Daily Worker
May 16, 1925
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3327355 11155 all A Ed: Eee ei BiH ae ass 1 8 ef a ‘ E = ee ¢ r - — é 1 * 0 - : | We, 8 tat bee — 4 Het ia teh “Trotsky to the 5 federal congress of the republic will have an ad- verse on the sale of Max East- man’s book: Since Lenin Died, but it was inconsiderate of Comrade to leave Max minus a mar- “such an auspicious moment. . alty to the Communist Party of Rus- sia and pledging his support to its leadership was made public in _Lon- don. * * * MPLOYERS and representatives of labor met together recently in New York under the,auspices of the National Civic Federation. The ob- ject of the conference was to discuss question of waste.in industry. Green was there and the e Union Record gloats over the met that Green sat “with cabinet of- ficials and representatives of great employing interests.“ The conferees agreed thät lots of energy is wasted in industry as it is now run. So do But we assert that the workers dave no interest in solving the prob- olidity, a sure lustrial render he best ia Gtb- Floyd d, done Anning, draw lem of industrial efficiency so long as the capitalists get the benefit of any service that is made thereby. * * * AT the workers should worry about under capitalism is get- ting as much of the product of their toil from the capitalists as is pos- sible and preparing the way for the taking over of industry and getting all the fruits of industry minus that portion necessary to run the govern- ment and reproduce machinery, or in other words, minus the overhead that the capitalist now pays out of his share of the dollar produced by la- bor. This share according to a United States government report is approxi- mately 83 cents. — * * LLIAM GREEN would be spend- ing the time for which the or- ganized workers of the United States are paying him for, if he devoted it to organizing the workers instead of confabbing with the employers as to the best method of getting more work the hide of the pithy Federation of Labor. more and increase the efficiency of a particular industry, what happens is that the boss finds he can get along with less help and the army of the unemployed gets new recruits. * — ao HE workers of Soviet Russia are interested in the elimination of waste and properly so. Nationalized industry in Russia is owned by the workers thru their government, which they control and run. As pro- duction increases so does the com- pensation of the workers. A slacker in Russia today is an object of scorn, ‘he same scorn that should besheaped on the worker in a capitalist country who acts as pacemaker to the rest at his fellow workers in order to make per capita production jump and make | The Rus- More profits for the boss. (Continued on page 6.) A FOREIGN TRADE OF U. S. FALLS OFF IN BOTH IMPORTS AND EXPORTS WASHINGTON, May 13.—Ameri- can imports and exports declined in April, the department of commerce announced today. imports In April were $349,000,000 as against $385,490,733 in March. Exports in April were $400,000,000 es compared with $453,434,288 in March. the boss to check waste, produce | ake (Fes * “At cee’. eae ekg 2 i cass at ot Cesc, tisha WAAR bee ot me 9, stm 8 . * piece? * r en * * 2 2” * ae NEW YORK | Bd 25 EDITION In o, by mail, $8.00 per year. 1 by mail, $6.00 per year. 2 1925 — r Published daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING Co., 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Chicage, III. Price 3 Cents Canadian Communists for Mass Pickets TORONTO, ontario, Canada, May 14.—The Communist Party of Canada. has issued the following appeal to the striking Nova Scotia coal miners to picket the mines more energetically and make the strike 100 per cent ef- fective. The statement says:— “It is becoming a tragic thing for the class conscious to watch the way matters are going in Nova Scotia. “It makes one’s heart bleed to real- ize how conscious the capitalist ele- ments are of what they are doing to break the strike, how cunningly they are exploiting it for their own ends— and then to have to watch McLeod trailing around in the wake of these treacherous elements while they are laughing at him up their sleeves. Union Officials Allow Scabs “For nine weeks there is supposed to have been a one hundred per cent strike in Nova Scotia. The convention of the miners had decided on a one hundred per cent strike, A hundred per cent strike means that every piece of labor is withdrawn. It means that the maintenance men are with- drawn and the corporation property can go where the corporation consigns the men in a strike—to hell! “No wonder when the labor be- trayor Lewis appeared on the scene he asked McLeod what this one hun- dred per cent strike was, anyway. The union maintenance men have been withdrawn but the McLeod executive has peacefully allowed the corpora- tion to maintain its own staffs and the maintenance men of the union (Continued on page 5.) CARPENTERS NOT INIONIZED. ON 2: ) ET. ' 21 * 1 * > 7 . 5 CHICAGO, May 14.—-(FP)—Victory is announced by the Chicago building trades council in its fight to unionize the big McLennan Construction Co. Job on the new commission market at 14th and Racine Ave. The victory is complete so far as unions affiliated with the council are concerned, but the carpenters, who still remain out- side the building trades department of the American Federation of Labor, do not come within the view of the local council. Cement mixers and building labor- ers, hitherto gon-union, will now affi- liate with the hod carriers and build- ing laborers’ district council if they want to keep their jobs. Union fron- workers, bricklayers, plasterers, tile setters, electrical workers and plum- ers, about 2,000 in all, walked out two weeks ago at the call of the building trades council. “The strike has been settled with the unionizing of the men that come under our jurisdiction,” says Secre- tary J. J. Conroy. — 8 20 Gary Plumbers Tie Up Buliding. GARY, Ind., May 14—A general tie- up in all building activities here, amnounting to millions of dollars, is threatened, beginning Monday, May 18, as a result of the strike of the plumbers here. The plumbers de- mand a one dollar per day increase over their old wage scale of $12.00 per day. CLEVELAND WORKERS DEFY POLICE INTERFERENCE AT MAT 17 MEETING; TO DENOUNCE CAPITALIST TERROR 4 . 9 4 © 4 4 ~ ne 4 aria r ii An acer TO HEAR CASES (Special to The Daily Worker) WHEELING, W. Va., May 14-— After hearing opening statements of counsel for officers and members of the United Mine Workers of Amer- lea today, contending service was illegal on defendants in application | of the West Virginia-Pittsburgh Coal company for a new strike in- junction of a drastic nature, Judge Baker continued proceedings until afternoon. The continuation was the result of desire of the court to ‘proceed with pending liquor con- spiracy cases. The miners’ attack on service in the application for the new injunc- tion is that it was illegal, because they were in court answering to bond upon another contempt pro- ceedings, still pending. ZANKOV MURDER JUNTA PREPARES PUBLIC HANGING Building Scaffold in the Public Square (Special to The Daily Worker) VIENNA, May 14.— The Zankov hangmen are literally living up to the title bestowed on them by the out- raged workers and peasants of Bul- garia and by the class conscious work- ers of the world. A public scaffold is being erected in the streets of Sofia so that the populace can be impress- ed by the spectacle of seeing three men le from a rope for alleged complicity in the bomb explosion. No effort was made by the court or the prosecution to prove the con- demned men guilty’ Victims were wanted and those three served the purpose. One of the three sentenced to death is a priest, but the bourgeois press which went into hysterics over ize execution of the Polish spy Butch- „ by the Soviet government, has ot Peter 2 ears 10 2 N 4222 —— 0 as te te Ji KC . Ju. it the gallows. aap eo nase New School Board Trustees Approved by City Council The eity council approved Mayor Dever's six appointments on the school board which now makes the board of education complete. The new members are Edward B. Ellicet,selectrical engineer and former city electrician, to fill the vacancy of no word of condemnation for the 1. 8 A Murder of L galized d. R. A.) - Mem- nist Party of Bul- n revolutionaries in at the court martial iced eight to death a bomb in Sveti Kral cathec j funeral services for General” eff that resulted in the death o' ps simply a continu- ation of th ot the Zankov re- gime to save ie before the werid —a face, the has been spat- tered with the beginning dictatorship. the opinion that ate. % for the disaster can be laid 0 doo f t has reigned Bul- garia de tl lit coup of the i litary organiza- id the Zankov gov- ernment that today ac- tually rules f intry. Zankov. Not Weep for They are dus in their expres- sions that t munist Party of Bulgaria did o and could have gained r thi using the explo- sion, There i thing strange they say, in ine of that kind, and on page 2) J FICE a 1 ra FAULTY SWITCH of the merci-|, | INJUNCTION AGAINST CONTINUED ~~ BY INDIANA JUDGE (Special © rm Daily Worker.) INDIANAPOLIS, IND., May 14— The temporary injunction recently granted on complaint of William H. Howe, Chicago coal agent, restrain- ing international and local officers of the United Mine Workers of America and the East Side Coal company of Bicknell, Ind., from „in- terfering with the co-operative min- ing projects” in Knox County, con- tinued in effect today. Following a hearing yesterday on the operations of the Tecumseh mine near Bicknell in connection with Howe’s petition for a perman- ent injunction, Judge Robert C. Baltzell in federal court ordered the temporary injunction continued in effect until next Tuesday morning. CAUSED WRECK THAT KILLED 3 (Special to The Daily Worker) TERRE HAUTE, Ind., May.14.— Three men were killed and five in- jured, when the fast east bound Penn- sylvania passenger train No. 6, a double’ header, was derailed at Du- pont, Illinois, 35 miles west of here today. The dead are m er George Munch, Engineer Daniel Walsh, Fire- man Edward, Zimmerman. Three mail clerks, an express mes- senger and E. W. Harper, second fire- man were injured. No passengers were reported injured. Both engines left the rails and turmed over, followed by three mail and baggage cars. Cause of the de- railment had not been officially de- termined, executives of the Pennsyl- vania lines announced. Members of the train crew express- ed belief that a broken rail had caus- ed the accident. All the dead lived in Terre Haute. Harper, the most seri- 2 injured of the five members of inet me nbers W “caused one of t biggest sensations im The document was written some time ago and was never intended for publication. Much speculation is in- dulged in as to where the leakage occurred. The suggestion that the British government favors a future comforting to France. Neither is the hint that the Polish frontier would be conducive to equanimity in Warsaw. tried to cast doubt on the authenticity the president of the board; John A. Wabash Ave.; Charles T. Byrne, re- tired capitalist and former automobile manufacturer; Ave., ent member of the board. Following their confirmation they were rushed to the board rooms where the old board was meeting and of- ficially took their seats. ing Julius F. Smietanka vice-presi- dent for an unexpired term, the new board adjourned until Friday. Council jurisdiction of the school board was recommended by Alderman Jacob N. Arbey, who believes the city council should have power over school ‘trustees. The matter was referred to the schools committee. Teachers’ Meeting Saturday. The Chicago Teachers’ Federation will*hold its regular meeting on Sat- urday, May 16, at 10:30 a. m. There will be reports on the salary situa- tion and on the meetiag of the schools committee of city council for consi- — (Special to The Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 14.—Jas. P. Cannon, of the Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party, who has just returned from Soviet Russia, will be the chief speaker at an international labor defense mass meeting here on Sunday, May 17, at 7:30 p. m., Tadeusz Radwanski, in the Labor Temple, 2536 Euclid Ave. whose two meetings here April 17 and 18, in the interests of the victims of the Polish white terror, were interfered with by (Continued on Page 4) deration of the board of ecucation ap- | Bo: mtecs. The meeting vi.] be held in Corinthiar Hall, 17th ficer. Capitol Building. nm Cal Passes Buck To Governors WASHINGTON, D. C., May 14.— President Coolidge will urge the gov- ernor of the states to go on record ‘for the military “defense day” pro- Sram, it is Aearned here. After elect- Dr. Victor R. Schiller, | a dentist living at 1725 So. Ashland | and James Mullenbach, a pres- | caused by the disclosure of the private views of the tory government. Britain Against Arme Meet. LONDON, May 14.—A call for a dis- armament conference cannot be ex- pected from Great Britain, said Pre- mier Stanley Baldwin in the house of commons today. Answering a labor member’s ques- tion, he said: “The question of disarmaments is now under consideration by the league of nations. I do not think it advan- tageous for Britain to take the initia- tive of summoning a disarmament conference now.“ | CAPITALISMPS NORMALCY IS THINGIOF THE PAST, AMBASSADOR HOUGHTON! LONDON, May 14—Ambassador Huoghton, newly appointed to the court of St. James, expressed the opinion that anew era of prosper- ity was due when normal condi- tions are resumed. The trouble with this prediction is, say some plain- speaking politicians, who will not speak for publication, that normal conditions for capitalism nowadays would be considered very abnormal in pre-war days. revision of the Versailles treaty is not modified in the interest of Germany At first the British capitalist press of the document. But it is now ac- English, organizer of the Typograph- cepted by all papers as genuine. No- ical Uhioh and indorsed by the Chi- body would be surprised to see Austen cago Federation of Labor; Theophilus! Chamberlain, foreign secretary, lose Schmid, a druggist living at 10856 his official head over the scandal ot bo sa: boaptval tu: ath, was remov- ve 1 . . oy, He wi RE a sa 0 nc anton sn — : 5 82. a 1 Usual Whitewash: ordered. PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 14. — A faulty switch caused the wreck of the Pennsylvania passenger train No. 6, in eastern Illinois today, according to advices at the offices of the Penn- sylvania railroad here. An investigation of the wreck has been ordered, it was stated. Kansas Ex-Governor Fights to Keep Out Pardon Sale Facts TOPEKA, Kans., May 14,—The trial of former Governor Jonathan M. Davis, charged with conspiracy and soliciting a bribe, entered its fourth session today with imdications that it will continue far into next week. | The former governor is on trial for the alleged solicitation of a bribe from A. L. Oswald, of Hutchinson, Kansas. Son Caught With Goods. The state’s attorneys so far have confined? their efforts to trying to pre- sent testimony bearing on Davis’ ac- tions in the Fred Pollman case, in which it is charged that Russelll Davis, his son, was caught delivering a pardon to Pollman in exchange for $1,250. Fred. Pollman, former banker of Lacygne, who was sent to the peniten- HINTS FUTURE WAR 1 AMERICA AS ENGLISH BUSINESS LOSES IN TRADE WAR (Special to The in the house of commons. Dally Worker) LONDON, May 14.—That the increasing commercial rivalry between England and the United States, despite certain joint in- terests against Japan and France, is bringing the danger of war between the two great imperialist nations, is seen in the recent developments of trade and diplomacy. The threat to Britain of America’s grand fleet maneuvers in the Pacific has cropped up Rear Admiral Beamish asked the particulars” of the cruise of the American war fleet and whether, “in view of our imperial interests in the Pacific“ ar- rangements wouſd be made for a similar cruise of the British grand fleet. Got Instructions. Unquestionably, this question was not a spontaneous observation by | Beamish. Rear admirals do not ask questions of such diplomatic signi- ficance without purpose, provocation, or even instruction. There is little doubt that Rear Admiral Beamish was closely informed of all “the particu- lars” before he asked for them. : The First Lord of the Admiralty Bridgeman responded by saying that the American fleet was, of course, merely “engaged in practice maneuv- ers,” and that since a special British squadron had made a cruise in Pa- cific waters last September no new movements of British °warships are now proposed. This incident’ is a polite notice served on American imperialism that the British empire has its own inter- ests in the Pacific which it will guard against trespass by America by diplomacy if possible and by war if necessary. It is a softly-worded no- tice that Britain is watching the United States and a warning of “Hands Off the Empire!” It is sufficiently annoying to Brit- ain’s interests that the American fleet has chosen to visit Australian waters, and to demonstrate to that dominion the parent government in London) that the United States, too, has war- ships as powerful as those which have ruled eng for n tur yb oy . we * ees % ; Austr. rk 2 N vs and a prize for the ne Imper- falist groups of the world. British Trade Losing. Another source of irritation is the state of British trade, which shows a continuous dependency on American imports. The month of April state- ment of the British board of trade (Continued on page 2) French Negotiate Debt Tangle with the U. S. Government PARIS, May 14.—The sudden pop- ularity of Joseph Caillaux, French finance minister, in the American cap- italist press, is attributed to his de- cision to make immediate steps look- ing towards the solution of the debt tangle with the United States. Negotiations are scheduled to start within fifteen days. Briand and Cail- laux are of one mind on this question. Callaux’s repudiation of the capital levy made a great hit with Wall Street, which is now satisfied that Caillaux is a constructive statesman and a wholesome patriot. Washington is known to be grati- fied with the new developments in the financial relations between the United States and France. British di- plomats are not so satisfied, looking tiary for forgery and later granted an absolute pardon by Governor Davis, was recalled to the stand when court opened. Exposed Pardon Sale. In reply to questions, Poliman said he went to a Kansas City newspaper with the plan to expose Davis “be- cause there was so much grafting among public officials.” He testified he did not receive mon- ey from the paper for working up the expose. Two Mexican Strikers Killed MEXICO CITY, May 14.-—Two istrikers employed by the Huasteca | Petroleum company works at Tampico | on this move by Caillaux as part of his anti-British policy. (which is not altogether pleased with | UNEMPLOYMENT LEAPS UPWARD FIGURES SHOW 40,000 Lost Jobs in New Tork and Illinois (Special to The Daily Worker) Fourteen thousand workers were added to the ranks of the unemployed workers in Illinois alone during April, the report just issued by the IIlinois department of labor declares, and twenty-five thousand were thrown out of work in New York state. Industry took a decided slump, according to the report, reaching the lowest level since April 1922. The report declares: “The middle of spring finds business on the down-grade in Illinois. With- out sufficient orders to justify them in maintaining their working forces in- tact, Illinois employers continued to lay off help during April so that by the middle of the month there were fewer people in gainful employment in the factories of the state than at any time during the current year. den Per Cent Below 1924. 1,186 manufacturers, who normal- ly employ 40 per cent of the roll of the middle of April, 280,278 workers which was a drop of 1 per cent in the number the identical em- ployers had for the same week 19 March. This decline, following one ot like extent during March, depreciated em- ployment by 2.1 per cent from the level of February. About 14,000 work- ers have been added to the ranks of the unemployed as a result. The state of industry at this time, while slightly above that of April, 1922, is about 10 per cent below that of a year ago, (Continued on page 2) COPPER TRUST DEVOURS ANOTHER WORKER WHEN HUGE ROCKPILE FALLS (Special to The Daily Worked BUTTE, Mont., May 14—Desper ate efforts continued today by a crew of workers to rescue Gue Bolden, a widower with three small children, from the West Colusa mine of the Anaconda Copper com- pany where he has been amen for more than sixty hours. Bolden was caught by a fall ot rock in the mine Monday afternoon. Rescue workers had found no trace of him this morning and it was feared he may have been instantly killed by the huge rockpile. FORCE AND VIOLENCE AGAINST GOVERNMENT APPROVED BY SILK STOCKING SEDITIONISTS’ MEET WASHINGTON, May | against them at heavy expense to the held an anti-government meeting, in i4.—At a moment when organized and heavily financed rum-runners are killing, maiming, kidnaping and bribing federal enforcement officers, and a modified type of naval warfare is being fought nation, Washington “high society” has which clubmen, wives of military and naval men and parents of young diplomats were conspicuous. “Two hundred society men and women of Washington,” says Hearst's were killed in a clash with officials. Herald, “voiced disapproval of the Volstead act at a meeting of the National it was reported. (Continued on page 2) THE PLACE: CENTRAL OPERA HOUSE 67th St. and Third Ave., NEW YORK CITY ————— ˙üA— — — — — Moissaye of the Workers Party of America Olgin DEBATE SUBJECT : “Resolved, That the Russian Soviet System Is Superior to Parliamentary Democracy.” AUSPICES: WORKERS’ SCHOOL AND TRADE UNION EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE. , AU — —— Prof. William Guthrie of the City College of New York — „ THE TIME: SUNDAY, MAY 17 2 P. M. ADMISSION 50 CENTS. : — — — —ͤ—ͤ—ũ—ñ—ö 1 | * 2 2 is 15 ZZ 10 ————
