Daily Worker
May 23, 1925

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mW * by e r ae 7 * f : * F587 3 — 7187 8758547 on- 18 to ny ely ‘ho ise put al- | | — 5 175 — —— —ᷣ— — —ä . ——ꝛ 2 — Honolulu. oription Drive Now on GET IN ON IT! Vol. II. No. 112 in Full Blast! : ed ie ta ae — at. Chicago, Iitinole under 1 {let Sl ey 8, 108 Rr: et * N NEW YORK | EDITION ¥ 23, 1925 RAILWAY CONDUCTORS VOTE 7 LETTE; WILL PED “VOTES TO THE TWO OLD PARTIES ~ QUIT L to The Daily Worker) (Special MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., May 21—The Order of Railway 3 —— of America voted at its triennial. here today to withdraw from the third party political movement and eue to remain a non-partisan political unit endorsing for office idates friendly to labor, irrespective of * 2 AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O’FLAHERTY. > a Pn ‘German monarchists are not’ grass grow under their esire to wipe away the Was plated on the imperial when the Weimar Cconstitu- s substituted for the ukase of a's a on the kaiser. Not that German working class found much improvement in their lot, by the sub- stitution. Formerly the capitalist club made contact with his cranium of the kaiser. Since then his skull was cracked in the name of the republic, in behalf of the same capitalist class. * * S 1185 5 gE 7 72 NLY a few days ago all the pre- mirs of the German states met to felicitate Hindenburg on his elec- tion. Their spokesman was Otto Braun, socialist premier of Prussia. Braun told Hindenburg that every- body in Germafhy, from the leader of the fascisti to the head of the social democrats was as pleased as a cat basking in the sun, with the field mar- shal’s election. Old Hindenburg is such a patriot, the socialist said, that he could not think of being the serv- ant of any one class. But a few days ago, the socialists in the reichstag moved a vote of no confidence in the government and they were defeated. - 8 * * LATED with their victory, the monarchists decided to take the ball on the hop and moved that a com- mittee be appointed to fumigate the Weimar constitution and take the re- publican poison out of it. The social dempcratic workers will have plenty of time to reason with themselves whéther the dictatorship of Hinden- burg and the capitalist-monarchist- | faseist group is preferable to the die- ¥ a, but proven |aa:high e The ente ae deceived but one of herself to be a shameless slut, the that the growing spirit of socialist leaders have uses for They are the political simps of the German working class. * * HE Wall Street bankers are not alone in coming to the conclusion that Hindenburg will do all right as their show window figure head in Germany. The New Leader, of New York, and the Milwaukee .Leader of Milwaukee, one unofficially and the other officially, have declared for the Kaiser's favorite butcher. Berger shows his hand by quoting a long article from a British socialist paper, which eulogises Hindenburg and gets him up as a kindly soul who would not hurt a fly even tho he has no compunction about slaughtering mil- lions of human beings. * * — HE United States government was forced to reduce the savage and un- precedented sentences imposed on Privates Crouch and Trumbull in The Milwaukee Leader is relieved, not because it has any feel ing of sympathy for those rebel soldiers, but because the great Unit- ed States government has fortunately * (Continued on page 2) Wooden Cars Menace Life. NEW YORK, May 21.—One hundred and forty-seven wooden and semi- wooden cars are still operated on the elevated lines of the Brooklyn-Man- hattan Transit Co. and are a serious menace to life, Corporation Counsel Nicholson reports, following a wreck ni which eight persons were injured. The company ignores the order of the Transit commission requiring 100 new steel cars, despite large profits. political affiliation. “| ~ The ‘organisation aleo went: on fe cord rescinding a former’ resolution demanding government control and regulation of the railroads and ap- proved construction of a new home for aged and disabled conductors to be erected immediately, at a cost of $200,000, probably either in Florida, Georgia or California. tion was before the convention when officers was on the schedule. L. E. Sheppard, a candidate for re-election as grand president, apparently is un- opposed. “In withdfawing from the third po- litical party the order of railway con- ductors is back on the same political basis on which it rested previous to the 1924 presidential campaign,” Shep- pard said. “The defeat of LaFollette came as a disappointment to labor, particulraly because labor was not re- sponsible for the failure of the third party to win the election. The belief has grown that we can accomplish more by endorsing and supporting candidates friendly to labor, no mat- ter what party they belong to, instead of lining up solidly behind any one party.” BRITISH PLUTES FEAR REBELLION Worse in South Africa LONDON, England, May 21.— The among the subject races dominated by Great Britain is causing increasing worry to the Baldwin government. Allenby’s resignation came follow- ing the dissolution of the Egyptian parliament by the puppet premier, after it was found that Zagloul’s anti- imperialistic party had gained control. Wales Plays the Monkey. Allenby’s withdrawal is said to be due to his failure to suppress the move of the Egyptians for indepen- was exemplified in the killing of Sir Sudan. The prince of Wales, now in South Africa, is kept busy hopping from one British colony to another, watching hula hula dancers, playing pdlo, danc- ing, and shaking hands, in order to impress 4 ‘olonial people with Eng- land’s g N.“ However, \ ative South Africans cannot be impt. 4 with that elusive commodity, when %y are being ex- ploited at starvation wages by British capitalists under the protection of the British government. Serious Revolts. The prince of Wales’ visits have al- ready caused one serious revolt among the Orangemen, and several other disturbances and demonstra- tions against British imperialism. The revolt of the Moroccans against Spanish and French imperialism has caused the British capitalists to be- come great concern as to their hold on the colonies éxploited by Eng- land. * GET A SUB ANDO GIVZ ONE! The question of motor bus regula- adjournment was taken. Election of | AMONG COLONIES Wales Makes Matters dence from foreign domination, which | Lee Stack, governor gefieral of the Fascists Caused Soha Bombings, Reds Show (Special to The Ds . Worker) MOSCOW, U. 8. 8. R., May 21— The foreign delegation of the Bulgar- lan Communist Party Issued the fol- jlowing declaration on recent happen- ings in Bulgaria, signed by Comrades Kolarv and Dimitrev: “The Communist Party of Bulgaria had planned NO armed Insurrection elther for the 15th of April of for any other date. The statements of the government in Sofia are nothing but conscious lles based on forged docu- ments. The Central Committee has had nothing whatever to do with the attempt on King Boris’ life, nor with the explosion in the Sofian cathedral. The government’s calumnious cam- paign was only to serve the purpose of justifying the mass executions In view of the internal and exter- nal situation, the Bulgarian party had not considered the creation of a So- viet government in Bulgaria as its immediate aim. The Communist Party and the working class could carry on their struggle illegally only, because they were outlawed; but the party continually demanded the legal- ization of the workers’ organizations, and repeatedly declared its readiness to return to legal methods as soon as the rights and liberties of the work- ing masses were restored. Zankoff Cause Bombing. The Communist Party was always opposed to indiivdual terror, always supporting only one form of struggle; The mass struggle of the workers and peasants. Only two months ago the Central Committee had criticized the neglect of the campaign against the high cost of living, and had declared itself against the formation of parti- san troops. The Communist Party was always opposed to the partisan invasions from Yygoslavia. But the party repeatedly declared that the of terror of the militarist clique “insurrection, and that this time It too the party would fight on the side fer the people. Phe Sofian explosions and the other i terroristic acts, are the inevitable re- silt of the unparallelled governmental “error. The prisons are overcrowded with thousands charged with belong- ling ‘to illegal organizations. The out- been shot or otherwise murdered, pos- s@8sed no other means of defence than those dictated by the instict of self- preservation. “The Communist Party repeats em- phatically that the country cannot be (Continued on page 2) FACTS ON SPEED- UP TO BE GIVEN BY MILL UNIONS Textile Union Conven- tion June 24-27 NEW BEDFORD, Mass., May 21— (FP)—Assembling of facts on the multiple loom system and the efforts of industrial engineers to introduce speed-up efficiency methods is to be done by the emergency committee of the executive council, American Fed- eration of Textile Operatives. The union executive council decided that the propaganda of machinery manufacthurers and over-zealous en- gineers must be combatted by telling the facts from the point of view of the worekrs involved. ONE MAN DYING, SIX WOUNDED WHEN DALLAS MOB STORMS JAIL TO LYNCH TWO NEGROES WHO AWAITED TRIAL DALLAS, Texas, May 21.—One wounded early today when a mob of jail in an effort to seize two Negroes, ing held for the alleged murders of t woman companions. The wounded are: Dwight Stewart, C. J. Tullennen man is dying and six others were about 5,000 stormed the Dallas county Frank and Lorenzo Noel, wo white men and an assault on their „K. T. Swain, N. E. Duncan, J. J. Young | and Tim Jollu, all said to live in Dallas. Stewart's injuries were believed to be of a fatal nature. About 100 of the would be lynch The attacking party, armed with the jail Building, where the two Negroes occupied cells. returned by police inside the jail. One Dying, Six Wounded. Five hundred men, heavily armed, will guard the Dallas county jail to- night to protect Frank and Lorenzo from mob yiolence, Sheriff Schuler Marshall said. Any group that attempts to ap proach the jail to take possession | tn Ee ers were arrested. pistols and rifles, shot a volley against The volley Was a brothers, be- Brattleboro, Vt., Biddeford, Me., Nashua, N. H., were brot to meeting. The strike of voile ers at Lincoln Manufacturing mill. Fall River, is settled after four months’ fight against a wage cut. The convention of the American Federation of Textile Operatives is scheduled for June 24-27 at Biddeford, Me., and all affiliated locals are being asked to send delegates. | FINNISH WHITE GUARD GOVERNMENT ATTACKS LABOR ORGANIZATIONS | HELSINGFORS, May 21.—Fin- land’s supreme appeal court having declared the Finnish .Communist and the weav- i | ' — | of the Negroes will be shot down, he | warned. | “We are not going to remove the two Negroes,“ the Sheriff said. “We are going to stand pat and do our duty.” Party’s activities legal, the party has been ordered by the government to be dissolved. The, government has instructed the public prosecu- tor to obtain legal decrees, for the dissolution of ninety-geven other | supposed Communist, organizations. ldwed workers and peasants who have Reports of new unions organized at driving the masses oa - = Published daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Chicage, III. Price 3 Cents ——— * Taube “OUR” NATIONAL WEALTH " 7 4 2 . 7 2 ., ff ,, CAX (UA Sos 2 , hg “A 4 7 — J THE “GOVERNMENT 4 22 os ath Entire Island May Be Tied Up (Special to The Dally Worker) DUBLIN, Ireland, May 21.—The railway workers of ireland are menaced by an attempt to cut their already insufficient wages on the part of the Irish railway administration. This is tending te bring about a strike as a defensive measure and will not add to the dislike on the part of Irish workers for the Free State govern- ment. All Irish railway workers in both North and South are affected, as all are threatened with a cut of five shillings a week. The men are organ- ized in the Railway Transport Union which has its chief strength in Eng- land, and C. T. Cramp, the head ot this union is now in Ireland fighting the case of the men before an arbi- tration board. In the southern section particularly, the men are threatening to take strike action the-moment a wage cut is an- nounced. The so-called “wage board“ is made up of representatives from the chambers of commerce of both Belfast and Dublin, two congressmen and six members each from the union and the companies. Bribery and Jury Fixing Charged in Shepherd Trial | 0 Union of Workers have received at their re- The Shepherd-MetClintock tang! took a forward step today with the announcement that James Callan, the | Unemployed Boys . Train in ee Jobs; One Is Killed ‘ ROCKFORD, In., May 21 George Steffon, 19, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was so badly crushed under the wheels of an Illinois Central train here today that he died on the way to the hos- pital. Steffon with Charles L. Vorak, 17, East Cedar Rapids, spent last night in Rockford on their way home from Chicago, where they had been look- ing for work. They attempted to hop the west bound train to resume their trip, when Steffon miscalculated and went under the wheels. . UNITY MOVEMENT MAKES PROGRESS _ON CONTINENT Social - wn Play Judas Role The current issue of Trade Union Unity, which is edited by A. A. Pur- cell, George Hicks and Ed. Fimmen, gives a list of organizations that have endorsed the international unity movement initiated by the British and Russian trade unions, The magazine calls attention to the failure of the socialist and official press on the con- tinent to publish expressions of the rank and file in behalf of unity. The following are some of the unions that have endorsed the action of the Bri- tish Trades Union Congress in enter- ing into an agreement with the Soviet unjons to further the cause of unity: GREAT BRITAIN—Both the Shop Assistants’ Union and the National Distributive and Allied cent annual conferences presidential ward politician alleged to have at- address strongly urging trade union tempted to influence a prospective juror had been found and that Arthur E. Byrne, Shepherd ‘investigator, had changed his mind about testifying be- fore the grand jury and was now awaiting only a call. The trial thus far has been marked by kidnapping and disappearance of witnesses and charges of bribery and | | jury fixing. $2,400 for a Life. YORK, Pa., May 21.—Two thousand four hundred dollars, is the value placed on a human life by state Work- men's Compensation Board of Penn- sylvania, in the case of Harry L. Saylor, salesman for the Gehley Car- pet Co., drowned last year in Grissing- er's Park while in the service of his company at an empl#yes’ picnic. The company fought theecase. unity. U.S. mph Ethyl Cas Company (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., May 21.— That the Ethyl Gas Corporation has little fear that the conference which the surgeon .general Cumming of the public health service called to con- vene here on May 19, will bar the sale of “looney,” tetra-ethyl gasoline, was seen in the announcement of the trust that special motors will be introduc- ed to use the lead gasoline. The Ethyl Gasoline Corporation is a combination of the Standard Oil company, and the General Motors Corporation, a J. P. Morgan concern. A. S. Maxwell, sales manager for the “looney” gas corporation, declared that preparations are now being made to introduce special motors which are aimed to triple the mileage of ordi- nary gasoline. The lead gasoline has already kill- ed 11 workmen employed by the Standard Oil company and the Dupont Chemical company in manufacturing it, and has wrecked the health of many more. Doctors and universities investigating the sale of the gasoline, declare it to be a public menace. Surgeon general Cumming showed that he is anxious to aid the Morgan- Rockefeller combination, when he an- nounced upon the opening of the con- ference that “I sincerely hope that if it should be found that tetra-ethyl gas is deleterious to the public some substitute possessing the same efficiency will be developed.” of moderate strength shook Cairo. Manchester Area Trades Council unanimously commends the British trade union delegaiton to Russia r its efforts on behalf of unity, and con- Arrest Many Reds in Murder Drive of Zankov Terrorists SOFIA, May 21-—— Many Commun- ists were arrested by the police to- day in a renewed drive of the Zankov terrorist govermment to destroy its opposition by means of murder, and arrests on framed-up charges. = Does your friend subscribe } the N wo ? Ask him! BRITISH (Continued on pege 5.) } Egypt, today, but without ‘damaging the city, according to a Central News Dispatch. | OF Cal’s Aid Favors the health, FIERCE FIGHT RAGES ON RIFF- FRENCH FRONT Paris Suppresses All Casualty Lists (Special to The Daily Worker) RABAT, French Morocco, May 21. —Fierce fighting is raging along the Bibane front, with the Riffian natives inflicting severe damage on the French invaders. The Moroccans have reinforced their western flank, a war communique issued by the French admits. Gen. Colombat had great difficulty in bringing up supplies to his troops, 15 succeeded only after heavy fight- ng, in which artillery and airplanes took part. Several hand to hand bat- tles in the Riff trenches took place. No statement as to the French losses has been made since the Leginning of the French invasion of Northern Africa. Communists Disclose Heavy Loses. PARIS, France, May 21.—Newspa- pers opposed to the French invasion of Morocco are printing the news of heavy French losses which the Pain- leve government is attempting to sup- press. The Communist newspaper Hu- manite prints a dispatch from Moroc- co disclosing that one regiment of colonila infantry has had more than 400 men killed and wounded since operations began. The first battalion fo the foreign legion has lost forty- nine men, the Communist paper re- veals. The guarded official communiques conceal the fact that the French have been forced to retreat. Last week, according to war office statements, the fighting was all north ot the Ouergha river, but the latest communique mentions occupation of places south of the river, shwoing that the French line has been pushed back. It is now a well known fact that the gficial statements of the French army and the news dispatches of.the cor- respondents are consoréd end changed. : The newspaper Quitidien, ‘official organ of the left bloc, declares: “All we know with certainty is that one cannot trust entirely either the of- ficial news or the uuvofficial news sent by correspondents, who are watched and instructed and even censored.” The Cri Maroca further reveals the heavy losses sustained by the French invading army. It tells of how the ‘oung’ soldiers newly arrived from ‘rance march past long lines of Cas- ‘ets and graves on their way to the ‘ront. Abd-el-Krim's forces were with- n 12 miles of Fez, this newspaper ‘tates, and declares that the serious- less of the situation has not been al- owed to become public. General Cambay's forces have had much bayonet fighting, it is now known, with severe losses which have not been reported in the official com- muniques. Win Wane. increase. WILKES-BARRE, Pa., May 21. — The 650 employes of the West Knit ing Mills of Ulymouth and Ashley suburbs of Wilkes-Barre, have re ceived wage increases of 10 per cent | OPEN SHOPPER IN THE DEVER ADMINISTRATION CLASHES WITH UNIONS Police and fire alarms in Chicago may break down owing to lack of re- pair, if the obstinate open shop ef- forts of John T. Miller, city commis- sioner of gas and electricity, to defy the union of truck drivers is Not ceased. Work on $400,000 worth “of city lighting and the regular repair work was stopped when Miller suspended the truck drivers at tause they obe y- ed the union ules instead of his LONDON, May 21.— An earthquake | Y RUSSIAN UNIONS ISSUE MY ATEMENTS ON PROGRESS TERNATIONAL UNITY MOVE orders in tte matter of working ©vertime, which they refuse to do without pay. The absence of the drivers leaves | 300 linemen and electricians out of work and halts maintenance and re- pair, LONDON, May 8&.—(By Mail)- organ of the British trade both labor movements. * > | dealing with the recent negotiations Today the union movement. London Daily Herald. published the officia! following story giving the latest developments in the efforts being made by the Russian and British unions for a United Trade Union International. joint effort is marked by the most cordial relations between the officials of The progress of the > — The Trades Union Congress headquarters“ yesterday issued statements between the general council of the (Continued on page 3)

