Daily Worker
August 5, 1925
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7 a 880 e a 7 i 5 Tai aa 4 4 1 NEW YORK EDITION W 3 pa * 2 ee "eT iD 1. n, 7 7 7 PE SORE ription Kates: aii 4 * 2 2 * tins . higher, ee 1 INN 2 saad ‘es y International Press Correspondence.) 2. W. 8. S. S. R., July 17—(By ‘Mail )—Comrade Micha ze has ‘published an article in the Pravda entitled“ el, in which amongst other things, he says: ae phe awakening interest of wide circles of workers in Europ 4. in the work of reconstruction in Soviet Russia is one of the most nificant phenomena of the present times The many i ions which were recently *— | our guests and who represented {an possible shadés of political Aran The striking. members of the Amal- gamated Clothing ‘Workers Union will | continue to picket the struck plant of | the International Tailoring company and the J. L. Taylor company exactly |as they have during the past five i / Gompers » supported La Fol- weeks, it was announced at the strike z opinion, are proof of a profound my. under pressure from the rank | meeting yesterday. Judge Hugo Pam’s | psychological c e which has Coolidge’s prosperity prom-| decision, upholding the constitutional. | | taken place in the West Hurope- ‘oom 7 of unemployment | ity of the I!linois anti-injunction law, an wor masses. but restraining certain forms of picketing, will not hinder the Amal- gamated strikers. . The injunction was interpreted by Wiliam A. Cunnea to mean that only „violent“ picketing is unlawful. The attorneys for the International Tailor- | ing company, however, declare they. will endeavor to prevent mass picket- ing as a result of the writ. Injunction Not Posted The International company is ob- viously disappointed that all forms of picketing were not outlawed by Pam. No copies of the injunction have as yet been posted on the walls of the struck building at 847 West Jackson, the usual procedure when an injunc- tion is issued. It is reported that the International is contemplating ignor- with other factors helped the G. O. P. to bury the LaFollette campaign. At the present time there is little en- thusiasm among the workers for a break with the democratic and repub- lican parties. The elections are away off and while the capitalist par- ties are preparing their fences the The working masses seem ever more their confidence in th ture of affairs in the Soviet Union presented to them by the bourgeois and social democratic press. The truth begins to be victorious. To See for Themselves. “The working class feels that the ] .ctual situation in the Soviet Union 8 very different from what they have been informed. However, they do not dare to take the word of the all too few friends who are prepared to tell them the real truth. Therefore, they have decided to form their own opinions upon the basis of their own observations. “A few days ago we parted from the Franco-Belgian delegation. At workers are apathetic. But this ap- athy is only short lived, and the ukase of the labor bureaucracy against in- dependent working class political ac- tion will prove as effective as old , King Canute’s order to the tide. . ~ * : Scoring Communists. | Commendation for denouncing ‘the Communist and condemnation for giv- ing verbal support to the Amatiga- mated Clothing Workers in its strike against the International Tailoring company, was the double barreied massage sent by President William Green, of the American Federation of Labor to the Chicago central body. barrage aganst Mussolini con- ducted Wy the Chicago Tribune still continues. What the devoted Trib is now publishing appeared many times in the DAILY WORKER. * mer . er ewer sa 2 * > co ve pr enor * * 1 Defeats, =. the. Federation by the DAILY Won K 8 N ee of the seria ER, the Trade Union Educational 7 nion know t our successes Will] League and the Commas in the “ive per 3 the 8 1 § ATTEND WORKERS’ - awaken the spirit of common joy and | locals. 5 a democracy eo andes e sta e proletarian pride, and that our defici-| As the G surmised, the —_ those gentlemen so much as the ANCE is fighting for civiliza- tion in Morocco. At least this is what Premier Painleve tells us. And no less a person that Karl Von Wieg- ahd, German correspondent for the Hearst papers reinforces Painleve's agent Rothbart that picketing would continue exactly as it has in the past. Strike Benefits Paid The J. L. Taylor company; which is owned by the same employers, but separately incorporated, will apply for FIGHT, SAYS * CON iC, ” VILNIS WINS POPULARITY ES of, ENGDAHL AND DUNNE SPEAK Four thousand workers attended the fourth annual workers’ press picnic encies and mistakes will not awaken a malicious pleasure in them, but honeat sympathy and the fraternal wish to help us. “The workers of the Boviet Union cam with an easy conscience show attack made on them by Fitzpatrick and Nockels at the same time as the resolution against the United Garment Workers was passed, had for its ob- ject a form of protection against the wrath of Green for oppvostng what statement. When France was fight-|an injunction on Thursday and the at Riverview picnic. grove, Belmont and Western Ave., Sunday, to enjoy [the German workers many tmportant Jeff Peters of O. Henry’s story would ing against Germany both Germany | fight must be waged in court all over the damcing; games and music; and to listen to the speeches of J. Louis Eng- ae , 88 * 8 2 1 8 sin = gored 1 5 S, 8Ca ery conducted respect- and France were fighting for civiliza- again it is rumoured, tion. So far, Abd-ElKrim only claims to be fighting for the freedom of his country from French and Spanish rule. And despite Arthur Brisbane’s airplanes, Krim seems to be doing nicely. a * * * HE British tories are not at all dependents, and 58.00 to single NEW YORK CITY, Aug. 3—The prizes, which were a percentage of ENEMIES 11 THE BOSS: ced the United Garment Workers as \ pleased over the turn taken by strikers. resignations of Feinberg and Peri- the receipts. 6 ' a scab organization, and not only that 0 the coal strike negotiations. Baldwin Cunnea was in conferénce with the stein from the Joint Board were ARREST | EFT WINGERS but he deplored the general deteriora- bought peace at too dear a price they claim. The addition to the tax- ation burden is not what bothers moral effect of the government being forced to surrender to the might of the workers. Should the workers get the idea into their heads that they possess the power to make. all the British capitalists bite the qust, the British tories would not have to wor- ry about | exes. * — * HE. crown prince of Germany (he still carries the title), would like to tour the world like the prince of Wales, hut he can't For one thing he hasn't got as much money as the But the strikers know that their battle for union conditions will not be won or lost in any court, and they are determined to picket in the face of court orders or police clubs. The usual strike benefits were given out yesterday, $12.00 to strikers with Amalgamated officials yesterday as to the meaning of the injunction isstied by Judge Pam. Picketing is Lawful The verbal decision rendered by Judge Pam stated, “Now, gentlemen, you have my opinion. I am upholding the constitutionality of the Act (Cuth- bertson anti-injunction act.) I will re- fuse to grant any injunction in this case which prohibits picketing in it- self. I recognize the right of labor to peaceful picketing and persuasion.” Lawyers for both the Amalgamated and the International presented to Judge Pam forms for the writ, and Pam did not use Cunnea’s form as his model, but amended the writ proposed (Continued on page 2) | by the employers. TWO WORKERS REPORTED DEAD IN WILKES- -BAR RE, PA., MINE BLAST Feinberg and Perlstein (Special to The Daily Worker) discussed this evening at Cooper Union, at a meeting of shop chairmen and shop committees called by the joint committee of action, of locals 25 9 and 22. The call for the meeting went out to the members on Friday, and they were urged to remember that the bat- tle is not yet won; that Feinberg and Perlstein are still vice-presidents of the union; that the joint board ma- chine is still in power and as corrupt as ever; and that until these things are changed and the expelled mem- bers of the union are re-instated, the fight must go on. The meeting tonight discussed the events of this past week and made plans for the future, especially with reference to the shops and the work- ers’ jobs. Arrest British Police in Thibet. Discuss Resignations of dahl and William F. Dunne, editors of the DAILY WORKER. Vimis, the Lithuanian Communist paper, carried off the Communist press popularity contest, with 14,020 votes, Rovnost Ludu coming second with 10,256 votes: and the Metal Trades + Worker taking the booby prize with 140 votes. Each vote cost one cent and there was much rivalry for the The picnic grove was decorated with red banners bearing slogans coined by Marx and Lenin, and posters with pictures of the Communist leaders. The banner of the South Slavic Fed- eration, with pictures fo Marx, Lenin and Ruthenberg, entitled “Our Lead- ers,” excited much comment. One of the noveities of the picnic was a wall newspaper. The large borders depicting workers and farm- ers hailing the red dawn of the Com- munist revolution, was painted by Lydia Gibson. The newspaper car- ried articles by worker correspondents describing the meaning of the work- ers’ press, and giving humorous quips at the expense of the bosses. Hun- dreds of those present took delight in pulling the long tail that was fastened to the caricature of William Jennings Bryan. The DAILY WORKER did not take part in the voting for the most — | POLIGE KNOW WHO ARE NEW YORK CITY, Aug. 3.—A fine of $10 each was imposed on Abra- ham Lupin, Anna Solomon, C. 8. Zimmerman and L. Greenberg who were arrested. ‘uly 22 in front of 164 West 25th street. These defendants were arraigned in Jefferson Market Court and the hearing in the case took three days. Altho Zimmerman was ar- rested because he urgéd an officer to arrest one of the thugs who was attacking the pickets, and altho the others had committed no offense and were simply peacefully picket- ing, all of them were found guilty of disorderly conduct and fined. — — — French Did Their Part. PEKING, Aug. 3. — Reports that France has not co-operated in protec- strength that is given to the German workers by the disruptive and oppor- (Continued on page 2) FRENCH DRIVE TO MATERIALIZE Natives Mass Troops Opposite to Quezaan PARIS, France, Aug. 3—Riffians ac messing around Ouezzan, sixty miles northeast oi Fes, Maroccan cap- ital, to repel any attack of the Euro- pean invaders in that sector. The French have been bringing up troops and heavy artillery. The long heralded attack on the Moroceans, which the French boasted | would drive the Riffians to destruc- | tion, has not materfalizéd. The war | office announces that the drive will begin when the heat of summer has passed. However, it is known that the Spa- nish habe not yet signed an agree- | ment to aid a proposed French attack ably under the banner and label of the American Federation of Labor. Fitz Said Wright was Right Prior to the reading of the commun- ication from president Green, delegate Lichinstein, of Painters No. 275, creat- ed a mild sensation when he denoun tion of trade unionism, by some international unions. He in- stanced cases where labor leaders deliberately broke strikes on their own members. Perhaps he was referring to Berry of the printing pressmen. What ever (Continued on page 2) | AUSTRIAN GOVERNMENT REFUSES RAILWAYMEN RIGHT TO VISIT SOVIET as exemplified MOSCOW, U. s. s. R., July 17.— | (By Mail.) — Yesterday's report upon the arrival of a delegation of Austrian ‘railway workers in Kiev is incorrect, Actually it is known that the Austrian government re- fuses the permission to leave the country to the Austrian railwaymen OURGA, Mongolia, Aug. 3.—Three| Popular newspaper, as forty per cent] tion of foreigners in China are untrue, to amy, real extent, and England has who have upon their own initiative . WILKES BARRE, Pa. A r members of the British military po-] Of the receipts went to the Com- the French Minister declared in a made it understood that she frowns | formed themselves into a party of 1 a., Aug. 3.— Two men were reported dead and seven-] ice in Thibet have been arrested for munist English «daily, and it was statement today. He said the policy on any maneuver that would esta-| fifty to use their holidays for a teen seriously burned as a result of an explosion of gas in the Bornance| exceeding their authority, according | taken for granted that the DAILYj{of his country in China was un- blish either France or Spain opposite} journey of study into the Soviet colliery of the Lehigh Valley Coal company today. to word from Lhasa. (Continued on page 2) changed. the English fortress of Gibralter. Onion. erican ; ; * The following resolution was unanimously adopted by the Parity Com- mission for submission to the National Convention of the Workers (Com- munist) Party to held August 21: i The Negro in American History. smoldering fire of slaye rebellion was one of the immediate forces, impelling the first centralization of the govern- ment of the capitalist republic—the Negro and the helped to turn the tide of war against the southern oligarchy. Thus the Ne- gro toiler played also his part in the consolidation of the capitalist re- public. * “Abolition,” however, did not free the Negro laborer from all of the im- pediments of chattel slavery. The de- who remained in a position of semi- slavery, politically disfranchised, vic- timized by super-exploitation and by exception laws. ODAY the majority (about 8,000, 000) of the Negro population con- sists of exploited farmers (mostly landless tenants} and agricultural la- labor to industrial labor in the heavy industries. Practically without ex- ception these are held by law and custom within the bounds of a labor caste, segregated, habitually _terror- ized, and exploited to a greater degree than any other section of the prole- tariat. Proletarian ann 0 * wal — and directly into the general struggles of the American working class. From the Negro industrial workers the lead- ership of the American Negro mass movement must come. The “Negro bourgeoisie” is but a petty-bourgeois section, small in num- —— — evolution consequently have been drawn | latter exception the Negro petty-bour- geoisie as a whole itself suffers under racial persecution. in chattel slavery the aspiration of the Negro was to attain the condition of “free labor“ —the wage slavery of the white worker. The remaining special inabilities of