Daily Worker
July 4, 1925
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LACE OSCAR a h oice for Senator Also a Millionaire (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, July 2. — (FP) — Oscar Underwood, big business sena- tor from Alabama, is about to an: nounce his retirement from public life, and to designate John H. Bank- head, brother of the congressman and son of the late senator, as the man approved by the conservative indus- trial interests of Alabama as his suc- cessor. There will be no labor or farmer candidate in the democratic primary contest which will decide the issue next summer, but half a dozen as- pirants for the favor of organized business will be early in the field. The great mass of the people of the state will have nothing to do with choosing their next senator. Is Millionaire. Bankhead, who recently sold a coal mine at a price reputed at $1,000,000, inherits the powerful and corrupt pol- itical machine built up by his father, and the chief corporate interests in the state, and he is expected to spend some hundreds of thousands of dol- lars, if necessary, to win. His chief rival, former Gov. Kilby, is likewise rich and is expected to be prodigal with campaign funds. Kilby is notorious as the governor who induced the organized coal min- ers, in their heroic strike of 1922, to select him as arbitrator. Once chosen, he delivered a decision whose bitter- mess toward the strikers and their union bore all the earmarks of prep- aration in the operators’ camp long before he was put in position to be- tray the men’s cause. Chamber of Commerce Gives Orders. Underwood has recently been tour- ing Alabama, speaking before his ro- tary and Kiwanis friends, telling them that he wants to retire, but saying that if the people demand that he continue to carry the héavy burden of public office he will feel bound to consider their opinion. At the same time his friend, Bankhead, has sent to the reactionary press of the state his own campaign material) with por- traits of himself, ready for publica- tion on the day that Underwood an- nounces withdrawal and asks his friends to endorse Bankhead. The old Bankhead machine always supported Underwood in the house and senate. In the background, pulling the wires, is the Associated Industries of Alabama, a close organization. of the coal operators, steel trust, and all other big corporations in business there. Its secretary is a former offi- cial of the Southern Railway. The Alabama Power Co. is one of its guid- ing elements. This federation of big business will elect Underwood’s suc- cessor. Gentleman With Most 5 Appropriate Monicker to Advise the Trib “This . at 4:30 o’clock, H. G. W. Woodhead, will speak on The Present Situation in China.“ — From the news columns of the Chicago Trib- une, July 1. Your read this issue of WORKER. Be neighborly—give it to him! =" „ The Organization of the Apparatus the Communist Internationa— Draft Drawn Up By the Agitprop De- partment of the Executive Committee of the Communist International. (a) Central Committee. 7 . 7 The consistent leadership of the ' agitational and propagandist work of the party, in all its forms and expressions, verbal and written, requires that special agitprop depart- ments be affiliated to the central com- mitees of all the sections of the Co- mintern, without consideration of the influence possessed by the party or of the political conditions under which it works. 2. The agitprop, acting under the directions of the C. C. of the party, drafts a complete plan of every branch of agitational and propagandist party work, and controls the carrying out, in every local organization, of every decision made with regard to these questions by the party conference or by the C. C. 3. The C. C. of the party appoints one of its members as head of the agitprop department. 4. The head of the agitprop de- partment of the C. C. is assisted by an agitprop commission, consisting of four to eight members appointed by the C. C. of the party with the head of the agitprop department as chair- man. This commission carries out the whole of the preliminary work in general questions of agitation and propaganda, drafts the plan of work for the departments, and distributes the work amongst the members of the commission. ‘The commission should meet regularly, at least once weekly. 5. In order to maintain communi- cation between the work of the agit- prop department of the C. C. and the other departments of the C. C., and with the organizations related to the Communist Party, and to render this work consistent in character, the com- mission will be participated in by rep- resentatives of the organization de partment of the C. C., of the women's secretariat, of the Young Communist League, of the Red Sport Organiza- tions, of the International Red Relief. etc. Care should be taken that the members appointed to the commission are comrades familiar with education- al work in the trade union and co-op- erative organizations. The head of the agitprop department of the party or- ganization in the capital city is to be called upon to attend the session of the commission. 6. When dividing work into various functions within the agitprop com- mission, the department should ob- serve the following chief forms of agitation and propaganda work, (a) agitation among the masses; (b) work in the sphere of propaganda or party education, and (c) the political peri- odic press. The agitprop commission may form special sub-commission en- suring consistent work in these vari- ous branches. The members and re- sponsible leader of these sub-commis- sions are appointed by the agitprop commission, subject to the approval sof the C. C. of. the party. The com- rades forming these sub-commissions need not necessarily be members of the agitprop commission. 7. The organization of the sub-com- missions mentioned under 6. is by no means compulsory, but must be made to depend upon the real stage of de- velopment and actual differentiation of the work in hand. In the case of sections in which no great amount of work has been accomplished as yet, neighbor would like toit suffices to form a small agitprop the DAILY | department, consisting of three mem- bers (including the leader), without any subdivision into sub-commissions. for Agitprop Work in the Section of. A press ben es losbönt necessary where the ready well developed opportunity is offered our com- rades to participate in the trade union dress. The sub-commission for propa- ganda should be formed in every im- portant party. 8. Where the financial position of the section renders it possible, it is desirable to supplement the depart- ment with a small technical appar- atus: one or two secretaries, an as- sistant for clerical work. It is also desirable that two or three of the leading workers receive a fixed sal- ary from the party, enabling them to devote themselves exclusively to their work, 9. The whole of the work done by the agitprop department of the C. C. must de based upon the most careful study of the working experience won in the whole of the local organiza- tions of the party. Should the agit- propt department issue instructions or circulars, it should require the ex- eention of its instructions with the utmost strictness, and should insist for this purpose of being supplied with all material and full reports from all subordinate organizations. The department must organize the study of all locally compiled material, must be capable of pronouncihg a critical judgment on every document and or- ganization belonging to a local organ- ization. communication with the local organ- izations is the leading task of the department. 10: The C. C. of the party will call enlarged consultations about twice a year for the discussion of general questions pertaining to the agitprop lepartment (or its separate branches) These conferences will be participated n by the agitprop department of the C. C. and by the leaders of. agitprop work in the leading district and local ommittees of the party, by the \gitprop organizers from three to five xf the most important party factory quclei. The agenda of these confer- ences, as also the whole of the pre- .aratory material, must be decided pon by the agitprop commission be- orehand, and placed in good time tt the disposal of the local organiza- - jons. : 1] In accordance with the decis- ‘ions of the C. C. of the party, igitprop departmehts will again be iffiliated to the district committees. These departments will be similar in construction to the agitprop depart- ment of. the C. C., but on a smaller scale, care being taken to avoid ex- cessive ramification and differentia- tion, or the employment of paid as- sistance. (c) Local Committees. 12 It is absolutely necessary that *a comrade be selected from thc presidium, or from the bureau of th local party committee, as leader o the whole work of agitation and prop aganda in the local organization, anc responsible to the party committee for this, work. This must be remem- bered when the party committee and its presidium are being formed, and these bodies must include a comrade thoroly qualified in every respeet, and perfectly firm in principles, capable of undertaking the position of respon-. sible.leader of the whole agitprop de- partment of the local organizer. 13. The party committees are as- sited by an agitprop department in the perliminary work referring to all questions of agitation and porpaganda. This department consists of the lead- er of the agitprop work reférred to under point 12, and of a commission of five to seven members with the leader as chairman. It is absolutely necessary that one of the comrades (b) District Committees. The maintenance of active | * * 2 f „ 7 1 * . R. Tu. pay eee whee 2 4 in this n ee versed in the ques be dere s ot Marxist- | Leninist theory, who. 55 to lead the whole work of the local organization in the sphere of propaganda work (party education). Some of the agit- prop organizers of the largest factory nuclei belonging to the local organiza- tion concerned are also included as members of the commission. Be- sidés this, the agitprop organizers of the nuclei are required to report to every session of the commission up- on the agitprop work in their nucleus, and to take part in the discussion of and decision on the general questions ot the commission work. 14. The agitprop commission dis- tributes the various branches of work among its permanent members, and organizes at the same time two sub- commissions: (a) for agitation; (b) for propaganda (party education). 15. Decisions made by the agit- prop commission and its sub-commis- sions, if of a general character, are subject to the approval of the presidi- um or of the committee, in accordance with the report given by the respons- ible leader of the agitprop work. Com- munications bearing the character of circulars must be signed by the sec- retary of the commi 16. In order to establish communi- cation with other departments of the committee, and with related organiza- tions (Young Communist League, Or- ganization Department, Women’s Sec- retariat, etc. ), the representatives of these bodies are invariably called up- on to,take part in the session of the agitprop commission. 17. The party committee convo- cates meetings of the secretaries and agitprop organizers of the factory nu- clei and residentfal committees at least once in two months, in order tq receive the reports on the work of the agitprop department, and to dis- cuss the principles of f e agitprop work. as 18. The agitprop ent ot the local committee must hold, strictly to its duty of forwarding e of its work in good time to the central agit- prop department of the party; it should forward the whole of its ma- terial to the central committee imme- diately on its receipt, and should send in a short and comprehensive report dvery month, stating the statistic data referring to the number of agitation meetings called and action carried out by the committee or by the residential committees and nuglei to the number of participators in these actions, the number of pamphlets issued, slogans printed, etc. . (d) Residential Colnmittee.. ] Should the local organization of "the party be subdivided into res- idential committees, these should be assisted, in the same manner as the local committee, by similar agitprop lepartments consisting for instance of commission of three members and hairman, this last one being a mem- er of the bffreau, or of the presidium t the residehtial committee, and re- ponsible to this last for the whole of he agitprop work. 20. In all organizations to which. “esidential committees belong, the leaders of the agitprop work in this committee are members of the agit- prop commission of the local commit- tee. The participatiom of the agit- prop organizers of the nuclei in the sessions of this commission remains in force. The convocation of consulta- tions among the nuclei agitprop or- ganizers is the task of the residential committees. The local committee calls enlarged conferences on agit- prop work once in three months, and the residential committees and the leading factory nuclei take part in these conferences. 21. The agitprop department of the + residential . must organize the closest collaboration with the agit- prop organizers of the nuclei control- ling the work on the spot, and re- ceiving the verbal reports of the agit- prop organizers at the sessions of the agitprop commission of the residence. (e) Factory Nuclei, 22 It is extremely necessary, at the * very commencement of work for the organization of factory nuclei, to devote the very greatest attention to Communist agitaion and propaganda’ among he working mass in the works or factory, and to ensure proper direc- tion for this work. This applies es- pecially to party educational work among the members of the party, among sympathizers and candidates, It is necessary for this purpose to ap- point a comrade belonging to the bu- reau of the nucleus, commissioned as “agitprop organizer” to include the whole of this work in his field of ac- tivity, to lead the work, and to con- trol the execution of all decisions. 23. The agitprop organizer of a nu- cleus has the following duties: (a) The keeping of a list of the whole of those members of the fac- tory nuclei who are suitable for prop- 2. by meetings and gatherings held for purposes of agitation, (e) The organization ot our appear- | ance at gatherings and meetings held by trade union and other organiza- | tions. I) The organization of the dissem- ination of party literature, etc. 24. The agitprop organizer may be assisted by a small commission, con- sisting of the most active members of the nucleus; not members of the bu- reau. This commission undertakes the organization of the distribution of our literature, and appoints special comrades for this work. 25. The agitprop organizer and the commission carry on their work in closest collaboration with the nuclei of the Young Communist League, and with the organizer of work among women, where these nuclei and or- aganda and agitation work. STEAL OF MEXICAN LAND SEEN AS ONE REASON FOR KELLOGG’S NOTE eee exist. hh the Rio Grande river in El Paso which WASHINGTON, July 2—Chamizal, the district on the northern side of is claimed by Mexico, has come under suspicion as being one of the secret reasons for the eee field attack on the Mexican government. Under the treaty of Guadaloupe which ended the Mexican war with the United States in 1846, Mexico ceded to the United States all of Texas down to the Rio Grande, fixing the middle of the bed of the river as it then ran, as the boundary. The river moved southward, thru long years of wearing away the south bank, until today the old boundary stands in the American city of El Paso, and the Mexican area, known as the Chemizal, is laid out in streets and railroad yards that are American- owned thru purchase from the orig- inal Mexican owners. An agreement was reached between | the two countries in 1910 for arbitra- tion of the Mexican claim for politica? rule of this territory, and a Canadian was chosen as arbitrator. He decid- ed, in 1911, that all lands south of a certain line which he drew should be Mexican. The Mexican government ac- cepted his ruling, but the Washington government rejected it, claiming ne had exceeded his powers. Recently this dispute was revived and Secretary Kellogg was under. stood to be negotiating a settlement, by “compromise.” Now the Mexican’ papers are suggesting that the attack on President Calles is to serve as 4 bluff in securing a better “compro/} mise” for the United States. Mellon Passes Preaching Plate WASHINGTON, —(FP)— Andrew Mellon, head of the aluminum trust. and the federal treasury, is announced as treasurer of the college of preach- ers whith the National (Episcopal) Cathedral Foundation at Washington, is to establish. ‘This college will train men for “prophetic breaching to win thousands by a strong appeal to Christ and his religion.” Foreign Exchange NEW YORK, July 2.