Daily Worker
August 20, 1925
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{ feet. “Vol No. A oT AS WE SEE By T. J, OFLAHE a. fossil remains of a Neanther- thal man was discovered in Galilee lest June. The scientific world is” quite excited about it. The Neanther- thaler was ape-like in his apparance, say the scientists, but his or tas bape about as large as it ts today: Let hope, not as empty. Well, this: He go: ing too far. We confess ‘modern man is away ahead ofhis) le thalers by the skull roast) in Galilee. | Quam, mona put now vogechage sg An fia Bryan-may be dug up. It 1 be just to the presemt ge solentists of | mot the the futute cume that the brain pan. che moner” was typical of the| other mental storehouses in the United States. Thoughts like these some- times. prevent us from accepting all the conclusions of the scientists. ou ain't goin’ to pray no mo’” is ives of the striking miners from in- \oking godly aid to convert the strike- breakers to the ways of decency. Strange to say the prayers had ef- At least so we are told. There is a suspicion in my mind that the wives of the miners hurled something cise besides prayers at the strike- breakers. When the workers don’t pray, they are enemies of religion. When they do pray, they are blas- pheming. If the miners take our tip they will stop praying and begin act- ing. . * * * HERE is a likelihood that .a strike will take place in the anthracite region on September 1. It ‘is also possible that the bituminous miners may down tools simultaneoysly. Such a threat has been made by John L. Lewis, head of the international union. Lewis cannot be trusted. to take any action that would benefit miners unless he feels that his See prestige and position are at stake. The operators have played ducks and ‘battalion of the army was called out — |DEDDV I¢ h SERRY IS } George L. Berry, président of the In- drake with the Jacksonyille pact. A national strike jm. the ieee industry (Conthaes. on Shag =. - we i Company Louse Miser Thru Lockout. The Sears-Roebuck Company is get- ting nervous over the inability of the Cuneo Printing Company to turn out its catalogues scheduled for. delivery by Sept. Ist. Scab foremen and scab pressmen are not able to do much of iaything, but what they succeed in+ turning out is very inferior work. The exposes published in_ the DAILY WORKER are getting under the hide of Seymour “Stuss” Singer, the scab superintendent and former pal of the New York gangsters who killed the gambler Rosenthal. Press- men and feeders are being brot in from all parts of the country, but most of them leave as soon as they learn that there is a lockout on. rry AGreed to Pact. It is now admitted by representa- tives of “Majah” Berry that while the feeders were in arbitration proceed- ings the international officer held a conference with Cumeo. The printing boss was asked if he would agree to the decision of the arbitrators. ‘Cu néo’s answer to this was that he would if the tuternational would make the pressmen abide by the agreement with reference to the reduction of pressmen on the machines. Berry premised Cunso that he would see to this, even tho the pressmen three times refused to ratify the, tentative pact made between the executive beard and Cunea. r It is as a result of this decision of Berry's that the pressmen and feed- ers .at Cuneo’s are now locked out, with Berry trying to supply their places with “union” scabs. The prospects for a successful end- ing to the dispute are brig.*. It is rumored that Premier taxi @rivers are refusing to haul] strikebreakers to the Cuneo plant. ‘CITY CENTRAL, LOCAL CHIGAGO, W. P. OF A.., MEETS TONIGHT, 8 P. M. The next meeting-of the City Cen- tral Committee will be held tonight, Aug. 19, at 722 Blue Istand avenue. The meeting will open promptly at 8 p. m., and all delegates are r guested to be there promptly at = Suarter. of 2 atlas a j services to dead soldiers buried % ; sailed rol #7 na oan eee ne tome ona nner a a ‘of March % 1878, AUGUST. 20,_ die rtd =" Behuened Daly LUTSK, Aug 18—One hundred. and fifty political prisoners in a compound in Volinia rebelled against the unbearable conditions they are forted to tive under. A and without warning fired into the crowd of prisoners. One was killed and many wounded. Chicago Tribune Prints Liberty i in Scab Shop This ‘is the fifth of a series of ar- ticles exposing the crooked career of ternational Printing Presemen’s and Assistants’ Union. The members of the international union are now de- termined to get rid of Berry and Ber- ryism. ovo s It is worthy of notice that Berry in. his boost for the governorship of Tennessee néver mentioned the fact that he was president of the Inter- national Printing Pressmens’ and Ags- sistants Union. Evidently he did not want the ruling classes of Tennessee to know that he had any connection with labor. The pressmen were only good for furnishing him with the money with which to initiate his in- ) dustral enterprise. Stil! At His Tricke. - i When the pressmen of Chicago fin- ished their investigation they discoy- | | ered that “Majah” Berry, the war patriot, who helped the capitalists to | keep the workers quiet duriig tle} slaughter, had dug into the old Age Pension Fund to the extent of about, a i SHA y FOUNDATION oP. 5 at France. He called the fund “ Subscription” but it did fot p very “popular” so he had to. at his puppets at the convention mak ‘it a “compulsory” popular subscrip- tion. Each member was soaked one dollar for this fake scheme. Accord: ing to Berry’s own figures there ‘is over $40,000 in this fund at the _pres- | ent time. It was during one of his ‘appearanc- es during the litigation over his ¢m-* bezzling ventures that a federal judge}: ran him out of the court for appear-. ing in his uniform with the obvious. intention to impress the judge with his patriotism. Berry had to change” his vestments and come back dressed like a normal person. How The Bosses Buy Berry. An excellent example of how the printers purchase Berry and thus secure relief from union obligation is furnished.by an editérial in the July issue of the American Pressman, edited by Berry. In this editorial the Chicago Tribune is praised highly for (Continued on Page 2.) ANTHRACITE DEADLOCK STILL UNBROKEN, ,THO MINERS. FEAR SELL OUT PHILADELPHIA, Anns: 18.—Con- tinuation of the conference between miners’ leaders was expected here today as union chiefs from. both an- thracite and bituminous fields flocked the headgq of the United Mine Workers.” While union officials ‘sald nothing ‘but “ordinary union business” had, been discussed, it was‘learned that plans for the threatened anthracite miners’ strike on Sept 1 were gone over. The next move in. the deadlock be- twene the miners and the operators lg seen in a possible ‘“get-together” call for arbitration, which has tricked the miners before but which Lewis may accept after some bluster in spite of the pressure being put upon him from the Progressive Miners who oppose any and all. ar- bitration schemes. Pattern Men Fight “Open Shop” The patternmakers expect a favor- able break in the next few days in their fight to unionize a dozen open shops in Chicago. The large numiber of members at work in union shops enables the Patternmakers’ Associa- tion to pay its 50 striking members that hour | k full union wages as strike benefits. | TFalloring company, will be given by and Kedzie Aves., at a meeting of all -|amated officials. By 7 *) a | City Organization to «Aid N. Y. Straggle An pane to the ralde and arrests leondiicted by the city police, carry: ing out the orders of the International the Amalgamated Clothing , Workers tonight at the Labor Lyceum, Ogden shop chairmen and. officers of the union. The meeting was called to discuss the union’s strike against the International. The Chicago . joint board of the Amalgamated has met and pledged aid to the New York Amalgamated strikers who are carrying on an. ex- tensive. organization: drive as well as a strike against the International Plant in New York. : The New York strikers will be sup- ig] pif ll yy psy ay). Mit ; stop work. According to Committee of Action, this is an example of the sort of that has been going on contin- uously since the raids on Locals 2 and 9 headquarters on June 15. "cB oes mt LLG. W; STOPPAGE 10 TIN (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK CITY, August 18.—Plans for Thursday's page in the ladies’ garment industry in this city are p with every prospect that a great majority of the workers respond to the call issued by the Joint Committee of Action Locals 2, 9 and 22. Altho President Sigman has prophesied that there will be actual stoppage, he has supplemented this prophesy with . to he workers threatening them with loss of their jobs if a Louis Hyman, chairman of the Joint terrace: i at Sig Ie Getting Funny. “Yet President Sigman quotes the constitution at us,” says Mr. Hyman, “denounces us for un-union-like tac- tics, and says we ought to ‘accomplish ‘| organization changes in a constitu | tional manner.’ Evidently President Sigman is becoming a humorist. It | was a@ committee appointed by him who drew up this constitution, and it was his Objection and Election Committee which barred from the bal- lot for delegates to the convention anyone who opposed his reactionary constitution. When by chance some delegates were chosen who were hos- tile to Sigman and his machine, they were unseated. ‘“Last Juné, the day after he had captured by force the headquarters of Losals 2 and 9 with all the records and property in these bDuildings, Presi- dent Sigman sent us a letter notify- ing us of our suspension and demand- ing that'we turn over the books and property of the local, ‘in accordance with the constitntion.’ “How does he dare to speak of the constitution after |} such acts of terror? Blue Sky Locale. “And how can he talk of our gain- ing any system of proportional repre- sentation in our union. when every from out-of-town locals, which | mushrooms spring up on the | | conventions just to serve : gage that stitution; it te with he he can carry thru sfiyt his liking. , “He repreaches us with trying to convention is packed with delegates that ist, plied with as much funds ‘as they need, it- was said by Chicago Amalg- The Chicago organ- ization is in a better position as the fight here is concentrated in one plant, and there is no vicious injunc- tion to fight as in the case in New York city. A member of the Amalgamated, Sophie Klovestke, who is hot a striker, but who was walking the on a charge of ‘disorderly conduct” yesterday, altho she was doing noth- ing but picketing. She will appear in the Des Plaines street police station this morning for a hearing. The J. L. Taylor-International Tail- oring company’s project in Rock Is- land has failed, it is reported, the Tri-cities workers. refusing to act as strikebreakers.. The local manufac- turers who induced the International to go to Rock Island in order to in- troduce “open shop” conditions there, have been reproved by the Interna- tional bosses for “misinterpreting” conditions.” It has been disclosed that the same group of Rock Island “open shoppers” who.invited the garment bosses their city had the government arsen- al there closed in order to throw the workers out of jobs and reduce wages. If you want to thoroughly un- derstand .Communism—study it. Send for,a catalogue of all Com- munist literature The upholsterers of the Aetna Fur- | niture company of 469 West 24th St., | who struck early last week when ithe firm tried’ to force a 'wage cut on them in addition to a ‘ten per cent cutton piece rates which | second they had agree@*to, have won their strike completely and went back to work yesterday. with all their demands accepted by the manage- ment. Monday morning, the superin- tendent summoned in the committee which had been eletted by the strik- ers, from off the picket line, and agreed to rescind the second cut and to recognize the shop committee which the strikers had set up as the authorized spokesmen in the shop to adjust grievances in the future. Also, those workers whom the firm had said could not come back at>-all, are not to be discriminated against, but are to be takenback without preju- dice with the rest. Thank the-Daily Worker. At a meeting ef the strikers yes- terday morning, they discussed their experience andthe agreemnt, and in the name of all‘the strikers the meet- ‘ing thanked the! DAILY WORKER for —— the assistance that had been given them and expressed the hope that in picket line with friends, was arrested | to} the future the -DAILY WORKER would grow andfprosper as the real workers’ press and lead in the whole labor movement. -° The strikers scame to the conclus- ion that their ‘anly hope lies in the left wing labor movement being able ultimately to take the leadership of the American Mibor movement, as they could expeet no aid from the present yellow leadership of the Up holsterers’ Union, which had sold them out before and now refuses to organize them at all. They are not opposed to the union and hope to be able to join when the union leader- ship ceases its opposition to admit- ting workers to membership. Daily Worker Only Aid. The strikers declared that the only aid they had in winning their atrike was from the DAILY WORKER, the organ of the Workers Communist Party, and all promised not to for- get that they were obligated _by their own interest as ‘workers, to partici- pate in the labor movement under the (Continued on page 2) Expect to Elect the City Commission in Nov. LIMA, Ohio, August 18—Three la- bor candidates, including two social- iste and a member of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, will run-on a la- bor party ticket in the November elec- tions for city commissioners as a result of the non-partisan primary election just held. About one-fifth of the 20,000 voters of Lima turned out to the’ primary election in which party tickets were ruled off by reason of the non-parti- san law, altho the definite labor par- ty candidates, Corbin N. Shook, the former socialist mayor and Edwin Blank polled the. highest. votes on a platform of the labor party, while Lawrence Long, of the B. of R. T. who had come out as an independent before the labor party ticket was pro- ‘posed, ran sixth, which will permit him to run in the final election which will choose three of the six highest primary candidates. Expect Larger Final Vote. Indications are that the November election will see the three labor party candidates, Shook, Blank and Long, pitted against the three old commis- sioners with the prophecy of local Communists that the labor party ticket will win “with a more startling vote than that of the primary.” The primary brought out about 25 per cent. of the total voting strength in comparison to the 92 per cent shown in the presidential election last year. Labor Party Platform. The labor party platform was the center of attraction and the cam- paign from now on will make it the form a dictatorship and forcing it on} the members; yet it. is we who weré legally elected and have the confi- dence of the members. He came into office only thru the ald of these fake locals at a packed convention, not by direct vote of the membership, If he is so confident that he represents the will of the members, why does he not follow our suggestion for a referen- dum vote on our demands for his res- ignation, for our reinstatement and for a reorganization of the Joint Board? (Of course we mean a refer- endum counted by some impartial committee, and not such a one as wae taken on the governor’s commission report, where a vote of about 3,000 was stretched to 14,000.) Asks Show of Power. “And if President Sigman is so op posed to dictatorship, why does he use gangsters to force the members to pay dues, and seek the co-operation of the employers to force the workers to recognize the Joint Board, when they no longer consider it a legal body of the union? “The Joint Committee of Action has called upon the cloak and dressmak- ers to stop work on Thursday to dem- onstrate their protest against the Joint Board and all its actions, and to prove that they cannot be terror- ized, nor any longer enslaved by the corrupt machine of the union.” VIENNA FASCIST BANDS IN ANTI- JEWISH RIOTS One aR Arrested, to. British fired at, (i Over Handred De aa lowing Is the text of a eu laration and appeal of the staff, students and workmen of | Canton Christian college, the massacre of Chinese at Centon, sent via this “~ 7 — = . and Wounded SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 18— the street of Canton, When we were marching and orderly on Shaki road in territory opposite the Anglo- sane aie of Shameen, the b: Were on the spot where we were ‘ Agw ed ae ath only by a narrow margin. We On the 28rd of iis as a csi = | demonstration protesting against the killing of our fellow-countrymen B the British and the Japanese in : hai and eleswhere, a body of ens which was composed largely of farm- * ers, laborers, and students who were — unarmed and defenceless paraded on da ete 15 be pe and shells and we escap- ee Oe a BO : siw troops first started firing at us and how they kept firing without Appeals to Britith Lion. In view of this horrible atroc- ity committed by the British troops at Shameen, we, the entire Chinese staff and student body, and workmen of Canton Christian college, wish to ap peal to the citizens and governments of the foreign countries for symathy and support. We appeal especially to the British for an objective inquiry into the matter, and for a just and am- icable settlement. As eye-witnesses on the scene of the tragedy we wish to point eut that the responsibility for the crime rested with those foreign consuls and au- thorities who directed the firing, In this connection we wish to state that the outrages which took place in Shanghai, Hankow, and Canton were symptomatic of the unequal and un-. just relationship existing between China and the foreign states. Bound by unequal treaties, enchaneed by for- eign control, and paralyzed by foreign exploitation, China is an international cripple. In order that peace and amity may be established between China and the foreign states, the treaties that are of the nature of ‘iniquum foedus’ should be abrogated at once, and new treaties on the basis of equality and reciprocity should be made. It is important to remember that the present unrest in China in regard to foreign relations is due chiefly to the rising tide of nationalism in oppo- sition to the rights and interests that the foreigners exacted from China by virtue of treaties and agreements that were imposed upon China by circum- stances of war. Since the unequal and imposed treaties are the fundamental Many Are Injured VIENNA, and six fascists were being held by police here for taking part in the antl- supporting Shook having made election the talk of the local: unions, where even the republican chairman of the Machinists’ local congratulated the success of the labor party at the local meeting. Shook led the primary race with 1,783 votes, Blank came next with 1,489 votes, while Long. who ran sixth as above noted, had $25 votes. Ac- cording to local Communists, the labor party candidates expect to have con- trol of this city of 50,000 inhabitants | after the November élections ~a> the! the Zionist Congress. entire issue, the Lima trade unions! gemitic riot, staged at the opening of The several thousand of whom came fascists, here from out of town, were bent breaking up the Zionist meeting The head of the Vienna police had forbidden hostile demonstrations, but before order was restored the entire police force of 6,000 was forced to charge the rioters with drawn sabres. A score were injured. The bridges over the Danube lead- ing to the Jewish quarters are beavily eaavted by police upon | causes of the present unrest, we must abolish them. To this end consular | jurisdiction must be given up; foreign August 18.