Daily Worker
June 3, 1925
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leaders do not differ materially on , owners, may have caused the explo- 28 Worker Annual Sub- oription Drive Now on in Full Blast! GET IN ON IT! — secondclaes matter Sentenber 1, 308, 8 re Office at Chicago, Lilinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. NEW YORK EDITION Vol. II. No. IZ. I % 5 . 0g er WEDNESDAY, UNE 3, 1925 —— 290 Published daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicage, III. Price 3 Cents * CALL | GE By T. J. O’FLAHERTY. AS WE SEE IT 9 ~ REGION IN BiG REVOLT G it ¢ ommittees Back Local 699 By PAT OOHEx. ye Indian delegate to the labor con- ference of the league of nations at Geneva took issue with the Brit- ish government delegate on the ques- tion of labor conditions in India. The Briton defended the empire’s rule in India and claimed that the Hindoos were being taken good care of, by J. Bull. The Indian, on the contrary, declared that his people were slaves, living under a forced labor system which compels the workers to live in a living standard berdering on star- (Special to The Daily Worker.) vation. He wanted to know what the WILKESBARRE, (By Mall)— The labor bureau intended to do about it. | miners’ assembly, composed of all gen- Any one of you could tell him. eral grievance committees of the an- 1 thracite coal companies, meeting in T is the custom in England for pro- | Witkesbarre last Saturday night made minent politicians to make week arrangements to wage an ‘intensive end speeches during which current fight in the interests of the 1,700 ex- events are discussed. The leaders of pelled miners of the Woodward col- the British labor party indulge in llery, and In doing so challenged the this relaxation. It is interesting to regegade Cappellini to do his worst. note that in the great majority 7 Arrangements for a mass protest cases the speeches of the labor party | demonstration to be held in the Savoy Theater, largest of local theaters, were completed for May 31. The dele- gates present were instructed to re- turn to their lo-als and get their inem- bership to turn out in a body at the meeting, to raise finances to assist the Edmunds faction of the Woodward colliery to take the case to the civil courts. Edmunds Going to Court. Edmunds and his lawyers are pre- paring a petition for an injunction to aires have a penchant for marrying be issued against John L. Lewis, In- brokendown British aristocrats and Jternational president, restraining that socially the British monarchy is |Lewis from disfranchising the mem- a god-send to our female parasites of | bership of Local 699 from all the priv- the upper classes, is no prevention of ileges acco-ded under the unlo ns con- war between the “two Anglo-Saxon stitut! a. Money is being collected countries.” They have fought more by the ent: Ca:pellini faction for th'a than one war in the past, on opposite | purpose. sides of the painted bunting, at times Lewis revoked the charter of 699 when both were much more 2 @ tri-district conven- Saxon than they are now. ton, thereby al oe the — ee ee + +: eas The coe conection Tou is und . P 5 British labor fakers know very well that nations don’t fight each munds will send delegates to the con other because their population came |Vention and the fight of the conven- of different racial strains. The tion will be over their being seated. reigning families of Russia, Germany Cappellini, fearing’ the wrath of the and England were of the same breed |miners who will gather at the Savoy but that fact did not prevent the cap- theater has issued an order prohibit- italists of the different countries from ing any member of the U. M. W. A. fighting over foreign markets and from attending the meeting, stating spheres of influence. There is no- expulsion will follow. Local unions thing surer than that the United are instructed by circular letter that States and Britain will fight, for the dire results will befall any local col- hegemony of the industrial world; a lecting money for Edmunds’ proposed hegemony which is already captured action. Cappellini is using every by the United States, but is not con- ounce of power at his command in or- ceded by the jealous pirates of the der to solidify his ever crumbling “tight little isle.” poner * „ @ The assembly adopted a resolution HE millions of citizens of German scoring Cappellini and Lewis for their and Irish descent in the United disruptive tactics. Cappellini has or- imperial policy from those of the liberals and tories. ae or ee FENNER BROCKWAY, general * secretary of the independent la- bor party speaking in favor of univer- s2l disarmament, said “no nation would ever again seek a quarrel with the Anglo-Saxon race or any part of it.” This is sheer nonsense. The fact that daughters of American million- whose mine at least sixty workers met | death when gas in the shaft exploded, are attempting to blame the disaster on the miners. A report has been given out by the mine company that “smoking in the 1917, when Germany had beaten her sembly refuses to disband, maintaining (Continued on page 5.) whereby the conditions of the miners | | Altho classifying the general com- mitees as dual organizations Cappel- of the Penna Coal Co., for district the resolution adopted by the assem- are being used extensively as politi- COAL GLEN, N. C., June 1.—The | dates. back to what they were organized for. resolution, lisenting to oration’ ex- mine, a practice forbidden by the ing a set of demands to be presented States did not prevent this country |dered the dissolution of the assembly toes to a frazzlé and when the sur- that this is the only means of rank will be bettered. WHERE 60 DIED lini very beautifully accepted the en- , president, after Cappellini’s support- But M iners Declare cal machines by the various candi- Carolina Coal company officials, in | need of the presence of several mili- Instead of endorsing this and that posing” this and that faker they should at the coming tri-district convention, from declaring war on Germany in on the grounds it is “dual.” The as- render of France was but a question and file expression, the only means No Dual Organization—Sometimes. dorsement of the general committee BLAME WORKERS ers had packed the meeting. This | was pointed out and emphasized in The general grievance committees Shaft Was Unsafe The committees are in dire tants who would fight to bring them faker adopting this and that factional have their heads together formulat- sométhing which would benefit the sion.” They declare that Dr. John L. Scott, Sanford physician, in charge | miners. of the temporary morgue, “found matches in the pockets of the End Sirdar Trial miners.” CAIRO, Egypt, June 1.—Judgement Miners who have worked in the shaft however, declare that a disaster was bound to occurr sooner or later as the workings were very ancient, and filled with deadly gas. FOUR JUGO-SLAV REDS GET LONG PRISON TERMS FOR ISSUING PAPER (Special to The Daily Worker) BELGRADE, Juge-Slavla, June l. — Micha Piade, has been sentenced to twenty years on the charge of issuing a Communist newspaper and other will be pronounced Tuesday on these accused of murdering Sir Lee Stack, sirdar of the Egyptian army and gov- ernor general of the Sudan. The trial ended today. Communist literature. Two of Piade’s assistants have been sentenced to ten years each and a third Communiet to six years. The charges were brought under the “defense of the realm act” which gags all expression of opinion opposed to the govern- met} RAL STR IKE Anthracite WV Not in the fliners! Fight in Union, bsses’ Capitalist Courts \+ 16 DEAD AND 0 WOUNDED IN BiG he miners on the Anthracite re- union, the cherished possession of every organized coal miner, is put to the test. In their efforts to throw ery prog * miner w'll support gion ‘are going thru a crisis in | as an organ e k and file rule. which their ability to control their ut, justifie n the indignation 51 . of the Wo ers is, and ward Golliery min- te as the whole mass of mir may be in the An- off the treacherous officials who | thracite, T r sgressive Miners have repeatedly betrayed them to | Committee wa their brothers use may have a profound effect up- on their failure or success. The news is given in another col- umn of the DAILY WORKER, that all the Grievance Committees of the Anthracite region have approved of the Edmunds faction in the Wood- ward Colleries going into the cap- italist courts for an injunction against the arbitrary and unconstl- tutional actions of the reactionary officials, the Progressive Miners’ Committee, representing the left wing, has issued the following state- ment. > > + he charter of Local No. 699 has been arbitrarily revoked by John L. Lewis. This is clearly an attempt to disfranchise the 1,700 members of Local 699 and to penalize them for refusing to recognize Duna, a tool of the Lewis-Cappellini ma- chine, who was illegally thrust up- on the local which had overwhelm- ingly elected Edmunds, who is op- posed to the machine. The miners of the Anthracite have every reason to detest Cappellini. Time and again he has betrayed them, defied their demands, ignored their needs and turned them over to the operators who were aliowed to violate the ayreement wit» jm- in the Ant e, to use the great- est care lest their tactics in the struggle worsen instead of better their condition. The Progressive Miners Commit- tee feels that the miners of the An- thracite have other and better means to protest their rights than to appeal to the capitalist courts for an injunction against Lewis and his machine. The capitalist courts are a part th capitalist govern- ment created and functioning for the interests of the capitalist class alone. An appeal to capitalist courts would put you in the position of ap- pealing to the enemy and would give the re naries a weapon to discredit you. the eyes of the working cl 7 In thig matter, The Progressive Miners Com ee, feeling as it does that the Edmunds group is ful- ly justified in their fight against the Lewis-Cappellini machine, nev- ertheless asserts in the most em- phatic manner, its disagreement with any program ef asking the capital ist courts to grani an injunction against the Lewis-Cappellini-Dunn gang. That is not the effective way to fight these takers. Just as | tion of the 7 W. of A. has pp Sag against whom the min- —— of organizati e- Se ea U. M. W. of A., and just as The Pro- gressive Miners Committee has as often warned against any dual uni- on to the U.M.W. of A., so in this instance does The Progressive Min- ers Committee caution the miners of the Anthracite against either du- alism or appeal to the capitalist courts, NSTEAD of appealing to the capit- alist courts, the Anthracite miners should appeal to the wide mass of members of the U.M.W. of A. and rally their union brothers to strug- gle with and for them. “The fight against the Lewis machine is not limited to the Anthracite region. On the contrary thruoyt the whole nation, the rank and file of mem- bers of the United Mine Workers are in revolt. And furthermore, they are following the policies and program of The Progressive Miners Committee. Miners of the Anthracite! Re- alize that The Progressive Miners Committee program and candidate were tremendous factors in the last international election. Realize that even Lewis’ machine admitted that Voyzey polled 66,000 votes. Realize that Voyzey actually won the elec- tion, and that Lewis has refused to issue tabulated returns of the vote by local unions. Realize that your fight must be made an issue thru- out the international, but that to do so you must make the fight within the international and not in the capitalist courts. The fight against the Lewis ma- chine cannot be successful in the capitalist courts. The mass of min- ers of America have had bitte this enemy institution to settle union affairs. Instead of such ill-juldged action, The Progressive Miners Committee points out that the method for ulti- mate victory is to fight within the union. To rally the rank and file in ever broader masses against the traiterous officialdom until it is im- possible for them longer to cling to power. Instead of injunctions—a hated word to every miner—the miners must call mass meetings, mobilize every miner to support their fight, elect delegates to the convention, fight on the floor of the convention for re-instatement of the member- ship and for seats as delegates. he progressive miners counsel the Anthracite miners to re- tain their Grievance Committees, to call mass meetings of the local uni- ons and where possible to march in a great body to the convention, de- manding the seating of delegates and the re-instatement of the mem- bership. This will compel a hear- ing by demonstration of overwhelm- ing force—the only argument the machine will yield to. Anthracite miners do not let the crimes ofthe reactionaries drive you to the cap- italist courts. Carry your fight, along with and in support of the Progressive Miners’ Comittee to the membership of the whole international! Fight for the union and within the union! Thie is the way to victory over the corrupt Lewis-Cappeliini ma- chine, Progressive Miners’ Committee, mT ae he So. Chi = INDUSTRIAL WAR Fight Both Native and Foreign Bosses (Special to the DAILY WORKER?!) SHANGHAI, China, June 1.— With sixteen dead, thirty wounded and 4 general strike declared by all Chin ese against the bloody autocracy ef the foreign police in the international settlement, the clash between the al- lied imperialists and the exploited and oppressed Chinese who are shot down by alien bosses in their own land Is assuming the proportions of war. The imperialists in the internation- al settlement have declared martial law and tank and armored cars are pa- trolling the foreign settlement togeth- er with detachments of foreign armed forces. Strike Against Japanese Bosses. The strike which started the whole affair was directed against the Japan- ese textile mill owners, and the de- mands were headed by such elemen- tary justice as abolition of whipping of workers by foremen and similar moderate questions. When the international mixed court, acting in the interests of the Japan- ese and other imperialist exploiters living on the sweat of the Chinese workers, convicted seventeen Chinese, some of them college students who had aided the strike, of conspiracy, 3,000 students attempted to march in peaceful demonstration thru the for- settlement. Marching down Nanking road, car- rying banners, they were set upon by Sikh police of the British forces and those carrying the banners at the STREET CA WAGE CUTS front were arrested. The students at- tempted to rescue their comrades and the British opened fire, killing ten stu- dents and wounding a great many. Still more were arrested merely for possessing literature concerning the textile strike. This morning crowds of Chinese HOD CARRIERS UNION INDORSES AMERICA NEGRO LABOR CONGRESS BALTIMORE,’ Md., June 1.—The International Hod Carriers’ Loaf Union No. 64 ‘has indorsed the American Negro Labor Congress to be held in Chicago thie summer, and has promised to aid in the work of the congress. A resolution to that effect was passed at the last meeting of the union, DOHENEY ORDERS CALLES 10 PUSH DRIVE OW REDS ARMEN WILL FIGHT AGAINST WAGE DECREASE Demand Five Per Cent Raise in Wages The street carmen of this city will turn down the wage cutting proposi- tion of the Chicago Surface Lines, ac- cording to a statement made by Wil- liam Quinlan, president of the union. The proposal that the men accept a five per cent cut in wages was made by Guy F. Richardson, vice-president of the company and superintendent of operation. The men are demanding a wage increase of five cents an hour. These demands are very modest, considering the hard work required of motormen and conductors. Their hours are irregular, until after they serve several years, when they may secure steady runs. It is a nerve- wrecking task, particularly the work of a motorman in this age of reckless automobile driving and congested streets. Should Have Held Out. It is the belief of many of the union carmen that they could have won their demands at the time the presefit agreement was signed if they held out for another while. The rank and file of the unions have no confidence in the company officials. They know workers. that President Blair is paid by the big Doheny urged Morones to take stockholders to make as much profit drastic action against the Commun- out of the street car system as is pos- ists. He advocated, among other sible. The profits must come out ot things, it is reported, that the Com- the labor of the men who operate the lines. Blair’s business is to make the employes work as cheaply as possible. Unless he can do this somebody else will have his job. Therefore those car- men who believe that Blair is a friend of the union are mistaken. Blair would can oil companies to keep down the like to smash the union, if he could. standard of livim of the oil work- But he knows that the carmen will | ers, and assure ths Standard Oil com- fight for their union. | pany a cheap suphly of labor. Union Smashing Tactics. o ew 4 pos — ey The Chicago carmen have seen the rona, Tuxpam, uasteca, result of working with the company American-owned oil companies officials in the smashing of the union in Cleveland. After the company pulls and Catholics Unite MEXICO CITY, June ard Oll company K. L. Doheny, pres pany, held longt conferences wi Senor Morones, secretary fo labor in curb the growing influence of the Communist Party among the Mexican workers, be suppressed. Calles Smeared With Oil. The Calles government has been working hand in gjove with the Amer- the fighting guts out of the union, it (Continued on Page 6) ment. Standard 0i il, Calles munist newspaper El Machete, which | has a wide circulation among the oil | OREGON BAN ON PRIVATE SCHOOL RULED ILLEGAL Unconstitutional,’ Says Supreme Court WASHINGTON, June 1-—The Ore- gon School law, requiring all children between eight and sixteen years of age to attend public schools exclusi- vely, today by the United States supreme was declared unconstitutional | court. | Validity of the law, passed in 1925, was attacked by the society of sisters ‘of the holy names of Jesus and Mary, a catholic educational corporation, and by Hill Military Academy, a non- sectarian educational institution. Lower federal courts held the state law void because unconstitutional. An appeal was taken by the state, which | the supreme court over-ruled in its decision. 1—On his visit here as ansagent of the Stand- „e Justice McGreynolds: i Protects Private School The decision of the court was head “The inevitable, practical result of dent of the Huasteca Petroleum com- ae ot the law will destroy these justice. the Calles cabinet, on how best to | been recognized as filling a lawful | need and purpose.” the long private schools,” said “These schools have The attack on the law in the supreme court here was broadened by challenges of its constitutionality in general by the American Jewish com- mittee and the north pacific union con- | cational ference of seventh day adventists. State Overruled The state contended the law was valid under its police powers to en- ‘force school attendance, and denied there was illegal confiscation of pro- perty in that it did not prohibit at- tendance of children at private edu- institutions, corporated or /un-incorporated, within the state. and other | are | threatening strikes, and the Standard|1-—-The Labor party won the New Oil company, thru Calles, is attempt- South Wales elections and will pro- ing to suppress thie Communist move baly have a majority over all other : Labor Party Wins In N. S. W. SYDNEY, New South Wales, June arties * ——f— students and workers packed the Nan- -king road and were attacked again by the police detachments, The crowds becoming angry at the use of fire hose turned upon them by foreign oppres- sors, tore up the pavement and charg- ed their attackers with stones and were driven back only after three were killed and many more wounded by the’ police who fired without com- punction into men, women and chil- dren. FRESH REVOLT AGAINST BRITISH BREAKS OUT AMONG-PERSIAN TRIBES SIMLA, British India, June 1.—~ The British garrison in Persia, locat- ed at Khwash, is besieged by Perso- Baluch tribes and hase suffered heavy casualties, it is reported here. The border between Persia and Ba- luchistan is disputed by the natives and the British troops are sald to be “seriously disturbed.” LABOR DEFENSE COUNCIL ISSUES NATIONAL CALL To Form AIL-I nclusive Organization At a meeting of the National Ex- ecutive Committee of-the Labor De- fense Council, held in the offices of the Federated Press; it was decided that the Labor Defense Council take the initiative in the organization of a large all-inclusive labor defense body. The officers of the council were in- structed by the committee to im- mediately issue a call for a national conference looking toward this end. The date for the conference was set for June 28. It is to be held in Chi- General Strike Called. Large forces of the British.” an military and allied imperialists eéén- pied the whole district and drove every Chinese out of it. But the whole city was aroused at the brutal murders and the unions began to issue strike calls to all workers, mill handa, water works employes, telephone operators, electric and tramway workers and all other Chinese workers to strike, un- til the foreign imperialist authorities both apologize for and pay compen- (Continued on page 3) VAN SWERINGENS MADE MILLIONS IN R. B. 8 BY STOCK MANIPULATION WASHINGTON, D. C., June 1— The Van Sweringen brothers made a profit of $16,812,000, in the railroad transactions leading up te the con- solidation of the Nickel Plate rail- road system, O. P. Van Sweringen admitted before the interstate com- merce ccmmission. The commission is hearing an ap- plication of the Van Sweringens to extend their holdings to include the Chesapeake and Ohio, the Hocking Valley, the Erie, the Pere Marquette in the Nickel Plate under one large system. cago. This collosal profit was made by Invitations are to be sent out to] buying the Nickel Plate road from the following: All existing labor the New York Central for $21,000.- defense organizations: individuals | 000 and selling minority shares for who have distinguished themselves $17,225,309, retaining control of the in defense of persecuted workers and road by virtue of their minority stock. SIX MORE MINERS DIE IN AN UNVENTILATED MINE SECTION (Special to The Daily Worker) BIRMINGHAM, Ala, June 1.—Six white miners were killed last night in a pit accident at Piper, Alaa., reports to the Little Cahaba Coal company, owner of the mine here said. Death is believed to have been caused by an accumulation of black damp in an unused heading of the mine. (Continued on page 5.) — 111 3 — — =
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— N 7 2 * * N 3 9 4 * 4 * 9 : * 4 — >= * K . er 2 “ AT — * - * * ‘> ese — eee CANADIAN DEPORTED FROM WINNIPEG Worker Sent to England with F amily (Special to The Daily Worker) TORONTO, Ont., Canada, June 1.— The deportation of Comrade Jack Gregg, with his parents and family back to England for revolutionary ac tivities has seldom been precedented in the history of Canada. The family came to Canada not long ago and set- tled In Winnipeg. Immediately the family became active in the Commun- ist movement, and Comrade Jack Gregg took a very active part in the work of the Young Communist League In Winnipeg. The family has been unable to sup- port itself like many hundreds of fam- Mes in the large cities of Canada and has been dependent upon the city of Winnipeg for relief during the winter. Five times the immigration asthorities threatened to deport the whole family back to England, alleg- edly because they had been dependent on the city, and were taking an active part in the labor movement. Finally, they have been deported. They sailed on the 20th. Made May Day Speech. The incident which was responsible for the final decision on the matter was Comrade Grege’s speech on May Day in Winnipeg. Comrade Gregg spoke for the Young Communist League of Canada and pointed out with enough force to make the bour- geoisie afraid, all the evils of the sys- tem, and partioularly the conditions of the young workers. This soorching attack upon the flag of British imperialism was too much for the master class, and they have shown their fear and anger by deporting the comrade back to the old country. Such a step as this on the part of the bourgeoisie is absolute- ly intolerable. If they can get away with it in one case, they will use the same tactics again when it’suits their end. 3 Wh 1 V. C. L. Protests. The National Executive Committee of the Y. C. L. of Canada raises its voice against such a direct attack against the Young Communist League, and thus against the militant workers at large. The master class would like to destroy the fighting spirit of the entire working class movement in this country in the same fashion, by the deportation of its militant leadership. The National Executive of the Y. C. L. of Canada will fight such action and calls upon the working class as a whole to protest against this menac- ing policy. Army Spy in Slimy Talk Against Reds at Englewood H. S. By STANLEY BALCHUNAS. Englewood high school had a visitor recently. This gentleman’s name was Ool. Hopkins. This man knows the Star Spangled Banner. He was dress- ed in a clean, newly pressed uniform. Col. Hopkins’ definition of a slacker is a man who marries and then hides behind his woman’s skirts and then says he cannot go to war. Col. Hop- kins wanted to impress upon us that a bolshevik and a slacker are the same thing. A very good definition Col. Hopkins, but we don't believe Another thing that Col. Hopkins said is that, bolsheviks are all over the country and cause trouble. That is very true, Col. Hopkins, but I think that the trouble is caused by the capi talist class and the bolsheviks are resisting the oppression. This great gentleman was in the secret service during the war and so probably did not see the slaughter out there which he praises now as patriotism. This is the kind of speeches we are getting in high schools for our edu- cation. Police Goldfish “Movie Plotters.” LOS ANGELES, Cal., June 1— Po- liee today grilled Adrian A. Woods, Claude Holcomb and C. Z. Holcomb in an effort to wring from them a con- fession that Mary Pickford, screen star. LOST: At the T.U.E.L. Picnic Saturday, May 30 at the Altenheim Grove One Pair Shell- SUPREME COURT OF U. S. RU CEMENT MONOPOLY MAY CONTINUE i FEV eR * ovr > e+ 4 WASHINGTON, June 1.—The United States supreme court ruled today that the Cement Manufacturers’ Protective Association, an unincorporated organization of 19 corporations, manufacturers and distributors of Portland cement, was not a combination or conspiracy in restraint of trade under the Sherman anti-trust law. — SMALL BEFORE SUPREME COURT FOR CORRUPTION Organizations Flock to Expose Governor SPRINGFIELD, III., June 1.—The suit against Governor Small, demand- ing an accounting of public funds dur- ing his term as state treasurer, now before the state supreme court, on ap- peal, took another turn today when Walter F. Dodd and Floyd E. Britton, representing the Citizens Association of Chicago, made formal petition to file briefs and present oral arguments as a “friend of the court” and in an they plotted to kidnap | advisory capacity. Small is accused of robbing the state of millions of dollars. Spanish Communists Fight Neutrality In the Class Struggle “Resolved, That no working class organization can afford to remain neutral in political questions before the workers,” is the thesis which will be defended by the Chicago Spanish branch of the Workers (Communist) Party in a debate with the “Herman- dad Obrera Mexicana,” one of the biggest fraternal societies of Spanish- speaking workers in the middle west. The debate will be held in the last week of this month; the exact date and place will be announced later. Manuel Gomez and Felix Barocio will take the affirmative in the debate and the “Hermandad Obrera Mexicana” will name two speakers to defend the negative. A committee consisting of comrades Barocio and Espinosa has been elec- ted by the Workers Party Spanish branch to conclude preliminary ar- rangements with a similar commit- tee from the fraternal organization. In accepting the challenge to debate, the president of the “Hermandad Ob- rera Mexicana” declared that if the Spanish-speaking members of the Workers Party take a more and more active part in helping to solve the problems facing the organization, their co-operation will be more than welcome, Foreign Sales of U. S. Over Four Billion Dollars WASHINGTON, June 1. — Texas made the greatest contribution of any state to America’s $4,498,000,000 for- eign sales in 1924, the department of commerce announced today, Five states were in the $200,000,000 exporting class. Chief exports from New York were metals, ores and their manufactured products. Illinois produced lard, pork, wheat and machinery both agricultural and industrial to rank fourth, while for- eign shipments of mineral oil, fruits, barley and other grains featured Call- fornia’s trade. Trolleymen Faced with Necessity of Fighting for Raise NEW HAVEN, Conn., June 1.—The Trolleymen’s Union has demanded an increase in wages from the Connecti- cut Co. At present, the motormen and conductors on the two-men cars, and the shopmen get 60 cents an hour. agreement expires June 1. A letter was sent to the company two weeks | ago, but no reply has been received | yet. Last year, the men struck for 5 cents, and got 3 cents. The union consists of 700 men. Patronize our advertisers. Another Death Blow to Wets. WASHINGTON, June 1— 4A death- | pealed, if the Coolidge administration's rum war fails, was sounded here today | by Senator William H. King, of Utah, who led congressional opposition to enactment of the eighteenth amend- ment. | Politician Dies. WASHINGTON, June 1.— Thomas | Riley Marshal! of Indiana, former vice- | president of the United States,’ died Rimmed Spectacles rr 9 — 1 Finder please notify or return Subscribe for the DAILY to Bob Minor, co Daily Worker. WORKER! HOUSE FOR SALE: NEW YORK SIX ROOMS AND DANCE HALL ON TWO LOTS. 5 minute walk from station on Pa. R. R.; 35 minutes from New York. John Trojan, Box 82, Avenel, N. ¢ * They demand 75 cents. The annual | blow to the hopes of “wets” that the national prohibition law may be re- | EIGHT MEXICANS ARE KILLED IN FIRE IN AMERICAN OWNED MINE MEXICO CITY, June 1.-—Eight miners were kliled here In the burn- ing of the American-owned EI Bordo mine at Pachuca. The fire started at the 525 foot level. One American and ten Mexicans were dead at Tampico today as the result of a gas explosion while they were drilling an olf well in the Tam- pico fields. . WILLIAMSON AT MEETINGS THIS WEEK IN N.Y, NEW YORK.—John Williamson, na- tional secretary of the Young Work- ers League, who has just returned from the sessions of the Fifth Bureau Session of the Young Communist In- ternational in Moscow, is reporting to membership meetings in the principal cities of the east. Together with the Young Communist International re- port, Comrade Williamson will report on the full sessions of the national executive committee of the Young Communist International, held May 9 and 10 in Chicago, giving a review of the work and decisions of these two important meetings. At these meetings it is very im- portant that every league member at- tend as the decisions of the Y. C. I. and the N. E. C. are necessary to know. in order that our work can be furthered and the Y. W. L. strengthen- ed i én fields of activity. Several meetings have already been held. Other meetings arranged are ag fol- low: Tuesday, June 2, at 319 Grand St.— Willidmsburg section, comprising the following: Jewish Branch No. 14, and English Branch No. 16. Wendnesday, June 3, at 1347 Boston Rd.—Bronx section, comprising the following: English Branch No. 1; Jewish Branches Nos. 12 and 22; Russfan Branch No, 22. Thursday, June 4, at 105 Eldridge St~-Downtown section, comprising the following: English Branch No. 5; Jewish, Branches Nos. 11 and 18; Russian: Branch No. 28; Hungarian Branch No. 21, and Greek Branch. Friday, Saturday, Sunday, June 5, 6 and 7—Boston meetings. Announce- ments of other dates will be made later. | T. W. L. Activities | Group Leaders, Attention! A group leaders’ meeting will take place on Tuesday, June 2, at 2613 Hirsch Blyd., at eight o’clock. All group leaders without exception must be present, and ready to report. No excuses will be recognized, 16 Dead and 30 Wounded in Big Industrial War (Continued from page 1). sation for the murders of all students and workers shot down since Satur- day’s massacre. Yesterday, the quiet day between Saturday’s clash and this morning’s murders on the Nanking road, was not so quiet, however, as to leave the ‘city to forget the wrongs it suffers by foreign occupation. Two hundred Chinese girl students of Shanghai col- leges, led a demonstration of students and workers along the Nanking road. The police arrested a number but re- | leased them after taking them to the jail. Even the Chinese shop keepers are protesting against the massacre of Saturday, closing their shops and post- ing notices of protest. Whole Chinese Populace in Revolt. The whole population is being stirred to its depths against the for- eign imperialists, and great meetings are being arranged to denounce the plunder of China by the United States, England, Japan and other foreign ex- ploiters. Groups of more than seven on the streets are forbidden by the martial laws. American destroyers which were supposed to leave for Chefoo, are re- ‘maining to overawe the Chinese by | threatening to bombard the city if the masses rise against the imperialist | forces in the foreign settlement. Feel- Ing against foreign exploiters runs high. Reports from Peking are that students there are organizing protests against the massacres here. Austria Overpopulated, Is Claim. VIENNA, Austria, June 1.—The Aus- trian labor chamber will take the next opportunity to ask the United States to accept 50,000 emigrants. This will be done because Austria is too small for its inhabitants, the labor chamber claima ves day is too often. 1 * 5 5 un OPPOSITION T0 dau STEP DAY Governors in Fear of In- dorsing Cal’s Plan (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, June }—Most of the governors of the 40 states, when ques- tloned as to thelr support of Presi- dent Coolidge’s request that July 4 be set aside ag af annual mobiliza- tion day, were far from enthusiastic about the plan. Many of the gov- ernore questioned, reflecting the op- position of the workers of their state, offered objection afd criticism to the plan, altho some of them said they would support Coolldge if he made it neceesary. A Gov. Henry L. Pugtia, of Louisiana, declared: “It is “impracticable to mobilize our state ‘troops for July 4. I am inclined to think an annual de- I feel that every two or even four years is suf- ficient for a test, and not calculated to emphasize and foster a too mili- taristic spirit.” Against Mobilization. Gov. F. S. Billins, of Vermont, Coolidge’s home state, said he ap- proved Coolidge’s suggestion,” but “As to the matter of mobilization, that will have to be taken up later. As I understand it the president wishes de- fense day to be entirely voluntary.” THE DAILY WORKER 9 see 1 4 — 8 7 2 French Socialist Party Finally Disappears in Capitalist Quicksands By J. LOUIS ENGDAH aye “Mobilization on the fourth of July is inadvisable for it would curtail the recreation of citizens on a national | holiday,” said Gov. Albert Ritchief of | Maryland. Not For War Activity. Gov, George Hunt of Arizona op- posed mobilization day either on July 4 or on armistice day, “I feel both these days should be devoted to the cause of peace rather than considera- tion of further military activity,” said Hunt. Some of the governors will be run- ning for re-election soon, and are catering to the poposition of the work- ers to the militarization of the coun- try. Women Hold Meeting to Protest Against New Deportation Bill NEW YORK, 1—On Friday, June 6 at 8 P. M. at 1347 Boston Road a mass protest meeting against the new deportation bill will be held, at which Schachne Epstein, editor of the Freſheit,“ will speak. This meeting is the third of a series of meetings that the United Council of Working Class Women is holding in the city. The deportation bill strikes at the foreign-born in this country, and is a direct menace to all workers, since it can be used against all the workers by the bosses threatening the foreign-born workers, driving down their conditions and thus bringing down the conditions of the American workers. This is an issue on which all work- ing class women must unite. It is an issue that strikes at every home. If the American government is allowed to carry out its plans no foreign-born worker will be safe. If he protests against conditions he may be charged with any crime, sentenced to one year’s imprisonment and immediately be deported. This meeting is to be a protest against the bill. All working class women and working class organiza- tions must join in the protest. Among the other speakers will be Sadie Am- ter, who attended the thi:d conference of Communist women in Moscow; Margaret Unjus, of the Lithuanian Progressive Women’s Alliance; Anas | Pastor, old veteran in the fight for the workers’ interests. Kate Gitlow, secretary of the United Council of Working Class Women, will act as chairman. Admission will be free. Bankers Ready to Swallow Bankrupt' C., M. & St. P. R. R. No actlon toward carrying out fore- closure steps on the Chhicago, Mil- waukee and St. Paul railway company because of its failure to pay bonded indebtedness amounting to $46,931,515 maturing today and interest of $2,063,- 558.49, were taken here today and at- torneys indicated ſt might be several days before the first moves were made. It became known Friday that the payment would not be made, the pres- ent receivers having served formal no- tice that the money was not avail- able. Meetings of committees represent- ing holders of general and refunding bonds are to be held in New York this week looking t the formulation of some plan of reorganization. Bandits Rob Cicero Bank. Five bandits today held up the Baker State Bank at Cicero, cowed half a dozen employes with guns and escaped with all the money and checks in sight. The amount of the loot, bank officials said, could not be ODAY, the socialists of France stand the workers of the world as the open suppo imperialist policies in northern Africa, includi hilt against its native peoples. French socialists have merel German socialists, the defe ‘of French war to the This was inevitable. The taken their stand with the ers of Hindenburg rule; with MacDonald socialist-labor rule in England, that outstripped imperialism itself in its efforts to keep in submission the sub- ject peoples of Egypt and India; with the socialists of other nations that have thrown all pretense to socialist principles aside and made their peace with and given their energetic support to capitalism as against * Communism. * + The French socialists, in the chamber of deputies, made the vote unanimous against the Communists; an historic event in the unfolding of the struggle of the French workers for power. The French socialists on the one hand, with the nationalists, boastin of their fascism, on the other, with all the bourgeois trimmings in between; all giving their support to the Painieve government, defender of the French imperial- ist struggle for empire. What a spectacle to cause the rench workers to hold their noses and turn away. The Commun- ists exposed the mess. The Communists call on the Work- ers to cleanse France thru abolishing the capitalist system that has called this alliance against the interests of labor and the colonial peoples into being. stand alone,.in in this the Communists rance as in all other countries. * * ~~ * The French socialists have a long record of collaboration with the French capitalists. The first big test came in 1907, at the Stuttgart Congress of the Second (Socialist) Inter- national when the Fresch socialists, Briand, Millerand and Viviani, with inviting parliamentar careers opening before them, fought for the right of socialists to enter the capitalist governments. them this right. In that year the Second International refused They left the French socialist party, and have since headed governments of their own; governments that have used every capitalist weapon in crushing the work- ers. Next came the world war when the French socialist party collaborated with the overnment in luring the work- ers to the slaughter pits. Albert Thomas, Jules Guesde and others became cabinet ministers, taking their places beside the “renegades,” Briand, Millerand and Viviani, who had deserted the class struggle but seven years before. While Thomas was now the munitions minister at home in France, Viviani was touring the United States inciting the workers of this country to support the imperialist massacre. Thomas and Viviani—soldiers in arms, for French imperialism. * * * * But the French socialists still remained wedded to some of the Wilsonian phrases, like “the right of self-determination for all peoples.” At first they argued with their capitalist tutors in French politics that the African war must be onl a defensive war. For two days the capitalist parliamentari- ans argued with them over this hypocrisy. hen they sur- rendered, and in common with the worst reactionaries, gave their support to the Painleve government, their ballots be- ing registered with the 537 votes that were cast against the 29 Communist ballots demanding immediate peace and the evacuation of Morocco. The occasion was historic in that it marks another milestone registering the passing of the French socialist party, with the defection of new masses to the sturdy and growing ranks of the French Communist Party. 2 „ On the day of this latest treason of the French soclal- ists, Eugene V. Debs, chairman of the socialist party in this country, launched a so-called membership drive at Cleve- land, Ohio, in an effort to resusicate the socialist organiza, tion heads. He might spare himself the effort. The quick- sands—no less the capitalist quicksands that have claimed the socialist parties in all nations—never give up their dead. determined until after a check-up. WORKERS’ GOVERNMENT — FOUND AMONG FEW WITH GOLD STANDARD Favorable crop conditions In Rus- sia, indicating the likelihood of con- siderable exports of cereals and oth- er agricultural products, call atten- tlon to the steady levels being main- tained by chervonetz, the currency based on gold, which was introduced by the Soviets in 1922, says the New York Times. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, in a chart it constructed this week, listed Rus sia as one of the countries which had returned to “the gold standard or the gold exchange basis.” it was pointed out that for the last several years Russia has been expanding her exports wherever possible and, by restricting imports, has built up considerable balances in countries where the gold standard prevails. Thus Russia, in making purchases of American cotton and other prod- ucts, has been able to pay in gold, making for comparative stability in her international trade. Incidentally, considerable of the gold which the Bank of England has been acquiring of late is believed to have come from Russia. Miner’s Wife Kills Self. SPRINGFIELD, II., June 1.—Inves- tigation among Lithuanian relatives and friends of Mrs. Alexandria Nor- bert, 40, confessed axe slayer of her husband, Martin, a coal miner, failed today to give authorities a clue to the identity of the person who supplied the matches with which the woman yesterday set fire to her clothing and bed in the jail here and perished by inhaling the flames. During her confinement in the coun- ty jail, pending her trial on the mur- der charge, the woman frequently had declared: “They'll never send me the penitentiary for this.” => ~ : * U. S. FLEET 10 QUELL CHINESE YOUTH PROTEST (Special to The Dally Worker) SHANGHAI, June 1.—With a death toll of 15 already reported and with further disturbances imminent today as the result of student demonstra- tions in Shanghai, United States Con- sul General Cunningham, of this city, has requested Admiral Thomas Wash- ington of the United States Asiatic fleet that three American destroyers and one gunboat now in the harbor here be detained to put down the de- monstrations of the students. The four warships were under or- ders to sail immediately for Chefoo, All food markets announced they would close tomorrow. Boy and girl students continue to patrol the streets of Shanghai today, following their efforts to compel all merchants to declare a general strike, according to a dispatch from Shang- hai. The students’ agitation is a pro- test against alleged foreign domina- tion. Distribute a bundle during Red Week. HENRY FORD Is BUSY BUILDING. WAR AR FLEET F Planes Easily (Special to The Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich., June 1.—Henry Ford, speaking of his airplane freight line between Chicago and Detroit, stated: “What we are Joing is this: We decided the time was ripe for serious consideration of aviation as an indus- trial transportation unit, and we con- cluded the very best way for us to study the proposition was to start fly- ing so we wouldn't have to depend for information on what other folks did and said. “This air service of ours in really on trial. We keep exact tab on every detail connected with it. We keep records on how the engines behave in regular daily service, how they stand heavy loads, what their cost is com- pared to motor or railroad transporta- tion, and how dependable they are un- der varying weather conditions. So for they appear to be pretty satisfac- ] tory.” Ford stated recently that his indus- trial airplanes could easily be convert- ed into war planes. He is thus aiding the government to build up a war fleet. Sanitary District Makes 2nd Attempt for More Lake Water WASHINGTON, June 1.—The sani- tary district of Chicago today filed | with the supreme court of the United States a petition for a re-hearing of its suit with the government involv- ing its right to take a larger quantity of water from Lake Michigan than allowed by a permit issued by the war department. The sanitary district lost in.an earlier hearing before the supreme court of the Unitec tSates. The grounds on which the re-hear- ing is asked is: The court erroneously construed the Canadian boundary wateis treaty; the permit for the opening of the drain- age canal and enlargement of the Chi- cago river are not in their nature re- vocable; the attorney general attempt- ed to exercise authority only under the 1899 rivers and harbors act; the court erroneously construed effects of early war department permits for withdrawals of water from Lake Mich- igan. Salesmen Get Blame for Defunct Stock Company’s Swindles Salesmen for the glefunct Jack H. Davis Co., — r scores of in- vestors in IIlinoſd.- And. Indiana in the wreckage of its smash, received com- missions running almost to 25 per cent on their sales, it was testified here today in the hearing before Harry Parkin, referee in bankruptcy, who 16 examining the assets of the com- pany. In addition to this, it was brought out, the salesmen’s expenses ran into staggering figures so that many times they received as high as $42 on a $100 sale. Many of the sales- men, it was testified, used aliases to enable them to sell in the same terri- tory twice. The hearing was continued until Thursday. Thirteen Guilty of Selling Counterfeit War Savings Stamps Thirteen deefndants in the govern- ment cases charging conspiracy to counterfeit war savings stamps enter- ed pleas of guilty and so ended the case. Announcement that this step would be taken was made by the de fense counsel when the afternoon ses- sion of the trial was resumed. The defendants are accused of hav- ing passed thousands of dollars worth of the fake stamps in Cleveland, Pitts- burgh, Philadelphia and Chicago. Farmer Killed by Bolt, MT. PULASKI, III., June 1,-—The shoes worn by Henry Lewis Glick, 40, farmer,’ who was killed Sunday after- noon by lightning, today gave mute evidence of nature’s fierce caprice. The bolt that struck Glick in the back of the head had continued down the body and ripped open the seams of his shoes. Each part of the shoe was separated from the other as com- pletely as tho they never had been put together. — C' mon o' mon over. for fun, c'mon over! If you have a day, an hour, or a minute to spare—why, There is so much work plled up on the small force in our office that we need your help so very badly, to insert letters, address, seal and stamp envelopes and ever so many other little jobs that have us swamped. If you volunteer your services that's a fine way to help the DAILY WORKER. We'll be glad to see you—so just Over!