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The progressive carpenters are out for Harry Jensen’s scalp, not because he is or is not Harry Jensen, but be cause of his reactionary policy which has proven inimical to the interests of the members of the carpenters’ union here in Chicago. This is what the rank and file of the carpenters say. The progressives are organizing their forces for the election campaign. Unlike the reactionaries, they have a program as can be seen from the following election dodger: Carpenters, Attention! Brother Carpenters: Election time is coming around again for district council officers and it is very important to every real union man that those whom we elect to office declare themselves, so we know what they stand for. In our opinion no man running without a program should be consider- ed by the voters in this election and we submit the following program as S OUT | UvemPLormenT — ae 7 * 5 ‘ meen | | es ‘ 2 N yp sara 1 * a basis for the nominations and for. the unification of all progressive forc- es against the present administration: 1. No renewal of the present agree- ment, nor a similar one. 2. No agreements to be entered in- to that compels carpenters to work with non-union men in other trades. 3. All agreements to be ratified by the rank and file. 4. A uniform wage and working agreement with all other building trades. All to expire at the same time. 5. To work for the organization of all mills. Only union material to be used on union jobs. 6. A five-day, forty-four week. 7. We pledge ourselves to string- ent economy of administration: ex- penses, elimination of unnecessary at- torney’s fees. & Right of minority opinion to freedom of expression within the union. 9. We will vigorously oppose ille- . gal suspensions and expulsions or the use of police against union men. In addition to the above program, we endorse: 1. The amalgamation of the bufld- ing trades upon a departmental basis, along the lines laid down by the 1913 convention of the building trades de partment. This will abolish the ruin- ous jurisdictional disputes, as well as centralize the activity and unify the forces of all building trades workers. 2. A labor party of, for and by the workers. The Progressive Caucus. Meets every Sunday morning at 10 o’clock.—progressive carpenters invit- ed.—Room 6, third floor, Douglas Park auditorium, corner Kedzie and Ogden Aves. German Rail Workers Must Be Dropped to Make Dawes Plan Pay BERLIN, May 14-—The German railroads are obliged under the Dawes plan to bear a large part of the bur- den of the Versailles treaty, declared | Karl Stetler, director general of rail- ways, during an interview with von Hindenburg, newly installed presi- dent of the reich. Before the railways can pay their reparations, | share of the Dawes Steiler said, 30,000 more employes must be discharged. This does not sound pleasant to the ears of the social-democratic workers, who have been led to believe that they could | gain control of industry gradually | without having to establish a dictator- ship as in Russia. They are now being disillusioned. The national federation of German ea a lt tt tnd eae — LEAPS UPWARDS | (Continued from page 1). and 15 per cent below the April, 1923, level. “Declining industry is shown to be a general condition by other reports. A preliminary statement to the press on May 9 by the New York depart- ment of labor was that between 20,- 000 and. 25,000 were thrown out of work in April in that state. “The distribution of the lay-offs among the industries did not differ widely from that of the preceding month, but there was a continuation of the trend begun earlier. Small de- clines were quite frequent .in the metal industries, thus the change for the month in the payrolls of the twelve industries making up the metal group was less than 1 per cent from the March figure. Included in this class were the steel mills. Some of the larger ones continue to cut off a few workers each week, a practice that has been followed .for two months. “Machinery firms also laid off small percentages of their forces, but in electrical apparatus, there was a sizable reduction in working forces that, taken with earlier cuts leaves employment at a rather low point. Agricultural implement firms, in some instances, were laying off help, de- preciating the volume of employ- ment in that industry by 2.9 per cent. “The meat packing firms follow- ed reductions in employment in March, with a cut that gave unem- ployment to 5.7 per cent of the per- sons who were at work in March. At some of the most important plants in this industry, there are now fewer workers than at any time since the war. “Operations are also very light in the flour mills. Some of them have closed down entirely, and as reported by 21 mills, there were 7.4 per cent fewer workers empldyed in April than in March. Candy factories laid off nearly 10 per cent of their workers, and to- bacco concerns reported that they had reduced their working forces by a like percentage. “Job printers have given out about the steadiest employment of any em- ployers in the state, but they were obliged to reduce employment sub- stantially during April. They dis- charged 15.7 per cent of their women workers, and 5 per cent of their male workers during April. Rarely have there been changes 30 precipitate in this industry. “Tanneries, which have been er- panding for about six months, show in their reports lessening activity in April. For the ten reporting em- ployers the decline in employment during the month was calculated to be 3 per cent. Shoe factories gener- ally had a few more employes in April than in March, however. The chemical industries show a mixed trend. While the oil refineries were adding to their forces, the paint factories and dye concerns were laying off workers, In- dustrial chemical firms had about 2.3 per cent more workers in April than in March. Clothing Industry Slumps. “An analysis of the reports for the apparel industries shows a decided downward trend. The declines were, of course, partly seasonal. Men’s clothing factories laid off 11.1 per cent of their employes, and millinery con- cerns a like amount. Changes else- where were of less extent. In the knit goods factories, where women are chiefly employed, employment was sustained in April at the March level. “The most favorable factor in the present industrial situation is the state of the building industry. “Thus industry, at the present time, is far below a boom period. Operations of the factories in Illinois are 15 per cent or more below full operations in the utilization of man power and the labor market is glutted with an over-supply of men and women eager to find jobs.” i WHEAT GAMBLERS STOLE MILLIONS, SAY SENATORS Coolidge ‘Probe’ Cannot Repair the Damage WASHINGTON, May 164— Outlaw. ing of all trading in grain futures was the demand today of the congressional farm bloc as the department of agri- culture continued its investigation of the recent sensational “raid” of the Chicago wheat market. Farm bloc members heartily en- dorsed this move, but. insisted that the administration “formulate legis- lation” prohibiting all grain gambling. They urged that this action be taken in the next session of congress. Western senators declared the last “clean up” had created an “unendur able situation.” Profits on future trading in grains, they charged, amounted to a robbery of the con- suming public. “To gamble in the price of food is worse than robbery.” said Senator Norris. “Thousands of people starve, be- cause of the high price of food, while a handful of men acquire their III gotten gains. Congress has tried to prevent this gambling, government officials have condemned it and the people protest against it. It is time for the administration to act. “This gambling is done by million- aire middlemen. Every dollar they make comes either from the consum- ‘ er cr the farmer and usually from both. I am ready to act with the de- partment of agriculture at any time in enacting a law to prohibit all &gmbl- ing in foodstuffs.” Norris said he thought the govern- ee might be able to punish grain gamblers under the present law, but added, “The damage is already done.” F ord Subcontractors Speedup So Fiercely Men Can't Stand Pace | RACINE, Wis.—(FP)—Henry Ford is contracting out large quantities of tool and die work at prices that sweat skilled tool and die makers. The officers in convention here attacked Webster Electric Co. have been un- the Dawes plan as injurious to Ger- able to keep a Racine man for over a man interests. | year. Court Martial of Bulgarian Terror a Farce (Continued from p-.ge 1) it is even surprising that more such catastrophes do not occur considering that more than 20,000 Bulgarian peo- ple have paid with their lives for the bloody Zankov dictatorship that has ruled since June, 1923. Speaking of the wailings of the press since the catastrophe, one of the emigres said, These bearers of culture of the bourgeoisie did not weep but triumphed when, in June, 1923, over a thousand peasants were slaughtered and when in September, the same year, over 10,000 workers, peasants and intellectuals were done to death in the most brutal manner. It was in the same cathedral that there was then celebrated the victory of ‘law and order“ — Forest Fire Rages Thru Big Part of Northern Ontario (Special to The Daily Worker.) FORT WILLIAM, Ont., Can., May 14.—The entire Thunder Bay district of northern Ontario today was at the mercy of flames sweeping from four different fronts thru the virgin for- ests, tinderdry from weeks of drought. One aged farmer, trapped by the onrushing flames, is known to have perished. f Scores of settlers have been driven from their homes, and numerous towns, in the of the conflagra- tions are tened The fire has been raging for more than 24 hours. An estimate of the damage at this time, forest rangers said, was im- possible. City Attorney Quits When Charged with Robbing Drug Store ALTON, II., May 14.—Indicted for the alleged theft of $600 in cash and & quantity of whisky from an Alton drug store, City Attorney Charles Hal- sey resigned today. Halsey was ar- rested with three companions includ- ing Joseph Clark, 24, clerk at the store, who police say, confessed ar- ranging the robbery. Halsey and Clark with Walter Mal- com and Earl Miller waived prelimin- ery hearing and were released on bond of $1,000 each. Halsey is a graduate of Washing- ton and Lee university, Lexington, Kentucky, and, according to Clark, who left the door and safe unlocked, the money and whiskey was needed for a “party” to be held at Paris, Illinois. Russian-Ukrainian Dramatic Club Gives Concert and Ball MILWAUKEE, Wis., May 14.— A concert and ball beginning on Sun- day, May 17, at 2:30 p. m. and last- ing until midnight will be given by the Russian-Ukrainian Dramatic club at the Freie Gemeinde Hall, 8th and Walnut streets, Milwaukee. The concert will contain numbers by the Russian-Ukrainian chorus con- | sisting of 30 people and by the Frei- heit Singing Society. There will also be a one-act play entitled “The Living Dead.” After she concert there will be dancing until midnight. Music for dancing will be supplied by the Man- |hattan Oriels Snappy Five. Admission sult of the cathedral explosion, do not | 10 50 cents. even number one per cent of the workers and peasants who have been | murdered during the 22 months exist- | St. Louis Teamsters ence of the Zankov government. Face Strike on Wage The white terrof in Bulgaria con- tinues unabated. It is meeting with Cut and Longer Day the most emphatic disapproval of the whole population. The situation is} ST. LOUIS—(FP)—St. Louis will being complicated by fresh waves of | Witness a strike of 1900 union trans- higher prices that periodically set in. fer teamsters June 17 if the employ- The cost of living is enormous, the highest it has ever been. All workers’ newspapers in Bul- ers persist in their attempt to cut wages. The union asks for $40 a week and the 8-hour day. The men garia have been suppressed. Meetings now work 9% hours and receive $34. of any kind, whether political or trade 40 a week. The employers counter union, are prohibited. Police massa- | with a 10% -hour day and $30 a week. eres continue and have been legalized This craft is nearly 100 per cent by the extension of the law for the | unionized. Its last strike was in 1920 protection of the state and algo as to The two hundred dead, as the re the police | — and was marked by much strike breaker-violence and police brutality. : i> * Ae 1 9 — / Henge at. Bulgar Envoys re Trouble (Special to The Dally Worker) GENEVA, May i4—The comedy facetiously called the “arms parley” is still drawing full houses here, with the probability that it will run for several weeks more | The government representatives present discussed Whether armored trains should be permitted in the next war. Nations not possessing facili- ties for manufacturing such instru- ments of death, protested violently against their use on the ground that it was not sportsmaniike for soldiers to hide behind tra¥eling fortresses and belch a deadly firé on their com- paratively ected foes. | Hitting Under Belt. The iron, coal and steel nations laughed this to scorn, say- ing that the 3 a Queensbury rules did not prevail in war. Nations that were not able to put in a decent supply of fighting togs should stay home and fight their wives. The canference decided that armor- ed trains should not come within the scope of the proposed supervision of the traffic in lethal weapons. This puts the armored train in the same category with warship, fire crackers, submarines, red fire (the kind used by politicians around election time) airplanes, toy balloons, airships and kites. It’s going to be a nice little war! Would Slit Throat. Hungary objected to the use of flame throwers in the next war but the delegates got sore over this con- tinued petty interruption from small nations that should know how to keep their mouths shut. What kind of a war do you want?” asked one of the British representatives, of Horthy's envoy. The Hungarian replied that he had no objection to the use of flame throwers on princi He would slit a windpipe with fittle reluctance as many in the assembly but he did not want Hungary to be put in an ad- vantageous position. He reminded the delegates that the Trianon treaty forbade Hungary to use flame throw- ers. It was a reflection on the dig- nity of his country he declared ang- rily. * : ” Ap A representative of the Zankov re- gime of Bulgaria was to mutter “What do they throwers tor can be secured and ‘1 ; quiet with- out making ubing noise?” When the | fascist was recognized the legates speed- ily left the hall and returned with their armor 19: Outside of those little incidents everything is runniti® smoothly and the casualties are extremely low The conference will be About as fruitful as the opium talk fest. Just about. FRANCE TANGLES WITH SPAIN IN ROBBING: MOORS Imperialists Treaty Divided Moors Land (Special to The Dally Worker) MADRID, Spain, May 13.— Adb-el- Krim’s attack on the border tribes in the French Moorish protectorate is en- gaging the attention of students of the Moroccan question because of the ef- fect it may have — the interna- tional outlook in n ern Africa. The day of reckoning is approach- ing for the withdrawal of the Spanish troops last fall, Spain contends that there is nothing in her treaty engage- ments that obliges her to occupy her protectorate (northern) zone in Mo- rocco within any giv@n time. Treaty Clauses Vague. The French republic, which is oblig- ed to support the sultan of Morocco, is now, to all intents and purposes, at war with El Krim and French lives and treasure are being expended in defense of a frontic that has never been delimited and which is marked differently on the French and Span- ish maps. * Therefore, one of the consequences of the fighting now going on may well be a frontier disputé as to the inter- pretation of the somewhat vague ar- ticles of the Franco-Spanish treaty of 1912, which attempted to describe a land nobody had visited. The com- mittee of delimitation has not yet vis- ited the long line between the Muluya and Luccus rivers. Foreign Exchange NEW YORK, May 14.—Great Bri- tain, pound sterling, demand 4.85%; cable 4.85%. France, franc, demand 5.214%; cable 5.21%. Belgium franc, demand 5.05%; cable 5.06. Italiy, lira, demand 4.10%; cable 4.10%. Sweden, krone, demand 26.72; cable 26.75. Norway, krone, demand 16.87; cable 16.89. Denmark, krone, demand 18.85; cable 18.87. Germany) mark, unquoted. Shanghai, tael, demand 74.62%; cable 1 * n rt * . an 1 3 5 By ‘ce 25 5 n n ä er ~ep 2 e ‘ Pee i “J 1 e Chicago in Burlesqu e ||? Attempt to Give Fake Dignity to its By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. .. ~ , even typewriters millionaire war more effectively in their true men of the working class. * zetti, in Massachusetts. capitalist class. of labor, State’s Attorney All capitalist courts look different from the oppressive room of a Judge Wilkerson, labor in Great Britain. In other countries the judges also wear wigs. that custom will also be introduced here. A little more awe and dignity might be obtained by star chamber sessions of the court, with the prisoner shackled and manacled, after the fashion of the trial of the two workers, Sacco and Van- gf CRAY, Chicago gets ready to present to the world another sensational murder trial. But there is a little curtain raiser already on in which Chicago, one of the most repul- sive social cancers under American capitalism, seeks to up- hold before all the “dignity” of its courts. It is seeking to do this thru the sleight of hand performance that is to abolish the use of telegraphs, telephones, radio instruments and from the court room where William D. Shepherd is to go on trial for the alleged poisoning: of his William Nelson McClintock. ’ his is the result of a little wave of righteousness that has swept the Chicago Bar Association. | with the same fraudulent “dignity drive“ that put blac gowns on the backs of the judges, altho it failed to put black hoods over their heads, so that the t is in 1 might really parade role of oppressors and hang- Perhaps But the presence of typewriters, telegraphs, telephones, cameras and radio instruments in a court room, or their ousting by black-gowned judicial lackeys, does not alter in the least the class nature of the courts. either case, an instrument of oppression in the They remain, in ands of the All the means of publicity were allowed in the court- room during the Loeb-Leopold trial, and the arch-oppressor obert E. Crowe, was given every opportunity to appear fittingly in the public eye. Shepherd case Crowe's sun is somewhat eclipsed by the activities of Municipal Judge Olson, who parades as one of the prosecutors. It may be that Crowe, not seeing the light of publicity turned his way, has decided to partially obliterate it, so that it will not shine too brightly upon his rival. And this is what the kept press calls a polishing up of the tar- nished dignity of the capitalist courts. * * * a In the alike to the workers. The super-dignity of the wartime inquisition of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, wha sent many workers to prison, is not legal atmosphere of the court- who issued the injunctions against the striking shopmen in the postwar period. Judge Landis wore no gown as he dealt out capitalist justice to the Industrial Workers of the World and other was just as bitter a foe of labor as Judge Jeffreys who sought to crush the first budding efforts toward the organization of risoners, but he Behind the courts stands the capitalist class upholding its social order. The anti-labor judicial system can no more be bent on the side of labor than the social orate spawned it. The change comes when labor tears up social order, that is its enemy, by the roots, and clears the way for the Communist society that provides no place for class courts, because wnder’ Communism all classes will dis- appear in the first fraternal brotherhood of all mankind. that this British Admiral Hints Future War (Continued from page 1.) showed British imports were £110,- 350,000 against British exports of £60,870,000. This is a markedly un- favorable balance of trade, and as a can cotton and wheat, American claims upon England are shown to be steadily mounting. Last year the same month showed £86,165,000 im- ports and £62,866,000 exports. Thus the unfavorable trade balance has grown 100 per cent in the last year, and there is no sign of it being checked. U. 8. Flivvers Winning. English manufacturers are just now alarmed at the trade war of Ameri- can automobile companies who have simply grabbed the domestic British market from under their very noses. American-made autos are arriving in Great Britain at the rate of one thou- sand a day. While some of this com- mercial invasion may be stopped by the restoration of the McKenna tariff of 33 per cent on such imports, there are sO many American autos coming in now as to cause it to be a subject of discussion in the imperial cabinet. There is a glut of American autos at Southampton, Liverpool, London and Plymouth. Cars are being stored in all available sheds and there are acres spread over suburban fields ‘awaiting storage. At least a supply lis in sight to last two or three years. The Usual Piffle. The usual declarations of amity and concord which are made when imperi- alist rivalry developes, is being om- mitted by various spokesman. H. Wickham Steed, former editor of the London Times, speaking at a luncheon yesterday, declared the need of a better understanding” between Eng- land and America. | However Steed upbraided British di- plomacy for not seeking alliance with France against “America’s defection” from the league of nations and he closed by saying: “Unless the people of the United States were convinced Britain was guided in her foreign policy by ideals of peace, a new world war would come, more terrible than the last, from the horrors of which no part of Europe would be exempt. — * * British Expert's Gloomy View. LONDON, May 14-—A gloomy view of Britain’s trade outlook was ex- pressed by Sir Robert Horne at a re- 16.13%. | cent dinner of the British Overseas large part of the imports are Ameri-. Banks Association. He said he had just come back from a journey abroad, which had taken some months, and he was of the opin- ion “that we are in a worse position today than we were six months ago, and that was bad enuf. If we look at the staple trades of the country we cannot help having a feeling of anxiety and apprehension as to the future.” Sir Robert referred to the state of the shipbuilding, coal, heavy steel, woolen and cotton trades, and said it was his deliberate belief that every section of society had to combine to find some solution of the problem, otherwise there was no hope for the country. Force and Violence Against Government Approved by Plutocrats (Continued from page 1.) Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, at the Willard Hotel yes- terday. “The meeting, presided over by Chauncey Hackett, attorney and club man, was the most colorful ever held here, officers cf the organization said. Mrs. George Barnett, wife of Maj. Gen. Barnett, marine corps, re- tired, deplored the ineffectiveness of the Volstead act and increasing crime among boys and girls.” “Nation Savers” Against Workers. The Barnetts are conspicuous in the social columns of the press, and are likewise conspicuous at meetings of “patriotic” and anti-radical groups such as demand the deportation of alien Workers who are dissatisfied with “American institutions.” They are red-hot supporters of the constitution when anyone proposes to amend it with reference to the fed- eral judiciary or child slavery. The Girls Must Be Pretty Bad. Just before this social wet rally Sir Maurice Low, Washington corres- pondent of the reactionary London Morning Post, reported that society women here assured him that girls were drinking bootleg whisky and were becoming less moral than their mothers. He also claimed that drug addicts were rapidly increasing. The public health service denies this, showing that drug addicts in the United States have decreased more than 50 per cent since 1900, aand are steadily decreas- ing. [European Slave Labor By LELAND OLDS There are bargains aplenty at the 5 and 10 cent stores. At Kresge’s I bought a serviceable jackknife for a quarter. A chain was thrown in for good measure. All for 25c. The knife compares favorably with those sold at 75c. to $1, On the blade is inscribed A. W. Wadsworth & Son, Germany. The concern sounds like English or American capital but the labor was low-paid German. The knife was a bargain. It undersold the product of American workers. Per- haps this explains why cutlery and tool plants in the United States em- ploy 10 to 15 per cent fewer workers than a year ago. There are other bargains at Kres- ge’s. You will find a counter covered with tungsten electric bulbs, round or long, frosted or clear, all colors, rang- ing from 10 to 300 watts. All for c. Examine one. It bears a faint stamp Made in Hungary where with the per- mission of the league of nations the reactionary admiral Horthy holds tha trical supplies and apparatus in this country employ 11 per cent fewer workers than a year ago. These are goods picked up by chance. They show that American workers are buying unemployment with their bargains. The sales of these bargain stores go up by leaps and bounds. Yet business men are, baffled by the increase in unemploy- ment. the state labor department, are 15 per cent or more below full utilization of man-power and the labor market is glutted with an oversupply of men and women eager to find jobs. The the downgrade. Illinois employers continue to lay off help. Employment fell 1 per cent in April, is 10 per cent below April 1924 and 15 per cent be- low April, 1928. New York state reports between 20,000 and 25,000 dropped from fact- ory payrolls between March and April, a loss of almost 2 per cent. This means 5 per cent fewer workers than a year ago and 11 per cent fewer than in April 1923. Chronic unemployment will grow more severe, Capitalism has filled the world with machinery without allow- ing the workers enough purchasing }power to buy the product. The bar- gains of today are signs that capitalist industrialism cannot last. Naive Farmers Want . Coolidge to Finance “Export Corporation DES MOINES, la., May 14.-—The 500 delegates who attended the west- ern agrarian conference here were on their way to their respective homes today after selecting a permanent committee of 25 to carry out the program adopted by the conference late yesterday. Creation of a billion dollar export corporation, financed by the federal government, controlled by farmers selected by the various farm organ- izations that took part in the confer- ence here, was the feature of the program. Two Workers Killed and Many Injured in Erie Railroad Smash ERIE, Pa., May 14.—Two men were killed and a score injured shortly af- ter noon today when a speeding sec- tion train on the Erie railroad jumped the tracks between Concord and Union City. The dead: Arthur Birton, aged 17, of Union City. H. Terry, of Union City. Of the injured it is believed that four will die. Nine of the most Seri ously injured have been taken to the Corey hospital. There were about 100 men on the train, all of whom were badly shaken up. German Monarchist President Greeted by Pope and Envoys BERLIN, May 14.—President Hin- denburg today received the congratu- lations of the diplomatic corps. Aaren Delano Robbins, American charge d'affaires, was seated in the semi- circle with other envoys at the re- ception at the president’s palace when Papal Nuncio Pacelli in a brief speech congratulated the new president. Pacelli voiced the greetings of the diplomatic corps to the new military president. Plasterers Win Strike. MONESSEN, Pa. May 14.—The plasterers strike in the upper Monan- gahela valley has come to an end. The contractors agreed to give them $1.00 a day increase in pay. Their demands was for a $2.00 per day in- crease. This will give the plasterers $13 a day for the next 12 months. la have been on strike since the first of May, workers down. Manufacturers of elec- Operations in Illinois factories, says report for April shows business on . . r - — ⁰˙—