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In the French chamber of deputies stand the Commun- ists, raising the cry of the solidarity of French workers and peasants with French colonials, not only in Africa but every- where. Across the world the Communist International sends the demand for the right of self-determination for all peoples, that the capitalist diplomats discussed at Versailles, but that only the Bolshevik revolution has made possible for the world’s land surface, all harmoniously united in the Union of Soviet Republics. : 89 „ 0 The Riffs of Northern Africa, trained in European war- fare, are not the poor Indians” of the American continents, easy victims of expanding British, French and Spanish im- perialisms, at their very dawn. Rather the Riffs symbolize one of the insoluble problems of a fully developed world imperialism that is faced not onl with discontented and rebellious colonial peoples abroad, but with the rise of a developing revolutionary working class in the home countries, struggling to create their own Soviet power. Truly the oppressors are being surrounded on all fronts by the oppressed, pushing forward for the final victory. of the RED INTERNATIONAL OF LABOR UNIONS GREETS DANISH STRIKE (Inprecorr Telegraph Service) slavery in the camps. Many Negroes are murdered, and the “officers of the law" who are party to the crimes, make no move to bring the murderers to justice. City of Chicago : Sells Valuable Land to Railroad Trust The city council, by a. vote of 36 to 9, passed an ordinance giving the Nickel Plate railroad 255 acres of sub- merged land and an exclusive belt line right of way around the proposed Lake Calumet harbor in return for a channel to be built by the road down the center of the land. The land will be incalculably valuable when the Calumet harbor is comple ted. The Nickel Plate railroad is owned by the Van Sweringen interests, who are backed by the J. P. Morgan com- pany. -_— Little Entente Protests Against a Hungary. VIENNA, Austria, May 21—The countries of the little entente, Czecho- Slovakia, Roumania, and Jugoslavia, have sent a note to Marshal Foch protesting against the violatiog by Hungary of the treaty of Trianon, charging that Hungary has created RAY MOSCOW, May 21.—The executive bureau of the Red International of (Special to The Daily Worker) Borah had “sold” the idea to him is brother, to the resolutions committee too big an army. \ Sey of the convention. Charging that “exoessive specula- tion of the last few months was de- structive to the legitimate purposes vain market due to speculation. the eM. Menchant Capital Complains, ~ Aq The spi it pe expected in board circles. If te resolution is determin- , 'p portance,” it imme- ed of “national .w¢"” diately would be prevented to the re- Federation and many prominent whole sale grocers are backing the resolu- tion because of belief their legitimate business is being handicapped by ex- NEW YORK.—(By Mail.) — With union engineers ordered to quit their posts, more than two-thirds of the ice manufacturing plants in Manhattan 56 in Brooklyn and Queens, which or- dered its members employed in ice plants out the other day. Both strikes have been called to en- force the union’s demand for an in- crease of about $1 a day in wages and for a union contract. The union has Jo} J. McDonald, secretary of said that more than 100 swer the strike call here out sixty plants would Lot al N men would add that worthless. Besides, calling a conference would ruise the issue of Russ‘an recognition. Borah, in a speech at the university of Michigan, has again demanded that to support Borah. Coolidge prefers to let the issue sleep. Winter Defends Justice Department. WASHINGTON, May 21.—Congress- man Winter of Wyoming, where Tea- pot Dome is located, has addressed an ly denies that the conduct of the de- partment of justice toward Senator Wheeler has been a disgrace, as as- serted by the committee in its pub- Turkey Buys German Submarines. CONSTANTINOPLE, May 21.—The Turkish government has given to Herr Blohm an order for two German Vulcan and Blohm and Visz interests of Germany. — Billion Dollar Rail Merger. The much rumored one and one- half billion dollar railroad merger, be officially announced, C. T. Col- lett, general agent for the Southern Pacific lines, declared. Labor Unions has directed the following appeal to the striking workers of Denmark: “The executive bureau of the R. I. L. U. sends its fraternal greetings the offensive, as in the other countries. Compromise and agreements can- not halt the growing intensification of the class struggle, nor reduce the pressure of well organized and concentrated capital. “You can achieve victory in your defensive struggle against capital only thru solidarity in your own ranks, thru the support of all workers, the de- of the employers can be prevented only thru international unity of the The lessons you have learned from your struggle trade union movement. should serve you as a new incentive to unity. “Long live international solidarity! Killed to Stop Philandering. The “anwritten law” in a new form, was the plea to be offered here today whom she killed to end the philander- ing of her father. Locomotive Firemen Meet. DETROIT, May 21—The thrtieth convention of the Brotherhood of Lo- = commits which meets combining the Southern Pacific and , comotive Firemen and Enginemen a comme — asked for @ rate of $9 per eight open letter to the Wheeler defense} the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific, — to nt — — part — — — —— 1 will open here June 1, continuing for ‘ Factions in the national Millers’ hom work. fund committee, in whcih he heated- two transcontinental lines, will soon * en e ee ee ä on ine part about a month Approximately 115,000 members will be represented. How About More Pay? PEORIA, May 21—Mining is a pro- Stee He stusticns in the market, de froced td hut cows ees lic appeal. Winter defends every- German-Pole Dispute Continues. - “Long live the unity of the international trade union movement!” fesison and should be recognized as All the important exchanges are the strike, TR * — 8 thing the department has done to the} GENEVA, May 21.— Germany has : — |such, Wm. Kidd of Peoria, Illinois, affiliated, thru officials of the national 000 tons of ice the 18, „ Which is Montana senator, and denies that his appealed her dispute with Poland over mine inspector, told inspectors from — the normal daily Ponsumption of ice at indictments were secured because he | the expropriation by that country of 54 MINES CLOSED IN PITTSBURGH all over the United States at their chamber. 8 this season of th@ year, cannot be pro- performed his duty in exposing rotten German owned industrial property in Objects to Price Fiuctuation. WASHINGTON, May 21— A wide open split in the ranks of the United States chamber of commerce appeared fmminent today over Chicage grain market speculation, now being inves- tigated by the department of agricul- ture. A faction of flour millers and whole- salers headed by X. J. Rothwell, Bos- ton, president of the Bay State Mill ing company, announced immediate approval would be sought on a reso- tation censuring gambling on the grain market duced. \ In Brooklyn, according to Fred Rauscher, secretary of the local, forty- six plants in Brooklyn and Queens are tied up and that 300 men are on strike. Socialists Show Respect to War Lord BERLIN, May 21.—Outward respect with an underlying attitude of sus- picious vigilance will be the socialist attitude toward President Hinden- burg, debate in the reichstag showed. position to the mon... | The socialists have made but weak oD conditions in the department. Farm Boys Worst Exploited. WASHINGTON, May 21. — Boys brought up on farms get less school- ing than any other group of children —less even than their own sisters, says the U. S. bureau of education, reporting on a survey of rural schools. The increasing cost of farm labor has resulted in depriving more and more of the-farm boys of the chance to at- tend high school, until now the bu- reau finds them seriously crippled in educational start in u Polish Upper Silesia to the world court of justice. Hear Rock Island Plea June 15. WASHINGTON, May 21.— Applica- tion of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad to buy the capital stock of the St. Louls-Southwestern will be heard by the interstate com- merce commission, June 15, it was an- nounced today. Talk it up—your shopmate will : subscribe ! ‘ DISTRICT ; 11,000 OUT OF WORK MONESSEN, Pa., May 21.—The last of the union mines of the Pitts- burgh Coal Co. closed down when the mine at West Newton near here This makes the 54th mine to close down in this district. When these mines are running full it is estimated that between 10,000 to 11,000 men receive employment. There are still several mines that are operating on the union scale that are owned by independent concerns, and several that are running on the closed and the men where ordered to take their tools out. non-union or open shop basis. Pitte>urgh Coal Co. says that it cannot operate but on the 1917 scale. All along the valley you can see men tearing down coal tipples and bring out the coal ears, and rail seT) & annual meeting here. Worker Killed On Job. Olaf Olson, a worker in the employ of the Bates & Rogers Cpnstruction company, Harvey, was struck by an Illinois Central train while at work and was instantly killed. Spring Dance in New York. NEW YORK, May 21.—The Young Workers’ League of this city will hold its spring dall this coming Saturday, May 23, at the headquarters of the down town section, 105 Bldridge 8. . of the exchange,” Rothwell awaited |and Bronx face a tie-up. submarines to be used for coast de- to the striking and locked-out workers of Denmark, and expresses its hope | by Lucille Wunsch, 16-year-old Thorn- N the opening of the board ot directors“ The action of New York local No. 29 the Soviet Union be recognized in the tense. Blohm represents the Maat- that you may keep up your struggle with determination and steadfastness. | ton high school girl, in defense of her ie, neeting to present a resolution which | of the Stationary Engineers’ Union fol-] family of nations. The state depart-| schapij Fijenoord of Rotterdam, a ' attack on Agnes Simneck, 28, the wo- * — ald bar excessive fluctuations in lows closely a similar move by Local] ment bureaucracy is still unwilling Dutch company owned by the Reg, n your hitherto comparatively peaceful country too, capital has taken up man who “made her mother cry” and j * — — ae — —

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r ee ) | a ee Cane at 4 enn N n f yey rN Py 3 ; 5 * * * * — 274 / = ios oe a nd, a A r N 4 5 fea Ce R35 Pred 2 pe a Py : waste „ SS EE Bet a ey 19 * Win, e rs fag 7 1 ie BRITISH AND RUSSIAN UNIONS 7 ISSUE STATEMENT oy UNITY The | bered, the possible trade union tional Federation of Trade Unions. The statements by each side, the sub- stance of which is here given, will shortly come up for discussion by the — * 4 A 2 to death. Why does the Eethonfan| onal unity they are desirous of par- bourgeoisie not attempt to to arrange another trial of %% Because the ton of Trade Unions which would in- officials cannot organize such a big Aude among its objects those enumer- similar from that of the Amsterdam As the present rules of the Interna- Warthermore the coalition govern- | ternational. Democrats Federation were drafted to to meet legitimate requirements of the Russian trade union movement, ipreliminary conversations and confer- ences are absolutely necessary. The object of such conversations would be to ascertain how best to de- velop the existing International Fed- eration so as to facilitate the inclu- sion of the Russian and all other trade union organisations. Conference Proposal. () The British section will under- take to submit to the Amsterdam In- ternational that this, in principle, complies with their condition for a conference as far as can be reason- ably required, and will urge that full Erik and Lig have been | consideration must be given to those to the defense on a decision spec difficulties confronting the i A f f f i 5 United : gags 1 ge f Russian trade union movement, as representing a country with a gréat variety of very distinct nationalities. The British section will declare that an international federation of an all- inclusive character cannot. be fully developed except by making full pro- vision for variations in tradition, his toric association, and political differ ences in the various countries. The British section will also again affirm that the differences between Unions can be most successfully dealt with by an informal conference. (3) Bubject to joint agreement on the above clauses, the British section will submit to the International Fed- eration of Trade Unions the following proposals: (a) The Bureau of the International ‘| Federation of Trade Unions to call an tmmediate conference, with the repre y sentatives of the All-Russian Council of Trade Unions for the purpose of considering the position arising from the decision of the General Council meeting at Amsterdam on the 5th to the 7th February, 1925, and also the conclusions of the joint discussion of this conference. If such a conference be convened, the British section Will endeavor to seoure the fullest co-operation of all parties conoerned. (b) In the event of the Bureau of the International Federation of Trade Unions deciding that they are unable Therefore the statements of Welt’s|to convene a conference as proposed witnesses are not taken into consid- eration. After a conference of five minutes the court reads the sentence: John Welt, .27 years old and G. Ulgekutt, 29 years old are sentenced to death. Comrade Welt was born in 1896. His father was an agricultural worker on a land estate. In 1919 Welt as an ex-soldier received a piece of land on which he worked with his father, maintaining all the time a close con- nection. with the labor movement. Since 1920 he worked among the peas- ants of the district of Pernau and later on in the district of Pollin. In the elections of 1923 he was appointed by two electoral districts as a candi- date on the list of the “United Front of the Workers and Péasants.” When in the beginning of 1924 the pariia mentary fraction of thé “United „Front“ was arrested, comrade Welt entered the parliament in the place of the arrested comrades and con- tinued energetically their revolution- ’ ary activity till his arrest in Decem- ber 1924. Comrade Ulgekutt, also a peasant, is one of the most popular workers among the small peasants of the Isle of Oegel. He was born in 1896. The revolutionary ideas found a strong response among the working popula- tion of the Isle of Oesel. The over- whelming majority are small peasants who live under the most difficult con- ditions. In order to live and to pay their taxes, the peasants look for work in other districts during the winter season. At the time of the rovok Comrade Ulgekutt was in Rev- al. After the revolt he returned to Oesel where he was arrested and transported to Reval as a “participant in the revolt.” Comrade Ulgekutt similar to Comrade Welt was a can- didate for parliament of the district of Oesel for the “United Front.” This circumstance alone was sufficient to pass against him a death sentence. above, the British Trades Union Con- gress General Council will undertake to convene a conference and endea- vor to promote international unity by .using its mediatory influence as between the Russian trade union movement and the Amsterdam Bu- reau. In this capacity the British Trades Union Congress General Council will be inspired by a full appreciation of existing difficulties and a desir: to create a united industrial internation- (Continued from page 1) representing the international inter- ests of the workers. The Russian Statement. The Russian délegation states that it will recommend the British state- ment to the All-Russian Trade Union Council. This has since been done, and the statement approved. The deelgation reaffirms that the trade unions of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics always conceived ' of the unity of the international move- ment as the concentration of all work- ing-class forces in a single Interna- tional, on the basis of national unity and of united national and interna- tional trade union organizations. The delegation welcomes the good- will expressed in point two of the de claration of the British ae and intended to eliminate the difficulties standing in the way of realization of international unity. ' For its part the delegation recog- nizes as equally acceptable both a formal and an informal conference. The delegation similarly concurs with the intention of the British dele gation expressed in paragraph three of the statement of the British sec- tion. Amsterdam Replies. For its part, the Russian delegation states that the trade unions of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics cannot conceal the circumstance that all their correspondence with the Am- sterdam International concluding with the last resolution of February 5 to 7, 1925, has created on them the impres- sion that the majority of the Amster- dam International, which rejected the correct and just resolution proposed by the British trade union represen- tatives, are unwilling to meet the sin- cere desire of the unions of the union. Such a conference, says the delega- tion, may represent a considerable step forward. It will be the first busi- ness-like approach towards the settle- ment of the vast and very compli- cated question of the realization of actual unity of the international labor movement, and of the gathering to- gether of the forces of all working- class organizations, based on the prin- ciple of the class struggle between labor and capital. The delegation, therefore, concurs with point B of paragraph 3, and for its part expresses its fullest readiness to take part in the conference which may take place, by the force of neces- sity, on the initiative and by the medi- ation of the British trade unions. It particularly welcomes the desire and intention, clearly expressed in this point, of the representattves of the British General Council, to devote every effort to bringing about the in- ternational unity of the labor move ment, by creating a united industrial labor organization, capable of becom- ing an efficient organ for representing and defending the international inter- ests of the workers. Workera’ Desire. It notes with special satisfaction that the Russian trade union move- ment entirely shares the idea of the establishment of the most complete unity of the international trade union movement by the setting up of a sin- gle efficient international of trade un- ions, independent of any influence of the capitalist class, for the purpose of uniting the trade union organizations of the whole world, both in their daily economic struggle and in their strug: gle for the final emancipation of the working class. The delegation is convinced that this completely coincides with the fervent desire of the broadest mass of the workers in every country, who see in this the sole real barrier against capitalist reaction, economic and poli- tical, and equally against the peril of new fratricidal wars. 4 Nevertheless, it is essential to re- cognize that all this can be brought about only if all labor organizations display the necessary good-will in this direction and accord the necessary fraternal and attentive consideration to all the existing international, na- tional, and other independently ex- al organization capable of efficiently isting trade union organizations. > Letter From a Russian Railway Worker O keep up your energy which you need in the continuous struggle against the capitalist exploiters, I will tell you something about our life, the life of the working class in the U. 8. S. R. and I can vouch for the ver- acity of my statement. Comrades, I am a railwayman and the assistant of the station master in “Savintsy” on the Donetz Railway. We work in four shifts, the number of hours per month is 192 and no more. The monthly wage is 35 roub- les which is gradually increased in accordance with the increase of the productivity of labor. It is true that the housing crisis here is very acute. But the housing co-operative societies have already done much in this direc- tion, and new workers’ settlements spring up as the result of every build- jing season. Social insurance is on a satisfactory basis: on the birth of a child the local insurance fund gives to the mother 13 roubles and 60 cop eks (prior to the 9 roubles) and 3 roubles per month for the child. Un- employed members of trade unions receive 5 to 10 roubles a month ac- cording to family conditions. This is a considerable help. We get regular | ly every year a fortnights holiday and free railway and steamship tickets, wherever we like to go. The trade union movement—the surest way to socialism—is develop- ing rapidly. Trade unions derive their funds from fees calculated at the rate of 2 per cent of the wages of its members. There are great ach- levements to record on this field. For instance three years ago trade union membership in the U. S. S. R. was only a few hundred thousand. Now there are millions jof trade union members. Our vanguard—the Rus- sian Communist Party (Bolshevik) is also growing in strength and numbers and is progressing slowly but surely. Every year brings hundreds of thou- sands of new forces into its ranks. Interlopers are ruthlessly cleared out by the party. In this manner al! the healthy elements of our country are drawn gradually into constructive work. The country is steadily re- covering. Our main slogan now is: “Down with everything that is de- cayed, and make way for everything that is healthy”. With Communist greetings, Workers Correspondent No. 1125. — 0 NEW YORK FOOD WORKERS BUILD UP THEIR UNION Unorganized Voice a Readiness to Fight By Arthur Smith NEW YORK CITY, May 20.—An impressive demonstration of the will- ingness of unorganized workers to fight for the betterment of their con- ditions was given at the Bryant Hall meeting last Thursday by the hun- dreds of unorganized workers of the the Hotel and Culinary Industry. They eagerly listened to the words of the speakers, most of them participants of our past struggles. The first call to battle by the Hotel and Restaurant Workers Branch was responded to the non-union workers with an unex- pectedly good line-up. Old, Bryant Hall, mute witness to many a great struggle of the hotel and culinary workers, was filled al- most to capacity. Union and non- union workers cheered and boo-ed unitedly whenever the occasion called for it. Comrade Gitz after a brief opening address, introduced Comrade Obermeyer as the first speaker. Volces From the Kitchens Obermeyer is a waiter by trade and one of the old and loyal fighters of our union. His description of the miserable conditions prevailing in the industry made all feel the injust- ice of it. As the meeting progressed groups of workers were still pouring in. The smell of un-ventilated kitchens and dining rooms was still lingering about them giving taste of reality to the words of Comrade Mobille, describing the merciless exploitation of the workers im the culinary industry. Their faces»yet perspiring from a long days hard labor, just fitted into his wo as living examples. Com- rade Mobille is a cook. He spoke in French. Rank and File Ready to Fight There were speeches in Italian, and some more in English. But what marked the climax of the meeting were the Simple words uttered by some workers of various open-shop hotels and restaurants. “Are we to endure for the rest of our lives every day, 12 long hours of labor, under most rigid gupervision and unbear- able working conditions? Shall the bosses and their Heutenants forever continue to suck out every ounce of our strength and energy every day’ No! Now. chance. If we only stick ather we'll surely win.” that was the essence of the words of all of them, They pointed out that condi- tions have e ed and today the men in the open-shops are willing to fight. This sentiment expressed by re- presentatives. of the unorganized masses carried significance in itself; It was a declaration of war against the open-shop bosses. Then Brother Glassman took the floor and soon was followed by Chair- man Gits who made a few explan- atory remarks on the question of abolishing the tipping system. The Demands of The Workers Are: The complete abolishment of the tipping system; Eight hours work, straight watch; our minimum weekly wage scale: $50 for cooks and waiters; $38 for commis; $30 for busboys and blue jackets. Entire Families Work 14 Hours Daily Under Dawes Plan in Germany BERLIN, May 21.—German home workers in the toy, artificial flowers and clothing industries aud their compensation was the subject of a talk delivered by Professor Heyde, president of the Society of Social Re- forms at an exhibition of home work products. The exhibition comprised all those trades and industries which in the rural sections of Germany em- ploy entire villages and larger com- munities in the making of toys, labels, — — — feathers, flowers and embroideries. Wages are so low that wooden box- makers are paid at 2% pfennigs an hour. Those engaged in the cutting of leaves, the gumming of petals and the assembling of entire flowers in the flower industry receive 12 pfen- nigs an hour. The homes of these workers were described as shacks that are little | more than heaps of ill-assembled bricks comprising one room in which | they work, sleep cook and live. Con- ditions in Thuringia are so bad that workers with their wives and chil-| dren have to put in 14 hours of hard work each day in order to avoid star- vation. Wage Slaves Amuse Clothing Bosses The convention of the Internation- | al Association of Garment Manufac- turers, now meeting in the Hotel La Salle, made their employes put on a style show for the amusement of the | bosses present and awarded “certi- flactes of merits” to the employes dis- playing the most bisarre clothing styles. The certificates, one manu- facturer explained, cost nothing. —wo™ : Getting a DAILY WORKER sub or of you. port of the working class were the preparing to present protest resolu- two, will make a better Caney | — — SOLDIERS, JAILS PERSETCUTES POLISH WHITE TERROR TORTURES WORKERS AND SCHOOL CHILDREN WARSAW, Poland, May 21.