary examinations, as he nad only made, these. statements under | pressure of terror. | The Polish.government had .refused 'to allow its aftterpeys from - Soviet Russia, England or France te defend in the.court. This le in ‘contrast to. .the action of the Russian She is Mrs. Dorothy Ferguson, aneshe is charged with having informed Soviet govecnment.in allowing Vander. customers of a store that “Thié® dfére employs non-union clerks and is. She will be defended in police court. unfair to organized laber.” velde, .yellew @ocialist, to defend #.- counter-rev@hvtiopary in Russia seme) « months ago, - SS --
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- B « ; 4 WIN HOT STRIKE Give Militant Lesson to Sleepy Union (Special to The Dally Worker.) McKEESPORT, Pa., April 13.— A twenty-four-hour strike, a splendid de- monstration of solidarity and 1,500 un- organized steel workers at McKees- port, Pennsylvania, made the bosses come to terms and won a complete victory last Wednesday. An attempt made to increase the present speed- up system failed utterly. On Tuesday afternoon while the second shift was at work in the Mc- Keesport Tin Plate Co., at Port View, a suburb of McKeesport, the boss notified one young husky roller that from now on the iron bars would have to be given an extra passing thru the rolls, increasing the passings from four to five with no extra pay. The roller and the catcher just re- fused, dropped their tools and walked out. Complete Spontaneous Strike. Immediately they were followed by the crews from the 44 different sets of rolls, popularly called mills, with 11 men to a crew. The third shift that day and the early shift next morning remained out and struck with them, a total of 1,500 men. Not one single individual could be discovered at work in the mill on that morning. On Wednesday, just before the time when the second shift usually starts working, notices were posted all over the mill, signed by the management, stating that it had receded from its demand of five passings and were will- ing to continue on the old basis. The management saw the necessity of complete surrender before such de- monstration of solidarity and the workers returned as united as they had come out. The demonstration made is so much more significant when one recalls that not only has this steel mill never been organized, but in addition the most ruthless campaign of opposition to la- bor organization of any kind has been carried on for years in McKeesport, Pa. The present mayor of the city, Lysle, openly boasts of his record of prohibiting labor organization in the steel mills and working class meet- ings for any purpose whatever within the city. He claims he has been re- elected on this record. Unorganized More Militant Than “Progressives.” The workers, however, have now become quite convinced that when- ever they unitedly take matters into their own hands, the opposition of all the king’s horses and all the king’s men cannot stop them. The militant workers in this mill are now endeav- oring to take full advantage of this experience and are proposing the or- ganization of shop committees. The victory won by the decisive ac- tion of these unorganized workers will perhaps convince the timid progres- sives who belong to the unton but are fearful of fighting for militant pol- icies that after all these steel work- ers are not so backward. Victim of K. K. K’s Ex-Grand Dragon May Yet Recover INDIANAPOLIS, April 13.—Indi- ana’s best medical minds were baffled today by the condition of Miss Madge Oberholtzer, 28, victim of a criminal attack with which D. C. Stephenson, politician and former ku klux klan organizer, has been charged. Unconscious for the greater part of the fifteen days that have elapsed since she swallowed a slow poison after the attack, Miss Oberholtzer has taken but little nourishment. Her temperature has hovered around and above 100. Yet her physicians admit- ted today for the first time that she might recover. “The case is one of the oddities of medical annals,” Dr. J. K. Kingbury, who first attended the girl, declared. “Apparent relief from an infection of | the right kidney has Caused tis to’ postpone the contemplated operation. We will await developments. “In most cases a victim of poison as strong as that Miss swallowed. would week or ten days.” have died within a Stephenson's case comes up again next Saturday when Judge James A. Collins in criminal court is to rule on his motion to quash all charges | against him. Should Judge Collins overrule Stephenson's latest motion to quash the indictments, he cannot be brought to trial before June, County Prosecu- tor Remy indicated. Eight murder trials and a number of lesser impor- tant cases docketed ahead of the politician’s case, are expected to hold the court’s attention until May 25 “av. Two Die in Traction Wreck RICHMOND, Ind., April 13. Lawhorn, 24, were dead today and Harry Horter, 22, and William Katte, 20, were and Frank Bussen, 17 struck by an interurban car on the Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Hastern traction line near Ocenterville. | THE DAILY. = | ee he mens 25 at - Karolyi Jailed Camm amunists in Han t (Continued from page 1) ij have brought the charge against me in my trial for treason. “But not a word wag heard of it. The truth is, as every one in Hun- gary knows, Bela Kun, the leader of the Bolsheviks, was arrested on my order and imprisoned when he began his crusading agitation. While he was in prison the swift rush of events broke the prison doors, released Bela Kun, and brought on the rule of the Bolsheviks. This came as a stroke of fate, and nothing could have stop ped it. Blames Aliles for Bolshevism. “On March 20, 1919, the final blow was given to us by the ultimatum of the allies, tendered to me by the al- lied commission headed by Col. Vix. This ultimatum demanded that we should give up, again, a large portion of territory to the Roumanians. The demarcational line thus drawn was not any more a strategical but a po- litical line. “It was the foreshadowing of the Versailles treaty, and it was in all respects diametrically opposed to the spirit and to the letter of the armis- tice. I refused. But in doing so, I warned for the last time the allied commission that they were driving the country into the arms of the Bolsheviks, and that the inevitable consequence of this measure would be war and civil war, war against neighboring states, and civil war within the country. “We were dropped by the western countries. We were not helped, not understood, but even opposed by the so-called pacifist allies with whom we signed the armistice. To adjust ourselves to all the wishes of the allies concerning pacifism we had disarmed our troops. The small army we had was chiefly composed of in- dustrial workers. The reason for this was that the peasantry, who had spent four and a half years in the trenches, did not want to go into military service. It was practically impossible to recruit soldiers from this strata of the population. The way in which we were treated economical- ly and politically by the allies helped to make the spirit of the army very belligrent. “The enormous masses of unem- ployed workers, the masses of those who were driven out from Roumania and Czecho-Slovakia by the occupa- tion of the old Hungarian territories, overheated the whole atmosphere, “Budapest, which had a population — fminimum, the population was at its maximum, “We not only had not coal sufficient to light up the town, but we had not sufficient trains to feed this increased population, and hadn’t enough lodging possibilities, Thousands of people had to be lodged in railroad coaches. Ex-service men and ex-officers were out of jobs. There was no possibility for giving them any. Under these conditions it was impossible to keep up a coalition cabinet. Proposes Socialist Party to Save Bourgeois. “I proposed to form a party, a so- cialistic one. Again the whole cabi- net agreed. Even the nationalists who were consulted. were of the opinion fhat nothing else could be done. “While this was going on, I got the news that 380,000 industrial workers had gone over to the Bolshevik party. “Bela Kun was the leader of the Bolshevik movement in Hungary, and was at that time in prison. “The actual reason that I decided to nominate a purely socialist govern- ment was, as I said, to stop the Bol- sheviks. “Secondly, as nobody wanted to ac- cept Col. Vix’s ultimatum, we had to prepare ourselves for forcible re- sistance. A coalition with the lead- ing spirit of pacifism was already shipwrecked. “That very night the Hungarian Soviet was proclaimed. “The government troops had prac- tically all gone over to the Bolshe- viks. So, thru the force of conditions that could not be controlled, I ceased to be president of the Hungarian re- public. “T hadn’t known, I hadn’t even seen Bela Kun before the Bolsheviks seized power. His name had only been known for two months when he came back from Russia, after having been war prisoner there for several years. He was a good agitator and was a convincing man. “T am absolutely sure that Bolshe- vism in Hungary was not made with the help of Russian money. But you cannot, in any country, under any circumstances, make much headway with propaganda if that propaganda doesn’t appeal to the masses in gen- eral. “For six months we tried hard, and didn’t succeeded in persuading the al- lies that it was impossible to carry on the policy they did. Contradictory as it seems, it was a nationalist move- ment more than anything else that characterized this second revolution. “Officers of the old regime joined the Red army in masses, and it was of 900,000 during the war, increased| with their help and skill, and with several hundred thousand. Just at the|the enthusiasm of the working classes time when the capacity for taking/that the war was fought against the care of the population was at its|Czechs under the red flag.” HERRIN BOMBERS DYNAMITE KLAN FOE'S RESIDENCE Kluxers Seek Election Victory by Violence (Special to The Daily Worker.) HERRIN, IIL, April 13.—The bomb- ing squad, actively engaged in the present city election in behalf of the klan candidates went into action again today and the front part of the home of John Pison was reduced to wreck- age. Continued activities of the Herrin bombing squad active for the klan ac- Oberholtzer | William | in ai3 hospital suffering from serious injuries | as the result of Horter’s car being | tion today forced the deputizing of scores of Herrin citizens for patrol duty. Authorities ordered a continual patrol of both residence and business districts until after the April 21 elec- |tions. Interest in the campaign has | been stimulated to fever pitch, indi- | cated in the record vote of Saturday /when the klan emerged victorious in |the school board elections. | Attack On Anti-Klan | Police declared that all business houses and homes thus far bombed, including the most recent victim, John Pizoni, were owned or occupied 'by members of the anti-klan faction. Pizoni, a bachelor, was sleeping in a rear room of his home when-«a dynamite bomb demolished the front | part. ’ Trailing an Erthquake MANILA, April 13.—Saturday’s Pa- cific earthquake recorded on Seismo- | graphs generally thruout the United States was declared by University of ‘Philippines to have occurred 2,000 miles east of here. Seek Train Victim Here. CHESTERTON, Ind., April 13.—The Porter County coroner attempted to communicate with relatives of J. J. ' Martin. of Chicago, today in an effort to establish the identity of the man killed with Martin beneath the wheels of a New York Central locomotive near here yesterday. who was Miner Kills Wife and Self. TAYLORVILLE, Ill., April 13,-—In- ',| censed at finding his wife making pre. | | parations to leave him, Jules Durand, 5, Stonington coal miner, returned home suddenly today from Taylorville, fired three pistol bullets into her | body, killing her instantly, and then went into an upstairs room and fired twe bullets into his own brain, | LANDLORDS WANT TO TIGHTEN HOLD ON THEIR VICTIMS Tennessee Peonage (Special to The Daily Worker.) MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 13.—If a bill introduced in the state legislature becomes a law, peonage will be legal- ized in Ternessee. The proposal was introduced by Representative Ruffin. It declares that it is a misdemeanor punishable by fine or imprisonment for any employe or farmer working on shares, to violate his contract. The bill makes no. refreence to violation of any contract by the em- ployer. Section 1 of this vicious proposal reads: “That any employe, laborer, servant, renter or share-crpoper who willfully breaches a written contract between employer and employe, laborer, ser- vant, renter or share-cropper, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.” The penalty is a fine of not less than $20 and not more than $50, together with imprisonment in the county jail or sentenced to hard labor for the county for not more than three months. Organized labor is opposing this at- tempt —toe—enslave__the unorganized agricultural workers and small farm- ers who operate on the share basis. “Brave” Mob Confesses Crime. RALEIGH, N. C., April 13-——All but five of the 29 men arrested as mem- bers of a Martin county mob which took Joseph Needleman, Kinston, N. C., salesman, from jail and mutilated hinmr~"have confessed and are at liberty on bonds ranging from $6,000 to '$20,000 each, attorneys in the case an- nounced here today. - ! | “Victor” and “Vanquished” Sign. | PARIS, April 13.—France and Ger- | many signed the Franco-German | boundary agreement today. | The agreement formally registers | the frontier existing prior’ to the Fran- 'co-German war of 1870 with the ex- changes of territory made for practi- cal reasons. | Give Tariff Another Boost. WASHINGTON, April 13-——Presi- dent Coolidge, by proclamation today increased the tariff duty on potassium chlorate fifty per cent, from one and Urge Legalization of one-half cents per pound to 3% cents. | F 7 ta oo. - & = eee cee Seas 8 ae on PY ® - ih Peig? editing pret oA ad WOR AT KANSAS CITY IN BIG MEETING Speech on Prisoners Brings Applause _ KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 13.