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G 4 orkers’ pensions are regarded no longer as socialistic b nt Scoti Ses bag’ — adage aang bor overnment F i g ur e $| sary provision by state capitalism for the increasing numb c but as neces- 5 | otia in their corporation house of assembly at Halifax put one of the = Prove Reduction jit is creating. c number of dependents Expect to Beat Widow „„ eee gree of the province May 6 —— The widow’s pensiot até. om, ansas industrial court act of compulsory arbitration.” : ed wit h By LELAND OLDS. sions will eee 2 een, piven Bs extension of old age pen- in Higher Court All industries that the minister of — works — decrees are 2 r one | 3 25 Railway emploves received 37,000, 70M the state to 6,500,000 in a popu- + eceiving money or maintenance pe 3 public utilities, are included in its scope and such others as both parties to a Murder, Transfers Home 000 less in wages in February, 1925, lation of 43,000,000. These include at NEW O erika se 4 gn N dispute agree. de than in February, 1924, according to | Present 2,100,000 war pensioners, 900 tor $50,000 is. 3 verdict Labor fakers attended the public hearings of the act in swarms and INDIANAPOLIS, Mey 6e-a 8 the interstate commerce commission. 000 old age pensioners, 1,250,000 un- PENNSYLVANIA LABOR Great Southern s 15 mee the | fougat for_ponitions-¢t ite fret wash- transferring the spactous home of D. 1855 n for * resulted from a reduction of 27, 9 and 1,500,000 paupers. PARTY H AS H lusa and five citizens of — yo 1 go ing, at its premature birth. ; C. Stephenson, former K. K. K. lead» 2 n number emplo flip Sno ie orably 5 $2 in the average ae a the 5 eee coe in OT FIGHT was returned in federal court in favor Fakers Gather At The Feast SW ALES M AY U AY er and employer, under indictment 25 N yn the . Over 40 per cent of this reduction Ment, says the budget, “ bork of the OVER UNITED FRONT ot Mrs. L. @. Williams, widow ot Lem „ Wülam Best, a dominion lobbyist for murder m ann os Worth 8 in wages came out of the kets ot scheme of wid get, “shorn of the , Williams, labor man killed at Boga- tor the International railway run- death of Miss Madge Oberholtzer, to 7 jounds = Grease key ows’ pensions, would — lusa in November 1919. Lem Wi ning trades, urged carefulness that Ira M. Holmes, attorne | the train and engine service employes have appeared to everybod HAR lliams * recently re- al but ae rybody what it RISBURG, Pa., May 14.—The operated a garage and was presi this bastard legislation be safel tained by Stephenson to def 2 whose monthly total fell 5 per cent really is—the worst rich convention’ , president y end him, Pines ss from $61,712,680 in February, 1924, to Set.“ Sugarcoated b hi cert aad b vention of the Pennsylvania la- ot the trades council which was sup- delivered. When asked by an astute was on file in the county clerk’s office ld the 1 $58,807,428 this year. The railroads posals the rite y the pension pro- bor party decided to organize thru- porting the min workers in union- enemy politician, what else the gov- here today. * 2 25 tae Ar gc . r #168 oe 1 has handed 2 the state, basing the organiza- izing, a policy Opposed by the lumber ernment could do when concilliation 2 1 1 Although the transfer of the pro- y and | train and engine men in 1925 The | tax reduction to tes 3 1. abe ep displaced — alam sig Posie on ta eee Rac has just become, Sy ae | 13 em- Perens ge 0 9 an super- ons, an the working class spiac y egroes there followed a fakers are. 1 the deal was consummated April 7 orkers | fell — quae we Oh. eT fon will be awa of the work- | Political parties. partial organization of the colored J. R. Stewart aff insurance agent British Union Le d last, according to the Sees, Sta cem More detailed study of the urg ‘ ased. Comrade Otis led the fight for the men. 4 party of men came to Wil- holding a card in a International run- Ww 60 7 a toe sideration, Holmes said was $20,000 Kres- shows that while total straight-time 2 admission of all working class poll- liams’ garage and Willlams and two ning trades organization in Nova ants Emancipation of which $15,000 is represented by a overed compensation of train and engine ser- The pension proposals are advanced tical parties. The Workers (Com- others were Killed and two wounded. Scotia stated, “It must be a good 8 mortgage held by the Marion County und or vice employes fell 3 per cent the re- as compulsory insurance covering munist) Party was broadly dis- Williams’ widow charged her husband thing because both employer and em- WASHINGTON. May 14.—(FP)— State Bank and due on September 7, , Tang- | \ duetion in overtime and arbitrary pay practically the entire wage-earning cussed at the convention, and lts murdered by agents of the Great ploye were against it.” Copies of the labor day (May Day) 1929. or 26e. nn N Vr A widow will receive united front policy was taken up. Southern o. It was further Pat Healey, for the Halifax Trades message of A. B. Swales, chairman of The property transfer was made stamp the railroads are taking ‘advantage of 4 a week for life with an addition- There are ten . planks in the 1 that G Whistle on the com- #224 Labor Council pointed out that it the British Trade Union Congress, four days after Stephenson together 10 per- the changes in rules in recently nego- ‘ $1.25 for the youngest child and 75c | Platform. The government owner. pany’s plant was used to assemble would put workers in jail but be un- who was a fraternal delegate at the with Earl Klinck and Ban Gentry ns the tiated agreements or each additional child until the | ship of the basic Industries, under the mob to kill He? husband. constitutional when it was invoked EI Paso convention last November, /"™ arrested on grand jury indict „ 9 * ds tha The average wages of various class- 8 child reaches 14% years. democratic control was approved 1 aan the ern. have reached A. F. of L. headduar- mente charging assault and battery t elec- es in Feb., 1924 and 1925 follow: pn ge pensions will begin at 65 and After strong opposition, A fight was Elgntees eee Drown. Joe Wallace for the Communist tern. They show that Swales’ firet with intent to kill and came before | in this Rail Workers 1924—feb.— 1928 workers over 70 will receive pensions | made for the trade union control of TOKIO, May 1 — Bighteen were | Party showed that the act wasn’t to summons is for all workers to re- Mies Oberholtser died on April 14. fewer Passenger 1 question as to other means the party. pede: —— seven missing when the | top strikes but to hamstring the affirm their determination to use | of support. Workers and 1 A on fishing vessel Fud strikers b ii h every means within thei Brakemen ............ ..$151 $154 employers state executive committ o Maru y jailing the leaders. And i r power to es- . * up by \ | Conductors ............ 225 228 a to contribute equally to support eleven was elected, — 1 in a typhoon off Oshima that the act made the supreme court a the most complete working Galligan 8 Return erican | ) S 945 244 ese pensions beginning at 8c. per Stoers, who was elected by three | T mn , south west from the Bay of | Where British Empire Steel repres- ** unity. to A ti-K] H ; yyment Firemen ........ . 181 183 |. and 4c per woman per week and Votes. okio, according to reports here to- entatives hold the majority die- e declares that all signs point to- . 85 of Freight oor ear . ape intervals to 140. day. ; = ise of wages and working condi- being aang: Footy ghastly than the Displeases Small | ’ leaps Brakemen .............: 161 158 n an e. per woman in 1956 tions, as well as of the fate of those f 8 of labor are being length- m are, Athan $39 212 rg ase scheme will be fully effect- MUDDLED FARM BUREAU OFFICIALS who opposed it. pee Mag Bor of European in- SPRINGFIELD, II., May 14—@besiff mploy- ö Engineers 246 241 80 persons whose incomes do STILL He showed that there was nothing (eight-h efiance of the Washington George Galligan’s self-directed return | . 171 163 not exceed roughly $25 a week must DREAM OF AID FROM CAL to prevent the employer concerned „We ee convention. to power in Williamson county did 5,says Freight service employes were the * P REA 1 re ave passed from savagedom nt r t r e are 15 chief sufferers from any changes in e sed MacDonald and Pethick CH PEACE RELIEF FIGHT LAGS sion; that there was no provision, gon” n from serfdom to wage- |Placidity of the state capital. ization ~— traffic or in operating conditions com- wrence for Labor attack the con- r agalnat them accepting gifts or sub- | termined t ya, “and we must be de-| At last, Sates Cee market pared with a year ago. tributory feature as a direct burden DES MOINES, Iowa, May 14.—A sequent graft from the owning class, | in the . = forward and not flinch | dications that the “exiled” officer had of men | Por the railroad industry as 8 whole on industry which ought to be placed | agricultural products fe pa ' n export corporation to handle surplus and nothing to prevent any paper or ang Phas ste ae i to secure full economic invoked the wrath of the state admin- 11 the average wage was $130 in Feb., on wealth. They say it will mean an | qa united. farm e y the federal government, but controlled by Peron urging the employers not to hive the nat emancipation. Long istration by “violating his agreement ess On | 1925, compared with $132 in Feb., increased cost of production forcing | the midwestern on, was the feature of a “farm relief program” offered accept an award, while a worker | niin Gt eee working class to stay away from Williamson” until ployers 1924. The range of wages for able either a decrease in wages or an in of nine toda agricultural conference in session here by a sub-committee r munen ment bodied male labor was from $66 to 7 0 . fi eee eee — 2 ; ee in pretest har A A C aa r cent about $250 a month. These include or spicy interruptions when conserv- of an agricultural com- ganizer who urged better conditions Con Attorney General Oscar Caristrom, ent be- 169,388 section laborers at 866; 38, atives have the floor, wants to know = 8 of farmers to be Remember All These for the workers would be liable to im- Ff ductors Crawfish however, let it become known shortly , 810 extra-gang laborers at $69; 61,- why those who work must contribute eg y farm organizations was Pp olitic a P 2 prisonment. So that while Jack Mac- rom LaFollette at after Galligan’s recent conference | etween | 411 common shop laborers at $75; to their pensions while generals, ad-| The sub . ae risoners (Donald and Malcolm Bruce of the Minnea lis M . with Governor Small, that he would | m fact- 46,479 shop and engine house workers mirals and all in, high authority get We N program will be in the Month of June Communist Party took the jury route | — eeting oppose Galligan’s return and that the | April, | at $88; 38,450 freight handlers at $86; theirs without paying. He says the 1 by the conference this — to freedom the last time they were MINNEAPOLIS governor had not granted him leave This 416.468 philled trades helpers at $100; e VE dende the weekly den om, ay Be oe political pris. Trento d. nent time wouldn't have FRN 9 s than | 86,389 freight carmen at $131; 63,149 tribution the casual laborer must | ¢, 44; e committee purified itself of oners confined in American prisons — the Orde 0 Ra „„ | fewer machinists at $144; 6,800 skilled elec- make out of his scant earnings. Are which in the past has are announced by the Workers Nation- In addition to fighting the measure | n 4. ue. Conductors, in son county’s “klan wars“ which were trical workers at $150; 8,404 signal- . Pes Aa mise e to agricultural re- al Prison Comfort: Club, 2923 Chest- before the legislature, and putting | 59.011 member 8 represents |Climaxed when S. Glenn Young, klan | grow men at $145: 188.452 class B clerks at The budget will also increase the The eee nut St., Milwaukée, as follows: tron into the opposition of the Tredes| assets of over $6,000,000, acerdine to r led the $122; 26,269 telegraphers and tower- workers’ cost of living through the hundreds pa “are attended by| AT SAN [NTIN PRISON, Cal.: and Labor Council, the Communist | General Secretar E 1 to [1% in enn ene eng allow- men at $131; 5,413 dispatchers at 3251. new protective duties theoretically | bureaus. f elegates of farm June 3, B. Nen, No. 38364; June Party has been instrumental in aum. port. . r. o nn chasing These monthly wage statistics re- imposed to protect eee | othe 2 unions, granges, and 16, John Bt 54, June 25 Geo /moning delegates of all trades unions This compar county supervisors to “vacate” his he bar- iterate monotonously the fact that, tries. This pretense appears a joke Mi agricultural organizations from Ryan, 35! : „Ito deal with this and related matters. | at the 1922 pares with 58,570 members | Office and stay out of the county. pitalist thé Wags xtritturé it the railroad in- When manufacturers of artificial silk nnesota, Nebraska, the Dakotas, AT MASSAGHUSETTS Expose Parliament F Cleveland convention. The] ‘The recent anti-kanm victory at the ' dustry rests on a minimum inadequate | are found among the protected. This . Iiinots, Indiana, Oklahoma, PRISON, CHAT Mas * Abe The benefit of * . —— 8 ome erer ‘ 2 br — the worker meet the demands is practically a monopoly in England. ms Bree water Asylumy Bartolomeo — scious working class, even in the | traces 1 ray sp tage rr and an apti-klan maror t | a 4 came entire month of Fet-| Courtawid is the biggest unit in the . AT REPRESA, C olsom Prison: | bosses“ parliament was demonstrated Illinois Central — 5 —.— 2 — sale going se: * Higa pod of a million men re- combine. This concern made $18,850,- Big Per Cent of All June 16, Heyman . Suhr, 9266: June when the three men elected by the 1868. ag) DP eer a — — was believed to have ice . ae an $75 each. Such a 000 profit in 1924 on $58,200,000 cap- Workers Con t * 22, Louis Allen, 12026. workers of Cape Breton county, fought| President L. E. Sheppard has held ssa ben + min res 3 3 f f ’ f 4 . & tion Pr presses wages all along 1 * 2 than 32 per cent. : centrat AT BOX A, Thomaston Me: June its many clauses, pointing out the Office since the 1919 convention at 5 : u yee a has been increased in Few Great Plants Tom "ery. myo intended to be used to skim St. Louis. Grain Gamblers Who rom 150,000 to $58,200,000 b AT BLUE | the cream of the lab (re 1 ; y RIDGE STATE FARM, | abor movement and| Though very active in the La- » west Blacklist Working on 1 8 the ag pro- NEW YORK, May 14.—Thirty-two 1 Tex.: June 19, Pedro Paroles. song Pc spirits in the ranks | Follette presidential campaign of — Boosted Wheat Price 2 were th L | : per cent on the | ber cent of the workers are employed SENIOR FARM, Dewalt, Bra- 1 or behind prison bars. Sheppard agrees with the legislative W hitewashed Ca homes Hi um rjacks Who 8 investment. In 1924 cash in 1 per cent of the country’s 196,267 zoria, Co., Tex.: June 30, Jesus Gon- Nova Scotia now has the distinction | committee of the order in its reaom- by 1 8 it Seattle Skidroad may on meget z= So Sees — — per eee plants, the national indus- zales, 36458; June 30, Leonardo Vas- | bee 2 most vicious Jaw in its mendation that the commitment to WASHINGTON, D. d. May 14—The ut the e real Invest- trial conference board, connected with Aue. | es of any English speaking form a national labor party be aban- department of agri — terence SDATTLE— (FFP) — The blacklist of 8 and in addition a 62% per cent] the National Civic Federation, states. Cora Meyer, Mecretary, invites fung, and at the same time not one doned as “impracticable so far as its tion into the alleged — — 2 h Pactie idend in 5 per cent preferred stock The 1 per cent represents the plants friends and sym ate tn send | labor law that can be said to have | effectiveness in the cause of labor is the Chicago wheat market — export northwest is in full operation. Men was distributed. employing over 500 workers each. birthday cards to these victims. en °macted in the interest of the | concerned.” ‘of millionatre operators 4 federal who have been working in the woods Only one-tenth of this 1 per cent em- Books and publications must be sent workers, such as 8-hour day, minimum tar shown sufficient evil not thus farmers for years are denied a job because American Buildin 8 re ney eae Tos ne, direct from the Dyblishers. ee eee rant seeking of criminal ind! pd. organ- they have incurred the enmity of the 8 makes one-fifth of all workers em- — rae following observations of & Why Not Notch: Their it was claimed toda 3 confer- employers’ association. by Speculators Are ployed. Most industrial establish-| Capitalist P i e Ears B d Th ie 4 R * After an applicant for work pays a Sh idil Constru ted ments are under corporate control and pitas ress in serves to show the work it is in- or Bran em: The ineutry has bes dollar in one of the man ‘ * Cc this tendency is increasin W : tended to do: dict n under war ter e y Seattle em e wer g, the board ar er nsation 1 THREE RIVERS, Que.—All the nearly a week. It was called “to de- ent offices, an agent of the lum- NEW YORK— es . 9 Pr * apitalist View 8, — E 4 ber combine looks him over. If the] ings are the ee ree N Hunting; Trib Wins “When this tribunal shall have de- pag a — Three Rivers and Cap E r wrong do- applicant's answers are not in accord- brought out at th ca, it was how many workers are employed un- cided a wage dispute, it will be illegal | bag adeleine will have to wear 4 act ot 1922.“ stain futures | in ance with the servility demanded, the | American Const a * ons of the der the game financial control as each Responding to the plaints of the for the McLachlans and the rest of ge to show they paid their license ‘ | & : feo io refunded and he cannot. word ty per cent — on Council. Nine- plant having a separate manager was Chicago Tribune, the circuit, criminal | that class to incite the workmen to ee to the city. The order is directed | — — mash rr 5 oo building in the | counted as a unit. | and superior courts in Chicago are 80 on strike, on the other hand the against workers from other cities em- Re — employers to combine to prevent work- and done badi 0 sa eran Gaiden banning the taking of photographs in employers will have to obey also. rer ae | porter Finds Out en were men from securing employment. controller * role — of Stabler, Seek New Teapot Indictment. courtrooms. They are also forbiding| “What did the labor party do to help | bi | About Democracy b wily af- mop — re 8 Co. WASHINGTON, May 14.—B. C. Fin- the use of typewriters and radio and | him, (Armstrong) what did they do Ship Disaster Averted. | in Ww t Vi ing sec- The party grows large eases Bk cet Roget an 4 ave | ney, assistant secretary of ee telephone instruments. towards peace and good understand-| MONTREAL, May 14—By careful os , irginiz jumped All runs gaily, clared. years, he de- testified today before the grand Sury The keen competition between the | ing? They hounded and badgered him. and skilful navigation a possible repe- CLEVE y rd and When subs are coming investigating the naval oil reserve Trib and the Hearst papers for the | They sent him long abusive telegrams | tition of the steamship Titanic disas- | Fal . — To “Our Daily.” env i ae AND GIV2. ONG! lenses. best pictures and the quickest service | marked ‘eollect’. Yet the internation- ter was averted by Captain Peel of the ee Va., by a huge ed 17, ** Government oil counsel, Atlee Pom- has so far left the Trib a step or two al leaders of their union said in a liner Aurania, when an iceberg loom- searchlight played on his auto from a — | stena and Owen J. Roberts sre Par: in the rear. So it roared editorially speech in this city that Mr. Arm- ed up thru the fog. Po age ge hill and by a gurt query | ing practically the identical grounds for the suppression;of a news field in | strong had acted like a statesman.”—| Captain Peel ordered reverse on — 2 of police, “Where ou" ed that 175 they followed when conspiracy and which it was not holding its own. Halifax Morning Chronicle May 9. the engines and avoided a collision and what you w the st seri- bribery. indictments were o ABs Andrew R. Sherjff, chairman Chi“ When John L. Lewis, while in Nova | With the big iceberg. ca htt of a Cleveland 1 to the against: en- Secretary of Interior Al cago Bar Assn. committee on rela- Scotia in connection with the pres- 2 : * his stars that he pout 100 * bert B. Fall, Harry F. Sinclair, Ed- tions ot the press to judicial proceed- ent lockout of the miners of District Get A Sub And Give Onel Ae N organizer, and then pro m were our local ward L. Doheney, and Edward L ings, admits that the Tribune is re- 26 United Mine Workers of America, o investigate the coal strike, DAILY Doheny, Jr. The first indictments were — for the new prohibition. stated that “Armstrong, premier of — WORKER dismissed on technical grounds. 9 was the backbone of the province, had done all possible to | | 0 * — eden ——— e whole movement,” Sheriff says of bring about an amicable settlement” | SINGING JAIL agent has these molude: Amas I Laaty, Maw York the Trib complaint, he stated what every class conscious A — 0 | | ed i ; BIRDS two books. president of the Texas Oil Co.; J pa — workers in the district know to be a pecia ssue of the | | C. Shaffer, Evanston, III No Interference Yet. lie. ivoys | „ III., newspaper By UptoneSinolair. He LAN publisher; Samuel Brown, New York, WASHINGTON, May 13.—(FP).— } | f nt Hin | A four act drama by a assistant secretary of the Central Thus far, the state department has Mill Operation at oung or er | ongratu- ) splendid writer and one * n ee r F ll Ri | 5 yen | n ou can also get York branch of the Dominion Bank of | f n between Mexico and Japan as a iver, Mass., | . charge | propagandists. aft} them by mail | Canada, and James McGrath, New be in the treaty of amnesty Falls Off Again 5 a | 3 15 CENTS direct from York banker. and commercial relations recently containing stories from our delegates just returned from | e N 4 * — — the terms PLL, RIVER, Mass (Fp) An Moscow and a feature article on the Young Communist | | ea e . ' . An- f 1111 | ce when New Jerse J o raises no bar- other curtailment of mill operations League of Russia, by John Williamson, member of the BARS A THE La r rier to the coming of Japanese citi ? E f speech | ND , Fak Go Stro zens to Mexico as laborers and m Fall River puts cotton workers back | -XeCutive Committee of the Young Communist interna- nt. SHADOWS , DAILY 2 Con ng tlers on the land and set- where they were before the recent | tional. | s of the B or CO bo ti temporary revival. Unemployment is | — — y Weldh Chaplin. Aboration It is pointed out by Latin-Ameri- Nor S| ume military N „ in pn WORKER cans, however, that the — —— n 1 cam EVERY WEEK fa ame , : 8 NEWARK, N. J., M 14—(FP)—| Mexico h a paign of the United Textile Workers | : worth penitentiary wh | May 14.—(FP) as made such a treaty, on the Young Worker contains all the n e aid se alts 1113 The Labor Co-operative National Bank terms e de that Union. Mills are cutting production. | the — * class youth, and since wan of meas aan | | . ; : of Newark is t apanes : we is during the — . Is to open iy doors for|Japanev do not lke 4949 euch plo-| would Transform Tornado reit. || BoPimpraved international news service. and interest — Monan- ber of the I. W. W. Bivd., 27, 1925. At the New Jersey Federa-| and hence no large number of r an improved international news service and interesting ar- | 2 | $1.00. ente ee inn it ia ennounend | rants is likely. Mexico is not "| vietims in southern Illinois are being ||| ticles by leaders in the Communist movement thruout the | ve them CHICAGO, tat the Burnhardt Bldg. has been | tornia. and her politics are not swayed properly cared for, the West rank. world. Their ILL. purchased tor the bank. by antiJapanese agitati Wed] fort relief committee of the Interna- RATES tap President Arther A. Guise. Mew | * ttonal Workers’ Aid reports. It urges $1.50 A Year : ö asterers Jersey Federation of Labor, is presi- Give your shopmate this y —— aie be ehigees to De wee 85c. Six Months months. dent ot the ban other ATL ORKER— ployed starving miners in the district Ince the * union officials pean of Mapes cane — sie — re THE YOUNG WORKER 2 | band wee the mext day od he storm victims and so are unable to 1113 W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, II. 0 ' |got bis subscription get food or supplies, * * ° 1 — Pm eS | | | | ee ee ee ~ Be .
