Daily Worker
July 11, 1925
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ing comp ers’ . Union.“ In spite of the rain in the Yesterday was the end of the seoand week: of the. Ama mated Clothing Workers strike against the Interns any and the J. L. Taylor Co., which t open shop with the aid of the scabs sent by the United Garment Work- onal to ru morning, the 9 — over the street, those without umbrellas getting downpour but cheeful and determined, knowing th: = rk again. The scabs thought that the rain wo AS WE SEE IT. By T. J. O'}FLAHERTY | g ID you ever experience the discom- “fort of riding a lazy camel thru the Sahara desert, with your tongue _ amalgamated to the roof of your mouth With thirst, and ‘wondering ‘how long you could bear your agony when suddenly a little clump of trees catches your eye? yourself “there is an oasis, and un- lese I run into a hostile sheik, I can slake my thirst without having to open up my camel's belly and tap his reservoir.” - * * * ND if on nearing the oasis you saw + approaching on a prancing steed, a person who might be. the bearer of good or ill tidings. Thirsty travelers ‘always prepare for the worst, ‘I un- derstand, and you might probably predict that an Arabian javelin might be twanging in your gizzard as soon . his dirty work. : to have n. Fer; Hbs, bowed — said toy you: weary and leader the chiek, has heard d coming and bids me welcome you, „ and cabe he commands you to make yourself at home.“ . e veal + 2 * * * RANSPORT yourself from sandy wastes of Africa to the great open spaces of Montana and trans- form yourself into this mortal if you want to reach an approximation of the feelings that would be experienced by a normal traveler in the predicament described in the preceding para- graphs. The camel in this case will be capably represented by the Great Northern Railway; the oasis by Plentywood and the shiek by the Farmer-Labor Party of Sheridan County, of which Plentywood is the county. seat. WAS scheduled to speak in Plenty- wood on the Fourth of July. The Great Northern Railway gave me more than my money’s worth of trans- portation. It carried me beyond my stop. What that means in Montana can only be understood by native sons. Young men grow old between stops out there—on express trains. Locals never seem to leave their ‘stops. However, I finally managed to get to town sOmewhere in the vicin- ity of the place I should have gotten off at. The conductor left the train to go on a hunting trip, and while he Was away a man entered the coach and asked for me. identity he ordered me to come along and get into his car. He was the sheriff of Sheridan County. ORE bail money!” you will say, The last time I had the privilege of riding in a car provided by a sheriff (Continued on page 6.) bundle to distribute there. the ference. Nothing doing! They were stopped left and right. Wednesday night, hundreds’ of workers from nearby shops marched around the shops until late at night, to be sure that the scabs would either stay inside or give a chance for talk- ing if they came out. ; Two More Fly Away. . Thursday morning, two more work ers who had been bamboozled into going to work, came down to join the \strikers. They say that some of the “Ho” you say to scabs stay all night in the shop for fear of the picket line. They sleep on boxes, broken tables and eat dry lunch drenched down with water, and live like rats in a hole, with win dows smeared over to prevent any striker or the sun to look inside. This shows that the strikers are watching everything closely. Yesterday , morning there were three arrests made, one being A. Martini and another Mrs. Frank Ci- cala. The latter, a crippled girl, tried to approach a scab, when a cop interfered and—at . first—raised der important by taking the ones en 0 out at night home in private But a close Gount shows int 17 scabs on the job. Use A. F. of L.. to Break Strike. This is as many as they oan get, in spite of the scabby United Garment “Union,” whose connection with the American Federation of Labor is be- ing used by the bosses to break the strike of the Amalgamated. How lowing advertisement for union scabs copied from the Daily News of Thurs- CUTTERS, ON SPECIAL ORDER. We have a few positions open for experienced men: these jobs are permanent and are worth having: $47 per week for unton scale; you will be asked to join the United Garment Workers, who are in the American Federation of Laber; this is a chance for many Who are not satisfied with present condi- On admitting my } Tell other workers what happens iny your shop. Write a story and send it’ to the DAILY WORKER. Order a Leader of the Riffian rebels. tions in the trade; we want men -{Continued on page 2) | ABD-EL-KRIM = 7 * BY TRAITOROUS ROUMANIAN TORTURES AND MURDERS OF WORKERS BY HANGMEN APPROVED SOCIAL-DEMOCRATS Communists. that while leaving Bucharest he newspapers.) (Continued on page 3) : hp . BUCHAREST, Roumania—(By Mail)— A prominent Swiss jour- nalist, editor of the ‘ Journal of Geneva,’ Shapiuza, visited Bucharest recently in response to an official invitation from government circles. “According to the offer extended by the Attorney Kastafory, general secretary of the Human and Civic Rights Defense League, Mr. Shapiuza visited those accused in te trial of the Roumanlan * „ This visit made such a heavy impression upon Mr. Shapiusa stated to the ‘journalists: I am leaving your beautiful country with a feeling ‘of A person who was bereaved of his last faith in respect for human ‘dignity. From the 7 would N sneak in peacefully and 23 inter. his: club to strike. 12 someho hee this is done can be seen by the fol-|> | Midland Tailoring Co. * land Tailoring company at 225 West im the hope of keeping them as strike eae VOU ex bby > af Cree e - - 7: . „ e hen ~ Post Office a close, Nunole, under the Act of March 3, 1879. *.* ? Pa Ca a gig ling Chae a ge eR a cy am oe ape eaten ( ii lt te getline ON G \ — 1 1 NEW YORK EDITION — = , JULY 11, 1925 | — Published Daily except Sunda PUBLISHING CO,, 1118 W. by THE DAILY WORKER . ngton Bird, Chicago, III. Price 3 Cents a4 3 y * — A — — WON O THAT R HUGHES ECONOMIC VACUUM -? ER. WHERE MISLAID USSIAN | Americans s Enlist On Imperialists’ Side PARIS, France, July 9.—Fez, the capital of Morocco, is again threatened by a new attack of the Riffians. Ten thousand natives have been thrown against the. French invaders. The French communique admits that the situation of the French im- perilaists is alarming. “The enemy plans an intensive offensive against Fez,” it states, “by a direct attack froth the north. The eastern sector is tin menaced and we had to dis- arm some tribes around Taza today.“ Evacuate Civilians at Taxa. The evacuation of civilians from Taza was ordered; it has now been learned, because the native popula- tioh was growing continually more hostile to the French. The natives in the Taza region have joined the Rif- fians. in large numbers, and the re- mainder have been prevented from do- "(Continued on page 2) Reported Willing to “Sign Up with A. C. W. ‘The tailors working for the Mid- Ohio street who have been on strike nearly.two months now, are expected to go back soon as the firm is report- ed to be ready to sign an agreement with the . Amalgamated Clothing Workers. There have been about 60 men out on an organization strike, the firm having been run on the open shop plan since 1921 altho in 1920 it was in the A. C. W. The shop closed for a short period and then re-opened as an open shop. It brought in Italians and Negroes + breakers when 57 of the force walked out about two months ago. Evident- ly the work was not done as the old workers could do it, and in spite of the sluggers and police kept always guarding the shop the firm had to give in | DENIES WAGE RAISE || (Special to ‘The Daily Worker.) NEW YORK CITY, July 9.—The chairman of the governor’s commis- sion which is. arbitrating the con- flict between the ‘Ladies’ Norse Communists Busy. OSLO, Norway, July 9—The ar | Fival today of a British fleet for a “The Jnited States is not insisting | egy vee Oude wen mares by intense on an immediate conference, but 1 O0 munen by Norwegian willing to wait a more. suitable time,” | ~OC™™MUnist. Appeals were made to it wae aheted. the British bluejackets and mac'nes. Regarding the exchange of notes | “Rise in revolt rather than to ober. between Japan and Britai , the Amer-|YOur government if you are ordere¢ ican government was said to feel that | to make war on Russia,” was one nasmuch as these nati ns have been leaflet handed the British tars by le the objects of Chinese antagonism dis- cal Communists. played in strikes, they are bound to The young Communist League of form @ common policy. 4 Norway placarded the city with The tactics of the British foreign | posters, printed in English and ad- office in explaining British attitude to- dressed to the English visitors, criti- ward the proposed conference might cizing the part the British govern- slangily be described as passing the ment is playing in China and de- buck.” nouncing the present propaganda in Britain Says China Objects London against Soviet Russia. In Downing street, the center of “Great Britain plans war against British imperialisns, it was said that Russia,“ Communist orators and edi- Britain has “no objection” to an im tors told the visiting Englishmen. mediate conference on extra- territor}: “if a war broke out, you will be or- ality, but that “other powers” have dered to go, but you must not fight objections. Most remarkably, the your brothers: Give them all ‘your British officials say that China's gov- assistance. Start-a mutiny and insur- ernment itself is objecting and wants rection before you agree to this new delay on the ground tnat abolition of extra-territoriality must wait until there is a “more stable government” than it is! The British foreign ice denies war.” British Communists Reply to Slanders Against Communism joint action in China, but says that the message only “inquired what Ja- | pan's attitude is.“ | MOSCOW.— Gallagher, Mag Manus. Pollitt, and Stewart who represent the British Communist Party upon the Where Is That Magic 40 A nti - In junctionꝰ Bill executive committee of the Commun- J ist International, issued a statement The Labor Lobby Won? to the press some time ago with ref- ‘erence to the world-wide campaign started against Communism, Refuting the allegations that the omintern stands for individual ter- they point out that the antl-Com- ( campaign is in fact but a pee for an onslaught against the An ee Ra the Unit- ed Shoe Repairers’ Association from picketing the shop of Samuel Moore. 6845 S. Halsted St., Who has refused | to join the organiaztion, was served | Wednesday by Judge Charles M. Foe!! ror mul par in the superior court. Union of Soviet Republics ’ ee n 05 A 1 e 9 Wer Vee ale 4 et + sufferable loss to British industry at *. pt e — n
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oa oe ar 7 * Re * “workers received >». * © * * 32% * *® 2 105 ri 722 9 _ Gibson Co. Workers Fight the “Open Shop” „The blacksmiths employed at the “Gibson Spring company, 1802 Clybourn Ave., have gone out on strike in sym- pathy with the locked-out spring- makers, machinists and toolmakers. Over 150 workers are now out fight- ing the ulfimatum of the company that the “open shop” would be in- stalled and that the agreement with District No. 8 of the International As- sociation of Machinists, which has ex- pired, would not be renewed. The attempt of the Gibson company to smash the union in the shop came to a head a few days ago when the company posted bulletins that the eight-hour day would be abolished and the men must henceforth work nine hours a day. Their hours had been from 8 a. m. to 4:30 p. m., and they] were ordered to report for work at 7:30 and remain until 5 p. m. Refuse to Negotiate. The machinists disregarded the notice, and reported for work at 8 ‘o'clock as usual. They were then locked out. The agreement with the machinists and tolomakers expired on May 1, and ‘with the springmakers on July 1. The letters from the Gibson company 30 days prior to the termination of the agreements that they would not be renewed. When Oscar Uhlmann, busmess agent for district eight of the Ma- chinists’ Union, attempted to mego- tiate with the management, he was told that “nothing could be done as the company has decided to go on the open shop basis.” The Gibson Spring company was ‘recently absorbed by the Associated Spring corporation of New York, and is now connected with the national metal trades association, the metal manufacturers’ open shop” associa- tion. Police Called tn. In April the company began itsy drive to crush the union by employing five non-union girls for thirty-five cents an hour, under the union agree- ment. Rest rooms were installed for these girls by the company. Several of them have now joined the walk- out. Six or eight policemen are kept con- stantly at the entrance to the Cly- bourn avenue plant, but as yet no ar- rests have been made. The machin- ists are conducting regular picketing. For the first time yesterday, four- teen strikebreakers were taken into the plant, but they are the profes- sional strikebreakers, who will not turn out any work. Amalgamated Under F ire Of Capitalist . Injunction In Phila. PHILADELPHIA, July 6-—(FP)— An injunction against the Amalgamat- ed Clothing Workers Union is granted on behalf of E. & R. Rosenberg, cloth- ing manufacturers, and Steinberg & Oritsky, cutters for Rosenberg. The injunction prevents union “members, officers, confederates, employes and all persons acting in aid for and conjunc- tion with and conspiring to injure the operations of plaintiff’s employes” from most of the usual picket duties of strikers. The Amalgamated is try- ing to organize these firms complete- . „Another new Sub— Makes an- other Communist. OF printing trades. 5 Cents a Copy 50 Cents a Year | News LAO MFA BAAS Ahh hhrhalh —_ — Ee “Stand ty Soviet Russia!” Demand “Hands Off China?” | arranged as follows: day, July 12, 3 p. m., William F. Dunne. to be announced later. ST. PAUL, MINN.—Mass meeting, Tuesday, Jul p. m., Minnehaha Hall, 160 W. 9th St. Speaker, William F. Dunne. KANSAS CITY, MO.—July 15th, 12th & Forest. Speaker Mass meetings and demonstrations have already been DETROIT, MICH.—Mass meeting and picnic, Sunday, July 12, Campbell Grove, end of Mack Ave. car line, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.—Open air mass meeting, Sun- Richmond Park. Speaker, Robert Minor. EAST LIVERPOOL, O.—Mass meeting, Sunday, July 12, 7:30 p. m., Trades and Labor Hall. Speaker, Fred H. Merrick. ST. LOUIS, MO.—Mass meeting, Friday, July 17, Labor Lyceum, 1243 N. Garrison. Speaker, Louis J. Engdahl. PITTSBURGH, PA. Mass meeting, 2 4. 2:30 p. m., Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller St. en Gitl MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.—Mass meeting, Monday, July 20, 8 p. m., Finnish Hall, 1317 Western Ave. No. Speaker, 19, eaker, ow. 21, 8 & | Amalgamated Strike Tightens Grip (Continued from page 1) who are not afraid to walk thru the picket line of the Amalgamat- ed union, which is not affiliated with the Ameri n. Federation of Labor. Apply in person to J. L. TAYLOR & CO. 315 8. Peoria. St. + & „ Strikers Curious About A. F, of L. The strikers are wondering how long it is going to take the Chicago Federation of Labor to wake up to the fact that the name of the A. F. of L. is being used to cover scabbing. It is hardly a successful scabbing however, owing to the power of the A. C. W. The customers of the I. T. ic. are cantelling their orders, said Stephen Scala, a member of the G. E. B. speaking yesterday. Evidence was cited of letters written to the firm and copies sent to the union. Other speakers brot out the signifi- cance of the strike to the whole A. C. W. and that it is not altruism for workers to picket the stuck shops of open shop bosses. It is self protec- tion to defend the union wherever it is attacked. Tillie Kazak, the grey haired old fighter again had the floor at yesterday’s meeting to urge her brothers and sisters of the union to stick as they are sticking until they Win. Word from thé same firnis’ shops in New York City shows are tied up tightly. There, the firms made no attempt to run with a scab union. They didn’t want even that much of a fig leaf to cover their naked hostility to unionism. Yellow Dog Contract in New York. In New York they sent by mail to feach worker a blank application form of what is known as a “yellow dog” WORKER HURT BECAUSE OF WESTERN ELECTRIC COMPANY'S NEGLIGENCE By HARRY ALLEN (Worker Correspondent) Because of the greed of the rail- road company to increase its prof- its, a worker injured his leg while unloading pigs of lead out of a box car in the Hawthorne works of the Western Electric Co. The accident was due to the company’s negli- gence. While pushing over a 2-ton load of lead out of a box car, a wheel suddenly broke thru the rotten floor, toppling the heavy load on the worker, breaking one of his legs in two places. — . ——— eae ee FACTS AND FIGHT | contract, wherein the worker who signs it agrees that he or she is not now a member of any union, will not become a member of any union, and will not induce anyone else to be- come a member of any union. On Tuesday, there was a private detective, Joseph Kline, employed by the I. T. C. in New York City thru the Williams Detective Agency, who had a run of hard, luck when strike sympathizers collided with six scabs he was guarding on their way to the shop. He is now in the Bellevue hos- pital and in a serious condition. Scab Stabs Fink. It seems that Kline was trying II- legally to force people off the side- walk to let his scabs by, when the scabs mixed in and in the melee Kline was stabbed by mistake by a scab. The injunction reported to be given ‘a hearing yesterday, was argued partly, but postponed until next Tues- day when further arguments will be that both. ‘made. No order has yet been issued by Judge Sullivan who has the case, according to information given out at Manager Lévin's office. Sounds Like “Old 400” Is Coming Back Again LAMAR, Cold. i uly 9.—-Harvest workers, trying 0 Job to job on a Santa Fe freight in western Kansas, were denied the opportunity unless they would fork over a few dollars to the crew. Not being able to pay for riding passenger trains they demurred to having to pay their fare on freights, took over the train and decided to ride anyhow. When the train passed thru Syra- cuse, Kansas, the conductor dropped a note asking that a telegram be sent to the sheriff at Lamar and the work- ers were arrested. A posse, heavily armed as though to meet invading hosts, met the train and began firing before the workers could unload and hike out after jobs. Sixteen were arrested. Switchman Dies in Auto Crash. CENTRALIA, III., July 9.—J. E. Rag- land, 40, Centralia railroad switchman, died today in a hospital at Breeze, III., from injuries received when he ran the car he was driving into the rear end of an automobile truck near Carlyle, 18 miles west of here. His wife Minnie, 36, severely injured, was expected to recover, Write the story about your shop— Order a bundle to distribute there. Get ‘This Issue of International Review and ments in the trade. 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The board, it was understood, would consider liquidation of assets and return by the graih marketing to original holders of elevators and oth- | er equipment turned over to it upon its organization.. The $4,000,000 advanced to the grain marketing company by the ven- dor companies will be repaid, it was stated. — — Teachers’ Wages Under Consideration by Board Under the heading of recommenda- tions for dealing with teachers’ sick leave, the slickest teachers’ sweating plan was brot before the board of education yesterday afternoon thru Superintendent of ‘Schools William McAndrew. The recommendation ‘points a way to extract part of pachers salary. It requires that on sik leave or other valid absence such ‘as death of rela- tives, the absent teachér must pay half the salary of the substitute teach- er. And it demands the docking of the entire salary ot absent teachers without leave with am ‘assessment of half of the su bute’s* pay against the teacher’s future Salary. Even the most gullible in the ranks of the teachers can ne longer doubt that the teachers zug not the big tax dodgers are gos to supply the deficit in the school trea ee TOKYO, July 9. Tentative ‘naval estimates for the cor year show a total of $140,000,000, an increase in or- dinary expenditure of $7,500,000 and in extraordinary expenditiire of $12,500,- 000. x The latter includes $5,000,000 for new style weapons, $4,000,000 for war- ship construction and $36,000,000 for auxiliary warship construction. These estimates probably will be drastically cut, however. Beach Outing For Class War Prisoners Given by Los Angeles Comrades LOS ANGELES, Cal., July 9.—A big beach outing to help the class war prisoners will be held on Sunday, July 12th, at Freheit“ Beach. The out- ing is held under the auspices of the labor defense and the C. C. C. of the Workers Party. A big program of outdoor games has been arranged for by a special sports committee. Refreshments and luncheon will be served all day. Tickets 756. Busses (not trucks) leave Mott and Brooklyn, also Sixth nd Los Angeles streets at 8 a. m. * j Nautsch Girl ENpects Child LONDON, July 9.—Mumtaz Begum, once the most beautiful Nautsch girl of India, whose testimony aided in the conviction of nine men for the murder of her lover, Abdul Kadir Bawla, is to become a mother soon, it was learned today. Appeals from the sentence of death imposed on three of the conspirators’ will be heard shortly. Spanish Matador Hurt. MADRID, July 9.—The matador For- tuno Chico was in a serious condition with brain concussion today after be- ing gored and trampled by a bull he was about to slay in the bull-ring. The animal tore the matador’s face. Get Away With It 2 Months. The school board has taken steps to notify the 14 loop lesses of school property who have refused to pay the board's increase in rental appraisal and have withheld payment since May 8th that they must either pay their rent or be subject to ejection. Pick Cunningham Jury GARY, Ind., July 9.