—The militant workers in this so-called “Heart of Capitalist” turned out Bas- ter Sunday with a fine class conscious spirit to hear Garoline Lowe and Alex- ander Howat speak on “Labor's Pris- oners.” Criminal Syndicaliem Law Imported. Caroline Lowe, in an effective speech showed that the “100 per cent Americans” had imported the crimin- al syndicalism law from Europe. Now it was being’ actively used to jail workers of the United States, in Mich- igan and California particularly. When Howat was introduced he was given a rousing welcome, and ill thru his ech each point made brought tremendots applause. “The Kansas poldiers gave up their class back fifty years.” Officials Succeeded Where Govern, ment Falled. “All the power in the state of Kan- sas could not enforce the industrial court law against the militant miners. And Governor Allen pulled in his horns when the miners gave determin- ed battle. “Neither the governor of Kansas nor the industrial court could demo- ralize the miners’ union, but the Lewis machine, the officials of the union, could and did demoralize it. “The dearly beloved ‘public’, ac- cording to the idea of the capitalist politicians are the 15 per cent of the people who have been riding on the backs of the 85 per cent, the work- ers. The Communists are put in jail under the criminal syndicalism law because they support the workers against the parasites. “Anyone who stands for the work- ers’ rights is a radical, A conserva- tive is one who will get along with any salary and is always ready to compromise with the boss and thinks it proper for workers to get starvation wages. ays The Only Way. = “The only time the workers will get justice is when the workers run their own government. This is really what the capitalists fear most, and hat is why Michigan threatens to im- prison Foster and, Ruthenberg for 10 years under @.‘¢piminal syndicalism’ charge. @ ibe “As long as th@ } are satis- fled with half a loaf, they will be fed half a loaf—~if they are lucky. But there is no power in the world that will be able to resist the force of the working class when once it is united. To unite them has been and is the duty of the ‘Reds.’ “There are very few men who will go to jail for their opinions and those few are the ‘reds’—the Communists.” “Willy”? Hearst Is Popular Idol of the Kaiser’s Gang (Continued from page 1) ported by the socialists, the most loyal friends of the Dawes plan. Marx is a catholic, which also presupposes him in the favor of the bankers, the church having an excellent psychological ma- chinery to fit in with the plans of the world pirates. Communist to Run. The only working class candidate in the field is the Communist Ernst Thae)- mann, who is expected to receive the votes of many social democratic work- ers who voted for Bauer in the last elections. The result of the German elections may have a determining effect on the character of the next French govern- ment. If Hindenburg wins, it is quite likely that the Poincarist faction will again come into power. On the other hand should Marx come out on top, a government not differing widely in icharacter from the Herriot cabinet |will be likely. Bar Film in West Va. NEW YORK, April 18:—The old an- ti-Negro film, The Birth of a Nation that is still tourfmg the country can- not be shown in Charlestown, West Va., because the local branch of the National Association for the Advance- ment of Colored People has won its case against the Rialto Theater in the state supreme court. Mayor Wertz of Charlestown said after seeing the picture that he could not understand “why any law abiding citizen should bring such a picture to Charlestown.” A Right to Hire and Fire. WASHINGTON, April 13.—The an- client conflict between the legislative and executive branches of the govern- ment over their respective powers came again to the United States su- preme court today when Solicitor Gen- eral James M. Beck filed a brief chal- lenging the right of the senate to pre- scribe the conditions under which a federal office holder may be dis- charged. anes JUNIOR LEADERS’ MEETING Tuesday, April 14, 8 P. M. 321 N.cAvers Ave. ui _ \ - ‘ ae a ~ ~] \HOWAT-GREETED lives in the ar for democracy,” said Howat, y got the indus- trial court law, put the working | | EVERY LEADER BE al | . Virile Communist Press By J, LOUIS ENGDAHL. oe ~ ODAY, the latest issue of The Seattle "Union Record arrives and, in red ink, type four inches high, announces to its readersthe latest news: “SHEPHERD DENIED BAIL.” The yellowest capitalist dailies in Chicago couldn't have done more. | This is sigfinificant in view of the fact that the Union Record was the last of the so-called “labor dailies” to adopt this style of subsidized journalism as the road to financial security. It, too, shot the germs of a sick social system into its pages in an effort to continue a doped existence. Day after day the succeeding issues of the Communist dailies published in Soviet Russia arrive in this country and they carry, on their first pages, articles voicing the aspira- tions of the freed workers and peasants. Always there is something about the world struggle of the oppressed in cap- italist nations. The Russian Communist press breathes the virility of the masses, whose voice it Is. It heralds the new day. It is healthy, robust, forward-looking, even as the Soviet Power, which it champions. It bears no compromis- ing blemish. It is on labor's side of the class war. * * What a contrasting picture in these United States! Here | one of the surest indications of the fatal sickness that grips capitalism is to be found in the contents of its so-called “dope sheets”. Only recently it was the Loeb-Leopold murder trial. Today it is the Shepherd case,—an alleged poison mystery, in which a young heir is supposed to have been murdered for his million dollar fortune. Three thousand miles away, the former Seattie “labor” daily treats the latest wrinkle in this case as if there were some great benefit to the working class in the whole nauseating proceedings. The Minnesota Star, also ex-labor, and the ‘Milwaukee Leader, “socialist,” have crawled into the same company. They are all on the cap- italist side of ‘the class war. This press feeds on murder sensations, divorce scandals, the latest bootlegging escapade or the newest freak amuse- ment of the idle rich. “Babe” Ruth gets a stomach ache, and is featured in the headlines, while scores of miners killed in the latest disaster, get passing notice. The good-for-no- thing son of Ohio's politician-governor takes a girl friend out for an auto ride and, forgetting to take her home again, gets more attention, for several days, than the French cabinet crisis that rocks Western European if not world capitalism. The pleasure-seeking son of a wealthy father suicides in Chicago and he gets the first page, with his diary pub- lished in full, while a huge demonstration in memory of Sun Yat Sen, echoing the revolutionary movement that is getting its grip on China, passes unnoticed. * * * + This noisome press, from Wall Street’s New York Times to Berger’s Milwaukee Leader, stews in its own filth. But like sick humans it tries to insist it is not all gone.: Even the esr failing invalid, at death’s door, often makes claims to ealth. ; 7 Thus the Des Moines, la., Register announces it will segregate crime news on an inside page; just as American cities for a long time maintained segregated districts for the purposes of prostitution. Another sheet, the Decatur, IIl., Re- view, maintains its “segregated district” at the lower left hand corner of the first page, and labels each column with the small head “crime”. Over in West Virginia another newspaper announces an attempted cure thru leaving out crime news altogether. But there have been Keeley cures for individuals just as invalided capitalism is trying to take the Morgan-Dawas plan cure in Europe, when all. of a sud- den the disease breaks out worse than ever in Paris, in spite of Morgan's latest loan to France of $100,000,000. > . od 7 This dope ape of a sick social system seeks to pass over lightly the financial troubles of France, the flight of Lord Balfour from Syria, the significance of Japanese recognition of Soviet Rule, the dire straits facing Mussolini, and similar symptoms, while urging the masses at the same time to give three cheers for the opening of the baseball season, the visit of the Prince of Wales to Africa and South Amercia, and the hunting expedition of the Roosevelt kids to “the top of the world” somewhere in Asia. The Caesars tried to satiate the discontented multitudes with the bloody spectacles of the Roman arena. The American kept press throws in a few ex- tra pages of Sunday comics. * ae a The Communist press alone breathes defiance to this decadent social system that seeks to sap the mental vitality of its victims, in order that they may be incapable of struggle against their misery. Sick capitalism likes a helpless, abject working class for company. THE DAILY WORKER turns its back on the long proces- sion of unending crimes committed under capitalism, except where they help enlighten the worker as to the real nature of the class struggle. To do otherwise would result in be- coming infected with the same disease. To split clean with capitalism is to be able to wage victorious class war. That is the strength of Communism. That is the weakness of the “socialists” and their press, of the class-collaborating labor aristocracy and its press, imbibing capitalist dope and de- fending capitalism. It is so comfortable. \€ is so hard to fight; or lead the masses into the struggle, especially when one is sick under a sick system. It is the healthy, vigorous, uncontaminated forces of Communism that issue the clarion call to labor to march to victory in the class struggle. Against the yellow, infected press of capitalism, the healthy, virile press of Communism. Increased numbers of workers go daily into battle with it. admiral States fleet, which will leave soon for war maneuvers in Pacific waters sur- rounding Hawaii, Robert E. Coontz, gave a reception to several hundred society people on board the SS. Penn- sylvania. ficers have been lavishly entertained here. Coontz chose the Pennsylvania for the reception because of its lux- urious furnishings, he said. Admiral Lavishly Entertained SAN FRANCISCO, April 13.—The commanding the United Ford’s Airplane Is Welcomed Here from The admiral and his of- will be used not for general mercial business, but to carry Detroit by Plutes The “Maiden Dearborn,” owned by Henry Ford, which arrived in Chicago yesterday with 800 pounds of freight com- the private freight of Ford to and from .jtense of class struggle. Brazilian Ambassador in Tokio TOKIO, April 13.—Delima ° Silva, new Brazilian ambassador presented his credentials to the prince regent after which together with Mme. Silva he was received by the crown "pria- cess, ~_ his Chicago and Detroit plants. Ford announced that the plane is the first of a fleet of airplanes which he will use to connect all of his plants in various cities. A large number of businessmen were present at the landing of the airplane here. : ra] ” pied J 2 * ‘ wnt 4 a , 4 : . : iy %, a= « ee ¢ nA ‘ neo a fe : a ae a ‘ ® ba 4 “ 7 3 ‘ s - “4 J Pid % . * . A . OP | OF ) : . = : * , > ’ MIKE TIGHE “COMES EARLY ; | Mamiteakuene Says “No Wage Increases” PITTSBURGH, Pa. April 18~ Mike Tighe, faker president of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers expressed an unjustified optimism in his inter. views with capitalist journalists here. “Harmony, all is harmony” is Tighe’s idea of the relations between the members of the union and the steel trust and its subsidiaries called “‘in- dependents.” | “Peace and Good WIiIi.” This “peace and good will’ stuff oozes out of Mike following conversa- tions with James H. Nutt, of Youngs- town, Ohio, secretary-treasurer of both the Western Bar Iron Associa. tion and the Western Sheet and Tin Plate Manufacturers’ Association. These supposedly are “independent” steel manufacturers. Tighe is going down for a nice va cation to Atlantic City next month, and while listening to what the wild waves are saying, the manufacturers are going to put over an agreement for the wage scale that will be effec- tive from July first onward for one year. What the scale will be is yet to be determined, but Nutt has loosened up with the opinion that no wage scale increases can be agreed to. And the Amalgamated has too much modesty to let its demands be known—or else Tighe is afraid to let the members know the proposed union scale. Class Collaboration Theory. The best that Tighe could offer as a policy of the union is a quotation from James J. Davis, secretary of the deportation department of Coolidge’s cabinet. Tighe says: “Secretary Davis is right when he said that em- ployers and employes are learning that fighting costs money. Our or. ganization is doing everything pos- sible to foster better relations be- tween workers and employers.” This attitude of class collaboration is the dominating force in the Am- algamated union, as no progressive element has yet appeared strong enuf to cause Tighe to make even a pre- The whole contrasts strongly with the spirit of the unorganized steel workers of Mt- Keesport who last week went out solid and won a 24-hour strike against the speed up. Storm Forces U. S. Militarism to Think Over Sentences of Reds (Continued from page 1) Japanese treaty may be back of this handful of Communist enthusiasts and their letters to the Honolulu papers and to the Third International. Disrespect for Cal Charged. Crouch and Trumbull, in their let: ters which were used against them in the trial, and in their talks with Fisher, the spy who was planted by the department in their circle, did show sympathy with the workers in Hawali. Strikes on plantations in Hawali have been put down in blood, repeatedly, because the workers are ™ ‘lof alien race and are non-voters. Nothing in Gen. Lewis’ report, how- ever, gives the slightest basis for the assumption that the court martial pro. ceedings dealt with anything beyond the agitation conducted by the young men in the barracks. They were con- victed of violation of a territorial law forbidding secret organizations of a revolutionary character, and for vio- lation of the 96th and 62d articles of war, dealing with conduct prejudicia) to military discipline and dealing with disrespect for the president of the United States. “The Beauty and ~ the Bolshevik” will be shown in Chicago tomorrow, Wednesday, April 15, at Wicker Park Theater, 1539 Milwaukee Ave., from 6 to ll p.m. The demonstration at the Polish consulate in Chicago will also be shown. Record Making Kilis Two LOS AUGELES, Cal., April 13.—Th odies of S. H. Wray and Timothy Reed, automobile company employes were brought here from near Bakers- field. The men were killed when their racing car jumped a bank and plunged down a canyon while they were at- tempting to make a new time record between Bakersfield and Los Angeles. Investigating in Asia. PEKING, April 18—Roy Chapman Andrews’ third Asiatic expedition got under way from here today when an advance party of topographers started on the thousand mile trek across the Mongolian desert headed for the spot where the world famous dinosaur eges were found last year. Pian Air Routes in Africa. NAIROBI, British East Africa—The governments of Kenya, British East Africa, Uganda, in Central Africa and the Sudan, have agreed to assist in a survey preliminary to the establish- ment of air routes, between Victoria, Nyasa, Kisuri and Khartoum, "Gen, . Re Re EL ee ee 4 | 4 4 :
