Daily Worker
April 21, 1925
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1 lee o * > TOSI OI 2 Sap adem ary ne en Se, Aare Sb eI a it RA BEE, 4 = NEW YORK EDITION a” re except Sunday by THE DAILY PUMLEbaEiNe co., 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Price 3 Cents THE ELECTRIC HORSE | | But not the one Coolidge is riding in his ta bs tra Wa | .- ten PARIS, France, April 19.—Minister of Finance Joseph Caillaux, the “strong man” of the new ministry formed by Paul Painleve with the sup- port of the socialists,.favors increas- ing the tax burdén on the workers and peasants of France as the only remedy for the French government’s financial crisis. Borah Agrees With Plutes: The same view is taken by the Wall Street bankers and the financial powers of Great Britain. Officials of the Bank of England stated not long | ago that the taxes on the people of France must be increased. Senator Borah, when he heard of Caillaux’s statement said: “Caillaux is credited with saying that he is in favor of drastic measures of economy and heavier taxes. This is the remedy.” | The American and English financial | power are anxious to secure the bil- lions of dollars in war debts owed them by France. Repudiate Scheme Caillaux, in bidding for the support of the radical socialist party said: “The French people will have to make still heavier sacrifices to restore her finances,” The scheme of taxing the capitalists is said to be opposed by Caillaux, and seems to have. been shoved into the background. Differences are already springing up among the various groups rep- resented in the government. Briand, new minister of foreign af- fairs, advocates the maintenance of a French ambassador at the vatican, whereas the majority of the French chamber of deputies is opposed to this move. Former Premier Herriot has agreed to become the new president of the chamher of deputies. WOMEN MUST WORK TO FIGHT WOLF OF WANT, U. S. GOVERNMENT ADMITS. | to your request to publish the appeal WASHINGTON, April 19.—Women in industry learn to work to keep the wolf of want away, is the confession of the department of labor. In a survey covering four pivotal cities of the country, Wilkesbarre, Pa,, and Passaic, N. J., that women do not work for money to buy silk stockings, but work because Jacksonville, Fia., Butte, Mont., they have to sustain life. Of the 40,000 women workers in these points, one-half were, or had been married and the majority of these were living with their husbands and en. _acting the dual role of mother and bread winner, the survey showed. | | the department found BOOST TAXES ON FRENCH WORKERS ‘Levy on Rich Is Forgot- i a ID : é od 5c a at y YEAR’ WITE re OF 56 6 PER CENT IN'12 YEARS a" ig “Sa WASHINGTON, April 19.—Retail food prices jumped 5 per cent during the last year, from March 15, 1924, to March _15, 1925, alhto. there was a decrease of three-tenths of one per cent during March as compared with February, the department of labor announces. prices increased 56 per cent. For the 12-year period food Twenty-five food articles increased In price, pork chops heading the list with an inerease of 23 per cent. Butter increased 10 per cent, bacon 9 per cent and ham 6 per cent. Among the cities showing increases were: Detroit and Peoria, 2 per cent; Chicago, Indianapolis, Louisville, Milwaukee and Springfield, per cent. ill., one JAPAN FEDERATION OF LABOR IS FOR WORLD TRADE UNION UNITY; AIDS WORKERS RELIEF (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, April 19.—A letter received by the international headquarters of the International Workers’ Aid in Berlin, from the president of the Jap- anese General Federation of Labor, Bunji Susuki, indicates that the swing to the left that began in the Japanese labor movement several years ago is still in progress. Until 1922 the General Federation of Labor had been a hot-bed of con- servatism and class-collaboration. Japanese Gompers. The federation existed by grace of Susuki himself was looked upon as a the crown, it ‘was set against strikes, and admitted Aristide ? | i capitalists into its ranks. Rapid Change. But at the 1922 congress of the fed- eration a change took place. A defi- nite stand was taken against capital- ists and capitalism and strikes finally regarded as the only weapon of the workers. Susuki, also seems to have changed greatly since the time, a number of years ago when he came as a very welcome fraternal delegate to the American Federation of Labor convention on invitation of Gompers. For World Trade Union Unity. Susuki writes, thru Nishio, secre- tary of the federation, “We eagerly hope for the world-wide unification of the toiling masses of all lands, and are watching with attention dnd ex- péectation the proceeding of unity of the two trade unions, dam.” After congratulating the Interna- tional Workers’ Aid on its efforts to relieve suffering and persecuted work- ers the world over, Susuki says, “As Moscow and Amster- for help of fellow-workers threatened by hunger and starvation in Germany and. eastern garts of Europe, I am very. glad to say that I will publish it in the latest number of the official organ,of our federation.” The-Japanese federation’s endorse- ment,of world trade union unity is @® sure,.sign that the Japanese work- ens’,gpevement has been very much clarified in the last several years. international! federations of. Judge Dietrich gun ployed by Gordon Campbell, motor, olny to handle a receivership suit against Campbvell’s company be- fore Montana courts, and not, WHEELER TOOK FAT RETAINER, SAYS WITNESS Surprise Witness in Oil Trial Falls Flat (Special to The Daily Worker) GREAT FALLS, Mont., April 19.— The defense attorneys for Burton K. Wheeler, Montana senator on trial charged with using his office on be- half of oil company clients, will ask to instruct the jury to bring in a verdict of not guilty, it was learned today. The prosecution unloosed its heavy in the much heralded surprise witness, who turned out to be Edward M. Harvey, of Eugene, Oregon. Harvey missed fire badly, denying he had ever said he heard Wheeler dis- cussing oil permits, Witness Atds Harvey Defense. declared 'Wheeler was em- oil pro- as IRON HEEL OF THE Six Miners Held in Jail for Violating Writ (Special to The Dally Worker) WHEELING, W. Va., April 19.— Coal miners, out on strike at the call of the United Mine Workers of Amer- ica, in the four Panhandle counties of West Virginia, are feeling ‘the iron heel of the federal government com- bined with the coal operators. Six miners employed by the Rich- land Coal company are in jail charged with violation of a federal injunction two years old, and the operators are evicting the families of strikers. Must Put All In Jail The arrested men are, by the policy of the union, refusing to furnish bond and Sub-District President Ledvinka states: “If the operators intend to control the state and county, as they seem to be trying to do, they wil have to put us all in jail first.” That a further move which may re- sult in wholesale imprisonment of injunction violators, providing the miners have enough spunk to defy an injunction en masse, is contemplated, is seen in the statement of the oper- ators that an effort is likely to be made to secure a blanket injunction against unionization to cover the entire’ state. Other. operators claim that they want a blanket injunction to run the union out of Marshall county alone. Ledvinka charges that the Richland Coal company is evicting families of miners without allowing the legal 30 day notice supposed to be given oc- (Continued on page -) COMMUNISTS IN BIG SCHOOL FIGHT Levin Is Candidate of Party for Board (Special to The Daily Worker.) LOS ANGELES, Cal. April 19.— Under the slogans of “Education for Service—Not for Profits,” and “Let the Yeachers Run the Schools,” the Work- ers (Communist) Party has launch- ed an intensive campaign here for the election of its candidate, Emanuel Levin, as a member of the board of education, at the polls next month. Workers Listen to Communists. Hundreds of workers listened to the i Communist speakers at the first meet. ing of the campaign held in Boyle’s Heights, corner of Brooklyn and State. In addition to the speech by the can- didate, Levin, S. A. Baker also spoke in English, and Comrade Karpiloff in Jewish. Tonight an enthusiastic meet- ing was held in San Pedro Harbor, scene of the free speech fight during the Marine Transport Workers’ strike. Other meetings have been planned as follows: April 21, Boyle’s Heights; April 23, San Pedro Harbor, and April 25, Boyle’s Heights. The party platform, which pledges its candidate to work for “the estab- lishment of a Communist society” is in full as follows: Ella Reeve Bloor and Tom Lewis, two of the parties most able speakers, are expected to assist during the clos- ng weeks of the Communist cam- paign. « 7 7 Communist School Platform. INCE the existing school system is one of the institutions used to per- (Continue on Page 2) MAINTAIN PASSPORT SYSTEM TO KEEP CHECK ON THE IMMIGRANTS (Special to The Daily Worker.) WASHINGTON, April 19.—Notes ain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and other nations proposing to abol- dsh passport visas fees on a retipro- cal basis, the state department an- nounced today. The passport system wil! be re- tained, however, it was announced, as it is needed to keep a check on immigrants coming into the United States. The abolition of fees will go into effect as soon as any of the individual nations approached agree to abolish fees they now charge to visa American passports. ZANKOV BANS NEWS; TERROR ORGY REIGNS Seek to F asten Bomb on Communists VIENNA,. April. 19—The. strictest censorship prevails in Bulgaria and only news officially sanctioned by the fascist dictatorship is allowed to go out over the wires. Considerable news is seeping thru the frontiers however. As far as can be gathered, the Zan- kov government is raiding working class and peasant homes and arrest- ing and murdering Communist lead- ers. With orders to shoot suspicious persons on sight, it is feared that the confirms t ‘fascists will take advantage of the hysteria to murder the most danger- ous of their opponents. Reported Confession. One inspired news dispatch decla- res that the beadle of the Sveit Cath- ed vere rie: explosion took place e suspicion that the murder how in control of the Sofia. goverment will use the occa- sion’ to “niake another attempt to crush the Communist Party which has been making great headway among the workers and peasants. All capitalist press agencies are try- ing to fasten the bomb plot on the Communist but the Bulgarian workers and peasants are too well acquainted with the murderous character of the Zankov regime, to believe this pro- paganda. e * > England Aids Fascists. LONDON, April 19.—The British foreign office announced today the allies had granted permission to the Bulgarian government to recruit 3,600 additional soldiers “to handle the situation at Sofia.” Get a sub—make another Com- mupbist! | REPORT SAYS LEWIS AND ‘BESCO’ ARE FIXING CAPE BRETON STRIKE HALIFAX, N. &., April 19.—Pro- gress was made towards a settle- ment of the strike in the Cape Bre- ton district, where 12,000 miners are out, according to reports yester- day. John Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers; Premier Armstrong, and Vice-President McClurg of the Besco Co. where the strike occurred, were decidedly op- timistic after a conference. COAL MINERS OF WASHINGTON FEEL HEEL OF THE DAWES PLAN; SHIPLOAD OF GERMAN COKE ARRIVES sult of the Dawes wlan, to bring coke half way world. The copper trust’s Tacoma smelter is notorious for hard work and wages. Common labor is always in demand there, for the workers never stay more than a few days. They get a stake of a few dollars, then quit co look for a better job. And then chey must buy new clothes, for after one day there not only overalls, but it is cheaper around the low (Continued ém page 2.) coal mines and coke plants, as a re-¢ Communist Progress Is Very Encouraging By MANUEL GOMEZ. (Special to The Daily Worker.) MEXICO CITY, April 10,-(By Mail) —With the shadow of Wall Street looming larger and larger over Latin America, the third annual congress of the Communist Party of Mexico, which opened in this city on Tuesday, is debating and planning, as one of the vital immediate tasks confronting the Mexican workers, the struggle against American imperialism. Show International Solidarity. One of the first actiong of the con gress was to pass a resolution of soli- darity with C. E. Ruthenburg, Will- iam Z. Foster and the other Ameri- can Communists indicted in Michi- an. A strong resolution of protest against the contemplated legal mur- der of Sacco and Vanzetti was also adopted and a copy sent to the Ameri- can embassy here. The wide representation at the con- gress is a sign of the remarkable progress made by the Communist Party of Mexico during the past year. The overwhelming majority of the delegates are workers and peasants, direct from the shops, mines and fields. Among them are one or two notable figures. For instance, Ursulo Galvan, who besides being an active Communist, is the beloved and trust- ed leader of 325,000 peasants of the state of Vera Cruz, organized in the “Liga de Comunidades Agrarias.” There is also Luis G. Monzon, Com- munist senator from San Luis Potosi, who recently stood up in the Mexican senate and read off his instructions from the Communist Party, announc- ing that he was going to carry them out to the letter. Raise Alarm Against VU. 8. Thrugut all the discussions the pre- ng note is one of alarm against erican imperialism. The report on economic and situation wed that American capiial domin: ates practically every strategic point in Mexican industry, especially the mines and oil fields, where British capital has already been relegated far to the rear. The “labor government” of Mexico was shown to be a willing taol of Wall Street, the central points of govern- ment policy being the fulfillment of the iniquitous Lamont-de la Huerta treaty and the destruction of railroad unions preparatory to turning the roads back to British and American owners. In the Regional Confederation of Labor (C. R. O. M.), closely connect- ed with the Calles government thru (Continued on page 2) Dawes Gets Usual Welcome from His Millionaire Friends BOSTON, Mass., April 19.