the Negro dis- HE Negro has played an important adoption of the constitution and the cade of “reconstruction” closed with borers, and has qa status little above Nevertheless, unlike the Negro ber and of little significance as ex-\ctimination in employment, exclusion role in American history. First his formation of the national army. a rapprochment between the northern] serfdom. About Lone-third (4,000,000) [rural population, a large portion ot] ploiters except insofar as they become] trom trade unions, inequality of pay, labor transformed the southern wilder-|} From being a passive center of the capitalist class and the defeated of the Negro population are residents this group, especially in northern in- [agents of the big (white) bourgeoisie} cause great masses of Negro workers ness into an empire. More than a score of heroic slave revolts enrich the for- gotten pages of American history. The bloody struggle of 1861, the. Negro was transformed in three short years into the black shock troops which southern landlords,’ who obtained a free hand to exploit the Negro masses to whom the land was not allotted and of cities, towns and industrial dis- tricts, where ther occupations range from sn. and miscellaneous dustrial centers, has won the right to exercise the franchise. A’ number of them have come into the labor unions in the role of poisonous propagandists in reformist race movements or in capitalist political parties. With the even today ot regard the position of the white worker in industry as one (Continued on page 6.) : We di not ex Mussolini merely — 7 — the moment we are greeting a numer- The letter was read to the delegates | becaus 4 of the. methods he uses to id the injunction’ until A 83 „ ous German delegation which con- attending last Sundays meeting of | man his dictatorship. It's the be taken, or a test case be taken to = me, A sists exclusively of workers from the] the federation, | rship of any other class but ree n — ’ shops. This fact is sufficient to in-] The Chicago Federation of Labor thge working class that we are op- Picket Is Arrested * ras sure them the warmest possible| took the position that the action of eae: poe And when somebody rises One more . bean mad 185 oR ae f ‘\|greeting in all parts of the Soviet the United Garment Workers in re- : eed are everything but Tony Goliotti, a icket, bei ke t 1 Union, quite apart from their politi- cruiting strikebreakers for the inter- I | 8 3 to the jail oe several 2 en his né — * cal opinions. They can be sure that national Tailoring company, against ' time claim 8 2 : . | Mot the smallest detal of our life and ike f im | lease ‘on $400.00 boat: § wal . hidden ben. a — 4 wma __| |Pomesnei is ‘an the 2 bt ca 4 — — 2 * 9 1133 — » a ee oe | 3 a a 8 Sev! s : erer
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British Using Rifles, Killing Four = 1 Yesterday, when Chinese workers at Nanking demanded the wages due them from the International Export Company, a British concern, they were prov- * oked by clubbing and insults anu finully ared upon by Beitish with rifles, killing four Chin- ese. One Britisher was also killed in the melee. Students then began to round up British thruout the city, capturing one and taking him to the university. while the others fled to the refuge of foreign warships. American blue- jackets from the U. S. gunboats land- ed to post a guard over foreign prop- erties. Food and water are being cut off from the British by the Chinese boy- cott thrnout all Chinese ports. Soviet Unionists Arrive at Shanghai. A delegation of five from the All- Russian Trade Union Council arrived here in response to the invitation from the All-China Federation of Trade Unions to investigate the Shanghai strike situation. The head of the del- egation, addressing a meeting of Shanghai unionists, greeted them i the name of the Red International o Labor Unions and declared that t workers and peasants of Soviet Rub- sia are deeply interested in the condi- tions of the Chinese workers and peasants. , The indignation of the Chinese peo- ple is increasing at the continued de- ception and slighting of the Chinese by the foreign diplomats. They are asking why the original report of the diplomatic commission which investi- gated the Shanghai massacre was sup- pressed, and are charging that Britain and other imperialist powers are now preparing a whitewash of the blood- thirsty municipal council in a 0 sea quiry. 7 Charge Whitewash of Shanghai Council, of the Chinese xl by the Peking be al inquiry now? Had such an inquiry started immediately after the deplorable affair in Shanghai it would have been very proper. Being a lawyer, I would have supported it. However, the diplomatic corps took a different course when it appointed a special commission of inquiry which went to Shanghai, investigated and re- ported to the diplomatic body. “The Chinese government was duly informed that the Italian and French ‘ministers and the American charge d’affaires would represent the inter- ested powers in dealing with us. The Chinese government agreed in this case. Suddenly the French minister declined to serve. The report was pigeonholed and the matter was al- lowed to drift while the Chinese in Shanghai suffered the great hardships. British Ignore Chinese Soverelgnity. “After more than a month Austen Chamberlain, British foreign minister, announced in the house of commons that a judicial inguiry would be in- stituted without even troubling to in- form the Chinese government regard- ing the change in the procedure. Nat- urally the Chinese are justified in ask- ing why this change was made.” While expressing admiration for the British people, Wang declares that the British government’s proposal for ju- dicial inquiry “outrages decency and justice,” and gives Great Britain the appearance of wishing to whitewash the Shanghai municipal council He inquires whether the report of the dip- lomatic commission was favorable or unfavorable to the council. “Can the government impose its will upon another without the latter’s con- sent?“ Mr. Wang demands. The other members of the Chinese high commis- sion assume a similar attitude. Anfu Party Meeting Disfavor. In spite of this pro-liberation senti- ment showing definitely in such high places, the Peking government is more and more arousing against it the hostility of millions of Chinese be- cause the provisional president, Tuan Chi-jul, is lining up with the imperial- ists and is supporting Chang Tso-lin im his efforts to suppress the Shang- hai strike, The political party of reaction among the Chinese, the Anfu clique, controls Tuan Chi-jui, a weak per- sonality, and it is claimed that the real ruler is Tsao Ju-lin, a crafty pol iticlan of the Anfu clique known all over the orient as Japan's best friend.” Speed Naval Armament. NORFOLK, Va., Aug. 3.—That the United States government is speed- ing its war preparations is shown by the arrival at the Norfolk navy yard of the battleship Texas, to un- dergo modernization. Several other large battleships will also be remod- eled. * WILLIAM J. BRYAN WAS MEMBER OF KU KLUXERS, IS CHARGE WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.—Was William Jennings Bryan a ku klux klansman? ) } This question was being asked here following reports from Ohio that klan chapters there had -held memorial services for him and car- ried banners praising him as “The greatest klansman.” Local klan officials sald they “thot” the commoner was a mem- ber, because they had “heard his name in councils,” but they were uncertain. Members of the Bryan family declined to discuss it. | AS WE SEE IT (Continued from page 1) prince, and another thing, the im- perial power of Germany is only hit- ting on one or two cylinders” while the British empire managed to jog along on four. There are thousands of German workers who would also like to travel around a bit but they cannot eat sauerkraut and pay tfavel- ing expenses at the same time. * 7 + 9 F there is any luck attending the crown prince, he should be thank- ful that he is not the son of the czar of Russia instead of the son of kaiser Wilhelm. He would now be perform- ing useful service to some part of the Soviet Union, by contribating-ta its fertility. No doubt the carcass, of a prince makes good fertilizer. The price was lucky that yellow social ists and not Bolshevists ruled the po- litical and economic organizations of. the workers when the revolution that sent his father to Holland broke in 1918. But perhaps the prince might live to see another revolution. fm does unless, he has a fleet p of legs, it is not likely that he will live to write its history. Russian Red Army Chief Greets German Workers’ Delegation (Continued from Page 1). tunist social democratic leadership and which cripples their revolution- ary energy and readiness to fight, will be destroyed. “The German comrades will see the working class of Soviet Russia which is building up its Soviet house with determination and decison. They will be convinced that despite the greatest cultural backwardness, despite the greatest material and technical difficulties, this work is not going badly. Show Both Good and Bad. “On several flelds of our economy, we have reached already the pre-war level, and in some cases we have passed it. In one or two years we hope to reach the pre-war level in our whole economy. Taking our poy- erty andl backwardness into consider- ation, and the opposition of the entire surrounding bourgeois world, this is no small success. “We shall show the German com- rades also the shady sides of the picture. There are quite a number of these with us. For instance, we are only just beginning to carry On, the work on the land properly, as earlier we had neither the strength nor the means, nor the time for it. Wehave now accumulated certain means and in the immediate future we hope to see a very great step forward in the villages also.“ Fascist Violence Overcomes Opponents Votes at Palermo ROME, Italy, Aug. 3.—The fascist party, following its usual policy of ruling over elections with bayonets and clubs, took the municipal elec- tions at Palermo altho the opposition had the overwhelming majority of the votes. The fascists took 50 seats by violence, and the opposition was al- lowed thirty. During the election the fascists at- tacked the headquarters of the opposi- tion and one of their number was seriously injured. —— — — ta _ ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Aug. 3.— Denial thag the Unked mine Work- ers of America had promised to ald in the general strike of the British miners, was made here on Thursday, while the British strike was stin expected, by Phil Murray, vice-presi- dent, and Thomas Kennedy, secret- ary-treasurer, of the U. M. W. of A. when asked about a report from Paris that the American Mine Work- ers’ Union had pledged itself to “carry out any action the Miners’ the International would ask.” Lewis, when asked, said he was sleepy and was going to bed. So much ror his interest in the British miners’ strike. The report from Paris on Tnhurs- day last quoted M. Vignez, secretary of the Miners’ International as an- nouncing such a pledge a been made in response to a cabi nt the U. M. W. of A. by Frank Hodges. This is now officially denied by Murray and Kennedy, who add that they “are unable to explain Mr. Hodge ’ remarks.” Evidently no re- ilance can be placed upon the offi- cials of the U. M. W. of A. xo sup- port the struggle of the Britisn or any other miners. ENDING OF HARD COAL SITTINGS SEEMS CERTAIN ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Aug. 3.— Early collapse of the conference be- tween representatives of the anthra- cite miners and operators, who have been meeting here for three weeks considering the miners’ demands for increased wages, was foreseen today as the result of the demand of John L. Lewis, international president of the Mine Workers, that the operators end their “shadow boxing” and send representatives empowered to act. Unofficial word reached here from Samuel D. Warriner, chairman of the operators’ committee, who is at Lan- caster, Pa., that the personnel of the operators’ changed. a This was regarded here as meaning that the conference would break up soon after the next session, scheduled for next Tuesday, reconvenes. Lewis is declared to be determined to end the sessions here unless the operators send representatives who will not mee 0 t. have to report back to higher officers. A strike call is certain to go out, it was reported here, in the event the negotiations are broken off. It is believed, however, that the federal government will step in and attempt to bring about a settlement immediat- ely if such action is taken. And Lewis, in that case, would again betray the miners by giving in, it is thot Union leaders have accused the operators of desiring a strike so that surplus coal stocks may be “worked off” at famine prices. The operators, however, have denied this and coun- tered the miners’ charged with a sug- gestion that the miners continue to operate the mines pending a decision of outside arbitration. : The present wage agreement will expire at the end of this month. At the present there appears no pro- spects of a new contract being signed before September 1. Thousands Attend Workers’ Press Picnic (Continued from Page 1) WORKER would have carried off first prize if entered. The complete list of the Communist papers taking part in the contest, and a number of votes cast for each is given below: Vilnis Rovnost Ludu Il Lavoratore 14,200 „10,256 1,916 Freiheit ...... * 3,354 Youhg Worker 2,850 Radnik 1,382 Young Comrade - 1,193 Uj Elore 1,548 Workers Monthly 1,468 R ; 1,025 Ny Tid 755 Faznana 515 Empros 541 Volkszeitung Ukrainian Daily News 590 500 Slovenia 465 0 Weandaanderece 455 Delnik ie 320 Amalgamationist (printing trade). sis. 295 Progressive Barber » 238 Progressive Building Trades . „ 189 Prog. Metal Trades Worker 140 „ „„. Notice! To allow for special meet- ings for election of delegates by branches and shop nuclei to the Chicago City Conven- tion, the City Central Com- mittee meeting of August 5th, Wednesday, is called off, Workers Party, Local Chicago, Martin Abern, Secretary. — an t fe | portion referring to the Comm stein to proceed, which ,Lichenstein did to the approval of a fae number of delegates who - applauded his peech. the old boilerplate that every stoo!