—One hundred | settlements, concessions, and leased territories must be restored; restric- tions on tariff autonomy must be re | moved; spheres of influence must Be renounced; control of customs must be surrendered; the stationing of for- eign troops and warships must be evacuated; and the maintenance of | wireless stations and other warlike ‘establishments must be done away | with. sense of justice, ) and unselfish motive, i the Moved by countrymen, the deep sorrow of our prompted by a profound and guided by a pure we appeal to whole world for sympathy, sup- ' port, and justice, June 25, 1925
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N TOLEDO TELLS % : pie: JNIST CANDIDATE FOR MA YOR. ~ TRUTH ABOUT “VICE”, CHILD LABOR THE DEAR LADIES By A. W. Pa in their hall Tuesday evening. .? Comrade Patterson was invited along with the other candidates who will g “run in the primary election for the nomination of candidates for the office of mayor of Toledo. The invited guests who spoke during the evening were: business men’s candidate; Alvin Jones, dry candidate and reformer, Tommy Devine, candidate of the Devine-So- ¢Cialists who promised the ladies to vote for anything the dear ladies asked for. Immediately upon arriving at the hall each speaker was handed a questionnaire with the questions they were to answer in their speechs. Communist Answers Questions. These questions were pertaining to the injunction abatement law in re- gard to prostitution, and houses of prostitution. This law states that all such places of ill-fame can be closed and pad- docked and the occupants stopped ‘from doing business. The law says also that the owners of the building can be enjoined from renting a building for swch a pur- - pose, and the building shall be closed and padlocked as a nuisance. The other question each candidate Was to answer was in regard to street trades, such as selling papers on the streets by children less than twelve years of age. The other candidates, including the yellow Socialist Divine Tommy, all promised to abolish these evils and anything else that these dear ladies wanted done in the future. Comrade Patterson gave the dear ladies a shock by telling them the truth. The Communist candidate is a member of the Longshoremen’s Union, and perhaps he seemed a \little brusque to the ladies, as he speaks in the proletarian language. He used unvarnished English in telling the ladies about prostitution and its cause. Speaker Tells About Injunction, The speaker informed the ladies he knew some of them were intelligent enuf to know that a mayor did not have any power to issue an injunction to start with, but that injunctions were issued by capitalist judges against labor unions that were fight- ing the bosses for the bare necessities of life. He told the audience WHY this injunction law was never used against the owners of houses of pros- titution, because wealthy real estate men who controlled the capitalist courts owned much of the property . that was rented for these purposes. The speaker said: “If I promised to do this——which I am not going to do, —I would be powerless to carry out that promise, because the courts are the place where injunctions are is- sued, but the courts do not issue in- junctions against wealthy property Owners, but against labor.” The speaker then told them that the Sl » Soviet Russia. - . re (Worker Correspondent) \ TOLEDO, Ohio, August 18.— William Patterson, who is the Workers Party ¢andidate for mayor of this city, spoke before the league of women HARVITT Fred Mery, Workers (Communist) Party is against prostitution, but it would not be by injunction they would stop it, bu by abolishing the capitalist sys- tem so that one class could not live by exploiting another. Soviet Russia Abolished Prostitution. The speaker told them that there was no prostitution in Soviét Russia where the dictatorship of the prole- tariat prevails. He told them that the courts be- longed to the workers there, and were used in their interests-and not as here, Workers Facies Trial, a half hundred workers facing trial to enjoin them from striking for more pay and better conditions. Ridicules Reform. — Comrade Pattreson ridiculed reform and said that Toledo was the most re- formed city in the United States, but that it did not seem to help it any. He told them that if working girls received enuf in wages to live on, there would be less prostitution. Communist Party Not Reformist. Then he said: “Ladies, the Com- munist Party is not a party of reform, but when the Communists get con- trol, they will abolish the capitalist dictatorship and establish the prole- tarian dictatorship.” Communists Would Abolish Child Labor. In speaking with reference to the street trades participated in by chil- dren under 12 years, Comrade Pat- terson told the audience that Com- munists have always stood for the complete abolition df all child labor in any form; not only of babies, but of any child below high school age. He said:—“The only way to abolish the grinding of our children into gold for the plute class is to abolish the exploitation system of wage slavery, and thereby~ destroy the capitalist system completely.” The speaker toid his audience that this would not re- form the vice conditions that now pre- vails in Toledo, but would abolish all vice and other crimes of society now existing because of capitalism. , Arrest Mine Leaders. NEW YORK, Aug. 17.—(FP)—When Gomer Jones, vice president, District 21, United Mine Workers of America, and 8. A. Robertson, another union official, were arrested in Arkansas un- charge of planning to parade thru the streets of Greenwood, Ark., the Ameri- can Civil Liberties Union volunteered Where Labor Makes Its Own Laws | | | | * The book—bound in attractive duroflex covers—- makes a permanent record of this historical Official Report of the British Trade Union Delegation =. its aid from New York to fight the case thru to the highest courts. a ee eee J RUSSIA TOMORROW— , And everyday—all the news and direct correspond- ence from the fields and the factories—and articles _ oe the pens of Russia’s leaders—all can be found Tm Daiy WorRKER 7 No better opportunity has ever been presented to allow every worker to have both past and current records of the very first workers’ government in these special offers: owe “RUSSIA TODAY” $1.2 The Daily Worker for 8 mos. (6 mos. in Chicago) .............. $4.50 $5.75 for 5.00 ASakeucte, THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. For the enclosed $ Chicago, Illinois send RUSSIA TODAY.........:. and the DAILY WORKER for .............0.. months to: NAME: c.ccccccccrccccosecccnssresecesorescastonsentecsescoseseressesseresees Street: és aie City: State: =e r= eae ti nal eet eee er Sere eee etl : ‘ cy ot : | Shey my 4 "¢ - > Bowie nl der a revived 1917 injunction on a Ws IMMEDIAT FOR MANY GASES EED OF Others in Prison a In aw effort to ralse Tunds to meet the exigencies of a large number of defense cases it is being called upon to handle, International Labor De- fense is circularizing thousands of names of persons in or sympathetic to the labor movement. In the letter, I. L. D. is asking supporters of labof defense to give 10 cents and to get nineteen of their friends to give a similar amount for legal defense for working class defendants and for re- lief and aid to class war prisoners and their families. There are more than in various parts of the country for their activity in the labor movement and more than 100 more serving sen- tences on charges growing out of strikes, frameups and labor persecu- tion. From Every Part of the Country. Enclosed with a letter appealing for contributions is a pamphlet, “Labor Defense,” which contains the consti- tution, manifesto and program of the FUNDS |senwrais reaepegy Pdi. Sir es war windy ers. Oe oh One : writes: “Sending more than the pet falls for. Pn- closed find. five . for defense. Times are tough ip and we all have hard sledding getting funds,.but our prisoners have to be looked to, so we will have to do it, even if it should mean, pulling up the belts a hole.” Another accompanies a contri- bution with these words: “I want you. to know how much my heart is in this work. Nor is it commisseration. It is approval of their (class-war prison- ers) ideals and aims and admiration for their heroism,” Workers oeity Sones In addition, branches of the Work- ers Party are being sent the contri- bution lists, by courtesy of their. na- tional office.. It isnexpected that this work will receive energetic attention from the members of, the party in view of the fact that a.portion of the cases that International Labor De- fense is handling inyolve members of the Workers Party, |. ak, een meee Put a copy of the DAILY WORKER in your ‘pocket when you go to your tihion o-9ebeaeaate GREEK ATTACK BULGARIAN OUTPOST AS DISORDER CONTINUE IN SOFIA LONDON, Aug. 18.— Hostilities have broken out on the Bulgarian frontier where it was reported from. Constantinople that a band of Greeke have at- tacked the Bulgarian outpost at Caratepe. Several hours of fighting occurred. From Bulgaria reports of internal disorders continue to be received. A Sofia dispatch said the Macedonian leader Taskalow was murdered at the Betanovici railway station. Berry Now Raising Money for New Charch | (Continued from page I) contributing a four color rotogravure machine valued at $25,000 to the Technical Trade School at Pressmen’s Home, Yet the magazine Liberty, which is owned by the Chicago Tribune and edited In the same offices as the Tribune, is printed In the scab plant of 'W)'F. Hall. Was the rotogravure machine Berry’s compensation for let- ting’the Tribune get away with a scab tie? « Yetrknowing that the Chicago Trib- une company, has its magazine pub- lished in a scab plant, Berry writes as follows: “The Chicago Tribune has done a very great and encouraging thing. ‘Wis newspaper has done more towarf#, ,. the International Printing. smen and Assistant’s Union ‘of North America in its edu- cational project than all the rest of the talk.that has emanated from var- ares 1 8 Sipe of the country. The Trib commendation has a ring of reality to it. It is substantial; it is a genuine contribution: to: a cause thatsis_deserving not only of the full- est confidence and co-operation of our membership, but of every newspaper publisher and employing printer in America.” This is gentle hint to the other publishers to come across if they want Berry to do his best for them. How little Berry takes his profes- sions of trade unionism to heart is shown by the fact that he accepts the advertisements of non-union con- cerns in his magazine, The American Pressman. One of those firms is the “Save-M” Fire Extinguisher Company of Cincinnati, Ohio. If more proof is required that Berry is only a fake trade unionist, here it is: The Clinchfield Mercantile Com- pany, of Rogersville, Tenn., owned by Berry and Joseph C. Orr, sécretary- treasurer of the international’ union, purchased clothing from the Schaeffer & Weedon Company, and supplied the same non-union clothes to convales- cent members of the International Printing Pressmen’s Union quartered at their home in Tennessee. It is a generally accepted practice on the part of trade unionists to in- sist that their purchases be manufac- tured by union labor. While the re- actionaries in the labér movement are trying to substitute propaganda for the trade union label for organizing activities, nobody will deny that the practice of insisting on purchases car- rying the union label is beneficial. That the clothing firm from which Berry purchased clothes for the in- mates of the Pressmen’s Home was a scab concern is shown by the follow- ing lettter from the general organizer of the Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers in Cincinnati to Franklin Union No. 23 of New York City: “Dear Sir and Brother: We have your inquiry, regarding the Schaefer & Weedon Co. who supplies clothing for your Pressmen’s Home and Hos: pital. “This is an anti-union concern, who have been fighting us for the past two years bitterly. “Fraternally yours, “Jack Kroll, General Organizer.” During the great steel strike led by William Z. Foster, now secretary of the Trade Union Educational League and national chairman of the Work- ers (Communist) Party, Berry made a bitter attack on the steel workers and the strike leaders. But Berry did not get. away with this. During the Montreal convention of the American Federation of Labor, | Berry was standing. in- the lobby of ‘the Windsor hogel.oge evening when | loot the treasury, nevoy Mipanctt? 8 a eicenbes ~ Fa a a delegate of the, boilermakers ap- proached him and .aaid:, “So you are the man who insulted the representa- tive of our union in the general strike committee of the steel. workers?” “Don’t you like it?”.was Berry’s brazen reply. “Take that!” shouted the boiler- maker, as he landed a haymaker on Berry’s map. Zowie! The sparks could be seen flying. Practically every face in the lobby cracked with laugh- ter. Even those Who were drinking with Berry took "thalicious joy in on this « nt sitide the date of the ; tage eee es beton ap at contengone. The pro at yen ps of the I. P. P. and P. U. strikebreaker at the Atlantic eeerccatioe In 1919 Berry rented, the Half Way House at Edgemere, Jy. I., and housed his scab members. turnished by his Hale Spring Employmert Agencies in New York. Employers consider Berry the best trained telah in the country. His closest. aids are: Wil- liam McHugh, John M. Brophy, 8. B. Marks and Joseph C. Orr. “The Rats M Go.” The following re was very pop- ular among New pressmen in 1920: bo ia “The rats must ge,| we all should know, The rats must go, I say; So join this throng, with word and song, And drive (vote) the rats away.” The Chicago pressmen and feeders are now determined to get rid of the rats and of the rat-in-chief, George L. Berry. They are going about that work methodically. The pressmen claim that Berry is an alien in the union, that he does not even belong in the labor movement as a member of the rank and file, not to speak of being an international officer. One of those who,.was on Berry's pay roll in Chicago was the notorious Moss Enright, the professional mur- derer. Enright met hig Waterloo early i in 1920. The following dispatch was sent from Chicago to New York in 1920, with titles and. headlines: “Exposure of Berry, murder game in Chicago—New York.,money for Chi- cago gunmen.” aT “Berry sends many thousands for criminal use—Special from Chicago. Story at. printing pregssmen’s meeting, June 8, 1920.” , “President Hass sprung a big sur- prise—the astonishing affidavits were read with letters from Berry and Orr to Rosenheim, a full confession from Rosenheim and others. The reading took up to 12.45 p. mii =Moss Enright, who, was recently tiurdered, was in the employ of I. P.‘P. and A. U. by George L. Berry. Bogus No. 3 and No 4 cards were printed at the home of the I P. P. and A. U. to pack No. 3 and 4 meetings at $500 a man to be paid to Enright. Berry still owes $1,700 on this bill. Forgeries commit- ted. Three men were to be bodily harmed, Hass, Kapps, Sangwin were named. Bogus stamps and bogus working cards by the hundreds and real I. P. P. and A. U. due stamps of No. 3, We are all amazed with this news We thank our.officials and give them full authority to go to the limit as they see fit.’ This is the way ‘Berry used the money of the intergational. Hiring murderers to make War on the pro- gressives who blocked his efforts to £ 1é. ne ey ee tee ~ —s a net Phy ; } f By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. = The working the catholic church, Thus the Boston Herald, their only Soviet Union in the Instead they live toda aw. the Red was ready. most ean’ history. _, But it was nota vite Instead of sending its air upon the population, the | Fh oaop yt i were did not cast off the black straitjacket. The Polish their slavery rule over t ‘* ants. New England. i ODAY, the Boston Herald carries the headline, Celebrate Rout of Bolsheviki.” .