—Great Britain pound sterling, 4.85%; cable 4.86%. France, franc 4.55%; cable 4.56. Bel- gium, franc 4.49%; cable 4.50. Italy, lira, 3.37%; cable 3.38. Sweden, krone 26.82; cable 26.85. Norway, krone 18.16; cable 18.18. Denmark, krone 20.48: cable 20.50. Germany, mark no quote; Shanghai, tael 78.50; cable no — il * 2 ao es | VAN SWERINGENS SEEK fo BOOST THE FREIGHT | RATE ON UNION COAL WASHINGTON, July 2.—The pro- posal. of the New York, Chicago & St. Louis railroad, one of the roads involved in the Van Sweringen mer- ger, to cancel the present thru com- modity freight rates on anthracite coal, in carloads, from Erie, Pa., and Buffalo, N. V., and related points to Sparland, III., and to in- crease the rate from $2.96 to $4.10 a long ton, was ordered investigated today by the interstate commerce commission. The Van Sweringens are said to be ‘backed by J. P. Mor- gan. 5 8 Chicago-New York Night Air Mail Is Successfully Started Chicago’s first night airmail f New York, packed in the cockp a giant Dehaviland piloted by War- |reda B. Williams, zoomed down out of the sky to a perfect landing at the Maywood field at 6:18 o’clock (central standard time) yesterday. The 32 sacks of mail were im- mediately loaded on trucks and started for the loop for the first daily delivery, , > + ® Arrive Ahead of Schedule. NEW YORK, July 2.—Overnight New York-Chicago air mail service is a success. The first plane in the new night mail service from Chicago arrived at Hadley Field, N. J.,/at two o'clock this morning, well ahead of schedule. The second plane landed at Hadley Field at 4:35, eastern standard time. quote. Give this copy to your shop-mate. used by the peasantry; 4 2 (Special to The rhe Dally Worber.) MoscoW-At the last convention of the Councils of the Union 8. 8. R. the following measures for the im- provement of agriculture were 3 among others. 1. Approval of the decision of the government to lower the ne taxes by 100 million rubles; bo sags 2. Approval of the decision ot the government to give 100 million rubles out of the peasant tax for the needs of the local peasant councils, for schools, hospitals, better roads, etc. |; Give Peasants More Land. 3. To turn over to the poor peasants part of the state lands; 4. To turn over to the peasantry the balance of the forest reserve, held ready for their needs; a * 5. To approve the rules and ay tions issued by the government con cerning the terms and conditions ot hiring farm hands; 6. To re-establish within five years with the aid of the state the pre-war. number of horses and to ote g horse breeding; 7. To increase the manufacture 4 agricultural machinery and ae 0 ments; 8. To eee e the peasants the use of agricultural machinery and especially of tractors; 9. To take steps to secure the pro- oe duction of better quality seeds; Lower Prices. 10. To continue the lowering of prices of manufactured commodities 11. To inaugurate measures for. the development by the peasantry of such branches of farming for which there is a large and more profitable . by foreign markets. 12. To aid in the establishment 4 factories in which valuable by-prod- ucts can be obtained in the process ot manufacture; 13. To appropriate 77 ,000,000 rubles. to alleviate the conditions: prevailing tm he "Sotith t of U. S. S. R., which are due to poor crops—the result ot periodical droughts; 14. To encourage and aid in the de- velopment of the co-operative move- ment among the peasantry; ae cal 15. To extend larger and lorig-term farm credits to the peasantry and to lower the cost of the same; 16. To bring up to a higher level ag- ricultural education and to spread in- tensively. the promotion of better farming methods. among the peas- antry; 17 To increase the number of agri- | cult ‘colleges and the enrolment of students. Build Bacon Factory. The Selskosojus (Union of Peasant Corporation) began the construction of a large factory for the production of bacon. The factory will be ready November, 1925. Its capacity will be 500 poods per week. The 400,000 rubles necessary for its construction will be provided by the Central Agri- * cultural Bank. The experiment with the first refrig- 5 erator cars, which transport fresh fruit and vegetables from Caucasia to Moscow, gave good results. These cars are now running regularly on this route. Tell other workers what happens in your shop. Write a story and send it to the DAILY WORKER. Order a bundle to distribute there. > SOS SSS SS SSS ——2ÿ SSS SESE SSS rr „7... 0000000 Rr — | All Single Orders accepted at regular Catalogue pri ces only! FOUR BOOKS NUMBER 2 FOR $1.00 4. THE GREAT STEEL STRIKE by Wm. Z. Foster (Paper) 50 Cents 2. LENINISM vs. TROTSKYISM by G. Zinoviev, |. Stalin, L. Kamenev .20 3. LENIN THE GREAT. STRATEGIST D by A. Losovsky (Paper) 15 4. 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* * 5 * N : ae 5 . iy . ae 15 5 ’ DW YORK CITY, July 2 —The has been decisively in the election just finished the Dock Builders’ 456. 2 ainst Kling Nelson, a supported by what is known “gocial club,” Charles Johnson, elected president of the lo- oak be a vote of 1,118 against 226. Thomas F. Walsh, president of the Brindellitess’ “social club“ was or- iginally scheduled to run against Johnson, but he declined at the last moment, evidently not wishing to be the goat. For financial secretaryship also the Brindeilite running on the “social elub” slate was whipped by 1,087 to 236. The same defeat of es oe curred on every position. The election was held after ‘ihe Brindell faction had accused the ad- ministration under Johnson, who be- came president after Brindell went to Sing Sing for grafting, of misman- aging funds. An investigation thoro- ly disproved the charge. The police watched the election, but there was no trouble. ITALY BUYS U.S. BULLION; DENIES "NEW STANDARD ROME, July 2 2.—Italy has no inten- tion of following the lead of Great Britain in returning to a gold stand- ard: Premier Mussolini made this clear in a — denial today of rumors that the government would introduce gold and backed his statement with a threat to prosecute those. who were spreading the rumors. The. re- ports had caused considerable un- easiness among Italian industrialists. Gold purchases by Italian financiers in the American market supported the reports, but it was denied the recent $2,000,000 purchase of bullion was for the government. naibot i : | 1 2 A: gxe : Alchohol for “Medicine” Moved, One hundred and fifty thousand gal. lons of alcohol were moved thru the streets of the city yesterday as the first of the month was the wi period for withdrawing alcohol for pharmaceutical purposes from the five plants in Chicago ee regular! ed at this alleged protest meeting the: liquid. ONS LAUGH AT “UNITED F REFORM PA S WITH EL YOUNGST OWN POLITICIANS 590 n WALLACE. r. METCALFE 1 to The Daily Worker) nacelle o. July 2.—One of the most unique “united front” mass meetings. ever held in. the city of Youngstown was witnessed here when several hundred people gathered at the Moose Temple to listen to a com- mittee of speakers ‘who are members of the socialist labor party, single tax party, republican and democratic party harangue the audience and call for a return to 1776 and “dump the cal einen by recalling the eee and other elected city officials of * town and thereby defeat the nal barons and their political henchmen from further exploiting the workers | by enforcing what is known as the ee ee eee workers’ job. | Your U i Meeting First Friday, July 3, 1925. The spirit of “Americanism” perme-| 7 Bakers and Corit., 3420 W. Roose- ated the atmosphere and the ghosts ¢ gooxbingers, of Washington and Lincoln were sae ee stalked about, winning their full meas- room Makers, 810 W. Harrison St. ure of applause for the speakers. 6 re 75 W Quack remedies were advocated by 1 n 178 * 22 * the speakers and not one pointed out 175 W. Washington 70 — 2705 W St. + A. 180 w. the robbery of the workers that takes Coren — — shington St. place at the point of production. All 2200 Carp f ° 8. ale St. speakers agreed that the present 2741 4 9 1 to mayor and city councilman, who were 15 lectricians, R. 8. Halsted elected: by the ku klux klan, and who “Firemen and &nginemen, | Halsted St. are governing the city under a 80- St. - called home rule charter, should be re- %% Glass Workers, Emily and Marsh- called but NOT ONE had sufficient} 225 Hod Carriers, Monroe and Peoria courage to advocate the recall ot the. us 422 l Workers, | Joint system that makes this robbery of the w. working class possible. Machin sts, 113 8. Ashland Br Bivd. 4 13 8. Ashland Bivd. Workers Party Holds Westin Painters, 2846 So. Kedzie Ave. possible but when alleged revolution- | 1 mainters, $140 indiana Ave. ary organizations such as the social- Pattern Makers, 119 S. Throop St. ist labor and single tax party profess to align themselves with spokesmen 3 * “Carmen, Village Hall, Kol- who are members of the republican zie and democratic parties and with them Railway: S er e r eee find common cause in patching up 2 ay Clerks, St. the wornout garments of. capitalism it Railway Aah 49 a bsarbern 5 St. behooves every worker to take inven- tory of position in society he holds. In the near future the Workers Party of Youngstown will hold a mass meeting for the steel workers and will point out to them in a language well understood by the working class 8 1 Carmen, Village al,“ Kol- 376 996 . — lean oe 119 Railroad 198 Railroad Frames, 9120 Commer- ger Sheet Metal Workers, Ashland and 2 * 1 : 8 and Labor 3 12775 < i ifram A that the occupational tax of Youngs-. 1 ( omen . Women’s City ; m town is part and parcel of the capital- NR. $12 8. Clark ist system of government and will lay before the steel slaves a plain and definite program to stop the robhery, of their class that takes place every day in the year and which the spokes- man of the the socialist labor, single tax, third party, republican and demo- crat parties so nicely avoided. Pie Steel Barons Chuckle. ~~~ The recall of one set of capitalist 19 W. Adams Street, W 8 Label League 220 Bivd fpniand (Noten Unies otherwise stated all jNpeetings are at 8 . m. Railroads Profit i in Canadian Land Grants 8 henchmen and replacing them with MONTREAL, July 2. — The enor another set was the principal remedy mous land grants made by the Can- advocated by the spokesman of the 4dian government to the Hudson Bay so-called “United Front committee.” Ce. and to the railway companies are The steel barons can well laugh at bringing their owns much wealth. their opponents and chuckle with glee In 1919, 1920 and 1921 these compan- at the oratorical antics of such a con-! received 348,197, 717 for lands sold, | glomeration of 1776 spirits as exhibit-| according to government statistics. Large parts of the railway land grants have been turned over to holding com- panies whose sales do not figure in the record. The Canadian government is buying back at high prices a good deal of the 484 Waitresses, 3 P. M. thru their ku klux klan political henchmen continue to arrest and jail all steel workers who refuse to pay the occupational tax. 85 OUR DAILY “lishing returned soldiers on! it, sad- Pdling them with mortgages some of PATTERNS land it had given away and is estab- gta A PRETTY APRON. 4992. Dotted percale with bands of sgfeen in a color to match the dots, is a very good suggestion for the de- velopment of this style. Cretonne or chintz, unbleached muslin and dotted Swiss could also be used. ; The pattern is cut in four sizes: Small, medium, large and extra large. A medium size requires 2% yards of 86-inch material. Pattern mailed to any address un receipt of 120 in silver or stamps. FASHION BOOK NOTICE! Send 120 in silver or stamps for our up-to-date 8 and Summer 1926 Book of Fashions, showing color plates and containin me: guns of ladies’, misses’, and children's patterns, a con- cise and comprehensive article on dress- ing, also some points for the needle (illustrating 30 of the various simple stitches), all valuable hints to the home dressmaker. 2 . PITTSBURGH, P. Te those who work hard for thels money, | will save 50 per cent on all their dental work, DR. RASNICK 40, 42, 44 and 46 inches bust measure. wide 1% yards is required. of patte RENTISF not .be e impatient if your pattern is | asiayed * | -r : them will never be able to pay. A STYLISH TWO PIECE DRESS. || : 5 Two Hundred Slain Here in Past Six | Months, 25 by Cops Two hundred, thirty-eight men and women in Chicago were murdered in the first six months of the veer, from ‘Jan. 1 to July 1. Guns accounted for the deaths of 236, while two others died from frac- tured skulls, Fifteen of the victims were slain by holdup men. Seven were police offic- ers. Police killed 25 alleged bandits. The twenty-five slain by the police are included in the list of 238 for the year, but they are listed by the police under the heading: “Justifiable homi- cides.” Name Pullman Car After Porter Hero; Wages Still Are Low When the Pullman car hitherto called the Sirocco leaves the repair shop it will be renamed Daniels as a tribute to Oscar J. Daniels, 4402 S. Wabash Ave., a porter who was killed in the wreck near Rockport, N. J. Daniels was alive when found in the wreckage of the immigrant train, but refused to accept aid until a seven- year-old girl was treated. When the searchers returned he was dead. The wreck on the Lackawanna killed 50 persons. The porters are still getting the same _ starvation wages. TEACHERS, FACING UNEMPLOYMENT ARE WARNED “NO SMOKING” YPSILANTI, 8 July 2.— Teachers are facing unemployment in Michigan, Dimon 8. Roberts, su- perintendent of the training school at the Michigan State Normal Col- lege here, told students 1,000 more are being graduated from the state's normal colleges than there are jobs. He advised new teachers to take any positions they could obtain and conduct themselves irreproachably. “| have heard,” d, “of at least six teachers be ischarged for smoking in the 1 ree Weeks.“ * 5125-5121. This portrays one of the leading fashions of the season. Here figured silk in black and white was used for the blous eand white faille for the skirt. The blouse is trimmed with the faille. Pattern 5121 supplies the skirt style, and pattern 5125 the blouse, which is cut in seven sizes: 34, 36, 38, The bodice skirt is cut in four sizes: Small, 34-36; medium, 38-40, large, 32- 44; extra large, 46-48 inches bust measure. The width of the skirt at the foot is 1% yard, wit hplaits ex- tended. To make the blouse for a medium size will require 1% yard of figured silk, and % yard of plain silk 40 inches wide. The skirt will re- quire 4 yards of 40-inch material. If bodice is made of lining 32 inches NOTICE TO PATTERN BUYERS—The tterns being sold thru the DAILY wo R pattern department are fur- nished by a New York firm of pe Se manufatturers. Orders are forwarded the DAILY WORKER every day as re- ceived, and they are mailed by the man- ufacturer ee a. the customer. The DAILY oe keep a 2 n terns o n ll * 1 least 10 — from the date of mailing the order. Do h St. Klinck first to forth Stephenddh” Would Go on Trial Last INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., July 2—A bit- ter, pre-trial battle loomed today in the case of the state of Indiana ver- sus D. C. Stephenson, Earl Klinck and Earl Gentry, klansmen, alleged mur- derers of Mis Madge Oberholzer, 28. It revoives | trial first in cuit court at day. Get ‘Separate Trial. Defense attorneys late yesterday appeared before Judge Hines at No- blesville, Ind, and without warning, asked for and got.a separate trial for Klinck. Winning this point, the defense im- mediately asked that Klinck go on trial rst. This brot a storm of objections from Justin Roberts and T. E. Kane, Noblesville attorneys associated with the prosecution; and Judge Hines or- dered a conference of opposing coun- sel and himself for Thursday morn- ing in the Hamilton County court. room. Prosecution Objects. The prosecution will insist that Stephenson go on trial first, William H. Remy, Marion County prosecutor, declared here. Remy vigorously termed the defense move as an at- tempt to force the state in trying “show much of the evidence with which it hopes to con- vict Stephenson and Gentry.” CAL ACTS WITH S TO GET CANNON FODDER WASHINGTON, July 2 — (FP) — Col. Dwight F. Davis, acting secretary of war, explained why business men stand by milftary preparedness, when he addressed the graduating class of the army industrial college, at Wash- ington, June 30. It is apparent,“ he said, that any scheme which must provide for the prompt assignment to tasks of sev- eral: million industrial workers is a stupendous undertaking. It would be + im possi _any reasonable approach to accomplishment if it were not for the high spirit and great cap- acity of our business men, our manu- facturers, our professional and scien- tific men. We hold all real property in fee simple, the very meaning of which was, and dis, that against this property there is no obligation what- ever, except that the fie or fee, or the obligation to serve the state in case of war.” “The task becomes possible only because there exists in this coun- try a body of willing, competent ad- visors and consultants greater ln num- ber and capacity than ever elsewhere marshalled to serve one flag. It is essential that you be competent to carry from the army of industry and from industry to the army this essen- tial understanding which will eventu- ally evolve plans adequate for our se- curity.” COMMUNISTS TC HANG FOR THEIR AID TO WORKERS the Wholesalé tial of Filippoli passed death tences on the “conspirators” Russian Petkoff, Georgy Mardaloff, Antony Khubenoff from the city of Chirpan, and Gencho I ncheff from the vil- lage Kalko T vo, county- of Char- pan. They are to be hanged publicly and fined with 500,000 “lev” (Bulgar- ian currency.) The same court sentenced Kosta Smiloza, Khristo Nepoff and Georgy Russinoff to 12 years strict prison confinement and ordered them to pay a fine of 200,000 lev. Two other defendants are sentenced to three years severe prison confinement. The courtmartial of Filippoli has passed death sentences over Minko Gradinaroff, Atanassa Mokrii and Leon Menasian, who are to be hanged at a public place “like ‘robbers.” No Peace On Earth. SEATTLE, Wash., July 2.