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THIS PAGE ts Devoted to the Activity and Interests of the Trade Union Educational League (T. U. B. L.) North American Section of the RED INTERNATIONAL OF LABOR UNIONS (R. I. L. U.) ers’ Government. THE T. U. E. I. Represents the Left Wing of the Labor Movement. its Purpose Is to Strengthen the Labor Unions by Amalgamation | of Existing Unions, Organization of the Unorganized, and by Replacing Reactionary and Class Collaboration Policies with a Unified Program for the Transformation of the Unions Into Organs of Revolutionary Clase Struggle for the Overthrowal of Capitalism and the Establishment of a Workers’ and Farm- SEAMEN VISITING SOVIET PORTS “SEE SCHOOLS AND THEATRES IN — FACTORIES” AND OTHER WONDERS In the paper called Mojrak—which means “seaman” in Russian, the Seamen's Union of Soviet Russia runs a page of letters from seamen of all nations published in the language of the writers. It is called “The Seaman’s International Post-Box,” and from it we have taken the following two letters written by English seamen. The first says: My Experience “While visiting Russina ports as A. B. British ships, I have been invited by quite a number of Russian workers to their homes and thus I have been able to observe their life very closely. One is bound to say at once that conditions generally are better and more secure for Russian workmen than it is for us in England. The housing question alone is worthy of note, general meetings of all tenants are held where all necessary repairs are decided upon and the general busi- ness of the house conducted. The rent is very low, usually about 3 or 4 shillings a month. “The social life of the workers in Soviet Russia today is far superior to anything we could find in any other country. Here I can mention only a few things: each trade union have their own clubs which are well sup- plied with all kinds of literature, con- certs, lectures on all subjects and various other. entertainments, also courses in every science or language can be taken free of charge. “One is impressed strongly with their eagerness in social work and especially with workers movement in other countries: How are the work- ers living in England? How are they organized? What are they thinking? There are some of the questions I have been asked everywhere. “In Soviet Russia today a great and noble workers’ state is being built of which as yet we can only see the out- lines, J. L., Seaman.” And then from a marine fireman is a letter with the flavor of the job right in it, “Dear Comrade: “It is with pleasure that I write a few lines about my experience in Rus- gia. I am very pleased to see the working class so well organised. I only wish they were as well organized in Great Britain. I visited the factor- fes and saw the working conditions for myself and believe they are far superior to Great Britain. It fs the first time I have ever seen a school and a theater in a factory for the benefit of the workers. Hverywhere you go you are made welcome. I as- sure you the International Seamen's Club is a club that the seamen of the world should be proud of; it is a pity that there is not some in Amerioa, Canada, Australia and Great Britain, —it would be like going from home to home and would educate the sea men in so far as to how they are en- slaved by the shipowners. It would unite them to fight the capitalist class and make their conditions and life worth living. “But you will always find amongst the workers the sneak sucker, there is no name bad. enough for him, he will do anything to keep well in with the engineer or mate. “IT was in one of the Arcos company boats and each time we went to Rus- sia I was surprised at the welcome we got in the Seamen’s Club. I spoke as worker, as a seaman, expressing my ews of the Soviet government. I spoke the truth also about the condi- on my last voyage to Russia. was warned from a friend of mine to keep my mouth shut aboard, for he heard that my speaking in Rus- sia was getting carried to the captain. “Well, we got paid off in London, and the boat was signed again for another trip, the chief engineer asked all the firemen te go back but me. “T asked kim what is the matter. I cannot go back, is it for my work? No, YOu are a very good worker. ls it for conduct?—No, we don't waut you, that is all. “So you see, dear comrade, the one who warned me was right. There are suckers amongst us. Now there are the sort of men we want to knock sense into, and learn him to fight for his own class and not for the boss, for he is well able te fight for himself and his own class and not the capitalist.” O. M.—S. 8. Trotzky, Arcos Company.” Five thousand subs for Red Week. Reuss toa vs sune 15 to 21. | AMALGAMATION NEED SEEN IN SHOE LOCKOUT Lynn Workers Feel Loss of Unity By M. SHAVAF As the last agreement between the Amalgamated Union and the manu: facturers expired on May 12, the Iat- ter notified the union that they are determined not to renew the agree- ment. The manufacturers intend to run their business on the American plan, otherwise called the open shop system. The first one to go thru with that was the Capital Shoe Co. This firm declared a lock-out, and advertised for non-union help. After the union representatives went down to inter- view the firm a strike was declared, and pickets were put near the plant. A United Front of Bosses It is known that the Capitol Shoe company is being backed by the rest of the manufacturers of Lynn. As the endeavor of the firm to get the former union help to come to work under the individual contract to- tally failed, the firm applied for an in- junction in order to restrain oven peaceful picketing. When Mr. Fish, business agent of the Lasters and advocates for the B. & S. was called upon by the Amal- gamated to take a stand in regards to the Capitol Shoe company, he said that the Lasters are with the Amal- gamated in this fight. The militants of both factories in the Amalgamated as well as in the Boot & Shoe Union are endeavoring to prove to their respective locals that the present fight has got to be waged between the workers on one end and the manufacturers on the other end, and not as a fight between the unions. If there was ever a time for the Shoe Workers to come together, it is a pressing necessity to do it im- mediately. Here you have for an example the city of Lynn, which was at one time the queen shoe city of the world, and the most organized cer ter in the country, and now is the seventh shoe center and the most dis- organized city in the country. The chief reason which lead it te the present condition is the fact that Boston, ten miles from Lynn, is the pest hole of the open shop, and the Boot and Shoe with its graded prices and state board agreements reign un- changed. Most obviously, the manufacturers of Lynn toek the advantage and moved to Boston, and competed with Lynn. Need The Same Union Everywhere Would there be one union in the shoe industry the manufacturer would not see any benefit to keep on his plant moving. It would also make it so much easier for the union to or- ganize the unorganized, thus bringing about a uniformed price in the shoe industry. ij Alberta Miners Find Operators Lied By TIM BUCK. During the recent wage cutting cam- pkaign in the Crows Nest Pass, the favorite argument used by the opera- tors, was that a wage cut would en- able them to guarantee steady work, After Fernie had accepted the cut, all the rest of the camps were regaled will all kinds of stories as to the amount of work available there, the inference being of course, that if the other men accepted similar conditions, they would also have “steady work.” We have repeatedly pointed out the fallacy of such arguments, and shown inasmuch as the railways burn coal to generate heat, and not merely to demonstrate their satisfaction with miners’ wages, the wage cut would not increase the amount burned by one ounce; and after all camps had accepted the cut, production would be about the same, divided between the same mess in about the same propor- tions as before. “Steady Work” Bubble Bursts. And within less than a month of the acceptance of the cut by the last camp in the Crow—Hilicrest—events are developing exactly as foreshad- owed in our warning. The Crows Nest Pass Coal com- pany—Fernie and Michel—have al- ready withdrawn their guarantee of five shifts per week, aud have not worked five shifts tor “me time. This means that the worker classi- fled as “common laborer” outside, loses the guarantee of five days per week at $4.00 per day, which was to have been so much better than “un- certain employment at $5.18. While the miner enjoys“ four days’ steady work“ at $5.20 instead of $7.50. Having started off with a rush, the other camps of the Crow are also al- ready cutting down. The Internation- al Mine at Coleman stopping all three shifts on Monday, Belleview staying idle Saturdays—despite the fact that this mine is only producing at about 75 per cent of capacity—Blairmore closed down for two days last week, and prospects are that these arrange- ments will remain the rule until the mines up north get back to work, when production will be reduced still more. Boss Sticks the Knife in Deep. Victimization is rampant, and with an army of men outside looking for jobs, the operators cutting down pro- duction and laying men off, the out- look is far from bright. Many of the blacklisted men have tried for work at every mine in the Pass and eastern British Columbia, the invariable an- swer being: “Nothing doing!” Hill- crest is a bad place to come from if you want a job in District 18 today. Many of the victimized militants aro in desperate straits, lacking even bread for the children. But the boss must have his pound of flesh, and it has evidently been decided to soak the militants good and plenty. Meantime, those of the miners who are working, are face to face with the ~~ of what to do next. There are local unions in two camps, Belle- vue and Blairmore; company unions in two camps, Fernie and Michel. Hillcrest and Coleman are without organization of any kind whatsoever, while at Corbin, British Columbia, the agreement is between the company and the G. W. V. A.—and the presi- dent is the mine superintendent. Unless something is done in the im- mediate future to rally the men and re-organize them on a class basis, still another cut is well nigh inevi- table. And with it will come condl- tions rendering organization impos- sible. New Problems and Tasks. The miners of District 18 must fealize that the changed conditions with which we are faced, make dif- ferent tactics and different slogans absolutely necessary. No wage cuts—not even digging the coal for nothing—will avail in the present situation, the only possible solution of the problem confronting us is nationalization of the mines, work- ers’ control, and production of coal for the consumer rather than for all that the traffic will bear. With nationalization as a definite aim and Canadian autonomy enabling the miners to fight for its attainment, the bitter lesson being learned just now may yet be of value to the mine workers of Canada. GET A SUB ANDO GiV= ON! — — tll * F * ** | FACTS FOR WORKERS By JAY LOVESTONE, Director, Research e ORR Workers Party g j } : Year Avg. Debt Pct. Mortgaged 1890 $1,203 27.7 1920 2,102 39.7 1. Today, about 43 per cent of the homes in the whole country are mort gaged. 2. In New Jersey 62 per cent of the homes are mortgaged; in Massa- chusetts 57 per cent; in North Da- | kota 63 per cent; in New York 62 per cent; in Rhode Island, 51 per cent and in Connecticut, 61 per cent. 3. From 1890 to 1920 the number of homes not on farms rose from 7, 922,973 to 17,600,473. a. Of these 10,188,111 were rented and 7,041,288 were owned. b. Of the homes owned 389.7 were — and 60.3 N free from | Distribute a ale during Red : , * NEGROES De PAY SAME WHITE AT MEETING CAPETOW Africa, June 1—A big mass of Negroes In this olty de agisiation to enforce equal pay ual work, regard- less of the race of the workers. ADVOCATES A POLICY IN THE |. L. E. M. ELECTION The Sigman - Perlstein Machine Cracked By A GAR ENT WORKER. The election in the International * Garment Workers in Chicago is about to en and it will be well it the and file look back over the regime of the present offi- clals. Study the present condition of the organization, ask some pertinent questions from those seeking office, and cast their vote for the candidates who stand for a militant program of action. With the entrance ot Perlstein into the Chicago situation, coming as he did, ostensibly for organizational pur- poses, but in reality to remove from office and expell from the union the left wing who were then leading the organization, even if that entailed the complete demoralization of the or- ganization. Peristein Goes, Halperin Remains Perlstein has gone and no one weeps tears over his departure, altho they express deep sympathy with New York for being afflicted with this dis- rupter. However the Perlstein-Sigman policy still remains. The officials who took the place of the progressives who were removed, are still in office. The strong arm committee of ten, altho now in conflict with the Sigman machine are still a factor and Vice- President Halperin is following in the autocratic footstéps of Perlstein. Under the guise of organizing the unorganized Perlstein squandered like a drunken sailor, over $100,000 of the organization’s money, and when his drive was ‘over thé organization had lost over 1,000 members, the union was weakened by the expulsion of many of its ivest!} members, and in- flicted with a group of incompetent officials whose fighting proclivities were limited to a struggle against the progressives within the union. A split has taken place in the Per!- stein-Sigman local machinery. over the question of policy, but over the question of foot. The treasury has been drained, Perlstein made short work of that. The committee of ten and their followers outgide the union who only work when they are well paid, and whom everyone blames for the shooting scrape in the Ashland Auditorium, find themselves being squeezed out, the fight is on and Hal- perin is here to try and save the ma- chine from being completely wrecked. Holst With Their Own Petard. Disfranchisement and expulsion is still the main weapon of offense of Sigman and company. Now they are using it against each other. Some of those who were used by Perlstein to terrorize the left wing now find them- ‘selves in opposition to the machine and have been promptly disfranchised. It is needless to say that they are loud against this policy, and the two, former machine, delegates to the joint board from local 5 have resigned as a protest. Now enters Halperin who in true Perlstein manner took over local 5 at its meeting held on May 20, appointed two delegates to replace those who resigned, on the grounds that if he did not do so, left wing delegates would be elected, and that would be in violation of the policy of the gen- eral administration. Outlawed But Not Beaten. The T. U. E. L. has been outlawed in the I. L. G. W. It was also out- lawed in the miners’ union, yet in the last election in the U. M. W. of A. the candidates against the Lewis ma- ching polled 66,000 votes. They ran for office on the full program of the T. U. E. L. and Pewis has not yet complied with the constitution by tab- ulating the votes by locals, and the natural feeling among the miners is that Lewis was defeated. Im the local Chieago I. L. G. W. V. election, the most prominent left wing ers have been expelled or disfran- chised, they cannot run for office, but there are many sympathizers. Last year all those whom Peristein\thought sympathized with the expelled were arbitrarily removed from the ballot. This year the rank and file must see that no such czaristic methods are allowed. More than that, they must demand from each candidate to state their policy; what their program will be if elected to office. Into the Fight! Trade issues, the conditions of work- ers in the industry, are of the most importance. The settlement of these, or even the attempt to solve these Problems, requires, a different leader. ship, a leadership that will repudiate the class collaboration policy of the present group of officials. Officials are needed who will inject some idealism into the union and who will carry on the fight against the employers on the basis of the class struggle. 7 ' „ all THE KY LY WORKER CONSTITUTION OF A. F. I. O. USED 10 BREAK STRIKES So Textile Workers * Change it FALL RIVER, Mass. — Constitu- tional red tape that made the calling of strikes difficult has been unwound by the Fall River Textile Council of local unions affillated with the Ameri- can Federation of Textile Operatives, independent. The constitution now permits all de- partments of a mill to be called out in support of a strike in any one de- partment at the order of the emerg- ency committee, consisting of the secretaries of the affiliated locals, And a general strike of all mille in the town may be called by a two- thirds vote of all the members voting. Formerly two-thirds of the unions had to sanction a general strike. Thus the will of the larger unions, having more than two-thirds of all unionists affiliated with the council, could be thwarted by a minority of small unions, having relatively few mem- bers. It is expected that the New Bed- ford council may follow suit. In that neighboring cotton city last winter a general strike against the 10 per cent cut was prevented by the constitution. Tho more than two-thirds of all union- ists voting supported the general strike idea they were negatived by the failure of enuf of the smaller unions to ratify. The weavers, largest organized body, voted four to one for the strike, for example but they and the other pro-strike unions were blocked by 0 small craft groups. FIRE CARPENTER AFTER ATTACK BY BOSS JENSEN Left Winger “Punished” For Defending Self. W. S. Milson, progressive carpenter, who was attacked by Harry Jensen, president of the carpenters’ district countil, on May 18, was discharged from his job with William Morris and Son, an inside carpenter firm, when ot | he went to draw his pay on Saturday. Milson, member of Local No. 1367, was distributing criculars at Wicker Park Hall, advertising the candidate opposed to Jensen in the carpenters’ election for district council, when the reactionary “boss” of the local car- penters struck Milson with his fist. Milson declares it is very signi- ficant that he was fired shortly following Jensen’s attack on him. When asked why he had dis- charged Milson, Louis Hansen, the foreman replied that “I had orders from the office.” Milson could get no other information as to why he was thrown into the ranks of the unem- ployed. Progressive carpenters are asking whether the incident shows a connec- tion between the bosses and Harry Jensen, Czar Hutcheson’s lieutenant in the attack on the left wing. Cigarmakers’ Union will Meet August 10 BOSTON, Mass.—The annual con- vention of the Cigarmakers’ Interna- tional Union will begin in Boston, Aug. 10, William Collins, president, Local 85, announced. Three hundred dele- gates, representing 35,000 workers in the industry in the United States, Can- ada, Porto Rico and Cuba will be present. Every sub you get during Red Week of June 15 to 21 is a sub to “make another Communist.“ — — ener ee — am - CHOOSE SIGHT OF MURDER OF STRIKERS FOR WALES CEREMONY JOHANNESBURG, So. Africa, June 1.—The site chosen for Johan- nesburg natives to grovel before the prince of Wales was Village Deep, scene of a brutal massacre of native mine strikers six yeare ago. The native affaires department refused to make public the number of native miners their police had shot down. MARINE WORKERS FIND SHIPPING BOARD TYRANNY Sailors Brigged, Jailed and Cheated of Damages NEW ORLEANS, June 1.—Charging that he was chained to his bunk on the steamship Scantic, owned by the shipping board, while in Genoa, Italy, by the second mate, Bixford E. Dickey has filed suit for $10,000 in the federal court. Not only was he chained to his bunk and placed in irons, but he was re- fused food and water. The shipping board claims Dickey was chained to his bunk to prevent mutiny. John L. Labey files suit against the shipping board vessel West Ekonk for $10,000 damages claiming that the cap tain was responsible for his stay in an Argentine jail for nine days. The papers show that Labey was sdrunk for three days but reported for wdxk sober; that the captain re- 6d that he be locked up till the ship salled. Attorney? claim that the captain has po control of a sailor while off duty. Three American sailros injured last October when a scaffold on the ship- ping board steamer Clearwater fell, sued, and on a compromise verdict Jos- eph F. Kreisch instead of $50,000 re- ceived $1,200 for permanent loss of eyesight; John A. Nickles, claiming $20,000 for spinal injury, $800; John F. Edwards, asking $5,000 for shock and abraisons received $500. Another Question for them i- Why Not Do Some Amalgamation?” BOSTON, Mass.— The national board of jurisdictional awards in which building trades unions and sented is holding hearings for the purpose of settling disputed jurisdic- tional {ssues between crafts. Among disputed points to be settled are deciding whether: setting rein- forced rods in concrete walls and ce- ment floors is within the province of common laborers or skilled workmen; what craftsmen have exclusive right of cutting chases, channels and open- ings in brick, tile and masonry; what group shall put up plaster boards; what group shall put on metal trim for office building doors and elevator en- closures. The board has been in ex- istence six years. | BUGGENHEIM SYNDICATE GETS 50 PER CENT ON CONGO DIAMOND MINES NEW YORK, June 1.—A brief an- nouncement was made by the Gug- genheim Ryan syndicate which is ex- ploiting the Congo diamond mines, that a dividend of fifty per cent has been distributed to stockholders. The syndicate was formed in 1907 under the Congo mines participa- tion agreement, which stipulated that the Guggenheim brothers and Thomas F. Ryan would exploit the African diamond mines. One reason such a high dividend was declared, it Is stated, is be- cause cheap native labor is em- ployed to work the mines. S884 SSS SSS SS SSF SSF SSSSSS SS SS SSE SSPVSSsVSs FSF SSS SSS SSS SSS SS SSS SSS STS new subscribers to unified effort to subse sent in before thie date wi eee ee @2 oo © —>**> +s ss eee eee 0444444 SS & SSS O44 344 SOOT The Second Annual Sub Campaign has been extended to July first—al! ply to all city and branch quotas. WORKER’. 'A special sub rate of 2 months for $1.00 will be allowed during this time— free bundles will be sent to distribute in the shops and union door-to-door, halls... Five thousand new subs to the DAI. LY WORKER in one week—is quite an But it is much easier than to overthrow capitalism— And Communists aim to do both, accomplishment. ap- Dre err building trades employers are repre- are rotten here. In one week, to get five thousand in the stronghold of world capitalism—is quite an accomplishment. To do it—a RED WEEK has been organized between June 15 and 21—and every single Communist and sympathetic worker is asked to mobilize for one great “Build the DAILY, ~~ — > ~ roe 4 ˖‚— RR CAMP FILTHY CORRAL FOR SCAB HERD Bertrand’s Agency is Scab Recruiter 4 By A. W. HARVITT, Worker Correspondent. TOLEDO, Ohio.—Hot dog is the princiffe article of diet on bill of fare at the Penn. R. R. camp. Workers at Walbridge, Ohio, are charged $7.35 a week for board and are fed on hot dogs every day. This camp is run by Beady and Kipp of Chicago. These contractors are shipping out of Chicago and other points. Ten-Hour Day. The wages paid at this camp are 35 cents per hour. The men in this camp work or get paid for a ten hour day, but they must go to and come from their meals at the cook house on their own time. They must also be on the job ready to go out when the whistle blows. Under these conditions the slaves in this camp put in eleven hours per day. The workers here are laid off when- ever work is held up for any reason such as weather conditions, or delay on any account. Like a Pig Sty. The sanitary conditiong iu and around the camp are bad} pools of stagnant water standing about the camp from which arises a vile odor. Open toilets are close to the bunk houses. I visited the camp presumabby to hunt for a certain individual, And the watchman took me thru the bunk houses in the evening. The bunk houses were crowded and the bunks were covered with blankets which were in a filthy condition because of their lack of acquaintance with water. The fetid air in these places was nauseating. A Scab Supply Station, The watchman who was my guide informed me that this camp was used as a station for strikebreaker re- serves. This of course is not known by new arrivals at the camp, many of them leaving the camp as soon as this is known. One bunkhouse was crowded with men shooting craps, using cigarets as the stakes, as few of tne slaves have any money, the wages being so mea- ger. The labor turnover at this camp is very heavy. The workers are quit- ting en masses nearly every pay day. One hundred quit last pay day. Recruiting Scabs. Bertrand’s labor agency, 600 Wash- ington St., is shipping to this camp. Bertiand brags that he can furnish Strikebreakers for $2.00° per head. When the writer asked if he could furnish men for any kind of labor he said, “Yes.” He said he would sooner handle strikebreakers than anything. Lying Ads. This human vulture puts out an ade vertising card announcing that the camps he ships to have electric lights, best board, baths and first class camp conditions. Workers who contemplate jumping the camp and coming on to Toledo are advised that the indusrtial conditions thousands walking the streets out of work. 2 A ea ang Philadelphia, Notice! Weber Printing Co. 350 N. FIFTH STREET, Philadelphia, Pa, m4 — — | * PITTSBURGH, PA. To those who work hard for thel¢ money, I will save 50 per cent on all their dental work, * DR. RASNICK DENTIST 8 a Communist paper W R N 4 4% 4% 4% Oo oe oO OOO OOO 4 OOO rr n EE i i