—The police of the districts near the frontier continues to undertake mass arrests among the local population. According to the latest news 20 persons have been arrested in Grodno and ten workers in the tobacco factory. The hall of the tobacco workers has been closed by the police. According to news from Bialostok, in Bolsk and Bolowosh the authorities have arrested 20 persons for membership in a militant organization. purpose of this arrest is the organiza-+— The tion on a new anti-Bolshevik trial. | For the same purpose in Pinsk and Kobinya 80 persons have been ar- rested. Children are not allowed to receive instruction in their mothers language. The population of the village Prud of the district Slonim established their own White Russian school. This did not please the local authorities. The police called the teacher Rapontchik to their office and demanded from her a written promise that she would give the children no instruction in the White — language. For refusal of this demand the teacher was ar- rested. Sentences Against Labor Editors. The district court in Warsaw sen- tenced the editor of the Na Perelome, Marian Kozentzky, to two years of prison for publication of an ant! state” article with a criticism of the comments of the Polish bourgeois press at the occasion of the protest movement of the state officials of Po- land against white terror. At the same time news reached us that the district court in Sosnovetz sentenced the former editor of the radical organ Molot, Sawadsky, to four years hard labor. In order to make the sentence more “convincing” the editor was furthermore accused of distribution of Communist leaflets in the coal mines “Paris” in Bendsin and of membership to the local relief committee for the support of the starv- ing Russian population in 1922. In the trial a number of police agents and spies, appeared as witnesses. Soldiers Brutally Maltreated. Under this impressive title we read in the paper Nash Psheglend: “In the battalion of Colonei Schuster the sol- diers are brutally maltreated. For the least offense they are sentenced to barbarian corporal punishment, are beaten in their faces, etc. In the let- ters of the soldiers to their families facts are mentioned which are un- heard of. Some soldiers have been driven to such despair that they have committed suicide.” Subscribe for the DAILY WORKER! | SCOPES HELD FOR THE GRAND JURY ON CHARGE OF TEACHING SCIENCE DAYTON, Tenn. May 21-—A spe- cial session of the Rhea county grand jury was called for Monday to indict J. T. Scopes, teacher In the local high school, for violation of the state law prohibiting the teaching of evolution. Following his plea of not gulity in a justice’s court here, Scopes was bound over for action by the grand jury. Women Workers Protest Against Persecution of the Foreign-Born NEW YORK, May 21.— A protest mass meeting will be held on Friday, | May 29, at 8 p. m., at the Workmen's | Circle Building, 143 E. 103rd St., to protest against the new deportation bills now before congress. If this bill is passed, every foreign-born | worker will be exposed to deportation | upon the slightest pretext. This means a decided threat against the foreign- born workers and an attack on the wages, living conditions of the for- eign-born and native workers. If they protest against such conditions, they will be considered undesirable and be deported. It is in the interest of all men and women workers to see to it that this mass meeting is well attended. The speakers will address the meeting in English and ‘Yiddish. They will be William Weinstone, of the Interna- tional Workers’ Aid, Ben Lifschitz of the Freiheit and Workers Party of America, Rose Nevin, the well-known worker in the labor movement; Kate Gitlow, secretary of the United Coun- | cil of Working Class Women; Sonia Diamond, member of the executive committee of the United Council of | Working Class Women; will preside. | This meeting is one of a series of | meetings arranged by the United | Councii of Working Class Women. Los Angeles Juniors Force Public Schools to Recognize May Day S VM. SCHNEIDERMAN. LOS ANGELES, Calif., May 21.— The Juniors of Los Angeles are jubil- ant over their first school victory when they forced the school authori- ties to recognize May Day as a legi- timate holiday for working class children. Nearly one hundred and fifty Juniors had observed May Day by staying out of school and celebrat- ing with a big outing. Two schools especially, where the Juniors are well organized, attempted to severely pun- ish the children and refused to recog- nize their parents’ request that they observe May Day. In the Hollenbeck High School, 29 children were given severe punigh- ments which included two weeks after school detention, demerits, etc. Im- mediately the Young Workers’ League got busy and organized a parents’ pro- test meeting, and a parents’ commit- tee went to the principal of the school and presented a resolution demanding the withdrawal of the punishment, and threatening to make an issue of it in the coming election campaign. The principal informed them that the matter was in the hands of the board of education, thereby admitting that he was merely acting as a tool of the capitalist politicians who control the education of workers’ children. He admitted to the committee that these twenty-nine Juniors who were being punished for their courageous sup brightest students in the school. Evidently the principal was im- pressed by his first contact with real working class solidarity, for the next day, the punishments were completely withdrawn. The parents and the Young Workers’ League were inform- ed of their victory just as they were tions to every local union in the city which recognized May Day. In the Malabar School, over 45 chil- dren had stayed away on May Day, and they had also been punished with demerits and threats. The principal of this school had gone into a rage, threatened the Juniors with dire pen- alties, stormed and fumed, and told the children that they all ought to be shipped to Russia. But the Juniors stood their ground, and when another parents’ committee visited the princi- pal with the same protest resolution and the same demands, he had to sing a different tume. After a conference | — of over an hour with the committee, he realized that he was bucking up against a real organized force that could make things unpleasant for him | if they made an issue of the matter | before working class parents. He finally decided to give in, and the children were immediate re-instated without any punishment. .* Ready *****%*%*+*%4% 4% eee & % 444444444 OTOH HSH edition. / / / ESTEE HEHEHE HEHEHE ERE + | Ww IY TALES FOR He ta CUILDREN BY HERMINIA ZUD MUMLEN TRANSLATED BY ina DAILES A beautiful cellection of stories for children from a working class view-point—with four splendid full page two-color drawings and cover design by LYDIA GIBSON And many smaller drawings from the original German TERROR IN RESOLUTION | A mass meeting of several hur dred workers met in . Hodearriers’ Hall and listened to speakers in English, Croatian, Greek and Bulb garian tell the story of the terrible white terror that is sweeping over — the Balkans. Most of the workers were representatives of the various Balkan nationalities. The follow- ing resolution was passed 7 mously! Ge WHEREAS the countries com — prising the Balkan states are, with: out exception, suffered to endure governments nothing short of dia tatorships of militarists, who ar the tools of the Imperialist capital ism of the greater powers to the west. * WHEREAS, the militarist and fascist dictatorships of the Balkan countries serve the purpose of buf- fer states, against the Workers’ and Peasants’ Republic of Soviet Russia and constitute ever-present dangers as counter-revolutionary forces. WHEREAS, there Is no place In Europe where the working classes are more oppressed and economicak ly depraved than In the Balkans where the cruelest exploitation le joining hands with economle chaos in the enslavement of the | people, and WHEREAS, In every counts}? Tr the Balkans there reigns at this time white terrors of varying de grees of brutality and viclousness, The boyar oligarchy in Roumania thru the Infamous “Siguranza” has crowded In the jalls of the whole country with workers and peas ants and has conducted a bloody at tack on the workers, especially in Bessarabia, that it has forcefully occupied and held with malled fist for almost seven years. The ml tarist party In Greece rigorously suppresses working class organiza tions and fills up its jJalle with work ers and peasants. The Pachitch Pr- bitchewltch government of Juge Slavia assures its re-election by con stant terrorizing of all opposition in the form of heavy Jail sentences and executions. And in Bulgaria more than 10,000 workers and ag- rarian revolutionaries have fallen under the dripping sword of the bloody Zankov regime, and WHEREAS, this unprecedent- ed terror in the Balkans promises to grow more intense and merciless as the menace of war hovers near- er over southeastern Europe, there fore be it RESOLVED, that we here, work- ere of the city of Chicago in mase meeting assembled, pronounce our most emphatic condemnation of the Inhuman methods of the bourgeols terrorists not only In the Balkans but the world over, declare our un- dying enmity for all fascist dictator ships and express our solidarity with our Balkan comrades in struggle to attain a united . 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* 2 : — A 6 * ' — — pare 7 ao re Neth . EOE SOLER DED | 1 * ; , ö aa a © ae ‘ 1 7 1 ; 1 2 i r 5 “Sey TR y 1 Se * ne aie ra “= Y oie é „ 5 e 1 1 5 7 } j J 5 ’ a 2 * 393924 fi : * y , R N N 2 4 — a” N 7 ~ go? rs 5 * . BUREAU HEAD TS ROSY VIEW IHA OF JOBS 1 to Become Farm Hands beseelt to the Dally Worker.) / WASHINGTON, D. C., May 21.— U. 8. employment service, en- vors to put a rosy view on the employment situation for the month of April. However, he has to admit that in coal mining, particularly the unemployment is growing rather than lessening. His best suggestion is that the minors leave home and get sea gonna jobs on roads or farm work. He gays nothing of the necessity of gov- ermment assistance to the starving miners. He states: Advises Miners to Become Seasonal r Migratories. the major group is the bituminous coal mining industry,” he proceeds. “Further reductions in employment ocourred in the majority of the bitu- minous mining states. The encour- miners will be able to obtain employ- ment on the.farms and on the large road building projects now being car- ried on thruout the country. “The iron and steel industry eased up somewhat, but not to any alarm- ing extent. The textile industry is on the upward trend. Demands are gen- eral for all classes of farm help. The _ building program is broadening thru- cout the country and there is practioal- I no unemployment among the build- ing tradesmen.” Thirty Per Cent Jobless. A report by Felix Morley of the editorial staff of the Baltimore Sun in- dicates that 30 per cent of the organ- ‘ized bituminous miners are now un- employed. THE > al, tt. —ôä‚—̃ . — — — I W — fs I. Jones, director general of “The only disappointing feature of aging feature is that many of the coal, Does your friend subscribe to the DAILY WORKER? Ask him! DEE No. 4 WORKER CORRESPON- DENTS WHAT? WHERE? WHEN? WHY? By Wm. F. Dunne. The first American book on this subject of increasing importance —with practical suggestions— written by the editor of the DAILY WORKER. LITTLE No. 3 PRINCIPLES OF COM- MUNISM Engels’ Original Draft of the Communist Manifesto. Translation and historical notes by Max Bedacht. The first appearance in English of a great historical document. RED No. 2 TRADE UNIONS IN AMERICA By Wm. Z. Foster, Jas. P. Can- non and Ear! R. Browder. A history of the development of the organized labor movement and the left wing within it... with its program. LIBRARY. — By d. EIN OVIEv. III. The Main Points in the Present Political Situation. (Continued from last issue.) The Situation in England Becom- Ing More Revolutionary come now to the next point, the *¥ situation in England. Here certain changes are to be observed. First of all, I will state that the Second Inter- national is gradually transferring its attention from Germany to England. This is a fact. With the formation of the first, so-called labor government, —the MacDonald government — the center of gravity of the Second Inter- national was removed to England. It seems to me comrades, that we are on the threshold of a period in which the center of gravity of the future de- velopment of the world revolution will also gradually commence to shift to England. The opportunists will ask: do you really think that robust, full-blooded, conservative England has to fear re- volution? Those who look upon things superficially are hypnotized by the full-bloodedness of British capitalism. But a pupil of Marx and Engels can- not but see that the power of the Bri- tish bourgeoisie is seriously threaten- ed from three directions. The first is the dominions. The second is the re- volutionary character which the labor movement is assuming and the third is the Orient. HE place of the conservative gov- ernment in England can no longer be taken by a liberal government. There are only two great forces in England today: The conservatives and the labor party. If the conserva- tives will have to make way for an- other party, that party will not be the liberal party, but the labor party. For that reason the position taken up by the British labor party is of enorm- ous importance. The gradual trans- formation of the labor party is ob- vious. Not less obvious is the growth of its left wing. These facts indicate that full-blooded, conservative Eng- land is standing on a volcano. The situation in England does not show symptoms of increasing stability, but on the oontrary, is continuously be- coming more revolutionary. I HE sixth point-—-the relation be- tween England and France. Here too antagonisms exist. A conflict ‘is going on for the domination of Eu- rope. Both states at the present time are, in a certain degree, dependent upon American imperialism, which is striving to play off one against the other, rousing mutual conflicts be- tween them and at the same time rousing conflicts between the two and other states. The situation in France is not in the least stabilized. The Herriot government, politically, has outlived its time. In order to prolong its life, it must abandon the very sense and content of its life. The French proletariat has increased numerically. The party of the prole- tariat has grown also. Work is being commenced in the colonies and among the peasantry. Antagonisms Between England and France The Situation in the Balkans | several countries, in Roumania, Bulgaria, Yugo-Slavia, there are in my opinion three revolutionizing fac- tors: (1), the peasant movement, (2), the national movement and (3), the labor movement. The interaction of these three factors is of extreme im- portance, and this interaction is visible. Sometimes we are told that the fight is being conducted too half- heartedly; that the counter-revolu- tion in these countries has become stronger. However, the dialectics of history teach us that sometimes, precisely at the moment when the counter-revolution appears to have reached its culminating point, it turns out that the revolution is near, preci- sely at such a moment, counter-revo- lution is substituted by revolution. That the national movement, the peas- No. 1 CLASS STRUGGLE VS. CLASS-COLLABORATION By Earl R. Browder. A study of all the methods of capitalism and its supporters to divert the workers from struggle thru the labor banks, insurance schemes, B. & O. plan and work- ers’ education. = Oc Each e copies for a dollar) ; Daily Worker Publishing Co. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. * a <a ant movement and the labor move ment in these countries bear a mass character there is not the slightest doubt. The Yugoslav government may annul the mandates of from 60 to 80 | peasant deputies, and from the | stitutional” “con- this may But such point of view, seem a mere bagatelle. | things cannot be done with impunity: The discontent of the masses is mere- ly driven down deeper. For that reason we Communists, in estimating the position in the Balkans, will not allow ourselves to be deceived with what we see on the surface. Super- ficially, the reaction appears to omnipotent. appear that the government in Yugo- Slavia has crushed the Raditch move- ment. If we look deeper, however, we shall be compelled to admit that the position of the Balkan government is still shaky and is not approaching stability in the least degree. | Germany and the Dawes plan | N Germany we see the greatest changes. The tactics of our party eR AP — with regard to the Dawes plan were — be At a first glance it may 22 = — — — — ſ ᷓ —— — a International D and E Bo correct, The interna these tactics,—althoug approves was clear from the beginning even with correct tactics we, for e, would not be able to achieve iderable successes. We are concerned with adopting a line of tactics’ which would show to the proletariat that in the perspective of historical development, our point of view is correct. At the present moment the working class of Germany is in a position in which it sees the “favorable” side of the Dawes" plan. There has been a revival of industry, an influx of cap- ital, the currency has become stabi- lized. The exploitation of Germany by the entente, however, continues. the time will come when antagonisms will become more acute on other grounds. We openly stated in the press,—and I think this created quite a sensation—that the revolutionary situation which prevailed in Germany in 1923 does not obtain in 1925. I am afraid, comrades, that this assertion may cause considerable misunder- standing. No doubt some comrades will say: So! There is no clearly ex- pressed revolutionary situation? That is exactly what we wish to establish. Consequently, the whole tactics of the Communist International and the German party are wrong? E must frankly state the facts. Harbouring illusions has never been of any benefit to the revolution. In Germany at the present moment there is not a direct revolutinoary si- tuation; we recognize and analyze this fact. But this of course, does not imply the cessation of the class strug- gles in Germany. The class war in Germany has not ceased, and will not cease. Recent events confirm this. It is sufficient to recall the shooting down of the workers by the police in Halle. Read the reports in Rote Fahne of the demonstrations organ- ized in connection with the events in Halle. We see that the class war is being carried into the streets. A fresh wave of economic strikes is breaking out. Consequently the struggle in Germany is continuing. Moreover, this is not the class struggle that was fought in pre-war days, but the class struggle of the post-war periods, i. e. always and invariably bearing the seed of civil war. On the other hand, this struggle is not conducted in the spirit of 1923, but in the spirit of 1925, which has its specific features. The changes which have taken place in Germany are most striking. Soon, the Dawes’ plan will have caused greater acuteness in the class strug- gle, which will not become blunted even if it drags on for several years. Again and again it will become acute on continually new grounds. The Situation in Poland, Italy Czecho-Slovakia and Scandinavia N Poland, the situation is the same as that in the Balkans. Strong peasant movements, strong move- mepts among the national minorities, which represent parts of the peasant movement, and also a strong labor movement. Consequently, in Poland also the combination of these three factors is in operation. A superficial investigation may lead to the conclu- sion that an improvement has taken place in the position of the Polish bourgeoisie, but the three factors men- tioned above should not be lost sight of. A word or two more concerning Italy. We have not yet succeeded in overcoming fascism there. Several weeks ago it seemed that Mussolini was approaching his end. It turned out not to be the case. But, the posi- tion of Italy is shaky, unstable and pregnant with everytihng in the world but consolidation, OW with regard: to Czecho-Slova- kia. The position of the bourge- oisie there is such that it can find no constitutional way out of the diff culties in which it is immersed. The coalition is breaking-up, and this is becoming more marked as time goes on. Here, as in Poland and in the Balkans, we observe the inter-action of the same three factors. It is true that the peasant movement and the movement of the national minorities also is weaker than in the previously mentioned countries. But on the other hand, the third factor, the labor move- ment is much stronger in Czecho-Slo- vakia than in the other countries. As for Scandinavia, these “blessed” lands of the petty-bourgeoisie where the reigns of government are still in the hands of social-democrats, it is characteristic that even in these coun- tries, the class struggle is becoming more acute. The idyll has come to an end. The sharp class struggles via recently, particularly in Norway, mark, testify to the growing acuteness vian countries. The Attraction of the International Proletariat towards the U. 8. S. R. is increasing IMULTANEOUSLY with power of attraction of the U. S. 8. R. is increasing steadily. We must ad- mit that for a little while, particularly in the period of the famine, this power of attraction diminished some- what. At the present time, however, an opposite tendency is observed. The movement in favor of sending nu- . a ree * 1 and will no doubt grow. attracts representatives of and non-party countries to us? nuine socialistic construction has com- menced in the U. S. 8. R. These dele- gates reason to themselves approxim- ately as follows: We have proceeded by different paths to those followed by Russia; we follow the social demo- crats. What have we achieved? Econ- omically, our position is very bad. In Russia, the proletariat took what is, indeed, the thorny path, the path of blood and civil war. But, the Russian workers have already achieved much. The consciousness of this is awaken- ing in the minds of the social-demo- cratic workers and from now on will become more fixed. * © * — World Situation, as 1 Remains Objectively — O sum up, I would say: we must not separate Germany from the general picture, although we for 4 long time imagined that the fevolu- tion there was imminent. We must analyze the world situation as a whole and estimate it at its real value. We are a party of the world revolution, and not of the Russian revolution, or German revolution. For that reason, our estimation of the situation must embrace the world situatin as a whole. Thus, in summing up, we must say: on certain sectors of the front the fight is no longer raging with the same heat that it ragéd in 1923. Al- though there is no armistice never- theless, as compared with 1923, the fight on certain sections of the front (Germany) has temporarily subsided. Nor is there an acute revolutionary situation in Western and Central Eu- rope. But, with regard to the world posi- tion as a whole, as before, it remains revolutionary. The Orient is advan- cing more determinedly than we sup- posed. The influence of the Commun- rist International is increasing and the idea of world revolution is becoming more and more popular there. Great Britain is more shaken than it seemed to us up till now. Karl Marx consider- ed that a revolution without Great Britain would be but a storm in a tea- cup. If we place the position of Great Britain in juxtaposition to the pos- tion in Germany, and also take into consideration the progressive awaken- ing of the Orient with its nine hun- dred milfion inhabitants, we will see that the factors retarding the revolu- tion and the factors stimulating the revolution, app balance each other. Consequently, comrades, the gener- al position is that, must reckon upon a twofold possibili- y; we must in future construct our tactics on the lines indicated in the resolution of the) Fifth International congress and differentiate them ac- cording to the requirements of each country,—taking into consideration the possibility of both a prolonged and an accelerated development of the class struggle: From the point of view of our fundamental aims, there are not the slightest grounds for pessim- ism. A Wrong Estimation of the Situa- tion Leads to Anti-Leninist Deviations 1 HE Comrades who, from a wrong estimation of the rapprochement between England and America, draw pessimistic conclusions are directly faced with the danger of the begin- ning of a revision of the Leninist theory of imperialism. These com- rades, frequently, are prepared to vote for any resolution, and to call them- selves Leninists, but, they refuse to understand that when it is necessary to apply Leninism, they frequently commence to revise the most import- ant and fundamental parts of Lenin- ism. Those who strive to show that the rapprochement between America and England must lead to the conversion of Europe into a dominion of the United States and to the removal of the antagonisms in Europe, by this repeat what Kautsky said in 1915 on the question of ultraimperialism |! do not wish to make extensive quota- which we have witnessed in Scandina- | and recently also in Sweden and Den- of clasg antagonisms in the Scandina- this the merous trade union delegations to the U. 8. 