—Vice- President Charles G. Dawes, million- aire gas and oil stockholder, did his stuff again before another chamber of commerce audience. Dawes spoke be- fore the governor of Massachusetts, the mayor of Boston, and several hundred merchants, bankers, shipowners and textile magnates, the latter including Senator William Morgan Bufler, one of President Coolidge’s advisors. Dawes advocated change of the sen- ate rules to give the senate less power and the supreme court and president more power. Dawes is always sure of a welcome when speaking before his millionaire friends, and therefore makes most of his speeches before chambers of commerce. 7” T. U. om ie General Meet Wed., April 29, 8 P. M. The regular meeting of the Chicago Trade Union Educational League gen- eral group will be held Wednesday, April 29, at m., at North West Hall, corner North and Western Aves. s Dp . . . An interesting series o Ss TACOMA, Wash., Apr. 19.--Tacoma workers have received an object lesson . ‘ n Feporss = 2 . 49 the progress of the militants in the in the benefits (?) of the Dawes-Morgan reparations plan. A shipload of|,,. ; coke from, Germany has just be loaded he T l age ee ee eee rermany en unloaded at > Tac ‘ ; : : aR « a coma smelter. be given. All militant and progres- There ale several mines within a few miles of Tactma which produce sive trade unionists are invited to at- good coking coal. But because of the long hours and low wages in Germ: anjtend this important meeting LOWDEN CONFESSES FAKE FIGURES DO NOT GET FARMERS PROSPERITY WASHINGTON, April financiers, the American agricultural ference with the president. 19.—Despite Lowden, one of the biggest farmers in Illinois, condemned those | seek by sets of figures to prove to their own satisfaction, that the farmer is every garment becomes so filled with | in good shape. ore dust that it is ruined for wéaring ) at any other work, . j optimistic statements of situation has not cleared up, eastern it was declared today by ex-governor of Illinois Frank O. Lowden, following a con- “who “One of the chief drawbacks to the solving of the farm problem is the refusal of so many responsibie men to admit true conditions,” he said, é ‘ 4 > yee —_ © —_ -—we
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~=. ‘s %, ay ee i aa is eA : 7 » ee: : “ ib° aw. I: U. S. 22 Billion Dollar Debt Load on World Labor By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. B lbvennas American capitalist imperialism rapidly breeds new enemies on all the continents. As it faces a world of debtors so it faces a world of foes. There have never been friendly relations between debtor and creditor, especially when the debtor shows his inability to pay. American dollar rule, as a money lender, confronts a whole host of debtor nations unable to pay. The other day Washington sought to apply a little . pressure to Roumania, to pay debts incurred after the war. Roumania immediatély responded with the suggestion to have a commission “investigate.” And that will be the end of that for the time being. But at the same time Morgan has under consideration plans for a new loan to the fascist monarchy of Spain, to tottering Mussolini rule in Italy, and to bankrupt fascism in Greece. : @ * °® For the war loans of the United States government to foreign nations, with the-interest that has never been paid, now total $12,000,000,000. This is nearly equalled by the $10,000,000,000 of Amer- ican private investments and loans in foreign countries, com- pared to a niggardly $2,000,000,000 when the world war broke out in 1914. In 10 years a 500 per cent increase! | The interest alone on these 10 billion dollars of ae investments runs up to the staggering sum of $650,000,000 annually. Wall Street is the go-between in floating these private loans, and it is the interest on these loans that is paid, if any, while Washington goes begging: * * * 7 These loans are made to foreign capitalist governments. Nothing has been heard of credits extended to the Union of Soviet Republics. ‘ The ten billion dollars include investments in foreign projects owned and controlled by American investors, like copper and oil properties in South America and Mexico, and private loans to foreign governments and municipalities, such as the Morgan loans to France and Belgium. Calles, the “socialist” president of Mexico, thru Amer- ican investments and loans in that country, is as much under the control of Wall Street, as the “radical socialist” premier, Herriot, showed himself to be in France. Herriot had to go when his services were no longer wanted. ° * * a The par value of foreign securities publicly offered in the United States for the first three months of this year totalled $279,000,000 compared to $238,000,000 for the same period last year. The debtors needed $40,000,000 more this year to keep going. New debts were floated to pay old debts. But the new debts were necessarily largér than the aid debts because they must also include interest ae But in addition to loans to pay off old obligations, big sums, increas- ing this year, were needed to pay pressing obligations, notab- ly expenditures for financially burdensome armies, navies, air eets, in great part “to maintain order” at home against restless workers. The league of nations has just granted permission to Bulgaria to increase its. mi strength to maintain its fascist rule over its workers peasants. The money hunger of Western European, capitalism is shown by the report that during the first quarter of 1925 it borrowed $139,000,000 in the United States compared to $10,000,000 during the same months last year. The 1925 loans thus far consist of 31 issues. Last year they num- bered only 21. There are no doubt those foolish enough to believe that these loans will some day be paid. J. Pierpont Morgan, how- ever, doesn’t believe it. More than that, he doesn’t wish it. lf all debts were paid, which is impossible, Morgan would have to go out of business. Loan oe would be at an end. The international money lender would be out of a job. But Morgan and all the other great financiers of Wall Street know that their jobs are secure as long as capitalism lasts. Just as long as labor permits itself to be cruelly ex- pnee under the lash of the taskmaster, to the last drop of lood, just so long will it be possible for the American money lenders to make new loans and collect an increasing interest toll, now reaching towards one billion dollars annually. Even the excessive spending of the jazz era of American capitalism absorbs but a small part of the interest on loans and the profits of American industry. New fields of invest- ment must be found for the surplus. Hence new loans. More work for Morgan. Increasing foreign debts to collect interest on. * > o > Right now American imperialism is showing the might of its collecting agency, thru the naval maneuvers in the Pacific. But the army, the navy, the air fleets will fail in time of war, a war to make the workers of other nations pay, if the exploited workers and poor farmers at home refuse to sub- mit, refuse to fight Wall Street’s wars. The feeling grows, “No aid to Morgan's collecting agency. No drop of workers’ blood to shield Morgan’s loans.” Workers of other nations will repudiate the debts owing to Morgan. American workers will, in time, repudiate Morgan rule. Then falls capitalism in the United States of America. Only the world proletarian dictatorship can free world labor tym the world dollar dictatorship. Mexicans Raise Alarm Against U. S. (Continued from page 1) ‘herous leaders such as Luis N. Morones (who is also minister of in- dustry, commerce and labor), the poi- sonous propaganda of Wall Street is spread side by side with a spurious nationalism, as a result of the alli- ance with the bureaucrats of the American Federation of Labor. The C. R. O. M. leaders are notorious for their servile telegrams to Coolidge and Hughes and for their campaign of expulsion against the Communists in the Mexican unions, following the ex- ample and advice of the A. F. of L. Among the immediate tasks before the Mexican party mentioned in the report are: Support of the Pan-Amer- icam Anti-Imperialist League, as. valu- able weapon against American impe- rialism; exposure of the “labor” gov- ernment of Mexico as an instrument of Wall Street; campaign against ful- fillment of the Lamont- os HERE is a certain similarity be- tween the way the capitalist press jtreated the recent terroristic out- break in Bulgaria and the way they treated the Wall Street explosion a few years back. The first editions to get on the street after the Wall Street blast attributed the disaster to an ac- cidental explosion of dynamite carried in a Dupont powder wagon. But as this would involve the expenditure of millions of dollars in damages from the powder trust the tale was given a twist and within two hours William J. Burns was out with a carefully hatched plot fastening the blast on the Communist International. What happened to the “plot” is history. * ¢ *& S° with Bulgaria. Early reports hinted that the Macedonian nation. alists were responsible: But an op- portunity for prejudicing the minds of the masses in other countries could not be allowed to slip by, so the Communist International was dragged in, Zinoviev’s picture was dug up and the forgers and liars were ordered to put on full steam. This affair will be used by the fascist murderers to cover up their past crimes, to which the ex- plosion in Sofia was but the inevitable reply. And they will use it to frighten the big capitalist powers into giving them more money and permission to keep a larger standing army. The in- ternational solidarity of capitalism is always evident whenever any section of it is threatened by the workers, the common enemy of all capitalist ups. nappies coc se me —o_. ian. ¥- | 7 eal TN Aa oe 5 ar tes eee \
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B @ oS onal ee oo) — i] 4 i] i S. ; ft the ' rence that enter- 1 edu- part.”’ | rever, ‘OAu's filler, con- i not , the rking aster the ) one R SSciatalangine . * (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) | WASHINGTON, omissioners Humphrey, Van Fleet and *'Munt of the federal commission have _Putvoted -. and Nugent on the issue of punish- |: ‘to theft, when the offenders are busi- Mess concerns which deliberately mis- - @uce consumers to pay for something othey do not get. This majority In the - pommission:'is the Coolidge republican ‘word of honor that henceforth they catholic and other churches, Now the .linson ‘*Patterson and West Hoboken, N. J., ‘have been-selling these goods as “Mal- gilk atid part wool or other materials. ~ 4917 the commission issued certain | rulings which were published to the ° Ck PEPE EFENS & z." ° eho oS ap = FRAUDS Textile Barons Sell Fake “Silk” By LAWRENCE TODD April 19—Com- Commissioners Thompson Ing wholesale frauds which amount brand their products and thereby in- slement. ‘The minority has just. issued an- other protest against the immorality of the Humphrey-Coolidge idea of let- ting the big thieves go free, on their will be good. Sell Fake “Silk” Recently Thompson protested ag- aginst similar leniency toward a firm which had sold fake “wax” candles to dissenting opinion deals with the dis- missal of a complaint against the Mal- “silk” concern, which adver- tises enticingly and at generous rates fm the big magazines, Mallinson and eompany have entered into an agree- ment, approved by Humphrey and his two associates, that the terms on which the complaint against them is dropped shall be kept secret, Thompson and Nugent show that Mallinson and Co. have been making textiles in their factories in Astoria and Brooklyn, New York; in Trenton, and in Allentown and Erie, Pa., and linson’s Silk de Luxe” and under other names indicating them to be silk, when in fact they are only part “When complaints had been issued by the commission against them, Vice- President Rose of the Mallinson con- @ern assured the representatives of ‘the comimission, last July, that until April, 1924, it had never dawed upon "Bim that they were doing anything Wrong, or anything different arom the pest of the trade, =~ The fact was that as long ago as “whole trade, warning manufacturers against continuing these frauds on consumers. Year by year the fight against misbranding of textiles and hosiery was continued. Any pretense fo lack of knowledge that this concern ‘was violating the rules laid down by the commission was absurd. Big Firms Escape. Meanwhile, formal orders to “cease and desist,” which have the effect ef a public condemnation, have been made by the commission against smaller firms in the near-silk indus- try. Thompson and Nugent declare that in view of the proof that the Mallinson company knew it: was violat- Ing the rules and cheating its cus- tomers, it should not now be given favorable discrimination as against dt smaller competitors. They protest that suppression of the complaint by the majority deprives the public of means of protecting itself from further fraud. By their method of stating the case in a dissenting opinion, the minority have in this instance balked the scheme of total suppression. When Humphrey, the corporation lobbyist, was nominated and confirm- ed as a member of the federal commis- sion some months ago, the Federated ‘Press noted that henceforth the com- mission would be used to protect the bandits of the commercial world from ‘thorities have addressed a commun- _ keep the Red army units in Mon- golia with