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inns Experimental Farms Aid the Peasants By ALFRED KNUTSEN. (Special to The Daly Werder) Moscow, O. 8. 8. R., June 1—17 all signe do not fall agriculture in the Soviet Union will In the next 10 or 15 years take a tremendous step for- ward. Here we have vast stretches of fine, tillable land, In extent much larger than the entire territory of the United States, waiting for medern farm machinery to turn the rich soll to productive uses. Modern farming methods are de- stined to transform agricultural pre duction all over this country and their influence upon the intellectual and social life of the people are bound to be tremendous. Revolution Stimulated Farming. The revolution has cleared the decks for action in the field of agri- culture. Under the czar practically nothing was done to stimulate scienti- fic agriculture and the whole of the peasantry was kept in frightful slavery and ignorance. Soviet government of workers and farmers is starting out along the lines of science, culture and enlightenment, and despite the trem- endous difficulties it has had to con- tend with, a good deal has already been accomplished in modernizing farming in the Union of Soviet So- clalist Republics. Peasants Support Soviets. When we read in the capitalist press in America that the farmers: in the Soviet Union are only waiting for an opportune moment to revolt against the Soviet government, it is to laugh. I dare say that the farmers here are supporting their government to a far greater degree than the Amer- ican farmers are supporting the cap- italist government of the United States, and for very good reasons. The Soviet government belongs to the workers and farmers: while the government of the United States be- longs to the American capitalists. Establish Experimental Farms. What is the Soviet government do- ing in the fleld of agriculture? In this article J want briefly to point out two things that are significant. First, the establishment of Soviet experimental farms. I have seen two such farms, One at Ramensko, near Moscow, and another a few miles from Karkov. These farms are operated under the supervision of the Soviet department of agriculture and they have as their object the production of various kinds of grain, corn, alfalfa, clover, brans, peas, beets and other root crops, fruits of many varieties, hogs, cattle, etc., etc., and the scientific knowledge thus gained is communicated to the farm- ers thruout the district and these farms also furnish the farmers with good seeds. There are scores of these experi- mental farms thruout the Soviet Union and one interesting feature is that | the aim is to make them entirely self- Supporting. The one at Ramensko is self-supporting, while the one at Karkov is nearly so. Manufactures Farm Machinery. Then the Soviet government directing Karkov I was agreeably surprised to find that one factory turned out 102 caterpillar tractors per month, each of 50 H. P., capable of pulling eight | 18m. plows and plowing 25-30 acres | per day. This work, naturally, is recent, but | it is very significant of what is in the minds of the leaders of the new Russia. The Russian social revolu- tion is binging about a tremendous products. Fleet Back to Honolulu. HONOLULU, June 1.—The United States fleet Nas returned to the har- bor here for a month preparatory to making its long cruise to Australia to impress the world powers having in- terests in the Pacific with the power of American milfarism. “DISARM THE MASSES!” ORDERS CALLES, IN FEAR OF REVOLUTION MEXICO CITY, June 1-—Preel- dent Calles yesterday issued orders to police that all citizens should be disarmed and that all hemes should be searched and arms found there should be seized. This was considered one of the most drastic orders yet iseued by the administration, since the major ity of civilians are armed. The order is geing to be particu lary hard to enforce, since the arms the masses now have were used by them to ald Senor Calles obtain his position in the war against the Hu- ertista rebellion. More and more the subeervience of Calles to the com- mands of Wall Street and his open alllance with the hated Imperialist exploiters of the United States, is disillusioning the Mexican masses, and Calles quite rightly thinks that if the masses have arms they may use them against him. * —— 18 its attention towards the manufacture of farm machinery. At By J. STEN The Importance of Revolutionary Theory T the present time the theory of revolutionary Marxism is of spe cial importance for the Communist parties. The tasks dictated to the Communist parties by the historical situation demand a high degree of theoretical knowledge and experience on the part of the Communist parties. As a general rule the importance of theory for the party is dependent upon the role which the party is called upon to play in the system of the other working class organizations. The party represents the general and highest form of organization, leading and guiding all other labor organiza- tions in the struggle. In order to enable the party to see its marching route clearly before it, the light of revolutionary theory must be cast upon the road. Lenin told us that the struggle is not merely twofold—the political and the economic struggle, but that there is still a third struggle to be faced—the theoretical one. Ac cording to Lenin’s view the party is called upon to act as leader in all these three struggle. From Lenin's standpoint the party is the fulcrum of all three factors, the organizatory, the political, and the theoretical. ö igen working class as totality is as little competent to enter the arena of ideological struggle as it is capable of consciously leading its own strug- gle for emancipation in the spheres of economics and politics. The theory of Marxism, of scientific Communism, does not spring up automatically, as elementary force, in the ranks of the whole working class. So long as the overwhelming mass of the working class is suppressed and exploited, and held in ignorance by capitalism; 80 long as it is permeated by the narrow interests of the trade unions and guilds (representing the interests of individual professions only), it is un- able to rise simultaneously and direct- ly to the level of the ideology of scien- tific Communism. Scientific Communism is based sole- ly upon a whole number of philoso- phical, historical, and economic theo- ries which have preceded it. In order to grasp scientific communism, it is necessary to go beyond the narrow confines of the interests of this or that trade or profession, and to regard the socal historical process as a whole. It is thus a mistaken idea to believe that Communist ideas originate in the working class with fatalist inevitabil- ity, under the influence of the me- chanical pressure exercised by eco- nomic development. The development of the working class into Communist ideology is an irregular process. The most advanced and active section of the working class first appropriate these ideas. It is the duty of this ac- tive section to raise the broad back- ward masses to their level, to edu- cate them up to the stage which they themselves have reached by their own experience in the economic and politi- cal struggle. AIM role played by the party, and its decisive function, were express- ed by Lenin in the formula of the “correlations between spontaneity and consciousness.” The party is the con- scious expression of the spontaneous, objectively historical process. In or- der that the party may be rendered capable of acting competently as the conscious and active leader of the spon- taneous mass movements, and of adepting the right political strategy and tactics, it most imperatively re- quires a correct comprehension of the ‘laws of capitalist development. But the knowledge of the general laws of capitalist social development does not in itself render a party cap able of leading the struggles of the i ' 23 — — — 2 — The F nd T a - Tor bear the character of a ruthless call-/ ing to account wf, and an equally re- lentless s le against, the pseudo- Marxism of the Second International. | This means that our propaganda of the general fundamentals of Marxism must not be abstract in character, but must be based upon the actual histori- cal tasks set the working class by each new epoch. And this means that our general propaganda has to be a propaganda of Marxism and Leninism. When we speak of Leninism, we emphasize that special import which Lenin imparted to Marxian theory. We hold in view the light cast upon Marz lan theory by Lenin’s application of fresh historical experience, his new practice of Marx's methods in a man- ner hitherto unknown in the history of, the world. Leninism signifies in- exorable struggle against the vulgar- ized and castrated Marxism of the Second International. Leninism is the renaissance of orthodox Marxism. But Leninism is not only the rebirth of the Marxism of Marx, it is the con- tinuation and further development of Marxism under the conditions imposed by the epoch of imperialism and the development of socialist revolution. The historical process does not come to a standstill, social be'ug changes and develops. HEN the new phase of capitalist development, the phase of mon- opolistic capitalism, had commenced, and when the war of 1914 finally de- termined the beginning of an enorm- ous upheaval in the world’s history, Marxism was confronted by fresh theoretical and practical tasks. Marx- ist theoretical consciousness had to grasp, consciously, the new social be- ing which had come into existence. Lenin, applying the methods and teachings of Marx, consciously grasp- ed the fundamental antagonisms and decisive laws of the imperialist epoch. The imperialist socialists of the type of Kautsky, Bernstein and Fried- rich Adler, proved unequal ¢o this task. These theoreticians of the Sec- ond International bid adieu to the tenets of orthodox Marxism. Having conceded to their imperialist inclina- tions by renouncing dialectic material- ism, it was impossible for them to even attempt a conscious grasp of fresh phenomena and processes from the standpolnt of Marx’s methods. Friedrich Adler’s declaration (Adler likes. to consider himself a Marxist) that, the Bolsheviks are in actual fact sinking deeper and deeper into Bak- unistic. adventurism, but continue to call upon Marx unceasingly at the same time, thus sounds extremely hy- pocritical. Adler writes that the standpoint of the Bolshevik may be more easily understood since they have finally decided eo speak of Len- inism” instead of “Marxism!” (From Adler’s letter to the Executive of the London International.) ND it is precisely Friedrich Adler, the zealous reviser of the dia- lectic materialism of Marx and En- gels, who makes this statement. In his well known article written in 1907, and published in the Neuen Zeit, un- der the title of “Friedrich Engels and the Natural Sciences,” Adler employed his utmost endeavors to distort En- gels, and to replace the philosophy of Marx by the philosophy of Mach. It need not be emphasized that Friedrich Adler’s submissive service to the im- perialist bourgeoisie has so crippled his mental faculties that he is no long- er capable of questioning whether a man who has renounced Marxian meth- ods of materialist dialectics may still be called a Marxist. Friedrich Adler, having renounced Marx’s methods, is incapable of comprehending that the split between the labor movement and socialism during the epoch of imperi- alism is not accidental, and that the | disintegration of Marxism in the Sec- working class; for this another capac- | cond International is as little acciden- ity is required; that of making an ef- tal. The fundamental feature distin- ficient concrete analysis of any given | guishing the theoreticians of the Sec- special historical situation. This task ond International is their incapability ran in the proguction of farm} is however only possible to achieve if | to comprehend Marxism as a coherent the policy of the party is based upon | a strictly scientific Marxian founda- | concord. The carrying out of such a pol- | prepared to accept this or that part of | tion. icy requires more than a mere em- ‘pirical assembling of things,” the mere knowledge of certain political rules and tactical standards oestab- lished by empirical experience. It requires a capacity to extract the | Core, the actually decisive driving | forces of social historical development, out of every individual historical situa- — by means of the methods of dia- lectic materialism. In an historical epoch replete with social catastro- phes and dislocations, the capacity of thus applying dialictic methods be- comes of eminent importance. Under the conditions caused by the raging speed of social historical development, we cannot approach social phenomena metaphysically without falling into error, that is, we must not isolate these phenomena, or remove them from their context. The epoch of im- perialism, the collapse of capitalism, and the development of socialist revo- lution itself, are in a certain sense dialectically more “mobile” than the previous historical epoch. The General Tasks of Propaganda, HE importance of revolutionary theory for the struggle for eman- |cipation of the working class points out to us our general tasks of Marxian | propaganda is the dissemination of the basic ideas of Marxism in a num ber of Communist Parties. This dis- semination ef Marxian ideas must 2 . ot special importance view of life, permeated with dialectic Some of them have been | Marxism, but have rejected that total- ity of Marxism extends alike to the works of nature and the history of mankind. Lenin, on the other hand, accepted the methods and teachings of Marx fully and completely, and with their aid he explained the new processes and solved the practical taske of the labor movement. Thus our general propaganda must be a propaganda of orthodox, unvulgarized Marxism, and a propaganda of the latest achieve- ments won by the theory and prac- tice of Marxism in the latest epoch of history. That is, it must be a prop- aganda of Leninism. For this reason, our general propaganda must lay special emphasis on the Marxian view of life as a coherent and organic whole. We have to propagate the fun- damentals of dialectic materialism, the factors underlyipg the methods of Marx and Lenin. pointed out that this task is of the utmost importance in the present epoch. Here our task consists of pro- viding the requisite literature for the individual Communist Parties. This is for literally every theoretician belonging to the Second International has dealt with the philosophy of Marxism with un- masked revisionism, and the broad masses of workers still backing up social democracy have thus been plunged into the profoundest misap- prehension with regard to the role and significaace of dialectic materialism. * er 1 9 A We have already | comprehension of che laws of capital- ist development, and of the conform- ity to law embodied in classic indus- trial capitalism, are necessary pre- requisites to the comprhension of the connection existing between the cap- Malism of free competition and mon- opolist capitalism. If the knowledge does not exist, the danger arises of a lack of comprehension of the associa- tions between imperialism and classic capitalism, leading in practical politics to a tendency towards “left infantile diseases.” And as our general propa- ganda must deal af the same time with the special purport imparted to Marxism by Lenin, our propaganda work must lay special emphasis on the fundamental elements of Leninism. The theory of imperialism must be accorded a leading place in our prop- aganda. A clear Gomprehension of the nature of m is absolute- ly necessary if We are to grasp the character of the new historical epoch. Here our propaganda must expose the manner in which “misapprehension of the essential character of imperialism, as special stage in the devolopment of capitalism, has converted social democracy into the flunkeys of the bourgeoisie. The position into which social dem- ooracy has thus fallen has of course its social causes, and the theoretical expression of these is the false theory of imperialism held by the social dem- ocrats. This failure to comprehend imperialism leads the social demo- cratic theoreticians into a further labyrinth of misapprehension as to the real character of the split in the ranks of socialism and in the working class. They do not understand that this split is an inevitability arising out of the essential nature of the imperialist epoch, They do not understand that imperial- ist excess profits form a soll for the growth of a labor aristocracy and a bureaticracy which, finding firmer eco- nomic ground befieath their feet, be- gin to show a “bourgeois” and “Phil- istine” tendency. The political ex- pression of this economic schism of the labor aristocracy to the side of the bourgeoisie is représented by the split in socialism. It ig precisely this fun- damental fact which has made the split between Communists and oppor- tunists (or imperialist socialists) an imperative necessity. And precisely for this reason there could be no thought of a simple reorganization of the Second International, and the cre- ation of a new organization, the Th Inte became an ab- solute necessity. must thus ‘accord a leading place in our propaganda work to this question of the imperialist nature of the social democratic parties. Fail- ure to comprehend this imperialist character may be observed among the so-called left Communists. Even Rosa Luxemburg shared this lack of clear understanding on this subject. In her book on “The Crisis in Social Democ- racy,” she regards the attitude adopt- ed by German social democracy at the outbreak of the war in 1914 simply as a mistake, and does not associate it with the history of opportunism. Lenin drew special attention to this when he said that “the treachery would be inexplicable” if we could not trace its connection to opportunism as a ten- dency with a long history behind it— the history of the whole Second Inter- national. The question of the split in socialism during the imperialist stage of capitalism has been dealt with by Lenin in his remarkable ar- ticle entitled: “Imperialism and the Split in Socialism.” The question of the theory of im- perialism is of increased importance to us, since at the present time we are. obliged in our own ranks to com- bat the false theory propagated by Rosa Luxemburg'’s conception of im- perialism should be made the funda- mental of the pregram of the Com- munist International. It is the vital duty of our propaganda work to op- pose our incontestable theory to Rosa Luxemburg’s incorrect theory of im- perialism, in which she summed up her wrong conceptions of the role played by the party, the national emancipation movement, the move- ments in the colonies, and the peasant movements. Another important branch of our general propagandist work is the teaching of Lenin’s theory, strategy, and tactics of prdletarian revolution. The fundamental principles laid down by Lenin in these questions are con- tained in the main documents of the Communist Intergational. These are 1. The theses on bourgeois and pro- letarian democracy (passed at the Ist | World Congress). 2. The theses on the agrarian ques- tion (2nd Congress). 8. The theses on the national and colonial question (2nd Congress). 4. The resolution on the role of the Communist Party (2nd Congress). 5. The 21 conditions of admittance into the Communist International. It is our task to disseminate the contents of these documents, which internationalize . teachings on the role and tas of the Comintern, and on the role Played by the party, the teachings on the driving forces of international soctalist revolution, and the principles ot party organization, amongst the broadest masses of the people. The ediitational and propa- ganda work in thé party must provide the broadest peasible basis fer the ism in the agrarian question. ) tion of the contents of these most important documents of the Communist International by the masses of party members. The Special Tasks of Our Propa- ganda. stage of devolopment of the Communist International through which we are passing at the present time confronts us with a number of concrete propagandist tasks. The Fifth Congress proclaimed the Bol- shevization of the Comintern. This slogan commenced a new period in the history of the Comintern. The end of 1928 found a number of countries in a revolutionary -situation. Some Communist Partteis, as for instance, the Bulgarian, the German and the Polish, were placed in the position of acting as the direct leaders of revo- lutionary mass movements. These Communist Parties were obliged to pass from the strategic maneuver of the united front tactics to an imme- diate struggle. The historical events of this period have however proved and shown that the parties are not yet capable of acting as Bolshevist or- ganizations. The severe test of ob- jective historical development to which these Communist Parties were subjected pointed out to the Commun- ist International the nature of its im- mediate tasks in the new period. These tasks consist In a continued endeavor on the part of the Commun- ist Parties to maintain contact with the broad backward masses, in the first place with the proletarian masses) and further with the non-proltarian; further, of the utilization of the les- sons learned during the period just passed thru, aided by the analysis of the internal development of the in- dividual country, for the purpose of drawing up a correct strategic plan, and of undertaking correct tactical action in accordance with this plan. h taks involved by the necessity of a conscious comprehension of the experience gained in the past peri- od demands from us the accomplish- ment of a lagre number of propagand- ist tasks. In the first place we have to wage a relentless ideological and theoretical war against those devia- tions from Marxism which have worm- ed their way into various Communist Parties. Where questions arise with reference to the generalization and conscious comprehension of . revolu- tionary experience, the questions which are put with reference to the philosophy and methodology of Marx- ism are not accidental. In this at- mosphere, charged with these essen- tial and important tasks, but lacking in: far-reaching and comprehengfye tra- ditions in the sphere of dial Marx- ism, the ‘Communist Parties dend to lapse into distortions and falsifications of Marxism. The philosophical efforts of Lukacs, Korsch, Fogarasi, eto, may serve as examples of such distortions and diseased growths. An article by Lukacs, published in 1921 in the theoretical organ of the German C. P., Die Internationale, on the subject of the Spontaneity of the Masses and Party Activity,” furnishes the clearest evidence of the relation- ship between Lukacs’ philosophy and a certain subjective trend, that is, with the left infantile mn of pol- itics. HIS instance furnishes a brilliant justification of Lenin’s words with regard to the relationship between the philosophy of Marxism and the Marxist social political movement. We see how an incorrect political devia- tion produces its corresponding philo- sophical expression. It is our task to carry on an exterminating theoretical war against these philosophical devia- tions, and to apply the methods of dia- lectical materialism to the work of correctly generalizing and consciously grasping the practical experience gained in the Communist movement. Deviations of precisely the same na- ture may be observed with regard to the theory of the agrarian question; and again these arise just as the at- mosphere is charged with tasks of the utmost importance to the Comintern in its efforts to control the peasant movements. It is incumbent on all Communist Parties to make a special study of the various groups and str&ta in the peasantry of their own coun- try, and thus to ascertain the right political slogans for enlisting many groups of the peasantry in the ranks of proletarian revolution. This work demands that the Com- munist Parties be familiar with the theory of the agrarian question work- ed out by Marx and Lenin. Such the- oretical experience being lacking, many Communist Parties faced for the first time with the agrarian problem have fallen into theoretical deviations. : | Varga’s book, “Outlines of the Agrar- lan Question,” may serve as an ex- ample of this description of revision- Here Varga revises the theoretical prin- ciples of Marxism and Leninism in the agrarian question. It is our task to combat revisionism in the agrarian question, and to propagate at the same time the teachings of Marx and Lenin in this question. Lenin has left us much valuable theoretical material with reference to the agrarian ques- tion. He is the greatest theoretician of the agrarian question in the Marx- ist camp. Thus one of the most im- portant lines of our prapaganda work must be to spread the knowledge of Lenin's theoretical achievements in the agrarian question, the task imme- diately incumbent on the Comintern at the present juncture of evolution rending this knowledge of the utmost imporance — 1 International, in order that the work- ers organized in this may be won over from social democracy man by man. One of the special tasks of our prop- aganda work consists of enlightening the Communist Parties with to the role and importance trade unions in organization. The Communist have to grasp the fact that the trade unions is the opportunity for propagating Communism ideas among the broad strata of the non-party workers. _ The development of thé epoch now being struggled thru by the Comin- tern, im connection with the task of Bolshevization now being entered up- on by the Communist Parties, requires that our propaganda work furnishes the theoretical prerequisites for the conscious comprehension of the ex- perience of the past, and establishes the theoretical principles upon which the political and organizatory tasks of the present period are based. But our propaganda must reach the broadest masses of the party members and of the non-partisan workers alike. The fundamental slogan of our propaganda work among the masses of party work. ers must be: “Every member of the party must know the A. B. C. of Len- inism.” Organizatory Prerequisites for Propaganda Work. "Warned d by, Labor ‘HARTFORD, . June 1—The Workers (Communist) Party, Conneo ticut district, has sent a letter to J. bill which robs the workers and farm - ers of the state of their rights to par ticipate in the use of electrical power, The letter states: State House, ; ‘ “To the political boss of Conneo- ticut: “We note that your NMectrieal Grab bill goes merrily through the legis lative s having already passed the btate senate. This inter room next to the house chamber, you have been executing the will of the manufacturers association of connec- ticut. Of course, you are dotng this for patriotic motives, to defend your country against the red menace. Of course. See Bae Rob Workers “But now you stand convicted open- ly before the working class of the state, as one who robs workers of the electric rights of the state. You take by political force the right to exploit the masses of this state when they ask for light. They ask for light- and you hand them a bill, pocketing enormous profits. Why are you get- i order to carry out propaganda ting this unusual franchise? For your work as delineated above, the Communist Parties must take a large number of indispensable measures in the sphere of propaganda. In the first place it is of importance to organize a sub-department for propaganda in all Agitprop departments in the Com- munist Parties. Certain comrades must be selected, who are to devote themselves solely to propaganda work. It is only when a group of comrades of this description, engaged on this special work only, is formed, that a really efficient co-operation between the propaganda sub-department of the E. C. C. I. and the propaganda work of the individual Communist Parties is possible. It has hitherto proved dif- ficult to bring about this co-operation. All Communist Parties have to adapt themselves to the lines laid down by the Agitprop of the E. C. C. I. After the Communist Parties have ascer- tained the purport of the propaganda work required of them, and have ap- pointed a group of cvomrades devot- ing themselves to this work, they will then be in a position to approach the task of expanding and developing the various organizatory forms of propa- ganda work. In order that a certain staff of the- oretically educated comrades may be created, and theoretical experience thus firmly anchored in the Commun- ist Parties, the Agitprop of the Com- munist International raises the ques- tion of the organization of internation- al party courses of instruction. The object of this instruction is to furnish the’decisive section of the Comintern with a staff of comrades thoroly versed in Marxist Leninist theory Comrades capable of acting later on as active leaders in the practical life of the Communist Parties. One of the most urgent tasks in the building up and development of the various organizatory forms of propa- ganda work is the task of organizing elementary courses of instruction in all Communist Parties. The program of these courses of instruction was published in the Inprecorr. HE further development of the or- ganizatory forms of propaganda work raises the question of Marxist Leninist circles, and brings us to the task of establishing central party schools in the individual parties. Re- ciprocal relations must exist between these various forms of organization. The question of central party schools has already been placed on the agen- da of some parties. We are already richer by the experience gained in the French Party school. The immediate future will see the completion of the working out of the working program of the central party schools in the different countries. The fundamental organlzatory measures towards prop- aganda work to be taken up at the present moment by the Communist Parties may however be summed up in the following two points: the ap- pointment of a group of comrades in every party for leading propaganda work, and the immediate development of the elementary courses of instruc- "| munists. good looks—for your ability? No. We are forced to the conclusion that it is the reward for political power—a sop thrown to you by the. manufacturers whose bidding you do. Senate Bill 587—the Hlectrie Grab bill—is being pushed through, to the sound of your whip. You are evidently not in poli- tics for your health. “During the recent. state campaign, the Workers (Communist) Party de manded that natural regources and public utilities be taken over by the state and nation, and that they be managed by the unions. Your so- called republican party and all others Supporting capitalism opposed this. Your candidates were elected by the farce of democratic elections, and ac- tually by capitalist dicta one of the results is this infamous b You will pass such bis, only so long as the workers permit the factories, mines and workshops to be in the hands of your class. When the work ers and farmers institute their own government, your days * glory will be at an end Government His Puppet “We wish to congratulate you on the choice bit of camouflage you put over. You have learned from the art of war displayed when the capital- ist nations slaughtered millions of workers, for the eternal preservation of their own profits. You have learn- ed the fine art of camouflage. At the same time that you put over this monumental piece of robbéry, you had your puppet, the governor, make speeches exalting the spirit of 1776, clothing himself in the flag, and as usual attacking the reds, the com- The governor of Virginia was imported to highten the patriotic ferver, and all he did was to indulge in petty gossip, and show the low mentality of those supposed to be guiding the destinies of the states. We will unmask you. We will strip off the drappery and show you to the working class of this state in your naked character of exploiters. Days of Bosses Numbered “Shall we call upon you to stop pushing this bill through? That would be naive. But we warn you that there will be a day of reckoning, when the workers of the state will take you to task for robbing them of the electric resources of the state. And when the workers take over the industries, and establish their own Soviet gove ment, you will be among those held responsible, “As against’ your electric grab (1000 per cent Americanism)—the Workers Party raises the cry of hands off! It raises the slogan of: All the resourc- es for the workers and farms—for use, not for profits. “Looking forward confidently to the time when your political power will be wrested from you, and assuring you that we will leave nothing un- done toward that end, we remain, Connecticut State Committee, Workers (Communist) Party of America, Wm. Simon, District Organizer. Get a Sub during Red Week. WANTED IN NEW YORK! the task of building up the Workers’ School. Much work must be done in loguing ‘books, marking, cutting, a FOR YOUR SERVICE. You must = OMRADES to give one or more hours regularly every week to Come over any day or evening to 108 East 14th street, Room 34. The clipping and research bureau is being organized by the school Brower Memorial Library of the sorting and filing magazines, cata- nd filing clippings, etc. help.