- pigeon in the United States knows better than a craw-thumping bush babtist knows the old testament. But what he had to say about the Amal- gamated was plenty. Those who ex- pected Green to favor the entrance of the Amalgamated into the American Federation of Labor were over san- guine, if Green’s letter means wha it says. It frankly states that. the Chicago Federation of Labor was not acting in accordance with neither the letter or the spirit of the laws and usages of 8 4 na) Nk ge ai at? N aes * \ * rat 4 ‘od 7 9 * y . A 8 * * . n ‘ f N } ions bass i 5 * * N ‘ > . 1 5 * „ n Class Strug Standards Against g „ 1 Nonpartisan By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ng a ‘ * ple 1 I * 1 2 1 4 . / „ „ gle a ee 4 . 5 1 am the A. F. of L. when it supported a “dual and seceding union” against the United Garment Workers, which is affliated with the A. F. of L. The Amalgamated was r d admittance to the A. F. of L. Green continued, committee would not be — | and they can never return until they first make terms with Rickert and company. ; ms The Philadelphia convention, Green declared warned all bodies affiliated to the A. F. of L. to give no recogni- tion to the Amalgamated, «(Who char- tered the Amalgamated? Who gave them jurisdiction over certain work? How can the A. F. of L. recognize an organization it did not charter? These were some of the questions Green hurled at the Chicago, Federation of Labor. 3 1 1 , ¢ ¥ . * . rr N W. * N N 4 1411 . ö nw fa) lene a Mg ’ he U 5 0 ‘ . it * 7 ‘ . ; body that “dual and seceding organiza- tions can only retufn to the fold of the A. F. of L. after preliminary agree. ment with the officers of the union from which they seced During the discussion ch follow- ed reading the letter, delegate Lichen- stein again took the flodf and aroused the wrath of delegate Fitchie of the Milk Wagon Drivers’ ‘Union. Fitchie rose to a point of order ahd proceeded to make a speech, extoriating the language of delegate Liéhénstéin, who was talking for honest trade union- ism. 1. “We have been listetüng to this kind of talk for five yéars and it is about time it should Stop“ declared Fitchie, a giant hulk of a man who very rarely attends the sessions of the federation. While he was getting his anger off his chest a delegate shouted able section of the delegatés applaud- ed the suggestion. But this is just the way Fitchie could not be induced to sit down. His 250 pounds of beef and muscle hurtled madly aeross the floor inviting the hardy wight who urged him to resume a sitting posture to re- veal his identity. When’ the animated mountain of protoplasm was in front of the chairman’s tablè, with delegate Wright impeding his progress by hanging on to the tail of his coat, a hardy delegate rose and said: “I told you sit down.” This delegate a struc- tural iron warkers, appeared to have a soothing effect on tie angry Fitchie and he retired to his chair, having changed his mind about eathing up the delegates for lunch. Lichenstein, continued to talk and say things. He said that it was time scabbery in the American Federation of Labor died a violent death and his international union Would help to put the tin hat on it. He wore Amalga- mated labels on his clothes and he said the members of his local were heart and soul for the Amalgamated in the present strike.’ He also accused Rickert of selling hid label to convict labor contractors. Perhaps this may be news to the noted crusader against convict labor, Kate Richards O’Hare who is now on the payroll of the United Garment Workers and of the National Garment Manufacturers’ As- sociation. A Monocled Delegate Earlier in the discussion delegate Sorderberg of the Journeymen Tallors, a well dressed gentlemen (that’s what some of those fellows call each other) expressed his indiggation against the Amalgamated and that the only labels the A. F. of K recognized were those of the orgaiization and Rick- ert's outfit. Soderberg wore a monocle after the fashion of,the Duke of Corn- wall and Ellis Seatles, editor of the United Mine Worl Journal. Fitzpatrick hop rather lightly on “sit down.” and a consider- ODAY, the officialdom of Labor stands recommitted to its worm-eaten non-partisan political policy. In following LaFollette last rom its “reward our just a little enemies” position held for Gompers, who confined the working out o capitalist parties alone, fighting all attemtps of the workers at class political action. s But gone are the days when this policy of political class- collaboration can be put over with i death of Gompers! Gone with the passing of LaFollette! Gone with the wrecking of the hope, to Which American. labor has desperately clung, that something out of the Wall Street parties, especially tain some so-called “good men”. : Five million men and women, mostly workers, voted for the | LaFollette-Wheeler “progressive ticket” last year because they thought it was a break with the republican and demo- cratic parties. There was to be a new deal of some kind. Instead of building their own labor 7 the workers were duped into accepting this burlesque of a Today these workers stand disillusioned. the next move. They will not all go backward. The announcement of the A. F. of L. bureaucracy that it is going back into the camp of the capital quick on the heels of the declaration of LaFollette, Jr., that he wants to take the place of his father as republican senator moves are indications that their sors feel the masses will forget and return to their serfdom in the political citadels of the capitalist foe. from Wisconsin. Bo the American Federation of year it wandered years — ' W of interest to every worker. @ policy to the : 17 4 v The M 11 * Masters of pit * , mpunity. Gone with the it tht foes tie that make it two. pages of photographs from the 7 ey ae 3 LaFollettism With ent LaFollette 44 6 By MN UEL GOMEZ ‘Tie LaFolletteindvement without can come je they con- a | „** 2 5 political party, these timely and important factors are analyzed by the author. The Consolidation of the Revolution- ary Government of China By TANG SHIN SEE The Chinese situation most inter- estingly explained by one who has been a part of it. bourgeois third party. ey must make ist parties comes on- un: De® The whole political development since last November's election has sharpened the cleav tal in the arena of politics. The been presented by a third party has been s liam Green, the present head of the A. F. of L., a democrat like Sam Gompers before him, is trying vainly to call into being another such a twilight zone in the resurrection of the non-partisan policy. This political stra to the workers in the cities, and the poor farmers got their fill of it in the betrayals of the Nonpartisan League. The fight of the rank and file of the unions against class- collaboration policies, and their instinctive revolt against the expulsion, suspension or discipline of militants, is sufficient indication that the workers do not intend to readopt the de- in the oft-repeated labor tragedy of “The Lion and the Lamb”, in which the are supposed to lie down together in peace and harmony, ac- cording to the best precepts of the National Civic Federation. The experience has always been that the lamb has been found inside the lion; the workers betrayed ifort a] thers or thei. of L. exteulve coun grading role of meek lambs T. A. Rickert, head of the United Garment Workers of Amer- ica, that is leading the strikebreakers mated Clothing Workers’ strike in Chicago, are trying to do in the political struggle. Rickert’s scabbing in the industrial war now raging in chi- cago’s clothing industry, that received the condemnation of the Chicago Federation of Labor, is scabbery espoused by the A. F. of L.'s policy. Against the class-collaboration of their officials, the work- and poor farmers will raise the standards of the class struggle more vigorously than ever. Against the endorse- ment of good men” on the democratic and republican tickets labor party enlisting the broadest masses of those who toil, those whose sufferings are in- creased by the alliance of the labor bureaucracy with the the energetic fight for the capitalists. The readoption of its once discarded “non-partisan is a challenge to A ganized workers that will be answered . mer ranks in the class fight against all labor's oppressors, by the A. F. of L. officialdom, between labor and capi- light zone that might have away. WII 5—Twenty Years After : By HARRISON GEORGE The I. W. W. for twenty years and its future. A colorful and keen article on this once great organ- ization. . 6—Factory Committee Chairman Com- rade Shishkin By MOISSAYE OLGIN “A picture drawn from life,” in the world’s first workers’ government. A story from the shop in Russia, | written by an author whose Rus- sian stories have attracted nation- wide attention. 7—The Organic Com- position of Capital By KARL MARX tter to Engels for the first time : 8 this country. “It will Be recognized by all students of Marx- ian economics as a profoundly im- portant document” advises the in- troduction to this valuable feature. 8—Lewis Performs for typical of the political the Anthracite non-partisan political Miners 97 By ALEX REID The secretary of the Left Wing miners again so ably shows up the reaction and treachery of the lead- ership of the miners, and offers the remedy. 9_Opportunism With- in the Trade Union Left Wing By EARL R. BROWDER A serious and keen analysis of the forces at play to hinder revolution- never appealed e lion and the lamb to their exploit- || Matthew Woll, and il, \ ich also inctudés against the Amalga- 8 5 can or- quickly by a e of to Sorderberg stating that the ques- tion of labels was not at issue at all in the case. It was a question or scabbing, he said. Fitzpatrick, com- menting on Green’s reference to the history of the conflict between the two unions, said that the Chicago Fe- deration of Labor, obeyed the order of the A. F. of L. to disaffiliate 35,000 garment workers who broke with Rickert from the local body. “And we will continue to obey the orders of the American Federation of Labor and to follow its policy no matter where that policy may lead us.” he said. Delegates With Amatgamatea There was Do question where the majority of the delegates stood on the matter. They are against union strikebreaking. It is equally clear that the Amalgamated strikers would be unwise to rely much on the assist- ance they may expect to receive from officials like Fitzpatrick and Nockels who give lip service to the cause of honest trade unionism yet are willing to follow a rotten policy “no matter where it leads.“ Edward Nockels finally moved the previous question and Green’s letter was referred to the executive com mittee. Several local unions, having offices in the Federation Building were de- clared in arrears with rent, some of them for over three years. The delegates stood in silence for one minute in memory of John Sulli- van of the Flat Janitors’ Union, who died recently. Nomination for delegates to the next convention of the Illinois Federa. tion of Labor will be held at the next meeting and elections will take piace at the meeting after. “Pink haired” Gherles Wills, busi- ness manager of the Federation News, was silent last Sunday, It is reportea that the machinists panned him for his fulminations against the progress- ives in the union, KLAN MURDERED She Had Opposed K K K farm home Saturday shortly after ary progress. No worker should miss this most valuable article. 10—American Mineral Concessions in the Soviet Union Another step in the reconstruction. and progress of the workers’ gov- ernment in Russia. 1 Another Generous Installment of 'Fhe History of the Russian Communist Party By GREGORY ZINOVIEV CARTOONS By Fred Ellis, Maurice Becker, G. Piccoli and Billie Burke POEMS Sy Sara Bard Field, Henry George Weiss, Herschell Bek and E. Merrill Root WOMAN FOUND IN WELL, IS CHARGE and Been Threatened MATTOON, Ill, Aug. 3. — The ku klux klan here today was charged with attempting to coerce or persecute Miss Cora Stallman, 48, whose body was found in a cistern on her sister’s Miss Stallman had received a threat- tening message signed of 789 “GS thy Thomas. Seaman, brother-in-law of the dead woman, who found her body resting in a sitting position at the bottom of the cistern, revealed that he, Miss Stallman and others in the community who had not encouraged the klan, had recently received mys- terious messages purporting to come from the “invisible empire.” Belief that Miss Stallman, a gradu- ate of the University of Cincinnati, drowned herself because of fear in- spired by the messages, was dispelled when a coroner’s examination showed there was no water in the lungs. Neither were there any marks of violence. Vital organs were to be sent to the university of Illinois chemists at Urbana today to determine whether or not poison had been administered. Klansmen tried to disprove connec- Book Reviews Photopraghs International Review ns 25 Cents a Copy $2.00 a Year $1.25 Six Months THE WORKERS MONTHLY 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, III. For the enclosed @............ send the tion of their membership with the|| Workers Monthly for mos. to: apparent murder. i tae a ame 2 N Street For Rent: Front bedroom. Joe Tripp, 1306 Miller er State street, Chicago. i 4 f t