8. R. i only juahicommencing tions and I refer you to Lenin's article in the collection entitled “Against the | Stream” and to his controversy with | Kautsky in his book “Imperialism, the | Modern Stage of Capitalism.” Lenin, in anticipation as it were, replies to the very questions which are now | being put by the representatives of the right wing. I will quote merely one passage from the above-mention- ed book. F a similarly conservative char- ' acter, as we have seen above, | is Kautsky’s notorious theory of ‘ultra-im perialism.’ Indeed, it is sufficient to compare generally known and indisputed facts to become convinced how false is the perspective with which Kauts- ky is attempting to imbue the Ger- man workers and the workers of all countries. Take India, Indo-China, and China. It is known that these three colonial and semi-colonial countries, having a population vary- ing from five hundred to seven hun- dred millions, are exploited by the finance capital of a few imperialist states: England, France, Japan, United States, etc. Let us assume that these imperialist countries make alliances agaimst each other for the purpose of protecting or ex- ; prises, trusts, branches of industry wel Insignificant question. we must resolutely repudiate even the ism. tion remains objectively revolution- ary, 7 nme Gi. pending their possessions, interests and ‘spheres of influence’ in the Asiatic countries mentioned. These alliances would be “interimperial- ist” alliances. Let us assume that the imperialist states form an alli- ance for the “peaceful” partition of © these Asiatic countries. This would be “the international combination of finance capital.” Practical examples of such alliances are to be found in the history of the 20th century, for example in the attitude of the pow- ers towards China. The question arises is it “conceivable, while pre- serving the capitalist system (and this is the assumption Kautsky makes) that such alliances can be anything but shortlived? That they could exclude friction, conflicts and struggles in a multitude of forms? “TT is sufficient to present the question clearly, to make it im- possible for any other reply to be given to this question except in the negative; for under capitalism, no other basis for the partition of spheres of influence, interests, col- onies, etc. exists except the calcu- lation of forces of those taking part in the division, viz., economic, finan- cial, military, etc. and the forces of those taking part in the division, do not change equally, for an even rate of development of individual enter- * and countries under capitalism is impossible. Half a century ago, Germany was insignificant in com- parison with the capitalist power of England at that time. The same comparison can be made between Japan and Russia. Is it conceivable that within the next decade or two, the present relations between the imperialist states will remain un- changed? It is absolutely inconce- ivable. “Consequently, ““nter-imperialistic’ or ‘ultra-imperialistic’ alliances, ir- rispective of the form in which they may be concluded: either the form of the coalition of one group of im- perialist poWers against the coali- tion of another group, or in the form of a general alliance of all the im- perialist powers, must inevitably be only ‘respites’ between wars. “Peaceful alliances prepare for wars and in their turn grow out of wars. They mutually determine each other, give rise to changes in the peaceful and non-peaceful struggles arising out of one and the same cause of the imperialist ties and in- ter-relations of world economy and world politics.” (V. I. Lenin. Collected Works. Vol. XIII, pp. 328, 329, Russian Edition). OMRADES, we could use the same words today in reply to ur “pro- phets” who so over-estimate the im- portance of the rapprochement be- tween England and America which in their opinion should almost abolish re- volution. Radek asserts that the democratic pacifist “era” has not yet passed away. It is true that MacDonald has left the stage, but, in the opinion of Radek, pacifism still remains. How does Ra- dek arrive at this conclusion? Simply by regarding every situation in which war is not being actually conducted as pacifism. But imperialism requires respites between wars during which to prepare for fresh wars. Although war is not actually being conducted at the present moment, nevertheless, We see maskéd preparations for future wars. We must have the greatest clarity on this question. In Decem- ber 1922, Comrade Lenin wrote: “We must take the present con- flicts, even the most insignificant, and use them as illustrations to show how war may break out, any day as a consequence of the differ- ences between England and France concerning some detail in their treaty with Turkey or between America and Japan, concerning some trifling difference, over a Pa- cific question, or between any large powers over colonial disputes, cus- toms policy, commercial policy, etc. etc.” (“Bolshevik,” a journal of the Cen- tral Committee of the Russian Gom- munist Party, No. 2, 1924, p. 18.) HIS is how Lenin estimated the Situation even before the end of 1922, when the situation generally seemed perfectly clear. He assumed that fresh wars might arise not only as a consequence of the important an- tagonisms between England and America, but even over such quest- ions as customs and commercial po- licy. This is precisely the character of “pacifist” imperialism as a whole. Fresh wars may break out over most That is why most cautious and masked attempt to ‘revise the Leninist theory of imperial- I repeat: The general world situa- everybody * 2 8 i — How We Live and Work * 1 . ee ee ee Tt D a | | On the Trail of Job | YOUNG MAN: assist In cutting room, Underwear factory; $20 start; good opportunity; bring reference. Elsenkramer, 457 Broome 8. above is the advertisement I [ answered Monday morning. I ar- rived there at 7 o’clock and there were ten (10) féllows waiting already. The first question always asked by a new arival is, has the boss come yet?” that is consl-lored as an introdneticn and a conversation arises by counter-questions. The noise and conversstions grew as the crowd accumulated and in about 15 minutes there were about 60 fellows standing all over the steps and hall waiting for the boss. 1 About 8 o' clock, a girl who probably took care of opening the place in the mornings, came and when the crowd saw her going towards the door, there was a general rush, and remarks such as “line forms to the right and left, don’t all rush at once; you'll all get the job, etc,” floated around the air. When they got inside, you could have seen how many were there for the job, over 100 fellows. Every time the door opened, all eyes were turned fn that direction to see who it was. Another few moments went by and an employe happened to come in, it was lucky for him that the men’s room was near the door, otherwise he would have been mobbed. Seeing such crowds near each department, he tried to get them into the hall to wait, but no one moved. 7 0 At 9 o’clock the boss came and started for him but de would not speak to anyone in there. He said that he already had someone, and nobody moved even at that; they crowded all the more about him, knowing full well that he was not tell- ing the truth. As he couldn’t do any- thing he sent for the police. When | . aw arrived (three of them) they started dispersing the crowd. Some of the fellows sneaked upstairs and the rest went down. One fellow on the stairs happened to turn around which caught the cop’s eye and he was told to keep moving and not turn around, or he'll punch him on the teeth, backing his threat up with a raise of his fist and shovmeg half a dozen of us over each ofier. A few of us waited downstairs and We saw the cops come down carrying a few packages which they placed in the rear of their two seated lizzie and then waited until most of us left. There were 200 or that many when we were chased from upstairs’ and about 10 were still there when I left. —M. Mariash. Cotton Prices Drom Cotton opened unchanged to 7 points lower ‘today. May opened at 2340, unchanged; July 2350, down 5; Oct. 2215, down 3; Dec. 2228, down 7; Jan. 2228, down 2. Dr S. ZIMMERMAN DEN CTI SI „ MY NEW LOCATION Special X-Ray rices — to Gas Workers Given ESTABLISHED 12 YEARS. . My Examination is Free My Prices Are Reasonable My Work Is Guaranteed Extracting Specialist DELAY MEANS DECAY in spite of the fact that in sev- eral countries, as for example in Ger- many, an immediate revolutionary si- tuation no longer exists. The Fifth International congress, quite correctly estimated the situation. Our former tactics remain in force to this day. (To be continued) Eat at the GLOBE CAFETERIA Best Foods at Moderate Prices. 14th STREET, coOR, IRVING PLACE (Opposite New York Party Headquarters) THEY TAKE THE SHIRT RIGHT OFF YOUR BACK— AND PICK YOUR POCKETS CLEAN! of what he produces— WORKER a sub. Who “they” are—and how it is being done everyday —how and where and why and when the worker is robbed All this can be found only in the pages of the DAILY Show this copy of the DAILY WORKER to your shop- mate or the member of your union and get (or give) him If you send a full year’s sub during the SECOND ANNUAL SUB CAMPAIGN (until June 15) You will receive WITHOUT, CHARGE a six month’s sub to the Workers Monthly or a Loose-Leaf Leather binder with patent clasp, pockets for receipts and note-paper for your use (including a full des- criptive catalog of all Communist publications.) 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JAMES CONNOLLY "1 HELD IN GOTHAM Pass Resolution. feel United Front NEW YORK, May 21—A mass meet- ing held in honor of the memory of James Connolly was held Sunday, May 10, at Harlem Terrace Hall, 219 East 104 St. The chair was occupied by Patrick Ennis (Dublin comrade of Connolly and president of the Connol-| ly Memorial Committee.) , A leture on “Connolly, Patriot and Revolutionist” was given by Joseph. O’Byrne, which dealt in detail with Connolly’s ideals df eoonomic and po- litical freedom. An interesting debate followed the lecture. Songs in Gaelic and Duglish were rendered. by. H. O’Byrne, the Dublin tenor. The fok- lowing resolutions were passed unani- mously and copies ordered sent to President DeValera, Sean T...0’Kelly, envoy Irish Republic, Miss Mary Mac- Swiney, William O'Brien, Sec'y Irish Transport and General . Workers’ Union, James Larkin, Secy. Irish Workers’ Union; and the press: (1) Whereas, it is now apparent to all unprejudiced observers that eco nomic and political extinction of the historic Irish nation is the goal.of the governments of the Free State and “Northern Ireland;” this mass meet- ing of the Irish workers held to honor the memory of James Connolly urges the workers and peasants of Ireland to inaugurate a policy of political, economic and social boycott of the “Free State” and “Northern Ireland” ustirpations. (2) We urge all Irish republicans to refuse payment of taxes to said usurping governments and not recog- nize any courts of law functioning under their “parliaments.” (8) We urge all citizens of the de Jure Irish Republic to doycbtt and re- fuse all social N to members of the Northern and Southern Irish parliaments, members of the army, civil guard, peace commissioners, etc. (4) We urge all members of the Irish labor party to withdraw from the “Northern” and “Southern” parlia- ments and form a working alliance with advanced labor in Great Britain, Russia, France, Germany, etc. (5) We urge the officials of the Transport and General Workers Union and the Irish Workers Union to unite and make a united stand for the establishment of the Workers’ Repub- lic in Ireland. (6) We urge the Irish republican party to throw its whole strength, moral, physical and financial, into an immediate political, economic and so- cial boycott of the enemies, lay and clerical, of the Republic of Ireland as established in 1916. Get a sub—make another Com- MEMORIAL MEET}... to ratify. the agreement munist! (Oontinued eam 5400 1) kratulates its especially on the results of the recent fe conference between e! the British T. N aad the All ubslan Centr we Eh Trade nions. It. "a e General ‘Contell of the Trades: Congress ved at by the joint conference, and to proceed with the utmost possible speed to put it into operation, as a preliminary to a world-wide propaganda and agita-| tee. tion for the unity of the world’s work- ers in one trade union international. The London Trades Council has passed a similar resolution. BELGIUM—The Belgian Clothing ‘Workers’ Union sent two fraternal dele- gates to the Congress of the Russian Clothing Workers’ Union at Moscow (February 16-20). On their return to ssels these delegates Have publish- an extremély interesting and ap- preciative report on “Trade Unionism in Russia,” following the ling of the British ‘delegation’ 8 report. One of the delegates, Mr. Liebaérts, the general sécretary of the union, | in the course of an interview has made the following observations on Interna- tional trade union unity: . “I feel that Amsterdam will end by having to change its attitude. It is evidently mistaken in trying to force the Russian workers to sacrifice the organization—the R. I. L. U.—born of their revolutionary struggles. The international struggle of the workers, which daily becomes more diffichlt, cannot leave indefinitely the Belgian Trades Union Congress indifferent or hostile to the united front that is so urgently needed.” Mr. Liebaerts has further written to Mr. Purcell: in the course of his let- ter he states: “Like the British Trade Union dele- gation, we returned from the new Russia firmly convinced of the possi- bility and necessity of realizing trade union unity with our Russian com- rades. Our report and IMPERIALIST EXPORT TRADE IN MACHINERY DEFEATS COMMODITY EXPORTS, SHOWS CASE OF BRAZIL By LELAND OLDS (Federated Prese Industrial Editor) That chronic unemployment in industrial nations can be cured by for- eign markets appears as an illusion from department of commerce figures showing the development of capitalist industrialism in Brazil. The increas- ing ability of this once backward nation to supply its own manufactured articles is typical of a world trend which is narrowing the market for the United States, Germany and England. + The Case of Brazil Responding to the enforced self- sufficiency when the world war cut down its supplies from outside, Brazil added 5,940 manufacturing establish- ments with a capitalization of about $146,000,000 between 1915 and 1919. The proportion supplied by home production in 1919 of Brazil's con- sumption of important commodities was: Textile of cotton, wool, linen jute and silk 90 pte. Shoes 933 Hardware a = Hats Bike Tobacco 93” Matches 100 * Porcelain and glass ware 9 Wallpaper os * Drinks 39 * Pharmaceutical specialties......59 ” Sao Paulo industrially Developed Sao Paulo, the district which last year was featured in the news from Brasil on account of its armed rebel- lion, is the largest manufacturing center in the country. In it are em- ployed nearly one-third of the indus- trial workers in Brazil. The industrial development of this district has been phenomenal. Be- tween 1900 and 1915 the value of its products increased e than 150 per cent while from 191§ to 1922 they in- creased 7-fold. The production of cot- ton goods in from 36,600,000 yards in 1900 to 215,000,000 yards in 1922 and production of boots and + 386 in 1922. A Trade That Kille Trade As long as the less developed coun- tries absorb machinery they will pro- vide an outlet for the metal industries of the United States, England and Germany. But as much exports hasten the development of modern machine production in South America, Africa and Asia they will curtail the foreign market for textiles, boots and shoes, manufactured foods and the great number of consumers goods. Drport of machinery is the con- crete expression’ of foreign invest- ment. The department of commerce shows that nearly half of the indivi- dual firms in Brasil represent foreign capital. The ownership of corporate oapital is hard to trace. How profitable foreign investment in Brazilian factories is appears from the department's statement that 40 factories chosen at random in Sao Paulo city showed 1923 net profits averaging 33 per cent on paid-up capital. Charge Explorer Killed Eskimo COPENHAGEN, Denmark, May 21. — The Danish government, after more than two months negotiations with the state department at Washington, has granted Donald M. MacMillan delay in granting the permit was due to the charge that a member of a previous expeditin killed an Dskimo. = — ae Talk it AR shopmate will shoes trom %%% 1 1000 % Kür eubseribe | permission to go) with his expedition | to Greenland, where he will be allow- | ed to land at a western port. The | — To 2 me | BUILDERS AT WORK PUT YOUR BRANCH ON RECORD Jewish Branch of Stamford Shows the Way To the comrades of all foreign speaking branches and as striking example to the English branches as well, we point to a recent action of the Jewish branch of Stamford, Conn. Together with a number of subs, Comrade Isidor Wofsy, secretar record of the branch, writes us that the branch went on or EVERY MEMBER OF THE BRANCH TO BE- COME A SUBSCRIBER to the DAILY WORKER. This is a drive that should be started by every single branch of the Party. It will prove a splendid medium for interest and education in Communist 4 every member of the br formation. and principles—and it will supply anch with necessary day-to-day in- In Russia it is a condition of membership and every worker who joins the party must become a subscriber to the official organ of the party. Some day (and we hope it is soon), this will be a rule in our party as well and today we can begin the job. Start the drive in your branch NOW: Every member (who speaks English—no matter what branch he is in) should become a subscriber to the DAILY WORKER—the official organ of our party. a Pittsburgh Leads Today IN THE SECOND ANNUAL SUB CAMPAIGN Pittsburg sends in most subs today to help fill their quota. Other Builders who have also sent in subs on May 20 follow: PITTSBURGH. PA—F. H. Merrick (8). MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.—Dan W. Stevens (4). CLEVELAND, 0O.—E. Schweitzer (4); J. A. Hamilton; J. O. Ranken (2). BOSTON, MASS.—J. Sagermaster (8). LOS ANGELES, CALIF.—S. Globerman (3). TOLEDO, OR. Cook; F. Daney. ROCKFORD, KINCAID, WEST ALLIS, NEW YORK, N. Y.—Katterfeld. CHICAGO, ILL.—C. A. Campbell; FREDERICK, 8. DAK.—Emil BELLEVILLE, ILL—M. Lundquist (2) ILL.—M. Koloteka (2). W18.—S8tanley Korade (2). D. E. Earley. Niva. ILT. — Stephen Jurman. PHILADELPHIA, PA—J. Smith. Kansas Ex-Governor Acquitted, Faces a Second Bribe Charge TOPEKA, Kansas, May 21.—Jona- than M. Davis, who was found not guilty on a charge of conspiracy to solicit a bribe from Walter Grundy, convicted banker, in return for a par- don, faces another trial. Davis and his son are charged with selling a pardon to Fred W. Pollman, forger paroled while Davis was governer. Four ballots were taken by the jury which was out three hours. One juror voted for conviction on the third ballot. State and county attorneys were conferring today regarding the case against Russell Davis, son of the for- mer governor and Carl J. Peterson, former banking commissioner, grow- ing out of the investigation which brought the charges against the gov- ernor. It was considered certain to- day, in view of the fact that evidence in all the cases was presented in the case just closed, that the Peterson and Russell Davis charges would not be brought to trial. Give your shopmate this copy of the DAILY WORKER—but be sure to wee him the next day to get his subscription. =— c’mon over. for fun, c’mon over! 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—eo just 4 5 8 rn at? ; * Page Five 5 a {TRADE UNIONS — OF AMSTERDAM PROTEST TERROR Demand End to Crimes of Polish Fascists AMSTERDAM, May 21— A meet- ing called by the trade unions in Am- sterdam adopted unanimously the fol- lowing resolution: The revolutionary workers of Am- sterdam in the meeting called by the national labor secretariat and the lo- cal labor secretariat, protest ener- getically agiinst the disgusting. ter- ror which is committed against the revolutionary workers in Polish pris- ons; they demand the immediate re lease of Lanzutsky and amnesty for the political prisoners who suffer in jail by the thousands for the just struggle against the Polish bour geoisie. We, the workers of Amste1dam, con- sider it our honorary duty, to partie pate in the work of the International Red Aid of Holland which on an in- ternational scale offers its protecting hand to all revolutionaries who have been torn by the bourgeoisie from the ranks of the international militant working class. We decide to send this resolution to the general consulate of Poland, to the minister of justice of Poland and to the International Red Aid. (Signed on behalf of the meeting), Langkemper. Forelgn Exchange. NEW YORK, May 21.—Great Brit ain, pound sterling, demand 4.86 1-16; cable 4.86 5-16. France, franc, demand 5.15%; cable 6.16%4. Belgium, franc. demand 5.01; cable 5.01%. Italy, lira, demand 4.0714: cable 4.07%. Sweden, krone, demand 26.74; cable 26.77! Norway, krone, demand 16.81; cable 16.83. Denmark, krone, demand 18.81; cable 18.83. Germany, mark, un- quoted. Shanghal, tael, 74.62%; cable 75.12%. Your Union Meeting Fourth Friday, May 22, 1925. Name of Wand Place No. of Meeting 269 Amalgamated Clothiag Workers, 1564 No. Robey. Biackemiths, 64th and &. Ashiend venue. Boiler Makers, 106th and Avenue Boiler Makers, 66th and Haleted. 5 oller Makers, 1 and Haleted 9 field Ave. 2901 W. Monroe St. Stre . 19 W. Adame Engineers ‘(Looomotive), and Sacramento. Engineers, 180 W. Washington 6t. Firemen and — 6428 See Aven Fur Worke Glass Workers, Haid Ave. Hod Carriers, Ave., Evanston. Garment Workers, Joint „ 328 W. Van Buren &t. Lithographers, 639 8. Ashland Bivd. Bakers and Confectioners, 3420 W. Roosevelt Road. Trades Counell, 180 W. Washington Street. Carpenters’ District Council, 180 W. Washington St. 1 Carpenters, 175 Ww. Washington &t. Carpenters, 4339 6. al Conductors (Slegping Car), die Capito! Bidg., 1 8 n 176 W. Washingten t Granny Cutters, 180 W. Washing- Machinists, 113 8. Ashiand Biva, Machinists, 113 8. oo Machinists, 56th and alsted Streets. 1 Ss. K. Ser. Lexingtern an Machinists, 8870 Pi. and Halsted treet. Meta! Polishers, 119 8. Three Pattern Makers, 119 S. Three Plasterers, 180 W. Washington Piumbers, 5212 &. Halsted St. 1 Rallway Carmen, Biue — 1 In. Raliway Carmen, 52nd and Robey. Raliway Clerks, 9 8. Clinton 8. Watchmen (Stock Yards), 8746 &. Painters, School and Sheffield Ave. Plumbers, 9861 8. Chicage Ave, 1 Plano and Organ Workers, 810 W. Madison Emily and Marsh- 1850 Sherman Rallway Carmen, Harrison Street. 11408 Michiga Avenue. * Railway Clerks, Atlantic Hetel. — Organizing Industry For War! The story of how the bosses are hurriedly organizing the industries of the country for war is told for the first time in The New Issue of the YOUNG WORKER tells how the organization of the big bosses, the Ordnance Advisory Board, headed by E. H. Gary, which is preparing industry on a national scale to make bigger profits than ever before out of the next slaughter of young workers. ae Ferre i> How Near Is War? Dark clouds are gathering over the Pacific and the imperialists are adding more young workers @® their armies and navies. The U. S. navy has been practicing for war in Hawaiian waters and Comrades Crouch and Trum bull are in jail in Honolulu because they opposed the coming war! All these preparations of the bosses for war have been exposed weekly in the YOUNG WORKER which carries on a continual fight against capitalist militarism and imperialist wars. Send for bundle orders of the new issue containing this special story. 5 CENTS A COPY. Subscription Rates—$1.50 a year, 85c for 6 months. [THE YOUNG WORKER 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, III.