a view to co-operating in the liquidation of white guardist ‘now come when the Red army units, drastic punishment. UGESAAUANGALORNOLAOLESHAAUESEOONENUUUEONOAUOENAUONREOEOUEEAAOURGUOOUOE EY TONGGUOU RAGA ORGAO EOGEA TD LPOADA AAU AEN EU THE EVENT OF THE SEASON! it—Evereybody will than ever! You can’t afford to miss WHAT ? The Grand Ball and Entertainment of the New York Hotel and Restaurant Workers’ Br. AMALGAMATED FOOD WORKERS on MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 27, 1925 at PALM GARDEN, 58th Street and Lexington Ave., New York Grand Array of Broadway Talent—Five famous Orchestras Henry Gendron and his “Strand Roof’ Orchestra Emil Coleman and his famous “Trocadero” Orchestra The Conway Brothers with their “Chateau Shanley Serenaders”’ of ceremonies. “Dave” and many others. DOORS OPEN AT 7 P. M, the 3 the bosses. Jack Shilkret’s famous “Pelham Heath Inn” Orchestra Earl Lindsay’s “Strand Roof Revue,” 16 amazing girls “in their working clothes” with “Buddy” Kennedy master Melon of Fay’s Club, Guiseppe Di Jannin and his famous “Eldorado” Orchestra Admission Tickets, iooriina $1.00 a person, incl. Wardrobe, at. 0: Goastemen, $1.50 ievhe tagex? +. Fee, oath IN WAR WAR ON WHITES | (By Resta New: News Agency) URGA, March 14—(By Mall)— In reference to the announcement of the withdrawal of the Red troops from Mongolia, the- Mongolian au- ication to the Soviet People’s Com- missar, Chicherin, wherein the fact is officially confirmed that Mon- golia had twice approached the So- viet government with a request to detachments, which were pillaging and devasting Mongolia, and in ‘which it is stated that the time has which had been stationed in Mongo- lian territory, could be withdrawn. It is further stated, In part, in the’ Mongolian communication that the .Mongolian authorities set a high value by the assistance rendered by the Red army in the cause of the liberty of the Mongolian nation and wish to extend their heart-felt gra- titude to the workers and peasants of the Union of Soviet Socialist Re- - publics, who have created-@he Red army—the sole champion of the oppressed masses of the world. CLOTHING UNION OFFICIALS HELP BOSS FIGHT REDS | Royal Tailor ‘Boss Uses Same Language An example which proves that the spectre of Communism in haunting America is here given. Last Satur- day there Was a conference in the coat shop of the Royal Tailors. The following took part in the meeting: Mr. Price, manager ofthe firm, John, the head foreman, and,a creature by the name of Nowak who, occupies the position of head, examiner. Nowak is a. well qualified slave driver, having no brains, and in real- ity being sadly nndefpaid, getting less than the examiners “working under him who belong to thé ‘unfon, This echo of the middle abé#'thinks he is ‘still -livitg in» that~period, and ‘the workers under him are‘ mere serfs, to be sweated until worked to exhaus- tion. He goes to the ‘fotémanm and man- ager continually; sqthealing, that one or the other of. the tailors does not produce enough. The conversation at the meeting mentioned above best il- lustrates this. Nowak—“The most importaht and urgent job for us at present is to get rid of the radicals.’ They do not want to work, and poison’the minds of the other workers, The sooner they are out, the better off we will be.” Manager Price—"I have orders to get rid of them. We know them all. Some of them are gone already, and in a short time they will all be out.” Of course it would be interesting to know where that worthy got his or- ders—from the rotarians, the cham- ber of commerce, or the Amalgamated Union officialdom. It is noticeable that the business agent, Weinstein, at a union meeting expressed himself in the identical language used by the garment boss, “They are only a handful and the sooner they get out of the union the better off we will. be,” was Weinstein’s’ statement. These two statements smack very much of an unsavory collaboration. But in spite of all its enemies the Communist movement grows daily stronger and stronger and prepares itself for the conquest of power over be there— Grander WHY? UU Marvelous Muller, DANCING AT 8 P. M. IAPANESE TRADE | Prepare for Workers second day of the general meeting of the Japanese Federation of Labor, held at the Kobe Y. W. C. A. hall 300 dele- gates of the Sodomei from various parts of the country were present. In the galley were seen Sakai Toshihiko and Yamakawa Kin, leaders of the Communists, Kurisu, an official of the | equality society, and some university professors. The hall was guarded by hos Rs « m ‘ ar ~ * 2 - * ee ks eel Oe UNIONS TO FORM LABOR PARTY Political Party (Special to The Daily Worker) KOBE, Japan, April 19. — On the police and detectives. Mr. Suzuki Bunji, president of the federation, opened the meeting. Tel- egrams of congratulation were read out, and interpellations began. The important question of the entry of the federation into political acti- vities was taken up. As is well known, some of the members are opposed to political work, believing that “direct action” works better. The proposal to met with hot opposition. A proposal to establish a women’s section of the federation was warmly advocated by Mrs. Yamauchi Hanako (Osaka) and Mrs. Seto Hatsuyo (Kyu- shu Mechanics’ Union.) The repressive “peace préservation bill,” "now before the diet, was con- sidered and a committee was oppoint- ed to frame a resolution of protest. Other questions raised were unem- ployment, workers’ education, admis- sion of the Salaried Men’s Union and birth ‘control. Resisting Victimization In accordance with a _ resolution’ passed the previous day, represent- atives of the federation went to the head office of the Sumitono company at Osaka to protest against acts of “victimization” and violence against union members employed by the Besshi Copper Mine company. Off- cials of the company claimed that there had been no “victimization” and no attempt to wreck the miners’ union. Prepare For Labor Party The third day’s meeting was pres- ided over by Mr. Suzuki. At the beginning a resolution oppos- ing the government’s bill in the diet for the preservation of peace (the “dangerous thoughts bill’) was passed on the ground that the bill was ob- viously a conspiracy to bring pressure to bear on the movements of the pro- letarian classes. Then the prohibition of female and juvenile labor in mines, further ques- tions for the Sumitomo head office, preparations for the organization of a proletarian political party, and other resolutions were voiced and passed. A miners’ delegate reported in detail the ill-treatment of miners in the Mat- sushima and Sakito collieries, Kyushu, and the establishment of an official and popular joint investigation organ was dissussed and a resolution passed, a decision was reached to send tele- grams of encouragement to labor un- ions engaged in disputes. The decla- ration of the mass meeting was sub- sequently referred to a committee of twenty-seven persons, and at noon the meeting was adjourned for lunch. Mr. Suzuki was re-elected president, Mr. Nishio headquarters’ manager and treasurer, and six of the Kwansai re- presentatives and five of the Kwanto representatives as central committee. The meeting was brought to a close by an address by Mr. Suzuki. Six O’clock Closing Cause of Row Among Seattle Businessmen SEATTLE, Wash., Apr. 19.—Bakers, delicatessen store owners and other cockroach capitalists are strongly opposed to a new law which has the backing of the Retail Grocer’s asso- ciation. It would require all stores selling food stuffs to close at 6:00 p. m. The petty capitalists claim it would incon- vience people. Perhaps. But it would also mean shorter hours for the un- organized workers in these places. The same group has always opposed the Sunday closing law, endorsed by the local labor movement as a means of getting the six day week. Thinks it a Shame Chinese Don’t Like Foreign Imperialism . SEATTLE, Wash., April 19.—L. M. Bocker, exporter, just back from a tour of the Orient, spoke before the Seattle chamber of commerce. He says that the anti-foreign feeling in the Orient is causing concern to tour- ists and trade representatives. Of course he blames it on the Bol- sheviks. He seems unaware of the attitude of Hughes, etc., toward the Chinese; of the attempts of the Amer- ican minister, Schurman, to prevent China from recognizing the Russian government, etc. Also of the constant and vicious anti-Japanese propaganda vote a sum for the political section : Tyee (Special to The Daily Worker) SHANGHAI, China, April 19— The trial of nineteen men arrested in connection with the strike at the Naigai Cotton Spinning Mill has ended. Three were acquitted for lack of evidence, two were convicted of violence and sentenced each to six months’ penal servitude, and eight to a fine of $50 with the option of imprisonment for fifty days. Two alleged poster-distributors were re- leased because of insufficiency of evidence while others were sentenc- ed to a fine of $20 or imprisnoment for twenty days. Those who were accused of in- timidating workers who wished to return to the mill were fined $20, with the option of a week's impris- onment, : SMITH HAS A GOOD CASE; BUT A POOR CHANCE Wobbly Rwyer Asks for Justice OLYMPIA, Wash., April 19.—Elmer Smith, attorney of Centralia, Wash., widely known for his fight on behalf of the victims of the Centralia raid and frame-up; was disbarred by the state supreme court on Feb. 24. He has now filed a claim for a rehearing. If a majority of the judges approve of his claim, the case will be reopen- ed. If not, he will appeal to the U. 5. supreme court. He charges that an attorney can be disbarred only for misconduct, He was disbarred, primarily because of his speeches, made all over and out- side of the state, in which he pleaded for justioe. The interests who own the government do not want justice. They want to smash not only the workers, but any who dare aid them. The Sensible Mule The supreme court took particular exception to a speech in which he compared the intelligence of a mule which would not-starve with plenty of food in réachysand of a man who would. This parable proved parti- in their jaro to punishing men ‘ gt eee FRM CR, DB re oh ys h Ritts: - 2 * = = “WORKER [ness of American manhood” cularly off: to the “furred law cate”. to @ private citizen it might seen that, they are limited | Ey eae MARBLE STATUE GENERATES HOT AIR FOR 2,500 Mortuis Nihil Nisi Bunkum SEATTLE, Wash., April 19.—A mo- nument to the late President Harding Was unveiled here. It stands in Wood- land Park where Harding gave the Oath of allegiance to 30,000 boy scouts, and .was presented by the Elks lodge. Only 2,500 were present this time, the reputation’of Harding having been sadly tarnished since he was here. Three Elks presented the monu- ment to the city, and two professional politicians, acting for the city accep- ed it. The boy scouts had the honor (?) of paying for it. Among the bunk peddled out by the speakers were such statements as: “nothing better can be done by the Elks than to teach love of coun- try to boys Harding was one of the greatest. examples of the great- (this from a democrat, ex-socialist—won- der what he thinks of Daugherty, Forbes, etc.) “ ... The American peo. ple took him from their midst and ex- alted him... because he was so com- mon” (common what?) and was it “the American people” who chose him in that room at the Blackstone hotel at two o’clock one morning in June, 1920? “Let each of us dedicate ourselves anew to our country, to respect its laws and defend its liberty” (this from a hard boiled republican con- gressman who has been one of the most consistent foes of the workers in congress.) Needless to say there were many revealing incidents of Harding's life that the speakers forgot to mention. “De mortuis nihil nisi bunkum” was their motto. And so Teapot Dome, the | house of K. 8t., Charley Forbes, etc. were not mentioned. De Red Fiag at Half Mast. PEKING, March 21—(By Mail)— Tomorrow, on Sunday, March 22, the flags of the embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics will be half-masted, as on this day there will be held at Moscow the funeral of Mr. Nariman Narimanoff, president of the central executive committee of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, who died from: heart-failure af Mos- cow, March 19. Crude Oi! Price Drops. PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 17—Price decreases of from l5c to 40c a barrel for illegal actions committed in this state: they felt no hesitation about disbarring Elmer Smith for words spoken in another state. He charges that two of his three examiners were prejudiced against him. This seems, quite natural. Smith made the mistake of believing that a lawyer should fight for truth and justice. Most lawyers realize that their business is primarily to aid in prostituting justice for the benefit of criminal capitalism; and that the more successful at this art they are, the higher they will climb, and the more loudly the press will praise them. ¢ That Old Stuff About Constitutions He charges that the procedure of his trial violates six amendments to the U. 8. constitution, numbers 1, 4 5, 6, 7 and 14, He was deprived ol the right of free speech, I. Ww. W literature, which had been withdrawr from circulation before the passage of the criminal syndicalism law, and which was not his property, was seized without a search warrant. He was denied trial by jury, denied a speedy and public trial, and denied opportunity to answer the charges brought against him. He charges that he was deprived of his liberties and of his means of livelihood without due process of law. Should the state supreme court deny a rehearing it will be up to the federal supreme court. And should this court approve of his disbarment it will mean that hereafter any law- yer who dares oppose the capitalist ownership of the government, or W ho dares fight for the rights of the work- ing class, may be disbarred from the practice of law in the kept courts of capitalism. A Stalling Record In 1920 the question of the consti- tutionality of the state criminal syn- dicalism law came before the court. It stalled along for months. After a reactionary republican victory at elec- tion, the honorable court approved the law. In Smith’s case they repeated the procedure. Sometime after the 1924 slection they felt safe in disbarring Elmer Smith. Workers may draw clusion. their own con- Negroes Suffer Most From Tuberculosis LOUIS.