—A jury for the trial of Mrs. Anna’ Cunningham, al- leged “poison mother” of Gary, who is charged with the murder of her 10- year-old son, Walter, by administering arsenic in his food, will soon be com- pleted, according to predictions of the te and defense Backs Capitalist Crimes By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. in Surging Pacific But “2 Fe 1 . * ODAY, Chester Rowell, the California “Bull Mooser“ in 1912, but now a devout follower of Coolidgeism, tells the Institute of Pacific Relations meeting at Honolulu that the American immigration law against Japan “could have been framed more politely. He attacked the “lack of courtesy’ shown in Tokio-Washington relations. But like a good “native son” of California and a staunch supporter of Ameri- can imperialism, he declares, of the Anti-Japanese law: “But now we have it, we must live up to it.” „ * „ „ Thus Chester Rowell, flaming “progressive” in support of Roosevelt a dozen years | mizes the whole philo- sophy of the so-called liberal-minded American politician. The brutal banditry of big business may be raw and uncouth, it may posses none of the.niceties of the discussions carried on by parlor radicals, like the present conference in the Hawaiian Isles, but once capitalism's crimes are committed, as they always will be while capitalism lasts, they must be accepted, and just as often ‘apologies advanced for them. ss ss. *8 The “institute” at Honolulu professes to an ambition to stave off war in the Pacific: This is a confession, even from this source, that war is on the way; that imperialist rivalries on the earth’s greatest ocean are breeding another great slaughter. And all that the California intellectual, Rowell, has to offer is that the battle be carried on with padded gloves instead of brass knuckles. His plea will always remain un- answered. — ~ oa +. Charles C. Batchelder, formerly American commercial attache in China, gave some of the facts that should prove even to a Rowell, from California, that the surgin along the shores of the Pacific cannot be soothed by the srtumming of a ukulele. Batchelder offers the following: 1. facture locally with European machinery, such raw materials as silk, rubber and jute, formerly manufactured in Europe and the United States may upset the economic organization of the world. 2. British workers are unemployed and are not consuming American food products as a result of India’s making her own cotton cloth from her own cotton instead of buying British cloth made from American cotton. 3. Indian cotton yarn is replacing British yarn in China. One hun- dred and nineteen Chinese mills are now manufacturing cotton cloths formerly supplied to the chinese by Lancashire, England. 4. Por the present the tremendous demand in India, China and Japan for their own products absorbs most of the local producction, but the goods of those countries are already penetrating Oceania, Malaysia and Africa and will soon invade South America. We can see the time when they will invade Europe and America. aie? Qa 8 +. * Like a good servant of imperialism, Batchelder has his remedies. He says Great Britain is meeting the competition of the Orient by sending prints, bleached new products” into the orient, instead of the in time. i hie 1 He also points out that high tariffs” will combat the flood of cheap oriental goods; the tariffs that are a weapon for sharpening, but certainly not for solving trade rivalries. The imperialist agent, Batchelder also worries about the 3 of the oriental standard of living with that of the occi- ent. sage . There is only one place in the world today where the standard of living is on the up-grade at a rapid rate. That is the Union of Soviet Republics; that stretches to the Pacific along the northern borders of China. The Soviet Union is taking care of its standard of living. China can be depended on to do the same. | 4 * * + : The industrialization of Asia can be accomplished peace- fully thru an international economy created by a World Soviet Union. If capitalist imperialism lives, if it is not over- thrown, however, it will come thru the travail of a series of world-devastating wars, finally culminating just the same in the World Soviet Republic. 2 „ % b The issue is not between the 750,000,000 peoples of Asia and the 200,000,000 whites of the occident, as the imperialist press would have the workers of Europe and America be- lieve. The struggle is between the billion workers and farm- ers on this globe, of all colors and races, and the small hand- ful of imperialists who rule thru the iron fist of their dictator- ship. That is meget et | the Institute on Pacific Relations will not discuss. And when it is discussed by anyone else, it will be denouncced as Bolshevism. But in Bolshevism, as i to imperialism, lies the hope of the workers of the world. | ** unrest The increasing tendency in Japan, India and China to manu- ods and N. pl in cotton s couldn’t and won't du ate these Floods and Shocks Do Great Damage EVERY GIRL COMRADE ON | JOB TO MAKE Freer "TAG DAY BIG SUCCESS In Northern Japan Every reader of the DAILY WORKER and every member of the Workers (Communist) Party is urged to participate in the Flower Tag Day to be held in Chicago by the Jewish Communist Daily the Freiheit this coming Sunday morn- ing. Women and girls are asked to report at the following stations not later than 7 a. m. Sunday morn- ing where everything will be in readiness to go! The stations to report at on Sun- day morning at 7 a. m. are Frei- heit office, 3118 West Roosevelt Road; Freiheit Singing Society, 3837 West Roosevelt Road; North- west side: Ceshinski’s Book Store, 2720 West Division St.; Jewish Workers’ Culture Society, 2032 West Division; West side; Waller- stein’s Boo Store, 1022 West Roosevelt Road. At 2 p. m. Sunday, after all vol- . unteers have returned to the above supply stations, and from there all! wili go together to the Young Workers League excursion in the Milwaukee Woods. Getting a DAILY WORKER sub or LONDON, July 9.—Thousands of ‘homes in Nagoya, Japan, -have been submerged by floods, which came in the wake of the latest earthquake shocks there. Traffic has been stop- ped. Extensive floods also have spread over northern Japan, doing extensive crop damage and interfering with the traffic. Two deaths occured in Tokio as a result of a heat wave which centered over the capital. Ford Plots to Get Monopoly on Air Mail of Government LOS ANGELES, July 9—Maintain- ing the greatest secrecy in their ne- gotiations, representatives of Henry Ford were today reported to be seek- ing the aid of leading Southern Cali- fornia financiers in a gigantic air mail service plan to operate a $10,000,000 fleet of sky planes, obtain- ing from the government exclusive contracts for the delivery of air mall. In the proposed merger, Los An- geles would be used as one of the chief terminals on the air mail line, it was revealed. This city. would be linked with New York, traveling via two will make a better Communist of Salt Lake City and Chicago. . — sss —̃ — : Sam Genna is hiding undér the pro tection of a police guard. The man from whose trembling lips came the plea for help, which the police answered, is the brother of Tony, who has answered the sum- mons of a gangster’s gun. A month ago his brother Mike, known as “The Killer,” was shot down and killed by Sergeant William Sweeney after two policemen had been killed. Seven weeks ago his brother, An- gelo, “The Bloody” died when a saw- ed off shotgun in the hands of an as- sassin spoke its message. The appeal for protection came after he had been questioned by police re- garding his brother's death yesterday and had been told he could go. As a result of his plea police are guard- ing the Genna family. They are also searching for two members of the O’Banion gang to question them re- garding the killing of Tony Genna. They're going to get all of us Gen- ‘na’s,” said Sam Genna, “and I’m next. I know. I’ve been told. I was told that Tony would get it. So was he. They said they'd get all of us.” NEW ATTACK OF RIFFIANS DRAWS CLOSE TO FEZ (Continued from page 1) ing so only by the machine guns of the French. Moroccans Launch New Attack. The new attack of the Moroccans 7 has been launched along the Ourgha river between Mijara and Tinaicha, and is pushing directly toward the capital. Marshal Lyautey is rushing all available tanks, cavalry, machine guns, and infantry to the north front. Reports from Madrid declare that Abd-el-Krim, will be offered “autonomy under a Spanish protectorate.” This is regarded as a farce as it is de- finitely known that Krim will not accept a Spanish protectorate as the price of peace. g American aviators have been press- ed into the service of French im- perialism. Those who have already enlisted in a French foreign ‘aviation unit to fight the Moroccans include Granville A. Pollack of New Orleans ‘and .Charles W. Kerwood of Phila- delphia. Premier Painleve's policy. of war- ring on the Moroccans at the instiga- tion of the French bankers to protect their interests, was again opposed in the chamber of deputies when Pain- leve asked an additinoal credit of 183,000,000 francs ($9,150,000) to pur- sue the imperialistic war. The credit was passed over the opposition of the Communists. ö EVOLUTION IS NOW TAUGHT IN U. OF TENNESSEE, NEAL (Continued from page 1) morning on “What shall I do with Je sus?” and is to teach a Methodist Sunday school class next Sunday. Bryan has declared that the issue is the Bible against science in the com- ing trial, and he would prohibit the teaching of science and make the Bi- ble a part of the federal constitution, over-riding the United States supreme court if necessary. He recognizes the fact that scientific truths,expose the Bible’s story of creation as a fairy tale, and is anxious to suppress the truth and make the bed time stories (as well as the bedroom stories) of the Bible, a part of the law. Darrow Thinks Bryan Gullible The defense counsel, in answering Bryan’s utterances, reiterate that the anti-evolution law is a violation of the state and federal constitutions, violating the rights of free speech and free opinion. Clarence Darrow, defense attorney, declared, “If Mr. Bryan thinks a Ten- nessee court or jury is going to have any influence on the thot and investi- gations of the world he’s a very gulli- ble man.” “Bryan is a little bit off on religion,” was the comment of John Scopes, the defendant, Urge Federal Divorce Laws INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., July 9.—A national uniform marriage and divorce law to replace the existing “hodge podge” of state statutes was urged on the nation by Mrs. Edward Franklin White, reporter for the Jediana su- preme and appellate courts, in an ad- dress before the Indiana Bar associa- tion here today. MacMillan at Hopedale, WASHINGTON, July §9—After buek- ing a forty mile wind, the MacMillas Arctic expedition has arrived at Hope- dale, Labrador, said a dispatch today to the National Geographical 2 1 — PF Pee — : rate —
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Negroes and C . Attack Imperialism (Special to The Duily Worker) CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 9.—Anti- imperial week was brought to a close here on Sunday, July 5, by a mon- ster demonstration on the public Square. Fifteen hundred workers of all nationalities listened for hours to the anti-imperialist speeches made by members of the Workers (Commun- ist) Party, the voung Workers’ League, and the Kuo Min Tang. Over a thousand voices cheered when the appeal of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League, calling for united action of all labor organiza- tions demanding: “Hands off China,” was read. Soviet Unioh Greatest Friend. “Comrade James Hamilton, local or- ganizer of the Workers Party, open- ed the meeting with a speech on the conditions in China and the effect of imperialist policies upon the working class. He called upon the workers of every race to join the Workers (Com- munist) Party which is the only fight- er against the Capitalist system which enslaves all workers regardless of race or nationality. He showed that in the struggle of the Chinese work- ers and students against the imperial- ist robbers, Soviet Russia was their greatest friend and helper. Cheer -Chinese Speaker. The secretary of the Cleveland branch of the Kuo Min Tang, Brother Hong, then mounted the rostrum. He was greeted with thunderous applause in recognition of the valiant strug- gle. now being waged by the Kuo Min Tang in China. Brother Hong told of the brutal manner in which the Chinese workers were treated by the foreign imperialists who have en- trenched themselves in China by mili- tary force. He was heartily cheered when he asked: “What would you American workers do if you had to work 14 and 16 hours a day for low wages in a mill where your overseer was free to beat you, and if you were accountable not to American courts but to the courts set up by a foreign consul? You /would fight, wouldn’t you? Well, that is what the Chinese workers and ¢tudents are doing. They gare fighting o free themselves from the rule of the capitalists and to get China for the Chinese.“ Brother Hong expressed the appreciation of his or- anization of the work being done y the Workers Party and the Com- munists of the world to help China in her struggle for liberation from the imperialistic rule of France, — and Great Britain. Youth First Victims. — The position of the young workers under imperialistic capitalism was then exposed by Comrade Carl Weiss- berg, local organizer of the Young Workers’ League. He showed that under imperialism wages and work- ing conditions are lowered thru the competition of colonial workers and that the young worker is the first vic- tim of the poorer conditions. He also pointed out that unless the American workers fight against imperialism they will be permitting the establish- ment of a great military machine which the American bosses will em- ploy to beat the workers at home in- to submission to the capitalist sys- tem. Comrade Weissberg explained that the young workers would be the first victims of the inevitable imperialist war, and called upon all workers to — — * BRIT ISH UNIONS WAGE WAR UPON UNEMPLOYMENT; REJECT LOW WAGE | AND CLASS COLLABORATION PLAN B „ eee rr * i Teen ASO 4 Cae ¥, / Council: LONDON, July i. taser the direction of the General Council of Trade Unions, the British labor movement held gigantic mass meetings recently, | in demonstration against unemployment and the tendency of the a and government to cut wages on that account. How strogly the British unions are fighting against the menace of unem- ployment, may be seen from the following resolution which was the usual form adopted at hundreds of meetings and was sent out by the General — “This mass meeting of workers and citizens views with the utmost gra- vity the continuance of peg ie ment on a large scale. dies of lower wages, longer hours and the degradation of established work- ing conditions, and condemns the sug- gestion that steps should be taken to relieve the unemployment. fund by depriving of unemployment be workers for whom employment is mY, available. “This meeting insists upon an ace tive policy for the provision of so- cially useful work, and emphasises rather than maintenance, whilst. in- sisting where work is not forthcoming adequate maintenance must be pro- vided. “For those who are not absorbed. into employment this meeting de- mands continuous maintenance at the rate of 30s, for the adult workers, 10s. for the wife of the unemployed. work- establishment of centers for the train- ing of unemployed workers and par- ticularly of junvenile workers. “With these ends in view, it calls “It repudiates the spurious rene the desire of the unemployed for work | }mon good the resources of the nation 4 4 N er, and 5s. for each child, and the it to develop national schemes of pow- fit er and transport, to secure the fuller der recognized Trade Union condi- tions in particular to reopen immediately negotiations with the Russian govern- upon the government. „(a) National.—To establish a na- tional employment and development board, as outlined in the prevention of unemployment bill, charged with the duty of. developing for the com- and of British territories over seas, and furnished with funds to enable utilization of the land, and to pro- \ mote. schemes of all kinds which will | augment the national resources with a view to the provision of work un- /£“(b) International.— To take every step to assist international trade, and ment with the object of encouraging and supporting trade relations by the fullest possible application of the Trade Facilities Acts and the Over- seas Trade Acts to Russian Trade. “Finally, this meeting pledges it- self to continue unceasingly to press forward these proposals to secure jus- tice for the unemployed workers and their families. on unite into an international fight against all imperialist maneuvers of the capitalist class; and he called upon all young workers who were ready to fight against the capitalist system which led to imperialistic wars, to join the Young Workers’ League. Negroes Fight Imperialism. Comrade Martin Gordon, of the Young Workers’ League, spoke on the relation of imperialism to.the po- sition of the Negro workers. He told of thé fight being made by the Com- munists in France for the withdrawal of troops from Morocco. He showed that the Communists were fighting with the workers of all countries for their freedom from the yoke of capi- talism, and he called upon all Negro organizations to heed the call of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League, and to join in the fight against the oppression of colonial and semi-col- onial peoples by the capitalist class. Sell DAILY WORKER. The sham of July.4 Day” was thoroly exposed by Com- rade John W. Marshall of New York. who showed how the imperialists are trying to mobilize the workers for military training in order to have them ready to shoot down the work- ers of other countries when they would rise up against the super-ex- ploitation by foreign capitalists. The Sunday meeting was the best that Cleveland has seen for a long time. A large number of Chinese workers and many members of the Kuo Min Tang took part in the de- monstration. At least a Negro workers enthusiastically took part in this protest against imperial- ism. When the police forbid the sale of the DAILY WORKER, the crowd showed its spirit by buying every copy of a large bundle of pa- pers at a nearby corner. Many work- ers contributed to anti-imperialist work by paying fifty cents or a dollar for their papers. Many valuable contacts have been made at this meeting with workers of all nationalities, and these will be used by the Workers Party and the Young Workers’ League in the united front campaign which they are mak- ing for Hands off China. „Independence hundred Unemployment is spreading. Worry Boosters Launch Los Angeles Boom to Lure Bunkables LOS ANGELES, July 9.—Business has been slumping in Los Angeles. | has moved the leading boosters to heroic action. After July 1, $1,000,- 000 will be expended to advertise the city. Eastern capital is to be sought. Labor should profit by early warn- n this capitalist stronghold is tocked with the exploited. Un- 9 09 ‘ed crowd the workers’ quart- ers. ey are literally down on their knees pleading tor work. Claims that this is the cheapest labor market in America are only too well borne out. Advertising that might bring working- men here is criminal. The same applies to ousiness. In May and June the exodus to the east left trade flat. Stores and tenements became vacant. Landlords were ask- ed by the realty board to remove To Let” and “For Sale” signs as there were so many of them that they add- ed to the business depression. To advertise for industry is ill timed. Supply of water for factories is limited and it will take many years to tap the Colorado river. The boosters are advertising for population and nothing else. They want people to come here, spend their money and go away as soon as they are broke. This million-dollar boost campaign will draw many strangers of moderate means to California. These will add to the army of wage slaves. That will suit the task masters. So, if tourists only bite at the ad- vertising bait, small harm will be done; but, if workingmen or trades- men do so, destitution must result. Claims made in the advertisements should be subject to heavy discounts. —FRAPIESA. Morgan’s Bank has Billion. NEW YORK, N. V., July 9.— The National City Bank has total resourc- es of $1,154,730,350 with cash assets totalling $300,236,198, the bank has Minister Tehitcherin has addressed a note to the Chiese ambassador sim- ilar to his recmt communication of protest to the British envoy concern- ing the arrest u China of a Russian citizen, Dosser. treaty and the numerous Soviet dec- larations of Russia's territorial privileges enjoyed in China is Paicy WORKER ‘DEMANDS | ABIDE BY Y TREATY ser Be Freed from Foreign Hands MOSCOW, Russia, July 9.— Foreign Referring to the new Russo-Chinese Tard to renunciation ht to exercise the extra- by the czarist sovernthent, the for- eign minister argues that handing over Dosser for trial before a mixed court is not.only illegal in view of SRN. Pas i 7 x wr 1 ae he the charges preferred against him, but also a direct infringement of the treaty. He demands that China take imme- diate adequate measures to secure Dossers felease, placing on trial those responsible for his arrest. Christian. Rakovsky, Soviet charge d’affaires in London, left for Great Britain by airplane Monday after a long conference with the government regarding Russo-British relations. FFI HELP FROM GOD Operators Bry to Evict W. Va. Strikers (By rker Correspondent.) Cc ‘BURG, W. Va., July 9.— The principal speakers at the miners’ meeting here were chief international union representative, Van A. Bittner, of the United Mine Workers of Amer- ica, Phillip Murray, and the former preacher, .Tygart, who opened the meeting with prayer. The picket line at Owings, W. Va., consists of about 300 men, women and children. Union Officials Give Little Aid. Van Bittner gave us the same old bunk about, Don't give up boys,“ and I would like to know Nr a man with a athe of 8 to ten pe John is scab „ and the only dit. ference bet weer © is that John was caught fet 12 of his crooked deals, and he saw he couldn't make any more. money he went scab- bing. Wher Tony is still a union man (as he claims), and on the relief committee, and the only reason he is staying out is because he handles all the relief checks. A Few Mine Scabs. Others who went scabbing against us are the Wright family, ku kluxers; Collins, a gunman; old man Stuttler from Owings, who used to be the best speaker the Tocal had, and the Dor- seys. There is one man that lives at Allied, W. Va., a member of Local No. 1854, who is also locked out, and the operators tried to put him out of the house. Try to Evict Miner. His case is now being tried in the circuit court, after the lower court ruled in favor of the operator. They have not been able to evict the strik- er yet. made known. other Communist. Another new Sub— Makes an- ö A 1 ’ ae * aah oti ye’ 1 he OO BO ˙ PIN GR GT . ee a FACTS OF ANTHRACITE MINING GIVEN BY GOVERNMENT SHOW "HIGH PROFIT. AND LOW WAGE E =. —s By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press Industrial Editor) Of each dollar paid by the consumer for anthracite coal, 42 cents easily covers cost of production and less than 31 cents goes to the mine workers. A 17 per cent wage reduction bringing destitution to thousands of miner families would mean less than 70 cents a ton saving to consumers. tion of unwarranted profits and royalties would give the consumer at least twice that saving without imparing a fair return on invested capital. These facts based on the thoro investigation of the U. S. coal commis- sion should be mobilized in the face of the propaganda with which the operators will flood the country for the next two months. 