Daily Worker
July 29, 1925
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1 By ALEX REID inant ote at i an ae antral between the United the anthracite mine owners is in The Fat ont slaves of the anthra- sof 1 N ee e bs 2 Fon Aye ain last year. The coal yivania hard ard ald to grant them a mere ten soy oer ly in ee in Poyerty. ‘of dollars of profit were sweated out of the blood of 25 who never see the mines, men who don’t even what a mine looks like, living in the great hotels of the Miners’ Committee.) on physical collapse, because or properly to feed themselves, orce the- murderous coal 1 mine owners are living a life of country and sailing the high im their yachts eati 7755 6 f r and 3 to st tor profit. Over 500 men last year and 30,000 men m the anthracite alone. In- - (Cbatinusa on page 2) AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O’FLAHERTY emancipation, but they are not taking much stock in resolutions of affection ‘and admiration unless they are ac- companied by more tangible proof of sincerity. The Chinese have found that American. capitalism has been just as subversive of their rights as British and Japanese capitalism, but it typically socialist that the Ameri- can brand should hand the task of ‘freeing’ China to their own ex- ploiters. The only country in the world that aided. China is Soviet Rus- sia, Why does the Norman Thomas, N ignore this fact? * * * NOTHER resolution passed by the national executive of the socialist party throws a big boquet of roses at Calles, president of Mexico. It brands him as a socialist. We have no doubt that he deserves the agpersion. He is as much of a socialist as Morris Sig- man or Victor Berger. Recently Calles called out the troops to break a strike. ‘In fact his minister of labor, Morone (not moron) under the tutelage of (Continued on page 2) day. French Army Leaves Essen. BERLIN, July 27.—In accordance with the announced purpose of France to evacuate the Ruhr, as stipulated under the Dawes plan, the withdrawal of military forces from Essen has commenced, according to . advices. which reached here today. Arrested for Sunday Movies.“ CHAMPAIGN, III., July 27—Propri- etors of two Urbana moving picture theaters were under $200 bond today for operating their theaters on Sun- It was the first Sunday in the history of the city that motion picture theaters were open and a test case hibits. Sunday movies. play to capacity houses. A hearing Iikely will be held early this. week, tuation is bad as the crucial week opens before Friday’s threatened - walkout in the coal industry. There promise will be effected. ö will be made. A city ordinance pro-“ Both theaters MOVED STRIKE,” WAN RAILWAY MEN LONDON, England, July 27—It is | generally agreed that the labor si- is a serious threat of a general strike, as the railroad men have ‘agreed not to move any coal i the ‘miners go out. Prime Minister Baldwin admitted — in a speech he made Saturday that “we are faced either by an abyss | of despotism or an abyss of anar- chy.” Yet all responsible parties hope that the strike will be staved off and that some last-minute com- Lord Stamfordham, tne king’s private secretary, visited the prime minister, who spent all of Sunday at Downing street, and presented the royal views and desire for media- tion to prevent a strike, Challenge Brookhart Ballots in Effort to Make Steck Senator WASHINGTON, July 27.—Attorneys for Daniel F. Steck, democrat, who is contesting the election of the in- surgent republican, Smith W. Brook- hart, to the United. States senate from Iowa, today challenged fifty bal. lots which had ‘been counted for Brookhart in Cedar and Serro Gordo] counties. The ballots were marked at the top as a straight republican ticket and also had Brookhart’s name writ- ten into the progressive column. Several clerical errors were found, but the general situation was un- N employ- fed by Tall ning 0 — ‘thei pany bet of. thelr water st ne owin jeven hen ‘the strike ——— THE DAILY WORKER ashington Blvd., Chicago, i Daily except Sun by THE ING CO., 1113 W. * at the strike Fal. 814 W. ; — the Interna- 00 ompany moved its 27 as had been ‘th . 8 75 n would follow ; 12 stg continue its s loudly appla- The 2 rumors hat the len mills had been Nn a ebnen would be moved. man were sent out to Rock I to break the ke 8. larly Assigned The pickets are now being regular- . lity, and are given e picket, Tine is or- changed with e substantially: in the lead. |, from which the French have re- Much Fuss Over White FANATIC URGES GAS AGAINST RIFFIANS; FRONT QUIET (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, July 27—Warfare by poi- son gas against the Riffs—a move frained—was urged today by Pro- fessor Jean Feure of the French Medical Academy.in an articte in Figaro. The situation along the Fez front is quiet. Guard Agent Who Took All He Could in China (Special to The Daily Worker) PEKING, July 27.—-American Con- sul Sokobin from Harbin, Manchuria, with General Chang Kwong-Shang, highest military authority of the three eastern: Chinese provinces, today was attempting to secure the release of Dr Harvey Howard of the Rockefel- ler Institute, kidnapped by Chinese last week. Howard’s place of was not known. A representative of the Foreign Af.- fairs Commission at Harbin is assist- imprisonment ing the consul and General Chang. Consul Sokonin reported that Mur- ray Palmer, who was murdered at the "same time Dr. Howard was taken pris- oner, died in defense of his Manchur- fan farm. His Chinese assistant was killed and a Russian white guard was wounded by the Chinese. Storm at Springfield, Mass. SPRINGFIELD, Mass., July 27. — Damage estimated at half a million dollars was done in Hampden county today by a severe electrical storm don Page 2) Tas 3 are m along! rather nicely in their fight for that culminated in a cloudburst here. FRANCO-BELGI MOSCOW CALL FOR WORLD OF UNIONS AGAINST CAPITA (By International Press MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., July Soviet Union. in the Soviet Republic is logical- * ly thought out and that it has a just basis. “The masses of membership of the trade unions, themselves are responsible for the direction of the trade union work, and they them- selves solve the most important questions. “In our opinion, many of the funda- mental principles which are applied in the Rugsian trade union would be very much in place in the trade unions of our own countries. “In the various shops we have visit- ed, we Rave seen that the maximum of results is attained with a backward technique of production. Despite the fact that you are exposed to the ostra- cism of world capital, you perform a wonder by re-establishing success- fully your national industry, despite the difficult heritage of the imperial. ist and ciyil wars and despite the blockade: “Each honest prolétarian, after he has seen what is being done in the Soviet Union, must — still more energetically for the unity of the r trade union move- ment, great. | class Great psychological mis- e the eee erime against the working. movement. takes have been made and still great er ones will be made unless the hate | Against imperialism and the fraternal 9 N < 3 i * . 2 1 . enn J. Th orld Situation. ESPITE the assertions of the cap- - italists and their agents in the labor movement (the leaders of the Second International and the right wing of the Amsterdam International) that capitalism has emerged from its critical stage and has succeeded in stabilizing itself, the world situation continues to remain revolutionary. This imposes upon the Communist parties of the world the duty of edu- cating and organizing the working class for a struggle for power and for the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat. The capitalists have been seeking for some means of avoiding the consequences of the in- ner contradictions of capitalism which threatens its destruction. The world war was a logical climax of these con- tradictions. The end of the war left capitalism economically weakened, yet with all the contradictions and conflicting interests apparent in sharpened form, threatening a new a Catastrophe and complete breakdown o capitalist system. The analysis of the world situation given by the last plenum of the B. C. O. I. has proven to be absolutely cor- rect. The so-called stabilization of capitalism is in reality very tempo- rary, rtial and relative in its na- ture. J World production in the cap- | countries of Europe during the first half of 1925 is still below the pre- war level and is continuing on a down grade. At the same time the political crisis are .appearing almost daily. struggles in capitalist Europe are cop- tinually grown in intensity. New pbl- itical crises are appearing almost daily. white terror in Bulgaria, the election of Hindenburg, the change of govern- ment in France, etc., ete, are merely the result of the continuing instabili- ty of gapitalism and the sharpening of the class struggle. 2 History proves, however, with in- * creasing certainty, that the prob- | Jams of capitalism ia the insperial- ist era cannot be solved by the cap- italists. The temporary adjustment of the conflict over German reparations thru the Dawes plan and the tempo- rary and partial stabilization of the capitalist economic order in Europe had no soner been accomplished than the imperialist conflict broke out in a new form in the struggle of the suppressed peoples of Morocco and China to free themselves from the exploitation and political dominatio of the great imperialist powers. The war in Morocco and the stru * gle in China emphasize the i stability of the capitalist social or- der. They are the outcome of conflict- ing interests which characterize the imperialist era of capitalism. The peo- ple of Morocco and China are fighting against imperialist exploitation, with- out which capitalism cannot exist in the present period of its development. Capitalism must have investment op- portunities which exist.in the spheres of influence of undeveloped countries and it must have the raw materials of these countries. The struggle for these between the imperialist powers and the struggle against exploitation and oppression by the suppressed peo ples of these countries are the sparks which light the powdered magazine of capitalism, resulting in the explosion which brings the destruction of mil ions of liyes and billions of wealth as in the world war, and the con- the standard of life of the workers. The present world situation of * capitalism again proves that the only force. which can avert the men- ace of new wars is the working class. It is only thru a victorious revolution- ary struggle against the imperialist capitalist governments that the work- ing class can escape from the suffer- ing which the imperialist of cap- italism brings upon it. 5 In contrast to this si on the capitalist world, stands the Soviet Union. In spite of all the at- tacks of international eapitalism made in an effort to destroy the Soviett goy- new social order, the Creation of that new social order goes forward step by step. Already Soviet Russia has been able to raise the standard of life of its workers higher than in 1914 while the balance of Europe—cap- italist Europe—has reduced the stand- sequent reduction in production and ernment and prevent the creation of 0 italist class ard of life of its workers. The Soviet Union thus becomes increasingly an inspiration to the workers of the cap- italist countries to enter the struggle to win their freedom from capitalist exploitation and oppression, tl. The Present Economic Sit- uation in the United States. The present economic situation in * the United States is marked by the ‘following characteristic. The increas- ing export of capital during 1924 and the beginning of 1925 continues still more deeply to involve the United States in every imperialist struggle of today. American capital, in its urge towards world domination, is thus be- coming involved in all the contradic- shes. crises, and struggles of world capNialism. This factor is also pro- ducing sharp conflicts within the cap- of America on the one hand, such as the struggle between ence and industrial capital over the question of foreign investments and the tariff, and is intensifying the Struggle between the working class and the capitalist class on the other hand. wnity of all proletarians are once again re-established. * Unity and Revolution! The ruptures and the difficulties in the trade union movement are of advantage only to capitalism and are exploited by t. Both must go. A minimum program must be discover- ed, and we must go after a loyal strug- gle againstiall difficulties to the com- mon aim of all proletarians—the world revolution, the overthrow of (Continued on page 2) Cal Cooks Up Bunk for Farmers; Plans Aid to Boss Butler SWAMPSCOTT, Mass., July 27.— Agricultural matters were up for dis- cussion today between President Coolidge and Representative Freder- ick Purnell, Indiana, ranking member of the House Agricultural Committee, a vistor at the summer white house. Wednesday the president will join other prominent republicans’ at the Essex County rally in behalf of the candidacy of United States Senator William Butler, of this state. Feder gl officers and taken e. Pi e r — no e than a few urs When 0 ce.) Mai il.)