—At the opening session of the Baptist north- west convention here Rev. C. Wunder of Rochester declared: Those who selected the convention motto, ‘On Earth, Peace,’ had a sense of humor. There is more of the dynamite in the world than causes conflict than there was in 1913.” + ‘ . oh. Your neighbor would like to read this issue of the DAILY WORKER. 3 neighborly—give it to him! J “Court” Slaughtera by SOFIA, (By, Mail)—-The courtmar- sen- K ＋ — Föllo kur TOMORROW IT AT WORK WILL BE TOLD Many Surprises in Sub Campaign Second Annual Daily Worker And some sple most unusual places. ment will grow. A good many most unusual things occured in the on Tuesday June 30. Locals not considered among the best in size or past performance put forth their best efforts and did a really good — of Communist building. ndid individual work was shown in the But all these things are the rare tid- bits for tomorrows issue when the complete results will be pp oe Be sure to look up your local in the standing and f the results were not what they should have been, go to your branch or C. C. C. to tell the world about it. of building the DAILY WORKER is never ending. And the bigger we build the DAILY WORKER, the greater our move- Sub Campaign which ended The task Take a Look at the Seven Column Ad IT MAY COST YOU ONLY TWENTY FIVE CENTS large ad in this issue. Three special offers are literature. | pempniets olds ot For branches and locals—and every good Communist and militant worker, there is an item of real interest in the he very least you can do is to buy ten pamphlets for a quarter to distribute among the workers in your shop. These offers have been made for further Communist build- ing—will you do at least this much? The offer will hold good Ey the whole month of July—if the stock of these being made in propaganda AS: WE SEE I -:- By T. J. O Flaherty (Continued from page 1) ö tants out of the organization and out of office, * — * CCORDING to figures produced by the operators and unfortunately they are approximately correct, only 30 per cent of the bituminous coal mined in the United States this year, comes out of union pits. The percent- age of union mined coal has decreased by 100 per cent since last year. While Lewis was busily engaged teaching the operators how to run their prop- erties at a profit, the coal barons were shutting down their union mines and opening up scab pits in Kentucky and West Virginia. The militants who in- sisted on calling the attention of the miners to this fact, were hounded and persecuted and sometimes ven out of the union. * ITH West Virginia running full blast non-union, the opérators are not worrying about Lewis’ threats. They are not meant to be taken seri- ously. Men like Alexander Howat, Duncan MacDonald, Jim MacLachlan, John Watt and Freeman Thompson, who are either expelled from the union or disqualified for office by Lewis or his stoolpigeons would or- ganize thé miners and depend on the concerted action of the coal diggers to win the strike and not on the good officers of Secretary of Labor Davis or some other administration hack. 5 — ONTRAST the action of John L. Lewis with A. J. Cook, the sec- retary of the British Miners’ Federa- tion. There is a coal crisis in Brit- ain. What is Cook doing? He is not telling the bosses that they must drive 200,000 men out of the industry before they can run their mines at a profit. No. He is actively engaged in trying to form an alliance between the railroaders, the miners, the trans- port workers and the members of other industries, for united action against the bosses. * * * 5 OT so long ago, when the progres- sive elements had a stronger footing in the miners’ unions than they have today the U. M. W. of A went on record for an alliance with the railroad workers. The failure of | this alliance to materialize cannot be blamed on the leaders of the miners’ union only. Warren 8. Stone was against it. That gentleman was too busy running scab mines to have any time for organizing his members to support miners striking against his own coal mines. 89 s 8 TONE is now dead. But the need for such an alliance is as great as ever. It is a tragic spectacle to see union railroaders hauling scabs to break strikes. Some day there will be a railroad strike. How would the engineers and firemen like to see the engines fired with union dug coal? The union miners would not supply coal to break a strike. Their union- ism is not only skin deep. The mem- bers of the railroad brotherhoods must be convinced that it is not only a violation of the principle of trade unionism to haul scabs and scab coal, but that they owe it to their own fu- ture welfare to make common cause with their brothers in the coal indus- try. STOOLPIGEON MINNEAPOLIS STAR MAY SUSPEND PUBLICATION, ITS VALUE TO BOSSES GROWS LESS AS today in newspaper circles. recent election, that its circulation | suffered a severe loss thus impairing | the value of the sheet t@the Minnea- | polis chamber of commerce. Its the same old story of the stool- | pigeon. When his use to the capital- its has worn out, he gets the boot. The Star is no exception to the rule. E n INFORMATION WANTED! = About Jacques Margolis Born in Johannesburg, So. Africa; studied violin in Brussels, Belgium; 25 yrs. of age; wears glasses; lean; deep voice; speaks English and French. Notice of past or present whereabouts deeply appre- ciated; important. Mail at once to THE, DAILY WORKER. & aM A si i ' mem“ MINNEAPOLIS, July 2.—A rumor to the effect that the Minneapolis Daily Star would suspend publictaion early this fall, gained wide currency Labor men point out that there may be considerable foundation to the | story, as the stoolpigeon character of the paper was so pronounced in the Just Received From WIL WALK OUT Boston on : te Eve of Big Tie Up (Special to The Daily Worker) BOSTON, July 2.—The adjustment board of the building trades council of Boston was reported to have de- ‘eided to call a strike immediately unless there is a change before that time in relations between 25,000 build- ing trades workers and the Building Trades Employers’ Association. A strike vote had already been polled by the council, but the date which the strike would become affective had not been set. The skilled trades signed three-year agreements this spring with the em- ployers’ association, but the building laborers’ local, 5,000 strong, pressed demands for increased pay and sought immediate arbitration. The contrac- tors refused to arbitrate and they hold that it would be a violation of the agreements signed earlier this year if the skilled trades were to strike now to force higher wages for the common laborers. Two commissioners of conciliation from the department of labor in Washington are in Boston endeavor- ing to prevent a strike. Cal’s Men After Bob's“ Seat. MADISON, Wis., July 2.—The race of conservatives for the United States senatorship to succeed Robert M. La- Follette promises to become compli- cated with Roy P. Wilcox, Fauclatre, announcing his candidacy; and Fran- cis E. McGovern, former governor, and A. C. Backus, both of Milwaukee, expected to enter the race. Robert M. LaFollette, Jr., will enter the race with the combined support of pro- gressives. Wilcox is an ardent sup- porter of President Coolidge. ) MILL OWNERS WRING PAY FOR NEW MACHINES OUT OF WORKERS’ WAGES By Worker Correspondent. MONESSEN, Pa., July. 1—The workers in the local tin mill drop- ped their tools, and walked out when notices were posted that they would receive a wage cut and that the mill would close down for three weeks. The men were so disgusted that they did not care if they worked the remainder of their turn. Only one hot mill was working that eve- ning. This is no strike, but it goes to show that they have some pep in them. The mill is closing down to in- stall mechanical doublers but is rumored that they will be closed down for a longer period than stat- ed so that when the owners are ready to open up again the workers will be willing to work for lower wages. The cut will affect some 800 men, and the closing of the plant will put out of employment close to a thousand men. —- -— ZIMMERMAN Dr S DEN CHI SI 9 4 MY NEW LOCATION A Special X-Ray rices bie to Gas Workers Given ESTABLISHED 12 YEARS. My Examination is Free My Prices Are Reasonable My Work Is Guaranteed Extracting Specialist DELAY ‘MEANS DECAY al Germany! A LENIN MEMORIAL ALBUM With text in English, German and French containing 33 Striking Photographs Of the great leader and teacher from childhood to the grave—with photographs tak en in his ‘youth; as an exile; with old revolutionists of years ago; as an illegal worker in October, 1917; and photos taken after the Revolution and after his death. — Be sure to place this in your library — 25 CENTS, EACH The Daily Worker Publishing Co. 1113 W. WASHINGTON BLVD. CHICAGO, ILL. * * K Ä ———— —— A —— SEL — —
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4 — —— le 1 v standard of its members. the Herriot policy in the chamber of deputies need fool no one who, +. 5 95 he mail (in Chicagy only): Tt Oe ublished by the DAILY WORKDR PUBLISHING co. Washington Blvd., Chicago, III. Phone —— 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES N 10 l Toll. Dy mail (outside of Chicago): . * $6.00 per vear $3.50 six months Tia ey! 82. 50 three months $2.00 three months II 7 RY) Address all mail and — out checks to rue DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Illinois J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM f. DUNNE f MORITZ J. LOEB Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, III., under the act of March 3, 1879. Too Rotten * Even Capitalist Judge (Continued from page 1) Lyceum Thursday evening, June 18, ‘ Advertising rates on application. talking of current matters in the labor and revolutionary movement. Hurwitz Sharpening the Struggle or entered, an ignorant individual with a filthy tongue. He butted in, and The British coal capitalists are saying that the seven-hour day | was told to keep out of the discus- sion. He singled Weismann out, cal- must go and with it a reduction of wages. The coal miners’ union ‘ling bim thief and swindler, spittingt announces that it will resist all efforts to reduce further the living at him, and raised a chair to strike him. L. Abelson and the writer jump- ed up to separate them. The British railwaymen are also confronted with an attack on Weismann was led away from the their wages and their union. The British textile workers are in hall, to prevent further trouble. Other the same boat. 8 is on the increase and the tory govern- n pd oe a 8 e meeting o e Jewish society for iN mig except recommend the exportation of workers } ionization a’ thei,’ eee e The Moroccan war has France by the ears. Editors Business Manager — 290 The big votes for Abelson, and Resnikoff. Hurwitz, by that time, had fallen to does not want to be fooled. France has a long, costly and dangerous the floor, and started yelling. When he was asked to get up, he replied: military adventure on her hands and it is not popular among the “Tl show all of you. TH stay here masses who are about to experience all of the hardships coincident till a policeman comes.” Hurwitz had with an attempt to stabilize the franc. himself examined by a doctor, who j 164 Saw two scratches on his head, the The Moroccan war puts Great Britain in a Aenne position rea en eee te paakt that the She has millions of Mohammedans under her rule who are for A scratches might have come from fal- el-Krim first, last and all the time and who wait only a favorable jing. opportunity to say so with any weapon that is handy. Again, altho Hurwitz had a cut lip, made by the by one of those diplomatic agreements mothered by expediency, edge of a door, slammet by a woman Great Britain has. agreed to let France make war in More€co at te Prevent him from getting bottles | ; e he was after. The whole thing sim present, no one above the mental level of a ten-year-old e mers down, therefore, to a drunken William Jennings Bryan can believe that Great Britain will allow ignoramus, Hurwitz, who started a France to entrench herself permanently across the straits from fight with Weissman, because the lat. Gibraltar and threaten British control of the western entrance to the ter is not as strong as some of the Mediterranean. others there. ‘ ‘ : Not M Picketing, but Mass Arrests There are all the ingredients for a first class war in the con- ae a f ‘ Yellows shun mass picketing, or flicting interests of these two nations alone to say nothing of the any form of militant wonking class ambitions of Italy in northern Africa. ‘action; But they believe in mass ar- In China there seems to be no let-up in the intensity of the drive rests. Nothing is too dirtywfor the of the national liberation movement. Here again Great Britain yellows of New Haven. Hurwitz is seems to be getting the worst of it. The Japanese are cordially hated agents. cheese merchants, and other by the Chinese, it is true, but with an enerring accuracy that does petty bourgeoise, who comprise the credit to them, the Chinese masses have picked out Great Britain dead Jewish branch of the socialist as the target for most of their activity with the realization that party. Since the yellows lost control of the Labor Lyceum a year and a she dominates the policy of the European imperialist bloc. r The other powers, the United States and Japan, while taking undertaking of the organization. part to some extent in the shooting of strikers and students, have not They have advised others not to as yet shown any real enthusiasm for pulling British chestnut out 3 the Labor ee eee aeg 2 of the fire. Backed by Soviet Russia, the Chinese nation is taking |” 1 . eee eee advantage of the conflicts in the imperialist camp, pressing its de and throw mud at it from the side mands for a revision of treaties and abolition of extra- ‘territoriality lines. Hurwitz deliberately provoked rights. a fight in order to give a black eye to Along the northern frontier of India, in the province of Bengal, — nak nag 9 = — are wingers in co . a w there is an anti-British movement of Which the press carries little Abelson, President of the Labor Ly- news but which, because of its location, is of great importance. ceum association was dragged in. Here in the United States even such a notorious reactionary as The Dirty Counter-Revolutionary. John L. Lewis threatens a strike in the coal mining industry at the convention of the anthracite miners in Scranton, as an answer to the fight, started when he challenged the shutdown and starvation policy of the coal capitalists. | berths iat te — 1 ＋ sr A Do the great anti-imperialist movements and the sharpenings eee eee eee of the class conflict here noted agree with the statement that world bor Lyceum, “THEY WERE TALK- capitalism has stabilized itself? ING REVOLUTION, and I told them Hardly. On the contrary, the desperate race for markets and f I was a big man, I would send them new fields of capitalist enterprise, the over-production of industry gut of the country.) He said, that hic! one of the methods by which the-so-ealled stabilization has ee ee ee ee which is * all, to jump on him. His main wit- been achieved, the export of gold to vassal nations and the revival of ness admitteg not seeing who struck industry at the expense of workers’ living standards, have added al- Hurwitz. The case was a. frame up most unbearable burdens to the heavy load already on the backs on the face of it, for seven men would of the working class in the capitalist nations and the workers and not leave one with just two super- f colonial and semi-colonial countries. FF peasants of co testified to the story given above. We stand at the beginning of a new series of class conflicts and Poor innocent Hurwitz testified that nationalist liberation movements. he gidn’t spit at Weismann, nor strike At our anti-imperialist demonstration on July 4, it will be the him, nor raise a chair. The socialists tasks of our party to point out the tremendous importance of this left the court room, deserted, even a ‘capitalist judge being unable to come to their aid, after a socialist inspired newspaper attack on the Communists for a week. Concerted Attack on Lyceum. Scabber y | Last Saturday, the 20th, the Labor 6 ‘Union’ ‘Lyceum had a tag day. The right * b The strikebreaking role played by the United Garment Workers | wingers boycotted and sabotaged. Union, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, in the Sunday, the ultra conservative Re- Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ strike in Chicago is clearly shown sister“ printed an editorial “Helping by a circular letter issued by the International Tailoring company the Reds,” in which it was charged in which the United is referred to as “the only organization worth that the Communist Party of New joining.” Haven had collected funds for prop- aganda, and that the Labor Lyceum This boosting by the bosses ought to be enough to convince any | association was the local Communist wavering workers that the United is a union in name only. organization connected with the Com- What attitude will the officials of the Chicago Federation of munist International. This was 3 days Labor, for years on the most friendly terms with the Amalgamated after the fight in the Labor Lyceum. 