1 did not blame wages for high prices but blamed royalties and the profits produced by artificial scarcity of coal. U. S. Commission Facts. “The fundamental fact in the an- thracite coal problem,” it said in its July 5, 1923 report, “is that hereto- fore these limited and . exhaustible natural deposits have been in the ab- solute private possession of their legal owners, to he developed or with- held at will, to be leased for such roy- alties as could be exacted, to be trans- ported and distributed at such rates and in such manner as a doublehead- ed railroad and coal combination might find most advantageous from the point of view of private profit.” Royalties have been increasingly ad- justed as a percentage on the price thus leading the owners of the com- -bine to encourage the high prices pro- duced by shortage scares. The com- mission found royalties as high as $2.84 a ton, more than half the wage cost. In 1922 royalties from coal lands owned by the Girard estate amounted to $1.20 a ton and brot a return of $18,980,000 on an original in- vestment of $2,340. The wage cost of producing a ton of anthracite averages not more than $4.05. Items in the price of a ton purchased by Chicago consumers would be: | Ton of Antracite Labor Cost $4.05 Total mine coat 5.52 Mine prise 6.27 Freight 4.48 Retail price ........ 13.25 These averages for a 2000 lb, ton based on an estimate of the propor- tionate consumption of stove and small sizes. The average ton of stove size coal retails at about $16 or four times the wage cost. Owners Get Fat Excess Profit. The coal combine is getting a profit of 75 cents a ton where 22 cents would pay 6 per cent on all the capital in- vested. The distributors are getting $2.50 a ton where 32 would pay for storage and haulage and allow a fair profit. A distributing company in Buffalo in 1920 sold coal for $1.90 cent on its investment. Labor Underpaid. - . Anthracite miners working on a tonnage basis get less than $2,000 a year while those paid on a daily basis are-making less than $1,200. The coal commission found many of these day laborers getting very uncertain and inadequate income. The excessive profits exclusive of royalties repres- ent a sum sufficient to give all these workers a 10 per cent wage increase and at the same time to permit a reduction in price to the consumer. Elimination of excessive royalties coupled with the ending of monopoly underproduction would make possible higher wages with prices well within the reach of the average householder. Chicago L' Wage Conference Limping; Postponed to Friday Officers of the elevated employes’ union and of the Chicago Rapid Tran- sit Company met Tuesday to discuss | the employes’ rejection of the offer | of a renewal of the wage contract tor another year. The conference failed and will be renewed Friday. more than it cost and made 100 per Elimina- The commission — — — SD PULLMAN WORKERS HEAR SPEECHES ON | ANTI-IMPERIALISM Several hundred workers attended the anti-imperialist picnic of the Pullman branches of the Workers (Communist) Party, at 123rd St. and Union Ave. C. E. Ruthenberg, executive sec- retary of the Workers Party, spoke on “Russia and America of To- day.” Robert Minor, Communist writer and cartoonist, spoke on the “Revolt fo the Colonial eee, * MY GOD, HOW THE MONEY ROLLS IN! SAY CAPITALISTS Millions Are re Reaped But Not For Labor NEW YORK, July 9.—(FP)— The | in the form of dividends and interest is the greatest ever in the history . American business, Wall Street pa- pers show. The sum of $437,900,000 is being dis- bursed to stock and pond holders to represent their share of the pluck- ings of the workers auring the first | six months of 1925. $115,200,000 is in dividends; $322,700,000 in interest, in- dicating possibly that loaning money by bonds or otherwise is even more profitable than investing—when the indsutrial market is not booming. Industrial and miscellaneous cor- porations are paying out $58,915,000 in dividends and $158,300,000 in interest. Railroads are paying $30,510,000 div- idends and street railways are paying out $10,900,000 dividends and $47,- 875,000 in interest. Greater New York banks, excluding savings banks, are paying $14,875,000 dividends and all New York banks and trust companies $2,500,000 inter- est. Tue federal goverrment ia paying out 79,000,000 in erest ard the city of New York $2,500,006, with redemp- tions totalling 331 200,000. Argentina Refuses to Recognize Soviet BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, July 9. —The committee on foreign affairs has pigeon holed a motion in the Ar- gentina chamber of deputies for re- cognition of the Soviet Union. The motion was tabled on the ground that the motion was premature as “Russia had not asked recone Ratify Soviet-Polish Pact. MOSCOW.—Voikoff, Soviet plenipo- |tentiary representative at Warsaw, and the Polish foreign minister, have exchanged ratifications of the railway convention between the Union of Sov- let Socialist Republies and Poland. Mexican President III. MEXICO CITY, July 9.—President Calles is confined to his castle at Cha- pultepec with an attack of influenza. Socialists (Continued from from page 1) An Old Hypocrite. Esteemed gentlemen, there are things which “cannot be discussed in respectable society.” We would not have spoken of it had it not have been for your last sincere statement regarding the trial of the accused Roumanian Communists, which convinced us in the contrary. Is it not true, sir, that it is very unpleasant to land in a civilized coun- try in response to an official invita- tion, when respectable ministers offi- Cials and social-democrats cordially shake hands with you and when you suddenly have to leave this country with a “heavy felling of a person who was bereaved in his faith in respect for human dignity.” This is a very unpleasant feeling, however, were we in the place of Attorney Kastafory, we could not act otherwise. Easy on Assassins of Communists. Mind you, here comes a representa- tive of a country where political as- sassinations are being punished by two weeks’ imprisonment, to a country where for editing a news- paper a person is sentenced to six years hard labor. This is really an event. How is it possible to let such a representative go without introduc- ing to him, for his knowledge the un- shoard of crimes of the secret service. A Few Facts. % 6 7 > Ae Approve | ber issuing from your editor’s table in Geneva all that you have seen with- in the damp and cold walls of the second infantry corps. You probably still remember even now the few thou- sands of “charges” pertaining to “criminal” activities of the accused who dared to defend thru their legal press the ideas of the struggle against the barbarous regime of the Boyar Roumania, You undoubtedly remember even now the thousands of victims, shrivel- ling in nervous fit, placed in stretchers at the front room of the court-martial building after 20-25 days of their he- roic hunger strike. You still remember the groups of mothers, wives and children waiting long days in the halls of the second infantry corps for an opportunity to be let in for the rendering of imme- diate relief. However, honorable gentlemen, you left too suddenly, you had no time to see even a hundredth particle. Workers Arrested by General. Sir, you were in Bucharest, did you see there the ‘“Sigurantsy” secret service of Bucharest? Were you cross examined there? No? We believe that you ‘were not cross examined, Prime Minister Bratiann prefers in certain “circumstances” to ‘respect human dignity.” Still, imagine yourself for a second to be arrested and suspected of Com- ing to happen to you 7 tox You are brought to the reception room of the secret service during the usual hours, that is between 1 and 4 a.m. (Sigurantsa “works” nights.) You are being questioned. You are before the Communist brigade (labor is here strictly divided, according to functions-Tailorism.) Roumanian Inquisition. Here is the chief of the brigade, Theodor Banchelesku, a worthy pro- vocator, who organized once upon a time and staged the provocative at- tempt upon the life of King Karl. Mr. Banchelesku is extremely careful. First he hands you over to the “care” of his assistants, keeping himself aside; “no need of hurrying, plenty of time.” There it begins: Defendant Sha- piuza, are you a Communist? No. Confess. We know all about you, 100 per cent and so on, and so forth. Sir, pardon for placing you in such an unconvenient position, let's how- ever, continue. And so, Shapiuza does not declare himself guilty. Then the director of sigurantsa himself ap- pears. 5 Director is a very respectable name. Mr. Voinesky, director of sigurantsa is a former police officer and the au- thor of sentimental plays which are enjoying great success in king’s the- ater at Bucharest. , The Fate of Workers. You want to know, sir, what is go- 1 we. 4 a t ‘ } . ‘ . 1 . * * 1 * 7 * + 4 te ates 7 * ‘ =" a * 8 * N : 2 1 * 7 8 5 ; ¥ ye F +s * * 1 I — * P a — 2 exemplitying document, Document No. 1. Victor Fordaig, states: “I was arrested on December 20, 1924, in the city of Oradea-Mare; Gross-Varend, together with my wife who was just 13 days after a serious “operation and was under the care of a physician. After the arrival at the secret service building the chief Vulpa beat me for a few hours with a stick as thick as a hand. After the stick was broken I was beaten up by a rubber whip and iron rod. “I fainted. My hand was paralyzed and chin broken. I could, however, not confess, because I did not know anything. Then they turned to my wife, placed her on chairs, undressed her and prepared for beatings. Know- ing her serious condition, I could not bear it and I put my signature under everything they have demanded. Medieval Tortures. “Then they transferred me to the city of Arad in the hands of the sig- urantsy. Here they brought me face to face with Comrade Sterana Tot. I could not recognize him. Hig face and body had changed much, due to beat- ings. “After that I was taken over to see “the cellar of tortures” where the ac- cused are cross examined. Some were lying prostrated. On December 25, I was questioned by Commissary Melisten, who beat me with an iron glove used for boxing.” This quoted report can be found ; bs ? registered under a separate number in the article of Attorney Kastaforu, now secretary of the bourgeois “Hu- man and Civic. Rights Defense League“; together with this docu- ment there are scores of others au- thentical, duly signed and address in- dicated. Mr. Shapiuza, were you ever incer- ceratéd in the fortress of Doftan? This is not some kind of a provincial jail, but a real central jail in Rou- ‘mania. We shall not speak about the horrors of this torture chamber, this is known to everybody and described in all kinds of papers and documents. Torture Cells. Just a few strokes. At Doftauy there are assigned special cells, “sec- tion N” for disciplinary punishment. These cells are half a yard wide and a yard and a half high and just think, the imprisoned can sleep only stand- ing, keeping himself all the time in this position during his punishment for two, three, four and more weeks. Thru a small door hole which serves at the same time for ventilation, the imprisoned receives bread and water. In these sections hundreds of inno- cent people are perishing. Very often nobody knows about their imprison- ment. At this particular time there are placed 50 people, chained at their hands and feet, three times a week they are given a limited portion of bread and water. Underground Dungeons. serve in the jail of Jilava? Just step in a local branch of our “Red Aid” in order to have a glance at this middle- century terrible grave. Did you hap- pen to see the fortress of Plataretti? This is now a military jail, which is located 10 yards deep in the ground. Here people are locked up for the slightest offense for weeks in a con- crete cell, unable actually to move. Bessarabians Murdered. Sir, have you visited during your stay in Roumania the splendid shores of the river Dniestr? Don’t you think it is a splendid river? Did you inquire the local inhabitants how many hun- dreds, tied up together in bunches of four, Bessarabian peasants have been drowned from its shores by the mur- derers of Chief Gussarevsky who was in charge of the Bessarabian secret service in September, 1924? And did you ever hear of the peas- ants of the Piatista“ organization who will within a few days be brought before the king's court which prepar- ed new unheard of mass persecutions of innocent people, ‘traitors’ of “czara mum”, mother country? “Defendant Shapuiza,’ at last you are free and you walk out of the prison gate, you look around terri- fied and run quickly away from the clapped prison gates. You are now mixed witl the crowd and you are try- ing to recover from the things you went thru. Life is the capital of the “free kingdoms” is buzzing around you. In a straight line are passing Honeranls gentlemen, did you ever — „ — Ep ae re ere elegant 1 automobile horns 2 8 In Bombay City 70 per cent of mid-year distribution of profit plums | — “> Torture and Murder of the Roumanian Workers aint eT ee N 9255 2 re i, SAE i | . 2 2 th 0 7 e 7 7 + teva 2 2 2 rz 1 " a 5 ha Facts to Recall Whea , India Rebels ; 7 Xs LONDON, June 24 (By MK ¢ Wages in India, and therefore e * general standard of life m india, are h far below those of any Et a 9 country, said Mr. N. M. Joshi, 5 Indian workers’ delegate at the . eva labor conference, yesterday. “Capitalism is reproducing in country,” he continued, “the features of the worst period of ind trialism. “The evils of slum life are terri! families live in one-room teneme and they are small rooms. On average there are six people to a r 10 feet by 10! Six Infants Dies In Ten, “You may imagine the result. infant mortality is 600 per 1,000. babies out of every ten die in fancy. “Factories can work 11 hours a dé 60 hours a week. In the mines thei is a 54 or a 56-hour week for unde ground workers, but no restriction 4 ee Pe all for surface workers, 9 % “Men, women and children oftet i work 16 hours a day, and womel 1 work underground in the mines. 2 a “Everything is done to safeguar , the investors of capital,” concluded Mr. Joshi. “Nothing is done to safe: | Suard the workers.” — — Soft coal hee Month and Hard Coal for Six Weeks on Hand WASHINGTON, July $9—Consumers of bituminous coal had 38,000,000 tons in storage on June 1, equal to 32 days’ supply, while retail dealers in au- thracite had 1,100,052 on hand, equal to 52 days’ supply, the geological sur- | vey announced today. There are no available figures show- ing the amount of anthracite in cel lars of householders, but facts relat ing to production and retailers’ de- 5 liveries indicate that the ho 85 ers’ carry-over from last winter probably normal, The movement of anthracite fm he Great Lakes trade began pre r season and as a result the total ¢ upper lake docks now to 1,000,000 tons. This ig more t double the quantity on th. sponding date of last year. Chicago Youth to Protest Against 1 Militarism, July 21 5 The Young Workers League of . 3 cago will hold a mass meeting to pro- test against the militarization of the youth of the country by means of the citizens’ military training camps, at Northwest Hall, corner of North Ave, and Western Ave., on ren July 21, at 8 p. m. ‘ FOREIGN EXCHANGE, tae Germany, mark, no quote. Shanghai, tael, 79.00, no quote. Write the story about your shop- Order a bundle to distribute — NEW YORK, July 9.— Great Brk tain, pound 4.85%4-4.86%%. ; France, franc 4.7014-4.71. we Gelgium, franc 4.6344-4.64, i, N Italy, lira 3.68 ½-3.68 4. 2 * Norway, krone 26.81-26.84. Natal i Sweden, krone 17.70-17.72. 4 Fit wis Denmark, krone 20.53-20.55. 25 5 ey are sounding, tram electric bells are ringing. All of a sudden at the com. ner of a Bucharest street you are caught by a street kid and offered the latest edition of the official Vintoru“ Socialists Back Killers. ua You are not inclined now for . 3 ing, but sir,— On the first page you read: “The 5 socialist movement has its definite ~~ problems. It is even to a certain ex = tent, necessary. And s0 we must 1 stand for socialism, but against ee munism. We would consider ita de sertjion if the leaders of Roumania 5 would not take precautions an, the Communist movement.“ Don't you think, sir, this am you have just escaped from the : of those who are taking 2 55 this was just experienced pe ly by you, and here you are r in. the official paper a love letter the hangmen to the Roumanian. Pt cialists? Please, do not think we are * attempting to make a Bolshevik of you. SF ie, te " FFC 2 2 woe ae oD Stok 7 * No “Human Dignity” to — * Just one thing, esteemed Mr. Shi piuza, you were short of time to ee —ͤ everything nn your short and um successful stay in the capital of “civ! rs % ized” Roumania. vee What if Mr. Venesku, “hon permitted you to see all the secrets the siguarantsa department? would feel yourselves thousand worse than a person, who Was reaved of his be lief in respect vor man dignity — - ei ae
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IN PUBLIC PARK uskegon Beach Crowd ’ Hear Communists "MUSKEGON, Mich., July 9.—An in- Bovation in Communist picnics was held at Muskegon, Mich., where the Workers’ Party Locals of this town and of Grand Rapids arranged joint af- f in a public park right at the mu- al bathing beach. No admission d be charged and nothing sold for 6fit—but the Chirman of the Com- ittee, Comrade Walter Johnson ex- Bained, “We spend our money to speakers on the street corners reach the masses, so why not go the “mountain” where the masses to be found on a Sunday after- n, and spread our message there?” In the early afternoon speeches re delivered to a large crowd, al- nnected with the movement. akers included Wm. F. Kruse of and Eugene Bechtold and of Grand Rapids. These two Grand Rapids comrades have been putting in some fine work 55 in noon-day shop meetings at the fac tory gates in the furniture capital of America.” The motion pictures had to be 8tart- ed a little early to permit the Grand Rapids contingent, about a hundred strong, who had paid a dollar a head carfare, to make the last special car home. By means of a special day-light screen the pictures were started at 6:30 p. m. daylight saving time, and while at first they were a little faint, the novelty of daylight movies more than made up for it and the large crowd enjoyed them very much. The first picture was “Prisoners for Prog- ress,” a three reel expose of modern great applause greeted pictures of Comrade Ruthenberg who was convict- ed and imprisoned only a few counties away. There was great interest also in the pictures of the International Labor Defense convention held in Chicago one week previously. “Rus- sia Today,” a one reel educational film showing the life and work of the Russian asbestes miners, completed the program. Two collections, one of $14.05 and the other of $34.27 were taken up.. . W. I. Activities | Friday, July 10. é Membership meeting, 722 Blue Island avenue, 8 p. m. Matter of the coming printing industry campaign and the sub and membership drive Will be taken up. Every member to be present, admission by membership card. * Sunday, July 12. ‘Area Branch No, 1—Beach basket picnic. All comrades meet at 9:30 A. m. at Wabash and Adams St. to go to Braeside, III., where the picnic will be held. 4 ¥ Detroit Comrades, Attention! The most peppy dance of the sea- son will be held Saturday, July 11, at the Finnish Hall, 5969 14th street. A special orchestra has been en- gaged for this affair. The music will be excellent. In addition to many other attractions, a $25.00 kodak will be raffled off, with tickets costing from 1 cent to 15 cents. The proceeds of this affair go to help the Detroit league in raising its quota for the national convention as- sessment. The co-operation of all party com- rades is absolutely necessary. The Finnish comrades have already de- monstrated their interest, by donating the hall free of charge. Everybody is expected to attend. Don’t forget and keep this date open. San “Excellency” in Persia. MOSCOW.—By order of the Persian commander in chief all the “liakaby” or honorific titles, such as Excel- lency, etc.” have been abolished in the military department and the army in Persia. The civil administration will have to follow suit, too, as the Medji- lis (parliament) has just passed a resolution to a similar effect. Soviet Rall Aid to Persia. . MOSCOW.—As reported from Te- heran, two. locomotives and thirty goods cars were recently received at Djulfa from the Union of Soviet So- cialist Republics for the Persia-Tav- riz railway. | MINNEAPOLIS WORKERS. ON JULY 12 MEET TO FIGHT IMPERIALISM MINNEAPOLIS, July 9.—On Sun- day evening, July 12, at 7 p. m., the Workers Party will hold a mass meeting at Washington Square. (Sev- en corners.) John Gabriel Soltis will speak on “Imperialism. Dah W._Stevens will talk on “The 1 Le t Wing in the Trade Unions.” TAI workers are urged to be on | vue 2 — —— STATEMENT BY THE ‘DATE OF PARTY CONVENTION FIXED PARITY COMMISSION call, including the drafts of resolutions for the the party. decision of the controversial or infrin cipline will have to be rigidly policies and tactics of the in its power to enable the shortly. The party discussion will begi the publication of the convention call. The parity commission will review and liquidate all mat- ters of an organizational nature that have caused friction in us the parity commission intends to clear the round and the atmosphere for an intelligent pre-convention Shesueslon of the political and organizational problems con- fronting the party at the present time. It will make a state- ment of its findings in the party press which will be a final O THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE WORKERS PARTY: Comrades: The date for the coming national convention of the party is herewith set for August 9. The convention nda, basis of respresentation, and convention, will be published immediately after question. The party membership should bear in mind that the work of the parity commission will in no way interfere with upon the normal functioning of the party appara- tus. All leading party committees, from the Central Execu- tive Committee down, will continue their work in the regular manner, according to the party constitution, and party dis- observed. The big task of the coming party convention is to liqui- date factionalism and to establish unity on the basis of the Communist International. To achieve this end the party must havea thoro discussion of its problems, free from factional bitterness and personal discrimination. The Parity Commission will therefore do all arty to come to the convention equipped for its task of unifying and strengthening the Com- munist movement in the United States. 