—The Franco- of eleven officials of hions, has just com- n, where it studied the The dele- — — ~ STA FORD TORN FROM HIS FAMILY BY DEPORTATION Mystery Surrounds the Action Against Miner The why and wherefore of the hasty and secret deportation to Italy of Tony Stafford is still shrouded in mystery. Stafford was a labor prisoner serving a long sentence in Mounds- . Ville penitentiary. He was one of the eight hundred coal miners indicted following the mine war in West Vir- ginia in the fall of 1921 during which a number of miners and company gunrhen were killed. Three men, Tony Stafford, Edgar Combs and George Barrett were picked as the victims. Suadgenty, on July 11, Tocy Stafford was removed from Moundgville by was shipped off to Ellis Esland. There Ye sent the following telegram to his wife, “At Ellis Island, can do nothing myself, do your best.” Shortly after sending this Aelegram he was put aboard the „Giusseppe Verdi“, bound for Naples. Stafford leaves behind a four children whom he and seen wife had not for years. Mrs. Mattie Stafford Vas destitute and powerless te help. her husband. She wrote a letter to the National Office of the International Labor Defense in Chicago asking for help. The I. L. D. immediately noti- fied its New Yo representatives. It was too late. ? A letter just received from Beckley, W. Va., by International Labor De- fense was written by Sadie Stafford. A photograph of the four children was enclosed. Sadie, the only girl, ap- pears to be no more than nine or ten years of age. Here is the letter. Letter from Miner’s Daughter. “Dear Sir:—-We have just received your letter. Mother is not able to write just at present, but she asked me to send these pictures and cards to you at once. We are afraid it is too late now. We send you the last word we had from father (telegram enclosed). You may be able to see him yet. We wrote Secretary Davis the day we received wire from father. Mother will write you soon. We truly (Continued on page 2.) 8 We are today in a period of * diminishing production. The pr. dicted prosperity from the adoption of the Dawes plan has not developed in the United States. Production tinues holtingly and hesitatingly, on a downward grade. Weegées being steadily reduced while the of living is rising slowly. The coal industry finds itself in a chronically critical situation resulting in theus- ands of miners being thrown out of employment. The general instability of the wheat market is seriously ef- fecting the buying power of large sec- tions of farmers, thus further aggra- vating the economic situation. General unemployment has become a chronic feature of the economic situation in the United States. III. The Growth of Imperial- ism and Militarism. eon but are cost 1 American imperialism is extend ing its policy of the political and military conquest of its spheres of economic influence. Latin-America is evermore becoming a political and military dependency of the United States. This sharpens the relationg of fe Latin-American countries to the United States and is creating the basis Ta Situation and the Immediate Tasks of the Party ; ission to the National Convention of the Workers (Com- ~ yr interventions and military aggre sion by the United States against the republics of Latin-America. It also creates the basis for anti-imperialist and at the same time nationalist revo- lutionary movements among the peas- ants and workers of South America. The export of capital from Amer- 2 ica into Europe, thru the opera- tion of the Dawes plan and otherwise, has created new contradictions and conflicts. American imperialism in Europe is reaching a stage when po- litical and military interference in the affairs of Eurepe is becoming the or- der of the day. Hence, the tremendous growth of militaristic propaganda and preparations in the United States. 3 American imperialism is also heavily increasing its export of capital to China and the whole Far Easte Ant@gica’ is hold on the great Far Eastern market. The increasing interest of American imperialism in the Far East is shown by the recent gigantic American naval maneuvers in the Pacifie and the visit ft the United States Pacific fleet to Australia. In the present Chinese the American imperialist govy- (Continued on, page 6.) — crisis ~™ Ss winning a firmer ~ ee we
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—— — a, 85 ri ‘i By * > 8 Mass Demonstrations Led by Communists MOSCOW, U. 8. 8. R.—An article in the Pravda on the special conven- tion of the British trade unions, which tells of the recent unemployment dem- onstrations, declares: “The decision of the general coun- cil of the British trade unions to call a Special congress at the end of July, is an immediate result of tremendous manifestations whieh took place all over England and the general coun- cil intends to have only one question on the agenda of this 0 es, the question of unemployme “The London Times unemployment demonstra most tremendous in the last e paper is especially disturbed the ’ slogans of the demonstration. ‘Long a the mo : Nu i — A Ni 2 : 9 unem] Fre e rr reren ree Live Soviet Russia,’ Thieves, Hands of China.” When the Next War Comes We Shall Be In the Ranks of the Red Army.“ ‘Capital is Bankrupt,’ ‘We are the Creditors,’ ‘All Power to the Workers.’ “The resolution of the general coun- cil contains only two points. The first point concerns matters of state char- acter necessary for the: decrease of uhemployment, namely, the develop- ment and utiliation of the productive forces of the country. Recommend Trade With Soviet. “The second point speaks of inter- national measures of the struggle against unemployment and contains the recommendation for the develop- ment of commerce generally and es- tablishment of favorable commercial conditions for trade with Soviet Rus- sia in particular. “The moderate resolution of the gen- eral trade union council and the rad- ical slogans of the unemployed is ex- plained by the fact that the initiative in organizing this demonstration came from the nafional committee of the unemployment movement. The move- ment consists of two parts. One part is chosen by the local committees of unemployed which are controlled by Communists. “The second part is composed of delegates appointed by the general council of the trade unions. The movement & actually guided by the local congthittees. The two leaders of ement are comrades Hen- ad Holt. who played an ex- prominent role in the or- n of the tremendous marches loyed during the first years of the gener: council for these recent demonstrations, the local committees were willing to accept this Conserva- tive resolution and thus make the 1 (Continue from Page 1) eration of Labor introduced a bill in the legislature making strikes undes certain conditions illegal, With that kind of a socialist president, the bank ers have no quarrel, oe. a y WHEN Kettos sued the uncouth statement: against the Mexican government, the DAILY WORKER expressed the opinion that it was a put-up game between Washington and Mexico. Calles was doing well by his friends. They could have no kick against his conduct. But the workers and peasants that he betrayed were kicking and were rapidly learning that their one time god had feet of clay. It was necessary to create a diversion that would make the masses believe Calles was still an enemy of the bankers. * * O statements were made and there the matter rested. Calles re- plied to Kellog. The latter went on a vacation. The pacifists and pseudu- revolutionists were so busy praising Calles that they did not notice his con- duct subsequent to the nhote-passing incident. Since then, Calles has been using the army against the peasants who wanted to take over the land, and the workers who went on strike against the oil companies and the banks. Calles is the Mexican edition of strikebreaker Coolidge. Is it any wonder that the socialists should praise him? — — * E Progressive Barber is the lat- est addition to the flock of left wing trade union publications that have been appearing of late. And the newcomer is in every way worthy of its comrades. It is a lively paper, because it is well edited and it has things to talk about and to tell. For instance, we notice that a member of the barbers’ union went to pay his dues to the local office of the union. While there, a business agent and a gangster dragged the barber out of way and beat him into insensibility. The barber who got the beating hap- pened to be against the bureaucracy ‘that’s all. > * * HILE speaking about the Prog- ressive Barber, the case of Con Foley of Pottsville, Pa., mind. Con is a national institution in the ‘trade union movement. He is known widely as the “Pottsville Bar- ber“. He was connected with the so- enjoyed a real existence and he was a thorn in the side of the fakerdom of the American Federation of. Labor. the But his long years of s to workers did save him the wrath of the officials of dargers“ union, and he was kicked out from the organization he helped to build, by Mr. Shannessy, the present inter- was nominated for his office by Foley; * + ae HILE Foley was general organizer, he travelled thruout the country mass demonstrations possible.” af Ind associated with radicals wherever — A in Bin hin Min Minn i Le Mn Mn Ln Mn Le Aly A Ll A J A ll ll lll li lA lt, lt A ll lt lt nA A sn te dt Als i ll th tla tl dn nl Min dl — President Green of the American Fe- to do with people who did not b the union office, took him into the hall- | comes to cialist party, when that organization | national president, who by the way letters which were published of the barbers’ journals, Foley warned to keep away from the cals. He was told that a Official like him, showld have in the bible or in the present social order. Con’s refusal to heed this wa ing put him outside the union. is no room in the unions that are ge erned by reactionaries for honest of- ficials. It is not Communists only they are out to expel. They want expel every active member who fuses to play their crooked game. * — 3 o hundred thousand British w ers were unable as a result of juries they suffered in the war take their places in the they left when the imperialists unifofms on their backs and fifiés i their fists. This is one of the blessings of war. The British government # in the vicinity of one billion dollars refitting those wrecks for the slave pens. It is significant that there 3 less unemployment among those re- habilitated slaves than among the un- injured. One guess is that they are forced to work for less wages. What is your guess? — : 1 45 111 1 | * * E law is majestic! Woe unto the worker who disobeys the injunc- tion against picketing! But judges are immune from the law. Take the case of Judge Holmes of Hattiesburg, Miss. The judge was making good time on his way to a ball game. A cop The latter immediately held court, pleaded guilty before himself and fined himself $5.00. We are awaiting cop went to a “blind pig” and drank the five bucks. That would put the finishing touch to a good story. But isn’t the law majestic? Frames Del- egation at Moscow Call for World Unity (Continued from page 1) capitalism and the rule of the work- ers! “Woe to them who attempt to bar the way to unity!” The declaration closes with the slo- gans: “Long Live working class Rus- sia! Long Live labor! Long Live the freedom of the working class thru the overthrow of capitalism!” Following the receipt of the above quoted declaration, chairman Tomsky made a short address, in which he expressed thejconviction thet in ö Corie ; ws i 1a ie f in 5 * e ‘ 1 5 4 n 3 to hear whether the judge and the“ 1 4 1 v. reg n. ve industrial bat. tle of the miners, the field ot battle must be ed to include the bituminous field. The social and onomie conditions of the bituminous — even W than those of “4. > their soli- minefs of Britain. A meeting between the British, French and Belgium : is being called on Thursday July 28, to consider joint ac in the struggle. The British miners have arranged a working agreement with the British railroad trans port workers, engi- and shipbuilders for the pros- British miners. to join this conference. We, the prog- miners’ committee of the L. of A., call upon the workers of up with their brothers 1 le of the work- him up and handed the judge a ticket. ... strugs America for better s. Already the state- | by the American coal they will exploit the created by the British strike, are paring to ship coal the sea to defeat the British the strike mature. This by all means and the must not be per- coal to defeat our 4 Bea. every way the strik- picks. a and ‘bituminous min- Canada and British must stand ready to aid in at a moment's notice. This pending struggle is the concern of all the workers in America and Europe, it is an international struggle of the workers of the world “against capital- ist exploitation. near future th® cause of trade union uffty will be ack “Nothing to Hide From The workers of all countries, ir- | theh respective of their political or trade in r union opinion, are always welcome to the Soviet Union,” said Tomsky. “May the foreign comrades see our success es