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r ů rr ec jhe ‘by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Un W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Il. (Phone: Monroe 4712) a nae we nny RATES “eo Der staf $3.50... f — 52.00. months (in Chicago only): By mali un per year 51 50.— .6 months $2.50..3 — Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1118 W. Washington Bivd. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL | WILLIAM F. DUNNE} MORITZ J. LOEB...... —_—— Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, III., under the act of March 3, 1879. — 290 Advertising rates on app ente The Machinists’ Election William H. Johnston, better known in labor circles as B. and O. Bill,“ has been defeated in the election in the Machinists Union. This does not mean that he will relinquish his Chicago, Inet Editors Business Manager — office immediately, but detailed returns are con- elusive proof that the membership has rejected Johnston by their ballots. What kind of jugglery will be practiced by the Johnston machine from now on to justify his continuation in office is hard to say, but it will have to be of the rawest kind and evidence is already at hand that fraud of the most brazen nature bas been carried on. The defeat of Johnston means a good deal more than a mere change in the administration of the union.* Johnston has become the symbol of class collaboration in the United States and Canada and his defeat can be interpreted in no other way than as a repudiation of his class peace scheme. We dg not say that the majority of the member- ship ciymsciously recognizes the B. and O. plan as „the company union which it is, but an analysis of the campaign conducted by the Anderson center group G the union, which was supported by the left wing, shows that one of its most telling points was a danunciation of the bankers and business” men of which the Johnston group is composed. The Mount Vernon Savings Bank and Johnston’s connectioa with it entered prominently into the campaign discussion and there was evident a widesprea’4 disgust with the nén- working class character of the Johnston machine. The left wing made its position clear thruout the campaign. Its election statement made search- ing criticisms of the Anderson slate and pointed out its confused and hesitating character. The An- derson slate was supported as an opposition ticket and not because the left wing thought it was a class conscious group or expected it wage a mil- itant struggle. It would be extremely encouraging if we could say that the defeat of Johnson was a sign of real class consciousness on the part of the majority of the organized machinests, but this would be un- true. It is, however, a healthy sign that class collaboration has not fooled all of the workers und that the Trade Union Educational League is building a real left bloc in the metal trades. The vote is the more significant in this respect as one of the principal campaign documents of the John- ston machine was a copy of the Trade Union Edu- cational League statement supporting Anderson, published in the DAILY WORKER. This was put out as proof that Anderson was merely Moscow.” It failed to take. ~ “a tool of West Virginia and Poland Two news items from West Virginia show the direct connection between the capitalists, the various agencies of the United States govern- ment, the struggle of the coal miners in that state and the class war which in Poland and other European countries has assumed a’still more acute form than here in America. One story tells of the arrest of 150 coal miners for picketing a scab mine near Fairmont, West Virginia, the other tells of the closing of the hal! in Benwood where a Polish worker was to speak and expose the murderous acts of the Polish gov- ernment perpetrated on labor and revolutionary movement of that cuntry. The coal miners in Poland have been the target of especially vicious attacks by the Polish terror- istic government. They have suffered more than some other sections of the workers because of their ing class is a concrete example of that need. E DAILY WORKER. » ' fighting spirit. The House of Morgan, the most powerful section of the capitalist group that owns most of the mines in West Virginia, lends millions of dollars to the Polish government so it can con- inue to terrorize the workers. Jh the United States, and especially in West Virginia, the Mor- gan steel trust group wages the same war on the workers that its puppet Polish government car- ries on. The connection between all the robber class could hardiy be much clearer than in this instance. The world solidarity of the working class is the only ellective answer to it. ö World trade union unity, in the drive for which the British nad Russian unions are taking the lead, is the immediate task of all the militant workers everywhere. nity of the world trade inion movement against the coal capitalist in| America, unity of the labor movement against the _ murderous Polish and Bulgarian governments and the imperialist governments of France, Great Britain and the United States, this is the need the hour and the unity of the capitalist class and their agents in West Virginia against the American miners and the oppressed Polish work | The Kannasto Case The arrest of Mrs. Sanna Kannasto in Hibbing where she was held under $10,000 bail, after she has been in this country for twenty years, on a charge of illegal entry from Canada, is an instance of despicable persecution of foreign-born workers that is made possible by the immigration restric- tion act. Mrs. Kannasto was arrested on information sworn to by a counter-revolutionary Finnish im- migrant, in all probability an agent of the bloody Finnish government held in power by the allies, following the overthrow of the Finnish workers’ and peasants’ government by the army of the Ger- man General Mannerheim. By virtue of the exceptional clauses contained in the immigration act, which plates a premium on stoolpigeons and their filthy activities, the Amer- ican government has become an agent for every counter-revolutionary govrenment in the world. All of them maintain spy agencies in the United States and they keep their governments informed of the aid given the labor and revolutionary move- ments in the old countries by foreign-born work- ers here. Whenever they feel it advisable these foreign governments call for aid from the American de- partment of labor and justice in persecuting some worker whom they want to jail in order to hamper the relief movements. If this practice is to be stopped, it must be done first by fighting every one of such cases as that of Mrs. Kannasto by all available legal means and sec- ondly by carrying on a campaign of publicity and agitation the laws under which such persecutions are carried out. Surely the American workers, when they under- stand the real meaning of such cases, will not al- low the agents of other governments to jail foreign: born workers without protest and action because they fight for the workers in the old countries, take an active part in the class struggle in Amer- ica and thus give a badly needed international character to the American labor movement. — — The Hangmen's Central Committee We are publishing these days column after column of news of the white terror in various countries and some of our readers may wonder if there is no other news obtainable. them may ask if the amount of space we are giving to news of this kind is neces- sary and we reply that because of the small size of our paper this news may over-balance other stories, but it is necessary that the American work- ing class, and first of all our readers, the most ad- vanced group of the American working class, be made thoroly familiar with the almost unbelieve- able conditions of oppression under which the labor and revolutineary movement of many European countries has to struggld. This is the more necessary in that the bloody hand of American imperialism, a hand filled with gold that is distributed to the murder governments of Poland, Esthonia and Bulgaria, is to be seen in every one of the attacks upon the working class of these nations. We must know exactly what the American ruling class is doing to our comrades in other nations that we may be steeled for the fight against it that we must carry on. The United States is the center of world reac- tion and we must make it plain that here is located the central committee of hangmen of the world’s workers. Small Strikes Tailors are proverbially peaceful people, but when the interests of the bosses and the workers clash, as told in our story of yesterday from Los Angeles, the profession loses all of its peaceful character. The Los Angeles tailors’ strike is a small one. Only twenty workers are directly affected, but in miniature the whole panorama of the American class struggle passes in review. The bosses im- port scabs and gunmen, strikers are slugged and the police protect the scabs. All fo the above is important. It shows that even in the petty industries where competition has not is yet been wiped out entirely the class differences ire acute and that the police power of the cap italist state agencies find no conflict between work- ers and capitalists so small as to call for neu- trality. Our class must adopt the same attitude. No struggle of our fellow workers must be considered. because of the small number involved or the minor nature of the industry, as unimportant. In this we can learn from the capitalist class. — And so the allied imperialist governments and their puppet states are going to demand that the Soviet government suppress the Communist Inter national! We have no wish to advise the workers’ and peasants’ ‘government of Russia, but it oe curs to us that the proper reply to this would be a demand for the suppression of the House of Morgan by Great Britain, France and the United States. The bureaucrats of the city of Chicago -have opened war on the Electrical Workers’ Union. 26 men have been discharged because they insisted on the enforcement of the union rule for payment for overtime. All of the discharged men are citizens but first of all they are wage slaves. as this in- cident proves. | | 100 per cent Americans, please notice. Gregory Zinoviev will undoubtedly re a ne a eee ee = oS at Italian for Ladies Our Italian * are giving a grand ball on Saturday evening, May 23, at the Greek Hall, 722 Blue Island Ave., the p of which will go to the fund for ing the Italian Communist paper, II Lavoratore, a daily newspaper again. II Lavoratore has been forced to become a weekly after a long financial struggle as a daily newspaper. As a daily, Italian workers ng into homes of t the country, n Lavoratore can function far more rene ar for lian comrades are putting up a de- 1 fight to 1 paper on a daily basis Comrades come to this ball if only to lend your eneotiragement to these ardent Italian workers. Tickets are 50 cents and there is no admission charge for the Wdies) Music is fur- nished by the "Verdi orchestra Gu and the ball prio — at 8 p. m. William F. Du 5 t o Speak. Before 83 la Branch v. W William F. coy editor of The DAILY WORKER, will deliver a lec- ture on “The American Negro Work- ers and the World Revolutionary Movement” tonight at 8 p. m., at the meeting of Area Branch No. 5, of the T1. W. & Every league and party comrade not having another meeting tonight is urged to attend this meeting. A full attendance of the members and a live- ly discussion is expected. The branch meets at the local office, 19 S. Lin- coln St. Chramov * Cannon will Speak Sunday It is probable that some of attention and at Lenin Evening James P. Cannon, who recently re- turned from Soviet Russia, will speak at the Lenin evening to be held this Sunday, May 24, at the Workers’ Home, 1902 W. Division St. Comrade Alexander Chramov'of New York will speak on Lenin. The voices of Lenin, Lunacharsky and other active com- rades of the Russian revolution will be heard from ‘phonograph records. Beginning at 7 b. . Admission 35 cents. 5 — et —_—™ Philippines for Independence. MANILA, May Arbe next Phil ippine general elections with 850,000 electors qualified to vote, will take place June 2 when the entire house of representatives, half of the senate, provincial governors and minor offici- als are to be chosen. The nacional- ista-consolidato party, Which controls both houses of the present legislature and the democrata party are the two major factions in the fleld. All candi- dates of both parties have declared for complete and immediate inde- pendence of the Philippine Islands from the United States. New York Italian Dance. The workers of the Itallan Harlem be as much | Branch are giving a red dance for the benefit of II Lavoratore. Do not forget it! The date is May 30, at 8 p. m. The place is Workers’ Hall, 1347 Boston Road, Bronx. Storm Hits Findlay, Ohio. FINDLAY, Ohio, May 21.—A heavy storm struck Findlay late this after- noon, doing considerable damage but inflicting no loss of life. Reports that the town had been wiped out telephoned to Lima and other cities were without foundation. Grand 840 l on Saturday colored worker. Although no one had — | NEW YORK,.—Last week a meet- ing was held of the organizers of the most important nuclei in New York City. The meeting opened with re- ports on activities in the May 1 cam- paign and the general work of the nuclei. These reports showed the wonderful possibilities for shop nuclei work in this country. SHOP NUCLEUS NO. 9 reported the distribution of 4000 leaflets and 200 party papers. Twenty-five tickets were sold for the party May 1 meet- ing. Three subscribers were. obtained for the DAILY WORKER and one of the active comrades of the nucleus was one of the chief speakers at the Union May 1 banquet All the wor- kers, quit on May 1 as this is in ac- cordance with the Union rule. SHOP NUCLEUS NO. 6 reported the distribution of 1400 leaflets. Two sympathizers helped in this work. Twenty-three tickets for the party mass meeting were sold. One sub- scription for the DAILY WORKER and one for the Workers Monthly were sold—the latter being sold to a ever stopped work on May 1 in this shop in the last five years this year due to the propaganda of the nucleus, one half of the workers quit work for a whole day and the other half work- ed only a half day. SHOP NUCLEUS NO. 13 called a shop meeting on the question of work- ing May 1. This shop had been work- ing on this day for the last three years. The shop meeting under the leadership of the nucleus, decided to quit. When the boss received word about this decisian he frantically ap- pealed to the secretary of the tinion to hold the workers back. However the workers of the shop came down in a body to the union meeting and de- manded that the entire trade quit on May 1. Although this was not car- ried, and although the secretary or- dered the workers in this shop not to stop work, when May 1 came not one worker reported for duty. Every comrade in this nucleus is a subscriber to the DAILY WORKER. Freheit Ball tickets and DAILY WORKER subs, have been sold to a number of workers in the shop. The comrades in the nucleus make it their business to report at the shop a half hour before opening time, During -this time they discuss with workers the current news of the day, which the workers, who have either no time or ability to read for them- selves, are very anxious to hear. In the course of this talk the comrades show the contrast between the Com- munist and the capitalist press in the way the news is handled. At first the workers ridiculed this idea but now they are genuinely interested and a large number report early for this discussion. This of course is a very interesting beginning of the verbal word of mouth in many factories in Russia, The nucleus is planning an organi- zation campaign to organize the fe- male workers in the shop. More will be heard from them in the near future. SHOP NUCLEUS NO. 11 distributed over 1000 leaflets and newspapers. Whereas last year only two workers stayed away on May 1, this year com- rades induced 22 workers to quit in spite of the fact that the shop is un- organized. Twenty-six tickets were sold for the mass meeting run by the party. SHOP NUCLEUS NO. 2 is in a shop which always worked on May 1. The shop nieleus decided to bring the matter of May 1 before the shop meet- ing. After a strenuous debate led by the comrades in the nucleus, it was decided that the whole shop should quit work. Not only did the nucleus | A8 WE SEE Ir -:- By T. J. O Flaherty (Continued from page 1) elected to save itself from becoming a laughing stock on account of its absurd fear of a couple of not very important or able men.” That's the idea. The capitalist government must keep its nerve and maintain its dig- nity! “Probably they were guilty and foolish” says the Leader. Well, what's the use? E is not impossible that another world war may develop out of the French war in Morocco, hints the Chicago Tribune, Not by any means. Morocco is the key to immense wealth in Africa and France has troops enough to give John Bull a creepy feeling in the spine. The imperialist buzzards are watching the French op- erations in Morscco with an anxious eye. England is standing on the rock of Gibraltar with a telescope. Spain can't do very much, but what she can do will not be to the interest of France. Italy would like a share of the Moroccan loot. Wall Street could find some room for its millions of idle capital there. | . HE enlarged exedutive of the Com- munist International stated that capitalism had been able to reach a surprised as we are to learn of his influence in the | certain degree of stabilization. But it teachers’. federation in New York, where a local babbitt stated that he was respou ible for the Ricca teachers’ salary bilJ, — careful to out that there could be no pe t stabilization. | Things did not J 80 Paces for capi- tallsm when 4 Serbian student — — vi scrambled the grand duke of Austria in 1914. Before the dead were count- ed the capitalist system itself came within an inch of being as dead as the czar of Russia. Wise capitalists know that another world will put them on the historical scrap heap. Yet they are feverishly preparing for it. They remind one of a man who stands on the brink of a precipice and is so fascinated with the void in front of him that he jumps to it even tho he knows it means death. Or like the fly that keeps flitting around a light until it burns into ashes. Soviet Union Sends Protest to China Against Troop Graft PEKING, China, May 21—M. Karak- han, ambassador to China, for the Soviet Union, has registered a vigor- ous protest with the Chinese foreign office against the practice of the troops under Chang Tso-lin, who have stolen. $6,000,000 from the Chinese Eastern railway by. selling military passes. The Manchurian general has been policing the railroad. Chang Tso-lin’s troops are now oc- cupying Peking,.as General Feng Yu- Hsiang has wn to the north- western front. —— GET A sus = GIVE ONEL . — ———ů—ů — a carry this "Teal successfully, bat it also arranged an open air meeting, which was held two days before May 1. This meeting not only resulted in waking up the workers of the neighborhood to the significance of May 1, but it also resulted in the formation of another shop nucleus in a neighboring shop. Two new com- rades were brought into the party and a collection was made for the Frei- heit. The nucleus also won a fine victory for the workers in that they forced the boss to cease penalizing the workers for spoiled work, a prac- tice that had been costing the work- ers several dollars each week. NUCLEUS NO. 20 also reported that they had brought all the workers out of the shop on May 1, in spite of the fact that this shop had always worked on May 1 and in spite of the fact that there was no union rule in regard to quitting on May 1. Other reports of nuclei activity will be published as they come in. The remainder of the meeting was given over to a discussion of belshevizing the nuclei through educational methods and plans. It is hoped that by tacking the comrades in the nuclei, one by one, that they will be persuaded to give serious study to Communist theory and practice as found in the classics of the party. | '| Shachtman speaking on The Bolshe YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE ACTIVITIES. LOCAL CHICAGO, Friday, May 22, Branch No. 1, Reh 166 W. Washington St., Max vization of The N Workers League. Branch No. 5, 19 8. Leet eo William F. Dunne, speaking on American Negroes and the Colonie | Peoples. Branch No, 6, 2613 Hirsch Blvd., Manuel Gomez, speaking on Imperial- ism. Branch No. 7, N. E. corner 90th St. and Dobson Ave. Educational meet- ing. 2 Saturday, May 23, 1925, V. W. . picnic committee, 2:30 p. m. at 19 8. Lincoln street. Financial secretaries’ meeting: iat. * p. m. at 19 S. Lincoln street. 