9 — ; 4 7 ö 1 5 5 — eo * 4 * 1 1 N ‘ “iets sag Meeting. Saturday and * 83 Picnic on Sunday — By R. BAKER. PHILADELPHIA, P4., July 9.—Phil- adelphia Young Workers’ have arrang- ed a huge open air demonstration to protest against the Anferican and oth- er imperialist nations intervention in the great Chinese ke and the threat of war on Soviet,.Russia. Local Kuo Min Tagg.has been in- vited to ipate;in the demon- stration. The demonstration will be held ot coe evening, July 11 at Marshall stregt and Girard avenue. John Williamson, M. M. Wicks, and R. Baker, will be speakers at this meeting. All workers of Philadel- adelphia are invited to attend this meeting and .express their class soli- darity to the striking workers of China. 1 A Labor Defense and Communist Press picnic has been arranged by the Russian branch of the Workers Party and approved by the City Ex- ecutive Committee, for Sunday, July 12, at Bradley Farm, and street and aVnce avenue. Workers Party mem- bers and sympathisers are urged to attend this pienie in full force. Music ahd dancing will be furnish- ed by a Russian orchestra, plenty of games, amusements and refreshments will be served to all comers. Brad- ley’s Farm is one of the few cool iso- TELLS RICH STORY many of the white-collared class eat. and Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Dixon. Palmer has recently returned from her annual vacation, consisting of a brief half-year’s sai] around the world, —the pressure of her business respon- sibilitiés being such that ‘she could make no more than hasty stops in Japanese ports; Constantinople, Vi- enna, Rome, Paris, London, etc.— with a few last moments of fleeting pleasure in New York. Every year, however, she somehow off from her strenuous duties as chief- cook-and-bottle-washer at the Polly places to take a jaunt to Palm Beach or California, at least,—if not across the pond. She Ought to Know, Thus, her wide travels and worldly experience qualify her especially well to testify concerning the wages of her employes. And she demonstrates quite conclusively that, from her own cosmopolitan point of view, they are sufficiently “wellpaid” to allow her such slight extravagances as globe- trotting, beach lounging and costume- splurging, The employes, however, due to the fact that their experiences have been limited mostly to the four walls of such prisons as “Polly” tea rooms, have a somewhat different view-point. They might say, “What d‘ya mean, well-paid?” and go on to explain that $6.00 and $8.00 a week are the begin- ning wages for all short-hour girls; that most of the employes are hired only for the “rush” hour shifts; and that in two or three hours of work, they are so speeded up that as much as eight hours worth of energy is ex- pended. ; And they could point out that the longer hours a girl works, the less money she gets. Six and eight-hour waitresses get at the highest $13.00, many as low as $10. Behind the kit- chen doors are girls not over fourteen years old,—on their feet from 8 in the morning until 6 at night,—except for a brief rest on a high stool for lunch,—and they get no more than $12.00 a week. If these bundles of skin and bones had the strength left to speak, after their ten-hour day (but they haven’t) they would tell you, “What d’ya mean, well-paid? Like hell we are!” But then, “our employes” get their meals free, Mrs, “Suze” Palmer might inform you,—a regular fifty-éent din- ner. Yes, it is a “regular” dinner all right, the girls retort,—so regular that its component parts can be figured out a year ahead, if one but knows the combination. If ignorant, guess mick- le-berry sausage or spare ribs and sauer-kraut or creamed cod-fish and you will have exhausted the possibili- ties, except the possibility of there being no left-overs. In such an emergency, our employes” may be given the treat of a canned salmon salad (it would spoil, anyway) or a hot beef sandwich. Their knowledge of other kinds of sandwiches, however, or of salads, or of pies, or even ham and eggs, to say carry them out stacked six and seven platters high, for others to eat. Profits Spring a Leak, Every system of exploitation has its THE PARITY COMMITTEE...” OF LIFE BEHIND SWINGING DOORS OF “POLLY” TEA ROOM WORKERS By WORKER CORRESPONDENT : “Our employes are well paid; they do not expect tips.” This high-sounding declaration appears conspicuously on all menus at the “Polly” tea rooms, four restaurants in Chicago’s loop district, where Just how true it is could best be told perhaps by Mrs. “Suze” Palmer, owner of the “Polly” cages along with her lesser partners, Raymond Friedman Mrs. #— lated spots Where the workers can forget their factories for a few hours and escape the heat among the many shade trees beneath which will be found a well-equipped refreshment bar with 3 drinks and fancy Russian sand, es. Directions: Take Chester No. 37 car, get off at 87th street and you will meet a committeé there. From down town take Jackson street car, get off at 90th street; walk two blocks south and two west. | Our Readers’ Views | Manages to get six or eight months nothing of a small steak,—is confined | n to thé fact that they know how to | witresses usually are not so stupid as leakages, tho, and this was especially true last winter at Polly No. 3, at 17 North Wabash. This is the Zuse: where Mrs. Suse“ Palmer is to b — — — — Millia, — ——— Mie, found, whenever she happens to be in Chicago. She,.sits in her balcony of- fice, overlooking the entire floor, and keeps a fiercely glittering eye peeled for the waitresses, watching them grimly when they eat to see that none gets an extra crumb. Accidentally, during her absence this winter, there was allowed to sneak into authority a new and rather soft-hearted’ head-waitress (maybe she herself had been well- paid“ once and hadn't expected tips.) Making Hay. The girls found out that she would let them get away” with a few things, —a side dish of salad or a piece of pie. Being bright girls, they weren't long in making the most, of it. And Mrs. Palmer, even more bright when her own interests are at stake,—wasn’t long in finding out about it upon her arrival home. “The old b ‘is back,“ one of the hardboiled ones put it, and there's not a damned thing to eat.” Lest the girls should “eat up the profits,” Mrs. Palmer immediately in- stalled an official checker at the kit- chen door, so that instead of the cus- tomers being checked by waitresses, the checker writes out the prices for | the waitresses, who pass the slips on to the customers. Since duplicates are kept, each waitress is held responsible for every dish taken out of the kit- chen. And she must tell when the food is for herself, so that no forbid- den morsel finds its way to her plate. Economic Root of “Tips.” This arrangement has another and even more important advantage for the boss. Altho “our employes do not expect tips,” as the menu moralistic- ally reads, this does not mean that they do not “extract” tips whenever it is humanely possible . One of the first things that a Polly waitress used to do when she came on shift was to refold the menu so that the vicious lie about her being “well- paid” and hidden. Or else she clipped a special card over it. But there was a more certain, posi- tive way of her trying to ge full value charging customers. It is not so hard cial service and cut prices. off their check. “Them Days Gone.” | But them days are gone | since “Suze” got back from Europe ‘ ‘pay or starve.” | the economic stimulus for patrons’ | giving tips, she is at last teaching the | Waitresses not to “expect” tips. However, for more drastic measures will be necessary to convince them that they are “well-paid.” Polly the babbittry whom they serve. Oc- cagionally it even occurs to some of them to question whether it. is Mrs. Palmer or they themselves who really “earn” all the money that it must cost to take her around the world so often and to enable her to keep up so well with the ever-changing styles, both in 2 —— — r des d a! —— rane —— —— fe for her labor and that was by under- for a waitress with wits sharpened by continual struggle for a living to give the hint to a gullible public that she personally is to be rewarded for spe- And so it happened that the cleverest “Polly” waitressés had built up a steady pa- tronage for themselves of certain cus- tomers who would leave a tip some- what in proportion to the amount left forever and began applying the Dawes plan of | Thus, by eliminating Socialists Beat Up y orkers. To the DAILY WORKER: As a dele- gate representing my union at the Socialist-Labor-Fugsion .. convention in this city, I had the opportunity to wit- ness another desee | socialist party’s 2 tching rem- «a nant. 3 5 Preparatory to this fusion farce, Meyer Ee yer de- } livered a ſähe bitter! tional W - Work bush rounding tricks, he denounced labor action by using a putrid phrase: turk methods“ while at the same time the socialist gangsters poluted the air in the hall; and only a few hours later beat down bona-fide dele- gates who voiced their indignation against fake fusions. . | Militant Delegates Unseated. No action could have proved their hypocrisy better than his disruptive oration against assertive labor. Then as a verification sequence of the fus- ion lie many of the delegates were un- seated on the charge that they were too militant. After the unseated delegates had left, taking tbeir seats in the gallery as visitors this socialist mockery pro- ceeded with its farcical comedy. By the time the resolutions were being read, to the disillusioned dele- gates who hoped for a real fusion con- vention which would unite labor’s forces for the next election campaign in this city, it became obvious that * Workers Party and the „ * nothing of the kind was taking place. Having no other alternative the dele- gates demanded that another conven- tion be called in which all labor organ- ibzations should participate. This request was presented to the resolutions committee in the form of a resolution drawn wp by the dele- gates. This, however, (tending to ac- tually unveil the socialist fraud) was enuf to Arouse the ire of the “rem- nant”—and to signal their gang to act. . In answer to indignant labor repre- sentatives the thugs jumped to their feet throwing themselves like blood- thirsty beasts upon men and women} thus using gorilla methods, instead of “Turk methods” which Meyer London had previously attributed to the Com- munists. When the thugs had completed their job, I found myself being treated by an ambulance docto#’ who on being informed about the igdident, gave me friendly advice: “thaf it didn’t pay to fight against a majority.” In the throes of severe pain, I thot it wiser not to argue with the doctor, but as I’m in a better condition now, I feel it is urgent to ask the men and women who toil: who are in the ma- jority; the workers, or the handful. of charlatans? What could be more convincing reason3for us to turn our backs on the socialist fakers, than their fusion bluff in New ork’s may- oralty election campaign? Such tacties as the, “socialists” ap- ply in their last, futile attempts to regain power are certainly hastening their complete extingtion. But let labor not bemoan this historical fact. For labor is gradually coming into its own. The Workers (Communist) Party, supported ba majority of working men and women can elim- inate all fakers and’ make the world ie * 8 ’ * } 1 — 9 * BRD ¶ d eet rr — * nnn SSS . . AAAI SVT ~********* *% a DDr rr rr. N e eee e eee Begins the First American Serial Publication of a Great His- torical Document Arrangements have just been completed by which the DAILY § WORKER secures the first American rights to the serial pub- lication of 1 é rene Ps +. ae RUSSIA TODAY - THE OFFICIAL REPORT eet of the British Trade Union Delegation to Soviet Russia 8 Sent by the Trade Union Congress General Council of England „ „ eS © @ 4 a * * 1 a. SS 7 2 > > — —— ͤ öNͤ6—— à—ꝛꝓ—ũᷣ — — — — — A ments with THE INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS CO. n its American serial publication in the DAIL Y WORKER. BEGINNING SATURDAY, JULY 25 WHAT is IT? HOW IT WILL APPEAR. To enable every worker to possess No greater nor more Important doc this valuable publication, RUSSIA ument on Soviet Russia by an impar- TODAY, will be printed EVERY DAY tial body has ever been issued. beginning July 28, in it is an unbiased report of a Brit- A UNIFORM HALF-PAGE INSTAKL- ish Delegation, composed of Trade MENT. Union Leaders and experts who have Easy to clip and preserve. travelled thruout. 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ag er — . — 8 To those who work hard for their The merger of the Yellow Cab Man- ufacturing company, makers of non- union operated taxi-cabs, with the Motore company, the largest automobile manufacturing company in the world, creates a trust which not only dominates auto manufacturing, ‘but operation of bus lines as Well. ‘The Morgan-DuPont General Mo company buys a controlling amount | stock in the Yel Cab Manufact ing company for sixteen million dol- lars, and a new corporation is formed known as the Yellow Truck and Coach Manufacturing company. 4 The board of directors of the hew concern include Pierre Du Pont, the powder king, who owns seven million third interest, William Wrigley, chewing gum king, Alfred Swayne, a Morgan man director of the 2 National Bank of New York and of. ficer of the General Motors, and John A. Ritchie, president of the Fifth Ave. Coach company of New York and president of the New York Transpor- tation company. One result of the new company will be to certain railroads of the Morgan group from competition of in- dependent bus lines, Garage Mechanics in Meeting Monday Over Recognition Question Machinists bel in the em of the city will decide at a meeting next Monday night there Will be a strike Which will tie up all repair work. The threatened: strike is not over the question of wages, but recognition of the union that the bosses also be members of their organization. Novy Mir Picnic July 26. NEW YORK, July 9.— Gardens of Coney Islan a. m. until midnight. $F The Novy Mir n urg- ently requests all friendly o tions not to arrange any other on above Sunday and help us ‘mé the festival a complete success. Another new Sub makes another Communist. , Ne Pe — 3 x 7758 ee ties. But today in addition to the form of exploitation, finance capital has got] Communism. shares of General Motors stock, a one} Jr., to be held in the Fort Dearborn Hotel whether’ or not klons and the demand made by the union The Novy Mir arranges a grand summer festival pienic, bathing, concert, ene, When? Sunday, 985 26, trom 10 ts | Means something violent 8 een DN. eee eee a eae a „ d at ot ** 4 Ss 5 ters F rom Our Readers | — uf rmera’ Point ot vide. | * ** DAILY wonnihn-at’’ ent when capitalism is directing ed : ention to the exploitation „it is worth while to oF measures the farmers will | meet his ever increasing dif- Big capitalism has been so busy in exploiting industry that ex- ploitation of agriculture has been partly overlooked. In the past it has taken place more indirectly in the form of exploiting the farmer in selling his products and buying his necessi- growing intensification of this the farmer securely in its iron grasp. After World War. | Undoubtedly the world war present- that small town business men are almost hundred per cent for big bust ness fighting against their a ae the farmers, tooth and nail hope but little from them, as long as they can retain their economic’ foothold, Farmer Belongs with Worker. The only salvation for the farmer is to join the ranks of the workers and fight for his rights under the same banner. It will be the first step toward emancipation for both. Let us unite together with the exploited peo- ples evérywhere under the banner of welded together and leavened by the spirit of brother- hood, we will own a class conscious power before whom the money pow- of the world will tremble. tal to extend and strengthen stranglehold on the farmer. The ers everywhere fell victims to well organized «propaganda conducted by his exploiters during the war, to expand his investments and farming operations during the period of in- flated prices. As this expansion almost completely carried out by short time credit, when the loans be- his. products had dropped out. 1 method bankrupted thousands of we to do farmers, let alone the A 4 ones. During the past few years over longings and life time savings as a result of this ruthless exploitation. The remaining ones are fighting a losing battle, driven to desperate ef- forts by the threatening downfall. “But the more he owes the harder he and his family works,” is the way the bankers put it. The mortgage, has proved to be a more effective weapon. than the whip in the time of chattel slavery. It is to the bankers’ interest that the framer struggles, hard. Must Wipe Out Small Farmer. * “The farmer is still following the bankers” advice to produce big crops ‘the only way out. He is yet un- aware of the existing economic condi- that are bringing his inevitable ‘downfall. The course of capitalism is Tide. to save the small farmer. He is an obstacle on the road ot progress of capitalism, and it demands his Aimination. The time is near at hand when he will be divorced from his present means of production and will help swell the proletarian class. In political intelligence the farmer is yet the most backward of all the cing class. He still continues to the existing system, the sys- his exploiters; The various re- * gro parties that have Ces nate been by ins tienes ‘suspicion. He is afraid of any radical thot, and of Communism. He lows no more than the name and and barous to him. So masterly hasT the ruling class succeeded in guarding the political intelligence of the farmer from proletarian ideals. It may be stated here that wherever farmers OUR DaibY PATTERNS A DAINTY FROCK FOR THE GROWING GIRL One could have the yoke of embroidery er of contrasting material. The model is excellent fo! wash materials and for silk. The pattern is cut in 4 sizes: 8, 10 12 and 14 years. A 12 year size re- quires 2% yards of 40 inch material one material 3% yards will be re- quired. Pattern wailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. FASHION BOOK NOTICE! Send 12 in silver or stamps for our up-to-date Spring and Summer 1925 Book of Fashions, showing color plates and er. 500 designs of ladies’, A2 and ildren’s patterns, a con- and comprehensive article on dress- g, also some points for the needie (ilinstrating 30 of the various simple stitches), all valuable hints to the home dressmaker. PITTSBURGH, PA. money, | wilt save 50 per cent on all their dental work. DR. RASNICK DENTIS*. oe ee 5174. Crepe de chine and lacé 2 na » here combined. ' N 5046-5152 . “A STYLISH TUNIC DRESS. Comprising Tunic Blouse 046 and slip 5152. The slip may be ‘of lining above the facing. As illus- The blouse is cut in 7 sizes: 34, 36, ure. The slip is cut in 4 sizes: small, 34-36;. medium, 38-40; large, 42-44; extra large, 46-48 inches bust meas- ure. To make this design for a 88 inch size as illustrated, will re-quire 6% yards of 32 inch plain material with 1% yard of plaid material. Two separate patterns mailed to any address on receipt of 120 for each pattern in silver or stamps. NOTICE TO PATTERN BUYERS—The manufact Orders are forwarded by the DAILY W WORKER every day as ceived, and they are mailed by the man- eee direct to the ety Mh wed DAILY WORKER not keep a stock | Deliv of t- ll take at teat 10 pn terns o ed a good opportunity to finance capi" came due the bottom of the prices of Sand to 2,000,000 farmers have lost their be- Past.“ } trated plaid and plain taffeta were and % yard tox the yoke. It made qt combine. 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46 inches bust meas- — ves of Using “Master Class.” To the DAILY WORKER: I want to answer the complaint of J. M. George about the use of the terms. “master class” and “slaves.” wide lt If-Comrade George has been reading the literature of the class struggle 45 years, and has kept posted in re- ot that period, it looks as if he ought to be dissatisfied with the very tame and inadequate words that are used | fo ribe the infamous arrogance | and cruelty of the master class on one Hand, and the disgusting servility and patience of the slave class under the lash, # The words master and slave are not strong enough. reign or polite diction. Drugged and hypnotized sleepers cannot be roused their house haps it would well to remonstrate with the incendiaries who are robbing and murdering directly and indirect- ly for no purpose but to glut their cruslty and to make themselves the unchallenged masters of the entire Working class. —Sarah F. J. Linn, Birmiheham, Ala. 59 Rich Dodge Bullets. Ty the DAILY WORKER: boys from poor families “complained” in the last war, says H. L. T., Daily News: of today. “Why Because they did all the work and all the fighting—(for democ- racy () of course.) But he goes on writing about “thoroughbreds” who “took their medicine without a word.” er rabian racehorses who, ‘su a lot of “medicize” befor re able to utter a syllable in — against But t for granted that he a particular sort of two- referr legged parasites were all out of the danger zong the war to end all wars. For, were those of get- rich- e-dollar-a-year pa (y) tri- ots on shinee boards’ payrolls. 1 Bertha“ bullets reached —but did not hurt “silk-stocking asi i of the Vanderbilt brand in the parlors of imperialistic Washing- ton. M. RINDAL, Los Angeles, Cal. tit ‘ * altar Fakers for “Open Shop” Judge. Los Angeles, Cal. To the DAILY WORKER: Judge. McCormick ruled against the Doheny- gil. interests at Bakersfield, California, but he refused to grant citizenship papers to a man because he, in open court, delcared himself opposed to profiteers and grafters, etc. Many papers, including the labor“ and “socialist” press, are making a hero out of this judge. The South California Labor Press writes: “When lawyers of as ‘red’ a makeup as Judge Ryckman and Job Harriman give a ‘capitalistic’ judge a reputation such as the above, it means something.” Yes, it shows up the fakerdom of “labor leaders” and the yellowness of the “soclialists.” Fraternally, Ly P. Rindal. Change Name of Enzeli, in Persia. MOSCOW.—The government of the Union ‘has been officially informed by the Persian government that Enzeli, the ‘well-known port on the southern cost of the Caspian Sea, shall hence- forth be called “Bender-El-Shekhlevi.” — On the Press! MAUS TO. 13 * with pictures of Every worker should know ORDER NOW! International 23 So. Lincoln St. from the date of mai e order. | not —— 5 648 Sea fiet . — oe ia ee . — the have awakened they ‘have found out T E. H., Frederick, So. Dak. to. the events and developments The class war cannot be waged with | to action by a gentle suggestion that ay be on fire and per- Only in the This may be, for all I know, a ref- mals in human form, those | A new pamphlet containing the CONSTITUTION. of the First National Conference of the INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE numreous drawings and cartogns. making conference. Single copies 10c °* In lots of 10 or more 5c IEE REPRESSION British 6 Send Ly- ing Telegrams LONDON, July 9.