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a ~~ cue . A Y 1h) & 2 * 2 — — . 77 2 EL AND RAGE Circulate 8 for City Council CLEVELAND, May 14.—The Work- ers Party of Cleveland has begun the work of circulating nomination peti- tions for candidates for city council and school board in the fall election. Councilmen are elected from each of four districts, five to seven being the number from each. Elections are held on the proportional representa- tion plan, the voter designating first, second, third choices, etc. Must Get 500 Signers. Candidates to be on the ballot must secure 500 signers to a nominating pe- tition, and a voter is allowed to sign but one petition. The election is non- partisan, the candidates appearing on the ballot without party designation. Of course in the campaign party al- legiance is made an issue. The Communist candidates for whom petitions are being circulated are: First district (west side), Alfred Wagenknecht, district organizer of the Workers Party; second district (south-east quarter), Sam Holzman, member of the Auto Workers’ Union; third district (down-town section of the east side), J. A. Hamilton, local organizer of the Workers Party; fourth district (north-east quarter), A. V. Severino, member of the Bricklay- ers’ Union No. 5. John Fromholz is a candidate for the school board. Need Assistance. Anyone wishing to assist in the work of circulating petitions should get in touch with the local Workers Party office, at 5927 Euclid avenue, Room 13, telephone Randolph 4065. A John Reed Junior This is a member of the John Reed Pioneer group of Soviet Russia. The youngster is proudly exhibiting the name of the group, John Reed, which they wear on their caps. | | ANTL-WHITE TERROR MEETING TOBE HELD IN CHICAGO SUNDAY An anti-white terror demonstra- tion will be held on Sunday, May 17, at 2:30 p. m. at the Hod Carriers Hall, 814 W. Harrison street. It is arranged under the auspices of the Workers Party, Local Chi- cago with the main support coming from the Balkan federation branch- es of the Workers Party. The speakers for this demonstra- tions secured thus far, are Earl R. Browder, in English; K. Mikalachki, in South Slav; C. Koteff, in Bulgar- ian; K. Kostis, in Greék; M. A. Stolar, in Russian, and other speakers. Admission is free. Cleveland Left Wing Celebrates at Dance of T. U. E. L., June 21 CLEVELAND, May 14.— All Work- ers Party members and sympathiz- ers; all members of the Trade Union Educational League, and progressive trade unionists, must mark down Sunday, June 21, in their calendars, and make absolutely no plans for that day to conflict with the big picnic and dance to be held by the Cleve- laand Trade Union Educational League, at Saxonheim Garden, 7001 Dennison Ave., West Side. The committtee is planning to have one of the biggest*events of the sea- son, with lots of sports, chorus sing- ing, and a speech by a nationally known speaker in the progressive trade union movement. In the eve- ning a dance will be held, and it y168; and ward 13, 19. Vote for Workers Party in Mpls. Shows Gain in All Wards MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., May 14.—A comparison of the vote counted in this city for the Workers (Commun- ist) Party in last year’s election cam- paign, and that credited to the Com- munist candidates in the recent muni- cipal election, shows a gain in votes, even tho many votes were undoubted- ly stolen from the Workers Party. The total vote counted for Dan Stevens, Communist candidate for mayor, was 1,658, and the vote given for Foster and Gitlow, according to the politician’s count, was 358. By wards the vote given for Fos- ter in the presidential election, was as follows: Ward 1, 16; ward 2, 6; ward 3, 64; ward 4, 60; ward 5, 26; ward 6, 10; ward 7, 15; ward 8, 9; ward 10, 25; ward 11, 62; ward 12, 27; and ward 13, 26. The vote credited to the Commun- ist candidate for mayor in the elec- tion held this week, is given by wards as follows, showing a gain in Com- munist votes. Ward 1, 79; ward 2, 25; ward 3, 129; ward 4, 107; ward5, 86; ward 6, 70; ward 7, 60; ward 8, 29; ward 9, 134; ward 10, 136; ward 11, 71; ward 12, The comparison shows a gain in nearly every ward. . Workers’ Aid Meets on Monday, May 18 NEW YORK, May 14.—The next conference of the International Work- ers’ Aid, New York Division, will take place on Monday, May 18, at 8 p. m., at 108 East 14th St., Room 32. International Red Aid is one of the should be kept in mind that the Sax- onheim floor is one of the finest in the city. The floor is covered and the picnic will be held rain or shine. Anyone who wishes to volunteer their services in the line of entertain- | ment for this affair, should get in touch with H. Wagenknecht, secre- tary, T. U. E. L., Room 13, 5927 Eu- clid Ave. Tickets Now on Sale for Athletic Carnival in N. V. NEW YORK, May 14.—Good news for New York!—The Workers Party, District No. 2, is arranging its Second Annual International Athletic Carni- val and Picnic for Sunday, June 21st, at Pleasant Bay Park, the Bronx. Which means an outdoor treat for the New York militants as the 1,600 nival held last summer. direction of the Workers’ Sport Al- liance, and are planned on a wider scale than last year. In addition there will be a newspaper popularity con- test and other attractions. ‘ New Yorkers! Keep Sunday, June Ast open. Plan to spend that day with your friends at Pleasant Bay Park, which is situated on Long Island Sound and has beatiful groves and woodland. Tickets may be obtained at the Workers Party headquarters, 108 East 14th Street, the Freiheit, 30 Union Sq. Jimmie Higgins Book Shop, 127 Uni- In the United States, in the city of Chicago, there is also a John Reed | Junior group functioning quite suc- | cessfully. To celebrate the first an- | niversary of their organization the | group is giving a surprise party and | dance, Saturday eve., May 23, at the | Workers’ Home, 1902 W. Division St. There will be an interesting program | for children and for adults. They promise something new in entertain- ments. Besides that, there is a sur- prise. Admission for children will be 10 cents and for adults 20 cents. Max Shachtman, editor of the Young Worker, will bring greetings from the Pioneers of Soviet Russia. | Music furnished by the Y. W. L. orchestra. Don't forget the date and place, Saturday, May 23, at 1902 W. Division Street. Railroad erase ang Pushed. WASHINGTON, May 14 Reports that the interstate commerce commis- sion was planning to order the Van Sweringen brothers to make an ex- tensive revision of their “billion dol- lar’. Nickel Plate railroad merger De- fore action is taken on their pending | unification plans, lacked confirmation | at the commission today. i — Du S. ZIMMERMAN sT| e ARMITAGE 7466 } ee SEF —— — DENN LHORNEE Special Prices to Workers ESTABLISHED 12 YEARS. My Examination is Free My Prices Are Reasonable My Work Is Guaranteed | Extracting Specialist DELAY MEANS DECAY ers League versity Place, and all party branches ‘and newspapers. Phillips, Negro Organizer, Talks at Y. W. L. Branch Comrade H. V. Phillips, ganizer for the Y. W. L., who has re- cently been touring the district organ- izing the Negro youth of Illinois and adjoining states, will give a talk at Area Branch No. 5 of the Young Work- tonight, 8 p. m., at 19 So. Lincoln street. Branch No. 5 has been an intensive campaign among the Negro youth of the west side and 600 copies of the special Negro edition of the Young Worker as well as 1,000 leaflets have been distributed this week. The meeting tonight is one of the first that will be held thruout all the branches in the present Negro | Campaign. All league and party com- Trades are urged to come and hear Comrade Phillips and help us or- \ganize the Negro youth of Chicago. Lerner Lectures at | Revere, Massachusetts ' | REVERE, Mass. May 14.—The ‘fourth lecture of the course being | given by Max Lerner of the Workers Party in this city was held here to- night. The fifth lecture, the last of the series, will be upon “The Con- ‘trast of the Three Internationals,” on Thursday May 21. | The audience, though small, is of those who are intensely interested in | the instruction given by Comrade Lerner and feel better equipped for the struggle. The present lecture was on “Communist Tactics and Strategy.” The lectures are Hall. held at Eagles Getting a DAILY WORKER sub or two, — States army, shows that the task is coming close at home. and Young Workers League must | most pressing tasks of the revolu- ‘tionary workers. The Communists must be in the forefront in arousing the interests and support of the work- ‘ers of this country for the revolution- ‘ary workers and peasants in the cap- | italist prisons of Europe adn Asia. The arrest of our two comrades Crouch and Trumbull in the United Every branch of the Workers Party have a delegate at the conference. Every branch must do its share. Labor Defense to Meet in New York to Consider Arrests conference of the Labor Defense can testify who attended the first car- | All athletic events will be under the | Negro or- conducting | will make a better Communis? | Council, New York Section, will take place on Tuesday, May 19, at 8 p. m., at 108 E. 14th St., Room 32. It is absolutely necessary that every branch of the Workers Party and the Young Workers League be represent- ed. The increasing frequency with which party and Y. W. L. members are arrested demands that reserves be built up to take care of the cases. This can önly be done by the party and Y. W. L. branches doing their share in arousing the interest of the workers of this country to the nec- essity of protecting their best fighters. Don’t neglect the Labor Defense Council, meeting. Concert and Ball for Communist Poet Comes Off May 16th NEW YORK, May 14.—Every work- er, young and old, is invited to spend an enjoyable evening with the Rus- sian comrades of the Bronx branch of the Young Workers League at their concert and ball on Saturday evening, May 16th at 1347 Boston Road, Bronx. The affair is given in honor of the young proletarian poet Bezimensky who in his famous “Comsomolis” pic- tures the life and work of the Rus- NEW YORK, May May 14. — The next“ (Special to The 8960 Worker.) CLEVELAND, May 14. Prepara tions are being made by the local committee on the American Negro La- bor Congress, for a packed house on Thursday, May 21, when Lovett Fort- Whiteman, of Chitago, organizer of the congress, 8 in the Buelah baptist church, e and Cedar Ave., at 8 p. m. Fort-Whiteman sst return- ed from Soviet Russia, where he de- voted considerable time to the study of the problem off the colored races, which make up a large percentage of the world’s population, but are sub- ject to the domination of the white imperialistic nations of Europe and America. gon Negroes Must iht as Workers. Fort-Whiteman’s "belief is that the | American Negroes must and will fur- nish to a large extent the leadership for the Negroes of the world in their part of the struggie of the colored races from imperialistic exploitation and oppression. He believes that this struggle must be carried on, however, only as part of the.general struggle of the working for freedom from the domination of the capitalist class. 4 Inasmuch as these views are some- what different from any program of- fered to the Negroes of Cleveland hitherto, a large amount of interest is expected to be shown in his talk. The Garvey movement is to said to have a large following in Cleveland, but many influential Negroes realize that Garvey’s program is not just what the race demands. Negro Union Members Take Part. The committee ar ng the meet- ing include the ioe prominent Clevelanders: J. Whitlow, mem- ber Cleveland Building Trades Coun- cil; Rev. B. G. Glover, of the Beulah baptist church; Fitzsimmons, Gabriel Walters, ilding Labor- ers’ Local No. Brothers Small, Thompson, and > Rev. Mack T. Williams of Amtioch Community House; and Henry Lee Moon, of the Cleveland Herald. The orkanias work of the American Negro Laor Congress was iniated in Clevelaad by H. V. Phil- ipps, who held rh 9 meet- ing on April 23. SHEBOYGAN the first time in history of this city the Internatignal Workers’ Aid will show one of i best productions, “Russia and Germany.” The popula- tion of this city chiefly German counting among its members a large number of Russian Germans from the expected that a Volga valley. It large number of people will be interested to see the pictures of two countries which are nearest to them by traditions. A large number of tickets have been sold in advance and it is expected that there will be a large crowd. N Comrade John P. McCarthy will be the principle spe at the evening performance. Comrade McCarthy re- cently returned from Ireland and will give the Irish angle of the general European situation. New York Workers’ Correspondence Are to Hold_ Conference NEW YORK, May 14.—The meeting of worker corresgondents scheduled Wis., May 14—For sian Comsomol. An exceptional pro- gram is provided. A playlet, recita- tions, songs and scene® from the life of the Russian Comsomol, will be per- formed by a group of young Com- munists. After the entertainment there will be dancing. Come and | bring your friends. Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Fund International Pienc. The Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Com- mittee has planned for an internation- al picnic, to be held on July 4 next, at the Page Estate, Brookline street, Needham, Massachusetts, in order to raise funds to meet the obligations assumed for the legal defense of the | two prisoners. | This announcement is made in or- | der that other sympathizers may not start any other initiative, around Boston, on the same date for the same | purpose. At a later date a detailed program of this event will be made public.— |Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, Amleto Fabbri, Secretary. | Get a sub for the DAILY WORKER from your shopmate and you will make another mem- ber for your branch. for the New Yo Workers Party headquarters, 108 Bast 14th Street, for Saturday eve may 16th is to begin promptly 7:30 and adjourn at 9 p. m. so as to give all the par- ticipants the opportunity to attend some other affair on the same even- ing. Therefore be on time. Press Agent for N. Y. Maypole Dance Assures Good Time NEW YORK, May 14—The Down- town English Branch of New York will give an entertainment and May pole dance Saturday evening, May 16 at the headduarters, 108 East I4th. | Admission is 35 cents and worth a dollar. Soviets Switch Ambassadors. MOSCOW, May 14.-—Yureneff, am- bassador of the Union of Soviet So- clalist Republics at Rome, has been appointed as Soviet ambassador to Teheran, while, in his stead, Kerjent- reif, formerly minister of the Union of Soviet Socialist Russia at Stock- holm, has been transferred as am- bassador to Rome. „ ern r. rr C — Workers = Police (Continued from page 1) | the police, acting under orders of Public Safety Director Barry, will also speak. Police Interfere. Barry made the arbitrary ruling that no collection would be permitted for political prisoners in Europe, and when an attempt was made at the April 18 meeting to take the collec- tion anyway, the police dispersed the meeting. The affair received considerable publicity in the local press, and the American Civil Liberties Union, thru its local attorney, M. C. Harrison, took ‘the matter up with Barry as being an unwarranted infringement of civil liberties. Barry also was severely criticized by the progressive wing in the city council, where he has quite a bit of opposition. fn To Discuss White Terror. This meeting will deal with the white terror in Poland, Bulgaria, and other Baltic and Balkan states; the harsh sentences given Crouch and Trumbull, Communist soldiers in the U. S. army on Hawaii; the deporta- tion campaign of the government against Communists and radicals; the various oppressive laws on the books’ and proposed, including the criminal syndicalism laws and laws against the foreign-born; and the Severino. case. All these questions are related in being the manifestations of a world- wide offensive against the working class, which is exhibited in a govern- mental policy of suppression of the militants among the workers, both Communists and the more progressive non-Communist elements as well. The Severino case is one which in- volves issues of national importance. The government is making an effort to have his citizenship papers can- celled, which he had held since 1915. The case was begun in October, 1923, but has been postponed from time to time. It has now been set for hear- ing on May 27, in the federal district court in Cleveland. Attempt to Annul Citizenship. The case of the government rests on their contention that -Severino’s statement that he was “attached to the principle of the constitution of the United States,“ made when he ap- plied for naturalization, we “untrue, Charley Schwab's Dicks Fail tp Stop May Day Demonstration — By A. BURLAK. (Special to The Daily Worker) BETHLEHEM, Pa., May 13— The International May Day meeting, the first ever held in Bethlehem was a big success. Three speaker ae addressed the meeting—Comrade Wicks in Eng- lish, Comrade Duranovieh in Ukran- ian and Comrade Barabosh in Hun- garian. Some workers of Bethlehem worked on International May Day because they did not know what it means, others worked because of the iron ruling of this city. If they dared to take one day off for a holiday Charley Schwab would make it hot for them. Charley Schwab was among the first to disqualify the child labor amendment. By enslaving the chil- dren he makes the parents slave longer hours and for lower wages. Charley Schwab employs agents and stool piegons to spy upon and break up Communist meetings. Despite the threats from Charley Schwab’s policemen to break up our meeting it went off successfully. In order to lead them off our track, we called the meeting at a different hour than the one advertised and every- thing went off in fine shape. The workers all appreciated the meeting. In the evening we held a May Day dance which was attended by all who came to the meeting. They Amalgamate the Unions—in Australia SYDNEY, Australia—(FP)—A move is on to amalgamate the Amalgamated Clothing Trades union and the Textile Workers union. Bulgarian Terror Reaches Women. LONDON, May 14.—Madame Adela Nicolova, whose name has been men- tioned in the investigation into the Sveti Kral cathedral bombing, will be court martialed on a charge of being a member of a secret Communist committee and for allowing her home to be used for Communist purposes, a despatch from Sofia today related. Until June 15—get a sub! false, and fraudulent.” The prosecu- tion maintains that Severino believed | since 1907, in “violent revolution and armed insurrection directed against the government of the United States, and all other governments founded upon the capitalist system of econo- my,” and therefore, the attempt is made to have his citizenship annulled as fraudulently obtained. One issue involved in this case will doubtless be the right of a Commun- ist to United States citizenship. If the government can establish this, many foreign-born workers will be de- FUND NEARING $500.00 QUOTA ‘Workers’ Aid Calls for „Pay Envelopes” The five hundred dollar quota for the Southern Illinois miners’ relief appeal, is getting somewhat nearer the mark with the additional contri- prived of citizenship rights, including | butions that are coming in. Within the use of the ballot, and the right|the past few days the following to be a candidate for office. Such a amounts were turned in: situation would be a striking evi- Irving Park English Br... 50 dence of the lack of faith of the 100 German branch -............. — 2.65 per centers in the democracy“ they N. W. Jewish 2.50 talk so loudly about. Why do they . ˙ Ul ae tear to permit the Communists the H. M. Kaminskas 1.00 ballot? Ukranian No. 1 7.41 South Slav No. 1 (40 en- velopes, second remittance) 13.94 Douglas Park Eng. (10 en- An Active Unionist. Severino has been gandidate for various offices on the Workers Party ticket and is in the field in the 1925 velopes) ......, 4.60 election as candidate for city council- : man. He is an active members of $32.72 Local No. 5 Bricklayers’ Union; and Previous collection —. 133.44 vice-president of the City Co-operative Dairy. He will also speak at the May Total $166.16 meeting, as will Carl Weisberg of the Young Workers’ League. The meeting is under the joint auspices of the Labor Defense Council and the International Red Aid. 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May 14~The b quota tor for Mass Pickets . Aitto the hospital omciais are suppressing publicity, it 1s learned that | Intérhational moa ——— e © student nurses struck against the intolerable conditions imposed on cell ne — * women fl vention what nearer (Continued from page 1) them. They complaint particularly (Special te “The Dally Worker) CHICAGO LEADS THE P ARADE TODAY! voted 5 — 1 K rag contri- might just as well never have been wean poor food they are forced to — | NEW YORK, May 14—The Oriental , tions, the world court, disarmament n. Within withdrawn for all the real effect their | © ; 7 branch ot the Workers (Communist) DETROIT, PHILADELPHIA AND GRAND RAPIDS and | feel- 8 d kindred projects. More fll following withdrawal has had. The doctors filed the charges with Your Union Meeting | Party, New York section, discussed ing cropped up when they issued Bea es RIGHT BEHIND N 4 “The corporation has all these the board of trustees of the church“ Communism for an entire evening be- statement charging the council with 8 3 months been able, to its own com- at Cincinnati, Ohio. Heath has been Third Friday, May 15, 1928. fore the Japamese methodist episco- being merely the “propaganda agent” * — 2.65 plete satisfaction, to keep its officials busy canvassing the local board of 237 Bakers and Conf., 3420 W. Roose. pal church » Comrade Kawash- Grand Rapids Michigan has tossed its hat In the ring right with the of the league. — 2.50 on the jobs. Scabs have been doing the trustees of the hospital here, 0 3 ii sin. too ‘ee ima spoke on subject of The Work- big locals with seven subs sent in today after a week's free distribution. “Members of the Daughters of the eh, 12 the work and the whole world, Me- composed of Negro ministers, and is Nes 4 . Washington ers Party of. Its Principles Here they are with the rest of the comrades who have sent In new American Revolution,” said Mrs. Har- 5 1.00 Leod included, knew it. endeavoring to line them up with him 29 Broom Makers, 810 W. Harrison st. and Tactics. e Sasaki then subs to build “Our Dally” on May 13. is. “h 7.41 . f against the Negro doctors. He has e elo nr 2 “And only now, after these heart- 120 58 ee 10 1 2 spoke on the development of the DETROIT, MICH—A. E. Goetz (11) ’ vention began to promote ill feeling 1152 breaking weeks, has the McLeod ex- * n 4 70 Sarkawtecs’ 2705 W. 368th N , world nad the, Communist Interna- CHICAGO, ILL.