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TI . U — * r te. e and Interests of the Trade Unien Educational League North American Section of the RED INTERNATIONAL OF LABOR UNIONS . 1 L. v.) . . L.) | of Existing Unions, 0 Replacing Reactionary fl Severna . ice SF ~ +7. 3 : * —_— —— N 550 le 8 ‘ THE T. U. E. I. Represents the Left Wing ot the Labor Movement. ite Purpose Is to Strengthen the Labor Unions by Amaigam lon lon of the Unorganized, 15 Cias a Unified Program for the Tran py of Revolutionary Class Struggle for the Overthrowal of Capitaiiam and the e bala of a Workers’ and Farm- by Collaboration Policies with rmation ef the Unfons Into 74.4 & | | SOMETHING TO FIGHT FOR SEEN | IN SWOLLEN RAIL PROFITS; MAY RAISE WAGE AND STILL PROFIT By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press industrial Editor) How the railroads have been increasing their profits for stockholders by laying off men is shown in an analysis of the net income of 38 important roads for the first 5 months of 1925 by The Wall Street Journal. The figures show that a majority have increased their net return compared with 1924 and that two-thirds report a larger return on their stock than in either 1924 or 1923. Notable increases in net income for the first 5 month, compared with the same period of 1924 include: Santa Fe 40 per cent, Southern 13 per cent, Louisville and Nashville 32 per cent, + Missouri Pacific 23 per cent, New Haven 14 per cent, Chesapeake and Ohio 11 per cent, Great Northern 15 per cent, Norfolk and Western 49 per cent, Big Four 26 per cent, Lehigh Valley 28 per cent, Wabash 34 per cent, Nickel Plate 23 per cent, Dela- ware and Hudson 50 per cent and Pere Marquette 18 per cent increase. “Widows and Orphans” Get Fat Profits Indicated returns to common stock- holders for well-known roads compare with the actual returns in 1924 and 1925 as follows: 1925 1924 1923 Railroad Pet. Pet. Pet. Baltimore & Ohio ..... 8.8 9.2 15.4 Chesapeake & Ohio ...... 18.7 16.8 12.5 D. L. & W. 16.8 16.6 14.2 Lehigh Valley 16.6 12.0 14.2 New York Central ....,.10.6 12.9 16.9 Nickel Plate 15.8 14.2 15.1 Pennsylvania 7.4 7.6 9.0 Reading 20.2 17.6 25.8 Atlantic Coast Line. 23.1 19.3 18.6 Illinois Central ........... 11.7 12.4 18.5 Louisville & Nashville 13.1 — — f f ane aa ou Fe ; 8 15.4 15.4 Chicago and North western 61 42 49 Southern Pacific .......... 7.5 10.2 12.9 Union Pacifle 11.4 14.3 16.1 Combined Net Profit Gaining. The combined net profits of all the railroads of the country for the first five months of 1925 a mount to $345,- $80,340, a gain of approximately 320, 000,000 over the same period of 1924. The return on the heavily inflated property investment claimed by rail- road owners declined from 43.38 per cent to 4.27 per cent due to increase im the investment account in the in- terval. A profit of $72.73 per $100 share re- ported by the Michigan Central rail- road for 1924 shows the possibility of exorbitant returns to the owners in the present rate and wage structure of the railroad industry. The net charges amounted to $13,627,533 on $18,736,400 capital stock. Such earn- ings are the usual thing with Michi- gan Central. Last year stockholders’ profits amounted to $14,176,448, a re- turn of 75.7 per cent. The New York Central owns 317. 764,700 of this stock and the profits go to the New York Central capital- ists. Boston Mayor Asks Strikebreaker Cal to Trim Building Toilers BOSTON, Aug. 3.—Arbitration is already under way in the case of the Boston Street Carmen’s Union's dis- pute with the Boston elevated system tor wage increases from 72 to 95 cents an hour and arbitration’ is on the horizon in the building trades’ dis- pute between the Building Laborers’ Union,. demanding increases from 66 to 70 cents an hour to 77% and 80 cents and the Building Trades Em- ployers’ Association. The Boston elevated system was persuaded to follow the union’s arbi- tration program by an overwhelming strike vote and the new trend of the Building Trades Employers’ Associa- tion towards arbitration follows the declaration of the United Building Trades Council and the employers mach side agreed to lay before its con- Stituent organizations a proposal of Mayor Curley that the issues be thrashed out by a board of seven, three to come from the labor unions, three from the employers and the sev- enth man to be nn by Pres- dent Coolidge. Injunction Against Silk Union PATERSON, N. J., — (FP) — The Associated Silk Workers Union, inde- pendent, is contending with an in- |WOBS’ DUALIST CHICKENS COME HOME TO ROOST Work Both Ways SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The so- called emergency plan“ of the I. W. W. splitters has had as one of its main arguments, decentralization and local autonomy. This ery finds foot- hold in the existing confusion in the organization because ot the I. W. W. having not the slightest comprehen-! the conduct of organization. Decentralization and local autonomy of the split which 18 . a rible blow to the I, W struction workers wholly without an organ of defense against the attacks of the bosses upon wage and hour standards. No Idea of Democratic Centralization. Among those who ‘have fought against this tendency, without, how- ever, offering a real plan of democrat- ‘fie centralization, has been Edward E. Anderson, branch secretary in Sacra- mento of the Agricultural Workers’ Union. Lacking as they do construc- tive proposals, nevertheless Anderson gives in a recent bulletin, some good arguments against decentralization and wild-eyed local autonomy. He says in part: “It takes all of us organized into a compact, self-disciplined body to win out. If decentralization and local au- tonomy is what is wanted, why organ- ize at all—when the unorganized are already so admirably ‘decentralized’ and ‘locally autonomous?’ Decentral- ization carried to its logical conelu- sion is no organization. Is that what we want? 8 “Is it a wobbly tactic and tradition to run away from a job because condi- stay and fix them? Why not apply this dictum to the organization? Is the job too big? If so, how are we to organize the workers to carry on pro- duction after capitalism is gone?” Will They Learn from Experience? | This might be a poser for the de- centralizers, except for the fact that it is actually the tactic for wobbHes who chance to be members of the reaction- ary unions, craft or industrial, to de- sert it and try to make a “perfect and ideal” union of a handful of convinced rebels. So Communists in the I. W. W., who have uniformly led the fight against the “emergencyites” splitting away and making a dual union to the I. W. W., call attention to the I. W. W. as a whole that those members who are in the reactionary unions should take this lesson to heart and “stay and fix them,” Closed Union Books Help Bosses. I am a fur worker and being a non- union man, I am costantly struggling to keep up my existence. The bosses want me to work for half of the wage scale and also.more than eight hour a day. I was not granted a union book yet, altho I made an application more than a year ago. The former leader of the Furriers’ Union never considered organizing the non-union workers. Now that the clique of the yellow so- cialists were put out of office and replaced by progressive members sere is hope that they will succeed in junction against picketing, secured in |organizing a strong and real union fo: the Israel Kravitz Silk Co., now tied the chancery court in Jersey City by me benefit of the workers not for the ‘Kaufman group”. Sam. Lee. wy. sige he Poor Rule That Don’t LOS ANGELES, tions in Los Angeles. organization campaign in this city,” Conditions for workers, in gen- eral, are extremely bad in this city. cularly hard hit. Hours have bee. engthened. wages decreased, the workers speeded up and, in man wluces, the food, which is part of the wages, has been cut down either in quality or quantity or both. Usually, by this time of the year, the great influx of migratory workers, whé flock to Los Angeles to escape the rigors of a cold winter east, north and west, have left, and jobs are plentiful. The migratory workers have left, but jobs are at a premium. Jobs Few and Hard A dishwasher’s, bus-boy's or waiter's job sells at three, four and five dol- liars. There used to be eight, nine and ten-hour shifts, now it is ten, eleven and twelve hours of the worst kind of slavery. Wages have been reduced fifty cents to a dollar a day. Two dolars and a half for twelve hours work is the stan- dard for dishwashers, bus-boys and yardmen, and three dollar for waiters. At most of the places the shifts are split up, so that you work most of the day. What is true of the semi-skilled workers is also true of the highly-skil- led ones — the cooks. Their hours have been increased, wages decreased rom one to two dollars a day and work speeded up. Union Is Less Than a Joke. Union men and women are afraiJ to admit that they carry a unfon card. The few “Union houses” that there are, mostly in the vicinity of the Labor Temple. They display union cards, in the window as a matter of good business policy. Being “Union houses” they can always get a mo- ment’s notice. There Is No Union Scale. The “Union houses”, particularly | the. Leighton group, work the male- help only nine hours a day. But in these nine hours they are compelled 10 tions are poor, or is it our custom to ‘lo eighteen hours work. And the union sion of democratic centralization m ird in the window helps attract a great number of organized workers. The female workers fare even worse has therefore been in the foreground than the male-workers. There is a ter- state law which “protects” m the ney can only be ine Pacific coast region, 4 the lum- ‘hour shift. However in those eight ber, agricultural and general con- hours they must make as much profit ; for the boss as their more physically ‘able brother workers, who have more hours in which to do it. The pay, of course, is for eight hours. The Standard is sixteen dol- lars a week for forty-eight hours. This forty-eight hours is a relative matter. It depends on many factors: The kindness of the boss, the courage of the workers and the conscience of the authorities. The forty-eight hour law for women is violated as often as it is safe to do so, which is quite often. “Must Attract Trade.” One of the obligations of a wait ress or bus-girl is to attract and hold male trade. Waitresses and bus-girls must do this if they wish to hold their jobs. The bosses think that this is not work at all, rather a pleasur:: | diversion. However many sister-slaves | slavery. Imagine a married women, a mother of two or more children, who is forced to slave eight hours a day in order to keep maintain the small family. The husband and children have to be fed, the little apartment has to beswept cleaned. If they are fortunate to have a bungalow then there’s still more clean- mily wash. The children tear their clothes something scandalous. No matter how hard one patches and sews it is impossible to keep them decently dressed. In short there’s work a plenty. Same Everywhere When she comes to work she is allready tired. But now she has ‘to don a white apron, paint her face and smile pleasently at some gay yokel who is trying to date her up. But often it happens that the yokel is neither gay nor pleasant, but downright vul- gar and insulting. However she has to stand it all. Her job depends upon it. Besides, what’s the difference, it’s the same in all the other places. The cashier, or head-waiter or vaitress, is the boss’s stool-pigeon in the dining room, the chef in the kitchen. Workers distrust one another, grumble, but are afraid to voice their discontent. Now and then one, usual- ly a dishwasher, rebels, throws down his apron and tells them all to go to hell! Well, there are plenty of other dishwashers who will gladly take his job. Maddening Work For two years I have worked in the ktchen off and on. A man must be i‘on, or not have the slightest con- sderation for his physical or mental xs ell-being, to work cotinually for two sears in a kitchen. If the work is not or steel-mill it is equally as killing. "Ye FOR A UNION T J (By WORKER COR Calif— The culinary wo Since June 1 they have | This is taken from a news-item printed in the Press” June 26, titled “Red Hot Race for Cooks“ A Deliberate Lie. Tust this is a deliberate lic is known to every Worker in Los Angeles. But the culinary workers are pars IS, BEG WILL FIGHT TL in vety good condi- u conducting u successful > = u California “Labor Denen for der Cent Raise NEW ‘Yous. Aug. 3.—The 3,500 municipal neers, who were recent- ly — 3 in an attempt to se cure a twenty-five per cent increase in salary, have formed a union, the association of engineers of New York, and will re-stibmit their demands for better wages and working conditions to the city. The union, which is the largest sin- 2 aggregation of the profession in the world, was formed “for the ob- ject of securing improvement of sal- ary and working conditions.” At the first meeting several of the engineers called for an immediate strike if their demands are not granted. if you wash dishes you break your back. If you do yard-man’s work you dont know half the time where you are at, — they drive you so from one ithing to another until they drive you crazy. Any restaurant that does any sort of business is a mad house. In Los Angeles there are two restaurants, owned by ‘the same people, which sport the name “Mad House.” I worked in both. They merit the name. But * them. have told me that this is the most | unpleasant and hardest part of their ing to be done. Then there is the fa- } bosses have as strenuous as that of a coal mine what is true of them is also true of ell the other restaurants. Those places which display union cards are the vorst of all. | ae of the nature of tho work restaurants, particularly in the — foul air —grease and filth everywhere — back- breaking, brain- — long hours rotten iges and general atmosphere of iness. Any one who works hort time in a kitchen has his es shattered, torn to pieces, a nt na ve does not — his Jer! 5 ear of slavery I have n the kitchen except chet. Yet I never re- Tost a job. Whether it 1 is as cook pr pot-washer, what's the difference? kill you anyway. But I am not an exception. The mapority of workers feel the same way about it, Most of us get sick of 2 job before. we even start wort. We know what’s in store for us, and only the direst necessity forces us to remain at a job for more than se- veral weeks. Two or three months is a considerable, period of time. Six months is long, much to long. There is not a group of workers who could be got to strike as easily as the culinary workers. Half the time they are striking anyway! They have so many grievances they could enum- rate any number you please in their sleep. A determined drive to organize these so terrible exploited slaves! A call to battle! _A strike, a real strike! How it would gladden their starved hearts! Fight? We would fight like hell! What do we care, can things be worse than they are? Have we anything to lose? Only show. us how. Organize Lead! But it is useless to expect the fake to do anything for us. If anyone to them that the cplinary workers wish to fight the besses they would ru into their little holes and shiver wit: fright. * “Pight the * sible. The bos — * That's impos es are organized. ‘Th: bney, they ure strong We can only bee them hey are kind enough us a little something. have to get along as We are weak. for favors. If they will grant If not we will best we can.“ “Then what do we need the union for?” “The union nikes us strong!” “The union fakes us strong.” But first we must organize something that will functiin like a union. There's a tremendous amount of or- ganizational wok to be done in Los Angeles. But p group of workers need it more thin the culinary work- ers. The classfonscious, intelligent workers must lei the way, the masses will follow. I kn@w them. I know their temper well. AI first it may be dif- ficult, but once ey are started they will push beyonf all the other work- ers. A allenge. The commun s must organize a nucleus in each®f the local unions, cooks, waiters, Waitresses and start the necessary Never have culinary workers ex- 548, Chicago, continue to battle against me AEE. ; - Woe TIONARIES SHOE CORPORATIO. BARBE AN REA e | _NECESSIT — Support Officials i in 7:30 woe are organized, and these are Closing F ight From 60 NS CONSOLIDATE F MAKING UNION AMALGAMATION 4 ; MAKE BIG PROFIT 5 ah au — BOSTON, Mass., August 3. Consolidation of shoe companies into large corporations should lead to easier organization of the 215,000 shoe workers nited States. So far, however, only about 20 per cent of the shoe almost wholly in the small factories. 