\ Then follows the story ~ of a celebration held in the church of “Our Lady brama” on what was called the fifth “Miracle. of the Vistula,” as a result of that not only Poland, but all capitalist Western its so-called “civilization,” was saved from Soviet Rule. | class of Boston is catholic when it turns to ka paralyzed by this Roman creed. While enslaved to is doubly oppressed thru the fact that in industry it is also held in chains by protestant exploiters, who constitute the local bourgeoisie, rotestant, owned by t machinery trust, builds its alliance with the catholic church in an effort to tell the Polish workers, barge in lar in all industries thruout New En saved Poland from the Bolsheviks Increasing masses “of enitine and poor peasants, who have seen the best among their numbers thrown into prison or put to death these past five agit continuing today, hope lies thru a Polish Soviet Republic, that the victory of the Polish Communist Party thru a proletarian dictatorship in 1921, would 7 e for unemployment and al the a dg they protest in the streets, they are shot down by the mer- cenaries of the terror rule imposed upon them. Polish workers in the United States are becoming ac- quainted with these facts. They know that in 1921, the allies of the Versailles peace tried to launch an offensive eon Soviet Russia and Soviet Ukraine, using Poland as It was to be another effort to overthrow the Soviet e “sy The offensive was carefully launched. But It struck back with one of the lows that Workers’ Rule has so far dealt its capitalist foe. The imperialists at Paris, London and Wash- ington were compelled to witness their Polish hirelings — hurled back off Soviet soil in crushing defeat. The workers of the entire world were startled and enthused by the heroic exploits of Budenny's red cavalry that thundered up to the very gates of Warsaw. This remarkable drive of the Soviet horsemen, that took them 700 miles from their base of opera- tions, stands as an re achievement in all military a that saved Warsaw and Poland. eets over Warsaw, dropping bombs oviet airfleets dropped tons of jeaflets from the skies, calling on the workers to rise and achieve their own victory.» The Soviet army was not an army of conquest. It stands asithe power that protects the Soviet Polish workers win their own victo | | ca toetization of Shee aniathers erties ew Se enough: to ‘break their own chains. They ression that held them as in a nee lists and landlords maintained he But, the Soviet Union still stands at their eastern border as an inspiration to all oppressed Polish workers and peas- No miracle, in all the religions of the catholics and the protestants, can stop. Soviet Rule from winning its triumph in Poland, not even the “miracles” recognized by the Polish catholic churches or Cal Coolidge’s own protestant “Poles of Ostro- versity of the which it.is claimed Europe, ‘and by the shoe numbers that “A Miracle” 1924. Gaeeeiy. —— ears, with an even greater ave grown to realize that laced Poland within the e new day for all labor. misery, condemned to ident to it, and when AS WE SEE IT (Contmued from page 1) hard and soft, would be the way to tackle the problem of relieving the miners from the evil effects of that contract. . + HEN the Jacksonville pact was signed, the left wing in the coal miners’ union represented by the Pro- gressive Miners’ Committee pointed out that this agreement would wreck the union. Lewis wanted a long term contract. Under the pressure of the government, the operators concided that. There was an election cam- paign coming and the G. O. P., of which Lewis and most of the big op- erators are members, did not want a }coal strike on their hands. It might mean a democrat in the White House. La * ” E predictions of the progressive miners turned out to be only too true. The operators not only violated the Jacksonville pact whenever it suited their purposes, but they also rode rough shod over working condi- tions secured by the miners after many hard struggles. Lewis always favored the operators. Now, when 70 per cent of the soft coal produced in the United States corhes out of non- union pits, he begins to threaten a general strike. What preparation is he making for such a strike? None that can be seen. ” * HEN the British miners felt that a strike was inevitable, they en- tered into negotiations with the gen- eral labor movement and when the bosses threw down their challenge, labor was so powerful and determin- ed that the government surrendered. This is what A. J. Cook, secretary of the British miners’ federation said a few days ago in commenting on the situation: “Il realize now the power we have. Revolution will come. I want a revolution that will have a disciplined army behind it—a revolu- tion that will not only have discipline but will be organized with an objec: | tive ahead of it, a revolution under- standing its goal.” * * ®@ AN anybody imagine John L. Lewis making a speech like that? Only recently Lewis boasted that his exe- cutive committee aided the depart- j ment of justice in exposing the radi- cals in the union to the government. Lewis, like George L. Barry, of the pressmen, and thousands of other la- bor leaders, are agents of the capital- ists and nothing else. Their inter- ests and those of the master class are as identical as those of the Irish bailiffs who used to throw tenants out of their homes at the behest of the landlords. If the American min- ers gO into battle under the leader- ship of Lewis, they are going into battle under a severe handicap. They must organize to get rid of Lewis at the same time that they fight the greedy coal barons. ZEIGLER MINE PIGKETS DEMAND OLD OFFICIALS BE RETURNED T0 LOGAL ZEIGLER, Ills., August 18.—The “wild cat” strike at Zeigler, which to date has taken a toll.of one life, flamed anew this morning when a few scabs who yesterday started ; work at the mines, were halted at the mine’ shaft by pickets and told “there will be no work here today.” The pickets are unwilling that op- erations should be resumed at the mines until the old local officials, who were deposed by the sub-dis- trict officials be reinstated. But tho Berry does not like radicals in the union he has a great hankering for royalty. Did he not initiate the prince of (Wails) Wales, heir to the throne of the British empire, in Local 25, New York? The prince was in the United States doing his stuff for the ruling class of Great Britain. The prince now boasts of a card, No. 01, qualifying him as @- journeyman and IRE foe LS 4 ‘ the consolation they ¢an- out of the fact that they have a member of the royal family in their union. | contemptible flunkey Beery "Yj honorary member-at-large of the I. P. P. and A. U. David Boyle and Joseph C. Orr issued his highness the card. The men who are locked out by the Cuneo Printing Company may slap themselves on the back and get all What a | Action Committee and no . pe Vibe, ae, Bees ¥ — @ RA A eee 2c a ‘ é “ie i ae: pe hp em ‘ ; crt eS ee or ECA oe a Nt har Mi wei PO A aye smenn ae ee a 7 : Vit ff 4'\ i ul - ah | a 4 the rank and file look man gang for leadership, to permit*no boss or bosses to in union affairs. A general sto will be discussed if this continues. The ‘circular distributed thruout New York shops states as follows: Sisters and Brothers:—It js “nine weeks now. 12 sip abel we oy oir a bitter oh ade ges of the J de pres a | tional. In }their attempt to suppr “at raven of. the membership, their cor rule, the —. of sorted ‘ti e most des th- ods: NO‘ weapon was ing for them to employ in their conspir- acy against the membership. Alliance With Bosses. All thefr methods have been a total failure. The cloak and dressmakers have offered an iron wall of resist- ance against all the vicious attacks. The Joint Board has now made an open alliance with the bosses in or- der to break our ranks. This open betrayal of the workers has gone 80 far that the bosses have practically become the chairmen in the shops and force the workers to pay gen to the Joint Board and discharge them by the hundreds at the instigation of the Joint Board machine. This loyal service on the part of the bosses has been rewarded by giv- ing the bosses a free hand to disre- gard al union rules and act as they please in their shops. Thru a secret understanding between the Joint Board and the employers, hundreds of workers have been thrown out of their jobs, under the guise of “reor- ganizations.” Even the Unemploy- ment Insyrance Fund, to which every one of us contributed his or her share, is us as a weapon to force the workers to pay dues to the Joint Board. . Must Say, “Hands Off.” Cloak and dressmakers! You have always shown a splendid spirit in our struggle. You have at every oppor- tunity demonstrated your readiness to defend what you believed to be right | ahd permitted no one to trample upon _ | your rights, The time has come when you must say to your employers: “Hands Off!” The time has come when you must say to the Sigman clique: “Out With Yout” The time has come when you must declare before the entire world that you alone will decide who your rep- resentatives are to be and not the employers. | In order to demonstrate your power and make an end to the present situation, we call on you to stop from work on Thursday afternoon, August 20, 3. o’clock sharp, to demonstrate your .deter- mination to carry this fight to a successful conclusion. Come to the halls that will be as- signed for you. There you will act upon the question of callifg a general stoppage against the employers in the event that they will continue to interfere in the internal affairs Ly our union. It is your solemn duty to come and voice your opinion. It is your duty to come and decide the fate of the cloak and dressmakeérs. We call on all the cloak and dress- ) makers: Operators, sample workers, pressers, cutters, finishers, tailors, drapers, examiners and all other workers in the trade to come and de- cide the outcome of our struggle. JOINT COMMITTEE OF ACTION, Locals 2, 9 and 22. f Pos Furniture Workers Victors in Short Strike (Continued from page 1) honest and courageous leadership of Communists. When, the boss called in the strikt- ers and agreed to grant their de mands, he said he did not know that they were “aM Bolsheviks” and seem- ed surprised that they had taken their grievances to the DAILY WORKER—“a Bolshevik Daper.” Capitalist Press an Enemy. The workers replied that no capi- talist paper, like the Tribune and the others, would aid them at all, on the contrary, the capitalist papers were opposed to aiding them, and they had gone to the one and only genuine workers’ newspaper—the DAILY WORKER. A foreman who was mean and’ hos- tile to the workers, tho he had form- erly been a member of the’ union, is discharged so that any economy made is not to be taken out of the workers’ already scanty wages. The firm was very ashamed to have published that it was the cheapest paying concern belonging to the man- ufacturer’s’ association. The workers are going back this morning in a solid body, fully determined to stick together in the shop and not to per => - ‘* mit farther wage reductions ~ _ 22 one ese ANH ci tan sa ot oe to : ; CLs f Pak ae oe S Sagi Sat 5 z VS Aah Pies Poe ie : 4 P ; 2S es a 7 oe ee ae a Sr. a Pt ted d - ae Se a Rie ee eee oe J why ; oe Te ee Aer Sep a ee Oe ee Se Re hate FSS / ; o eT tats ‘ane - 7 ees ick, ek ete Se a Sh eedt at < aE t ‘ 5 ta Pr Sehr wee, a ros . , ap aes . we a rie we Pas x 4 ae ie de SCE. eyes eg ee Kas? 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te ee ae FSS wD $ OP tae" ie ¥ ~E "ed 7 ie Pe paiebliliedeitcrus lama te darcitin oT a . ea © ease Sate» f " ini a, : ad a 7 3 De 2 the > at RS & ¥ es ot Se jee ae ae: mnsenpi me Sipe oe PE Oye e . Ss sealing 004: aval eae = pa ed 2 hh 20” ie RR, F 7 Free FR MAKERS me ALEKS | = STRIK : ig POODS MORE THAN IN ‘YEAR uoaoow (by Mail.)—According to the central bureau of statistics the MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., August 18. —On Monday evening, August 24, the left wing group of the Trade Unions, FOR THE UNION nEd @y SB Bind RSS ae. he 7 —, OER 4g Ce mene 4 i ae ee. ae. eA . (R. I. (7.0. 8.1.) North American Section of aie RED INTERNATIONAL OF LABOR UNIONS ucational League L. U.) THE T. U.E.L. Himoff Shop Workers gong nm By a Worker Correspondent. NEWARK, N. J., Aug. 18.—To some members in the camp it may be a great surprise to know that Mr. Sing- er is no. longer a member of the Workers Party. Can't Be Done. To those who are still believing that Mr. Singer, can be foreman, right hand of exploitation on one hand— and a fine Communist on the other, we submit the following reasons why he was expelled: 1. He was against the first of May celebration, he advised fellow members, that they will be fired if they all stay away from work on the ist of May. 2. Mr. Singer laid off, or caused to lay off, of several one of the most prosperous states in the union. One would think so at least if you draw your conclusion from the daily press. Green Bay has a population of over 35,000 and as one passes thru the city one sees many large factories. One year ago many of these indus- tries were operating full time while today they stand idle for the most part. I visited at a construction job on the Brown county fair grounds. Carpen- ters receive $2.50 and $3.00 for ten hours. The workers are unorganized. * There are however two carpenters locals, A. F. of L. in the city. “Wages for men I could not learn, for women it is 25 cents per hour. Hundreds of men are idle while women are forced to do heavy work, When operating full force, the about 350 persons. At the present time 35 persons are employed, mostly young boys and girls, Here wages for Arrest Nine Pickets, -_business agent, and G. Rizzo, financial American Writing Paper Co. employs’ inition of the union’s delegates and Others Beaten Up eration of Labor’s federal unions. Workers have been forced to stay at their jobs 45 to 60 hours a week, many of them in unsanitary, poorly venti-. lated little shops. - Some of them are required to clean up the shops after work hours with no extra pay. The average wage of both men and girls has been $16 or $17 a week, declare Charles Palagreco, secretary, of the union. Demand Union Conditions. But now strikera are demanding changed conditions: the 44-hour week; pay and a half for overtime work and double pay for Sunday and legal holiday work; general increase of 25 per cent in wages; minimum wage of $15 a week for learners and $20 for learners in the color work; no non-union labor; no hiring and firing at the bosses’ will; equal divi- sion of labor during dull seasons; col- lective bargain with the union; recog- is now or twice as much as 4 per cent meager than in 1924 and is equal to 72,000,000 desiatines of grain. crop of the U. 8. 8. R. on July 1 was estimated at 3,923,000,000 poods; on July 15 the estimate was increased by 100,000,000 poods. ed to be over four milliard poods. poods more thafi last year. Last year the crop per capita was equal to 20 poods, this year 28 poods, and in some places 50 and 60 poods. The seeded area of fiax increased in pre-war times. The general crop This will be one milliard 20 per cent; sunflower, 18 per cent, The general seeded area in 1925 is drought region, is having an excep- tional crop this year. The gross crop of the province will be equal to 100,- 000,000 poods. According to the Central Bureau of Statistics the total crop of the Ukrai- nian republic will be not less than 1,008,000,000 poods. In the prewar times the maximum of the Ukrainian crop was 1,080,000,000 poods. In 1926, 1,016,000,000. 329,000,000 of this year's crops can be sold. The Department of Finance is intro- ducing new bonds to the value of 300,- 000,000 roubles. The loan is for 4% years and it will pay the bondholders 10 per cent. The loan will be devoted to the reconstruction of Soviet indus- try and agriculture. Export of Soviet Wheat. This year the export of wheat to England will commence in August. Some wheat for France will be shipped very soon ftom the southern ports of the U. 8. 8.R. to Marseilles. The fisheries on the Murmansk (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Aug. 18.—Two gangsters were fined $25 each in the Jefferson Market court on a charge of disorderly conduct for the beating of Jultus Stupackewitz which took place on July 21. On that day, Stupackewitz had been picketing early in the morning and there was no interference of any kind on the picket line. But when, after riding down-town from West 39th street on a trolley car, he arriv- ed at 7th avenue and 21st street, three men jumped out of a taxi ant began to beat him. Stupackewitz had a police whistle which he managed to draw from his pocket, and as soon as he blew it the gangsters ran. They were caught by policemen, arrested and arraigned in the Jeffer- son Market court where their case was postponed until August 5. Again it was set over until today, when both will hold their régular bi-monthly meeting at Moose Hall, 43 South Fourth street, hall No. 1. A special feature of the meeting will be an address by Brother Hed- lund of the rail workers, on “The Con- flict between the officialdom and the rank and file.” Hedlund is well-qualified to treat Workers : Entieniastic About C ommunists NEW YORK, ut: 18.