—Benjamin Maller (7); Sam Hammersmark (3) in the council itself over these reso- 5 94 ecutive been forced by the local un- One of the charges filed with the 9 Council, 180 W. | tional. mil 6 GRAND RAPIDS, MICH — 3 speech. n BOSTON, MASS.—Elsie Pultur — Bh . hed o meet in their cte . 7 chinis . 4 : > dee point pickets and make their investi- I first obtaining permission of the white] 113 Machinists, 113 8. Ashland Bled. Discussion followed the speeches of COLCHESTER, CONN.—Nathan Liverant. “Last October we were suddenly Lincoln St. gations, and ti a yes 3 doctors. * Painters, — yor K * the Communie te Russian conditions notified we could not use it They a * fice written reports as © res The doctors declare they will re-] 883 po nters, $140 indie ene ve. were fully expi@imed by the two speak- { ainters. 3140 indi ; said our use of the hall would be in- ; of these investigations as to outside sign unless conditions are bettered. ‘| 1332 Painters, 3140 indiana ate ers. The ideglegy of Second Interna- N EW YORK BU 1 LDE RS ATTE N TION / convenient,’ and gave no other — E er eee oa on . 912 Plu mbere, 9281 1. Chicago Ave, ers tional and theirdformists was exposed | : : planation.” 7 union will see that pickets do not in- H Victi 346 Railway Carmen, Village Hall, Kol-| by the speakers: ©« The council, she said, had lost be- , tertere with company anon, and ouston Victims „„ e e COMRADES GRECHT AND BEN LEVY—YOU ARE cis 0k tha nn 3 mat rons revailed and no Still Imprisoned 998 Railway Carmen, 6445 8. Ashiana| The Japanes ee 3 CALLED TO ACTION ee ee ee ye — f ublie roperty.’ $28 Ratiwa Clerks, 20 W. Randolph St York Tere weetins with « „ 4 8 * ee bene 8 permit: (Special to The Daily Worker) 22 Railway S. 25 8587885 lo 855 f criticism of the Oriental brnach of This system of getting a sub and then calling another comrade to council, to assure the D. A. R., that atiwa e 7 . . ° ting the locals to picket, the tame ere. NEW-YORK, May 14—In response 4 Railroad Trainmen, 1586 6. 64th st. | dne dane JB. church, which | action is chock-full of possibilities. Many have been challenged and have aur wnPatriotic propaganda heath cutive again surround the picketing to a letter from the National Associa-| ‘® oer sm Trainmen, 3349 North; conduc met , responded nobly like the good Red Soldiers they are and went out to than one 8 * . e Ae. tion for the Advancement of Colored] 198 Railroad Trainmen, 9120 C : et d GOT THEM. n People, inquiring about the treatment cial Ave. ibe at Wet Gelebration of Lafayette’s Visit. e copies of speeches to be made at the company officials are not to be inter- Feople, inquiring a 367 Sheet Metal Workers, Ashland and Comrade Malkin of New York, a veteran Builder in getting subs, present meeting, all of which were fered with because the constitution of the former 24th infantrymen, trans- Gantt Gitta Senden nd Audins HARRISBURG, III., May 14.— Two got another and with it challenges Comrade Rebecca Grecht to “go out found to be proper. allegedly prohibits interfering with ferred from Leavenworth penitentiary Assembly, 9189 Commercial Ave. hundred galloms of pre-war whiskey and de: likewlee.” Sy a vote ‘et 118 tb O15 & mnie th i n-|to the disciplinary barracks at Fort 2 Stage Hands, 412 Capitol Bidg. and thirty-five gallons of alcohol, val- 0 ' otion for company officials, but the union co e. 2 Stove Mountere, 3608 Wolfram Ave. ued at $10 Somprised the cache Comrade L. Cooper of the Williamsburg English branch is even affiliation with other international or- shee dak P commanding officer, states that their “club Rooms, "4:30 K sipping found in the hayloft of a barn near more ambitious. He got two subs and issues a double challenge to Fantzations of women was defeated. A ist he argument? It is only some recorde continue good. 484 Kb owe oe ae here dy policggarly today. = FFF Wr the counstty: consent ane ; aitresses, - Adams Street,; The liquor | believed to have 89 0 e@ more belly-crawling to a ‘public opin- Col. Cress states that none of the 3 Pb. N. adoption. The names of about thirty ion’ that is killing the strike— to a men have 3 5 on eat te eee tn Lebel Longue am r pean cet i ey | Answer the challenge comrades and keep the ball roll- international bodies that might affili- government that is forging more iron | Since their transfer trom Leavenwor (Note--Unless otherwise stated all $ J ing to bring more bricks to build a greater paper to help us ate were given. shackles and chains for the workers. Quit Class Collaboration. “We say to the miners—for the sake of your women and children! For the sake of your organization! For your own sake! Give no quar “Do the miners know that Father Nicholson of New Waterford inform- ed their executive that McLurg, vice- president of Besco had made the tion was thru with the United Mine statement to him that the corpora- penitentiary. He continues: “On the whole, the conduct of these men has been very satisfactory since their arrival here, and .their records have been in keeping with the reports received from the federal penitenti- ing prisoners and is leaving no stone unturned to procure fair treatment for them while their imprisonment en- dures. Board Backs Building Taxes Bill. meetings are at 8 >. m.) wn tomorrow. MUSSOLINI RANTS AT COMMUNISM BUT BOWS TO POWER OF SOVIETS MOSCOW, May 14.—As reported from Rome, the Il Popolo d'Italia, Mussolini’s organ, has published an editorial under % title of “The Soviet Republic and Europe.” Dwelling on the question ofthe relations between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Poland. the author of the article remarks that “It was the Bolshevist revolution of 1017 that gave the build the Communist movement! 9 9 Since the idea was first proposed by Comrade Shklar of Milwaukee, who got the habit from our comrades in Russia, challenges to get subs have been coming Ih a steady stream. Many have brought splendid re- this job is a cinch!) send it in at once and call another Communist to action. C’mon Over! The fight against affiliation was led by the American delegation. Prof. Marian P. Whitney of Vassar college, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. chairman of the council’s education committee de- clared affiliation with other interna- * ter! No quarter will be given to * er continting tte ann sults and the rest we are sure will respond before June 15. tionals would make the council an you! 050 tiie the 3 3 cla; (Special to The Daily Workerp:l * If you have been successful in getting a sub (and for a Communist | unwieldy organization. Eight Workers Hurt. TOLEDO, Ohio, May 14, — Hight workers were injured and the plant of the Toledo Alloy Casting company. was wrecked here today when gas from the melting pots exploded. Workers as an organization and that The board of e tion orsed * ‘ : 2 VER te gehegt revenue till before the 10, | DSSDIty, of restoring ‘greater Poland.” . M e 118 the expense of the miners. “Miners of District 26: Picket the mines! The company officials includ- ed! Fight the slave act of your ene my Armstrong! enemies! its policy of class collaboration! Make Put no trust in class} _. Make the executive quit add $12,000,000 to the present $18,000,- 000 construction budget of the Chi- ‘cago school system. it a real one hundred per cent strike. ö OUR DAILY PATTERNS A COMFORTABLE PROTECTIVE | MOL A SUIT FOR THE SMALL BOY. state from what it actually became by virtue of the Versailles treaty.” „Thus, the existence of the Soviet order in the former Russian Empire, an order in which the Poles see or affect to see a danger to themselves, is in fact a blessing for them. Must Deal With Russia “Under such conditions, a hostile policy towards the Soviet republic, a policy carried on only because of the Soviet regime ruling in that republic, is an utterly absurd line of conduct. Everyone else in Europe has realized that by this time. Indeed, one may be perfectly assured of the economic and political prosperity of the Union of Soviet Republics, such a develop- ment being entirely in the interests of European countries, the industrial ones as well as those that possess a surplus of labor hands, as all such countries may find a way open for a mutually profitable exploitation.” The semi-official Italian organ con- cludgs by stating that “the fact of with all the énsuing consequences makes it expedient for Italy t6 con- sider and expldfe, from the viewpoint of her own interests, all the possi- bilities of cdfikolidating the good try united ungér the rule of the So- viet order.” eee * 4% O43 434334 With Every Sub for the DAILY WORKER for a Year you can have a six month sub to the Workers Monthly, or a loose-leaf leather binder, with a patent clasp and detachable sheets of note paper for your use. mark a cross here * if you wish the binder INSTEAD of the Workers Monthly, i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i a eS 7en eee ee eee eee ee Oe eH 44 44S OO Oe SO 4 OO Oe SS * Rt i tl rr ~ *
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LOEB . . iness Manager — nutered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, III., under the act of March 3, 18798. — 20 Advertising rates os app”catien The Flivver to the Rescue ee The growers of apples have not yet learned to increase their sales by frightening the populace into devouring their product or else be devoured in turn by the “Bolshevik menace.” They could argue that radicalism was caused by a nervous dis- order which could be traced to eating an over- abundance of proteins and starches. Specialists in dilapidated human anatomies attribute most of our physical ills to ill-treatment of the boiler. Most of them agree that apple juice, when not aged, is a good lubricant. An orderly stomach produces smiles instead of grouches, and who ever saw a cartoon of a smiling revolutionist in the capitalist press? Apples as a cure for Bolshevism. A slogan: “An apple a day will keep Communism away” would get babbits, labor fakers and all members and potential mem- bers of the ku klux klan eating up whole orchards. But the apple growers lack originality. the flivver manufacturers. (ieorge M. Graham, chairman of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, geclares that the automobile is the greatest foe of Bolshevism in the United States. of tin lizzies over night. A writer agrees. It must be confessed the editor writes that the automobile has aided the devil considerably in his nefarious work. What is more conducive to sin, than a triangle composed of an auto, a male and a female of the human species parked in some shady lane out the ken of a ku klux klan dragon or a methodist minister? Without the auto youthful sinners might have to serve Satan precariously on a front porch lighted by an ubiquitious streét lamp and within call of an easily angered and particular parent. But rapid travel stirs the blood and dis- tance makes the heart grow fonder. Therefore many sermons have been preached on the evil re- sults flowing from the incréased sales of automo- biles. So much so that automobile manufacturers have been obliged to pay the preachers handsomely to preach about something else. But the automobile has redeemed itself. capitalist editorial Not only does it tempt those of weak flesh to stray from | the front parlor, but it also tempts the whole fam ily to take excursions into the country. Those excursions, says the worthy capitalist “soul expansive, wholly wholesome and His peroration is worth quoting in scribe are enjoyable.” full: “This sort of family life, of course, makes for contentment, and where there is family content- is community loyalty and countrywide It is not in this sort of atmosphere that Bolshevism thrives. Therefore avaunt Bol- shevism as a menace to Americanism!” This may explain the gift of $1,500,000 given by “ihe Ford family to the Y. M. P. A. recently. If the flivver is an antidote to Bolshevism, why should ment there patriotism. not the owners of the medicine fork up? When the masses are purchasing flying machines on the installment plan and take week-end trips to the North Pole, Bolshevism will be completely frozen | out. When there are no unemployed and all work capitalists there will be less Bolshevism And when morons are not allowed to write editorials for capitalist papers, we may rest be a menace. ers are than ever. assured Bolshevism will no longer No, Bolshevik professors will then be lecturing on the “Recent Collapse of Capitalism.” Charles Moyer, president of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers is lin- ing up with the labor fakers in Montana, want to kill the lively little paper known as Great Falls Town Topics. The men Charles is now fight ing helped to save his neck from getting danger- ously siretched some years ago. But Charlie’s memory is even shorter than his neck, tho his con science is more elastic than either. Kar! Kautsky has written another book in which he vomits every revolutionary idea he ever enter tained. The renegade tries to dismiss the Russian revolution in the first chapter, but it keeps bobbing rest of the book. Kautsky says it is our business to help capitalism transform itself into socialism. We might as well try helping a pole eat to transform itself into a lily. up in the York Gen Harriot Stanton Blatch, socialist paper, not the official organ of the eral Electric company, congratulated the German peaple on the election of Hindenburg. He is a fine she says, and the women like him. It looks that way. So do the socialists, men and women. writing in a New fellow. — $ a Wise Fool Speaketh It is said somewheré in the bible that the “truth shall be spoken out of the mouths of fools.” Per- haps in biblical days as today only those to whom truth was dearer than material success said what they wanted to say instead of what should be the case of William Jennings Bryan versus evolu- tion. The perennial candidate for the presidency has entered the lists against the teaching of evolution in the public schools. The specific object of attack from the 1 of the Neanderthalers is a Dayton, Tennessee, school- teacher who purposely violated a state law against the teaching of evolution in order to test the strength of the moron element and their right to block the advance of freedom of thought. William Jenniags Bryan is what the title of this editorial designates, a wise fool.” He hag made millions peddling his religious hokum and Florida real estate. God has been good to him in the way of making a living, so he stands by his friend. And he speaks the truth at least once, when he stated that “the hand that writes the teachers’ pay check rules the schools.” Upton Sinclair, expert on pedagogical goose and gosling factories, never hit the nail on the head with more unérring aim than did Bryan on this Not so This should bounce the sale who | occasion. The capitalist class in the industrial centers do not particularly care whether the pro- duct of their universities believes in one god, half a dozen or in a hole in the wall, provided they understand chemistry and other sciences needed in runing industry profitably. But to the witch hunting Southern brain, the odor from the burn- ing flesh of a heretic is like incense to the nostrils. Education under the capitalist system will be the kind that finds favor in the eyes of those who foot the bills, who as Bryan puts it write the te acher's pay check. There is an object lesson for workers’ educationshere, which should not be lost on the radical movement. They who pay the piper ean call the tune. The workers cannot expect to be told their place in society by college professors paid by the money of a Rockefeller, a Ford or a Gary any more than they can expect to be told the truth about the bible in schools supervised by THE DAILY A said. The biblical quotation above seems to flit pay WORKER 9 Inspi 0 Introduction to 2 “The Prin- olples of Commu of the Little Red Ed. Note.—This Red Library can hing Co— 1113 Washington „Chicago, III., at 10 cents a co pies for $1.00 * „ „ The years immediately preceding the revolutionary period of 1848 were years of indescribable political mis- ery in Germany. Its several dozens of miniature monarchs were just that many bulwarks of „so much so, that even thinking of a political change was regarded as @ major crime and prosecuted as such. It is true there existed a, bu@@ing capitalist class which dreamt ofa unified nation and that — — to- ward acquiring the political rule over this nation. But — ot the German bourgeol s its here- ditary parasitical gs has ever been characterized by gowardice, and this cowardice by fear of the independent tionary ambi- tious of the newly. loping prole- tariat, resulted in the bourgeoisie never permitting. ms to be- come inspirations. to. action. And even when in an unguarded moment they were drawn into dhe turmoil of the revolutionary . gles in the days of March, 1848, the bourgeois quickly became frightened by their own courage and repsid in decades of slavish servility for the moments of insubordination, ats In this stifling atmosphere of pre- revolutionary Germany it was impos- sible for men with spirit and intelli- gence to live. For the privilege of thinking, speaking or writing, the best men of the nation paid the price of exile in this period. One need only mention the names of Karl Marx and Heinrich Heine as examples. During this epoch when the old semi-feudal order in Germany was pregnant with the new, capitalist or- der, revolutionary thinking was not confined solely to the proletarian ele- ments. The revolutionary circles of German refugees in the large cities of medieval relies like William Jennings Bryan. The workers must own and control their own schools. The Kaiser Is Next? Field Marshal installed president of the German republic. | merous. is at last The leader of the kaiser’s armies during the most criti- von Hindenburg cal period of the world war, now occupies the wing in the imperial palace where the “Iron Chancellor” Bismarck once made his plans to forge the scat- tered states into the empire which staked its exist- | ence on the flash of the sword in 1914. Hindenburg, one of the kaiser’s closest friends, now sits in the chair vacated by the traitor Ebert. There is nothing now left of the German republic but its name. The monarehists are not acting preeipitately. They have probably read the history of the French revolution to good advantage. Hin- denburg can play the role of “First Consul” for a while and gradually prepare the masses for the return of the Hohenzollerns, Democrats, socialists, centrists, catholics, na- tionalists and fascists—all join in paying tribute to the “sterling character” of von ndenburg. Only the Communists provide a genuine opposi- tion. No sooner was Hindenburg elected than the Communists issued an appeal to the followers of the socialist party to join in a united front cam- paign against monarchism and its allies. Against the dictatorship of the capitalists and their Hin- denburgs, Marxs and Brauns, the Communists advanced the slogan of a workers’ and peasants’. government. Hindenburg may prove to be the entering wedge for the return of the kaiser to the throne. The so- ‘cial-democrats have succeeded in demoralizing the German masses sufficiently to make the restora- tion a probable success. For generations led md believe that the socialists once in power would | prove a real government of the toilers, the German | the servile tools of big capital. In their despera- tion a large number of them turned to the mon- archists. This is the result of the social-democratic policy in Germany. They have betrayed the workers and betrayed the republic, which was never’ anything but the tool of the capitalist and classes. Ebert kept the president chair warm for The latter will hold his seat until the kaiser turns it into a throne. | The only party in Germany today that carries the banner of the class war against collaboration with capitalism and monarchism is the Communist Party. It has not yet secured the leadership over a majority of the workers. But its propaganda and the conditions forced on the German workers by their masters will e er that aim. von Hindenburg. It is rumored that a certain alii who is all het up over radicals ulterior constitution, having designs on the confiscates dice prepar- acrap game. He is alleged to spend his salary on booze and cannot afford to invest in capitalist atory to using them in gambling machinery. It is also reported that he auctions off the dice after he-is thru with them. - — — — Now that Coolidge has joined t the anti-rum allies | The Seattle Union Record commends the meet- we may see the cider industry take a jump, and ing of capitalists and labor fakers with a view 10} Vermont chin whiskers wiggle as they have not | Coolidge is strong for home in| solving the problem of waste in industry. Capital idea, says the Record. Yes, for the capitalists. ‘ i done in years. dustry. — 1 2 the landowning Europe, in Brussels, Paris, London, were therefore by no means hetero- genous groups. Alongside of the pro- letarian elements, the revolutionary bourgeois intellectuals were quite nu- Among the proletarian ele- ments it was the most, intelligent and most advanced itinerary journeymen (Handwerksburschen), that domin- ated. This class, not yet fully prole- tarianized, had developed its own ide- ology which found dts clearest ex pression in the #hegpies of one of thelr number, Wilhelm Weitling, a journeyman taflor. These groups of 6 tionists developed and programs for their socialist ideas of the us jour- neyman tailor, Weitling, th teachings and preachings of the revolutionary bourgeois intellectuab in their midst, the influence of the labor movement revolu- ‘ideas le. The in the countries in which they lived, like that of the Chartist movement in England and of the gProudhonists or Blanquists in France—all these together resulted in ag¢heoretical mess extremely conduciva to fruitless squabbles that were parren of all practical results — ac- tivity. Suth were the 5 that pre- vailed in the circlesi@f revolutionary proletarian emigrants from Germany in Brussels, in Paris and in London in 1847. Repeated attempts were made to unite these groups organizationally, these efforts culminating finally in the organization of the “League of Com- munists,“ quarrelling emigrants into active revo- _lutionary organizations with proleta- rlan predominance, Marx and Engels were tirelessly active. Marx later wrote about these activities as fol- lows: “We published Minaitancously a number of partly printed and partly | lithographed pam . In which we workers learned that Ebert and his gang were but | subjected the mixturg of French-Eng- lish socialism, Communism and Ger- man philosophy whlah at that time represented the seepet principles of the leagfle to a mepgiless criticism; in place of this we tried to spread a | scientific understandins of the eco- | nomic structure of Beurgeois society as the only firm the ical basis, and finally we explained n a popular man- ner that the questiomzis not the estab- lishment of some Utgpian system, but the conscious partiepation in the his- toric process of change of society that takes place before gur very eyes.” | This positive criticism found a ready echo in the league. In Janu- ary, 1847, its centra bureau, in Lon- don, dispatched son representatives to Brussels to invited@arx and Engels to join the league; With the devel- opment of a more lueid understanding by the members and the clarification of the purpose of the league itself, the need for a unifying program became daily more obvious. Marx’s indefati- gable efforts in Brussels soon succeed- ed in transforming the Brussels or- ganization into a proletarian revolu- tionary club. Engels, meanwhile, had gone to Paris, wherg old revolutionary illusions and new Ulasionary theories had created a most disastrous ideo- logical chaos in the ds of the mem- bers of the league, Engels did his best to disentangle the prevailing confu- sion. In an attempt to give the League of Communists a clear program, the Lon- don committee p a draft en- titled, “Confession Ok , in 1846. In converting these | clubs of philosophizing, debating and “and sent ite a He ae 2 3 a F 5 3 8 ve Me . ang * * e or ue 7 717 N 8 : et ue oe * a „ * 9 9 7 = » — Mn > oe ii P ; aS 2 5 5 g 7 0 — we AH , N 5 * * Te * 1 > a . * — roe . 