Daily Worker
April 25, 1925
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PEP , * 4 AAN * . 5 oa 3 8 28 N o * ¥ 1 * . een ee . 5 2 4 r NEW YORK — — 2 — . eee at Chicago, Illino N pe 1 EDITIO — Be: mail, $3.00 per vr. a — — met under e Am et March.8, 1679. n * 0 . SATURDAY, . 25, 1925 = — ts of Po- — . a | : 7 „ aaah blished dann except Sunday by THE DAIL ; 8 a eee i — . . mee PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. W ¥ WOIKER : "order of AS WE SEI ‘tao LLS EDUCATIONAL. — — = itis W. Washington Bivd. ente n Price 3 Cents on yi a erent U, WITH SOCIALIST HELP, — HEADS. | | | GIRL — “OFLAMERTY ann MINER? UNION TO GIRL KILLED SELF = cali eee i S THE CLASS STRUGGLE — 1 ares that | ' 0 used . MAY TWELVE FOLL CRIMINAL | ue date, Charles date secretary of| N]. WORK, April 23 8 Were, ATTACK, IS arin’s ) of Soviet Ru ae WORKER last Friday about the Am egraphic dispatch (Special Day Worker) ; ar, wince sia, was, ere complete control of the W e American Federation of Labor) - INDIAN ind INDIANAPOLIS, Apri , ung into ducted its 3 rr n. accomplished fact. The nominal d renee Education Bureau is now an Headquarters: @f the ebe oe Madge Oberholtze: * y ist know the pr Para e has UU gee ominance of the A. F. of ‘ United Mine 7, victim of a ¢ | ay and practices of decome an organiza * . of L. previous! criminal atta Proposes ized hati e ly moral civil class collaboration wil} news and constitutional actuality. Their policy 2 . today sent out indictment 3 Sate cee al organ- States gov aA, . before, sty es te the W. E. B. to an even greater ext 5 g of the interna- + maT erage former ku ki \ Mepnencon, | * Tea pot Mg 2 government of | — » under the slogan of “impartiality” i extent than tional’ board of th 49 2 u Klux Klan leader, on a Ran r of 2 Jess Smith played a leading part in the conference YJ Matthew Woll, who organ e May 18 e id H Im d F avor 93 2 degree murder charge died — aa an ry ri E. ‘could shake the | ness.” H K “ wh g ampion of o eral im , ° 4 7 m mercurial poisoni tho advo- hands of the ment of the Nu e wanted no “isms” to be given to the workers pen-minded-| . aside bbiems are to be Sa 8 S ministered, acco * 1 Urge Labor to P rotest * t parties. sian workers and sa ee s- | italism. ve | that is, except cap- co red t ‘committee it was y enator of e. — rding to the verdict N , suftabdl not heatd th peasants. e have The ‘reactionarie understood. 7 aul F. Robinson return- Murder of 8 " 0 Rat U. S. has prof react 8, in their determi ed this afte ommuni fon than en with the assassin alee an Communists from gaining an nation to prevent radicals and above“ — president of the |. GREAT FALLS, Mont., April 23 The — 5 le league a ent, ents of e entry into the W. E. B., went to the exte — was ordered ar. S ater Burton K. Wh le “TI brief an e verdict was very (Speci " , * | e N Hungary; _. ne . (Continued on page 2.) extent] rested for n of In himself eeler, defending ef and was based on the report of pecial to The Dally Worker.) tical de- i Poland. ef fear | . . „ pol ow ' junction in on the witness stand in feder-| Pathologists and 4 LON uizational Lee? (00 08 some | sp al court here against ch °F | witnesses dh, Seatimony of | LONOON, “Age, Sas’: ae of differ- N Cool — his office to aid clients — 3 — white terrer i e ae Sa less ¢ 7 Coolidge administration is get- THE B terior depart et Boa fous : ced by three members of the Briti ess dis ting embarrassed 8 partment at Washingt T sh eee over the grow , +} mitted that he had on, ad- | parliament who arrived in Belgrade vee ing rumors that recognition i * * t ad appeared for Mon- yesterday from Sofi | | s not far ana oil clients ofia. They declared es us to off. Senator Borah’ before the depart th 1e politi * r Borah's arguments ap- ö of interior. Parcmens at hundreds of workers, and peas- politic: peared to have made a strong impres- 13 1 told C ) e ants were shot without trial and onl organiza- sion’ on foreign governmen — N ampbell that after I got on the slightest 2 t displace Idahoan. is chair — The , N o Washington, I would take th Deren eee Cus wey | 8 ae of the senate ; | permit ap,” Wheelet sald.in reph a : nth n . | | on foreign relations and | i | f a questi my & rarian parties. Member | : , on fro s of the left estcheria- | — position carries much ¢ prestige WHEN THEY ARE ALONE ALA John Slattery, dust what 1 as on wing of the socialist party are also that the | 8 +. and abroad. Secretary of State TS GETHE A for any constituent.” would do liable to be shot without trial. may join ] * er therefore found it expedient N FOR A WHILE” Aa ; , “Acted A 8 mn The bour- that entity ie v. s. ambassadors WITHOUT INTERFERENCE Vp fr "Ine you tall him you we rape st Josiah C. Wedgwood, W. 's ability 5 ere was no change in the atti- TH EY ad | \ (I te tals tee eh O a were going ee oan and P. B. Malone. The wners to- 2 mes yr K Street gov- THEN it. SETTLE f 2 the interior eee Booth ot GC — A 1 in the Sofia cathedral earn, owards the Union | 7 7 next b was the . s the direct outcome of the rei 8 | cialist Soviet Republic. of So N QRIEVANCES. 7 “y — 4. 1 11 P ayments Ruin of terror pursued by the Zankov Pa uestion,” | mF | it up as his - 1 was not taking ernment since it seized power, said dangers: ATEVER form the outward re- 7 , “You wate 2 ta “abet 5 ied Markets — ee A sive att! lations. between the capitalist Vj , you went to Washin 8 waen NEW of hundreds of Communit: and ; second- countries and the Soviet “Absolut gton”? 0 YORK, N. Y., April 23.—That peasant leaders during the past few : may take, the erst f utely—the firm was. That did German ia evident! hat years was the work of mi orbed by te, there will be no change of P / not bar me from doing f surpl y able to produce | ia! of military offi- he party, Fa, tee ee but bitter hatred eee ry goods enuf to meet the repara-|under the instructions of the ie atwee ’ or o ayment er the instruc roletariat ph Sov the power that stands for f these jurymen.” ne of | weg plan” oo for under the | regime. ructions of the Zankov arga dis- 3 ue ot the future and the — Wheeler denied the testimony ot ut Americar B — K. Knox, presi-“ They called on the B is theo- 125 at stands for the system that 24 George Hayes that he had bee an ankers’ Association, | particularly, for i e British workerg ly dan- as outlived its historical useful i proached by the sen veal ut mentioning how Ger- ularly, for immediate action to and now holds on with. the orcs 7 7 e eee to act before — is producing the surplus by la stop the bloody crimes being com- 1 force. It will be a war to yp abe \ : Fi: 7 D 11 the oll yh almost no wages. 3 — the people of Bulgaria, P 2 the two systems and the capt- A Europe. was in (of Sig aah for making the transfer ee n 1 —7d s dlist system must go. Of the event- Senator Thomas J. be surplus goods) without ad- he Bulgarian Yellows ual resul nt 0 Walsh, chief | Ferse international Th a - th esult of the fight there is not ~ ounsel for Wheeler, told the be worked mal results remain to e attitute of the British laborites e slightest doubt. : that witnesses are on the wa weed his stat gut,“ the banker adds in is in strong contrast to the Bulgarian : 5 * ee — New York to refute Hayes’ t 1 pind atement on the forthcoming con- socialists, adherents of the Second In- Rur TOPPING, h l Court Tak estimony. | ference of the International Ch ternationale. One of thos 1 y , head of the de- b = we 8 akes Recess of Commerce to be held amber traitors, Paskukh N ; 8. 5 | . passe was reached today in June eld at Brussels in ’ ukhoff, issued a state- the trial of Senator Wheeler ont “ F f tana, on charges of misuse of — rn The Insoluble Riddle. the Zankov dictatorship. It reads: 5 ö 0 “ 0 / and an indefinite recess of court w ent 8 problem of the immediate pres- 1 cathedral outrage and attempt | 1 ordered by Judge Frank S. Dietr as ent, then, is to develop ways and — the king form a part of a plan eee ntati | | ? f New witnesses from the . er ich, | means by which these goods may be pinspired abroad of which the agrarian i Cam- x * he Ff ? ois! et N — — S Y . awaited. are pre pr ae &edeGt ec en ty be af 8 in Bulgaria were instru- +: : ttle 1 10 0 W — Ms Recess Ww ctive and val ment. The plan wa ults ‘ittle propaganda for capitalism dur- : . 1 * as taken after Wheeler | says Knox, “ uable for Germany,” 3 s not solely directed 4 ing their visits here. This 2 iy Was dismi ox, “and, at the same time 2. he present government, but i ker.) — the bedding of “pi 10 5 N A ae | IK MW fe 22 e eee ’ 22. — In ganda,” however, a! isp : ; — . N and cross examination. Whgsler cin AR — to be disorganized and annihil- d , and there is no so ; — 8 W ö to his st - Whgeler clang The specter hated “ir order to conduct- anger of deportation for them. That 8 — =. Y \ na ory denying be ever practiced | dark r of German competition | tion of a 8 facilitate prociama- , ‘leveland 3 is reserved for working N 4 * Y ore the department of. the interior ie wis bankers’ horizon again. /Wffairs ec * . y Lod class leaders | wat ee SS — ' ox states that “Th ng to it. As a socialist, a prt n who voice the needs of a — W N eres, alded by the 8 eg and shall «criticize —. nan and . B | ’ . 2 \\} \ | N Tt OTHING 3 the Dawes plan, will give ite n ot the Sanaa eh N : , oi 5 . a 4 8 2 0 odge No. HE ex*minister agrees with Rea %4 | ' ry thot to this problem and, | Zaria is not ewe wy diag ty of St nhiral rh Seu. ) upon its successful soluti ot provoked by the policy of ekinovis, evil for pe r rA | 4 WORK : Fos future peaceful solution, depends the government. Bolshevist grit. ecretary. | gulf between * yt me * 1 * ! 4 1 IKE 78 R independent of government policy. 1 : } nd T the clawses” in Eng- + N 2 N In e “wore Bulgaria has been chosen by th : + Ba j ef he aristocrats and the labor- 1 2 eR, : n 8, the banker is ad-! Bolsheviki as a field. of action ‘si A | ot ee eet ee Oa ee N 18 * e last war did not solve | they think it! a r amend- : the ‘aristécrat me of uw . . the problem of market ends itself very easily ; govern- J but so f s are broke it is true, . we) a" — N * competition. s and German te Plans of those .wishing: to destroy ool Chit . perl * they have not showed up G a : * 7 W Vy NaN. ater peace in the Balkans and afterwards kan Caton 1 * * at the unemployment offices. / AS 2 “MA, 7 — pad Fight O Sh , Ki A — to provoke a world outbreak. islatures 10 to at 8 Gants eee * W 17 LABOR \ \ 7 AR. ) E 75 A : — ; Op Firm Ning lfonso of Western democracy is making 2 tull gov- . * mbitious American heir- W 3 MPLOYER. U ms J with Solid Front Spain Admit F mistake if it thinks the activities of 1 s. “Today there is great fellow- LA * ** 6 its rear the agrarian Communists are dem 2 2 in England and the son of an BRIDGEPORT, Conn., April 2 Of Soviet Power cratic. The isolation of 1 to come ed 2 Nee 1 1 After two weeks of waiting the Precis MOONY of European public opinion ncomes. ally by those who have al- DETROIT COMM —— | samated Clothing Work ab] MADRID, Spain, April 23— toward Bulgaria contribute greatly t err 3 for a living,” declared AN TO has received a refusal ot th wp 223, | military directorate of Spain The | tempting Bulgarians to support go ecg : Mr. Topping, ’ ‘ e demand 8 was : . : minatory the babs . 5 e rie of ROUSE WORKERS OF AUTO CITY HERRIOT STATES er to Abraham and Wolf, eben gon 33 strikes and to keep r — ů˙ ad n the un- ever looked * N ave struck 700 strong owing power of the Com- ; alkans. If European de Ae ‘erie ‘thet’ at a Et F This fi munists, King Al Com- mocraey and public that the duk a Russian rm has come out frank , P 8 fonso of Spain i public opinion woula ene a 8 eee skin out of UGE MAY DAY CELEBRATION ANGE il the open shop as a S eee gt * * (Continued on page 2) ble them erlin street. He was DE against the demands of the a, wee been the first t a aimee 1 N the kind of a living | pink a ee 33 oe 23.—Rebels of all shades of red—from light a mands for which the —— ae ov fact that n MASSACHUSETTS GETS strength- 2 o see an English early —wWw oin with the members of the W clothing workers are now striki pable of resisting the effort l g. oung Workers Leagu orkers Party, the as follows: ng are establish a 8 * t inst the + ie gue and the Junior section of the Y 8 L0u0WS. oviet government,” 1 celebration that promises to e Y. W. L. in a May Day Demand W fonso said. “Who knows i BBs SHANGHAI CHINA ON ORE original lies about B Th surpass anything yet undertaken in Det age Cut End tions wil ows if other na- J ; ulgaria. ursday, April 30, will witness th etroit. 1 The 44-hour weekly work will not be obliged to ab: j Zinoviev forgeries are May ist” , s the distribution of the “Down Tool I the reducti ork system; | legality for a time? abandon e . fig’: do’. e Wak Ar y leaflet before the factary gates. On Friday May 1, the Were. Bogey of Security Still 1 — va. —— last} of the sword 3 cadet: outline AN AMATEUR RADIO 4 4 + 4 8 or ose re- ” 8 every- . and ¥ | (Continyed on page 6.) ng mene, a the real propa- Bothers France eetrins, as more than $30, and $2 a where. (Special. to The Daily Worker.) e year. Twenty r r those getting over 330 — SHAN ’ . » t . ‘ a to be * GHAI, A | — Meet Americans in Peru NEGROES HANGED FOR . May 1 edition ee to The Daily Worker.) MI os at this time in accordance Spring Has Failed to amateur radio —— ta * R will be hand- RIS, April 23.—8 e promise that the w 2 first ti 8 Work- Cable Protest on CRIMES COMMITTED RY 8 out at the factory gates. This is subject of France’s ee was to continue for 3 = Bring Unemplayment 1 N when L. — Coolidge Decision WHITES N to give a tremendous impetus Herriot, newly elected president — monthe. Relief to se F " municated with 0 ta mee = — \ : 0 OF WEALTH lac ‘ae ALY here, as well as to] the chamber of:deputies declared in A minimum wage of $12 is asked Louis burndale, Mass. He l gp ae * es of | Winne April. 2. Presld 7 8 WORKER in hands the chamber today that France does tor all women apprentices and a 320 ST. LOUIS Fr) Spri Nirx and California * — 1 of * — ent Coolidge has recetved a *** — (Speelat to The Daily Worker) the . rr first time. When oo to repudiate her debts.” 9 men. Before a discharge to eliminate widedieeha r Syberg communicated with 6-RW . : test from American id N so great a distrib- s, the former premier said S mage ide ease must be taken ment in St. Leui unemploy-| and 6-5, two Californi al meet \ ain residents in Peru EW YORK, April 23—(FP) ution was first advanced, invol have weighed heavil aid, | with the greivance co — ulis. Employme is aprernia stations, — 1 8 N i ons : ent offi-| b ; | | he stud _ ny his arbitration award in the | Two Negroes hav the raising of $280 for olving| years. But F on France for | itary conditions eee 1 ces are swamped with applications org ie Sxpertmenting with 8 shor * Tacna-Arica dispute between Chile | e been executed, | it appeared to be a for! papers alone 8 rance desires to progress | with an must be established A distributing firm advertised way et wave transmitter in an effort to and Peru, it w one electrocuted and on a forlorn hope. But utely forward and can do: emergency rest room. men t istri se or 10 establish t be given state hee sg all at the for assaults upon white 8 ru be ote — 2 — A ee sacrifice Th onen ee N v 7 house at $2" 2 5 “ps house | * American me morrow Th @ usiastically and e eir material int e workers de 4 and 67 men ap- he e American residents i which a whit , ward ame for erests for the joys | j mand that the pract- | Plied. ap high branch Peru. it Was 8 s in Lima, e boy is now under ar with their pledges. Th of lightening the nati YS) ice of foremen in usi , | tated, joined i st E distrib ö e 20,000 ations burdens.” . using abusive and Also Talks To J St. (Lo- to the | n a cable rong suspicion and is bel ribution is now assured The French f profane langu: : epan president | ng held ed. oreign office guage .to. work 8 AN is wel- award was n his| for grand jury action at Maryville In the evening of May 1 all those was possible that Premier — . cease, all offending foremen — NEW YORK? — Bil. | 2 1 8 and asking that he amend it — 2 Tenn., the National Association toe oie mata es of the significance of May and Minister Briand would go to 0 abuse is proven, to be discharged. Smith has deten * Governor] WiNis, 921 655 + he . the plebescite, which he dere ace] the Advaneement of Colored Peo- Day will gather in the House of the don shortly to discuss with the British The union demands that experien- bill under which the Joiner 48-hour| Santa Monica . * 1 der the sole administration of „ un-| ple states, The White boy, em- Masses, 2646 St. Aubin, for the mass government measures looking toward ced cutters, operators and pressers| board could Pe the° state industrial] N. Wilbert 33 F tation RW By th * ot Amer-| ployed by an aluminum Ee 4 r a Jack Johnstone, secretary France's security from invasion —— be hired thru the union office vestigation, — —.— prolonged in- San Franelsee . : of promi , ° the Trad 1 ut if the uni : : a ’ e ours of labo | , ö 4 P nent family. Sie ae Pres eee the pana Ri Ig es to supply — 8 n T N Says ne has been in com- pany } MOB ATTACK ON WORLD WAR VE Party, and H. V. Phillips 3 GREECE, ROUMANIA AND may hire directly. rs, the firm | 6° court review. | the 2 — and dane ganizer for the 8 4 Workers Party M mornings. ae WEST VA. CALLED “SIMP ECC e \INTERNATION re e. LE ASSAULT” spare See 20 2 vocal * | ARGE BULGARIAN ARMY BBE ne ary tere made it a 100 per FORM ALLY KNOWN WRITERS numbers, d out and are stand f he NEW YORK, April 2 ni of Fi anc & group Gr nding solid. COMM f 3—Only a “simple „ nnish athletes will 2 at anten was show E TO ment.“ West Virginia author! ple assault,” the Pocahont 8 add a novel i the W s shown when mission officers of the law 3 “eur to Governor Gore of the mob * = 88 man the Pang = r FRENCH REGIME’ : * — Yh n * ware MeMillion at-Mariington, April 10. The * n 5 — will. go over big ae 23.—Greece, Jugo- | complete —— 22 way for a S BAN ON ROY o the Ameri 4s . mission is 25 c via and Rowmania will a mutant speech had called on Governor Go can Liberties Union whi cents. th protest to | for unity and gs es PARIS. A 22 — — e conference of : struggle. , April 23.—The expulsi ribe to re to investigate bs ee * 5 a of ambassad Pins. pulsion of Manabendr ; . — McMillion for his opposition to the ku — —. punish the mobbing of Hanged for Murder of Two against any inerease in the . i —— Communist Party ot India, from French costae * Roy, head of the bim! 8 conclude their report to the governor with an. The county authorities FREDERICKSON, N. B., April 23 lan army, it was learned today enim Also Lose Jobs. British government, has stirred public opinion Bor at the request of the 2 “Has been taken care of.” it has bee the assurance that the matter Harry D. Willi was hanged 8 8 They will contend that Buigarie’s B. NNATL, Ohio, April 23.— For- activities in behalf of the Indian liberation mov —4 Roy, because of hia -— 2 the charges , n “taken care of” by the di county jail for the e| present forces are suffici Be members of the Cinci .| high treason by th ‘tie / ovement, has been charged wi 4 against the mobbers. smissal of! bait nieces, Cd! murder of his two] serve order and that ae to pre- | police force cOrivicted of cinnati ‘wea ; y the British liberation movement. A .Pro-Indi — with „ thia an . — 1 / compli , s been 2 sion P . ia Co i * | 2 1 Ty at Fosterville Noy. — — Foster, exceed the fits set by * in the illicit Hquor traffic — 4 3 to handle the case. ’ mmitte@ | | ; N Jule AND) 6 of Versailles. aty | scandal, were dropped from _th ot st written by Henri Barbusse and signed by a . N ot the department today o rolis| writers and publicists has been sent to the Prédick #4 number of Frenc : +} . | é (Contin ch government and giv — ‘ ued on page 4.) betas —