—The telegrams from India week announcing the collapse ot great North-Western railway jn which over 20,000 workers 1 3 was apparently of a t character. The strike ie, in fact, not over. On the y, the following tele- gram from Mr. Mukundalal Sirkar, secretary ot tite’ Indian Rallwaymen's Federation, to? the secretary of the ré League of India, at uildings, High Hol- born, W. ‘Ci dppeals for British as- sistance. **. „The Punjab 3 strike situa- Workers“ Welffa tion is unctiainged The men are starving. “The Rey. ©. F. Andrews, presi- dent of the Trades Union Con- gress has ie wed government of- ficials, but ‘government refuses all assistance in iliation or any other form of negdtiation. “On the rary it is supporting the Vindictive pdélicy of the railway administration in resisting the strike to the bitter end, a policy which is a menace to the whole Indian trade union movement. . “One hundred and ten strikers have been arrested and the situation is grave. The strikers appeal both for financial help and for parliamentary action.” Chicago Unions Back Labor Defense Rally The following Chicago Local Unions supported the recent Labor Defense rally either by purchase of tickets, or donations, or oth: 1 Boilermakers’ Local No. Hodcarrierg No. 1. 626. Machinists No. 390. 6 Chicago teh and Clockmakers’ Union. Machinists, Lodge No. 337. Modelers “Sculptors No. 26. Plasterers’ al No. 5. Painters’ al No, 54. Wood Turners“ Union. Molders’ - No. 233. Hotel and Reataufant | Employes No. Painters Ne 275. a 1 Ba, Ne "Yous Chy to Attend Be Amalgamated, ; P ic Service Work- ers’ Union and the Uthmann Singing Sociéty will stage a joint picnfe on July 12, Sunday next, at Zedler's Grove. Dancing, singing, games and refreshments, with plenty of fun and food for young and old. 1 Davtian Goes to Paris. MOSCOW -I. c. Davtian, one-time Soviet plénipotétitiary representative at Movno, ‘LitHiiania, and, later coun- sellor of the Soviet mission at Peking, has arrived at Paris to ‘assume his new post of counsellor of the em- bassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in France in the place of Shliapnikoff, who has received an- other appointment and return to Mos- cow. FRIENDS SEEK FRANK GRAHAM, LOST WORKER - MAY BE IN WEST VA. "St, BS Anyone knowing of the wire abouts of FRANK GRAHAM, is re- quested to get in-teuch with the DAILY WORKER, or Henry Don- dery at Boswell, Pa. Graham has disappeared and his friend, a subscriber to the DAILY WORKER is arixious to locate him. it is thought ne” may be in West Virginia. y fr ( 41 ‘ ‘ ( : { RESOLUTIONS — 2 — —— — —— ͤ A el the delegates and the facts about this 8 8 PA ORDER NOW! Labor Defense, hicago, Mingle — -_ - 1 ~ -—------ ** NEW YORK’ ey. July 9.— The — ＋ . . 2 nens AT W Now WE HAVE A GREAT OPPORTUNITY ORK Read This Very Carefully! trade union delegation to Russia. . Such a valuable collection of fa securing subs a great deal easier. Cae ee BUT DON’T orders from trade unions. Go to you —with a bundle of the DAILY WOR trade union unity. speakers to visit trade Union locals trade union unity. This will be the big issue—wi portunity? Never since the existence of the DAILY WORKER has such a splendid opportunity presented itself to Communist Buliders to reach the organized labor movement of this country thru the DAILY WORKER. The large ad in this.issue carries the announcement of the coming serial publication of RUSSIA “TODAY—the full report of the British ets and figures—charts and maps— all the data on Soviet Russia, issued by the official and leading body of Britsih labor, should be of the greatest interests to every worker in and out of the organized American, labor movement. The publication beginning July 20, comes at a time when two special subscription offers are being made, which should make the task of FORGET— That never has there been such an opportunity to secure bundle r union meeting—and to other locals KER. Get the floor to speak on the DAILY WORKER, the British trade union delegation report, and world Subscriptions are sure to result and bundle orders together with this drive are sure to build the DAILY WORKER to become a much greater weapon and organizer of the American Communist movement. TALK TO YOUR C. C. C. Every city organization and single branches surely should appoint on all issues covered in the report of the British trade union delegation and the great world movement for th the recognition of Soviet Russia at the next meeting of. the’ A. F. of L.—and reaching the organized Amer- ican labor movement can be done—AS ALL COMMUNIST WORK CAN BE DONE—by means of the DAILY WORKER! Will you—and your local—swing into action on this great op- Second Friday, July 0, 1928. 237 Bakers and Confectioners, 3420 W. Roosevelt 122 Blacksmiths, 64th and 8. Ashland * 429 iler Makers, 1 and Ave. M. 8 b N ler Mak and Halsted. Building ang Council, 180 W. Washington Carpenters’ Disttict Council, 180 W. Washington St 2200 Carpenters, 4339 S. Halsted St. 14286 Commercial 8 Artists, 19 W. Adams 9 Ee téiclans. 2801 W. Monroe St. 182 clans, 19 W. Adams St. 683 Engineers ae, (Loc.), ‘Madison and ramen 845 — — 180 W. Washington St. 674 Firemen and Enginemen, 5428 Wentworth Ave. 45 Fur Workers, 17117 Gardeners and — Village —— Morton Gro 21 . Workers,” 178 W. Wash- 1 6 Glass Workers, P emily and Marsh- field. 118 Hod Carriers, 1850 Sherman St., Evanston. 7 Janitors, 166 W. Washington St. dies’ Garment orkers, Joint Board, 328 W. Van Buren St. Lithographers, 639 S. Ashland Blvd. Machinists, 113 S. Ashland Blvd. 199 Machinists, 113 S..Ashland Blvd. 492 Machinists, 55th and Halsted Sts. 746 Machnists, cor. Lexington and Western Machinists, 230 Pl. and Halsted. Metal Polishers, 119 S. Throop St. 637 Painters School and Sheffield 2 ttern Makers, 119 8. 9 St. hoto 1 . 814 W. Harrison ope Say P80 W. Washington St. iumbers, 6212 8. Halst.d St. lumbers, 9251 S; Chicago Ave. Railway Carmen, 59th — Halsted Rail Carmen, Blue Island, III. Railway 8 and Robey. Railway Clerks, 8. Clinton St. Rope Splicers, 5668 Milwaukee Ave. Er (Men), 315 Plymouth Ct., W- 2 R. T. Cort Club, 2 Hote 111 holsterers, 159 N. State St. 301 atchmen 2 Yards), 3749 8. Ha Isted St., 9 Local 269, A. C. W. .. te every 2nd Friday, 1564 No. Robey. (Note-—Unless otherwise stated meetings are at p. m. > St n D 85 Se all Another new Sub makes another Communist. | Your Union Meeting | BRIGKLAYERS’ UNION REFUSES ARBITRATION OF JURISDICTION ROW WASHINGTON, July 9. — The board of officers of the Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers’ Internation- F abciet Niwanaduie Ade mit Good Results MOSCOW (By Mail).—Favorable economic consequences of the Italo- Soviet treaty are revealed thru the increase of Itallan exports to the U. S. 8, R. of a, number of goods, ma- chinery and espectally automobiles taking a prominent place among them according to the Popolo d' Italia, an organ closely associated with Musso- fis lini’s party. Apart from “its ‘economic signifi- cance, the treaty is politically impor- tant, too, the Italian paper goes on to say. Nor should sight be lost of the fact that the Soviet republics have huge stocks of iron ore, coal and oil, which Italy needs. The Agencia di Roma, an important news agency, thus comments, in part on Italo-Soviet relations: “It is not the expectation of immediate bril liant results that prompted Italy to. conclude a treaty with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics., It was ] rather her wish to occupy such eco- nomic positions as would in future prove of great value to Italy.” The Italian Economic Institute for rapproachment with the study of the U. 8. S R. has issued a report show- ing that, contrary to certain incor- rect statistical data brought forth in a biased spirit, the Italo-Soviet trade intercourse is actually increasing, and all signs of further development’ are at hand. a Write the story about your shop —Order a bundle to distribute there. iPaPlk ys X ‘i MY NEW LOCATION , to Workers RSTABLISHED 12 YHARA 12 Examination le Free My Prices Are Reasonable al jected a proposal looking to arbitra- tion of the jurisdictional dispute between it and the Operative Plas- terers’ International Union, which is threatening to tie up $500,000,000 of construction in various parts of the country. Soviet Suspends Death Sentence. PARIS, France, July 9,—The Soviet Union has granted a suspension of the death sentences placed against two German students for plotting to kill Soviet officials. U. S. Caused Belgium Crisis. 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‘ , offensive against Darwinism | , sm, Leninism, Darwinism) s 3 — has overturned the “eternal | statement that He does not di tieal arxism, 8 gleaned even from the censored dispatches. 3 ir =man) * 2 * ee laws” (religion) 3 he estbalished. with god. On the contrary, 2 pt bre W * 8 e . 8 of gt ge 8 saute 8 The Rifflans have been advancing steadily for the last three | tion theory’ is wrong. pparen''Y | Marx has overt the eternal laws | science coming to accept the idea of ae struggle Sets Darwin, as well as Nortcliffe, con- of the capitalist syst sstablished by god thru all nature.” But the old This campaign is being aimed directly sclence of proletarian struggle, with- 12 days and reports of French victories have ceased. | tinue to decupy themselves in the] the bourgeois scl fitidts and their Jewish god (the special patron of, against that spirit of which |’ out which the arch of the 3 The extent of the collapse of the French offensive is shown by | other world with the same affairs as 3 * is ‘awakening in the American prole- | strugel e is impossible and now, | By case doctrine of the “ete of capital-| Jews) does not appeal to the . profes mae tan Satine? coentrs fa fm | tied up the fact that every French general of any standing has refused to | they afd upon earth, The first one, im and proved. that: pitaliem is sor. For odr times he is anti | aang on in our ry the very march of events has 3 take the actual command of the French forces under Marshal Lyau- ae — theory of — the sec- developing an elemental power to- The enormous enlargement we 5 r ey ' 1255 ee * and h . tey. The whole world has witnessed the tacle of the French min-, Ain ner ee wards Communism, Jreach of things,” states the pro 1 75 Our proletariat begins to throw off, with the prac tical J. e spec n 3 The bourgeoisie has become divided : ane, Maan: te mpanied by an en- under the influence of the revolution- ‘made the study of theory a istry of war being forced to select for the Moroccan post a division into two parts: the evalutionists and PRECISELY because, of the revo arzement of the idea of god. In what| ary events of the last decode, many| necessity the further indifference. | i) commander of troops in the French army of occupation in Germany | the anti-evolutionists, both sides gath- tionary character of M an | : They have nnd hands with the abled? liberation forces of and —— — — the 1 win has discovered the laws of evolu- fore given by the Chicago: Pele N * 1 2 . drawing | * a worker — bso td 1 Abd-el-Krim and the French government has a new problem on its — after a few eee; een tion of the animals ande plants. The] Let us listen for while to Labie clarity. A cowardly Daruinist \HEORY -is concentrated hands. That this display of solidarity has had serious consequences on the theory of evolution, Darwin Pevolntionar' signicance, of Marxism Ba tg scientists. Entered as second-class mail September 21. 1923, at the oo at Chi- mete ah i Me ail} ved by the DAILY. on Bivd., Chicago, SUBSCRIPTION RATES” — e on ¥ — Monroe 4712 8 =: 9 (in Chieage i * — all mail and make out checks to Pod habe DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. — Bivd., Chicago, INinois| — g iat") wing Dem s of thie Naina eee all the struggle between the demo- NGD of earth, of god, of religion, of the 8 0 N WILLIAM F. 1 2 } agri Bible and the New Testament. Learn ‘ivisions within the bourgeoisie, | Bet r igen 3 et Met ge — : & — rer 3 <= the MORITZ J. LOEB Business Manager ed professors, clergymen and bishops,| Whether this struggle does not merely | petty Darwin-| “The o 0 wings — 1 cago, III., under the | act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rates on application. —̃ SSS * ame. N the camp of the American bour- I | shades of opinion a discussion is go- ing on concerning the origin of ani- mals and man, concerning the origin cartoonists and journalists, reporters, interviewers and foreign correspond- ents, even statesmen, finally even judges, ‘are mobilized for this discus- sion. ee res * n — — —-— * 7 rt against, and r this struggle vunexpectedly“ is not a manifestation of the former which has flared up represent a new form of the old strug- gle “for a third party,” a new rising of the LaFollette petty bourgeoisie or of its id against the old parties, or a new ive of the lat- K e : rE * . r K * E £ ( “3 By ics 3 # bouregoisie. . ) 0 11 8 1 7 in that in “is ctaaen wee ie very ric ance of this struggle and expect it can lead to the revolutionary insignificant number ot thoroly similating the atheistic and religious deductions which flow _ The ¢ i he . ia 4 * ait ae. . 8 7 bes Sn py that it, the — It woul f d most primitive methods seventh day rr rity ly): By mail (outside of Chicago): geoisie a struggle is raging around } u important, | crudest and y ber year 384.80 1 months | $6.00 per rear 3.50 six months the Darwinian theory of evolution. In | e what part | are being applied. | corel the ‘political — ot Prot. 82 50 three’ months ; $2.00 three months the “bourgeois newspapers of all| of our bourgeois yu stands for] One must not over-rate the o make , also to clarity that we were on the verge of freesing up, now we find, under natur- al working of things, the will ‘un on. Man will have a chance to un on. show what is in him. Some will go i in that question lies the experience of all re well that when arguments question arise within the ruling. ch be it even in a very veiled form ( we are observing now in our ¢ Bae a ter against the Lapollette farmer-la- of Darwinism. ) the bad and try to carry the rest this is the surest sien sat the 2 0 7 0 Even the old man Darwin, himself, he Com- majority of the bourgeois and orld with them, as the Soviets. of rev China and Morocco—One F ront e he old man Darwin, himselt,| ber masses, and dies against the Co y "petty | of the Ww R The capitalist press correspondents have been irritating us with be 455 5 — "indeed, Darwinllie}s a part ot the split with the dear 44 ne = 85. * aa 3 The N — proletariat has al 5 was during ‘his life the king-ot tue Communist conception of the universe. would wish only to “rejuvenate” him| O \‘ftom an extreme t their references to the. “loyal” tribesmen supporting the French is press (this main That what Marx hasyaccomplished in| and to make him more modern. Aj", Commection between atheism, Dar ben, in comparison, troops in Morocco, but revenge 15 sweet. and we learn from the se Sagan — ‘for 1 oc 5 relation to the humas society, Darwin | typical sample of such petty bow sagt ge 5 — 2 de fiat ot the Eur “oval” to French im- „ e has accomplish relation to. the semi-Darwinists, sem!l-beltevers, 216 particuiarir with the Russi sources that these tribesmen are no ng, loya to rene m- by the Chicago Daily „ ‘daa discovered |Prof. Chamberlam, an i religion, anti- Dar winism, anti perialism. Tribune, im the other world, Darwin ‘ ’ for the French forces and greatly strengthened the Riffians can be —a man no one except the soldiers under him ever heard of. Frantic appeals for reinforcements are coming from the Spanish forcés in the Tangier zone where they have just lost a battle which convinced himself that (the ape is the ering their forces for the struggle. Na- tional leagues are being formed of the evolutionists and the anti-evolution- ists. Meeting and lectures are being the laws of the human: society, Dar- and Darwinism * Darwin Darwinism, the overwhelming Sealers. ty of the bourgeois scientists is con- ducting a stubborn struggle against both tendencies, for when the broad He begins his interview m and bourgeois counter-revo- has given out the secret of all the then consists this “enlargement of the idea of god,” in the opinion of ‘the Yespectable scientist? In the follow- ing: “We had a monarchial god. Now let us look at the republican god.” of its old traditional viewpoints, it begins to criticize the existing social | system. (And yet Marx said that every criticism begins with the criticism of religion.) This is the greatest danger ‘The theory of the profetariat ta the theoretical questions becomes: 22 intolerable crime. ; Our party, as a whole, e member of our party volutions we know oe a must so is a-ak the capitalist press ingeniously describes as “failure to carry out a 0 i arranged. Strategic positions in the ht policing operation.” masses of workers and farmers will (The respectable professor wishes to threatening our bourgeoisie. 4 tention, theoretical questions, must 33 min — * Sa 9 i 3 aie oat Sear ion see that at the present time a bour-| Hence this fury which we observe put broadly thé study of theory. iy The Franco-Turkish alliance has gone to pot. The Turks are ee, re sternal and that Com. deele god is needed.) Prove then, it during the last weeks in the struggle Otherwise it will be too late, But supporting the Riffians openly and the friendliness of Soviet Russia for the colonial peoples has won her added influence with France’s | former ally. In France proper the Moroccan adventure and the unsteady against the theory of evolution. This struggle represents a new way of re- action, aimed at the beginning of revolutionary rising of the proletariat. before the party stands also another immediate practical political task. Shortly there is forthcoming a shame- ful trial over a Darwinsit because he you wish, after such a statement of a believing, bourgeois scientist to affirm that these people are wrong whd say that the man has created for himself battle is. forthcoming in an American court between the evolutionists and the anti-evolutionists. In other words, this “theoretical” struggle is clearly munism is coming to take its place— nothing, no. power will be able to stave off the socialist revolution. And the best proof of that is Soviet Rus- a god in his own image. The rejuvenated “republican god“ is has preached his viewpoint. Such a position of the franc is driving the government towards a serious Se ee a e 3 wit ro * — — eee preg xh 0 aca ysl = ha tri 4 ms 8 N to a 1 een, — rm 4 5 . * 7 — bourgeoisle and it becomes sharper and out of which religion is banished. ne only with oot or ae . am «hd n ente rest e tor with every day. a The French defeat in the east and ‘the Spanish defeat in the Tangier zone will undoubtedly force Great Britain into the Moroc-. can mess. -British imperialism. will fight before it will tolerate any force at Tangier, across from Gibraltar, that threatens her control of the western gateway to the Mediterranean. and her intervention in We see in the Moroccan conflict. how, in this period, imperialist aggresions involve far more important considerations than the ter- ritories and people affected directly. China and northern Africa, combining rich fields of imperialist enterprise with control of strategic routes, have been linked in a common front France and England. Turkey has been drawn in and when British military necessity forces her openly into a conflict, the chain made by the three great colonial. regions will be completed. India will begin to show the same manifestations of hostility to con- tinued slavery that show themselves 80 powerfully in Morocco and China. The day is past when the capitalist. press correspondents can safely go into ecstacies over the “loyalty” of colonial peoples to their oppressors. The colonial peoples want land and freedom and they have found out that imperialism must be destroyed before they can have these two necessities. { British Imperialism Backs Down. Speaking for the British foreign office, Austen Chamberlain has announced, in reply to a barrage of questions in the house of commons, that the government has no intention of breaking off rela- tions with Soviet Russia. The announcement is one of the finest examples of the power of mass pressure recently seen. The British imperialist press has been baiting Soviet Russia and the Communist International for bodies. leaked out. = a 5 0 s , g * When it is finished, it will be bankers and other criminals against | weeks. It has accused the Soviet government of fomenting the libera . * 0 the finest. And the farmers are proud the sheriff and county attorney of No Way to Escape Provided. 1 5 tion movement in China,. of .organizing revolution in India, of in- HE Non-Partisan League is dead. of it. They point out what can be Sheridan county. Plehtywood is a| Had the coal company made man | HE working class cannot remain an idle onlooker of this struggle that is going ‘on in the camp of its class enemy, for a number of reasons. First of all, because the split in the strong and weak side. It is necessary to do/ this work in the same manner as it is being done by all the bour- dp struggle . ‘Darwinism | (and Marxism) which is flaring up in our country is n been dragging on thry decades upon the old continent. usands of books have been written tg Darwinism new. It has all the tricks of ry, of falsiflea- tes and “Gasulatey TW order to over- turn these “th os | var d with his representatives uppen earth. “We have no right,” so he states, to throw stones at the theolegians nor. they at us.” Drees ut the opponents of Darwinism do not agree even to the considerable ment: Mr. Statesman apparently doesn’t know well the Bible: ab. he takes upon himself to defend, and has of our proletariat. The discussion 1 tween Prof. Chamberlain and the anti- evolutionist is essentially a discussion as to what are the best measures for the suppression of the proletariat revolution. Prof. Chamberlain is for old eee god.” Precisely in this question the political center of | gravity * the entire dispute between views, tomorrow they will try munists, anarchists, and everyone who is not in -agree- ment with the mediaval vie imported from England and officially 3 and permitted by the “LaFo ist such monsterous W freedom of speech. 1 party must organize this pro. E WE SEE IT -:- (Oontinued ein page 1) it meant bail ‘money alright, but this time it only meant the freedom of the city. I was on my way to the politi- cal oasis of Plentywood, the one bright spot, ‘politically speaking in the dreary republican and democratic wastes of the Anaconda Company’s state. And the sheriff was a comrade, an old;ryeteran in the revolutionary movement and one of those who is re- sponsible for wining for Sheridan County the. nickname of “Little Rus- Sia.