—Shop Nu- cleus No. 7 has again demonstrated the superiority of its form of organiza- tion to that of our present branches. it has demonstrated this clearly by conducting a successful shop strike in a shop that has not had a successful strike ever since its exitence. The workers struck for an increase of about 16 per cent in the piecework rate. The strike centered around onc ployed 250 workers. ‘Thru the activity of the nucleus these workers struck 100 per cent. A delegation represent- ing the workers then called upon the employer, who categorically refused to see them. lt d:i not take five days before the boss had‘to succumb. He then stated department of the shop which em-| | Prayer Unavailing in Class Struggle {esr HENRYETTA, Okla. August 18 Approximately 2,500 miners are idle Starve Rather Than Scab. According to the operators, mines are operating sucessfully as non-union, under the 1917 wage Bris in the district. the scene of bitter struggle for many months. The coal operators have used every means to destroy the min- ers’ union, and force them back” the mines under the starvation scale, of 1917, but the miners have fastly refused to go near the pits um- til the operators agree to live up by? the 1924 agreement, In this the coal mine and plead with scabs to quit, but to no avail. scabs were imported shortly after strike commenced, and have under the protection of the coal — pany and soldiers ever since. When they were brought in at the miners strenuously protested, the result that the armed forces - ee the state were brought to subdue the — miners and protect the scabs. As is 7 Wa ne . active Party | boys are $3.50 for ten hours, while| representatives in all relations’ be-| coast have been very successful this |™M Were fined and discharged. tion pth Shion oi tha Savane" on uayal, the egest ee members, . A - | girls get from $1.25 to $2.00. * |tween employers and workers. year. In one day the fishermen caught | Stupackewitz, who was badly beat-| mands. After some negotiation, the weet into play, trouble sae 3. Mr. Singer is the "Rush” of all In the department stores: where . August is the second busy season | over 60,000 poods of herring. In 1924|cn about the head and face, was one |two sides compromised on one-half of | ™@"tial Jaw declared. One man in the shop—producing high profits | girls are required to dress well, look) 5¢ the year and the fall rush con-| the total catch of herrings was only |of the speakers at the shop chairmen |the demanda which had been asked | !'S °@tly forefathers, and the for Mr. Himoff and Co., and as such, | well, and act well, wages are $1.00 to tinues thru September, so that the for the above and other reasons was expelled from the Workers Party. A man, not a member of the Work- ers Party, who is known as “Honest fouht gamely, but today their conde ~~ I applied for a job at the federal ( su i 92 6 Joint Board, thru its agents, :nade who were th knowiedged lead f ere aa Abe” who through his foolish betray- _| area of sugar beets in 1925 is 6% . e acknow.edged ie ers O' | tions are pitiful to behold. During” ing of workers in the shop, cannot be’ Se ae =. — rise —— bree pen gc tem reves nt sa a larger than in 1923, and covers war on the workers. the Peeps gr: it is expected that'this | the last four years the miners of Ol ‘ 7 i PS double its membership in | h e worked aver of 100 4 trusted—and he, also, spread his niber Pops i ’ Penni Sa dade gilt 294 dessia , The program for : ,nucleus Ww ome worked an age “loyal” cards when he rotused 2 a. week Soe _ i ae tts weit do* pressing are exposed z 1926 is to 8. If you want to thoroughly un- the next few weeks as a result of its | per year, and with the cost of of holiday with pay. $1.50 per day for eight hours. The girls are unorganized. . They Have Their Little Jokes. workers are striking at a strategic . The spring season is from Feb- "ty to April. ‘in addition to the health hazards: day and others inhale poisonous alco: . -bolL.fumes from the 10,000 —, Seeded , of Sugar Beets, According to Teports on, the conven- } tion of sugar beet growers, the seeded meeting at Cooper Union on July 21, the day he was attacked. He ap- peared then with his head bandagoid and told the members of the way the for. According to reports from this nu- cleus the workers of the shop are en- | thusiastically bebind the Communists, derstand Communism—study it. success, rounding up of union leaders too place. re Terrible Privation In Homes. — Since that time, the miners ha comparatively high and st ee This district has been peaceful community the miners’ wives make their daily . to . Said 8 whe es oh here as a result of a strike that starts Table Shows Improvement. ed early in May. The coal mine ie: Represents the Left Wing of the Labor Movement. Ite y ESTHER LOWELL. The burean of statistics of the department of agriculture has published es Fenn Rates iiedisiaih are invit- aie ne ee the p a Purpose Ie to Strengthen the Laber Unions by Amaigamation (Federated Press) very interesting figures about the improvement of conditions of crops from | ed to attend. Interesting business will | gonville agreement, and attempted to\ Se of Existing Unions,. Organization of the Unorganized, and by NEW YORK, Aug. 18.—(FP)—Each June 15 to $s of this year in comparison with the same period of last | also come before the body. operate the mines on the 1917 wage) : © ; Repiaving: Renetindary fae Sines Geltenoration Polleles” with day ie bringing hundreds more of | year: ’ No left winger should miss this | scale which is approximately 38 per; — Vs 3 a Unified Program for ig neg agp the Unions Into flower and feather workers to the ils QUMER nctiien daistes SONNE ccs porting: = it v0 tare unions. | cent less, than the Jacksonville ie : =. . Organs of Revolutionary Class Struggle for the Overthrowal nks of the first thousand who struck se ae June 16 July } June 15 = July 1 n't forget the time and place. ment. ca of Capitalism and the ssuyuein omeaanaten of a Workers’ and Farm- ae rani abe of the industry. Most North Giecasus 2.4 21 3.5 mi! Prayer and fasting is the watch i ere’ Government. of the additions to the strikers’ forces Caucasus ; 24 »8 86 7 word of the “striking women” in bess | oe \t are girls who cannot work while the Siberia 21 ¥ 9 " $1 Henryetta coal mining district. Pu ce ae men who do the painting are striking. a ; prayer is almost universal in the dig- Oe = Already nine pickets have been ar- R. 8, F. 8 Ro. af > S. 8.8 trict, and fasting, or something ach ae S ae . i wane | pected and sbme ef thom Were covery White Russta SORES Gs Wie: Adbsysedenns 3.1 3.0 2.9 3.1 like it is going on in scores of homes s How Workers Should | | !y beaten. All were dismissed in cag 8. * R. re de 2.4 3.4 3.5 where the wiaerd Ae mn aa ee court. ve SSC MOG MmpOTAn « Bag | siege cult to bear. e es i ial flower| period of vegetation, the conditions | are asking for money for food, they Oe Not Live—But Do iy Alcan Ae es Ph go pho: For | became worse, This year, on the con- Gangsters Beat Up a are asking for it daily and Ey ; many months the union members trary, there has been an improvement. Shop Chairman That for it with growing fervor and To the DAILY WORKER: Green|, ve peen building up their organiza- * Samara Crops Good. ed 3} Rul ations point that they will not meekly e Bay, Wis., is favorably located, in} 1:,, Local 853 of the American Fed-| Samara province, located in the Oppos igman Nu 4 ask for it much longer. ~ ‘ ’ af six . ‘ This is the second successful cam- paign conducted by the nucleus in this particular shop. creasing all the time, the miners ft : ly find themselves in starvation ¢ no Telief in sight. to acquaint the dye preparations. “The evils of home work are also being urpose ods of growing” éotton, the ihe Cen. fought by the workers. be ufacturers are taxing them- they citizens? What grade were you in when you left school? Why are you out of a job? Do you own prop- Served the Sucker Right. | He stated, “I will take the money— Send for a catalogue of all Com. munist literature. extra—and continue to work.” But Lord Himoff said, “No, if you don’t want rest, I will give you only erty? Ans, No.. Why not? The job in question. was one as 8 ves a minimum of $50 each for = ‘anti-union fund to fight the strike. e textile trade casian cotton éoémiiiittee is preparing motion pictures’ illustrating the mod- On Wednesday of last week, a 2 aid committee found 16 families with» out food of any kind. The com ern cotton cultivation. The pictures will, show the most important methods and the modérn machinery in cotton growing. Spectal lecturers, experts in cotton growing, will demonstrate these pictures “and will explain all about modern cotton industry. cook, hours were from 5 a. m. to 8:30| T paper announces p. m. wages were $30 per month. at “several of the manufacturers In the land “of the free, and the |have engaged detectives to protect home of the brave,” the workers are|the men working in their factories so meek as to permit themselves to}from intimidation!” But the spirit of be questioned in this manner. the strikers is splendid. The cost of living is exorbitant. Those arrested were greeted as the Rent, for a five room cottage ranges | heroes and heroines of the fight when from $35 to $45. Wood is $9.00 aj|they returned to the strike meeting | cord, coal $16 per ton. and one of those beaten aroused much Some one at the employment office sympathy by his black eye from a said that every few days some one/| policeman’s fist. The workers enthu- ends his misery by jumping into the/|siastically decided to continue the HERO OF SHOP CRAFT STRIKE DIES | (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.-—(FP)— Back from Needles, Calif., where the Colorado river breaks thru the Mojave desert to the Gulf of California, and where the Santa Fe railroad maintains divisional headquarters, comes a be- lated chapter in the story of the de- fensive strike of train crews which took place there when the railways was sucessful in finding a Te mn ration to be distributed among thé half pay.” “°7t serves the sucker right, and a ‘%kick-out will be next, and right step fur you, too. What About a Rest for Ali? In the name of justice, why nbdt give all the employes a week off with pay, Mr. Himoff? All of them work hon- estly for you. Why not treat them all ‘with the same measure? conspiracy and were sentenced—six of them to jail. The last of the six has recently been released. ing physical collapse. Although little relief is in sight, miners are determined to fight it o to the bitter end, their watchword ig “no backward step” in Oklahoma, = = | MINNEAPOLIS coon of them were found guilty of Government Gunmen. ns Cigarmakers Must . Organize Workers But the men stood pat. Daugherty rushed 192 special deputy marshals to Nedles, and under cover of their power the company withdrew its own gun- Boss, You Can’t Beat Us. men, We wish to assure you that thore is no way to lay off the dangerous ele- ment in your shop. ~ All of them in the shop are ex- ploitéd, and as long as they are ex- ploited they will be your enemies. So. you better quit firing. The fired one are not guilty of anything; they simply know their duty and they did it, and others follow them. _ Long live the worker who fights with spirit for better conditions! Down with traitors! VOOUANEALUTALLSUATENDEAADANTEVAOONDEOEOONDAUONUAANUOOOUUEOOSUOUSTOOONDDEAEAUADETONUOOOOUSUEDOEOEDETEUUUUEDEDTODEOUNODENAUON NEL EHEGD EEA DELAUAT HAO The Book | of a Master bay. And even this avenue from capitalist tyranny will end with the freezing of the bay. I visited the Labor Temple and found there are six very weak locals in the city, with a city fireman as lo- cal organizer. These are the rewards the workers reap by foolishly. supporting the pres- ent system. FRANCIS M. DICKEY. Green ‘Bay, Wis., —unless he has NO worker—AND SURELY NO COMMUN- IST—can truthfully say he has a thoro = grasp of Communist principles and practice as put down in these classics written by our great teacher and leader— V. I. Ulianov (Lenin) studied and learned them : S State and Revolution : .25¢ Imperialism— Final Stage of Capitalism. ...15¢ The Proletarian Revolution, | or Kautsky, the Renegade.. 1. 25C Infantile Sickness, or “Leftism” in Communism....... Sc sdedn tad 15¢c Should Communists Participate in Reactionary Trade Unions...............0006 5c THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. “The Source of All Communist Literature” . of escape | Mike Gold’s MM —~ strike to win, altho strike benefits will not be forthcoming until after the second week of the fight. Several years ago the girls in the trade struck and attempted to organ- ize but did not maintain their strength long. During the past year the men working as colorers started a union, secured the aid of the A. F. of L., and began organizing all workers in the industry. Most of the workers are Italians and the rest are Jewish. Are You a Monkey? Is Big Question of Farce NEW YORK, Aug. 18.—Are you a monkey? That you will be able to determine at the outing of the Inter- national Labor Defense on Sunday, August 23, at Pleasant Bay Park. The screaming farce “‘Monkey or Man” by Michael Gold will be given by a fine group of comrades, and a fine performance is promised. Athletic events by the Workers’ Sport Alliance, fun for tAe children, refreshments, or- ganizations of foreign-born workers in their national costumes, and a movie of the whole affair, will be the features. Who does not want to be there? Who does not want to go into the movies? Everybody does, and every- body will be there. Tickets cost 35 cents and you will be doing one of the best things in your life to help the class war prisoners who are in the capitalist prisons. Reserve the date for yourself, your family and friends. Sunday, August 23, at Pleasant Bay Park is going to be the red letter date in New York City. 40,000 Fewer Farmers Last Year. WASHINGTON, August 18.—There were 30,000 fewer farms in the United States last year as compared with 923, and a reduction of land in crops ' of 1,200,000 acres, or one-third of 1 per cent, the department of agriculture has found in a survey of the situation. Build. the DAILY WORKER with subs. in Trust Factories BOSTON, August 18.—(FP)—The gradual passing of the handwork cigarmaker and his displacement by the machine process was emphasized at the twenty-fifth annual convention of the Cigarmakers’ International Union. Since the last convention, two years ago, the number of workers making cigars by the out-and-out hand method has fallen to 7,817 from 13,305, a decrease of 5,488 in two years. The union’s strength is with the men cigar workers and in the smaller shops; its weakness with the women workers and the trust plants. There are 13,863 union men in the trades in the United States and Poito Rico, out of a total of 32,198, whereas oniy 3,236 women carry cafds in the internation al union ont of 's total of 51,19x. ‘The 221 Tobace> Trust plants em- ploy a total of 46,°87 cigarmakers an? packers, 7,178 men and 39,809 women, all non-union. There are altogether : total of 3,140 nonunion establishments and 7,180 union éstablishments, but of the union shops nearly half are one- man plants employing the manufac- turer alone. Industries Amalgamate WASHINGTON, Aug. 18. — The In- diana Bell Telephone and The Amer. ican Telephone and Telegraph Co., of Indiana filed applications with the Interstate Commerce Commssion to- day for authority to buy the proper- ties of the Louisville Home Telephone Co., Independent Long Distance ‘Tele- lephone and Telegraph Co., and the Cumberland Telephone and Telezraph Ce, The consolidation of the telo- phoue properties, it was stated, will eliminate duplication of facilities ix that part of Kentucky and Indiana served by the several companies te. be absorbed . Power Plant For Ireland. DUBLIN, Aug. 16.—The Free State government was today advised that the Siemens-Schuckert company of Berlin had signed the contract for con- struction of the great Shannon hydro- electric plant, calculated to furnish SAH \ | shopmen were on strike in the sum, mer of 1922. Jim West has been fatally shot, anl has died in a hospital at San Bernardi- no. He was chief of police im Needles for many years. An automobile thief, whom he sought quietly to arrest, killed him without warning. Railroad Refused Aid. West was a hero in Needles because of his record in that famous strike. The “boys” were refused an engine and car with which to rush him over the desert to San Bernardino. They raised $1,200 in ten minutes and paid the company for the engine and car. down, a few days ago. He died«next day. When the shopmen’s strike was at its height, and Santa Fe engineers, firemen, conductors and trainmen had complained that the lack of repairs to the engines and cars made their work unsafe, the company imported a force of gunmen who rode on the trains and tried to intimidate the train crews into doing some of the work of shopmen. When the brotherhood men refused, and when conductors asked gunmen for their tickets, the gunmen thrust the muzzles of revolvers against the ribs of the conductors, and with ob- scene and abusive language threatened to “show” them. A delegation of the brotherhood membership appealed to the Santa Fe divisional officials and were ordered out of the office. Daugherty Sends Them to Jail. They decided to stop work until their lives were protected by the with- drawal of the gunmen. Two hundred stopped work. They informed the pas- sengers ‘on trains that were delayed at Needles that the passengers were welcome to be guests in their homes, or'to have meals at the company’s fine restaurants at the strikers’ expense, pending .an adjustment. The passen- gers took the situation in good spirit, but the Santa Fe and the then attor- ney-general of the United States, Har- ry Daugherty, at once raised a false cry that a criminal conspiracy had been carried out to “maroon in the hot desert” a lot of invalids, women and children, and to stop the move-| advance and save your car fare, ment of the mails. prosecutor to Los Angeles, secured a power to a-large section of Irelapd. | Daugherty sent a hard-boiled aH —— indictment of the leaders, and RI ONT BU AAR eae thereby enabling the strikers tu resume work. The deputies began op- erations by ordering all strikers away from railroad property, restaurant, which is located in a city park along the track. Chief of Police West, single-handed, stepped in at this point and offered to defend the rights of the people of Needles to, gather in thelr own park. He forced the depu- tiles to retreat. During all the weeks of armed invasion of the town by Daugherty’s deputies, Jim West stood guard over the rights ofithe strikers. That is why a blacklisted striker passed the hat when West was shot Coolidge Stands by Santa ‘Fe. The reason why R. H. Clements and five or six other men served time for having defended their own “gainst Santa Fe gunmen was that their local lawyers—before general of.