9 * 310 John Reed Junior affair at 1902 W. Division St. Max Shachtman will give greetings from the Russian Pio neers, Saturday, May 23. ? > > — mis 1 Detroit Yowls Hike. Mage The first hike of the season, given by the Young Workers League of De- troit, Mich., will take place May 24. To get there, take a cross-town; thru. car to the end of the line on West Warren avenue; there you will be met by a committee at 9:30 a, m, sharp. The hike will proceed to River Rouge Park. A good time is assured and everybody is welcome. Remém- ber: 9:30 sharp. — THE RESULTS OF THE SESSION OF THE “ENLARGED EXECUTIVE OF THE YOUNG COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL By V. VUYOVITCH (Moscow) 1 Enlarged Executive of the Young Communist International was faced by the task of discussing the resolutions of the last enlarged E. C. C. I. as to the political situation and as to Bolshevization of the Communist | parties, and of working out instructions for the further development of the mass work of all sections of the Y. C. I. on the basis of the resolutions of the Comintern and of the experiences gained in the practical work of our leagues during the last seven months. The nlarged Executive of the Y. C. I. unanimously accepted all the resolutions of the enlarged E. C. C. I. and pledged all the groups, especially that of Czecho-Slovakia, to a really active participation in political Hie, to join in the work of the communist parties, to the energetic defence, of the line of policy of the Comintern and to support the parties in the difficult task of Bolshevisation. On the basis of the estimation given by the Comintern, the Enlarged Ex- ecutive of the Y. C. I., worked out a resolution with regard to the Bol- shevisation of the Youth Leagues, in newspapers, which are carried on by ‘which the opinion was clearly ex- pressed that the chief attention of the leagues should be concentrated on work in the various concerns and in the factory nuclei, on the fight for the economic demands of the working youth, and on work in the trade unions. Thanks to the vast experience of our French, Italian, American, German and other groups, our plenum was able this time to concern itself in much more detail with working out the concrete methods and forms of the economic struggle and of the mass work of the Youth Leagues in the factories. On this occasion the ple- num pointed with special insistence to the possible modifications in the fight for partial demands and to the necessity of combining our daily struggles with the outlook of the revo- lution and of the ultimate victory of the working class over the bourge- oisie. The second question on which the plenum threw the necessary light and for the solution of which it made con- crete suggestions, is the struggle to win over the youth of the rural pop- ulation. Up to now the minority of our groups has only done quite insig- nificant work among the peasant youth. The plenum pointed out the necessity of developing an energetic campaign for the conquest of the pro- letarian rural youth and the poorest members of the peasant youth, but at the same time laid emphasis on the class character of the Young Com- munist Leagues and the necessity, under all circumstances, of preventing a firm proletarian leadership which will be realized by the™ proletarian nucleus in the leagues and with the help of constant and firm leadership jon the part of the communist par- | ties. For this reason the plenum re- solved that the Young Communist Leagues in the West should only ex- tend their organization activities among the proletarian youth in the ‘villages and among the poorest of the peasant youth. As regards the youth of the middle class farmer, our task is to neutralize it. The plenum took up an attitude of dpposition to the creation of youth sections in the Peasant International, as it was of the opinion that the peasant youth should join the non-party associations together with the adults. The plenum took cognisance of the fact that many leagues had been very successful in organizing the leagues on the lines of factory nuclei... The most important sections of the Y. C. L are about to complete their re-or- —— —— nm ‘ ganization. The plenum therefore had to pay increased attention to the purpot of the work of the nuclei in the West, and to issue a number of instruction which will make it pos- sible for the leagues to increase the activity of their members and to give the daily work of the nuclei a revo- lutionary purpot which interest broad groups of the working youth. The slogan of the Communist Youth International is: “Complete transfor- mation of the leagues into factory nuclei before the next International Youth Conference.” The plenum devoted special atten- tion to the work amongst the youth in the East, In all the most import- ant countries of the Bast, Young Com- munist Léagues already exist, and some of thése, especially the Chinese Mongolian League, have already done important work in mobilizing the youthful workers and peasants for the struggle against feudalism and imper- ialism. The resolution as to Bolshe- visation emphasized the necessity of differentiating our work in the Hast, and laid down the concrete tasks of the Young Communist Leagues on the basis of the three different types of the colonial and semi-colonial coun- tries, In recent times, the menshevist youth of Germany and of other west- ern countries has developed an in- tensive propaganda against the Len- inist Youth League and against Soviet Russia, by false statements regarding the economic and political situation of the working youth in the Soviet Un- ion. The plenum accepted the report of Comrade Tchaplin, who submit- ted extensive material to the del- egates regarding the actual situation of the youth, on the basis of which all the sections of the Y. C. I. will be in a position to give young mensbey- ist organizations the answer they de- serve. The central point of the attention of the plenum was the question of Lenini&t education for all sections of the Y. C. I. The present political situation involves great dangers for the ideological clearness of vision and political steadfastness of the youth leagues and demands a sound thee oretical education not only of their functionaries but of all members of the leagues. The plenum passed @ whole number of resolutions which represent a guarantee that all sece- tion of the Y. C. L. not only promote the Leninist education of their meme bers but will, in the shortest time, bring this work up to the desired level. Thus the 5th Enlarged Executive of the Y. C. L created the political and organizing basis for further work in the Bolshevisation of all sectiona of the V. C. I., and represents @ con siderable step forward in the develope ment of the Leninist Young Commune ist International ~ 7 1 - — — — — — —

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— — 4 a ane 2 . * r 22 r i. W ade wr * * ys Ow oe f er een? iy wes . „ , 1 „ 8 9 A +’ —— mag i * * 250 * 7 4 my * 9 4 0 Pravda estimates that it was probably * ee N ee ee Sa * F 1 ae . . SECOND SECTION i ao „ This magazine supple- ment will appear every Saturday in The Daily Worker. MAY 23, 1925. By VLADIMIR ILYITCH LENIN. | Note.—The following article 4 Comrade Lenin was published 5 in the Pravda, official organ of the Russian Communist Party for 7 ‘ it is impossible to state ex- when it was written. The written about the beginning of 1915. „ *e2ee * | TN England there has existed up till now an incomparably larger The relations between the classes are more developed and in many re- spects clearer than in other countries. Freedom from compulsory military service affords the people greater lib- erty in respect to their attitude to war insofar as everybody is free to refuse to enter the army. The government is therefore compelled (in England the government constitutes in its purest them as agents of the bourgeoisie. LL these peculiarities of England enable us on the one hand to understand the nature of present day social chauvinism the more easily, as ance of those reconciliatory tenden- cies with social chauvinism, which find expression for example in the glorification of the slogan of peace, ~ Ste. The most complete expression of opportunism and of liberal labor poli- tles is undoubtedly to be seen in the Fabian Society. Im this connection the reader should carefully peruse the exchange of letters between Marx and Engels and Sorge. He will there find ET 481d L nt and compare the facts. We : : * m Kautsky, is it may be for various persons, the in- to : and almost left phrases re- arding peace, disarmament, etc., etc. evitable and indisputable conse- quence: that the leaders of the pres- ent day German social democratic party, including Kautsky, are in prac- tice just as much agents of the bour- geoisie as the Fabians, whom Engels long ago characterized as such. The repudiation of Marxism by the Fab- ians and its ‘recognition” by Kautsky | organization is E. D. Morel who is at present a constant contributer to the | central organ of the “Independent La- bor Party,” the Labor Leader. Morel was some years ago the canidiate of the liberal party in the constituency of Birkenhead. When Morel, soon af- ter the outbreak of the war, spoke against Russia, he was informed by a letter from the Birkenhead Liberal Association, dated October 2, 1914, that in future his candidature would not be acceptable for the liberal party, that means, he was simply expelled from the party. Morel replied in a letter dated October 14, which he then published in a special pamphlet under and Co. make not the slightest differ- the title: “The Outbreak of the War.” MARX AND LENIN | SPOKESMEN OF THE WORLD SOCIAL REVOLUTION. ence to the matter when it comes to actual policy, but only proves the transformation of Marxism into Stru- in the ranks of the proletariat. The Fabians are more honest and In this pamphiet, as well as in a num- ber of other articles, Morel exposes his government by proving how incor- rect it was to point to the violation of Belgium neutrality as being the cause of the war and to claim that the ob ject of the war was the destruction of Prussian imperialism, etc. etc. . Morel defends the program of the “Union of Democratic Control”: Peace, disarmament, the right of self- determination of all territories on the basis of a plebiscite, and democratic control of foreign policy. ROM all this it is to be seen that Morel as a person undoubtedly deserves recognition for his sincere sympathy for democracy, for his turn- ing from the chauvinist bourgeoisie to the pacifist bourgeoisie. When Morel proved by facts that his government deceived the people when they denied the existence of secret treaties, altho they existed all the time; that the English bourgeoisie, even in the yean 1887, was perfectly clear as to the in- fevitability of the violation of Belgium neutrality in the event of the Franco- German war and emphatically reject- ed every idea of intervention (Ger- lish Aversion to Theor) many at that time was not yet a dan- gerous competitor), that the French militarists of the type of Colonel Bou- cher have before the war, in a num- ber of books, openly announced their intention of conducting an aggressive war on the part of France and Russia against Germany; that the well-known English military author‘ty, Colonel Repington, in the year 1911 character- ized in the press the increase of arm- ament in Russia since 1905 as a dan- ger for Germany—when Morel proves all this, we must admit that we are dealing with a courageous bourgeois who is not afraid of breaking with his own party. . Everybody must however, immedi- ately percieve that he is nevertheivss a bourgeois whose phrases regarding peace and disarmament remain empty phrases, as without the revolutio action of the proletariat there can be no talk either of a democratic peace or of disarmament. And Morel, who has now fallen out with the liberals on account of the question of the pres- ent war, remains on all economic and political questions a liberal. Why is it regarded, not as a piece of hypoc- risy, but as a merit when Kautsky in Germany uses the same bourgeois phrases concerning peace and disarm- ament, decorated with Marxist termin- ology? Only the backward develop- ment of politica] conditions and the lack of political freedom in Germany prevents a bourgeois league of peace and disarmament springing up, ou the basis of the program ty, with the same ease and Papidityjam in England. ET us recognize the fact that Kaut- sky adopts the standpoint of the pacifist bourgeois and not of the rev- olutionary social democracy. e are living in the midst of sufficiently great events to have the courage to recog- nize the truth “regardless of persons.” In their aversion to abstract theory, proud of their practicality, the Eng- lish often approach political questions in a direct manner. They thereby help the socialists of other countries to find the real content within the husk of every kind of terminology— including the “Marxist.” In this con- nection the pamphlet, “Socialism and | War,”* which was published before * “Socialism and War“: The Clar- 2 Press, 44 Worship Street, London, C. | the war by the chauvinist paper, The Clarion, is instructive. The pamphlet contains a “declaration” by Upton Sinclair the American socialist against war, and the reply of the chauvinistic Robert Blatchford, who has for long occupied the same imperialist position as Hyndman. INCLAIR ig a sentimental socialist without theoretical training. He puts the question simply,“ he is in- censed at the approach of war and seeks salvation from war thru so- cialism. “We are told,” writes Sinclair, “that the socialist movement is still too weak, that we must rely upon evolu- tion. But evolution proceéds in the hearts of men; we are the instru- ments of evolution. We are told, that our movement against the war will be suppressed. But I declare, and I am profoundly convinced of it, that the suppression of all activity which has as its aim, on the ground of the highest humanity, the prevention of war, would constitute the greatest vic- tory of socialism—the greatest it has ever gained—as this would rouse the conscience of civilization and stir up the workers of the whole world as never before in history. Let us not be too anxious regarding our move (Continued on page 8) —

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hereby to be able better to judge the competitive capacity of Danish in- dustry, and then to take a definite at- titude in the spring on the expiration of the treaty, but at the same time to make use of the preliminary negoti- ations in order to judge the attitude of the trade union leaders. OM the secret minutes of the sit- ting of the executive committee of the Employers’ Federation, which fell into the hands of the Communist Par- ty of Denmark, it was to be seen that the employers were not inclined to en- ter upon 4 decisive struggle in order to reduce wages, as they very much fear- with resistamee on the index, factory councils, summer vaca- tion, ahd securing of the eight hour day by increased rates of pay for over- time. A number of trade unions adopted these demands. The executive of the only. In order to compel wages be according to the price index and, in addition, a further increase of the lowest rates of wages be granted a 30 per cent increase of wages on account of high prices, whilst the workers in the metal in- dustry would not receive a penny in- crease. When the federation demand- among them being members of trade unions who had already concluded new treaties. Fresh wholesale lock- outs were contemplated, with the isolated sympathetic strikes were declared as counter- poy ys 4 eee 1 5 4 Ms She Mae) een a tae ory +t * 1 . e ey 4 8 4 4 7 * 4 — 25 8 i : ce gis g 5 8 1 i 9 8 1155 1 g b Union f 5 some of his proletarian class feeling. N a ballot being taken, the metal workers rejected the proposal by -a small majority, and this was only ‘due to to the very energetic agitation on the part of the Communists. In spite of the fact that Lyngsie was in the minority on the executive of his union, he nevertheless succeeded, sup- ported by a fairly strong communist fraction, in rejecting the proposal with an overwhelming majority at the congress of the trade union. Five ed a 3 per cent increase on account of high prices, accepted the proposal. The 7 trade unions which rejected the proposal represented about 110,000 workers, whilst the 17 trade unions . eri itt r 1 ; smaller trade unions, who had receiv, 2 5 N * a s ite eet Te OO” ete tee . . n . * ae 299 et ate je 3 * 5 x ‘ „ gm : - nk ok , N n ~ ee s > N y } BY a ns icin, Ri ‘ T a Be 2 + ?] - 26. 22 Piel 8 . es ete eee oe 6 2 1 n 1 ** N 2 e . ee ee ee * are Pe pe” yas Aa A * U in} r i Tide Ate ly” e Dans re Wr Sa ‘See 2 : 1 2 5 1 tae 1 * 2 oa P 3 r 3 Sieg 1 3 z . f — SEEE 5175 Be 1 iE party comrade, Lyngsie, threatened a transport strike, which would hit the export of agricultural products and shake the whole economic life of the country. HE fighting spirit of the workers however, is increasing every day. At a full meeting of the executive of Fer 1815 * No Miracles in Truth. To the DAILY WORKER:—Some- times when I read your paper and see things about lack of prosperity in, this country, I wonder where you are getting the news. For one never sees However, the editorial in The Na- tion of Mey 20, confirms paat articles in your paper, and would recommend He did not see any good times ahead 1 5 8 17 d ttle a ze 8 2 g : orant, even many of Lenin's follow- 8 ers, and are inappreciative ot your efforts to educate them. Your classes, where you are endea- voring to train workers for militant class conscious agitation, are com- laudable. Of course, trade union con- troversies are at times nauseating, but I presume you are compelled to repell their vicious acts copied from parlia- mentary fillibustering carried on in our legislatures by our paid and hon: ored officials. Let every, worker tell you what he knows, and we will soon know a lot.— A Reader, Detroit, Mich. eri e a 4 7 etters From Our Readers English branch for the past three, years. Yesterday I received a letter from a former member of Local Muscatine, Iowa, Socialist Party which tells of the demise of same (which is all O. K. wit hme), and I hope you will punish the letter as I. received it which speaks for itself. ™ Yours for the DAILY WORKER, Lee W. Lang. s 8s ® - Muscatine, Iowa, May 11, 1925. Dear Friend: Will drop you a few 1 ab will do. Well, Lee, I a meeting, so that is the last I heard of it. Even the members ain’t interested in it enough to meetings. : GET A SUB AND GIVE ONE! NN N Am cutting buttons now, but am | thinking of fishing and shelling this} . ever your friend, summer, but don’t know just what 1 Charles Haney. = ——— — — — is 1 { Madison Pharmacy | INC. } BETTER} DRUGS } 5 ‘ Light Luncheon Served 1154 Madison Street, Corner : OPEN DAY AND NIGHT | Four Phones Chicago} 7

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cx Soe — 1 e e n 9 2 2 * nn 5 D 4 e ae 8 2 aoe un Ay * 5 N — * — i Te i eae 1 83 7 9 | tin oes n 2 ee Ne 2 : sk or ke Ao ee 95 r ah aes 2 "i 3 . en > . 2 * rr N 4 Ae ee ‘) * * 7 4 P vi * * . 8 . hae 7 OP ae : iE Ce 6 oe me * R ; One® oe EER oe 2 * 24 1 18 ES — et sh Ph er i shen > ¥ dt 1 1 * 1 e Pa TEES ae 1 r 4 1 oes 2 ire i f : g 8 F 1 eS : 4 1 if — — * N Ran: 2 ie if — ae Res 2 2 ptm, 1 — © Se Nag af . F a ee < * 2 * r 3 n . 8 *. * Oe tae * - 4 n : & by Pye yaw „ „ 5 “Sy, 5 4 * 7 . ry i i 17 f 55 other works combined, and I don't find it catalogued in the famous Howl by No. 3. (Someone had to take a fall out of that intolerably conceited bour- ‘geois ass; if no one else would do it, I who have no appetite for such naus- eous matters must volunteer!) OMMUNIST art is ripening in Moscow. I can’t say much about it as I haven’t been there, but Barkis is willing, and I hereby serve notice on my left wing comrades to organize and send me as a delegate there, if they want a better report than I can give now. ‘ However suffice it to say that Plet- nev in the Proletcult theaters has kickt out the Nos. 1, 2 and 3’s and re- placed them with proletarians who give the worker audience the thrill of their lives. He makes them partici- pate in the performances too, as sing- ers, marchers, and . collaborators: working class artist collaborators, if you please. He throws out the old Belasco settings with their overstuft om furniture; he pits’ over. alls over the John Drew creased, pants; he sets on the stage platforms, machines, bits of the shop, the circus, the street and the field and centers the action around proletarian revo- Ition. He considers that Communist the great man killed off; the Nos. 1, 2 and 3’s with their sloppy and slobber- the factory are invited in. The theater itself is torn down and the shows are given in the factory communal halls. No salaries; no professionals; no charges at the box office. All is for love, instead of all being about love, and sensual love at that. The dirty, the pornografic, the lewd, the drunken, the low, the bummy, the bourgeois in short is shown the gut- ter, and the healthy worker running his beloved machine, conqueror of famine, poverty, and want is given the center of the stage. The trapeze, and the flying rings replace the davenport and the sofa. The setting is for work and for work- ers, not for lounge lizards, and jazz hounds and sex degenerates, who moan and whime in Oscar Wildean monotones about not sufficiently satis- fying their degenerate appetites, their sadistic cravings, their abnormal thirsts. This stuff is fine business for the artistic brotherhood, who de- nounce all that part of the brasscheck press that doesn’t pay them royalties, praise their scribblings, while contri- buting snide and sly counter-revolu- tionary article to the so-called radical papers, the other branch. (YES: it is true. No. 3 did invite President Wilson to meet him at his local hotel, and take lunch with him. Prexy res- pectfully declined, showing almost as much contempt for N. 3 as the work- ing class itself does.) * ‘ ‘first put -woman-in-love — on the stage. According to the ‘other Grecian playwrights, this marked the degeneracy of Athenian art. Euri- pides had two wives who both betray- ed him, like bourgeois wives usually do where it is a question of how much y Robin E. Danbar money they get out of their trechery, they act just like bourgeois artists do. But Greek art was founded on con- quest of workers in and out of Greece; it was for the owners of slaves, just as art has been ever since. No wonder that it is rotten; no wonder that the American stage has become Frenchi- fied, where nude women and adulter- ous wives hold the boards to the ex- clusion of all other heroines. As ‘Wine, women and song is the bour- geois littany; all its artists must sing that or pass out. No. 3 sings it too, tho with a wry mouth; but he listens to it with wide open asses ears! That's why he likes his own kind 80 well; the Shaws, Menckens, Brisbanes and his paymaster, Hearst. No. 3 is a sad example of bourgeois perversity. He may be a great humorist like Mark Twain, but he’ll never die a laughing at his own jokes any more than Mark did. HAT killed Mark was he had to keep his mouth shut or lose his job; so he took to his bed and smoked himself to death; just like Jack Lon- don took to his front porch and his