“ 8 — * — HE sath of Plentywood’s recent political history is interesting. In the heyday of the Non-Partisan League a paper by the name of the Producers News was organized. The radicals who did not agree with the policy followed by the League trim- mers were not anxious to support the | paper. Then Charles E. Taylor came | along to edit the Producers News. | And oe began to happen. citing the rebellion of the Riffs in Morocco. Every one of the crises in intrenational affairs has been laid at the door of Soyiet Russia, but the British masses have remained cold to this propaganda, or You couldn't dig up a socialist in Montana with a steam shovel: Those who do exist are ashamed to admit it. But there is a branch of the Workers | more accurately it has the opposite effect intended—that of arousing] party fi Plentywood and it carries them to a sense of the menace of such a move to their interests and | ear of sweet e corn ‘ip arboreal of dung. But he knows that it is duty to get all the benefit he can, r his class out of his participation in the capitalist joss house. ey 82 * 1 93 of the most interesting sights in Plentywood. ie the county jail. There were prisoners there. Posters demanding the release of Sacco and Vanzetti were posted dh the walls. In the sheriff’s office were cartoons from the DAILY WOR pictures of noted rebéls of ate and interna- tional reputation. Before the last pol- itical cleanup in the county somebody was in the habit of tearing down radi- cal posters from the walls of the sher- iff’s office. The culprit turned out to be a judge. Now he is no more—a judge. The posters are more numer- ous and more audacious than ever. 4 89 8 io" of the finest buildings in the town is the Farmer-Labor Tem- done thru co-opérative effort: The Temple and the Producers News are two monuments to * initiative and loyalty of the worke and farmers of Plentywood. 1 bes) d Soy e: sheriff. Then to the banker, Let me see your papers. Huh! Whe. have you got on your bond? Any farmers?” “Farmers, hell!” ejaculated) the bank- er, “they would not sign a bond like this. Besides they haven't got any money. This bond is signed by the bank’s treasurer and myself. We have the dough.” The sheriff threwiap his hands in disgust and ba wied aut the banker for showing such brazen con- tempt for the law. What am I to do?“ asked the farmer. “Keep your grain,” replied the sheriff as he step- ped on the gas. The banker also ‘stepped on the gas. The farmer scratched his whiskers and muttered: “Gold darned fine sheriff.” 1 in HE county attorney read the dec- cated as I expected,” declared the July 4th mass meeting. Had he read it during the war and emphasized certain sections as he did last Sat- urday, he would not be the county attorney but the county prisoner. By the way, he tells me that the courts in the surrounding counties, makes common cause with bandits, burglars, yi: 18 nice place to visit. Radicals looking for a summer resort could de worse man pay ita visit. Besides being pol- itically agreeable, it is also, a A county. * THREE MINERS KILLED Inu Fink FAULT No Manholes Made to Escape Runaway Cars By AUGUST VALENTINE: (Worker Correspondent) ‘ NANTICOKB, Pa., July 9.— Just as the employes..of the Mineral Spring Collery No. 5 of the Lehigh a VIley Coal company at Parsons, were about to go to work at their various places, theye were struck by runaway cars. Three miners were instantly killed and two others were seriously injur- ed. The men, were waiting to be hauled up the slope as the cars came tearing and ripping down the grade. It took the miners a great deal of time te lift the cars off of the mangled holes in the ribs so the men could get out of the way, the accident could have been easily avoided. this costs money. It's less expensive to have first aid teams, volunteers But all tors, is school ers. “NOTORIOUS st 1 BY SCHOOL BOARD Veteran Educators Must Give Up Their Jobs The question whether the board of education should continue patroniz- ing the scab Landis award contrac- splitting the school Business Manager John F. Byrnes re- fused to give the open shoppers the job of repairing nineteen schols tho their bid was the lowest. they have done poor work in the past and have proven irresponsible. In the controversy which has aris- en over this matter the fact that the board has been employing these notorious union fighting’ con- tractors for the last 25 years has board. He charges Not Worth the Money Anymore. Principal have a way of : upon themselves as superior to teach- And no one has tried harder to keep them thinking that way ; more scalps on its belt than ever hung 8 * . 8 22 oe “Lin most cases, to give help to the | Superintendent of Schools William. spurred them to loud and continuous protest. in an Indian's tepee. After a long | ryt farmers of 8 idan e 3 slaves than toil for them. McAndrew. But the new pension law . 12 5 y are * The tory government, elected with the largest majority received struggle, during which fists as well as be 3 Coan Ai The capitalistic sheet blew its full in two decades by any government, has had to back down after For- eign Minister Austen Chamberlain had made a tour of European capitals attempting to organize an anti-Soviet Russian front. The: London — te a number of capitalist papers state Miners, textile operatives, railwaymen and other well- organ- ized and powerful ‘groups of workers are demanding wage increases; the alliance between the Russian trade unions and those of Great Britaiw thru the Anglo-Russian Committee for World Trade Union Unity is evidence that the whole British labor movement has swung tongues were used, the radicals of Plentywood have cleaned up every of- fice in the county and have not alone done that, but they have either forced the capitalist politicians to keep they have done in Plentywood can be ‘done thruout the state, they claim. 8 0 3 N the last elections, the workers and farmers of Sheridan County are completely victorious. as well off as those in any other part of Montana, „but their present condition is not one to be envied. | Bankers have not as easy a time fore- closing mortgages.as they used to, be- a little army to teke away grain and everything else from a farmer. on whose land he had a mortgage. The farmer refused to let the banker and his men take his grain away. The banker called up the sheriff and de- cago, Workers (Communist) “Party. Choose your corner and be on 10 help make these meetings a sucre Street Meetings uf Meetings to be Heid steam praising the first aid team and ‘the physicians that were rushed to This Saturday Night help the men who were instantly killed. Nothing was mentioned that Lives. be, The accident was due to the care- straight hooks in which the cars were coupled together, and the slope had a little level place in it. continue. which goes into effect Jan. 1, 1926 shows them their true position in $0- ciety. The school board has decreed. that when principals reach the: age of 70 their usefulness to their bosses is feel capable enuf and haye the urge to They must give up their lessness of the caal company in using zalaries and live on_a meagre pension for the rest of their. lives their boss no longer regards worse the money they draw. them- 1 And their manded Milwaukee and Division in front of |. When the cars landed on this littie Here are the veterans who are denitely tO the left: mass unemployment, the demands of the cap-|lively paper the Producers’ News is 22 e! 1 2 e rw Smolskie Bank. Anti-Imeprialist meet, level place the hook bounced out and scheduled to be released next Janu- italists for reduction in wages, the crisis in the coal, metal and ship-| mainly responsible for this. Of tine about 5 ere, tho he took his ing. G. K. Gebert in Polish; Sam turned the cars loose. The result 3 d at present their salaries ping industries, the belief that Britain will be drawn into the Moroc- urse, without a militant organiza- ; g gree Hammersmark in English. #3... sound reed aan turned loose eee 1 Wege their re- can conflict and the popular opposition to this, all make the position et a e yt ai HE banker stretched out his hand fixie e- Road. N n oalinal ‘whi gs Poses George M. e of British imperialism extremely delicate. The die-hards in the British cabinet led by Lord Birkenhead, every home in Sheridan County and it is by all means the best paper of and said, “Pleased to meet you; how we can go ahead with the work.” ry Gannes and Max Schachtman. Division and Washtenaw. J. Loui | the miners realized what happened the cars were upon them. John High School sery Clayberg—McKinléy ice, 46 years. . May — Beale rd Engdahl and Jewish speaker. mer er ae Helementary who have been clamoring for action against Soviet Russia, have had its kind that I have seen anywhere. enfore n v law] South Side, 30th and State. Paul W Le Caen we John H. eee to pull in their horns and t! 5 | e cement and would not budge un- Klein and Victor Zokaitis. uly 9.— Great Bri- — Avondale Fle. to see that even British imperi: lism, the most powerful in ä — | when it wars on the workers and peasants of Russia, must be pre- to elect one 3 to the state was according to Hoyle. Wait a min- Speakers for North and Orchard will be announced later. tain, pound, 4.85%, by cable, 4.86%: France, franc, 4.70%, by cable; 4.71; Louis J. — mentary School service, 44 years. Block Marshall High N camp of the enemy is weakening the and not only religiqus but also would- concessions which are made by Prof. a “republican” god, because the spir urgeois courts. All who are against this zone will intensify the conflict for control of an area that almost strength of the latterand is increas-| be scientific: books. numerous | Chamberlain. “The Bible and the old of democracy inherent in such a g s unheard-of scandalous — = resulted in war in 1912. ing the lattetr's chances in the strug-| flock of bou ' ‘professors has god must remain unchanged and un- will be a better means against th érs very little from the media | 1 N Great Britain war on the Mohammedan tribesmen of gle for its clase interests. It is neces-| thought out a of roguishly | shaken,” recently declared one af our revolutionists than the spirit ot re- ipguisitional trials of the tohe b 9 ae sary to st the enemy and his subtle “objections”. against Darwin- statesmen. (We shall add, en our action” defended by the anti-evolu- | st protest with all their fore : 7 Morocco without raising a storm among her millions of Moham- forces. It is ecessary to know his ism and Mar y have applied | part, that this is not avcar@fuk.state-| tionists and which is inherent to the} medans in India. : * y 2 55 this accident was avoided, that the at an end. They must give up their a fore Sheriff Saleshurg was elected Saturday night, July 11th, the, follow , b e icted. „ C/ — ' — from . , Caan es rang tet Hes rcaneei wisi ee | tions for fear of —— down on its head a storm of working class nearest reactionary oasis. And what A neichboring county came along with | held under the auspices of local Chi, * 1 ree ether they wrath. “ | Sehodl service, 43 legislature and two representatives. | ute,“ he said to thé banker. “Is the pullman: 113th and Lan 8 Belgium, franc, 4.63 ½, by cable, 4.64: years. pared to fight on two fronts—abroad and at Héme. is it is ae Charles E. Taylor is the senator and farmer agreeable to to The removal of Kowalsky in Polish. Sies Ave., Italy, lira; 3.681%, by cable, 3.68%; — Bilsabeth B. Flex Schneider ablé to do, The British workers have chosen to stay with their two Larsens are the repfesentatives, | his srain?” “I should say not,“ snort- Norway, krone, 26.81, by cable, 26.84; e 3 ool service, 40 years. 7 itl : | One of the L ed the banker. “Ip fact he is decided- fi _ -. | Sweden, krone, 17.70; by cable, 17.72; egan—Sherman Ele K class instend of the empire and another glorious chapter has bee arsene e fel by 0 i Spanish Dictator Under Weath r na. ‘| tary School emen ye ; hi po et or Bit as n the wayside and went over body and l hostile.” The ‘sheriff suggested a P * ather. Denmark, krone, 20.53, by cable, 20.55: Ceph in ce, 36 years. 5 written in the history of the world revolution!“ soul to the Dixon machine. The other | talk with the irate farmer. Are you| MADRID, July 9. — General Primo] Germany, mark, no quote; Shanghai, Rune Leach — Jahn Elemen- . The Communists must arouse and organize the American work-| Larsen is as straight at à die and willing that the banker should take de Rivera, head of the Spanish di- tael, 79.00, no quote. 1 3 36 Jears. ae ing class to the same degree of solidarityt With the workers and has a constant struggle w his con- he Pp grails ed the sheriff.| rectory, was ill today with gastric en * as wa ‘uta, oe bleme og ot» Peasants of Soviet Russia as that displayed by the British workers. abana! ype Pst algae oe in the ecidedly not, s the farmer. leg ak Ea 8 to rest] Your neighbor would like to John W. Troegertrvng. . The French workers are also on the march Here in the United og 338 2 . — the n 28 5 ys, Bos eee 10 this issue of the DAILY tery School service, 32 years Hee \ mal clan RK ER. ly— Willian’ C. Dod 4 en we must close the last gap in the anti- imperialist fron“ capitalist * Helena, as aa decided that quiet was J to hi 11 Be “a i 3 i wae OE A — je *
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ats > hee } © SECOND SECTION — This magazine supple- ment will appear every Saturday in The Daily * r d ORATION OF THE DIT SYSTEM. 1 10 the year 1924 the United States of America exported from 1914 . to the belligerent Central Europe. Of this sum the amount, 4m round figures to 10 1 3 From whence dt the United Stater of . : * | United States of America « PR ele we mie’ be put into working eater again. ale ed between finance capital and ‘the masses of the farmers, which led to a change in American Fey take an active part in the res In addition to this — act, * 1 1 1 7 bys ’ * Austria, Hungary. Poland—ail ag countries tound themselves in such a corn, cotton. etc. T was only the agrarian crisis, the - crisis which arose as a result of the leated causes. and which forced roapecte to.the peasant masses 12 f themselves at the cost this manner an alliance was ‘conclud- Soviet Russia with milit etc. But Russia can affor << capitalist e of Europe are trying. to scare conferences, the “Security pact”, to smile at these scares. The Red Army is always ready to meet unwelcome guests. into move-| America also participated in the finan- cing of European commerce and in- dustry. The 800 million gold marks which the Anglo-American money market lemt to Germany, the 100 million dol- lars Morgan placed at the disposal ‘of the French government for the support of the franc, the various pri- vate credits—Germany for example received in the past year, besides the} above-mentioned million gold ‘marks, private credits to the amount ot one milliard—all this ts character- Astic of the commencement of the res- toration of the system of internation- al credit. If it is asked whether this implies a fundamental organic change, one is compelled to reply; yes, the pie tig wel wealth in America un- y forces America decome the credit power of the a world. This factor * e 2 ee ite 2 frre Restorat stn of the Mone second factor, as to which I have already spoken, is the res- toration of the monetary system. There was a time when the German mark sank even lower than our ruble. classes after the war 9 paid no taxes, the existing system of taxation did not suffice to maintain the valuta. ‘Taxes which were collected one day had no value on the next, owing to | the. depreciation of the currency. In order to maintain the officials, the army, @te, with the sinking valuta, the state was compelléd every year, every month, every week, and later issue more and more paper money, whilst the stream ot money into the state treasury became less and less. This led to the fall and collapse of | the monetary system ot central Eu- rope. HE year 1923 marked the lowest point im this process, but the end of the same year brought about the commencement of a change. Thus Germany introduced the Rentenmark and Austria stabilized its valuta with the help of u league of nations loan. Poland. by taiting the bourgeoisie, ob- tained the means for the introduction. ot a gold currency. We amine here whether Austrla, Poland and Germany these countries whose economy was shaken the most and who stand nearest to the revolution have stabilized their valuta to a sut- ficient extent and in what manner they have done so. The next question : * |Germany as would have s 2 bury a dog. As however it was neces- jon every day and even every hour to must en Soviet Union monetary system can be regarded as ‘permanent. The restoration of these valuta is to be attributed in part to the restora- ie tion of the system of international e- credit. The stream of gold from Ens [and and America—in 1 e first place America—provid the means covering the new valuta. e C{ECONDLY, the bouregoisie, who Seat ars aes gm by self-taxation, drawn it had avoided up to now. Thus the bourgeoisie, which in October, 1923, passed thru the sharpest political and economic. crisis, made a sudden change in its policy and in the course of the year 1924, with the help of ex- tra taxation, succeeded for the time being in balancing its budget. The third factor is of a psychologic- al character. Let us take Germany as an example. The mark had fallen at a continually increasing rate, the noose around the neck of the popula- tion had been drawn tighter and tigh- er, with the result that an insistent demand had arisen among the masses to stabilize the valuta at any price, even at the price of self-deception. The government took advantage of this and issued the Rentenmark, rep- resenting it to be a stable valuta, al- tho it depreciated just as much as the daper money. one compares the gold cover of was based upon a favorable Gabe alance. In the years 1922 and 1923 re sold more than we purchased. The chervoneta was supported by cer- ain metal resources of the state bank. “he Rentenmark, however, was only ‘upported by its guarantee by the | serman landowners. The land and he soil, hoWever, cannot be exported, and in the event of the collapse of the Rentenmark not a single would have bought as to sary for the social salvation of the German bourgeoisie the Rentenmark introduced and was maintained by means of taking advantage of the psychological condition of the masses, untjl the Americans furnished * and the mark obtained a gold co What is the sign/ficance uf the torktion of the system of internation- al credit and of the re-establishment of the N prong! ee 3 into consideration thoed' ed which have hitherto received very little at- | tention, i. es that wee war, and indus- also in part after the war, the trial basis of the capitalist countries had been. etxended.. war, for the purpose of providing the army with weapons, munitions, ete., produc- tion, before all the metallurgical pro- duction, in all countries had to be ex- tended. America, England and, after the occupation of the northern dis- tricts, France also, had to set up a new metallurgical center. Italy and Japan alse extended their metallurgic- al industries. | ., ze The armiés, nñowever, had not only to be supplied with wea but also with other articles. t to the extension of a number of other branches of industry. If one reckons therefore the number of lathes and spindles. and the amount of motor is whether the present salvage of their (Continued on page 8) wee 1 W * S Pa een . ld
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— — — — PERUSAL of the of the daily press 6 sufficient nowadays to give one a picture of the outstanding economic position and the imposing political role of the American imperialists. We néed not go thru ponderous edi- torlals. We need not even attempt to read between the lines in order to have evidence of the growing power of the dollar in international politics. In a sense, all we have to do to get a line on the swift and menacing ad- vances being made by the Yankee capitalists to dominate international finance and politics is to glance at some of the big advertisements in the financial columns of the daily press. A fifteen million dollar loan for the ‘city of Berlin; a twenty million dollar loan for a bank in Chile; a five mil- lion dollar loan for the province of upper Austria; and a huge loan for a province in the Argentine—all in the brief period of a few days! These are | the announcements to be seen flaunt- ing the face of the reader in the bold- est of type. Three Gigantic Strikes S is the terrific pace at which American capital is being export- ed. Last year our bourgeoisie export- ed more than a billion dollars worth of eapital to every corner of the globe. Three significant events mark the development of this “dollarization” process of the world. 1. The organization of the Federal Reserve. System as a means of co-or- dinating, increasing the stability and centralizing American finance. 2. The change in the gold-holding relationship among the capitalist countries. 8. The change of the United States from a debtor country into a creditor country. These three events are of montu- mental importance in an analysis of the growth of American imperialism into the giant stage which it has try of the world because of the funda- mental disruption of the European economic order by the years of in- fernal slaughter, the United States be- came the possessor of the greatest quantity of monetary gold ever held by any national group. American cap. italists now hold more gold than the rest of the world put together. The climax in this series of imperialist strides is the.role now being played | by the Yankee bourgeoisie as the greatest creditor in the world. Before the world war the American national capitalist group was a debtor nation.” Significance of Huge Capital Export struggle for the contrel of the markets for the sale of manufac- tured and food products has been a source of capitalist wars. For the bourgeoisie of any country the cer- tainty of controlling a market to which they can export their “surplus” commodities, a market in which they can sell the articles produced by but taken from their exploited working | class, is a paramount importance. The actual and even greater potential | valug of China as a market for these | commodities is perhaps the most pro- lific source of dissension among the international imperialists in the Far East. But for the weaker and colonial peo- ples themselves the conflict among the imperialist powers for the control of these economically underdeveloped countries as fields for the investment of surplus capital is an even more acute menace. In this instance, far more than in the conflict among the various strong bourgeois national groups for the domination of the market for the sale of manufattured and food products, the weaker colonial peoples tend to become pawns on the chessboard. Let us amine a concrete situation. Let us take the Latin-American coun- tries as a market for the “surplus” manufactured and food products and the surplus capital of the British and American finperialist groups. gentinian markets for the disposal of ‘their “surplus” shoes. Well, this is a source of strife 2 the British | the British and American steel inter- ests are competing to sell Brazil or Argentine steel and rail with which to build railroads in these On the — a ey that 3 — San, sh „ 5 : * * a > * — 1 Fa 0 — . ’ — 4 — — * * 8 ‘our - - 7 * * ‘ - e z in the public utilities, banking go Fant pfises, mercantile — railroads, mining and meat-packing in the Latin- American countries. Here we have the material, the So- nomic, basis for Yankee imperialist in- terference with and domination of tho political, economic and social life of these Latin-American countries. Here we also have the economic basis of another source of war between the British and American national cap- italist groups. Here we also have the economic, the real, basis of the resent- ment of these weaker peoples towards the policies, political doctrines and diplomacy of the mighty -imperialist 1 ternational Some of the mal. figures in the Russian Communist Party eft to right: Stalin, Rykoff, Kameneff and Zinoviev. 