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ah a 1 ee John D. pd Cornell Man Free European T ITHACA, N. I., June 1.— Cornell students were entertained by an anti- bolshevist lecture, delivered by Albert Russell Mann, dean of the college of agriculture, who nas just returned from a lengthy tour ot Burope as a member of the Rockefeller. _— education fund. ‘ ; Dean Mann dwelt at. length upon the “sufferings” of the refugee stu- dents, who with their anti-bolshevist professors are pursuing. courses in czarist law in order that they may some day return and.“heip” Russia out of her difficulties. Professor Mann visited Italy, Bohemia, Hethonia, and Poland. In Warsaw he was told the sad tale of a young Russtan wo- man who had been spreading coun- ter revolutionary propagenda who “had to flee from Moscow in order to save herself from a trip to erm Dean Cries Over Spy. — The dean related that the young wo- man had been associated with the Hoover relief organization. The Sov- let officials suspected she had ulterior motives besides relief work and sub- jected her to a cross-examination. The dean concluded from this horrible at- rocity that the Union of Socialist Sov- ist republics is unworthy of recogni- tioon at this time. A member of the audience was heard to mutter something about Roger Baldwin getting a six months’ sentence for union activities in Pat- erson, but of course, no one thought of embarrassing the dean by heckling. Professor Mann admitted that his “information” came from anti-bolshe- vists. He also admitted that ther were signs of real scientific activity in the Soviet republic, altho his near est approach to that country was 3 visit to the American ambassador at Warsaw, who is authority for the hor- rible tale about the poor woman who was harrassed by the cheka. 7 Represented Standard Oll. — It appears that the dean’s Nu thropic movements in Europe are not beyond suspicion. One local member of the Workers (Communist) P has been in touch with the professor’ 8 activities in Hurope. He relates a the dean traveled from university university, note book in hand, 8 ag ing data in a manner characteristic of a sleuth looking for a bootlegger. He made himself known as a rep sentative of the Rockefeller organita- tion, and was consequently filled with sad tales by anti-bolshevists anxious to obtain a donation from the o king. What is even more interesting is that the professor cut short his vacation to deliver a public lecture which had one solitary theme tho Soviet must not be recognized. Get a sub for the DAILY WORKER from your sbopmate and you will make another mem. ber for your branch. 51 9 5 : NEW NAME “ALL AMERICAN ANTI-IMPERIALIST LEAGUE” IS Ee — 2 ADOPTED IN WAR ON DOLLAR RULE | * tere 9 .—— a concerted ht against imperialism ship of Juliq-Antonio Mella, editor of the well-known: student publication, '|duventud, Regular secretariats of the league already exist in the. mala. The monthly organ of the league, Bl Libertador, is meeting a wide response thruout Latin-America, the first two editions having been completely exhausted within a week after publication. National liberation societies, work- ing class organiztaions, peasant leagues, student groups, political par- tles—in fact any organization in America interested in creating a ral- lying center for the common struggle against Wall Street—has a place in the All-American Ant} Imperialist League. The league denounces the Pan- American Union and the so-called Pan-American Federation of Labor as avowed supporters of the Monroe doctrine, a doctrine of perpetual ag- gression against the peoples of Latin- America in the interests of a profit- cot “Pan-American” empire dom- nated by Wall Street. States and in Mexico, and, —— is * SOVIET UNION AIDS N SEARCH ~ FOR AMUNDSEN MOSCOW, U. 8. 8. R., June 1.— The commissariat of. Posts and Tele- graphs. of the Soviet Union has re- quested every Arctic outpost in the union to be ready to render assist- ance to Amundsen and his companions if signs of the north pole filers are found. The Soviet Union's wireless stations ranging along the extreme northern coast of Hurope. have remained, con- stantly on the alert, hoping to hear some news of Amundsen, who has not been heard from since his party left Spitzbergen in two airplanes ten days ago. Mulattoes Have No Legal Rights, in . . Teras is Ruling “AUSTIN, Texas, June 1.—Children of a Negro mother and a white father éannot be regarded as legal descend- ants, assistant attorney general Er- heat May of Texas has ruled. The rul- ug, handed to state comptroller 8. . "Terrél, in answer to an inquiry by county judge Chester Bryan, states that “legal benefits” cannot apply to nye children of a white testator. “‘Intermarriage of ited, and common law marriages are ‘not recognized. athe — ew, Records for Passport ‘WASHINGTON, D. C.—June 1.— The number of Americans securing passports this years has exceeded by 12 per cent those who departed the éountry last year, state department officials declare. Since April 11,200 passports per working day have been tasted, setting a new high record. 25,040 secured amn. in April. | OUR DAILY PATTERNS | HOUSE DRESS FOR MATURD FIGURES NJ 6144. Striped tub silk used in this instance. The trimming is of white broadcloth. This a good style for flannel, gingham or percale. The pattern is cut in 7 sizes: 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46 and 48 inches bust measure. A 38 inch size requires 4% yards of 36 inch material with % yard of 27 inch material for collar, cuffs and pocket facings. The width of the skirt at the foot is 2% yards. Pattern mailed to any address on re- ceipt of 120 in silver or stamps. * a — FASHION BOOK NOTICBI! 10 in silver or stamps for Seok of 5 vs rhe showing color, ashion 0 color plates 560 designs of ladles” — ng and wShildren’s patterns, a con. cise and 8 artiele on dress 8 tor needie 30 (of us simple to the home Address: The DAILY 1 1198 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, III. our 1988 J. all : 4 SIMPLE FROCK FOR SLENDER FIGURES. 5137. This 10 a very good mode} for kasha, tub Silk, linen or rep. The sleeve may be short or in wrist length. The pattern is cut in 4 sizes: 14, , 16, 18 and 20 years. A 16-year size requires 3 yards of 40-inch material, with % yard of contrasting material for collar, cuffs, plait and pocket fac- ings, if made as illustrated. 8 0 „ Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. 89 0 ee NOTICE ZO.PATTERN BUT ERS — 3 sold thru the R ö department are fur- — Irre RR forwarded by the. eneturers. Orders are lorwardes by ceived, mailed by the man- customer, The does not keep a steck he races is pro- | Your Union Meeting | Firat Tuesday, June 2, 1928. No. Name of Local and Place of Meeting 6 Amalgamated Clothing Workers, 1829 8. Throop St. 39 Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Douglas Park Auditorium. Amalgamated Clothing Workers, 1564 N. Robey St., 7:30 p. m. or ay ne Workers, S. Halsted 8 Amaigamates Clothing Workers, 178 W. Washington 2 180 w. Wash- n St. Bis 1 Workers, 19 W. Adams 8t., p. . ne "Shoe Workers, 1939 Mil- 49 Brick and Clay Workers, Clark and 21 , Bricklayers, 912 W. Monroe St. 136 B. 8. l. W., 788 W. Madison St. 237%. Carmen, 201 W. Chicago Ave. 58 ar enters, Diversey and Sheffield. nters, 141 Car 25 arpenters, 9442 Cottage Grove Ave. yy Mt te Moose all, Chioago ghts. 1128, ,Garpenters, Moose Hall, ‘La Grange, 1727" Garpenters, 14th 8t. Hall, North 2 . Ghicago. 1786 ‘Carpenters, Spr id and 26th 2786 ——— . eld and 26th St. 2 Blevator Constructors, 2901 West Monroe Street. 402: fingineers, 180 W. Washington — 188 Firemen and Enginemen, Lake and neisco Street. 5 Hod Carriora, * 15th St., Chi- € Nod Carriers, hi . Harrison St. os Workers, Bu St. 390 Michiniste, 2257 Sheffield Ave. Machinists, 7414 Wentworth Ave. 4 _M chiniets, 4111 W. Madison St. p rine Fire ' ters, 35th N ood. * 5 2, N. E. cor. California and ison. 641 rs, N41 . 3 oer. a 1 and pr 9202 So. Chieage Ave. a 220 W. 1 ‘Heights, Car- ade enters’ Hall. 396 ‘Painters, 810 W. Harrison. 521 Painters, Trumbull and Ogden Ave. Plasterers, Monroe and Peoria Sts. 4 9. —— Fort Dearborn Ho 2219 "ngitway Clerks, 549 W. Washing- 12346 ilway Clarks, 549 Washington &t., 30 p. 1806 “Raliway Cierks, 54386 Wentworth 25 “gignaimen, 428 W. 68rd St. Witchmen, 901 K. 75th St. 10686. 3 and Public Utilities Inspec- ors, Great Northern Hotel. 712 Teamsters, 220 8. Ash- . N. .. 3 Hall. 1 yin be 2 Attendants, 912 2 9. 2 m. Tay or and Ogden 180 W. Washington Clerks, Laundry, 24 Upholsterers, 111 Upholaterers, tre 7 Waiters, 234 W. Randolph St. 16171 ware wer 0 pmo Paim er m (Note — Unless otherwise stated all meetings ¢ are at 8 p. m.) Workers Dramatic League of N. V. Starts Its Summer Program NEW YORK, June 1.— The Work. ers’ Dramatic League of New York, was formed with the express purpose of presenting revolutionary drama to the workers of New York. It is com- posed of a group of party and non- party members many of whom are art- ists, writers and others with dramatic ability. The short but very beautiful panto- mine presented for the joint bazaar of the International Workers’ Aid and the- Labor Defense Council and the Paris Commune pageant a mags pres- entation that taxed the entire energy of the league for some weeks and which was believed to be extremely successfully. Lectures will be given on the revo- lutionary drama by Louis Lozowick, John Lassen and Sadie Amter. These lectures will be short enough so that t better part of the meeting can be devoted to the work on hand. Comrade Speck and Egri have joint- ly written a very excellent burlesque called “Tried for Treason,” a satire on the trial of the three comrades arrested by the bomb squad for car- rying guns during the pageant re- hearsal. This little play will be pro- duced for the first time at the picnic which the Workers Party is holding June 24, at Pleasant Bay Park. No one can afford to miss this event which is expected to be a tremendous success. The new pageant written by John Lassen and Simon Felshin will be pre- sented as an outdoor production for the International Workers’ Aid and Labor Defense Council on August 24, at a picnic also at Pleasant Bay Park. The league meetings take place — at 8 p. m., until further no- tice at Astoria, Hall on E. Fourth St. Get a “bub” for the DAILY WORKER, 10 process of organization in Guste- ws said after the me * THE DAILY. WORKER — ee — — —— — —— LABOR DEFENSE x ed i To Form all-Inclusive 5 0 Organization | (Continued from Page 1) in advocating amnesty for political prisoners; ex-class-war prisoners; and all working-class organizations. George Maurer, national secretary of the counciljagave the following reasons for the «committee’s action: “First, the Amepigen labor movement has never had aylarge central defense organ that is able to defend workers of whatever beef or affiliation and it is high time ome existed. Second- ly, there is ever reason to believe that a new epifiemic of labor per- secution will he country before many more mon have gone by; the economic situation ign’t very promis- ing, there are ip ons of another strike period Se actſon is unques- tlonably gaining. strength not only abroad but here gs, well. Old Class War Fighters “Thirdly, numerous requests have come to our office asking what is now being done fer such old class- war prisoners ag: Ford and Suhr, Ran- gel and Cline, Mooney and Billings and dozens of others that are now all but forgotten. We intend that there shall be a revival. of interest in these old fighters, everyone of whom was framed up on flimsy chargse and sent to the penitentiary for long years. “And lastly, but by no means of the least importance, we think that the hundreds and more class-war prisoners now behind the bars are deserving of better treatment than mere postcards on their birthdays. We think they are entitled to systematic patronage in the form of material comforts for themselves and regular care for their families. And we think there are thousihds’of other workers of the same opfp fon. 1 Deseryps Support The following nembers of the Na- tional Executive Committee approved the calling of the.conference: E. C. Wentworth, chairman; Wm. H. Holly, C. E. Ruthenberg, M. J. Loeb and Rev. Davis Rhys Williams. There were no objections. . C. Wentworth, the chairman, ing, “I don’t see how it will be le for any labor- ‘pas man or labor organization to fail to support a mov ent. like this.” The purposes of the conference, the manifesto iss ne “call ‘says, are to devise ways an means to: 1. Initiate trale niitio wide campaigns ‘amnesty, ot all class-war prisoners, for the repeal of all criminal syndicalism laws, to op- pose anti-labor legislation, and against persecution and déportatfon of foreign born workers. 2. Collect matérfal and give pub- licity to all facts értaining to work- ing class persecu bn, to publicly ex- pose brutal treatment of political prisoners and to ose secret anti- labor activities, sul as labor spy sys- tem, etc. 3. Provide legal and moral ald to all workers attacked for expression of opinion or for working-class activity. 4. Give matefſal and moral aid and comfort to all prisoners who have been incarcerated for expression of opinion or for wofing-class activity. 5. Supply material support for the families and dependants of such prisoners. 6. Protest against terrorist activ- ities against workers in other lands and to give moral and financial aid whether possible to the victims of such terror. 7. Merge all forces willing to co operate in this work into a broad na- tional organization, based upon indi- will stand as an ical opinions or affiliations, attacked through the courte;or otherwise, their activities in the labor movement. tense Council is fully confident that supporters of this conference come forward inolgposing numbers and make the couésremce on June 28 organ that will uns all forces friend- ly to the American workers move- the attacks of predetory capital upon any and all workens ot whatever be- lief or affiliation.‘ . tense.“ * Shepherd Germ Case Witness Continues police and detectives have combed the city and environs for twenty-four sive state’s witness in the William D. Shepherd “germ murder,” case at Chi- cago, without finding a trace of him, they admitted tod information that the Working on witness, who has n reported vari- ously in New York, Philadelphia and other cities, had relatives in Pitts- burgh, authorities * the city in a quest thus far fu Detectives were posted at a local telegraph office, w a money order for $117 was rece for White from claimed. — — The call concludes, The Labor De- to Elude Police vidual and collective membership that | ever-willing and ever-ready champion for the defense of all workers, regardless of their polit- for | will | the starting point wor a great defense | | ment into a solid bulwark against | ' The slogan tor he conference will | be, “Unite all forces for Labor De- | | | | PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 1.—Local | hours in search of Robert White, elu- Chicago, but the ,guoney was not — — — — — BUILDERS AT WORK Are You Getting Ready fos Red Week? SEND IN YOUR ORDERS NOW! Every branch of the Workers (Communist) Part has been written to. And every reader of the DAILY WORKER and the Workers Monthly will receive, before the week is over, a letter from the DAILY WORKER. As complete a drive as possible will be made during Red Wee of June 15 to 21 to reach as many thousands of work- ers a8 possible with the DAILY WORKER. During this week bundle orders will be sent daily to wees and Communist branches for free distribution and a.special sub rate of two months for one dollar will be al- lowed. Are YOU everyday—or the union? urin oing to join this drive? Will you distribute as many days as you can—a bundle of AILY WORKER door-to-door, in your shop and in the Send in your order today and beginning June 15 and until June 21 everyday we will send you a bundle without charge. subs at the special rate al Party you wi We will also send . the special sub cards to secure wed during Red Week. H you are in a branch of the Workers (Communist) fen your branch on record! get a certain number of subs and then go out to get Send in a pledge that them! Red Week—June 15 to 21—should have your co- operation. Tell us just what YOU are going to do! 48 WE SEE IT -:- By T. J. O'Flaherty (Continued from ge I) of time, only for the intervention of Wall Street. It happened that the in- terests of American capital—the dom- inant wing of it—demanded an Allied victory. That is what determined the entry of this country into the war and not sentiment for the “mother coun- try” or for the France of LaFayette. 7 * * O brilliant schemes can avert war under capitalism. It may be post- poned but not abolished. The éon- flicting interests of the capitalist pow- ers produce clashes, internationally; while the disharmony in the system of production for profit instead' of for use creates social conflicts. These con- iets cannot be harmonized exeept thru the abolition of capitalism: ‘It is not unusual to see an employer's ‘own relatives striking’ against him for higher wages. Blood, and social rela- tionships count for something, but are as ineffective in preventing wars and social strife as the wisp of Btrdw on the automobile tire is in impeding the progress of a five ton truck. 2 * * ENMARK must have produced a strange crop of soctal democrats. According to the Milwaukee Leader, things can be done there that would be impossible in other countries. The social spirit reigns. The street car conductors will give you credit, for your carfare and should you. drop your wallet on the street, a sociable Dane will pick it up, return it and re- fuse a reward. Even the deer stay in the parks without the need of fences. No police are necessary to keep watch over them. “In Copenhagen” says the Leader “the deer are tame and safe.” Well, so are the socialists. * — * HIS is real news. may not be true. spoil a good story. Of course it Such doubts In those days of struggle it is good to think that there | ’ | ? 7 “> Oe. gee — %% is at least one spot in the world where the “golden rule” is honored. But one cannot help being suspicious about this socialist paradise, in view of the history of the Barmat scandal and the financial activities of the so cialists in England, Sweden and other countries where those gentry had the opportunity to connect with some money. * „ > UMORS of a threatened revolt in Mexico are seeping thru. There is no doubt but congiderable disatis- faction with Calle’s regime exists among the workers and peasants. They feel that Calles has betrayed them to the Wall Street bankers. There is no doubt about this. . The so- cialist president of Mexico is now, nothing but a common strikebreaker. He is to Mexico what Briand to France. Of course, there is the dif- ference that Briand became strike- breaker in the interests of French capitalists whereas Calles is a strike- breaker for American capitalists. That difference means nothing to the strik- ers. 0 6 socialist sob sister writing for the New Leader of New York gives a picture of the thrills that went thru her last May day when, she sow the internatjonal holiday of the work- ers in all countries except the United States, observed in Mexico city with president Calles and socialist labor fakers reviewing the parade. Those socialists always mistake the sub- stance for the shadow. The lady did not tell her readers that a few days after Calles doffed his hat to the red flag, he was breaking a strike of oil workers with his troops. Wall Street has no particular objection to the red flag; provided it can become the emblem of class collaboration instead of the class struggle. — nee we — + — —— — was | 2 ~ Page Five POLITICAL POT IN WISCONSIN IS KEPT BOILING Old GM Throwing Mud at LaFolletteites WASHINGTON—Old guard repub lican politicians in the capital are greatly encouraged as to Sen Lenn- root’s chance of re-election in Wiscon- sin next year, since Gov. Blaine’s state insurance commisisoner has made charges that his pmedecessor, now Attorney General Ekern, one of Sen. LaFollette’s closest political ad- visers, was under corporation pay while in the insurance bureau. They have become still more excited since Secretary of State Zimmermann has denounced Goy. Blaine, whom the old guard has instisted was the necessary choice of the LaFollette organization for senator. A full column of gloating over the chance of returning Lemnroot from Wisconsin in 1926 to uphold the arm of Coolidge is printed in the Wash- ington Star. > Boy Scouts an “Army of Youths” Coolidge Declares NEW YORK, June, 1.—In a letter read before the opening session of the fifteenth annual meeting of the National Council, boy scouts of Amer- ica, president Coolidge referred to that organization as “an army of the country's youth.” “With a membership of 750,000 the scout organization is an army in pre paration for the highest civic duties,” Coolidge said. This is a pretty evasion of the fact that the boy scouts are not merely “an army in preparation for the highest civic duties,” but also an army in preparation for another imperialist war. The origin, the activities, and the entire method of work and con- duct of the boy scouts is an open ad- missino that the youth of the workers of the country is being trained for ef- fective participation in the world war which is coming in the near future as swiftly as the capitalists of this coun- try feel themselves well prepared for hteir hope fo holding complete and un- challenged sway over the wealth and resources of the entire globe. Double Slaying in Detrolt. DETROIT, June 1.—Returning from work early today, Albert Koskie found his wife, Margaret, and a boarder. Louis Saberlaski, shet to death M his wife's bedroom. He gave police the name of a Detroiter whom he sus- pects of the double slaying. Skyscraper Designer Dead. Joachim Gotsche Giaver, engineer who designed the structural frame work of the statute of Liberty, is dead at his home at 4632 Beacon street, at the age of 69, after an illness of sev- eral months. Glaver designed the structural work of many skyscrapers, Fire Kille Elght Japanese. TOKIO, June 1.—Twelve were dead and three were missing as the result of a fire which destroyed the fishing village of Sugapama on the sea of Japan, according to advices here to- day. Getting a DAILY WORKER sub or two, will make a better Communist of you. JUST ONE HALF! 4 a ¢ 5 17 OF THE JOB IS DONE when you send in your remittance for a subscription with one half of this ad. The other half we will do when we see to it that you receive each month the best working class magazine ever turned out in this country— | THE WORKERS MONTHLY $2.00 a year | | $1.25 six months |
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E DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, III. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall (in Chicago only): By mall (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per vear $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.60 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, I/linols J, LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB Editors Business Manager Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, III., under the act of March 3, 1879. a 290 Advertising rates on application. The Carmen’s Demands At a time when the organs of big business are blatantly boasting of prosperity, the officials of the Chicago Surface Lines propose to cut the wages of their employes five per cent. Perhaps the wives and daughters of the millionaires who own the majority of stock in the street car lines have planned some more world tours or intend to marry some financially wrecked European dukes. These plans call for money. The money must come out of the sweat of the street car employes, whose wives are lucky if they can afford to go to the movies once a week or to a picnic once or twice during the summer months. The men are making a very modest counter demand of a five per cent increase. The trouble with the working class as a whole is their infernal modesty. They do all the work required to run the nation’s industries. They have the power to enforce their demands and yet, instead of taking what belongs to them, what they have created, they are contend with going to the bosses hat in hand and beg for a pittance. And the bosses, instead of being grateful, that the workers do not force them to either work or starve, express in- dignation whenever the workers demand an additional doughnut. Street car employes are among the hardest working of the in- dustrial workers. Everybody who has to ride on street car knows this. It is bad enough to have to ride on the creaking junk piles without being obliged to drive them for a living. While the bosses propose to cut the wages of the employes there is no talk of reducing the fat salaries of the company officials. The lowly motormen and conductors are only workers. Let them starve and slave! Let them wait for their reward until they get to heaven! ‘This is the way the bosses think. But the workers are learning the truth, slowly but surely. The street carmen know that without them there would be no cars on the streets. The parasitic sons and daughters of the millionaire stock holders could not run a perambulator, not to speak of a strect cas They are useless to society and in a workers’ government such as exists in Russia those parasites would either have to work or starve. The street carmen should insist that their very modest demands are granted. They will be granted if they are determined to fight. They must not rely on round table conferences with the company officials or on company “arbitrators” like Maclay Hoyne, the Thiel Detective Agency official who let them down two years ago. The Class War Prisoners The action of the Labor Defense Council in taking the initiative for the formation of an all- inclusive organization having for its ob- ject the defense of all class war prisoners regardless of political affiliation is a worthy move and deserves the wholehearted support of all working class bodies. Since its inception, the Labor Defense Council has rendered splendid service to the labor movement. Called into existence when the notorious Daugherty made his infamous raid on the Communist convention at Bridgeman, Michigan, it has since then not only car- ried the burden of defending those indicted under the criminal syn- dicalism laws of that state, but it has also looked after the interests of hundreds of others arrested in various parts of the country on various charges arising out of their activities in the class struggle. | One of the most sacred responsibilities of the labor movement | is its class war prisoners. Many of those who are serving long terms or life sentences are almost forgotten. Tom Mooney, Billings, Ford and Suhr—not to mention others—are among that number. Only the steadiest of the revolutionary workers stick to their guns, in the quiet as well as in the hectic periods. A. F. of L., I. W. W., Communist, or anarchist prisoners—all must be defended; all must be freed from the capitalist dungeons. This is a big task and calls for the united efforts of the entire working class movement of the United States. Let those who mean business join with the Labor Defense Council in bringing an organization into being strong enough to batter down the prison walls that are keeping Tom Mooney, The demand by the Progressive Miners’ Committee that Presi- dent John L. Lewis lead the march of the West Virginia miners N protest against the injunction denying them the right to picket, paunch. It is very fititng for a chamber of commerce parade, but would look somewhat out of place on the picket line. Victor Kopp, Soviet ambassador to Japan, was received at the imperial palace in Tokio. The Mikado was ho doubt interested in seeing a representative of the power that liquidated his brother of Russi Phone Monroe 4712 | ‘foreign soil... some thirty-nine persons arrested for ‘arson. and burning to defraud only about five had names inspiring confi- dence.“ in which That there are 6,000,000 child workers Billings, Sacco, Vanzetti and hundreds of others less known to the public, in the deadly confinement of their prison cells. This is one issue upon which every honest worker can unite. None will raise the standard of disruption except enemies of the working class and cynical renegades whose hearts remain untouched by the agonies of the labor pioneers, whose loyalty to their class brought down upon their heads the hatred of the unrelenting enemy. We wish the Labor Defense Council success and urge every worker to join it in its revolutionary task. phe will find ¢ - THE DAILY 9 — By AL. KOLOSSOV. OMRADE STOYANOY, a Commun- ist, member of the Bulgarian par- liament, a comrade whose unrelenting and unwearied fight against the re- gime of bloody violence was brought to an end two months ago by his being shot down in the streefs of Sofia, sent to the International Red Aid in the spring of last year the diary of one of Zankov’s hangmen, who had ended his prolonged and bloody “work” by suicide. In the letter accompanying the diary Comrade Stoyanov wrote, that the number and the names of the victims of the Zankov terror cannot be as- certained, that this terror is inde scfibable, as human language lacks the words with which to describe the sufferings of the blood-soaked coun- try and that, therefore, this task must be “left to the words of the hang- man,” whose diary provides some sketches of the white terror carried on by the Bulgarian government. HIS diary is the unique confession of a Bulgarian officer, a former so- cial democrat, who at the end of 1923, was the leader of a punitive expedi- tioon which went from place to place carrying fire and bloodshed and prac- ticing innumerable acts of violence. At a time when the Zankov agents are fabricating “documents of the Comintern and of the Soviet govern- ment,“ at a time when the capitalist press is endeavoring to demonstrate the hand of Moscow in the Bulgarian events, it is very opportune to turn over the gruesome pages of the con- fession of a hangman and to read the bloody records of an eyewitness of the acts of the white terror and to convince oneself that the avenging explosion of the infernal machine was an outbreak of desperation, which has Why The Infern al Machine seized the e tortured and plundered working; masses of the coun- try who have nothing to lose but pris- on walls, torturingajand death from starvation. ae What is the peasant policy of the government of this land of peasants? In the attached case of the writer of the diary there lay the “instructions” of the authorities in Sofia, which pre- scribe: 1. “When circumstances render it necessary, the entire population of the villages must be exterminated!” 2. “No prisoners must be taken!” 3. “Individual executions should be carried out with the cold steel!” O whom has the government en- trusted the fate of the Bulgarian villages? IGF Below there is gtven the type of one of the dictatorsypan absolute ruler over the rural areas. “One of my co ions,” writes the author of the diary, is a fat, under- sized person; nif’ bibated cheeks are clean shaven, black moustache, which is touched with grey, is Rr upwards, his eyes are inflamed as result of continua) drinking; but * chief thing that impresses one’s mem- ory, are his lows forehead and the tousled hair hanging. over it!” A only need to look at a fellow who is going to be hanged, young man,’ said he, ‘and I can tell what convulsions he will have; his arms and legs will twist and turn, will now stretch out or will bend in the form of half a wheel, with convulsive movements at the sides. Thus, for example, I can tell from your neck that your limbs would be bent and that you would have long con- vulsions. I, however. HE sadistic dictator could not finish his speech. There entered the room now glancing sideways, now looking on one point, an old woman. She came up to the table, began to tremble, and her sobs filled the room. She bowed to the ground and began with groans to beg that the corpses of her two young sons who had been executed a week before might be given up. ~ One insufficiently acquainted with the exercise of the white terror by the Bulgarian government could easily as- sume that this is only directed with all its rigor against the Communist Party, against the working masses and against the revolutionary active peas- ants. The language of the documents tells a somewhat different story. Facts and figures bear witness that the terror in the country under the rule of Zankov has reached a point of blind, pitiless and pbestial cruelty, where the hangmen can no longer distinguish the active opponents from the masses of the workers, and class hate knows no limits. “Seven condemned,” states the writ- er of the diary, “are bound together. A living wall, a wall of human bodies.” HO are these people who are to be slaughtered, concerning whom it is prescribed, “they must not be hanged but finished off with the cold steel?” “It is within my own knowledge,” writes the author, that this man was arrested, as he was returning home after the. burial of his son, that one as he was going into his little vine- yard, and this one was simply fetched from his hay wagon. . .” Nevertheless, the leader of the puni- tive expedition, who was only recent- ly a “member of the social democratic party,” in the “name of the govern- ment,” gave the order, and stabs were given which penetrated into the back and into the neck; crunching sounds of the breaking of bones; the dull on the ground, now fastening her eyes | sound of the bayonet which splits the a „ « One has fallen into the grave. . Another one, another and yet another. Still ig they are thrown into the grave its walls of damp black earth. . st : fuls of earth are thrown Over and thru the noise of the falling tlods there rises the faint groaning of men in their death agony: “Stop, I am still alive! « %% 0„% 8 “Silence. reigns over the country. And even the mothers, who on Satur- day visit the graves of their sons who have been hung, shot or had the flesh torn off them, silently weep, without speaking a word, for the invisible, but all-seeing gendarme 3 on their heels.“ HE above is eee a Bulgarian student, who is neither a member of the Communist Party nor of the Young Communist League, to a colleague who is „ring at the Ber- lin university. “In September, 1928, all lights in the villages. were out. 4 darkness and stillness as of the grave reigned over the fields of Bulgaria. „Strike a light grandmothér; just a light so that I can see to change my clothes,” asks Comrade Torov, who has escapéd from the prison of Stara Zagora, of an old peasant woman. “Have you gone mad?” exclaims the old woman in reply, her whole body trembling. “And what about the guerilla? They will be here in a min- ute. They will sweep down like flerce vultures.” HE guerilla is Zankov’s band for maintaining order. It is the mem- bers of this band who fling peasants into the wells for being behind in paying their taxes, who rape young women, who, in an intoxicated condi- tion, set fire to the peasants’ houses, hang the village school teacher, de- 15 i E 3 f „The burning village lay seven or eight kilometers distant. flames seized only a portion of | village, and to the left, half a kilo- meter from the burning houses there flared up three separate huge tongues of flame which lit up the few dozen houses which still remained untouch- ed by the fire. One could hear the weeping, crying and sobbing Of the women and children, the wild lowing of cows and oxen, the bleating of sheep and the crashing of the as they collapsed. This government of the bloody Zankov was settling ao counts with the “disobedient” peas- ants. The air trembled, the first shot was followed by a second, then a third and a fourth, the punitive expedition was commencing artillery fire. Fresh sparks shot up to the heavens. and lit up that portion of the village which lay between the main conflagration and the three sheets of flame.” And here is the testimony of another eye witness. “Below, a kilometer from the maple trees, there lay on the right bank of the brook a little village, and on the trees there hung three corpses, one of a youth, another of an old peasant and the third of a priest. The morn- ing breeze played with the wavy beard 77 fot the old peasant; a strange smile lay upon his face. Upon the bare breast of the priest there shone a cross that had been hacked with a sabre; thé blood was dripping down and two yellow flies had crawled into the depths of the wound.” j Is there any need to ask why the in- fernal machine exploded? INSURANCE BOSS BLAMES FIRES ON COMMUNISTS Alia Dislikes’ Faden Born and Starving NEW YORK, June 1.—H. A. Smith, president of the National Fire Insur- ance Company of Hartford, links “fire losses ‘to reds’ activities.” This gentile- man declares that “a few weeks ago there was held at Madison Square,Gar- den in this city a meeting of red nolsy, turbulent gathering that cried loudly’for Soviet rule in America... Most of. those present were of foreign birth. Deportation is obviously the remedy of self-protection... This in- flux of foreigners and the fact that the immigrants are raising larger families than are to be found in our native households are two factors bound to have an effect upon future conditions.” “This gathering...is a symptom of a serious condition that is growing worsa_rather than better, despite the restrictions that have been placed up- on immigration. And this has a very definite bearing upon the business of kire msurance. Look over the names of criminals being tried in the courts every day; examine the roster of fire- bugs and see how the great majority bear cognomens that originated on I notice that out of A Danger To Employers. This wild-eyed red hunter accuses | the Communists of every imaginable | crime. He accuses them of arson— he forgot to add that they introduced the influenza epidemic and are guilty of the small-pox epidemic at the pres- ent time. They are the cause of the innumerable auto accidents. And there is no question that they have originated the mine disasters—especi- | ally the recent one in North Carolina | 71 miners lost their lives. in the United States, taking the place lof adult labor, because the children work cheaper and less complainingly than the adults, is another of the crimes of the foreign-born reds. That this gentleman does not as- cribe the high profits of the insurance not without humor for those who have seen the magnificent Lewisian | companies and the many trusts of the country to the reds is very compre- ‘hensible. That they threaten the div- ‘idends and profits of the bosses of There is little chance of its being seen in the van of the anti- this country is what forries Mr. Smith. injunction battalions altho it shakes with anger whenever the left Les the reds are a danger—to the wing is mentioned. | employers of this counizy. 