5 This set the Jewish workers of New . 7 — * * 9 Clothing Workers, take in this situation? Haven thinking. They remembered period and show the clear line of the class struggle that must be followed by the American working class. John Fitzpatrick and his associates know that the Amalgamated the statement in the Times Leader Clothing Workers organized the men's clothing industry and that last July charging that the Workers it is the only genuine union in that industry. The question that Party was a branch of the Russian confronts the Chicago Federation is one of scabbery versus struggle, — Perky, sent ie hy Weert Rice, socialist chairman of the Dis- co-operation with the bosses and the police as against a clean cut trict Committee of the Workmen’s fight for better conditions. Circle, who has since then been called The proper action for the Chicago Federation of Labor to take “informer.” This time, the workers would be to denounce officially the strikebreaking of the United woe the been conclusion. and issue a leaflet to this effect to be distributed in the struck shops. om hy 5 2 3 If the Federation does not take this or similar action repudiat- day, June 25th, carried a column and ing such betrayal of the labor movement, it will mean that the a half story about the arrests. It ear- deadening effect of capitalist politics and class collaboration has Tried Hurwitz’s version of the fight, extended to what not so long ago was the most militant central body bree denen a typical right wing ex- in the United States; that the virus of class collaboration which is Planatlon of the struggle in the Labor N : Lyceum, calling the Labor Lyceum poisoning the American labor movement has flooded the veins of and the Workers Party one and charg- Chicago labor officialdom in such quantities as to make them con- ing that the moneys collected at the done the unpardonable sin—scabbery.. Tag Day by the Lyceum were for com- At the next meeting of the Federation this question should be munist Propaganda. The. story shows raised on the floor in such a form that the issue cannot be evaded plainly that the socjalists furnished | “a . the capitalist sheet with material for and the local labor leaders put on record for or against this partic- 5 their red baiting. As a climax, the ularly disgusting form of labor fréason. ‘story says: “The primaty purpose of e Communists in this country, the §ocialists claim, is to est@blish a dicta- rship, and this, according to mem- Get a member for the Workers Pasty and a new subscription for the DAILY WORKER 4 N * ö 1 cory ' * 9 — - a ae , (Special to The a Worker) COPENHAGEN, July 2—A mem- orial will mark the port from which Capt, Roald Amundsen hopped off in his effort to reach the North Pole thru the air, if the plans of M. Knutsen, a coal owner of Spitz- bergen, meet with success. He has taken the initiative in a plan to erect a monument to the explorer at King’s Bay. what has been done locally in the case of the Labor Lyceum, where the Communists hold secret meetings on the average of once a week.“ Socialist Challenge to Communists. down, among them Abe and Louis one of a small group mostly insurance At the trial, Hurwitz claimed that rs of the deposed TB is exactly Hurwitz is quoted as saying that the fight started over the following remark made by him to the writer, as District Organizer of the Workers Party: “Just try to practice what you teach in the streets and see how far you will get with it.” This was after we cited, with approval the action of the Chinese working class in combatting imperialism. Hurwitz thus mitted that he would stand with the capitalist police and courts in opposing working class action, that when the decisive mo- ment came, he would follow Noske and Ebert into the counter revolution- ary camp. His testimony at the trial bears this out. He would aid the cap- italists in deporting revolutionists. He acted like all the other yellow curs, enemies of the working class. This rat and the rest of the yellows in New Haven must be read out of the ranks of the perking « class. KLAN OUTLAWED IN KANSAS BY CHARTER BOARD Cannot Do i’ Minsiness in State, Is Ruling | TOPEKA, Kans., July 2—The ku klux klan was denied today the right to do business in Kansas when the state charter board refused to hooded order a charter. The action followed the decision of the state supreme court last January 10 that the klan was doing business in Kansas illegally apd would have to obtain a charter. The court held that in the sale of paraphernalia and lodge equipment the klan did not come under the head of a benevolent organization. This view was upheld by the charter board. © + ue History of Hoover's War Treachery Now Stowed at Palo Alto WASHINGTON, N, July, 2.— (FP) — Herbert Hoover, secretary of com- merce, has gone to Palo Alto to in- spect the Hoover War Library, a col- lection of 125,000 documents relating to the known and secret history of the world war and its progeny of little wars in Europe and Asia. This library | is connected with Leland Stanford university, and has been in prepara- tion for six years past. , Among the documents which Hoo- ver sent to this permanent collection were the records of his relief organ- izations in Belgium during the war and thruout Europe after the armis- tice. When the DAILY WORKER was looking into Hoover’s connection with the sending of “relief” stores to the white leader, Yudenitch, at Reval, for his invasion of Soviet Russia from Es- thonia in 1919, it ascertained that the official records of his Paris office, dealing with these shipments, had been stored in New York City in charge of George Barr Baker. This man was in charge of press propaganda for the republican nation- al committee last summer. Inquiry at Baker’s office disclosed that the documents in question had been ship- ped to Palo Alto. Here’s an Important Announcement for Party in ‘New York NEW YORK.—Meeting of shop nu- clei organizers from all shop. nuclei and Workers Party branches on Mon- day, July 6 at 8 p. m. at the Workers Party headquarters, 108 East 14th St. Railroad Certificate Issue Asked. WASHINGTON, July 2.—The Chi- cago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad applied to the interstate commerce commission today for authority to issue $5,400,000 of 4% per cent equip- ment trust certificates. of New Haven, Wheat Is | Despite Burnings PARIS, France, July 2.—The Moroc- cans continue their advance against the French invaders north of Quezzan, | and have broken thru the French lines further eastward. Abd-el-Krim’s attack has enabled the Riffians to harvest their wheat, while the fighting was being pushed further south. The Riffians have practically completed their harvest and are now in no danger of famine. Large numbers of Moroccans who had been terrorized by the French have now openly joined the Riffians cause as the result of the offensive. The important group of Branes, which had been used by the French as a buffer to bear the brunt of the Rif- flan attack, near Taza, have joined the Riffians, taking with them a large supply of arms and materials secured from the French. “Tribes” Join Riffians. The Moréccans’ attack has ‘under- mined the French behind the lines, as they have demonstrated thelr weak- ness to Moroccan groups whi they had kept “friendly” by rule of force. The Moroccans that have come over to Krim since the start of the fighting more than make up for the Riffian casualties during that period. French Kill Prisoners, The French have taken no prison- ers, killing all who surrender. No prisoners are mentioned in the official communiques for that reason. The French, wherever possible, have been practicing the policy of setting fire to the Moroccans wheat fields in jor to bring on a famine among the fans, but the recent offensive has — this strategy. Mans Take Outposts The Riffians are now attacking on a 120 mille er with 30,000 troops pushing ba twice that number of thru the French lines south west of: El Kebir in the direction of M'Sila, ing is now taking place on the heights north of this point. Further eastward the Riffians have gained important successes in the re- pushed the French a number of nifle have taken several outposts from t French in the upper Leben. Harvested French troops. The attack bas broken and west of Bab Morotdj. The fight. 1 gion of Dabar. The Riffian attack — south of the river Leben. The Ri ' A DETROIT, July 2—Henry Forbes shipping bid on the United States board’s discarded. vessels which were offered for sale recently is due to arrive today in Washington by special courier. The absence of Ford’s bid when those of others were opened yesterday was a sur- prise to officials of the board, who had refused a former bid of Fords unless others were permitted to compete. SANTA BARBARA DAMAGE WORSE THAN EXPECTED Wrecked Buildings Are iio Alls Sides SANTA BARBARA, July 2.—As the sun wWheeled into the heavens today it became apparent that the city was more damaged from the earthquake nere than first believec. Many build- ings that yesterday stood upright, seemingly undamaged except for im- mense cracks up their facades, were piles of bricks, mortar and wrenched steel; the work of demolishing con- demned structures proceeded with gi- gantic strides under the impetus of the efforts of four thousand workmen. The death toll remained at 13. Search for four or five others believed dead was continued. Two minor shocks were felt during the night. No damage was done. The first was felt at 10 o’clock and the ‘second came shortly afterward. Both | were extremely mild and passed al- | most unnoticed. Several injured persons were re- leased from hospitals during the day. None of the seriously injured, physi- cians said, will die. Students reported for the first day’s work in the regular summer session at the state teacher’s college. The Printer's Devil Is the Guilty Party The DAILY. WORKER issue of Thursday, July 2. in reporting the election vote of Zeigler, III., Local U. M. W. of A., made a misprint. The vote for president should have ‘read—Henry Corbishley 724 and his Xi, K. K. opponent 162. As published it read wad 74 for \Corbishley. HIBBING LABOR FAKERS, SELL OUT COUNCIL TO STEEL TRUST, LET CONTRACT.TO NON-UNION FIRMS ENGLAND DUNS FRANCE FOR WAR DEBT PAYMENT Morne Cal C Combine to Be Appeased First (Special to The Daily Worker.) PARIS, July 2.—-The foreign office today announced receipt of the ex- pected note from Austen Chamberlain, chancellor of the British exchequer, inviting the French government to be- gin negotiations for a settlement of the French war debt to England. The foreign office announced that negotiations will first be undertaken for the settlement of the French debt to the United States before the gov- ernment will be in a position to dis- cuss the debt question with Britain. County Employes’ Pension. SPRINGFIELD, III., July 2. — The Marks bill, providing for the “crea- tion, maintenance and administration” of an annuity and benefit fund for county employes in counties of 500,000 or more, became a law today without the governer’s signature at the ex- piration of the time limit for the chief executive’s action on it. Paris, III., Fights Rabies. PARIS, III., July 2—Something like a reign of terror exists in Paris, the result of an epidemic of rabies» which has developed in the city and country among dogs and cats. MURDER OF NEGRO PRISONER BY GUARDS TO BE “INVESTIGATED” gang guards are now awaiting trial made after a confer ce between the an expert of the Ten department further charges of u However, the RALEIGH, N. Ox July 2.—An investigation of North Carolina chain gang camps and prisons was ordered here by Governor McLean, following the flogging to death of a Negro prisoner at Rock Mount, and for which two for murder. The announcement was governor and other state officials, and has been assigned to investigate into . itary conditions existing in all North Caroling camps. of Negroes goes unpunished in it aOuthern states. The militants were gradually driven out of the community by the steel trust by various methods and the la- bor fakers and politicians secured control of the central body and used it for their own benefit. , Fakers in Control. A farmer-labor party local was or- ganized and it was also controlled by labor fakers, lawyers, etc., who suc- ceeded in getting the endorsement of labor for local municipal offices. —~ They told the workers that they would get anything they wanted if they were elected and one stated to the Central Union that he would keep “Labor’s flag flying“ at all times— and so they were elected to office. But instead of keeping their prom- ise to the labor movement they plan- ned on keeping control of the move- ment by putting the officers of the different unions on the village pay- roll and having them keep the mem- bership in line. Let Contracts to Scabs. This worked for a while, but when the “labor” council started to let con- tracts for municipal buildings to non- union concerns this was more than some of the workers would stand and they protested at a meeting of the Central Labor Union and one of the councilmen, who was a delegate to the Central body yelled “Communist” at the delegate who had the courage to denounce his se of the work- ers. The politicians ‘hint seeing that their hold‘on the movement was slip- ping planned to have all who were protesting against their actions un- seated as delegates in the Central body “because of their Communistic beliefs.” Militants Gain Strength. He wrote for Paul Smith to come to the range to help them, but Smith was then in Great Falls, Montana, and could not be secured. They are now hurling the charge of “Communist” at every worker who opposes them but the workers are get- ting wise to the fakers and no doubt the Central Union will soon again be back in the hands of the militants and the movement once again be made of some use to the workers instead of merely being a tool of politicians. Write the story about your shop— Order .a bundle to distribute thera ~ @ Conspire with Boss By IRWIN (Worker Gorrespentont; PITTSBURGH, Pa., June a total of 273 mines in Di western Pennsylvania, about | 9 at present operating and 3 working full time. The terrible of the coal miners with — ‘ ment and sufferings stalking thru t camps, knowing that the : are deliberately and u ulous! utilizing this situation as a means a wage reduction and to ult give up the union, can easily be e ceived. ‘Yet the most base ane to take advantage of the situation to the rank and file members of Miners’ Union to give up their tant traditions, to exclude the ght- ers from amongst their ranks in order to get the masses of workers to sub- mit to the demands of the bosses have unquestionably come from the union district officials working hand in hand with the coal operators. Stealing Elections, New Mode. Here is how they have — new tricks to avold, if possible, the stealing of elections in the ordinary manner and still build up their ma- chine control. The Vesta No. 4 mine is the big- gest mine in Pennsylvania and one of Bly the biggest in the world. It is a slope mine and has forged its way about eight miles into the hill with about that many more miles to go before the coal vein is exhausted. It used to employ 600 loaders with 800 day men producing an average of 6,000 tons of coal per day. Some Slick Trick, Now the company has put on contd loaders with only 200-day men, al the productive capacity could # be creased to only a little less than 8,000 tons. The men were informed by the pit boss that dead work would not be paid for any more, and altho the mine works only three days a week a double shift system was estab- lished. Local No. 2399 covers the Vesta No. 4 mine. lits charter is held at Daisytown, Pa., but it meets alternate- ly also at California and Richville, rs i 4 pressure to compel them to — 2 * Pa, as many of the members * located in these two places. A local election was held beginning June 15. The p ive forces nominated their own candidate for president, Simon Virta, long known as a militant member of the local, the machine placed a candidate in op- “Position to him, but it was generally admitted that Virta would carry the HIBBING, Minn. July 2—Hibbing, the World's Richest Village” which | election. four years ago had a streng labor movement and a Central Labor union led Operator and Officiats Unite Against by a group of militant trade unionists who surprised the reactionary officials of the movement in the state by holding a successful celebration no May Day has today but a handful of unionists left as the result of the betrayal of so-called Farmer-Labor politicians. Progressive. He was a member of the pit com- mittee until he became nominated for president when the mine superintend- ent, Edwards, informed him that he would have to go to work on the night shift. That would mean that he would be compelled to resign the pit committee, which was obviously e intention of the superintendent who, of course, does not like militants on there. He refused to take the night shift. Board members Hines and Robertson were called in and District President Fagan gave them a hand, but they claimed they could do nothing to re- instate Virta on his job. The district officials refused to let Virtg take part in the negotiations with the mine superintendent. They could fix the job “better alone,” and they did fix it right. 