7 N » = ee bi ae tm + at ne ee « la * 4 1 N * „ . weap 5. : * ‘ 1 ba . : 8 ky N 3 ye 7 2 y 5 ’ * * 5 1 it to the affiliated 48 for discussion. This draft also reached Paris, where Moses Hess, a “philosophical” social- ist, made what he thought were im- provements and prevailed upon the Paris club to accept this document. But in a later meeting the decision was reversed. Engels writes about the incident in a letter to Marx, dated November, 10, 1847: “I have played an infernal trick on Most (Moses Hess). He had forced thru a ludicrously improved ‘Confes- sion of Faith.’ Last Friday I took it up in our circle and criticized ques- tion after question. Before I had gone thru half of them our people declared themselves satisfied. Without opposi- tion I then had a motion passed in- structing me to draft a new one.” Meantime a congress had been call- ed of the League of Communists to meet in London on November 30, 1847. The purposes of the gathering were to work out a constitution for the league and to adopt a program. In preparation for this, Marx who came to London for this congress from Brussels, and Engels, who repre- sented the group of Paris, had written separate drafts of such a program. Engels evidently had used as a basis for this draft the one that he had pre- pared in compliance with the instruc- tions given by the Paris league. On November 24, 1847, Engels wrote to Marz: “You had better consider this ‘Con- fession of Faith’ somewhat. I think we had better drop that catechism form and call the thing ‘Communist Manifesto’; for N as it must deal more or less with history, the previously accepted style does not fit at all. I'll bring with me the one that I made here. « A begin: What is Communism? And right after the proletariat, origin, ¢ ce from former workers, 5 — of antag- onisms between proletariat and bour- geoisie, crises, conclusions. In be- tween a number of minor points and finally the policies of the Communists. This one from here has not yet been submitted for adoption; but I think nothing is contained in it against our views.” This last sentence seems to indicate that Engels’ draft made for the Lon- don conference is that same one pre- pared by him for the Parisian league. ‘while the first part of the letter sug- gests that there was an understanding between the two friends to make in- dividual drafts for the London gather- ing and that the form of a catechism should be followed by both. The “Principles of Communism” herewith published for the first time in English evidently represents the draft of Engels. The manuscript written in German was found among Engels’ posthumous papers. We know now the final and classi- cal form which the program of tha Communists took when it was pub- lished ultimately as the “Communist Manifesto.” However, the world fame that this document has achieved does not in. the least lessen the value of | the Engels’ draft. The Communist Manifesto is a ¢are- 23 * a: * testo is not only a historic de tions remain unanswered. aac . 2 7 Fo 9 fully prepared document. Each one of its sentences stands out like a work of art hewn in granite. Altho a docu- ment prepared for the political strug- of the hour of its publication and tho dealing with problems character- tstic of a period long past, the 1 but also a timely source of — 6 for the struggles of today. The draft of Engels is a manuscript written on the spur of the moment and was never put into final form for publication. Yet we find in it a clear outline ot the ideas and gems of his- torical analysis in which the manifes- to excells. The Engels' draft is proof that the Communist Manifesto is truly the result of the combined efforts of thhe great intellectual heroes of scien- tific Communism: Marx and Engels. The draft, as contained in the dis- covered manuscript is not complete. Question No. 9 is unanswered. Ques- tions twenty-two and twenty-three are answered with a remark referring to an earlier manuscript, and as no such pate rh could be found, these ques- For the sake of completeness we will supply, in an appendix, answers to these ques- tions based upon the writings of Pred- erich Engels or from the Communist Manifesto. For the convenience of the readers, pe to make possible a clear under- ding, a number of explanatory otes have been prepared and printed is the appendix. Clarifying interjec- tions in the text, set in parenthesis, are supplied by the translator, THE CHIEF OCCUPATION OF SOCIALISTS tah de — sth ee eae 2 - 3 = * r / 4 45 WE SEE IT 2 By T. J. O Flaherty Our Readers’ Views | (Continued from page 1) sian labor officials are co-operating | with the Soviet government to litt the standard of living and raise the cultural level of the workers. Our American labor officials of the Wil- liam Green type are co-operating with the employers to skin the workers. That’s the vital difference. 7” + * OME time ago, the DAILY WORK - ER carried a story of the kidnap- ing of Harry Pollit, leader of the Brit- ish Minority Movement, by a gang of fascisti. The minority movement in England is the prototype of the Trade Union Educational League in the United States: When Polltit’s kid- napers were brot to trial they were acquitted by the court despite over- whelming evidence that they had vio- lated the law which the British ruling class is supposed to be so particular | about. This miscarriage of “justice” so outraged British labor that even a reactionary like C. T. Cramp, indus- trial general secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen, wrote to the London Daily Herald protesting | against the verdict, * 7 . IS letter is herewith published as a sidelight on the difference be- tween the official leadership of the labor movement in England and in the United States. Can you imagine Wil- liam Green or John L. Lewis writing a letter like the foll6wing, when Wil- liam Z. Foster was kidnaped by the cossacks of Pat Hamrock in Colorado a few years ago? 1 * — “a HE Daily Herald: : tigi. > — - “IT am in com- plete agreement with your leader wish to say with emphasis that, what- ever may be the views of Mr. Pollitt, every effort should be made to see that he receives elementary justice in precisely the same way that every citizen has a right to claim. If hoolli- gans are to be allowed the privilege af physical force while other citizens are to be condemned for merely ad- vocating the same thing, a very serious position arises, in which very wide public issues are involved. I do not know what legal remedy is now open to Mr. Pollitt as against this iniquitous verdict, but I certainly be- lieve no means should be left untried to obtain a reversal of the same. If necessary, I should be prepared to subscribe to any fund which may be opened to carry this matter further.— O. T. Cramp, Industrial General Sec- retary, National Union of Railway- men, London, N.W.1.” Do Some Militant Decorating at the T. U. E. L. Picnic, May 30 | If you miss that T. U. E. L. picnic on Decoration Day, Saturday, May 30, you are jist naturally throwing away a big time. If you must decorate something on this day, come out with the rest of the folks aand help deco- | rate Aldenheim Grove. Get a ticket from any live wire and come early. Ball game, bowling, swings for the youngsters, merry-go-round, singing societies and races galore. Yes, and Worker Loses Hand. Editor the DAILY WORKER:—In view of the fact that despite the let- ters received from Soviet land by the DAILY WORKER, the yellow social- ists still claim that the American worker is better off than the Russian worker, therefore, I have decided to send your column the facts of an in- cident in the shipping room where I work in New York City, the financial metropolis of the capitalist world. One of the recently invented may chines which altho it lightens the La- bor of the toller nevertheless thru the anti-social use to which it is put, in the end hurts the workers, is the stripping and nailing machine which nails and strips cases automatically. White working at this machine my mate threw on the power accidently whereupon the trigger which drives the nails began to shoot out nails. I immediately jumped but had both of my thumbs hurt anad barely escaped losing them entirely. The other worker obeying the slav- ish ideology inculcated into him by the schools of the masters attempted to stop the machine and as a result of his attempt to save his master’s property, lost his right hand and the ring finger of his left hand. He is twenty-six years of age aand has only been married for seven months. All he received from his grateful mas- ter was the regular workmen's com- pensation of four hundred dollars. Brothers, compare this with the | dancing to the music of Mitchell’s or- status of the Russian workers and | chestra. ask yourselves if it is worthwhile to It, after the day is over and you | Keep on selling our birthright, the are ready to go home, you think you | Arth, for a mess of pottage, a fair of Saturday. On the subject of trade haven't had the biggest 50c worth of day's pay. union methods, Mr. Pollitt and myself your life, just tell the committee and are in profound disagreement, but II see what happens to you. — — ——
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| ly deserted. : SECOND SECTION This magazine supple ment will appear every Saturday la The Daily Worker. MAY 16, 1928. By ALEX LEX REI D. Or of 374 shipping coal mines in Illinois 300 or mofe are at a stand- still, and the large majority of those for over a year, and many of them two years. This condition in Illinois is duplicated proportionately thruout America, and the conditions of the miners, their wives and families, as a result, beggars description. The writer has seeh many miners grown old in the industry, after a life spent in the bowels of the earth, con- tribufing to the wealth of the nation, gray and feeble, pass into the county poor farm to spend their few remain- ing years. I attended a funeral of a miner a short time ago who died as a result of undernourishment and whose family is on the verge of physi- cal collapse. Scores of miners thruout the state who deprived themselves even of cer- tain mere necessities to be able to buy their own home, have been forced to abandon same and seek employ- ment elsewhere, and their shacks have gone to wreck, “a total loss,” and thruout Illinois today in the mining camps black despair is met on every hand and some villages are complete- j Lidia hoes li sia * ss A this in America, the wealthiest nation in the world, with its unlim- ited natural resources 2 perfected machine ) — to sen and none to be had. A surplus of coal has been produced in Tilinois as in other states, and this coupled with the decline of industrial activity in other lines for the past two . years, coupled with the increased use of ofl as fuel, and water power, has produced this appalling situation, and With it the fact that the workers have not been paid in wages enough to buy back their production now face starva- tion and unemployment. fee The present annual productive ca- pacity of the coal mining industry is 1,000,000,000 tons and the annual con- sumptive capacity is 500,000,000 tons, or 50 per cent less. The productive capacity includes many uneconomical mines that probably will never again be opened up and which is calculated to reach 25 cent of the mines in existence, Which reduces the produc- tive capacity to 80,000,000 tons annu- ally. During the war 1,000,000 men were in the industry, but since that time they have been rapidly thinned out. The industry today is employing ap- proximately 70 per cent of that figure. The industry is 50 per cent overdevel- oped, Fifty per cent of the miners working full time or 100 per cent of the men working 50 per cent of the time will produce the average con- sumptive capacity. rad hm miners not only of Illinois, but thruout the organized field, are de manding of the union leaders that steps be taken immediately to remedy the unemployment situation and alle viate the suffering among the miners and their families, and well do the miners know that the only possible relief under this economic system that can be given them must come in the form of work, and therefore they are demanding of their leaders that a divt- sion of the available work be given them, and they are demanding now to know why a three-year contract was gigned without a fight for a division of work being made, and in this re- spect they don’t forget their former demands, and the statements of their leaders that it was the only remedy for unemployment. Why did the miners’ leaders refuse al | at the scale conference to fight for a shorter workday, and why did they repudiate their former position on this question? Let us see the miners’ posi- tion all the way thru since 1919. T the Cleveland convention Frank Farrington, chairman of the scale committee, in his report, and in com- pliance with the demands of hundreds of resolutions for a shorter workday and week, to divide the available work among the miners, demand a six- hour day from bank to bank, “which ‘was in reality a four-and-a-half-hour day at the face of the coal.” (Vol. 2, p. 952, 1919 convention.) At that same convention John 5 Lewis, acting president, in speaking on that scale report, said: “I may say there is embraced in this instrument the most. progressive policies that have ever been enunciated by our or- ganization.” (Vol. 2, p. 962, 1919 con- vention ' Since that "time at the convention of the Illinois miners in Peoria in 1924, William Green, the international secretary-treasurer of the U. M. W. of A., said, among other things: “I have always felt that our proposal hree Hundred Mines Idle in Hliriots for a shorter workday in the coal mines of the country offered at least a partial solution of the unemploy- ment problem.” (Page 128 of speeches to the convention, 1924.) N spite of the demands of the min- ers, they were misled and betrayed 11 the Indianapolis convention, and the leaders repudiated their former pos! tions. Frank Farrington brought for- ward a proposed contract, authorizing the scale committee to get as good a contract as it was possible to get on the basis of no reduction in wages, and it was understood by the most (Continued on page 8) | HOOVER'S DEPARTMENT ADMITS HOOVER LIES | * * FIFTH OF SOVIET IMPORTS AMERICAN; TRADE BALANCE FAVORABLE 15 = Ws ! . SOVIET RUSSIAN TRADE ,I924, IN GOLD RUBLES, 915 VALUE Count Exports Imports ~Englen 80,7 25000 53,903,000 Germany 66440000 5 | 30 700 0 U.S. 7,183,000 46, 7 2000 Persi 7685000 > 357,000 Trade with al Countries, 369942000 240,685,000 USOept.of Commerce Data Science Service washington0d.c By HARRISON GEORGE. sins gold rubles (a gold ruble 1 Hiding the Truth. W | LTHO Herbert Hoover, like ex- Secretary Hughes, has long been insisting that Soviet Russia is an “economic vacuum,” Hoover’s own government department, the depart- ment of commerce, has been forced to acknowledge that such a statement is a lie, The above illustration, as shown, is issued by the U. S. department of commerce at Washington, D. C., and shows at the top the imports into Soviet Russia from the United States, England, Germany and other coun- tries; and at the foot, the balance of trade between exports from and im- ports into Soviet Russia during 1924. A Credit Balance for Soviet Russia. It will be noted that the balance is favorable to Soviet Russia by 129, equivalent to 50 cents American money). Taken in conjunction with the fact that the Soviet budget for 1924 was not only balanced, but that a “respectable surplus” was accumulat- ed, the economic security of the So- viet Union is proved beyond question, and out of the mouths of its enemies. How this affects the lives of the workers may be shown by the follow- ing short quotation from the speech of Zinoviev before the enlarged exec- utive committee of the Communist In- ternational on March 25, when he said: “Furthermore, the wages of the workers in Moscow, Leningrad and other towns, during the last three months, in a number of branches of industry, have exceeded pre-war wages.” It is notable that the department of commerce statement shown above, was printed in the capitalist press on the financial page, the DAILY WORK. ER taking it from the Chicago Daily News of May 9, where it was hidden away between market story headlines about “Wheat Price Smash,” “Hog Values” and “News and Gossip of the Pits.” Yet on the editorial and news pages, the Chicago Daily News still follows the exploded myth that “So- viet Russia is an economic vacuum.” It goes without saying that if the Soviet imports are one-fifth from America with all the handicaps of trading without recognition and treaty facilities, the recognition of Russia would increase the proportion to at least double or treble the figure and give work to many unemployed. 9 1 et ele il , ott > AS 9 * —
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, trade union congress of the Soviet trade unions and the Soviet unions; (3) the action of the Second tional and of the right wing of the Am- representatives i 0 : 7 215 1 : E fe | 172171711 these events are as follows: That the ideological differneces of opinion within the Amsterdam Inter- national have come to such a head that they not only paralyze the activ- ity—or putting it better, the inactiv- ity—of this organization, but also eompel the individual sections of the Amsterdam International to come in the open against one another; (2) That the slogan of unity and of the united front are beginning to take on practical organizational forms despite the obstinate sabotage of in- ternational social-democracy. The fight within the Amsterdam in- ternational has been going on for a long time already; up to recently, this struggle has been going on hori- zontally, between the upper strata and the lower strata. The opposition in the Amsterdam Internationa] conists of two groups, a crystallized one and and amorphous (loosely knit) one. The former has been organized by the Communist Parties upon the platform of the R. I. L. U. and bears the name: Minority Movement, Opposition Bloc, Fraction, etc. The other section re- fiects the discontent of the masses, but it does not touch the fundamental kernel of the tactics and politics of the Amsterdam International. The dissatisfaction of the masses grew more intense after the occupation of (1)|- of the Amsterdam International. It the Ruhr as a result of the inactivity | “compromise of Steen- huis, against which the British dele- gation voted. Even the most lenient critics had to admit that this revolu- tion was nothing but a very stupid and clumsy maneuver. Politically, this resolution signifies the victory of the right wing over the left, which was well understood by the general council of the British trade unions, have arisen in consequence of the session of the executive bureau of the I 19) . @ I Ts able source of information at present „ it does not give an unpreju- diced account of the facts.” And later shown beyond all doubt that they con- sider the so-called ‘compromise mo- tion’ a cunning step which is intended to thwart our 9 months of effort for the establishment of international He calls the methods of the the president and states bureau of the Amsterdam Interna tional gave no instructions for the than many people believe. HE world trade movement was never entirely united, neither ideo- logically, nor from the point of view of organization. At present the trade unions are differentiated along politi- workers are organized in the reform- into the united trade Aas, the dissolution of the revolutionary trade unions, and even of the R. I. L. U. . The fight against organizational conservatism must be carried on by us in the most decisive manner. If} the dissolution of any independent union may be of service in the con- quering of a mass organization, this dissolution must take place, for or- ganization is not an end in itself but a means towards an end. Everything depends upon the situation and the 3 8 energetically. We demand a serious, and sincere blunted for the sake of the unity of union movement. This is the trade the most dangerous tendency in our] th campaign unity. If it should gle for unity the intensity of our Communist criticism against reform- ism should be blunted, then the unity which we might have attained would against us. We must fight any such tendencies in a most decis- ive manner. Further, we should notice that the desire for unity with some comrades * takes on the form of stormy impati- impatience serves as an i 1 f b i The situation is similar in the vari- ous countries (France, Czecho-Slo- vakia), where we have a serious mass ‘of revolutionary trade aust be combatted most 4 11 “ . 7 * 7 * 7 4 ; : 7 * ae 848 . 1 . N exist small 9 "iz — ee * 4 7 . 5 a i 3 a yg 7 19 — (3) 29 * ‘ 1 me — “a J 8 711 47 l | 1 — 8 8 8 | 5 i a af 1 87 85 5 1 Countries where the ary workers have the this we can formulate our tactics for the struggle for unity on broad out- lines, (1) In England the struggle for unity must be conducted on the fol- lowing lines: (a) further consolida- tion of the Minority Movement, (b) struggle against groups tendencies, (c) struggle to bring about the affiliation of all trade unions to the Trade Union Council, (d) struggle for the creation of in- dustrial unions on the basis of fac- council, (e) tran ln 5 * (2) In unity must be on the following lines: unity. (8) Im Czecho-Slovakla. The strug- gle in the factories must be our chief i . movement is split and the reyolutſon- K bern and guild Germany the struggle tor 1