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The Soviet government plans to send an expedition to the islands soon the red flag of the Soviet Union and make geological and geographical surveys of the entire region. lie ——— a | Woll Tries to Banish Class Struggle (Continued from page 1) of making themselves look ridiculous by bringing in a constitutional provi- sion that “no class or institution which carries on propaganda shall be eligible for membership.” This brought forth a considerable amount of dis- cussion and made of the Sunday morn- ing session the only one during the entire conference which wasn’t as dead as a prayer meeting. Some of the delegates pointed out that the term “propaganda” may be used to cover almost anything, that in fact, the trdae union movement and its members mist be propagandists for that idea and hence a grave dan- ger would ensue from the adoption of such a provision which today, was used for barring the Communists and lefts might at some future date be used to bar anyone or any group that did not completely fall in line with the conceptions of the ruling body. Lefkowitz-Waqll Combination. Lefkowitz, of the teachers’ union, put the case clearly. He said that he opposed the proposed constitutional amendment, but on the other hand thought they should come out clearly and definitely in their statement to bar Communists. On this, he, a so- cialist, was in complete agreement and would do all he could to aid them in putting over such a proposal and in seeing to it that it was put into effect, Lillian on the Fenée (it Was a Strong Fence) Lillian Herstein of Chicago wanted the “truth” pure and unadultered to be taught to the workers, not from any class viewpoint! Ray Ragazon of the Brooklyn Co- operative School was the lone fighter for opposition to the “propaganda” proposal on class lines. She said that she was against the resolution be- cause she was in favor of propaganda, working class propaganda; that she recognized the class division of so- —5 ciety and viewed workers’ education as education that taught the workers their interests and prepared them for a struggle against capitalism. To speak of workers’ education being im- partial is nonsense, Workers Party Statement an Irritant. The Workers’ School delegation, which had been denied the rights of voice or vote at the convention, pre- pared a lengthy statement of their non-admittance and on the Workers Party point of view on education. These were mimeographed and dis- tributed to all delegates and visitors a flurry in the ranks of the reaction- aries and also aroused bitterness among the wishy-washy socialists and liberals by its severe criticism of their complete bankruptcy and sur- render before the A. F. of L. machine. term working class” was taboo at the convention, even the socialists falling in line with the more respectable “people.” Capitalism was never mentioned by name. No word of the class struggle or of preparation for conducting it fell from the lips of any.of these delegates and “leaders” of America’s labor movement. Did Nothing Useful. The conference failed to accomplish a single useful task. True, it made of the W. E. B. a section of the A. F. L., with control completely in the hands of the central A. F. of L. ma- chine and the international unions. It showed the socialists creeping and crawling before the reactionaries, giv- ing up without the slightest pretense of a fight even that meager lip service which they had formerly given to the class struggle. .The struggle for a live and militant policy of workers’ education must be made, but spine- less “radicals” and liberal professors will never be the leaders of this move- ment. That task, among so many others, must fall upon the shoulders of the American Communists. FOR LIBEL SUIT BY WEALTHY JEW Flivver King, Notorious Hebrew Hater (Special to The Daily Worker.) DETROIT, April 23.—A suppressed suit for $1,000,000 charging libel, has been filed in federal court against the Dearborn Independent and Henry Ford, by attorneys representing Aaron Shapiro, of Chicago, it became known today. William Henry Gallagher, attorney for the Chicago man, stated that the suit is the result of libelous articles printed in the Dearborn Independent, Ford’s newspaper. The articles stat- ed, Gallagher says, that Shapiro was the head of a Jewish combine bent on getting control of American agri- culture. Announcement was made sometime ago from Chicago that such a suit would be filed. Court records show that it went on file here yesterday. A summons has been issued, but no service has been made on Ford. Bishop Brown Speaks. NEW YORK, April 23.—Bishop Wil- liam Montgomery Brown, who has twice been condemned by episcopal church courts as a “heretic,” spoke | before the Community church here, and read his “confession of faith,” which refuses to accept the bible li- terally. Warming Up in Chicago. With the thermometer registering 80 degrees at 10 a. m. here today and still climbing indications were that a new high point of all time for this season of the year would be reached before night. The high point for April, was 84.6 reached on April 19, 1915. WANTED IN DETROIT thousand before the factory gates. ous factories. Volunteers will at the district o NE HUNDRED Detroit Communists to participate in the biggest propaganda event of the year. T. May ist DAILY WORKERS are to be distributed Twenty automobiles must be at the disposal of the committee to take the papers and distributers to the vari- Men, women and automobiles shall present them- selves at the House of the Masses, 2646 St. Aubin, corner of Gratiot, not later than 12 o’clock noon, Friday, May 1. lease notify comrades Goetz or Owens beforehand so that all arrangements can be completed in time for this biggest event of the year. Communists! On to the factory gates on May Day! Twenty ‘ wey er * FORD IS TARGET "FREE HAWAIIAN RED SOLDIERS’, Cleveland to Hold Big Demonstration (Special to The Daily Worker.) CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 23.—The Cleveland local of the Young Workers League is energetically preparing for a mass demonstration against Amer- ican militarism which will take place on the public square at 2:30 p. m., Saturday, April 25. The young workers of Cleveland will voice their protest against the imprisonment of Comrades Crouch and Trumbull who were sentenced to 40 and 26 years respectively as a result of their Communist activities by an American court martial in Hawaii. Soldiers Belong to Working Class. 1 The meeting will demand the im- medfate and unconditional release of the two soldier-Communists and the recognition by the government of the right of soldiers to belong to working class political organizations, thru reso- the demonstration. The audience will be addressed by Comrades Phillip. Shatz and Carl Weissberg, members of the local ex- ecutive committee of the Y. W. L. and J. A. Hamilton, local organizer of the | Workers Party. The speakers will point out the true needs for military forces by capitalist governments and | the necessity of a bitter and unceas- ing struggle against all capitalist mil- | itarism. All Members Attend. | The local executive committee of the Y. W. L. feels that it is the duty of every league member to be present and help swell the attendance at the meeting and to assist in the distribu- tion of literature in order that this Chicago weather bureau records show,i meeting may have the maximum of success it deserves. Sand Hogs on Tunnel Job in New York on Strike Against Cut (Special to The Daily Worker.) NEW YORK, April 23.—Two hun- dred tunnel workers employed by Booth & Flynn, contractors for the New York-New Jersey vehicular tun- i nel, are on strike against a wage cut. They are members of the Compressed Air and Foundation Workers’ Union, Local 63. They havé been cut to the wages of laborers from the union scale for skilled men working under air pressure. Subscribe for the DAILY WORKER! reare at the convention, They caused quite LABOR DEMANDS lutions which will be presented at ‘ i THE DAILY : 4 CAPTAINSMADE NO EFFORT 10 SAVE | AILORS Japanese Crew Sank as Homeric Stood Near NEW YORK April 23.—The captain of the White Star liner Homeric al- lowed the Japanese sailors belonging to the crew of the Japanese freighter Raifuku Maru to drown without mak- ing a gesture to save them, passengers on the Homeric charged as the liner made port here. The liner stood by while the freighter sank, and Captain John Roberts gave no orders to lower lifeboats to go to the struggling sail- ors’ aid. Failure to try to cast off the life rafts attached to the Homeric by ropes, so that the waves would carry them to the Japanese sailors strug- gling in the mountainous seas, was the main contention of Captain Roberts’ critics. Amos R. E. Pinchot,’ brother of Gov- ernor Pinchot of Pennsylvania, was one of the group of passengers who said they saw Japanese sailors strug- gling in the water after the Raifuku Maru had disappeared. “The captain’s statement,” he said, “was extremely inaccurate when he said there was no life in water after the freighter capsized. “I personally saw several men be- ing carried toward the Homeric.” Liston L. Lewis, a New York attor- ney, one of the passengers, said: “I was not impressed that the Homeric upheld the traditions of English sail- ors. I saw several men struggling in the water after the Japanese ship cap- sized.“ Leaders of British Labor Score Bloody Zankov Regime (Continued from page 10. lend their moral aid to Bulgaria, great good will be done and the props which support Bolshevism will gradually fall.“ , The object of this appeal by the yellow socialist was to induce the gov- ernments of England, France and Ita- ly to accede to the request of the Zan- kov government for, permission to in- crease the standing army. The Bri- tish minister in Sofla succeeded in having the Jug government drop its hostility to this proposition and Roumania and Gre % protested in vain. As a to the two latter countries, Bulgaria will not be allowed to increase her artillery sup- ply. It should not be forgotten that there are approximately 30,000 of Wrangel’s army still u Bulgaria, who are at the disposal of the fascist lead- er Zankov. May Slit King’s Windpipe It is rumoured that King Boris wanted to call a halt on the reign of terror and is imprisoned in his palace. Zankov is just as Mable to cut the royal throat as not. The Berlin bureau of the New York World declares that Bulgaria is trembling on the verge of revolution. The European capitalist powers are making a united front with the Zan- kov government. This alljance is led and dominated by the British who are the original supporters of Zankov. One report puts the killed in the fighting at 60,000, but this is probably an exagerration. While it is almost impossible to believe any news that comes officially out of Bulgaria, there is reason to believe that the peasants have risen in several sections and are holding their own against the Zankov troops. Wood, Philippine Dictator, to Raise Funds in America MANILA, P. I., April 23.—Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, dictator over the Phi- lippine Islands on behalf of American imperialism, will soon launch a drive in the United States to collect a mil, lion dollar fund. The fund is to be used, according to Wood, to purchase chaulmoogra oil, which is said to be a new cure for leprosy. Sentence Soldier to Hang MANILA, April 23.—Private Wil- liam Johnson, United States army, was sentenced to hang here today for the murder of Private William Willoughby. Johnson shot Willough- by after they quarreled as to the cor- rect procedure on the rifle range. Give Up Fight on Ship Monopoly WASHINGTON, D. C., April 23.— The Pacific Mail Steampship company today abandoned its suit against the United States shipping board to pre- vent sale of five “president” type liners to the Robert Dollar Line. WORKER — 1 2 hy Ae ake ee oH er Ay a we * ” Government Again Applies the Lash To Its Postal Slaves By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ODAY, the U. S. Post Office Department, that very recent- ly opposed unsuccessfully a w increase for the postal workers, shows that it possesses all the qualities of a blood- sucking capitalist taskmaster. few more pehnies in wages, the first increase in years, the , is demanding at least five more of work. Such an order has post office autocr the workers won a ir cent n issued officially by John H. Bartlett, the first assistant postmaster general. The worst exploitation in the whole government exists in the postal service. The wonder is that there has not been an open rebellion. The postal workers have been content, however, with congressional investigations, that resulted in little but the recording of the terrible conditions under which the slaves of the government toll. The most unbelievable and deplorable sanitary condi- tions have been exposed. The use of stop watches, speed- up methods and “time studies,” specifically forbidden in other governmental departments where the workers are bet- ter organized, have been revealed. One worker has been pitted against another, with the understanding that spying activities are the basis of promotions and wage allowances. : * * * * tasks at break neck speed. The workers in the postal department are kept at their 3 In the railway mail service it has been shown that the work required has gradually in- creased during the last 11 years. This is vividly brought forth by the fact that while there has been a 200 time. per cent increase in the volume of mail handled, there are actually a fewer number of railway postal clerks in the service now than in 1914. * These conditions, if continued, as they will be, must find their sequel in greater struggles on the part of the postal workers, forcing them to build militant unions in place of the loose and bootlicking organizations they have at the present They will be forced, on occasions, to resort to the strike to win their most meager demands, just like the coal min- ers, the railroad workers, and labor in other industries. Then the whole capitalist press will howl with horror, that the employes of the sacred government should cease to work; that the carrying of the mails should be — — This press will urge legislation, if such has not already een put on the statute books, forbidding these “public employes” to strike. Heated propaganda, as is the case in every rail- road strike, will be poured forth, arguing that the carrying of the mails must not be interfered with. The government has the power to force its postal slaves into the army, and under threat of martial law and trial for treason, force these workers to break their own strike. of the functions of the capitalist state, carrying out the wishes of the great capitalists. 0 This oppression is one The great masses of postal workers and other public employes do not understand this at the present time. But they will learn thru the misery forced upon them in their daily work, a misery that they must carry home to their families, into all the phases of their lives. The demand of the taskmasters at the head of the post office department for an increase of five per cent in work turned out, should meet with an immediate response. A lessening of effort on the part of the postal workers should be the reply. Labor must demand increased wages for the shorter workday; in the postal service as everywhere else. But labor will never realize its that calls for the last ounce of effort from its wage workers, oal until this slave system, is swept away; until Communism comes to supersede cap- italism. The postal workers will learn that, too. Three Days Left Before Fake Teachers’ Salay Raise Gets Action For two hours the board of educa- tion met behind closed doors in an effort to get the McAndrew new sal- ary schedule O. K.’d by a majority of the members before it went before the regular open board meeting. But it failed in its efforts. Trustees Hart Hanson, Mrs. David Gregg, J. Lewis Coath and James Mullenbach voted against it. When it came before the regular meeting for consideration, Mrs. W. 8. Hefferan once more rose to the super- intendent’s call and moved for a de- ferment until the special meeting Mon- day morning. The motion was passed, On Monday Trustee Julius F. Smie- tanka, chairman of the finance com- mittee, will have returned from out of town and his vote is expected to make the necessary majority. The new school budget for 1925 of $66,000,000 passed by the board contains appropriations for education- al purposes amounting to $41,202,000; for building purposes, $22,701,000; for text books, $851,000; foor playgrounds, $636,000, and for teachers’ pension fund, $610,000. This hectic rush to get action on the recommendation is an effort to ward off its being held over for the new board which will bé named by Mayor Dever on Monday afternoon, The Los Angeles Returns HAMILTON, Bermuda, April 23.— The U. S. dirigible airship Los Angel- es left its moorings here at 9:40 this morning, sailed over the islands an headed north at 10 a. m. on its way back to Lakehurst, N. J. —_— 7 most on oo | Chicago Comrades—A Job for You! NUMBER of comrades are urgently needed to visit prospective subscribers "to the DAILY WORKER that have already been circularized with free copies. This will take you only an hour at ~\ SATURDAY OR SUNDAY. Call for 1 or phone Monroe 4712. : 8 * | NEWSPAPER OWNER IS FIRST AMBASSADOR T0 RUSSIA FOR JAPAN (Special to The Dally Worker) TOKIO, April 23.—Tokich! Tana- ka, former vice minister of foreign affairs has been selected as Japan's first ambassador to Soviet Russia. Tanaka is president of the Japan- ese Times and Mail, an old estab- lished English language daily pub lished by Japanese. M. Kepp has already been chosen ambassAddor to Japan by the Soviet government. , Dm FREIGHT SHEDS Overload Reward for Efficiency By LAURENCE TODD Federated Press Service WASHINGTON, D. C., April 23.— Fairfax Harrison, president of the Southern Railroad, who has for many years been known as a good“ em- ployer, who dealt gladly with the shop unions and who restored the old em- ployes to their positions after the set- tlement of the shop strike of 1923, has become a hard boss. The word has gone forth that there will be no fur- ther increases in pay, for any group of employes of the Southern, until its common stock has reached par. Negro Freight Handlers Strike. One of the first revolts against Fair- fax Harrison’s new policy of squeez- ing further profits out of the employes has broken out in the city of Birming- ham. Colored men employed as freight handlers have struck. Their com- plaint is that the company has placed sideboards on the freight trucks which they drag about the terminal, so that they are called upon to pull loads twice as heavy as before. Protests did no good. They decided that they had reached a status higher than mules. They quit. No appeal has been made to the railroad labor board. They will fight it out. Whether the strike will spread to other cities will depend upon whether Harrison directs that similar overloading pe attempted elsewhere. Negro labor on railroads in the South is not so docile as before the world war. ; Living in Washi n, Strikers Know Tricks of U. S. Arbitration“ WASHINGTON, April 23—(FP)— Proposal by John B. Colpoys, federal mediator, tWat they meet the “fair wage” committee created by the speculative builders, real estate men, bankers and certain contractors to fight all wage increases in the Build- ing industry, has been rejected’ by the striking painters. They refuse to deal with any other organization than the master painters. Newspaper advertisements for strikebreakers resulted in between 40 and 50 applications for this work, at the bosses’ headquarters. Union plumbers and steamfitters continue to quit jobs where strikebreakers at- tempt to do the painting. — : * ’ Foreign Exchange 4 NEW YORK, April 23.—Great Bri- tain, pound sterling, demand 479 §-16: cable 479 8-16. France, franc, de mand 5.18%; cable 6.19. Belgium, franc, demand 5.08%; cable 5.04%. Italy, lira, demand 4.09%: cable 4.10 Sweden, krone, demand 26.98; cable 26.96. Norway, krone, demand 16.27; cable 16.29. Denmark, krone, demand 18.44; cable 18.46. Germany, mark, unquoted. Shanghai, tael, demand 73.- 75; cable 74.25. $3,000,000 Blaze Smoulders. Smouldering masses of thousands of bushels of grain, twisted and charry masonry and steel was all that remained today of two big grain ele- vators on the south side ag a result of a fire which burned thruout the night, started fifteen other small blazes, imperiled the entire district, and caused a loss of $3,000,000. A 4 * All Hands Lest In Jap Steamer. WASHINGTON, April 23.—All mem- bers of the crew of the Japanese steamer Raifuku Maru perished when their vessel sank in mountainous seas off the Nova Scotia coast, according to a radiogram received today by the coast guard service. That Bundle For May First! Rush your order in. may be in. Both the DAILY WORKER and the WORKERS MONTHLY will be ready to ship to you and both are special May Day issues that will surely arrive in your city on time—no matter what part of the country you Special Issues DAILY WORKER ... .......:.:.:.:.:.:.:., 2c a copy WORKERS MONTHLY ................ 18¢ a copy (16 in Bundles Over 50) ————— Clip, Attach Remmittance—Mail Today (Wire if you are in a pinch) DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blyd., Chicago, III. 11 copies DAILY WORKER for the enclosed —ů ů copies WORKERS MONTHLY State:
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as placed 16 world ton, ricks tion“ —(FP)— „ federal he “fair by the ate men, ctors to he Build- d by the @ to deal than the r — — REQ . . ; “**+ ai & > © © * 1 — J * * ~ * 5 rr rn. JUDGE, N YS LAW IRES ALIENS SHOW TNNOCENCE Orders Deportation of E. Vajtauer (Special te The Daily Worker.) NEW YORK, “April 23.—BHmanuel Vajtauer, editor of the Obrana, who was arrested about two months ago and sent to Bilis Island, is to be de- ported, according to a decision of Judge Hand; rendered Monday, Judge Hand declared that Vajtauer must speak and tell him, the court, every- thing that the court demands or suffer the penalty. The government did not have to prove him guilty, he * to prove his innocence. Emanuel Vajtauer is a revolutionist of long standing. He is a writer and speaker and has never failed to present the full Communist position. Vajtauer, like all Communists, does not regard the home of his birth as the only field of his activity. On the eontrary, wherever Vajtauer has come he has carried on propaganda among the workers to enlighten them on the state of their exploitation. This is a crime in the United States—as it isa crime in France, Great Britain and every other capitalist country. Deport Only Radical Workers. Bspecially the foreign-born worker is supposed to keep his mouth shut— particularly the revolutionist. Italian fascisti, Russian counter-revolution- fiste—grand dukes and social-demo- crats like Abramovich—patriotic Croa- tian writers and their ilk may tour the country, may write whatever they please as long as it is in the interest of the capitalist class and their cap- italist. government. But the moment a worker who works in the interest of the working class nisses kis voice he faces the capitalist court. This has been the fate of Com- rede Vajtauer as of hundreds of other revolutionaries in this country. Aid Asked at Once. The Labor Defense Council, which ig conducting the defense of Vajtauer, is appealing the matter to the supreme court of the United States. Comrade Vajtauer.is in very bad health owing to the long “sojourn” on Ellis Island, where the vile conditions have broken down his health. He must be removed from .that..pesthole. The Labor De- fense Council hopes to.get him out on dell. ‘ To fight the case in the highest eourt of the country demands funds, and the class-conscious and revolu- tionary workers are urgently request- ed to contribute as generously as pos- sible. Send all contributions to the Labor Defense Council, New York Section, 108 D. 14th St., New York City. Does your friend subscribe to Ihe DAILY WORKER? Ask him! r. d e 888888 > An important work and practice during the period that Lenin lived and led—the period of Capitalist Im- perialism. This book, ment. Add this important W K eee Ke Se * * | | first time in this country, is written by a close co-worker of Lenin, at present secretary of the Russian Communist Party and a figure in the In- ternational Communist Move- to become one of the classics of Communist literature, to your library. Attractively bound, treat to the intelligent worker and the stu- dent of the revolutionary movement. With frontispiece (photograph) of the author. 35 CENTS. CH ATING ALIENS OF CITI NEW WRINKLE IN WA GOVERNMENT AGAINST. FOREIGN-BORN SHIP OF THE family is not residing in this country.” +— Crist claims that this ruling is based on a declaration of Assistant Secretary of Labor Henning, dated Jan. 31, 1925, in which Henning says: “An alien whose family is in Europe has never lived in the United States, no matter how many years he ma have been here. He cannot be natur- alized because he has not complied with the requirement of the statute that he must have resided here five years. It is the common law of the United States, and the common law of the world, and sound doctrine and decent philosophy, that a man resides where he haé ‘his family and main- tains his family.” When the Federated Press corres- pondent asked permission to be ad- mitted into the presence of Henning, to learn where he discovered this law, Henning sent out word that he would not be seen on that subject. Finally Mr. Cook, private secretary to Secre- tary Davis, was seen. Cook declared that “a majority of the courts of this country” have held that an immigrant does not establish his residence here until he has his family here—no mat- ter if he has spent many years clear ing a farm, building a house and sending part of his earnings back to Europe to maintain his family and buy their tickets for the trip to Amer- ica. “We want to keep the families uni- fied,” said Cook. “We don’t want an alien to come in here and get citi- zenship and then send for his wife who has alien citizenship, unless she comes in under the quota. If she different matter, but we are not. go- ing to fail to ask the courts to refuse naturalization to men whose wives might by that fact be added to the quota.” This game is understood to be con- age, called “alien registration,” which he has presented to congress each year since 1921. Meets Saturday Eve The regular monthly meeting of the Metal Trades Group of the T. U. E. L. will be held Saturday, April 25th, at 722 Blue Island avenue. Meeting is called for 7:30 p. m. The result of the elections in the Machinists’ locals will be reported and also other reports will be made. This meeting promises to be very interest- ing and all left wing metal trades workers should be present. rr b Theory and Practice of LENINISM By l. STALIN. on Communist theory issued for the work, destined surely this book will be a ara. G eee ei eo oe oe oe 8 oe |S oS oS ] 1 * — „ GET IT FROM YOUR BRANCH OR CITY AGENT—OR THE DAILY WORKER ‘ rr (By The Federated Press) PITTSBURGH, April 23.— The workers in the Eclipse 5 of the United to further reduce the total of immigration and to make the newcomers feel the authority of the federal governmental machine, is being steadily developed into a system under the present regime in the department of labor. A circular (No. 106, issued Feb. 14, 1925) by Raymond F. Crist, commis- sioner of naturalization. instructs all naturalization agents thruout the coun- try to oppose the granting of all petitions for e . the can get in under the quota, that’s a nected with Davis’ scheme for estab- lishing a system of industrial espion- Metal Trades Group ae SY OY { ee r rr, . Se B. & O. JOHNSTON FEARING DEFEAT EXPOSES MACHINE “Use Your Own Method But Get the Vote That the machine of B. & O.“ John- ston is feeling a bit groggy at the early election returns of the Interna- tional Association of Machinists, and is ordering its tools to get the vote by fair means or foul, is shown by the following letter sent to his crea- tures all over the country by Charles Taylor, Johnston’s campaign manager, a copy of which has come into the hands of the Trade Union Educational League: “Use Your Own Method, But Get the Vote.” It is noticed that in this letter Johnston contradicts the boasts about having a “walkaway” which he is making publicly, and orders his tools to “use your own method, but get the vote.” Nor is there any buncombe in this letter about “saving old glory” from the “reds.” It is a plain case of “Save the Johnston machine its jobs.” The letter, dated from 428 Irving street, N. W., Washington, D. C., on An llth is, in full as follows: “Important. “Dear Sir and Brother: A careful and searching analysis of the known results of the voting in the local lodges thus far reveals the following: a That the Anderson group are working early and late to turn the tide in their favor especially in our Strong points. bre results to date indicate that the Johnson men are not work- ing as hard as the Anderson men; in other words, the Anderson men have the ‘jump’ on us in general. „There is danger in this be- cause it is necessary to overcome the ‘rally’ the Anderson men are making now. couraging, speaking generally, al- tho some of our points are making good reports. , It is necessary that you get after your key men in person or by personal letter. See that they are well sup- plied with our slates. The Anderson group have flooded the country with theirs. “We can win if you get the ‘vote’ out of the lodge and into headquarters. Use your own method, but get the vote out. Nothing else will count. “We, here, appreciate the hard work you have done, but we also must stress the fact that the other fellow is apparently working harder than we are, and they are absolutely unscru- pulous in their methods. ‘Intimida- tion’ is their main weapon. “In some sections we have cause to be optimistic; in others, the reverse is true. We expect the ‘good’ sections to outvote the ‘poor’ sections; so, don’t any of you men in the ‘good’ sections stop until every member has voted for ‘Bill’ Johnston and the real pro- gressive ticket. “We said Let's go’ on January Ist. We went. Now keep going till April 30, as we need the votes. Let me hear from you. Regards, “Chas, Taylor, F.“ Warden Says That We Are Getting More And More Radical!“ The following letter from the war- den of San Quentin prison in Cali- fornia is offered for the readers of the DAILY WORKER, and speaks for itself: “CALIFORNIA STATE PRISON AT SAN QUENTIN, April 13, 1925. „Walt Carmon, Circulation Manager, The Daily Worker, 1113 W. Wash- ington Bivd., Chicago, III. “Dear Sir: Responsive to yours of the 10th instant, please be advised that standard magazines and daily newspapers, printed outside the state of California, also good books, are allowed in this prison as long as they are sent direct from the publisher or some reputable dealer. No radical papers or magazines are permitted in prison. “The DAILY WORKER has been coming into the prison for several of our inmates. However, at this time I am informed by the offiver who is in charge of the distribution of mail that the DAILY WORKDER is becoming more and more radical, and in all probability we will be obliged to in- form the inmates that because if its nature the DAILY WORKER will not be permitted to be received by them. “Yours very truly, “F. J. Smith, Warden.” Patropiae our advertisers. . “d—The ‘voting’ so far is not en- 12 . THE — 2 — v! — —— A SMALL BIZ BEING SMASHED BY BIG CAPITAL “Buy lowa Coal” Drive Doesn’t Help Miners By TOM MATTHEWS. (Special to The Daily Worker.) DUBUQUE, ‘Iowa, April 23.—Little business is feeling hard blows. Lit- tle business is. complaining. On one side of the street you may see the chain shoe store, on the other the local proprietor who exhibits sell- ing-out signs. Even the barber shops are “going scab” and offering 15-cent ness. The independent coal operator is perhaps hit the hardest of all, with the small town banker a close sec- ond. Imperialist “Benefits.” The Iowa workers and farmers, like their brothers in other states, are suf- fering as a consequence of the impe- rialistic development of American capitalism. While practically every newspaper in these parts is appealing for in- vestment and development in local en- terprise, no less than $1,268,000,000 of American capital was invested in foreign securities during the year just past. Thus small business in every field is being forced to the wall while America’s finance-capitalists are plunging into foreign industry. The gold piled into the coffers of the capitalists of this country as the result of the war is not creating an inflation of business, which would mean temporary prosperity for the small business man and his petit- bourgeois brother, the skilled crafts- man. It is the law of imperialism that the Sufplus capital of big busi- ness must not lie idle,-and so the {gold exports from the country are tak- ing on ever larger proportions as the purchases of foreign securities mount high above the trade balance, Exporting of Capital. Thus in 1924, the excess of foreign securities purchased above the trade balance totaled, in round figures, $290,000,000 in comparison with an ex- cess of imately $165,000,000 in 1928 and $120,000,000 in 1922. The gold Which was going to bring prosperity American small busi- ness is no “being shipped out to fo industry, while the mists are kept busy trying to in what it’s all about, fand Iowa. newspapers tell their read- ers that everything is all right, but that they must be loyal to home en- terprise. “Buy lowa Coal.” The United Mine Workers is try- ing to buck the capitalist buzz-saw in Iowa by appealing to the people to “buy Iowa coal.” In the camps thru- out the state the miners have their flivvers adorned with “buy Iowa coal” signs. But the scab coal from Ken- tucky and West Virginia is being ship- ped into the state and sold, never- theless, with the railroad brother hoods helping in the process. The railroad unions are experiment- ing with an “escape” from these con- ditions in the shape of the “B. & O. co-operation plan.” On the Chicago and Northwestern the men vofed this upon the com- pany, even against the advice of the bosses in some instances, and the plan is now being “tried out” in cer- tain shops. The only tangible result seems to be the making of stool pig- eons out of some of the men, in that they spy upon each other and report inefficiency to the boss. Refuse-piles and inconvenient locations of ma- chines are solemnly reported for ac- tion by the “proper committee.” Thus do the small business men, in both stores and unions, fight for a foothold within the framework of the capitalist system. The Workers Party points out the nature of the capitalistic system of society which compels the finance- capitalist to export his surplus to for- eign lands, and shows the worker and working farmer that his hope lies not in class co-operation but in working class solidarity. While a few groups here and there are allowed a foot- hold the inevitable pressure upon the great majority is beginning to have its effect. Thus on the Baltimore and Ohio, it is true, the particular group of workers employed is offered steady work “even to the building of the company’s equipment in its own shops.” But as surely as these workers are “protected” in this way, some other group must suffer. The Northwestern for instance, may buy the loyalty of its workers by building its own cars, instead of having hundreds of them built at the Bettendorf steel works, just out of Davenport, lowa. So the capitalists are taking advan- tage of the “craft consciousness” of their slaves and using this narrow, in- dividualistic spirit for their own ends. The workers must either wake up to the situation, or some fine morn- ing learn, too late, that their organiza- tions have been completely disrupted by this poison of class-collaboration. YOU CAN BUILD WITH THE * 2 — * shaves as an inducement. for busi- — — — sp Note — Thie paper is those who work and sweat under — ofit. DAILY W WORKER. In order to make to reflect the life of the wide labori TO WRITE TO US. This new de make the letters ee ae workers in other sections o point. LAUNDRY WORKERS — — — — — — — nted for the workers, present system of — a of the workers, by the workers and 1 the ors. corner of this country where labor is being exploited for private gains, for We want the workers and farmers all over the country to read the poor farmers and It is a paper e want to reach every it natal interesting and be able better mass WE WANT OUR READERS t “HOW WE LIVE AND WORK’ partm will a as often as there will be — letters from our readers about the it e and working conditions under which our masses struggle. Try to bringing out facts which may not be known to the country. Try to make them short and to the INJURED BY SPEED UP SYSTEM AND USE OF OLD AND DANGEROUS MACHINES a gift from the owners. degree. by the ald, wornout machinery that By A LAUNDRY WORKER CORRESPONDENT. WASHINGTON, April 23.— Cheating immigrants of citizenship, in order Laundry Co. of Pittsburgh are beginning to realize that they have to look for relief from their Conditions other than whatever is handed to them as They are beginning to offer resistance to some They know of the danger constantly facing them of being injured the owners are installing. Saving Money—Wasting Life. When a washing machine wears out in one of the plants the owners very seldom buy a new one but bring one from another plant which has been out of commission for at least two or three years. Recently one of the doors on an old machine got loose and when the operator told the mill- wright about it he replied, “Go ahead and use it I ain’t got time to fix it now, I have too much work to do.” He continued to use it and while in motion it flew open and tore up the machine. It took a week to fix it so it could be used again. Some one asked the operator why he didn’t report to the superintendent when the millwright refused to fix the machine and got the answer, “It won't do no good, they all want us to work like hell to get the work out, but won't take time to keep things in or- der; if anything happens they blame me while the machinery is not worth a damn. All of the extractors are loose on the foundation, belts always slipping off; the electric switches are liable to shock the operator every time he starts the motors up again.” Heavy Casualty List. It is quite a usual thing to see the workers in this plant going around with their hands, fingers or head ban- daged from getting hurt by the ma- chines on account of neglect on the part of the owners, gun, howayey to stop using old ma- chines whén ey get to a point of lessening the output of work. I asked one operator the other day why won't the bosses have brakes put on the extractors and a new set of belts put all around, now that they are needed. He said, “the bosses don’t care how many of the workers get hurt but it costs money to keep things in a safe position to operate, and when anything happens to us they say it is our own carelesssness.” Be Careful—But Not of Yourselves. He pointed to a sign on the wall which read as follows: “Every piece of laundry you handle represents dol- lars and cents. You wouldn’t be care- less with money so please don’t be careless with the customer’s clothes. Carelessness is the cause of all trou- ble in the laundry business. Try and help us give better service.” In this way they try to cover the crimes on life and limb of the work- ers caused by their old worn out ma- chinery. BLIND VICTIMS ARE EXPLOITED IN WISCONSIN (Special to The Daily Worker) MILWAUKkiu, Wis., April 23.—In- dustrial organizations of the blind of over 2,000 and penal institutions are producing goods to compete with the industrial workers. The socialist party of the city is doing nothing to curb this evil and it is rumored that the Milwaukee Leader is getting its share by securing advertisements of the concerns handling prison made goods. Silent on Unemployment. Mayor Hoan, while pleading for money to help build the workshop for the unforiammate blind is discreetly sil- ent on aten of unemployment. It would seem much more reasonable to give the workers an opportunity to earn their living at union wages rather than put to work the blind and use their products in competition with the organized labor movement. The unfortunate blind should re- ceive the support of the state instead of being put to work to which they are not adapted and which should be done by healthy people. Talk it up—your shopmate will subscribe! They have be- GREEN INDORSES PET SCHEME OF HOOVER TO RAISE BOSSES PROFITS NEW YORK, April 22.— William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, has indorsed Herbert Hoover’s pet scheme, the American Child Health Association. Herbert Hoover made public Green’s statement supporting his drive in the public schools. At the same.time Hoover made public a statement by Dwight Davis, acting secretary of war, which de- clared, “The economic loss resulting from decreased earning capacity, ab- sence from work, doctor’s bills, in- surance, and from other ills, is stag- gering.” l. M. M. GENERAL OFFICE TO MOVE TO THE SUBURBS 3333 West Belmont to | Replace Old 1001“ After so many years in their old Chicago headquarters that 1001 West Madison street had become almost a stereotype address in radical and la- bor circles, the Industrial Workers of the World are moving before May 1 to a new home. The expiration of the 1001 lease and a huge jump in rental demanded by the owner impelled the general executive board to move as an economy measure. The new location is 3333 W. Bel- mont avenue, a one-story building witlf over 12,000 square feet of floor space. It is being purchased by the I. W. W. with the financial aid furnish- ed by the Garland fund, and will house the organization’s printing plant and equipment, the general executive board offices, Industrial Solidarity, the official weekly and The Industrial Pioneer, the official monthly, as well as 6 foreign-language publications. Subordinate unions with headquar- ters there include No. 110 (agricul- tural workers); 120 (lumber workers,) 310 (general construction workers), and the small industrial unions. Itinerant wobblies find a good feat- ure of the new home, which is on Chi- cago’s northwest side, to be a railroad right of way adjoining. This, they opine, compensates for the great dis- tances from “the stem,” the Madison street job agencies and flophouses. — ee Gompers Founder of Flag Waving League, Says Report NEW YORK, April 23-—(FP)—The struggle to organize the United States population into more and more leagues, associations, councils, etc., etc., continues with the formation of a junior ku klux klan, a United States Flag Association (with Samuel Gomp- ers, in memoriam, one of the 13 found. ers supposed to be typical of the 13 original states), and now an Anti- Fanatic League. The anti-fanatics are against prohi- bitions of most kinds, including the Volstead attempt, the K. K. K. other invasions of the individual's “right to the pursuit of life, and happiness.” in New York Strike. $8.00 per day. Police reserves are guarding the few strikebreakers working. He ea SP eier Dacre How We tive and Work SMALLPOX RAGES children, making a total of 21 persons and | liberty | ' pied by health and morals of tenants.” Police Called NEW YORK, April 23.—One hun- dred and eighty vehicular tunnel workers constructing a tunnel to Jer- sey City, are on strike here, demand- ing an increase in pay from $7.50 to Page Three AMONG CROWDED OLD TENEMENTS Epidemic Used to Stir Racial Hatred (Special to The Daily Worker.) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., April 28 A smallpox epidemic of considerable extent holds this city in its grip, spreading thru the working class sections and doing its greatest Gam- age in those neighborhoods where low wages, malnutrition and unsanitary housing conditions prevail. Hospitals Under Quaranitne. Every day sees new “quarantines” by the local board of health and the epidemic has reached such propor stions that several big hosiptals have been roped off by the police. The outlying suburban districts, where the rich exploiters and profi teers live in extravagant luxury, are, so far, free of the pestilence. In those parts of the city where the plauge’s toll is heaviest, hundreds of oldfashioned open “nigh soil” wells abound, polluting the air with a vile and deadly stench and constituting the only sanitary convenience hun- dreds of working class families have contracted the disease. Rich Are Free from On the other hand the mansions of Philadelphia's profit- drunk plutocrats are known to be equipped with as many as four to ten modern bath rooms, toilets, shower baths, etc., scattered thru the prem ises from cellar to attic. Since mid-war years has been the “mecca” gro migration from states. These workers, in blissful ignor- ance of the real conditions in this city of brotherly love (7), hope to find here a human and secure life dented them by the sunny south. Instead, they find want, and squalor, filthy con- gestion and human misery awful to behold. True to type the capitalist class are taking full advantage of the situation. inciting Race Riots. Their various stool-pigeons and “under cover“ propagandists are cat- tfously spreading the poisonous ru- mor that the smallpox epidemic, to- gether with the other economic and social evils which make this place a charnel house of poverty, disease, banditry, bootlegging, prostitution, child labor and vile unsanitation,are all due to the increased Negro popu- lation. This pernicious propaganda serves a double purpose for the capitalists. First—it tends to develop bitter “race” animosities between the white and black wage slaves here, and thus retards the growth of industrial and political solidarity on the basis of the class struggle, among all workers, ir- respective of color, creed, language or birthplace. Second—it helps obscure the fun- damental cause of the prevailing smallpox situation—vis., had housing conditions from which the exploiters and profiteers benefit enormously. The Facts of Workers’ Miseries. The following excerpts from a Fe cent statement by B. J. Newman, d. rector of the Philadelphia Housing As- sociation (capitalistic) throws a vivid light on the matter. We quota: “It was found also in this survey that 32 per cent of these tenement families occupy one-room apartments in which all the practices of family life are carried on. “But of the 263 tenements in opera- tion today only 43 were found to be operating legally . “Bad sanitation more than one-half, exact. “Their faults were, defective plumb- ing, leaky roofs, flooded cellars. In- adequate sanitary equipment were found to exist in 59 per cent. Ip these buildings were windowless rooms and there were six cases of living in cellars. Horrible Overcrowding. “Overcrowding was noted in many cases. In one house of nine rooms for which $88 rent was paid 33 occu- pants were found. Five girls slept in a single bedroom in this house and five boys in another; in still another, a man, his wife and four children, making six persons to this room, while each of two other bedrooms was occupied by a man, his wife and three Peril. gorgeous Philadelphia of a heavy Ne- the southern was found in 54 per cent to be sleeping in four rooms. “The number of families occupying one-room apartments has increased 5 per cent (since 1912) * * * Teme ment houses in Philadelphia occep- industrial workers are not only costly in rent charges, but they represent a grave risk to the com- munity in their assault upon the © Getting a DAILY WORKER sub or two, will make a better Communist of you. BRICKS ON PAGE 4 in THE DAILY WORKER. we will let you know what he thinks of your patronage. Buying Any Clothes This Spring? When you buy that suit tell your dealer you want him to advertise If you can't get his ad, let us know and