and point out our-deficiencies. We shall always value their suggestions. Because, to the world proletariat, we have nothing to hide.” 74 S| PRT Now being published serially in the DAILY WORKER by arrange- ment with the Inter- national Pub. Co. — of report | 5 RUSSIA TODAY $1.25 Durofiex Cover $1.75 Cloth Bound ; The Official Report BUS SER Me British. Trade TODAY The official report of the British Trade Union Delegation to Soviet Russia, including trade union leaders and experts who .travelled to every settion and observed every phase of Soviet. life. A most complete report, with graphic charts and maps covering Politics, Finance, Army, Religion, Education, Trade Unions, Wages—by a Non-Communist, impartial and official body of British Labor. WM. F. DUNNE Editor of the Daily Worker says: The British Trade Union Delegation to Soviet Russia in a unanimous report has. told the story of the Russian Revolution in language that trade unionists can understand. It is a great story, told in matter-of-fact language, the story of millions of workers and peasants marching towards Communism over all obstacles; it is history hot with the breath of the struggle in the style of a convention Revolutionary Russian and stubborn, slow-moving Briton both call to the American worker from the pages of the British delegation’s report. ORDER FROM THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING COMPANY “The Source of All Communist Literature” 1113 W. WASHINGTON BLVD. CHICAGO, IL. — — dada This book will be off the press about AUGUST 15 Union Delegation to Soviet Russia — - —-- — — A Book of the INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS CO, Publishers also of ‘ FLYING OSSIP Stories of New Ru $2.50 market, and the progressive miners’ committee have produced the coal companiés’ statistics to show that sive miners is developing and must continue to develop for the carrying out of our program, and the class co- laboration officials ofthe United Mine Workers of América must not be permitted to compromise our de- mands as they have done before. The government is threatening in- tervention. We remember the inter- vention of Judge Anderson and the surrender of Lewis—“We cannot fight against the government”—at a time when victory was in our grasp. We remember the Boston police strike and we know that the present govern- ment threat is but another instance of the iron heel of capitalism. For An Inter-Union Fighting Alliance. The progressive miners’ committee stand true to their ideals and program. We will fight for solidarity in this struggle that threatens the workers of the country. We are the ones who do all the suffering in these strikes, the starving and the dying. We are the ones who have to work and starve while the owning class never knows the pangs of hunger. This strike must be made a national géneral strike of the miners. The bituminous miners must not be permitted to scab on the hard coal miners. “An injury to one is an in- jury to all.” 55 We demand an immediate confer- ence of the miners, railroad and ma- rine transport workers to negotiate an agreement for mutual aid during the strike. |, 4 Ringling Circus Graft Exposed Editor The DAILY WORKER:— You ought to give Mr. Ringling a jolt iu your paper, and distribute some of.the papers near the stake and chain wagon, which is located where the managerie joins the Big Tent. Ring- ling is showing on city property with scab labor. What does Ringling pay? Ringling is a partner of Tex Rick- ard, the prize fight promoter, who was indicted and fined $7,500 by the United States government for bribing U.S. ers. m th Big Top you will see that all the space all the way down the middle contains resetVed seats. With- out reserved seats you have to sit on the end and see only one ring. You might also notiée the high price of the refreshments. 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An effort is bein religion,” but he quit Wilson’s not afford to kee make from $75 : : : taken 7 1 — N ‘ ay * ence in the 510 u 7 once started will have its tolerance that gave strength to the Ku Klu ODAY, preparations are being made for the burial of Bryan, who believed overs . in the went forth £0 murder that the s was Bryan's wish. The wish ty from one stand to another in o exploit the public whim that m Charles N. Wheeler, of the Hearst helps bare the soul of 8 man who oD an to launch a campaign to smother progress, i ; when deat tiahoad him. eeler points out that Bryan cumulating money, that he had a fir ‘ide the United States, affection for his brother led him to John “Wallstreet” pe so that “Charley” could become t “Thou Shalt Not Kill!” joined American capital predator American struggle, that brought the Porto Rico into the American domain, and opened the way essions. Bryan was colonel of prided himse the job at $12,000 per year. to $100,000 selling Florida real estate to the parasite rich. So the of the people” died a millionaire and “the man of be buried in an imperialist soldier's grave. * :? In Bryan's drive for the White House, he trekked alo his own chosen road with stop “free silver,” government ownership, a fake pacifism, an {fo heroes” : 5 * 9 public .. * OFF see ight. place him in 5 * > newspapers, ; ng if he * ha 5 passion f ra n, belief he would five =| while his so-called compromise with the in- | for the presidency, ) E Ni -presidential can-. . 3 * es ; Bryan’s right to be buried in Arlington cemetery grew |. out of the fact that this man of god, who claimed loy to f th st important being 8 1 an in ite first war, the anish- ~ ilippines, Cuba and on the uniform of on his military title. Again the Nebraska “commoner,” who was secretary of state in Wilson’s cabinet, when Mor powers were rushing this country i might have carried into action his most boasted burst of 's loans to European war in 1915, when he down upon the brow of labor ou shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold,“ - then he ape. ye ) | made now to lift Bryan to the I of one who would give his life “in defense of the Christian u war cabinet because he 2 He could man god” will writing and lecturing. — el ping places at free * last year’s national democratic convention, will find this new avenue of outlet available to it. ü becoming less and less of an Another Bryan Jicity, declares that, born, rincip atism. on an eternal fight for vital the cities and on the farms o seen its cause championed in ical parties and buildin used like LaFollette, in some instances, to betra content of the downtrodden when it took o If labor reads the life of wi on correctly it will find many reasons for cutting itself comp its own class power, to triumph over the capitalist social system that Bryan so assiduously sought to protect and perpetuate. The issue once raised will continue to 4 a role in the chaotic ranks of the democratic party, ‘ ere Bryan was influential figure. 8 e that now receives wide pub- “The individual is but an atom; he is acts, he dies. But prine Bryan’s career typified exactly the opposite. With him, was a coat to be worn and cast away. During ife in politics he passed all the way. from radicalism, as it is accepted in the American political arena, to rank conserv- are eternal.” his Only an oppressed class with its loyal spokesmen carries ee les. Oppressed labor, in the United States, has never the least by Bryan, who was the dis- nized form. etely free from the old polit- PHILADELPHIA LEATHER SHOP UNION STRIKES Fights Firing of Fellow » Militants By LENA ROSENBERG. PHILADELPHIA, July 27—A most encouraging example of workers’ soli- darity was shown by the workers of the Philadelphia Leather Goods com- pany on Broad and Wallace streets when they went to the boss and told him that if he insists on discharging two militants, they would all strike. But it seems that the boss could not conceive of such a thing happening, and so he told them they could go. But all thees workers laughed in his face, took their belongings and walk- ed out leaving only a few, but the strikers are determined to get them out also. Fighting Leadership in This Union| They called a meeting of all those already out with one of the executive members of the union which was or- ganized about three months ago. The workers all felt in good spirits and each one of the men present showed a determination to stick to the end. One of the *discharged workers, Sam Whiteman, took the chair and gently, asked the men to stand to- gether and also pointed out that it is necessary for every one of the men to be on the picket line every day. He also ‘mentioned that three years ago he was of strike for 26 weeks. Altho he is still young, I am sure that with such an element, the work- ers in that shop are sure to win, and this is a real beginning for organiz- ing the entire leather goods trade in Philadelphia. Backed by Union. | The representative from the exeou- a member of the Young Workers’ League who is enthusiastic and very much liked by the workers, took the floor and assured the workers of the shop that they are not fighting alone, that they will have the other work- ers of the union back of them and that the New York local is going to help in every way. He also sug- gested that the workers of the shop elect a strike committee which will meet with the executive board of the union to work out further plans for action. With this, the first meeting of the workers on strike closed and all united they went back to the shop to get the other workers out. MacMillan in Greenland doin and the Peary of the MacMillan Aretic: expedition arrived Sunday a radio dispatch to v1 wah 1 nid to N id, with the cloak $0 13 on rift rutsky textile 4 Polish revolntion- ary center. Lansuteky charged with another 2 of are ones more appealing to the workerw of the Tk talk as cae ae ee leader, just as they have saved him before when the workers of both Europe and Atherica demonstrated de- fore every Polish Consulate demand - ing freedom for the greatest living leader ot the Polish workers. Stani- Slav Lanzutsky. tive board of the union, J. Sklar, also} WASHINGTON, July 27.—The Bow- E evenifig at Upernctis, Greenland; said: equally spurious anti-Wall Street position, ue“ prohibitio ) Armageddon, In, Tenn., , attack on on. it i e found (emp- vision on the boycott which does not appear in the IIIinois law which the tailoring company is endeavoring to suence of the injunction. By agreement, a test is being made of the oconstitutionality of the anti- injunction law passed by the recent session of the legislature, and the false charges of violence placed against the pickets by the Internation- al will de taken up later. Strikers Read DAILY WORKER The strikers continue to buy the DAILY WORKER, They express great satisfaction that there is one daily their side of the news in the struggle to wrest decent conditions from the garment bosses. The strikers were particularly in- terested in the story which told how the International admitted before the court that they were doing no busi- ness and that they had been forced to cancel orders. This story, which was read to the strikers at their meeting in Hod Carriers’ Hall, exposed the rumors spread by the bosses that they were doing business, and condemned from their own mouths their state- ments outside their courts as cross lies. © | Bendani Sets the Scientists I About His Predictions ROME, July . 27.—Prof. Raphael Bendani announced today that his seismograph registered a distant earthquake yesterday morning at four o’clock, 8 2s ®8 Prof. Bendani has become a contro- versial figure in scientific circles in recent months. He came recently in- to prominence because of his claim that he had predicted the recent earthquakes would occur this month in all parts of the world. Scientists both in Italy and the United States have declared since the Santa Barbara shocks that there has been little relationship between Sig. Bendani’s forecasts and subsequent earth tremors. Library Employes Denied Raise WASHINGTON, July 27. —(FP)— Increase in salaries which ordinarily would be granted under efficiency rathing “step-ups” will be denied 112 navy depart-}employes of the Carnegie Public Li | brary. — ** * ‘ ; a i : . * * ey ee 1 ‘ : - . e ree | Sa wt * n 1 as, ee * newspaper in the city which gives 8 D . y=" ~ oe 222. - Lite a r iS gt