12 Children Starving. Mr. Smith complains that, despite A German firm is engaged by the Free State government to | immigration restrictions, the neds are | harness the waters of the River Shannon for the production of elec- Frowing in the United States. The tric power. A German steamship line has established direct com- ä Rave argue — | 1 b they do not all belong to the reds yet. planning the erection of a big steel plant near Dublin. The British eign-born worker towards the Com- capitalists, particularly the coal, steel and shipping interets are not munists? The capitalist. papers de- well pleased. Competition may be the life of trade but it is also clared that the conditions in Bulgaria | the cause of much conflict. the heavy taxes ‘68 ‘the — ee ants, the unemployment, low wages, * l ' . unsteady work and long hours, were Reports that the British government is preparing a joint note making Bolsheviks of the Bulgarian from the capitalist governments to Russia is not unexpected. But workers. In other words, it was not there are millions of British workers who will leap to the defense Moscow“ which was importing the tl ‘kers’ r blic with much more alacrity than they would rr of the workers repu = vl * 4 1 = . . ' but the conditions under which the defend the robber empire of britain. . workers and peasants work. What is producing the revolutionary move- ment in the United States? Mr. Smith might turn his eyes to the textile mills of his own section of the country—N England. There =e SPL be I rr — — | YALE STUDENTS TURN SHER ON PROFESSOR NEW HAVEN; Conn., June 1— Yale University officials threaten to ‘place the entire freshman class on probation because the freshmen en- gaged in a Hotous demonstration at the Berkeley oval. Among the crimes charged against the students is that they turned a fire exthinguisher on Prof. F. H. Bangs of the English department when he tried to quiet the students. Bangs was then chased to his room. The students tore down a fence ‘MINER KILLED BY WIRES TOO RISKY FOR MINE RULES Farrington Drives Men Into Electrocution (Special to The Dally Worker.) COLLINSVILLE, In., June 1—A Collinsville miner, whose name our correspondent was not able to learn at this writing, was electrocutéd’ by ‘a trolley wire while he was preparing to leave by trolley for the bottom at in celebration of the close of the col- | Lumaghi Coal company No. 2... The lege year, and broke many eleo- | mine officials and the state mine in- tric ight bulbs. - The campus was kind spector knew very well that thi of transportation is dangerous te the life of the miners. A month ago the mine ftanager stopped using battery motors for tran- sportation of the miners to and from work places, and began to use trolley power—a dangerous thing to use for transporting miners in steel cars. A falling wire may electrocute the whole car full of miners. Protect Mules—Not Minets! When the miners asked the man- covered with wreakage. ing at starvation. wages. There he will find the workers having their wages reduced and their hours unstea- dy. Let him look at the miners in the central fields, and there he will find starvation among hundreds of thousands of miners, Let him look at the machine shops and steel mills, and there he will find the workers working long hours in order to get enough wages to keép their families alive. To End Bosse {Demooracy.” Mr. Smith says that the foreign- born are guilty ‘Arson. But Mr. Smith does not state which class of foreign-born. He knows that the for- ager what the idea was of using such dangerous means, he replied that the state mining law allowed. When asked why he had not used trolley be- fore, if it was allowed, he said, “Well before this we used mules, and we were afraid that if we used trolley transportation, the mules would be electrocuted. Now that we don’t use mules we can change from battery to trolley wire motor.” Thus we see that the operators took more care of their miles than of the miners’ lives. So the miners refused to ride in the trolley. But the sub-district officials advised that we go ahead and ride in eign-born swindlers and firebugs are of the middle and upper classes—peo- ple who have lost their position and resort to crime in order not to he compelled to do work. One thing is notable, however, in this statement of Mr. Smith. It clear- ly reveals that the capitalist class of this country is linking up everything that is against their own interests, with the reds—the Communists. The capitalists are consciously carrying on a campaign in every form against their only enemies, the Communists. The capitalists know that the influ- lence of the Communists is growing and that the conditions in this coun- try, which are d@sillusionizing the workers as to “democracy and liberty and prosperity” are making for a pow- erful Communist movement. the mine and mifieral department and consulted the state officials. But noth- ing was done. Farrington sent a letter to the local in which he stated that “If the state mine laws allowed, the mine has a right to use trolley.” When the miner was electrocuted, the danger of trolley transportation was well shown to the miners. 80 they refused again to ride in the cars and went back home from the mine and wemen work | 75.87%. * for two days. ° 2 Farringt Al In M Lewis Going to Talk N ee eee Farrington sent two telegrams, bru- About the Agreement tally ordering the miners to go back to work, ordering that they must either ride in the trollies or walk. The sub-district officials added to the intimidation, scaring the miners by saying. “If you don't go back to work the mine will shut down and you'll be out of a job. Then what'll you do? Go back to work, like Farrington says.” Cenfronted with enemies all around, the poor miners had to agree to go back. Farrington has his agents in every | sub-district and local. This was shown when Sub-District No. 7, President Jack Bill jumped up in a local meet- ing and attacked a miner who com- pared Farrington to the mine bosses. It is time for miners to wake up and kick out all these fakers from top to bottom of the union. and Its Revision Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America will address Ohio miners at Athens, Juke 10, it was an- nounced by officials of the miners’ union here today. Lewis is expected to discuss the | co-operative system being put into et- _fect in parts of southern Ohio and | confirm or deny reports that an inter national convention will be called to revise the Jacksonville wage agree- ment. | | _ | BELLAIRE, Ohia,; June 1.—Jobn L. | | FOREIGN EXCHANGE. NEW YORK, June 1—Great Britain, pound sterling, demand, 485%; cable, 486%. France, franc, demand, 5.01; cable, 5.014%. Belgium, franc, demand, | 4.8944; cable, 4.90, AItaly, lira, demand, (3.97%; cable, 3.97%. Sweden, krone, demand, 26.73; cate, 26.76. Norway, krone, demand, 16.84; cables, 16.86. Denmark, krone, demand, 18.81; cable, the uncertainities arising from wide 18.83. German mark, unquoted.|and abrupt fluctuation of exchanges, Shanghai, tael, demand, 75.374; cable, tod federal reserve board announced today. — - Reserve Board Has Hopes WASHINGTON, June 1.—Restora- tien of the gold standard by great Britain removes from the major part of the world commerce and finance — a - > them while they looked up provisions on protection from trolley danger in | Chicago Carmen Plan Fight Against Wage Cut Threat (Continued from page 1.) proceeds to smash it with the aid of the courts. They will have the courts on their sides and the police, even tho thousands of policemen get on the force after working on the street cars, But policemen under a capitppist gov- ernment must carry out the orders of the bosses or lose their jobs. The Chicago street carmen 4re not asking much. They should be.get- ting at least one dollar an hour. The present rates are*70 to 75 cents an hour with 77 cents for night cars and eight cents additional for one-man operation on the surface lines. The maximum on the elevated lines is 77 cents an hour. The progressive elements in thé carmen’s union know that unless the organization remains a fighting body it is bound to go under. The railway companies in Boston tried to smash the organization that was founded by fighting men like Fay and Nesdale. Many of the leaders who came after them went over to the company, but the rank and file stood to their guns and the Boston union still keeps the flag flying , The recent frame-up of the traction magnates of Buffalo against Vice- Presidnet Fitzgerald of the union, show to what extremes the bosses will go in trying to get rid of fighting labor leaders. Fitzgerald is a good organ- izer, even tho he is not politically a radical. Therefore the bosses want to put him in jail. The street carmen of Chicago should do well in this fight to place their faith in their own power and not de- pend on the good will of President Blair of the surface lines. Blair is the tool of the millionaires who own the street cars. Between the millionaires and the employes there cannot be any peace. The employes must fight for everything they get from the bosses. Darrow to Defend Scopes. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., June 1— John L. Godsey, one of the attorneys for the defense, announced that Clar- ence Darrow will appear at Dayton, to aid in defendifig Scopes against the anti-evolution law under which he has been indicted. No Word From Amundsen. OSLO, Norway, June 1— Roald Amundsen, arctic explorer, who flew from Spitsbergen almost two weeks ago, has not been heard from and the government is preparing to rush relief. Amundsen and his party departed in two airplanes to fly over North Pole. = PENAL COLONY AT PANAMA FOR U. S. PRISONERS Former Corpécal Shot in Attempt to Escape (Special to The Daily Worker) BALBOA, June 1.—That America is running a penal colony in Panama was disclosed when two former United States soldiers were shot in attempt- ing to escape. The colony, located on Coiba Island, om the west of Panama Bay, deserted except for the penal colony, is in charge of an American superintendent. About one hundred prisoners are con- fined there. Fred M. Grant, who was sentenced to twenty years in the colony charged with murder, and discharged from the army, where until that time he served as a corporal, tried to escape, accom- panied by Jose Rodriguez, a Porto Rican soldier. The two ex-soldiers were caught in the bush and shot down. Grant was ed. Grant served army at Corozol. CHANG TSO-LIN, JAPAN PUPPET, MENAGES PEKING with the U. 8 City’s Defense MUKDEN, June 1.—Gen. Chang Tso Lin, Manchurian chieftain, left for Peking this morning. The report caus- ed concern. Chang announced he would go to Peking and “arrange government changes.” This was taken in Peking to mean Chang intends to oust Tuan: chi Jui, provisional chief executive. Concern is due to the probability that Feng Yu Hsiang, Christian gen- eral, will not permit Chang Tso to have a free hand in naming a provisional government. Trouble/has been fomenting between the two for months. When Chang announced his inten- tions to proceed to Peking, Feng Yu Hsiang began removing his siaty thou- Wood Bent On More Murder MANILA, P. I., June 1-—Gov. Gen. Leonard Wood has ordered the arrest of Sultan Raya, the Moro peasant, dead or alive, by his cavalry. Riffians Advance Te River FEZ, French Morocco, June 1—The French invaders have completed their | evacuation of the zone north of the | and the Moroccans Ouergha river, have taken possession of the terri- tory. Mussolini Stil Sick. LONDON, June 1—Premier Musso- lini, knowing himself too fll to keep control of the government, has offered D’Annunzio the prenifership, it is ru- mored in diplomatic circles here. Build the Communist this country by means vement in five thou- 15 te 41. sand subs during Red Week of we) - dao > sand soldiers from Peking and the nearby barracks, ostensibly for strate gic reasons These troops are now mae con centrated north of Peking along the Kalgan railroad, Chang has an equal number of troops in the Peking and Tientsin areas and can command the | railroad between the two cities. Truce in Grain Marketing War A temporary truce was signed here today between the Illinois Agricultu- ral Association and the Grain Market- ing company before the Illinois com- merce commission. The truce will be effective until July 28 when a hearing will begin before the I. C. C. in which the I. A. A. hopes to prove the Grain Marketing company a public utility and therefore amenable to jurisdiction of the commerce commission. Every sub you get durigg Red Week of June 15 to 21 is a sub to “make another Communist.“ vm killed and Rodriguez seriously wound- Feng Moves. 60,000 to ; — . ———— —— eens — woe MTR —— J c % ona 4 _ an oo. Ms Se Oe Oe Ue hl Ze ~~
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S ZZ STI Fa FF Fears ow Ht 3 Soon dearer ees 0 By TOM SELL. / : (Special to The Daly Worker) BOSTON, Mass., June 2.—The strike of union house palnt- ers, which has been in force since April 1, to enforce an increase | In — from $1.10 to $1.25 an hour, has been called off. he 2.250 union painters have returned to work at the old rate of wages under a three-year contract which prevents strikes disputes after the first year. This and forces arbitration of wage AS WE SEE IT | $a By T. J. O’FLAHERTY. RS. NICK LONGWORTH, nee is the three-year “peace pact” lot the Building Trades Employ- * * * N 5 “Fe 3 ; n ‘or 5 * 4 2 * 3 e — e 2 3 3 8 Batered as Seconéclass matter * oe * 5 ~~ ai * n — Sw - 7 ~ o, by mall. $8.00 per year. 0 pago, by mail, — $6.00 per year. | Dally Worker Annual 8 cription Drive Now on in Full Blast! GET IN ON IT! ers’ Association against which the strike was éalled.. ‘Painters Curse Lack.of Unity. The painters have returned to work cursing the lack of solidarity among ‘WW | Judge Elbert H. Gary, U. 8. steel * GARY, FORGED ON DIET BY OVER-EATING, Sts "STEEL TRUST HOSPITAL BIRMINGHAM, Ala. June 2— ' corporation head, was taking life - @asy.and seemingly thoroughly en- Joying himself here today. He Is on a diet under supervision of phy- clans at the Fairfield hospital, own- ed by the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company, a steel corpora- tion subsidiary. Judge Gary is not a “hospital patient.” He is stopping at a hotel with Mrs. Gary and le not confined to the hospital. He insists he Je not sick and merely is undergoing the diet treatment on advice of friends who had taken the treat- ment and were enthusiastic in their praise of its satisfactory results. Gary ate too much rich food, his friends say. — Eyl except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicage, III Price 3 Cents 8 = ‘BOOSTED 1917 Nur ~ GOES TO DREAMLAND | MONESSEN, Pa., June 2 — The miners in this district are not going to accept the 1917 scale so soon as the coal barons expect them to, is shown by this little incident that took place In a mining town near here. The coal company had hired a stool pigeon to loaf, and talk with the miners, about accepting the 1917 scale etc. He kept up his talk for some time till one of the miners in the bunch could not stand any more so he floored the bird, and sent him with the angels for several minutes. ‘When he woke up from his little nap he went looking for his higher up, the superintendent, who came out with a revolver, and acted hard, but no casualties were reported. dred | | | US. MARINES ORDERED TO BREAK a Ve f 7 STRIKE OF WORKERS AT ‘ (Special to The Dally Worker) _ ._ SHANGHAI, China, June 2. — American marines, sailors and Italian marines were landed on Chinese soil today to break the general strike called by Shanghai workers to protest against the ore of Chinese students and workers B Sikh poligs-and to demand apology and compensation from the international imperialists. | The diplomatic body at Peking—except Ambassador Kara- khan of Soviet Russia—authorized the landing of 2,000 foreign marines if needed to break the general strike and wired such advice to Shanghai. Two hundred U. S. marines and two hun- I marines were at“ on Nanking road by ones landed from the four American destroyers und the Italian ship Libya, and placed on patrol duty. | U. S. WHITE GUARD DIES IN SHANGHAI AS CHINA eee eee the building trade unions who refus- work d Alice Roosevelt, simply cannot | ed to fight along with them, and even REGIONAL MEET 2 | agers 4 | ne mene 1 „ WARS ON IMPERIALISTS: keep out of the newspapers. She be- refused to call the union men off of . The ot ö 7 came famous by osculating the Ger- jobs on which scab painters were em- se ; Shoe Wi 5 ? These, gravel Deer . were - assigned | man crown prince in public. After ployed, or aid the striking painters. fired and tothe tome mill strike district, SHANGHAI, China, June that the rest was easy. Her latest] Charles A. Cullen, vice-president of . ing the he | where ye mill owners are Japanese (Bulietin)—T. d. Martin, an Amer accomplishment to merit the atten- the Painters’ International Union ar- | Menn “4 to another and where the strike violence began ican dentist practicing hie profes- tion of the. headline when she signed her name to an ad- writers was P ranged the conference with the boss- es Which led to the signing of the -AT CLEVELAND >. - * 8 a 7 “> 0 } * 111 FRENCH DEBTS by the murder of a striker by the po- lice last week. This Hongkew dis- sion In Shanghal but acting as a member of the armed white guard vortisement for a beauty cream con- three-year slave pledge contract. a shop trict is a center of Japanese cotton tf foreign businessmen called out to in cern, for which Mrs, Nick gets five and after a which resulted — spinning mills. break the general strike, was killed thousand dollars. Mrs, Nick may ne- Besse Now to Attaeſe All Trades. 7 ae in a threat! o hang out an Will N t Aid Credit Un- Martial law continues and Ameri-| while trying to ride down demon- 3 ver have used that cream, but these The employers’ association is jubi- 5 „ open shop si the firing I 0 1 can Consul Cunningham wirelessed a strating strikers on Tibet Road. His women who are constantly strug- laut over this victory and is now Abe Cahan * 525 000 Ts of ro) a shop walk- fil Settl ement message to the American fleet now in| horse was also kiWed, The other gling tor beauty” no matter how out to smash*the strike of building ed out. : | summer practice at Chefoo to send| American troops opened fire with vainly, will still continue to hope | laborers which started Tuesday morn- Bet on Bankrupt At a spe it was more warships to increase the Lewie machine guns, killing many and will purchase the cream that Mrs. | ing. “If they succeed in this, the decided WASHINGTON, D. c., June 2.— The strength of the flotilla of four destroy- ang wounding a great number, Nick got $5,000 for lying about. * => * EVERAL European queens and princesses are making pin money by lending their names to advertis- ing the goods of enterprising manu- building trade unions of this city will be bound hand and foot for the next three years, „„ ® BOSTON, Mass., June 2.—The story of the painters’ strike and the situa- By ALFRED WAGENKNECHT. (Special to The Oaily Worker) CLEVELAND, June 2—The first of a series of socialist party regional t conventions, financed by the Jewish|| United States will see to it that France does not re-establish her cre- dit, stabilize her currency, and re- turn to the gold standard, it was hint- ed at the office of the secretary of the treasury, dntil France makes ar- ers already here. There are, besides these American ships, three Japanese, two French, one British and one Italian, the Lib- ya, now here. All are of the gunboat vor cruiser class. The strike Is now developing as a clash between Chinese and foreign imperialists. The whole Chinese population supports the students, except the Chinese chamber of com- merce, which renegaded ite first ap- rward rangements to pay her war debts to in facturers. This shows to what a depth tion in the building trade unions was | Daily Fo to the extent of $25,000 1 4. —4 White Guards Stop Handbil! proval when the general strike was royalty has fallen. The wives and told to the DAILY WORKER by 4 In yellow bills, flew the; red flag of il ees ge Distribution. called. daughters of the proudest royal fami- group of painters active in the strike | the auctioneer, not of the revolution. | . It Secretary — on pro e — White guard units of foreign busi Every house, lamp post, door and | ‘aa Europe must attach them 48 follows: | The morning session consisted of a 53 n Dosslbte ness men are forming and mobillzing shutter le covered with anti-imper- The agreements of the -building | goodly crop of testimonials. Alf who 8 to fight this tor France and other European na- lalist posters. Fully 25,000 workers selves to the advertising departments ag . 1. other hand | tions to stabilize their currency with- to aid the international police terror- a is of beauty cream and soap concerns. trade unions with the bosses expired | could talk, from the colonel from m me ower hi ns to stabilize their currency ine: thie Chinese and prevent demon-| °*"° out with the Japanese mil! work- And monarchy is but the hand serv- on April 1. Secretary Walsh of the Kentucky to John Willert, the pol- at animously | out funding their seven billion dollars ee e the 3 rialist ers expected fo join the strike to- mes : ant of e em as ä Whole | Building Trades Employers’ Associa-|isher of Cleveland, told of their past | adc per cent | of indebtedness to the United States.” stratio Ast te Imperialist pow. night. Telephone service is limping ited 251 8 , tion issued the slogan: No increase and what a husky organization their This statement was taken to mean | ers. under foreign supervision. Food Is npt- HE fact that Mrs. Wilhelm Kaiser In wages this year.” The Building} party used to be. sve that Wall Street, which holds most of} Four girls were arrested yesterday] becoming scarce. The council hae 92 a i Trades Council dec mand Willert again, for the 666th time, Sadithe menay pegp of, the world,,.will) tor distributing handbills weet ti L Pppelmed g tees controller and me. paid a visit to the queen of Bel- : 8 nal | | de- tighten its purse strings until France the textile mill workers’ strike ’ bilized transport facil! and, increases to $1.25 an related the sad story of his expulsion : anspo tles, calling ted. gium, the Arat visit since ber mar te the Cleveland city council by rly | is forced into line. . }aenoyncing the united front of im- for volunteers. m FR Itne naughty chamber ot commerce, agreemente “itt; >-Alk:nations which have-entered into} periallst exploiters of the labor and/ students of Peking, Hankow, Teg es. ae eso aed ar | pars ago. But a strange six months agreemente: (Continued on page 2) resources of China. ey point out Tien-tsin, Mukden and other points con. pis eee ee l (Contmued on page 3) Needless to sey, members of the America, Great Britain and Frances | “are-rallying-totgupport of the Shan- supporters in . ee | not Trade Union Bdueational League et } supporting the Japanese exploiters; ghal strikers and making a nation- aed the hope that they “keep his affllated with the Building Trades“ actively involved both im the strike nen Chinese workers strike against al issue of the foreign concessions » "ged poowced n KN — — or — . RITISH POLICE . and the general. fight of the union 5 18 (Continued on page 3) and extra- territorlality. the 5 d 0 9 N against the open shop drive. | 7! hidden in it when he decides that ers’ Union, and they renewed their Star Shoe ved „ a The picket line at the 1 f ‘ion. the a for — return — n agreement with the bosses for three Oo., has been enlivened with several ' 40,000 C HIN ESE WORK E RS OU T 1 N Splendid testimony to the success o . Thi ment emb ar- thie strikers and a 7 orto | years § agree races | | conflicts between tie s | r are fia fore c STRIKE AS mont & t in ’ rst year, but no s es are : work abando } 8 ers. N cay Ne “an building trade unions affiliated : —— cat it teas ar to week neta Y 4 WARSHIPS RUSH 10 BATTLE SCENE und- Pitter esson 5 8 U KLUXERS continue to earn with the Building Trades Council] _) 1 | during a strike again. The police as To Bombard Northern incl: goes Re ana — 8 voted — strike 7 5 to — 1 the | F oreign Delegates Ap- usual eon So help the scabs with but Coast, Use Planes HANGHAI, China, June 2.—Dr. T. G. McMartin of Seattle, Wash., retensions e wage increase. conference of re — — hypocritical bourgeois morality, — de the wosses and the Pear, Talk and Vanish ogni st ; h M J 2.—Th Was eth le: pamela eee which flourishes so conspicuously in council met to discuss the matter Bh —— tae agar Sen fn men wound: today when Chinese fired on a mounted patrol. the United States. The kluxers would | with the result that Secretary John- 8 Pind e N A A 305 frontier along the north bank of the Following the shooting the “volunteers” turned a machine gun f not have the people smile on Sunday ston of the Building Trades Council 1d ike P —— * — cas Ouerxha river, and a lull has occurred on the New World Theater where the Chinese workers were hidden if they had enough instruments of} sent a circular to the affiliated locals * t pe — 1 t * 1 in the fighting. Meanwhile, however, and raked the building with hundreds of shots wounding three natives. torture and enough Cromelians to} recommending that they accept the we N de out alien eee wes the Spanish and French are com- Hundreds were arrested, but all except fourteen were released 5 sin ts The kl mocked thruout the British Isles to- em. e kluxers started out to (Continued on page 2) , pleting plans for a combined assault following questioning. , ; tect N th — day since yesterday’s appearance on ; protec 2 0 bs * purge the a N the platform at the convention of the T on the Moroccans, with a view to com- The general strike is spreading rapidly and it was estimated to- „ British Communist Party neve ot two f. N. pletely exterminating them night that 40,000 are out and thé-allies of the bacti 5 nn WORKE 8 WILL fraternal delegates from brother . The Spanish airplates are dropping The American saliors landed today are guarding the power station. tn cae e egging frat- | parties of the-Communist Interna~ Ov J alized et bombs on ** er ws gosh a The U. 8. 8. Huron and other ships of the U. S. fleet are expected eee tional. ercapit | ing crops of barley and wheat in the tomorrow and two British destroyers are enroute here from Pi-Hal-Pi. UITE 33 lef Marcelle Lebel, a woman member Lay Load on Labor rvicinity of Alhucemas Bay. The air eher, ~ 2 es ot the leading group in the French e — — un Ma the Al N , Tso 1 . Communist Party and Dr. Stocker — . sgt mt ning ty $ : Horthy Killed Two because they mistake it for a pro- By C. McKAY The Spaniards plan to land on the . ‘ Sod test against war, vice or some other from tue German Communist Party) (Federated Frese Staff Correspondent) hores of Alhucemas Bay within a few Hungarian Editors — evil which cannot be abolished or cor- — — appeared suddenly, delivered speeches MONTREAL, June 2,—Canadian days. They will then attempt to cap ‘ W . * rected under capitalism. Thousands : — railway workers must beware of a ture the heights of Morro Neuva, 18 riter s Charge LB of members of the socialist party Will Refuse to Have aj suddenly as they came. The army of ariveon wages. Thesiaily papers are from the defending Riflan army. oo were mentally kluxers and “nothing Military Holiday . janis . whooping up the dangers of the ratl The French cruiser Metz arrived off BERLIN, Germany, June 2.—Regent me else. They were anti-catholic, anti- * N S 4 “iN d of t ‘ way situation. In 1924 the met Casa Blanca, Morocco, with a convoy | Horthy of Hungary is accused of abet * ; alien, or else they thot the social The Dally Work station and the squad of secret service | ating revenue of thd) Canadian of torpedo boats, and is expected to ting th — blem could be solved if bod pans eee Soe 2 hg joperatives which examined every per- gc's revenues also deélined, F ' g the murder of Bela Somogy and lity Neftained trom consuming licuer, or| WASHINGTON, June 2— War de- son arriving in Glasgow railroad sta- Government statistits show mat primo Rivera has left for Fez, de. !NDIANAPOLIS, June 2.—An effort|Baiso, editors, in an article by Ea gen tébacco or if women refused to bear Partment officials today are working tions, were made the joke of Britain) rallway wages havesinereased only| .1,+ing he will aid in the extermina-| to secure a postponement of the hear- mund Benicky, published in the news- (Aren until capitalism became de- feverishly to perfect their plans for holding mobilization day on July 4. and the subject of a part of Stocker’s lecture. 57 per cent since 1913, the smallest increase for any representative occu- tion of the Rifflan army. The Riffians have brought up rein- ing set for June 11 on the motion to paper, Az Est. The Hungarian govern- | ent and respectable. 4 admit to bail D. C. Stephenson, Earl! ment has seized all copies of Az Est. nas cent a D . Acting Secretary of War Dwight F.] It the —— sang pation. forcements on the Kiffane front, and] Klinck and Earl Gentry, laleged mur- Benicky asserts that he was present ) for f WIN ‘éévamonteer type Wand ites Davis declared he hoped for an envrm- it cam prevent a British revolution by] ne Canadian National’s difficulties are thought to be preparing an at-] derers of Madge Oberholtzer, was to at a meeting between Horthy and a e ke kiex kien: Ninat ous turn-out of “patriotic citizens on petty means of forbidding foreign are mainly due to overcapitalization tack on the Fez-Taza railroad. be made today. number of Hungarian officers, when «4 fi 1. cent of the socialists of — „ e milonge wee Slstricts William H. Remy, county prosecutor, | someone sald, “Bela Somogy should ye pe 1 . — af 24 , ” 5 Yu diana joined the K. K. K. and the be 2 cay 8 3 9 — — = ena which originate little traffic. New Vérk Sulfere From Heat. accompanied by Charles E. Cox, re- de thrown into the Danube. 1 the same is true of many western states. 41 * A 2 2 Chinese 1 the work- NEW YORK, June 2.—New Vork tained by the Oberholtzer family to — is time to act not talk.“ Horthy ap For collecting this refuses and segre-| mat July 4 falls on a Saturday this|ing classes of each country dénly| New Bottom far 1925 | was experiencing another scorching 3 the ae men, left tor Teplied. | | - . bh for re- | Noblesville to seek the postponement e year, and the pyobabilities are that makes international proletarian solid: Touched by Belgian oA 9 1 nis on the ground that Remy must be Boston Storm Kills One. * But this is a big country and the klea- — 979 Rewtan. ai 4 1 se. — are and F rench Exchanges afternoon.” : elsewhere on June 11. BOSTON, June 2.— One man was . — gles were not successful in making instead f attending the def 4 — — 1 5 As an aftermath of a day in which 33 killed and several persons were injur * (Continued on page 2) peat — : e hos ese NEW YORK, June 2.+French and the mercury climbed to 88 degrees and Continue Bail Hearing. ed in a terrific electrical and rain — en - Trotsky Takes Up New Duties Belgian exchanges deelitied to a new | maintained an average of 77, one man} NOBLESVILLE, Ind., June 2.— The storm, which swept across Massachu Boss | MOSCOW. June 2— Soviet leaders low for 1925 quotations in the foreign | was dead and eight others were suf. motion to admit to bail D. C. Stephen-| setts on the heels of the hottest day | A. F. OF L. F AKERS, FRIGHTENED AT today saw in the first public speech exchange market today, in continua fering from prostration. The dead (Continued on page 2) of the year. 1 of Leon Trotsky since his return à tion of their steady drop since Mar. 1. man was Adolph Berger, 48, Newark, here VISIT OF PURCELL FROM BRITISH determination to devote himself to his Last week French francs dropped | N. J. LABOR DEFENSE COUNCIL CALLS on, UNIONS READ REPORT ON RUSSIA new position as head of the scientific} momentarily below the . * ME Sra Se ) branch of the supreme council. In as- 5 cents in American money and re- niy Caen Setween indians. pac 4 i . | suming the — he confined him- covered to 5.02 cents. The — MEXICO CITY, June 5 ee first FOR NA TIONAL CONFERENCE TO ' 1 self to technical discussion of econ-| quotation for francs today was 4.95 ½ appeared to be civil strife between ae . By LAURENCE TOOD omic development of the socialist| cents for demand and 4.96 cents to the | the states of Yucatan and Campeche FIGHT FOR CLASS WAR PRISONERS re 4 . (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) state. franc for cable exchange. Belgian was believed today to be only a clash rain WASHINGTON, June 2.—A. A. Purcell, who was chairman of the dele- . francs opened at po for demand n rival indian (idee. Today in America there are over a hundred men in jail for their activities tility gation which the British Trades Union Congress sent to the Union of Soviet 10184 — Sune 3 es 8 and 6.96 een eee Spanish. Painter Dies. ° ou behalf of tho workers’ movement. 4 California alone, eighty workers ction Republics last November and December, will be the principal British frater- that could be ars dfor miles. 1 tre. WASHINGTON, June.8—The un- MADRID, June 2.—Pittoro Ettore re confined under the — criminal syndicalism law of that state for nal delegate to the American Federation of Labor convention at Atlantic mendous gusher blew in on * stoppable airplane engine is the goal Tite, famous Spanish painter, is dead | being members-of the I. W. W. | City in October. He accompanied the British delegation to Russia in 1920, Hill, near here this afternoon. The toward which famous American en- here today in his sixty-fifth year. Despite absolute proof of a frame-up, Mooney and Billings still Me th Red and is largely responsible for the authoritative character of the report of tlie | row is estimated by oil men to be at gimers are working, it us revealed ~ prison. | ib to ‘ 1924 delegation, which has been published by the general council of the con- the rate of 52,700,000 cubic feet a day. today by Charles D. Wéleott, see Every sub you get during Red Ford and Suhr, the courageous leaders of the hop-pickers’ strike im gress. That is why, in the offices of the U. S. chamber of commerce, (Continued on page 4) the | The property is owned by D. R. Tra- vis and C. W. Grimes. £ 2.81 1 ue” 2 ’ ae retary of the national eadsisory com- | mittee on acvennatios, Week of June 15 to 21 is a sub to “make another Communist.” California, have been in jail for more than ten years, and are now all but ‘ (Continued on page 4) „ - —— a — ——— — — 8
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- COLONY OF FILIPINO STRIKERS fl Shelf TRUST, IMPRISONING 77 72 — — —— — — — — wm (Special to The Dally Worker) | HONOLULU, Hawaii, June 2.—Seventy-seven Filipino strik- ers who were evicted from the sugar plantations a year ago, have been arrested and thrown into jail by the government, which has been hounding the strikers since they demanded a living wage from the American sugar trust. The strikers, with their families, refused to be starved out. After sleeping in the open for many weeks, over two hundred Filipino men and women and children finally settled on a deso- late stretch of land belonging? to the United States govern- ment, located at Kapaa, Kauai. ‘The arrests were made under the direction of Attorney General William B. Lymer, who excused himself for acting as the agent of the sugar trust by declaring that the camp was a “typhoid menace.” Not one case of typhoid had occurred in the camp, however. The strikers declare that, deplorable as was their plight on the govern- ment land, their sanitary conditions were no better when they worked on the sugar trust plantations. Torn From Families. Lymer conducted the raid at 4 o'clock in the morning. The strikers located at Kapaa were the most mili- tant of those who opposed the sugar trust, and the government conducted the raid early to make sure that all were thrust safely behind the bars. The men were thrown into jail, being torn from their families, who have been made prisoners in charge of the Kauai welfare organization. Twenty ploice officers, under Sheriff William H. Rice made the arrests. The strikers were charged with “trespass.” The government authorities have consistently hounded the strikers since the police shot down a score of the Filipino sugar strikers eight months ago. The strikers defended themselves, and four police officers were slain. A large number of strikers were then arrested. The government had put up signs around the camp ordering the strikers to leave the government property, but the strikers had no other place to go. They had constructed shacks from old boxes and galvanized iron and old bits of lumber. These shacks were de- etroyed by thé police after the arrest of the strikers. Guards were placed on the ground so that the strikers could not return. Start Airplane Line. Ten airplanes to go into operstion in September when service is started over the Chicago-New York link of a proposed nationwide commercial air freight service will be ordered June 10, it was announced from the headquarters of the National Air Transport Oo., Ina MOVIE PLOTTERS CONFESS AFTER THIRD DEGREE Mary Pickford Gets Big Publicity from Case LOS ANGELES, June 2.— Whether grand jury action will be taken against C. % Stevens, Claude Hol- comb and Ajtrian J. Wood, accused of plotting to kidnap Mary Pickford and other Hollywood stars in a $1,000,- 000 ranson scheme, was to be decided at a conference of authorities, Holcomb and Wood, according to police, were ready to plead guilty to conspiracy charges, following the third degree administered by police. Stevens, determined to fight for his freedom, waited action today on a writ of habeas corpus filed in his be- half by attorneys employed by * wife, a former nurse. * „ 2 Charge Arrest of „Movie Plotters Is Publicity Frame- up LOS ANGELES, June 2.—Sensation- al charges that the arrest of three men in a plot to kidnap Mary Pick ford for $200,000 ransom, was a “gigantic frame-up” designed to give publicity to certain Los Angeles po- lice officials, and “movie” stars, were made today by S. 8. Hahn, attorney representing C. Z. Stevens, alleged “master mind” in the purported scheme, Hahn issued a statement declaring if the men were brought to trial he would “laugh the police department out of court.” Overnite Alr Mall Service WASHINGTON, June 2.—The New York-Chicago overnight air mail ser- vice, connecting America’s two great- est population centers, will be inaug- urated July 1, postmaster general New announced today. FAIRY TALES FOR WORK — — * tee AU BY HERMINIA ZUR MUMLEN | TRANSLATED BY IDA DAILES With four full-page, two-color plates and front and back LYDIA GIBSON. cover designs by Together with over twenty-three other drawings from the original German edition. Story book size, 9x12 inches, with large, clear type. In Two Editions 750 DUROFLEX COVER THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Iil, eB — — ee ee eee — — e GOVERNMENT DESTROY ee i | SEE IT | (Continued from page 1) a clean sweep. Some of the type are still skulking around in radical or- ganizations, mistaking crusades ‘against spitting on the sidewalk and the prohibition activities of Andy Mellon for radicalism. + * „ Cm EVANS HUGHES has denied the story that appeared recently in the press to the effect that the ex-secretary of state offered to defend the United Mine Workers in their anti-injunction fight with the West Virginia coal barons. The ori- ginal story was given prominence but the denial was used as a filler in gix point type. Hughes is now practicing law. It would never do for him to anger the big fellows by fighting one of their most useful weapons. Of course, he would be justified in doing anything legal for money, according to legal ethics, but even the richest of unions cannot compete with the capitalists in paying lawyers’ fees. * * 5 WO Communists, one from Ger- many and the other from France entered Britain to attend the Com- munist convention in Glasgow despite the vigilance of Scotland Yard. The tory government is now in a delicate situation since an investigation con- ducted by the British Trade Union congress proved that the Zinoviev letter which brought the present gov- ernment into office was a palpable forgery. The report states that the present government is a collection of confidence men and it also hints that the labor movement should deal with Ramsay MacDonald who was the tool used, consciously or unconsciously by the tories in springing the forgery on the public. CHIGAGO STREET CARMEN VOTE ‘NO’ ON WAGE SLASH Union Heads Conferring with Company Officials Employes of the Chicago Surface ‘Lines voted unanimously at a meeting held in Carmen’s Hall to reject the wage agreement offered by the com- pan, which calls for a reduction in wages of five cents an hour and changes in schedules that would un- favorably affect the present working ‘conditions of the men. The union’s contract with the com- pany expired on June 1. Any agree- ment entered into will become retro- active as from June 1. President William Quinlan annotinced that a committee from the union will meet with the company and endeavor to affect an agreement. This will be re- ballot. Two Airplanes to Search for Amundsen in Polar Wastes LONDON, June 2.