Daily Worker
August 28, 1925

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AS WE SEE IT By T. J, O'FLAHERTY. tinots, under the Act of March 3, 147 ir yo r 28, 1925 ono ~~ \s Burglar “the Answer to Berryism union movement, and were entitled morally and legally to be members of the organiation. * ¢ was not Communist propaganda alone that convinced the machin- ists of this fact. It was more than any other factor, the activity and the conduct of our comrades in the ma- —y- _— chinists’ union. The Communists, or at least those who take their party membership seriously, were on the job helping to build up the organization wheréver they could and on the firing line in every struggle with the boss. Deeds speak louder than words. * ” = f lew reactionaries have promised themselves to get rid of the Com- munists. Only recently the officials of the Chicago Federation of Labor attacked the DAILY WORKER be- cause it shows up their treachery to the workers. They excommunicated the daily with bell, book and candle light, but strange to say, our paper is today more popular than ever among the workers. Whenever the workers aré in a fight with the enemy, they find the DAILY WORKER is their champion and aprenns years “ago, ‘“: 5 . r "ee " 7 if Mad 00K a prove to those he solicited that the DAILY WORKER was concerned with the interests of the workers. He showed that the stories not only gave the news but gave it partially. It was biased in favor of the workers. We know this is not fair. But we are not iA the publishing business to prove that we are nice fellows. oo o* iad \ HEREVDER the workers move in the direction of independent class political action, by organizing a labor party or trying to do so, the DAILY WORKER is on the job, urging them cn, and pointing out tha tthis is only (Continued on page 6) Will Take Another Plunge. , CAPE GRIS-NEZ, France, Aug. 26.— Tom Burgess, Miss Gertrude Ederle’s trainer, told the International News Service this afternoon that he had de- cided upon Aug. 31 at 7:30 a. m. as the time when the young American girl woulé make her next attempt to swim the English channel from here to Dover. | REIGN OF TERROR IN BESSARABIA PRIOR OF PEASANTS TRIAL (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Aug. 26. —In connec tion with the prosecution of the 500 Bessarabian peasants which will take place on Sept. 3rd on account of the alleged participation of the accused in the South Bessarabian insurrection, the Siguranza (secret police) has redoubled its terror. in Kischinev and Tatar-Bunar mass ar rests have taken place for the al- laged formation of Commuist nuctei. All oppositional newspapers have been prohibited and the organs yd the. peasant party, “Aurora” and “Kiv- enty,” have been confiscated. This is the twelfth of a series of articles exposing the ame oe of George L. Berry, of the International and. Assistants’ s. a * ARTICLE. XII. In the previous article we gave a summary of the relations of George L. Berry with several business enter- prises which he organized with the use of the funds of the International Union. treasury but when the Chicago press- men_got his trail he began a persecutions against them,. of the union funds to city’ th who wanted to see the business of organization conducted honestly. ‘and in the interests of the rank. and’; It is not often that capitalist ¢o render decisions that are favora the rank and file of the workers. sOmetimes when a dirty job’is off too crudely the courts are oblig: to save their faces by a gesture i fair play. | This was the case in the “decision: handed down by federal Judge A. . J. Cochrane, on July 19, 1921, all ie case of Chicago Printing F 7 — | Not only~ did he loot the} — “75 Union No. 3 against George 4 “That the individ George L. Berry, Joser M. Brophy, S. B.. Statha’ and pond liam McHugh, be and they are ordered and directed to ‘pa: said International Printing PY and Assistants’ Union of North’ ica, the sum of One Myndréa Bix five Thousand Dollars ($165,000), ani the said International Printizg. Press- men and Assitants’ Union dov@vé and recover from the said’ George--L.- Berry, Joseph C. Orr, John M. Brophy, S. B. Marks, and William ‘H. McHugh, jointly and seevrally, the: of One Hundred Sixty-five ha ‘Dol- lars ($165,000), together with all taxed costs of this case, and that execution | issue therefor that all charges for at- (Continued on page 3) FARGO DEPORTS WOBS; ARREST MANY MEMBERS F rightened ‘Bil 8 : ness Drives Out Harvesters (Special to The Dally Worker) FARGO. N. D., Aug. 26.