bottle. Both were good men and true; and both died cursing their paymast- ers Isn’t it too bad, comrades, to be a great author? The third in America, that means in the world, for America thru Wall Street, leads the world; and of course its artists, being Wall Street artists, are greater than Lombard St., or Wil- helm Strasse, or the Paris Bourse or other literary thorofare artists in foreign countries. And as for Moscow outside the Belasco Art Theater there, that town is not in the running at all! Third in the world, and not be recogn- ized by all the bourgeoisie as such and by none of the Third Internation- al? Such negation is a great depri- vation. G doesn't pay. I rather like it tor that reason. For I am not tempted to follow Na. 3˙8 fatal foot steps, and become an unknown number like he is; unknown to the real rebel workers of the world; an X whose value in the equation turns out to be zero. N the 24th of this month, Jacob Schaefer, the well-known musi- clan and leader of the Freiheit Sing- ing Organization, will receive an en- thusiastic, real proletarfan weicome and ovation from the workers of Chi- cago, as the day will mark the close of his ten years of intensive work and considerable accomplishments in the field of music. Jacob Schaefer, as a musician identified himself with a proletarian task, namely, to bring the esthetic and educational influences of music to the workers who labor in factories and in other various places of business and as they endure the harsh conditions prevalent in their personal lives, gradually lose their sensibilities for the finer assets of life among which music probably plays the most predominant part. He had „therefore, devoted his talents and time to the work of developing and creating the song of the toller, clearly indicating thereby, his firm belief in the existence of proletarian music. E realizes as well as we do, that the (so-called) class struggle; becoming such distinct an event at the present time, has also reached the sphere of the finer arts. A line of demarcation must be drawn in that great field of art. Our music should incorporate characteristics of prole- tarian consciousness and reflect the conceptions and tendencies of our rev- olutionary times. Music of the higher sort is at the disposal of the rich. They are patronizing the artist and the latter, in turn, seeks their favor and tries to satisfy their whims. . the future we are bound to see music being responsible to the great events of time. To the facts fei. That is, if the artist does 1 live amongst evolutionists and revo- which will particularly determine the , ) s destinies of humanity as they will-be manifested in the revolutionary strug- gles of the oppressed, downtrodden masses for liberation and freedom. Proletarian music suggests to us the idea that proletarian emotions are to find incarnation in musical concep- tions expressed in musical sounds. Music which has been a source of in- spiration to humanity and has been used to elevate the spirit and inbue the soul ne longing and desire for justice, spiritual gratification will serve an equal purpose to the work- ers, yet will strengthen their belief in, their ideals and inspire them to do things essential to bring about the realization of their dreams. . UE proletarian composers are not to be found in numbers. They are rare; but they will appear in due course of time. One of them is the man mentioned in the previous lines, Jacob Schaéfer. His musical com- positions present themes, dealing with life of workers. His newly created work which is to be given on the 24th of this month is a musical score com- posed to the words of a dramatic poem written by a revolutionary Rus- sian playwrigth. The selection of that dramatic poem for a theme of a musi- cal work and the making of its per- formance coincident with a time which is regarded by him and his fel- low workers as a jubilee, are evidence that he is the new type of a proleta- ¥en composer, organically connected . our proletarian aspirations and . Schaefer is a man of whom we can expect very much. His past life had proved that. He came over to America as an immigrant and started to work as a carpenter. Being a child Jubilee Concert to Honor Proletarian Composer meant to live comfortably and enjoy those things which a person in the blooming period of youth is longing for. Here, in America, he faced those hardships and deprivations which meet newcomers. He labored hard, and at the same time spared time and saved some of his meager earnings for the purpose of taking up mustcal studies. Being a man of energy and determination he overcame the diffi- culties. He gradually acquired a musi- cal education and thereby afforded his natural talents to come into play and secure for him a prominent place in the profession. It is expected that the workers of Chicago will take no- tice of this affair and will be pregent at the Studebaker Theater on the 24th day of May, 2:30 p. m., to hear the work of Jacob Schaefer, performed by the Freiheit Singing Society, members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra — conducted by the composer him- self. Clara Rubenstein. Dr. A. Moskalik DENTIST | S. W. Corner 7th and Mifflin Sts. PHILADELPHIA, PA, GRIGER & NOVAK GENTS FURNISHING and MERCHANT TAILORS Union Merchandise 1934 W. Chicago Avenue (Cork. Winchester) Phone Humboldt 2707 of poor parents he never knew what Does your friend subscribe to the DAILY WORKER? Ask him! a * — 2

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| 83 of preceding Chapters. Nickles and Joe Vavas, migratory workers, meet under a freight train while beating their way west. They get off at Colorado Springs. Joe Vavas, Hun- garian, is a barber by trade, and Nickles, a Greek, has no fixed trade. In Colorado Springs Vavas buys second-hand clothes for the two and they go to look for work. Vavas gets a job as a barber. Nickles manages to get work at Broadmoor, the mansion ‘of the Broidins. His work Is constant drudgery. Vavas ie class conscious, but Nickles is not. Now go on with the story. (Continued from last Saturday) VI. JOE and Nickles met often. They did not agree on many things, but liked each other a lot. Joe had more free time than Nickles, and would walk over to Broadmoor in the evening. There is fresh air here and the forest. | ‘Joefelt as if he had been in Colorado Springs from the beginning of time. That is part of a workers’ nature. He has no roots. He felt at home wherever there were workers. “Look here, you ain't got no idea how much the workers are dissatisfied here.” “Ah, that’t a lot of talk. I think myself they’d like to tear each other’s head off.” “That’s something I don’t believe. No sir There ain't no reason why they should. They al work hard, don’t they, and the guy that’s got a family to support suffers the most, even though he works his head off.” “You can’t do a thing to the bosses. They’re too strong.” Joe was aware that the power of the bosses de- pended upon the workers. But Nickles wouldn’t hear of it. He clung to the belief that there were always people who had others work for them, and lived from the toil of others, and it would always be 80. P who is very industriaus and has luck also come around to the point where be : ‘trom’ fhe ‘work of others. “Why look here, anybody that can talk good American gets along fine?’ „ * . * ICKLES felt great admiration for Joe. For his enthusiasm, The way he loved his Communist paper for in- stanee. It was always sticking out of his pocket. And he would tell Nickles what was in it. Nickles read the Denver Post.“ It waa full of pictures. And yet there was noth- ling in it that held him really. thow rich it was. > * 23 “ap 2 * a os 9 * be ap 1 23 * ery N * 3 . 0 * N 22 8 — 7 The e ee Deas show But Joe reported on every occasion how the Communist paper was in financial difficulties. © And this "Was Seren a thing to be wondered at. It was Nickles’ idea that a paper that was always in financial diffleulties ought to be given up. And yet he saw the very contrary, that: the relation between Joe and the paper became the more cordial, bag. A connec oy mae And all these collections. Joe never tired of sending in i lass aid th week the money wh de had saved from bis wages. And he didn't earn much! : Nickles was of the opinion—and he told that to Joe—that his actions contradicted his words. Joe always said that all the money, all the property and possessions of the rich must be taken away, and yet he himself gave away everything he had. Nickles thought, why does a man need wealth when he gives away the little that he has? He thought of how Joe had shared with him his few dollars when they had come here—and that he could have bought a much better suit for himself for all the money. And another thing. Every time that Joe read in his paper about a misfortune or that in some country the reactionaries were again murdering vorkers, he would shake his fist, would threaten, ay all kinds of things—that the day of judgment would come for those rascals of capitalists. His talk was bloody. . And yet as a matter of fact Joe was extremely gentle. Ridiculously so. He would even get out of the way of a caterpillar. , Nickles often kidded him about it. And yet. These qualities attracted him to Joe. He had to : admit that he liked him so much precisely on ac- San a amend. Sats And he even gave his tor the Rus- alan children or for packed into the prisons of the capitalists. And Nickles didn’t realize that through Joe he learned more about what was happening in this big, wide world to the poor, his fellow workers, than he could learn in the thirty-two pages of the “Denver Post” that he read every day. * . 7. * VII. 17 is a privilege to live read at least “Denver Post,” in Colorado”—Nickles to ten times every day in the — — a serve! The heavy, parrot- green „ ge . fee 5 There wasn’t a bit of breeze. a pe And the heavy dress-coat in don't need no steam bath“). down his neck. for the evening. For -the forest. 185 For the wind. The soft wind. The forest-vind 7 S * *# # Ree ts * accompanied him. n They waited for Joe. * * 2 Nickles reached for Marguerites ‘hand, 1 Marguerite yielded it. Nickles was a strong, hansome chap. guerite was a lively, affectionate ishing the knives. 0 l. ¥ Bar. n. It is so natural, e ad two bodies to find each other in the coal €imnes of the forest. Did they leve each other? Why not? The were lonely. And both of them wanted to le. Nickles pressed Marguerite tightly, His arm held the girl in iron embrace. Marguerite cried out faintly. Nickles laughed: “Does it hurt?” Marguerite wanted to free herself from his arms 2. oF . 1 Nickles laughed. He bit the girl on the shoulder. Marguerite slapped him dutifully on the megth Senn Sree Oe Seeker Sow ae didn’t really resent it. fellows in my trade, and tomorrow the wnfon @ this| ganizer is coming from Denver.” “Nickles didn't grasp the entire significance c the thing, but anyway he was happy together wit his friend. “Just think, there’ll be a fight and Jo stamped from joy. Nickles had never seen his friend 80 cheerf’ before. Joe reported in detail how he had gucceetied bringing together the dissatisfied, and that ther was a splendid chap among them, a certain Wi liam who was very helpful to him in the organi tion. He is an American. It's easier for him*™—Jo ‘|sighed. “Me they call a foreigner plenty of times. P'you see?!“ Nickles said Organizing Industry For War! The story of how the bosses are hurriedly organizing the industries of the country for war is The New Issue of the YOUNG WORKER tells how the organization of the big bosses, the Ordmance Advisory Board, headed by N. H. Gary, which is preparing industry on a national scale to make bigger profits than ever before out of che next told for the first time in slaughter of young workers, How Near Is War? Dark clouds are gathering over the Pacific and the imperialists are adding more young workers to thetr armies and navies, . . bull are in jail m Honolulu because they opposed the coming war! All these preparations of the bosses for war have been exposed weekly in the YOUNG WORKER which carries on a continual fight against capitalist militarism and imperialist wars. Send tor bundle orders of the new issue containing this special story. 5 CENTS A COPY. Subscription Rates—$1.50 a year, 85c for 6 months. THE YOUNG WORKER 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. trumphantly— “that’s how your fellow-workers are” And b stressed sarcastically the word “fellow,” „Naturally they are like that, And. they wasn’t that way, you wouldn’t be Mr. Bro din’s servant, you'd be workin’ in the-public [ibrar or the children’s sanatorium of Broadmoor, That what they do with them mansions in Russia, tur them into useful. And the Mr, ap Mrs. would be starin’ down at you fram the ne tree.“ This statement gave Marguerite and Mchles terrible fright. “Don’t spring anything like that! Marguer might have bad dreams.” They laughed. Pm tellin’ you, something is happening | Colorado Springs.” EEN put in a word; “Is it alright to do such a thing? wi @ bosses allow it?” Joe laughed. “Tg it alright? The constitution ellews R. course, the bosses don’t like to see f The ones that organize are the — they're stronger they got power, ivi th got power, they win the fight. That was clear, Even Marguerite could not find 42 2 0 reasoning. . — — —

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* 1224 ein =F - - os Pte: 1, iy 3 , 2 g l z <i 1 ‘aes 3 ee i 4 3 18 N 2! iPM LN eg © * r gS pO ee we ee 2 R » * N. BAT ee Pen ee get ve 2 — 7 = I* was decided to declare a strike immediately. This decision took the master barbers by sur- prise. They had thought that the matter had been settled once the workers’ delegation had been thrown out. Up to now that had always been the case. It had always succeeded. Now they pub- lished in the “Springs Paper” a long article on Bolshevist agitators. And they ordered an editor- fal which attacked the barbers in the name of the public. But the barbers opened some union shops, o and the workers came there with a happy heart. |The newspaper articles received approval only from those who did riot go to those barber shops. Joe stood there for a moment. seemed as if the two sides would come to a clash} And the season was at its height. The best time, Dome nice couple you make f | fand the document would not be drawn up. Still,|the most favorable time for business. Both 5 ce _ {in spite of all that, they all agreed in the end. The master barbers called a special meeting. He took in the situation qucikly, _ ‘William and Joe liad conceived of the “fight”|And here too something unexpected took place. “Pm all e time happy when loving hearts get] differently, but they had to accept the fact that The owners of the small shops attacked the leaders 2 eee eee they were dealing with “old” people and they hoped of the association. They charged them with hav- was-gincerely happy. He began to] that the fat fellow would not be around at the ing acted like autocrats. tistle the tune of the. International. next election. The unity was broken. There was danger that Nickles and Marguerite did not know the tune. eos „% „* a part of the master barbers would act independ- The forest poured forth its fragrance lavishly.ITpPHR master barbers’ association would not re-ently. In order to prevent this it was decided to „„ cieve the delegation of the workers. negotiate with the union. } | tear aa This was the first victory of the workern g ; VIII. | The “Springs Paper” adopted a new tone. The was a magnificent triumph. (THE old ones said that after the failure there] number of papers sold in the city was constantly |} It is true that all weren’t present in the hall] was no sense to the organization and that the|dwindling. An open letter addressed to the ba- the little hotel, but there were twenty-four, any-| master barbers’ association would perhaps receive|bers appeared in the paper—but they mo longer ty. Twenty-four barbers from all parts of the] them the next year. The young workers attacked | read it. 5 3 5 „ Te eee oe looked with great satisfaction upon those] a membership meeting. : HE old men brought down the fat delegate from — — waiting impatiently for the) The demand had to be granted: 3 1 Denver, for they saw that the leadership was 2 „ agate 1 going over into the hands of the “inexperienced” : | oung men. . He came with William, who had fetched him | T HIß time they hired a bigger hall, and this one Y om the railway station. N 85 too was filled to overflowing. It was summer-time. All efforts of the master ** 8 barbers to recruit strikebreakers were unsuccess- William was a young chap with quick gestures. „ Policeman tried to stop the meeting becaute ful. The pupils of the barber-school of Denver 1 ayes reached only as far as the railroad station of Colorado Springs. As soon as they learned what was the matter they demanded their return fare from the bosses. This caused great confusion. 9 The young fellows raised such a racket at the rail Wan road station and hurled such choice epithets at the heads fo the elderly bosses that the latter felt that it was for the best to let these fellows get back the quickest way possible. : This was the second victory of the workers. The third victory went into the pocket of the fat man from Denver. . He sold out. All the demands were trimmed down, reduced by half. In the end there was hardly anything | left of the victory. „ disappointment to Joe. He d expected the man to be wise, and to find the : warned them to be cautious. To moderate their} He spoke with passion and with masterful ges- reduce their claims. And about or-] tures, | did not speak with enthusiasm, and The organization was in danger even before its} The worst of it was that the agreement would * had expected. birth. And he did not spare the old men. He de terminate at a time when working conditions in mn not going to i ere thought Joe—jclared that the weaklings were just as dangerous Colorado Springs would be at their worst. F as the bosses. The time was ripe for action. He] The strike was called off. g * demanded the immediate calling of a strike. Thunderous applause and general agreement AND yet—in spite of what happened—victory, : e showed that the workers were of th i betrayal—the strike assumed ignifi eryone recognized that the situation was unbear- William. e same view as yal . deep significance . 4 | It was a call to battle. ile, And that something had to be done. Nobody dared to speak about a delay. They] A call to battle for the workers. all wanted action. A call to battle for the apt, . William was of the local, Joe tr — background, and they had to accept their fate. (To be continued) The composition of the executive board did not W F lease Joe. The delegate from Denver had all The alden os elected to the executive committee who had mal den responsible for the failure in the past. Book Shop on to start an energetic campaign for reducing 307 Plymouth Court | ae working time and for a just increase in wages. (Between State and Dearborn} „10 Just South of Jackson) 'HINGS developed faster than Joe had thought. CHICAGO : The local union functioned, The ice was . “le oken, The hand bills were grabbed from all} Second-Hand Books |: nomic books, pamphiets, magazines And what is more, the workers themselves now |#"d ang In all language, prclügg. 3 . “Daily” Book Exchange D ME iy Tak naar Ss a mn / | 77 | titel 11411 gamated Food GENERAL HEADQUARTERS 81 East 10th Street, New York, N. Y. THIS IS OUR ef Sus PITTSBURGH, PA. | . EMBLEM To those who work hard for thels | 1 * 1 | „ | will save 50 per cent on all 71071 i 1 , j 4 ... .OLmanex. i An Industrial Organization For he demands, He was known to body. 