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Purpose Is to Strengthen the Labor Unions by Amalgamation of Existing Unions, Organization of the Unorganized, and by Replacing Reactionary and Class Collaboration Policies with a Unified Program for the Transformation of the Unions Into Organs of Revolutionary Class Struggle for the Overthrowal of Capitalism and the Establishment of a Workers’ and Farm- its HOW IT PAYS THE THE OPERATORS TO KEEP FAKERS F arcineton: Aids Boss Against Miners COLLINSVILLE, Ill— Since the Jacksonville agreement and since the expression of Farrington the faker president of the Illinois miners to “give clean coal and more coal,” the company here put a new condition in cleaning coal at the No. 2 mine, which makes it impossible for loaders to clean as the company requires. Th® mine cars weigh from three to five tons. When this big lot goes to the top, the coal inspector picks out even the very smallest particle of dirt, and when he can get 75 pounds of impurities out of the whole. car, the miner is discharged. That Fine 3-Year Agreement. This helps the company to get rid of “undesirable” miners or those who are active in the union. ‘At first the local officials tried to fight the worst cases, but under the agreement noth- ing can be done. Finally, the miners themselves tried to do the very best they could to load clean coal. But, experienced as they are, with the light of a lamp under. ground, it was found impossible to load four cars a day while trying their best to make it cleah. The inspector still found dirt. The miners thot that if they would spend all day on one car, only then would it be possible to load as clean as the company requires. So they stuck together and loaded reali clean coal for seven days. The company tried to use malicious trick- ery on them, and discharged fifteen miners for not loading four cars a day. Faker Farrington to the Rescue. Then the miners all decided not to go to work until the company took back the discharged miners. In afew hours Frank Farrington sent a tele- gram urging that the miners go back to work. But the local disobeyed the order and decided to stay out. Farrington sent another telegram threatening to revoke the charter if the miners would not resume work and, moreover, load four cars a day. The local, individually, has not the power to resist Farrington’s machine, and decided to go back beaten and unconditionally. A Lesson Worth Learning. When Farrington sent a letter in stating his “reasons” for expelling MacDonald, the local never took up the fight against Farrington or made any protest. Now the miners are get- ting a good lesson in the fact that Farrington is far more concerned with the operators’ than with the miners’ \nterests. Beer Hall Putechist Dies. MUNICH, Bavaria.—Chief of Police Poehner, who participated in the fam- ous and futile beer cellar. putsch, died today. | Holy Water Ablutions and Image Kissing Taboo in Old Mexico MEXICO CITY, April 13.— Holy water fonts must disappear immedi- ately from all Mexican churches, ac- cording to a law promulgated yester- day. The law declares the fonts are in- sanitary, and also prohibits the kiss- ing of images of saints for the same reason. Priests and bishops,are made responsible for enforcement of the law. HUTCHESON TRIES TO ORGANIZE A DUAL UNION DETROIT, Mich.—The carpenters’. union. to his tools here. The head of the dual union, Clande , 8. Boland of Cincinnati, was supposed But as he didn’t show up the meeting was a fizzle as it ought ‘to “have been anyhow. This dual organization is, incidentally, be- ing sponbored:in an underhanded, un- derground and. unofficial way by the officials of the building trades depart- to be the speaker. ment... .. It may. be. an accident or not, but the secretary. of the Building Trades Council, Charles Whitcomb, is a sheet The threat made is that a dual union of carpenters will jobs pulled where the regular Brotherhood men metal worker. be organized and all are working. This treacherous attack on the car- penters union, inspired by Hutcheson, is being exposed and opposed vigorous- carpenters’ ly by the group. progressive It is pointed out that Hutcheson is getting about as traitorous as it is possible .for an official to be, when— after expelling left wing members of his union on the charge that they are members of the T. U. EB. L., and that the T. U. E. L. is’ a “dual organiza- tion”—he actually inspires the move- ment to organize a real dual union to his own Brotherhood of Carpenters. What next! The T. U. B. L. is not, of course, other. Rail Wreck Toll Grows. BARCELONA, Spain, cident to bad brakes. Poles Welcomed by Pope, ROME, April 13.—Pope Pius today resumed his receptions and received the Polish pilgrims led by Cardinal Kakowsky. OAL MINERS IN {SI0WA ARE FACING BIG SHUTDOWN Work Day or Two Each Week During Winter By TOM MATTHEWS. CENTERVILLE, cities. fall.” the mining camps in this state. Building’ Trades Council here called a meeting for last Thursday night, of carpenters, |for the purpose of organizing a dual Undoubtedly this was done .by Hutcheson’s instruction April 13.— Death toll in the Funicular railroad wreck today had risen to twenty-four, of which number sixteen had been identified. Experts attributed the ac- open shop conditions mines. The operators have openly sold at the mine. An Exodus. behind, the miners’ union from annihilation. The miners, of course, industrial center?” work at various “scab wages.” of struggle. Workers Helpless. should be to “move out”? “ terville. dering dizzily what it’s all about. escape from these conditions of life. industrial developments of the age. Can’t Have Councils, Teachers Now Have a working class. thousand. Use order blank below. DOWN TOOLS ON MAY DAY! “Come Out of the Shops and Mines, Workers, on Labor’s Holiday!” Keep on saying the above and there will be something doing. Bet- ter still—tell it your fellow worker, brother unlionist—to the American Tell them about May Day in the best and most con- vincing way—namely: give them a May Day leaflet, “DOWN TOOLS ON MAY DAY!” The best ever. Do it now and watch results on May Day. Order from the National Office, Workers Party. Price $3.00 per Workers Party, NO. Enclosed please find: $................ Name 1113 Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il. “DOWN TOOLS ON MAY DAY” to name below: for which send leaflets Address City State present being dodging on big property. the board of education. $11,000 an acre. tion being taken. _—— 23 Are Still Missing. are still missing. Farmers Protest Merger. WASHINGTON, April the Armour-Morris packing merger. : Iowa, April 13— “The boys are all leaving for the large | They only worked a day or two each week all winter, and now they have nothing to carry them over until the mines reopen next This is the story one hears thruout The operators are making no attempt to minimize the seriousness of the situa-’ tion, in fact they appear to be flaunt- ing it in the face of the miners as part of a deliberate campaign to establish in the Iowa an- nounced that more than half of their large mines are completely shut down, and point to wage-scales and freight rates on coal from the scab mines of Kentucky and West Virginia, claiming that such coal can be “laid down” in Iowa for less than Iowa coal can be The result is an actual exodus of miners from Iowa to work in other industries, and a lack of any fighting spirit on the part of those who remain Many of the more wide-awak- min- ers are seriously discussing the Pro- gressive miners’ program, which calls for nationalization of the mines, the six-hour day, the unemployment wage, and other measures designed to save are more deeply interested in the immediate problem, which in a great many cases is, “Shall I stay here or move on to Chicago, Detroit, or some other large. One story is to the effect that a great many of these miners are leav- ing to éngage in railroad construction eastern points for If this is true, then it only goes to show the logical outcome of the short- sighted policies inspired by the has- beens in the labor movement of this country. Craft against craft, miner against railroader, district against dis- trict—all having its results in genera) lowering of wage scales and loss of working conditions gained thru years With the rank and file practically tied hand and foot as the result of such short-sightedness, is it any won. der that the only solution they see The way this affects other workers is strikingly shown right here in Cen- With miners and their fami- lies leaving, the traffic on the street railways has so fallen off that cars are to be replaced with motor busses. Thus the vicious circle goes ‘round and ‘round, leaving the workers won- There can only be ome answer: Class collaboration cannot solve the problems of the workers under capi- talism. Only the program of intelli- gence and class solidarity as advo- cated by the Trade Union Educationa) League and the Red International of @)/Labor Unions holds any real hope for dual union, and what is more it is de- termined to prevent Hutcheson and his agents from organizing any dual union whether it be Boland’s or any It is only thru such a program that the labor organizations of this coun- try can stand up under the fire of the | capitalist class and keep pace with the Weekly Publication The Chicago Teachers’ Federation is publishing a weekly bulletin called Margaret Haley’s Weekly Bulletin. This publication will keep the teach- ers informed on the federation’s new $50,000 campaign to procure money for the school treasury that it is at robbed of thru tax’ The bulle- tin will also take the place of the teachers’ councils which was denied the teachers by a recent decision of The first edition carries a com- plete history of the federation’s ex- perience with the board of education’s way of co-operating to get after the stockyard property. This property is valued at $130,000 an acre and yet paid taxes for it on a valuation of The bulletin tells how the board of education backed out just in time to prevent any ac- MINDEN, Germany, April 13.—The bodies of fifty-eight victims of the pontoon bridge disaster on March 31 have been recovered. Twenty-three soldiers who were crossing the bridge 13.— The }#Farmers’ National Council announced today it will “probably seek an in- junction” to obtain court action on =, Baar. THE DATEV"WORKER | Boston 3 t on ey Building on Strike Hy 4 trades Job, BOSTON, strikes involving’ plumbers, electric- ians, lathers and building laborers continue confusedly for the most part —that is, confusedly as regards out- come. Carpenters who have signed a three-year agreement at the old $1.10 an hour rate will demand what- ever increase is given other tradés. Building employérs remain adamant in assertions that ihey will not give more, except, possibly an increase to building laborers. Electrical workers are still striking for recognition of the national board of arbitration in- stead of referring disputes to the local board. ; Painters are still out for the ad- vance in wages. Some employers use the threat that Boston was once open shop for 18 months to induce workers to return to their jobs at the old rate. ' THAT 3-YEAR AGREEMENT AND ITS NET RESULT Militants Must Unite for Struggle By ALEX REID. The three year agreement by and between the coal trusts and their employees of the U. M. W. of A., was made for the sole purposes of stabili- zing the coal mining industry. If any doubting Thomases think otherwise let them peruse the financial jornals of Dec. 1923, and Jan. 1924, and ample proof will be found recorded therein. Every financial sheet was and is screaming long contracts with the unions that catinot be busted, and to further their end, the Wall Street re- presentatives;' “The ex-Britisher,” Davis of thé “department of leisure,” famed for his éfforts to return work- ers across the Bea who dare question the methods hé and his kind came by their millions fm blood money, came to the miners convention to help make more easy of accomplishment the plans of his masters in Wall Street,— “the long terfi contract” to enable the enemies of labor more time to throttle the aspirations of labor. But to the everlasting credit of the miners’ delegates, he was accorded the scathing, rebuking welcome he so richly deserved, and lined up with this crew" Waa thé labor bureaucracy even desirous of a longer contract than that finally agreed upon. Now, after one year of the desired stabilization, we ask, has the policy shown any signs of success? Is the miners’ lot easjer? Where is the promised prosperity? What are the actual results? _. Ask the miners’ whose digestive or- gans are “starvalized” about this sta- bilization. One thing is certain, they have steadied the industry, fixed it, so much so, that even the movement of the hoisting. wheels have become stabilized, steadily fixed, in one posi- tion and revolved no more. Miners travelling the country vainly looking for work attest to the wis- dom of the stabilizing process. Strikes on every hand, opefh shop drives, and militant membership expulsions com- bined, are the sum total achieved for the year. One main reason for a three year contract was and is the desire to freeze out 250,000 “surplus” miners, and incidentally in the freezing pro- cess it was and is the intelligent and militant members who must be fro- zen! If one year is not enough to freeze them out, thru it becomes necessary to have an extention of time without contractual handicaps, three or four year contracts that will provide space to accomplish the end and get the progressive miners out before they succeed in opening the eyes of the miners to the reactionary policy of the leaders and. thereby endangering the fat salary and expenses of the bureaucracy. William Green, the Gomper’s econ- omist, lecturing to an eastern univer- sity informs a weiting world that be guesses everything on the labor field is O. K. and the unemployment ques- tion he guesses, will right itself, and further states his guess is as good as anybody's. This is a remedy! “A guess” for an outgrown economic system, for un- employment of millions who have not =~ w of the Red International of Labor Uni The Red International Affiliation R. I. L. U. engaged in marine work to RED INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE ASKS ALL MARINE WORKERS AID PHILADELPHIA I. W. W. STRIKE The strike of the Philaddiphia longshoremen organized in the Marine Transport Workers’ Industrial Union 510 of the I. W. W., deserves and must receive the fullest support of all revolutionary workers, and particularly of all marine workers adhering to the revolutionary transport workers’ section ons. . Committee urges all adherents of the strike against the six steamship lines tied up by the Ij!