—Because the Fargo Chamber of Commierce is becoming very much, concerned about the concentration of hundreds of mem- bers of the I. W. W. in this city follow- ing arrests of many of their members, a “citizens committee”, was organized to assist the authorities in deporting them. 118 members were rounded up by the sheriff of Cass county, aided by busifesbmen armed with clubs. Di- vided into two groups they were con- ducted over two bridges across the Red River into Moorhead, Minn. There they were turned loos jand the so-called prisoners took a vantage of their liberty to aim sever damaging rocks at their erstwhile captors. Now that the authorities have got- ten the wobblies out of Fargo the problem for them to solve is iow to keep them out. There isn’t a freight train that pulls into town which hasn’t its contingent of recruits. The present influx fo rebels is due to the arrest a couple of weeks ago of 28 members of the I. W. W. who were on were on their way to the harvest. The men were charged with riding on trains without a permit and for trespassing on rail road property. ' leading | , — PUBLISHING Coe tila WW. Warhlogton Blvd, Chicago, lik PEKING, China, (By Rosta News Agency) com 26.—“Our delegation has come here | at the invitation of the All-Chinese Federation of Trade Unions,” I. 1. Lepse, chairman of the delegation of Soviet. Trade Unions, told your Pelayo yet in a special interview here today. ation consist of Lepse (chairman), president of on the central committee of the Metal Workers’ Union (the Soviet trade union) and member of the presidium of the Dlagent Central Council of Trade Unions; of Moscow,. Unions and member of the All- Union tral _ Council of Trade Unions; Smourgi of Moscow, also « member of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions. The delegation is accompanied by V. Wacksoff, of Moscow, a member of the Central Committee of the Metal Workers’ Union, who is travelling also in the capacity of special corréspon- dent of the Trud (Labor), a Moscow daily paper, the organ of the Central Council of Trade Unions of the Union of Socialist Soviet Rpeublics, ‘Wateh Struggte in China, “The ject of our visit,” Lepse stated, “is to get more closely ac quainted with the position of the work- ing class in China and the labor or- ganizations in this country. “Over six and a half million organ- ized workers Of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics are following with the utmost attention and anxiety the struggle waged by the Chinese peo- ple, Five years only have elapsed ‘sinee the world imperialism made abortive attempts at making a colony of Russia, which liad just freed her- ‘ be Union No. 4, ioined iho Who's « pent? cre eiaitois er Following the main reporters upon Kits: timperialiat work at Tuesday’s afternoon bageiid : of all speaking five minutes. }|the Fourth Convention of the Workers (COmmunist) Party of America, as outlined in yester- '|day’s DAILY WORKER, the’ convention gave the floor to various delegates for debate. jrades Johnstone, Statchel, Schachtman, Weinstone, Wagenknecht, Wicks, Minor and Browder After this, Comrade Gomez summed up the discussion. _Com- | Motion. was. made by Comrade Bittelman as to the proposals of Comrade Wolfe, that one be referred to the incoming C. E. C. and the others tabled as having already been provided for by the resolution of the Parity + Commission. This done, the Parity. Commission resolution was carried without a dissent- ing vote. Marx-Engels Institute. By consent, Comrade Trachtenberg was given the floor. He explained the character and work of the Marx-Engels Institute, referring to the priceless old Manuscripts of Marx and Engels and other early revolutionary leaders still buried in American libraries. The con- nection of the First International with the early revolutionary movement of America had occasioned great num- bers of the most interesting letters, articles and documents to be held here. The duty of the party should be to aid in every way to .uncover these treasures. The speaker had discov- ered in the New York library and pho- | tographed for the Marx-Engels Insti- tute original writings, which proved that the letters