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"ee , - Al n 1 3 5 sy . * 9 2 At ‘os 12 5 N 4 4 3 ‘Sia dtr . 8 7 wr 5 2 2 : 1 55 r * * i. ae So ee ne 2 1 3 ber vr ben 1 2 j “STRIKE TELLS OF 412 u BETWEEN LABOR AND CAPITAL By REGINA MYROSKI MOUNDSVILLE, W. Va, July 27,—The fourth month of the coal strike in West Virginia finds this section rather in a doubtful state as to the final out- come. ‘Conditions everywhere point towards the final defeat of the strikers, but the latter are hopeful and certain of victory and are willing to sacrifice their all if in the end they will be guaranteed decent living conditions at least. : As this was a scab region—the miners having joined the U. M. W. of A, only when they struck in April—of course all the organized section felt doubtful about the outcome but still admired the courage and grit of the West Virginia miners. Trouble arose immediately about 2 fi 7 823 9 | 1 * * onda LONDON, July 7.— The govern- ment has persuaded the representa- tives of the Miners’ Federation and those of the mine owners to meet again next Wednesday, in the hope of finding a way to check the strike „ ordered by the union to begin next mr — BY acter Workers "Haake Themselves By L. P. p. RIM DAL. LOS ANGELES, Cal., July 27.—A friend of mine works in the reefing trade, but altho his boss runs one of the biggest concerns of its kind in the city, the work is so slack that he can hardly exist on the low wages paid What's the Matter and . What to Do By HELM VOLL LOS ANGELES, Cal.—in the DAILY WORKER, for July 9th, page 4, col. — * defense against the violation of the t agreement by the owners who in- ; 427 Represents the Left Wing of the Labor Movement. its sist on both a wage cut and longer ö 1 Purpose Is to Strengthen the Labor Unions by Amalgamation hours. At Durham, dispatches state, of Existing Unions,. Organization of the Unorganized, and by the Right Reverend James Edward tice” he has always managed to give the most severe sentences possible. Here is the most recent of his activi- ties along the line of meting out jus- tice,” for a few hours’ work a week. This 1 eplacing Reactionary Welidon, dean of Durham, was | 2, is a story by Worker Correspondent, | the middle of the first month of the Govern- | worker never draws a full week’s pay; guilty consciente. His reason the flimsy excuse that it was capitalism. There is no honor e e ager Be G Ision only ur written dri talk we — 1 ag but a Salvation a crime-—a crime because he, Judge] thieves. It is such acts as these that | about working conditions, | | 4, wa Hera 2 arin upon n | ig drivers’ | Army s ith God, 1 — Morris, and the coal operators back | will awaken the workers to class con- slow!” . * . charg oe axe en made 2 5 3 t h. th r “said so, ane there was end | sciowstiess. Had no scabbing taken This worker always got every What He Has Save Un board covers) 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, III. oe 1 1 office today. en with the — *. various congregations, Here, are a few | | | Mar | } eee Cama ange aS } —~, I —— —d ä — — — , 2 * as 4 3 5 . f } | 2 | 3 . ore - Mi ‘ 7 ; 9 ia ie 22 4 N Only Real Victory New York City, July 27.— Following the so-called “outlaw” strike of the New York Web Pressmen’s Union Lo- cal 25, in September 1923, Major Berry, strike-breaker extra-ordinary and head of the Pressmen’s union who had crushed the strike, “reoganized”’ the local and refused to give a card to David Simons, who had previously headed the local and led the strike. Endiess and Costly Appeals. As he was deprived of a chance to to work were interferred with. That court ordered him reinstated in the union. Berry appealed and the Appe- late Division reversed the decision. Simons appealed to the Court of Ap- peals, going still higher, and this last court decided in Simons favor, stating as follows: “Plaintiff was a 3 in good standing in the defendant's union, an incorporated "te citer thoes but rather is engaged in the stool- ’ pigeon work of denonncing those ele- ments in the unions who are press-} ; member, and in so doing have made it impossible for him to find employ- ment in the trade. The charge in brief is that he has been denied the privi- | refuse to work with him on “May Be Criminal If Not Mugged Right (From a Worker Corréspondent.) NEW YORK CITY, July 27.—One of the first orders of Police Commission- er Enright since his department took control of the taxi industry in this city has aroused the wrath of the taxicab drivers, it revolves about 4 new card which the commissioner re- quires that all taxi drivers display in a conspicuous part of their cab. It is to carry a photograph of the driver inal, if he does not conform to the description on the card. There are 38,000 taxicad drivers in iNew York City and tney all resent the impression which they say, may easily be conveyed by this card re- flecting on the character of the drivers in general. The card is pink in ** and about four by five inches, with a space in „This is the description of the if driving this car doesn’t conform there- to, he may be a criminal. Your safety may demand that you act immediate- by the | driver of this car... If the person now | in many quarters. | --Favoritism That favoritism exists in most un- ions is beyond dispute. It is by giv- ing jobs to their friends, and showing them favors in Other ways, that offi- cfals frequently maintain themselves in office. Said a fellow carpenter at the hall the other day: “See him. That’s Richardson. He has been appointed by Hutcheson to look after the studios. Now he is giv- ing out tickets for jobs in the movies to his friends.” And sure enough, that’s exactly what he was doing. express them, are ruled out of ordér, while those with a mentality belong- ing back in the dark ages, and not any too expressive, are cheered along , Who usually sees in him a man after his own heart. | Some time back, a member of an- other local yisited our local, and was called upon to make a speech by the rman under “good of the order.” od haltingly, giving the impres- He Tr N . * * 5 4 ae ¥ 5 an 00 9 4 ne had. — * have been out ot order and n or expulsion, . Too. ‘Much Attention to the Boss . Then. we have the report of our busi- ery) hurting only themselves and some of those regularly. tory. Injunctions. nothing but coal operators. pel them to return to work at reduced wages. The local press carried state- ments to the effect that only a limited amount of coal was needed and that ‘@ great many miners were working at reduced wages and supplying all the coal needed and that the strikers were the BUSINESS MEN of the community— special stress placed on busines men. Storekeepers refused to give credit to who had dealt from them for years and paid their accounts In fact, the strikers were treated more as some undesirable and centage of them are still holding out. existing as’ they can, hopeful of vic- For a while the more drastic injunc- tions were lifted and peaceful picket- ing was allowed—but for only a very short period indeed. On July 6, Judge J. D. Morris, of the Marshall county court at Moundsville again prohibited picketing of any kind, giving as his whole strike it an “Gustty - be seen that Judge Morris : tis Been acting, not in the interests ot the miners, but in opposition to them, and has been proving himseli a tool in the hands of the Here is the coal operators’ for those who did win the strike. Coal Co., the scabs were following month, August, about the 25th. Always Want More. ed. to control them body and soul, their very means of exsitence. It i without being paid. igainst all odds. re ward “scabbing duty“ for them while the rest of the miners were making the utmost sacrifices jo On July 10, 1925, they regular payday of the Glendale Gas & informed that they would not be paid until the probably The motive can easily be ascertain- The capitalists are not satisfied alone with making the people wage even commonly believed that the purpose of withholding the pay until August 25 was to force the miners to deal at the company store, so the coal barons could make still more profits—for of course the regular dealers would re- fuse to carry the accounts that long place probably there would have been more of a chance to win tne strike. | But tow Jt ia doubtful. It can be said to the credit of the strikers here that 4 good percentage of them are still holding out and are defermined to win May, they be suc- union. For the last six or seven years he has kept himself off the roofs, but now he is back again and wants to re- join his craft. Last night ne nad a talk with the business agent, and what wid he find? $50 initiation fee was de- manded. But how is it possible to pay such a huge sum for joining a union under such conditions 44 vi tured above? Strong Unions Not W The writer is in full accord with K worker correspondent (D. W. July 9) who, in connection Wii the actton of Muir and Hutcheson in expeHing 16 slaves and instilling in them ideas bers from carpenters’ locals he make a living at his trade, he brought | and his ihumbprint and in large type Gagging of Expression. hated animals than human beings hi 2 ‘i * * suit in the Supreme Court of Manhat- | issues a warning to the drivers’ pass- iu many, hg a with ideas ot But in spite of all this a good per. rte eee esa geek . e e, - tan upon this ground- that his right | engers, that the driver may be à crim- a progressive and competent to ' cials do not want the union to be- come strong and effective? I am sus- s picious.” High initiation fees and ex- pulsions both work im the same direc- tion, to make a job trust out of the unions for officials and a few other sleepy-heads. They do not want 1 rank and file organized. Times Hard, But Reads D. W. Another man of my acquainta (member of the carpenters’ union of the DAILY WORKER, but never afford to spend enough m ‘at ome time, to subscribe. 80 f you are, the same everywhere. The workers are foreed down to the low level of doing things on the install ment plan, which is expensive and al- ness agents, which we have long since 95 n e eae ' sesstul? most as bad as the Dawes plan. ing for the organization of these leges of membership though never |ly; vacate the car and Call A Police-| learned to take with a grain of salt. * Being in the city at present, Herbert e — Bosses legally expelled. man. It is usually a story about exeursions | le has forced —— upon should be commended and not ex- Hoover, secretary of commerce, de- * mae alli yee kt No Provision For Relief in Union Law “Richard E. Enright, Police Com. made into the sanctuaries of the con- members of the “Brotherhood”. pelled. Ignorance has always been our | clared Los Angeles to be the “eighth Could the @ftizens’ ance ask for | No Provision For strong locals of both the waiters and better representation of its point of little, very little towards it's removal. tive son prospect for the presidency th , view, than that which Mr. .Croskey for equitable relief. So far as the Ra Ne e = ae A me These are often heroic tales. with the 1 er — which he What Must We Do? vou know). So he went on to talk } furnishes the slimy press gratis? complaint shéws, there is no provision , the commissioner | CUS!mess agent as the hero. The trials "oy ©) men oe ee Paneer atove all, never honed. about “cheap” water and “cheap” lie Sinton of the . car, and of course the and tribulations in th fo those who were on strike. nower. But he f ti Moreover, Lestie . in the constitution or the bylews knows why the word cab is omitted e search for his a Mew ask tb ak ae ower. t he forgot to mention the Cooks, is personally responsible for | hereby plaintiff has a remedy by ap- . „ | heart’s desire is often told with feel- . ere Care the disorganized condition of the cul- inary trades. Only a few years ago, there existed waitresses. Today they are non-ex- istent. Why? Red Baiters, Always Disrupters. Sinton, the prize red baiter, never lost an opportunity to fight the wait- resses in the assembly as well as in the joint of board of the culinary\ trades. It was his policy, then as it is now, to wreck the waiters and wait- resses’ locals, so that the Cooks could scab on the other workers without danger of being showed up as such; so that Sinton could operate without hindrance, in writing his black page in the local labor movement. Nobody Trusts Red Salter. Today the name Sinton is the sign of disorganization which hangs over the Cooks’ Union. Moreover, every waiter and waittest in this town is conscious of his de- structive influence, which is largely maintained on the basis of the sup- port which he gets from such * men as Mr. Croskey. Not Interested in Unionization. “A cause of action is here stated peal to any organ within the associa- tion. Equity will enjoin the denial to a member of the privileges of mem- bership where the denial, if continued, will work irreparable injury. “The judgement of the appellant di- vision should be reversed and the order of the special term affirmed, with costs in the appellate division and in this court.” Looks Like These Men Ought to Be in Union BOSTON, July 27.