/Wi! W. longshoremen of Philadelphia, and’ particularly to paralyze all shipping of the American- Hawaiian line, the company which is blocking general set{lement. Unity among all marine workers is the first essential of successful struc- gle, and the Red International Af- filiation Committee wishes to con- demn in the sharpest terms the traitorous lack of solidarity which has led soma members of the Interna- tional Longshoremen’s Association to scab on the striking I. W. W. long- shoremen. At the same time the R. I. A. C., wishes to call the attention of the Marine Transport Workers I. U. 510, of the I. W. W., that only by uniting their forces in action in a united front together with the other revolutionary transport workers of the world adher- ing to the program and organizational center of the Red International of Labor Unions, can the necessary unity of the world’s transport work- ers be achieved—in keeping with the interests of these workers and in con- formity with the program and policy laid down at the New Orleans confer- ence on March 1 of the marine work- ers of the western hemisphere. The R. L A. C. hails the striking I. W. W. longshoremen of Philadelphia as fellow workers engaged in active fighting in the class war and ex- presses gratification that the M. T. W. has shown and is showing a desire to unite the ranks of the working class in battle against the capitalist class while the remainder of the I. W. W. is perishing of social pacifism, sectarianism, censorship and persecution against Communists be- gun and persisted in by disruptive anarcho-syndicalist leaders: who are fundamentally neither industrial un- ionists nor revolutionists. The M. T. W. has a duty to perform in propagating and actively fighting for unity and revolutionary principles in the rest of the I. W. W., especially in advocating affiliation of the I. W. W. to the Red International of Labor Unions. Red International Affiliation Committee. | WORKERS! | GO TO YOUR CLASS MOVIES! “The Beauty and the Bolshevik” and “Russia in Overalls” will be shown at: Chicago, Ill., (Return engagement), Wicker Park Theater, 1539 Milwau- kee Ave., April ¥6. Newark, N. J., April 19. Tacoma, Wash., April 19 Denver, Col., April 23 and May 1. Toledo, Ohio, April 30. Reading, Pa., May 3. “Polikushka,” “Soldier Ivan’s Mir- acle” and “Lenin Memorial” will be shown: Bentleyville, Pa., May 1. Daisytown, Pa., May 2. Talk it up+-your shapmate wil] subscribe! been paid enough to buy back what they have produced. And this from Green who owes his position to the | miners, the man now head of the | Wall Street, A. F. of L. Is it any. wonder we are the laughing stock of the workers throughout the world? Brothers, organize in your locals, | show the membership the treasonable policies of the officials, educate them to the only sane policy for the indus- | try “Nationalization and workers’ | control” of the coal mines. | No help will ever come from your | leaders, they admit they are policy | bankrupt, you must help yourself. Organize! Organize your fighting | mine committees! ) eee Give your shopmate this copy of the DAILY'WORKER— but be sure to see him the next day to get his subscription. class day of celebration. Order THE DAILY WORKER ? 3 1113 W. Washington Bivd. Now! z | at SSS ear er ae Fill the May Day issue to: blank— i ere mt ea mittance— Streets .... “ MAIL IT cus a TODAY! em em KINCAID MINERS SEND REPORT OF 8-HOUR MEETING KINCAID, Ill., April 13.— On this day the local miners celebrate the winning of the eight-hour day. After long years of hard struggle this vic- tory was obtained, and while contin- uing to struggle for their interests, the miners do not forget past victor- ies. In Kincaid, Ill., on April 1, the min- ers in that vicinity celebrated this past victory and demonstrated for the release of Sacco-Vanzetti, im- prisoned and sentenced because of their effective work for the overthrow of capitalism. Successful Meeting. The meeting was a success from every standpoint. The miners filled the hall, standing together so as to make the aisles impassable, where seats could not be found. It was more than a spirit of victory that permeat- ed the audience; the spirit of deter- mination to fight for bigger things, jand to fight the last fight was pre- dominant. The principal speaker was Pete Herd, representing the Workers Party. Tom Tippett, director educa- tional department, Sub-District 5 of District 12, U. M. W. A.; Wm. Deach, ex-sub-district president; Ewald Sand- ner, secretary educational department, Local 3473, U. M. W. A., and Ed. Myers, business agent Central Trades and Labor Assembly, Taylorville, IIL, also spoke at the meeting. Continuous Struggle Needed. Herd, in his talk, pointed out that the struggle for the eight-hour day was gained only after long and bit- ter struggle; that the struggle to free Sacco-Vanzetti would likewise entail hard struggle on the part of the work- ing class. The struggle for shorter hours of work, more wages and bet- | ter conditions generally, were all dif- ferent aspects of the same fight: the struggle of the working class to wrest power from the capitalists. Until such time as the workers finally succeeded in abolishing capital- ism and in substituting for its rule the rule of the workers, the arrest and conviction of such working class leaders as Sacco-Vanzetti, Mooney and Billings, the 32: Communist de- fendants in the Michigan cases, and all other workers jailed for their po- litical opinions and their struggle for those opinions, would continue. Endorse Communist Program. The meeting enthusiastically en- dorsed the program of the Workers Party and its struggle for the inter- ests of the miners and the working class as a whole, and went on record pledging itself unceasing struggle for the liberation of all workers now in capitalist jails as a result of their uncompromising struggle for the working class. AT 2 CENTS A COPY Your local—and every individual can handle a bundle to distribute on this great working Page Thre PAUL SMITH AN EXCELLENT MAN FOR EMPLOYERS Has Completely Dis- rupted Great Falls GREAT FALLS, Mont.—Paul Smith, agent for “Bill” Green, head of the American Federation of Labor con- tinues his destructive activity in the local labor movement. He is disor- ganizing the Federal Labor Union, causing their charter to be revoked by Green. By this means they lost their six delegates ta the Trades and Labor Assembly. Afterward, Smith induced the Milland Smeltermen’s Union to re- affiliate to the assembly with six dele- gates, so that they and the painters and carpenters who are all company tools could control the whole works. Black Magic Stuff. The secretary of the Mill and Smeltermen’s Union is the notorious labor faker, Herb Gallagher, who pro- moted the famous “Black Magic” Oil company, the black magic being in the separation of the poor workers from their hard earned cash. The last regular meeting of the as sembly was to be a “harmony” meet ing, so Smith had passed the word, but instead it was a real disorganiza- tion meeting. As soon as the new delegates of the mill and smeltermen had been seated, they started a rough house. Disrupters Win Against Spineless Opposition. Johnson of the painters called for the resignation of all officers in disre- gard of the rule that officers can be removed only by charges being pre ferred in writing. Brother Quilty of the cooks and waiters was president. When he saw Johnson’s intent, to dis- rupt the assembly he resigned and W. H. Blake, a contractor who is in the carpenters’ union was elected presi- dent. All the other officers resigned with the exception of Brother Brug of the printers, a progressive-minded worker who refused to fall for Smith’s dirty work or yield to it. The two dele- gates from the carpenters are both contractors and reactionary to. the bone. Carpenters’ Union 286 is en- tirely represented by contractors in all local offices, or by those who do not work at the trade. According tc the constitution such men are not elig ible to office. Delegates Take Wrong Step. Several delegates to the assembly declared their intention of withdraw. ing, and no doubt the whole thing wil) go to the bad. Lee Forrest, a local automobile dealer who organized the open shop “American plan” gang here a few years ago, has informed his gang that if they would have had ¢« man like Smith here a few years ago the “damned unions would not have had a word to say.” Before Smith came here all the contractors had signed up with the unions and were hiring all union help. But today I saw union carpenters working on a job started with non- union helpers, so I expect to see things go backwards from now on, Everything constructive is upset since \, : Smith arrived. Get a sub—make another Com- munist! 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et sore el y) a 3 aie Steel Workers’ Program a (Continued from page 1) -~ -Sdent Mike Tighe has become the per- Sonification of this reactionary stand- © patism. ~The progressive members of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin workers must semedy this deplorable condition. They ‘must -~ produce better leadership for the un- ‘fon, initiate more effective methods, instill it with a spirit of militant strug- gle ready to pit against the ruthless ‘suppression, wage cutting and exploi- _-” tation by the steel trust the organized power of the workers fighting for steady improvements for their class and the ultimate establishment of “working class power. This tremendous task demands as a first step an intensive campaign of organization by the Amalgamated As- sogiation of Iron, Steel and Tin work- ers until it embraces all the workers within the steel industry. History Shows Betrayals. The recent history of the officials of the Amalgamated Association is one of failure to respond to the needs of the steel workers and at instances even deliberately betraying the principles of solidarity of labor. During the drive t0 organize the steel industry in 1919, in the month of May, this officialdom led by Mike Tighe, of the national committee of organization, made a separate bid for peace with the U. S. Steel corporation in a letter addressed to Judge Gary. When the steel strike broke out the Association had contracts in certain mills covering only the skilled mem- bers. The officials ordered all work- ers from these mills, who had joined the union, back to work, thus seriously crippling the strike. They revoked charters of locals in Cleveland, Ohio, . which refused to obey this ruling. All er - 7 this went on in the name of sanctity of contract with the employers, but hew about the contract and solemn agreement entered into with the other organiations when the Amalgamated Association became a part of the na- tional committee? And how about the outright violation of the principle of labor solidarity? In the words of Mike F. Tighe, tes- tifying before the senatorial commit- tee of investigation, the secretary of the Amalgamated Association issued 160,000 dues cards during the period of the organiation drive. While the rank and file members gave whole- hearted support the officials acted as a brake and quit the drive before it was over. This one time large mem- bership has now dwindled to the re- -ported 11,332 on Dec. 30, 1924, be- ing reduced to a peint below that reached in 1882 when the membership i “}} numbered 16,003. Reduction of Wages and Loss of Members. The officialdom has shown a com- plete bankruptcy in all its activities. Their methods of participating in a so-called campaign of organization of the steel workers, conducted by the national committee of the American Federation of Labor and carried on mainly inthe Calumet Region, Indiana, brought no result whatever and not ome new recruit into the Association. Instead of increasing its numbers it has been constantly losing in member- ship. The last year, despite the un- precendented boom in the industry, shows a net loss of 313 members. Not only are the ranks decreasing, but conditions won by the struggles of the past are disappearing. While the cost of living is rapidly increasing, wages in the steel industry have long ago struck the toboggan slide and wage cuts have become the order of the day. All thinking members of the Amalgamated Association are : In Answer to Many Questions— : his Is Our Explanation: E : The subscription price to THE WORKDRS MONTHLY is so extremely modest ($2.00 a year, $1.25 six months) even tho we are forced to charge 25 cents a copy— = because-— A working class magazine can live on neither advertising nor dealers’ sales alone—it must depend almost entirely on its subscribers. You should take advantage of these reasons in addition to receiving the very best working class magazine ever issued in this country. As we mentioned before, the subscription rates are $2.00 a Year---$1.25 Six Months This blank is for your convenience — - The Workers Monthly — ee ree ee ne 1113 W. Washington Bivd. For the enclosed 3............... months te: | ae aware that the blame for this situa- tion must be laid at the door of the present officials who desire to rule as Czars and try to brand all criticism as disruptive. But it has come to a point where a change must take place if complete disaster is to be avoided. Class Struggle is Here, We Cannot Escape. We are today engaged in a desper- ate and bitter struggle of the classes —the capitalist class on the one side and the working class on the other— let us not deceive ourselves on this question. There is no escape from the struggle, but we must carry on until the working class becomes victorious. The present reactionary officialdom of the Amalgamated Association in- stead of recognizing this class struggle are preaching that illusive and dan- gerous doctrine of class collaboration, which in plain English means, that the interests of the workers and em- ployers are one and the same. But the very opposite is true. Our in- terests are in direct conflict with those of the capitalist class. Where they want iong hours and low wages, the workers want higher wages, short- er hours and better working condli- tions and the ultimate end of all work- ing class organiation mugt be to take control of industry and do away with the system of wage slavery. Launching of National Organization Drive. All Progressive elements in the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steal and Tin Workers must combine their forces to oust from its present pedestal this reactionary bureaucracy, which is draining the life blood of the organization, and proceed to build a powerful union comprising all work: ers in the steel industry. We propose that the Amalgamated Association im- mediately prepare to launch a drive fcr the organization of the whole stee} industry, on a national scale, taking in all workers, manual and clerical, employed in or about the mills, to be conducted on the following basis: 1. There shall be established a Department of Organization with full power to conduct the campaign. 