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. 1 ek — * . — * i . e 1 1 E * 7 yp 23 5 7 — — 0 tions. CITIZENS ONLY clisted Miner Has No Union Protection , By YEAGER, Worker Correspondent. DUQUESNE, Pa., April 23.—To work for the Duquesne Light com- pany means to live in one of the com- pany owned homes and have the cost of everything used checked off from each pay. One worker, formerly 4 miner, got a job at the plant, he was charged $25.00 rent for his home and this did not include the cost of water used, for which he had to pay extra. Water Costs $4 a Month. His last water bill amounted to about 812.00 for three months. From his last pay was checked off $12.50 for his half month’s rent and $6.00 for one-half his water bill. Previous to working for the light company, he had been a miner until he got fired and blacklisted. He tried several times to get his job back but was given an excuse. This went along for several months when one day he was told by the pit boss to come next morning and work would be given him. No Protection From Mine Blacklist. He came to the mine the next morn- ing for his promised job, but was refused. His case was then taken up by a board member and he was given what was supposed to be a hearing and then it was found that he was fired for being a little too progres- sive to be working in the mines.” The next day five deputies came and notified him to move or they would help him along in case he did not move fast enough. The man being married decided rather than let his family take their abuse, he had better move, and he landed with the Du- quesne Light Co. Beauties of Being a Citizen. In order to get work in that com- pany, if one has been a union man he better not try, since the company will only turn the worker down. No wonder the Duquesne Light company is very strict when it comes to hir- ing anyone who has previously been aunion man. They do not want any: one working for them who has had anything to do with the union since they may try to organize the men against these rotten conditions. Only citizens, or those having de- clared their intention; may apply for a job and enjoy these glorious condi- And, of course, it is cheaper for the company to show its loyalty to the government on such a basis. Union Boston Werleers Will Celebrate BOSTON, Mass., April 23—William F. Dunne, editor of the DAILY WORKER, will be the principal speaker at the May Day on Friday, May 1 at 7:30 p. m. at Convention Hall, St. Botolph street, near Mechanic Building. The Young Workers’ League orchestra and chorus will be the life of the big enter- tainment. There will be a Young m. M. Gomez. Workers’ League speaker and Com-| NEW JERSEY rade R. Zelms will speak in Russian. | West Hoboken—New Hall, 227 Berg- Every comrade in Boston will give enline Ave., at 8 p. m. Carl Brodsky the whole of next week and right up and others. to the day of the meeting to distribu- Passaic—Kanters Auditorium, 259 tion of literature. Comrades wearing | Monroe street, at 8 p.m. A. Markoff. May Day buttons will make the Paterson—3 Governor St., at 8 p. rounds of the working class districts m. B. Lifshitz and others. and will cover the entrances of shops, Newark — Labor Lyceum, 704 8. factories and mills with May Day leaf 14th St., at 8 p. m. J. Codkind and lets, notices of the meeting and copies | others. | of the DAILY WORKER. Every com- Elizabeth—At 8 p. m., hall to be an- rade must dispense of four tickets in nounced later. J. Marshall and oth-| addition to his own. If he does not es. | sell the tickets he will bring along with him four workers as his guests, |° p. m. S. Darcey and others. will make this workers’ holiday the biggest and | Stand St., at 8 p. m. 8. Felshin and | ot The comrades say they best ever held in Boston. South-Slav Workers Extend Aid to Their Unemployed Comrades MILWAUKEE, Wis. April 23 Workers of Milwaukee, Wis., extend- ing their comradely assistance to the celebration | a 4 K 18 expe) yay 1 . Cet ie ae ee ee es 3 ann 3 {y= 2 = * * f 2 * 4 d 9 — — 2? kK > ~ yY"* 2 2 9 . THE DAIL Men * FNQUIRIES and information coming trict offices. is requested te send in full licity thru the DAILY WORKER. speakers are: x Nation-Wide May Day Demonstrations 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 town in which 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- As soon as a meeting is arranged, each party organization information regarding name of speaker, address of hall and time of meeting. Don’t fail to notify the national office. Meetings arranged up to the present time with time, place and into the national office of the Work- We will give these meetings pub- i Friday, May First. | CALIFORNIA Los Angeles—Co-operative Center, Brooklyn and Mott, Tom Lewis. San Francisco — California Hall, Turk and Polk Sts., 8 o’clock. F. G. Biedenkap. ILLINOIS Chicago—Temple Hall, Van Buren & Marshfield, at 8 p. m. James P. Can- ‘non, C. E. Ruthenberg, Martin Abern and Max Shachtman. Decatur—M. Chilofsky. Pullman—Stancik’s Hall, 206 East 115th St., 8 p. m. Barney Mass. Madison — Croatian and Bulgarian speakers. Christopher —Corbishley and others. Teigler— Liberty Hall, at 7 p.m. H. Corbishley. Dancing to follow. INDIANA E. Chicago—Columbia Hall, Me- Cook and Verner Aves., at 8 p. m. H. V. Phillips, John Edwards. Gary—Croatian Hall, 23rd and Washington Sts., at 7:30 p. m., Har- rison George also speakers in the So. Slavic, Russian and Greek languages. NEW HAMPSHIRE West Concord—Hall to be announc- ed later. Lewis Marks. MICHIGAN Detroit—House of 2648 St. Aubin, | Johnstone. MINNESOTA | Hibbing—Robert Minor. MASSACHUSETTS Boston—Convention Hall, Garrison St. (Near Mechanic’s Bidg.) 7:30 p. m. Wm. F. Dunne and Oliver Carl- son. Chelsea—Labor Lyceum, 453 Broad- the Workers, at 8 p. m. J. W. — Way. J. P. Reid. Lawrence — Central Hall, 23 Mon- mouth St. John J. Ballam. Haverhili—Liberty Hall, Winter St. Harry J. Canter. Norwood—Finnish Hall, 37 Chapel Court. A. F. Konikov. Worcester—Hall to be announced later. Albert Weisbord. Peabody—hHall to be announced later. William Murdock, Maynard—35 Waltham St. Arthur Staveley. Gardner—Finnish Hall. J. Seger meister. Brockton—Hall to be annotnced later. Al Binch, Lowell—Halli to be announced later. Max Lerner. MISSOURI Kansas City—M. Gomez. St. Louis—Druids Hall, 9th and Market Sts., Saturday, May 2, at 8 p. | OHIO Perth Amboy—Washington Hall, at Jersey City—Ukrainian Hall, 387 hers, NEW YORK New York—Central Opera House, | 67th St. and 3rd avenue, 8 p. m. WI. liam Z. Foster, Moissaye Olgin, W. Weinstone, L. Lore, J. Stachel, C. Krumbein, chairman. Buffalo— Earl R. Browder. Brooklyn — Grand Millers Hall, Grand and Havenmeyer Sts., at 8 p. m. Wm. Z. Foster, 8. Epstein, |. Am- Workers in the mines of Southern Illi-| ter, J. 8. Poyntz, H. Zam (v. W. 1.0, 1 . * Bois when in response to the call for assistance two send contributions. The South Slavic Milwaukee organ- | Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St., at ization contributed twenty dollars and i West Allis organization five dollars. | ' It is expected that a number of or ganizations will express their class solidarity with Illinois miners. | EVER BUY ANYTHING? Judging by the dull look in the eye of the business man when we ask him to advertise in THE DAILY WORKER one woald think the readers of our paper never bought anything. PLL TELL YOU WHY: Our readers forget to say, We want to see your ad in our paper —or if they say this to their merchant they let the matter drop. That is only half the job. Tell us—we will go after him. societies decided to! chairman. ’ L. Pruseika (Lithuanian), S. Nessin, New York—Ukrainian celebration. 8 p. m. G. Siskind, and others. New York—Czecho-Slovakian cele- bration, 527 E. 72nd St., at 6 p. m. J. Manley, and others. ; New York—Finnish celebration, Finnish Workers’ Hall, 5 W. 126th St. R. Grecht, and others. So. Brooklyn — Finnish celebration, Finnish Workers’ Hall, 764 40th St., Brooklyn. Speakers, P. P. Cosgrove and others. New York—German celebration, La- bor Temple, 243 E. 84th St., at 11 a. m. L. Lore and others, OHIO Cleveland—Slévenian National Home, 6409 St. Clair Ave., 7 p. m. J. Louis Engdahl. Neffs—2 p. m. Max Salzman. Dillonville—Joe Knight. Yorkville—Joe Knight, Youngstown—May 7, at 8 p. m., Ukrainian Hall, West Rayen Ave. William J. White. ‘ Fred H. Bentleyville—Afternoon. Merrick. PENNSYLVANIA Philadelphia—Lulu Temple, Broad and Spring Garden streets, 8 p. m. Ben Gitlow, Arne Swabeck and Pat Toohey. Reading, Pa.—R, V. V. F. Hall, 612 Franklin St., at 8 p. m. H. M. Wicks. RHODE ISLAND Providence—ACA Hall, 1735 West- minster St. Sidney Bloomfield. WISCONSIN Milwaukee—Freie Gemeinde Hall, 8th and Walnut Sts., at 7:30 p. m. Max Bedach, Tom Bell and others, Saturday, May Second. | NEW JERSEY Linden—At 8 p. m., Sadi Amter and others. Hall to be announced later. Saturday. NEW YORK Rochester—Earl R. Browder. OHIO * Warren—J. Louis Engdahl. PENNSYLVANIA Bethlehem—Ukraninian Hall, 1641 E. Third St., at 8 p. m. H. M. Wicks and speakers in Hungarian and Ukra- | | Sunday, May Third. ILLINOIS Waukegan — Workers Hall, 517 Helmholz avenue, 2 p. m. Thurber Lewis. MICHIGAN Grand Rapids—2: 30 p. m. Sons and Daughters Hall, 1057 Hamilton Ave., N. W. T. J. O'Flaherty. Muskegon—8 p. m. Speaker, T. J. O’F laherty. MINNESOTA Minneapolis—Robert Minor. Akron—2 p.m. J. Louis Engdahl. Canton—8 p. m. J. Louis Engdahl. Toledo— Max Salzman and others. Warren —At 2 p. m. A. V. Severino, E. Liverpool—J. A. Hamilton. PENNSYLVANIA Pittsburgh—2:30 p. m., Labor Ly- ceum, 35 Miller St. A. Wagenknecht. Erie—Eari R. Browder. Glassport—Finnish Hall, 2 p. m. J. S. Otis. Daisytown—Afteroon. rick, NEW YORK Yonkers—Labor” Lyceum, 23 Pan sade Ave., at 8 p. m. R. Grecht and others. WEST VIRGINIA Wheeling—Arne Swabeck. Workers of Ford and Perth Amboy, N. J., to Have May Ist Meeting FORD, N. J., April 23.—Our May Day celebration will be held on Fri- day evening, May 1, at 8 p. m. at Washington Hall, corner Madison Ave. and Fayette St., Perth Amboy. A very fine meeting with speakers from the Workers’ Party, the Young Workers’ League and the Junior Sec- tion and an entertainment is the pro gram for the evening. Leaflets are being distributed anmouncing the meeting and a big crowd and an en- thusiastic meeting is assured. Fred H. Mer- — ek ee Rte oS =e — 2 7 ‘ 7 , 4 . * | ate “ — : 5 : — Workers P Chicago A Friday, April 24 19th Ward Italian, 722 Blue Island Ave. Lithuanian No. 5, Milda Hall, 3142 S. Halsted St. f Czecho-Slovak No. 1, 1528 W. 19 St., “Delnick.” — Local vities YOUNG WORK — ACTIVIT! LOCAL CHICAGO, 0 Friday, April 24 Area Branch No. 1, Room 506, 166 W. Washington Blyd. Area Branch No. 3, 3201 S. Wabash Ave. 5 Area Branch No. 5, 19 8. Lincoln St. SO Area Branch No. 6, 2613 Hirsch Blvd. magn Sunday, April 26 Area Branch No. 2 4 English Branch, Workers 2733 Hirsch Blvd. Party Members: Are Invited to Attend. Young Workers’ Meet The branches of the Young Work- ers League, local Chicago, realize fully the importance of bolshevising the league. One of the examples of the work that is being carried on to accomplish it, Area Branch No. 5 is having its regular educational meet- ing Friday night devoted to the study of Leninism. A lecture on Leninism will be given by Comrade Manuel Gomez tomorrow, 8:15 p. m. at the temporary branch headquarters, 19 So. Lincoln St. (Lo- cal W. P. office). Everybody is wel- come. W Bell and Bedacht to Speak in Milwaukee on Labor a Holiday Mid-City Lyceum, MILWAUKEE, Wiens April 23.— While the Workers Party of America of this city is planning a gigantic demonstration of opem air meetings and an evening mass meeting, the so- cialist party of Milwamkee is helping the capitalist in advertising the May Day as a healthy day for.ehildren. As an answer to the it is expected that over people will attend de ganized by the ting On May Day meeting thig year will be held in Freie Gemeinde Hall. Thomas Bell and Max "rhe a the princi- pal speakers. The musical program will include Freiheit Singing Society, Russian-Ukrainian choir, German Singing Society and Créatian society “buduchnost.” The program will also include the showing of two reels, “The Prisoners of Progress.” A gigantic May Day demonstration under the leadership of the Workers Party will be the best answer to the “Marxians” of the Second Inter- national. . — Tom Lewis to Speak at Los Angeles May Day Celebration LOS ANGELES, Cal. April 23— Tom Lewis, the new district organ- izer of the Workers Party, District 13, will speak at big May Day celebration that will be held on Friday evening, May 1 at the Co-operative Center, 2706 Brooklyn Ave. Comrade Lewis is a fine speaker. This will be his first public appearance in Lon An- geles. The entertainment is provided by the Young Workers’ League and the Junior Groups of Los Angeles. They announce a musical program and — — surprises. Leaflets and DAILY WORKERS are distributed prior to the meeting and every means of propaganda is employed by the comrades to get workers to attend this meeting and make this May Day celebration the biggest and best held in Los Angeles. | Rebecca Grecht Will Speak at Yonkers, N. V., May Day Celebration YONKERS, N. V., April 23.—Rebec- ca Grecht will be the principal speak- er at he Yonkers May Day celebra- tion to be held Sunday, May 3, at 8 p. m., at 23 Palisade Ave., Yonkers. Comrades get busy distributing liter- ature, talk to your shop mates and your friends of the meeting. Bring them along! Let's make this celebra- tion the best held in Yonkers. | RUSSIAN GHEKA’ T0 BE PRESENTED AT WORKERS’ HOME, SAT. A Russian performance and dance will be given by the, Workers Home, (formerly Soviet Schgol) this Satur- day, April 25, at 1992 W. Division St. Two revolutionany.plays will be presented, The St le for Exist- ence, and The Chekg Beginning at 8 p.m. Dancing afteg the perform- ance. Come! WORKER (Special to The Dally Worker.) WARSAW, Poland, April 23.—The member of parliament of the Com- munist fraction, Comrade Weitjuk, ad- dressed an urgent request to the sejm on the unheard of maltreatment of 30 Ukrainians in the Polfsh provincial town Wlodawa. “Wlodawa,” reads the request, “is in great excitement on account of an unheardof maltreat- ment of Ukrainian citizens by the police. According to an order of the chief of police, Shishkevsky, mass searches of the villages took place, for Communist literature. Altho the police found nothing, 30 persons were ar- rested. “Three days afterwards the exam- ination’ of the prisoners took place in the police.office. This was done in the following manner: The prisoners were taken into a dark room where they were put on a table, covered with wet sheets (so that the maltreatment might not leave traces) and tortured with, whips and sticks. The victims were beaten on their heads and faces and trodden upon. “The ‘examination’ lasted from one to three o’clock in the night. How terible this maltreatment was is proved by the following: One of the prisoners, Nicolai Mitshtshenko, was to be ‘examined’ again next night; when he heard this he committed sui- cide by stabbing himself with a knife in his stomach. After three days he died from the wound.” Three others also died. MAY DAY CELEBRATION Friday, May 1, 8 P. M. TEMPLE HALL Marshfield and Van Buren Speakers: C. E. Ruthenburg Martin Abern James P. Cannon Max Shachtman Y. W. L. ORCHESTRA Freiheit Singing Society Admission 25c. on $6 3S i a Si (Continued from page 1). wide circulation. It reads as follows: The Protest. tage & The Pro-India Committee protests energetically against the expulsion by the French government of Manaben- dra Nath Roy, Indian nationalist and revolutionary. It holds that a democratic govern- ment should never permit itself to carry out such a measure of persecu- tion on the demand of the British gov- ernment, against a man who is re- proached only for his ardent endeav- ors to secure the freedom of his country. Hounded For Opinions. M. N. Roy, one of the most. powerful fighters in the Indian nationalist movement, and who has written sev- eral important works on this subject, was on the point of being expelled from Germany owing to thé same in- junctions of the British government, which forbids him the right to live in its own territory. Were he to re- turn to India, he would be imprison- ed, perhaps executed. It is hard to believe that a man, against whom, we repeat, no charge can be brot save that of lifting his voice against the exploitation of his fellow-countrymen, a mere offense of opinion, it is hard to believe that such a man can be thus pursued across the world, from one country to another, without being able to live in one place. In any case, if these are the brutal and inexorable arguments that Eng- land employers to rid herself of those who denounce her imperialism, should a government such as that of France become a partner to such iniquities? The Pro-India Committee draws the attention of public opinion to these facts, and lays before it the grave question of the rights of peoples. Let all those who still believe in the ideas of justice, liberty and freedom of the spirit, protest with us against this gavage and intolerable strangling of a conscience. Denounces Herriot. It may perhaps be alleged that the reason for this expulsion lies in the political ideas of M. N. Roy, who is Falle French Regime’s Ban on Roy | ——fosived on this point; this is not the reason which underlay the expulsion conceded by M. Herriot to M. Cham- berlain. Manifestly, it is the activ- ity of the writer and propagandist in the cause of Indian freedom which is the real cause. Yes or no, has our government bound its hands to the imperial exi- gencies of Great Britain? Tes or no, is France to remain open or closed to the champions of popular liberties from abroad? The right of asylum is at stake. Is this great principle nothing more than an historic mem- ory in France, in the face of interna- tional combinations? This is the ques- tion which is asked with anxiety by all those who, directly or indirectly, sympathize with the sacred cause of oppressed peoples. Signed: Henri Barbusse, Victor Basch, Leon Bazalgette, Jean Richard Bloch, Marcel Cohen, A. Debierne, Georges Duhamel, Pierre Hamp, Vic tor Henry, Magdeleine Marx and Charles Vildrac. If You Know Where “Curley” Lee Is, You Get $25 as a Reward A comrade of the English Commur ist Party is trying to locate his broth- er, who was originally a sea-going donkey-engine man, known around the Brooklyn, New York wharves as “Curley” Lee. His last known address was “Carpenter and Contractor, Un- der avenue, (or Underdonk avenue), between Dean and Pacific streets, Brooklyn, N. Y.” Anyone knowing “Curley” Lee’s whereabouts should notify P. Lee, 25 David street, Cardiff offers five pounds (about $25) re- ward. qr REMEMBER MAY 281 The John Reed Junior group fe ar ranging a surprise party and dance Saturday, May 23, at 1902 W. Divielon St. All friendly organizations are ro- quested not to arrange other affairs a Communist. But let us not be de- on that date. _" When 8 uddenly This Idea Strikes You— movement. power. You can build—WITH WORKER. co — ROAR aes q ea — — | \ N g You have discovered a plan by which you can build the revolutionary labor For every sub is a brick with which you can build (when Communism is the corner-stone) for working class THE DAILY N , Yr pee / BRICK!) hb — . Yy ual Ga | J | | \ | | When Suddenly This Idea Strikes You MAIL THIS BRICK TO— — THE 1113 W. Washington Blvd. DAILY WORKER Chicago, III. — — 7 SOOO 2a year SS- months $200 S montis £2 CM/CAGO —§ S00 ayear F450 6 montis § 250, 3 months THE NEW SUBSCRIPTION TO BUILD THE DAILY WORKER NAME __ — a ape YS FATE. — — STREET 4 : : CITY . sree e Central, South Wales, England, who