5 Not only was Virta eliminated from the pit committee but the officials also succeeded in eliminating him as a progressive candidate who was sure to win the election. * Deceiving the Membership. The rank and file recognizes that the district officials and the mine superintendent talk the same language and work hand in hand to defeat the progressives and attain their common objects. Still many say: “Simon Virta has now lost his job, he will have to leave to seek work elsewhere, what is the use then to vote for him for local president?” A Wrecking Plan. The returns are not yet in, but when the tally sheet finally shows the elec- tion of the machine candidate by a majority vote, the rank and file will remember that this was another trick played upon them jointly by the mine management and the district officials and, serious as the outcome will ‘be will be but a small matter compared pulled—the enforcement of the 1917 scale, When finally accomplished, the dis- trict officials will again say that they “could do nothing,” but the road has been prepared for the complete de- struction of the union. 5 Laborite Calls Chamberlain LONDON, July 2. — The e “Cad!” was flung at Minister Health Chamberlain by Neal McLean, laborite member of the house of com- mons, in a bitter scene at the close of another all-night session early to- day, McLean later withdrew his re- for the members of Local 2399, it” to the bigger job which is being
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. — ä—NN—ä ũ y — — 2 — © * ** S j * * . 4 7 - : J +4 +t. 9 SLES ete ke ————7r«— ĩ— Ai ＋ 0 | | | 1 : WORKERS! RAISE THE DEMAND, “HANDS OFF CHINA!” : “The idea becomes | power when it pene- SPECIAL MAGAZINE SUPPLEMENT trates “the masses.” THE DAILY nee ment will appear every | Saturday in The Daily Kari Marx. | | , ä * Worker. SECOND SECTION This magazine supple- By WILLIAM. F. DUNNE. „„ Immediately following the ge ai of 8 of State Kel- logs. to the Callies’ govern- n him on hile week-end cruise on the M wer net only Mr. Kellogg, but eral Pershing, who led the expeditionary force in pursuit of Villa, and General Lejeune, commandant of the marines, who has had the experience in mili- tary operations in Mexico and would direct any landing of sea forces if a demonstration should be determined upon.—(Washington dispatch to the Chicago Tribune; June 15.) ö Coolidge policy is one of “firm- ness” in dealing with the work- ing class at home and firmness in dealing with the workers and farmers in the o ~ sections of the Ameri- can ‘There 16 no dualism in this policy —it is the iron hand of American im- perialism which suppresses the work- ing class at home so that it can be used as material for punitive expe ditions in Latin-America to enforce upon still more oppressed workers and Rage the rule of the lords of : ‘Suance: and N ee: whose’ AN imperialism has two ‘kinds of tactics which it uses in . (1) It secures financial control of basic industries (copper mines, oil wells, timber, hemp, jute and banana plantations, waterpower, railways) and then either by fomenting revolts, by wholesale purchase of officials— or by both methods—secures control of the government. This policy has ‘been followed in Chile and other Lat- in-American nations. (2) It follows financial penetration by open military aggression as in Haiti and Santo Domingo—it occu- piles these countries and sets up Am- erican military dictatorships. Mexico a combination of both these policies has been adopted. The oil and mining concerns first con- trolled the Dias government. After its overthrow they financed revolts against its successors and these re- volts were made excuses for military intervention during the Wilson admin-. istration. P Since that time no reform govern- ment has been able to carry out the agrarian program on which all of them won their support from the Mexican masses without running foul of the American state department. very Mexican government has -therefore had two major problems to solve the internal one of carrying out the distribution of the land among thé peons and the external one of maintaining its sovereignty while car- rying out an agrarian policy to which the American mortgage holders are opposed. The term “American mortgage hold- ers” is used advisedly. : ever a nation was in pawn to for- eign capital it is Mexico. The internal debt of Mexico—the amount owed inside the country is only $67,606,000—-not a large sum for a population of approximately 14,900, 000. But— The external debt, owed to Ameri- can capitalists and secured by cus- tems duties, government securities and the railway properties, — to $441,224,777. “ commander-in-chief of the army and SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1925 800 NERE DOES AMERICAN LABOR STAND? ‘With the Workers and Farmers of Mexico or with Wall Street? betrayal of the Mexican labor move“ ment to Wall Street by the El Paso To this must be added the claims prepared to qo to whatever lengths of Americans for property damage re- are necessary to protect American.. sulting from the revolutions estimated | rights in Mexico.—(Washington dis- at 3500, 000,00 : patch to the Chicago Tribune, June _Mortgaged Mexico! Mortgaged tor a billion dollars to the most power financial group in the world! + « « this conference of the © protect American rights in Mexico.” It might be will to say here that whatever “rights” America has in navy with these high officers and | Mexico have been secured by a series the secretary of state was intended | of briberies and butcheries beginning as a subtle hint to President Calles | with the stinking Diaz government that the Coolidge administration is and extending down to the procured — nvention of the American Federa- of Labor and it should be further understood that American imperialism claims in Mexico privileges not pro- vided for Mexican capitalists them- selves in the @nstitution of the Mex- ican republic In particuälr does Wall Street ob- ject to the distribution of the largé estates to the peasantry and to the (Continued on Page 8) An Unlacky Number for World Imperialism “~ The Showdown in the Orient. *
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— * - * ‘ bh . . 8 4 7 rs we 1 1 1e , e > 7 5 e * 5 "os g * a wi $y * * | spreading the “Moscow spirit” in the “THE MOSCOW SPIRIT” = By ‘LEON TROTSKY. Times, the leading newspaper of the English bourgeois, writes that the movement of the Chinese masses reveals a “Moscow spirit.” Well, for once in a way we are pre- pared to agree with the conservative denunciators. The English press in China and in the British Isles brands the strik- ing workers and students as Bolshe- vists. Well, we are prepared to a certain extent to support even this terrible revelation. The fact is the Chinese workers object to being shot down by the Japanese police, so they have declared a protest strike and are proclaiming their indignation in the streets, Is it not evident that here the “Moscow spirit” prevails? The Chinese students, filled with sym- pathy for the workers in their strug- gle, have joined in the strike against the exercise of violence by foreigners. It is evident, as far as the students are concerned, that we have to deal with Bolshevists. of Moscow are prepared to ac- cept all these accusations and revelations. We should like, how- ever to add that the best agents for east are the capitalist politicians and journalists. To the question of the ignorant coolie: “What is a Bolshe vist?” the English bourgeois press re- plies: “A Bolshevist is a Chinese spirit.” If in the streets of his own town, he tries to defond his rgiht to existence and development, he hears cries of: this is Bolshevism! Thus the course of revolutionary education advances step by step un- der the direction of the foreign police and of the journalists, whose attitude of mind is similar to that of the po- lice. And in order to imprint the polit- ical lessons deeply on his memory, the English police, after having shot down dozens and hundreds of Chi- nese workers and students, drags him into the cellars of the English prisons in Shanghai. Thus a short cut to political knowledge is accomplished. From now onwards every Chinaman will know that the “Moscow spirit” “is the spirit of revolutionary solidarity. which unites the oppressed in the fight against the oppressors; and that on the other hand, the atmosphere which pervades the cellars of the Eng- lish prisons of Shanghai incorporates the spirit of “British freedom.” would have concluded at this point, for is there much to add to this eloquent and convincing pro- paganda of the capitalist press on be- half of Moscow? But it occurs to us that liberal labor politicians of the MacDonald type are eagerly listen- ing to our conversation with the con- servatives. “You see,” they say, point- ing didactically at the chief editor of the Times, “we have always said that our conservatives work for Bol- shevism.” And this also is true. The conservatives, or rather the reaction- aries—all capitalist parties are now reactionary—represent an enormous historical force which is supported by capital and gives expression to its chief interests. in that there would be no Bolshevism, either in the east or in the west, if As long, however, as the force and thruout the world. For the “adjustment” of events in Shanghai, and in order to counteract the influence of “Moscow,” the liberals and mensheviki suggest the idea of an international conference on the Chinese question, but they are shut- ting their eyes to the fact that at this conference the decision would lie in the hands of the same gentlemen at whose command workers and stu- dents are shot down in Shanghai. OSSIBLY MacDonald has a pro- gram ready for this conference. If not, we can submit our own to him. It is very simple. Chinese house belongs to the Chinese. No one has a right to enter this house without knocking at the door. The owner has the right to admit none but friends and to refuse entrance to those whom he considers. his enemies. This is MacDonald is right the forces of capital did not exist. the yoke of capital does exist, the “Moscow spirit“ will make its way 6 To the Memory of ‘the . Workers and Students of Shanghai the beginning of our program. You will certainly reject it, because to your nostrils it seems be thoroly — saturated with the explosive “Mos- cow spirit.” But just for this reason it will penetrate into the conscious ness of the oppressed Chinese and of every honest English worker. This program contains in itself the most powerful innate force. This is the banner under which the workers and students of Shanghai are dying. The blood which has been shed in the James P. Thompson, one of the most noted members of the I, W. W. and an ex-class war prisoner who spent about four years at Leaven- worth, is due to speak in Chicago to- day, the Fourth of July, at an open air meeting to be held at Altheim Park. The meeting is scheduled to open at 1 p. m. and in addition to Thomp- son’s lecture there will be sports, games and refreshments. Madison car to 7800 West or Garfield Park ele- Some of the Delegates to the National Labor Defense Conference vated. > „ „ 5 ae ren . 8 7 mS mene » ae, ee as * 0 nes . . : n 2 8 vs ’ Mees. 2 5 e . 8 Se IOS. Sy " 3 n Sn OO . ee ee oe 4 5 es a ' These workers attended the epoch-making gathering held in Chciago, June 28. worker who does not wish to be 8 by Japanese and English police; a Bolshevist is a Chinese student who stretches out a brotherly hand tosthe Chinese worker who is streaming with blood; a Bolshevist is a Chinese peas- ant who resents the fact that foreign- ers, whose arguments are deeds of} violence, behave on this land as tho they were lord and master.” The re- actionary press of both hemispheres gives this excellent description of Bolshevism. Is it possible to carry on in the east a better, more convincing, more stirring propaganda? And to what purpose, may we ask, do we need in the east or, for that matter, in the west either, secret agents with Mos- cow gold in one pocket and with poi- son and dynamite in the other? Would any trained agents be capable of doing a thousandth part of the educational work which the Times and its companions is carrying on gra- tuitously—this must be acknowledged —thruout the world? If a so-called Moscow agent were to tell the op- pressed Chinese that the policy of Moscow is a policy of the liberatteon of the oppressed classes and subjug- ated nations, the Chinese would very likely not believe him—has he not often been deceived by foreigners! But when Moscow’s worst enemy, in the form of the English conservative newspapers, tells him the same about Moscow, he will believe it implicitly. HEN the half-naked and half- starved Chinese worker who is oppressed and degraded, begins to become conscious of his dignity as a human being, he is told: Moscow agents have égged you on! If he al- lies himself with other workers to defend his elementary human rights, he is told: this is the “Moscow ce Chinese Workers Under Imperialist Rule ye picture, taken by our special representative in Shanghai, gives an indication of some of the brutalities visited upon Chinese workers and peasants by the French, British, Japanese and American invaders, thru their specially organized police. yeah) 4 rn . 22 W e 2 * * 8 2 * —