2. The establishment of District Committees in each important steel district and the strengthening of these committees where such exists, each to establish a Department of Organiz- ation for the District. 3. All national organizera to be elected at the annual convention, and district organizers to be elected by the district membership. 4. A uniform initiation fee as low as $1.00 per member to be established. 5. All workers employed in the steel mills to be brought into the Amalgamated Association regardless of craft or skill, race or color. 6. A period of intensive propagan- da covering the whole steel industry to precede the actual organization, the propaganda to be conducted under the following slogans: A One Hundred per cent organised industry. The complete establishment of the eight-hour day with abolishment of double shifts. No further wage reductions, but in- creases of present wages. Abolition of the speed-up system. Standard scale of wages for all steel workers to expire at the same time. One day rest in seven. Abolition of Company Unions, Abolition of the blacklist, physical examination and finger print system. The industry to support its unem- ployed. Otherwise it cannot exist. For this reason effort is made not only to give the sub- scribers every consideration in price but also in prompt- ness in delivery—which is the reason subscribers receive the very first copies off the press. . send THE WORKERS MONTHLY Industrial Form of Organization. The steel industry is highly trusti- -—— —— i oe Chicago, Illinois _— Pir AUDLLASDALAOOLAEL POU TEORADDEDAAHTTS HASTA 1 PUPSEOURUAMALRLLU PAOLA AMOUPREL | POOL UOSERTEAETT Hs ThA AVEC EN DEG EU TT and controlled by one combine es- lishing one complete monopoly. @ gigantic steel corporations are a t in the struggle against the work- Yeanize. Still the unions within s industry persist in carrying on their antiquated craft form of ofgan- fYation which fitted in well to the in- dustrial system at the time when the De Witt locomotive passed the first railroad tracks laid in this country, but now should be put into the muse- um alongside of that engine. The or- ganizations of the workers must be built so as to be able to cope with the organizations of the owners of indus- try, and be able to meet their attacks successfully. The industrial union is the only possible form of organization in the steel industry which may ade- quately protect the interests of the workers. The convention of the Amalgamated Association at Warren, Ohio, 1923, and Pittsburgh, Pa., 1924, went on record endorsing the industrial form of or- ganization. The constitution reads that all men and women working in and around the iron and steel mills, shall become members of the Amal- gamated Association. The officials have made no move to carry this form of organization into effect but have done their utmost to maintain the eraft outlook. We propose that the Amalgamated Association become an industrial union in the full sense of the word on a modern centralized basis and to be departmentalized according to the re- quirements of the industry. We pro- pose as an illustration the establish- ment of the following departmentaliza- tion: 1, Blast Furnace. 2. Open Hearth and Bessemer. 3. Rolling MML 4. Sheet and Tin Mill. 5 6 7 rat unitedly fighting all their efforts ‘8 0 Wire Rod, Pipe Mill. , Maintenance. “ Clerical. Shop Committee Organization as Basis of Union. No union can live and function ef- fectively without job control. The basic strength of all working class or- ganization must be established in the shop where the workers toil and from whence grows their grievances and as- pirations. We therefore demand that a completo system of Shop Committee | Organiation, taking in all workers in and around the iron and steel mills, organized and unorganized, be estab- lished, as a preliminary to union or- ganization and supplementary to the union. The Shop Committee must be repre- sentative of all workers in each mill, and composed of delegates elected by the workers from each department, re- gardless of craft or skill. Bach Shop Committee shall elect its own officers and spokesmen and have full power to take up all grievances of the work- ers with the management and in cén- junction with the union take all steps necessary to protect the interests of the workers. It shall carry on educa- tional activties for the building and strengthening of the union. The shop committees of each particualr district shall be combined on the same basis as the local unions. The so-called Shép Committees now existing in some mills composed joifitly of workers and the management or- ganized by the employers are tools of the bosses to protect their inter- ests and help enslaye the workers. They have nothing to do with the wel- fare and the aspirations of the work- ers. These committees fought until’ they are replaced by committees composed of workers only. Unity, Nationally and Internationally. The capitalists of the United States are solidly united in their common efforts to keep the workers in submis- sion. Their organizations are united through interlocking directorates. Capitalism is also international in scope and the the working class must likewise unite internationally. We propose therefore, first, that there be formed a real fighting alli- ance betwen the coal miners, railroad workers’ and steel workers’ unions. Not only for the purpose of extending sympathy with one another but to actually join forces for united action and to fight side by side in times of strike. Secondly, we propose to give the utmost assistance possible to the efforts now being made by the Red International of Labor Unions to create one united working class Inter- national comprising all labor unions of the world. Inedependent Political Action. Nowhere has the relations between the employers and the government be- come so brutally clear as in the steel industry. Time and again the govern- ment has shown itself as an instru- ment of the employers to help keep the workers in submission—as a cap- italist government, courts, police, sol- diers and every means at the disposal of this .capitalist government have been used to attempt to crush the ef- forts of the steel workers to organize ———__. Philadelphia, Notice! Weber Printing Co. 350 N. FIFTH STREET, Philadelphia, Pa. Eat at the GLOBE CAFETERIA ‘Best Foods at Moderate Prices. 14th STREET, COR. IRVING PLACE (Opposite New York Party Headquarters) me _THE DAL YRMOR KER should be HONOLULU, a 13.—The ques- tion of whetheF Dr. Sun Yat Sen was a Communist arose in the ter- ritorlal senate during the discussion of a resolution to adjourn until Mon- day out of respect to Dr. Sun. Senator James Russel! declined his support on the ground that Dr. Sun was a Communist, but the sen- ate adopted the fesofution. Senator Tavares insisted that Dr. Sun was born in Hawali and was a true pa- triot. into a union. The remedy must be the establishment of a workers’ gov- ernment. Despite the base betrayal of the la- bor party movement by the entire of- ficial family of organized labor the progressive steel workers see the need of united @lass’ political action by the industrial ‘workers and exploit- } ed farmers. Wé6'plédge ourselves to carry on the struggle for independent class political action’ by labor as ¢ means of the establishment of a work- |; ers’ government. | Recognition of Soviet Russia. The Russian workers, through their heroic struggles have abolished cap- italist exploitation and taken control of the industries ‘which are now be-|. ing run in the interests of the workers. The Russian working class republic is in need of the things we produce in this country. We therefore demand the unconditional recognition of and establishment of trade relations with |g Soviet Russia, not only as a means of | stimulating industry in this country, but as an act of solidarity with the |S Russian working class. Class Sane Against Class Collab- oration. We have already pointed out that the working clase® and the capitalist class have no interests in common. It has been effectively proven to us during ali the struggles of the past. On the basis of thése ®xperiences we propose that the officials of the Amal- gamated Association~ recognize the class struggle and frame and execute the policies of the,,organization ac- cordingly. Our slo; ans must be: “Re- lentless struggle @ st the oppres- sive methods, wage wuts and the ex- ploitation by the steel corporations.” “For the organiza of a powerful union in the steek igdustry ready to fight for the interegtgjof the working class—a union whighiwill become one of the battalions @fsemancipation of the workers.” vio We submit this. program, to the steel workers in general and fo the mem- bers of the Amalgajfiated Asociation in particular. We challenge criticism and invite suggestidns for further im- provements. We suggest that the col- umns of the official.Journal of the As- sociation be openef ‘for discussion of this program and for the problems of the organization as“ ‘a whole. We pro- pose that all contributions submit- ted by individual members or lodges, be printed in full without any censor- ship, se that we tify find the best possible means of constantly building and strengthening thé union. We urge all progressive, thinking members of the Amalgamated Agsoci- ation of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, to unite for the building of a bigger and better union—a working class union covering the whole steel industry. PROPOSED BY THE TRADE UNION EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE. Our Readers’ Views NORWOOD, Mass., April 6.—To the DAILY WORKER:— _ Enclosed. please find our check for $100.00 “To insure the DAILY WORKER for 1925.” In our party meeting, it was un- derstood that the Finnish branch in Norwood has somewhat failed to par- ticipate in our campaign to support the central organ of the party. As the members of the Finnish branch in Norwood are also a majority in local co-operative movement, so we decided to give part of our 1924 profit to the DAILY WORKER. — May T also say that we ought to get the co-operative societieg a real part of the party. The DAILY WORKER should publish an article on this sub- ject. If we get the co-operative so- cleties to participate with the Com- munist movement as a whole, then it’s worth while to work for them. Fraternally, United Co-Operative Society of Norwood, Mass. O. E. SAARI, Manager Coal Oil Lamp Explodes. LIMA, Ohio, April 13.—One child was burned to death and another per- haps fatally injured when a coal oil lamp exploded in the home of John Mamp today. Albert, aged 16 months, was dead when firemen reached him after they had battled their way thru the flames. Harry, aged 4, escaped from the house when the explosion occurred. Gets Cold as “Cal.” : BOSTON, April 13.—This part of New England today was covered with a blanket of snow. The mercury slid down to 35 degrees above zero and gone was the balmy weather of Bas- | ter. Se sty mon gn ey Re ppretie ting se ers rio ~~ we Dau IMPORTANT MA TTER Once More We Quote Wm. Z. Foster: “Here, in the building up of the circulation of the DAILY WORKER, lies a field for the development of Communist organ- izers, which is open to every member of our party. In the per- formance of the systematic work necessary to the effective sale of DAILY WORKER subscriptions, and for that matter the sale of any of our party press subscriptions, there is called into play the qualities which go to make real organizers and pro- pagandists. “In building the DAILY WORKER circulation we approach non-party workers, workers who are not class conscious. tell them about the DAILY WORKER and ask them to subscribe. We must explain to them at least the main essentials of the class struggle. We We must overcome objections, prove the ad- vantages and necessity of organization, of working class mili- tancy, of struggle against the boss:..and: his pliant tools, the We must exploit the growing revolt of these workers. We must connect.up our paper and our party with these workers by making thé DAILY WORKER the spokes- trade union bureaucrats. man and champion of their grievances. All this must be done upon the most far-reaching scale and in the most systematic manner possible. “Such work is getting down to fundamentals. It means real By carrying it on aggressively and persistently we build up our self-confidence and our ability to give expression to Communist principles. ~In other words, we develop ourselves into organizers.” contact with the masses. From the article “The DAILY’ WORKER—a Communist Builder” WORKER, ~ by Wm. Z. Foster in Jan. 13 issue of the DAILY ‘ publications—an efficient tool for the Communist Builder. And While You Build the Labor Movement— For every $6.00 worth of subs ($8.00 worth in Chicago) we will gladly send you a leather binder with patent clasp making all sheets detachable; with pocket for receipts and note paper for your use— containing a full descriptive catalogue of all Communist books and 1113-W. Washington Blod. HE DAILY WORKER Chicago, Illinois SS00 @ year F250 on CHICAGO “Ff F.OO 2 Y CAT THE NEW THE NAME — KPATES SUBSCRIPTION TO BUILD DAILY WORKER ~6 montis &2.00 9 months Abo 6 montis § 250, 3 months STREET Qatyt € ht eA ee —_— = | Com ......- ences S08 © eeuet eons a SRN. —- A ——