—An anti-tuberculosis drive is a f e of Negro health week in St. Lotiis. Negroes constitute more than 5 r cent of Missouri's population. Deaths from tuberculosis among the Negroes is four times greater than ambng the whites. ST. carried on in America. “Det the DAILY WORKER make your arguments every day. Send in a sub for your shap mates. papalieibe to Jump. The populatfoh of Chicago will be 6,600,000 in 25 years, it was predicted by the commercial survey engineer of the Bell Telephone company. in crude oil produced in this district were announced today by the Joe Seep agency, buyers for the Standard \Oil Co. A 40c cut in the price of Gaines’ grade making the new price $3.15 was the largest reduction. Memorial Services for Sereent LONDON.—John Singer Sargent, American portrait painter, who died suddenly Wednesday, will be remem- bered with memorial services in West- minister Abbey April 24. Funeral services for the world famous artist > ~_, - : , ve , Ps : ; aa - - yee ’ * ; ® : ; P, oF ox : ‘ . eS ™ i Oe dD oe -* . Saee . . ae 4 . diate a tee Page Three |\UNITED STATES WORKERS RALLYING TO AID OF IRISH FAMINE VICTIMS shows. The workers and farmers of the United States are materially assist- ing thele brothers and sisters in ireland, who are sufferingsfrom one of the severest famines in the history of that country as the list printed below The money was received at the headquarters of the Irish Workers’ and Peasants’ Famine Relief Committee, 19 So; Lincoln Street, Chicago. Speaking at a large mass meeting in Central Opera House, New York City, John P. McCarthy, direct from the famine region in Ireland, de clared, that the situation over there was desperate and that the workers of Germany, England and Russia were raising money to feed and clothe the women and children who were destitute. The following is the list of contributions to the Irish relief fund from April 1 to ‘15: W. P. Local, Santa Barbara, Cal.....$ a Ws Haranis, Wiley, ( Erick Sjolie, Culver, Minn.. saree ital, Gary, Ind. ee (Coll. ) Minot, N. D — ote inot, N. D Chee. Stevens, Minot, Fred Rothert, ee ae D... Cc. F. Connors, Min N wer 4 Gebalsk!i (Coll. ‘Plainfield, Leon 3 pchococrta a a Te Woes Granecki, Plainfield, N Juseph Charneski, biainfeld, N. J. Willie Zweibon, Schneider, N. Y..... et — + 6608 60 868 Hee er eee) es se A. Mt Fritz, Burlington, fowa............ 2.00 L. M. Bacon, San Francisco, Cal..... Hotel & Restaurant Emp... Local 7, nk Foley, Secy., C hicago, ni. 6.50 J. D. Rust, Ashland, Kans. 1,10 U. M. W. of A., Local 2278, Bentley- ville, Pa. 10.00 Antonio Drango, Tampa, F'la.. 2.50 J. Tuchin, Brooklyn, N. Y.............. 1.00 Franklin Vonnegut, coomerucnelticen Ind. 00 Thomas Bradley, C leveland, “Ohio... §.00 Alex Gould, Palemtia, Fla................. 00 Architectural Il. B. & S. Workers, > . ght Sear 5.00 Aug. Mencke (Coll.) Cleveland, OQ. 3.00 Wm. Pelster, Cleveland, Ohio.......... 5.00 Tom Williams, Cleveland, Ohifo........ 2.00 iL. I. Fortin, San Francisco, Cal..... 00 V. A. Malmberg, St. Paul, Mirin.. 2.00 Jos. Mueller, Belleville, Il.. 1.00 | Nick Eckert, Astoria, N. wanes 9-50 | Bonnaz Embroidery U nion, Local i Se MS Ba Wr cciettieetaeesesants 5.00 | Barbers’ Group, T. U. EB. L., Chi- cago, Iii. 2.25 John J. Lenney, Washington, D. C. 1.00 | Albert Kohlenberg, Crosby, » | aaa 1.00 John G. Zittel, Saginaw, Mich.. ‘ 1.00 a3 lL. Good, Los Angeles, Cal... 5.00 i. K. Goldsbourough, padevemeanateed A . sete 5.00 Mrs. B. Eliman, Boston, Mass.. 1.00 Mrs. T. M. Nagle, Wesleyville, Pa. 10.00 Wallace C. Carus, Los. Angeles... 1.00 Russian Harlem Br. W. New i SE vhatahintddicadiaiiiiidlisalinss coctbuae 4.00 Ss. Knesevich, Coverdale, Pa......... 8.00 Ss. Lasten Chicago, Til. ee Joe Kasper Detroit, BAUGH. cecccceccrse. 6.87 Dr. I. Hillinger, Chicago, IIl............... 5.00 A. Willkomm, San Francisco, Cal. Cal. Louis M. Kelberg, Sanatorium, Cal. — Drug Store, San Francisco, M. Gold, New York, N. Y.. lee John Staples, Saturna, B.C, Can. E. J. Nickelson, New Westminster, B. C., Canada G. Buczubak, San Francisco, Cal..... H. Walinsky. Detroit, Mich. cccccccsus Marion C. Plock, Greenwich, Conn. A. Langendorf, Newport, Ky. «... S. Christensen, Oakland, Cal. yn Walter M. Nelson, Detroit, Mich... - John Ogent, Philadelphia, PR. ° indi Anonymous, River Forest, Dk «...... Wm. N. Patterson, Zanesville, Il. Cc. FE. Wood, San Francisco, Cal..... S. B. Field, San Francisco, Cal . John C. Peterson, Rico, Colo. S. W. Keaton, Angew, V. Skrtic, Pittsburgh, Pa ts — MOH MH NOM oo Mone ene 2SSS3SSS2E22323 S22 Bese Max IL. Rosenberg, San Francisco, > | ee 20.00 J. P. Havin, Casmelia, “Cal saptninnieeiel 50 Jack Ferguson, Challis, Idaho........ 1.00 E. Cummings Sanborn, East Orange, We a. bene mene ~~ . CO John Ronay (Coll.), Trumansburg, i William Dockstado 26 L. Hollman 11.96 Mre. Bdward Kinsella 50 Warren E. Hurlbut . bepenniah .50 Mrs. [da@ Had mB coccc.cccccccccceccccweeces .26 WU eRe . deectilisescrcederniocsciaveal 1.00 Mrs. M. Connors .. sibenthilietudmiioa 20 Michael Ryan ...... 1.00 Michael Beem 1.00 Myron Cronk . .25 J. M. Toumand 50 Oscar Neef .25 Cc. D. Lanny —_ 50 W. A. Giles - 1.00 La Verne Week ott 0 SOR Fe e cccbhaittiecencttibineeniiinreeen 1.06 Mary F. Shields, Lansing, Mich... 10.00 ©. S. Curtis, Newhill, Cal. ' a 2.00 Tom Swain, La Jolla, Cal. .. 10.00 N. Stayanoff (Coll) Detroit, “Mich 22.80 Ferdinand W. Reed, Cambridge, 00 | SES SRR GES ARS es: ae 5. J. Boorstein (Coll.) Bronx, N. Y..... 7 to 1 on Total Letters From Our Readers O, Justice, Where Art Thou? To the DAILY WORKER:—Why is it a greater offense for an army priv- ate to distribute literature favorable to another system of government than for a high public official to barter away a nation’s oil lands at a time that nation’s ships are being convert- ed into oil burners? Which is the greater treason? Walter M. Trumbull and Paul M. Crouch, privates in the United States have..been ocourtmartialed and sen- tenced ‘to 40 awd 26 years in federal prison for distributing alleged Com- munist literature among soldiers at Honolulu. Indictments returned against Albert Fall, former secretary of the interior, for bartering away the naval oil lands, have been quashed by a judge be- cause “he said he had found that an unnecéssary person was present in the grand jury room at the time the indictments were returned and be- cause Senator Walsh made a radio speech at the time, which might have influenced feeling against Fall. Is it more righteous to rob a nation will be held tomorrow. >> ee & & eee e* &*e B® B® BB BF BHAA DTA BH HAHAHAHAHAHA TBATDTDY ****? 77 7s ~ f IF YOU MAKE THE SUB FOR AYEAR— Be sure to ask for the special teather binder con- taining note paper for your use and a full descriptive catalogue of all Communiet pubfications and literature. it is given ONLY to those who have secured a year's sub (or $6.00 worth of subs) on which no commission is deducted. Ask for. the — binder—you'll like it! .*soe es & * J i i i i i i i i i i i i i rar toes: = = = of its oil—its life blood—than to dis- - That's the wrong way! When they insist on crowding around you to read the DAILY WORKER—point out the good features, worker should get them every day, talk it up, tell them to F : :° Sulercte, Those are the tactics of @ BUILDER in the Second Annual Sub Campaign. Tetl them the price— and when you have their money, name and address— nine chances out of ten you have made another Communist, \When you do—use this brick. [tribute literature regarding another system of government. It. it less of a crime to steal than to talk? W. L. Ropel, Upland, Calif. Grab Profits With Shovel To the DAILY WORKER:—It is just impossible for me to send you the money for the renewal on my sub- scription at the present time but please place my name on the mailing list just the same and I will send the money for it in the summer. Our mines this winter have been working about two days a week and we could hardly earn our living. Now they are all closed tight and we were ordered to take our tools out. Our operators’ claim that they lost money running the mines at the pres- ent price of coal but I don’t believe ft. They are accustomed to grab profits with a shovel. Perhaps the misery that exists in this town among the miners due to the closing of the mines will open their eyes and they will join the fight to overthrow this rotten capitalistic system. Tony Stanfi, SSS FS SS SSS SSS HSS SSS HF SSS FFF FHF FHS HHH 44S 454444444 SO DON’T GET MAD ABOUT IT! show them why a wT eS SS SS Send it to The Daily Worker, 1113 W. Washington Blvd. ) Chicago, Wl. — “ = RATES - A$ C00 @ pear § 2$0~6 months S20co 3 montis AGO Saco a year FEF 6 monter f. Send this PROPAGANDA SUB to a worker to “Make Another Communist” a Swoetie *errr ta & = => © STATE sre = & Mystic, Iowa. — i ee
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- owe = - OT “WEWPROJECT To INVEIGLE YOUTH Beecanization in the Hands of G. O. P. (Special to The Daily Worker.) NEW YORK, April 19.— Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, ambitious candi date for governor of New York state in the recent election, is one of the leaders of the new movement for the creation of a youth movement in the republican ranks. Speaking at a re- publican meeting the other day, Roose- velt made the following statement: “One of the chief faults of the re publican party in recent years is the noticeable absence of young men and women from its ranks. If a party loses its young people that party is bound to crash.” The answer of the Young Workers’ League to this attempt of the capi- talists to organize white guards, is to extend and intensify its activities among the broad masses of the young workers. Against the capitalist youth organization, we must put forward the Communist Youth organization, the leader of and the vanguard of the masses of the young workers in this country. Armed Czarist Is Seized Near Soviet Embassy, Well Armed (Special to The Daily Worker.) PARIS, April 19.—A Russian, who said he was Reinhardt Waldemar, was arrested this afternoon by a detective while loitering outside the Soviet em- bassy. He was found to be heavily armed and also had four photographs of Ambassador Krassin in his pocket, each taken from a different angle. At the police station Waldemar re- fused to explain his suspicious move- ments, but the police, convinced he was a czarist waiting for an oppor. tunity to shoot M. Krassin when the latter was leaving or entering the em- bassy bullding, detained him for fur- ther inquiry. GET A SUB AND GIVE ONE! EEE en — — BETTER NOT TO PRACTICE THOSE ‘AMERICAN IDEALS’ BETTER JUST PREACH THEM CLEVELAND— (FP) —if you mouth platitudes about freedom of the press 6n the Fourth of July you're a fine patriot. But publish the truth about some public officials —with names, dates and amounts— and you're a public menace. This is the way Carl Magee, New Mexico editor who started the expose of Albert B. Fall and his $100,000 black satchel, summed up the fight against corruption in New Mexico. The po- litical ring operating thru venal judges had him thrown into jail for contempt of court and it tried to ruin him by forcing his bank to call the note on his newspaper property. “It’s a perfect parior game of tid- die-de-winks,” Magee said in Cleve- land, “to laud American ideals. But it’s a he-man’s game of knock-down- and-drag-out when one attacks the rottenness of political ringsters. If anyone believes this to be untrue, let him acquire a newspaper and try to do it.” GET A SUB AND GIVE ONE! Hillcrest Miners Refuse Scab Wage Contract of Boss HILLCREST, Alta, Canada.—Blair~ more and Bellevue are now working under the new wage scale. Hillcrest has turned down the terms of the new contract, as offered by Hillcrest collieries. If we have9to leave the U. M. W., we, don’t want the boss to tell us what kind of a union we are to have, or how we should run it. Coleman has been offered the new contract and as it has already been accepted by two camps, chances are they will accept. This contract does not state what the new union shall or shall not do. DO NOT FORGET to boost the SPRING YOUTH DANCE Friday, May the 9th 2733 Hirsch Boulevard (Workers Lyceum) Auspices Y. W. L.—Local Chicago Doing Missionary Work For Communism -—— + ——_—_ By Wm. Z. Foster N subscription | mediate course, to extend gained. tion is not only work for ence goal to the DAILY WORKER. no means the only advantage to be By the very sell such subscriptions, succeeds or not, the comrade in ques- Communism, gaining valuable organization experi- “The Workers Party membership must take seriously the necessity for mass participation in the work of spreading the DAILY WORKER. The building of our great English language daily must ever and always be kept in the foreground of our program as one of the most important tasks con- fronting our party. A DAILY WORK- ER with a great circulation means tremendous strides towards the build- ing of our organization into a mass Communist Party, a Bolshevized Par- ty, a party of organizers and leaders. Let us work to the end that when the second anniversary of the DAILY WORKER arrives we will have a vast net-work of organizers and militants di. throughout the party working ceas- lessly to extend the cireulation and influence of our paper amongst the From the struggling masses.” Dally Worker campaigns the im- achieve is, of the circulation of But this is by act of trying to whether he doing missionary but is ' also Jan. 13, 1925. INGREASES USE MOVIE-FILMS Propaganda Value | and Financial Returns (Special to The Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 19.