—(FP)—Strike of non-union electricians on a small job for union pay follows several strikes of union build tradesmen of other crafts, on other jobs, to lorce the dis- charge of the non-union electricians. In several cases the non-union electri- cians were laid off. missioner.” This is what Mayor Hylan, the “people’s mayor” is doing for the taxi- dab drivers in New York. Pennsylvania Shop Strikers on the Job Soliciting Funds Credentials granted by the Chicago federation of Labor to solicit local unions for funds are in the hands of representatives of ‘pe striking shop- srafts men of the Pennsylvania rail ‘oad. The strike began as part of the nation-wide strike of shopmen in July, 1922, but has never been called eff on the Pennsylvania tho most other roads made some sort of settle ment in the fall of 1922 or the fol: jowing year. The strikers are keeping ve union spirit alive on the bitterest atti-labor road in the country. TOPEKA LABOR COUNCIL TO HAVE OPEN FORUM, STUDY CLASS URGED tractor, or some public official, seek- ing to interview these elusive birds. ing and in a most graphic manner. After many unsuccessful attempts he finally succeeds to corral him, here or there, and they part friends, and the boss promises to do this and that— promises Which never become any- thing else. Last winter, one of our “business agents said something which rings true. He reported that in a number of instances, when he asked men on the job what locals they belonged to, they would tell him: “Ask the boss.” It did not feel good to be talked to that way, he said. I don't know What he thought about the causes for such a reply, but to me it is very significant. Unfriendly to Members from Other Parts, One ex-member from Philadelphia told me that when he came to Los Angeles, he went to the Labor Temple for information and guidance as a ux. ion man naturally would, Here he was told, by an official, that the best thing for him to do was to take the first train back east, as it was impossible to get a job anywhere near the scale. Following such advice was well nigh the expense of the membership of 65 locals. the general office. He has disfranchised locals suit him. sures to which he was opposed. trade unions in each industry. in Detroit and Los Angeles. Force. where women. rials and records from which names of members members of the “Brotherhood” longed to a “dual union’ He has opened and maintained at “Brotherhood” He has expelled members illegally for exposing corruption and graft of by wholesale when they did not vote to At the last convéntion he refused to seat delegates because they were instructed to work for certain mea- He has expelled members for ad- vocating amalgamation of the existing He has not hesitated to use the po- lice, thru his henchmen, as was done In Alliance with Capitalist Police In Los Angels, Muir and the police on March Ist, 1924, raided at night a meeting of The Trade Union Educa- tional League at 224 8. Spring St., they arrested 39 men and They also confiscated mate- the were taken and used by Muir as evidence to show that be- „ and on this and so, He may have an ax to grind. acquaintances among watch them. To our business agents: We pay the bills, outside. removal of Hutcheson. ion, published by ington St., Chicago, Ill. If you know carpenters outside the union persuade them to join. The union must be built up, not broken up. is bunk, it is only most powerful foe, and we have done Whenever an official tells you s- : is this and that, investigate | The officials who are eternally rant- a ing about their pull, friendships and a a the bosses — Love the bosses less, and the workers more. Help to establish at least as much liberty inside the unions, as we have Let us all work like beavers for the You who know carpenters belong- ing to the union, get them to read: What's Wrong In the Carpenters’ Un- The Progressive Building Trades Worker, 156 S. Wash- If you are a carpenter and think what I have written about old Hutch fair to all con- cerned that you find out for yourself what the facts are before you pro- wonder of the world” (he is the na- heap conditions under which work- ‘rs have to struggle in this burg of ex- ploitation and Hooverized hot air. Kate Dial, Prison Comfort Club Head, Dies in California SAN FRANCI8SCO.—Announcement of the death of Kate M. Dial, former secretary of the Workers’ National Prison Comfort Club, brings grief to the hearts of scores of political and industrial prisoners in the prisons of the country who have been recipients of her kindly devotion. Kate Dial was an untiring prison comfort worker and her efforts and experience in this fleld are partly responsible for the founding of Intrenational Labor De- fense. For Unemployment Doles. To the DAILY WORKER: I would like to see a meeting of representa- tives of all labor organizations called for the discussion of caring for the unemployed workers of this country | i t labor crises. In Eng- text they were sumarily expelled.| Dounce judgment. during great impossible, for good and sufficient |) + 1 here is such nt. Th The Trade Union Educational If you are one of the many ex-mem- land there is such a movement. There wer Mir. e eee By JESSE nde be reasons. He went out and got a job League is an educational institution. bers who have simply 5 5 d out, the workers receive a dole during un- faker that he is, is, of course, not (Worker Correspondent) the same day and at the union scale 0 ply ppe N interested in organizing the thousands of unorganized in the culinary trades, If he was, he would do something more constructive; something more befitting a labor organizer, than vom- iting. his nastiness on those honest workers who. possess a program of organization, which it followed out, would induce the exploited workers of the culinary trades, to join the union. Amalgamation Needed. That program is amalgamation of the culinary trades; a recognition that the interests of all culinary workers, are the concern of all. It is this working class program that Mr. Croskey is ont to fight to- gether with the Sintons, and which causes him to play tne role of Judas to the culinary workers. Agree in Relief Distribution SPRINGFIELD, III., July 26.--The distribution ‘of $275,000 voted by the state for reconstruction of school buildings in that section of Southern Illinois swept by the recent tornado, has been agreed upon by the legis- lative committee and school author- 2 according to announcement from follows: musle and moving pictures. Conduct Open Forum The open forum question came up for special business and a motion was ‘passed to conduct an open forum. The plan adopted was to have a speaker to make an opening speech upon the subject under discussion and then the meeting would be opened for question and short speeches from the audience. In the discussions on the question the wish was made that the forum be really open that any and all ques- tions affecting labor could be discus- sed and that anyone regardless of who he was or what view he held should be permitted to express his views. | Actual Workers Wanted In giving suggestiong to the forum committee several expresged their views that when possible speakers be -secured who were actual workers or TOPEKA, Kansas, July 27.— At the meeting of the Industrial Council last evening the Jabor Day committee made their report stating that the program had not yet heen definitely arranged but would 9 be as A barbercue, speaking; athletic contests and a ball game, dance, said and not to have preachers and pro- fessional politicians as these men did “ot knew or understand the labor movement and therefore could not be in a position to advise labor in regard to bettering their conidtion. Urge Study Club Several speeches were made urging that labor start a study club as wel} as an open forum. A motion was passed asking the presidents of all the affiliated unions to be present at the next courgil meet. ing to discuss ways and meane of rais- tug money for the purchase of @ built ing site and the building of a labor temple in Topeka. Workers Would Preach A motion was passed requesting the auuisters of the 93 churches in Tope ka to allow representatives of organ- ized labor to make the morning ad- dress to the churehes on labor Sun- day to outline labors views to the of wages. He had been two years in Los An- geles without clearing in. In fact he was out of the “Brotherhood” entirely. At heart he is a union man and would be a credit to any organization of workers. This much I can’t say for the official who “placed the straw that broke the camel's back.” It has not infrequently happened that business agents have been told by ex-members, that they never would join again as long as certain men were continued in office. The right or wrong of this attitude I am not dis- cussing just now. I am trying to set down some of the causes og the “hard- est factor.” When an ex-member told the writer in 1920, he would never join the union as long as Hutcheson was president, I wondered why. It was during work- ing hours he made the statement, so there was little time for explanations. Besides I did not like much to listen to.a “knocker” at that time. Since then I have decided that the best way to get to the. bottom of it all, is to lis- ten to what they have to say. we should be thankful. 4 It is providing facilities which we ourselves are lacking, and if our mem- bers want to take advantage of them Such members | awe illegally expelled members. place for Ma Hutcheson? come back and help to reinstate the | Woyldn’t a pawn shop be a a] employment periods. I. Rosen. Jive this copy to your shop- mate. (Negative) 50 Cents Each A DEBAT E! Bertrand Russel Vs. RESOLVED: ‘THAT THE SOVIET FORM OF GOVERNMENT IS 1 APPLICABLE TO WESTERN CIVILIZATION | By arrangements with the League for Public Discussion, 1 this interesting book (with photographs and brief biographies : of the debaters) can now be secured at the special price of — , The Daily Worker Publishing Co. Scott Nearing (Affirmative) * 7 * “a Ps 7 — —ä——„—— Te —äbK — — \.
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oy. a the T. hervonets was achieved hea ainst Russia, owing Although much of this regulation of exchatige , and probably cannot be, enforced under existing ci ces, it has been effective for its purpose of 5 a with foreign valuta, of use in balancing the | ea in 1924 the amount available became embar the National Bank found itself being compete at novetz notes in order to acquire forei or no use but which were offered by ex} be would have checked exportation. ore under the economic plan for 1923-24 is roubles, it looks as though the State W. to free dealings in foreign exchan ae * NA oti > vei N. 9278 ‘ws ge in 80 tar ds it cat s out of its hands. Restoration of Single Curtency © The last development of currency reform was the Axcis 07 February 14th, 1924, stopping further emissions of the old notes, and of March “oth finally putting them out of eircula- tion as from May 10th and redeeming them at a rate depreci- ated in certain cases to one-five-thousand-millionth. This old currency had been used to maintain the value of the Tcher- novetz by buying it up when necessary, but had been replaced 104 e 18 in this function more and more by foreign valuta. Trans- port Certificates, of which mention will be found where, were a currency of small denominations now all redeemed. The effect of this currency reform on the enterprise and energy of the National Economy was, of course, immediate, and the impetus it has given still continues. Its results can be observed in the returns given elsewhere showing increased pro- duction and trade. The consequent improvement in revenue from taxation and conomic profits react, in turn favorably on the currency. N Currency and Budgets * The Delegation has no reason whatever to doubt that the present condition of the currency is satisfactory. The following table gives details: 1924 Paper Tcherv. Transport Treasury Silver Small. Central Roubles Gold R. Certifs. Bills Coins Change Caisse Bonds Millions of Tehervonetz Roubles. 0 Ist April 15.36 294.5 20.7 54.6 9.96 . 3.14. 448.9 Ist June .. 9.8 286.6 20.5 124.1 16.6 15.7, 518.0 Ist Aug. .... 4.8 301.2 — 162.1 34.6 20. 570.0 Ist Oct. ....— 352.85 — 201.75 48.94 25. 5 667.9 A handsome silver curreney, which to a value of 285,000,000 was minted in England, is in general circulation, and in October a copper coinage appeared. A gold Tchervonetz is obtainable, but does not appear in circulation. 1 The total of money in cireulation rose from 264 million roubles in October, 1923, to 624 million in October, 4924. This considerable emission of currency in the course of the summer led to no corresponding increase of prices, and no fall at all in ‘exchange, and consequently evidently did not exceed the grow- ing demand of business. The only danger of inflatic seems to lie in a possible over-emission of bank credits for industry. The emission of currency for revenue purposes in 1923-24 was restricted practically to that originally estimated for. The emission in 1924-25 is reduced from 180 millions in the previous year to 80 millions, and this latter sum is not, moreover, mere paper but silver and copper coinage. In fact, the use*of the mint for revenue is almost restored to its legitimate form of a profit on coinage, and there seems no reason to suppose that the pro- posed increase of currency is more than business development requires. In other words, careful investigations in the Commis- sariat of Finance show no reason to fear the renewal of inflation that has been so confidently predicted abroad. | The following figures show the disappearance of the fatal financing Budgets by emission of paper currency :— REVENUES, 1921-22. 1922.23. 1923-24. 