75 per cent of-all workers are employed in one-fifth of all factories, producing 65 to 75 per cent of all shoes made. Good Profit in Golden Rule. The Endicott Johnson corporation, one of the two largest manufacturers shows gross sales of $32,652,325 for the Irst six months of 1925. After allowing for all possible deductions this $36,000,000 corpofgtion still has a net profit of $1,970,022 over taxes dividends and employes’ profit-shar- ing. ss The progressive barbers of Local the reactionary machine. Despite sluggings and expulsions, they have driven the officialdom into a croner where, to save itself, it has had to make a show of fight against the bosses. But the progressives are de- termined that it shall be a real fight and not a sham battle. Therefofe, they have issued the following This concern, with and tanneries at Endicott City., New York, turns pairs of shoes a day. circular to all barbers of Chicago: | Walk Out of Barber Shops at 7. 30 p. M. After a long fought battle the pro- gressives in Local 548 have succeeded in obtaining a universal demand for 7:30 p. m. closing. “This battle has not been without ‘asualties. As a result seven of the leading progressives, Joseph Giganti, A. D. Albright, I. Eitingon. A. Knoph B. Polk, Wm. Wolkowsky and Paul Petras stand fined and suspended from Local 548 by action of the internation. al officials for having initiated the 7 o'clock closing movement and other progressive measures in Chicago. “Our local officials have fought against earlier closing very bitterly. Now, all at once, they are ordering all union barbers to quit work at 7:30 p. m., in order to cover their former discrepancy. “The Chicago progressive barbers urge all union barbers in the city to comply with the order. Quit work at 7:30 regardless of what the boss says! Report at union headquarters all violation of the order and see that each case reported is taken care of. The progressives demand a strike in every shop where the bosses refuse to release the men at the appointed hour. factorias and Jo out It sells whdle- | shops. The head of the company calls himself “Golden Rule Johnson,” and opposes unionism by so-called welfare méasures in his company towns. Another Consolidation. The International Shoe Co. is a $40,000,000 corporation with 36 or more factories, 22 in Missouri, seven in Illinois, one in Kentucky and a sub- sidiary, W. H. McElwgin Co., having six factories in New Hampshire. The Shoe Specialty Mfg. Co. of St. Louis is a $25,000,000 branch of the Interna- tional. The International is à consolidation of numerous smaller companies ac- quired from 1912 on. The company controls tanneries as well as shoe fac- tories and owns five realty companies. Its net sales in 1924 were $110,240,651 and its subsidiaries’ sales were 544, 517,840. It had over $7,000,000 sur- plus over all dividends and expenses. The Shoe Workers’ Protective Union claims some organization in several International factories. Brown Shoe Co. its capitalized for $16,000,000. It makes 40,000 pairs of shoes daily and has factories in Mis- souri and Illinois. There are a num- ber of five to ten million dollar com- panies making shoes; over 200 fac- tories whose product is worth more than a million dollars. According to Sanford E. Thompson’s figures quoted by the Labor Bureau, Inc., there is much waste in shoe manufacturing. The price of shoes could be cut 21 per cent, he says, by eliminating wastes incurred by workers waiting for materials and by receiving poor “We wish to warn our local mem- bership that this calls for wholeheart- ed support to the officials, and fac- tional differences must not affect in any way your conduct as union men. On the contrary, wherever the officials show weakness or laxity the members must unitedly insist that the officials perform their duty. “The expelled progressives renew their pledge of loyalty to unionism, and place themselves at the disposal of. the union for active strike duty nson ee dies, cutters and other sale, to retail stores and thru its own | space. materials. The labor cost of a pair of shoes is under $1. Controls Raw Material. But the dominating factor in the shoe industry is the United Shoe corporation, a $75,000,000 concern which supplies shoe manufac- turing machinery and shoe findings, or accessories, of all sorts. This cor- if a strike should. occur, or any other service they can possibly render. (Signed) Chicago Progressive Barbers “I, Eitingon, Secretary.” Getting a DAILY WORKER sub or two will make a better Communist of you. —— IL nenen — poration owns the United Shoe M chinery Co. of Maine and that of N York and the United Shoe of Belgium. Besides supplying lasts and essentials it has a substantial interest in the Turner Tanning Machinery C . and supplies tanners’ equipment. It operated 66 factories on January 1, 1924. Nine of them make shoe Bi 5 tanning machinery and the dane make eyelets, nails, tacks, It employs 4,800 men and has 4 over six million square feet floor Its patent rights alone are @z — } pected to net $400,000 in 1925, Controls Shoe Machinery, By refusing to sell much of its pat- enten machinery the United Shoe Ma- chinery corporation has a tremendous control over shoe production. It leases its machines to a large extent. It has a practical monopoly over the wood heel covering trade, an indis- pensible pant of women’s shoe manu facturing. = It has been an important influence in keeping the shoe industry highly 5 competitive by selling or leasing its Ri machinery to many small factories. It 5 is cutting down the export market ot i: American shoe factories by 8 * its machines to all parts ot the : Since the war, however, the cy toward consolidation has gained 2 . shoe industry and the profits ot Unit- ed Shoe Machinery continue as , as ever. LOS ANGELES, Calif., - you say to a big T. U. next Sunday? You workers Santa Monica (Freiheit) Beach * Sunday, August 9. There will be games, refreshments _ and luncheon—don’t forget the lunch- eon! And busses will leave and Mott—also Sixth and Los Angele at 8 a. m. Or, Yo? take any to the Santa Monica Pier and ne believe in signs—at station. Tickets by nn — — reren * rr e * The Little Red Library Convenient, pocket size booklets carrying important con- tributions to the literature of the revolutionary movement. 7" No. 1 Trade Unions in America by Wm, Z. Foster, Jas. p. Cannon, ard Ear! R. Brewder A brief summary of the derelop- ment of the American Jabor more- ment and the rise of the Left Wing within it. No. 2 A aplendid study of the methods of Lator burcaucracy to divert the workers from militant atruggle thru the Ti. &€ O. plan, insuranee schemes and workers’ cducation, Class Struggle 8. Class Collaboration by Ee R. Browder No. 3 The ſirat American publication of the original draft of the Communist Manifesto. A historical document and @ guide to Communist under- stunding. Principles of Communism by Frederick Engels Tranststion by Max Redacht No. 4 Tells what, when. where and how to develop this new and impor- tant phase of Communist activity. Worker Correspondents 10%, by Wm, F. Dunne off the press. “The Source of 1113 W. Washington Blvd. New Writers Are sure to develop with the growth of the Com- munist movement in this country. To these new writers the Little Red Library presents an unusual op- portunity. Original manuscripts on any subject, from a working class viewpoint will be given the closest attention. 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AOS Bens ye ren xm (iva fr om ‘PENNSYLVANIA RIVER GIVES UP 2 Mes 1 12 | rl’. 32 an Aon arly E. „ Next Month waco ot n . Hema — oe ion t 00 5 e sere t. beginnt 8 A W. Aug. 3.—D. C. f UNEMPLOYMENT OREAR OMS n — Gos abe e Cait, August 3— — 1114 1, with 2 Deal- ET Harl Kli * d Earl arene mer of, ome will 1 Haiwee reservoir at the head of the 7 | ers’ Protective Association. © The A N MONESSEN, Pa,, Aug. 3— For the meet as an organising convention in fhe Commun- , LONDON, Aug. 8 a labor | union's. — ie largely in the 5 may go on trial in Hamilton " 5 We Oklafoma City Se 6. Only membors Pa eech Los Angeles aqueduct was guarded by moating * as. str ‘he pide d re hy N. here carly in Septem-] Past two days the Monong renouncing an . are oli- it were ejected armed men as a result of a fight inci- | ba. : pe * near Chesterfield, a tary of the Miner’s Federation, said Seine, ben 1. present, but that the river has given up two victims. of the unemployment. One of the victims was identified en ees of slaying Madge Ob- “gecording to well-defined ization campaign that has for its goal the doubling of and of the stores, now gible. dent to the water rights controversy between the city of Los Angeles and Owens Valley land ownery. e Reichstag Communist 10 * rnational. Enslave Fitipinos Is Cry 7 * Pad | peer rin th which ; These reports followed private con- stant et ee SWAMPSCOTT, Mass., August 1 After several s Herr A detail of Los Angeles policemen] just beginning. He vied — has — 300, with which it res ferences held between local members stanten * Congressman Charles L. Underhill.of| Loebe ordered to eject | was patrolling the rim of the big res-] miners to conserve the e coal. He t the defense counsel and Judge Fred | He has been out of work for a jong Massachusetts, in a conference with} the Communist Hoellein | srvoir under orders of city officiale,| industry because he said Mt was investigate Metal Dea! . = oe Nines. The judge was sald to have] time, and the last time he was seen | president Coolidge, has demanded the ‘ only to | who hai apparently beon informe} going to be theirs. ° : = 8 voiced a desire to take a vacation] was when he left for Pittsburgh te | establis ment of a naval and su force,” whi that the valley ranchers were plan- esas the Taited 8 [= ae : ine base ahd the enlargement of t the United States alien property 19 1 between August 15 and Sept. 1. But} , mar e ge being ning another demonstration similar p | 1 1 ook for work. the fortificatio t Hawaii. H : | repare For Imperialist War custodian has returned $6,453,979.97 1 9 at he would be ready to start the 9 cations o a wall. He re . to the recent seizure of the aqueduct Ameri al 1 ah trials carly next month The other victim was Jack Me commended that “we serve notice oa lik t hoadcates WASHINGTON, D. C., August 3.— assets to the erican Met com- iy 2 : Kay of Duquesne. He also was in | the Filipinos that they are without 9 More than 100 more warships and five| P yey: a corporation formed 15 Amer - A the ranks of the unemployed as he the slightest chance of obtaining free: read this issue DAILY more dirigibles is the demand of Capt.| ica by German metal interests, leaked 1 Write the story about your shop] was laid off of work at the ‘steel | dom.” Underhill has just réturned WORKER. Get a bundle for every meet-| J. k. Taussing, in an article in the] out here when the department of a i Order a bundle to distribute] mill there. 51 from the far east. me’, ing of your trade union local. | Journal of N. "Naval Institute. ; Fegg. ordered an investigation, 1 i} — — — n — Ry 5 7 3 f E “OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE BRITISH TRADE | “Who Is Who” in in the ' | i / ; JUNI ON DELEGATION TO SOVIET RUSSIA — 8 1 : y of the Copyright in the United States by the international: Publishers Co, 4 nnhunr SMITH, 1. b. Nineteen 3 5 * | years president Vorkshire Miners’. Fe- oS Pub- All Rights Reserved... . | , a 1 9 deration. President, Miners’ Federa- 8 5 i | ! Co. Copyright by the Trades Union Congress General Councit in Great Britain. tion of Great Britain since 1921, Vice i . — — — president, 1907. Served on several 4 Area under cultivation. Cultivated area in millions of dessiatins. „cells“ and “centres.” And this education in the advantages of | oval commissions, President. Inter- [ C ontinued from Yesterday’. S Daily Worker). Region. 1013 . 102: %- collective production has less to contend with in Russian peas-natlenal Miners’ Committee. Member ant life, which still retains much of its medieval communal char- | sounty. council and other-pubiie bodies * N ucter. Another powerful influence is force of circumstances. for many years. Member, perilament- } | SYNOPSIO—Pellewing the analysie of, industryeand trade. anti da ear. North-Eastern ...... 0.8 ae 0. The new Communities now starting in the ruined districts with-| ary committee, trades union congress, ae; red on in the Soviet Union, appearing in previous installments, the official we — * = 1 N ae out other resources than their own labor, fertile land, and a few} 1913-16, and general council, 1923-24. 9 report of the British Trade Union Delegation to Soviet Russia took up E „% e gs primitive tools, can only exist on a Communal basis. One such Appointed J. P. in 1918. Member, cen- ö a discussion of transport and agriculture. Finances as they have been A Ko dha Nh o dni 6.7 nied 1 4.5 Community with a Common table and all property in common] tra! committee, miners’ welfare and ; Central Agricultural. 2 “43 1 +s 8.4 was visited in Russian Moldavia, one of the worst ruined areas. | central committee, mining examining . developed by the workers’ and peasants’ government have also been taken Middle Volga ..... a 6.0 8.4 These people were struggling to get a bare living with the help board. up. The report, issued by the seven trade union leaders who visited Russia oe hipaa pa adn oe Ry * oe of a camel and a cow out of some of the richest land in Europe. | ~ “~~ to inform the British workers as to true conditions in the Soviet Union, 1 rate 69 51 72 Some of these were educated people, and the only thing wanted} BEN TILLETT, general secretary : continues today with a further discussion of agriculture. Yesterday’s in- . . 