of Marx had been ex- purgated by the social-democratic re- formists. It had been proven that even the sole English translation of “fas Capi- tal,” the Kerr edition, contains great numbers of serious errors and omis- sions which becloud the clear line of Marxism. The speaker appealed. to the party to aid in the work of the Marx-Engels Institute, and by unani- mous consent a motion was passed to effect. Report on Soviet Russia. The next subject on the convention agenda was the Parity Commission Sresolution upon Soviet Russia, upon | great | Friends of Soviet Russia, which had as reporter for the C. E. C. He traced | ‘ a which Comrade Harrison George spoke the general historical outline of the Soviet Union, accenting that the pe- riod of extreme suffering and sacrifice on the part of the workers and peas- ants of the U. S. S. R. is ended and a marvelous progress begun. The time of desperate defensive measures has, in a way, passed, and the economic and political position of | the Soviet Union is so far developed | as a favorable path, that its very exist- | hension of the significance and lesson | ment. | ence under the present conditions of | discrediting the Soviet power WIFE OF EX-RUSSIAN ENVOY LEAVES HANDSOME FORTUNE WASHINGTON, August 26.—Madamé Mary E. Bakhmeteff, wife of the former Kerensky ambassador to the United States, left a fortune valued at a million and a quarter when she died last June in Paris. it will be recalled that George Bakhmeteff continued to represent the Kerensky government at Washington long after the November revolution in Russia when his gov- ernment was overthrown by the Soviets. He continued to occupy the embassy building and was favored by millions of dollars in subsidies from the American government, the accounting for which will constitute a life-long embarassment. His wife was an American woman and it is wondered: if her fortune contained any of the unaccountable funds. life in the Soviet Union sab iaton a real offetisive agaimst world capitalist imperialism. Two Kinds of Stabilization. While there’ has been a spotted and temporary stabilization of capitalism, of a sort which—as in France and Eng- land—could lead only to more severe crises, there had been also, as re- marked upon,by Comrade Zinoviev, a stabilization of the Soviet power—and that this stabilization was historically progressive, while the so-called stabili- zation of capitalist nations were mere- | ly interruptions in capitalist imperial- ism’s historical decline. Our party has taken, is taking and will continue to take advantage of the position of the Workers’ and Peas- ants’ Republic in its relation to the capitalist powers and also to the world | proletariat. In the period of famine | and suffering, the party had built a united front movement, effectively offset the aims of the Amer- /ican capitalist government to use the Hoover relief agencies as a means of in the eyes of American workers. This was the duty of our party as a section of the’ Communist Internation- revolution into the minds of American workers. An Objective Argument. The position of the Soviet Union is increasingly useful in combating illu- sions and theoretical misconceptions the | } al, as of all its sections, and in the | future it would be the duty of the party to use the favorable position of the Soviet Union to instill a compre- to the world proletariat of the Russian remaining in the minds of the workers from the pre-Leninist era of the social | democracy. Directed by the Commun- | ist Party of Russia, at whose head stood our great leader, Comrade Len- |in, the workers and peasants of Rus- 'sia have proven incontestably every basic theory of Leninism, every tactie |of the Communist International, every | principle as taught by the Bolsheviks '—-and proven them up to the hilt. | In America this had aided our party _to contest for leadership of the revo- lutionary movement agagnst the social- ist party and the Industrial Workers of the World. The socialist party is disintegrating tionary I. W. W. ship, proletarian elements of the! have been won over to friend- contact with and even member- ‘ship in the Communist movement and | the pe hace syndicalist control over | the I. . W. is falling to pieces and ‘upon ie defensive. more taken every advantage to work | for the recognition of Soviet Russia | _ by the American capitalist