1924-25. Millions of Tchervonetz Hiubles 1. Tasation . ......:.caeeuee 4 450 405 666 961 2. Receipits from National 15 Property and Enter ; 5 g prises b 199 511 8385 1.080 3. Loans eerie 1 88 219 190 4. Paper Curreney 160 350 387 198 — f 2 1,000 1,388 1,916 2,231 anh * * atin , yn Receipts in Kind and Budgets Nothing shows more clearly the rapid SETLIST that has been proceeding under the New Economic Policy” than = complete change in the character of recent Pot Wax Can e Budget for 1920 represents the high water — 5 War Com- munism and the elimination of mone ts, exclusive of currency emission, were 159,604 m lion. Soviet roubles and expenditure 1,215,159 million Soviet roubles. . Of these rece about one-third came from nationalized production and anot third from nationalized trade. The first. Budget under the New ‘Heénomic Policy was the nine months’ Budget, January to September, 1922. This repre- sents a transition from a barter to a business basis. The total receipts were 530 million index roubles, of which about 64 per cent. were receipts in kind, not money revenues. The attempt to reconcile these two bases caused, needless to say, inextricable confusion. We see below the process of transition. to a money basis :—- , 1921-22 1922-23, 1923.24 1924-25. ‘ Millions of Tchervonetz Rubles. Per cent Percent Per cent Percent Receipts in king 550—55 106—11 783°. — Money Revenues 450—45 1230—89 b 2231—100 — — . 1000 — jus 2231 Budget of 1922-23 The turning point in the restoration ofthe Budget to a busi-. ness basis is in 1922-23. The Budget as nae t produced showe¢ receipts of over one milliard and expendi e well o. liards. The os ot any deficit monthly basis, and 10 reduce expenditures, and restrict curren ey It will be worth while to reproduce transitior Budget of 1922-23 in such a form as ; nave an idea of the situ tion. 1 FOR 1922. (Millions of Tchervonetz Ru sili. Receipts. mete Gs ditiare. : 1. Direct Taxes and Customs.... 230 1. Admipistra . * 318 . rr .o.0..---200080s4 acoso 175 2. Transport Communica: 3. Transport and tions, ete. ; 822 Communications 454 3. Ind — 123 4. National Industry and Trade 57 4. Agricu 64 5. Credit Operations 85 5. ee, a 28 6. Currency Issue 387 6. Co-operation .. . 10 7. Treu 12 aaa MisceHaneous 1388 1388 It is abide that this is a Budget that still contains a large measure of War Communism, and is, still, more concerned with national economy than with government finance. Analysis of "Budget Expenditure Comparing the principal items of the Budgets of 1922-23 and 1924 we get an idea of the nature of the burden. EXPENDITURE. ; (Millions of Tchervonetz Rubles.) 1923-24 1922-23. Per cent Per cent 1. Transport and Communications.... 672.5 —B2.7 ——saceveee 580—41.8 2. Administration 459.0—24.4 3 318—22.9 3. Industry 85.0— 4.5 4 123— 8.9 4. Agriculture 61.0— 3.2 arecere n 64— 4.6 5. Electrification 42.0— 2.1 3 28— 2.0 6. Co-operation .. 20.0— 1.1 10— 0.7 7. Treasury Operations, etc. .............. 100.0— 6.3 3⁊ 23— 1.7 8. Miscellaneous a 358.0—19.0 2. 242—17.4 The financing of industry is thus being steadily transferred from the Budget to the Banks; and this financing of industry is still an item of which the investment value is hard to estimate. The subsidy of agriculture shows that nearly half the net pro- ceeds of the rural tax are returned to the land. The increase of the amount spent on electrification is evidence of the very general effort to re-equip industry. While the support of Co-op- eration in its struggle against private enterprise and against the “scissors” crisis is also an investment. The item “Treasury op- erations” is mainly repayment of grain and sugar loans. An encouraging element in these is the increase of réceipts and the decrease of the deficit; anothr is that almost’ age half this increase of receipts comes from ‘transport—showing, as this does, an economic expansion. The increase in taxation comes mainly from the rural tax; moreover, this increase has been obtained from an increase in taxable. capacity without rais- ing the rates. An increase that is only beginning may be ob- served in the receipts from national property such as forests, Receipts under this head are insignificant compared to what they might be. Budget for 1923-24 The Budget for 1923-24 was produced in December, 1923, the dangers due to the delay being met by a provisional “budget of control.“ The delay was due to difficulty in finally bringing the whole national accountancy on to, a normal basis and in first attempting an allotment of central and local budget respon- sibilities as between the Union and the autonomous Federations. The fundamental principle of this dani and fiscal relation- ship is to secure for the whole Union the a ntages of a cen- tralized control and credit while giving | the local autonomies sufficient resources and responsibilities for their own cultural development and special concerns. This involved a most diffi- cult dec mann, still in course of development. (To be continued in next issue) 1 has nothing famine that came as a result of crop failure of last year, and also as “a re- | sult, of the inefficient economic * | of Poland. | “That the credits, voted by Polish diet for famine relief, were distri- buted by the Polish government agencies among the rich mere and well-to-do peasants. “That it is the opinion and the de- sire of this meeting that no help, ma- terial or moral, should be given to the present government of Poland, which “oppression, and executions ‘for our brothers in Western Ukraine, held forcibly in Polish occupation. “That the millions of Ukrainians, now under the rule of Poland, cannot be bound in the future by any credit or loan ob as may be con- tracted in this country by Mr. Skrzyn- ski in the name of his government. That we demand justice and free - dom kor those of our brothers and countrymen in Western Ukraine that are now dominated by Poland and other imperialistic States, believeing | and knowing that such liberation could be accomplished only by union ' of. 1 Ukraine with the present hie resolution be es BENIN J ‘ Lee We wie nosh tan : Pet ocon Mh of Western Ukraine and its union with Ukrainian Socialist serine Republic! ; Stafford, Coal Miner, Torn 8 His F i by Deportation to Italy eee, from page 1) hope these papers will be of help to you. “Mrs. Tony Stafford, n by 3 Daughter Sadie. „P. S.—No one has ever offered us any help of any kind since father was taken away from us.” The “papers” enclosed were re- ceipts for payment of dues in the Loyal Order of Moose since 1917, cards issued by the United Mine Workers Union during 1920 and 21 and Staffords army registration card dated 1917. \ Organized Labor Forgot Stafford ‘The labor movement forgot Tony Stafford and his family. During the five years Tony Stafford was in prison for the cause of labor, his wife has been obliged to battle alone. “No one has ever offered us any help of any kind since father was taken away from us.“ In a previous leter to International Labor Defense, Mrs. Stafford told of Stattord's enemies. „The E. E. White Coal Co. of Glenn White, W. va is the Co. who is fighting him. I do not have money to help my husband as I have four small children to provide for, and I find it very hard to make ends meet. My husband did not even get to come home to see his children -whom he has not seen for many years. I want you to fully understand that it is because of a grudge against union officials that they are so bitterly inst him.” Tony Stafford was an official of the U. M. W. of A. He fought for the unionization of the scab coal fields of West Virginia. He fought for a better life for his wife and four children. His reward was frame-up, imprison- ment and now deportation. Will Take Care of Family. Intrenational Labor Defense did all it could to prevent the deport: tion of Tony Stafford. The trick was turned too quickly. It could not be stopped. I. L. D. is now doing the next best thing. It is undertaking to make up in some way for the long neglect his family has suffered. Mrs. Stafford was sent a check of fifty dollars and more will follow. A fund is being raised and the forces of mil- itant labor are being organized under the banner of International Labor De. fense to cope with the many similar occurences of -working class fighters railroaded to prison or deported, and of families left destitute and helpless, * * : — eet N . F. * 2
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I ee a N 4 * n edntract miners and their F “a ¢ 5 I wr, ms * * 4 5 * — — — „% 0) obs EL LOW L N 91 sn 2 5 J N , ple . * 1 * a ee een 2 the eer wage scale. (Ol spy LELAND OLDS 3 (PaddPated Press . | Well, now we ‘neve K drt the operators’ own figureé, furnished to the | U. 8. bureau of ine edt Ma that the average anthracite worker actually mp in cutting the face doesn’t average as much as $2,000 vet The figures show that in a half-month in October-November, 1924, the average wage of mipers and rers was wat per day worked and the average number of days if Really Below $1,600 These figures cover miners classified as company, consideration and , constituting over 53 per cent of all the employes both inside and outside the mines included in the investigation. all groups of. 8 em- together ion 8. 2 ae f month than 1-23 normal working year the aver- ne annual ! 1 elon mately half of all anthfacite mine orkers falls below $1, ‘|The bureau reckons AA Vie ave aver- e worker 4 72 N 17 5 I mining of coal had * them tna tires ot ‘two known men, — * owing to a raging fire Court Against Death a HELM \ VOLL. LOS ANGELES, July 27 — Isaac Wolfgang, wha killed a policeman over two years ago, in a rooming -hOuse on Fast Fourth St., of this ¢étty bes fotified the public defender, from San Quentin, that Clerence Darrow will represent him in a final appesi from the death sentence before th- United States supreme court in Oc- tober, He was con victed of killing Oliver Dinsmore, a policeman, who arrested | him While he was about to tan bottle of milk. one early mornius. from the doorsteps of a house elose by where he was living. The policeman took Wolfgang ow his room, and here he beat him so marsilessly that he still has a loag red seat on his head. Fearing tor life, he reached into a dresser i evant out a gun, and shot Medical Leader Dies. Dr. Albert John Ochsner, one of the leaders in tlie Chicago medical world And known thruout the nation as one of the leaders of advanced medical thought, died here at his Rome. followed - explosion. | * ery single day that the por de were the average annual wage would ve been about $2,240, or a close imation to a minimum. living é budget. the figures showing the aver- ‘| age number of days actually worked | per worker indicate that 85 per cent of, theoretical full working time is all that can be expected in the anthracite mines. Account must be taken of sick- | mess and other unavoidable causes of absence. This brings the annual wage down to about $1,920. Average wages per day actually worked and for the entire half- month pay period aré shown for leading oc- cupations as follows: ; Anthracite Half Pay Per day month Miners Company $6.49 $67.15 Consideration 4.26 78.99 Contract 9707 98.07 / Miners’ laborers Company 5.72 58.57 Consideration 621 65.98 | Contract 6.47 65.39 Inside workers Drivers 5.46 sa. | Laborers 6.67 63.09 Miscellaneous nne 80.43 Outside workers Carpenters 6.40 78.53 Laborers 5.25 63.0 Miscellaneous 5.68 71.47 Deductions Reduce e Wage The contract minty ranting | gt rom the seams. They are 6 piece rate and from their ‘Oss ‘earn- ings on this basis the “of labor apd explosives 15 — or check: OUR DAILY PATTERNS — So pat em PLAY DRESS FOR HOT DAYS. This attractive little play 5177. dress has the bloomers with straight lower edges, and a smart toy pocket on the front of the dress. Gingham, |. percale, crepe or linen could be used : for this model. The pattern is cut in 4 sizes: 2... 3, 4 and 5 years. quires 2% yards of 36-inch material. If pocket is made of contrasting. ma- terial, it will require % yard 9 inches wide. te Pattern mailéd to any address on eceipt of 12¢ in silver or stamps. Send 12c in silved or stamps for der P-TO-DATE SPRING & “baba wad 1925 BBOOK OF FASHIONS. — hru the DA tterns being ER does not keep a stock Ps 3 * hand. Delivery of pat - terns ordinarily will e at least 10 da from the date of mafling the order. not become impatient your pattern is delayed. 1 _ To those who work hard for 9270 money, I will save 50 per cent on all their dental work. DR. RASNICK | DENTIS* 645 Smithfield Street. PITTSBURGH, PA. * : - - 4 * 1 MA * shee iN 4 N * 5 7 e * e A Byear size re“ NoridkE TO PATTERN purrs | in 1 YEAR RO F — 0 8150 . off” asd! 35159. This will be very sattractive n. checked or figured silk. It is also sing in crepe or ch n,. The tee and peasant sleeve portions y be of contrasting mate al. The —.— sleeve may be omftted. nis pattern is cut in 6 sizes: 34, 30, 38, 40, 42 and 44 inches bust meas- ure. A 38-inch size if made as illus- trated in the large view will require 5% yards of 32-inch material with „ yard of contrasting material for the vestee cut crosswise. With peas- ant sleeves % yard of the same ma- terial as the vestee is required. The width at the foot is 2% yards. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12 in silver or stamps. Send 120 in silved or stantps for our UP-TO-DATE SPRING" @USUMMER 1925 BBOOK OF FASHleN Ae FASHION BOOK — 9 Send 12c in silver or ang fip-to-date Spring and g er Book of Fashions, showing)’ and containing 500 desi misses’, and o 8 cise and comprehens ye sftp making, also 1 2 rk „ ‘illustratin of atite hes) valuable d | \veasmaker. 