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OO rere” 1 The DAILY WORKER recently published the opening speech of Nikolai Bucharin, editor of Pravda, officiial organ of the Russian Com- munist Party, before the recent “meeting of the enlarged executive committee of the Communist Inter- national. Following the discussion ot his report Bucharin made the 7 following 9 By NIKOLAI BUCHARIN. Mr of the speakers did not op- pose the theses, but made various remarks of a supplementary nature. Comrade Varga proposed including a special passage on village poverty, in other words, on small peasants and peasants on small allotments. I form- ulated the theses in the Russian term- inology. We make a distinction be- tween small peasants and peasants on small allottments, and in order to be precise, I believe that we can accept this subdivision. Wo can also accept the suggestion of Comrade Varga in connection with the thesis stating that in the present epoch it is impossible for the peasant- ry to. be an independent governing force, to say instead “a lasting gov- erning force.” On the other hand I do not share the view of Comrade Varga on the formation of peasant’ parties, nor of the analogous statement of Comrade Dombal. ARGA’S whole argument consists in his stating that we ourselves claim that the peasantry is becoming political. The political party is the expression of this development, and therefore we must have a political party of the peasants. That may be correct from a vulgar formal stand- point, but viewed dialectically, this is not correct and does not conform with reality. Can one say then that a peas- ant league is a non political forma- I believe it is false to say that tion? Does, for instance, the A. D. G. B. (General Federation of Trade Unions) in Germany play no political role? Of course it does, and yet it is not a political. party. Did the peasant league here in Russia play no political role? Of course it did, but it was not a political party. Here the socialist revolutionaries, menshevists and other parties carried on activ within the framework of the peasant league. This is also the case with the peasant or- ganizations already in existence. They exist, they grow, new organ- izations not only one, but sometimes many political parties engage in ac- It may be that these parties differ from on another in very few tivity. respects, but that is a fact. ARGA states that demands of the are not counter to the state, but they put forward demands to the state which have both an eéonomic and pol- itieal character, for instance, question of taxation. Most of the demands of the peas- ants are of such a nature. The revo lutionary elements among the peas- ants are not so advanced that they set up direct revolutionary demands It is not right to say either politics and then the political party, or only economic demands and then No poli- tieal party. This is how Varga puts the question and Dombal repeats it. Therefore it is no accident that the peasants organize carefully, not in the conventional political form, but in the form of the peasant league. re ag a ants. are counter to the bourgeois state. It is a bit strong-to say against the “bour- geois” state. One might get the im- pression that the peasant organiza- SR Pee Oke OR OORERE ee EG SORE LE Sak. & i Oc PO Se ie 5 . N . * S 1 1 % 1 2, fo ek ee * A 2 2 8 8 2 1888 RARE aS: ve SA ws, n 1 han 1 5 2 * 30% ’ 7 x * aan PPP 8 1 j 7... eae ER cab SG ONL ae ES, ed tas dah hota, 2 e 9 2 8 5 et 2 . Ae eS a 3 ; structure. | league and a political party in the real sense of the word. What is specific in a peasant league is its mixed character. For us it is better to have such-an organization, if only for the possibility of its great extent. In a political party only those may enter who seriously accept the pro- gram and do everything the party asks. 1 is a great deal of liberty of movement in the peasant league. Our people can enter it, and in the amorphous conditions of the peasant- ry, can create a situation in which we can win more and more new fol- lowers. What sort of slogan does Dombal suggest. Not a league, not a party, but a transitional form. In this way we would merely create a differ- ent term, nothing else. The specific character of the peasant league is its loose organization form, the pogsibil- ity of uniting members of various par- ties and even non-party people into organizations which have not so strict a diseipline and which put forward demands of a mixed character. No positive arguments werd produced against such a conception. It was merely stated that if the peasantry is did not lie in their having spoken non-possessing be made between possessing and non- possessing, between class strata which are linked up with private prop- erty and those which have no private. property whatsoever. But this dis- tinction is not everything. mic against Plekhanov, Le mulating our first party program, ob- served that we must first become sep- arate, we must first differentiate our- selves as a revolutionary class, as the proletariat which stands in a peculiar relationship to all other classes. Then, after we have constituted ourselves, the time comes when we must detér- mine our attitude to other classes. And in this second phase, let us say, lies the fault of the social democrats —I determine myself as a class and am seeking an ally. Here I differen- tiate between various classes, between earned property and capitalist prop- erty, between property which is bound up with exploitation and that which is not. That is a further separation, and here the socal democrate began vari- ous blunders and political crimes.. But must have an ally. this? Two dangers menace. : that eral towards the peasantry, and cannot claim the dictatorship of ithe the workers’ and peasants’ bloc does working class retaining the hegemony within this bloc. That cannot be efin- times we call ourselves a workers’ and peasants’ government. In reality it is state power, which has formed a bloc with the peasantry. We have very good connections with the peasantry, we lean on the peasantry, but from the point of view of class character, we are a proletarian power. N Varga's fomulation this “nuance” is a very important thing. I be- lieve that these corrections were we maintain a passive attitude in gen- the other danger, that we dissolve into the proletariat. Leninist teaching about tions from the joint organizations. That is quite clear: we must use them tor spreading our influence for the purpose of winning over the majority of the toiling population. By what means? That is the question of our policy, our political and organization- drawing the masses into real action. made two observations on the credit system. The theses also speak of this subject but perhaps this sen- Meshtcheryakov is concerned, I be- agricultural workers and it was add- ed that these organizations of agri- cultural workers cannot and must not enter the organizations of the peas- ants. I believe that is correct. Com- al methods, and of the method of Varga’s is an excellent piece of work. cause a certain degree 6? tornftision, especially in a period when most of our parties have become contamin- ated by the narrow guild spirit; such a representation might have a repel- the framework of capitalism by chang- a clear political line, and that is what we need. (Applause). MAY 1, 1925 IN MOSCOW By JOHN C. TUCHELSKI. MOSCOW, (By Mail)-—I happened to be one of the lucky ones to witness the May first celebration in Moscow with members of the Kuzbas organ- ization. We were awakened at seven o’clock by an organization passing our win- dows on their way to assigned places. We were given passes, as guests, to the greeting and their bands played the International. At the same time motion pictures were taken, of the crowds lined on both sides of the Red Square, also of ves,” and we stood in front of John grave. the Red Square, so that everyone of The Red Square was lined with Red the large crowd could hear. Sitting in front of this stand Was soldiers and sailors. an English womens’ trade union dele- On the buildings of Moscow, the cation, Comrades Zetkin, Rykoff and walls of the Kremlin and from wires officials of the U. 8. 8. R. necessary, for iu itself this booklet of These introduetory -remarks might ling effect in the present situation; says many languages. few of the slog- the Italian experience shows that in|ans were: “Workers of the World — Bae og Mi ae = the | Mixed meetings of peasants and agri- Unite,” “Long Live the First of May; cultural workers, chaos et sued, but he says further that it was evident at the same time that federated alli- ances of the organizations, joint cen- trals, etc., are possible. This the con- te form did not prove feasible in Italy, but generally speaking it was proved-that these organizational con- nections are possible and desirable. If we want to win over the small peasants, and on the other hand, al- ready have won the agricultural pro. letariat, the latter must somehow or other influence the peasantry. A FEW more words about Varga. In the preface to his book: “The Status of the Peasant Movement,” there are two paragraphs which are absolutely ineorrect. He says: “Social democracy has always prevented the creation of a class al- Hance between the workers of town and country u two ways, and thus and in some instances pictures or models of their trade. | After the workers’ organizations, groups of Young Communists, land, entering the struggle unity of the world labor movement, together with the working class of the U. S. S. R.—Our greetings.’ To the marching new elements of the rev- olution, the brave comrades in the struggle; the toiling women of Eng- gu s¢veral companies of the Moseaw land, fraternal greetings on the First of May.” . A large picture of Lenin measuring : Pr taking part in the demonstration. 30 square feet, was hung on top of the 8 7 | * No street cars were running; all * center entrance to the each side of it hung the sign, “First of May,” in the Russian language. Promptly at nine o’clock, Commis- sar of War M. F. Frunze appeared on horseback wi his staff from the Kremlin entrance and greeted every regiment. The regiments returned 3 F 8 2 =z 3 i 8 “< — f O'clock. Our address: Kemerovo, Tomskaya Gub., S. S. S. R., Siberia, Kusbass. carrying a red banner with its name ———ñ ñ— ]0 —— — ＋——— eens 1 — N — 1 ia * * 1 e r 1 oO e

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iit FER — . — — 8 “Aad _ wigan ® 8 5 . ; 5 7 ood Z 1 r aah, 4 ˙ s yee 3 0 7 ate thine , at 3 1 ; — ia et one _ ETC — 1 = 3 to said, since the Soviet Government has not been able, to achieve much im- provement in the Hives of the work- ers, in the course of five or six years, then MacDonald should be given as much time. This was said by Com- munists! Hoglund judged events of world historical importance from the fact that Newbold was defeated in the He : ae . 11 . : : the petty bourgeoisie. As a matter of countries it was clearly demonstrated, that in the epoch of imperialism, the petty-bourgeoisie cannot govern a country as an independent force. T do the facts teach us? They cess of differentiation is taking place within the labor government, and a genuine will to power is growing ft Frequently, the question i ih of i f g . lt , its “constructive socialism” In- ued to vote for democratic-pacifist I F E oe ity ate 4 2 een A tes Rey ee | thes — 2 + 1 4 * N TCT TTT * 5 2 * arn = (== 2 2 n . Pm a * . geoisie in the sense that they began to form a wing of the bourgeoisie. It was for that reason, that the theses of the Fifth Congress, which described the socigl-democracy as the “third” party of the bourgeoisie, were abso- lutely correct. Italy, fascism was a syntheses of wing of fascism. The theses and reso- lutions of the Fifth Congress on this question were correct in so far as it has turned out that social-democracy is becoming stronger in proportion as the bourgeoisie is becoming stronger. The conservativeness of the broad masses and the retarded rate of de- velopment of class conflicts will have the same effect of increasing the strength of social-democracy in the future. | The whole question is, what should be our attitude to this? Some of the right wing comrades are of the opin- fon that, in view of the increasing strength of the social-democracy, we must revise all our values! We are of a different opinion, and are con- vinced that to the extent that the take advantage of this; for in our democracy are twins. Marx and En- gels in their day, quite justly branded venal leaders of the British labor movement. Today, we must do the same thing on an international scale. A series of events renders this task easier for us. I will deal only with four of them. 1. The Barmat his republican convictions, an old friend and school chum of the king of Sweden. Well said, was it not? Huys- mans “buried” Branting a second time, sum up: the social<lemocracy, Comrade Radek, was indeed “de- feated” by the bourgeoisie and by fas- cism, but unlike Karl Liebknecht and his followers, it did not fall in battle, but was defeated in the sense that it itself, as represented by its leaders, abandoned the labor party and took up ea petty-bourgeois position as a wing of bourgeois “democracy.” The temporary increase in strength of the bourgeoisie is equal to a certain tem- porary increase in strength of the so- sialdemocracy. The doom of the bourgeoisie will at the same time also be the doom of social-democracy. Consequently, the tactics of the Communist International were abso- lutely correct. This is evidenced by the class struggle; this is taught us by the episodes im the civil war, this is testified to by the fe and the movement of the masses. The Bol- shevist Leninibt policy of the Fifth Congress has been completely justi- fled. (Applause.) (To be continued.) Ea . Ile Work of the Marx-Engels Institnte Communication ef the director of the Marx-Engels Institute, Moscow, D. B. Riasanov to the Executive Committee of the Communist Inter- national. The Fifth Congress of the Commun- ist International, upon hearing my report about the activity of the Marx- Engels Institute at Moscow (MEI), acknowledged the necessity of pub- lishing the complete works of Marks and Engels as well as separate edi- tions of some of them. The resolu- bers of those parties to help the In- stitute in its task of collecting all documents relative to Marx’s and En- gels’ lives and works. The nine months elapsed since have been employed by the METI for the multifarious preparatory work neces- sary to the planned edition. The first ious other sources, partly in original manuscript and partly in photo cop ies; it is quite natural however that these documents are not nearly as of the works have been collected with the utmost care and good results. The deciphering of the materials in- wert Ree 1 A whole. staff ot 1215 per- “Marx-Engels Archiv” to appear in May next; it will contain among other valuable contributions part of the “German Ideology”. / In autum two volumes of the Com- plete Works will follow—vVol. I with tue juvenile writings of Marx, of many have never been pub- as, for instance, a rather study upon Hegel’s Philosophy of the State and an essay upon the French Revolution; and Vol. XV con- taining some unknown manuscrips of Engels, among them his “Dialectics in Nature“. See for details the pro- spectus of the Marx- Engels Archiv, EE : copy. : The plan for the separate publish- ing of some of the works has yet to be discussed. Meanwhile, prelimin- ary steps are being taken for elucidat- ing difficulties which might arise in different countries in connection with the printing of these. editions. I should like to end with the repeti- tion of the earnest request addressed to all comrades by the Fifth Con- gress: lend a hand to the Marx-En- gels Institute in securing the neces- sary materials! This appeal has re- Genova Restaurant ITALIAN-AMERICAN 1238 Madison Street N. E. Cor. Elizabeth St. Spaghetti and Ravioli Our Specialty Special Arrangements for Parties on Short Notice 213 is going on stead- ‘of which every delegate received a | mained nearly neglected until W.

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“movement. Once this is realistically strengthen the school organization of | As we see this is a naive, not well thought-out theoretically, but a thoro- mons to revolutionary struggle. AT is Blatchford's reply to this? “That war is caused by capital ist and militarist interests, all this is quite true. And I am striving, not less than any other socialist, for peace and the overcoming of capitalism by socialism. But Sinclair will not -con- vince me by means of rhetorical and beautiful phrases, he will not be able to get away from the facts. Facts, ** Re-translated from the Russian. n * aie . sky and the playing with sophism; the same is the case with Plekhanoff. It is especially instructive therefore to observe the conditions in a more developed country. Here it is impos- sible to mislead anybody by sophistry and by a travesty of Marxism. Here, the questions are stated directly and correctly. Let us learn from the ad- vanced English.** ** Re-translated from the Russian. of this : ; : | > + 0 is — ence to be drawn from the conditions which’ reveal” 5 us Marxist phrases. * REMARKS TO THE MILITANT PARENTS By NAT KAPLAN. * the Communist Children's Movement, the Junior section of the Young Workers’ League the basis for the tween adults and children is being laid. new, more realistic, relationship be- This is demonstrated on the one hand by the methods used by the group leaders (in the main members of the initiative and self activity instincts >» W. L.) in the development of the ot the child; the development of its observing instincts thru which it ac- quires material for its self instruction, etc., and on the other hand, by draw- ing the parents into the life and strug- gle of the children, thru the creation of parents’ conferences and proletari- an parents’ school councils. 5 Why raise this issue of a new re lationship between adults and chil- 1 ‘Simply because the old rela- i one in force at the pres- ent time is an utterly false one, is baged on the bourgeois conception of the “right of the stronger,” and as such must be completely discarded. The wielding of an unpremeditated, nonsensical discipline over the child, by virtue of the economic and physi- cal domination of the adult over the child, in no wise can be conceived as the guiding of the child along a cor- rect line of procedure. In only one sense can the adult gain superiority over the child for the safe of guiding its actions and that is by acquiring a greater knowledge and a more keen- ly developed mentality than the child itself. Hence, Herbert Spencer in ad- dressing himself to parents at large has ably remarked: In brief, you will have to carry on your higher edu- cation as the same time that you are educating your children.” One of the first lessons to be learned in this course of “higher education” is that adults and children must meet on an equal plane of comradeship, that only to the extent that the adult is able: to win the confidence and friendship of the child, is he able to guide and lead that child in the acquiring of knowledge and in its general activ- ities. Militant Parents Must Line Up. For the Communist parents and the militant parents of the labor move- ment there can be no better start made in this direction than by acquir- ing a knowledge of the principles at work in the Communist children’s undertaken, we will no longer hear of the many cases of radical parents who have obstructed the class strug- gle activities of the young rebels by a parential treat, a castigation, or even by depriving the child of a meal. We will then see the parents taking the initiative in the creation of school councils. We will see them setting up committees to visit the school au- thorities and presenting the demands of the children. We will see them helping in every manner possible to the children—the school nuclei of the Junior section and even helping to lead the concerted actions of the children against the school authori- ties, against the nationalist and re- ligidus dope peddled under the guise of “education” and against the gen- eral miserable conditions of the prole- tarian child in our citadels of learn- ing. The American bourgeoisie has long recognized the necessity of co- ordinating the home life of the child with its life within thé public schools. For this purpose they have set up powerful parent-teacher associat:ons which are decidedly reactionary in character. The answer to the Ameri- can bourgeoisie on this field must be the united front between the prole- tarian parents and their offspring in the children’s struggle and the class struggle at large. . Wherein the Principles Are Contained In order to make th‘s start the militant parents will have to acquaint themselves with the literature on the Communist children’s movement. The international theoretical and practical publication of the Communist chil- dren’s movement is known as “The JOHN REED JUNIORS? AFFAIR COMES OFF TODAY, MAY 23RD The John Reed Juniors’ affair, the surprise party and dance, will be held this Saturday, May 23, at the Workers’ House, 1902 W. Division St. They have a splendid program, a surprise and dance, and a speaker direct from Russia, Comrade Max Shachtman, editor of the Young Worker, who will bring greetings frmo the Russian Pioneers. Admis- sion Is the cheapest in town, only 20 cents for adults, and 10 cents for children. Come! J. KAPLAN MERCHANT TAILOR Suits Made to Order at Reasonable Prices 3546 ARMITAGE AVENUE Phone Albany 9400 Philadelphia, Notice! Weber Printing Co. 350 N. FIFTH STREET, Philadelphia, Pa. | Bulletin for the Leaders of Commun- ist Children’s Groups” and is publish- ed by the executive of the Young Com- munist International. Volume No. 2, Issue & Of the Bulletin (Ten Cents, V. W. L., 1113 W. Washington St.) has just arrived from the publishing house. This issue is decidedly up to its standard. Under the title: “The Character of our Work in the Com- munist Children’s Group,” Comrade Gertrude Graeser has a very clear article dealing with the systematiza- tioon of the educational work in the C. C. G. She divides the subject into two main features: ure of this article is the plan of edu- us, which is especially adaptable to the 12 to 14-year-old children (Those who are about to leave public schoo! and are entering the Young Commun- ist Movement). Comrade Sigi Bammatter wrftes in this issue on the necessity of “A closer organisational form for the C. C. G.“ The American Junior section comes in for special mention as hav- ing maintained a compact, centralized organizational form for its children’s movement from the very start. Other important and interesting features of the issue are: A discus- (a) The training | : ot the Communist children’s groups on the basis of school nuclei. An ar- ticle by Comrade Rosa Moeller on the New Generation in Soviet Russia, a contribution to the question of the “New Humanity,” which clearly de- scribes the lot of the child in the U. S. S. R. at the present time; an ar- ticle dealing with the formation of the Young Spartacist League in Ger- many to replace the loosely knit Com- munist children’s groups. Tyo highly instructive articles on the functions of the Young Pioneers in Soviet Russia conditions of thé Workers’ chfléfen in the capitalist countries. You should not miss the opportunity of securing your copy at once. Soviets Open Bank In Turkey MOSCOW—(By Mail) —It is re ported from Constantinople that the Bank for external commerce of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Constantinople branch office) was of- ficially inaugurated in the presence of the highest Turkish authorities, the prefect of the capital and numerous deputies and representatives of the financial and commercial world and sion statemen t on the reorganization the press. TEN YEARS OF LABOR MUSIC! A Concert in Honor of JACOB SCHAFER Director of the Freiheit Singing Society and the Freiheit | Mandolin Orchestra COMPOSER OF WORKING CLASS MUSIC r First Appearance of the Freiheit Children's Chorus SUNDAY, MAY 24th, - 2:30 P.M. - STUDEBAKER THEATER 418 S. Michigan Chicago — | | | | — ——————— . —— e D Tickets tor sale by Freiheit Singing Society, 3837 Roosevelt Road; Daily Worker Office, 1113 W. Washington Blvd.; Local Chicago W. P. Office, 19 S. Lincoln St. eee ee ee ee i i i te i te te th hh i th tb he i he he bb bb bb be tb te te Marxist essence of the matter withoet: I: 1 — — 09 ws 8