—Two naval air- planes will be sent by the Norwegian government Friday to search for the Amundsen polar expedition, accord- ing to news agency dispatches today from Oslo, Norway. 7 The planes are scheduled to leave Horten, near Oslo, Friday by boat for Spitzbergen, where they will hop off in the search for the missing polar flyers. a It was generally believed here that Amundsen’s party had already set out for Port Columbia, 250 miles south of Greenland, but on foot. Au- thorities here believe his two planes were damaged in landing on rough ice. Forelgn Exchange. NEW YORK, June 2.—Great Brit- ain, pound sterling, demand 4.86; cable 4.86%. France, franc, demand 4.95%; cable 4.96. Belgium, franc, de- mand 4.85%; cable 4.86. Italy, lira, demand 3.96%; cable 3.96%. Sweden, krone, demand 26.24; cables 26.77. Norway, krone, demand 16.77; cable 16.79. Denmark, krone, demand 18.74; cable 18.76. Germany, mark, un- quoted. Shanghai, tael, demand 75.62%; cable 76.00. ferred to the men thru referendum: LY WORKE Jailed 2 of Law By PAUL ‘CROUCH. HAWAII, Honétalu, 27th Infantry Guard House, June 2—The next move in the fight of Gomrade Trumbull and myself for freedem of speech and thought in the y will be action in the federal courts) Our release will be demanded on the grounds that we were convicted for violation of the laws of Hawali (by organizing the Hawalian Communist League, alleged to be a secret gociety).. According to military law, no ons is subject to state or territorial law for his conduct while no official notice of our sentences. We cut except from the newspsper stori Fate Is Uncertain. The intention of the military author- ; ities con 2 who were re- leased without Ebert, Creque, Domagalski, and Nadeau—is uncer- tain. An announcement was made that three soldiers. (presumably Ebert, Creque and Domagalski) would be dis- charged for their connection with us. But they have been called before offi- clals for examination and questioning several times and are ignorant of their fate at the hands of the authorities. Schwarts was returned to duty after two or three weeks at hard labor and apparently no action will be taken against him. a. Demand Freedom. Army regulations were violated by our confinement trial. Regula- tions state that charges must be brot within eight day# efter arrest and trial within ten days after the charges have been . But charges were not brot us until March 10, de- spite our arrest on February 19. And I was not brot ‘to trial until about twenty days ‘the charges were terms than were accorded Great Bri- tain, but the American debt commis- sion will er the Great Britain settlement the basis for other nego- tiations, Mellon announced. | The settlement with Great Britain provided for debt payments extend- ing over a period of 62 years, with a cent. The American debt funding com- mission will hold no meetings abroad, it was announced by state and trea- sury officials. : > ¢ * WASHINGTON, June 2.—President Coolidge agrees with Secretary of State Kellogg, * f the Treas- ury Mellon and other bers of the American debt commission that any debt negotiations between the United States and other governments should be held in Washington, it was stated officially at the White House today. While it was explained that the president regarded the place for hold- ing negotiations as a question to be decided solely by the commission, of- ficials said there was no disposition to send American debt negotiators either to Paris or London for a conference on the French debt. Indiana Bank Closes. HARTFORD CITY, Ind., June 2.— The Blackford county bank here was closed this afternoon by the state banking department at the request of the bank’s directors. | The bank centempaltes voluntary liquidation, it was stated by officers who expressed the belief that de- positors will be paid in full. “Frozen” assets were blamed. Distribute a bundle every day during Red Week of June 15 to 21. $1.25 CLOTH BOUND * U. S. Marines Fight Chinese Workers 22 (Continued from p.ge 1) unbearable conditions in the mills. Resent Invasion of China. The circulars also denounced as an insult and aggression the meeting of the foreign tax-payers which today met under the protection or 500 white guards at the city hall, where ma- chine guns menaced the streets filled with Chinese, while the foreign tax- payers deliberated upon further cur- tailment of tbe rights of the Chinese in their own country. The points were the censorship by license of Chi- nese newspapers and printshops, and an increase of wharfage charges to favor the foreign companies against the Chinese. The meeting failed to bring a quo- rum, and adjourfed after passing a a — vote of confidence in the munteipal council for ita declaration of martial law. ss 6 ®8 London Hears Mcre Murdered. LONDON, June 2—Dispatches to the Exchange Telegraph from Shang- hai reports that martial law today led to further bloodshed when volunteer white guards and international police attacked demonstrating crowds in an effort to forbid all groups of Chinese over seven persons from gathering on the Shanghai streets. The police fired into the crowds killing twenty and wounding many more. ees 6 American, Killed at Shanghal. WASHINGTON, June 2—An Ameri- can named, MacMartin has been killed in therioting at Shanghai, said @ dispatch to the state department this afternogn from the Unied States consulate, minimum interest, rate of three per Cal Agréés to Plan N 6 8 . ee iy Th a = . AN his Pi ay 3 1 NN 1 n = ? Re tel “See * Saved ~ ~ WN * ' * * ; . ¢ 1 N a ee: r . rer 59 At as. * ya 8 se * 7 Seas 5 5 “Ay? ‘ EE * - on) ay ar e . 5 — ; nn av “ > R — — — * ö —pñ e 2 World Becomes Normal Overthrow of Capitalism By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. zis When Workers en 7 Ww OF HAPPINESS Unemployed Find No Work Anywhere PORTLAND, Ore., June 2.— Even Tee. altho Coolidge repeatedly reiterates that he will have 2 to do with the Workers’ Republics, never- theless, big business worries exceedingly much about Soviet trade conditions. James L. Patten, Chicago’s multi-millionaire wheat gambler, is quoted as saying that as long as Russia remains out of the grain market, the grain trade of the world is likely to be periodically settled and nervous. A financial writer, in replying to numerous inquiries he claims to have received about Russian conditions, asks him- self a question and then replies to himself as follows: “When, then, will Russia again be normal in the grain trade, normal in exports and Imports, normal in home enterprise, normal in development of her resources? Not until the Russians change their business principles and the business character of their rulers.” * „% * ®@ No matter how much big business, and its government at Washington, tries to dismiss the problem forced upon it by the existence of Soviet Rule, nevertheless it is there. Even the “expert” writers of the kept press, paid to hide the repeated crisis that confront capitalism, confess that Bolshe- vism must g° or capitalism will continue “unsettled and nervous.” To be sure they dare not hint that capitalism must go. But that is the real alternative. It is either Com- munism or capitalism. 2 Reports from the Soviet Republics indicate that the harvest days are coming in with bumper crops. Soviet Rule will this year be in the world market with huge exports of grain of all kinds. g That should make all capitalists nervous, especiall since crops in the rest of the world are not so good, whic will result in high prices. That means that Soviet Rule will be able to get new finances to keep up the work of recon- struction, to improve the life of the peasant. That means strengthening Bolshevism in its struggle against capitalism. a * * * The oil wells under the Red Flag are gushing petroleum at a rate that was never known in the days of czarism. Huge exports are going to many foreign lands. Even Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Trust has bought its share, : The American oil business will gulp down just ten billion = of gasoline this year, 1925. That is 15 per cent more than last year, and automobiles, tractors, airplanes and Odil- burning ships are being turned out in added quantities in this country, calling for more oll, at higher prices. The Soviets have oil to sell; the oil that the capitalist world needs, the oil that the capitalist world is compelled to buy, that it will pay increasingly good prices for, providing Soviet Rule with added strength to reconstruct and build. * * The capitalist world says the Soviet world does not treat it “fairly,” whatever that means. What the capitalists desire, it appears, is to invade and conquer the Soviet, world with their gr nse without allowing the Soviet world to per- meate their territory with its Bolshevism. British imperial- ism, for instance, tried to stop the advance of Communism by if on admittance to foreign Communist delegates to attend to British Communist Party's convention at Glasgow. But the German and French delegates arrived in Glasgow just the same. aby spoke for the German and French work- ers. They told of the conflicts within the capitalist world, of the workings of the Dawes plan, of the war in Morocco, of the necessity for the workers everywhere to end the rule of capitalism everywhere. 89 80 i Let us paraphrase the declaration quoted above of the finance expert of capitalism’s own press and put it this way: When, then, will the world be normal in the grain trade, normal in exports and imports, normal in home enterprise, normal in development of her resources? Not until the world changes its business principles and the business character of its rulers; until capitalism that breeds imperialist rivalries, foments world wars on an ever-increasing scale, and threat- ens all civilization, has been overthrown and the rule of the World Union of Soviet Republics established in its stead. The issue is, “Communism or capitaligm must go!" Very well, let capitalism go! that despicable company union and blacklist organization called the “Four L-s” has to admit that industry in Oregon is slowing down. With log- gers being laid off at many camps and a marked slump in the demand for labor in fishing, mining and other in- dustries, employment is becoming harder than ever to get in the prom- ised land of the Northwest. Men are coming up the coast from California to add to the already acute situation. East of the Cascade range. employment is at its maximum. Saw- mills and camps are fairly filled, but with the lull between planting and harvest farm work is slack. Marshfield reports one large fir log- ging camp closed. Thompson-Kelly mill shut down. Cedar operations slowing. Sawmills reducing forcer, Veneer plants laid off the night shift. Farm work has, however, absorbed some unemployed. Along the Columbia river several falling and bucking crews are laid off. Both camps of the Whitney com- pany on the Tillamook line are closed. Labor turnover in lumber is decreas- ing. There is little call for farm labor. IRISH FLUNKEY IS TREATED TO Gets Stale Hen Fruit on Nice Clean Uniform NEW YORK, June 2—General Owen O'Duffy, chief commissioner of the Irish civic guard, spent a busy time dodging over-ripe duck eggs yesterday while reviewing the 165th infantry, Sixty-Ninth.” The missiles hurled at the general were understood to be meant as a silent tho odoriferous protest against the presence of a representative of the Free State government which is fooked upon by the Irish masses as a tool of British imperialism, | Several plain clothes policemen, most of them of Irish extraction, routed thejr more rebellious country- ‘men and women and saved the gen- eral from an overdose of scrambled eggs. Eleven Known Dead in Middlewestern Electric Storms ‘ Bleven dead and a score injured, several probably fatally, was the toll left in the midwest today in the wake of a gradually diminishtnge heat wave which yesterday sent thermometers thruout the district climbing to new high marks for June 1. The heat and the severe electrical and wind storms which brought some measure of relief, claimed four lives in Chicago, three in Cleveland, two in Des Moines, Ia., and two near War- land, Mo. Western Iowa was the center of a violent wind and electrical storm ~ which played havoc in that region and Strike of Boston Painters Ends Minnesota. As the storm moved east, the fury of the wind abated and at in eastern Nebraska and southwestern (Continued from Page 1) three-year no-increase contract offer- ed by the bosses. Trades Council and Open Shoppers Work Together. Most of the unions being intimi- dated by the “open shop” threat of the bosses and the stand adopted by Secretary Johnston, accepted the agreement. Those who refused were the painters, building laborers, elec- tricians and plumbers. The Building Trades Council fur- ther weakened any chance of a real fight. being put up by declaring that no support would be given any union that went on strike. All trades re- turned to work pending negotiations excépt the painters. Council Forces Scabbing. Mass meetings of union painters voted unanimously to strike for the increase. On April 4 the strike was called and 2,200 painters. answered the call. The bosses immediately hired as many scabs as possible to fill the places of the union men. The business agent of the painters’ union asked the council to order all union men off the jobs employing scab painters. This the council re fused to do and the Painters’ Union withdrew from the council. Many union men who refused to work along with scab painters were threatened at last succeeded. 300 voted against. The three-year the life of the agreement. Amalgamation or Annihilation. is more pressing than ever before. Get a sub for the ber for your branch. selves attempting a settlement and A secret ballot taken by the union was declared to have resulted in 500 voting to return to work at the bosses’ terms while contract ties the painters securely and the arbitration fraud will aid the bosses in keeping their wages at the same level during The result of the whole thing, filled with jurisdictional squabbles, traitor- ous Officials, and lack of solidarity, is that the building trade unions here are weaker today than before April 1. The disgust of the painters at the betrayal of the Building Trades Coun- cil and their withdrawal from the council will further increase the con- fusion and distrust among the unions. The need for education of all trades upon the amalgamation program of the Trade Union Educational League DAILY WORKER from your sbopmate and you will make another mem. Des Moines, lightning took the human toll. Missouri and southeastern Kansas also paid tribute to the wind in lives and property damage. Missouri's vic tims were killed when their rig was swept from the road by the gale. No loss of life was reported from Kan- sas. Would Postpone Trial of Raper in Indiana Kian (Continued from page 1 son, Carl Klinck and Earl entry, charged with the murder of Madge Oberholtzer, was continued, today -rom June 11 to June 16. In agreeing to the postponement Judge Hines of the Hamilton court set aside three days for the hearing starting June 16 and emphatically as- serted it must be ended within the allotted time. William H. Remy, Marion county prosecutor, who asked for the continu- ance, during the proceedings heated- ly asserted that if defense attorneys were anxious to have their clients re- leased soon “the state is willing to stick all the motions together and start the trial immediately.” He got no reply. 7 with fines and expulsions if they did not return to work. Some Queer Voting Results. Some firms agreed to the new scale and about 700 painters were at work OSLO DENIES RUMOR AMUNDSEN HAS RETURNED FROM NORTH POLE at the increased wages, and paid an essessment of $2.50 a day during the strike. International officials of the Paint- ers’ Union immediately busied them-been killed. it was officially stated 993 OSLO, Norway, June 2.—Authoritative denial was made today by govern- ment officials of reports that the Amundsen-Elisworth north pole flyers had returned to Spitzbergen, and that one of the six members of the party had “there le no news.” SCRAMBLED EGG formerly known as the the “Fighting — | ye — . * —
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bans 8 . ol 00 e | f. (Continued bar Page — 5 attend the celebration in honor of cnn 4 silence was noticeable regarding the Debs’ fifty years in the labor move- By JAY LOVESTONE clothing shops, shoe and textile in- jexpulsion of 40,000 members of the ment, only two took five Appeal cards 1 EW YORK is again setting the austry the wages of women workers language federations, and the states each, and several - more took two pace. This time it is in the pay- suffered marked reductions last of Ohio and regan ot Be the 2 cards. each. Kirkpatrick was exas- roll loss and im the decrease of em- month. party national executive commit perated—quite wild, we would add. ployment for the last month. Most] une cop . 2 per mills, the railway equip- i the revolution which gave us Soviet there and do nothing and we'll get G oal of ) clines in employment and payroll for nq the heating apparatus manufac- Negro Preachers Work Not at All Promising. audienec could not help it. That's (Special to The Daily Worker) losses are bigger than the average, ac-/the metal industry. It is interesting Condemns Marderers of the kind of a party it is. 14155 cording to the figures just made pu- ne in th e ° Now the socialist party comes back e SPRINGFIELD, I., June 2— Cook to note that this decline in the metal . with Employers to Ohio, laments its weakness and Leo Harkins next tried his hand ; 8 * don dite by the New York state industrial industry has been continuous since Bulgarian Workers ee complains about loss of vitality. Cut at a collection. Tho many in the au- 8 pitts ey ‘ey lam 20 | Commissioner, James A. Hamilton. February. ven JACKSONVILLE,, Fia., June 2— the vitals out of an organism and it dience could have given $500 easily, characterized at s — te. From March to April factory pag. Phe curtailment of production was eie to. Tine W Utereaia * Mall)—The “Negro” ship, the is not going to function long there- when he asked for this sum, none day as childieh rattle’ nurtured to rolls showed a big loss. For the Nee aleo evident in the textile industry ae er T. Washington” of the Black after. And when the socialist party |#@ve. Nor did any of the many mid- — tun bloom 4 he po- 2 1 2 Wd vege — 8 which reported reductions thru nearly 2 — 5 5 — — > dustry Croee 1. i lost its militants, lost those who dle class participants give even $100, 8 of the factory workers show a drop unn A 2 port . — — could tell an honest-to-goodness or $50, or $26 or even $10. When | ‘tical er * Chicago | of 35,000,000. This is a loss of 4 per — the 5 er r ee ee — ps and with members of the ku klux Klan revolution when it occurred, lost the donations of $5 weer asked for two paper ws cent in one month. At the same time | the turning out of building materials e * and carrying orders of the mayor, army of actives who demanded afi- hands went up. Commenting on ie section of the the total employment of the state how an increase in wages at this * 2 ety Maas. sng: e her ia had come aboard and brutally assault- ation with the Third International, Diagnosis of Disease. Cook county commissiower in direct-| dropped two per cent. time of the year. This year no such | Unlen Scelalist of Soviet Repu oming 66 tintin tt ths ere then it itself was lost. Today it lives 1 h Sh , ing County Treasurer Patrick J. Carr HE tendency in New York state br feported: fa the brick considers it its duty and honor to de- prom- Che smetion, after — clubbing on hopes for @ resurrection. It is 80 le eee on 5 as chairman, was to withhold almost 75,000,000 ot tax- is significant especially in view of |. 145 part time is very noticeable. clare before the workers of the whole the Negro sailors and ordering the far gone that even the quack political | an — e ng success. Why es now due the state, Governor Len the fact that the general industrial Withis the last year wages have drop- world, and before all peoples and t trom ship to depart, returned the next|doctors that possess it look at it trying to stage a ee „eee. T ˙ bad no su-/ situation ND ; ’ . 1 5 n 5 try of the Soviet Union are in- acute morning in a launch to repeat the or- askance and wonder when it will kick | ¢ thority to issue instructions to the mated by striking the average of the | 51575 4 week cea re | ess rather, that if anything could | ' a range. * obeyed. be-| its last. se aot ee a * treasurer and that the treasurer conditions in the empire state with dignant over the unparalleiſed Ae Saw. would “continue to pay the taxes just the figures of the United States HE two clothing centers of the | cities of the Zankov government. | cause of the necessity of coaling. The Cleveland regional convention | kied ourselves because we chased „Only the handful of fessional d, but J . as he had in the past, neways as late | bureau of labog statistics. state, Rochester and New York nly the handful of pro Employers. engaged in exploiting | proved this party bankrupt in Prin- rainbows, were misled by emotional- as possible.” Precisely a year ago the decline | City, show losses in payrolls. In New| murderers that passes under the name and Negro workers at starvation wages in eiples and policies, in revolutionary ism, followed false leaders up blind 2 * marking the worst phase of the last York City the loss was seven per cent of the Bulgarian government ig cap this seaport, are said to have feared|spirit and activity. The national alleys. Then he referred to the au- he — a ” thie 1 we de poe had begun. Then, the wage and in Rochester it was six per cent. | able of eradicating the blossom of the | fir log- that many Negro workers intended | executive committee of the socialist) dience as the international union of tinued, “Cook county * er — was about the same as tifis| The heavy New York payroll loss working population, of strangling and Kelly to leave Jacksonville on the ship. party, tho represented, understood its grave diggers with Debs as its busi-] nns with list state | ‘ ear, tho the 1925 drop in employment | compares with a loss of 0.2 per cent shooting thousgnds of people, of re ) ations Negro preachers who are agents in; main duty at the convention to be to ness agent. dun ae 1 ts not as big as the corresponding in the Mlinois industrial district for ing gallows on public squares and to forcety disguise for the white employers, | get subscriptions for the new weekly] The grave they were digging try- the state means Ag long as 1 th. But the 1 in the latter | viving mediaeval tortures, of erect- . I am governor, Cook’ county will be drop of last year. wo agony n “ * shift. served as tools to start the trouble. the national headquarters intends to ing to dig capitalism’s and it a 80 . y : loak all this with hypocritical phra- sorbed Thes achers provided the iss n 5 eie part of Illinois. I need cook coun- The average factory wage for April | section has been continuous. New cloak a 8 ypo p 4 * ogg isi D biection to 22955 big one—and so the thot arose that ty and Cook county me.” in New York was $27.65 per week. York also led the Illinois industrial |ses about the protection of christian jeveral the * . * held Men en ern oven , This is approximately the same wage | district in the extent of the decrease | civilization. * 9 ee raga aa i 5 40. Did it read an analysis of the pres- good grave diggers, for in all ir received by the workers at this time ot number employed. The latter sec- Condemn Zankov Hangmen 5 ! 2 5 : 2 eee . ral ent situation in the United States, the stances where they had been given Iowa Storms Kill in 1924. In the metal industry, how- tion showed a loss of 1.3 per cent for “The Third Soviet congress feels slosed — 24 me = ich ams ab reagent inroads that class collaboration is àn Opportunity to bury capitalism, Several, Damage ever, especially in the ship yards, the the same time as compared with New nothing but contempt for the camp ; 2 4 Pex na ees said the ship's crew making into the unfons, the open shop they had failed to cover the corpse. wages are lower than last year. The | York’s loss of two per cent. laign of lies and slander directed labor had no right to charge fifty cents for »Tenstve of the capitalists, the com- Debs—A Relic of Past. Crops and Homes automobile industry is the only one] Economists the country over are against the Soviet Union in connec- rs admissi 8 wa 4 5 ing war and the imperialisms of the] when Debs came in all arose. But : to show any substantial increase in keeping eye on industrial develop tion with the explosion in Sofia, with — 8 er. 6 a ien major powers? Not a word! Did it there was no cheering. A 8 (Special to The Daily Worker.) wages over last year. ments in New York which has always the intention of hushing up the crimes ship company organized by the Uni- even review its heralded victories in| manifestation of good will towards DES MOINES, Ia., June 2—Several HE women workers of the state been considered somewhat of a wea- of the barbaric hangmen. In the name versal Negro Improvement Associa Belgium, its coalition with French im- the veteran’ Debs made his usual dead, scores injured, property destruc- have been hit harder by the wage thervane in the economic develop of millions of workers and peasants perialism, its “stabilization” policy in speech. Sharts had referred to the tion estimated at hundreds of thous-|reductions than the men. ments of the country. the Third Soviet congress of the U. 8. tion as a successor to the “Black Star Line,” dissolved by the United — Germany which has now thrown fatty Hindenburg into its lap? Not a word! Debs’ Canton speech for which Debs THE DAIL ands of dollars, and virtually un- broken drouth in western lowa, today In the — 8. R. expresses its indignation and | : he Bulgarian hangmen t und that ‘ was indicted and imprisoned, men- contempt at ¢t 839 n — Mind you, a regional convention of tioning the persecution of Ruthen- marked the paths of a series of vio- 5 who are stained from head to foot 5 1 the and not a line of theoretical lent thunderstorms, that swept this with workers’ and peasants’ blood. „ party 1 Ww was fraudulent, the stock being de- — erg, Wagenknecht, and Baker in the b ~ clared worthless. or even organizational direction from canton workhouse as the incident state late yesterday. 2 4 The Soviet congress sends its fratern- Marcus Garvey, president of the headquarters. which, made Debs’ speech at Canton Peter Brown, „ and George IN CHIC A al greetings to the Bulgarian prole W en The comrades came to see Debs. particularly bitter. Debs talked long Stephenson, were ] d by lightning tariat and peasants who are fearlessly t on pn te Ura ee ger dpe in Des Moines. enson died of fighting for the liberation of the Bulk overnment penitentiary at Atlanta, He presided. And the feature of the about his trial, imprisonment, and in 5 5 y ‘ « heart failure when struck near garian people.” m Ga, serving a ten-year sentence on|#*ternoon session was not a debate his usual characteristic way, stated ; , g y 18 i him. Two other were stun- Honor Martyrs the ground that he used the mails to|¥P0m how to broaden the daily de- and restated that he felt no resent- a ned. One of them was Pat Wilcox, — “The workers and peasants of the Owen defraud. Agitation for his release mands of the workers in an effort to] ment nor bitterness towards anyone 18. 4 golfer re Ae is Cha G h Soviet Union express their deep con- f the and for the cessation of the persecu- lead them to revolution, but the pre- who had caused his incarceration. 4 Ten Million More This recs ermany wit time 0 N ö sentation of a nice big cake to Gene. Not at all ttitude to d 1 Fourteen were tajured and $250,000 . 60 55 F viction that sooner or later the ranks tion of the Negro association has * an artitude do develop damage was done at Sioux City by May Than Last May Illegal Armed Force of the Bulgarian people which Eve terday reached a great intensity among | The malen e Of ine situation |strtiggle and militancy among the an 86 mile wind, been welded together with the blood ‘lantry, N workers. The recent call of the Whole local of Jamestown, N. X., workers, we would say. His speech ä f ghting the Workers (Communist) Party for (¢leven members, count them!) com- dealt with no — situation of 1 en da ere propertr] More than $42,000,000 in new build. ea Se ag eps args os i tbe’ der NN nd with ke for Deb 21 at Waterloo. ings was authorized during May, ac-| BERLIN, June 2.— Germany must the liberation struggle.” a united front of all Negro and white | Ing to Ulevela & cake tor Debs. the day, no exposition of the battle 10 } * 0 } Sealy tucked the del A $100,000 fire was caused by an cording to the records of Commis-| wait two days longer for the delivery; The Soviet congress honored the eneral workers to put an end to the persecu- ty tucked away among the dele- of the workers upon dozens of fronts, 1 i 8 — ‘ tions’ shirt d di rtl wy ea storm togay at Cedar sioner of Buildings Frank E. Dob- of the long-awaited disarmament note memory of the heroic victims of Zan as a tions and to demonstrate for the re- Fations shirts and undies, à portly | from the colonies in the East to the | Rapid rad hing d n ert This is $10,000,000 more than}from the council of ambassaodrs. kov reign of terror by rising from gainst lease of Garvey, has penetrated into Woman comrade marching down the | workers under the heel of imperialism — a ee * last year and Because of the absence from Ber- their seats. ive of this section and aroused much favor- aisle of the so-called mass conven- in the West. Just generalities, some Cc Jurior Del . ee eee l ö razy Jurior Delays Trial t $1,500,000 for each} lin of Foreign Minister Stresemann ich is able comment among the whart tion of one hundred, handing the big moralizing plenty of platitudes, play is at the rate o 1 sas a r heart-shaped cake to Gene—it could e ‘ LINCOLN, HL,“ June 2.— His trial | working day. the note will not be delivered until Dope Peddiere Held | lll as 2 only have been funnier if she, lu ap- Social dts and Police Unite Against suddenly halted ard Sée- Altho the total operations are Thursday, instead of today as sched- SPRINGFIELD, III. Juno 2.— Bran- emen, f a proved movie slapstick style, had Dally Worker feldt, a juryman, suddenly became slightly less than the April record, ; uled. ded the “most notorious” dope ped- ction, Shepherd Trial thrown the cake at him. The local socialists had entered | mentally deranged,” Joe Gardner, the decrease does not mean that the] The Luther government ‘has re- dler ever caught in Springfield, Mrs. untry- D Int Thi d Days of Miracles Not Past. into ‘a united front with the Cleve- Charged with the mufder of his bro-| unprecedented boom is beginning to] quested France to delay publication | Opal Bappel, 30, was scheduled to be gen- rags 4 1 There was an agenda. Organiza-| land police department. and arriving ther-in-law, Steven ter, was in- subside, said Chief Plan Examiner | of the note, giving the conditions with taken before a United States com- mbled Week Without Jury tion, propaganda, American Appeal, upon the 1 — ense bundles formed today a new el of petit Edward H. Nordlie. which Germany must comply before missioners here today to answer. finance,—this was it. The pearl con- of the DAILY WORKER, we were jurors had been ordered to report Permits for 3,231 apartments and evacuation of yer oes Bary least 2 : The tral ot Wiliam D. Shepherd |tbuted upon the question ot organ-lpropinited. trom ̃ “ot chem.| MOMday for ̃ĩ¾˙ ot the case. | #04 residences vere eranied, ,, ..,... ö th, making a total of 15, . ON DON, E 5 ite on an indictment charging murder |ization was by one Stelly, who had ne lleutenant of li frankly in- Seefeldt’s condition : discovered | the mon 8 5 5 for the death of William Nelson Me- just come from Yonkers, N. V., where, — 2 — * re- When he began singing loudly, talking new apartments and 4,249 residences| The note will riven XA — 7 young citizens of the Soviet Union n Clintock was in its thirteenth day | be claimed, he has just organized a so- — protection against us, not incoherently and m wild state- since the first of the year. During maintaining a larger force than she are to be sent to England and Ame- with its status virtually unchanged |cialist party local of 150 members on! D but for ments about the trial. the same period last year new apart-| agreed to under the peace treaty. rica to study journalism, and will af- rms from more than a weék ago (Krumbein please note!) The rr sie Pomc i he * the hall The ments numbered 13,700, while new] France is making the note an excuse terwards enter the Soviet Press In- ; ’ 13. 5 0 ; : Four sworn jurors, accepted eight|modus operandi was: 1. Enter the grgt order issued was not to allow Teachers Must Obey e ee oo 3.650. for keeping an army in Cologne. stitute, it is reported here. ** days ago, were in the box and town. 2. Look up the comrades. 3. any literature or periodical to be SPRINGFIELD, mi., June 2.—Wil- 0 two other veniremen tentatively ac- Get a list of citizens. 4. Call on them sold or given away. This order pro- liam Jennings Bryan, declared “there N —.— cepted by the state, awaited examina- personally, fill them. full of enthus- jhibited the disposal of not only the is no such thing as evolution,“ as he , : tion by the defense when the proceed-|iasm, good will, optmism, bring them DAILY ‘WORKER, but Sharts’ weekly passed thru here on his way to Cham- — f ings were resumed. Neither state nor to tears if possible and sign them up! also was made to suffer. paign. This teaching ot evolution and new ; » defense, both worn weary’ by the] Under propaganda, Van Essen of| ne next order that came 8 the increasing insignifieance attached trical ' tedious effort to em panel an accept- Pittsburgh suggested that the party after we had demonstrated our oppo- to god almighty by schools i general able jury, were willing to venture an at least ought to organize study | sition and the police officer had called is the live issue of the day,” Bryan some opinion as to how long it might be classes. With this we could not dis- up headquaretrs was that we could said. lives . before the actual taking of testimony aft ther, heard pA wo in | 5 agree as we, One alter another, heard } give away the papers but could not A teacher must respect the wishes ‘ Wa a would begin. 1 these many mouths utter sweet noth- sell them. The gareement the police ot his employers on all subjects upon * The only ot we interest in the casé|ings. The American Appeal, the na- made with the socialists undoubtedly | which the employers have deep-seated i centered on the finding of Robert tional weekly which is to be born in| was that nothing should be sold near convictions.” —— © White, missing witness, claimed by January, 1926, caused the only heated | the hall. When we arrived with a Are you going to allow the r ri el paper thet Seka : N a was present, an old water. nd so as not to viola ma : 8 wi 2 ing game with defense attorneys look- he wanted some consideration for his the agreement made with the soical- 3 June 2. — * battles to go along without your nd at oy e N wise when question-| sheet. But, and this is peculiar,—a | ists and to save their faces, the police — * 7 5 Pom 7 ＋ Ae — 0 help during 3 f 8 2 2 Sil — *r known to have delegate from Pittsburgh arose and allowed everyone to give away their ) wee 8 * — ing 1 . oat 1 weg eng up- made a real argument for centraliza- | wares. eee a wis = P 4 * The Second Annual 3 | a e cohen be n tion. Sharts lost. Some socialist Bankrupt Needs Auctioneer. 3 xa n — Pose "| party member must be sitting in on This first regional convention is in- r 2 3 lives | ' tion. us in Pittsburgh, we fear. All the teresting as an indicator of socialist board of the department of agricul- Sub Campaign? towns pledged themselves to secure | party methods. The aim is, to build| ture announced today. Persians Revolt Against British. thousands of subscribers, and so end-|® party. The socialist way to do this} i 1. 2 P Are you going to allow the SIMLA, British India, June 2.—The led this number on the program. is, not to talk much class struggle s Husband—Attends Party paper that is building the Amer- British garrison at Kwash is The Yellow Angel of Counter for this may drive some away; not to} SPRINGFIELD, In., June 2—Hot ican revolutionary labor move- by Perso-Baluch tribes, it is Revolution. take a concrete stand upon anything, words, blows, two sbots—and while , . repeeed, the garrison suffering hea-| Tho the Jewish Daily Forward, | because all may not agree; not to say Arthur Ball, 40, writhed in pain, with ment to go without the strength vy . that veteran assassin of Soviet Rus- anything about Soviet Russia because two bullet wounds in bis abdomen, his that more subs will give it? sia had ladled out $25,000 to again altho some may welcome a few words | wife tossed a smoking revolver on the inflate the party, the comrades were | in its favor, others will object. floor and calmly returned to the mid- Send in that sub now— ‘BO SQUAD THROWS given to understand, under the dis- ares red N egy — — night party at which she was enter- cussion of finances, that their dollars | bring them nto the fold-—what | taining friends. ’ TW BOXES IN RIVER, would have to fly to the rescue of — ae is 1 — list — Speak Un Comrade! the yellow thousands df the Forward or the Weekly, thats all. ese are Afghanistan Revolt Imminent. f ’ y ura tne slogans of the socialist party, at “ Let us hear you at would not last long. May we make . LONDON, England, June 2—British a guess? May we guess that the one time a big business, now bankrupt ‘ r te th ; and flying the red flag of the auction- forces in India oving 0 NEW YORK, June 2.—Feare of a Tor ward $25,000 was given with cer- er, not of revolt 9 Afghanistan-Indian frontier as the re- THE DAILY WORKER plot to blow up the city’s,transit talin stipulations? May we go so far , , sult of reports of an imminent gen- n | lines were expressed by police to- as to say that one of these stipula- eral uprising against the British in 1113 W. Washington Blvd., mysterious wooden boxes on the Soviet Russia? 5 let form of government, the report Third Ave. elevated line. Believing For at the mass meeting next day, states. the boxes to be infernal machines, |the four speakers occupied the ros- PLUTE SEARCHES police threw them into the East trum—Sharts, Kirk k, Harkins 5 R. R. Trust Gets C. and E. |, River. and Debs—only Debs mentioned So- One was on the 99th Street sta- tion and the other was on the 89th Street station. One of the detectives sent to exa- mine the boxes said he received a shock while picking one of them up. ~The boxes were first put into paiis of water and later thrown into the east river without being opened. Someone is probably looking for his crates today. Police then began a search of all subway and elevated stations “to make certain the boxes were not part of a concerted plan of bomb throwers.” they announced. viet Russia and he only once. There was an immediate burst of applause, but when he linked this Soviet coun- try with England and Germany in the same breath, this applause died as spontaneously as it had arisen. The Class War—What For? Eh, George. Geo. R. Kirkpatrick, the spellbind- er, the champion money getter and literature seller of the party, worked awfully hard to sell the American Appeal to the mass meeting. The audience remained frozen in tts seats. Out of 1,500 people present, looms er, "he veot elton Jes 1 > - OIL IN MEXICO MEXICO CITY, June 2— Otto Stinnes, son of the late German capi- talist and industrial leader, passed a comfortable night and was recovering today, physicians said from a hurried- ly performed operation late yesterday for appendicitis. Stinnes had come here to establish oll stations to serve vessels of a Ger- man steamer line proposed for opera- tion between his country and Mexico, — ee * The Chicago and Eastern Illinois railway, with properties valued at $97,000,000 and operating 945 miles thru the coal producing counties, will soon be bought by the Penngylvania system, it was authoritatively report- ed here, 7 Doheny to be Let Off. >” WASHINGTON, D. C., June The United States may not prosecute Ed- Send this PROPAGANDA SUB to @ worker to “Make Another Communist” x