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* ee . 7 : * 5 1 3 feu * 2 7 2 1 at „ W . + ¥ 1 5 * 8 2 — = * — — — the on ham- ctiv- it in wi — a NEW PRC aT i 2 FEDER FOR RESTAURANT WORKERS IN THE II 5 FIGHT AGA eee te — INST THE “OPEN SHOP” lum TERRORIZED | OP KEN 10 11 GROCERY si | — f (Ped By ART SHIELDS NEW erated Press Staff Correspond : na- Us ar hotel ¥ORK, ‘April 23.—Two radical chang An. lues- se onomy” 81 el aud restaurant industries are calli oe ret are: taking place i F y by TO. ogan | against the pet’ sh bd ng for additional n the q educe F. Cooks’ shop movement in these effort in the fight * oes 8 * Waiters’ Union, American Fed fields, gay representatives of the Member ORE GROCE e of ma F ¢ eration | . e . (By. The, Federated ** 78 Workers“ Union, independent. n ot Tabor, and the Amalga- of Local No. 39, IES WASHINGTON. ss) lot the catstertæ br self service nt. These changes are th Points Ou — — loss. of their. 0b April 23. Fear of chain Hotels, backed by h restaurant and the ‘tévetop went e growth „Out Lies hard Pt BH obs in th. efederal civil The ib vage ot uge aggregations of capitaf.’ of the great „ er Most of the Sh rne, s-haunting tens of th on’ of the cafeteria into An Open Letter HE T — Have pore ousands old time sxiiteg the restaurant fiel to Leo Wolm WS A Alrea 8 — Bao — 3 ig “re executive Waiters and in fact eliminated, in . has displaced many Dear sir: —In your statem "9 T 0 EV E | CKED CHALLEN G E- dy Signed Up an ö ö District of C [we on ae © restaurant April 3, ent of * | lumbia and * style, all of this , 1925, in th : 1 Secretary ona ap 4 ay Vee since ly ————— — an * case ae — the kitchen. stated that — ta g vou RY BRAN CH I N P H 1 LADE LP H | A! P Read ROBERT 8 STEWART. 1 of agriculture has e department our. Union required th elf less skill is At 6:30 and th e meeting 4 pecial to The Dally Work started a general ling * an formerly, for th the erg were a 1,000 OMRADE DUB “ig reorganization of-the b ra ee g has become stan , e cook- re waiting to get i 000 people Lena Rosenberg, cit LIN, (By Mail.) — A stri department. to cane r matter of net, wort ot But ad a story: , city agent for Philadelphi in the big provisio pe u 3 ee N tnat Fourth Peiday, ‘April 24, 1928. 8 1 it has always | were from rea . these people phia, tells the the combatants r 2 ; e an an : as n rd pwn orem he te th [ma | Naat Sg wee, ra ad Ses e e e, DATE rs vous the, Grocer b an ; . Amal ; e and b s dele- und K 0 ades Assi ; nur N Coolidge has followed with 1864 N Clothing Workers. work cut sorter € agents have their | “einstein. 3 DAILY WORKER Agent M. Egavi * —— 3 2 W abet = an of the forty | 122 Blackemiths . 5 cafeterias. r them in tackling the | Tou Stated cs . se menian branch has given dpe ‘ Ugavian of the Ar- day, etc., in terms of * 2 ercies of the govern- Avenue. . Ashland crown pri with Hillman’s l , elit e ten subs whi provisional ernoted oing ment—such as th govern- 429 Boiler M Consolidati prince to ved if close and with th ich I en- agreement, viz: e interstate com- sitar Makers, 1th and A on is Open Sho ready, o everything was em challenges ev 1. I hereb am and merce commission, tariff eee 434 Boiler Makers, 55th venue] Those restaurants that p Ald. Jat 6:30. therwisé’ you wouldn't com party and the Young Work 7 ve e demands in enn * W ee commission — *. eo Mahere, — *Halated * today are mostly eith * organ] Levin and Bur F to do the same g Workers’ League in Philadelphia the above 1 of members of Un- kan e . onal education Tre union folk ots peopled by labo asked the manager t with you, : ng a final settlement; 7 ’ de commission, etc.— and Sa (Locomotive), Madison who will not T | but he to o open the hall, If this challen : Uniform work ‘ — hy ky given a shakeup with the 274 Engineers, 100 W.. Washington St — ie laces, or else —— ees Workers Party. it was rented to the branches MAKE 908 is accepted and the other at 9 a. m., aa’ eioae — „ , n * . 4 . ving Hints 9 „N. t th 2 Fur Workers avennginemen, 9428) aurants * — — ’ aon style ent t * said you came at 6:30. Wh local quota in the Sub 0 esr go very much over our — igo rye N — ould 33 at the compensa-| 18 Hed Carriers, 1850 She and cooks is sti e skill of walters ool comes to the me at ampagn. .. 9 a. m. to 8 g ’ tin t 6: urdays p. m. on Sat- aie on, which awards com- Evanston. rman Ave., still at a premium. when it is call seting at 6:30 Comrade 1 , with one h ak Lares ag to federal employes injured ost Lithoprephere, 690 8. Achiend Bivé. inn consolidation has ha You said ra a 8:00: wine thet M. Egavian also tald me I can ; weekly half 4 begged 1 tea. A ro- pe in the-service, may be abolished, 9 frosuevelt Roa nne @ open shop line in the h — e, ateaeen in the neor future. ete commencing at 1 p. m * te work Sctne handed over: 00” O00NS ullding “Trades © Council, si’ ia. 1 ö i Permit me to Ker any slugger’ ain present half holiday apg the 2 2 8 “vi — se survey” is Carpenters, District Sounel, 190 W. —ô ogy ote 9 one of the big e were no sluggers N 8 there We just want to add thi em 5 ies — must remain.) Saturday 1 “= * ee 2200 ö — 28 by na — ton St. Plus earnings re 8 pram 8 — uniforms? they se 4 * and eight for 6 months. A wed porn Bi Lua. for 3 months, shall be pa 8 e rate of wages ) ar be dismissed, and ho Conductors (Sleeping * Du Pont mone otel business. w was New York mayb vian the right to challenge h on that gives Comrade | Of 20 emales on the basis unos pe work may be ery oa! ihe Pome . Electrotypers,. "78: W. eee ee * Waldort Astoria 2 8 . bs ©.sluggers A NOW—WHICH ie n to 1 cent less than that paid ers of the rema "| gs reet. on | Visiting kin el, where yer were in Chica ge san. Seiad IN 3. — Since — N ce te} 1 en St. Cutters, 180 W. Washing-| Well as thig- abode princes lodge, as rene 1 Nos't: think you could = ; Will een the challenge? What comrad muri the = only certified members t ove sion until] December des 7 * 2 Machinists, 15570 Ashiand Ave. Bellevue — rary aristocratic mh — rise to the occasion to 4. — shall be employed. 8 . ne has a wide-open per Streets. + Be er 9 — Du Pont Hotel 3 — e 8 hundred’ of ommunist building? This calls for 2 N a good job of ing members it the shore uae. 5 secure favorable legal opinions f 746 Machiniate,, 8 es a string on,. Lo | am a memb | 2 UR BRANCH — E. N ot smaller h cal 39, and. mber of 2 „„ ! Strike the new attorney * nd Wes cor. Lexington ew York and otels in 1 og@ttend eve * rs Are Winn general and act | 28 Machinists, 53 i other cities. U have never s ry meeting, | OTH When t * upon them in changing the Str „ 88rd Pl, and Halst ng opposition t nrelent- een you. ER COMRADES he strike started whol ed o union This i In th hu about two scheme of the government ee a — 1 ee 118 . Throop St. in an the powder slate hee 4 shown | crowd ue sail lie. You say the| the A e Annual Sub Campaign sent in these eee. 2 employing about eight — the house and senate member 8 “Washington St. „ Bigwest of the hotel syndi see Liptsin”” to hear Levin and * Leer ee ee e NN e new subs reaching | ready ons, ee een rs p can make an effective objection. — —.— armen, mie island, oe — 145 b United Hotels of 3 a to see Lif — ae) mean by e e- Wis.—G. 8. Schlar (3) firms have sma tee and thirty-five ay Carmen, 82 houses i or th as it n . , LL—Ss th agreement 8 nd : n it is ot a and Makes the Union p 307 S * Clinton. St " dat the 1 its sub- You 2 1 5 . came there? PHILADELPHIA ai ee (2) nd “ay —— assistants } 5 s TA Halsted St., 9 hn. reckoned cor pora-¶ te oeting adjourned sch , PA—M. Egavian (10); Lena R battle is made — 9 GSlectricians, N m. foun#’ in ed in. Its palaces n o'clock, quietly. B ed at wartz. osenberg (4); Anna essary by the big m nec- for Teaching Leaders "3 575 * Emily and Mareh- — the chief > lending clty of r e ptm tN TACOMA, WASH.—Joe Marchinko (2) ors, Leverett. & Frye — oo Class-Collaboration . 4 in New v eing the Hotel Roose- was then takentont and beat pay NEW YORK, N. V Leo Kling (2); who employ a large numb " A2. Garment, bend « dive bf ork and the $13,000,000 Then, Crown Prince Nen eng, up? Freeman. : Katterfeld (2); M. Zelbel; L assistants. er of female 3 5 2 Machinists, 113 8. “egy A vat Fe 5 in bce Hotel that opened and said; “Boys, you're beatin came in UTICA, N. Y.—J. J. Bou 7 . The gallantry that sin The new n a., April 23.— 612 — — School and Sheffield Ae. aso. Th ladelphia three m own man.“ . a he on TOLEDO, o — es of “Dublin’s fa gs the prais- 8 of financing the 1 Pia ers, 9251 S. Chicago A ve. ‘ is coalition onths I don’ » ON. Beck (8) gir) ir city where th Worke no and Organ ve. fons as opposes the un- t see nd BROOKL 1 s are so pretty“ * — 5 Bureau will alsof’ses Railway bar. _ Workers, 810 W. group Pubs paso „ — stage e BALT Eh By Veet See E r strict American Federati way Garman 11405 In fact, ho u Pont} yi such a pack IMORE, MD.—S. C ' 1 . rofit is the god Labor control, Followi on Off see nenoee . Michigan | the appeal tel mien say: that es to be printed By thi of Los A ohen. „ [loveliness is. asked god, and ng the decision allway Clerks, Ati to finance th bers of s the mem- NGELES, CAL.—S. and to bedeck itsel of the El Paso conventio „ Atlantic Hotel. the- argum e United used Ane. M OF Ar OA Globerman; F. E maintain its gl f n All affiliated ent of the lieve th = can’t even be- KLAND, CAL—Léettt pF... Specter. abl glow on the mise international unions 1 student such a comb advantage of on own ettish each (2) : © wage of 20 shil “ are expected to . s End Strike. ination in Now 7A tag MINNEAPOLIS, “MINN in lings to 35 shill- contribute to the W. E PARIS, Fran 7 i olds ganization of th preventing or- we can t Haagine h ER A. E. Georgian. gs per week. The uni equal to- Bring one-half 9 ge: pended Dean — 1 3 | i 2 * — 2 aa , workers vos Capps ST A N D A pry yrs There is got 5 member per year bonne law school e Sor-} Other ne 9 Workers. ng havin R n . a ‘ . g finished D OIL ant or women assist- This is expected to by the Will be reinstated er new hotel syndicat talking to the, a | TS oS marcas bring a a new minister of ed the Bowman- ates include * R 4 8 wage of 2 imum of $14,000 to max- Monzi r of education, de an-Biltmore ou say the 1. weekly rising a pounds ; the W. E. B e, in the Painlev string of group, the | th i 1 WORKER and E 16 N to s experience is gain all affiliate. In addi B. it the stud e cabinet, and A Am bassad e Freiheit ’ 2 X E RS 4 2 pounds 8 shil ed : tion local i udents have ended : Dinkler Hot or Hotels, In t give the righ EX P L h lings, 2 pound affiliating direct! unions} The strik ied their strike otels, the Hotel „news, but it 88 ght D shillings to 3 s 16 y pay a dollar rike started followi and Pennsyl els Stattler! croo ems as if you are th an pounds. Male assist- | workers’ study classes tw and] pension of the paths ng the zus. the lar ylvania, the latter name xed one, But we know that By LELAND ts have thanks to this figh — T student demonstration a Manager Hotels merica; the and othe —— estore Ste ederated Press Industrial Edi rising t K to A proposals was objected a Herriot appointee. - gainst| Manager Hotels — others. The some — sell their knowledge as h. tandard Oil millionaires aren't figuring how t <n — — shillings weekly while y J. E. Lever of the Phil 4 hotels, e a group of 12 en sell their bodies i am an’, Their problem is h o bum two bits for th of shops range labor colle, claim! adelphia} Ge — „such hotels as th street. n the came to th ow to dispose of the $34 e next pounds to 7 pound from 6 ng that it t. a sub f Washington e Martha em as dividends for th 355,618 in cash which! s 10 shillings week . ized a labor colle pene? or the DAILY . the Wolcott Membe T : e first 3 month Which. Sen- ge for sta _ |W cott, etc. the Endi- * of A. C. W. his huge out i s of 1925. classes by increasing the 3 be 1 from your shopmate Labor o 3 i of A., Local 39. 86,000 workers in 1 wealth would provide normal wages f . * union is determined to stand by portion to the good work done. pro- ‘aw arg will make another mem ouraged 3233 are not dis- U. S. 8.1 R. Coxe owing had a job last year but a 1 * me but _. 1 slush or sentiment - or your branch | is situation, but = one today. par atter of union , — . 5 growing re » but there value of its stock The picket principle. — ——————E———— is a vast on cognition that the job Bigger Farm Profits “Splendid.” tory shows a 2,900 But its his- sho ets are parading in front ot 3 sae that must be met. The 7 Cro Thi on profits in 1 plendid. dend in 1812 a a cent stock divi- 1 by Free State Bob- | An Innovation T ag? big n are the : ps * Vear the financial N by | dividend in 1920 and ae stock | been ae 3 2 rade U ice unions. seryv-| MOSCOW ports of all compani ividend in 1922 midation ed intt- nions , April 23.—Th panies, compiled by an in . This means 8, sure even a bobb . 7 2 tural conditions 1 e agricul-| Dow, Jones & Co. show f crease of 14,500 something f y must do n 6 , net ea per cent in g for his J 15 America Karakhan Ranking Pekin Minist show a steady — — 5 ou ny ng 69,622 compared with “$109, ere — Pape gy holdings = new clothes. pay and his nice 1 PEKIN er | 1922. since n 1923. Th ' , of excess The w | 7 Wm. Z. Foster, Jas. P N ey April 23. — Leon | 1922-28 = northern Caucasia since ©!! Profits 1924 2 out his investing an 9 or with: f tul of —— deserve and are bepe 1 HE Cannon cd fon ‘cs Chine. ow “9 Russian ambassador | 000 dess o 1 increased 4,922,- Assoc. Oll $ 6,405,329 $ —.— The 1924 return would be 3 is “Pay Up 3 N Their slogan , 7 . Browder | th n invited to beco s and in 1923-24 to 5,184,-| Gulf Ol ä cent on th 7% per ut Up.“ ittle Red Libra A his e head of the P me | 000 dessiatins 184,- 19,166,795 14,323,342 | 191: e original investment of trade unions, th ps. Following the depart e The area devoted to th M 9,835,194 5,058,192 dends m cent annual divi- Michi an L Is an innovation am Wing — e Left Jacob Gould Schurm parture of Dr. | of technical plan e cultivation — Petr. 8,446,977 8,110,660 | of ean that a cash investment 8 aw Gags ng clase tine sine work: orn ent and minister, Karakhan * 5 The ates r * Phillipe Petr. | (7,160,780 4,642,495 ofa pedis a cash return of Boycott on Prison surely to become — g foreign minister. nk-| vation has inc culti- | . 768,868 41,538,499 : : : most popular of any * — No. 2 ever, turned the job Schurman, how- | ing the year; reased 45 per cent dur- Standard (Ky.) 5,382,940 5,519,182 International Influence Goods With Penalty issued in this country Class Strug ] ian minister, but the Stellan the Ital. the tobacco are" 88 pe 24 per cent, ~ tty dats 1,922,217 341,408 Vacuum Oil's $7.02 a ane 8 0 * , e * * ’ * All numbers of uniform pock C gle nally bowed to Soviet 1 cause of the losses 3 be Tide water peers 8,197,582 mm en, * per cent when — 6 2 1 poc - vs. lass year in ’ as 5 95 413 2 908 2 7 or stock divid 6 15 + C 0 April 23.— et size, it will . Geil this region, the Vacuum Oil - 908,217 | | ends and changes | ‘ion to th -—Opposi- widest possible 1 * ö ö ration ; Get A Sub And Give One! has supplied the . with 2,564, Get 70 3 8 1 ated 222 * act, „ — a i cluding, social and ind n- By Earl A. 8 000 poods of seeds for autum 564-] what these on Money. 8 profits underlie the ability of | 804s. is str ie of prison made proble ndustrial . Browder and 3,410,000 te n spring | w + profits mean to the Standard dynasty to dog — in the Lansing Trade x ms, history, philosophy, 8 study of the method T poods for spring sowing. | por at, appears from a few game of investm play the and Labor Council. Th g fiction, poetry and art. , — labor bureaucracy * Dr S 7IMMFERM AN ee * cotton committee ad For stockholders in e money drawn — — using the [central body follows S vert workers, fro N W is energetically work. Kentucky the $7.9 of | Americ e exploitation of ing the bill, whic n fight- New numbers will f atruggl = pre | y working on ; 7.98 a share mea 9 erican workers to | ill, which would oll e against parations for th per ce 1 ns 32 ; evy tribut fi , subject to as quick successi ow. me talism, capt DE ~ ton. sowin , spproaching cot- af CONG OS .pae value. But with two the workers of the entire worl » gn, See or imprcenen, both, an ting material os — 5 L 5 of cotton 2 rie The total area | 4; ock dividends in 1922 they are get N who advises a boycott of convict — can be ob- oR. 2232 N CALIF sown land th : ng over 70 y : ucts th proa- tained. CN. CALIFORNIA AVI will be about 2 investment. per cent on their real] Give your shopmate this co labor —— a 4 127 per cent ot that sown oe n of the DAILY WORKER c. pen market. MY NEW and 71 per e t loft year, | $4.55 shows a modest | sure to see hi LOCATION r e him the next day t b ny hm land 455,000 dissiatins are in | on theget his subscription. oh Get 2 Get a sub—make another Com Bach copy sellin Special e Asia and 106,000 1 unist! g a al n Transcau- . 10 cents (twelve copi ; rice X-Ray casia. By bette? cultivation of for $1.00) gan. be. ad * Ray der- the nine: hopes the crop ( AND NOW THE 8 m any authorized Ww Gas show an increase fo 25 per cent * PRIN TER a * mall from Agent or orkers Given that of last year. * issue the April numbe ; There have been prepared in Mo- vein oie ESTABLISHED 12 Y 2 for distribution 18,500,000 poods | The Dal My Examination a Free — for the summer crop, these | a ly Worker My Prices Are 2 * o be sent to the regions which | Publishing Co. Ext My Work le Guaranteed | of ao —— from the draughts | 1113 W.Washingten 8 xtracting Specialist ear. Of this amount 16,300,- rank and file e — mae wo. DELAY MEA 000 poods were delivered to th 155 Wing sh ” xpression—and | ‘another of th . * NS DECAY places of destination by March 2 eir pa oh g sheets” that reactionary bureauc = , PITTSBURGH The Lnocenter (Central Sigg isin at are contributing to the growth ee — 0 „ PA. operative) distributed 300,000 poods g power in American organized labor e new SEND money, | will ard for thelr of flax seeds to the peasants b | Whether or not : save 50 fi s by the | you are a your 3 t per cent on alt Arat Of April. Thege seed | to the Left Wi printer—here is your sub to | heir dental work. 8 s were given ing trade union activit a guide | DR RASNICK proceeds of ** de paid for by the * y, at only The . est. Val ri een der According to reports of 62 ex- 50 CENTS A Amalagam tioni er The Saf 645 Smi perimental stations in Uk YEAR ationist 2 ety Razor tha Smithfield S rainia, the : AutoStro Shar . — t treet. conditions of the winter crops fobs SINGLE COPIES 5c p pens Its Own Blades FOR SALE © . 10 on MORE COPIES 2% A 0 ye Razor COMPLETE OUTFITS ~ CHEAP u all those plates where th or W. Washi 2 a $1.00 & $5.00 Morste Book and Art Sto crop had been rated as 0 — — ington Blvd. Sharpens Iteelf —_ For Sale at All Stores ‘an Be Bought F re | grade, Mow middle 9 i ; All Stores Selling Razors and Blades Readon or Very Lattie: Cash. re nia, they Sree be favorable. It . regularly every ers 1 Chicago, iil. } 8 — 4 2 ven. | cats bas bee po wing of wheat and | OT) THE NATIONAL COM 3275. of Ubrainia eart}!%i 1 part FOR AMALGAMATION IN THE ee ee 2... ee oom —— — — — * : —— — r
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— * 1 2 1 * ing and bloody gang of monarchists, capitalists— | i ~~ — 4 by the 55 DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING 550. 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, ML 5 (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES ‘ By mall: | $3.50... 1 months $2.00...8 months By mail (in Chicago only): 3 $4.50....6 months $2.50....3 months 66.60 per year $8.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1118 W. Washington Bivd. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL | WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB. Entered as second-class mati Sept. 21, 1938, at the Post- Office at Chicago, III., under the act of March 3, 1878. — Advertising rates on app“catica Chicago, Mines Editors Business Manage Railway Workers and Shop Committees Unskilled labor bears the biggest part of the wage cuts that American capitalists are handing out. If in addition to doing that class of labor called unskilled—altho in many instances it re- quires a higher degree of special skill than many so-called trades—the workers are unorganized, the wage cuts are merciless. Railway labor, below that of the brotherhoods— engineers, firemen, conductors and trainmen, key occupations that the railroads try to keep satis- fied—is notoriously underpaid. Yet since 1920 the railroads with the advice, consent and co-opera- tion of the government railway labor board, have been deliberately and steadily reducing wages of the great majority of the railway workers. Clerks, telegraphers and signalmen, according like all the rest of 'the leprous minded brotherhood | ORC eee eee ee eee ee a — ee en —— foreign and domestic—and ebelp Yetainers, t to set up a workers’ and farmers' government, in place of the dictatorship of enn = dictatorship of the working class. Compared to this program thet ‘of the so-called socialists shows itself to be nothing but an out- right sale of the German masses to the interna- tional band of slave-drivers, It is no wonder that confronted with a parliamentary opposition Whose actions are directed by a desire to barter off the German masses unconditionally, the monarchists, who propose to sell at retail rather than whole- sale, should have acquired a large following. The German social-democracy is today nothing but a slave agency for the House of Morgan. They may be able to sell but delivery is some- thing else again. Equality Before the Law-Two Cases There are two news items in our issue of yester- day that call for comment. One tells of the lynching of a Nugro. in North Carolina, merely suspected of an attack on a woman. The other is the story of the legal: machine set in motion in Indianapolis to free on bail Stephen- son, high official of the ku klux klan, charged with ravishing a young girl in a particularly atrocious manner, resulting in her committing suicide by poisoning. This ?