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2 political organization, for Mr. Ussas, crimes provided against in Articles 10, 157, part 2, 168 and 169a of the crim- mal code of the R. S. F. S. R., covering acts of sexual perversion and cruelty committed upon subordinates, and Mr. Laszkiewicz, sometime secretary of the former Polish consulate gener- al at Tiflis, indicted under Article 66 of the criminal code. “As was decided by both parties, the actual exchange was to take place on the 29th of March at the border station of Kolosovo, whither Messrs. . Usas and Laszkiewicz, the individuals subject to exchange, were transferred in the custody of a representative of the people’s commissariat for foreign affairs. “At four o’clock on March 29, Mr. fected due to causes beyond his con- ‘possibility of supposing it a case of chance concurrence of circumstances among der of Baginski and Wieczorkiewicz by an individual employed in the gov- ernment’s service almost at the mo- ment of their exchange and under the eyes of Polish officials specially as- signed in connection with this ex- change. | “The indignation aroused among the broad masses of the Soviet Union's population by the above-mentioned crime, is further intensified by the fact that an analogous murder occur- red in Poland on January 2, 1919, when a Russian Red Cross delegation, headed by Mr. Veselovsky and includ- ing M. Altman, Aivazova and the physician, Dr. Klotzman, was massa- cred while being deported across the frontier of Poland by the Polish au- thorities. f “The Soviet gosernment therefore had grounds to expect that on this occasion the Polish government would adopt all the necessary measures to prevent the repetition of a similar oc- currence and to deliver the persons to be exchanged, Messrs. Baginski and Wieczorkiewicz, to the exchange point wnharmed. “In conclusion, expressing the con- ovember, 1923, during the trial of a | | Stress bo ey: N trol. ＋ 2 “According to advices subsequently g mg = a Se ee fore MP * 2 — ae * . Immunity by Polish Consul . at Minsk. * “ | Poland concerning the unjustifiable action of the Polish consul at Minsk, who from March 30 to the liberty of sheltering in the con- sular premises and refused to sur- render an individual summoned to ap- pear as a defendant before a criminal court. The note points out that it is con- trary to international law for the con- sul or diplomatic representatives of any nation to engage in active oppo- sition to the legal measures of organs functioning in the country which has received them. “Such a situation,” it goes on to state, “would threaten the entire institution of diplomatic and consular representation.” Far from giving him the right to conceal a refu- is laid of > Ae Ussas upon his taking refuge in the The note concludes with a notice that Mr. Karczewski's exequatur is considered to have lapsed and re quests the Polish diplomatic mission to instruct him to quit the territory of the Soviet Union without delay. „ Soviet Government Withdraws ü Troops from Outer Mongolia. O* March 6, Mr. Karakhan, Soviet ambassador to Pekin, delivered the following note to the Chinese min- ister of foreign. affairs for transmis- sion to his government: In the beginning of the year 1921 by the Red Army, retreated to Mongol. ian territory, where, having united with elements hostile ‘to the Soviet government, they created a base for new upon the territory of the Soviet Republics with the aim of over- — the authority of the workers and peasants. Repeated requests ad- dressed to the Chinese government for the liquidation of the white guard bands of Seminov, Ungern and others freely operating and organizing on the territory of Mongolia, led to no posi- tive results, as the Chinese govern- appeals by the Soviet government. In view of this in the interests of the safety of its frontiers the Soviet gov- ernment was constrained to conduct part of the Red Army into Mongolian territory and liquidate all the white guard bands and organizations which, organized and supported by foreign imperlalism, were preparing to invade the Soviet Republics once more from Mongolia. ‘ — 1, took part of the white guard armies routed |. ment was indifferent to these urgent | aM, 5 a r e 7 V a a 9 *. ‘ N , 7 n , N . * ; rn r 4 3 x 5 is * 2 : 2 7 + OR * N S 4 n pho Ag eo ee ma ee. 2 enn, ee ead Sey 3 n N 8 R 55 Wen ge ey ae l * Ye ba 8 Pa Kier 3 ; rae jee. the question of the term of the with- safety of the frontiers, had been de- cided at a conference, the Soviet gov- ernment would remove its forces from outer Mongolia. However, despite ine fact that the conference was to be opened within a month from the signing of the treaty, internal circumstances pre- ‘vented the Chinese government from doing so in due time. Meanwhile the Soviet government, altho in virtue of the agreement with China it might not have removed its forces until the per- iod of their evacuation had been fixed at the conference and the requisite fen kG + er Ag® 1 he = ES) sae “ 2 1 a : 8 SMR Ot — — ea sp of 8 ge ey tte nade W al * es, * * r — lg withdraw its forces immediately with- out awaiting the conference. government has proceeded with the withdrawal of its forces from _| Outer Mongolia with the assent of the Mongol lan government, and that at the present time the evacuation of the Red Army detachments from the ter- ritory of Mongolia is finished. In bringing this to the government’s knowledge I hope that the Chinese government will suitably appreciate this friendly step by the government of the Union of 8. S. R. The govern- ment of the Union of S. S. R. also trusts that the circumstances which formerly constrained it to send the Red Army into Mongolian territory. will not, in conjunction with altered “conditions, recur in the future. At the same time I earnestly ex- press the confidence that the Chinese government will not neglect the hap- py occasion for settling the problem of the interrelations between two brother peoples by a peace-promoting arrangement with the Mongolian peo- ple. The government of the Union of S. S. R., while regarding the interre- lations in question as the exclusive affair of the Chimese and Mongolian peoples, will, neverthetess, be happy to witness the restoration of brother- ly association between the Chinese and Mongolian peoples according to principles of justice and on the basis of their national aspirations, which will assure the further economic prog- ress both of Outer Mongolia and of the northwestern region, and will like- wise promote the development of eco- guarantees for the safety of the fron- tiers had been given by the Chinese nomic and other relations with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Ves 4 „„ |, 2 — | BUILDERS ar These Subs Came —— RK in from rs on May 14: NEW YORK, N. V. — Harry Casten (3); Katterfeld (2); Louis Nie- brief, Isaac Brody, Eteenpain, Leo Rutman, Adele Jager, Sarah Pecker. Margolis, J. Cohen, M. Horowitz, CLEVELAND, 0.—J. A. Hamilton (3). + CHICAGO, ILL.—Clara Saffern man, D. E. Earley, 8. Hammersmark. DETROIT, MICH.—A. E. Goetz GARY, IND.—M. J. Cunovich. (3); Nancy Markoff, Bertha Board- (4). . S. BEND, IND.—Amos E. Kirk (2). BOSTON, MASS.—Elsie Pultur (2). PITTSBURGH, PA.—Fred Merrick. SUPERIOR, WiS.—Tymoies. Do You Cover Union Meetings? Live Locals Do This. * In those units of the party where they have learned to “go to the masses”—going to union metings with literature, has been a system- atically organized procedure, In Chicago and other cities, this method is being developed to a high stage of efficiency with increasing results. The regular trade union meetings are apportioned off to branches in the district where they are held. The branch agents in turn arrange to have a squad organized (preferably of girls!) to cover regularly a certain union meeting with the DAILY WORKER, Workers Monthly and occasionally other liter- ature. (The Little Red Library is well suited for this purpose.) This kind of systematic sale of literature is important work that plants the seed for future Communist growth. Is your local doing this? If not, then this matter should be taken up at the next meeting of the C. C. C. or your branch. in the field of organized labor is the materia! for future increase in the ranks of our party—why not work here? government, decided, nevertheless, to I herewith have the honor to inform | the Chinese government that the So- | viet fo Pes 8 * „ : ae rr 5 2 Le 8 .
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—— (Continued from last Saturday) (Translated by a Felshin) III. Jo was already there waiting for bine His | face was beaming. “Tt ain’t hard to find work here.” he 1 1 And Nickles told the story about Propapapa- dakis. Then about his “things.” What could he take along to Broadmoor? The excuse that the things were lost looked kind of fishy to them, it was old or „Come on, eee take a look around, maybe we'll get some kind of handbag from cardboard for twenty-nine cents.” “But then, you won’t have a cent left” objected feebly. ! „J got a_dollar. We can even have a meal. Come on They didn't get anything for twenty- nine, but they got a handbag for thirty-nine cents. And it was a pretty big one. The second-hand dealer gave them back the rags, and now the handbag was even filled with “things.” With satisfaction they hunted up a lunch room. And Nickles didn’t even have to walk home, for his friend gave him the fourteen cents for carfare. While they were eating Joe chatted about the new job. / “But what do you say about that, there ain’t no union men here?” This fact did not upset Nickles. To tell the, truth he didn’t have any high regard for union men. His principle was, not so much to fight against the boss, as to deceive him. On this point Nickles and Joe had their first —Nickles eS ae - . „ Deer silence ſeity belongs to them ently. The lifeless city. The city of the sick, * * 8 HIS sicknens is ‘contagious. However, it is not the bacilli which are infec- tious, but rather spirit of the sick people. It is‘communicated to the workers. There are no factories here, but there are work- ers. In hospitals and in business places, in auto- mobile traffic and in barber shop8 . And streets are being built too. And many, many new houses. But the spirit of the sick is communicated to the workers. Silence. . silence. . silence. . The bosses pay wages. As much as they please. The workers don’t get much. They don’t live well. Their days are passed in poverty. And the bourgeois have big paunches. IV. Tun; white palace. at: lies directly at the foot of the mountains. A terrace, and on the other side of the terrace an immense park. Shrubs.and trees well kept. But here and there the park was allowed to grow wild: And among the big trees a glittering lake. Versailles in minature. Mrs. Broidin loves Ver- sailles. In the music room there is a picture of it. This picture was made by a very bad artist; argument. er ‘cow red. vltn(t gi + olost — —— — — —— — — Up to have BOTH the gn ei EL LL LL DL De ee year sub to-the DAILY WORKER—or $6.00 On this Matter— Don’t Stand in Doubt! You can take advantage of this offer, made to enable every‘worker to DAILY WORKER WORKERS MONTHLY A six month sub to the WORKERS MONTHLY will be given to everyone sending a full sla distinguished family. | lish blood flows in his veins. That means a g ee deal, and what is more, it. is . prominent today. A pillar of the present. A The family of a leading statesman. 2 Oh, how deeply that affects Mrs. 3 lie 1 she does not know this political leader. ‘And the} 175 English statesman probably does not dream t he has any relatives in Colorado e that Oh, is of no consequence. Not that he cares. But still Mr. Broidin sub-| the os scribes to the New York Herald, just to keep him- the self well informed on the life and activity of his] #on namesake. That is his duty. His social duty. And anyway, the Broidin family feels very deeply on this question; it must discharge all | 50 cial duties of every kind. Birth carries obligations. In America too. And surely no one could possibly believe that English descent is in contradiction to Americanism. On| kim i the contrary. If anything, Mr. Broidin is more} neede than one hundred per cent American. minut In the city they always said about him : “He is “Tg our real hundred percenter. 2 “Ne And he certainly is that. must One hundred per cent. Bu He detests Catholics, Jews. ‘ exerti He has a burning hatred for. 3 fever ting rid of the red menace he conn as ~~ at it is dedicated to Mrs. ee In memory less than right. 3 ot erwommertel eee ee ned 2: e eee ; Ve fl . he does not permit himself to neglect. The June 15 Only * and the worth of subs (88.00 worth in Chicago). 1 ——U em nee THIS OFFER WILL BE IN EFFECT ONLY CAMPAIGN (Until June 15) DURING THE SECOND ANNUAL SUB (Outside of $6.00 a Year DAILY WORKER SUB F RATES: $3.50 Six Months Chicago) $2.00 Three Months ~ THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, Illinois For the enclosed $ send the DAILY WORKER 2 morths. (And the WORKERS MONTHLT for months— mark cross) to: NAME: STREET: ( CITY: 2 you can have a six month sub te the Workers Monthly, detachable sheets of note paper for your use. mark a cross here AAA A AA AAA AAA AKA AAA AAA AAMAABDAAA AAAAAAAAAAA AAA A eee With Every Sub for the DAILY WORKER for a Year if you wish the binder INSTEAD of the Workers Monthty, or a loose-leaf leather binder, with a patent clasp and Sr (( reer rr servant's flrst duty is to dust the books carefully ; and furthermore he has arranged with a Parisian Russian publisher to receive every new royalist publication. But Mr. Broidin does not get his views from these books, for he does not read. The only thing he reads are the headlines in the local papers and the New York Herald. This was sufficient for giving him his political bearings. And yet he loves his library very much. The big mountains glitter in the distance. And there are such gorgeous leather arm-chairs. It is fine to muse in the cool, comfortable stillness within the depths of an arm-chair. He thinks of a,good-look- ing, healthy girl, and after his meal it is a relief to be rocked from his eee erav- ing into sweet dreams. How healthy it is to doze in the library. * * R. BROIDIN feels himself rather young. It ‘was as tho around him stretched an empty Bpace. His condition could best be described in the following words: a love had died in his heart, and he is now hankering for a new one. His wife had never satisfied him entirely, but now he finds her dry, boring, and withered. Once in a while he would saunter into the par- lor. At one end, there stood, in marble, the former Mrs. Broidin. Graceful, fragrant, full of fresh youth. That’s how he would have liked her to be. But today she seemed to him much like—an ani- mated broom-stick. f And he was hankering after youth. Flesh. The whole forenoon he walked in the park. Fresh fragrance. | He looked on as the workers leveled the paths. The machines mowed the grass. The watering pots covered the turf with water. Five dogs followed his steps. He played with the dogs. And yet the terri, tormenting desire did not leave him. The desire for young, fresh woman’s flesh. 1 5 op ai Boe ake :
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work yas not so simple ax Niches ha ima | 1 to be om his feet at 6 o'clock in the morn- d to light the fire in the kitchen. © ae an interested party—for he had to ‘one of them was Nickles’ sworn enemy. is that silver knives have a peculiarity —— And each of the two parts ust be polished separately. | Oh, those knives!. . . 1 Mr. Broidin did not seem to care for Soma inventions. Mr. Broidin’s great grand- 1 England; it consisted-of a board and sand- per. One of Nickles’ hardest problems was the and even application of the sandpaper. And we must add, that only rarely did this prob- 2m find a successful solution. The knives had to shine all in the same degree. the knives that Nickles polished there were And Aways traces of grains of sand to be seen. glish| | Fortunately John was a good chap, and initiated On| kim into the art of polishing knives. But he more needed ten mintites for every single knife. Ten minutes ! He is} “Isn’t that too much?”—Nickles asked. NO“ John answered him—“because the knives must be sharp and bright.” But sharpening the knives required a great exertion of muscular power. One got real muscle- fever from it. And he had no chance at ali to ag be sabotage at this work for the knives underwent a st as careful scrutiny before every meal. “At Protopapadaki, we did this with a ma- Nickles remarked. 0 And then the carpet cleaner Wu is there no electric vacuum- cleaner“ attention to the task of picking up every little gran ot dust from the carpet. Nickles had a host of such enemies. Among others the white doors with theif tiny ornaments that he had to wash. But noticing that his prede- | — cessors had not attended to this work with such extraordinary care, he also tried to simplify it as much as possible. He took the tub. He dipped rag and a piece of soap, got down by the door, assed over the parts that were especially dirty, | hardly got up from his sitting posture: that is how he rested from the hardship of polishing knives. There was no chance however, of simplifying in the same way the work of cleaning the floors. For work they commandeered even the gardners, d that’s where the heavy drudgery came in, for the thick carpets had to be rolled up and had to be carried out together with the massive furniture. “And how often!“ Nickles stormed. There was one big room for almost every day. And then he had to turn and turn! And hop around with the wax thru the whole room so that the floor would shine properly! No, this work was no pleasure. When it was about time to go to eat Nickles was dead tired. He thot again and again of how, outwardly, the liveried lackeys and servants in dress coats looked like idlers, but in reality they have to drudge just as bitterly. Nickles asked John, when was his day off? He teally wanted to put the question this way: “When is my day off?”—but then he thot that the other form was much finer. “A day off?—there’s no such thing really—only when the master and mistress are invited any- where we have to go to the city too.” ‘They spoke about this matter while they were very nied | ot tee eating. Mary, the chambermaid, gave vent to her disgust at not being able to go to church Sundays. SE waver beard of, A „„ said. Mary was of a warlike nature anyway. At People oat wp more dates than they eat de he decided. do stood in close relation to the dishes. He was, 7 must have brot along the knife-polisher| }(Between State and Dearborn like ta have the shoes shined only once in a long of the opinion that Mrs. unanimously { Broidin was absolutely crazy. And Marguerite who stood in awe of Mary was convinced of this. Ah, she despised the Mrs., but was entirely sharp, commanding, imperious tone. Her cutting voice which tolerated no contradiction. Her con- stant demands. The three shrill rings of the bell. All of this filled her with fright. Made her power- less before the woman. She blushed again and ; She even felt at times t 1 knees trembled. And she did everything that she was ordered to do! Immediately. Without contradiction. She did not forget for a moment the idea that she was servant, and the other mistress: And that she was here to be ordered about. * * * * UNCH was always a pleasant half hour. Lil lian the cook looked on with kindly eyes, tak- ing care fhat everyone ate heartily. She did not The enjoyment was spoiled only because of the great hurry, for the master and mistress began to eat at one o’clock. The table had to be set. The table-service had ‘to be ‘scrutinized. Then there were the dishes. The master and mistress never dined alone. If they didn’t have any persons for guests, the dogs were present. The five dogs. The woman and man could not stand each other, bad had to have some- thing to distract them. The beasts afforded a good deal of amusement. They leaped about. They played. It is true of course that they the way Mrs. were very much amused when one dog snap- ped at Nickles’ leg as he served up the roast. In ; | submissive to her. Her tyrannical bearing. Her : spare Mrs. Broidin’s provision room in the least. men the meal was being served; this was most }stro fanpleasant to Nickles and John. The Mr. and such cases it is the servant’s duty to be silent. And Nickles felt in secret an overwhelming desire resolved to do it that very evening. _ Ordinarily however there was almost always dinner service. Marguerite was also of the same opinion. „ * * * MAR8GUERITE was a very good girl, She always helped Nickles: at dish-washing, and he in turn would perform knightly services for her. For instance, leaves had to be laid under the cantaloupes. Nickles went down to the park willingly and plucked uniform-shaped fresh leaves requirements.) And he also helped her to cut up pumpkins. He took the long, thin, sharp, knife in his hand, lifted it up in the air and like an exe- kin. “See! Sh, sh. . that’s how they cut off Propapapadakis’ head.” “Oh, oh, oh”—Marguerite cried with horror— “that must have been frightful.” The repeated the performance several times, then he picked out a very big and fine-looking can- taloupe. “This here is Gunaris!” Marguerite felt real pity for Cantaloupe-Gun- aris, which met a wretched death under Nickles’ executioner’s axe. “But now I’m goin’ to get even on that dog“ thot Nickles, looking out at the animals thru the window. “Tf I only knew which one took a bite at me. . . Maybe I can recognize him . *— he thot. But ; One dog came batting to him. Gently. And put its head under his hand. He would like to ke the dog. also leaped about him, wagged their tails. Poor dogs . Tou too are servants. And he stroked Dolly. (To be continued next Saturday) from the lime-trees. (This was one of the basic. guests, which was something Nickles did not like at all. For guests meant still more 22 more cutioner he struck down with it upon the pump- It was Dolly. And the- thera- The Walden Book Shop 307 Plymouth Court Just South of Jackson) CHICAGO Telephone Monroe 2284 Second-Hand Books 1 The A most remarkable 2nd complete gr r f report on the latest developments 3 — en e- | F ull Report. in Soviet Russia covering every and maps in all languages, bought, of the phase of life and activity under the sold and exchanged at cut prices. 