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. 1 . — — a? * „ E « > y aud) Tye ae e ih 8 wens P ˙ OR) emt a, . 7 ee NATIONAL DRIVE 3 F un for Class War Prisoners — — (Continued from page 1). | forgotten. Many Cases to Fight. Rangel and Cline, in a Texas prison since long before the war, have been neglected by the movement for ac- tivity in which they were imprisoned. Sacco and, Vanzetti are in the shadow of the gallows. Fred Merrick and nine other Communists in Pitts- burgh are this moment facing prison; Ruthenberg, Foster and the thirty other Communist defendants in the Michigan trials, are still in jeopardy. Two Hawaiian soldiers, Crouch and Trumbull, have been sentenced to brutal terms in prison for their. sym- pathy with the workers’ movement. Hundreds of foreign-born workers arm being deported for their activities in the labor movement. In other lands, scores of thousands, the victims of the white terror, cry “out for help. Defends Class Prisoners. Why do so many of the best fighters of the working class languish in pri- son? Why are the instruments of or- ganized capital able so easily to frame up and keep in long confinement some of the ablest and most active er- ponents of the cause of the workers? Why are the victims of capitalist con- spiracy forgotten and their families neglected? Because the forces of pro- test are not organized. Because there is no agressive move- ment to keep the workers of America alive to the need of defense and to recall to them that many brave and forgotten fighters still lie behind prison bars. The executive committee of the Labor Defense Council, realizing the need for such a movement, issues the call for a national conference to con- vene at 10 a. m. on June 28, 1925, in Ashland Auditorium, Chicago, and that invitations be extended to all) existing defense organizations, in- dividuals who have distinguished themselves in the struggle against persecution and for amnesty, ex-polit- ical and industrial prisoners, and all working class organizations. Institute Natlon-Wide Campaign. The conference shall devise ways and means to: 1. Initiate and centralize nation- wide campaigns for amnesty of all class war prisoners, for the repeal of all criminal syndicalism laws, to op- pose a%ti-labor legislation, and against persecution and deportation of foreign- born workers. 2. Collect material and give pub- licity to all facts pertaining to work- ing class persecution, to publicly ex- pose brutal treatment of political prisoners and expose secret anti-labor actviities, such as labor spy systems, etc. 3. Provide legal and moral aid to all workers attacked for expression of opinion or for working class ac- tivity. 4. Give material and moral aid and comfort to all prisoners who have been incarcerated for expression of opinion or for working class activity. Protest Against White Terror. 5. Supply material support for the families and dependants of such prisoners. 6. Protest against terrorist activi- ties against workers in other lands, and to give moral and financial aid wherever possible to the victims of such terror. 7. Merge all forces willing to co- operate in this work into a broad na- tional organization, based upon in- dividual and collective membership that will stand as an ever-willing and ever-ready champion for the defense of all workers, regardless of their polit- ical opinions or affiliations, attacked thru the courts, or otherwise, for their activities in the labor movement. Called On June 28. The Labor Defense Council believes that this conference will realize these aims. It is fully confident that sup- porters of this proposal will come for- ward in imposing numbers and make the conference of June 28 the start- ing point for a great defense organ that will unify all forces friendly to the American workers’ movement in- to a solid bulwark against the attacks of predatory capital upon any and all workers of whatever belief or affilia- tion. * Rally to the support of the June ‘fact only recently celebrated thruout the Communist world); 28 conference! Unite all forces for Labor Defense! Passport System Abolished. NEW YORK.—No passports will be required to enter our territory Satur- day, June 13. We ask all comrades to take advantage of it and pay us a| “minor” visit. The Brownsville branches of the | Workers Party apd Young Workers League have arranged a banquet, con- cert and ball for that evening, also a sketch by the Foster Junior Group. The Red Goat will be read at the din- ner. Our new address; 1844 Pitkin avenue. Discuss Marriage Laws. WEST BADEN, Ind., June 2-—The General Federation of Women's Clubs in convention here today took up the cudgels for uniform marriage and divorce laws. . Five thousand subs for Red Week. | Rar w > « = By M. RAFES. T the present time, when many ++ seotions are undergoing extensive reorganization on the factory nucleus basis, it is a suitable moment to raise the organizatory questions involved by the various forms of agitation and propaganda work in the factory nu- clei. The creation of factory nuclei opens out fresh opportunities of mass agita- tion to the party. Here we can divide the totality of ‘the workers in shops and factories into several categories: 1. Members of the party and of the Communist youth organizations; 2. A considerable number of workers sym- pathyzing with and supporting the party, reading our party literature rex- ularly or irregaulrly, but not joining our organizations; 3. The mass of néutral workers, influenced but slight- ly elther by our propaganda or by the propaganda of parties hostile to us; 4. Those who sympathize with and sup- port other parties organizing the working masses, and finally; 5. The members of these party organizations. It is obvious that we must differen- tiate our work with the utmost. care in order to adapt it to these various strata of the working class. The for- mation of the factory nucleus is the first prerequisite for an organized in- fluence to be exercised upon the whole of these strata, enabling their various trends of thought and feeling to be recognized, and enabling work to be properly organized and distributed among the Communists employed in any given workshop or factory. Agi- tation and propaganda work are ex- ceedingly complicated, and demands a careful calculation of the forces at our e The Work of the Agitprep p Organize - disposal, a careful discussion of the causes of this or that success or fail- are. The factory nucleus must possess a special organ, competent to rogu- late, prepare, and lead the whole of this work. : HE most important form of pre paration for Agitprop work among party members consists of systematic the fundamental principles of the party program and party tactics Workers sympathizing with the party must be invited to take part in every meeting and every session of the fac- tory cells, and on every such occasion some question of general political lite or some matter pertaining to the fae tory or shop should be discussed. This must not be done in the form of an agitation speech, but must be a care- fully prepared report explaining the connection between the urgent daily question under discussion and our pro- gram and main lines of tactics, and thus enabling generalizations to be drawn from the events of daily work, and the audience induced to take part in the discussion of the most import- ant questions of our party work. An intimate acquaintance with the whole of the members of a nucleus renders it possible to select those members possessing superior abilities and most closely connected with the party, and to form separate circles for the study of the theory and practice of Leninist Marxism. (See Syllabus for Elemen- tary Party Courses, published in “In- precorr.” No. 5, January 15, 1925.) HE best of these comrades should then be selected for training in the party schools or educational oppor- tunities provided by the organization. From time to time burning questions party education, and in the study of @ made the opportun- large meetings, and should be giv- @ popular form, and to an agitation as “individual ag!- an important role * s sympathizing Tue organ entrusted work must prepare ‘material. and the nu- cleus, bureau izes this individual work. Every Communist is “allotted” one or 1 these sympathizers, to enter into con ver- as possible with these, their houses, and to discuss of interest to them from. ——— ot the party. This tion for the ontry ers into the party. of party literature, including newspaper, is one of the very most important branch- es of mass and propaganda. The propagation of our literature must be carefully t out and organ- ized. It is ar ly, inadequate pro- cedure to give a workman a single newspe per, periodical or pam impression made hy ita perusal be carefully noted, conversation be entered into oz the subject, do explained, eta. This is best plished when the distribution ct party literature is so organized and the same per- son invariably undertakes the work in 2 certain vocational group of a fac- tory or works, or in a certain group of workers. Here if must not be forgot- ten to take into account the difficulties incident to this work, the necessity of LY WORKER Ahem: —— % reprisalg undertaken by the works, mangament or the police. It is ‘very necessary to keep up a continuous search for fresh fields of egitation for the party. The attempt must be made to make use of the bars and restaurants frequented by the workers of the works of factory in question. It is possible to use these places for the distribution of litera- ture, and for some forms of mass ag tation. ' MPROMPTU meetings and organ- ized meetings must also be accorded their place. But not these alone. The uxperience won in the mass work of the Russian revolution has led to the development of two forms of work forming the greatest attraction for the great non-party labor press: the ver- bal newspaper” and the “agitation trials.” The nucleus co-operates with the youth organization organize small groups of workers (including non- party groups) in the careful prepara® | tion of this form of agitation for with- out this it cannot be successful. A small group of editors i8 organized, and these divide the. roles among leading arctile, current news, telegrams from the Soviet Union, fac- tory notes, humorous supplement, let- ters from the country, etc. For each of these departments a five minutes’ article in the liveliest possible form is required and an serch meeting ig ar- ranged, etc. The agitation trial W careful perparation and frequently resembles a theatrical performance. Roles are divided, masks frequently worn, and then some person or body is put on trial: the Russian proletariat, a so- and is appointed by this bureau for ‘confirmation. The commission divides cial democratic minister, the social eS. oe - ByM. Rafes A ‘democratic party, a factory owner, ete. This is to be so arranged that there are judges, public attorney, de- fending barrister, witnesses for ‘and. against, te. will be seen that various forms of agitation and propaganda work may be created. Every form requires careful preparation, organization and study, and thus impHes the formation of a special organ. The nucleus work ‘done in the Russian C. P. during the last few years has led to the develop- ment of a form of organization of this description in the “organizer of agita- tion and propaganda work” (Agitprop organizer), aided by a small commis- read sion. This Agitprop organizer has to be a member of the nucleus bureau, _ . (Continued from page 1.) American Federation of Labor, many of the biggest industrial corporations in the United States and in all quar- ters where the vast Russian experi- ment in working class rule is being watched, this report is now being Friends and foes are getting sens? for Purcell’s visit. Who Purcell is. | In the front section of the 250-page volume containing this latest report by spokesmen of British labor on the Soviet state, Purcell is described as a member of the furnishing trades since 1891; a member, many years, of the social democratic federation; member of Salford borough council six years; sectional secretary and then organizer, furnishing trades; par- liamentary candidate, 1910; elected at Coventry, 1928; successful arbitrator in: co-operative and other labor dis- putes; elected by general council, Trades Union Congress, 1919 and ove since; elected by Trade Union International Conference, Vienna, 1924, as president; president at 1924 Trades Union Congress; vice-chair- man, general council. Open Shopper is Alarmed. His reputation has convinced Ralph Easley of the National Civic Federa- tion that Purcell and his friend Wheatley, recent minister of health, this work. The commission is formed of three to five members of the nu- cleus. The Agitprop organizer collab- orates with the commission in work- ing out their scheme of work, and sub- mits this to the nucleus bureau for the various departments of work among its members, and meets regu- larly for the purpose of giving an ac- count of work done and exchanging experiences. The Agitprop organizer must give a regular account of his work to the nucleus bureau, and final- ly to the general meeting of the nu- ‘clei as well. At the present time it js still impossible to determine all the details of this work. We intend to submit this question to the whole of our nuclei for carefu! discussion, and expect that the experi- ence gained within the next few months will enable us to lay down more definite rules for the best forms of work and organization. 0 9 “Minor” Tasks for ei Major Accomplishments 8 By WALT CARMON 42 HE Communist International has given to the Ameritan Communist movement, indications of the road it must travel if it is to play its histor“! ical role. It has done this briefly but completely. Not only with an adjust- ment of major policies but with spe- cific mention of minor“ ones; not | cutive committee of the Workers (Communist) Party suggests in a de- tailed fashion thru the letter sent out by the executive secretary for in- tensified action that it asks from every party unit and member during Red Week of June 15 to 21. Specific- ally: 1—Every party member must ecome a subscriber to the DAILY \ ORKER; 2—Get at least one tiew | Subscriber in the shop, trade union— from another worker you know; 3— Order a bundle of the DAILY WORK- ER (given free of charge) to distri- only what we are to do, but also how. bute door to door in working class Particularly at this time, it is es. sections, in the union—among workers sential to stress this part of the ad- | ‘Sverywhere. vice to the American, Communist movement from the leading world | the very easiest task that can be per- Communist body in its decision on the American question: “As the Workers Party is at pres- ent constituted, too weak to collaborate with sufficient effectiveness in the proletarian mass movement of this great country. This natural weakness was particularly evi, as the Workers Party does not AT LEAST DOUBLE ITS MEMBERSHIP, it cannot be said that it fulfills the requirements of an American Com- munist Party.” UITE plainly, it is essential for us to grow, to strengthen our ranks— to build. We must set ourselves to the task. Hqw we are to “fulfill the re- quirements of an American Commun- ist Party,” the Communist Interna- tional specifies clearly: “Under no circumstances should it underestimate in any way the import- ance of such “minor” tasks as the circulation of the DAILY WORKER.” This is the first among other methods it suggests for the building. With other methods, by “estiblish- ment of new organs, the development of the Workers Monthly, the publica- tion and distribution of good propa- ganda literature, the organization of party schools, recruiting weeks, etc.” But FIRST (and we repeat with em- phasis the very specific reference)... “the circulation of the DAILY WORK- ER.” Decisions of the Communist Inter- national are not accidental—nor are they voiced indiscriminately. They ‘are born of the collective experience of the world Communist movement and given carefully to its various sec- tions for guidance. The emphasis on the circulation of the DAILY WORK- ER to build the Communist movement is the emphasis placed on the means that has served every section of the world Communist movements. N Russia, “Pravda,” with its circu- lation of over one half million (a in France, |“Humanite,” with a circulation of | over two hundred thousand; in Ger- many “Rohte Fahne,” so hated by re- action—these and other great Com- | munist papers have been one of the means for the great Com- munist accomplishments. The executive Communist International in its report . to the Fifth Congress on the various sections of the world Communist movement “Between the Fourth and the Fifth Congress” lays specific em- phasis gn the Communist press in the reports on each country. S emphasis must be made by every single member of the Amer- ican Communist movement on the of- ficial organ of the Workers (Commun- ist) Party—the DAILY WORKER. This emphasis must of necessity be, to be a practical Communist emphasis, put into immediate and concrete ACTION. The way this can be done, the exe 4 it is still altogether | committee of the | Simple plans, simply done—in fact formed by a Communist or other mili- tant worker—and with a full week to do it in. Yet it is this easy, minor“ task that will play such a great role, ways the Communist International—in building the American Communist movement “to fulfill the requirements ot an American Communi arty.” dent in its election campaign. As long st Party HIS has been said recently: With- out a daily newspaper the Com- munist Party cannot form any ade- quately important factor in any coun- try. The Communist International makes this specific in its decision on the American question. : The members of the American Workers (Communist) Party are not yet fully aware of the role the DAILY, WORKER plays in our party, they have not fully appreciated the im- portance of the DAILY WORKER (nor the Workers Monthly and all Communist Literature) as, not a “minor” activity to be relegated and restricted to the least capable com- rades only (and appended to other activities IF time allows) but as A MEANS by which all party activity is conducted. The role of the DAILY WORKER in the American Communist move- „ment must be considered by a greater section of our membership in the light of the well known words of our great teacher Comrade Lenin: HE role of the newspaper is, how- ever, not confined to the mere pro- paganda of ideas, to the political ‘schooling and winning over of politic- al allies. The newspaper is not merely a collective propagandist and collect- ive agitator, but a collective organ- |izer.” One thought remains from these words on the importance of “Our Daily” to the American Communist movement. Will you—a Communist, or with the Communists in their strug- gles—at least during RED WEEK of June 15 to 2l1—perform a “minor” task for great major accomplishments? Plutes Favor Boy Scouts. SPRINGFIELD, III., June.— The IIli- nois commerce commission today authorized the Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis railroad to announce a special round trip fare of $1.75 to all bona- fide members of the Boy Scouts of America, between Peoria and Bath, effective June 14 and expiring Oct. 1. Covers ‘8 Viste on the First Day Daily Worker) Calif. June 2. — ” Bloor, sixty-year- fighter, yesterday be- sand mile journey for the DAILY (Special t SACRAM Ella Reeve “ old Commun sah the three from coast WORKER. ~ An allday ell party arranged by the militant 1 rkers in the San Francisco Bay ct and assisted by the Young Workers League was at- tended by hundreds who came to wish A successful» trip to this courageous comrade who at sixty years of age be- gins a journey that will carry her to speak at all the important centers on a direct line from San Francisco to New York, to organize for Commun- ism, to speak for the only English Communist daily and to bring the message to fields as yet unorganized. Reno, Nevada, Next Stop. Leaving Berkeley at three o'clock in the afternoon on Monday, June 1 “Mother” Bloor” made the first one. hundred miles without paying a cent of railroad faré as she had originally planned; coverigg the first fifty miles in an auto truek. Meetings de held tonight in Sacramento, Following these “Mother” Bloor proceeds to Reno, Nevada. At every step made by this veteran Communist fighter, bundles of the DAILY WORKER have preceded her. These have been enthusiastically re- cef¥ed and the DAILY WORKER is now reaching workers in new corners of this country. Like the Dally Worker. “I’m feeling fine,” wires Mother“ Bloor. “The first response has been the kind that puts new fighting spirit into me and the ease in reaching one town after atiother on schedule with- out the use of the railroads makes the prospects for success. most rosy. “The DAILY WORKER is going like hot cakes and subs are coming with the response.” NOTE:~—New bulletins will appear advising of the progress of Mother“ Bloor in this spectacular journey of organizing for Communism. Bergdoll Eludes U. 8. Sleuths. WASHINGTON, June 2.—The gov- ernment’s effort to get war-time draft- dockets does not apply to Grover Cleveland Bérgdoll, now thought to be hiding in Germany, it was announced at the department of Justice today. The c ding against Bergdoll | will hold a present status, officials said, in the hope that he will be cap- tured in an effort to return to the United States. ‘vTvTrvrrrVrrerererrrrrerpgjr,pnfjyt't"7TrerreeereevwwereeeT'*''t"'T"T'TTTTTT-T? TS ta — BROOKLYN, N. ii hi i he he he i he he he he he i he i ee ee he Me Meat Market 4301 8th Avenue Y., ATTENTION! CO-OPERATIVE BAKERY Restaurant IN THE SERVICE OF THE CONSUMER. Bakery deliveries made to yo FINNISH CO-OPERATIVE TRADING ASSOCIATION, Inc. (Workers organized as consumers) ‘© Brooklyn, N. Y counteracting as far as possible the: FOREIGN FILM FIRMS BID FOR RICH MARKET IN SOVIET UNION dodging cases off the federal court | ' r —— 1 F ‚ ee. —.'ör ee | | who may also come to Atlantic City, are dangerous. N The Russian report, however, is signed by Herbert Smith, head of the Miners’ Federation, who was a frater- nal delegate to the Cincinnati con- A leading French film producer, the Phocoa company, has made an offer to the Soviet Union to produce a pic- ture in exchange for distribution rights in the U. S. S. R. Nor is the picture to be some artistic version of ancient society—it is to be a propa- ganda film, according to “The Film Daily,” and its name is “The Force and Grandeur of the Soviet.“ The trade paper’s headline complains that “France Flirts with Soviet.” Another news item reports that a noted Italian producer, Gonnare Rig- helli, who made some of the leatling European current features, ng them “Oriente” and “The Queen of the Dells,” is in Russia to shoot his exteriors, and that the noted actress Maria Jacobini, is in the cast. Film Market Immense. The Soviet Union film market is recognized as one of the most import- ant and richest in the world today. Ninety millions people have under- gone an awakening possible only in the stress of revolution, and they have a government whose sole concerns it is to make accessible for the workers and peasants the best products of the brain and brawn of their fellow workers thruout the world. The only restrictions imposed upon outside agencies which seek to ex- ploit this fleld of production and dis- tribution, is that the Russian people shall share in the benefits drawn from such films as are made in their coun- try, and that their revolutionary strug gles and sacrifices. shall be presented in a true light to their fellow workers thruout the world. The desire of the capitalist world to use the films only for counter-revolutionary prop- aganda, as well as to,hog all returns for themselves, has thus far curtailed foreign participation in the Russian cinema. Soviet Production Increases. The pre-eminence of American tech- nique is recognized in the Soviet Union and the help of American pro- ae ducers, especially of such independ- ‘-wwvwvvvvwwvrrerwewewerrrrwreerewefe'''x'*'*'t**'*'*'*'**'''Tv'v"***" vention; by Fred Bramley, secretary to the congress and to the delegation in Russia; by Ben Tillett, John Turner of the Shop Assistants, Alan Findled of the Pattern Makers, John Bromley, M. P., of the Locomotive En- gineers,and by two advisory delegates who had seen official service in Rus- sia during the war. A Taste of the Report. On page 17 of the report Purcell and his associates give this conclusion on political affairs: “Finally, the dele- gation is of the opinion that the Sov- let system of representation and its scheme of constitutional and civil rights, so far from being undemo- cratic in the widest sense of the word, give in many respects to the individ- ual a more real and reasonable oppor- tunity of participation in public affairs than does parliamentary and party + government, “In other respécts, such Partei tion is still severely restricted. For the system has as yet been kept under close control by its originators with the tacit consent of an immense ma- jority of their fellow electors. This consent can be accounted for partly by the energy and efficiency with which these leaders carried the coun- try thru one crisis after another, and partly by loyalty to the ploneers of the revolution. «But this permanence in power is a result of past circum- stances—not of the present constitu- tion. Under that constitution there are certainly as great—and possibly greater—possibilities than elsewhere ip respect of popular government, poli- tical peace, and social progress.” Regulation Not Truce of Enemies. This is a sample vr conctusions on various fields—economic, industrial, educational, social, and so forth—in- vestigated by the British labor veter- ans. They are as offensive to anti- radical experts in the United States as are the opening reniarks on labor conditions: “In Russia the workers are the rul- ing class. . . In Russia we have a regulation of the workers’ rights that they have put upon themselves for ents as the “United Artists” group, would be welcomed. In the mean- time, however, the Soviet’s produc- tion is going steadily forward, new ac- tors and directors are being develop- ed out of the workers’ ranks, and new inventions of technique and ma- chinery are reported from time to time. All Soviet films sent to the United States are distributed thru In- ternational Workers’ Aid, 19 8. Lin- coln St., Chicago, III. Workers’ or- ganizations, as well as theaters can rent them at reasonable rates. RED WEEK—June 15 to 21. 10 2 9 Progressive” Loses 5 1 to Smith in Capital WASHINGTON, p. C, June’ 1. Eugene Smith was re-elected as presi- dent of Columbia Typographical Union No. 101, Washington, by a vote of 985, against 818 cast for B. W. Mor- cock, on May 27. Of the 2,100 mem- bers of the local, over 1,000 are em- ployed in the government printing of- fice. Smith has led a fight against Pub- lic Printer Carter, who dismissed a large number of the employes—all union men— last February. Smith's supporters charged that Carter was backing his opponent, who is employ- ed as a proof reader in the govern- ment shop. Morrock claimed to re- present the “progressive” as against the Lynch or “regular” element in the I. T. U. Delegates chosen to the I. T. U. con- vention were W. C. Austin, T. C. Sharp, C. I. Mallard, Jacob Wagner, alternates, Frank Johnson, John A. Parker, F. 8. Hussey and Carl V. Eck- dall. Every sub you get during Red Week of June 15 to 21 is a sub to “make another Communist.” | WHO IS BEHIND THE CITIZENS’ their own well-being. Elsewhere we have a restriction of the workers’ rights put upon them by the wealthy. Such regulations are in Russia the MILITARY TRAINING CAMPS ? result of agreement between the work- ers and thelr own expert governors pb + + +» + DDD Workers League of America, In the latest issue of the out ¢ The YOUNG WORKER, the weekly organ of the Young paign against these camps in every issue. Young Worker there ic ~ special story exposing these camps which turn as fast as they turn out cannon-fodder. ....dorsed by the A. F. of L. at the El Paso Convention the Citizens’ Military Training Camps habe become a burning issue to every left winger in a trade union. For this action of the El Paso convention not only connects the machinery of the American Federation of Labor up with the War Department, but thru this action the bureau- crats are collaborating with the big open shop employers in supporting this strike-breaking institution. You will want to be well informed about the C. M. T. C.’s. Send bundle orders and subscriptions to PUBLISHING DEPARTMENT OF THE Young Workers League of America 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, III. and managers to whom they have en- trusted their institutions and their in- dustries, their factories and their farms. Elsewhere such regulations a the result of treaties and * tye tween the entrenched interests /of a wealthy ruling class and the assaults of a working class that as yet never rules but only rebels.” i i ee i i i i i i i — | carries on a strenuous cam- Juniors of Chicago, Attention! On Saturday, June 6, the eity cen- tral committee of the junior section of Chicago will convene. Every group must send down two delegates to this committee meeting. The meeting will start at 2:30 o'clock at 19 S. Lincoln St., and every comrade must be there in time. Important business will be taken up and it is imperative that every delegate be present to this gath- ering. Be sure that your group is represented, Saturday. If you are a delegate do not fail to attend. F ee ee et te tt DDD DDD 1 War Secretary Still Sick. BOSTON, June 2.—Mrs. John W. Weeks and her son, Sinclair Weeks, were called to the bedside of Secre- tary of War John W. Weeks, at Phil- lips hospital. Mother and son decided te remain indefinitely, it was stated. Sec- retary Weeks’ condition was reported $1.50 a Yoar 1 85c for 6 months f - : - ; : . a Distribute a bundle every uring Red Week of June 15 to 21, Single Copies 5c i ee ee ee ee DD House, Massachusetts. general. *
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ice-chair- ned. ed Ralph : Federa- s friend f health, ntic City, wever, is ad of the a frater- nati con- secretary elegation tt, John nts, Alan ers, John otive En- delegates > in Rus- t. reell and lusion on the dele- the Sov- and its ad civil undemo- the word, 3 individ- le oppor- lic affairs d party participa- ted. For apt under ors with ense ma- rs. This or partly ney with the coun- ther, and neers of manence t circum- constitu- on there possibly Isewhere ent, poli- 88.“ on labor the rul- e have a ghts that slves for rhere we workers’ wealthy. issia the the work- rovernors have en- their in- nd thelr b are —5 47 4 ) 3 ret never tion! city cen- ection of the Negro, Thomas Washington, was . held prisoner, and forced. to work for “a ent of state of the authen- m 954 8 ou 1. — a @ Derrick, 180 testy these instructions. 131 B qt wry , . 62nd and — 8k we Says Judge ANDERSON, 8. C., June 2. — Four men were sentenced to imprisonment in the Atlanta penitentiary after their conviction in the United States court ern justice, Judge H. H. Watkins’ ate pulated that the sentences should be 4 Guy Hall, on whose turpentine tarm the turpentine manufacturers, vas ‘sentenced to five years’ imprisonment |’ and fined $1,000 on the peonage chartze and two years’ imprisonment and $500 fine on a charge of conspiracy. to vio’ late the federal law against-peonage. Bruce Hall, Dewey Simpson and As- [guards for the purpose of preventing | ag Carpenters, 189 W. Washington St. bury T. Jones, found guilty vn the ee ot Soviet Russia. j eb Halsted st. 1 conspiracy, were sentenced to two E race t. leving N years’ imprisonment each, and ‘fined B ö Carpenters, 6414 8. Haleted gt. an Price : $500 for Hall and $250 wer ee 1 § . Raised “hap te * Earvers (Wood), 6 Ae NS. iges and Jones. Judge Wilkins gave no es tec the suspension of the sentences, but it is understood that race préjudice against the Negroes whom the prison- ers beat and exploited, prompted him to make the sentences light. U. S. S. R. Puts Thru Electrification Plan for Suburban Roads WASHINGTON, D. C. June 2.—Hlec- trification of the railways of the So- viet Union has been started, according to information received from Moscow by the Russian information bureau, in Washington. Several of the ‘Moscow suburban lines are being electrified | and also the Suram mountain pass section of the Transcaucasian railroad between Tiflis and Batum. In all, nine- ty-four miles are being completed, ac- cording to the information. An addi- tional 105 miles will shortly be begun. including the electrification ot Lénin- grad suburban railways. ; The general electrification, program, it is stated, calls for the electrification of suburban and mountain lines and eventually for the establishment of electric trunk lines adopted ‘to the transport of trains up to 7,000 tons. Urban trolley systems are also in- creasing their mileage thfs year. Be- fore the war 35 cities Had electric street railways, During the war and the civil wars about half of the lines went out of business. By 1920 fifteen had ceased operations altogether and eight were running only four months of the year. By the end of 1924 the pre-war mileage was regtored and lines had been opened in three addi- tional cities. The volume of traffic has doubled. in three years, though still somewhat, be- low the pre-war figures. About a thou- sand new cars will be needed this year, of which 385 are already, being built in Russian factories, The bud- gets of almost all the enterprises, says the bulletin, show an excess of reve- “Tht SENTENCE x Prejudice An Peons operating with the state department at Washington to flood the schools with anti-Soviet Adams, read a dispatch sent out by the state department, which attacked the Soviet en vate: the United States, and gave as “proof” the government propaganda against the Soviet government. The state- ment sent out by the state department was headed i al.“ It. was dere on charges of conducting a peon-" fares nes, Sadie st bia still being | Your Union Meeting | ‘age farm. However, typical ot south clares: “The department ot state First Wednesday, June 3, 1928. made blic today the text of instruc- ite. * me of Local and suspended in one year. [tions given by Zinoviev, president ot.“ * „ oF fa of America. The de- 38 A Clething Workers, to have been made by Zinoviey, an- Lansing. other ons of the famous forged| e Carpenters, Western and Lexing- “Zinoviev letters,” which have deen 55 arpenters, 5443 f. Ashland Ave. ‘hanufactured wholsale by White C4spenters, Glacker's Hall, Lake a ig pO og — Mang rd oral — 431 Firemen and | Enginemen, 9118 com- ‘daily ‘to ‘crowds on the eee Hod Carriers, ao Council, 814 valus of Florida real estate and cli-| 10 Janitors Mag.), Kedzle and Bel- ‘mate; and he was reputed to be get- ting $1,000 a day ‘for this effort. been going the rounds of Washington since the Commoner announced that| 8 Maintenance of Way, he would give a $50,000 house, repre- Marine Cook 7 * Clark St. senting 10 per cent of his real estate| £3 Moulders, gains, to a church organization, and would devote himself henceforth ' to} $33 painters: } ‘writing. n menace of great fortunes a dozen years ago during a campaign, and that Bryan, laying a fatherly hand on Rob | versity. bins’ shoulder, remarked earnestly: i" a Raliroad e 18% N. State; “Robbins, you know, and I know, that 2 no man can earn a million dollars 723 honestly.” Robbins agreed. A year 2 Teamsters, 220 $. Ashland Ave. or two ago they were again together. 7° and it happened that the same topic Western Aves. came up. Again Bryan laid the au- 9 thoritative hand on his friend’s shoul: der, and looking almost e shoal FT RI KE ON GU LF SOU TH ERN BOAT into his eyes he ag “Robbins, youd BROCUG HT F 1066 IVG TO ONE I. W. V. know, and I know, that no man can sr shee aon daly omen} TWO MISSING MAY BE MURDERED ‘Om a 8 NEW YORK, June 2— All of Florida’s floggings of n men rn 4 . 1 er 7 the turpentine camps. The latest story of the lash. is te the headquarters Walk Street at Once ofthe Marine Transport Workers’ Union of the I. W. W. trom the report of | Delegate Robert F. Bierley who was arrested in à ship strike, at Miami, with two companions, and taken into the countryside where all three were savage- of an injunction writ against the ly. beaten. American Shoe Workers’ Protective union legalizes picketing to the extent of two pickets at a time, and says the pickets may give out strike circulars’ deen made by local organizers of the to employes. The strike is against union in Boston and New Orleans, the Sigman & Cohen Shoe Co. Su- where Fogelburg and La Monica, the preme Court Judge Faber granted the two victims, had lived. No trace of modifications. them has yet been found. 5 roe St. mond Robbins. were discussing the bere Poultry and Game, 200 Water’ St. nues over expenditures. iy — P - 2am oe : 1 = : . 5 a2 f the 4 ee, 2 hes . ex 7 7 2 a 75 25 N i jis a a * 1 * W. 5 4 * an” N USE ANTI-SOVIET LIES F OUT BY STATE DEPARTMENT 0 PREVENT RECOGNITION BYU. §. Ses . * Ab » VABPARAISO,:In@.; June 2— That teachers in the public schools are co- propaganda was disclosed here when a teacher of history, J. Adahis told his pupils that the Soviet Union should not be recognized by in The state department document de. ON age erg International, to the“ Amadgarnated w of justice has assured the Then follows the statement alleged. 8 „ Clay, Village Hall, of Virtue as. His Own 14 Cigar Makers, 218 8. Ashland Bivd. Fortune Piled Higher]. 20 , Electricians 127°N. Francisco Ave. 85 Engineers, So. Chicago, 11405 Michi- WASHINGTON, June 2—W. J. 2 ritemen’s Assn., 159 N. State St., W. Harrise ont. 8 Ladies’ Sarment Workers, 328. W. This calls to mind a story that has $98 one 222 . Wa 830 Machinists, 1182 Bp iwauxee & ag Madison St. Painters,’ 1 and Main Sts., Evanston, III. 60 * + Seeenaee St. inters, + peal Hall, La G ne. W me hea Odd Fellows Hall, lue The story goes that Bryan and Ray- t. Railroad Trainmen, 812 W. 89th $t. wanspee Trainmen, 64th and Un- Sheet Metal tis W. Harrison St. nn (Soda), 220 S. Ashland Teamsters, 6359 S. Ashland Ave. THE DAILY “ARMY EI INEERS | Discovers ea work for a private contractor than for an army engineer tINecharge of con- struction of public Work. any day, is Tracey of the building trades depart- ment of the Ameen Federation of Labor. ‘ 3 the army engineefs fre planning to build the $14,000,000 ‘Arlington me- morial bridge by” ameet employment ot day labor. „Our contact nr engineer of- ficers,” said Secy. icy, “has taught us in the ; es that most of these officers think in . of coerc- jon, of military dfscipline, and they have no use for nor any inter- est in the human élefnent in the work. There are ets them, of course, most o em would like to anéWer any. suggestion ot a strike by calling oyt a fring squad. ‘Their ‘training . them that way. The treat a union spokes- man like a de Garment — — on tional Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union reports of a strike in Toronto, Canada, against the Royal and Continental Cloak Co. for break- 79 More Ward Maneuvers. United States navy Girigible Los An- geles left her mooring mast at the naval air | ré at 10:08 o’clock today to fly to polis, Md. She in the Chesapeake Bay of the naval academy there, bably about 2 Wall Paper Crafts, Chicago and WORKER HATED NIONISM, | SAYS K F. OF l. ite i N Fraud 8 Mears Late By bade TODD. (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, June 2. — Better building The issue 28 a claim that men among * Strike in Toronto NEW YORK, June 2.