$t&#@|°% ?4e7 (the stupid prohibition of many good old English words by the postoffice authorities is a great handicap in such cases as this) has been denouncing the Negroes, foreign- born workers and reds in the best 100 per cent American style. He has been wrapping himself in a mantle of purity, posing as a protector of Amer- ican womanhood and the sanctity of the home, and to the figures compiled by Leland Olds, statistician to which he belonged, has stirred up hatred and for the Federated Press, have suffered reductions | suspicion among the nationalities and races that of approximately 8 per cent. These occupations are fairly well organized and can be included in the lower strata of the labor aristocracy. But loaders, baggage handlers, freight handlers, building mechanics (who on the railroads do not occupy the favored position they do in outside building trades) section foremen, section laborers and crossing flagmen have received cuts averaging | a little over 20 per cent and ranging from 39.2 per cent for crossing flagmen to 14 per cent for section foremen. Maintenance of way men now average $2.79 for an eight-hour day. .This is getting back to “nor- maley” with a vengeance as it is almost as low as pre-war wages in many occupations. The important thing to remember in. connection with this wholesale wage-slashing is that it is con- ducted by a government agency—ah agency which, when it was set up during the war by the Wilson administration, was hailed as a great victory for labor by the fäkers. But government agencies, in America especially; have a way of changing and extending their functions, of perpetuating them- selves in line with the pronounced increase of gov- ernment centralization beginning during the war and continuing since that time. Government ownership is not looked upon favor- able by the railway magnates, but government ownership and control of living standards of rail- way workers is quite all right. The majority of the railway workers, by these figures, are shown to have been beaten down to the standard of common labor. Their organizations are very feeble where they exist at all, but the railway labor board has created the necessary at- mosphere for organization to flourish. The first step in the transportation industry must be the creation of shop committees and their extension into a national network. These shop committees, in addition to handling the daily grievances of the workers, must be used to bring pressure on the existing unions and as the nucleus of an organization campaign. It is ridiculous to assert, as the labor fakers do, that the railway workers must be left to the tender mercies of the company unions. Low wages, long hours, lack of job control, cap- italist and government tyranny, together spell response to a militant organization drive. All the ‘necessary conditions for renewed ac- tivity of the railway workers are now present in the industry, but whatever is done will have to be in spite of the labor union bureaucrats and the labor aristocracy like the brotherhoods who have received a 5 per cent raise while the great mass of workers were getting wage cuts. Every day get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER and a member for the Workers Party. Morgan’s Slave Agents “Lackeys” is a term we often use in describing the socialists and it is a word that seems to arouse their most violent indignation. But what other word describes well the servile attitude of the Second International to- wards capitalism? In Germany ‘the socialist coalition is appealing to the masses for support against the monarchist candidate on the ground that it will be able to get more consideration from the House of Morgan. By “better consideration” the gocialists mean that the House of Morgan will be more liberal in the matter of loans. In other words, finance-cap- italists will condescend to allow the German work- 80 ers to be exploited in larger numbers and more efficiently. If this is not lackeyism and bootlicking of the most abject kind, what is it? The program of the German Communist Party is to turn out, neck and crop, the whole evil-smel! form American society. There seems to be little doubt of the guilt of this typical patriot, but he is given all the consideration to which he is entitled under the law. But the Negro in Carthage, North Carolina? This 18-year-old boy is not given the semblance of a trial. He is taken by a mob composed of Stephensons, tortured and killed. Equality before the law? It is the sheerest hypocricy to say so. Neither will there be any semblance of equality until the Negro workers and farmers are organized to stop these and other bar- barities inflicted upon their fellows as a matter of course. The white ruling class, spreading its poison of racial prejudice and setting white worker against black, will cease its activities in this direc- tion when both black and white workers treat the breed of Stephenson and their supporters the same as they would a rattlesnaké, backing up their actions by powerful organizations formed for the fight against the common enemy—American cap- italism. — Get a member for the Workers Party and a new subscription for the DAILY WORKER. 1 3 Hawaiian Heroes Hawaii is on a war footing and the officers, naval and military, are happy. The warfare is of the mimic variety, no one will be killed with the possible exception of enlisted men by accidents in the land or naval batteries, and the officer caste is having a hell of a good time. In the military prison of Hawaii are two private soldiers who saw thru the sham of “national de- fense,” “national honor,“ “protection of our dem- ocratic institutions” and other phrases with which the masses are stupified and led to slaughter for the profit of those who rob them in time of peace. They understood the imperialist nature of cap- italist military preparedness and said so. According to the capitalist press the heroes are the officers who ate’strutting around the Hawaiian islands bedizened with all the panoply of warfare. But the reai heroes of the Pacific are these two soldiers and their comrades who dared to challenge the whole might of American imperialism in one of its most important outposts. They are paying the penalty that capitalism, like all other slave systems, exacts from the slaves who rebel. But these two Communist soldiers have caused hundreds of thousands of workers go stop and think of what all this mobilization of death-dealing machinery is about. Of just as much importance to the colonial work- ers and those of continental America as the naval maneuvers is the fact that right within the heart of American imperialism working class revolt has made itself heard and felt. Crouch and Trumbull will be remembered long after the rusted navies of imperialism are the play- thing of the tides, as the two workers who struck the first blow at the war-making machinery of American imperialism in the colonies. They and their fellows in the Hawaiian Com- munist League wanted affiliation with the Com- munist International—the only enemy of world capitalism. This is their crime and their glory. The “Stay Away” notices sent out by the central labor unions are becoming plentiful—sure signs that the period of great industrial activity is near- ing an end. The tour of the prince of Wales is featured by the killing of native rebels in South Africa. The world has not changed much since the time of Alexander the Great when they used to slaughter a few captives in honor of his visit. adit Every day get a “sub” for the BAILY WORKER and a member for the Workers Party. — ( — 1— April. (By Mail)—Ses- sion of th erllarged executive of the Comintefit At today’s morn- ing session Comade Bucharin spoke on the Russian ubstion: It is not a of persons, but one of political policy. There are in the Comintern, right social-demo- cratic dangers on the one hand, and ultra-left tendencies on the other. There also is a grouping of right ele- ments—as was demonstrated by Krei- bich’s speech, and grouping of left elements—as defonstrated by Bordi- ga’s support of Trotskyism. We thus forces against * official policy of the Comintern, ie problem of the Russian revolution Has thus become an international blem. The inter- nal occurrences if the Communist Party of Russia ate at once taken ad- vantage of by our enemies and halt enemies. The 0 unists within the Comintern are ed by the rene- gades; this is of course the objective effect of the mechanism of social forces. There is, besides, a. category of sentimental Communists, who judge things not from u political point of view, but psn Ig to their senti- ments. ok UR task is to We thoroly the correctness of the policy pursued by the central committee of the Com- munist Party of Russia, and the in- correctness of the opposition policy. The main characteristics of Trotsky- ism are: its underestimation of the peasantry, and its overestimation of the state apparatus. In the phase of war Communism these errors were not dangerous. The NEP requires other methods, a finer capacity for, differentiating, a change in our relations to the peas- antry, and the emphasis of the eco- nomic element in peasant economy. 1" the opinion of many. comrades, Trotskyism i menshev- ism. This view, is,,too.. simple and therefore false. It ig necessary to re- gard Trotskyism gs, a, structure pe- culiar to itselt, this 18. possible only thru an analysis of the ecncrete prob- lems. It is not by change, that the last dis- cussion coincided in point of time with the Russian party's change of policy in the peasant question. We are in the midst et a new economic situation and new social conditions; hence the need fom a new policy. ROTSKYISM male its appearance; firstly, in the question of the dic- tatorship of industry; secondly, in the question of : omy (i. e., in the question of the extent of the ra- tional element in our economy); thirdly, in the ot the price policy of the state trusts;: fourthly, in the question of “tiftrency fifthly, in the question of socialist ac- cumulation and théstruggle against private capital. 1. Some comrades ask whether it is not possible to have differences of op- inion in these questions without re- sorting to organigational measures. The answer is NO since these ques- tions are not a matter of literary dis- cussion, but constitute the most vital questions of the dictatorship. Due to the growth of the economic lite of the Soviet Upion, there was lately a certain tension in the rela- tions of workers and peasants. The conflict of interests between the work - ing class as buyer and. the peasantry as seller of products, has given rise to a certain disco in the peasantry. HE productive forces of the coun- try are growing rapidly; yet there is greater overpopulation and unem- ployment. The peasant, who has be- come mare active and independent, de- mands participation in the political life. The process of growth carries with it the danger of creating a gulf between the working class and the peasantry. Hence the need of new methods in two spheres of our policy; in the first place, our state industries must fur- nish the peasant with cheaper goods than he is able to get from the capi- talist industry; in the second place, what is necessary is not the dictator- ship of two classe but the strength- ening of the dictatérship of the pro- letariat—by meansgwof a peaceful pol- icy and with methods which .corres- pond to the new ass relations. HE discussion’ began at a time when we had K great stagnation of trade, and ba depreciated cur- rency; at a time When there was a real danger of a complete break be- tween city and land. | The solution of this problem was the most vital problem of the dictator- ship. Trotsky aséribed our plight to the irrationality of bur economy, and proposed as the bhly remedy, to in- crease the rational elements in our economy; he considered the problem of price policy and currency reform as secondary. The central committee of the party viewed the matter from a different angle, and considered the currency reform and the lowering of prices as the two most important questions. HE plan consists primarily in es- tablishing a céfrect proportion be- tween industry and agriculture. The demand for a dietatorship of indus- try over finances meant the failure to understand tat industry is de- pendent upon its mgrket—agriculture. Trotsky and the opposition have not grasped the im mee of the peas- antry. The mportant part of Trotsky's foreword to his “Lessons of — — „„ + rs er * NE of the few labor weeklies that reach our exchange desk, that is worth reading is the Great Falls Town Topics. This articular paper is as refreshing as 3 ot dog with mus- tard at 2 o'clock . on a sharp morn- ing in February, eft must be said that the Montana y has some- thing to get ex t. That thing is Paul Smith,» 42 @pizer extraor- dinary for the 1 — Federation — I of Labor. _He went into Great Falls, lit a fat cigar, stuck his thumbs into his vest after the fashion of the movie bawdy house keeper, and ordered the radicals to run for cover. The great open spaces. resounded to the loud guffaw of laughter that the ukase of this fat chunk of protoplasm called forth. The militants are yet, and fighting. 5 faughing - a 4 HE DAILY WORKER carried sev- eral Great Falls. Smith tried to do stories on the situation in Sufficé it to say that there what he did in Minneapolis, when he ousted the Communists from the central labor body. But he did not kill the Com- munist movement in the Twin Cities; neither did he kill it in Great Falls. That he succeeded in doing harm we will admit. some And that the employers appreciate his disruptive work, is also admitted. It does not appear, however, that the militants in Great Falls are lying down and tak- ing their punishment calmly. They are fighting back vigorously and they are to be congratulated’ on having a paper like Town ‘Topics to throw the hooks into the fakers and give the labor movement the right lead. More power to them! r — Recover. Collins, Body CAVE CITY, k., April body of Floyd Colfins, trapped in an underground cavern at Sand Cave for the past two months, was brought to the surface this morning and brought here. OBB BBB BBB PPL L-L 23.—The to Have Sunday" 8 NEW YORK, April 23.— he Po Workers League of this distric arranged a general hike f6: April 26, in which the eating’ ship of the Young Workers will participate. Every member of the Young ‘Work ers League will be there, and all young workers are invited. 1 workers’ clubs, tourists“ “clubs: and others are also invited to join. There will be a band of musis as well as other forms of enterteh ent. An educational program and a spectal bulletin for the occasion have also been prepared. All you need is your lunch and about 30 cents fare and we assure every one a good time. All over 30 will not be excluded. Oliver S Speak on Youth Movement Sunday At the Bronx, N. Y., Forum, 1347 Boston road, Sunday evening, April 26, Oliver Carison of the Workers’ School, will lecture on the “The International Youth “Movement.” Everybody ig invited and admission is free. — — Does your friend subscribe to the DAILY WORKER? Ask him! International Workers’ Aid Calis! Did you do your duty? E - —-— — -— - m Ww — — . ~” — „ 2 ” E -—- —_— — — © * EPD⁵ . ˙iä1L ͤ ß ¾ꝗ⅛³ f nn P ——ÄS᷑ö 7 ̃¼%⁰⁵— ! 3292 rr ⏑— . 7 —Ä— r M tired of listening to sun-shine talk, This pie-in-the-sky stuff, This travesty on patient toil; Let the Jesus-screamers, The open shop artists, And their ilk... Hook their fat necks over a flying emery wheel For. „„ „eight long „ hours; And to the beat and whir of machinery, Chant this: “I work to get money to buy food to get strong, So | can work to get money to buy food to get strong.” Then, maybe, they will understand i Why the church pews are empty, And mon die for unionism. — — — — oe 1 3 —Jim Waters im the April issue of The Workers Monthly. + — 2 — ized. nn . ORSY (America) considers the. 4 *
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For the unions are the Workers’ own organizations, built anew from the ground since the revo- lution, and not contaminated by any 1 of the left-over civil service workers I from the days of czardom, who still I clog the government apparatus. There is also much hospitality in all union 4242 I have never seen any group in any land which seems to have such a good time welcoming folks as the organized workers of Russia, Anyone who knows any for- eign language comes out at once and | tries, cheerfully to practice on the vis- 4 ae — ica also appears and gaily begins in- quiries about the workers of the Unit- ed States. got into an automobile with the secretary of the union and were whirled out of town to a macaroni factory. Incidentally, if you want the convenience of an auto in the Soviet Republic, don’t come as guests of the departments of education or health or any branch of the government, but come as a guest of the trade unions. For the government is poor, having to live on a budget and acquire a gold | currency. I believe the department of health has two automobiles for the higher members of its staff» But “every trade union has autos; the trade unions and the Communist Party, be- ‘ing supported by membership. dues, are the really flourishing organiza- tions. itors. Anyone who has been in Amer- | “ cy Sateen eee tates eo October Candy Factory, a modern and flourishing The macaroni fac- tory was more anc ; it had a seri- ,|ous housing problem and antiquated buildings. We passed through a cor- vil ridor in which there were signs about dleanliness and wiping your feet, and f 8 rector?“ we asked right aun Aud how is your factory organized ?” No one minds these personal ques- tions in Russia. n outskirts ot the city. or eral assembly of the . held every six months,” he answered. “The Communist yacheka holds a. prelimi- nary meeting and nominates a slate, but the assembly does not have to elect this blate. It is the aim of the Communists to keep closely in touch with the workers’ wishes, so that their slate will be chosen without. contest, and this usually happens now in our plant. Back in 1921 there was a max- ‘imalist who organized a committee and got himself nominated, but he didn’t get far in the assembly. 4 he — shop committee, we learned, was paid by the factory, an amount = | History As She Is Taught art Be —_, * ee — —— (By Hendrik Willem Van Loon in The Survey.) Johnny! Why did Abraham. Lincoln set the slaves free? | dunno, ma’am! I suppose he done it on orders from Moscow. but had been director of this factory since the new economic policy came into effect. He was a Communist. NDER me comes the production manager, who is not a Commun- ist,” he said. “Then we have our marconi specialist, who has worked forty years in this organization; he is also a non-party man, but an expert. We three are the technical heads of the work. * E are 720 workers, of whom 100 are Communists and 85 in the Young Communist League. The workers have their shop committee, five members, three of whom work full time, Then we have Commu- nist yacheka, consisting - all the Communists in the plant; and now We have also the N a special committee which is studyms the ways of increasing production. These are the va groups in control of our poe lite.“ b shop’ OW is the committee chosen?“ I asked. In the gen- been a mill worker before the war, equal to 2 per cent of the total wage scale being set aside for this purpose for their wages. The majority of the workers were women. Tu secretary of the Food Workers’ Union, who was with us, admitted to getting $75 a month, whereupon the workers began to “guy” him. “See how fat he is,” they cried, pointing to his full cheeks. “See how much he eats.” “I don’t get all the rebates you do,” he retorted, and this was true. We later learned the number of things which the workers got free through their factroy organization. T 12 o'clock the courtyard filled — committee. On 24 5 was the] with factory newspaper, beautifully lettered and illustrated, with colored cartoons and sketches, with letters and com- plaints and gossip about factory life. * — enough bathrooms. It is just a Every large factory has one of these wall newspapers, edited by the young people’s organizaiton. EYOND Were two busy class-rooms, where workers from the night shift were spending their afternoons study- ing reading and writing and politics. The director himself taught an even- ing class in the same factory school. When the workers finish here, if they wish for more advanced courses, they go down to the regional center. Amos the court was a tall build. ing devoted to club purposes. We saw upstairs the room of the Young Pioneers, children of factory workers, gay with banners and posters. Next to it was the sewing-room of the wom- en’s club. Downstairs’ was a theater, with a forest scene still set. They in- vited us to cOme on November 7th to the celebration for which they were preparing. was still lunch hour, so the work rooms were empty. We went to visit a new apartment house under construction for the factory workers, out in the park at Sokolniki, fifteen minutes’ walk away. “It is not a model house,” said the secretary of the union. “There are not nearly bit of emergency construction to get the workers out of the rain.” R the macaroni plant was expand- ing and there was no room for the workers who were coming in from the ee for jobs. Many of them lies. The barn was warm and clean, but it was hardly the place for winter quarters for the women with babies who looked up at our entrance. “You see why we are hurrying to get the houge finished,” said the secretary. HEY had taken an old brick ware- house and adapted it for living quarters. Painting and woodwork and plastering were going up rapidly. Two | rooms per family was the allowance in this new place. Next spring the brick barn is to be raised to three stories and remodeled into a dwelling to relieve the crowding still more. HEN we returned to the factory, its workrooms were humming. We passed from floor to floor, :follow- ing the elevators which carried the flour to the top of the building, the revolving urns where it was mixed ‘it was greased and cut into great Slabs, the giant machines whence it came out as thin streams of maca- piled to the ceiling with the product. Enough to supply all of Moscow and to export to Leningrad and Nijni. We noticed everywhere the cheerful faces of the women. They spoke to us; they laughed at the jokes of the union secretary. Many of them wore red handkerchiefs over their hair. There was no atmosphere of strain anywhere, A WOMAN whose facq showed strong intelligence and personality joined us. She began in this factory as a girl of twelve in the days of the czar. She has worked there seventeen years. Now she is president of the Women’s Communist Section of the factory. She went with us back to the director’s room, where we all had tea together. What I remember most of | about that factory was the 4 N ot the director’s once union secretary, Com having tea around the table together. e with water, the turning tables where roni. Then the capacious drying room in and out, and 7 with all 1 *. munist dichesetr, head of the Lange . section, and director of the plant, all —