—The Workers Party organization in Dis- trict No. 5 (Pittsburgh) has thrown | full strength to the booking of a movie program thruout its territory and already has booked six dates des- pite the fact that several pictures were shown there in the very recent past. The following schedule is announ- ced: East Pittsburgh, Thursday, April 23, Turner Hall, 8 p. m. Pittsburgh, Saturday, April 25th, Carnegie Music Hall, (North Side), at 8 p. m. McDonald, Tuesday, April 28, at the Orpheum Theater, first show 5:30 p.m. Bentleyville, Friday, May 1, Majestic Theater, 7 p. m. Daisytown, Saturday, May 2, Fin- nish Hall, Walkertown. New Kensington, Wednesday May 6, Columbus Theater. May Day Movies Two of these dates were arranged the others represent the direct, ener- getic co-operation of the party office. A careful study of motion picture act- ivity for the past two years shows that the number and success of the booking are in direct proportion to the interest taken by local and district workers. Any active hustler in a dis- trict can easily, with the help of the local comrades, get a string of dates and put them thru to a most success- ful finish. More districts should take up this work, full co-operation is guar- anteed from the national office, I. W. A., 19 S. Lincoln St., Chicago, Ill. The program routed in the Pitts- burgh district includes “Polikushka,” “Soldier Ivan’s Miracle,” and “Lenin Memorial.” All workers should be sure to see these extremely interest- ing working class films. Go To Your Class Movies! In addition to the dates listed above, the following shows should be patron- ized by the workers in these respect- ive cities: Cincinnati, Ohio, April 21, Temple, “Russia aid Germany.” Denver, Col., “Beauty & Bolshevik” and “Russia in Overalls,” April 28 and 29, Paum Theater, West Colfax and Grove, 7 & 9 p. m. April 30, Barnes School Auditorium, 1410 Clenarm S8t., 7 and 9 p. m. Toledo, Ohio, April 30, “Beauty and Bolshevik.” Utica, N. Y., April 30, “Beauty and Bolshevik.” Gleason, Wisc., May 1, Gleason Hall, “Russia and Germany.” Los Angeles, Calif., May 3rd to 8th. “Beauty and Bolshevik.” Sheboygan, Wisc., “Russia sad Ger- many” May 30. Milwaukee, Wisc., shevik,” (return engagement), May 30. The show in Newark, N. J., has had to be postpened. Seattle and Tacoma Washington will announce their dates in a few days. Hatband Weavece Win Raise Thru Union PATERSON, N. J.—(FP)—Paterson hatband weavers, organized in the Associated Silk Workers’ Union, in- dependent, win a 7 per cent increase from 12 employers in their agreement provided the rank and file of the workers ratify the pact. This Is Probably Why Green Likes Mussolini _———_— -—- = — Labor MILAN, Italy—(FP)+-A bill intro- duced in the Italian chamber of depu- ties sponsored by Mussolini, makes all labor organizations except the fascist unions illegal. The Socialists and Commupiais. are opposing it. Getting a DAILY WORKER sub or two, will make a better Communis? of you. , g AND NOW THE PRINTERS— issue the April number of (me{malgamationist A rank and file expression—and Left Wing sheets” that reactionary bureaucrats fear and that are contributing to the growth of the new “another of those SEND as May Day programs by mail but all] “Beauty and Bol- oe—"_e~_—_—-- Nation-Wide May Day Demonstrations NQUIRIES and information coming into the national office of the Werk- ers Party regarding this year’s May Day celebration indicate a nation- wide demonstration that will surpass any previous May Day in the party’s history. Every tawn in whith there is a party branch should arrange such a meeting and notify the national office. The smaller towns should obtain May Day speakers thru their dis- trict offices. As soon as a meeting is arranged, each party organization is. requested to send in full information regarding name of speaker, address of hall and time of meeting. We will give these meetings pub- licity thru the DAILY WORKER. Don’t fail to notify the national office. Meetings arranged up to the present time are: New York, N. ¥Y.—Central Opera House, 67th St and 3rd avenue, 8 p. m. Speakers, William Z. Foster, Moissaye Olgin, W. Weinstone, L. Lore, J. Stachel, ¢. Krumbein, chairman. Philadelphia, Pa.—Speakers, Ben Gitlow and Arne Swabeck. Boston, Mass—Convention Hall, Garrison St. (Near Mechanic's Bidg.) 7:30 p. m. Speakers, Wm. F. Dunne and Oliver Carison. Cleveland, Ohio.—Slovenian National Home, 6409 St. Clair Ave., 7 p.m. Speake?, J. Louis Engdahl. Warren, Ohio—May 2. Speaker, J. Louis Engdahl. Akron, Ohio-—May 3, at2 p.m. Speaker, J. Louis Engdahl. Canton, Ohio-——May 3, at 8 p.m. Speaker, J. Louis Engdahi. Dillonville, Ohio—Speaker, Comrade Weisberg. Yorkville, Ohio—Speaker, Comrade Weisberg. Toledo. Ohio.—May 4, at 8 p.m. Speaker, J. Louis Engdahi. Chicago, Ik—Temple Hall, Van Buren & Marshfield, at 8 p. m. Speakers, James P. Cannon, C. E. Ruthenberg, Martin Abern and Max Schachtman. Decatur, lil.—Speaker, M. Ghilofsky. Puliman, lil-—Speaker, Barney Mass. Madison, Iil—Croatian and Bulgarian speakers. Christopher, I11.—Corbishley and others. Milwaukee, Wis.—Freie Gemeinde Hall, 8th and Walnut Sts.,. at 7:30 p. m. Speakers, Max Bedacht, Tom Bell and others. Gary, Ind.—Croatian Hall, 23rd and Washington Sts., at 7:30 p. m. Speaker, Harrison George; also speakers in the So. Slavic, Russian and Greek languages. Kansas City, Mo—Speaker, M. Gomez. _ St. Louis, Mo.—Druids Hall, 9th and Market Sts., Saturday, May 2, at 8 p. m. Speakér, M. Gomez. Grand-Rapids, Mich.—Sunday, May 3, at 2:30 p.m. Sons and Daugh- ters Hall.,1057 Hamilton Ave. N. W. Speaker, T. J. O'Flaherty. Muskegon, Mich.—Sunday, May 3, at 8 p.m. Speaker, T. J. O'Flaherty. Minneapolis, Minn.—Sunday, May 3. Speaker, Robert Minor. Hibbing, Minn.—Speaker, Robert Minor. Buffalo, N. Y..—Speaker, Earl R. Browder. Rochester, N. ¥.—May 2 Speakér, Earl R. Browder. Erie, Pa-——May 3. Speaker, Earl R. Browder. Youngstown, Ohio—May 1, at 8 p. m., Ukrainian Hall, West Rayen Ave. Sueaker, Willfam J. White. Los Angeles, Calif—May 1, Co-operative Center, Brooklyn and Mott, Speaker, Tom Lewis. Waukegan, I—-Workers Hall, 517 Helmholz avenue, Sunday, May 3, at 2 p. m. Speaker, | hurber Lewis. E. Chicago, . olumbia Hall, MeCook and Verner Aves. at 8 p. m. Speakers, #4. ”. Phillips and John Edwards. Brooklyn,;N; Yie-Grand Millers Hall, Grand and Havenmeyer Sts., - at 8 p. m. Speakers, Wm. Z. Foster, 8. Epstein, |. Amter, J. S&S. Poyntz, H. Zam (Y. W. Lay &. Pruséika (Lithuanian), S. Nessin, chairman. New York, N. ¥.—Ukrainian celebration. Manhattan. Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St., at 8 p. m. Speaker, G. Siskind, and others. New York, N. ¥.—Czecho-Slovakian celebration, 527 E. 72nd St., at .8 p.m. Speakers, J. Manley, and others. New York, N. Y¥.—Finnish celebration, Finnish Workers’ Hall, 5 W. 126th St. Speakers, R. Grecht, and others. So. Brooklyn, N. Y.—Finnish celebration, Finnish Workers’ Hall, 764 40th St., Brooklyn. Speakers, P. P. Cosgrove, and others. New York, N. ¥.—German celebration, Labor Temple, 243 E. 84th St., at 11 a. m. Speakers, L. Lore and others. West Hoboken; N. J.—New Hall, 227 Bergenline Ave., at 8 p. m Speakers, Cari Brodsky and others. Hs Passaic, N. J.— 7 , 4 : yy «4 ” ‘ ' 4 ' ( 3 ik 7 a , = em - I —— - ‘ar Monday, April 20. " Douglas Park English, 3118 West Roosevelt Road. A. Bittelman speaks n “Leninism.” “North Side English, 2409 N. Halsted Tuesday, April 21. ' Czecho-Slovak Town of Lake, 5ist nd Whipple Sts. - Czecho-Slovak Cicero Women’ 3, T. }. Masaryk School, 57th and 22nd PL, Ciéero. ‘Rumanian Branch, 2254 Clybourn Wednesday, April 22 , Caecho-Slovak No. 3, 2237 8. Kolin Avé.. Douglas Park Jewish, 3118 West Roosevelt Road. . T. U. BE. L. executive committee meeting, 19 S. Lincoln St., 8 p. m. ' Thureday, April 23 “ Ozecho-Slovak N. Berwyn, Scdville Ave. * Russian, 1902 W. Division St. Mid-City English, 722 Blue Island Ave. ' 11th Ward Italian, 2489 S. Oakley Bivd. Scandinavian Karl Hirsch Blvd. Scandinavian West Side, Zeich’s Hall, Cor. Cicero and Superior St, Scandinavian Lake View, 3206 N. Wilton St. Scandinavian South Side, 641 Hast 61st St. 1403 §. Marx, 2733 YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE ACTIVITIES. LOCAL CHICAGO, Monday, Apri! 20 Meeting of all Y. W. L. members working in the neetile trades, 2613 Hirsch Blvd. Tuesday, April 21 General Membership Meeting, 722 Blue Island Ave. Will discuss the many organizational problems facing the Young Werkers League. Dicer Caiten Maal on I. W. A, Movie Map with Shows DENVER, Colo., April 19.—After a long lay-off the,Denver L W. A. is coming back movie promotion with three days of showing of “The Beauty and the Bolshevik” and “Rus- sia in Overalls.” Two days, April 28 and 29, will be taken up in the Palm Theater, at West Colfax and Grove Sts., while the third, April 30, will go to the Barness High School Atditorium, 1410 Glenarm St. * In each casé two performantes will be run, starting at 7 and 9 p. m.. Tickets are 35c, children 165c. ‘ TOLD ~ TACOMA LABOR Clarkin Tribute to Soviet Sympathizer (Special to The Daily Worker.) TACOMA, Wash., April 19— The Sun Yat Sen memorial meeting held here drew a large crowd that showed its appreciation of J. Stanley Clark’s speech by frequent and enthusiastia applause. The speaker dealt with Sun Yast Sen’s career at length, showing that the attempts to distort the teachings of the great Chinese leader, by claim ing that he was a christian pacifist, had no foundation. He shewed that Sun Yat Sen, cre ha he may have started with a mere progressive attitude years ago, developed into a great revolutionary leader who realized that there was but one way for China to free herself from the oppression of foreign {m- perialists, and the native capitalists, who were their tools. Sun Yat Sen realized that as long as China ré- mained feeble and unarmed and pact- fic, as the christian capitalists and fheir missionaries adivise her to do, she would more and more becomé the prey of capitalist imperialism. But when China learned that she must depend on force, that she would begin to be respected and to win her free dom. And he showed that Sun Yaf Sen did not stop at this; that he was not working to free China from fon eign capitalism that native capitalism might replace it; but that he knew and taught that the only way for the people of China to be really free, wag to follow the ideals of Soviet Russia, and to create a Workers’ Republic of China. Sun Yat Sen was a hater of western imperialism and a sympathis er of Soviet rule. That was why the capitalists, Chinese and foreign, hated him so bitterly. Clark Touring the | Pacific Northwest for : the Workers Party (Special to The Daily Worker.) ” TACOMA, Wash., April 19—J. Stam ley Clark, of the Workers (Commuyp ist) Party, is making a series af speeches in the Pacific northwest. He will speak in Tacoma again on April 30, at the South Slav Hall. Settie for Tickets. Settle at once with the local office Workers Party, 19 S. Lincoln 8&t., ms 4 the following: Unity demonstration tickets. Beauty and Bolshevik tickets. Red Revel tickets. Lenin Memorial tickets. All these accounts are past aus Settle at once! ’ PDS SVS VW SS SSS SSVSVSBTVVW BSS VTVVVsVswsee SS SSBVVVesVesVesiV_ FTV eee eee sy i i ie a i i i i i perialism. This book, ment. i i i i i i i i An important work on Communist theory and practice during the period that. Lenin lived and led—the period of Capitalist Im- Add this important work, destined surely to become one of the classics of Communist literature, to your library. Attractively bound, this book will be a treat to the intelligent worker and the stu- dent of the revolutionary movement. With frontispiece (photograph) of the author. 35 CENTS. issued for the first time in this country, is written by ‘a close co-worker of Lenin, at present secretary of the Russian Party and af figure in the In- ternational Communist Move- he Theory alt Practice of LENINISM By |. STALIN. ~**%* + + * i i i i i i i i i i ee Communist a GET IT FROM YOUR BRANCH OR CITY AGENT—OR eee ee? * oo + * oo 71 oe ee 1 oo 1 7 et Ate Ae Se |] |] THE DAILY WORKER _—