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ey 4 * — D —— — masses in Russia—after a long period \ple, gave to the Russian workers. lecties of history are working in such py GREGORY ZINOVIEV. movement began with the most modest economic demands—the Chinese workers demanded the eight- “hour day for juvenile workers, the ten-hour day for adults, and one day’s “yest in seven; demands which the workers of the advanced capitalist 3 put forward halt a century . movement became a profound political event, which has assumed world historical importance. “i ns day the demand tor the eight- to the demand for the evac- by, the . — troops For a e ese workers needed in all only a tew days. The working ot preparation—likewise traversed an ~ analogous road at a very rapid pace. The troops of the English and Japan- ese imperialists have now furnished the Chinese workers with just a les- son as, in their time, the reactionary troops of Nicolas Romanoff, who was spattered with the blood of the peo- Russian workers in their time learned thru painful and bloody experience the connection between economics and politics. And the strug- gle of the Russian workers became converted more and more into a poli- tical struggle, and ever louder and louder resounded the “cry of the peo- ple“: down with despotism! The Chinese workers are now learning by painful and bloody experience, not only the connection between econom- ies and politics in general, but also the connection between. economics in China and international politics, the politics of bloody imperialism. - The troops of the English and Jap- anese imperialists have shot down dozens of Chinese workers and also students who guppoterd them. The English gendarmes have arrested — —— in the bee - pow- in the literal sense of the word. Not- withstanding, the strike is extending to a general strike and the movement is spreading and growing. The slo- gans of the fight against international imperialism are growing louder and more powerful; the workers of Shang- hai are coming forward more and more decidedly as the leaders of the general movement of the broad mass- es of the people of China. * English, Japanese and Amort can imperialists are sending-ur- gent war signals to their warships and are dispatching them to the “scene of action.” One need not be a prophet in order to predict that the hate of the hundreds of millions of Chinese FT NGLISH and Japanese imperial ism, and especially the first, can- excess profits, there would be no pos- sibility of. bribing the labor aristoc- racy in their own countries. There a manner that it is precisely the pressure upon the colonies which is hastening the ripening of the national liberation movement in the east and which, in turn, is also expediting the proletarian revolution in imperialist England. “Fifty-one per cent of the proleta- riat are less than 20 per cent when, among the 51 per cent there. exists imperialist infection and petty bour- geois r ance.” So wrote Lenin in a sketch on the dictatorship of the proletariat. HE reason why for a long time we revolutionary weight of the Eng- lish proletariat was so insignificant, elements of “imperialist infection” and petty bourgeois opposition to the idea of the proletarian revoltuion. The present rapid revolutionizing of the English working class which has just set in, is bound up in the closest man- ner with the commencing decline of. English imperialism. The growth of the revolutionary self-consciousness of the working class in the suppressed countries (colonies and semi-colon- les) , and the decline of “imperialist infection” in the proletariat of the suppressing countries, is a parallel process. The working class in China repre- sents a much smaller portion of the population than 20 per cent (six mil- lion among 400 million). But it is clear that, under favorable conditions, the Chinese wor class can and will become the leader of the whole great national liberation movement of China, when one takes into consider- | ation the following: 6. The Chinese peasantry in par- ticular are being driven by the whole situation to support the working class. N view of the general situation which has arisen in China and the level already attained by the national liberation movement, the reprisals of English and Japanese imperialism will only add fuel to the flames. Executive of the Comintern was ab- solutely right when, foreseting the al- teration of the line of march of the proletarian world revoltuion, pointed out that the revolutionary events in the east were ripening with much greater rapidity than was to be ex- pected, and that no partial “stabiliz- ing” of the capitalist west would be capable of postponing the victory. of the proletarian revolution for any great length of time. The events in Shanghai serve as an example of the events in the whole of China, in India, Java, etc. In India, among a population of 350,000,000, Historical Importance of the Events in Shanghai will grow and become stronger. China and in Egypt the affair has — ready come to the occupation of fac- tories and works by the workers. In India the movement of the workers is growing and extending. The sheet- lightening of the revolutionary move- mentin the east is piercing the dark- hess of black reaction which is hang- ing over all countries. The demand of the workers of Shanghai for the evacuation of China by the foreign imperialist troops will find a powerful response, not only in Moscow and Leningrad, but in all the capital cities of the world. The Eng- lish trade unions are beginning to ful- fill their international proletarian duty. The more European capitalism, which is being “stabilized,” scorns and 4 oppresses the workers of “its own” country, the more will the European proletarians cast aside the narrow- ness of European “provincialism” and give more attention and support to THE FATAL BITE . 1. The working class, thanks to its situation, cannot be infected with the “great power” ideas of imperialism, on the contrary, the entire situation compels it to take over the role of leader of the whole of the people against the foreign capitalists who are oppressing them. 2. The advance-guard of the Eu ropean proletariat who are led by the Communist International, recognize. the enormous importance of the Chin- ese working class, and illuminate for it its historical way with the torch of Leninism. 3. The first victorious proletarian revolution (the Soviet Union) consti- tutes an ideal revolutionary point of support for the growing revolutionary movement in all colonies and depend- ent countries, among them being China. 4. In all the prominet centers of China (Shanghai, Hankau, Pekin, Tsingtao, Nanking, etc) the Chinese proletariat constitutes a numerically important group. In Shanghai, for ex- ample, there are over 200,000 workers: 5. The majority of the population of China is keenly interested in throw- ing off the foreign imperialist yoke, and ever greater masses of the peo- ple of China are awakening to the was precisely because with the Eng- \ lish working class there existed many perialism. conscious struggle against world im- — Ss it’s More Than He Can Chew. there are eight million workers; in Egypt, among a population of 20 mil- lion, one and one-half to two million workers; in Java two and a half mil- lion workers among a population of over 30 millions. In all these coun- tries there exist to a greater or less degree those six conditions which we indicated above. In all these colonial and dependent countries, the work- ing class, if conditions are in any way favorable, will certainly succeed in impressing their stamp upon the great liberation movement of these countries. J 1 ‘ revolt of the proletariat against the bourgeoisie of its own country, plus the revolt of the peoples in the colonies and in the de- The recent session of the Enlarged pendent countries“ — this, delcared Comrade Lenin, was the essence of the international revolution. Now this formula is being clothed more and more with flesh and blood. The time is no longer distant when there will begin the great appeal Detween Shang- hai and Calcutta, Hankau and Madres, Tsingtao and Cairo, Pekin and Alex- andria. And at the same time the revolutionary appeal between these centers of the colonial and dependent countries on the one hand, and the proletariat of London, New York, Tokio and Paris on the other hand, the revolutionary movement in the colonies and semi-colonies. T is not so many weeks since the Communist International for the first time pronounced the word “stab- ilization” (partial “stabilization” of capitalism in Europe). The events which have occurred in the few weeks that have passed since that time have shown with sufficient clearness to what a great extent the political stab- ilization of the world situation is only relative. The war in Morocco, the events in Shanghai, the increase of unemploy- ment in England, the victory of Hin- denburg in Germany, the events in Bulgaria, the signs of a financial crisis in France, etc.—all this goes to show that capitalism is doomed to decay, and that the international proletariat led by he Communist International, will be its grave-digger. “The cause of the workers in Shang- hai is our cause,” the advance-guard of the Eyropean proletariat will say. The textile workers, the printers, the railway workers of Shanghai, the Chinese proletarians, are occupying the front ranks in the proletarian world war. We are heart and soul with the Chinese workers. Give this copy to your shop-mate. ee,
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N Saturday, May 16, 1925, the | Ruhr Echo, the district organ of the Communist Party in the Ruhr dis- trict, published a poem, entitled “Bal- lad of the Workers’ Death,” by Franz Krey, a young miner and poet. In the evening of the same day the ter- rible news spread like wildfire thru the whole Ruhr district that an explo- sion had taken place in the Dorstfeld mine, pit V, and that the lives of the miners at work in the pit were in great danger. The disaster involved-44 dead and 27 wounded. Now’ everyone is seeking to and those who are responsible. The most absurd hypotheses are brought forward in the bourgeois press. Thus a report in the Duisburger Generalanzeiger ot May 18 states that there exists the possibility of a dellberate out- rage“ From assertions of this sort to a declaration that here it is a question of an outrage by a Commu- nist “Tcheka” group is only a step. The press hirelings maintained by Stinnes capital are capable of any- thing, solely in order to conceal the real causes.of this terrible disaster. It is not a mere chance that the number of accidents in the Ruhr mines has considerably increased since the coming into force of the Dawes plan. Every day, four to five cas@s of death are recorded, which are attributable to the intensified methods of exploitation. HE Dorstfeld mine belongs to the Essen Steinkohlenbergwerk A. G. The chief shareholder in this is the firm of Henschel in Cassel, whose representative is a member of the board of directors of the Berlin Dis- conto Gesellschaft. The chief partner of the Disconto Gesellschaft, Dr. Sal- monsohn, is the notorious managing director of the Gelsenkirchener Berg- werk A. G. who so shamefully slan- dered 136 miners who were murdered the. Minister Stein“ mine. As is he see: rows te. ‘same 14 ‘the Dorst- feld mine, Pits I to V, the most in: Bane speeding up system. One hun- .dred and fifty workers were given notice, expiring on the Ist of June. It is quite logical that great danger results from the discharge of the min- ers by the increased exploitation of To the Batchers of Marko Friedmann Has seen how he We bide our time! \ By HENRY GEORGE WEISS. You swung him from your gallows, You hanged him on your tree, In the place that’s called Cathedral Square, For all the world to see. And all the world has seen it. has died. Has seen that in the death of righ The truth Was rwe. Not only on the place of skulls : Has mankinds’ hopes been slain, . But in the public square of greed. And in the heart of gain. Peace, peace to him and war to vou In every land and lime Our hands are clenched, our nearts are one ; >, * — 8 1 K 4 — the miners who are still retained. The natural result is, of course, that all measures for safety are disregard- ed. The speeding up methods em- ployed by the overseers and other officials cause the safety rules to be ignoréd. It is certain that the ex- losives chamber, the explosion of which to the disaster, is not the sole cause. It is much more probable that, in the first place, a gas explo- sion took place which led to the ex- plosion of the explosives chamber. That is the view of. all the miners. Gas explosions are only to be avoided if all precautionary measures, sprink- ding and removal of coal dust, are sfrictly carried out. | pe id 2 0 HE miners and their relatives waiting at the pit’s mouth could tell a story of the brutality of the ad- ministration” dt the” Dbrstteld TS, The miners worknig in the same pit, * of the disaster, demanded that they be allowed to leave the mine, but they were ordered by the foremen to fill the wagons still remaining empty and to employ the rest of the time , in the 7th section, when they heard repairs. They had to insist on being allowed to come to the surface. This event shows clearly and beyond dispute how the gold and profits of the heavy industrial exploiters is minted out of the blood of the mining proletariat. It is a piece of hypocrisy in this connection to describe the dis- aster as an “accident.” One disaster in the mines follows the other. Heca- tombs of miners’ lives are sacrified, but it is all an “accident.” For months past the Communist Party and the union of hand and brain workers have been demanding |. of the miners' union a common fight of all workers in the mines For workers’ control. For the extension of the rights of factory councils. For the abolition of. the speeding-up Wor thé’ seven hours’ shift and 40 sent ag? increase. Rf For adequate support for the de- pendents of the victims of the mine disasters. E leaders of ie: German trade unions, the Husemans and Lim- bertzes, reject the united fighting fraud, The eee en ot 1 4 Payment of full. wages for this month, à permanent pension of 60 per i | cent of the * wages for the wid- nt: disaster: ‘pendent member of the family; per- manent supply of coal and the right to reside in the miners’ houses be- longing to the company. HE capitalists have clearly shown by their attitude hitherto that, for them the families of the fallen miners are mere dirt. At the graves they. speak a few words of comfort, which are only hypocrisy. In reality, by their speeding up methods, they drive the miners to death. * ows, 20 per cent for every de- T'HE miners see quite clearly that it is nothing else than the system of murder which is killing their brothers. The present disaster must therefore be a warning signal to fight ods in the mines. In two ‘crowded bett which took place on Sunday in Dorstfeld and in the adjoining district of Mar- ton in which comrades Schwan and Sobottka spoke, the miners demand- ed in déatiled resolutions the taking up of the fight in the sense of the de- Germany. % Ahe 1% S bas It is necessary to drive home to the workers that only a united strong mine workers’ organization, under revolutionary leadpftship, can abolish the murderous speeding-up system in the mines. For this reason the fight for trade union unity in the remaining of the-shift in carrying out front of the miners for the extension Ruhr mines is an urgent necessity. The Seventh Congress of the C. P. of Great Britain By H. YOUNG. HE seventh congress of the British Communist Party marks a dis- tinct advance on its predecessors. The party is “liquidating amateur- ishness” and proceeding with the es- tablishment of a definitely centralized party organization.” This congress definitely established the party as ‘a recognized political force in Great Britain. Two clear indications of this were the attention bestowed upon it by the- press—and the police. The congress naturally opened on the keynote of the lessons of the most significant event in recent British pol- itics—the MacDonald labor govern- ment. N 1 effects ot the new period in the labor movement were clearly vis- ible in the congress discussions, This | was also clearly stated in the most important document of the congress | —“On the international and national. situation,” which laid the correct basis, by stating the characteristics of vecent British developments: The loss of imperialist monopoly, the grad- ual destruction of the privileged posi- tion of the British labor aristocracy and the resultant amalgamation of the hitherto divided forces of British la- bor, skilled and unskilled, thus bring ing in its train new tendencies in the labor party from the trade unions. The political report of the party’s work for the past year was introduced by Comrade J. R. Campbell. It was now clear that the labor government did not ‘constitute a working class victory, but a capitalist. experiment, which successfully hoodwinked the workers and threw their ranks into +former confusion,. The role of the present la- | ‘bor party parliamentary fraction . charatcerized as a sham one. Partie- ularly evident is the treasonable role of this party, now that the tory gov-. ernment is in power and its ministers blandly quote the speeches of the bor ministers in support of their o policy. Senn is to be seen in all questions: Foreign affairs, league of nations, Geneva protocol, Zinoviev letter, col- onial policy (it transpired that J. H. Thomas, the colonial minister in the labor government, during his visit to Kenya, approved of the conscription | of 4, 000 natives to work on the rail- war office, the supplementary reserve, home affairs, the Campbell case and. the use of troops in imavetrial dis- putes, ete. out at it is dangerous to praise too without qualifications and warnings to the workers, the leaders of the labor left wing, Campbell’s final point that the party was now politically unanimous, was appropriate, asignificant feature of the congress being the complete ab- sence of factionalism. AKLATVALA reported on 5 ie party | in parliament in an amusing ex- posure of capitalist democracy in the “mother of parliaments.” His criti- cism of the labor left wing was good and his suggestion as to the necessity of a program and concerted action ex- cellent. The organization report by Inkpin, presented in conjunction with the thesis on the mass party reveal great ways for a wage of 14s, per month), n In the discussion it was d pointed with every established tradition in the British labor movement by build- ing a centralized party, based on indi- vidual membership and daily indivi- dual activity. The most important feature was the announcement of the organization of over a hundred fac- tory groups. J. T. Murphy presented the Thesis on the International and National Battle Front. This emphasized the temporary character of capitalist stabilization and the need for intense Bolshevik mass work. The theses relating to the tasks ot building up the left wing in the labor party, fighting for trade union unity, win- ning influence in the co-operatives, | re-organization, educational work, etc., Vers unanimously accepted. — was summed up in the necessity sor developing mass. propaganda side by side with the demand for the es- tablishment of the Anglo-Russian unity committee and the world con- ference of all trade unions. question of trade union unity government, produced an instant ef- fect upon all delegates, whose confi- dence in their party and the Interna- tional was unbounded. The subsequent discomfiture of the government was apparent and render - ed more so by its clumsy attempt to absolve itself by declaring that Com- rade Stocker was an Englishman in disguise and that Comrade Fausse- gave (the French delegate) was real- ly of no account. An important indication of the pres- ent tendency of left wing labor was the greeting proffered the conference by George Buchanan, M. P., the mem- ber for the constituency in which conference was held. E Thesis on Bolshevization was rather unhappily conceived, as it only dealt. with two questions: factory | groups and 1 education. —— ¥ was rectified, by the reporter who.. pointed out. how — ene every sphere of party lite. The resolutions on 8 phe the Youth League were unanimously: adopted. An important feature of the report and discussion on colonial work was the announcement that the jute work- ers had decided to send a delegation to India to enquire into labor condi- while assisting native workers. 7 The two decisions of the congress which particularly arouged the ire of the capitalist press were: (1) factory groups; (2) colonial work, YCENES of indescribable enthusiasm greeted the appearance of the French and delegates. The success of these delegates in break- progress. The party is now breaking 4 — ing thru a cordon established by the tions and to organize white workers tn. women. MHR resolution on the work among women, together with the special women's conference, showed the party's clearer appreciation of its Bolshevik duty to the masses of work. The congress marks the, re of a new stage in the party’s de p- ment, The Bolshevik course has com- menced, In its unanimous decisions in the very significant participation ot the Youth League in all discussions and a clearer view of the organiza- tional basis of a Bolshevik Party, the British party has made big strides for ward. ne the abolition of the speeding seater 1 ‘mands of the Oommunist Party ot * :