3.8 2.1 3.8 to make the Community not only prosperous but producing for 5 2 eg 2 ee i 0 ckers’ on which origina stallment showed that transport is steadily improving, and the report be! srw Steppes .. * Zo 25 export was a little capital or credit to eet S tractor. den d W Caueee Senn #4 ; ahowed that production is continually increasing, and the conditions of Tractors Laborers’ Union established in 1887. This shows a decrease in area of cultivation of nearly ee of trade wates: was 5 the workers improvin | Nene 6 9 movement Ee © 28 million dessiatines since pre-war, and an anticipation that The tractor is itself an instrument for creating such meth-| nationally. Contested several parlia- } F within five years cultivation will again be beyond pre-war in ods of co-operative and communal farming as must be adopted; mentary elections. Elected for North | 1905 1922 (Percentage of 1916) sent Peter, Paul, and Andrew to the tractor-drivers’ class at | M/ember of trades union congress gen- N Small holdings ..... 22.6 percent 21.4 per cent Region— 1922 1923 Odessa Jast winter, and this summer we got a tractor. Now, | eral council since 1922. Member of os Middle holdings .... 418 “ 66.2 8 oa 5 Peter sits on it and ‘b-r-r-r’ all the morning four hours out and] Parliamentary a trades - 4 Large holdings ..... 35.6 12.4 nn 77 four hours back — Paul sits on it and ‘b-r-r-r’ all the afternoon— union congress, 1892-04. ; 9 In Bessarabia, on the other hand, the large estates of Kirghiz 1 r 45.7 45.5 four hours out and four hours back—and Andrew sits on it and a : nobles. holdi der I ial t no brok | Siberia 78.8 87.1 ‘b-r-r-r’ all night.“ That is three furrows in the 24 hours, eight} JOHN TURNER. associated With es, holding under Imperial grants, were also broken up at 8 : R. S. F. S. MWM. 64.6 77.6 miles long each. socialist organizations since 1884. In- 7 the Revolution. But since then the country has been occupied g 1 — 1 =. Ukraine s 78.1 91.3 timate with founders and leaders of by Roumania, and large numbers of small and middle holders C 70.0 77.8 2 * which affected the most productive re ions, and the restriction South-East, which used to grow for export. An Ie Of the wt Ww pood to Russia in 1917. A pioneer of shop peri Wee: of cultivatior caused a she: wii tb ic of crops under War British demand would increase supply ae 2 b 3 ved land yields de aa N pe 2 poe 3 hours legislation and founder of Shop LTLoommunism, brought Russian agriculture to a condition ‘that (Percentage of 1920 % » ©» igh s). sible; — they would be a most profitable investment for coun- ..... a. eneral famine. By 1920 the area under cultivation Resien— 1921 1522 10928 tries with a surplus of capital and a deficit of food supply rl 1 2 ebe 8 men Fer cent. pre-war and in 1921 to 54 per cent. But ce . cocataets 112 98s OBST The Russian Go E 5 N 3 * . Lenin had already been preparing Communist opinion for the Producing (non-famine provinces). 103 114 11181 regt — oors Me ge BA — 5 ag moval ene trades antes Gan = _ necessity of a New Economic Policy. He saw that the peasant, South-East (non-famine provinces) 104 58 1 112 for improving breeds, dry farming, drainage works, and irriga- | ene! Poa Gt gh i „ FCC 75 53 orb 65 tion are under way. The estimates for the current year assign | 1921“ re, elected by congress each year 55 uo longer threatened with a restoration of a reactionary’ ‘Gov- to 1924 for period to September, 1025. co cee . R.S.F.S.R. ggg... 96 94 on 109 to the-financing of agriculture 62 million gold roubles, of which ‘ 5 ernment that would deprive him of the land itself, would no Ukraine (nqn-famine provinces)... 100 97 102 5 1 longer tolerate a revolutionary Government that deprived him ccc alen 95 107 35 millions go to raise the capital of the agricultural bank to : 3 of the fruits of his land. 6 Db ist 90 millions. Add to this 48 millions spent in relief and you find| JOHN BROMLEY, M. P. A pioneer i : ; ' Population and Stock “ek | that most of the proceeds of the agricultural tax are being rein- ae, ie teak Dae ko. bey By cern e eee The agricultural population of the Federation, which was Wann pointment as branch secretary of As- YY | on [164 each year until 1924, for term ‘ending the fruits of his land, but the vagtie tenure he had held under In the famine areas the number of: working horses is now 1 N 7 N E September, 1925. the Land Nationalization Act is now defiged in a manner éfftirely 50 per cent. of pre-war, cows 83 per cent., sheep 116 per cent., oT TTT eT lod n satisfactory to him. He is allowed t6 exploit his land as he and pigs 70 per cent. of the pre-war number. pe Pe b 4 A. A. PURCELL (enatrman of dele- pleases, to separate his holding from the community, to increase The loss of agricultural machines can only roughly esti- pr — 1 4 0 gation). Member, Furnishing Trades it within limits, and to hold it in perpetuity. He can lease it mated at about 50 per cent. Moreover, as the life of such ma- 4 e Union since 1891. Member, social de- for not more than six years and hire labor to work it within Chinery is normally only 15 years, much of it is now used up. 2 8 v Mahy Fenty ee limits. By these and other provisions of the Land Code, the The improvement in agriculture has created aygreat demand N 2 : — dor, Salford Borough,-Counclt: Ser atx State is guarded against the re-development of a landlord class, for agricultura} machinery and implements. The sales of ma- N : ed W 4 5 eee eee pens e i hn and the peasant is guaranteed all the liberty he wants in lising chinery by the Gosselsklad (a machinery-supply organization a 2m | 190 8 8 wan Sal- the land. of the Commissariat of Agriculture) have risen from 6 to 13 x 7 80 ford, 1910. Contested Coventry, 1923- a It will be seen that agriculture is being restored on con- million roubles. It is through supplying Russit with agricul- OF ‘ 8 0 12 24. Elected 1923. Successful arbitra- a F §. K ft, , tural machinery that British commerce would le conferring a N SZ; V tor in co-operative and other disputes i | | ventional lines, and that the Communists have had to renounce „ t benofit-on a hundred m Russian „. - — 4. — — f . 4 lization of their program of equalization of hold- gr va 8 , eras ~ | — Win ee any rapid rea ee N e ö ing new markets for over a million British unemployed. 11522 119235 5 union congress, 1919, re-elected each ings and of communal cultivation.’ It is hoped that co-operation The importance of Russian grain to the popitlation of Great 3 = |_|19 |24 year. Elected by trade union interna- / sanding. ‘The Briain lies not ont inthe immense snerense ot gupply pote EEL LL Tt ry ene ae oe nn ae . ane : N , . : resident. President at trades money tax, which has replaced the tithe in kind and the original pe tone hep, but also Hu the fact that this speritions of — 2 Norz.— The pre-war par value is adjusted for purpose of comparison. 3 congress. Vice-Chairman, gen- right of confiscation, is moreover proportioned, like an income ecrivg rings. | . eral council. Appointed delegate to i | tax, to the means of the peasant; and holders of less than ten The political importance of the scissors problem was that American labor convention, 1925. Ac- | a dessiatines are exempt. Methods of Agriculture as the “scissors” opened they forced apart the “clamp.” The — the delegation to Russia in | , . 2 j j , 5 Area Under Cultivation An investigation by an advisory delegate ct conditions in ae re e aa meee een ee FRED BRAMLEY (secretary to de- „ As a result of this re-orientation there has been an imme- the villages of the Ukdaine wheat-growing arf showed that economie control of prices and its subsidies to the co-operatives} !esation). Many years actively asso- ' diate revival of agriculture. nothing was now wanting but capital to prodipe an immense 80 as to reduce prices of manufactures and raise prices of agri- eiated with political and industrial 1 A comparison of the present total cultivated area with pre- increase in production. The ruined villages aid towns were cultural produce. The burden involved for the Budget is shown branches of the labor movement. Sev- “annoys eens if again repopulated and reconstructed and the fre-war area of 440 15 eral years full time lecturer on social war gives the following results:— sultivatic bei id) in b r ion d thereunder. As appears from the diagram the “scissors” have and economic subject in connection Area of U.S.S.R, eee * A 1 * y oes ay ss th us bie wy ve now been closed. Indeed the authorities had soon to reverse with “Clarion” newspaper. Formerly veor— (Millions of dess.) Lae metho vs * — an mF 0 2 t — on 5 3 engines, so to say, in order to check the momentum acquired. | organinzing secretary Furnishing „„. — — 97.5 very ow — age ot production in ussla 7 * 9 Trades Association. Appointed assist- VVVVVTVTTTTTTTTV 0 90.7 rate fertility. But the present conditions wou now admit of Crops in 1924 FE | | 192·⁊:)bhũ.—ꝛ̃ eee 63.5 cultivation by modern American methods. individualism 4 „ oo “0 0 1917; general secretary, 1923. Served 225 JJ ͤ „ ae of the peasant-owner, that received a great ulus from the (a) Flax.—The flax harvest for 1924 was good, being 74%4| en several avernbient eee e 4 A. sca maiaiaaarety : distribution of land at the Revolution, is to various in- million poods as against 5% million last year. Member of royal commission on na- . am The decrease by districts in cultivated area as between 1913 fluences. One such is the Communist edu | | tional health insurance and national val = and 1923 and the present rate of increase are shown below:— in the Red, eb. and through the N (To be continued tn sank issue) j debt commission. & : 0 8 @ results of the Revolution and the policy subsequently fol- wed of checking the acquisition of small and middle holdings ” : he As to the equalization of holdings, the following table shows ‘by. the kulak or large farmer: have been driven by pressure of taxation to sell both their new and old land to the kulaks. The ruin caused by the counter-revolutionary campaigns, war. area since the famine years of 1920 and 192122 2 area and extending itself at au annual rate greater than pre- Other statistics show the following rie in cultivated 89 81 AREA UNDER CULTIVATION * (99 ai? The following table gives the rate of increase since 1920, whieh shows that it is still slow in the . ota the if outside capital is to be obtained and used to the best advan- tage. Thus villages join together in special co-operatives to buy a tractor; and they then organize communal tillage to get the best use of it. One described the results somewhat thus: We Six thousand American tractors are to de delivered, mostly at Odessa, this winter; and 3,000 drivers will have been trained by this spring. The tractors plow at a rate of five roubles per dessiatine, whereas horse-plowing costs 80 roubles. The trac- Remained dockers’ general secretary until amalgamation to Transport and General Workers’ Union. Now secret- ary of Political and International De- partment of Amalgamated Union. socialist thought, such as William p Morris, Belfort Bax, and other pio- neers. Closely associated with prince Kropotkin from 1886 until his return
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SOI „„ Page Five NEGRO CHAMPION WIDELY READ BY RACE PRISONERS The American Negro Labor con- gress office has recently received three letters from Negro workers in 1 — stating that they had seen in the DAILY WORKER a notice of the launching of the Negro Champ ion and requesting sample copies. 1 Bi 10 show 4 PLAYING ON RACE PREJUDICES| a F. C. M., Worker Correspondent ‘NEW Yorn; Aug 3.—Below is a list of advertisements from the New York World. New Vork is a cosmopolitan community of dollar chasers, and | competition for profits is bitter. Good christian bourgeoisie, and good Hebrew employers ° who want plenty of gentile patronage are quite insistent | upon securing stenographers who can write business letters in harmony with | the New Testament: 3 and be- * — 1 e ns n stian POLICE SEARCHING FOR i Agency, ger Broad- BUILDERS AT WORK” THERE ARE BOOKS ON EVERY SUBJECT PHILADELPHIA, Pa., August 3.— The Young Workers League of — delphia will hold a protest mass meet- By y ger. GEORGE he working of America is certainly yo fom insured. Between the bosses and the labor fakers they ing against the Citizens’ Military — ration for imperialist wars. way, Suits 402 Ka | . One ot the letters stated: Training Camps and American im- cannot escape it. | hat ? —— at Mercantile Hall, 849 N. 0 sof, en refe f teferences: 2 LOVE NEST OF AMOROUS The American Federation of Labor W Do You Do with P amp hlets: “The way you have handled Paul Prankln St. on ˙ s . I 8 oe Crowe's cabo has with Me Sater Sp. m. t. — i 101 W. ,14th. * fite te 1 ot organized labor, in Never was there such a demand for Communist books and pamphlets explanation awakened many of the Comrade Yusem of the Young Wienke: STENOGRAPHERS, Mayer bookkeep- view of fact that the unions, un-] d there is today. Every mall brings letters from workers thruout the colored boys, and especially ex-sol- Com- _ ers W. 320: clerks, MILFORD, Pa., Av Aue. 3.—A United country for books on all phases of Communism. Workers whose curiosity diers, as to who their real champion ers League will act as chairman. rade H. Miller who was just Ln. creep from -the Citizens’ Military Camp for reading the Young W a will describe the harsh conditions treatment of the young worke ae Camp Meade, their militarization = their preparation for the great slau ters impending in the interests of the big business of this countr r. Comrade Wicks of the Workers Party will speak on “Militarism 2 85 American : Imperialism.” The American, the British, the Jap- anese capitalists look with greedy and jealous eyes upon the rich markets and fields of investment in China, in Africa, Asia, South America, and from this proceeds a mad race in arma- ments, in military training and prepa- The colonial peoples who are on the verge of revolt against foreign im- perialism must be enslaved by force of arms; the rival capitalist powers who are seeking the same markets for the surplus products they have wrung from the exploited workers at home must be crushed. And America stands out today as the foremost imperialist nation. The rich and arrogant American bour- geoisie is planning great imperialist slaughters for the hegemony of the world, and the C. M. T. C. are but a part of their preparations. The workers of Philadelphia should attend this meeting, and make of it a real mass demonstration against capi- talist militarism. Wisconsin Federation Adjourns. LAKE GENEVA, Wis., August 3.— Re-electing Henry Ohl, Jr., president, and J. J. Handley secretary-treasurer, the Wisconsin State Federation of Labor closed its 33rd annual conven- tion at Lake Geneva. The 1926 meet- ing will be held in Green Bay next July. Resolutions denouncing the prison labor system of the state (mak- ing goods to compete with free labor in the open market), advocating great- er trade union demand for union label goods and censuring the university re- ts for accepting a donation from e Rockefeller Foundation featured the convention. t Fell from Truck; Speaks. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 3.—Phys- icians are closely watching the condi- tion today of Junior Towne, 6, deaf and dumb since birth, whose fall from a truck late yesterday is believed to have restored his hearing. The boy’s skull was fractured. Doctors say if symptoms at the hospital last night continue, the lad’s hearing probably will return and he may speak. Getting a DAILY WORKER sub or two will make a better Agency, 132 Nassau t cam, One: free Tgaistration. Lamb 121 NOGRAPHER * ex- t A teers National. pis. Exchange, Sect oc ZN $18. 'STRNOGRAPHERS: Abe () be- ginner, $80 (1 lroad e ri- | ence, .. month: (i) “eier! tenes. 1 Century, Agency, B’way, STENOGRAPHER - ante KEE DPE ER, pleasant ence — ferred, 88 87 518.440 e Loomis, National Employment *.— 4 — 1928 ind 4 STENOGRAPHER: office .worker; experi- 1 . to help; congenial per- Manufacturer. ess , 41, orld. re wk STENOG ern at, 1 Chris- tian; typist, $ BP onan Y. Agency, 358 Fulton 8 3 ST were Chris tian; fine firm, War at . Starks Agency, 1457 8 (424 STENOGRAPHER, neat, 88 Chris? tian; beginner; advancement; 520. Sta rks ency, 1457 Broadway (42d). STENOGRAPHERS—$25, $ $18, 315, th free registration. McCarthy 4 ency, 154 Nassau. STENOGRAPHER, Jewess, $27; Chris- tian, under 30, $25. National Vocation Agency, 132 Nassau, STENOGRAPHERS, Typists, Christians; legal, brokerage, commercial; $35-$20. Arcade Agency, 50 Boardway. Communist of you. Casual inspection will reveal that a a Jewess is offered 327. and a Christian, under 30, is off $25. A manufac- turer wants a Chr tian for $18, guar- anteed not to flap. and Christian clerks are promised sis. : | Attempt to Create Prejudice. The result is that Jewesses change their names, secure positions, when jobs are not too scarce, become profi- cient, and hold their gabs. Negro girls who are not to easily distinguished are forced to live the working hours as white“ and their, ,off-periods as black. As for the Christidg girls, they have the inside track on th majority of va- cancies, but it is not! ected that all ‘hristian girls. will’ be sitions until some time a hte year 10,000, barring of the little matter of the social ‘reyalution, sched- uled for a date considerably closer to 1925. ‘ ‘ Small capitalists’ m ‘this manner keep alive the prejudice among races and religions, aud ‘thé fferce effort to secure a livelihood takes on the form of a racial conflict. Want ads of this sort are very ef- fective in preventing flapper gradu- ates of a business college from under- standing the class issue. Ot course the education of pros ective white-col- lared slaves is alwa; dificult in view of their common expeétation of becom- ing owners of factories and managers of offices when the ~ and the 187 | OUR DAILY PATTERNS e A SUIT STYLE FOR THE SMALL BOY. 2 —h⸗3—＋—E—Vw. — l 5165. chambrey} gingham, repp or flannel are good for this ‘de: sign. t The pattern is cut in four sizes; 2, Linen, 8, 4 and 6 years. A 4-year size will require 2%, yards of 27-inch material: Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps, . NOTICE TO PATTERN BUYEP4—The atterns being sold thru the DAIL ORKER pattern departmer” are fur- nished by a New York firms of pattern manufacturers. Orders are forwarded by the DAILY WORKER every day as re- ceived, and they are mailed by the man- ufacturer direct to the customer. The DAILY WORKER does not keep a —— of patterns on hand. Delivery of terns ordinarily will take at least 10 from the date of 3 the order. Do not become impatient if your pattern is delayed es PITTSBURGH, PA. To those who work hard for their money, | will save 50 per cent on all their dental work. DR. RASNICK DENTIS~. 1228 645 Smithfield Street. MORNING FROCK. 5/57 5157. Gingham or percale would be suitable material for this design. The pattern is cut in four sizes: Small, 34-36; medium, 38-40; large, 42-44; extra large, 46-48 inches bust measure. A medium size requires 3% yards of 36-inch material. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. FASHION BOOK NOTICE! Send 120 in silver or stamps for out up-to-date Fall and Winter, 1928.26, sook of Fashions, showing. color plates and containing 500 designe — ladies’, misses’, and children’s, patt Ss, a con- cise and comprehensive artic 5 on dress making, also some points for the needle ‘illustrating 30 of e various simple stitches), all valuable hints tate the ho dressmaker. me iaranteed. Er mel is a br States marshal with a warrant charging conspiracy to violate the Mann act today was expected to in- ‘trude upon the love nest said to have been established here by Ros- coe Carl Zeigler, former Trenton, N. J., methodist preacher. Arrangements were said to have been made in a New Brunswick, N. J. railroad station, between Miss Margaret Roberts, of Trenton, N. J., Zeigler, his wife and William M. Chamberlin, one time fiance of Miss Roberts, whereby Mre. Zeigler was to file suit for divorce against her husband, Chamberlin to renounce all claim to Miss Roberts, and the former preacher marry her. Attempts to find Zeigler in Tren- ton for service of the papers was unsuccessful, according to police, so the search was extended here. Chamberlin recently found Zeigler and Miss Roberts in EI Paso, Texas, and a ku Klux klan representative brought them back. Zeigler was a klan representative, others ahead of them die off or get married. But race passions make such a very pleasant red herring. With 100 appli- cants for 10 jobs, the 90 losers can have such a delightful time forgetting new clothes and the price of theater tickets by organizing a k. k. k., or an a. p. a. They actually make you for- get to eat. Hebrew Walters Strike. Strikers are picketing Seidner’s res- taurant in Chicago in an attempt by the United Hebrew Waiters’ union to organize the place. According to Busi- ness Agent Garfield, the owner paid the union scale to a few union men but was preparing to discharge them as cheaper labor became available. | The agreement provided for a mini- mum of $20 a week for waiters and $25 for countermen on 9-hour day and 6-day week. The union has a membership of 300 ch of Local 7 with r 1.500, affiliated with’ the American Federation of Labor. Child Plays With Candie; Dies. HUNTINGTON, Ind., August 3.— Helena Coolman, four, died today from burns received when a lighted candle with which she was playing in the back yard of her home here yes- terday ignited her ¢lothes. | Your U nion Meeting | First Tuesday, August. 4, 3925 No. Name of Local and Place of Meeting 6 Amalgamated Clothing Workers, 1829 8. Throop St. Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Douglas Park Auditorium. 152 Amalgamated Clothing Workers, 1564 N. Robey St., 7:30 p. m. R r Clothing Workers, 409 S. Halsted St. 61 Amalgamated Clothin Workers, 175 W. Washington a. 17 aqseotes ae 180 W. Wash. ngton 30 Bin 8 Workers, 19 W. Adams St., p. m. Boot and ghee Workers, 1939 Mil- waukee Ave 49 ween Ae and Clay Workers, Clark and 21 2 912 W. Monroe St. 136 8. 8. l. W., 738 W. Madison St. 39 237 Carmen, 207 W. . 5 Ave. 58 Carpenters, can ee and Sheffield. 141 Carpenters, 1023 75th St. 271 Carpenters, 9442 Cottage Grove Ave. 272 e Moose all, Chicago — 1128 * nters, Moose Hall, La Grange, 1727 North Carpenters, 14th St. Hall, ago Carpenters, Springfield and 26th Carpenters, Springfield and 26th St. 2 Elevator ons — 2901 West Monroe Str Engineers, 180 W. Washington St. Firemen and Enginemen, Lake and Francisco Stre 5 Hod 89 225 . 15th St., Chi- cago Heights, III. 6 Hod Carriers, 814 . Harrison + 81 9 w. — 2 ig Workers, 328 en 3257 Sheffield Ave. 390 Michiniste, 582 Machinists, 7414 Wentworth Ave. 478 Machinists, 4111 W. Madison St. Marine Fire and Oilers, 357 Ciark St. Meat Cutters, 11405 Michigan Ave. Meat Cutters, 3824 W. 26th St. 16 Painters; 35th and Woo 180 ig oe fod N. E. cor. California and a 'Fainters, 6414 8. Halsted St. 181 5 NM. W. cer. State and a t 225 Painters, 9202 So. Chicago Ave. 275 Painters, 220 . Oa : 371 Painters, Chicago Heights, Car- penters’ Hall. 396 Painters, 810 W. Harrison. Painters, Trumbull and Ogden Ave. Plasterers, Monroe and Peoria Sts. Railwa Clerks, Fort Dearborn Hotel. 2219 Railway | Clerks, 549 W. Washing- d. 12345 „ Clerks, 549 Washington St., p 1505 n Cierks, 5436 Wentworth ve ‘ 69 Signaimen, 426 W. 63rd St. 83 *“Switchmen, 901 Z. 75th St. 16024 mies and Public Utilities Inspec. ors, Great Northern Hotel. 712 . .A. Laundry, 220 8. Ash.- land Bivd. 742 Teamsters, Swan’s Hall. 17352 r R, Attendants, 912 m Capitol Blidg., 2. ; 24 Upholsterers, . and Ogden 111 Upholsterers, Nee W. Washington 15 tenn 2 Waiters, Randoiph St. 16121 Ward * e Paimer (Note — Unl meetings are 4 lout remedy in this dilemma, which membership of the unions, must vigil- No.| the program of the Trade Union Edu- der the misleadership of the union 8 ‘the benefits the mem- le living are vanishing its of the employers of magnitude and de- i rea however, have some of their own about death for the workers—de- rived the same idea as of the labor fakers. The employers, too, knowing that the advantages of better wages and hours are the things most desired by the d to prevent the ge these advantages. As something a6 good” they promise them, just as — labor fakers do— death benefits. Death Becoming Desirable Recently, for example, 60,000 men and women railroad workers employ- ed by the Louisville and Nashville, the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis, and the Louisville, Henderson and St. Paul, have been, willy nilly, insured by their bosses. These | have made a deal with the Prudential company to insure all their employes. For those earning less than $100 a month, a life insur- ance of $1,000 will be taken out. ? ; trom $100 to $176 sured ‘for $2,000 and those above will “be permitted” —as the report States, the great boon of getting $3,000 when they die. No medical examination is required, and the .for all will be effective when 75 sr, cent of the employes ac- cept the . Boss Will “Bear the Burden” of : a Control One fly: the ointment is, quite naturally, that the workers them- selves are: to pay the premiums in part—the companies will, so it is announceé—#hear the remaining ex- n undertake the account- U. work.” lums are the workers pay, might be ö ting, but even this int is Meresting as the fact that the “companies, out of the boundless’ generosity of their nearts (!) Offer to de the “accounting and el lericdlwork.” . In plain English, they offer d contre] the funds, not only keep in their hands the pre- miums pa by themselves and also those paid by the workers, but in ad- dition the companies will have the power to oe not to pay—the dense. 4 Nice. Looking Trap iol one..peed not argue further with the average worker who knows well enou ‘what such a control will lead, power to coerce the work- ers to’ rem#in?oyal” to the company, to discriniffiate against active union- ists and “red /agitators” and to hold the whip ot loss of premiums over the workers when they threaten strike, and so on. However, the workers are not with- poses the question of being victimized by the bosses or led into class col- laboration and defeat by their labor fakers all in the name of insurance. What to Do if You Must Die Granting the desirability of life in- surance, the workers must reject com- pletely the poison proposal of the em- ployers to trap them into a position of helplessness and inability to fight. Equally, the workers, especially the antly demand that the union bureau- cracy cease to regard life’ insurance as a substitute for class struggle against the bosses, and that all such “business” be taken completely out of the hands of the officialdom and put into the hands of the membership un- der real control by them, upon a basis of genuine c rative management. Must Control Unions, Too Nor will the movement ever be secure from gofruption by the pres ent reactionary|bureaucrecy, until the membership of .the unions, following cational League oust the old reaction- ary leadership’ d establish a leader- ship which wilt fight for working class interests and Hot evade the struggle by abandoning! the fight for wages and hours and goieg into the banking and insurance business to “insure” their high salaries in the face of falling treasuries and loss of membership. More Airship Routes. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. Aug. 3.— Plans for passenger airships from At- lantic City to New York were launch- ed here today with the appointment of an organizatj io committee to select an advisory u a of prominent cap- italists to get hind the proposition. — GARY, INE) ATTENTION! The DAILY“WORKER, Work- ers Monthly! Rabotnieza Tri- buna and Noy ee for sale at the Wo 9-opérative Broadway. 1 stated a Restaurant, 7733 8 writing, asking just what are Come ature” in this county. hae been excited by world events, by China, by talk of the “reds,” are Workers (Communist) Party stands - 2 As a result thousands of books and information on every phase of Commun labor movement. THE DAILY WORF thoroly understood and well known ae ? ! nist. rinciples and just what the mphlets leave the ms give and on all angles of world {ER PUBLISHING CO now Hie source of all 8 liter- . SOVIET GOVERNMENT INCOME THIS YEAR ALMOST TWO BILLION DOLLARS council of commissaries is almost two gathered in on the sale of vodka. The MOSCOW, Aug. 3.—The Soviet government's budget, now before the dred millions more than the 1913 budget of the Czar’s government. It exceeds last year’s budget by sevent hundred million dollars. Revenue from the sale of spirits is only fifty per cent of what the czar billons of dollars, or about three hun- government intends to issue a special the support and development of Soviet industry. Extraordinary appropriations are made for improvement in the agricul- tural industry. All are agreed now that the Soviet Union is economically on the upgrede and tho her position diplomatically is by no means easy, her ability to resist attack was never at a higher pitch. And it is con- stantly improving. Valued Terre Haute Road WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.— For rate- making purposes the interstate com- merce commission today placed a finai valutation of $20,150,000 on the pro- perty of the Chicago, Terre Haute and Southwestern railroad, as of June 30, 1916. The road operates 362 miles of trackage. Studebaker Makes Big Earnings NEW YORK, Aug. 3.—The Stude- baker corporation earned $3.40 a share on the total sales for the first half of the year were $86,569,763, against, $71,106,226 in the first half of 1924. international loan of $1,500,000,000 tor —Subscribe! Learn about RUSSIA TODAY] ‘other Communist. Plutes Runs Over Girl NEW YORK, Aug. 3.