- neers of the brotherhood got into ac- tion in their defense—overlooked a legal technicality in the first trial. Appeals to the higher courts and to President Coolidge failed. President Robertson of the Locomo- (ive Firemen and Grand Chief Griffing of the Locomotive Engineers signed an appeal to Coolidge on Oct. 1, 1924, r viewing the wrong done these men, and asking that Harlan Stone, then wtorney-general, drop his opposition to the granting of a new trial. Cool- idge stood by Stone, Daugherty and the Santa Fe. >. - Are You Coming to the Movie Picnic? | feces the rank and file. ‘is in the hands of the most “bona Did you buy a ticket to the picnic | given by the Federation of Russian children’s schools Sunday, August 23, at National Grove, Riverside, TIll.? | Moving pictures of the crowds will be including the | lives | taken and shown al! over the United | States and in Soviet Russia. Tickets | in advance are only 35c and may be | obtained in the Russian Co-op. Restau- rants and at the Workers House, 1902 W. Division St. Get your tickets in -_———— —— - ~—_——__<— C. LU. NOW A PERFECT MORGUE Exclude All Life by Ousting Communists (Special to The Daily Worker) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., August 18 The Central Labor Union has de- cided to meet bi-monthly, instead, as now, weekly. The redbaiters were compelled to make this change, as only a mere handful attended the dignified ses- sions of the C. L. U. And even this handful is always complaining ahout the lack of vitality in the GC. L. U. To overcome this dangerous mani- festation of unrest, on the part of some delegates, the labor fakers pro- posed heroic measures to head it off, about a month ago. They interested the C. L. U. in birth control. However, thig proposition did not Stimulate the desired interest: the workers did not respond, perhaps be- cause it Was a false alarm. The ses- sions of the C. L. U. remained dull, uninteresting, save only. when the credentials of some Communists were presented. Recent reports of the organizer of the C. L. U., fairly teem with sad tales of woe, concerning the unfriend- ly and ungentlemanly attitude of the bosses, who refuse to meet with the unions, to discuss and adjust the srievances of the workers. That is too bad, since nobody can make the Communists the goats for this unpleasant situation. as it af- The C, L. DW fide,” “legitimate,” hone *8t tO goodness respectable trade unionists. That e@x- plains why the C. L. U. is a morgue, The bi-monthly meetings will not improve matters any. While it is | generally concluded that Paul J. ‘Smith with his local cohorts are ex- perts in wrecking and Smashing unions, they are positively worthless in constructive - work. That ig not their mission. Only the admission of Build the DAILY WORKER jit eile to the C. L. U. will make a with subs.
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John Meyers, a’ human being, is thus placed in the same position as a ‘| chattel slave before the war of the states in 1861—toiling from early norning till the sum sef#sin the west-| About one hundred workers heard fee Sha bossioed in the — us South.| James H. Dolsen explain the Com- SHINNSTON, August 18. : The parish, which giaimé that it costs | munist position regarding the strug-| __Fitteen-year-old Hélen Puschover ‘ 75 cents a day to board each soy! gle of the Chinese kiya da? and md defied the state police, and was ar-— : me | : 7 er in its “hogs-groo,” welcomes the | ants for the freedom of their country] pegted. i the: “Why has MacDonald found any-¢———— st . 4 i of getting rid of its prisoners and | from the “Great” powers. Copies of | 6 rp bo lled a ; eel r reaper poe gh ve getting $16.00 per) the DAILY WORKER and the Work- Pay gs pork eis gallon thing improper or michievous in these 1 Murder ee in reat ne . 4 month. This action is legal in the| 4, Monthly were sold. The audience sia ah Se her and told her not |otes?"—asks Mr. Coates, and he goes | ; fen. ag % state of Louisiana, under the terms Of | jigtened y very attentively to the to say that again. And she defiant- | on to say that %¢ ie “wot: uauscal for & NEW ORLEANS, August 18.— St. 4 NEW ORLEANS, August 18—| act 204, of 1908, which permits the/ speech, Local DAILY WORKER} , y repeated jt. f Clair Adams, former New Orleans : @ ov tic re ; 3outhern Louisiana, originally settled readers helped to eframme he meet government thru its diploma P-| prosecutor, tells the bar association leasing of prisoners. The real reason she was arrested | : Ae wee i fitatives to express sympathy with | that the city in to its size EN RE SOR ae . 3 oy the pirates, and home of the orig ing and promised to continue building| was because she was one of the ac- | "°° ’ NEW YORK, A inn: Otel? = ; Pai nal slave owner of the ty sat ne Trucks Kill Worker. up the paper as one of the most ef-| tive persons on the picket line at another, nation, whose citizens may |i8 one of the wickedest in’ the United 3 , August ’ wain reverted to slavery. fe ; a ' all town, not many miles dis: JACKSONVILLE, Ill, Aug. 18.—J|fective means of arousing the class} Qwings, W. Va. have been afflicted with some misfor-| States. Chicago has 1 murder per gation on, a sm ,n é | REPORT ON LABOR CONDITIONS body of workers was as 92.9 on January, 1924. e- more important of the 23 unions are the railwaymen with a 750,000 membership, the clerks with Germany and Italy, the Factory Committees took. over the man- agement from the owners and the technical staff. As in Russia _< as 93.4 on January ist, 1923, and}. determining tle types of equipment eh PART | the former were absentees and the latter were sabotaging the rather less, the metal workers, teachers, textile workers with+which are best adaptable to the in- ; ag Revolution, this was neeessary. But it would have had in time 500,000 each, sanjtary, food supply, miners, landworkers, | dustries of the basin. = CHAPTER | a very bad effect on production. For the committees began builders, all with about 250,000. The proportion of women js| According to Ivanov, the question — Trade Unions to claim that they owned the factories; thus converting the of the kind of equipment will require Labor Conditions A report on labor conditions in the Union of Socialist So- vietist Republics must begin by pointing out that in Russia the workers are the ruling class. For unless the reader bears this in mind throughout he will be misled by much in Russian labor conditions that at first sight seems very much the same as with us. Really everything is quite different; because in Russia we have a regulation of the workers’ rights that they have put upon themselves for their own well-being. Elsewhere we have a restriction of the workers’ rights put upon them by F under Provincial Trade Union neil. More thad 60 are wh- OO Doers Dese ‘tee been the wealthy. Such regulations are in Russia the result of agree At the same time another move of the Fact@ry Committees der the direction of nine regional bureaux, the remainder com-|°°2S@™tY increasing and the pro- ment between the workers and their own expert governors and a : _|duction program for the operating managers to whom they have entrusted their institutions and “4S Checked in the interests of the union migvement. The ing directly under the A.R.C.T.Da : year 1925-1926 provides for a further their industries, their factories and their farms. Elsewhere committees had started Central Councils in Petrogmad and other The horizontal organizat omnis first the Inter-Trade Union | increase of about 65 per cent over . such regulations are the result of treaties and truces between /@T8e towns which were rapidly ousting the Trad@ Wnions. This Proyincial Council, and at the ead the All-Russian Council of | that of last year, bringing up the total the entrenched interests of a wealthy ruling class and the as- saults of a working class that as yet never rules but only rebels. No one who grasps this—and these reports will, it is hoped, make it plain—will ever be misled by the lies he can read almost daily that the worker in RuSsia lives a life as limited as, and with even less liberty than, with us. The Russian workers are the ruling class of Russia. They enjoy the rights of a ruling class. They are beginning to exercise its responsibilities. They still have much to learn, but they have made a start. Ina village school visited by one of the delegates the children were learning to write in copybooks in which over “God save the 28 per cent. and is decreasing. . Trade Union Organization aha Enrollment may be collective or individual, and from it are excluded village and home craft workers (Kustarni) members of craft unions (Artel), businéss managers,- landowners, eta* The Russian Trade Union Movement today is organized under the All-Russian Central Council of Trade Unions (A.R.C.T.U.), which contains representatives from the 23 Central Trade Union Committees, and is elected by the annual All-Russian Congress of Trade Unions:, Locally, the unions are organized workers into a new body of private shareholders. This, of course, was all wrong. The leaders of the Revolution accord- ingly turned to the Trade Unions as a means of enforcing na- tory Com- The management. was checked by the Third Trades Union Confégenc 1917, but was not finally stopped until the Firs ; Congress in January, 1918, which put an end Councils, and made the Factory Committees al Trade Union by applying generally and. compulsor : 5 PRS ciple of One Factory, y ee Pa _a delegate for 3,000 members two delegates for 15,000 and oe in one et eae — ocelneinel a 4 ath Union to Ue fo over 25,000, electec at provincial conferences. Branch- which the factory belonged. For example, in @, Mz “€8 With less than 3,000 are ‘grouped and elect one delegate per factory, not only were the carpenters and bricklayérs emp! 10,000. Only subscribing m may vote. tenet on factory repairs made to join the Metal Workers’ Union, but Trade Union Finance pas! © 5 so also,were the cooks. In the same way erepair shop- | Trade Unions. tp, * Trades Uriion Congress ee My eat The All-Russian Congregs of Trade Unions consists of one : the prin- delegate for each 10,000 members; but provincial branches have : 4 in the industrial reconstructon pro- gram whch is at present being car- ried out by the Soviet government. cent of the total output. Output Increasing. In recent years the output of the to over 800,000,000 poods, or about 14,000,000 tons. The importance of the Donetz Bas- the vicinity of the large Ukrainian metallurgical industry which has also shown rapid progress during the past year, having increased the total pro- duction by 84 per cent over that of the previous year. spend @ month in this country. Some careful consideration since the Donets — industries occupy a leading position — ‘ The Donetz Basin is the chief . source of hard mineral fuel in the © Soviet Union furnishing about 75 per in is augmented by its, situation in The delegation of the Donugol will | | 100,000 inhabitants, while New Or-| Coal Mining Industries of the Doneta ~ - _ 27, Columbus, Ill, was | consciousness of the workers here. She was a 6:30 a, m. — - , ot: dex: te in Soviet Ukraine, known as = x mat frome here, where a gers Sealy ana today when two heavy} In order to hold the meeting in the} Saturday merninaan jftaken to the The labor government under Mac- Saeed ve hee “Stier cock oe tek Donugol,” i arrived itv ° cE a — mot Feld oki grrtitewes trucks of the Eoff Road Construction | public square, it was necessary to se-} Haywood police headquarters and Donald himself afforded an example shop paradise. © | . this country for the purpose of plac ~ = Eg rand . ana th iney | Company collided between Pittsfield | cure a permit. Upon being asked for| held under $500 ly, The yellow | thereof, when it sent a message of , | ing orders for mining equipment to ag ra ar-tngeg ae = on Oger: and Barry. Two other members of|this permit, the chief of police asked | dogs and state Relice, have been sympathy and condolences to the So- bee tf be carried out thru the Amtorg Trad’ ee laa’ Meyers, who tags out aj the construction crew were painfully | only one quesion: “Is it going to be e | keeping a close sh, for her for Kon) ee on the occasion + - Build the DAILY WORKER ing Corporation. The’ det Hon ta: a 10-dollar fine, for violating the liquor | hurt. religious or patriotic meeting?” the last four months, ; nin s war ¥ e; with subs. sr . headed by the Vice-P of the: - : a rset ai: ? . wtp eae Farg sf < see pitted | 4 fiend Prat : ie ’ THE OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE BRITISH TRADE a : a am ’ ‘ ; ; ; 1 t : hy eg ) UNION DELEGATION TO SOVIET RUSSIA 4 ‘ | Thru Courtesy of the Copyright in the United States by the International Publishers Co, “a i - International Pub- ek, All Rights Reserved. _ ee Th | nf | a . : Wishers Co. Copyright by the Trades Union Congress General Council in Great Britain. || S. Lebedev, Dmitri M. Sushevsky, and . | oe | ) Sa , et N nischast-B6. GhIbOew. 6s ee soe | , ’ . | munist ‘Government was to restore control over the Factory 1923 by 32 per cent. for industrial and 31 per cent for non-in-|- peda ce pierce | 2 | ( Continued f rom Yesterday S Daily Worker ) | Committees. These committees were the first a of the dustrial members. ~The percentage of untoutets to the whole|, Prior to placing their onders,. the 8 ‘+ Soviet system and the motor that drove the Revolution. As in In the absence.of any : members of the delegation, however, — ‘idea of how th axpect to stay longer for the purpose | -- Tsar” had been pasted, “Once we were slaves, now we are free.” menqain. the Ralwaymen's: Union: ane EN 4 eee: ions it is diffieult to get a | ar | ds are freely allocated wherever-~ of supervising the filling of the om | . Elsewhere in Europe the industrial revolution in the course join the, Metal Workers’ Union. — ete especially as any available shed balance sheets of the un- 2 of a century had taken the power from the old rulers of the This principle of “One Factory, One Union,” has become a A My upper class, the landed gentry, and given it to new rulers from’ the middle class—the men who have made money. This has been for us a mixed blessing. The old ruling caste had its training and traditions, its sense of public responsibility and its own personal relations with its dependents. The new ruling class has none of these things. The Bolshie who denounces the Bourjouy as a vulgar and vicious plebeian can make at least as good a case as the Bourgeois who denounces the Bolshie as a vile and violent proletarian. But in Russia this process of transfer of power from the upper to the middle class, was only just beginning. Thé replacement of the upper class, whose economic power was their fold on the land, by the middle class, whose economic power Was their hold on capital and credit, was interrupted while in an early stage by the social revolution of 1917, that transferred power straight to the workers. What is now going on—has been going on since 1921—and will go on for the rest of our livés, is the working out of compromises in Russia between the Bolshevist ideal of a society based on pub- lic work and the Bourgeois ideal of a society based on private wealth. These compromises made to suit the very different condi- tions and characters of the Russian would not, as they are, suit But there is much to be learnt from them if we will bear in mind all the time—that the Union of Soviet Republics is not us. the United Kingdom—that Russians are not British—and that a Soviet institution is, in its origin and object, quite different from the English institution into which it has to be translated. All this must be remembered, for example, when we speak of a Russian Trade Union. Trade Unions (a) Pre-War Period.—The course of the Russian Revolu- tion can be very well seen in the light of its effect on Russian Trade Unionism. Russian Trade Unionism must not be con- fused with the Russian medieval guilds and craft unions which kept a liveliness long lost elsewhere in Europe. Russian indus- trial Trade Unionism proper was, when the Revolution broke out, at the first fighting ‘stage of its development, and never was in Russia such a protection against armed revolution as it has been elsewhere. This was because the industrial popula- tion was of late growth, was shut out from any share in ruling the country, and was condemned to the worst possible condi- tions of life. Russian Trade Unionism which began, with a political movement, that of the Russian Social Democratic Par- ty, would in time have educated the people politically and ele- vated them economically. But it was shut down by Tsarism and remained illegal until, 1905; though at times it was en- couraged and even exploited by Tsarism, as in the “Gapon” and “Fubatoft’” Associations. In 1906, after the first rebellion, Trade Union membership reached 200,000. But the unions wefe then again suppressed and driven underground, where they came fin- ally under the control of revolutionaries. - (b) Revolutionary.