2 Soviet government. “Daily” Book Exchange British a a 805 James St., Pittsburgh, Pa. | Trade Union A book of 250 pages with = | 0 photographs, charts and CLEVELAND, OHIO. Delegation maps of the U. S. S. R. 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prisoners, are added the Everyone, from prisoners. Contain 7,000 Reds. _which every prisoner, who does not receive additional food from the out- side, will gradually starve after a per- iod of one to one and a half years, to the systematic maltreatment of the degrading tortures which are intended to hurt the human dignity of the prisoners. the lowest prison guard to the director, uses all possible means to torture and degrade the At present the Polish prisons con- tain about 6,000 to 7,000 political pris- oners, a number which does not de- The Polish political prise divided by the authorities in ber of different cathegories ticularly with. regard to the illegal “crimes.” 9 ee According to the officials’ state- ments contained in the “Statistical Vestnik of Retch Pospolitika” (chap- ter XXII, Administration, Justice, page 172-186) in the year of 1923 there are in Poland 749 courts (apart from the military courts) 340 prisons and 34 jails. There are 5,386 judges, pros- ecutors and their assistants, The number of police officials in Poland was 75,989 in 1923, and together with the frontier guards 95,377. It must be stressed that there are 32,760 or- dinary policemen and 953 commissars and sub-commissars and 2,289 secret police agents, quite apart from the many persons who are paid specially for every service. As a sign of the growth of white terror we must mention that there were in 1922 only 1,854 secret agents. One spy usually has to supervise 10 to 20 persons. This conveys a gen- eral idea of the appartus which has as its purpose the destruction of the - . ra,” eo * Ke yee kl eye wes 4 from the army, offenses against the | t laws of public order and even falsifi- cation of documents con: ©, par- | cri 2 £ ‘>. “ed 8 8 < 2 * ae am 7 other A, * 8 ee 5 779 F. zip 5 45 Extend White Terror. There are still other official ments—also published in the Statis- the state” and in the year 1922, 4,142 persons were tried for the same Similar figures for 1923 and 1924 are not available, but we know that white terror continuously in- By JAN WIT. ch — — ᷑ʒF—— 1 — He one bounced a stone smiled again. Seven Were Hanged. All the convicts in the gang tried for the murder, fifteen of convicted, and seven hanged. his age, 16. so he was hanged, too. —and it was done. strong construction. inal charge” of fifty cents. exploiting ancient torture devices. the 18th century England’s eco- too close to a chain gang of thirty-two „Success“ convicts, who had been taken ashore to build a prison, some er on his head so emphatically that he never were them Some one put in a plea for one of them, a youth, named Burke, on account of But it was found he had been a convict for five years so must necessarily be a desperate character, But the murder brot about an inves- tigation, and Australia was shocked. Orders were given to pull all the sea- cocks and sink every hulk forthwith The “Success” lay at the bottom of the ocean for five years. Due to some legal hocus- pocus she had not been condemned properly with the others. So some considera- tion, to raise her; which they did. She was scarcely damaged by her five years’ immersion, due perhaps to her Burmese teak, and tremendously She proceeded under her own sail to England, and from there to the United States. At present she is waiting your inspection for the “nom- It is esti- mated that over 20 million people paid admission, which would make around ten million in profits. Surely that is going the English one better, Capitalists do not care about some one showing old devices of torture, as The Convict Ship | democracy has more subtie weapons When some one be- Stole $15—Gets Life. One of the five hulks was devoted f ef : i i 4 1117 b | + | g 1 5 5 B35 &8 & : 55 leaden tipped cat-o-nine tails, the 92 bath, the iron lady and imple- ments of torture that would make the were workingmen who were forced to steal in order to live. How They Used Convict Jewelry. Upon arrival the convict was fitted by a convict smith with a pair of ankle irons weighing thirty-five pounds, and he was placed in a cell in the lower deck, being allowed one hour out of every twenty-four on the upper deck for air and exercise. The cells were supposed to house not more than three people, but due to demand for more space than was available, they sometimes contained five or six. At the end of two years, if the con- vict’s conduct had been good, the thirty-five pound chains were smitten off, and ven-pound ankle chain substituted. ‘Those who at- tempted to commit suicide, either by jumping overboard or in any other way, had an iron ball of fifty pounds — to the use of women convicts. There attached to them. For very determined attempts a de- Off “Today? a chance to walk her Substantially we are better off than considering production—rela- tively how much better off are the average. workers—with a standing army of two million unemployed— deaths, starvation and suicide result- ing therefrom? | Material for the Revolutionary Museum YORK.—There is a revolu- the life, sufferings and activities of former political prisoners and exiles, this section being called the “museum 1 This society is collecting material consisting of correspondence from prisons and from exile, letters and articles about prisoners and the pris- prisoners, photographs of the prisoners and the jails, etc. The society has representatives in all countries to collect the material. The representative in this country is Comrade Rose Baron, who has been ciety for political prisoners and exiles in Siberia,” before the Russian revo- lution and has already sent to Mos- cow the archives which were in her possession. This, however, is not sufficient. There are hundreds of Russians in this country who were 33 prisons and in exile under the czars, | and who have very valuable material. This material should be sent to Rose Baron, 108 East 14th St., New York City. Get a sub—make another Com- munist! 1. C' mon c' mon over. for fun, c’mon over! If you have a day, an hour, or a minute to spare—why, There is so much work piled up on the small force in our office that we need your help so very badly, to insert letters, address, seal and stamp envelopes and ever so many other little jobs that have us swamped. If you volunteer your services that's a fine way to help the DAILY WORKER. We'll be glad to see you—so just Over! ron was very active in the “relief so- | wa . —— ee — — — —— *
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+ 2 ö ers in American never participated in N As * n * — — * * z * 2. 12 is N * 7 2 ro * ~ - 1 8 1 2 . . n c cae” ee T 5 „ » * * * 2 7 4 4 i Ie * 8 rad 7 10 res 8 8 Wa 6 1 4 Se N * a * ive enn ö oe a gk Be 3 r 5 Fr. A * * ~~ Bo. my — „ K r n the international trade union move- ment, the international character of} the class struggle should be particu- larly emphasized, as well as the ne- cessity for the entry of all inde- pendent unions into the American Federation of Labor and for the crea- tion of a unified trade union inter- national, etc. 4 The sabotage of unity organized by the Second International and the right wing of the Amsterdam Interna- tional can only be broken if we suc- ceed in drawing the masses of work- ers into the struggle. The _ focal point of the fight for unity must be the factories. To this end the fac tory councils should be . conquered where they exist and committees or commissions for unity created where non-existant. At the same time mixed commissions can be estab- lished for the joint struggle, composed of workers belonging to different unions. On the other hand it is im- portant to establish contact between the factory councils and committees for unity according to district and in- dustry. We must let no conflict, no strike pass without creating a unity organ selected by the working masses. The fight for unity from below in the factories not only does not exclude the ment. In the negoitations for joint action neither party was blind to the Near, Middle and Far East has made enormous progress in the last few years. One only need mention the trade union movement in Japan, China, the East Indies, India and Egypt to understand the entire sig- nificance of a union of the trade union movements of the East and West. The trade union movements in’ the Near, Middle and Far East are to a con- The fight for the united front atid for trade union unity will bring the revolutionary workers closer to the workers still in the reformist and other organizations and will transfer our struggle against social-democracy to the very depths of the laboring masses. The fight for unity will only then be successful, if the Communist parties ih every coun- try become a mass force to be reck- sary that more and more nuclei and fractions be built up in all existing trade union organizations, that the en- tire opposition within these organiza- tions be united, that we gain every foot of ground from the reformists and that our fight against interna- tional reformism be increased to the utmost. The organizational unity of the trade unlon movement does not sig- nify an ideological rapprochement or an armistice with the reformists; it signifies the hundredfold intensifi- cation of the fight against reform- ism. T present the international labor movement is going thru a pecu- liar period of quiet and of the consoll- dation of its forces. Of course this is only a conditional quiet, for the in- tensified class struggles are continu- forms and methods of trade union tac- . The “Leninist link,” which must be grasped wi oned with. To this end it is neces- Near, Middle and Far East be drawn into the fight for unity, and that the Red International of Labor Unions be supported and consolidated. If we do with us. 2 E 4 f z e supported to our fight against the Second International and the right wing of the Amsterdam trade union international be intensi- | Russian Meetings in Chicago District = Comrade Alexander. Chramov, na-[1080 W. 14th St. } Milwaukee, Wis., Tuesday, May 26, at Miller Hall, cor. State and 8th St., 8rd floor. - At the meetings at Pullman, Keno- sha, Milwaukee on May 23, and Chi- cago on May 24, the voices of Lenin, touring the United States will be in the Chicago district from May 12 to May 26. He will speak in the cities of this district the following dates: Gary, Ind., Sunday, May 17, at 2 p. m., at 215 W. 18th Ave. East Chicago, Ind., Sunday, May 17, at 6:30 p. m., at the Russian school, 144th and Olcat Ave. Chicago, III., Tuesday, May 19, at 1902 W. Division St. Chicago, II., Wednesday, May 20, at 3925 So. Kedzie Ave. Chicago, III., Thursday, May 21, at 2734 W. 18th St. All comrades who have any con- nections with Russian workers are requested to inform them about these meetings. If there are any prospects for the organization of a Russian branch in the district, the Russian district committee should be notified at once at the following address: Russian District Committee W. P., Pullman, III., Friday, May 22, at 1113 W. Washington Blyd., Chicago, Stanciks’ Hall, 205 E. 115th St. III. Milwaukee, Wis., Saturday, May 23, — — at Miller Hall, cor. State and 8th St., Kenosha, Wis., Sunday, May 24, at 2 p. m., at German-American Home, 665 Grand Ave. Chicago, III., Sunday, May 24, at 7 p. m., at 1902 W. Division St. George E. Pasbas | Light Luncheon Served } 2 1154 Madison Street, Corner Ann OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Four Phones — - * — — E ˙ . ar ewe A ˙ ü * ũ² Ä ˙ U ˙¹⸗im⏑ji .: 1 öͤ = = ö g j j ** 8 — SS aS ee oreo leo DID I j| GRIGER & NOV GENTS FURNISHING and MERCHANT_TAILORS Union Merchandise 1934 W. Chicago Avenue (Cor. Winchester) Phone Humboldt 2707 Tunis is a member of the John Reed Pioneer group of Soviet Russia, The youngster is n Bn GL — — name of the group, Reed, w ey wear on aps. Tae mae eee CAFETERIA Chicago, there is also a John Reed Junior group functioning quite suc- cessfully. To celebrate the first an- niversary of their organization the group is giving a surprise party and dance, Saturday eve., May 23, at thge Workers’ Home, 1902 W. Division St. |. There will be an interesting program for children and for adults. They promise something new in entertain- ments. Besides that, there is a sur- prise. Admission for children will be 10 cents and for adults 20 cents. Max Shachtman, editor of the Young Worker, will bring greetings from the Pioneers of Soviet Russia. Music furnished by the Y. W. L. orchestra. Don’t forget the date and place, Saturday, May 23, at 1902 W. Division Best Foods at Moderate Prices. 14th STREET, COR. IRVING PLACE (Opposite New York Party Headquarters) Philadelphia, Notice! Weber Printing Co. 350 N. FIFTH STREET, Philadelphia, Pa. PITTSBURGH, PA. To those who work hard for thelr money, | will save 50 per cent on all their dental work. DR. RASNICK DENTIST street. 645 Smithfield Street.
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—— 2 —j——4—ẽ +, D 300. “Wines Idle in e (Continued from page 1.) of the delegation that that included the demand for the six-hour day and five-day week. Hardly one of the thousands of locals but had a resolution in the con- vention demanding such, but they were spurned and never incorporated in our demands. The contract was ac- cepted after the fiasco at Jacksonville because the miners did not know what else to do, and after the capitalist press had propagandized the country and the labor fakers had indulged in a red baiting orgy. It is safe to say that if the miners had been permitted to vote on the contract before it was signed, if they had been asked, “Are you satisfied to accept this as a con- tract?” they would have sent it down to defeat amidst their contempt and scorn. The miners will continue to fight for a six-hour day and five-day week. It is interesting to note the reasons given by the labor bureaucracy why they did not fight for a shorter-hour week was because of the competition of the unorganized fleld. J. L. Lewis said it was impossible to organize them, therefore, according to that, it will be impossible to ever get a shorter workday. The present gesture at organizing is camouflage designed to fool the militant miners and attempt to have them believe a serious attempt at or- ganizing is being made. If John L. Lewis wanted to organize the West Virginia field and the other flelds at this time, John, with his vice president, Murray, would lead an army into West Virginia that would organ- ize it im six months or less. With concentration on the one district, Lewis at the head, assisted by Mur- ray, the international executive board and field workers, auditors, organizers, district presidents, vice presidents, district board members and field work- ers, sub-district presidents and vice 1 and add to that the aid , conscious Workers with the many union men who are only waiting a chance to organize, and the battle would be won in a short period of time. view of the fact that we have no contract now, since the operators have violated it on every hand, shut down the mines in violation of it to create a condition among the miners that will make them glad to accept a reduction in wages when they feel like offering them the proposition—in view of that fact we will not be violat- ing our “sacred” signature if we throw every mine in America idle at this time. Do that and we will not have to go any further than West Virginia. The few remaining fields would jump at the chance to follow such a lead. The whole of the nation’s coal in- dustry at a standstill would make it easy for John L. Lewis to sign up a six-hour day and five-day week for the American mining industry, and not for a part of it only. That is the kind of policy worthy of the president of the fighting miners, and John L. Lewis, say to you now, be not afraid of support; we guarantee we would go thru hell with ydu on an organizing campaign of that kind, if necessary. At the present time of writing, the miners’ officials are indicted for viola- tion of an ancient injunction secured by the West Virginia Coal Company during the reign of Moses, and the energy of the officials,,their time and the miners’ money will be spent with high-priced lawyers, and irrespective of the outcome of the lawsuit, more injunctions will be issued, and so on, ad infinitum The only way to kill the injunction evil is to let the lawyers stay at home, and with our leaders at our head, the miners of West Virginia, coupled with a few thousand miners that would ladly follow Lewis into West Vir- nia, violate injunctions en masse, and all the injunctions from here to “hell would avail them naught. * 2 foregoing will hot be done, be- cause they don't want the miners organized. Instead they are going to aid. us by weeding us out of the in- dustry, “putting us on the bum, to look for work in some other industry. Des Two hundred and fifty mB 15 have to go—miners with their sons. and workers perhaps from other in- dustries who have been forced ‘out because of depression therein. Every industry in the 18 in al. similar condition with uner . The workers have not been paid enough to buy back their products. They have produced too much, so they will have to „ cure] . for unemployment. Weed us out; where will we go?) Many of us have been as long in the industry as any of our officials. Does the weeding out policy apply to the Officialdom also? If so, why don't they put it into effect? We don’t no- tice any of them have resigned yet, and what is more, they won't as long as there is any mazuma in the W ury. workers, and a certain kind of worker, the militant miners who are exposing the reactionary officialdom, We have to Werk to live, and refuse to be weeded out. Rather we will fight on for an equal share of the availabk work in the mines, and still demand that our officials fight for an equal division of all work in all mines for all miners. CS in Illinois have reached a crisis. Our officials from the president down thru the vice president, the district executive board, the sub-district machine and field -workers, are in panic. They see the awakened miners arising en masse to politically bury them. Their bloody clutches on the miners’ treasury are about to be pried loose. They see the votes of 100,000 miners in the last election about to engulf them, and they turn in their agony to their natu- ral friends and allies, deception and lying, constitution busting, red baiting, expulsions, election stealing, and be- trayals to the coal operators. Right and left the workers are los- ing their conditions, lost thru. the traitorous decisions by our Officials, and in their haste to show the com- mon enemy their utter subserviency to their interests, they even discard their usual caution and veneer of common decency in return for prom- ised bossing jobs with the coal opera- tors when the miners kick them out. In preparation for the wholesale de- livery many sub-district and district officials have been supplied with first- class mine manager papers, even in spite of the fact that some of them are totally ignorant and can hardly read their own names in print, far less work out problems in mine ventilation and cubic measurements. And these are the future mine managers whom thousands of miners’ lives will de pend on. 1 it any wonder the miners of Ili- nois are feverishly organizing and so much bitterness is shown in the mass meetings taking place thruout the state?-The miners know what they want and intend to have it. They are demanding a special district conven- tion to take up the question of unem- ployment and financial relief, and also the irregularities of the last elections, and out of this many believe and ex- pect to see the downfall of the Illinois bureaucracy, Aside from this immediate situation a campaign for nationalization of the mines with workers’ control, six-hour day, five-day week, with unemployment benefits from the industry and mint mum weekly wage, etc. No one knows better than the labor fakers their treason to the workers is at an end. Proof of that is found in the fact that they have received their bossing papers, = or Get a sub for the DAILY WORKER from your shopmate and you will make another mem- ber for your branch. Dr. A. Moskalik DENTIST . W. Corner 7th and Mifflin Sts. 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