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New York Famine | Next Wednesday NEW YORK, April 13.—The situa | tion in Ireland is getting worse. The Farmers’ Association says that “80 per cent of the cattle have died, all the sheep are dead, the people are starv- ing. They have not had fi months. They are eating dead leaves, and are face to fa plague.” The area in which they live coast line of Donegal and Mayo is Very hard to reach as there is prac- tically no railway service. Seed for immediate sowing is absolutely nec- essary. Misery, disease and plague face the workers and peasants of Ire- land on every side. Let the capitalist press deny that there is any famine, as the New York Times does. Let the capitalist and patriotic Irish press and societies de- “TILLINOIS | NEMPL AS MINERS St STEEL -TRUST Federated | A slump of more than 1 per and March follows | PLOY) i 2 MOST WHILE. TALKS WAGE CUTS DS | lal Editor Mnois factory employment between e ‘of wheat prices and the break in. the stock market as an indication that the Coolidge boom was a false alarm. Republican prosperity fails to relieve the chronic unemployment arising from basic economic maladjustments which it will not touch. The March report of the Illinois department of labor follows that from New York state which found no well defined evidence of continued industrial improvement. Seasonal gains in New York leaves $2,000 out of work who had jobs a year ago. Begins Early This Year. The break in Illinois comes a month earlier than in 1924 when factory em: |ployment held steady from Febrodry to March and started downhill in April. This year the level is already 8% per cent below March, 1924 and 11.7 per cent below March, 1923. The free employmént office reported 161 applicants for each 100 jobs com- pared with 157 last year and 96 in March, 1923. Industries showing sharp reductions in force between February and March include boots and ‘shoes 8 per cent, miscellaneous leather 6 per cent, clare that there is no suffering. Work- ers who have been in the fan trict declare that “every hougeho the scene of the worst misery. destitution.” Blamed Soviet Regime. When the Russian workers and peasants starved in 1921 owing to the failure of the crops, the cause was attributed to the Soviet regime. In Ireland, with its capitalist government under the tutelage of British imperial- iam, there are 750,000 starving men, women and children. The workers of New York should know the truth about the situation. At the mass meeting at the Central Opera House, 205 E. 67th St., on Wed- nesday, April 15, at 8 p. m., the work- ers will be given this opportunity. Jack McCarthy, who has just come from the famine district, will tell the story. Among the other speaxers will be Thomas J. O’Kelley, E. Gurley Flynn, Ben Gitlow, P. Cosgrove, Joseph Manley, chairman. Get the workers in your shops and unions to attend this meeting. Show your soli- darity. | PITTSBURGH WORKERS =| TO HEAR RECORDS OF LENIN SPEECHES PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 13.—A revolutionary party in honor of the Russian Communist dally, Novy Mir, witl be given in Pittsburgh, Pa., ‘Wednesday, April 15, at 1622 Fifth + Ave. There will be a musical program, dancing and free refresh- mente. Among the speakers will be Comrade Arne Swabeck, district or- ganizer of the Workers Party in English, and Comrade Alexander Chramoff, organizer of the Russian section, W. P., in Russian. Talks will also be made by Comrades Len- in, Lunacharsky and others (from phonograph records). Come and listen to the voice of Lenin! Admission 50 cents. Beginning at men’s. elothing 8.1 per cent, meat 6 per cent and flour and feed milla 9.3 per cent.’ Metal\trades em- ers as a group failed to show any gain. Mining in Great Depression. Suspension of Illinois mining opera- tions on a broad scale accompanied the decline in factory employment. The department points out that as there are practically no other indus- tries in the mining districts a consid- erable section of the state is under severe depression. Latest reports from southern Illinois state that in Franklin, Williamson and Saline counties, constituting the lead- ing coal fields of the middle west, only 9 out of 64 mines are working and most of those on part-time. Talk Wage Cuts In Steel Millis. The sharp drop of 421,207 tons dur- ing March in the unfilled orders on the books of the U. S. Steel corpora- tion shows the extent to which the high March production was overpro- duction leading to an inevitable slump. This decrease js more than 3 times the decline in unfilled orders in the same month of 1924. ‘It brings the total down to 4863,564 tons or within less than 100,000 tons of March 31, 1924. Two years ago the corporation re- ported 7,403\832 tons in unfilled orders and in 1920, mately 10,000,000 tons. cussion of, eration is) dteompanied with specula.- ern Lucrezia Borgia was believed dis- covered in the Italian nurse Antionet- te Scierri, under arrest‘today on a charge of. poisoning eight of her pa- tients. Sizoof them died and two were in & serious condition. Let thes DAILY WORKER make your arguments every day. Send in a 8 p.m sub for your shop mates. OUR DAILY PATTERNS | A POPULAR APRON STYLE ie : | 5079 5079. Figured pereale, with Yick- rack braid for trimming, is here por- trayed. This is a good model for ul: bleached muslin or gingham.},. The pattern is cut in 4 we FY 34,36; medium, 38-40; large, 42-44; extra large, 46-48 inches bust meas ure. A medium size requires 3% yards of 36 inch material. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. . - . FASHION BOOK NOTICE! Send 12c in silver or ‘Stamps for our up-te-date Spring and, Summer 1925 Book of Fashions, sh coler plates end containing 500 of ladies’, misses’, and children’s patterns, a con- cise and comprehensive sitet. Gress making, also some points for needle allutrating of simple the various stitches), all valuable hints to the home Bressmaker A SIMPLE FROCK ‘FOR THE GROW- ING GIRL 509/ | 5091. would be good for this model. also pleasing in gingham or linen, 12 and 14 years. of the plain material is required. receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. Address: The W. Washington Bivd-. Chicago, ii. NOTICE TO PATTERN BUYERS— tterns being sold thru the DAIL customer, TF of vatterns on date of maili GET A SUB AND GIVE ONE! | delayes oe e figure was approxi- In the j6urriais of the industry dis- is decline in unfilled or- ders and the ‘resulting decrease in op- tion as to-when wage reduetions will. be in order, Charge Poleons Patients. MONTPELLIER, France—A mod-, Silk or cotton broadcloth It is The pattern is cut in 4 sizes: 8, 10, To make the dress as illustrated for a 10 year size will require 2 yards of 40 inch plain mea terial, with % yard of contrasting ma- terial for cuffs and trimming bands. If made with short sleeves 1% yard Pattern mailed to any address on DAILY WORKER, 1118 ORKER pattern department are fur- nished by a New York firm of pattern manufacturers. Orders are forwarded by the DAILY WORKER every day as re- ceived, and they are mailed by the : ufacttrer direct to the DAILY WORKER does not keep a« stock hand. Delivery of ° tert.s ordinarily will take at poi 10 days from the ng the order if your pattera & | BS AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. | ba (Continued from page 1) than it is of the French army. Brit- France but it can never make peace with Soviet Russia. \M JOSEPH SIMMONS, foilnder of the ku klux klan, is again in trouble. While the graft was heavy and the pickings were good all the lieutenant grafters could be sat- isfied and only the few leading crooks flocked horns. But the morons who turned over their ten spots to the confidence men in the early days are now sobering up and are spending their spare kale on spirits of ammonia ‘rather than on pillowcases and second hand underwear. The result is that the klan leaders are venting their chagrin on “pure woomanhood” like the grand dragon of the Indiana ku klux klan, who raped and poisoned a young girl, or else are lifiting the lid off the cess pool in court as is the case in the new Simmons case in At- lanta. * *¢& * notice that one of the gentle- men who is applying the axe to Ythe financial jugular vein of Simmons is Billy Parker, professional anti- catholic faker, publisher of the New Menace and of the Flaming Sword, Official publication of the knights of the flaming sword. Parker is also publisher of a sheet called The Lifted Lid a pseudo-radical bi-weekly, edited by Linn A. Gale, formerly of Mexico City. The boys and girls who are now gunning for Simmon’s scalp claim that he pockets all the dough that comes into the imperial cess pool from the diminishing subtreasuries thruout the country. Billy Parker and his associates do not think it fair that Simmons should hog it all. Why can’t he be a good fellow, like cer- tain labor fakers who divide the spoils of the game with their lieu- tenants? ss * *# good while it lasted. The wise lads made enuf money to keep them at arm’s length from hard work for the rest of their lives. The patriotic morons had a good time, even if they spent a little money. The more for- tunate ones participated in the lynch- ing of a few Negroes, tarred and feathered a few strikers, whipped women in the nude and some of those in the upper circles of klancraft ex- perienced the inestimable joy of starring in rape cases to prove their loyalty to the sanctity of the home and their willingness to die for the preservation of American womanhood from the defiling touch of the non- Nordic alien. ss ¢ ss OTHING much is now left of the klan except several hundred court cases, varying from murder and rape to petty larceny. The klan was one of the greatest collection of cow- ards ever gathered together in the United States. It never attacked except when it was ten to one, And it is quite likely that the shooting of Glenn Young in Herrin had as much to do with putting the finishing touch to its activity as anything else. Sporadic klan outbursts may be ex- pected in remote regions for some time but as a national factor it is dead. ain can make peace with capitalistiq) + ge klan craze:is dying out. It iia om pay og vee THE DAILY WORKER GROWS and shown how nails. them. . rolls. strike of 1919, a Monessen: Hell Taught Reason for Strikes MONESSEN, Pa., April 13.—Mones- sen held its first farm day for the farmers of the adjoining communities. These toilers of the land were taken thru the giant steel | plants in the city @ poor workers of the city toil to make wire fence and The nail department will not be for- gotten very soon ‘by, the farmers. this department, where hundreds of nail-machines are operated, are em- ployed mostly young boys. They have to stuff cotton into their ears on ac- count of the noise. They talk with-their hands. clothes are soaked thru with grease When they vigit the wire drawers they will see a bunch of wrecked man- hood. These fellows. have to work in lime most of the time. their appetites from this. Many accidents happen in this dc. partment bruv little, is let out about When they visited. the open hearth and rod mill they saw the men pour hot metal into-kettles, and catching red hot rods as they came out of the | After these farmers go thru this plant they will hnow why the workers came out so strong in the great st3el | Your Union Meeting | oe and ukee Calum 67 i Layers Second Tuesday, April 14, 1926. Name of a hr and Place eting 9, Workers, 1939 Mil- mr) « AE Council, 814 117th Street. Carpenters,>BViRten's Hall, Fat n St. Teametere” District } Gounell, 220 8. Ashiand Boulév 190 Ww. Washington SS eye 2 MORNE In Their They lose High. BUILDERS AT WORK Two Mining Towns 1 Tied for Leadership 5 > \ a > f o>. Mi =, - je? SI Pen a aes —) ~—_— -— > tee ‘aie Orleans and Wisaanier, Mass., Reach Half Quota burg, Kansas, another mining on Annual Sub Campaign. Milwaukee and Philadelph their quota with Detroit right and Worcester, Mass.,, has hit where your local stands—and be done—then do it! land P oll, gs . 0 iniccatetenminé ccsadee ooceees- 194 Pa nters, 6414 (8. Halated St. Sp RO nt - pe ainters, » Con. ate an t eveiand, ° © © cecncecess 275 Painters, 240s Oak St. = Pa nters, Trumbull and Qoden Ave. Boston, Mase. ......0+-- . Plasterers onroe an ecoria Sts. Providence, R. | , ieee 19 Rail ° : 22 .~ wey. Clerks, 509 W Washing- Portland, Ore. 4 7 Walters. 234 W. Randoiph St. Cincinnati, ©. ........ e 3 Tornado Relief Fund Grows. princes Conn dosnt eibennasdenibetons @cebene ; INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 13.—| Biwsio NY. : The southwestern Indiana tornado re- s (os ig eee UPOTIO“, WIS. ccccccceees 3 ife fund was increased by $5,000 in Neffs. O , the last 24 hours, placing the grand reg a: otal at $105,098 Pittsburgh, Pa. 11 es ee Ey EE AEE 7 Minneapolis, Minn. ... 7 San Francisco, Cal. ..... -ccece+sscscssesess 5 =e B.S Elizabeth, N. J. 1 Canton, O. ..........-. ats St. Paul, Minn ; an ‘Your local West Frankfort, Ul. cccccccccees coco 1 DAILY Baltimore, Md. . 2 WORKER McKeesport, Pa. ... 1 New York, N. Y. 31 agent has these |p ochester, N. Y. F { two books. Toledo, O. .... : 3 Pees Greet, O66. »....... cisimcanmene west r. a ee « by a one of the best of American BARS AND SHADOWS By Ralph Chaplin. Poems written in Leaven- worth penitentiary where the author was committed during the war as a mem- You can also get ‘them by mail direct from ~ THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd., _ CHICAGO, “vag new subs to build “Our Daily.” BOSTON, MASS.—Elsie Pultur. CHICAGO, ILL.—North Side Eng 150 8.3 25 8 50 8 100 8 50 8 460 7.6 200 7 30 6.6 60 6.6 50 6 15 6 15 6 . 100 5 60 5 20 5 250 4.5 1500 3.8 200 3.5 150 3.3 30 3.3 30 3.3 30 3.3 125 3.2 35 2.8 75 2.6 40 2.5 1500 2.1 50 2 200 1.5 100 1 * * At the End of Last Week these active BUILDERS of the Communist movement have turned in When will your name be listed? NEW YORK, N. Y.—Katterfield (3); J. Perilla; M. Rosenberger. SPRINGFIELD, ILL.—A. J. Schuchardt. lish Branch (7). DETROIT, MICH.—A. E. Goetz (6). MacMurray Goes to Pekin. WASHINGTON— (FP)—John Van | Antwerp MacMurray, assistant secre- tary of state in charge of Far East- ern affairs, has been appointed min- ister to China, and will said within a few days to relieve Minister Schur- man, who goes to Berlin as ambassa- dor. MacMurray is a professional! diplomat, who will follow any line. at | policy laid down for him by the aut partment, and will do it smoothly and with intelligence. 3 Won't Discuss Karolyi. WASHINGTON—(FP)— Secretary Kellogg was picking out golf sticks in. preparation for his Easter trip Pimehurst, N. C., American papers. He has steadfastly refused to discuss the gag episode ee Getting a DAILY WORKER sub or two, will make a better Communis’ of ‘you. —< page Five 55 PER CENT OF MOTHERS AND WIVES EMPLOYED ' Uncle Sari Admits Break Up the Home By LELAND OLDS, (Federated Press industrial Editor) Slow disruption of the family by the failure of capitalist industrialism to pay men a living wage is reflected in the report of the U. 8. women’s bureau on the family status of breadwinning women. Thé- study which covers four typical cities indicates that over 38 per cent of all women over 14 are forced into the ranks of the gainfully employed. The proportion of breadwinning women to all women over 14 rises to 45 per cent in Jacksonville, Fla., and Passaic, N. J., while in towns like Wilkésbarre, Pa., and Butte, Mont., where industry is predominantly mas culine the proportion is just under 3¢ per cent. The old assertion that wage earning for women is just a passing stage pre- ceding matrimony is completely ex ploded by figures which show that over 60 per cent of the breadwinning women in the 4 cities were over 25 and approximately 55 per cent were married. Over 61 per cent of these breadwin- ning women who were or had been married were living with breadwin- ning husbands. Nearly 53 per cent had children and 40 per cent of those mothers had babies under 5. Over two-thirds of the bread winning moth- ers had wage earning husbands. “The four cities analyzed,” says the report, “may be taken as more or less representative of the country as a whole in the matter of the family status of the over 84% million bread- winning women. Additional evidence of the universality of thede problems is that the proportion of women who were gainfully employed did not rise or fall in any discernable relation to the presence or absence of so-called women-employing industries. Many women in every city or town must earn a living not only for themselves but frequently for dependents and if they lack opportunities in certain di- rections they must enter any avenues of gainful employment available.” The bureau summarizes the results of the study in part as follows: “Be cause of present economic organiza- tion of society many women are forced by stress of circumstances to become breadwinners. The failure of men to secure a living wage for the family necessitates the entrance of wives and mothers into breadwinning activities outside or within the hdme. Better wages for men would frequent- ly mean withdrawal of a large group of wives and mothers from breadwin- ning activities. Better and more ex- tensive mothers’ pensions would mean the withdrawal of many more women from breadwinning activities. The coupling of economic responsibilities and domestic duties for women tends to menace the health of women and the happiness of the home.” © ~~ TyTTerTreTfeen=ewewrfeerfneeweerwweew7?* 9 SHORT STORIES BY JACK LONDON. THE STRENGTH OF THE STRONG A tale of the cave-man era, show- ing how a primitive experiment in capitalism failed. THE DREAM OF DEBS A vision of the coming revolution. THE APOSTATE The story of a lad who tires of the weary existence of a wage slave. 10 CENTS —? EACH. From any DAILY WORKER agent or by mail direct from THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. _-.-. . . . -. ee PITTSBURGH, PA. ‘OC| Toe those who work hard for thele when the Karoly!| money, | will save 50 per cent on all expose of the rottenness of the Horthy | regime in Hungary was published in| their dental work. DR. RASNICK DENTIST 645 Smithfield Street. friend subscribe to Does your the DAILY WORKER? Ask him! | ad ‘ ' ;