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ae? pee 2) 1 5 e 4 * + Z es 3 A. ey 25 * 7 * * ~ Me * N 2 ö since a rapprochement began to develop between the British and the Soviet trade unions, the gen- eral secretary of the Amsterdam In- ternational, Oudegeest, who lost his sleep and appetite for grief, began to deveiop stormy journalistic activities. As a result of his efforts the interna- tional social democratic press has now been flooded with articles and notes sharply opposing unity of the interna- tional trade union movement. * N an editorial article in the central. 1 i oT led per tog „ that the “unity effort * a result ot co-operation be- tween oe 3 dishones ‘the others?” e be: union unity” (a urn ed by. Comrades og oe and Fim- men) is the camp mainly of those mis- led and that “the editors and contri- butors of this organ display more zeal than political wisdom“ etc., ete., in the same spirit. : would not deal with this “dig- nified” literature had it not been for the fact that it represents a sample of the methods which the sec- ond international and the right wing of the Amsterdam International are forced to resort to in the struggle against the “danger” of the restora- tion of trade union unity. However, Oudegeest apparently was not content with the anonymous at- tack upon the Anglo-Russian rap- prochement and taking as his excuse an article in the Labor Magazine, the organ of the British Trade Union Congress and labor party, which be- littles the significance of the R. I. L. U., he took upon himself nothing less than the job of saving the Russian trade union 9 from the Com- munist Party. FTER a vituperous outpouring up- um the Heads ef: ‘iZimpviev, Lozov- „ and the other leaders. standing outside the ranks of their own trade union movement” for their systematic ; and tireless struggle against reform- ism, Oudegeest treats his readers to the following Dutch concoction: HE position of the Communist Party in Russia, not only from a political, but from a trade unionist point of view as well, is more diffi- cult than ever! The leaders of the Russian trade union movement will no longer reconcile themselves (!) with a position of subordination to the Communist Party leaders. The further the capitalist system is be- coming rehabilitated in Russia, the more clearly do the trade unions realize their true tasks and the im- portance of independence. E would really gladly support our friend (7) Tomsky and his comrades in their struggle (!) for freedom from the violence of the Communist Party, but owing to the position of a number of coun- tries, where the Communist trade unionists have not yet become as independent as our Russian com- rades, we are forced to ponder over the question of whether this sort -of consideration for the Russian comrades would not prove too costly In the other countries. „Who know of the negotia- tions. between Ruesia and Eng- 1 more (1) chan would appear from the ‘general press ac- counts, have gathered the definite Impresslon that Tomsky and his tollowers are ready to tread along the true path. But the fact remains that the Russian trade unions are affiliated to the Red International of Labor Unions, which takes orders ¢?) * the Communist Party and _gonstitution dictates to its neſe ints in the various countries e destruction (7) of the Amster dam International as appears also from the ‘abéve mentioned speech by Lozovsky, and If we Wanted to lend ‘assistance to our Russian com- radeé in their struggle for emancl- pation, not only by the Initiative of the British labor movement, but on our own impulse, our instinct vity of the ones and the of self preservation dictates us the greatest caution.” N reading this sort of literary ex- ercise the only conclusion to which one is forced is that this fellow has become hopelessly confused and that what he wants is a long indefinite fur- lough. It takes some skill to put into a little article like this, such an infinite mass of crazy nonsense. Oudegeest, you see, wants to help the Russian unions to free themselves | from the leadership of the Commun- ist Party. Only he forgot that international | Oe | inte for sev has been trying to do this for several years and got its neck broken in doing so. Was not the of- fensive upon Soviet Russia carried on junder the slogan of the “liberation” of the Russian people from the Com- munist Party and the Soviets? AD Oudegeest understood the Sov- let trade union movement just a little he would have refraitied ‘from this sort of cavalry raids, as his pro- posal of assistance to “our friend” _| Tomsky to free himself from the influ- ence of the Communist Party can bring nothing but homeric laughter from the Russian workers. S secretary of the International, he ought to get rid of the ridicu- lous habit of the provincial solicitors to foist his friendship upon strangers, remembering the French saying that the ridiculous is killing. Is it worth while arguing with Oude- geest fundamentally? Of course not. The man builds his plans on fantastic assumptions and instead of making a clear breast of his opposition to unity, he travels 80,000 miles around himself, offers friendship, promises to free the Russian rkers from the in- fluence of the C unist Party, inci- dently garnishing his deliberations by attacks upon the Comintern and the R. I. L. U. guilty of disagreeing with his, Qudegeest’s views. To argue with such a man is, of course, useless. would finish right there if it}, were not for the fact that Oude- | geest’s literary itch droye him for, ward with an article in the British press against the policy of the general council of the British Trade Union Congress and in criticism of some ar- ticles by Mr. Swales, president of the general council. Oudegeest did not like Swales’ articles defending the Anglo-Russian agreement and advo- cating the erection of an all-inclusive genuine trade union International. S a man of wonderful determina- tion, Oudegeest, forgetting his age and good temper, wrote a lengthy letter to the organ of the Independent Labor Party of Great Britain (The New Leader, of May 15) in which he tells Swales the history of the organ- ization of the Red International of Labor Unions and of its wicked at- tempts to “destroy” the Amsterdam International. Oudegeest tells that in 1920, the Comintern and the R. I. L. U. issued an appeal from the Reds to the yel- lows, that this appeal was signed by Lenin, Zinoviev, Tomsky, Lozovsky and others, that the Amsterdam Inter- national, tho resenting it, nevertheless decided to seek the affiliation of the Russian unions, etc. Oudegeest also attempts to deny Swales’ statement to the effect that the Russian unions were subjected to a trade union block- ade, but since he forgets to offer any Serious proof his denials sound like pure anti-Communist declarations. FTER several more threats at the Comintern and the R. I. L. U., Oudegeest, as the final stunning argu- ment, triumphantly asks Swales: “At the time when the British Trade Union Congress in 1919, affi- liated with our International, its representatives did not ask for any special pourpariers. They attended our con „ examined the rules and proceeded to affiliate. The same ‘course has been taken by all our affiliated countries. It is so far not clear to me why Russia should have to make an Reception. 4 UDEGEEST was sure that this last argument would crush, like a Ef hammer, all possible excuses would make it impossible for any of the leaders: of the British trade union movement to defend their point egeest versus Swales on Unity 4 Le | of view as to the methods of re establishing international trade union unity. However, the president of the British Trade Union General Council, Comrade Swales, with characteristic British coolness, replied to this sneer of Oudegeest as follows (New Leader of same date): “No one knows better than Mr. Oudegeest that there is no analogy between the British affiliation and the present position of the unions affiliated to the All-Russian Trade Union Congress. He knows that it is not the affiliation of a country that is involved so much as the amalgamation of the two Interna- tionals.” HIS statement of the president of the Trade Union General Council, the Oudegeests of all countries will do well to remember. This must be especially understood by those of the Amsterdam International leaders who juggle with figures. To them statistics is not a science, but an art by which they try to prove that apart from the Russian unions and some small minorities the R. I. L. U. represents no one. Recently the Chinese unions affiliated to the R. I. L. U- do you think that the right Amstredamers attach any significance to that? Not at all. . : When the trade unions of Palestine and of the free port of Danzig af- filiated to the Amsterdam Interna- tional, that was an event. But China, with only 420,000,000 people, can it ever compare with any European country? W* shall yet have an occasion to deal with the latest statistical researches of the Amsterdam Inter- national in that part which deals with the R. I. L. U. Just now ve only want to call attention to the gulf dividing the right wing of the Amster- dam International from the left wing. and again emphasize the statement of the president of the British Trade Union General Council that now it is not the affiliation of a country. that is oe poy the ti b . Another Chapter Added to the Story of the Last War MOSCOW, May 26, 1925. 5 Big Business of the Enemy Countries“ Gets Together. 6 —— — — | | oe
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— — er 89 * —— p — —— — ͥͤ XV — — — — — — seer By ALFRED WAGENKNECHT W. cannot tell by what circuitous routes the delegates from the Rail way Workers’ Union of North China, or the Javanese delegates arrived in Canton, but they came via under |‘ ground and for the sufficient reason that the Javanese workers active in the labor movement were being de- ported and imprisoned, and in north China the heads of leaders of the Rail- ‘road Workers’ Union were being cut off to discourage organization. “go “the Transportation Workers’ conference meet a bit secretly, in the {nner city of Canton, The soft thud, “thud of the rickshaw coolies’ bare feet brought us to a gate, and then we walked thru endless narrow streets to an upstairs, where, despite lan- ‘guage difficulties, (three Chinese dia- lects, Russian, German, English, Spa- nish, Dutch and Tagalog) there was adopted, after days of debate, a mani- festo which now proves to have been a revolutionary forerunner of all that is happening in China today. conference took place just a year ago. The manifesto has to now never been published in America. It is a document well worth the at- tention of all workers who-today have their eyes upon China and undefstand- ingly discuss with their fellow-work- ers in the shops the onslaught upon international imperialism made by this eastern people. ~ MANIFESTO Of the Transport Workers of the Orient addressed to the toiling masses of the East, to the prole- tariat of Europe and America and to the Workers’ and Peasants’ state—the Union of Socialist So- Viet Republics. Adopted June 24, 1924, Canton China. R the first time in the history |. of the young but growing labor movement of the East an event has occured which is pregnant with im- portant consequences. In the territory “or revolutionary South China, in Can- ton, representatives of transport work- ers from South and North China, from Java, and Philippine Islands gathered in conference called by the Red In- ternational of Labor Unions. . We, the representatives attending this conference declare the following: Since the world imperialist war six years have elapsed. All the promises made by the big capitalist govern- ments to the oppressed nations of the East, whose man power, raw materials and other necessities were taken in order to help win the war, were not only not fulfilled and the promised independence not given, but instead, in almost all the colonies and semi- colonial countries, the imperialists strengtened their administrative op- pressive apparatus, have increased | their military punitive forces on land 1e Rise of Organized La i and water and have assumed a more tish India by the so-called labor gov- ernment of England which is in fact a bloc of labor aristocracy and liberal bourgeoisie transacting the affairs of British financial capital; the oppres- such cynical contempt sion of the Philippine Islands by de- made at the mocratic” America; the oppression of | again, because the islands of East India by Holland and the united oppression of China by all the imperialists, all have the game exploitative alm, all bring great suf fering to the oppressed peoples, de- priving them of the possibility to live and develope freely. | In those few colonies where the im-|is never explained. perialists have implanted “democra-/ attempt on the tic“ institutions of government pat- tions terned after their own forms of state | ence power, these institutions are mainly | is a plaything in the hands of governor | by AN IRISH 15 4 112 1 43 BF : 3 2 25 4 * BEL CHINESE EDITOR THANKS US FOR OUR ARTICLES ON CHINA \\ — high-handed colonial policy. in their 6 In this respect there is no difference | This was thé case of a substantial nature between the when General policies of all the imperialistic states. with machine The oppression of Korea by the semi- jab This was the cage eudalistic and militaristic govern- when | Japanese ment of Japan; the oppression of Bri- sacred „ 2 i i 1188 nf italism necessitates the formation of militant people’s parties in the colo- nies, consisting of workers, peasants, intellectuals and non-propertied clas- ses in the cities. Such parties will les, but will bring the colonies into closer contact with each other and The DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Iilinols. As I understand Mr. Dunne available fer general distribution, THE CHINESE STUDENTS’ MONTHLY Dear Sir: I have been reading the last few instaliments of Mr. Wm. F. Dunne’s articles on the “Ensiavement of China,” and have found them exceedingly true to the facts as well as interesting and enlightening. There is nothing more valuable at the present time than a reliable and unblased source of information about the condition® in China and I sincerely believe that your paper as a whole and the special columns given exclusively to the affairs of China has champloned a worthy cause for a people in their hard struggle for ultimate freedom and Independence. series of articles about China in a very short time, this merely goes to show your earnestness and richness of detaiis which are rather rare In the present newspaper world. | beg to congratulate your achievements and pray for your success. For a more universal dissemination and systematized manner of presentation to many of those who have not had the opportunity of reading your paper | wish to offer a humble suggestion. Maybe you have already such similar plane in mind in which case it would only be a Joyous mental coincidence. What I would personally like — to find Is to see thie series of articles and what more Mr. Dunne is * likely to write go Into press again in a booklet or pamphlet form with an ardent anticipation and in closing | wish you again the best of work and success. am, yours very truly, Frank Liu, June 27, 1928 \ os — akg fava nd « | 4 . . . ' * i 2, : 4 55 ‘ea A3 K * 7 is going to start with another LL SAS ewe * A As a reader may I be privileged can no more ride on their backs. The ricshas in China went on strike and the foreign gentleman — N — TNF