— The Interna- J., June 2.—The will tie up to the mast ship Patoka o'clock. +81 NEW YORK, June 2—Modification : ‘119°° Arrested at Bosses’ Orders. Every sub you get during Red] The strike that led to the lashings Week of June 15 to 21 is a sub to took place on the Lake Gunni, a “take another Communist.” stéamship of the Gulf Southern Line. 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Blackjacks were freely applied as the cars sped outward, the delegate reports and his narrative continues as follows: Legion Gangster Steals His Money. “After being taken out to a deserted roadway, we were thrown out of the cars and our clothes torn off us. One sat on our feet and another upon our heads while the rest took turns flog- ging us with heavy leather straps un- til they were tired out. My clothes were stolen and some of my supplies. a! „One of the gang wearing an Amer- 22 ican Legion button, while taking thé hatidcuffs off my wrists, took twenty dollars out of my pocket. He didn’t get all as I had some of it in another pocket. I have not seen the other fellow workers since and I fear they may have been killed. The next morn- ing 1 took the highway and came as tar as Pensacola and was again ar- rested, while walking thru. Thirty-six 7 hours later I was released and I came ö to Mobile.” Secretary-Treasurer T. P. Sullivan of the union says no stone will be left „ Bierley fears the other two sailors were murdered. The flogging crew separated the men and he has not seen them since, Truitlese inquiries have * ta two victims. of the flogging if they are still alive and he declares his or- ganization will nat be deterred by the episode but wl continue the fight to improve conditions for sailors in Florida pone + oo Boy Scouts "Prepare Youth for Murder and Strikebreaking — i By STANLEY BALCHUNAS. What is the difference between the boy scouts and the Young Workers’ League? That's not a hard one; the boy scouts are organized by the capi- talist while the Young Workers’ League is a Communist organization. What does that slogan of the boy scouts “Be prepared” actually mean? This ought to start you thinking. It means that the boy scouts must be ready to be killed off when the capi- talists start a war. The boy scouts are given medals for savink some one, which everybody should do, while in the future they will be given medals for killing in a war or killing some workers in a strike. The boys join the scouts for the fun which they are told they will get, but they are unconsciously/made tools of the capitalist. 1 All ot us should try as much as pos- sible to get a worker's son to join the Juniors or the Young Workers’ League and not the boy scouts. te Ss... Get a sub for we DAILY WORKER from your shopmate and you will make.apother mem- — to find and succor the other 5124. Dimity, challie or batiste, also volle and tub silks may be used | SIX ROOMS AND DANCE HALL ON TWO LOTS. 5 minute for this model, walk from station on Pa. R. R.; 35 minutes from New York. The pattern ig cut in four sizes: 2, : 4 6 and 8 years. A é-year size re John Trojan, Box 82, Avenel, N. J. quires 2% yards of 32-inch material. 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Now that the race has been extended to July first (due to Red Week of June 15 to 21) the victory may go to most any city. This le anybody's victory —be sure to see that your local is right among the leaders in THE RACE in the Second Annual Sub Campaign “Only locals having a quota of over 100 subs are listed in this column) Subs Percentage Sentin Quota Filled Philadelphia, Pa 115 250 48 Milwaukee, Wis. 57 125 47 Minneapolis, Minn. 88 200 44 San Francisco, Cal. (Bay District)... 59 170 37 Detroit, Mich. 165 500 33 Buffalo, N. Y. 30 100 33 St. Paul, Minn. 40 135 30 Boston, Mass. 55 200 28 Los Angeles, Cal. 39 150 25 Toledo, o 40 200 20 New York, N. Y 309 1500 20 St. Louls, Mo. 18 100 18 Kansas City, Mo. 17 100 17 Pittsburgh, Pa. 38 250 15 Cleveland, O. 63 450 14 Chicago, III. 174 1500 12 Monessen, North Cohoes and West Allis Fight It Out Mining Tows Among Leaders — — MONG the locals having a quota of less than one hundred subs, Monessen—thru the efforts of the Young Workers League led by Comrade Leo Kauppila—still holds. the lead with two other locals right on their heels. . Monessen, Pottsville, Pa., Pittsburg, Kan., and Frankfort Heights, ill_—four towns in three different coal flelds—are right among the leaders to show what militant workers think of “their paper.” Look for your local in this list of the race in The Second Annual Sub Campaign Subs Percentage ‘ Sent In Quota Filled Monessen, Pa. 14 10 140 North Cohoes, N. v. 13 10 130 West Allis, Wis. 12 10 120 Pottsville, Pa. 9 10 90 Pittsburg, Kan. . 8 10 80 New Orleans, La. 7 10 70 Frankfort Heights, III. 7 10 70 Jamestown, N. Y 7 10 70 Omaha, Neb. 31 50 62 Euréka, Cal. 6 10 60 Stamford, Conn. 7 15 51 Galveston, Texas 5 10 50 Lawrence, Mass. 5 10 50 Kansas City, Kan. 10 20 50 Pocatello, Ida. 5 10 50 Providence, R. I. 13 30 43 Revere, Mass. 13 30 43 Kincaid, III. 4 10 40 East Liverpool, O. oy 10 40 Frederick, S. D. 4 10 40 Springfield, III. 19 50 38 Warren, O. 10 30 33 Dilles Bottom, O. 3 10 30 Indianapolis, Ind. 3 10 30 Cincinnati, O. 15 50 30 Bentleyville, Pa. 3 10 30 Rochester, Minn. 3 10 30 Portland, Ore. ss 60 25 Rochester, N. . — 11 50 22 Superior, WIe. . . . 13 60 21 Astoria, Ore. 6 30 20 Hartford, Conn. 6 30 20 Decatur, III. 2 10 20 Endicott, N. v. 2 10 20 Utica, N. v. 2 10 20 Taylorville, III. 2 10 20 Schenectady, N. v. 2 10 20 Tacoma, Wash. 2 10 20 Blair Sta., Pa. 2 10 20 Chisholm, Minn. . 2 10 20 Cateret, N. J. 2 10 20 Springwell, Mich. 2 10 20 Coscob, Conn. 2 10 20 Hanna, Wyo. 8 50 16 Youngstown, Ohio 4 25 16 New Haven, Conn. 5 30 16 Christopher, III. 6 40 15 South Bend, Ind. 6 40 15 Washington, D. C. 6 40 15 Muskegon, Mich. ........ 4 30 18 Zr 11 75 13 Denver, Colo 6 50 12 Rockford, III. 6 50 12 Grand Rapids, Mich 7 60 11 Bellaire, O. ........ 3 25 11 SS 0... 3 30 iv eden, N. J. eee 3 30 10 West New York, N. J. 2 20 10 The following cities have .................. 1 10 10 Easton, Pa. Hilton, N. J.; Mansfield, O.; Boise, Ida; Johnston, Pa.; New Brunswick, N. J.; Coverdale, Pa.; Madison, III.; Brule, Wis.; Talto, Md.; Sunrise, Wyo.; Woodlawn, Pa.; Miami, Fla.; Sisterville, W. Va.; Port Vule, Pa.; Salt Lake City, Utah; Cheswick, a.; Hibbing, Minn.; Alliance, O.; Hancock, Mich.; Tuolomme, Calif.; San Antonio, Tex.; Passaic, N. J.; Dayton, O.; Red Granite, Wis.; Wilmington, Del.; Kenosha, Wis.; Faribault, Minn.; Seymour, Conn.; E! Paso, Tex.; Rose- burg, Ore.; Des Moines, la.; McDonald, Pa.; Max, N. D.; Mt. Vernon, Wash.; Gary, ind.; Hollidays Cove, W. Va.; Colchester, Conn.; Chester, Pa.; Pine Island, Minn.; Atlanta, Ga.; Racine, Wis.; Belleville, Pa.; Williamsville, N. V.; Fords, N. J.; West Chester, Pa.; Hoxie, Ark.; Conneaut, O. Newark, N. JJ. b r eee Bellevilie, 101. . —— AEE a . Bridgeport, enn McKeesport, P West Frankfort, Tlegler, II. %i:M 0 8888888888 eee Page Five PRINTERS OF NEW HAVEN ASK | ~ WAGE INCREASE Bosses Try Stalling Off Game ‘ NEW HAVEN; Conn., (By Ma) Typographical Union No. 47 of this city has placed a demand for higher wages before the newspaper publish- ers; The present scale is $41 a week . for compositors, which the union wished increased by $8. . But When the local committee met with the owners, who refused to treat with the committee, the union committee re- duced the increase to $3. The scene then shifted to New York City, where President Lynch met with the head of the publishers. An offer of 62 a week increase was made to the local union, provided the agreement was drawn up for three years, instead of two. The first dol lar was to be granted in Jan. 1926, and the second in May, 1927. The local union refused: Last Sunday, it was decided to call a meeting’ for Tuesday, to take a strike vote, but instead the strike committee urged no action be taken until June 1. The agreement had er pired May 1. The men are determined to get the minimum of $3 a week n- creasé, payable as from May 1. The demand of the New Haven Lo- cal seems mild, compared to Hartford, Conn, (an open shop hotbed) where the wage scale was $45 a week. Re- cently, the Hartford Local won two weeks off on vacation each year with pay, and payment for holidays and iliness. Sanitary conditions, which were better than in New Haven now, were considerably improved. WORKERS GIVE FOR RELIEF OF IRISH VICTIMS Famine Sufferers ‘Are Aided by Unions The situation among the famine stricken: peasants of the West of Ire- land is not improving, according to a letter received at the office of the Irish Workers and Peasants Famine Relief Committee, at 19 8. Lincoln St., Chicago, III., from Robert Stewart, executive secretary of the Irish sec- tion of the International Workers’ Aid. | The American workers are respond- ing to the appeal for aid to their brothers and sisters in Ireland and many generous contributions are com- ing from local unions thruout the county. " Unions Lend Help. Newport Lodge No. 119 of the In- ternational Association of Machinists, Newport, Rhode Island, sent $365.00, with the following letter: ! “Enclosed find check for Thirty-five Dollars, ($35.00). This amount was donated by Lodge No. 119, I. A. of M. to help relieve distress amongst the Irish Peasants and Workers in Ireland in the districts affected by the food and fuel famine. “With best wishes to you in your noble effort to relieve distress amongst these unfortunate people, I am “Sincerely and fraternally yours, “James J. Tiernan, Rec. Secretary.” Promptness Necessary. The United Women's Club of Madi- son, Wisconsin, sent $10.00 and a donation of $14.00 came all the way from Anyox, B. C. One dollar now is better than $30.00 three months from now. Send in your contribution at once to Irish Workers and Peasants Relief Committee, 19 S. Lincoln St., Chicago, Illinois. Eaters of Embalmed Beef Given Trinkets by the Government WASHINGTON, June 2. — Silver stars and citations for gallantry in ac- tion against the Spanish in Cuba and insurgents in the Philippines during the Spanish-American war were awarded several forgotten heroes by the war department today. Five thousand subs for Red LOST: At the T.U.E.L. Picnic | Saturday, May 30 at the Altenheim Grove One Pair Shell- Rimmed Spectacles _. Finder please notify or return to Bob Minor, c/o Daily Worker. br. A. Moskalil | DENTIST S8. W. Corner 7th and Mifflin Ste | PHILADELPHIA, PA, = a
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3 * — r . . — V ⁰ A! RE ̃ ͤVp--̃ĩß,x 8 1 Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, III. Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicago only): By mall (outside of Chicago): 38.00 per year $4.50 six months | $6.00 per vear $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months HATEVER else may be said about Churchill’s budget, this much has to be said—it is a bankers’ imperialist budget! The incidence or the relief of taxation, coincident with the return to the gold standard, point most clearly to the bankers and link the budget to the Dawes report. The introduction of the tariff policy directed against foreign countries along with preferences to the colonies of Great Britain, simultaneously with the increase of military expenditure, make it perfectly clear that to de- scribe it as an imperialist budget is no exaggeration. Mr. Snowden has described it as the “worst rich man’s budget in modern history,” but has nothing to say about its real imperialist character. He would have the navy and air estimates reduced a little and he thinks that “the state of our industries,” do not warrant the application of the insur- ance scheme with which he is very much annoyed. Sir Alfred Mond sup- ported Mr. Snowden and Sir Alfred is the voice of big business, Sir Robert Horne the conservative leader. of the federation of British industries re- echoed the story. All the critics were therefore mainly concerned as to how best to help British capitalism and we can pass it “Along without worry- ing much about it. HE first feature of the budget speech was that dealing with the return of the pound to the gold stand- ard. Last year at this time there was a flerce discussion going on in banking and industrial circles as to the advis- ability of this project. It appeared that they were on the verge of fur- ther inflation. The industrialist ele- ments of the F. B. I. were pressing for it and the labor party were not averse. The scales were weighted in the opposite direction immediately the Dawes report was put thru and 92 — Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Illinois J. LOUIS ENGDAHL U itors WILLIAM F. DUNNE Ea MORITZ J. LOEB Business Manager Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, III., under the act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rates on application. 290 Another Offensive Fizzles Ever since the workers and peasants of Soviet Russia raised the standard of revolt against the forces of capitalist-feudalism in the once mighty Russian empire and carried that standard to victory over the dead body of the enemy, the capitalist class of the world have never given up hope that they would be able to restore the old order in Russia. . Plot followed plot with monotonous regularity. At first, frontal attacks were made on the Soviet republic. When those, failed; when it was discovered that the workers’ republic was able to stand off all such attacks, more devious methods were resorted to. The eapitalist powers vainly tried the sword. They ‘tried econ- omic isolation and starvation. That also failed. Today, without the loan of a dollar from any capitalist government the Soviet Union is building. up its productive power as a strong and powerful basis for the socialist economy of the future. But capitalist plotting has not stopped by any means. It should be noted that in the forefront of all this plotting was the British government. Perhaps Britain figured in the background, rather than in the foreground. But Britain was the guiding brain. The famous offensive opened by the late Lord Curzon went on the rocks. The Soviet Union still stands. Curzon is-resting under the archetecture of Westminister Abbey. But the empire is persistent. The latest move of the tory govern- ment is to.,attack the Communist International and organize a con- spiracy to get every government in Europe present Russia with a joint note demanding the expulsion of the Comintern from the Soviet By J. T. MURPHY (Lenden) 1 LY WORK tion in 3 — is the only cover under which Britain can even steady herself down the decline, and the bankers have decided on it. = factors play their part, of course. It is interesting to be able to lend that is depreciated to the state get interest and re- payments in app ted currency. This profitabl is revealed in a further the budget deal- ing wi — — debt. Mr. Churchi of the debt reduction. it eg. this year to somewhere | £ 40,000,000. In 1920 the debt stodd at 7,828,779, 000. It is now 27,4600, So, altho taxation has yielded for national debt purposes in five years some £1,750,- 000,000 the debt is only reduced by £ 182,000,000. me difference between the two sums gone into the pock- ets of the patriotic investors in war stocks, mainly che banks. & Bankers tax on tihearned income. Besides ids Ra ae Pee 2 1 n * be ; se Te ER these, all: those with incomes over £250 per annum receive a little gift amounting in all to £32,000,000 yer annum. While these little gifts are being handed round to those who are in clover, the workers come in for a bit of rough handling. Mr. Churchill has stolen the thunder of the laber party with regard to old age pensions, and pensions for widows,’ but has decided to do it at the expense of the work- ers, by imposing a tax of four pence per week for men and two pence per week for women who already pay the national health insurance and the un- employment insurance. Of course it is said that the employers are to pay 4 pence and 2 pence per week too and the state an equal amount. But it does not work out that way. The min- wages agreement pay 87 per cent of the employers’ insurance, while every- body is quite convinced that the re- commodities. F course the industrial element don’t want even that, because they are anxious for prices to come down. The net result can only be an intensi- fication of the fight to reduce prices ers, for example, under the national} re- and air forces goes up 25,000,000. mainder is passed on to the price sed i sa introduced at a moment when * allowance tor the shillings per week. This scheme is to come into operation on Jan 1 next for all those who have two years’ pay- ments. Old age pensions at 65 years of age come within the scheme and are operative from 1928. This departure from state pensions on a non-contributory basis is the point upon which the labor party is laying stress. The tories have stolen the thunder of the labor party so far as the widows and pensioners are concerned and transferred the pay- ment for it direct on the workers. For sheer impudent class war legislation for social amelioration it — be h to beat. relieving the rich a penal- izing-the poor. it is of importance to observe the nature of the remaining program. Expenditure on the navy recruiting and military demonstra- tions are receiving more attention than they have received since the war, and certainly much more than before the war in 1914. The budget empha- sizes the fact that however pacific the 5 shillings per,.week, for the others 3 But the ts are growling for another They cannot yet see how thi on of the gold- standard is going to help them a great deal with regard to the problem of markets. There id a divergence be- tween dollar and pound prices. Whereas British prices are up 71 per cent above 1914 level, dollar prices are up only 62 per cent. This difference in price level places the British ex- porter at a disadvantage, which an- noys the British ‘ industrialists who reckon on America as their principal competitor, and accounts for their ob- jection to the latter being strength- ened by the government’s action in relation to the gold standard. It also accounts tor the fact that, simultaneously With the concerted ef- American money began to flow Union. This was expected to find universal favor among the bour- towards Britain and Europe. geoisie and it was not expected that the working class organizations not affiliated with the Comintern would care what happened to it. The tory government figured that the British labor party would be at least neutral. But the tory government should know that MacDonald is not as useful a tool of the robber empire today as he was when he turned loose the forged Zinoviev letter for the greater glory of the tories, his own undoing, and to the detriment of his party. The beneficiary of Sir Alexander Grant’s biscuit factory has lost caste with the workers since then. When Joynson Hicks, home secretary, sprung his attack on the Comintern, there was such an explosion im the British labor movement, politically and industrially, that the tories decided, discretion was the better part of valor. In reply to questions asked by labor members in the British house of commons, the tory ministry stated that the government had no The bankers have won and the in- dustrialists still cry out without avail. It is clear from all the evidence that this has been accomplished by the col- laboration of Wall Street and the Eng- lish bankers. The government has cover the any retreat they may have to make with arrangements for credits be- tween the government and the United States federal board and the Ameri- can banks. “Great Britain,” says the Evening Standard, “is now more than ever vulnerable to the weapon of fi- ia pressure + are, in already purchased sufficient dollars to | July and December pay- | ments on the American debt, covered | forts to restore the pound, we are faced with ag offensive against the workers’ and hours of la- bor. The wh business has to, be put thru at the expense of the working | class. Mr. Keynes projects that it will now be necessary to reduce wages 2 shillings in the pound, that is, 10 per cent. ere ERE these the @nly features of the budget it would be bad enuf for the workers, but the remaining fea- tures are still mere blatant pieces of- class activity dirééted to the support of the richest ‘@iéments. Death du- ties have been increased it is true, but the living miiliionaries have re- ceived a free af £10,000,000 per | heavy dose and is bound to affect 7 0 reward for all this is to be in by reducing wages and lengthening the working day. At the same time the worker cannot escape the pay-,| ment by any means whatsoever. If | he gets a job ate all, it is stopped out of his wages. Hence, the poor, out of their poverty, are to be poll taxed to insure the boss from any responsibil- ity for either old age, widowhood, sickness or unemployment. It only requires the extension of this scheme along thé line of the Mond proposals and the workers will also be levied to subsidize broken down industries. Already unemployment and health insurance cost the worker 13 pence per week off his wages. To add a further four pence per week just at the moment that wages are again being reduced all round is a pretty trade unionism. The average wage of the skilled worker in the engineering industry is 57 shillings per week. Of this he has to pay 1 shilling, 5 pence insurance and 2 shillings per week for his trade union. It is obvious therefore that this new taxation is Ro godsend. But Mr. Churchill consoles him by reminding him that the labor government reduced his taxes year, but politely ignores the fact the cost of living is higher, and 10 tax relief has gone into the pockets of the trusts. the form of pensions for widows hat into an appendage of the imperialists to the extent of 10 per cent per 1 which is about five shillings per weg 22 the Mr. N and MacDonald. cifist nature in their deeds. language of the British ruling class may be to America or any ather country, there is very little of a pa- The budget begins the tariff war by ré-in- troducing the McKenna duties and imposing new taxes on the import of: silk goods. For raw materials and partly manufactured materiais, Brit- ain is practically dependent on for- eign supplies in which France plays no small part. The McKenna duties are taxes on automobilés, motor parts, clocks etc. directly aiming at the con- tinental and American‘ trade. With these barriers against the for- eigner the government has decided to make concessions to the colonies by granting preferences on dried fruits, ete. agreed upon at the empire con- ference in 1923. It will be remember- ed that this conference was composed of tory premiers, and paved the way to. the general election which made possible the return of a labor gov- ernment. duis: the plan of campaign for im- perial recovery has come full cir- cle. Two years have elapsed and the labor opposition has been transformed with little chance of making a real Opposition to their policy for a long time to come. Certainly on this oc- casion they will meet with no serious Opposition. Most of it will be of a vote catching character in which the remnants of the liberal party will vie the labor party may get a little extra. capital out of the situation by saying that the pensions should be on a non- contributory basis. The tories will undoubtedly make the fullest possible use of this labor party line in other circumstances. For example, Mr. MacDonald and Mr. Hayday have howled about the heavy burden on industry which the insur- ance tax will impose, Mr. Heyday said: “Mr. Churchill’s budget, we are told, was to help industry.. By his pension scheme he will do more harm than a dozen strikes or lockouts. . “The heavy burden on industry will handicap most heavily those trades— mining, engineering, shipbuilding, cot- in the present depression: On top of their present difficulties, the Churchill poll tax may prove to be the last straw that breaks the camel’s back,” HE employing class will thank the labor party for this argument when they meet the trade unionists who want increases of wages, and it wants very little imagination to hear the employers address, say, the en- gineering unions as follows: “You agree that four pence per week per head for the insurance scheme may prove likely to break our backs. Why then do you come to us with demands for one pound per week per head ad- vance in wages, for the engineering workers? Is this not likely to send our industries to perdition?” Thus, once again the labor leaders’ concern for capitalist industry will be used to defeat the workers. So the tory government can afford to smile. They will say and do say that while the labor party was talking about pensions, the tory party found the practical ways and means of in- troducing them without delay. True, they say it means a small effort more must come from the workers, but then if they have to wait until the state can afford to give the pensions, they will not get them for many years to come because everyone is o poor and industry has yet to be restored to normal. With this kind of reply ready, with an enormous press to help them, they will then reckon up the account and see that the wealthy class has suc- ceeded in entrenching itself, relieved itself of considerable taxation, paved me way for a bigger navy and bigger air force, taken definite steps to hold the empire closer to the “mother country” and prepared the way to fight the foreigner In short the 2 is a real British imperialist budget. intention of threatening to break off relations with Russia over the activities of the Communist International. It did not admit that its decision was arrived at after France and Italy refused to bite. The Soviet Union has more allies than the capitalist powers are aware of. Besides its red.army and red fleet, millions of workers in all countries look on the Soviet Union as their only fatherland. By J. LENZ (Berlin) the kaiser's fleld-marshall took the oath of loyalty to the constitution Another Lackey Passes of the 4 * according to In Thomas Riley Marshall died one of the meanest political prostitutes of American history. debple, was to become a. socialist re. Marshall was born in a small country town of Indiana, edu: public and which is now openly re- cated” in a third-rate college in another small town and after waver- presented as being a “monarchy with ing between careers as preacher or lawyer, settled down to a life of out a king.” village legal mediocrity. Without distinguishing mark other than the| The so-called republican papers are degree of his softness to other men’s wills, his quickness and shame- be 2 clear as to the question | lessness to do a job without question, Marshall was the one of | eps efit oA pine eee | thousand of his kind who might have been chosen for the gov ernor-\er monarchist ideas has taken the ship of Indiana in the slump year of 1908. The same qualities caused | oath of loyalty to the constitutional him to be chosen as a vice-presidential dummy on Woodrow Wilson’s | pean np ac — ha cot ag ticket in 1912, and again in 1916. f Marshall as vice-president became the pun making buffoon of the | F sa United States senate during a time when such a buffoon was a real | tinues to exist in a more acute form asset in cloaking the stern realities of the most terrible of world as result of Hindenburg’s election.“ history heretofore known. As the clown of the Woodrow Wilson | : the government directly set up by the ONTRARY to the stupid idea of so- court, he produced the vapid humor that best suited the lowest stage cialist “theoreticians”—who prai- that had ever been reached in the pre-Harding days by bourgeois in- sed the candidate of the “republican tellectual culture. Marshall became known for what the capitalist)’ bloc“ as — 4 8 of a NSPE nr Wht anne , . +e “economic” interests, and represente hack writers ¢ hoose to ( all wit. 1 his reached its height at the time ine candidature of Hindenburg as a the I. W. W. organizer Frank Little was murdered by a lynching disagreeable episode which crossed the e Political | N the 12th day of May Hindenburg. the promises of the first government, | — the n of ae super among: the nationalist petty n vantage of the diflerences betwe h oisie. 1 Both as anna foreign and home politics, the tendeney of the policy of | the big bourgeoisie is determined by the fact that German capitalism can only maintain its existence with the aid of international capitalism, and before all of American and English | _capitalism—which fact found expres- sion in the treatyrof London. Wa regards to home politics, the carrying out pt the Dawes pap ‘renders necessary a firm government and state power, which is exclusively | at the disposal ot the heavy capitalist concerns, in ordervto be able to thrust the enormous ‘reparation burdens upon the working masses without the danger of encountering any serious resistance, As far as foreign politics is con- ‘cerned, the German bourgeoisie, which in spite of its dependence upon ‘foreign capital cannot abandon an im- perialist foreign policy, must endea- vor, while remaining dependent upon other imperialist powers and by tak- ing advantage of the imperialist anta- gonisms, to win back a little more freedom of action and prepare for the England and France by courting the friendship of England, whilst, as a matter of fact, the English govern- ment, following the old policy of main- taining the balance of power, intends to make use of Germany as a counter- weicht against France. T is quite evident that Hindenburg’ 8 | candidature would have been im- | possible if the English ambassador in | decisive influence upon the policy of | any objection to this candidature. The efforts of the English press to reassure French public opinion regarding Hin- denburg’s election, are a clear indi- cation that English imperialism at present regards the restoration of the German bourgeoisie, not as a threat against itself, but as a acne factor against France. The election speeches which the controllers of the nationalist party Saviour of Germany,” Hindenburg, event of his election, Hindenburg would not make any change in the present foreign policy of Germany. The first governmental act of Hinden- burg, before he actually assumed of- ‘fice, was the speech which he caused to be delivered by the Reich Chancel- lor Luther after he had had a conver- sation with the latter and which cul- minated in the assurance of Ger- many's unchangeable loyalty to inter- Rn treaties. T is certain that nobody in the world will take a peace speech of Hin- denburg any more seriously that the peace talk which Wilhelm the last sible occasion. It is certain that Hin- Berlin, who, as is known, exercisés a | persistently emphasized that in the against Russia—will not give rise to ‘the German government, had male “legitimate war“ machine drew up for the National | ' denburg cannot rely upon any other Class than the bourgeoisie, as the Ger- man nationalist petty bourgeois were only given their beloved field marshall in order to win them the more secure- ly for the policy of the big bourge- oisie. Thus it is not the war of revenge against France that has become an acute danger as a result of the elec- tion of Hindenburg, but rather that war which, according to the program ‘of German heavy industry, has every probability of breaking out, the of which Briand spoke at the last session of the league of nations, the league of nations’ war against the common enemy of all im- perialists—against Soviet Russia. After the election of Hindenburg the Stinnes organ saw the consolida- tion of Germany, which has been thereby created, among other things, in the fact that the guarantee pact and the entry into the league of na- tions—the two definite measures by which Germany is to take her place ig the front of world imperialism any further difficulties in home poli- tics, as Hindenburg takes the respon- sibility for them, while resistance on the part of the natZonalists was only to be feared so long as it appeared that only Stressman bore responsibi- lity for them. A German nationalist weekly paper gave expression to the meaning of the Hindenburg election by saying that if Hindenburg were to summon the German people against the red danger all would respond, whilst it is not cer- tain whether all would have respond- ed if the hated republic had issued the call to arms. T is also undeniable that the elec- tion .of Hindenburg means a ificance of Hindenburg’s Election strengthening and consolidation of the power of the bourgeoisie in the sphere of home politics. This is also express- ed by the statement that Hindenburg stands for exactly the same program- me of casting the burden of taxation upon the working masses as his re- publican” opponent Marx, but that Hindenburg is much better able to render this policy palatable to the broad masses of the petty bourgeoisie and to render the bourgeois state power a still firmer and reliable ele- ment against the proletariat than it was in Ebert's time. It is certain that, for the bourge oisie, the restoration of the monarchy is only a question of expediency but a.republic in which the whole state apparatus is in the hands of convinced monarchists and which, as the product of the defeat of German imperialism has never won the sympathies of the nationalist bourgeoisie, very well served its purpose. The German na- tionalist papers assert that Hinden- burg, as a man of honor, will keep his oath of loyalty to the constitution, but they immediately add that for Ger- many the “most suitable” form of state, i. e. the monarchy, can only be introduced by legal and constitutional means. In fact in a republic in which the idol of the monarchy has been elected president by a popular vote, the abolition of the republican form of state can be realized by constitu- tional means. mere chance and should not be re- garded as an historical error, but it is a stage in the advance of the resto- ration of the counter-revolutionary bourgeoisie, which advance will be continued until the proletariat, as the leader of all the exploited and oppres- sed, calls a halt to it. SUPREME COURT JUDGES EXEMPT WASHINGTON, June 2.— The su- cided today that the salaries of fed- ‘can not be included in taxable income and subjected to the federal tax. party of businessmen at Butte, Montana. On that occasion, the vice- plans of the German bourgeoisie, of | restoration of German imperialism. president of the United States was quoted for the pun which ex- its leading group, the heavy industry | The offer of the guarantee pact, which | pressed the current feeling of the American bourgeoisie for that aud ts political party, the German | was made by the Foreign Minister | TEESE aR ey ee ee people’s party—the Communists, right | Stressmann on behalf of the govern- early be ginning be . 4 from the outset, have clearly pointed ment which stands under the decisive | “A LITTLE hanging goes a long way. out that the candidature of Hinden- influence of thé German nationalists, This will live in the memory of the American working class. burg is not a candidature of the na- is an attempt, by means of an offer of | The after-war industrial chaos, with hunger and misery, “de- cy opal =e petty 4 5 wae’ a — oe werk oe n 8 * 2 n _|geoisie, not a rebellion o e nation- by recognition of the frontiers o flation, wages, with strikes and the growing awakening of the class alists against the treaty of Versailles | France, to obtain an alleviation of the | which is to be destroyed and the undertaker of capitalism, brought | and the Dawes plan, but on the con- conditions ot darming, a free hand from Marshall the final expression of his weasel-wisdom : trary, that he is the most suitable can- in the Eastern policy and a colonial | “What the country really needs is a good five-cent cigar.” didate of the bourgeosie for rendering | mandate of tle league of nations. In The name of Thomas R. Marshall may appear, written small, in its policy of the Dawes plan popular adopting this course the German gov- | was wont to indulge in on every pos- ; ' among the masses, and — all ' ernment dn that it can take ad- the dusty records of the future. Or it may be seized upon by some future historian to show a peculiar phase of “decaying, dying cap- x italism”—the necessity of hoisting into places of prominence of the ö least talented, the weakest and meanest of men. FACTS FOR WORKERS — By JAY LOVESTONE, Director, Research dependent Workers Party The oil profiteer, Doheny, of Teapot Dome infamy, now an agent — 2 of the Standard Oil. trust, and Calles, the “socialist” president of Facts About the Coal Industry in Mexico, constitute the latest “united front“ against the Communists. Hlinois in 1924, Passengers on St. Welcome to more opposition of the same kind. | Louis Steamer Are Number of Mines. 1,032. — Total tons of coal mined......72,308,666 | Marooned on Bar , Scab coal from “the — gtr a blood f bee: workers. aa of 8 * ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 2— A thou- Sixty dead in the Coal Glen, Nol th Carolina, disaster, and now ei verage number of days sand persons, marooned all night more slain in an explosion at Piper, Ala. Coal miners’ blood is worked .. 140 when the big river steam St. Paul cheap, especially in the non-union fields. | Number killed in the year. 184 went agrounff on a sand bar in the ) Number injured in the year 3.895 Mississippi river ten miles north of St. os | Louis, wers brought to shore today , : : . Number employed to ever ) , 7 The vote was unanimous at the meeting of the Chicago Street „%. 4 — 2 7 after a halt dozen river crafts had “AGAINST ALL WAGE CUTS!” Number employed to every. one injured Carmen’s Union. Bishop Kelley of Oklahoma denied that the catholic church is the state department of mines and of June 15 in politics. Well, neither is the ku klux klan for that matter. minerals. wth * — T 542 25.52 Based on the last anrual report of | succeeded fa Wislodging the vessel. Every su u get during Red Week 21 is a sub to “make uni: ” ano The decision was in the govern- ment's appeal in the case of Judge Samuel J. Graham, Baltimore, Md., who paid $585 taxes on his salary for 1919. and 1920, and whose suit to re- cover was won in the lower courts, SELVES OF TAX — — Our Readers Views Selling The “Daily” In Boston To the DAILY WORKER:— We wish to commend you on the appear- ance and general excellence of Mon- day’s issue of the DAILY WORKER, of which we ordered 500 for special distribution in Boston. It carried a preme court of the United States do- ‘purposeful selection, location and dis- play of news matter. | It is hard selling the papers, arri- eral judges, even of the lower courts, ving so late in Boston where the dubs get Hearst’s fake news two or three days before it never happens. They are so busy with baby comics and cross word puzzles, that they have neither time nor sense enough left to catch Hearst at it. However, we sold and distributed a bundle to the high school students and the teamsters, then dashed to the — ~*~ other end of town in time to see the striking building laborers’ meeting breaking up. As the labor faker of- ficials, guard was away from the doorway for a moment, we were able to see to it that every single man passing out of the hall had a DAILY WORKER. When the last two huskies—officials of the union—saw the paper, their eyes widened. “What—The Worker?,” and looking out the door the street was full of men, every one was read- ing the strike news. It looked like a snow bank. The labor fakers flew into a rage and charged us. We re treated to the sidewalk. As we left three or four hundred men were in the street smiling at us, many waving the paper, all unquestionably friendly. We are firmly convinced that the paper can be sold on the streets of Boston, if the delay in arrival can be overcome. Fraternally, Reguera and ton, etc., which have been hardest hit HE election of Hindenburg is not 4a = — — —