The policy of.the united front (Continued on page 2) Pt we, ile, doer te Says self of the yoke of czarism. This is) ~~. kin, of Habafovsk, president of the+— — Far-Hastern Bureau of Trade CP Ah senrmeneen a Heads Soviet Delezrt'on = l. lL. LEPSE. President of Russian Metal Workers’ Union. Moscow International of Labor Unions, “We also may express our firm be the | Het.” the Soviet labor delegate con- pen nner dragster ferent i LA id 7 to patios with.» view a view | Cae to gaint > nes and ‘clofer ‘rautual aéqnaintance and. ‘establishing rect- procal ties have. of late been a fairly frequent occurrence. It may suffice to recall): last’ year’s visit to the Union of Boviet Republics of the British Trade Union delegation, the ‘visit of British working women’s delegates, who recently came to the Soviet nion; then the Franco-Belgian, Ger man, Swedish, Canadian and a num ber of “other labor delegations, which are actually either in the Soviet Union or on the point of arriving in our country. ' “Great is the interest of the work- | ers of the world towards the Union of Soviet Republics; but no smaller is the interest which the workers of the Soviet Union and all other countries in regard to the situation of their comrades in China. The Chinese peo- ple as a whole, and the young Chinese proletariat are going thru a very responsible moment of their historical development, and this adds stil] more vigor to the keen interest and the great and deep-felt sympathies with the cause of the Chinese workers which prompted the action of our or- ganizations in sending their delega- tion here, to China. For World Trade Union Unity. “Having reached the capital of China after a long journey, we wish our first word to be a message of the warmest greetings which we have brought to the Chinese workers and all the Chinese people from the work- ers of the Union of Soviet Republics and the organized workers of other countries who are in one Trades Union Internationale with us—the Is page Mn = tah ue ean ae . This will help still fur- gan ther to strengthen our mutual bonds and promote the union of the workers of the world tn one united and power- ful International of Labor Unions.” 150 Miners on PicKet Line at Banning Mine (By Worker Correspondent.) MONDSSEN, Pa. Aug. 26.—One hundred and fifty waion minerg are picketing the Bannftg mine No. 2 of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. back of Fay* ette City, near here. The mine has opened up to operate on the 1917 scale, being the first mine to try and operate in this district. The company has made a frantic ef- fort to get scabs to work in the mines, importing them from everywhere, However, not more than 30 scabs are working, and they are producing very little coal Fascists Attack Zionist Congress, VIENNA, Aug. 26.—Rioters who have kept Vienna on edge since the start of the Zionist congress here in- cluded fascists in their demonstrations last night, and as a result three mep were under arrest today. Tokio Also Accepts. TOKIO, Aug. 26.—The cabinet today accepted China’s invitation to attend the customs conference at Peking, be- ginning Oct. 26, and expressed wil- lingness to enlarge the discussions of the conference to include eventual cus toms autonomy for China. MINERS FORCED BACK TO WORK BY UNITED FRONT OF BOSSES AND FAKERS BUT FIGHT IS NOT OVER and its character had | become a stench in the nostrils of the | workers, while the healthy and revolu- | (Spectat to The Daily Worker) ZEIGLER, Ill., August 26.—Recruited from the klan elements ‘of Franklin and Williamson county, hundreds of men, many of them not having swung a pick for years, were found by the Bell and Zoller Mine Co. to enter the pit at their No. 1 mine in Zeigler. Under these circumstances, the members of Local 992 who have kept the mine shut down for two weeks without an iota of out- | side support and bearing attacks not only from the ku klux-klan . The party has in the past year or | and the operators but also from their own sub-district officials, were forced back to work. This battle, which was recorded day by day in'the DAILY govern-| WORKER, against the heaviest of odds—a united front of the tiiecaeehs and the sub-district officialdom, both encouraged by (Continued on page 2) oa + —o L oe . rrr oe P ee A Pak) ae ss = Shien Avimal a ne _# . — - had te ERO eB Seatal hy Peres s = " a |