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r we — —j— ee — „ * . hae 7 * seg a C r tee * 8 * 1 * * x blazes with that. Morgan told me that the British Ambassador was in to see him a few weeks ago asking that the United States support Britain in a joint move on the part of the great powers to force China to accept our terms. Kal—I am pro-British and I hope J. P. will find some way of complying with Sir Esmond’s request. Kell—Hokum! Pro-British! Tou are not any more pro-British than the f * 8 N > > yi ‘ ; Fa > a AP SC PAL one Pr de aio 2 * 8 * * ‘ar . make teh * * 3 "Ww Yar. gdh Lach Paes een . 8 n 7 nn , 2 8 Nr Ms Pee ess * r N aaa ad > . be Cg la * ig oe rr a e tar See $s os “ 45 Be, SS fn dy 15 . ˙ Se, Bok Ve — 8 — 8 E ah , sy , - 8 2 250 . 2 r x > 5 as 822 8 1 23 — — a.. 2 * . Me Bin he ee el RS Big Fellow, but if you saw him laugh. viks were wiser than we thot they ying better than contempla the joy of carving our : a his be- heading sword. The Bolshe- Kal— What makes you think that? Kell— Tou can never tell what those Communists would do. Why, I saw in the paper a few days ago, that they have a great spy system in America and keep track of everything we do and every word we say. Kal—I would not be surprised to find one of them hidden in my hobby horse some morning. But they won’t get much out of me. Kell—I would pity the Communist that is assigned to report what you say, Kal. He would die of borédom. But shucks, this will never do. I must tell you the story. Kal—Hold on. Is this call charged to this side or is it prepaid. Kell—It is charged to you of course. Kal—Then damn it proceed. You'll chinese masses. Let this time means two bits. Snap into Kell—Ohb alright. The Big Fellow said that our game in China must be to pose as the only real friends of the carry the cross Tals time, he said. It's too bad the British did not let Japan do the dirty work, but those Britons have nothing between the ears he said, but gudgeof grease. Kal—What the devil is that? Kell—Damned if I. know, but it must be alright. But to go on. The Chinese are clean mad with England now and will not buy anything made in England. The same is true of the Japs. But for those rascally Bolshe- viks we would be on the pig’s back, he said, and but for our own bone headed diplomats he said, the Chi- nese would now be eating out of our hands, wearing our B. V. D’s and read- ing our bibles. : Kal—What about drinking our cider? ¢ Kell—Don’t be so parochial Think of the country as a whole and not of s chief industry of Vermont. Mor- phe E have the Kuo Min 18 us if we handled them right. Even General Feng was were when they sent an ambassador to China, while we were sending min- isters . . Kal—But the word of god must be spread, Kell, even tho it may not always pay. Kell—Who the hell is talking about the word of god? I mean envoys, dip- lomats, trained liars not preachers. Kal— But preachers lie for the good of the cause sometimes, Kell. Kell—That’s about all they ever do, but to go on with the story. There is no use crying over spilt milk, said the Big Fellow. We must make the best of the situation. He in- structed me to get in touch with some good liberal professor, who can write notes, gramatically and with some de- gree of intelligence. We should first practice by making statements about we should let fly at the Chinese. ‘Borah is doing fine work. Kal—Do you mean to say that the Big Fellow complimented Borah? .Kell—I'll swear to Christ he did. Borah, he said has more brains than all the rest of you put together and if you fellows don’t do better than you're doing, he said, I may make him president next time. It’s easy enuf to get by he said, when things are running smoothly, but in times of cri- sis brains are needed. Kal—Why in hell didn’t you tell him, that Borah would not take orders the same as we are doing? Kell—I told him nothing. He was telling, me. I never saw him so hard- boiled. Kal— Then, the thing for us to do is to do nothing. Is that it? Kell—Just about that. McMurray, our minister to Peking, got his in- structions. Just watch his move- ments and take your cue. By the way I had a nice nip in the Big Fel- low's office. Kal—The stuff they peddle around here is awful. Im anxious to get an 2 run down see me one days, when you're not busy playing | (Letter of a Witness) SOFIA, Bulgaria—On May 27th, at eight o’clock in the morning the “at- tempters” Friedmann, Koeff and Sad- gorsky who were sentenced to death by the courtmartial, were hanged. The execution of the sentence took place on a free place in the eastern suburbs of Sofia. At least 50,000 peo- ple and representatfVes of the foreign press and the embassies were present. The place was guarded by strong de- partments of gendarms and soldiers. The execution was filmed. Faced Death Daily. On May 27th at six o’clock in the morning the prison commander in- forms the prisoners that the execution will take place at eight o'clock. In the room of the director the prison- Regrets Nothing. The state attorney asks the prison- ers for their last wishes. Friedmann asks them not to persecute his fam- ily. The little money that he has in his pocket, is for the hangman. He knew -what he had done. He declared aloud that he had been actually work- ing illegally’ according to his convic- tions. He regretted nothing. But he had nothing to do with the attempt. Koeff wants to write a letter to his brother. The writing lasts a long time and Friedmann calls impatiently: “It is high time, I cannot wait any longer!” _Koeff and Sadgorsky confess to the priest. Comrade Friedmann only bows politely to the priest and says that he needs nothing from him. Dies Calmly. ö The state attorney asks the prison- ers to say their last good bye. Koeff and Sadgorsky remain motionless, while Friedman bows to the audience and then turns to the gallows. “Is | 2 _A Famil) Pictare in China | British, Italian, American 7 se * ving” device in Shanghai, China. and French soldiers with their this mine,” he asks and climbs as the first on the table under the cord where he calmly waits till it is his turn. Koeff is hanged first. Then Sad- gorsky. Friedmann looks at it calmly. When his turn comes, he wipes the dust from his shoes, takes off his coat and proud and calm, as he was before, he received the gipsy who puts the cord around his neck. “Pay atten- tion,” he says to him, “I have given you a tip.” “I understand my job“ the gipsy answers and takes the table away from under Friedmann's feet. Passed Life.for Workers The dead bodies are taken down and given to their relatives for burial, The public gradually goes away. There is a general excitement. Many give loud comment on the happen- ings, others laugh, -But the majority keep silent and walks slowly to the town, Marko Friedmann was 33 years old, lawyer, former member of the munici- pal council and in the last three years editor of the Jewish workers’ paper “Bratstvo.”. The government thinks he is a member of the illegal B. ©, of the C. P. of Bulgaria. He enjoys a great popularity among the Jewish workers and the working class youth in Sofia where he passed all his life with proletarian work, r(wTvrVrVVyrYyTYrTYeeYrerrrrrwrwrwrreeeee ee The Walden Book Shop 307 Plymoath Court (Between State and Dearborn Just South of Jackson) CHICAGO AE ——— ** r n a ‘ * r Rn a 1 Ä „ rn 93
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‘J —ꝓ—— — n 690 ö * n rn (Continued from page 1) labor clauses of he constitution. HAT the Coolidge administra- tion is interested in is not so much what Calles says as what he does. If he proceeds to indemnify Americans for their properties which has been seized under the agrarian law, the American govern- ment will not care how much he fulminates. —(Washington dispatch to the Chicago Tribune; June 15.) The matter stands like this: The Mexican government owes a billion dollars to Americans. It can- not carry out its agrarian program if it has to pay Americans for land to which they have not the vestiage of title. To insist that it do 80 is to sabotage the distribution of the land. Wall Street. and the state depart- ment knows this very well. It does not want the land divided among the peons because its source of cheap labor supply is thereby cut off—a landless people make the best slaves. n ‘addition to this compelling motive the land distribution interferes with the grabbing by American capi- talists of territory rich in oil and min- erals. OW rich is Mexico in natural re- sources? Their wealth is incalculable. From 1901 to 1923 Mexico produced 1.190, 000,000 barrels of oil. In 1920 she was producing 25 per cent of the world’s total supply. In 1923 alone Mexico produced 22,325 kilos of gold, 2,552,- 550 of silver, 138,468,000 of lead and 47,521,000 of copper. There are 44,000,000 acres of for- est and 25,000,000 of these are said by experts to contain vast stretches of pine, spruce, cedar, rosewood, ma- hogany and logwood. Corn, cotton, sisal hemp, what beans, tobacco, cof- fee and sugar cane can be raised in great quantities and with a minimum of labor on the 30,000,000 acres of fertile land now under cultivation. On | the’ hete s* are 1207009, 000 acres of rich k g lands. Here is an em- pire in itself and knowing our rulers as we do (as we ought to, at least) we need not wonder if they look to- wards Mexico with greedy eyes and watering mouths. O rich is this southern country that the Mexican peasants can not be driven into the mines and mills of American capitalism while they have land. The struggle for possession of Mexico’s riches becomes therefore a war on the Mexican masses—over- whelmingly agrarian in composition. There is another thorn in the flesh of Wall Street and the Coolidge ad- ministration—the labor clauses in the Mexican constitution. Article 123 has the following provisions: Eight-hour day—seven hours for all night work—six-hour ‘day for children from 12 to 16—no night work for women and children—one day rest in seven—vacation with pay before and after child-birth— a living wage—living wage cannot be seized for debt—compulsory profit-sharing—wages must be paid in cash—double time for all over- time—housing provisions for work- ‘ers—insurance against accidents in indust omp ry safety and aanitary measures—right to organ- ize, strike and shut down plants —three month’s wages must be paid to worker in case of arbitrary dis- charge—no contracting of labor free employment service—co-opera- tive workingmen’s building associa- tions. O far no Mexican government has been able or willing to enact the necessary laws to make these consti- tutional clauses legally effective but the workers—about 500,000 of them organized—know their rights and in- sist upon them. The program for American imperi- alism can be stated simply: Prevent the distr?bution of the land to the peons and smash or de- bauch the unions of the workers. If these .twin objectives can be reo achieved American imperialism will have about 7,000,000 slaves in Mexico who in return for a handful of frijoles and a hunk of bread will turn the nat- ural resources of that country into a golden stream flowing into Wall Street. * HE Calles“ government was elected as an anti-militarist bloc by the workers and peasants. It has as of- fice holdgrs and hangers-on the whole upper stratum of Mexican labor of- ficialdom and a number of American socialists or former socialists. Since the El Paso convention of the-Amert- can Federation of Labor, after which the officialdom was taken to Mexico City as guests of the Mexican govern- ment, Calles has waged war on the most revolutionary elements of tae workers and peasants. In preparation for the return of the nationalized railways to private hands he has ordered railway union to disband, The workers are to be made government émployes without the right to organize and strike as pro: vided in the constitution. by native rulers and only in emergen- cies resorts to foreign dictatorship. This method has the advantage of not raising the issue of war on a help- less people among the working class at home, of making it appear that whatever the colonials may be suffer ing, it is their own desire, or fault, as the case may ba It is for Wall to enslave the Mer can masses with a native government than to do it with armed forces of the United States, JTNTERESTING as these hypotheses 3 f are, their truth or falsity does not ‘its war on Mexico, open or by a Calles camouflage, is a war on the Mexican workers and peasants. The. American working class must |: learn that the enslavement of the mann e cheaper and less risky | and Wos must em sto take their land rte ig “tt, We must show that we realize “Oh! Gentlemen! call a conference and settle this say MacDonaid, British “socialist,” with the wor Don’t shoot so loud! matter peacefully, bandits. (- You may ethan all the people of the East. Better as you did at Versailles“ —pleads James Ram- S —— He has sent troops into the Tampi- co oil fields to crush strikes and troops have also been used freely to prevent confiscation of big estates by the peasants. UST a few days ago, on June 29, to be exact, a dispatch from Mexico ity announced that 200 “reds” are to deported. As the officialdom of the Mexican labor movement has waged war on the Communists since the El Paso convention it is fairly certain that these 200 “reds” are Communists or sympathizers who have been es- pecially active in the denunciation of the Wall Street policy of the Calles’ government and in the work of the All- American Anti-Imperialist League. The question arises: , Why, if Calles is following a Wall Street policy, did Secretary of State Kellogg send to him what practically amounts to an ultimatum? RE are two possible reasons: (1) Calles, altho following a Wall Street policy, may not be pur suing it with what Wall Street con- siders the necessary rapidity. The Kellogg note in this case was framed to let him know that the mortgage- holders were getting impatient. (2) Wall Street, by attacking Calf- les thru the state department, ma have counted on rallying the Mexica populace to the support of a govern- ment that Wall Street has in its vest pocket, discrediting the revolutionary elements who were attacking Calles as a tool of Wall Street and securing more popular support for his policies. The latter supposition seems the more probable. Imperialism prefers always to have the colonial slaves held in subjection slavement. From Chile the Anacon- da Copper Mining company, a subsidi- | ary of the Standard Oil company, is laying down copper in New York for six cents a pound that it costs it 11 cents per pound to mine and refine in Butte, Montana. It the Mexican peons et can be made” into landless workers, if the Mexican unions can be betrayed and smashed, if the Wall Street policy is enforced either by an American military dic- tatorship or by a puppet Mexican gov- ernment, the living standards of the American workers will not be able to stand this slave competition. If they stand by and watch the Mexican masses dne they will pay the penalty. UT the Mexican workers, with a revolutionary stamina they have shown since they declared their in- will rise from time to time and it is then that a still greater danger will confront the American workers—the d r of being conscripted to butcher — comrades to the south. ERE do the American workers stand on the Mexican question? Are they going to follow the agents Wall Street at the head of the un , applaud the arrests, deporta- tions nurder of the militant work- ers and peasants, allow the Mexican unions to be smashed by a “labor” government and the Mexican workers and peasants driven into the mines, oil refineries and mills of American imperialism to work and starve? Or are the American workers going — dependence from Spain in 1810, will} not be permanently enslaved. They pared. to rally the working class te prevent a single soldier or a single ship going to Mexico to stop them. _ET every worker and farmer ask -himself, his wife, his sweet- heart: f Why in hell should we do anything to aid Wall Street to enslave more people, make our lives harder and strengthen our class enemies? Why should we not be on the job to do all we can to help the Mexican workers and peasants get what be- longs to them, especially when it makes it easier to get what we want —the government, the land and the industries here in the U. 8. * eolal X-Ray rices — to Gas Workers Given ESTABLISHED 12. YEARS. My’ Examination ts Free ö My Prices Are Reasonable My Work Is Guaranteed Extracting Specialist DELAY MEANS DECAY 18 ways ‘and the mines in the name ot the Mexican people, we must be pre- 4 2 408 r * SE eR Tt a. ESOS Sy ay wee n 9 . —— ꝰ —V— .