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After an enumeration of . the facts, 0 : lows: — Fifth Congress, of Control considers the 12 , > x ‘thts i munist Party as expressed * exists a titude : rae he grou tire activity ida. te | a gro the od | basis ot The statement of Radek, Brandler and Thalhetmer deserved to | pressed in and Thalheimer, to 5 f | Radek—the mass character ; Comintern which 3 : te ee . 8 : Ger German Communist Party work which has remained upon at present, and im view of the er- intern see Be. ism, has trom its very inception, up agen democratic leaders, and eam tremely hostile attitude manifested by | gardless of the fact that the theses] till now, been guided by the policy 3 2 Fut at} the party membership against Brand- contain unjustified allegations on the | of creating and preserving mass par- Sress. *tence 3 er ler and Thalheimer, the Central Com- take this declara cons : mission of Control is of the opinion | that the German Communist Party | was justified in its demand that Brand- * ler and Thalheimer be expelled from 4 | the Communist Party of Russia. The | German Communist Party was also ' justified in its demand that Com- ; : rades Radek, Felix Wolf, Heinz Moel- | ler and Walcher be checked by the | party in their factional activities with- in the German Communist Party. | UT, whereas the Central Commis- — = | sion of Control desired to liqui- | <6 | rr K ei ‘ | O EVERYBODY! | It’s About the— | ntiders it possible to 888 the following deci- the Comin as urgent as it is at NE could say, without any question, that it is about a very fine issue | sions: present. The parties must be devel- of the best working class magazine ever issued in this country. | „1. To censure severely and to oped and a synthesis of the leader- The May ber of The Workers Monthly is all of that. Beginning "4 warn Comrades adler, Thalheimer, ship effected—a synthesis of those] with a splendid cover that breathes full promise on this May Day, and Radek, Felix Wolf, Heinz Moeller and leaders who matured in the conflicts/ thru a most interesting article from Russia by William Z. Foster, thru Edda Baum, for their systematic fac- | With and within the social-democracy,| other features of world events and Communist activity, it is an issue on tional activities and flagrant breach | With the younger elements who came] which it is well worth giving notice to everybody. | | of party discipline. E Not to forget our Communist magazine (even in the second annual | “2 To forbid Comrades Brandler, er Re- 8 DAILY WORKER sub campaign), news of the May number of the Work- Thalheimer, Radek, Felix Wolt, Hains 2 8 2 ere Monthly le news for every balider of the Communist movement. Moeller a Baum to interfere Freu up after K To our agents this is notice that it Is already off the press—it. went in any way with the work of the Ger- MANUILSKY then read into the malle today. ie | man Communist Party. the answer of the Russian delega- To all others it gives notice that here is more material that leads to “3. The Central Commission of] tion to the above statement. The an-] communist information and understanding... . ö | Control warns these comrades that/swer is to the effect that Radek. Get a bund! we copies for other worker te 3 ann further factional activities „n Brandler and Thalheimer were most] cead-the MAY ISSUE OF THE WORKERS MONTHLY, © .. | their part, or interference Lagi Pe d ee rahe Moy sa ay magenta 3 & tangs he n work of the Communist Party tenden tactics Com- N * lein many, will cause their immodiate er. munist Party of Germany, which bare In the Second Annual DAILY WORKER puision from the Communist Party Of caused so much damage to the Ger- — oy - , dance 48 man revolutionary movement in Sub Campaign f “ Commission Radek-Brandler-Thalheimer : 8 participation ot|attemptod to ure the revolutionary New York leads by a wide margin on all subs sent in on April 23. Brandler, Thalheimer and Radek united front tactic into a 0 8 the work of the Comintern as inadmis- coalition with the social democrats. . —— (48), Fred Cammer (2), J. To- The banal Saxon parliamentary farce } DETROIT, MICH.—A. E. Goetz (4), N. St 1 n. “| The Central Commission of revealed the complete political bank- 8ST. LOUIS, MO—H. (2). org Control considers it necessary for the | ruptcy of these three comrades. PHILADELPHIA, Stoltz eee central committee of the Communist] The Thirteenth Congress of the Rus- SOUTH BEND, — By Kirk (2) . Party of Germany to start an exten sian Party declared unanimously that — — . sive campaign within the party, for Radek's policy had nothing in com- CHISHOLM 2 — ~ the purpbdse of elucidating the political] mon with the policy of the Commun- KANSAS CITY = tn, mel significance of these decisions to all f ist Party of Russia. The Frankfort CHICAGO, ILL. 1. 7 Maki. 8 party members.“ Congress of the German Communist WORCESTER, M - 2 This decision was greeted with a party condemned the policy of Brand- .. Ginsburg. : | storm of applause, and was adopted ler and Thalheimer with no less em- - , . unanimously. phasis. | a ' | STATEMENT be. Drandion,. Thee |ITUES PUES Conerens ot 0. Seee Chicago Comrades—A Job for You! | rr samienalencah. tenes, aan , NUMBER of comrades are urgently needed to visit prospective é ferences with the executive in the] three comrades... But instead of ad- subscribers to the DAILY WORKER that have already been ~ question of a workers’ government | mitting their mistakes, they have mow ciroviarized with free copies. This will take you only an hour at 3 — 1 — — 9 | that the workers’ gov their : could be more than an agitationsl slo- solidarity with the theses of the ex- nn | gan was based on the condition that rr Cali fer detalis er phone Monroe 4712. | capitalist society was in a state Of with the Comintern in the question of — a sal : 1
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ͤ—ͤ— — — — — ae — —777U ꝛꝛſꝛſꝛſp—̃ —— — — * — > a * * ~~ rv * * * ö - > * J . ‘ „ 32 2 * . * „ * — 0 — r 4 * * * 1 — — ts 1 . 2 7 ram to the memor yand men of so that reg : 5 f 5 7 4 oe * e 7 ERE : it 7 F — 150 2 : ; : =: 5 . a was inevitable from their history. When the Norman invaders first clans in the teeth of perpetual war born into a tradition—they are Con- nolly’s own words—of “stubborn phys- rising of 1798, thru the Tithe war, the Black famine, and the Fenian days to To be so born was to have added to all the other incentives to rebellion incidental to a worker’s life, a tradi- tion, not merely of revolt, but of the fact that even defeat could be recovered from and avenged. James Connolly was born in County Monaghan, in 1870, of peasant ances- UT it would be folly to attempt to explain James Connolly—one of the least emotional of men—in terms of personal psychology and heredity wholly. . Had he been a nationalist born and nothing more, he would never have returned to Ireland in 1896 with the express and avowed object of found- ing an Irish socialist movement. ONNOLLY was above everything a proletarian. His Irish birth and breeding and hfs knowledge ot Irish men and things made it easier for him to organize Irishmen and deal with Irish politics than another. But that he should want to organize the Irish workers, and into an Irish so- cialist republican party, came from his proletarian instincts and his train- ing in the working class movement. * ai. 4 ee : . 1 1— * — * A 1 } : * ' : N 4 * * — \s * os 4" 8 * « * * * 44 tre 7 ’ > ° shy 5 * 5 5 . — 80 MPATIENT? perhaps. Duped, in spite of himself, by national con- ceit? whatever his himself at the mercy of his proletar- ian fellow-countrymen he, “with one consent, began to make excuses.” O over the history of Irish revolts —1798, 1803, 1848, 1867—every- where there is to be detected, if one reads aright, the same symptom. Al. ways the moral is that of the old pi in Tom Burke—‘“curses on the gentle- men: they always betrayed us.” Go over the more modern history of India and Egypt—go over the his- 2 of Easter week, 1916. The lesson 8 no different. a Kb the bert of me and Gent was replaced by the horrors of war, so there grew, even with the sound jof the guns and the tales of the ‘slaughter, the sense that the masses were regathering—however blindly; * that there was a chance that the right lead at the right time might be the Nelther of these. His heart was with the working mass, and he scorned to live safely while they were passing thru the torments of hell, He took his chance, knowing it was a chance. He fought for Ire land. But he lived, fought and died that the workers of the world might rule. GOLDEN RULE EMPLOYER GIVES BUSINESS TO HIS EMPLOYES (A PARABLE) D. Rocky Vanderfeller, internationally celebrated as the teapot king, and head of Vanderfeller, Inc., a five billion dollar corporation, threw a bomb — ̃ Under the management of my employes, who will work harder be- cause they will be working for them- selves, the profits should be at least [a What Might be Called A“ Fair Deal.” “To be conservative, however, and to give my old workers a chance, I am fixing ‘on eight million as a fair figure, and every cent of profit over this amount will be divided among the em. ployes. | “Hereafter the business will be theirs to do with as they wish. A board elected by the men will govern the business, and I will not interfere in any way except to decide things. If the men agree with nie on import- ant points, they will have their way about everything. Must, of Course, Show Loyalty. “To show their loyalty to America’s dead heroes,” said Vanderfeller, the men will be asked to contribute ninety-eight per cent out of all profits over and above the eight million I figure on for myself, to a fund for the benefit of the poor widows and or- phans of America’s unknown soldier, and in case the widow never makes application for the fund it will, of course, be turned over to my account.” Under the new arrangements, Mr. Vanderfeller said, he would be able to reduce the number of his employes by ten per cent, and produce many more teapots. „ Philadelphia, Notice! Weber Printing Co. 350 N. FIFTH STREET, Philadelphia, Pa.
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* . — Party F unctions By ne be entrusted with keeping up a} connection with the nucleus of the Young Cm League. It there pe is none factory, they should proceed 5 establish such a nucleus. Party members appointed for this work should work jointly with the youth nucleus among the young work ers according to à plan drawn up by their party committee, paying special attention to the young workers of mil- itary age. This work is of the utmost import- ance, factories and works are the best ground for work among army recruits as they provide an opportunity to es- tablish close contact with these yOung men for the time when they will be ie in ry army, ~~ 1. 2 the nucleus members eau concentrate on the co-op- erative questioh which plays a fairly tant role in the life of the work- : e should ung ere the workers belong, he should collect information concerning these co-operatives and alsd get into touch with the Communist fractions of the administrative bodies of these co-operatives. One or more comrades should work among workers who have not yet lost touch with their villages. Thru them relations could be estab- lished with the agricultural laborers and poorest peasants. They can also be the means of supplying the latter with literature. Relations established in this man- ner ‘could be handed over thru the proper party organs to the party or- ganizations working in the district where relations with the agricultural laborers and poorest peasants aunt be maintained. In many factories foreign ian ers, not knowing the local lang- uage, or workers belonging to the na- nal minorities of that country play important role; The nucleus bu- u should appoint several comrades th a knowledge of the languages of these workers for work among then. The local committee will prob- ably be able to procure literature in the desired language and agitators and propagandists for these workers. In America, France and Czecho-Slo- vakia, such workers: play a very im- portant role in the labor movement. ] One nucleus member should keep in touch with former work~ organize, agitate among them, provide them with literature, ete. ] One or several nucleus members should be entrusted with work among men and women factory work- ers belonging to various sporting, choral and musical organizations. The said comrade should collect material concerning these working class organ- izations and get into touch thru the nücleus bureau and the local leading, party organ with the Communist mem- bers of the administrative bodies of sporting, choral and musical organiza- tions and societies. * ] One or more comrades should 147 take up the work in connection with the protection of labor and vari- ous forms of social insurance. ] Comrades should be allotted to tasks of distributing literature, collecting correspondence for the party press and for the factory news- paper of the nucleus. Several com- rades will also be required for the printing and editing of the paper. ] The same applies to the organ- * ization of political education circles and of circles for the study of Leninism. : ] A couple of nucleus members * will also have to be spared for Intern Red Aid work—collec- tion of info ation about arrested per- sons, etc. - * It is a matter of course that all nu- cleus members take part in all agita- tional campaigus in fhe' fecruiting of members, eteg but all the same every nucleus member must concen- trate his or her attention especially on the work which the bureau assigns to them. TE. OS Perey Gaee o Tee emia members ‘will be drawn into party] ment: ¥ 2 n . a ’ irk i 3 ; ee K 4 * Fite _ ~~ rae ie . * 2 + el 2 * Py 2 a N 8 1 * * 8 — oh” 9 — bt oe - 2 S es ee : — 2 2 — — — a — — wl ees op — 9 9 * ‘ . ces 10K e „ e e 7 * ee 4. ty — * 5 1 y — 2 * — members will have definite work 3 with the factory workers. In this way the factory nucleus will not be isolated from the workers, it will be easy to draw the best elements among them into the party and finally | g it will be possible to agitate system- atically in the works and factories against the social democrats and other ary . opportunist “labor” parties. o, and this will bring them {nto} — 2 PY eee TT 24 * oe life and will become active member This, of course, will be achieved ot if the nucleus bureau itself is active, if it will give instructions and i cate how the work is to be carried ¢ at 7 and if it will supervise the execution of the tasks given to the respective members of the nucleus. The nucleus buread should receive reports from the various comrades on their party work already carried out, or in the course of achievement. The most important of these re- ports should be also placed before the general meetings of the party nu- cleus. The nucleus bureau has to pre- pare the agenda for the nucleus meet- ings very carefully. It must secure reporters on the questions on the agenda and must prepare its own pro- posals in regard to these questions.“ The nucleus bureau has to carry out cation.” T cannot be otherwise. As soon as nuclei come into being in the works and factories, their members immedi- us, and we therefore | ately realize the superiority of this kind of organization over the old form will not relinquish it. On the con- a promptly all decisions of the — 4 1 5 9 au from the polnt of view of party edt of organization. Once adopted, they trary, they do their utmost to make 9 allies, the church and the — order. No better servants are to be found, unless we include the labor bureaucrats, for the work of dividing the workers against each other and turning their attention away from the issues of the class struggle. Consider, for instance, the recent school board election here in Du- buque. What was the issue? TANT versus Catholic}. Not publican or democrat, not capi- tal or labor, but a straight-out fight over religious humbug, with the work- ers of Dubuque fighting each other even ‘inside their organizations. N Then there are lodges. It seems that practically every unionist in these parts is a member of from one to five fraternal orders, sich as Elks, Masons, Moose, etc. T does the worker derive from his lodge affiliations? Uniforms, insignia, degrees, titles, and the right to pay admission to the “blow-outs” of his gespective orders. So it may be said that the Main Street unionist is, first, a member of his church; second, a member of his lodge; third and last, a worker and member of his union. EFORE arriving at snap judgments regarding this deep-rooted condi- tion, we must take into consideration that the only cultural expression open to these workers is through the church and fraternal order. These organizations fill, in some de- | gree, the instinctive yearning of the working class for social and cultural expression. E Communists Pa so sooner or later awaken the fact that | mere broadsides of Acad and truth-telling will not alone suffice toy break the hold which the chureh and fraternal order has succeeded in 30 artfully fastening upon therbraia and imagination of the average — worker. . We must, instead, point oth “fie sham of the “culture” offered by the priests and mystic nobles. We must lead ever larger numbers of these | have | nuclei live organs, capable of attract- elaborated a series of proposals for ing and absorbing the best elements the general meeting of the factory. (of the factory. In order to achieve e torte Gar ues Ge oe this, they distribute the party work |. on our party and trade papers | among all their numbers. Our slogan 1 who belong to other par- | should be: No party members with- ties and trade unions in order to | out — Of outside. party nuclei.” 7 panda a est sham, the cheapest Fancy-colored uniforms, silly headgear, stupid ceremony, bar- barian titles. A fancy wrapper, but no loaf. Communism will replace this stupid, hich will give the worker F self-expression | ine SUOROER ‘ whieh he craves but tries to satisfy ; — —̃ with ‘blab-blah and tinsel. RENENMNGEN MAY 281. The church pretends to offer the] The John’ Reed Juntor group ie ar- worker a spiritual escape” from ranging a surprise party and dance the monotony of life, together with | Saturday, May 23, at 1902 W. Division © ‘social contact with his fellow-man. St. Alt friendly organizations are re- ALLY, the fraternal order wins | Wested not to arrange other affairs ‘the loyalty of the slave; the church fon that dato. wins the loyalty of the slave’s wife and children. Not even the families RUSSIAN CHEKA’ 10 BE PRESENTED... 1 5 of Communists are exempted. Taking advantage of the desire of the human being for some form of social life and culture, the spell of the capitalist sys- tem gradually gains its hold. First the children ‘of the worker ‘succumb to the magic lure, then the wife, finally the worker himself falls into the trap. is interesting, if not Wüst to listen to the excuses offered by the working class victim, man or wom: an, for his or her folly. Invariably it ig the desire for a “good time; “for A Russian performance and dance will be given by the Workers’Home, (formerly Soviet School) this Satur- dayy April 25, at 1902 W. Division St. Two revolutionary plays will be presented, The Struggle for Exist- ence, and The Cheka. Beginning at 8 p. m. Dancing after the perform- ance. Come! NEW YORK BUILDERS’ CORNER Conducted by KATTERFELD. OMRADE Leo Kling dropped into the DAILY WORKER New York office _ yesterday. and paid. six. dollars for his subscription for a year, and then he left the rest of the ten dollar bill to pay for two gift subscriptions for two Leeper ane * mighty” 1 * e te follow. rd om „ TH New Vork agency has eet W the revised mailing list from Chicago, with the names of more than four thousand subscribers secured thru the press pageant at Madison Square Garden, which are now expiring. * 108 East rat St. whe the out how YOU can help. © „ 0 workers toward the vision of the ow could you celebrate MAY DAY any better than by securing some new subscribers for the DAILY WORKER? Make it at least one. 4 capi “culture” with proletarian} Only Communism offers the workers These must be solicited for renewals. Go to the DAILY WORKER office 1 ä * 1 n | — ll