1 and the Communist In- a import capital. This necessary 3 is today controlled by certain leading national capitalist groups. There is all the difference in the, world between exporting shoes and “exporting” railways, waterpower sys- tems, harbor facilities, and other pub- lic utilities. First of all, the “export-: ing” of railways, electrification enter- prises and mines, grows out of the [exporting of vast 1 capital. Secondly, en a national capitalistic group exports such com- modities as shoes the process of col- lecting the payment for these shoes is of far less duration than the process of collecting the interest and principle | on the exported huge quantities of f- nance capital. collectiing these bills and debts the exporters of manufactured com- modities or finance capital by the a likelihood there will be of interference in the internal afflans of the weaker peoples by the powerful national capi talist groups and their imperialist gov- ernments. This is the. economic basis of the continued increasing interference with | the politcial economic and social af fairs of the weaker and colonial peo ous imperialist governments, the less} facilities, (the electricity enterprises, and other basic public utilities, also wield a tremendous influence on the political and economic life of the in- dustrially under-developed countries. Colonialism is but a phase of imperial- The Mexican “Incident.” Ir is precigely an incident“ of this sort which occurred recently when the United States Secretary of State Great Britain. Altogether more than thirteen billion dollars of surplus capitl invested in : | ples by the stronger imperialist pow- ers. When the American bourgeoisie | tne wadier power resources, the harbor! - — —„-— capital to Germany we will see clearly the why and wherefore of the develop- ing difference in attitude towards the likelihood of the success of the Dawes plan. ing financiers of Great Britain. He is afraid that the Dawes plan may g0 on the rocks. Sir Josiah Stamp and the satellites of the British imperial- ist group have apparently decided that “the time had arrived to give the world | the truth of the situation Se | business men.” . But the Ameritan ler, “Willis H. Booth, vice-president of the Guar- antee Trust Company; John W. O Leary, president ot the Chamber of Commerce ot the United States, and the Yankee Reparation Agent, Mr. Gilbert, Jr., himself, are still waxing enthusiastic over the Dawes plan suc- ceeding. Surely, experience has taught the working class of the world that when international capitalist financial ex- perts fall out, the dangers of impecrial- ist wars multiply and intensify. Al- become discredited because it has - (Continued on page 7) Sir Josiah Stamp is one of the lead - es — 8 1
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— — — 1 eee: D a eee „e 88 2 „ee course of completion, for-the_purpose of generating electrical energy. They are all, as it were, set out according with their national economy, and it would seem as consistent as ep able with the process of utflization of the natural resources of the country. not merely propounded in the technical circles, it is, so to speak, tary education of the child and youth im the many workers’ clubs thruout the vast territory of Russia: i In certain workers’ clubs there is a very fine working model of an entire transported by electrical energy, and finally heated, lighted and cleaned by the same force. N 1920 the writer visited Chaturt, some 60 miles out of Moscow, where a fair size station was being erected, and owing to the blockade — to secure peat, which was to form the basis of power and energy for light- in Moscow proper. Visited again in 1924 the place had grown efiormously. There were thou-. building workers were to be seen gradually shrinking into oblivion, just on the job, the transformers 4 ee ee It was quite a tonic to go with the latter to see his wife and two children residing in a fine house placed at his one is to give 48,000 k.w., and is ex- pected to reach this figure by 1927. The other stations visited in 1924 were the Mogess near Moscow, the Temo Chavalis near Tiflis in Georgia, where water power is o be exploited, Sterofka in the Doneta Basin, where inferfor anthracite is the chief fuel, the Central Moscow station, which is run on oil fuel, and the Volkhof sta- tion, with water power from the River Volk. It is this latter which affords the best idea of the great capacity to en- gage in huge tasks so frequently dem- onstrated by the administration anc workers of Russia. OLKHOFSTROY, as it 18 popularly termed, is an undertaking com- plete with every detail of a gigantic we te a well thought out plan in keeping | HE great theme of electrification is | part of the curriculum of the elemen- q village built. with timber hewn and ing, traction and heat en route to and} sands more workers on the job and everywhere. The 1920 station was «2 * the boilers from a torpedo boat de- J Slovakia, with men from that country ’ , and n — f rg if _ * 2 . — * 2 ee =- 2 m 5 | WE — CC cc dks of tad eae dais ts the coming convention of the American Federation of Labor from the British Trade Union Congress. He is the jee ey as mAs Trades Union Congress, Chairman of the English-Russian 4 Trade Union Unity Committee. was chairman of the delegation of Trades Union Con- | gress General Council which recently visited Russia and the whole official report on conditions there has created havoc in the ranks of the reactionaries. This article is taken from “The Operative Builder”, official organ of the British building trades unions. changes, the river Volk is not giving -ompleted during 1925, and the total sstimated cost is about eight millions sterling. At the moment there are not leas , for excursions and entertainments, but the run-down or fatigued worker up- on application to his trade union, who lishments entirely tree of all charge resources, it, in common with the gen- jeral run of economic undertakings, | prevision for the well-being of all who | This it is that holds so many of proved by the congress of 1,500 a full fortnight per year, free tickets two per cent of their wages has to be paid to the trade union as a regular contribution. The average wage appears to be about 60 roubles per month, that is to say about 318. per week of 48 hours. To this must be added all the free services, ‘insurance and holiday pay- ments mentioned above, together with the free clothing supplied in many in- Stances where there is undue risk at- taching to their work. there is that great feature of present-day Russia whereby nw merons country houses have been con- verted imto adequately equipped rest houses for the worker. These inst tutions, tho neither of the hospital nor sanatoria type, with a competent med- ical staff on the spot are available for send him to one of these many estab- If the electrification schems 5 Rus. sia is a great plan to exploit natural has to make the necessary minimum work regardless of their oecupation or calling. their people together and secures in return unstinted service u. the great cause for which the toll has been il- Umitable sacrifice. "| NDER the czarist regime in Rus- sia little or nothing was done to develop the resources pertaining to electricity, altho British, German, French, Belgian and American capital- ists were competing for the right to exploit in various directions. But it was not until the great Lenin scheme of 1920, with its concrete and detailed plans, which were placed be- fore the Eighth All-Russian Congress fof Soviets and the technical details eign capital and credits were not available, but nevertheless amazing progress has been made when it Is understood that the stations now near. ing completion must be reaching in the direction of a million or more kilo- watts. If this proves anything at all it that difficult as the proposition is the capitalist regime need not necessarily be even a minute part of the workers’ state of the future in places additional to Russia. 380 long as the admirable spirit and esprit de corps observable on under- ttakings such as these prevail, Russia will surely and certainly, if ever so | slowly, emerge as the greatest healthy and really wealthy industrial democ- ‘racy the world can know in our day and generation. would seem to very definitely indicate | 2 5 — Vc Book Shop 307 Plymouth Court (Between State and Dearborn Just South of Jackson) CHICAGO constructed, and there are the usual necessary diversions. This will be the largest station in all Russia, Viewed from the rising ground it gives the impression of a tremendous structure of galleries and _ terraces, with leading tracks and bridges chas- ing each other up, down and around, and vanishing at the distance into a serfes of dead ends, Already it has swallowed up four million square feet Sota": | parts. A huge coffer dam has been . TO LIGHT THE WAY TO COMMUNIST eee of timber and fs bedded with thou-| There are electric cars for passen- THE THEORY AND 35 CENTS sands of tons of concrete cement, ger and material transport, cranes cant, stone and brick work, and electric conveyors, and concrete PRACTICE OF LENINISM A we DAILY WORKER HEN finished it will have as a PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W., Washington Bivd., Chicago, III. By l. STALIN, Secretary of the Russian Communist Party. partner and helpmate the back- ing of the Utinka station, which is one with peat burning fuel, and will only work at full pressure when at the Volkhof station, owing to seasonal are also huge canteens, co- operative stores, quarters for sin- gle men and houses for married men and their families, the usual adminis 3 oe 6 la
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— A I — By ANISE OSCOW, June 14.—(By Mail.)—I spent two days this past week in a Russian factory a few hours ride from Moscow. A former New York comrade in charge of “propaganda” tor the district and invited me out. 1 first had the chance to see how Rus- sian party workers live out in the provinces, for he moved over to — the room of a comrade and gave me his room. Certainly no unskilled 2 er in America, Who has a * lives so plainly. A wooden plank bed out springs, a large table on which to work, a wash basin in one corner furnishings. No rug, no -wardrobe, clothes. For cooking food, there. was | pom tric teapot. The water brought from a, distance, to a distance after using. no plate, no dish - pan, no pail one teaspooan. He laughed: “When they go.to 4 the north pole, they have more comforts. But I am too “day at the factory.” . At home cold food eaten out of a bag sufficed. E went in the evening to the meet- ing of the Party “Yachejka,”— the communists of the factory. Orig- inally, the word yachejka signified a little nucleus, but now it is a big meeting; so have the numbers of the cOMmunists grown. Now also, at most of the meetings they allow outsiders or non-party people, since the subjects considered have to do with the wel- fare of the factory. The non-party people take part even in discussions, but do not vote. The young secretary of the Party Committee, a group of nine elected by the whole gathering to conduct the airs of the party in that factory, ~just finishing his report of the t six months as we entered. There were 180 members of the party, of whom 60 were received this year and 60 more Such lartze num- ang ;Swamping ry and requir 78 eh 5 la- ‘bor to organize into work. For work of some kind had to be found for all of them; if they were not “active” they were no use, and might be dropped. The party in the factroy ex- isted as the active, energetic political force, correlating every activity. PPOSITE me as I sat down was the director of the factory—also a Communist. But he did not look happy. “He may possibly attack the report of the committee,” 2 _ whispered R., “for they have be: g it hot for him. He is likely to be removed from his job any time now on their recommendation, The Trust thinks he’s a good man, but he somehow doesn’t get the cooperation of the workers. He is sincere and has tried to learn; perhaps he has learned something here that will be useful to him élsewhere. But he cannot apply it here, for in the process he has roused too many prejudices. I am also recommending to the: "a 1 oe he be transten a e 3336 * As we sat ." questions breaking out over ‘the ‘room, taken down Ta 5 Titint by the chairman ot the meeting.” Have" we no report from thie Pionsers? Are all the party members Of this tactory members also Of tlie MOPR? (rue relief of communist political prison- ers in many lands.) Have we ofgan- ized a movement to help the prole- tarian student? Has thé Party looked into the matter of thé Club’ and ob- served that we have no summer’ grounds or equipment for summer ac- tivities? How large is the active membership; how many members have no party duties? What has our Village Commission done in thé near- by county of which we are now the “guardians?” Why havent we a ande tary organization?! as When this list of questions anit doz- ens mo had been collected, the young sécr , 4 worker in black leather jacket, y recently elected to the job, rose to answer. HE Village Commission has spent two or three weeks investigating a tiny pail of water hung above it, one} chair and one stool—these were the „aan, ͥ busy. Besides, I 257 hot meal every | vat } township: They wd sent 9 to I holidays and special days: J first of May, the Anti- and othér events. Now came a 75 time, and had aroused some enthusi- asm, then an attempt was made to create a larger organization, drawing the work as possible. direction had always been fixed first by the Partys commission. Thus they were permeating ever wider and wider groups of workers and drawing them into active participation in many new movements, HERE With Illiteracy Society, Friends of Children, raising money home- less children, the M. O. P. R., the VIl- lage Get-Together organization, the Cultural Bureau, the organization tor were many 3 move- ments in this factory. The Down} 2 a e ö 2 many active n was the next The secretary ex- plains tad, of the 180 party members 11 i 11 i E : ; 1 | 1 r . bo rT tion for Speeding up Produ * of these had been ne , the Party, but were now functioning, not under the Party, but under the Factory Committee, elected by all the workers. They had become part of the accepted life of the factory. But the Communists who had launched them still kept a guiding hand on them, assigned members to work in them, received reports from them and made suggestions to them, with the aim of keeping all the life of the factory,—its production, its ‘Workers’ rights, its cultural groups,—in line with the ultimate progress towards Communism. The most interesting job in the factory is that of party secretary,” whispered R. to me, as the meeting went on. “After that comes the job of managing the plant. But the Party secretary really has more responsibil- ity. If anything at all goes wrong— in production, or in the life of the workers, he is going to get knocked for it. It is the duty of the manager to see that the factory produces well; he must satisfy the trust. It is the duty of the factory committee to see that the workers get good wages and conditions of labor; they must satis- the workers. But in the reconciling of these ‘two demands, and in the big- ger questions: of making the factory serve the ultimate needs of a soeial- ist state—that’s where the party sec- retary has to satisfy everybody. If ager and workers, e must forestall trouble, sometimes by ‘Arguing poli- ‘ties with the workers and showing them what is and is not possible, he sees friction growing between man- I He is not a clear thinker and deliver the goods. The demand working class are now greater, 17 was not at home; there had been too much unhappy gossip abount him. Midi. 3 |merly not allowed to organize any- “Why didn't you speak ad The floor is free,“ says the secretary, Then a member moves that since it is past closing time, 3 else be allowed that me You haven't bought us 1 basins. “Are you single?” “Yes.” Will you marry in church?” “No,” says the applicant, and after a pause sits down. It is 1 to think all over the largest republic on earth, from Leningrad to Vladivostok, in every factory and mili this is going on. This cultural . in a country where workers were for- thing at all. * rome Dae ag yx ENG ou RU how it’s done.“ says 8 to me “If a tactory has no Commun- ists, we send down three or four. After six months there are fifteen. Then we send a couple more with new ideas. Change the methods, get different things started. In a year we have forty. We form societies, Mopr, friends of children, day nursery, pioneers; we get non-party people working. We draw them in next. We keep changing personnel and bringing Im new ideas and methods to keep things stirred up. That's how’ it goes with tor ued nome, naturally ‘every- R ee “All Men Are Born Free and Equal.” if By ISRAEL AMTER. EB days after the Fourth of - July, when the patriots of this country reannounce that all men are born free and equal,“ thousands of ‘children of New York and the vicinity are applring to be adopted by a wealthy man 3 EY W. Bronwing. a anne real Margaret A. McGroarty, a visiting estate operator, is looking for a com. teacher, told ot frightful conditions panion for his: foster, daughter; and has advertised to that effect. Thou- sands of letters have poured in to the Bronwing mansion, appealing to Bron wing to adopt this or that chill. | * that they. are “too poor to give their ettspring the advantage and education which they felt their children deserved.“ aa Fork Times, One little girl, evidently not know-}>.’ ing what the procedure meant, went and sometimes by 5 the removal of the boss.“ young secretary 8 arose a discontented worker. young secretary paid no atention. R. turned to me with a grin. And ‘he has just recommended the removal of the boss! That's how much he is a pet of the administration! But this of course, cannot be announced, for the recommendation may not be ac- y committees are getting to de the village soviets throughout the cepted, and there is no use in cre . : raove' ar pets of the administration“ swered a question. A mn emor mother and be adopted, wept» bitter in the back of ‘the? han. Our arne suc, eee eee ee af Da Mothers giving up up their children, Wen he states that “children at the age of 2 and 3 have been found toiling away their days of mere infancy, help- _ ing their mothers eke out a living in the tenement houses of New Vor and other cities.” “In the cotton feld“ of California, child pick from sunrise to sunset.“ * oe im the Italian - section. of upper New . | York. n.as~young as 8 work on 4 Their wages are deplorable, abe testiſfed. Condi- tions in Bast Harlem are simply ap- Mothers plead, poverty,“ says the paling,“ “All men are born mes cd equal” Facts prove 11 . “Philadelphia, Notice!” weber Printing Co. | | * N. FIFTH ae __Phlladelpa, ra. i on 4 — parents, because their par cannot take care of them. This is the “free; dom” and:“‘equality”, of which the 100 same “freedom”; and. “equality”. that Chass, . writer for the tiole 1 the. March issue, because they cannot properly, s — them! Children being torn, es percent patriots talk so much. The}; “Current: ‘uae Monthly.“ in an ar-“ — 0 i I KAPLAN _ “OMERCHANT “TAILOR at Reasonable Prices i 38546 ARMITAGE AVENUE Phone Albany 9400 * — —— * * ait —s » en as young as 4 of oh 4 1 222 Suits: Made to order 4. * 22 7 oy wi . ' 1242 5 Miw coy 7487 1 B * ine > 25 * 0 9 Kr .at re . — — — —. —— tn — att
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~ * — ä — Nap stasis ay * e > „ 3 : SHARP report like the crack of a musket, I turned around quickly. There stood a petty naval officer box- ing the ears of a rickshaw coolie. Countless Chinamen were walking up and down the Bund in Canton, and yet not one stopped. This happened just a year ago. Coolies ears are not being boxed by sailors from foreign battleships on the Bund, in Canton, China, today, The imperialists’ battleships on the Bund, imperialists’ battleships are there, yes, but the sailors are standing by to defend Shameen, the foreign quart- er, the home of the international banks and the trading corporations of the imperialists, and are not promen-| ading the Bund, full of whiskey and soda, spitting into the taces ot the natives. . yen whic 0 paid the executioner of the ekin- Hankow railroad workers’ strike lead- ers, who were decapitated in public in order to teach the workers that la- dor unionism is not a healthy method of struggle. But the Chinese railway workers were taught quite another lesson. They formed groups of ten and continued their union activity un- der the very noses of the imperialists. S same year saw the strike of 30,0000 Chinese Pacific sailors at the British port of Hong Kong, which spread rapidly into a general strike of all Hong Kong servants and labor- ers until the total involved numbered 50,000. There are strikes and strikes, but this was the kind that made the blood of every revolutionist tingle. The strikers had their own militia. The Canton workers and peasants stood by, And th food became searce in and when it was suddenly 22 that the boats plying between Canton and Hong Kong were not bringing down even a solitary squash to feed the bourgeoisie of Hong Kong, armed vessels were sent to Canton on a foraging expedi- tion. But they came back empty. It was then that the retainers of the im- perialists who resided in Hong Kong, ers whose wonderful mansions make the Peak so picturesque, began to flee the city. They felt that the rebellion meant business. As it did. HE strike was won. The trans- dane 2 corporations, acting thru year 1922 in Was event- 1 . 7 ta ‘ oD den MO ht a J os i fan aT == ; * 4 * r 8 559 . ’ Bie AER ic ns 4 4 Le * * Dy: 1 . * rw * — — — 4 7 ath ee * “ | 1 15 100 iF A Ww SA the memory of Ines Armand be Ova: > * t 4 ve Iyer 55 84 nideow. b 3187 ope Sratiaso rT 1 x ow n et.