—The Revolution, when it broke out, used the unions as a revolutionary force. But even so union- ism was from the first divided as to the class war. The more skilled a trade was and the higher its social status the more op- posed it was ‘to class war. For example, the printers were against—-the metal workers for war. In the railways the clerks were peaceable, the others warlike. The anti-war unionists supported the middle classes with strikes and sabotage; and the first phase of the Revolution was fought within the ranks of the unions themselves. The Third Trades Union Conference (June, 1917), based on a menmibership of 1,500,000, showed a majority against class war. But after the Bolshevist Revolu- tion the First Trades Union ‘Congress (January, 1918), with 2.000,000 members, came out for War Communism. Thereaft- they seem-most wanted. Thus,.since a year ago, the A.R.C.T.U. has given monthly grants, of 41,500 roubles to the Land and Forest Workers for organizing expenses, and another 5,000 rou- bles to make up the subscriptions of provincial branches to Pro- vincial Councils; and yet another of 1,500 roubles to support pérmanent part of the Soviet system. ,One result of it is the getting rid of all overlapping and competition between unions— another is the division of unionism into 23 national industrial wee which are permanent and not as elsewhere constantly amalgamating and seceding. &% * ; as . s ¢ Lhe giving of governmental duties to the industrial unions sei a a Agu perme aggre is f th was.a war measure, and the stability of the new State under the __. e turning nah rage thee ucat neags enterpr es of the storm and stress of foreign invasion and domesti¢ insurrection “2!0ns to the State is not complete; much adult education being was undoubtedly due to the strength thus obtained. Instead of retained by the rings as. described in the py section the State being, as it were, perched on one leg, that of parlia- dealing with it. In respect of this, subsidies, as there described, mentary representation, the Russian State was ‘propped by a tripod—a representation through the Soviets, andther through the Trade Unions and a third leg that was never fully grown, the Co-operatives. The next step was to make membership of a union compulsory, and to suppress the oppositién ‘maintained by the Menshevists as late as 1920. But, unfortunately, no allows the unions to undertake expenditures which are only in- directly educational. It is clear that so long as the Trade Unions continue to. do so much work for the State they will, like the co-operatives, continue to receive support from State funds. There are, for are received from the State and it seems likely that this also: sooner was this done than the unions began as Official organs to lose contact with and the confidence of the mass of non- partisan workers. As the Trade Unions became more and more: State organs controlling production, so their Central Executives grew in ad- ministrative authority. ernment organs of the first importance. the Council of Labor Control, which, as State ownership devel- oped, became the Supreme Council of National Economy, a Out of them there grew several gov- The first of these was change of name which expressed the changed nature of the Trade Unions’ responsibility. This Council was in fact an Eco- nomic Executive equal in importance to the Council of Com- missaries, the Political Executive. Meantime the Central Ex- ecutive of the Trade Unions themselves was, and still is, the Central All-Russian Council of Trade Unions created in Ju 1917. example, large grants to Trade Union educational work from the co-operatives which themselves are subsidized by the State, The financial position of the unions seems to be improving. In January, 1923, the A. R. C. T. U. and about half the Central Executive Committees were in deficit, but in January, 1924, only three of the latter. In 1923, the Provincial Inter-Union Coun- cils in deficit were reduced from 60 to 15 and now ten; though more than half the Provincial Councils are still in deficit. Con- tributions are beginning, however, to be better a especially where individual payment has been re-introduced. In 1923, on- ly about 60 per cent. of the contributions were being paid—in 1924 about 70 per cent. The normal subscription which is 2 Yer cent. of the wage, is received by the Factory Committees and remitted to the section which administers the funds, pay- ing 10 per cent. to the Inter-Union Provincial Council, and up té 25 per cent. to the Central Executive of the union. . During this period Trade Unionism and Communism were practically the same. The Third Congress in April, 1920, of whose 1,229 delegates 949 were Communists, passed a resolu- tion to the effect that the Trade Unions should’ conform their policy to that of the party. ? (c) Recent Reconstruction.—When the New Hconomic Pol- ioy was Coming into force in the winter of 1920-21,.the part to be played by the Trade Unions ‘was still under disptigjé between the Bolshevist policy of Trotsky, who wished to makéjthe Trade Un- ions into Government organs which should act y themselves run the industries, and the Trade Union point of view, support- ed by Lenin, that the unions should look after the interests of the workers. The Trade Unions and Lenin won. And the New Economic Policy, as adopted, relieved the unions of much of their responsibility for managing industry and administering national production and restored them to their ofiginal duty of regulating work and wages. The first move in this direction came from the Central Committee of the Communist Party on December 28th, 1921, and was adopted by the Central Council of Trade Unions in February, 1922. By the time the Fifth Congress of Trade Unions met in September, 1922, the new policy was already under way and the task of the Congress was to reorganize the unions on their present basis. ‘The restoration of the unions to their usual functions, though it reduced their numerical strength, at once restored their moral status as the workers’ own organization. Village and Home Craftworkers (Kustarni) were dropped from the Un- ions, and membership fell almost by half, from 8,500,000 in July, 1921, te 4,500,000 in October, 1922, after avhich it again began to increase. The process of restoring the unions to a voluntary and contributory basis was thereafter continued without further loss of membership. Collective voluntary mem- bership was introduced in’ 1923, then individual membership, and finally individual payment of contributions. Individual Trade Union Status The legal status and the industrial functions of the unions are defined in the Labor Code and have little that is unusual. The legal function of the unions is defined as (a) representation and (b) protection of the workers. Trade Union Activities (a) Restriction of Activities—-Under War Communism, contributions, were were paid by the State, out of national funds; but under the New Economic Policy the unions suddenly found themselves obliged to pay their own way. Their difficul- ties were increased by the depreciation of the currency and the heavy deficits in their budgets. Thus Central Committees’ ex- penditure sometimes is four times the revenue; and in local committees the deficit is generally one-third the total. This heavy expenditure is partly due to the efforts of the unions to carry on what remains to them of their political and education- al work for the State. Want of money soon-put a stop to most of the useful educational work of the unions. Their primary schools were first given up, then the technical schools in many cases, and occasionally even the adult classes for illiterates. In most cases this work was transferred to the educational au- thorities. But although this work is being yearly cut down for want of money it still causes heavy outgoings on salaries and administration. In the course of 1922, provincial Trade Union officials had to be reduced by three-quarters, and central offi- cialdom by one-third. But salaries still constitute a very large part of the expenditure. In other respects economies have been so drastic that of the great scheme for linking up the Trade Unions all over Russia, only the central organization remains intact. The Provincial Councils survive, but the 504 district offices have been reduced while the local secretariats have al- most disappeared. In the central organization the 15 depart- ments have been reduced to 8, and the 268 officials, of whom defs. mei TEACHER BARRED unbecoming of a teacher” in 1919 is by the state board of education. The New York Teachers’ Union has been active thruout the period in fighting for Glassberg’s reinstatement. The American Legion protested. Frank D. Dilbert, acting commissioner of educa- tion, handed down the decision which bars Glassberg from again teaching in New York schools. Glassberg was accused of making statements which caused his “pupils to receive and retain sentiments of dsiloyalty to and disrespect for and contempt of the constituted .authori- ties of the national government in time of war, and of the board/of edu- cation of the city of New York.” Specifically, Glassberg was charged with stating to his classes that the United States government was sys tematically suppressing true reports about Russia and the Soviet govern- teacher could not tell the truth to his pupils. i “While the evidence presented upon the trial tending to show that , ap pellant was guilty of the charges against him is not conclusive,” ‘06 department states, “it is sufficient to justify the application sf the rule that upon appeal to the commissioner of education that person shall sustain the findings unless there is “some revers- ible error in hearing prejudicial to the appellant.” Painter Killed; Wife Sues, NEW ORLEANS, August 18.—The Jefferson Construction company is de- fendent in a suit for $100,000, filed by Mrs. Ruby Grice, who claims her hus- band, a painter, met his death owing to a scaffold falling 80 feet, which was made up, it is alleged, of inferior and defective lumber, and _ insecurely erected. German Economists Visit Black Sea. MOSCOW—A group of over 20 Ger- has asked the Soviet Commercial Fleet Board to place a steamer at their dispesal for a scientific trip in the has been granted. sr, Trade Unionism became throughout the reign of War Com- membership and payment is now the rule for 76 per cent. 55 were Communists, have been reduced to 215 of. whom 50 BFA! 32: 4on want to tho hl : satanaienn (1918-1921) an important-instrument of government. he membership in January, 1924, was 5,646,000, and iN Gonmunists. ~~", (To be continued in next issue.) | derstand Chinmtalaiecabede ote The first thing the unions had to do on behalf of the Com- October, 6,004)e0v, the membership having im ased during | ? i { | 3 —— : TD ce ae, - cs FOR DEFENSE OF SOVIET RUSSIA NEW YORK, August 18.—Dismissal of Benjamin Glassberg for “conduct upheld after stx Years’ consideration ment and that he, Glassberg, as a’ the conduct of such — man learned economists, of Hamburg, — * Black Sea in September. 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errr - et : we PS ce COR ew pats Se ae aa ee Oe argh ee eee eee wo ‘ pews ted os a fre xe oa ee Ne Poe ho: oe eT $ TT Pe Paes ee aoe Me ete tr eR a Peet. eee ae oe Fe Ne oe RR neg Cage Me UR ce! Bee ER OO AE, Ee : s d i ‘ae ames Be eee Pe Tae eet ‘. Se OF ever at 3 Te oe ee \ AS ie ier a To ial ss gets 5 oe be Si is 1 Aa Rose it Ria lige ° etitches), - valuable hints Pg the home ‘dressmaker he aa Ue eadicacisaats SI a ARE OS RA RI we ” *w,! “ NEW YORK, Aug. 18.—(FP)—"The strike of 20,000 bank clerks in Paris, Cherbourg, Nimes, and other widely separated cities of France is indica- tive of the nm? Saat difficulty of the workers of France to make both ends meet,” says Hays Jones, Federated Press correspondent visiting in New York from France. “Discontent has been brewing among the bank clerks for a long time and recent increases in«taxes and living costs coupled with the diminishing value of the franc have been observed keenly by them. “Il have talked with. French . bagk clerks,” says Jones, “and have been mufprised at the low Wage they re eweoivs,”°In several provincial banks af- fettéd by ‘this strike, clerks have told mé that they receive 20 francs a day. Tlié Pafis scale is slightly higher, clerks occasionally receiving as much as 1,000 francs a month, $50 in Ameri-. can money at the present exchange rate. ‘Forced to Wear Natty Clothes. “Of course 1,000 francs has a great- er buying power than $50 in America. It would more nearly equal $80 in the American market. But bank clerks find this not enuf to keep up the standard of dress and living demand- ed by their employers. These require- ments are much the same as in Amer ica: natty clothes and impeccable per- sonal appearance, “The 15,000 Paris clerKs are not all the city’s financial workers by any means, but they are enuf to indicate that the banking institutions of thx city aré severely crippled. This is further shown by the fact that the minister of finance is afraid that the strike will hurt the new French gold basis bond issue. . With the sugport of 10,000 clerks in the provincial cities they should win their strike: “The cost of living has risen rapidly and steadily in France and especially in Paris. Many Strikes Predicted. “A long series of strikes and indus- trial wars oh ne is bound to follow the rec texes. I expect that other workers will follow the bank clerks’ action.. Their stfikes will be more effective and orderly because organization is stronger among the mechanical work- ers... Government employes and pen- sioners received an increase during the spring session of the législathra ‘Their-unions ‘insist, howerer, thaf tte” increase was not enut Other workers in France have not ‘received any in- crease of wages to balance against in- creased costs largely caused by” aug- mented taxes and the Riff wars) “As an indication of the low wages of French workers generally, | naa that the slogan of the French , munist Party is: 20 francs a aay tor every worker!” — Build the DAILY WORKER with subs. — ihr PRU gua: gE EO PREECE or, : ; bf : ‘ ’ ° e , piling up of living costs and |. otectar itt a - ra | ry at Pe CD eee rr ae ? TE yp it eee A. Bon tee ~ 5 ais Vt 7 ne Bs Pe ey ge ni EA en Panel +d AP aia ee at Falak rs, 8 Social-Democrats, 8 working class.of Kharkov. gation began its investigations by examining the town. The Kharkov ..working men and women, employes, offi Red Army men and ‘athletes _ cordons along the street for a natn Abas miles and greeted the d with enthusiasm. A part of the delegation, including Offenhagen, visited the president of the Ukrainian Central Executive Com- mittee, Petrovski, with whom the dele gates had a conversation upon the political and economic situation in the (By hinlihationed ‘Press Correspondence.) moscow, July 27—(By Mail.)—On Sunda sg of the German workare’ delegation consisting of 18 mem- 8 Communists and two non-party workers under the leadership of the Social-Democrat Offenhagen, arrived in Kharkov. They were received with enthusiasm by the afternoon a After a meeting in the open air at which Uvarov welcomed the delegation. to: the. capital of the Ukraine in the name of 200,- 000 Ukrainian workers and the social-democratic miner, Schel- the will of the delegation to learn the truth singer, expressed about the Soviet Union, the dele-* tailed questions upon the composition of the state officials, the situation of the intellectuals, etc. Another group visited the prisons, examined the system there thoroly and declared that the condition in the Ukrainian prisons with regard to hy- giene, moral and material considera- tions, were on a far higher level than the prisons in Germany. The delegates talked with the pris- oners and were surprised to discover that most of them received holidays in order to perform the work on the. colony in which }. Interest, and asked ts and the non-party ‘exactly the same ‘convinced them- Was the case and stances where Commun- ist workers were less favorably housed than ndp-party workers. In the eveningtra mass meeting took place in honor of the German delega- tion at which Patrovski, the people's commissar for justice, Skryptnik, and the chairman of the Ukrainian trade union council, Uvarov, delivered speeches of greeting. Offenhagen declared in his speech that he was deeply moved by the real regard of the Russian and Ukrainian workers for the delegation. “We were net able to iné the immensity of your And your economic successes po Amma than your ideological ones e all less than the great succelia ttiat the workers fee! themselves masters of the country, but your economic’ successes are also particul; arly in the Uk- raine w most from the gop ie war. tortures of “We wish to woe no wprouines which we cannot fulfill, but we prom- ise to expose the campaign of lies which have bein spread about you and to tell the German: workers untiringly that the Soviet Union is the one and only country of the workers, a real peoples’ state, “We know well ; that there is no ab- a | ie Rassia Seen Thra Different Spectacles . a 2 Ee ——e \ AS ham | Ei niuitne HALAL Ukrainian Soviet Republic which eda aaa ri oe . were particularly het “relations between’ the Ukrainian Soviet Republic and Be other Soviet Republics of the Union, in the situation of industry and agri- culture, in wages, etc. - 3 To the question of one of the dele gates who asked how much he and the [ rest of the government members drew in wages, Petrovski replied that the highest wage possible was 100+ rubles. On his part, Petrovski asked dent and the members of the German government. LL — é ~<~2sleoute ootk 5103. In this instance cretonne was used to make the Dress, and broad- cloth