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— come an arbiter between capital and labor. * T fact suggests the conclusion that craft unionism is in itself a method of collaboration, and that those of us -who have looked to craft unionism for revolutionary ideas have been trying to gather figs from this- tles. Wherever one goes in the United States one encounters a Uvely in- motive Engineers National Bank, started in Cleveland in 1920 with a capital of one million d : its de- posits, to date, amount to 23.6 million dollars. It has property. valued at States, all but two of which have sprung up in 1923-1924. URING the years of the steel strike of the injunction against the min- ers, and of the initial stages of the open-shop drive (1919-1920), American labor faced a difficult crisis, and labor leaders had to make a definite déci- sion. One road led toward industrial trance of labor into business. The labor executives decided that it was better to lead their organizations into the banking business than to fight. “We cannot fight against the govern- |: ment,” said Lewis; and so he became the president of the n labor bank. « The l tor labor banking are very obvious and very old. If a labor organization deposits a million dollars in a capitalist bank it delib- erately strengthens . * 2 en oat N. UT it t 0 — bank it not only control of its own million dollars, but it has a loaning power of ur or five times that amount, and when labor wants to bor- row money in times of need and crisis it can go to its own bank. But going into the banking busi- ness ties up the labor banker with other elements in ‘the community. First, the boards of directors of most of the banking organizations are com- posed principally of business and pro- fessional men; second, the banking officials are not labor men,—they are in the banking business and must un- derstand the banking game; third, the labor banker must conform to the va- rious laws. and codes of the banking world. There are 30,000 banks in the United States, thirty of which are labor banks; if these latter do not conform they cannot bank. LABOR BANKER” contains articles by Warren Stone, presi- dent of the largest labor bank in the country ; by Daniel Willard, and by Charles E. Mitchell, president of the National City Bank of New York, in which all agree that labor banking will teach thrift and investment and will therefore bring working people | business and running agi-| which one man takes a part of the — — oe. s a * 4 accepting the formulas of business ment and investment is a method by product of another man's labor. T does this mean for the future? The membership in the American Federation of Labor is steadily de j clining, while the organized business interests are gaining, particularly in their economic position. Also, the organized employers of the United States have adopted the policy of going out to meet .organized labor with welfare work, profit sharing and stock ownership schemes. Organized labor officialdom is mov- tag definitely into the camp of the organized employers. In the first place, the high salaries paid to the leaders lift them automatically out ot “the proletarian group; second, through labor banking the leaders are and are making good investments; third, they have gone into co-operative housing. Labor officials are adopting the em- ployers’ psychology and automatieal- ly, therefore, are becoming protectors of the established order. HERE must be a co-operative move — housing, banking, retail, committed to the established order. Perhaps it is not the business of the A. F. of L. to fight; perhaps it is their business to go into labor bank- ing. If that is the case, American workers must build a fighting organi- zation on the economic field. There are two functions here. One is the function of the co-operative—to build around the present order, to get in- vestments and keep them; the other is a definite struggle to take over the machinery of society in the interest of the working class—to destroy the system on pri a investment is based. Defeats Reaction Control of College 1 —. I ne Nora Becta hy the wn of Chae in Roberts, the ‘poet and ane story writer, ~ THE BATTLE OF GLACE BAY “An ed. weenie is arytng 06d for a deliverer today. Never in the whole course of our history has there been a more wonderful example of patient heroism than is being manifested by the thousands of men, women and children 10 Cape Breton at the present time.“ Ven, Archdeacon Scott. The battle thickens, the foes ring round, Closer and closer, death’s in our face. Steady there, steady, hold your ground, Each in his place, lads, each in his place. Who will say that we have not fought well, Armed with pick and shovel and bar, Blackened and burned in the fires of hell The rank and file of a Holy War? Courage, then, comrades, lest we forget The World's my country, my brother Man; Though the feos increase we will see it yet The fields grow green where the red blood ran. The little ones ery, the mothers are still, But their crying, their stillness, rings over the Bay; I can see the red banners like dawn on the hill The hosts of Humanity march our way. Close up your ranks there, steady your eyes. It is better to struggle though the ground runs red Than falter one step from the ultimate prize 3 In the Battle of Bread, lads, the Battle of Bread. The women are weary but steady, but steady, , We The babies are dying the hot tears blind; Derish, we perish, but steady). bat steady, ee The battle is Man's and the peace Mankind’ Tomorrow. perhaps we will hear the 1 sound “= A* f 9 ay 5 Of a great Voice ringing across the land; Today,-the fierce foes ring us round— _ Stand to your faith, lads, stand! —diloyd Roberts. n TOLEDO, Ohio, April 24.—A united front of students and faculty defeated reactionary directors at Toledo uni- versity and Stowe was forced to re |} sign as president because of this sol- idarity. The three professors whom the board of directors threatened te re move in retaliation, because of the demand by the students for the resig- nation of Stowe will stay. The board accused Bradley, Nurse and Jones of being the agitators who caused the removal of Stowe. The board also accused .the three named professors of being rebels and anarch- Stowe. when they learned of the action pro- posed by the board and called a mass meeting protesting againsi the intend- ed dismissal of the three faculty mem- bers. A petition was circulated by the students on which they secured 540 signatures. When the board of direc tors saw the solidarity that manifested itself among the students and faculty members they decided to let the three professors stay. It is well known that an insidious movement has been going on for some time to destroy Toledo University, which is much too democratic to suit the Toledo Commerce Club, and which is attended by some young men and women who are of the working class. It might be mentioned that this unt- versity. boasts of two debating teams, one of which has been meeting col- leges of ne towns and taking the affirmative to limit the power of the supreme court... Sa * — — Bolivian Astray in Washington, WASHINGTON, the arrest of Senor Don Jorge Blacud Jofre, attache of the Bolivian em- bassy following a free for all fight with a policeman. wholesale—but it will be essentially. eer — ere Joe liogal 3 Solidarity” blooda us ists and insited that they go with The students were much incensed ° April 24.—Diplo- ’ matic circles: were stirred today by — } —
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4 * ; * pe —— sade 4 - . . 2 8 * 5 — nee: * 9 N — * eee eee ö and information coming into the national office of the Work- rape eH this year’s May Day celebration indicate. a nation - * 0 will surpass any previous May Day in the ber] ,es “history. Ex _whieh there is a. party, branch should arrange | ™ such a meeting and notify the national oc. The smaller towns should obtain May ‘Day eee thre thelr die 5 trict offices. As soon as a meeting is arranged, each party organization | | a is requested to send in full information regarding name of speaker, address of hall and time of meeting. We wilt give these meetings pub- | ticity thru the DAILY WORKER. Don't fail to notify the national office. sade Mey ** u. Grecht and | Meetings arranged up to the prevent time with time, place and E ‘ ‘speakers are: Sa Whesling—Arne. : 1 Third floor. J. Louls Engdahl. . Thursday, April 30 N later. J. Marshall and oth- 8 teem ‘eft ~ E Monday, May Fourth. ce] ichigan p. m. Max ILLINOIS | 5 * ee ee Hall, at] sateman and others. PENNSYLVANIA > Springfield—Manuel oGmez. aes a ‘drape Oration Hall, zr _. Warren—Hippodrome Hall, High st. - Shenandoah—New High School, 6 — Grand St, at 8 p. m. 8, Felshin and g. — — — aie f ett gt & Friday, May First. a others. f ; % : NEW YORK 0 CALIFORNIA New York—Central Opera House,, Los Angeles—Co-operative Center, | 67th St. and 3rd avenue, 8 p.m. Wil-| | WAI D IN D Brooklyn and Mott, Tom Lewis. liam Z. Foster, Moissaye Olgin, W. + 4 San Francisco — California Hall, en — hare J. Stachel, C. bol ti | | Polk 8 o'clock. F. G. Krumbein, chairman. — Tr | — sie Buffalo—Eari R. Browder. ONE. HUNDRED t Detroit Communists to 22585 N . . event vent of the year. Twenty 1387 Seventh St. N. W. 8 p. m. M. n. Wm, Z. Foster, 8. Epstein, I. Am 1 Sclaroff, ter, J. 8. Poyntz, H. Zam (V. W. L.), Twenty automobiles must be at the disposal of the | L. Pruseika (Lithuanian), 8. Nessin,| | committee to take the papers and distributers to the vari- | ILLINOIS chairman. ous factories C)hicago— Temple Hall, Van Buren 4 New York—Ukrainian celebration. mse bane, cm | Manan Car, e: eg gg at ge naan, g her non, C. E. Ruthenberg, Martin Abern 8 p. m. G. Siskind, and others. es ° 1 anor MOM, corner and Max Shachtman. New York-—Czeche-Slovakian cele- 7 Se, 8 than 12 0 —— noon, dims a Decatur—M. ofsky. ration, E. St., at 6 pm. unteers notify ades Goetz Owe Puliman—Stancik’s Hall, 206 East J. Manley, and others. at the district beforehand so that all arr 115th St, 8 p. m. Barney Mass. New York—Finnish celebration, can n be completed in time for this biggest event of the Madison—Croatian and Bulgarian | Finnish Workers’ Hall, 5 W. 126th Communists! On to the factory gates on May Day! speakers. St. R. Grecht, and others. Christopher—Corbishley and others. So. Brooklyn—Finniesh celebration, Zeigler—Liberty Hall, at 7 p.m. H. Finnish Workers Hall, 764 40th St, r CLEVELAND, OHIO. Corbishley. Dancing to follow. Brooklyn. Speakers, P. P. Cosgrove} te INDIANA and others. 92938 K. e „ eal 11 Hall, Me- New Vork — German celebration, Le 1 e 60-OPERATORS „ * L. Lore and others. White background, red border, black beck | THE COMPANY 14 . Gary—Croatian Hall, 23rd and Onio . & ashington Sts., at 7:30 p. m., Har- eee se- enen Mn n George also speakers in the 80. Home, 6409 St. Clair Ave., 7 p. m. J. e EF. n Groceries, egetables Boston—Convention Hall, Garrison] Ben Gitlow, Arne Swabeck and Pat St. (Near Mechanic’s Bldg.) 7:30 p. Toohey. m. Wm. F. Dunne and Oliver Car-] Reading, Pa—R, Y. V. F. Hall, 612 son. Franklin St., at 8 p.m. H. M. Wicks, Chelsea—Labor Lyceum, 453 Broad-| RHOOE ISLAND way. J. P. Reid. | _Lawrence—Central Hall, 23 mon- Providence—ACA Hall, 1735 West- | ot. dche 4. Balls. minster St. Sidney Bloomfield. WISCONSIN Haverhill—Liberty Hall, Winter St.“ siiwaukee—Freie Gemeinde Hall, Harry J. Canter. Norwood—Finnish Hall, 37 Chapel 8th and Walnut Sts., at 7:30 p. m. ) ! { Light Luncheon Served } Slavic, Russian and Greek languages.| Louls Engdahl. V NEW HAMPSHIRE Neffe—2 p. m. Max Salzman. West Concord—Hall to be announc-| Dilionville—Joe Knight, 1195 E. 71st Randolph 7059 ed later. Lewis Marks. Yorkville—Joe Knight. Owned and controlled by your MARYLAND Youngstown—Ukrainian Hall, 52544 ate Baltimore—Brith Sholom Hall, 1012 8 Ave., at 8 p. m. Willam = ** MICHIGAN Merrick. OM { Detroit—House of the Workers, OREGON } adison P Pharmacy ; 2648 St. Aubin, at 8 p. m. J, W.] Portiand-8 day celebration. Work { { . 4 Johnstone. ers Party Hall, 227 Yamhill St. } Pra 3 ) . MINNESOTA PENNSYLVANIA | Hibbing—Robert Minor. Philadelphia—Lulu Temple, Broad ) DRUGS 8 MASSACHUSETTS and Spring Garden streets, 8 p. m. | | 7 _ — n Max Bedach, Tom Bell and others, Worcester —Hall to be announced later. Albert Weisbord, | Saturday, May Second. | Peabody—Hali to be announced later. William Murdock. NEW JERSEY 2 cada Waltham St. Arthur) 1 inden—At 8 p. m., Sadi Amter and ey. , Hall. 4. voger [Core Hall to be announced inter rc Saturday. a supply for sale and wear on May > NEW YORK Firet—Labor’s International Holiday. 9 2 ae tall to be announced! Rochester—Earl R. Browder. Price 25 cents. in lots of ten or more, 15 cents. Specia: di to Lowell—Hall to be announced later. Ol City N. B. * — or. Max Lerner. Warren—J. Louis Engdahl. gant e MISSOURI PENNSYLVANIA | Telephone Monroe 2284 Bethlehem—Ukraninian Hall, 1641 Order from Kaneas City—M. Gomez. JE. Third St., at 8 p.m. .. M. Wicks WORKERS PARTY, Genova Restaurant Lou en, and speakers in Hungarian and Ukra- NATIONAL OFFICE . : Market Sts., Saturday, May 2, at 8 p. infan. * * N ei bhi * ITALIAN-AMERICAN | m. M. Gomez. Easton — Lithuanian Bakery Hall, 8 . an 1238 Madison Street — NEW JERSEY N. Seventh St. Lithuanian speakers. 2 2 N. E. Cor. Elizabeth St. f West Hoboken—New Hall, 227 Berg- MAY DAY CELEBRATION Spach : ae enline Ave., at 8 p. m. Carl Brodsky Friday, May 1, 8 P. M. ett Ravioli. Our a | Sunday, Max Third. | TEMPLE HALL | ialty — assaic—Kanters Auditorium arshfield Burer Special Arrangemen arties 5 Monroe street, at 8 p. m. A. Markoff.| CALIFORNIA 9 a ting Short Notice * * 5 m. 8. Lifshitz and others Finnish celebration. E. R. Bloor. ee , Newark—Labor Lyceum, 704 8. |!LLINOIS e. W. L. ORCHESTRA ~ | | _, Give your WORK: ch oe , 14th St, at 8 p. m. J. Codkind and] Waukegan —Workers Hall, 517 Erelbeit Singing Society of the DAILY WORKER—bu | others. Helmholz avenue, 2 p. m. Thurber Re aa sure to see him the next day to Elizabeth—At 8 p. m., halt to be an-] Lewis. | get his subscription. | — „ |
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ot ¥ * } &. 3 Ss Oe ; ~ = * Se 8 te 7 1 4 ae a erica et 2 5 * S ’ 8 . 2 7 ha, ae 2 5 e 1 ee Gt FE ashe othe ie. chai Waa Hen SERS OF, Pate Cra ae 5 r N = ra dps 3 1 2 ¢ PE A ORI OT, the St EE lane one a — apt eee ö ~ P . * * +4 — ER a Le spa ig . 5 n ? te. RS eat 2 ta * N 2 a 11111 f Drunken Latvian fascists have thrown bombs into the editorial of- fice of the trade union journal Lajk- mets and set fire to the premises of the workers’ sick club in Volmar. Medieval Tortures. But the heroes of the white ter- ror regard these persecutions as in- adequate. Medieval torturings and torments are the means now constant- 5 i i 5 i 1 f Pree : 2 175 4 s chief of the czarist police, in Riga, the infamous Gregus, is being re- stored. The chief of the man- ner towards.his victim. But then, with the local prison of Goldmgen (Latvia), as a result of the torture, two polit- ical prisoners have committed suicide. The chief police in Finland, Sarep, SEQTSELERUTEE Arig 1112118 871 5 Fe . Blue 5 8 2 ome { Es 1 * 8 5 a 5 55 5 * 3 F | | : FOR SALE CHEAP 916 — . may be in. N: Name: That Bundle e For May First! Rush your order in. Both the DAILY WORKER and the ‘WORKERS MONTHLY will be ready to ship to you and both are special May Day issues that will surely arrive in your city on time—no matter what part of the country you ) rey The Walden Book Shop 307 Plymouth Court (Between State and Dearborn Just South of Jackson) CHICAGO fan PITTSBURGH, PA. To those who work hard for their money, I will save 50 per cent on all their dental work. DR. RASNICK DENTIST 645 Smithfield Street. \ #2 22 nodeanidor 8 ecial I 8 aed DAILY WORK ER. . 2e a copy WORKERS MONTHLY NY.. . 180 a copy (ee in Bundles Over 50) -<---- Clip, Attach Remmittance—Mail Today - - —- - - 3 (Wire if you are in a pinch) ‘= DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING co. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, III. . eopies DAILY WORKER E eopies WORKERS MONTHLY for the enclosed NEW RUSSIA Author of “Women” A book aglow with the color, light and | life of Russia. _ A picture of the many people the writer has met—working men and women, offi- cials—people of all classes. We have received but a limited new stock from the publishers. In the Preface the author says: From any authorized Agent or by mail direct from the Daily Worker a _ * . * * - 1 3 9 4 —
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are imprisoned for Editor the DAILY WORKER:—A beautifal spirit of brotherly affection often ctops out where least expected. “Having shown their strength” in the pe Ave, . | party—a party that has always been extremely antagonistic to every fea- ’ Oneal sees in the Communists loss of strength in the late election in Germany a disintegration of Commun- ism. On the same page, in an other connection, he says, labor unions and socialist parties in Europe organized and failed many times before they be- came permanent institutions. And also on the same page, “That the workers do not vote for their party shows that there is much education needed.” Oneal logic, eh? In criticizing the Soviet regime Ro- ger N. Baldwin says socialists are ‘imprisoned “merely for their opin- fons” and names Ward as one of his witnesses. Then later in his article he | tha quotes Ward as saying, Politicals ount lution- Now which 18 it, Mr. ary activity.” Baldwin? Commenting on the smallness of the Communist vote in our last elec- tion Oneal dubbed it a miserable fia- sco. Hilquitt told the C. P. P. A. at Chicago that the British Labor Party polled only 26,000 votes in its first round. : In the preface of the Unity Bulletin issued by a department of the British labor congress, A. A. Purcell, presid- ent of the international labor con- gress, says the so-called socialist press of Europe cannot be depended upon to give an unbiased view of condi- tions and developments. An English writer in the Labor World said the report of the delegates to the Moscow convention was very popular with the workers of England. How- ever, Oneal says, (New Leader March 28, page 12) “Many British trade “‘leaders’,are 8. pheads ready to — 4 242 tact as the basis of judgement. Yet, the party led largely by that bunch of sapheads was the Oneal-ideal of what our Amer- ican labor party ought to be. The issye between the socialists and Communists seems to be demo- cratic pacifism versus revolutionism. Each claims to have the same end in view. Naturally at the present stage of the class struggle the milder method is the more popular with the proletariat. But the wise forecaster will take into account capitalist de- velopments toward despotism, and the inability and of democratic pacifism to check the development. This narrows the question to one point, to-wit: Is revolution the logic- al product of despotism? If so (which history affirms), then logically the Communists hold the strategic posi- tion, and will be the dominant force at the final struggle. The only possible escape from this conclusion is, will pacifist democratic methods fail? But here the wise fore- caster will take into account the magnitude and strength of capitalism in its world-range; its absolute control of the means of subsistence, the tool of production; the utter failure of fifty years of struggle against mono- poly domination of every feature of industrial and economic activity; and its oft demonstrated ability, thru in- dustrial or economic pressure, to sand- bag any political movement that threatens its supremacy in the gov- ernment, With very best wishes, . D. Ratliff. Dark Jugo-Slavia. To the DAILY WORKER: clusion from comrades of the United States for almost six months and the e greatest hardship is to live without newspapers. I mean the — My se- n 1 > r PP — Rs int Fe : . * 22 5 * 2 } FFF — See Ta oe a 2 n cy te : 1 wear E. n coats 1 The ones A bed derater it ae over | would | * or any | ments presume Mr. | New 1 victs? With their ski they are surely] that he work some place if he is | well as n skating to hell! 62 to make a living. This attack upon in Division St. The soldiers are kept under close] ‘He Sinnots is here Ay 2 17 . ze surveillance. Not one of them is per-| "ind which a great of sentiment} yours for bet ye ae mitted to go out alone even for aj *S@inst the police supervision of taxi | ization, * Biodiita &.. organ- few minutes. It is too dangerous] °Detation.” After a bitter fight put thane Sano They may and leaflet on thestreet|/UP PY the independent taxi owners, , t a Bolshévik-may have dropped. no ent that the mayor was Daily Worker an Inspiration, * ibe thru the law to favor the Upon my return to Vienna I found yellows and who stated that if the a good many copies of the DAILY law was pased the yellow would be WORKER and RADNIK which were a all kind favors, | — * 5 > * 1 Frisco Remembers Sun Vat Sen. To the DAILY WORKER:—A local paper carried an announcement of a Sun Yat Sen memorial meeting so a friend of mine and I decided to pay our respects to the organizer of the Kuomintang. : Arriving on the scené before the stipulated time, we encountered a tremendous crowd of enthusiasts, whites as well as Orientals. Right there our hopes of getting into the hall went glimmering, but to view the masses of young China—boys and girls—marching to the solemn re- quiem of their beloved dead, augers well for China’s future. One did not | ie have to understand Chinese to com-. prehend the eloquence of their tri- bute. The “Arm of the Lawless” was there in full blast, enough to keep order at a Dempsey-Gibbons go at nothing a seat. They displayed their usual brutal stupidity; a Caucasi- an should pay his to an Oriental was so far belond their ideo- logy as to be incomprehensible. We lament the passing of Sun Yat Sen, but his influence, we trust, will grow more powerful in death than in life, for, after all, it isn’t the physi cal stature that measures the great- ness of a man, but his devotion to truth and justice. Dr. Sen stood forth as the illuminator of his people's minds, China’s greatest liberator. And so this Easter day, in honoring Sun Yat Sen, we add an increased devotion to those in whom the fire of liberty and truth burns with an undying flame. Sun Yat Sen, we salute your mem- ory. Comrades, hands across the sea. —Arthur E. Patterson, Sam Francisco, Cal. es ee * > ey 5 a |. Pelee Control and Bribes To the Y WORKER:—By an act of the board of alderman the taxi license bureau was taken over by the his honor gave to the board of Mer there men for tife change was, that 5 constitutional rights as a class scious revolutionary organization to have Comrade Voznovik freed, _|gives a provocative explanation that it doesn’t believe in Communism and the Workers Party which believes in violence, | N the world over will ni} : wherever they may be and they will] much does Gimbel Brothers pay their | vo recognize them no matter what mask] employees? i they may hide behind. It i needless for me to inform the united front against our enemy and stop fighting each When 1 up their magnificent depart- ment store I had seen everything that the workers of New York are in need —— Get a sub for the DAILx WORKER from your shopmate and you will make another mem. ber for your branch. © =~ Amalgamated Food Workers | GENERAL HEADQUARTERS | 81 East 10th Street, New York, N. V. THIS IS OUR much does Gimbel Brothers pay an hour, he announced that they pay $30 week. . a Comrades it is not that $30 a week — at we ‘Ss 989 EMBLEM An Industrial Organization For All Workers in the Food Industry * * — ae’ Oe ~~ 7. * — —