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Pelham agrarians and Communists. Senator|the federal government, he left his|isation, even trade unions and educa. ies the policemen were threatened by the | yaonzon is now investigating the as-| home. city, scene of his terrible atro-|tional societies being closed down by og a roy Jews Fg “geting Lr etbihss tole aibaailb aatiat Ol ‘Sane ae grin, 2 ‘the rf ‘ workers of Dombrowo for whom the |sassinations and reinclosures of dis-|Cities against workers, peasants and/the authorities if they only faithfully ace toes. A revelry yi grace and a Se fire was like a signal for fight. Still |triputed lands there. The Commun-| young Communists, and went to an-|observe the interests of labor, and Frat rT ure try will be witnessed when Earl Lind. sat more military was ordered and when jist deputy to the state chamber,|°other part of the state. Juan de Lara, | only those organizations are permitted raternally yours. say's Sttand Seek temas Gam ee 96 sae even this did not lead to success, the Roberto C. Ramirez, is a.fugitive from | Whose comrades of the Young Com-| which betray the interests of labor to HARRY SCOLNICK, Portland Daily Worker Agent. amazing gtr fa Ge -eeuhiais ehadleds in police took another means, which {8 | the state in spite of his parliamentary |™munist League and whose own father|the capitalists and their government i ae Le with “Buddy” Kennedy as mast a si unique in the history of class strug- | privileges. had fallen victims to Gonzalez; fol-| heing led by sdcial traitors; | ONE! ceremonies will a ard . oie “af gle and which proves that the mer- Persecute Communists. lowed him and killed him. The work-| ‘ “Whereas in* the dungeons of Po NOW YOU WRITE ; Lack of space govt f aw cenaries of capital shrink from noth-| [pn Yucatan, worker and peasant|¢Ts and peasants of the entire state/jand there. is by this time about This letter is “short but sweet”... and a model for the mentiontie hone of “ high-cl wy . a ies ing if the workers have to be de-lalike are suffering. Many unions are} re forming defense leagues in.every | 8.000 Polish prisoners—workers and kind of letter that you can send us. On the basis of this letter the (an ee eee awein we feated. This means is poison ga8./declared illegal, newspapers aro| town and village. farmers—treated by the prison au- DAILY WORKER can judge what more is necessary and how it ing the guest of our hotel oun s = By means of a pipe this gas was led|closed and workers are arrested for In the port of Tampico, Ventura | thorities in the most inhuman way can help. the Palm Garden on th cay - ha pate. Sie, Desenges Bouse. seling the Communist organ, El|Herrera, one of the leaders of the jwhich | Jeads {9 numerous hunger For instance, he says nothing about the Workers Monthly or April 27 Mor ae When finally the shooting of the Machete. The leader of: the Blectrical Sailors’ union, killed the, coatah of’ strikes often ending with the death of literature—-we'll have to write Comrade Scolnick about this. We Tickets may be had in an : la, two herole workers stopped, the po-| Workers’ Union: ts mifugitive in the his ship ener ane he captain the victims.of tig, horrible system ; will also remind him to be sure to tell us just what was the result tity at that branch head hood . 388 F of armas ogo adin: nang yearned yin aba repenas + Ais aah va 4 Megha en. eee See ro “ Whereas the,, torturing of prisoners of the Branch Agents’ meeting (altho he’s sure to telj us!). He West 6list st vesgeeside tm of house with gas masks and found the/state, Iturralde,. is. an,.arch-reaction- being one of the most brutal in the | with the most Ywiel methods of the 1 at the DAILY WOKE ok Suclbey tates 8 st street, and from members. is two fighters suffocated and bleeding |ary. ; Gulf shipping. The new organization | poly inquisition Sf dark ages is a mat. Sart Mere oy oe k him this too—among other from many wounds. In Orizaba and in other parts of | Will defend Herrera, . «% = 4 # ctu a ee ee ee ee toe vs Rail M Dra : na 7" | Iter of daily 6¢ nce in Poland al erger ws . > the state of Vera Cruz,” mahy members| Demand Release of SaccoManzetti. | under its preset’ regime: Shinge. N o.° & Get A Sub And Give One! jot thé Tendnt’s Laie mititant:or-] All the unions in the port of Vera|, “whereas ‘the-eourts pass by hun- But he did write a lot in just a few words. NOW YOU WRITE ‘ear as Opposition mab babAbpbAbAbbsAAAAAAALAAAAAAAADAAAAAAAAAAAAA OVA BES Cruz joined in a gigantic protest in dreds long term sentences of hard la- ONE! In Commission Wanes | 3st A. the capitalist loitati S. ; was defended b . y The new organization will also act r ore ee THE SECOND ANNUAL SUB CAMPAIGN was detended by John J. Earnest. #t0n tiie cénter' for all Latin-America to] srry. m IN ident of the system, today in the re- | : Joint F retheit and Novy h yas i aoe ae = th “* coe eae > “Whereas in @ parts of Ukrainie these comrades turned in new subs to fill their local quota sumption of hearings on the legality 4 : if, canons prisoners | san Caan eta and. White Ry which were an and to build their own local while they build “Our Daily”: of the move before the interstate | “ outlawed Communists and synditelists| “=e, ©, © gr ee Los ANGELES, CAL.—S. Globerman. commerce commission. ; at of Brazil, the prisoners font satent raging an ev cruel terror and ' D.—Amos E. Kirk. Minority stockholders of the Chesa- | of 2 ryt ipa gen h po aA the martial “pass these hun. MISHAWAKA, IND.—Amos peake and Ohio vainly atetmpted to - r - 6 ru, etc. They have already |. 4. of 3 MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—C. Korcetuliet a teh block hearings on the consolidation rag {Guatemala and that amount, plus the over thé wile " NE ’ O. D. and M. J. Van Swert , PEP ines tise >| publicity begun on a continental scale, gountry, as shown by PITTSBURGH, PA—F. H. Merrick. — Sug, SWESIages, 3 ‘ AS iieqA .sva! >lopened the doors of his jail after the recent. sentencing ‘to death of two central figures in the fight to win ; a fms 06s 8 year and one-half of imprisonment } soldiers, Segal and. Dyftecki, for the WORCESTER, MASS.—M. Zeiper. government approval of the scheme, 4 ei2 avo ‘ without: trial. crime of being members of a working CHICAGO, ILL.—Steve Rubicki; Chas. Ericksen. again were interested spectators. - class party; poke New Star Casino Cen al e yi >| The temporary directive committee; om 107 St. & Park Ave ro St. Opera, A 4 in Mexico,City includes the leader. of Whereas the workers’ deputy to Airship Adrift in Illinois. = : ’ N J y k Ci rapa “aa 4 the revolutionary forces of one of the sileisoed er i Yan pd end BELLEVILLE, Ill, April 19.—Rud- No. 1 ew lror 1 ‘gc , -. South American countries*: Heron ested and tried tor hig TC-3 with : ° . Y ~" ‘ Proel. leader of the Tenants’ = ueg|‘Teason under the paragraph provid- prmryems nye he f oe east today in An | nnovation— Trade Unions pjof Vera Cruz; Enrique Flores, of the ing ‘the death sentence for a speech ff northwesterly gale, according to in America : famous family of the Floras ‘Magons, delivered in-a union meeting, and, — Ee. J. Bowling, commander of By u ay, pl }jtwo of whom spent many years’ in|Whem acquitted’ by the jury, he was/..” niuig. According to latest re Wm. Z. Foster, Jas. P Mexican and ‘Americai*?jafis,: and |immediately rearrested under another rm the ship was sighted from Mc- Cannen and Got Se mre -iprominent officials of the railway|‘tame-up indictment held in store for 2 nae Bridge, St. Louis, evidently in THE R. Browder Attractions, Prizes, Ticket 50c (admission to both halls) (Blunions, Jeather: workers, icatpenters|the eventuality of his acquittal; + anacnali ' . . A history of American and other workers’ organigations. | “Whereas theasgeant murdering ot| st Little Red Library | trade tnions, tne Lett | , a *Note: Name withheld fr reasons | Wieczorkiewicz, which were under|| SICK AND DEATH BENEFIT Is an innovation among work- its program. : of safety. way to Soviet Russia in order to be SOCIETIES ing class publications—des- — OU R DAT LY P A TTERNS exchanged for Polish citizens sen- ree pe crt Mg Rg 2m pfs No. 2 k Unterstuetzungs Verein ; " atl . tenced by Soviet courts, and which | Frauen-Kran Te octachritt tonnnh te: thie counier, Class Struggle BLOUSE. , A POPULAR MODEL our Union Meeting | | vere shot down by the convoying of. & 3rd Thursday Cl | . ficer of the Polish police; Meets every ist r AN sembers ef uniform pock- vs. ass | ~-REDS FIGHT T0-- DEATH AGIA POLISH TERROR Two Workers ‘Kiflea by Poison Gas Attack (Special to The Dally Worker) WARSAW, Poland, April 19.—For a long time an agent provocateur, with the name of Kamienski, was working among the workers of the Dombrow: Basin. On Feb. 28 this spy was killed by. two Communist workers, who knew that he had connections with the zeuipe. Later the police sticceeded in nding out that both workers at that time stayed in a private house. The workers, however, did not al- low. themselves to be arrerine and put. up an armed resistance. iby ed lice ordered reserve forces from ‘browo and the surroundings. The | struggle lasted for hours and the two. Aid has just been formed with heaiqn is not as free as it is, painted. | MBEXICO”-CITY? ~tepei enlthe-enloan 1 section of the International Red arters ers in the City of Mexico. To many non-Mexicans it will come as a surprise that a country with a liberal labor government should have need of such an organization, but a small but grow- ing list of worker and peasant political victims attest to the fact that Mexico In general, it is the local governments in certain states that are most oppressive, but the federal. government, thru {ts generals, is not far behind. j The disarming of the peasants, slow but continuous, and often met ‘with resistance, claims its toll of victims whose families have to be aided. Vicious Attacks on Peasants. Where peasants take the land, the federal forces are used to dislodge them. Two federal generals, Lopez fh Michoacan, and Mange in Oaxaca, have been particularly brutal: Gen. Lopez attacked the peasants’ coim- mune of Naranja, killed one, wounded others, stole various carloads of wheat |.dispossessed them of their land. é@ agitation of the Communist Sen- | ator, Luis G. Monzon in the senate — *} ganization which has been conducting a renf*strike for over a year, has many fits members in prison. The federail*®government intervened to kidnap its real leader, Heron Proal, and bring him to the capital of the country for trial. The legislature of the state of Vera Cruz has protested for’ this attack against its sovereign- ty, but to no avail. The turbulence of the protest demonstrations in the port day as does the list of the arrested. THE DAL of Vera Cruz increases from day to}. ° — Sars ‘ . oF Bere 7 a # Mts >. Bi vy. eee me ~ : . aed F at laden Sean Ke ak PES wt Sees & ae a “ 5 «, + P ; be et a . ae Oe We Ae. ee r rut 2 * hy vy Bee as v, i, ¥ : » ~ + 7 - ¢; “hee yy Ae eo aes was excoriated at a mass held. recently int this city. mously: talist mete. | of Poland an uninterrupted people; | a KER Toilers Mico | Than Under Czar (Special to The Daily Worker.) CLEVELAND, April 19.—The white | terror in Poland conducted the. workers, peasants and oppressed nationalities ofthat country by the paid’ puppets of'’French imperialism against meeting The fol. lowing resolution, was passed unani- “Whereas thy ota of the capi- represent chain of bloody crimes, committe@tpon the working “Whereas in, this so-called inde. / -* y » “s ‘ - ee % - ; iG ~~ 7% ; > ‘ : Ph. , “2 —~¥ . “ ry ails : : 7 7 . - \ ’ ted i POLI Ls a0 NIG Sg te poate! Eis De be oe BAY O° FFE > 4, wo i PE SIA, Oe. aD ee Le. © . Page Five BUILDERS AT WORK SHORT ON WORDS BUT LONG ON ACTION Giving a Picture of Portland Activities T is possible to put into few words a picture of a whole local’s activities. Here is one by our DAILY WORKER Agent from Porttand, Oregon—Harry Scolnick—who in few words telis us how on the Pacific coast our BUILDERS are not only building “Our Daily” but are organizéd and are further organizing in every way that will build the Communist movement. Read it: Portiand, Ore., April 12, 1925. Comrades:—Enclosed you'll find subs for the Daily and an NEW YORK HOTEL WORKERS’ BALL MONDAY, APRIL 27 i i ddetniinsinadll Commit- te Is Busy Bunch (Special to The Daily Worker.) NEW YORK, April 19—The ball and entertainment committee of the New York Hotel and Restaurant Workers’ Branch of the Amalgamated Food Workers’ Union are the busiest bunch in town these days. They are putting the finishing touches on the arrange- ments and the very elaborate program for the grandball and entertainnient of the branch, to be held on Monday, April 27, at the Palm Garden ‘(ape advertisement), The proof of the pudding is in the eating and those who have tasted of the kind that the hotel workers are in the habit of offering to their friends rder for 1,000 copies of the Special May Day Issue... also lqnused the restitution of the, wheat pendent Polish Republic the working . ; 4 ” and guests, marvel, how the brilliancy bleeding from qnany wounds, and the land, but there are still the Workers Defend Juan de Lara. | masses are ed more cruell; for 6,000 leaflets “Down Tools On May Day”. of the past affairs, the elaborate.and efended themselves furiously against wounded and the relatives of the de-| Juan de Dios Lara, a member of the|than ever undé "the rule of Russiar The C. C. C. instructed the branches to elect DAILY ‘ hundreds of policemen. When the fire stopped for a moment one could hear from the besieged house revolutionary: songs and cheers to the Communist Party and the International. The situation of the police became more and more critical. Not only be- cause, several policemen were already dead or wounded, but mainly because ceased to care for. In other parts of Michoacan the péasafts cannot return to their homes because. federal troops are waiting to arrest them as “agi- tators.” In Oaxaca the situation is much. worse, the governor and the federal General Mange uniting to attack the ‘ e7ot70W SOMETHING NEW URE Young Communist League is on trial for his life in the same state for kill- nig General Gonzalez to avenge the lives of countless workers and peas- ants. General Gonzalez was one of the most brutal of the de la Huertista generals in the recent uprising of Adolfo de la Huerta. Amnestied by favor of Sacco and Vanzetti last. week and announced to the American.,con- sulate that if justice is not done they will “speak more plainly.” 5063. This model was effectively developed in figured silk and ‘geor- Third Monday, April 20, 1925. Name of Local and Place of Meeting. 89 Bartenders, 123 N. Clark St., 8:30 P. M. Cap Makers, 4003 A a Are Rd. 70 Carpenters, 2705 38th St. czars and Gern kaisers; “Whereas land is pra liberties, the bor, for being members of munist Party, for spreading “Be it resolved, That we gle of Polish workers and land, their faithful leader! working class of Pr Weprived of all civi independent labor pres: | being entirely. suppressed by the po lice and courts, the freedom of speech and assembly denied as well a: the freedom of* working class organ. the Com- labor pa pers, for any kimd of activity against condemn this government of bandits and ex- press our brotherly sympathy to the}. workers and poor farmers of Poland suffering under its yoke, and to the Polish socialist party which sup- ports this bloody tegime of terrorism! farmers! ‘| Long live the Communist Party of Po. Long live the victorious workers revolution in WORKER Agents and | expect to meet with them soon. At the last meeting of the English branch all members present were instructed to solicit subs and TO REPORT RESULTS AT EVERY MEETING. 