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a al > 4 > ree — —_ ‘ . ~~ or o oer! ee at OOP. ey F SO WES See crores . aro > eS VS Sg ea Wins She q aS 2) et Zz Pred ‘ Sh €xi bs foie Se Ce eee ys —- E aee eae at ond Fs, ee ee eee a WORKER. ican navy they turn into very practical things. It will be the exploited peoples that forget them- Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING 00. | selves, not the American capitalist who robs them. -- “©. 3218 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, DL And if the°toloniél peoples cannot exercise “gelf-4.. "Di é oo . / ~ QFFOL,2 IPHILLY MAY DA 2 Bye - 4 ’ ‘ M4 wes ot oe : ve 4 * = r 0 K ’ : Bt | Me ee Bhs (Phone: Monroe 4712) control” there ate the battleships to bring them the : | o } cee Digeat hs, mere message of “common sense.” —n Ghaiee: , ¥-.:: Se ws Wi i “tte The punishment..meted out to two American HIT BY: COURT com-f $6.60 per year 3.80.70 "months $2.00...8 months | soldiers for holding revolutionary views is in- wm ec: , a y. Bw By mail (in Chicago only): tended as a warning to all the workers and farmers Howat Broke Power of . 8 $8.00 ber year $4.50....6 months $2.50....8 months in the Pacifie area as well as to their fellow sol- ‘“ ’ Cc 9 Seis, oe | Po2 ‘Crecho-Slovak ~ Cicero Wowen’s T. Address all mail and wake out checks to diers. The savage sentences are intended to tell Indust?ial ourt | |G. ‘Masaryk “School, 57th and 22nd THE DAILY WORKER the colonial masses that American imperialism will waste vierehe. eC. Aart 12— | Place. tna ghee 1118 W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, tMiimels | tolerate no opposition to its rule. Back of this], « Remeas sees af teddattial vele- : oe Park English, 4021 Drake ye the +. DUNNE} Editors The answer to the challenge of American .im- United States supreme court today, ence in Philadelphia has made defin- Sons, cana English, 188 | ch Sub-District Meeting at Z MORITZ J. LOEB...... Business Manager perialism must come from the workers and farm-| when the industrial court’s authority | ite arraiigements for a huge May day} Rymanian B ranch, 2260 Clybourn Milwaukee, April 26. | Ente ed second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- ers of the United States, its colonies and apneres i padre? Seesttaw, which was gs 9h e “ age ty Ea may Ds | Ave. : one , pecial hs Dail w ‘ Q red as rt sony : -nloitati .. . , at the Lulu Temple, at 8 p. m. | t al to The y Worker. Office at Chicago, Ill., under the act of March 8, 1879. | of igre gg In -~ nse gece oy Sorgys sponsored by former’ Governor Allen |. Wm. Dunne, editor, paiiicinilel = No. 1, 1532 W. Chicago | whisker te. ua em prone tasantas ee eae" as a means of reventing strikes, was | Gitlow, of the Workers Patty will be “bu ; ay. D , Italian 3ist Ward, 511 N. amon | order to up in the state of Wis- pe’ -_- Advertising rates op app*catie® | 4 orican po Pwo daggcemeig " ee ea oye cage 2 the principal speakers at the meet- : Se ) Sang | consi. 8. more eiective ‘Cetaieuihe os a + . p " . . ’ : ° , y; Aprit 15. ‘ Narr Vie spend their lives in prison because they dared to/| union, who efi the anti-labor | ations, the Young Workers’ League CITY CENTRAL COMMITTEE |°f the organization, the distfict ex- D ecline im France Begins Ke , d t be made to symbolize the|'®¥ 224 struck the Kansas mines. and the Y. W. L. Juniors will be rep- : -lecutive committee of District No. 8 +5 think of freedom, mus ma sym - i MEETING, 722 Bite: Island avenue, formation of a cabinet is made more difficult *by —epae peeietaaan gad sighs For this, Howat served nearly two | Singing Society, the Lithuanian chor-| (GsechoSlovak ‘Cicero, S7th ana|ference, ~~ the uncertainty of the ‘outcome’ of the German |'™S “**- years in prison, but Allen was defeat-| us and the junior chorus will furnish |»9°4 piace Gicero”MiL ccson Fight Capitalist Allies. ™ 7 ed at the polls. because of Howat’s|the meeting with revolutionary songs. ; Sy » Itdscexpected that the conference elections. | ; ee fight, and Howat jwas then freed. Instrumental and vocal solos are be Pays cae te St. wecwees will be. the means of establishing a The German,rulers, uncertain as to the composi- Legalizing P eonage John L. Lewis and the international}ing selected by the pesetectionin dns 5 Seiten : marta Cotta, 2475 Clybourn| Strong» organization in Wisconsin tion of the new French cabinet, are unable to settle , levislat b bill before: it officials of the United Mine Workers | committee to round up the program. avebne which will. be able to combat not only on a definite program. The Tennessee legisiature has a@ Di ore 1°) of America suspegied Howat as presi-} The conference decided to co-oper- ” Whupaday, Apett 10 _=¢|the capitalist class but also their most a . that, if passed, waill further enslave the tenant/dent of the Kansas thiners as punish-;ate with the Workers Party May Day STCany: “Pr : oee:-Evaliable “allies from the camp. of 96: From England comes the report that the Easter! - mers and farm laborers, black and white ment for his loyalty to the miners’| festival that is being arranged at| Russian No. 1, 1902 W. Division’St.)\ 1 " oar an ‘ y >] . holiday closing of the stock exchange has made it impossible to estimate the extent of the influence of the French crisis, but it is known that any un- favorable developments on the bourse will have an bash | Called LaFollette republicans and also The intention of the bill, which makes violation | interests. Howat.has been re-elected | the Hagles’ Temple for Saturday, May | , 7.0 Sie nitty Sieh fe MUNDANY fot Vietor Berger's socialist party. ‘Phe , ‘ : president time again by the Kan.- |} 2. ancing, music, refreshments, . jrecent presidential elections which in- of contract punishable by fine and imprisonment, |... miners, but has néver been recog-| pageant and folk dancing will give| South Slavic No. 1, 1806 S. Racine; .. 8. the decline of the socialist is to place the victims of the peonage system out-| nizea by Lewis’ Official family. color and revolutionary spirit to the | AY® seibgrage gat side the law—by aarefully excluding landlords} A decision by the Kansas supreme | May Day festival. | _ Scandinavian Karl Marx, 2733 oer reg nated x .- eatiecaet Ga ae en SS, ; : F and employers from the penalties of the measure. | court, upholding the industrial court’s} The next meeting of the May Day |Hirsch Blvd. ‘ ment. Almost 5,000 people voted for So closely are the affairs of the nations 0 Section 1 of the proposed law reads: authority over working hours was re-| conference has been set for Wednes- Friday, April 17. the Communist candidates in their Europe interwoven, so delicate is the balance of| — That 1 laborer. servant, renter or | “°™8¢4 by the supreme tribunal. day, April 22, at 8 p. m., at 521 York | Polish North Side, 1902 ‘W. Division |... susehtance on the’: Willa the scales in international affairs, that internal hat any CMps0ye, JACES, t, The decision was rendered in the | Ave. ) St | . ; ; ? ballot. crises like those in France and Germany have be- share-cropper who wilfully breaches a written con-| case of the Charles Wolff Packing | All working class organizations are tract between employer and employe, laborer, | company. The results of elections only partial. owe hebvo ee bage fF wa wroayers Ss F : invited to send delegates to this con- YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE f world importance. . ly indicate the Communist sentiment “a yerma si f : : » cabinet comes at servant, renter or share-cropper shall be guilty of| Last year the supreme court of the | ference. .Credentials can be mailed ACTIVITIES. in the state and the conferencé will ~~ gies 9 ni Nye oe oe ia et ai” misdemeanor.” United States held unconstitutional | to R. Baker, 521 York Ave. LOCAL CHICAGO, undertake the task of © organizing. ee Se Se ree ' Under this provision the victim may be fined provisions of the court of industrial : developing and. increasing this senti- minimum and this alone prevents it having wider from $20 to $50 and sentenced to hard labor for relations law giving it authority over Dubuque, lowa to . .”. ‘Tuesday, April 14 ment. The call for the conference consequences. It has come because the French im- th th wages. H M 9 Id Meeting of all sabe o Hterature and |fllows: perialists have not dared to tax the middle class ye Sie eike snide Serusii iat lati Pike irene ng lagen ree WP s eas Yourig Worker “sub” agents tonight, *¢ « “4 » peasantry to recoup the war losses—be- ; : " ‘ rom = at Call for the Wisconsin Sub-District a lay tk to pay Pn tach alt thin. ton pers (those who till the soil for a share in the crop) | but the Kansas supreme court did not . P. Speakers | tuesday, 7 p. m., at 19 8. Lincoln St « I J Als Conference | : so interpret th Meeting of Y. W. L. members . lithe seeteinen are neaded te. toreitall enather t= the year. They cannot leave until the debt is| .)..+y. nours of dabor as required by | “1tY Sives the visitor an impression | nepartment Stores, 19° South Lincoln instructions of the district executive oor ese phe nema ‘ ..,|paid and from year to year find themselves owing|the industrial court: The supreme |! >eim& 4 hot-bed of religious quar-| street. Plans for furtfiérg’ our Mail |©o™mittee, a call is being issued for a a - ssa 2 pega ied the landlord a larger amount. court of the United States now holds |"¢!8, With “protestant and catholic” |Orger House campaign—will be dis- the Wisconsin Sub-ciatrit 'Sommwes 0 o than elsewhere, and any govern- : ; of District No. 8, to be held in Mil- ace that ‘lee i. rts a levy on the Thrifty This is the way the peonage system works. With | this provision of the:»Kansas law in- Seen Cake. Spee SVEN PONE Of un-lecussed: 1—Getting imtprthe union. ; iller Hall, 802 State . : valid. . complimentary epithet. 2—Taking up new problems in,the in- waukee, Wis., at M ; bourgeoisie will meet with disaster. The military the local and state governments in the control of Even the labor organisations are eB . }street, on April 26, at 10 o’clock Sun- : red dustry. 38—Further.. organizational ; é adventures of the imperialists must be paid for,|‘e landlords and bosses there is no redress for!New Haven Gomrades | **ering from their share of this tasks in the enaabemncpess ar ee | ; as _|the victims. They are chattel slaves in fact tho a Main street stupidity, with a few of oe All branches in the state of Wis the vassal states must be kept in line, the army Call rk f Thursday, April; 16. in of District No. 8 including Mil: ens aS ’' not in name. on Wo ers or the old-timers busy holding down the. Area Branch No: 4;0840& W. Roose- consin 0 Stric oO. 5, Including 4 und navy clamor for additional appropriations and Th al oe iatened tnéte tain th M 1 D rs trati lid. Everyone is too bysy either en-| _ 4, ants 1 ; waukee, West Allis, Kenosha, Racine upon the continued catering to the militarists de- sod gabe sey otic! aca: Se scdmaia page oth “ ay em ons ration gaged in or preventing such discus- vert Road. . aains A ie 09 Sheboygan, Madison and surrounding , the supremacy of French imperialism in|‘ . ‘ sion to consider the causes of such sibigedng towns are instructed to send one dele- a oe : P any tenant bold enough to leave the land of the} NEW HAVEN; aGonn., April 13— Activity meetings of;,all the league ; “klan wars” and how they benefit gate from each-branch to the confer- But the French government is not a free agent. robber baron because he has “broken his contract. | sent ois cae i the labor uniofis | “°.7uling capitalist class. Atyibuat : macsbers, :anestnet aadatina . : , ; , members should send two delegates. The international bankers demand guarantees for That such legislation - contemplated in “DY and fraternal orgiifisations of New re genre smog age ~' Lwin sr shop nuclei, prospectiva« auclel, fac-| young Workers League groupsani - . t section of the United States in the twentieth cen-| pay 2 OFGer, AOWSVer, 40 ¢. S. Gayaer an ry campaigns, etc.of.thegbranch ar further loans. If these guarantees are not giyen ae aven to. lay ed ther tools and/ mom Matthews have arranged to lec-|'% palgns, € 9 €/Junior groups are also instructed to down goes the franc and with it the stability, of tury is sufficient proof that the civil war did not/ demonstrate on ‘Day, the holiday discussed. 12 Hpeop + ture at the Community Band Hall,’ send delegates to the conference. the French government -(lestroy chattel slavery. With the northward migra-| of the working class of the world. 