to make the Blouse. Fiannel, potigee, taffeta and linen are also at- tractive for this model. The Pattern is cut in 6 Sizes; 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, and 44 inches bust measure. To make this model as il- lustrated for a 38 inch size will re- quire 3% yards for the Dress and 3% yards for the Blouse and godets of $2 inch material. The width of the dress at lower edge is 1% yard, Pattern mailed to any address on reciept of 12c in silver or stamps. | Send 12c in silver or stamps for our KASHION BOOK NOTICE! rer 1Zc in silver or stamps for our Fall and Winter, ng ‘iiinetre ting 30 | ~ FOR THE “SMALL BOY” 5068. Checked gingham, poplin, pique, linen and flannel may be used for this model. The smock closes at +the right side of the front. under a j facing or trimming. band,, as illus- trated. The Pattern is cut in. 3 Sizes: 2, 4 and 6 years. A. 4 year size re- quires 1% yard of 36 inch material with % yard of 36 inch contrasting material for collar and facings. ,_ Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in. silver or stamps. Send 12c in silver or stamps for our UP-TO-DATE FALLL .AND WINTER 1925-1926 BOOK OF FASHIONS, NOTICE TO PATTERN BUYERS—The patterns being sold thru the DAILY WORKER pattern department are fur- nished by a New York firm of pattern manufacturers. Orders are forwarded by the DAILY WORKER every day as re- pine and they are mailed by the man- ufacturer direct to the customer. The DAILY WORKER does not keep a stock of patterns on hand. Delivery of Fh terns ordinarily will take at least 10 = from the date of, roailing the order. not become impatient if your pattern “” delayed. GARY, IND4 ATTENTION! The DAILY WORKER, Work- ers Monthly,’ Ra otnicza Tri- buna and N ir are for sale at the Workers’’ Co-operative Restaurant, 1733 Broadway. about the wages of the German presi-. The delegates put de- OUR DAILY PATTERNS p b Nae land at home, and that the prisoners a club of their own which they a s declared that the level of faci ell. was much milder than in rade union council, the peoples’ com issariat for labor, the central ‘ere’ union after which they formed ‘theniselves into groups accord- St themselves. After examin- ous cases of punishment the | Hhany. ‘i ‘The, ‘delegation visited the Ukrain- ‘countil for social insurance .ad the ‘central committee of the metal work- fing to occupation. and _ visited ‘warious factories. In the metal works “Sickle and Hammer,” the delegates held long discussions with the work- -ers upon all questions concerning the life of the working class, after which ‘a meeting was held, at which the del- egates, amongst other questions, ask- ed how many religious workers were ‘present. Amongst a thousand work- ers there were four. Further, the delegates visited the ! Your Union Meeting | Third Wednesday, Aug. 19, 1925 % ») Name of Local and No. Place of Meeting. 38 Amaigamated Clothing Workers, 1564 N. Feyeehiga St. 179 B. @ S. I. W., Stone Derrick, 180 W. Washington St. 131 eA ne Federation, 62nd and 2 Brick. aa Clay, Village Hall, Lan- ng. 12 Garfield Bivd. Western and Lexing- 5443 S. Ashland Ave. Blacker’s Hall, Lake 180 W. ieee nates St. 505 S. State Carpenters, iB rpenters, Caraanters, Carpenters, orest. Carpenters, Carpenters, nia inst 2 1638 N. ‘Halsted St. Rec. . 2253 Grace St. “Irving 5887" Carpenters, 6414 S. Halsted St. Carpenters, 113 S. Ashland Bivd. Carvers (Wood), 1619 N. Calor nay oe (R. ark 127 N. Fran- cisco Pp. Electricians, 127 WN. Francisco Ave. Engineers, So. Chi., 11405 Michigan enue. Firemen and Enginemen, 7429 $s. Chicago Ave., Firemen and Enginemen, Lake and Francisco, 9:30 m. Hod Carriers District Council, 814 . Harrison S$t. Janitors (Mun.), Kedzie and Bel. mont. 5 Ladies’ 328 W. Van t. Machiniste, ‘B18 W. 55th St. Machinists, 3802 W. Madison St. Machinists, 1182 Milwaukee Ave. amenenpe of Way, 5324 § Garment Workers, Marine Cooks, 357 N. Clark St, Moulders, 2800 W. Madison St. 54 Painters, Sherman and Main Sts., Evanton, lil. Painters, 180 w. Washington St. 893 Painters, Moose Wali, La Gran Painters, Odd Fellows Hall, Biue island. Plasterers, 910 W. Monroe St. Poultry and Game, 200 Water St. wey Clerks, 549 W. Washing- Railroad Trainmen, 812 W. 59th St. mpuvess Trainmen, 64th and Uni. Sheet rahetal,..? 714 W. Harrison St. i pa by (Soda), 220 S. Ashland Vv S. Ashland Bivd. S. Ashland Ave. 5015 N. Clark $t. r Grafts, Chicago and Weatert Thiies (Note—Unless Teamsters, : Teamsté6rs, 6 s. Hal.” t salute jresitiiel ‘a seek” icckihdery, that class: enjoys com- plate freedom, know also that freedom for SN ibcrgecisle would mean suicide pit ‘the: revolution. “Before our départure we were told that everything’ Wé°would see would be made up espécially for us. Potem- kin villages would ‘be prepared for us, etc. Today we can only laugh about it. toipt “We declare emphatically that we have witnessed tiie devotion of the masses of the Ryssian people to the Soviet Union. .I have never in my life seen such enthusiastic, flery and joy- ful sage have seen in Kharkov cane “The slogan -which we shall take back to the German workers will: be ‘nearer to the -Soviet Union.’”’ After the speech, Offenhagen em- braced the chairman of the meeting, Petrovski. The meeting gave the German delegation enthusiastic ova- tions, only the wo Poathgred, Moscow and An equally enthusiastic reception for the German delegation is reported from Perm, Rostov on the Don. The delegation is studying eagerly the con- ditions in the working class organiza- tions, shops and factories, official in. stitutions and schools. Challenge Vote-of Six Counties. WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.—The en- tire vote in six loWa counties has been challenged by swpervisors either for Senator Brookhart, republican, Dr. Daniel F. Steck, democrat, the senate elections committee announced today. s of workers as ” BUILD DERS AT ORK JUST A WORD OR TWO THIS IS A DELICATE SUBJECT! At all times in the year a fighting paper of the* workers has a difficult time in existing. It is always as poor as the work- ers in whose interests it battles. It must depend on.subscriptions and occasional donations alone. will not advertise. not be accepted. The summer time is particularly a difficult one. “Businessmen” who have no desire to help the workers “Fake” advertising, even tho it “pays,” will July and August are dangerous “Dog days” forzevery newspaper and a working class newspaper has a mostdifficult time indeed. in these days, when the DAILY breath, it isn’t only because of the So WORKE R has often to gasp for The stacks of unpaid bills, the money owing to the “Daily? ‘by workers for subs, for bundles and for books—make it difficult for WORKER to function properly. the DAILY At this time when the DAILY WORKER is having “rough weather” it is proper to give out a modest and gentle and a most delicate hint that this is the time to pay your bills. If you want to help the DAILY WORKER out of danger in this crisis—pay. No matter how little you owe ... pay it. No matter how much you owe... pay as much as you can no matte? how little that is. GIVE THE DAILY WORKER A BETTER CHANCE TO BUILD THE LABOR MOVEMENT. STRIKE TIES UP YALE BUILDING, ASK MORE WAGES NEW HAVEN, Conn., Aug, 18.— Nearly 3,000 building trades unionists of New Haven are affected by, the strike declared for carpenters, elec- trical workers, roofers, plumbers, steam fitters and painters to assist the already striking hod carriers and building laborers in winning their de- mands. Work worth over $3,000,000 is held up, including Troup junior high, Hop- kins grammar school, the new Yale dormitory, theater and cnereh: baild- ings. Only bricklayers are not’ ‘Gluing because of an agreement whitch’ pre- vents them from joining in ‘labor dit- ficulties for two years to come,, Laborers and hod carriers have been striking over two weeks for 75 fents instead of 65 cents an hour pay for laborers and 85 cents for hodcarriers. Complete unionization of jobs “dg also demanded. Master builders have re- peatedly refused to consider the: union workers’ demands so the § general building strike was called. ) American Ship Afire. NORFOLK, Va., Aug. 18.—With a fire in her hold, the shipping board steamer West Harcuvar put back to Baltimore with all possible speed. PITTSBURGH, PA. To those who work hard for their money, | will gave 50 per cent on all their dental work. DR. RASNICK DENTIS* 645 Smithfield Sereek, St. Louis, Mo., Attention! Phone Forest 8749. Joe Kaizer Candy Co. HOME MADE CANDY iCE CRE/.M LIGHT LUNCHES PHILIP RACHEFF, Manager 4975 EASTON AVENUE St. Louis, Mo. | TWENTY-TWO DAY AUTO RACE IN SOVIET UNION, AMERICANS ENTERED LENINGRAD, U. S&S. S. R., Aug. 18.—American entries led in the trans-Russian automobile race from Leningrad to Tiflis and back to Mos- cow, which began today and is ex- pected to last 22 days The partic- ipants in the race made their get- away at 8 o’clock this morning. Democracy Springs a Leak. WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.—A small sensation was sprung in the senate ‘elections committee today when it was discovered that 200 ballots cast in the contested Iowa senatorial elec- tion ‘between Senator * Smith W. Brookhart, and Daniel F. Steck, dem- ocrat, are missing. The missing ballots are from Win- tegset.precinct in . Madison county The tally books show:that 139 out of tne votes were cast for St:ck, and 61 for Brookhart. ; The committee ordered an immedi- ate investigation. Build the DAILY WORKER with subs. elererereserens Sian papers received here, -;ploration and -charting AT TEND SOVIET ‘| ACADEMY JUBILEE 200th ‘Aialoatenry Will Be Celebrated in Sept. WASHINGTON, D.'C., Aug. 18— The Russian Academy of Sciences at Leningrad, founded at the end of the reign of Peter the Great, has com- pleted its program for the celebration of its two hundredth jubilee anniver- sary in September, according to ad- vices received by the Russian Inform- ation Bureau here, tists from a score of countries attend. The program, extending from Sept. 5 to 14, includes sessions at.both Leningrad and Moscow, gala perform- ances of the opera in Leningrad and of the Moscow Art Theater in Moscow, banquets tendered to the visitors by the Kremlin. Américans t Attend. 4 )Leading American unfversities and ‘scientific societies have been invited to send representatives. Among those who will attend, as reported in Rus- are Dr. H. H. Donaldson of the University of Pennsylvania and Professor Frank A. Golder of Leland Stanford. Dr. Judah L. .Magnes, formerly of New York, versity of Jerusalem. Mr. Henry Mapers and Professor Archibald Thomson will represent the London Royal Society at the jubilee. Among the delegates from Germany will be Professor Einstein, Carl Neu- berg, director of the Biochemical In- stitute in Berlin, and Gustave Tam- men, professor of chemistry at the University of Goettingen. Fraternal greetings have been received from a number of American scientists. The Russian Academy comprises 46 scientific institutions and numbers 462 workers. Its presidium consists of 41 academician members, and four Russian and fifteen foreign honorary members, and it has 144 Russian and 167 foreign correspondents. The libra- ry of the Academy now contains over 4,000,000 books and manuscripts. Since the revolution several of its in- stitutes and museums have greatly expanded. During the year 1924 the Academy held 64 meetings, at which 112 scientifiC papers were read, it published 55 scientific books, and it sent out 76 scientific expeditions. Expands Under New Regime. | Leibnitz, the German mathemati cian, drew up the original program of the Academy. In its long record of distinguished scientife service, per- haps its best known work is the ex of Russia's great expanses of territory. Under the late czar the Academy*was handi- -capped by the general administrative disorganization, and, during the period of. civil war its scientists suffered great hardships, but with the eco- nomic. recovery the Academy has en- tered on a new period of expansion. - Author of: Lenin—The Great Strate- gist 15 Cents Role of the Trade Unions in the Russian Rev- = HANDS OFF CHINA! China. Today it is lies. Russia! W. Washi ization, Workers Part free distribution. 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aR ME OLE ros PAP OVE eH 2, .- \ ‘ «te > * A ek ae. at 25 af the 5h ag 3 _ boys in the future. i ashy + — 2 | by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING co, Phone Monroe 4712 w. Washinevon Blvd., Chicago, Il. SUBSCRIPTION RATES tes wn (in Chicago only): By mail (outside of Chicago)! Sf al year $4.50 six months | $6.00 per year $3.50 six mon $2. 50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, ilinols J. LOUIS ENGDAHL |} WILLIAM F. DUNNE { MORITZ J. LOEB t-office at Chi- Ent ered as second-class mail September 21. 1923, at the pos cago, Iil., under the act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rates on application. Quitting Under Fire The action of the Chicago Federation of Labor at its last Sun- day's meeting ix bowing to William Green’s endorsement of ‘the scab- bery of the United Garment Workers’ Union in the strike of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers against the International Tailoring company, was a sorry piece of work, but just what could be expected from an organization that accepts the leadership of Fitzpatrick and Nockels. ) Fitzpatrick and Nockels reluctantly condemned the Tom Rickert scab organization in the first place. They would not have taken action. but for the fact that they were goaded into doing so by the DAILY. WORKER and the radicals and progressives in local unions Editors Business Manager oi 290 ' i nee we broke away from the social-| to affiliated with the federation. Even then, nothing was done except the passage of a resolution. Nockels, the secretary of the central body, in a speech, declared that Rickert was justified in scabbing on the Amalgamated. It was a case of self-preservation, he said. What can. be expected from men who have such a selfish conception of the functions of leadership in the trade union movement? Twenty-three delegates to the federation voted against accepting the ukase of scabby William Green. This is encouraging. It is the one bright spot in an otherwise odious proceeding. Every mili- tant union member in the country, every class conscious worker rejoiced when the Chicago Federation of Labor Jaid the lash of its condemnation on the official backs of the strikebreaking crew that runs the company union, known as the United Garment W orkers. Their rejoicing was destined to be short lived. Those who voted against hauling down the flag to Tom Rickert and his crew at last Sunday’s meeting were Communists, radicals and progressives. All the old reactionary outfit voted to support Fitzpatrick and Nockels. There were delegates from the pressmen’s union present at last Sunday’s meeting. The pressmen are faced with a situation somewhat similar to that with which the garment workers are confronted. The pressmen and feeders in the Cuneo printing plant withdrew their labor when asked to work under open shop conditions. Their international president is sending in scabs to defeat their purpose. If the pressmen and feeders were building on Fitzpatrick stick- ing up for them against Berry, they were leaning on a broken reed. Fitzpatrick has‘definitely broken with the progressive wing. His condemnation of the United Garment Workers was merely a last flicker from the waning fires of his former progressivism. When Green cracked the whip Fitzpatrick and Nockels thought. of the porterhouse steak and their nice easy chairs at 166 West Washington street. They took the hint and resolved that they would be good ” ‘This is one of the most contemptible cases of quitting under £1 that the American labor movement records. Fitzpatrick and Nockeis cannot for long fool the organized workers of Chicago with their- periodical tirades against the Communists. The former fake pro- gressives are every day exposing themselves as the most sub- servient tools of the reactionary bureaucracy of the A. F. of L. With Tom Rickert scabbing on the garment workers and George L. Berry scabbing on the members of his own union, both under the banner of the American Federation of Labor, the workers are confronted with a serious situation. No time must be lost in proceeding to alter this state of things. : The Lesson of the Aetna Strike The unorganized millions of American wage workers are unor- ganized, not because they are unwilling to belong to labor unions, but because the reactionary leadership of the labor unions of America is indifferent and even hostile to bringing them into the ranks of organized labor. More and more it will be seen that the example of the striking upholsterers of the Aetna Furniture company of Chicago is an illustration of what will be necessary if the workers wish to unite their forces in spite of the indifference of the reactionary leaders of the craft unions. The formation of the shop committee of the Aetna workers, which must represent all departments of the shop, and their success- ful strike against a double wage cut, is illustrative of the method and result of coalescing the unorganized workers in their first effort at building a shop committee system which will eventually compel the hostile leaders of unions to accept the at present unorganized masses upon a basis of industrial unionism and will, as well, insure the workers in such shops as have strong shop committees an iron protection of complete solidarity against the bosses. The workers of the Aetna shop have publicly acknowledged that the DAILY WORKER was their one aid in addition to their own solidarity in. winning their strike. It was only a little strike, with demands readily seen as justified and purely economic. But its sig- nificance may be great if, from the