1 have received the list of Portland subscribers and we will do our best to get in touch with them for renewals. We have already distributed 5,000 “Strike Against Wage Cuts” leafiets that we ordered from the District Office and now ——— On April 17—Friday diversified program and high quality of entertainment could possibly be im- proved upon. And they are looking forward to the coming affair on April 27 with high-strung expectancy. Those who are stuck on jazz will get all and perhaps a little more than they are looking for, when Jack Shil- kret comes with his famous —-_— - WASHINGTON. D. C.—The “Dillion dollar” Nickel Plate railroad merger Wicker Park Hall, 2040 W. North Avenue. Secretary. et size, Extracting Specialist DELAY MEANS DECAY it will be: of the widest possible interest, in- cluding, social and industrial problems, history, philosophy, oa 1113 W. Washington Bivd. Collaboration By Earl R. Browder A study of the methods of labor bureaucracy to ' | 4 fiction, poetry and art. divert workers from 1 = Rey Strusteret tron Work- “That we pledge our full moral and Dr. ~ TIMME RM AN , struggle against capi- of Bukenere Shoe, 1939 , Milwaukee Av | financial support in their bitter strug- New ——— a follow = talism. utchers, Hebrew, oose- as quick succession as P Rd. gle for eman¢ipation from this nleody I +> NT Bi i e 638 Sehehate. Bohemian, 1870 Blue Is- | yoke. ) ting material can be ob- 7048 ‘Gieaners & Dyers, 113 S. Ashiang| “Down with the bloody terror of me 2252 N. CALIFOR | MITAGE 1466 tained. seer Glove Workers, 1/10 N. Winches’ ricapitalist goverfiment of Poland! | 2 E ton. Shame to the traitors of labor, shame 208 Care etee. 199 W. Washington 8t MY NEW LOCATION Bach copy selling at 80 C ters, 4039 W. Madison St.) « -R 10 cents (twelve copies 181 Carpenters, 2040 W. North. Ave. Away with thg Fee Gtreen aoe ‘ |money, | will save 50 per cent on all Agent or by tehea). ans A to the : 5. Tailors, 180 W. Washington St., FOR SALE—Fur Shop, well estab- their dental work. No worker who wishes to understand the funda- mail direct Oressmaker 7:30 p. m. lished, good paying, in running or- R SNICK mental strategy of the Communists should omit it from the Daily eS ie adeds:- . ‘. «v. haan : —_— > der, best location, reasonable rent. D . RA from his reading. Worker Talk it up—your shopmate ens ok 3k Does your friend subscribe to| Best reason for selling. Address: DENTIST becribe! af a DAILY WORKER? Ask him!! Daily Worker, Box 112-W. 645 Smithfield Street. we = Sat . CURT —_ —_— ——— ee ele ke eee 7 =
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ee en Ss. E DAILY WORKER. Fo 1A ra soem etane ana Rll Re TEES Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, ML (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $3.50....6 months $2.00...8 months By mail (in Chicago only): : $4.50....6 months $2.50....23 months 66.60 per year 68.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1118 W. Washington Bivd. 3. LOUIS ENGDAHL |} Edi WILLIAM F. DUNNE { tors MORILZ J. LOEB....... sovsssemessseeee- BUSINESS Manager Chicago, tl! —- udaien as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. = 20 Briand, Hun-Hater— Caillaux, Pro-German The Briand cabinet represents at least a tem- porary victory for one of the most reactionary Advertising rates op app” catiea groups in French political life, but it is a strange combination. [It is understood that Briand wil continue the relations with the vatican as a sop to the catholic royalists and will frown upon drastic taxation of big fortunes. A former socialist, Briand made his first bow to the bourgeoisie by calling railway strikers to the colors and by use of military dis- cipline, forcing them to break their own strike. This was about two years before the outbreak of the world war. During the war French imperial- ism found in Briand a loyal supporter. Caillaux, finance minister in the Briand cab- inet, has many supporters in the parties of the so- called left and many admirers among the liberal intelligentsia abroad. His foreign policy is of the Germanophile variety as opposed to two other groups which from time to time influence French diplomacy. One groups wants, and works for, complete French supremacy in Europe and is bitterly anti- English; another attempts to preserve the entente cordiale, the basis of which was an Anglo-Franco alliance against Germany. Caillaux has always regarded Germany as the logical ally of France and considers Great Britain the real enemy. The system of alliances which brought France and Germany into conflict was always fought by Caillaux. During the war he made a number of attempts to force a cessation of hostilities by work- ing for a separate peace between France and Ger- many; basing his plans on the joint ownership of many industrial enterprises in the Briey basin. He went to prison for his pains, but it has been shown since that time, notably by Striet, in his “Where Iron Is, There Is The Fatherland,” that the Comite des Forges, the ‘French steel trust, actually followed the Caillaux policy in the Briey basin, and that im that district from which Ger- many was securing her largest supplies of iron and steel, no offensive was conducted by the allies until the American troops arrived in that sector in 1918. Generals who sent over bombing plans were removed. Nothing was done by the French general staff to disrupt production in this im- portant area whose mines and mills were the joint property of French and German capitalists. But Caillaux will not be able to effect a rap- proachment between France and Germany. Such a policy would have to be based on the sacrifice of reparations and the French bourgeoisie, even those that prefer an alliance with Germany to domina- tion of western Europe by France alone, are not ready to do this. Neither can Caillaux afford to tax his friends among the industrialists. Briand himself is against a capital levy. With the need for a great increase in the government revenues, with the House of Morgan waiting on the doorstep for pay- ments on account, the Briand-Caillaux cabinet will probably try to raise funds by taxation mea- sures that will hit the working class and the lower sections of the middle class. The initiation of these measures will transfer the acute crisis from the realm of parliamentary politics to the entire social structure. We think it can be said safely that the crisis we are told the lanterns pane that gave the signal for arousing, “every Middlesex village and farm” in advance of the British, got the following off his chest: “The greatest question before the American people today is ‘Whatyis our character?’ For it is this, and this alone that counts in the long run.” The gents who chronicle the happenings of the anniversary for the capitalist press become almost lyrical as they describe how the hero of the Lorimer bank scandal made a plea for “sharper self-denial in the nation’s life,” “for cleanliness of mind,” “for subordination of the individual to the gener- val good.” The Back Bay aristocracy and the textile barons who heard the speech of Dawes were doubtless greatly moved. So was Senator William Morgan Butler, dauntless champion of the right of the millowners to enslave little children. Eyes were wet as Dawes pointed out the lesson of freedom taught by the ride of Paul Revere, but the freedom to which they gave homage was freedom to rob the working class of America without interference from or division of profits with the exploiters of any other nation. Dispatches say that -_Dawes, invading the Cool- idge territory on this anniversary, was successful in lining up the “solid men” of New England be- hind him. We do not doubt this. Anyone who can combine sanctimonious utterance with. complete contempt for the masses, who can justify ruthless exploitation by biblical precept, whose American- ism is that of the rotary clubs, who preaches violent suppression of the workers in the name of the revolutionary founders, can get the ear and approval of the descendants of the “rum, molasses and niggers” aristocracy of New England. Puritanism has never been an obstacle to profits so Paul Revere’s ride becomes an excuse for a Dawes to deify plunderers and cover slavery with a mantle of christian ethics. The Class War in West Virginia Coal miners, members of the United Mine Work- America, and many non-members of the are on strike in the Panhandle district of West Virginia to force recognition of the organ- ization. The Richland Coal company, one of the biggest concerns affected by the strike, is preparing to evict the miners from company houses. The miners are given no notice and the company is. carrying ers of uinon, out the evictions under a court decision that for- feits the right of the miners to the houses the moment they stop work for the company. The close co-operation of the courts with the capitalists has been commented on in these col- umns more than once, but in no section of the United States is this recognition 4 the courts of the mastery of the capitalist more brazen than in West Virginia. The rule of capitalism that a worker is entitled to food and shelter only when he has submitted to a boss, is cartied out to the letter in this paradise of the steel trust. Reports from Wheeling are to the effect that a ntiimber of miners have already been arrested for violation of injunctions and trespassing, the legal fiction by Which miners are prosecuted for picket- ing. On May 3, in Wheeling, the contrast between the lives of the workers who dig the coal and those who live on their labor will be shown in a remark- able manner. A memorial meeting for, the 128 miners killed in the Benwood disaster will be held and no blanket injunction, legalization of evictions or prevention of picketing can prevent thousands of miners understanding that under capitalism they live, work and die for the enrichment of a brutal, idle class. At this memorial meeting any attempt by of- ficialdom to gloss over the class struggle will be treason of the blackest kind. The miners’ fight in the Panhandle district of West Virginia can be won only by raising the standard of the class war that rages there in an especially brutal form. Foreign Agitators Portugal in the southwest of Europe and Bul- in France is just beginning and that no cabinet | garia in the southeast, are torn by revolution. Both little states have been conducting mur- combination can hold power for any great length | derous onslaughts against the workers and peas- of time. many is the logical one for French capitalism, but | ants. The Caillaux policy with its emphasis on Ger- | dictatorial governments. Both nations are bankrupt and both have The people of Portugal ‘are Latins, of Bulgaria, Slavs. Portugal supported the big industrialists have had a taste now of the} the allied imperialists in the world war, Bulgaria fruits of expansion since the crippling of German to them to be a favored position. Neither will the banking fraternity look with favor upon the can- cellation of reparations, the reparations without which the French financial system is a punctured bubble. The masses of the whole workers and peasantry have remained passive during the cabinet crises that have succeeded one another because they have not beer asked to pay for the war. But some govern ment must pass on the war costs to the masses. None has yet dared to attempt this. Caillaux may be the one to show to the French workers and peasants that the war has not been paid for and that the real rulers of France—the interna- tional bankers—have presented their bill Paul Revere—1925 Vice-President Dawes, speaking at the one hun dred and fiftieth anniversary celebration of Paul Revere’s ride, held in Boston, furnished a fine example of what Paul LaFargue meant when he said that the bourgeoisie are torn between two ethical codes—one of business and one of private life. 3 The American Mussolini, speaking from the pulpit of the historic old North Church, from which Z | threw in her lot with those of the central powers. industry and will not easily relinquish what seems | In both countries the condition of the workers and peasantry is pitiable, the economic breakdown complete. The capitalist press may rave about foreign agitators, but unless capitalism itself has created the conditions for revolution, agitators waste their breath. What really causes the capitalist press to foam at its collective mouth is that there is today an international working class political party that connects these struggles of the masses in all coun- tries into a single struggle against world capital- ism. This is the Communist International. Communists are foreign agitators in that they acknowledge cialist Soviet Republics are foreign agitators. To the struggling workers, however, Communists are not foreigners no matter what tongue they speak. A*revolution in Portugal, a struggle for (Continued from; last issue.) ed on trade union unity: trade union unity is substantiated by facts. These facts are: of the British trade union delegation’s visit to Russia, the session and the resolution of the Amsterdam execu- tive, the decision of the general coun- cil*of the British trade unions to fon- vene a joint conferetice with the Rus- sian trade unions; for the purpose of clearing the difficulties; and the relations of the Barmat-social-democ- racy to the bourgeoisie. HERE are twovoppositions in the Amsterdam Intéffiational; a defin- ite revolutionary wing, definitely or- ganized and with a clear ideology, and a second, indefinite opposition with no clear ideology, which how- ever, reflects the Gevontent of the, masses. After the Ruhr emastrophe, even the Amsterdamers reéognized the nec- essity for new méthods in the labor movement. A large number of trade union centers are ¢afrying on a fight against the left