1 | sa off their pay. This is really the origin of the checkoff and has always been a regular features of the indus- try. * Not an Easy Job To make their 398.07 for the half month these contract miners averaged 81.4 hours underground including travel from the shaft to the coal face and return. They have no regular work} time for dinner or lunch but eat it at their place of work while waiting for ben ‘Bl Attorney J. O. Bentall. Judge Richardson of the Superior 2 „ police court, who, several days fined M. Marek and F. G. Bieden- 3 11 00 apiece after a charge of disorderly conduct had been placed against the-two for speaking on the street, listened somewhat inattentive-. ly to a plea for a new trial made by The evidence in the hear- ing introdyeed, to show disorderly conduct Was 4 leafilet containing ex- tracts from the report of the Indus- trial Relations Commission. . Judge Weakens. Bentall.attempted to show the judge how rid poy was for him to lay a heavy quoting of official mine cars or when some other irregu- larity causes them to be temporary idle. Your Union Meeting | FOURTH TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1028. 144 Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers, 1569 N. Robey St. wees ae pny Workers, 1939 Mil- k l diay “We i SPs saa Paving fume Sala Couneil, NN Nel Sarpenters, iverse and Sheffield. arpenters, 2 Moose Hall, “Chicago 8 . N Hall, hg 9 DI T d ae 1% © ee coleoping Car), Capitol Electriéians, 08 2 State 2 lee r N. neérs (Loc.), 25 133 378 aot 83 233 rn Ave. Wentworth Engi „ 180 W. in St. me . 2438 'W .. 2 55 Ge W Cla 9 al Employes, 64 W. Randolp h 7 g petra, ane Dane Ogden 20 e 383 166 W. Wash- 5 Hod. Carrie . 18th St., Om. Hod . W. Ha n St. and La ergne * i eras W, Harriegn, . 10 1 Tle, 178 W. Washington $t., 1 al 2 2 * 1 | Oak . 190 E Painters, N. © ae . and ters, 6414 8. Ha fa WN. W. cor. “state ani ang S8th. Pai => r een ve Pain rumbu 4 . 795 PI N Monroe and ria Piumbers, 1507 “A n Ave. being 4 ey N 2 * as . * all] Lichance and his sister, Cornilia Fer- that anyone’s.cdnduct was disorderly | at the meéting. Bental asked for a new trial and to vacate. The judge Weakened. He probbaly an ass of himself. To save his face, as he thot, he became very lenient and for Biden- . But he The dig- r sensed the fact that he was waking 7 NEW PUBLICATION APPEARS My How the Left Wing Grows! nounced “The Progressive Miner” as ing group in organized labor. But there was a slight mistake. fifth _.. it will be the sixth. give the bosses a trimming for A - Snappy paper it is. With | shops, news about the trade condi the paper to take with you everyti chin seraped. ‘Take it to your ba certainly sh ) just send one | Rot a paid g to The we have more such splendid Last week in this column, we boasted to our Communist Builders about the splendid lot of Communist papers in all languages and other Left Wing publications available to build the Communist movement. We spoke of four Left Wing Monthlies already published; for Biuld- ing Tradesmen, Printers, Machinists and Rallwaymen. And we ngladiy an- the coming fifth journal’ of thé fight- The Progressive Miner is not the For without any warning the first issue of the “Progressive Barber” appeared in order to turn the worn about and ribution from the 4 8 in the $s and some bright comment, this is e you go to the barber to nave your r and if you want to ar for a year’s subsefi Barber, 1806 South? be (ou ‘(this is Ave, papers to rally the workers to fight. paper in your hat along with the others—this is another good nity of the court to be upheld. If the judge begins by making an ass of himself he has to continue so fo dignity’s sake. On Hunt for 86 But the detendants were not a higher court. They hope to find a judge intelligent enuf to recognize a government document when he sees one, and not to suppose as Judge Richardson certainly must have, that the Indus Relations report was written charin and Radek in- stead ot 1611 Man and Frank P. Walsh. * bs ‘ 8 to be a little out of the pe oa “The other day it was discovered that Faustino Lichance, a‘shop owner, had brought’ two sisters, ‘Filomena and Carmel Garcia, trol the Philippines under the excuse; to teach them the embroidery trade. These girls, and others, have beet held in; peonage under the stipulation that the uld work for three years at a month plus room and board, ache ‘which was supposed to cover the r passage money. It is charged {Hat the girls were forced to live on the premises as prisoners and to work trom 12 to 13 hours a day and that they were already expert embroiderers and did not need to ba taught. When the state labor department, thru Deputy Commissioner Lowry. first ordered the release of the girls, nandez, refused to accede unless they should sign notes for $300 each. it was said. Mr. Lowry then demanded their immediate release and also the release of all their belongings on threat of criminal action. Said shop is located at 508 North Western avenue, Los Angeles, The slavery system under which these poor girls were held is in Spanish | called: “PADRON”—¢ omplete sub- mission to the wishes and desires (and the viles also in this case) of the master. at i Junior High Schools to Be Built First Is Schoo]; Board’s Decree "| 2 * The borad of education’ 8 new school construction 8 which entails the expend e of $51,000,000, has awarded its ‘Afst contracts for 31,350, 000 for the! bitilding of three junior fortable living conditions. “Model” Prison for Women. WASHINGTON,—(FP) — The gov- ernment is building a model prison for women at Alderson, W. Va., cos“ ing $1,900,000, where the inmates will be taught housework and industrial trades to them for a “good” life when they come out. Washington Joins Health Bureau. NEW YORK.—Northwestern la bor, is waking to the need for safeguard- lng workers’ health, reports Mre. Grace Burnham, director of the Work- ers Health Burean,, 799 Broadway, New York, in a letter to office head- quarters, and as an°éarnest of its in- tention to go thru’ With a health pro- gram the Washingtan Federation of Labor voted to affiliate with the bu- * eee at its annual convention. ' } sa : : N 52 Bert Wolf, William Weinstone, ai! ) 1 LECTURES ON IMPERIALISM “GIVEN BY WORKERS’ SCHOOL FOR $1 THE COURSE, BEGIN AUGUST 7 NEW YORK CITY, July 27.—The revolutionary upheavals in China, in Morocco, and to a lesser degree in India, Egypt and Latin-America at the present time indicate that all is not well” with the world. These strug- gles of the peoples in colonial and semi-colonial countries mark the beginning of an ‘epoch of the break-up of the great imperialist. powers. The Communist movement has been the only one to realize the signifi- cance of the struggles of the oppréssed people in occident and orient alike, and have given their active support to these national-revolutionary move- ments, because they see in them a powerful force making for imperialist disintegration. Popular Lectures. In the light of these facts, then, the Workers’ School of New York, has arranged for a series of popular and instructive lectures on the nature of imperialism, and particularly on ‘its work and the forces combatting it in the countries of Asia, Africa, South and-Cortral America. Beginning Friday evening, August 7, continuing for six weeks, these ores will be given at the Workers 3 22 u. are: Alexander Trachten- Oliver Carlson and a prominent mem- ber of the Kuomintang. 09 Tickets for the entire course of six lectures are on sale for $1.00. Single admission will be 25 cents. There is no better opportunity for workers to inform themselves of the nature, scope, and struggles of imper- ifalism than is to be had by attending these lectures. The course is as follows: _ (1.) Imperialist Struggles in China, August 7, Kuomintang speaker and O. Calson. (2.) Foundations of imperial ism, Aug. 14., A. Trachtenberg. (3.) American Imperialism in Mexico and Latin-America, Aug. 21, Bert Wolf. (4.) American Imperialism in the Pacific, Aug. 28, Bert Wolf. (5.) Imperialist Policies in in- dia, Egypt and Morocco, Sept. 4, O. Carlson. 00,466,144. (6!) Imperialism and the Com- munist International, Sept. 11, W. Weinstone. Morgan’s Bank Lately Landed Australia for a $100,000,000 Loan SIDNEY, N. S., July 27.—Five thousand sailors from the detach- ment of the United States navy which stopped here in its trip around the world, were enjoying shore leave to- day. Democrat Commits Suicide Attornéy William Walker, former democratic nominee for the governor- ship ot Wisconsin, committed suicide today in Henrotin Memorial hospital here by hanging himself in a closet. Attorney Walker was 45 years old, und was being treated for a small but Frowing brain tumor. His home was at 373 First Ave., Wauwatosa, Wis. high schools) Work to be started next week. Thi#tli face of the present deplorable oshortage of classroom facilities toctake care of the tremen- dous overflow in the elementary schools. All of last term due to this shortage and 10 were compelled to arrive at schoo} as early as 7:30 on the morn- ing shifts while others did not begin shifts. Still the immediate plans do not include elementary schools. as follows: The Bridge school, at By- ron and Newland Sts.; the Mann, Ninety-fifth and Chappell Sts., and the Nightingale at W. Fifty-second and Rockwell Sts. ° ~ * _ 4 a 1 yA Getting a DAILY WORKER Communist of you sub or two will make a me 3 little children between the ages of 7 until after lunch for the afternoon} The new junior high schools will be SIBERIA LEON TROTSKY A story of escape . ) from" exile. | Taking Pennies from Babes. WASHINGTON— (FP) — The cam- paign carried on under the auspices of the federal bureau of egucation:to have school children start savings ac- counts has a nice result for the banks. A current report of the American Bankers’ Association says that there were 9,080 school sarengs systems in operation in 1924 and 2,236,323 pupils participating and that their bank bal- ances amounted to the 2 sum of DAILY WORKER Builders of New York : celebrate their first annual re-union with a GRAND HUDSON RIVER EXCURSION on Labor Day, September 7, at STONY (The loveliest spot on the Hudson) MUSIC AND DANCING — BATHING — HIKE THRU WOODS — PICNIC DINNER nlight Ride on Hudson River Steamer MIRAMAR (Cleanest, neatest boat in New York harbor) * Tickets, including Bienie Dinner, will be given free of charge, but ONLY to those that qualify as Charter Members of the DAILY WORKER BUILDERS’ CLUB by securing at least $6.00 worth of subscriptions or $3.00 in donations during July and August, or help- ing a certain minimum in the Daily Worker office, or serving as Daily Worker agent, news stand collector or worker-correspondent. (The subscriptions may be for either DAILY WORKER, YOUNG WORKER, YOUNG COMRADE or WORKERS MONTHLY.) ‘ NO tickets for sale. The purpose is not to make money from those that go, as is usually the case on excursions and picnics, but to create and encourage activity for the DAILY WORKER thruout the summer months. Excursion Limited to Four Hundred. Only 400 seats are available — — Ge — — L. E. Katterfeld, Mgr. Daily Worker, New Vork Agency 108 East 14th St., New York City to the First SEPTEMBER 7 Annual Daily more of the following ways: (Please check which you will try to do.) — A — eer —— —— ee NAME: ADDRESS OPP PP — .—— — — LL LL LO ME LM ML LL ̃ 7——— A A A A A LA —ů— q— 0 3 Disabled Miners Get On- ly $12 a Week WILKESBARRE, Pa. July 27— Union anthracite miners and their families from the Scranton-Wilkes-Bar- re (District No. 1,) United Mine Work- ers of America, have been awarded a total of $307,242 in compensation for accidents sustained on the job since the founding of the district compensa- tion department, October 1, 1923, the delegates at the district convention were informed when the compensation department's report was read. | The department contests against the Workmen’s Co claims ployers under the pensation law and re- ports that compensation was awarded . : Freport= which shows that 26 states pay more than the $12 a week maximum to which injur- ed Pennsylvania (miners are limited. At the last session of the legislature a labor amendment raising minimums from $@ to $7 a week and maximums from $12 to $15 wes defeated. Machinists Rally to Workers Party Hands Off China! Meeting DULUTH, Minn., July 27—At the last regulat meeting of the Interna- tional Association of Machinists, Lodge No. 274, the following resolu- tion was adopted: RESOLUTION “Resolved, that the U. S. govern- ment keep its hands off China and let the Chinese people run their own country; and be it further “Resolved, that we pledge our aid to the Soviet government of Russia, in its fight to protect the interests of the workers and oppressed people of the world.” Zenith Lodge No. 274, |. A. of M. Signed, Ingworth Erickson, Sec’y. Escape With $15,000 in Diamonds Two bandits held up F. Gins- berg, a jeweler, and Miss Cella Schre- ider, clerck, in the offices of the Ed- ward Kain company, in a loop build- ing and escaped with $15,000 worth of un 5 4 Leave Pier A, Battery, New York, at 9 A. M.— Return Before Midnight. NO collections on trip. These will be given to the first 400 comrades that qualify. The list must then be closed. fore, wait until the last minute, but perform the necessary service AT ONCE to make you eligible to the Daily Worker Builders’ Club. which will be erganized on this excursion. JOIN THE FOUR HUNDRED! - SIGN AND MAIL THE FOLLOWING BLANK AT ONCE! Please reserve a place for me on the Hudson River Excursion Worker , 1925 (Labor Day). Member of the Daily Worker Builders Club of New Vork in one or sell at least $6.00 worth of subscriptions secure at least $3.00 in donations help in office collect from news stands ihe heehee e eet ee eT Te ee ——— —— f NU U —— P „„ ee eee ee ee POINT Do not, there- — — — — — Branch. CTR ETE „„ „ „ „ „ ee eee 666600 Builders Reunion, MONDAY. L intend to qualify as a Charter (— — :!ẽ 23333 „ „ „ „ 60 0 6 6 6 0 0 a of tthe” 2243 “ *