—Charles C. Frey, prominent turfman, formerly of Louisville Ky., was at liberty today under $2,000 bail following his arrest when the automobile he was driving struck and killed Miss Anna Beach, 19, of Woodside, N. Y. Frey was driving the private motor car of Wilda Bennett, musical comedy and motion picture star. Miss bennett and Albert Barringer, an advertising man, were in the car at the time of the accident. Register Co’s. in Patent Fight NORWALK, Conn., Aug. 3.— The Remington Cash Register company, of Bridgeport, today won its suit against the National Cash Register company of Dayton, Ohio, Federal Judge Edwin S. Thomas handing down a decision in favor of the plaintiff. The Remington company appealed to the federal court against alleged in- fnringements of patents on adding and recording machines. is. * Another says, “I notice in the D. W. that the Negro Congress foynded the new publication, and am ea from its origin, that. 1 the real champion of menden ‘workers, There are six or us Negro workers here L K ent. many left wingers, altho not as man- as there should be, but sufficient to disillusion any of Marcus Garvey’s ad- herents who had chloroformed them- selves into thinking that Garvey was their savior. I am 23 years old and am sentenced to life by courtmartial.” The other says, “. As there are 600 or 700 Negroes of the more cosmopolitan type here at this time, I am satisfied that if you could see your way clear to send me a few is- sues, so that I would be able to show it to the boys, that they would readily see it advantage over the Chicago. De- fender and kindred publications.” The American Negro Labor Con- gress at 19 8. Lincoln St., Chicago, would be very pleased to receive con- tributions which would allow these workers to be put on the regular sub- scription list. Subscription to the Negro Champion is $1.00 per year. It sells for 5 cents a single copy. hahah a Must Hire Union Men Only. BOSTON—Only union men may be hired in his plant, Isador Milliman, Boston fur manufacturer, is told in a temporary injunction granted by Judge Hammond in the ctreum court. Millman is held obligated to carry out the contract he became a party to when the Boston Fur Manufactur- ers’ Association, of which he was then a member, signed a two-year agreement with the Internationa! Fur Workers’ Union. Last March Millman withdrew from the bosses’ combine and has beer operating since then with what nonunion men he could get. This is the second time, only, a union has. Another new Sub—Makes an- injunction against an e! 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LOEB Business Manager Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Iil., under the act of March 3, 1879. 290 4 Advertising rates on application, =—— Green As a Moralist we President Green of the American Federation of Labor, ina letter to the president of the National Association of Manufacturers and also to the president of the American Woolen company, declares that it is morally wrong fot the manufacturers to “reduce the purchasing power of the workers—by force The manufacturers did not take down their_bibles to learn whether there was anything in that sacred collection of hokum against putting a ten per cent wage cut in operation. They un cut the wages and allowed Green to go to the bible. During the Boer war, one of the Boer leaders often misved splendid opportunities of wiping out detachments of British sol- diers, because the confounded general was a bible fanatic and flew to Job for comfort when he should have been administering to the wants of his cannon. The British, tho they subsidize preachers never let them interfere with the business of killing their — They won the Boer war. The textile. ns also support missionaries, but if there is any- thing in the bible which prohibits the kind of robbery that the cap- italists are engaged in, they convenientlty ignore it. They “trust in god, but keep their powder dry.” Willlam Green is also a bible student. But he served long enough in the miners’ union to know that the workers never won any of their battles with bibles or by taking a “high moral ground.” The power of labor and not quotations from scripture is what will im- press the textile barons. In his letter to the mill owners, Green seems to hint that it was net the reduction in wages so much as the manner in which that reduction was enforced, that aroused his anger. The reprehensible feature of it is that this is a forced reduction in wages. (Emphasis ours.) The workers have not been consulted regarding acceptance or rejection.” The obvious inference is that had with some reliable A. F. of L. labor ln the Tom Rickert type and convinced those leaders that the läterests of the industry de- manded a wage cut, Green would not consider the blow at the “purchasing power of the workers” in so criminal a light. What the reactionary leaders cannot condore is the tendency on the part of the employes to treat their slaves as if the labor lieutenants did not exist. Green’s “solemn protest” against the ten per cent wage cut will not put any bread and butter in the = of Rage mill workers. They must learn to rely on their own 0 don the sanctimonious appeals to the “spiritual side” weir I ers, which appears to be the only weapon that taker Green is willing to use. Self-Preservation Self- preservation is said to be the first law of nature. Like many other scientific conclusions it has been abused, but never more 80 than by reactionary labor leaders who have used the terms recently in connection with the action of the officialdom of the United Garment Workers in resorting to strikebreaking in an effort to maintain a carricature of a labor organization which provides them with an easy living. The secretary of the Chicago Federation of Labor justified the role now being played by Thomas Rickert, on the ground that no man would surrender to others an organization that he helped to build up, whether thost others be the members of the union or their selected leaders. The law of self-preservation justified Rickert. And if the law of self-preservation. is the first law of nature, then it is quite natural for Rickert to obey that law, and what is natural can- not be criminal. The law of self-preservation compels the capitalists to maintain armies and navies, spies and agents provocateurs, preachers and labor fakers to protect them in their usurped right to rob the workers. But the same law of self-preservation compels the workers to organize for the purpose of taking away from the capitalists the right to rob them. Incidentally in accomplishing that task the Workers will dispose of the capitalists. The fact that the law of self-preservatio works equally well in both cases has no more effect on the struggl than has the religion of a real estate shark on his willingness to fleece all comers regardless of religion. When the individual interests of a labor leader clash with the interests of thousands of workers, he must go, no matter how many excuses he may dig up to justify his actions. The self-preservation of millions of workers and poor farmers all over the world demands that the capitalist system be abolished and the individual interests of a small group of parasites must not be allowed to stand in the way. Premature Rejoicing 7 When the newspapers published a statement attributed to Frank Hodges, sceretary of the Miners’ International, that in the event of a coal strike in Britain the United Mine Workers of America, thru their officials, had promised to take any action called for by their British fellow workers, none rejoiced sooner than American radicals. They assumed that Hodges was quoted-correctly and that John L. Lewis actually had done the decent thing in offering the support of his organization to the embattled British mine workers. But the rejoicing was short lived. Any doubts as to the nor- malty of the officials of the United Mine Workers of America, were quickly dispelled when Secretary-Treasurer Kennedy and Vice-Presi- dent Phil. Murray repudiated the statement attributed to Frank Hodges and declared that they knew not what he was talking about. rubbed his eyes, yawned and This was on the day before Lewis, when questioned on the matter, said he was sleepy and would go to bed. the British strike was scheduled to start. : mill owners * | which is still to be ‘trade unions ‘profound revolutionary change in the was oe er (Continued from page 1) attained. . This fact has caused much conftision and complication in the labor movement. It has created the basis of the false traditi t the Negro, even when drawn into industrial labor, is a “na- tural” ally and reserve of capitalism. In industry the fact that any degree of modern wage slavery has represent- ed to the Negro an advance from his former serf-like status, taken in con- junction with the “labor-aristocratic” attitude of the trade union bureau- cracy, has given birth to the false tradition that the Negro is a strike- breaker. The,basis of that tradition has been undermined in the tumultuous changes of the world war. The present is an epoch in which the industrialized Ne- gro proletarian, and also the agricul- tural proletariat, moves into a posi- tion with the n working class. o Industrial orker. ; 7 The Ne = 1 HE = tremendous transformation among the Negro masses resulting from the world war and after war con- Negro agricultural laborers and ten- ant farmers into the cities and indus- trial districts, has placed the Negro definitely in a new position in rela- tion to the American labor movement, From being a sectional question, the Negro problem became a national question. From being a secondary factor in industrial labor, the Negro moves into the position of a great mass employed in basic industries, and already in notable strikes in the coal fields, etc., he has shown him- self eminently fitted for the front ranks of militant organized labor. The question of the full and unstinting ad- mission of the Negro to the trade unions is placed more sharply than ever before at the door of the trade unions. ( The constjtutions of many of the trade unions exclude the Negro from the unions. In the case of those unions which have no such provision in their constitution the Negro is nevertheless discriminated against. The increasing pressure of the Ne- gro worker for admittance into the is an instrument for labor movement. It is no accident that the “Gompers” bureaucracy op- poses the entry of the newly indus- trialized Negro proletarians into the trade unions. As an important and growing part of the most exploited section of the proletariat which does | not share in the miserable bribes with which imperialism poisons the upper section of the working class, the mass of the Negro industrial work- ers is objectively and potentioally a part of the left wing of the labor movement. In those unions into which the’ Negroes are being admitted, for instance the coal mining unions, the teamsters, longshormeen, building la- borers, janitors, etc., the Negro plays an important part in strengthening the militant section of the working Class. The obstinate failure to organ ize the general mass of unskilled pgo- letarians, whose entry into the labor movement would serve as a further basis for proletarianizing the ideology of the trade unions and revitalizing the class struggle, is a part of the general service which the trade union bureaucracy contributes to its cap- italist masters, And the failure to make a clean sweep of all obstacles to the Negroes’ entry into the unions is an especially significant part of this service to capitalist reaction, for race prejudice of the white worker against the black worker is today more than ever a powerful weapon against the rity of the working class. 82 cause of the Negro in the labor movement is essentially a left wing fight, and one which must energetic- ally be championed by the Workers (Communist) Party. Our party must make itself the foremost spokesman for the real abolition of all discrimi- nations against Negroes. in trade unions and for the organization? of the as yet largely unorganized Negro workérs in the same unions with the white workers on the basis of equality of membership, equality of right t employment in all branches of work and equality in pay. Our party shall bring pressure on the unions thru the activity of our Communist frac- tions among the Negroes already in the unions, getting them to fight mili- tantly for the abolition of the color line, and by the activity of the whole} left wing forcing the abolition of all!“ racial discrimination. Our party must work among the unorganized Negro workers destroying whatever preju- dice may exist against the trade unions which is being cultivated by the white capitalists, the Negro petty- bourgeoisie and the opposition of the reactionary bureaucracy as such, and must arouse them to demand and fight for admission. Our aim must be to show to the white workers that only by complete solidarity of the races Can any progress be made by either and to show to the Negro work- ers that in spite of the anti-Negro ditions, with the heavy migration of} aga ‘inst 4 ae gil a ainst ———ů doeiqriog a primary purpose the stenggle for ad - mission into the existing anions, but functioning as full-fledged Negro 2 The — Fe- Ferwer and trier e Worker. eo during the. struggle. and 447M. zy It is the duty of our part to take initiative in organizitig Negro agri- cultural workers into labor unions, to- gether with white agricultural work- ers if possible, but separately if un- avoidable, and to bring such unions into the general labor movement. An- other suprémely important duty of the party is to promote the organiza- tion of Negro tenant farmers, share- croppers and small farmers generally (together with white farmers of the same exploited class if possible), and to bring such organizations into co- operation as allies sis Kr labor move- ment. £ 9 = | The Neuve and cae * 2 e task of the Communists among the Negro workers as elsewhere is in its first stage to: bring about class consciousness and to crystallize this in inde “class political ac- tion against the capitalist -class. The profound social changes ot the war and post-war period have already shown indications of à partial exodus of Negro masses fromthevrepublican party; and this represents a break with tradition, a visite evidence of the i ne in the work of workers into the ee the political labor movement. We shall advance the idea of thé*Negro work- ers taking an initiatorywand leading part in the formation ot the labor par- ty. With this in views we shall in every labor party action prominently raise the issues of f