opposition, The re- solution of the Amsterdam executive has satisfied no one; hence the new conference. HE fundamental factor of the unity problem is the question whether the fight against the Soviet Union shall be continued or not. In the guise of the unity question, there is to be found the basic ques- tion of old and new relations to the Russian revolution. The difficulties of the unity campaign are as follows: In the trade unions there never was unity; they were always divided ac- cording to political, religious, national and. racial points of view. It is a question of winning over not only the masses organized in red or yellow trade unions, but also those masses which are organized elsewhere or “not organized at all. HE systematic ‘sabotage of the unity movement by the Amster- damers must be broken. The social democrats energetically oppose every attempt at unity, and they reject all such proposals. In Yugo-Slavia the social democrats have replied that the unity of the ~wlitical parties must be established first. In France, the Amsterdamers de- mand the dissolution of the revolu- tionary trade union fractions. Unity can be established solely on the basis of the class struggle. ‘The bitter op- position of the. 7 xe may to the by the the class pratt yw apa HE speaker them-points to five es- sential.» deviations in our cam- paign: In the first’ place, an organiza- tional conservatism; secondly, the idea that the unity campaign was only a maneuver; thirdly, the idea of an unconditional unity;: fourthly, the tendency to weakem, our struggle against the social... democracy; and fifthly, the view that we simply enter the reformist trade unions. RGANIZATIONAL _ conservatism aims exclusively at the destruc- tion of the reformist trade unions and neglects the chief factors altogether. The view that the unity campaign is a maneuver is false. We want unity, because unity is the-primary condition for a successful class struggle. In spite of unity, our ideological fight igainst the social democracy must go on. Unconditional unity is nonsensi- cal, for in every country there are al- ready various conditions. The unity campaign is a matter of a long strug- gle which may last some years. The reformists demand that the R. L. L. U. be dissolved, but this cannot now be accepted, since unity has not yet been established. HE speaker enumerates various unified trade union Movement; coun- tries with a revolutionary minority: countries where the reformist major- ity can only be sustained with the aid of the police; ..¢ountries whose trade unions belong to no trade union international at all; countries in which we have a majority. scribe the trade uniéfi unity campaign in various countries. It England there is a unified, well-organized minority movement. It is our task to support and to strengthen this minority, in order to steer the ‘Whole trade union movement to the left. ized state of the British trade unions is very deterimental to the move- ment; it shall therefore, be our task to advocate trade unjon centralization. N Germany there exists an extreme centralism; the Jecal organizations have no freedom of: movement and are politically paralyzed. Here we _must therefore strive for political de- i no loyalty to capitalism, in the same« way that capitalist agitators in the Union of So-| the workers are with us. The view en- centralization. In Czecho-Slovakia _tertained by certain Czech comrades power in Bulgaria, for which the capitalist press | blames the Communist: International, shows that a world state state in which capitalists and their hangers on will be the onby foreigners. ee making—a and a member for the Workers Party, oh ~2 world workers’ state—is in the. ’ . : /possible without that it is permissible to establish unity with the social democratic trade unions, but not with the nation- al socialists or christian socialists is essentially false. N France the C. majority of the opganized workers; yet Jouhaux, the leader of the C. G. declares that. unity is only him. We shall be | glad to establish a without Jou- _ Every day get a “sub” for the DAILY W ORKER| haux. In France we mast create unity or- — ‘I MOSCOW, April &-—(By Mail).— OMRADE LOSOVSKY then report- The correctness of the policy of the Fifth Congress in the question of The result types of gore Russia, with a The speaker them proceeds to de- The decentral- one-fifth of G. T. U. has the gans, unity committees, ge ; 5 committees in the factories and shops, for the reformists themselves will, af- ter unity is established, try to, split) the unions anew, because they only }s want unity with Herriot. In ‘Tance the struggle for unity -must be con- ducted from below. N the United States thére are the most reactionary ‘trade unions which openly advocate unity with Coolidge. In that the struggle for affiliation to the Amsterdam Interna- tional and the campaign against the corruption pf the trade union bureau- cracy, are of revolutionary . signifi- cance. These are the five types of otras gle for unity. In order to attain in-| ternational unity, we must strive to establish unity on a national scale in every individual country. We must rouse the workers in the shops and factories for urtlity. MIGHTY factor in the unity strug. gle is the co-operation of the British with the Soviet trade unions. This co-operation began as early as 1920, when the first delegation vis- ited Soviet Russia; it was continued at the Hull Congress and at the 7th All-Russian Trade Union Congress. The Anglo-Russian conference will soon begin, and the representatives of the Soviet trade unions will bring up the question of a joint unity cam- paign. The Anglo-Russian bloc plays an important role in the struggle for unity. The joint activities of the British ard Russian trade unions de- pend upon the new tendencies in the British movement, namely,-upon the latter’s development towards the left. UR slogan remains: A UNITY CONGRESS. Special attention should be given to the trade union movement in the colonial and semi-colonial countries like China, Java, India. The united international must com- prise all. workers of the world, and not only those in Europe. The re- formists who are allied with the im- perialists will oppose the affiliation of the colonial trade unions; we must fight for such affiliation. The struggle for unity is a strug- gle for the masses, a struggle against the bourgeoisie and the reformists, between whom there are no differ- ences. We Are confronted by a cap- italist offensive. OW that the social democracy and the bourgeoisie have forced the 10- and 12-hour day upon the German proletariat, it is the turn of the Brit- ish and French workers next. The resistance of the working class must be organized against the capitalist offensive. Instinctively, the workers feel the approaching capitalist offensive, and they want unity. We must reach the masses by means of unity campaigns for concrete daily demands. We must possible; we must form a oie On with the left Amsterdam wing in le for unity; we must strength- d support the Anglo-Russian unity alliance, and consolidate the trade union movement in the colon- ies and our own organizations. Between two revolutionary waves, the struggle for unity. is a struggle for the majority of the workers, a strug- gle for the revolution. HEISS (Czécho-Slovakia) makes the announcement that the general strike in Ostrau Was declared against HAKEN (Czecho-Slovakia) reads the resolution of the Czecho-Slovak- | ian delegation, which supports the | Ostrau strike unanimously. HE chairman, brings up the motion of the pre- declare its solidarity with the strik- ers; the motion is mr unanirfi- ously. ned GALLAGHER (Rugland); The sit- uation in England is favorable to the movement. The urge of the working class to unite the scattered trade. un- ions, and to an alliance with the So- viet trade unions is growing. ever stronger. The greatest obstacle is the attitude of the trade union .bureau- cracy. ‘ Between the December, 1924, con- ference and the January, 1925, confer- ence, the minority movement has made great progress. The slogans of the minority movement for the cen- tralization of the trade unions, for joint demands of the various trade unions, and for individual membership found a great response among the masses. At the head of the movemént are the miners. The labor government had _ wor- sened the condition of the workers, and this strengthened the left ten- dency even in the general council of the trade unions.’ The conference of trades councils: decided in favor of unity. The right wing of the trade union leaders is in favor of unity. with im- perialism,. The speaker proposes that the executive, fest the tactics of the Communist, Party. of Great Britain. ARUS (Czécho-Slovakia): In spite of refo ig inivence, the work- ers of Czech@Sl6Ovakia has remained on the side of the Russian revolution, To neutralize..the.influence of the Russian reyolution, ‘the _reformists have issued: the;siogan of “Neutrality of the. Trade Unions”; however, the workers, haye; realized that the econ- omic struggle. turns. into,.a. political struggle. i The slogan-of, unity must be retain- ed. The wunityeaslogan meets with great response from the masses be- cause in, economic. struggle the work- ers have a.revolutionary. perspective. } Ira as many unity organs, unity; 1 the . ‘workers do not want to re | committees and mixed committees as. | the will and in spite of the prohibition | jof the reformist trade union bureau- |posed a clear policy, but the reform- Comrade Dorsey, | sidium to the effect that the plenum | | nounce the revolutionary tactics. _ It is the task of the C. P. of Czecho lovakia to increase its influence in the trade unions. The question of trade union fractions is of vital im- ce. The Communist Party must learn to make a weapon of the Red trade unions. IOLA (Italy): The trade -uniog movement in Italy is on the up- grade again. The Communists are heading the movement, whereas, the reformists and Maximalists are: sab- otaging it. At the reformist trade union con- gress in 1924, the Communtfst_ pro- ists rejected it, and confined them- selves to petty statute modifications. The most active elements were elim- inated from the congress. The.C. P. 1. has also done some work on the land, and has created peasant organizations. The reform- ists and Maximalists have only disor- ganized the movement; they only wish to organize the exploiters. . The reformists afe opposed to mass trade unions; to prevent unity, they even ally themselves with the fas- cists. However, the class struggle is becoming more acute from day to day, as was shown by the metal workers’ strike. The task of the Communists is te form shop committees everywhere, winning over the masses, to establish trade union unity in Italy, and to fur- ther international unity. ILKOVSKY (Poland): The unity 2 campaign in Poland is no mass campaign because even the largest unions have but few members. The reformist policy and the treat- ment the Communists receive at the hands of the reformists, compels the masses to leave the unions. The C. P. realizes that the conquest of the trade unions is possible only in mass organ- izations; hence the efforts of the party to bring the masses back into the unions. The demand for the formation of shop, councils is the best way of cre- ating militant organs. The party does not wish to have the shop councils compete with the trade unions. HE reformists are opposed to mass trade unions; they therefore split the revolutionary trade union move- ment and subject them to police per- secution. Simultaneously with the formation of shop councils, the party is issuing the slogan,“‘Back into the Unions,” in order there to fight for unity. Since the Polish trade union leaders are opposed to the British trade un- ion delegation, the party must un- mask them. Unity must. be established even ‘with the trade union of the national labor party. The 3rd Congress of the Polish C. P., has concretely formulat- ed the methods of struggle which will lead us to victory. By MORITZ J. LOEB. O we consider often enuf, in our striving to ‘build the Workers Party into a mass party, how seldomly the party itself as it is now function- ing conforms to the most elemental requirements for creating a mass party?. A mass Communist Party is not merely an organization of a great number of workers paying dues and accepting Communist beliefs. A mass Communist Party among other char- acteristics, perhaps most important of any of them, is a party that acts as = ROM May 4 to May 10 the member- ship of the Workers Party is go ing to try out an experiment in mass action to build the DAILY WORKER. The entire party, EVERY BRANCH, EVERY MEMBER, is going to popu- larize the DAILY WORKER with the masses and to sell DAILY WORKER subscriptions ALL AT ONE TIME. HE details of the experiment are simplicity itself. Every branch of the party will receive a bumdle of the current issue of the DAILY WORKER every day from Monday to Saturday. These .papers the. branch will distrib- ute each day, for a week, taking care that the same houses are covered with all six issues. Then on Sunday the branch will go out in a body armed with determination and sub blanks to visit each one of these houses to so- licit subscriptions. OMETIMES the party calls uncerits members to perform some difficult tasks. Sometimes these are so diffi- cult that there is some excuse when we fail to make a mass response. But this time there can be no excuses. This time we will be acting as a-mass to build our chief organ into a mass organ or we will fail because we are lacking in Communist willingness. Ox the day the mass of the Workers Party membership moves to build the DAILY WORKER we will be be- ginning to build a mass paper. 1 think that the beginning will be so manifestly successful that the prac- tice will cease to be an experiment but develop into a regular habit. 2 ie .- - - - tj - i) oe ‘«