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N om ae * * cha 5 "> a n N Menne ; 5 ae 1 122 *. the DAILY WORKEN PORLIEHING Co. . Washington Bird. Chicago, Tl. 1 5 { 2 4 | 1 Phone Monroe 4712 ernment is insisting on b 8405 ~~ SUBSCRIPTION RATES *| of the Washington By mail (in Chicago only): By mail (outside of Chicago): ag to stren $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6. 00 per year $3.50 six months e American $2.60 three months | $2. 00 three months Address all mail and make. out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, iMinois J. LOUIS ENGDAHL } Editors WILLIAM F. DUN NR f MORITZ J. LOEB Business Manager Entered as second-class mail September 21. 1923, at the post-office at Chi- . cago, itl, under the act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rates on application. Machine Guns for Radicals Whether advocacy of violence is illegal or not, depends on those who do the advocating. Communists are haled into court and in- dicted under criminal _syndicalist laws because they point out the inevitability of ‘violence in the overthrow of capitalism. But cap-' italist mouthpieces are free to advocate \ iolenee against the workers with impunity. Ihe latest capitalist prophet to raise his voiee in favor of the murder of radicals is Ralph M. Easley, chairman of the National Civic Federation. Not only does Mr. Easley propose that radical 200 publications be barred from the mails, but⸗ he urges the use of ma- e chine guns against extremist agitators.”” What angers the good and patriotic Mr. Easley is the progress being made by Communist ideas among the membership of the Amer ican Federation of Labor. In a speech before the hired stoolpigeons of the civic federation Easley praised the A. F. L. officials for their spltndid fight against Communism. But evidently Ralph believes that they need some help. He will supply the machine guns. The labor fakers will do their duty in expelling the radicals. Mr. Easley might do worse than read the story of the late czar of Russia’s little picnic 2 machine guns in St. Petersburg now Len- ingrag—in January 22, 1905. The czar won on that day without doupt. His machine guns mowed down the workers like corn stalks before a scythe. But he did not succeed in murdering all the workers. Today the czar is no more and the workers and peasants rule Russia. Easley may succeed in getting his machine guns into play against the American working class. Indeed this way of dealing with them is not an innovation: The industrial battlefields of the United States covers the bodies of many workers who fell before the gunfire of their capitalist enemies. But the issue is not settled by machine guns, Mr. Easley will learn if he does not know it now. The fight for the emancipation of the workers will go on until the ist class is defeated. There can be no other outcome. The Chicago Cloakmakers Reply to Sigman The rousing cheers with which the message of the New Vork membership of the I. L. G. W. U. which is fighting against the Czar- istic machine of Sigman-Perlstein and company was received last Saturday in the Workers Lyceum, shows that the struggle against re- action, corruption and downright treachery in the organization is not confined to New York City, but is reaching out into the section of the international union. Forced to secure a new hall at the elevent hour, due to the action of Sigman’s local tools in bringing pressure to bear on the managers ca * mene Hall to cancel the contract for the meeting, the re: presentatives of the New York Couneil of Action, can congratulate 7 the local members of the I. L. G. W. U. for coming out in great num bers to hear thé truth in spite of threats of dismissal from their jobs: The temper of the meeting was almost unanimously against Sig- man and for the left wing. It is true, there were a few people present who did not show much enthusiasm. They were sent there to cause trouble but quailed before the overwhelming anti-Sigman sentiment among the workers. The few questions those poor tools asked showed that they have no faith im the rank and file, but that they believe the unions are the property of the officials, to do with them as they see fit. The defeat of the unholy trinity: Sigman, Perlstein and Fein- berg is an accomplished fact in New York, job to be finished thruout the international. There is no doubt but the cloak and dressmakers in Chicago, who have suffered severely from the oppression of this trio will do their part in this work. Sig- man, Perlste* and Feinberg must go as a preliminary to reconstruct- ing the union for the purpose of fighting the bosses, rather than fight- ing for them as is the case under the present regime. . es 7 The Line-up in China The story printed elsewhere in this issue and written by Rey. Harry F. Ward, chairman of the American Civil Liberties Union and now in China, is an interesting account of the Shanghai events from one who is neither a Chinese nor a Communist—both known to be deeply interested in attaining the liberation of China from imperial- ist domination. Today's cables report that the Amalgamated Union of Com- merce, Labor and Education, mentioned by Ward as the organ of sistance to foreign imperialism, has been raided by Chinese troo commanded by Japanese agent General Chang Tso-Lin in evident si port of the treacherous Peking government headed by Tuan Chi-J the provisional president. The DAILY WORKER points out that the alignment of force are now more sharply and clearly differentiated than when the Rey Ward, mailed his story. On one side we find the forces of nationa liberation represented by the Kuomintang Party and the Canton South China government as factors on the national field, with the students, labor unions’ and small shopkeepers in the Amalgamatéd Union of Commerce, Labor and Education in the Shanghai area. On the side of capitalist imperialism we find not only the foreign troops and forces, but their bribed and ‘subsidized allies, chiefly the troops of Chang Tso-Lin from the north, the venal and vacillating Peking government plainly influenced by imperialist diplomats of the type of the American minister, MacMurry, and the ber of Commerce, Which Ward intimates much more interested in its capitalist protits than in national liberation. The sharpening of the struggle between these forces may, we point out, bring more clearly into relief the fact that Rev. Ward ab- scured—that the fight for national liberation may take the form of the struggle between labor and capital, for the reason that only the proletariat is a really revolutionary elass, willing to lead the fight and sacrifice to win—the historically rising class. — If the Irish Republicans bovcottedz spiritual establishments ‘ef, their bishops as well as they did the-tandlords, they would not be obliged to beg the pope for assistance. Now that William Jennings Bryan, has given a complete ex: position of his ignorance there should be no diftic ulty in electing him presdient. Anybody sending us the name and address of an important offi itical mass movement of the workers It now remains for the against the Chinese p as a friend of China. I cal maneuver the Am ists are trying to unt ing influence of the the Far East * es IV. The Political s the United 8 Since the late it * fundamental and have taken place in | stfucture, class com rélations in the United ican capitalism has power. Finance 1 8 ¥ tarlat. The tendency to ling process which took ace dur the war thru the Isos, to a certain > tent, of their privileged posit a by the aristocracy of labor an- * € ie im-. provement of the 8 * skilled workers. The ari | tion of, the farmers, the inf ar masses of Negroes into ind oats ae a the great diminution of atic from Europe, have made the A rica working class more home n. : creating the basis for a st K er more conscious struggle of . ers against the capitalists. — ; creased centralization and pow the American government on tremendous increase of the gov mental bureaucracy, during lowing the late imperialist we compared with the pre-war period, its continual brutal tmterference in class struggle in favor of the cap - italists and against the W. gradually instilling political néss into the minds of the masses and is creating the basis for a great po- st the capitalists. 8 2. The period of jubilation and eon fidence in the camps of the cap-' ithlists, following the election of Cool- | idge to the presidency, has 1. evaporated. Instead of indus . perity, the country is a ach f period of depression. Conflicts and friction within the capitalist * again coming to the surface. 1 the internal n. in the the republican and ¢ | of workers patent ot the im resistance to ; . les iE present situation in the Work- prs Party of Ameriga raises the following principle problem for solu- tion: The Workers Party faces serious dangers from its right wing, the non- Communist Lore tendency, which tends to undermine. the. Communist basis of the party. Another impediment te. the. growth of the party and its becoming a real Bolshevik Party is its present social- democratic and federation form of or- ganization. The sooner the party cen- tralized its apparatus and, completely reorganizes on, the shop nu lei basis, the better for its growth an develop- ment. Organized. factionalism is a third sore in the body of the party. It not only de ralizes the membership but actually; angers the integrity and ity of party. ; Pa failure of a large percentage o our proletarian members to join th trade utions and to actively partic j pate in Communist work in these 1 ; * 2 a at vention. = ainst the most dangerous manifesta- s of such organized factionalism. .Reorganize the party on the — nuclei basis and centralize its apparatus and leadership in accord with the organization letter of the C. I. and the special resolution of the C. B. O: to de submitted to the con. d. Educate the party and its lead- ership in the fundamentals of a Leninism Widen the political outlook of Fin party. Educate and train the | bor party. 1 to the understanding that the working class must be the leader in needs :4p4 WOR the struggle against every form of itical s labor | C@Ritalist oppression and that the . 3 must Bagh meron! s | per “en epees e * ¥, > no „ r 3 > lal al = ee ake — OS ane: The F ity Press. Fis a. The existing daily organs of the party must be developed into real mass organs of the American workers. b. Special measures shall be adopt- ed to insure a completely central ized party control (editorial, owner- ship, etc.) over all party publications. c. Special care shall be taken to develop theoretical and scientific pub- lications. AH efforts shall be made to speed up the publication of Lenin’s works. /p Building the Party. i a. The incoming central executive committee shall continue and intensi- fy systematic campaign to recruit new members from among the workers in- to the party. b. There shall be developed a real organization department to extend and strengthen the party organization. e. In the United States our party be led by followers of the Lore tend- propaganda organ, no federation auto- , full and complete control of the group will be permitted on the next \actior a Cern the iene and principles e ganized factions; that 1 recogn ä E. L. and build Communi | — wih it, — | I ab ‘Compaign for a Lab ) nr 12 — P: 2 ee rarahly el N ces, 188 4 R * n . ee point int ay 13 America ¢% Ag. ap? — ä 2 1 a * 3 * ‘ a > _ 1 q sto A 7 ers conf erenge, £0 progressit al. scans: cans 5 class and the working interests both to the class interests of the bie. copay as well as to the class i of the working class which forces them to vacilate between the bourgegisie and the proletariat, between a political alliance with the bourgeogie- or a political alliance with the proletariat. This vacillation of the petty bouregoisie manifested itself in the opposition of the LaFollette move- ment to the old capitalist.parties on the one hand, and to the labor party movement on the other hand, prior to and during the last presidential elec. tions, etc., and in the break up of the conference for progressive political ac. tion over the labor party issue; () The insincerity and treachery of the social ist party in the labor party movement: | (6) The role of the Workers Party a: Trade Union Work. rl / Na e, and support the tal n opwosi- bloc in the pag ai : fOr against the * bureucracy. I b. a ne in mer ty. ——— between class ang the contradiction of its class me * — 2 8 — 5 * 5 . 0 | 8 * 2 * — J 4 > 5 . ; 7 4 x 5 2 * 2 — + * ay “ 2 — — 8 4 * F 1 5 mies” 9 J. 1