20th and White, on Tassdky evehtite. The. meetings wilt he -heldvas fol-| The district executive committee " a tion of hundreds of thousands of Negro farmers| 7#© letter states fm part: “We are I ' ‘ , April 2ist, at 8 P. M. tig: [a ee 3 are va proposes the following order of busi- ; aced in America+!With wage cuts, | Branch No. 1, Room »606,:, 166. W. | ness: every government crisis and this alone accounts for it has become more difficult to enforce the peonage open shop drives aM@ @Rild labor. We Admission to this lecture will be system. It is now to be legalized. Washington 8t. 1. Report on the election campaign the manner in which France has been allowed to mpgs: f : h th h are faced with ‘crimifal syndicalist pat cg sree agua gel gy Branch No. 2, 19400; Wu; Roosevelt |and the general political situation in eoemes engage in her military enterprises while deferring This bill alone is evidence enough that the tenant | jaws,.deportation*lnwe, gag laws, and Dubuque is urged to attend. Road. Wisconsin. Reporter G. S. Shklar. | any atter npt to liquidate her enormous debt,..'The farmers and farm laborers of the south must or-| persecution of ‘wefking class mili- Branch Ng, 3, 3201 $s Wehash Ave.? 2. Report on party problems. and ene continental nation that has been able to keep | S2nize. They cannot organize effectively as long| tants. Numerous ‘lass war prisoners S t Club M ber | Branch No. 5, 2613 Hirsch’ Blvd. general situation by the district or- as the ruling class is able to divide them on racial |e im jail, or facttig it. Our foreign por u em s ae ae Be ee a A a ee) ee The threat of social revolution is present in Saturday, Anrife 18p.0". ganizer. her workers employed, France has blackmailed her |*. : ; : : . ; ° | ; 7 aa ( ployed, sain lines. Here is an immediate issue'on which both born brothers are hétnded. America to Chew Nails and Dance given by the,Jewish Propa-| 3. Report on the educational work. creditors into postponing the day of payment. N aitae chads f th jase enslaves the defenfeless workers of ganda Committee, Waepvkers: lyceum, |Reporter J. C. Gibson. But all things have an end and France has been |* a o ute Victims OF the peonage system CaN! central and South: America. We must Bend Iron at Party | 2733 nirsch Biva. F OFTAT 4. Report on shop-nuclei and trade tnally ali : , er. ke a stand againgt this. We must Sunday, Aprile19. » tnion activities. Reporter G. Pro compelled finally to realize that she is not a country | ©°M® “setaer. | : make & e 8 y; 19.4, os nS ond aneart from international ca ‘taliam This and similar problems will be on the agenda | unite our forces to-eombat it. NEW YORK, April 13—At last we) City Hike. .End.af.@rand Ave car | danich. ae, es 1 kt r st] t m4 t ; nN of the American Negro Labor Congress that will “We must fight €##frecognition and | have it! The first affair of the Work-/line; groups to meetiatr@:80 Sunday| 5. Report on youth movement and It can be said wit bn Copy at the be held in Chicago some time this summer. support of the mip orkers’ republic; ers’ Sports Club since its organization.| morning at the following stations: |Junior groups, by S. Sungal. course of development in France from now on will 2 of the world, the’ n of Socialist|The most novel entertainment that/sgouth Side—3116 Si.yHalsted St.; 6. Report on the — International parallel that of. Germany-—there will be a series of Soviet Republics. ; We. must fight for|ever a branch produced, including a) West Side—3118 W.?Roosevelt Road; | Workers’ Aid, by Cora Meyer.: government crises which will become chronic, but} et a member for the Workers Party and @ new | unity of the world tfade union move-| musician who plays on the saw and|N, W. Side—2733 HirschRinds:North; 7. Report on the DAILY WORKER, there will be this difference: subscription for the DAILY WORKER. ment, uniting Amsterdam and _ the| many others equally interesting. Side—2409 N. Halstedy@ite WATCH |by F. Pilachek. (a) Second annual lacs of an tmnrovement in. emploument which Red Labor International: We must| Miss Lee Cohen, a singer of note) FOR FURTHER DETAIBS:y subscription drive; (b) Group of m place of an improvemen in € ploy | e . abolish all discrimimations against| (high note) will render several selec- rs et aa workers’ correspondents. brought some temporary lessening of the pressure The Philadelphia Transport the Negro race. ‘We must support|tions. Comrade Davidson, and accom- 6S ° li t”? D ; , io 8. Organization of the sub-district. in Germany, France will experience an industrial ; oan the victims of the imternational class|Plished cellist will delight us with a a bre port (a) Finances; (b) Election of the sub- decline due to the export of capital to escape heavy Workers Strike struggle by supporting the Interna-|few numbers. Irving Shoebe is the to Get Real Marxis awe = committee. taxation and to German competition. : ; ' tional Red Aid. We must raise the|one who will show us how to play W . General. The crisis in enc Pest the Sineranver of The Marine Transport Workers’ Union of Phila-|cry: ‘Down with ‘the government of|Rackmainoff’s preludes on a saw. A from Workers P arty Fraternally submitted, : oy . |delphia, affiliated with the I. W. W., is on strike} the Strikebreaker Coolidge and Open|Communist Breitbart will chew up G. S. Shklar, a deeper and more far-reaching condition of in- nas ar” ‘ ‘Inails and bend iron for our benefit DAVENPORT, Towa, April 13.— Sub-District Organizer : aah nee ..|for recognition of the organization. The union de-|Shopper, Dawem Hail the workers 8 e : dustrial demoralization postponed artificially until at ; And not only do we have this fine|2@Vénport has a powerful social-demo- , ’. 4, |mands that no worker be hired unless he wears|®2¢ farmers’ government of Ameri- cratic tradition. This is the Iowa city| what h now, but all the more serious for that reason in its ie hints ‘enifving A caste: Se 08 ; ca.’ program, but following it we will have » es * at have you done for your local consequences for the French ruling class. a ™ = — a. ee “May Day—the day of protest;dancing with the jazziest music that where they elected u e “socialist ad-| campaign quota? - Se , This union is a militaant one and has fought}. i he obtained ministration,” mayor ‘neverything, but - fhe French crisis, coming at a time when the many battles with the stevedoring companies and mrvanptapasgins: 8) othe o , t oe “The pl is 108 | hey didn’t keep their socialist label : apologists of capitalism are boasting of the ten-| ).-° serge fie: cite oo 5 ' pe oie —the day of struggle for a bright fu- Pg gage : 5 orc . ‘| long after getting in. Baltimore Y. W. L. to dency towards stability, is proof of the fact that|* Lipowners in its territory. It has never succeeded | ture. e date is Saturday eve- —— 6 ~ So while Davenport has a stron in organizing all of the transport workers in the| “Let us get together. Let us lay —_ April 16, 1935 at & p.m. Bel istiot hoteuprodie. Feta Hold Banquet, Dance port, but at one time it set wages and working a hag to tools. Let us demonstrate nen br fie yc alae soca will among the German population, it is on Sunday, April 19 conditions for the 12,000 longshoremen employed the solidarity of lever an sew Haven. : ee ge a current of pessimism which springs ’ ae - The workers of other cities of Am- in and around the Philadelphia docks. no stabilization of the whole of capitalism is pos- sible—that improvement in one nation is at the cost of demoralization in another, that the whole - vie : tire a ah is tat an th I t t M § from lack of understanding of thej| Baltimore has been eagerly await- course of world capitalism is downwards. aoal rm , CS an © Word '¥ © the same.) IMportan eetin real fundamentals of undiluted Marx-|ing a Young Workers League affair. tris oe SS RAE TES In 1925 the general strike of the Mare trans-|Let not New Haven be behind, but f P M 8 hi Jian socialism. At: Jast they are coming ah with a ‘6 99° . port workers was lost and since that time the|up in the procession.” or Party embers p . Self-Control” in the Pacific : . | : : “Teach the Teachers.” real one. The first anniversary of the Philadelphia union has been slowly making good lL udw; iil at Elizabeth, N. Y.| Consequently the task of the Work-|Baltimore league will be celebrated Governor Wallace Farrington of Hawaii, in an the losses. Its present action is undoubtedly more | +WUQWig Lore Next te gee ers Party in Davenport is nothing#with a banquet accompanied with gouod interview published in the capitalist press, says: |! the nature of an organization campaign than Speaker at Harlem Wednesday, Agel 16, there will Up |mere ‘Ror idee: than the tenCeias We Lseee: mane. . a ct ; \ thing elas and renoris from the aceme of the - an important membership meeting of |socialism to the socialists. That deep-}|. Comrade Wicks of New York will “The coming of the United States fleet for exer- | #2) une ome ; P . ‘ Forum In New York al party comrades in Elizabeth, N. J. jrooted disease of the labor movement] be the main speaker. There will be cises in these waters and a further tour of the| Struggle show that it is meeting with considerable -——- |The meeting will be held in the eve-}—lack of Marxian education—must be |many surprises, good eats and every- acific is one of the grandest educational programs success. In Philadelphia there are large numbers NEW YORK, April 13.—With two|ning at Lutwin Hall, 39 South Park jattacked with the weapons of Lenin-|thing, all for 60c. The banquet will be on which the citizens of our great country have | 0f Negro transport workers and to these workers!more discussion eyenings left, the | street. The speaker of the evening|ist understanding which leave nojheld Sunday, April 19, at 7:30 p. m., coke Pantt ‘ors aan ‘t aaatie that very |the Marine Transport Workers’ Union has always Harlem Forum, at 64 East 104th St.,| will be Israel Amter, who will speak |room for the muddle-head and the un-jat Labor Lyceum, Riscquith and Lex- aati Poss : oh Prope taka os he " ‘ +. an cs eal dat especial appeal Ben Fletcher, one of the |" soon wind up a highly success-|on the subject of “Shop Nuclei.” Com- {scrupulous politician. ington streets, .Baltimore. Tickets . Tic ‘itizen shoul > reminded o e fac ' os wt ful season which wilf be repeated next|rade Amter has just returned from; Davenport is just an extreme |mayzbe obtained at 1135 E. Baltimore that while the total export and import trade of best organizers in the industry and one of the | ran because of the, satisfactory at-|Soviet Russia and Germany, wherejdramatization 6f our task thruout|street, second floor. the United States increased more than 200 per cent leaders of the present strike, is a Negro. \tendance. The coming Sunday, Apriljhe has had an opportunity to study |the national office territory. Not only i during the ten years that ended in 1923, the in- The marine transport industry is one of the most (19, Ludwig Lore, editor of the New|the functioning of shop nuclei at|must we present the program of the Subscribe for the DAILY a oF ‘nutes the ports of the Pacific was poorly organized in the United States. The capital-| Yorker Volkszeitung, will speak on/| first hand. Comrades should not fail | Workers Party, but we must also clear WORKER! ase ‘ ‘ nang yt : i AR OD anche | the significant subject, “The Capital-|to be present at this important and|jup the clouds of confusion left in the ~ t more than 500 per cent The people of the |ists of the industry are among the best entrenched | ’ . an + I ‘24s people i ee £ A ist, Labor and Conimunist Press. interesting meeting. wake of our once beloved “socialist| Pacific area have everything to gain from the and the most .ruthless-in’ their treatment of the! ‘For the last discussion evening Eli - — party.” In so doing, we must remem- CONCERT AND DANGE exercise of friendliness and common sense and workers. The success of the present strike, there- | Jacobson will open the discussion on Gets $125 “S. O.” Money. ber that the socialist party was so- aalt-contro!.” fore, will be of great importance to the labor move- | “Proleteult.” That will be Sunday} TERRE HAUTE, Ind., April 13.— |cialistic in name only; that its tactics FOR AID OF GREEK WEEKLY iceteepine af two asidters in Hawall to 401mee and give added impetus to the united front | evening, April 26. There will be, in| Local police were searching today for | were only perversions of Marxism ' Se ME her er pen Te sete -. movement in the industry endorsed. by the. New |#@‘ition, recitations of poems by|two bandits who dragged John Tor-|perpetrated upon the éollowers of EMPROS THURS APR 23 and 26 years in prison for forming a Communist var Samet Bem 9 , Simon Felshin, John Lassen, and fronr| rence, 62, into an alley and robbed | Marxian ideas in this country. J ab . league shows that American imperialism teaches ricans convention. ; é } the new Russian poetry. him of $200 and later held up a Stand- » Will Speak April 18. ee self-control by the harshest methods. That is why In ae industry = international organization Ragozin’s Class Begins in Harlem. | ard Oil filling station, escaping with} J. BE. Snyder and Tom Matthews, You are invited to attend the In- the fleet visits Hawaii and other Pacific ports— more of a burning issue. That the Marine Trans The class in “Fundamentals of} $125. Authorities believe both rob-jof the Workers Party, will spéak in| ternational Dance and _ Entertain- , to teach the natives self-contro! . port Workers’ Union of the I. W. W. understands ©Ommunism” started last Friday eve-| beries were committed by the same |Davenport.on Saturday evening, April ment given by the Chicago Greek ; Ke dom : ae his is shown bv the fact th: ly two branches |™2& 4t the Harlem section head-} men. ' 118, at the Pinkus and Kinneman Hall,| >tahch, ‘Workers Party, for the bene- Cause and effect are yery closely linked in the this 18 sone y the fact that on J two branches quarters, 64 East £@4th street, with a eee lee! See ee 7. 701 West 3rd St.. No admission will be | fit of the Greek Communist Weekly, governor’s interview—it is an imperialist classic. of the union ae *' nears the program RE lente ‘atedonee Tesee Gh teere soem Jail Polish Officials. ~~ J |charged. Empros, _at Bowen Hall, Hull Our trade increases, our investments in the Pacific | U2ited front outlined by the ted International of in the class for qew students. Ray} WARSAW.—Nine officials, inched. | This meeting is part of the contin- | Mouse;) commer Polk and Halsted * srow, we have a vested interest in the Pacific ter-| Labor Unions and accepted at New Orleans. Ragozin is considegfed one of the best|ing Vice Admiral Peremboski, .com-]uous educational campaign which ‘s| Sts., Thursday, April 23, at 8 p. m. ritories ~ teachers in the Workers Party, and/ manding the Polish navy, were tinder jmow? being initiated to build up the | Good music; speeches, songs and re- : ‘ aa, “SP Ls a ae __... Ought to have a class. It is ex-| arrest today pending investigatian of j!owa state organization of the Work- freshments. A good time is prom- : Friend |iness, common sense and self-control Every day get-a*snb for the DAILY W ORKER pected that the will grow and | charges of abuse to the comptroller’s]ers Party, and place it on a solid ised to all. Admission 50 cents, ; are abstractions, but under the guns of the Amer- and a member for the Workers Party. ‘will continue thrujg guccessful season.’ office of the navy department. ~ | of education and clarity. Come™and bring your friende > ys ‘COC xa . pee : ~ AWN ' . \ == = baat ; - . am ) x4 oo — ——— > Puy eee ce. | me eae Fa a j » 2 EEE ag “ ' ” - _ —