experience and example of the Aetna strikers, the unorganized masses of America will learn the lesson that one of the keys to organized power is the formation of shop committees to, bring into action’on equal basis the unionized and non-union, of all crafts and all degrees of skill, without regard to race or sex or skill. We trust that the Aetna workers will not stop short of such organization and try to spread it to all shops in their industry. : Such shop committees must be formed as rdpidly as possible in every factory and shop of this country. An American professor who is a member of the slavery commit- tee of the league of nations got in bad with his government for throw- ing some light on slavery conditions in Portuguese East Africa. The Portuguese capitalists protested and Washington advised Lisbon that the professor was only speaking for himself. Germany demands the return of her colonies as_a condition to entr: ance into the leagneé of nations. Germany claims to be just as . points: ime to. the members, vers, Bt the former j Jewish Socialist, Federation. ar Comrades:— Nearly four years have elapsed st party. Three and a haif years have passed since we joined the Workérs Party as “Number Two”. For over'two years and a half we have enjoyed “membership in the legal Workers (Communist) Party which is the American section of the Com- munist International. It is, therefore time for us to’ give ourselves an ac- count as to where we stand, especially now, on the eve of the party conven- tion. When we combined with the Jewish section of the then illegal Communist — we looked upon ourselves as a group quite different from the Com- munists. True, we considered our- selves to be Communists, too, and we platonically recognized the leadership of the Comintern, but we spared no effort to maintain our separate identi- ty as the Jewish Federation, and when we spoke of mutual readjustment in the future and of “jroning out dif- ferences in the process of work”, we meant by it that the comrades of the Communist Party would be forced to accept our leadership and follow to the line of our group. ‘ This line, barring individual differ- ences, reduced itself to the follow- ing: , a. We demanded that the_ illegal Communist Party dissolve itself with- in the. Workers Party, the latter to be recognized as the American section of the Comintern. - i b. . We opposed tne drastic central- isation of the Comintern, demanding more autonomy for the Workers Par- | ty. c. We considered ourselves to be the sponsors and leaders of a broad mass movement, while the Communist were. in our eyes a group of sectarians divorced from actual life. — sala i ¢ mint American section 0 ern. We are eta ot the Party with full rights. There is po more “Num- ber One” and “Nuipber Two”. agree that in case of urgent necessity we shall have to, g@ underground.. We now form - within other organizations ‘order ‘te secure Coln- munist lea There is"no dif- ference in this respect between the comrades of whatever dirivation. b. It would be preposterous to de- mand now more autonomy for our Party. We are fully aware of the tendency of the Comint@rn to become one great world party where national sections would be as closely connect- ed with the main as district com- mittees are now connected with the national parties. — We know now that strict discipline on,@ national and in- da. Many of us failed to understand ternational scale is ) imperative the policy of the united front, which’; by our very sina a 5 the (aches to some appeared as a “Communist, states. hoax’! devised to trick the social- democratic leaders into an uncomfort- able “position, to others as a shadowy and ‘entirely unrealizable proposition which has no bearing upon actual lifev': A) considerable section of our group saw no field of activity for our party’ ouiside of conducting Commiur:- serve how commu nyas belned mlidate our lence out of proportion to | of the Party. fact that direct 1 part of the cies proparanda. . me vO¥e vhefed under the control of | Whoever be ‘;Conimeunist Party, we considered | against the it @& ‘#enseless mechanical contro; whieh we fought with oxtreme» bit- ‘scnessy wnwilling to take into account ‘he pemiuliar situation of our Commun st comrades. cieatontane sm, he -old federation, which we considred well’ sigh perfect! (It was this peculiar ittaéhment which prompted. ws stub- vornly to fight for the retention of oven the'n am e federation). Three’ years and a half have passed. We have learned many lessons in the course ‘of our work, and we are in a position to view our former concep- tions with a critical eye. We must admit that a, large portion of our con- eeptions were un-communpistic, -half- communistic, in the nature of the two- and-a-half international. We must ad- init that we committed many an er- ror in consequence of our failing to discipline is nt ‘ c. We mus admit men #5 er. sores We ir organ avin pie sanantt our - reas ish workers,-they &re t ones who denerve ictedit. Quite the contrarys if anybody ~ eredit which developed itg. pairs under the leadership of mintern an‘! Profintern. True, we al did our share of work. We have, established con- nections with the working masses. It cannot be denied, however, that the Trade Union Pascal League is not a creation the members of the former Jewish,,,socialist feder- ation. Neither were, they the sole drafters of the left wing program in the Workmens Cir And if the 2 at understtand Communist tactics. Thus mb has recpacees ‘pe party We were happy when three “unedler- ne “4 a pega the ened sround” Communists broke the. disc: | 20" Of & farmer-laber party to have been a valuable king. of work amous the masses, certainly not the mom- bers of the former. socialist feder- ation have distinguished themselves pline of their party and voted with us in the exceutive cummittee of the Jewish Federation (“No. 2”) of the W. P, We did not understand that a Communist who dcliberately ignores the orders of his party concering his work in an outside organization which does not belong to the Comintern {the W. P. and its Jewish federutive of that time were, in law ami in taci, only sympathizing organizations wheres Communists were supposed to coud.uct party work) is, obviously, of scant value as a Communist and his “con- version” should cause very little re joicing. Subsequent events proved this ele- mentary truth. Ong of the three as expelled from the party with our con- sent. The other two occupy the e¢x- ‘treme right flank of the richt wing opposition. The gain for the moare- ment from their lining up with the federation leaders is/thus, a very A left wing mags movement has come into existence because the arty has led into proper chan- nels the accumulated dissatisfaction of the working masses. Had we re- mained alone as the Jewish socialist federation, had we not been backed vy the Party, the Comintern and the Profintern, we would not have been able to give rise to.a,; mass moveinont and, should it have;gtarted spontan- cously, we would not have known whither to direct it t the prevailing moods ‘of... | eee are reminiscent of the m guments it advances are very myer | akin to the claims of the for gny Lad or Two”. on A ) fe is no use arguing with! the of this camp. If three yelits rk have not had the effeet dt E them with the Communist Put: ; of | we sometimes inclined to Hsten t6 ‘tlidke leaders and sometimes follow them | | ut of sheer habit, because you “dre | wont to look upon them as upon ‘Fe | spected comrades and because you do not take a clear account of the -situa- tion,—to you a word of warning is,urg- cnt at the present juncture. It is time for you to forget the old socialist federation. Having become members: of the Commu allegiance mus ution. To be communists of proven loyalty to the Party must be your highest pride. . To this end it is neces- » there Bice home sf seks aise: ‘comrade in the branches, wio-ate| currents of ot y. the majority | soe tuk isinsett ol ioee. soe deal you: part im what constitutes a separate, | { the old federation, and that . the) st Party, your party) ‘ be your sole consider’ ‘| sary that you be cautioned against the former leaders of the Jewish gso- cialist federation whose propaganda among you keeps you artificially from merging in Communist Party and hampers the growth of our Party. The old division into “Number One” and “Number Two” is no more. Yet you are being told that the Party treats you like stepchildren. This is not true. The Party does not draw any line of demarkation between its members of whatever former group, provided they accept the Communist outlook and follow the ideological and tactical lines of the Party. If the Par- ty treats certain comrades with, a measure of caution, it is because they themselves have drawn a line between their little group and the Party, be- cause they keep on denouncing the Party, unwilling or unable to repres- ent its views. Why indeed should the Party recognize such comrades as its spokesmen? Why should it not be careful about members who are not the Communist International and thus | ithstanding numerical weak-| 9; li 5 7 TTT > e] ‘they are’ being treated,as an un | milated and unfriendly group. First they develop an attitude of suspicion. towards the party representatives, and then they are dissatisfied when they complain that they are being treated as an unassimilated and unfriedly one. Figst they develop an attitude of suspicion towards the party repre- sentatives, and then they are dissatis- filed when they are not being treated like Communists of good standing. You are being told by the leaders of the former socialist federation that there is no difference between them and the Party. This is camouflage. ‘They have retained a great deal of their former ideology which does not allow them to become communists. One instance of our party life may ‘serve as an ample illustration. all remember the attitude of the lead- those" leaders that the Party ought to leuve the greatest - freedom of action ‘to those who are active in the unions Leg they, it was asserted, know better work Of the left wing. The federation leaders are now careful not to make such assertions openly, buf when you follow the mag ot E thels adherents the only corect line is that of the federation group. But does ‘not this declaration vividly recall to your mind | the days when the socialist federa- tion people had the sad courage to. declare that everybody was wrong: the Communist Party, the Comintern, the representatives of the Comintern in this country, and only “we”, the federationists, were in full ‘possession of the unalloyed truth? ‘There were then some federation clements whp conceded that the Com- intern might be right, but, they said, the Comintern adherents in America were “no good’’,—and this view sti} holds‘ sway among some members of the former federation. The group was dubbed Lorietes. The name is not very well chosen. Lore is only a pretext, a peg the dis- grunteled use to hang their grievances on, Having discovered in Lore an op- ‘position to the party and to the Com- intern, this Federation group leaned ugainst Lore. When. they found Juliett Ponytz in a feud with Com- mnunism, they crowned Poyntz their prophet. When the needle trade group proved to be stubbornly resisting, to the detriment of our Party, the policies outlined by the Party, which ‘are the policies of the class-struggle, they closed their ranks around this group fighting the CEC and defend- ing the opportunist deviation. Should a new ri ht wing opposition develop to-morrow ‘anywhere in the Party, one may be sure that the leaders of the former federation would discover an affinity. of souls between themselves a \ oe — eS med You | ers of the former Jewish socialist |. rs | federation towards work among the |. unions. It was one of the beliefs of than the party how to conduct. the | | “deliver” shee a mass of rank because the Settee Goda pte nrnd . Do you like this role, comrades? / A curious combination is @ match che avey ennui: ine: Se doi Slee into the position of second rate mem- bers. ‘Do you fiot wish to be members of the Party with full rights? By listening without criticism to the tales of your former friends and leaders from among the socialist fed- eraitno you are directly injuring the cause..of communism in the United States.. Do you wish to do sp? A convention is at hand. It is time to cleanse our party. It is time to ‘bolshevise our party. If you; rank and file comrades, turn your backs to the opportunist leaders, they are help- less and their game is lost, which would mean that our party has be- come so much stronger, so much more united. The eyes of the entire Comintern are watching our convention. If you become one with ovr Party without any reservation, our convention may become the beginning of agreat period in the history of our Party, The Party is mine! must be. our slogan. Everywhere, all the time, through \joy and sorrow, through er- rors and their correction, through. victories:and losses, through gropings and finding,—always with the Party, in the,stream of Party life, permeated with the. spirit of:the Party, always along the line of the Communist Inter- | national. Some of the By ISRAEL AMTER. Uncle Sam pays thems: HE United States government has; ‘8: If he wants;@q: see the world, issue a leaflet to the workers o:| ‘%- His. servicesjwill take the the country containing the following | '™™Ps out of his’ @aek, broaden his | shoulders, deepen'i4s chest, develop and train his musclés and his mind; in brief, it will mé@ke him a more capable and useful tan.” HIS appeal of the U. S. govern- ment to workers of this country is very illuminating. It pictures in clear words that the lot of the work- er is to worry about his job, about his rent, doctor's bills; to be in danger of losing his job, to be forced out on strike; his work narrows his chest, bends his back and/makes a machine of him, so that his mind hardly works, This is the truth 6f modern industry under the capitalist system—and it is good that the government openly says so. “Enlist inithe army and be sure of your job.” “@nlist in the army and see the world.” “Enlist in the “1. The soldier’s paymaster never fails in business, or fails to pay the wages of his employes. “2. The ‘factory’ does not shut ‘own and lay off its employes when imes or dull. “3. He never has to quit work and go ‘on strike.’ ‘He doesn’t lose any time be- cause of bad weather or sickness—- the pay goes on just the same. “5. He doesn’t have to worry about ‘getting a job.’ “6. He doesn’t worry about the cost of clothing or of beefsteaks or of rents. No matter what the cost, he gets his clothing, his three square meals a day, and a_ comfortable healthful home to live in, just the “civilized” as any other nation and is willing to carry her share of the “white man’s burden.” But Abd-el-Krim is not adding to the popularity of that once favored outdoor — The Spanish coal operators ol-ject to the Faint? of the British coal barons by the government. ‘Tre. c¢.cim it wit ym Syanish | interests. ? * 1 RB Wl at settee bite al et A ee i wea same. loctor’s bills; | sm army” and you won’t have to bend your backs in front f a hot furnace. You won't have tg hs ine coal deep "7. Neither es he worry about ” aauetaad bills — “* __——- - \- = - = AE EINE 0 s . : o | down in the earth. You won’t have to risk your neck at the top of a skyscraper. It is true, that you will have to learn to kill other workers in other countries. And you are always sure of your job, for we have plenty of wars coming. There is China, and there is Japan. The Philippines are in revolt. The German workers may get fresh and want to reject the plan formed by our _ vice-president, Mr. Dawes. And there is Soviet Russia, that the capitalists of the United States and the whole world hate. We will send you out into wars against all these people. You are sure of your job. . W* sent you across the Atlantic to shoot down German, Atstrian and Bulgarian workers and peasants. We sent you into the north of Soviet Russia to shoot down the Russian peasants who together with the work- ers had established a government of their own. When. -you came back home—those of you who did not be- long to the regular’ army, you were out of a job, 1,000,000 of you tramped the streets looking for a job, hungry —— RTO ce 6 - tah a offer you, a gs Soret to ‘see.the world.’ Be a soldier. Learn how to use a bay- onet. Learn, how to jab a fellow's guts out of his body. Learn how to use poison. gas and hand grenades. ' Think of the fellows that can be killed by a single bomb. Oh, it is glorious .when, it-is done for Wall Street! The; fellows you kill are only, workers—and ;there are too many workers. That:makes all the trouble. We. can work their wives and chil- dren in the factories just as well—and we make bigger profits. If you win the war for us, our influence—the in- fluence of Wall Street—-will be spread all over the world. Won't that be a ‘grand and glorious feeling?’ The flag of Wall Street flying all over the world? “Join the. atmy--end be your job.” ”, 4 sure of Basilica Will Be Re-Opened. r QUEBEC, Atigtist 18.—The world- reopened next September, it was ,and without 4 ae now we | learned today. 9 » q J : » * >. a — ~— ~m : eS Fs famous Basilica, completely destroyed |. » by fire Christmas: é@ve 1922, is to be | Chicago ee | Killing of Sovies = ee at Polish _ Border Protested MOSCOW, Aug. 18. —Demand: has ‘been made by the Soviet foreign -of- fice for an investigation by the mixed commission meeting today at Yampo) of; the, circumstances in which a red soldier was killed on the White Rus. sian border. The Soviet foreign office in a note to the Polish government protested that the soldier in question was killed by the Polish guard and demanded a full inquiry. 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