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7 5 i eas * i 1 LAR 1 7* * cy a . en ‘ 5 2752 nr 7 6 sgh. * 7 wn ay ie aan E 8 Sd 372 e ’ e beer e e N eee e e ** r x 5 Dre ‘fate - 2 is 3 7 — * 2 * ng 3 ‘ain | hy 2 3 a — > “iY 1 r . tA eer es 3 Se 1 > . 2! 2 5 8 : 1 Sr ö N . 35 1 8 n U 22 ee “es 2 q * > 1 : ö Ed 1 3 : A ‘ * — — . 8 ¥ 4 1 5 * ** N i > ~mre : 2 Ch N. ne 2 7 4 > & : | in their , but be con- the workers | ~~ of a country with 90 per cent of the Jou comrades say the theory is all | © for the inter- proletariat unorganized, divided into right but it wont’ wor my all shop ques so many languages, the matter does ist, Because we ca m vigor fight not appear so very simple. I am not a ucleus composed of R * hn the shop com exaggerating when I say that the bulk mans, Finns and * 1 of our membership is as yet com- „ould not understand one another ) 0 pletely at sea on the theory of this 5e cannot destroy our federat nue 0 * 2 question and especially on its applica| The nucleus idea is all right for the °TS® i 8 and tion specifically to this country. English Comrades. 3 | isolat ostly to those ys . The Theory of the Shop Nuclel. And. Our party is 80 Small numer - 4 a: - into dif °° 1 organization structure general-| ically, that there are but a few factor- unde ane 0. see the ly should reflect the aim of the ies with sufficient members to form a g w n job. In movement, and as, every one knows, nuclei. So let the party first , stries | oc Ve can, we inherited our present oganization| enuf, say five hundred thousand mem- , th p com- fom the Second International. The bers, and we will see. Meanwhile, we my adopted, in its milder social democratic theory of peacefully can form a few nuclei here and there, already exists in some | growing into socialism by reforming| but this must not the Umited only to shop ques | the capitalist state and gradually leg-| structure. 4 tah ee sad ot, as our demand fi islating.. capitalism out of existence 3rd. In this country, we have the| / ) 00 nfttees ot made it necessary social democ- T. U. E. L. taking care of that end of |~ 2 vet 1. “Whilé the Nght goes o — racy to accept the permeation of bour- the movement,” so we do not need it. very backward. Whatever class con- 1 recogultion ot sho} geois parliament as its main objec-| 4th. It may work among the min-|S¢lousness there is amongst them i lel must brosde tive. With this as the starting point, ers, but what about the seasonal mainly economic. More wages, less out their organizational power and the whole movement was placed on needle industry, where small shops hours, etc. It will be the most dim. by organizing all a reform basis; its organizational ap-| predominate? How about the bulld- cult task of the nuclef to broaden this those that favor unity thru shop com- I varatus had to run parallel to the ing trades, when a construction is Vague class feeling into real mittees and amalgamation of the en- bourgeois machine and ita parties. finished, no more nuclei? ess, to draw tire industry. Furthermore, in order that the masses| rine workers? What about unemploy- The! ‘The nuclei must try to influence, as should not thru some intemperate out-] ment, especially a big economic crisis the shop a sort of unofficial shop committee, as burst resulting from the conflict} in which ten million are out of work? better than | many workers as possible in the fac- of economic interests, the| The whole party machinery will con- ure, leaflets, | tory, with the object of unifying these bourgeoisie order sufficiently for the] tinually get out of gear. with | workers for the struggle against the ~ ruling class to abolish these nicely} the many members who do not for this boss and the union bureaucracy, and won democratic privileges, social-de-|in industry? establishing the machinery that wm : mocracy needed to manipulate such] N short, say those comrades, the begin-| make it possible for the lett wing, en- | struggles into peaceful channels. 1E pressure | trenched in the shops and led by the | l URS, the Communist program, is : : ai 7 exactly the contrary. The perfec-| ceive only Hmited application. It is |temctstion for the 2 party to take tion of bourgeois democracy and the all right, of course, ~ despite try. We are for it 8 nuclei sume that our entire party HE whole capitalist political ap-] all the party members i Ee <8 i E i 17 4 1 8 i 3 : f i f ! E : E 2 f . . F He Hu 8 if i HE | | ll be faced with oe ee organized and my first vote was cast the point of production. It is there the problem of having our mem that the daily struggle to get a bigger | in ones or twos in a factory, mine ; share of life takes place in its sever- Shop. In order that the * est form. It is there that we are] be in a position te hold “skinned alive.” And naturally it is] bers to activity and responsibility i it age F : 4 1 : ; a if F — ; i 2 offense and defense. There is also] they can form a nucleus in 5 . 3 1 FH | 7; : ing revolutionary working-class or-| nearest nuclei branch or shop or i ion w i Fraternally, | | ty many fracts or trades work im the C. W. AHANDLER. : .dustrially and politically for our pro-] it up into a genuine nuclei branch of same factory and do fancy bureau- : gram, It is precisely here that we) the party. cratic tricks are in order there to Unemployed Worker Subscribes. are at the present time weakest and|rf\HESE shop nuclei branches then/|side-track the feeling for solidarity. 5 cannot grow because of our present elect their delegates to the sec-| MONG the ordinary daily activi} To the Editor, The DAILY WORK- form of organization, | tion or city committee (at the begin- ties of the nuclei it must be the ER: I am sending you a 6 months gub- vanguard, in words but in Committees within an industrial area the workers. 4 Communist must GRIGER NOV ; dada and thra this activity, estab-| then form a sub-district of the larger come inte a shop with an attitude . & AK 7 lishing the party’s leadership among party district in that territory. The that he has something to say about GENTS FURNISHING and i them, politically as well as econom- | basic unit of the party, the shop or conditions and production there and MERCHANT TAILORS ically, * nucleus or thru the nucleus branch, to get the workers to support our 1 Our present party unit, the terri-| select delegates to the party. fighting policy, 2 Union Merchandise : torial branch does not link up with general party divisions will ot I* trades where the shop chairman 1934 W. Chicago Avenue | f the workers, It is like an engine gen- course also be organized more T system is not established, the nuc (Cer. Winchester) erating lots of noise with little re-| along the lines of predominating in- lef members should fight for it in the! Phone Humboldt 2707 a — 5 8 9 5 1
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a Age . sy 1 ’ 2 — in * 1282 Dp. © . 9 é a 5 4 Sovie ussia when the old Soviet Russia | also get an exemiption of taxes for sev- n of eral years. The families that are go- ing to Crimea are also getting wood to build houses free, and also getting — — 2 na- | ing bre 6 | |; he exhibition. In 1923, the pavilion | seeds on credit for several years. eir country, They had on its program the bringing of was built'and hundreds of thousands; The Jews are colonizing first as ‘est in the Hist or all] Peasants to the city, and not coloniza-| of visitors’ praised the great efforts of | pioneers, every small or larger ah i ting the land, they tion on sotl. {the Jewish peasants for their very | sends out first, a small group of i le class among the | It was Trotsky's plan of the labor] modern . accomplishment. | people and then they are making 1 trad that that the army to bring thirty million p Land 00 e Organized. themselves ready tq colonize by whole 7 2 * A thereto ö sow. Sy run . . In Crimea settles this year, t a middie but he into industry, and therefore the At the t Communist 2 ... ͤ was | settling Jews on land was out Oflesnvgtnton in Soviet Russla, the ques. | {Fee hundred families, and in Ukrain. non productive, and a non productive | question. tion of colonizing Jews on land be- w. tres thou 32832 | element stands in conflict with the| Restriction of Private Business. came a general government question hed es rag ok . 5 n entire situation of a Communist coun-| In 1921 came the N. B. P. (new! because of the very elaborate discus- Comzet 1 4 eo 3 ; ) economic program) and some of the} sion of how to change the government | me is still short a half on had the 1922 this Jewish population of | committee) was organized. paerer, Chats. of. Jews, ang, the nepd | Russia awakened this u What are the results? The govern-| aug rer, tami n They understood this is ment gave to the Jews forty-five thou- bid P., but the old times cannot sand desiatin (a desiatin is over two American Jews Must Help. N any more, the little merchan acres) in one place in Ukrainia, in The “Narkomzet” of Soviet Russia is unable to compete with the gov-| the district of and jis ready to give to the Jews enough ernment owned stores and co-opera-| The Cherson circle is land to colonize hundreds of thou- * tives, that private business must give | lines, first, Nikolalev and Cherson, sec- Sands of Jews. It offered a million way in Soviet Russia. ond Cherson and Merepo on the way and a hundred thousand desiatin in : In the meanwhile in Soviet Russia, | to Charkov, and third, Nikolaiev and the district of Shelabisk on the Ural, labor became a very valuable element, | Dolinsipaia, it ‘s.a triangle. In the but the funds to mare it possible é people began to be proud of produc-| triangle alone there is thirty-six thou- | ought to be raised in this country. The | tive effort; the psychology changed, | sand desiatin and ine thousand in the | Jewish workers organized themselves Jews Back to Land. because of this new objective condi , Krivorog district of the state of Jek- | im the “Ikor,” but they are finding dif- At the conferences of the Jewish | tion. | sterinostar. The district of Cherson | ficulties to arouse the class conscious- section of the Communist Party of Productive Labor Necessary. reaches the river Mingovicz, which is ness of the Jewish workers in the Russia in 1918-1919, the question ot] About a million and two hundred surrounded with all Jewish colonists. trade unions which are still largely settling the Jews on land was raised, thousand Jews are now living on la- Jews Given Land. under the influence of the For- but, Ukrainia and a portion of White] bor, but, there are six hundred thou- The second stretch of land was ward and are blind even to such a2 „ Russia was occupied in 1919 by the sand that have no source of livelihood, | given to the Jews this year in Crimea, | Srout necessity Germans, and the quéstion was how to and the question for them is, either with eight thousand desiatin and ten The Jewish distribution committee 9 n to their former to starve or to occupy themselves | thousand desiatin n White Russia) and on the other hand did receive favor- e with | b able reports about Jewish coloniza- of the Jewish section The tendency to colonize the Jews The program of colonization is as tion in Russia and is undertaking a rae gee seo e ba, e on land found its expression in volun- follows: four thousand five hundred | big campaign for funds. i question settling Jews on | tary settlements of about sixty thou- families with a population of twen There i land was the central question of the sand “ vi. are 125,000 Jews already col 3 | i | | onized in Russia, occupying 250,000 year. desiatin land. This is only the begin- In Palestine only fifty thousan d 7; 5 i i i f 1 i rf e i 1 ! i 3 | B : i : world war, in 1908, when the Yankee | one thousand enlisted men for such | armies of the Americn proletariat to — * imperialist power was not yet so full] training. The United States War De- be pitted in slaughter against the pro- 1925. Crown, the United States toured a partment is spending more than two] letariat of other countries. “Dollariz- — 20th, n: | feet of eighteen war vessels around million dollars annually on military] ing” the world simply means for the eau thn conten the world. Today, exporting capital | training camps. American workers an addition of acute 8 a little at the rate of about a billion dollars} This year the United States will hardships, the — that annually and occupying all the front spend 6674,58 1.000 or nearly 22 per] elementary political rights and eco- underatand row seats in the international imper- cent of its total federal budget for | nomie needs, a division in their ERER : if 2231 iL 8 f ! fi i i b i q : ' ; the war and navy departments In the Tanks, and the multiplication of the tec starting a “friendship” cruise of fifty- | fiscal year of 1924 this proportion was dangers of devastating war. Could any imperialist clique speak seven warships to Australia and New| only 19.3 per cent. It is interesting Imperialism means war sooner rath- "| “more “politely” — Zealand. to note that Great Britain is spend- er than later. Fr. The rate of the militarization of] ing this year only about 13 per cent ers a War is hell. Imperialism is hell. le ene Letters From Our Neaders = . cs ce rset ss growth of a nited 2 5 5 5 a 5 — 22 — To. My. Pele Ante opel r n they e you Ter gas, can be found on the road. They travel 3 5 3 : | Then come tales of experiences and] and beaches. Money they ha len- daily press which like George Wash nardships, and there are many. ite A on plete rg * to invent a way to While writing this a family with a with them a maid servant to do the ee ae Gant ar del Kodak small baby is pitching camp. They] chores and a man servant to drive * iss Adeline Buftington, have 2 1916 Ford with broken spring. the car. This class feeds upon our a7 They have not got the price of a new] bodies. They are the parasites and one which is $2.50. Many have no they exist because you workers will 5 i E il FEE B 8 E i HB 82 1 1 4 75 i ie ‘ E : E f 21471 * dee oe : b b : if 11 ö i if 83 . i 28 . 7 d if i : te | tainly not healthy wholesome food, camps, and pay a dollar for the privil- 0 which workers are entitled. ege while they go to the beauty spots 6 e e e of the earth. We pay their bills with the chances of the next generation | Amp. They did not own the „our life blood and that of our chil- I i eit i 15 15 g 11 ish PEPE | In winter you go to some city, get four little kiddies. a dingy, musty room in the tenement | willing to work at] district and you call this home, .— — mul- he not Get into the Workers (Communist) is beyond ques-| work in mon , Does anyone mean Party of Amerten and Aight 1 tin | come and go in every di- to insinuate that these people prefer) and women — f soon as a family pitches this to a good home and a steady in- g Baltimore and Ohio ridiroad and J, B. camp fhe first questions asked are: come? They are on the tramp, simply] Only a cur lies down to die. Yohe of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie | Where can I get a job? How far to] because they cannot get work. They Frances M. Dickey, railroad. + Ws the next camp’ How are the roads? — pay rent so the landlord drives Big Timber, Mont. n I r „ —— m
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(Continued from. page 1) power in industry, one perceives that capitalism emerged from the war with an extended basis of production. In the post-war years only a portion of this industry. was employed—in many ‘countries below 50 per cent of its capacity. The chiet causes for this were: The collapse of the mone- a tary system and the lack of credit. After the war, capital only accumulat- ed in America. America, however, cut itself off from European affairs. Now, when the international credit system, the international monetary system is being restored again, a re- vival in industry is commencing ; all its. earlier accumulated forces are be- set in motion and are working in the direction of the stabilization of | pe eggs [The Extension a the Market Seine of the Reduction: of Prices. we this process of. stabilization be maintainéd? What are the diffi- . culties which confront it? etc. In replying to this question we must draw a little from current events engage in a number of abstract considerations. One cannot come to the conclusion that capitalism has finally worked its way out of the post- existing national incéme. — new markets. Reduction of prices requires * co a change in the organization of indus- try and commerce, or a new technical- + equipment of economy on a mete: scale, Does capitalism. possess such inchs nical possibilities, the use of which{ . | would enable goods to be cheapened? | of ] | Yes, these possibilities consist in hes employment of electricity, in _| transition from steam power to ele- 8 A 5 = a 5 K. 1 R capitalism, however; this is at] an present a purely “theoretical: pos- to es The hindrances in the way of its practical realization are: first, the accumulation of capital. is only ‘taking place to any considerable ex- tent in America, Europe is poorer than before the war, and the invest- 5 5 m * ical power. ment of big capital sums for the pur- The second way is the capturing ot| Tu much thiked of tri-district min- ers’ convention is now a matter of history and the anthracite miners are now wondering what comes next. It was at this convention that a new wage scale would be drafted, that is, a uniform set of demands of the miners to be presented to the anthra- cite operators at the expiration of the existing agreement. It was at this convention that the hand picked scale committee would be given to under- | stand just exactly what the rank and file wanted. But to those not acquaint- ad vun the usual procedure of min- erst conventtons, let it be understood at the beginning that it did not differ in the least from any other miners’ convention, that is, that the delegates did not transact the business but the “fat bys” on the platform did that little thing. HERE appeared at the ee tts a small but well organized opposi- tion to the fakers. On practically every question of an important char- acter it was this group that led the „offensive. That this group was recog- nized as a foree to be reckoned with was demonstrated on several occas-' ions. It was this group that Lewis was forced to deal with thruout the convention, as a definite opposing group, opposed to the collaborative tactics of Lewis-Cappellini Co. Many progressive measures were placed before the convention and fought for by the Communist dele- gates and their 8 resolution demand all class but the oon vention ca of way, but decided | to give them their “moral support.“ thizers. On the the release of hao ager none spoke t delegates. The — not to assist the ty was introduced by the Communists. The resolution committee attempted to evade the issue by submitting a re- port recommending the resolution be referred to the international conven- tion, but this move of, the “fat bys” was blocked. After much debate the committee was instructed to recon- sider the resolution and submit an- other report, which was done, the re- port recommending concurrence. H ROYAL LOWNESS, John L. Lewis paid us a visit, John’s paunch has increased. in size since I saw. him last (we must not forget an assessment was levied this spring). After singing the delegation to sleep ‘by enumerating the wicked deeds of “that great American” Schwab, Rockefeller, etc., etc., John had to cook up something frightful to awaken them and to do it promised if the coal barons and “the great Am- “scrap” ericans” would continue to Communists realize what this would. it will never materialize with Lewis do for the union but know also, that from & stacked deck ty tha ‘ay, te: | ported a 10 per went increase for for con- t but the machine was too well oiled and the fight was lost. It was pointed out by the Communist delegates that anthraci prisoners in a financial | A resolution favoring the labor par- “so simple,” he told us, “thet it's before.” Folkd nr A WORK” A BUILDER WALKED IN 70 OUR OFFICE. =>. ] ert AY DAILY WORKER office. ‘Eureka—he had discovered something new - something that he was sure would get more results than ever, e a wonder no one ever thought of Ae The truth of the matter was that others had thought of it before—_ often. But not often enough to repeat it, over and over until this fact stuck in every Communist Bullies mind 80 olearly that it would. nae him act automatically. ne anxious and bee Communist Bullder who walked inte the — DAILY WORKER office proposed that the best way to “Bulld the DAILY ~ WORKER was ‘TO TALK _ABOUT IT in the shop, and in the trade everywhere!” “Surely our comirades will see ‘Sure,’ | tell — ‘the other day Frisco 53 „ on 4 Bill Dunne’s ‘The Ensiavement. of unions where it counts most”, sald the comrade, “but nok only there— the value of this, in my shop wen crooked trade union officials are mentioned, I join the conversation; | the DAILY WORKER showed up in When China was mentioned got’ every article of % See Ree eae ae eee: | ever | get a chance, l talk about the Daily. r you know how many subs | got—”.. The comrade stopped to light: a en and ** all. ever. Just imagine how much a Gapitalist concern would pay to have thou _ sands of Workers taking up their products. | Why. they'd pay millione 4 We have the. dollars—and they de It right now for less! best advertising medium in the world for Communi, 7 —thousands of convinced communists If every one of them ‘talked—just - talked—1 a, the 67° varieties of times their present size. Our Communist Builder put on 32 hat “I got so many results that m languages we have—we'd have thousands of en ee agitators and organizers—and our party and the DAILY WORKER would : ‘be 3 this olosing adviee: going to keep’ It up whether anybody else does or not. But just tell the other DAILY, WORKER Bailders about it—will you?“ 94 kerl * 5 9 >? - „ * — ae vi 8 * 8 * * ‘ 4 “ : - ‘ j . 2 ~ . 1 7 24k i — 8 N ; * . Ry 80 as the policy of the fasts leads to pars be continued.) N The Anthracite Coal Miners’ Convention the Jacksonville agreement that a na- tional strike would de called. The PAT TOOHEY, (A Delegate.) 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