Daily Worker
October 6, 1925
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"ana Al Mi Oe ES SS eee : : By KARL REEVE (Staff Correspondent of the ‘DAILY WORKER) weve YORK, Oct 4.—The. w Communist ft me te inteenta of he warn f cass, wi have the support of all the militant v2 rk of all the rank and file and pro unions in th Walker, the millionaire socialist ticket, Norman The Workers (Communist) municipal election c Communist candidate for mayor of: New ork City, | “The trade union bureaucrats who oppose the ped bureaucrats on the political field , “will support -either the Tammany hall republican candidate, | or the rich, liberal petty bourgeois minister, running~on the omas.”’: Party a, the only party Sadi) ovjarne ca in the labor party,” nk Wate part in the coming election* campaign: which represents the interests of the working class, pre- senting a program opposed to the two old. parties which are owned by the employing. class. 2 Unino Member. Gitlow, represeting the Workers Party, is the only working class can didate for mayor. Gitlow is a mem- ber of Cutters’ Local No; 4 of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. He served two years in Sing Sing penitentiary, after being convicted and sentenced -under the New York criminal anarchy laws, for signing the left wing manifesto in 1919 at the time the working class elements split fyom the petty bour- leadership of the socialist party. This famous manifesto was printed in the Revolutionary Age, of which Comrade Gitlow was tken business manager. Faces Sing Sing. Comrade Gitlow was reelased from Sing Sing, pending an appéal, and the supreme court of the United States, in its recent decision which outlawed free sygech in America, denied Git- low’s appeal, and decided that the Communist leader must return to prison to serve his sentence. “T regard it as a major issue of this campaign that the machinery of gov- ernment be wrested from the hands of the bosses and their political parties and put into the hands of the work- ers,” said. Comrade Gitlow. “The Workers (Communist) Party stands for a workers’ government. The re- publican and democratic parties have always given us a bosses’ govern- ment. -To separate the workers from the bosses, to unite them in a single labor party for the winning of contro} cf the powers of government—this is the immediate aim of the Workers Party.” | Comrade Gitlow’ then showed how the socialist party has tried to dis- unite the workers, refusing to consid- er the Workers’ Party proposal for gp united front of labor in the cam- paigp against. the two capitalist par- ties. Gitlow exposed the petty’ bour- (Continued on page 6) Slash Bread Price; Ward Stock Goes Up in N. Y. Exchange Following cuts in bread prices in Chicago initiated by the Ward Baking Co.’s Chicago plant which slashed its retail prices 20 per cent yesterday, word comes from New York that Ward Baking Co. rose 6 points in the stock exchange to a new high of 82. In additien to this, Ward has bought General Baking at $225 a share as a further step in its campaign to trustify the baking industry in this country. Ward's is a scab house and has recently embarked on a campaign of wage-cutting. Gitlow Denounces Boss Rule Over Workers EW YORK, Oct. 4. — Benjamin Gitlow, candidate for mayor of the} Workers (Communist) Party, today issued the following statement on the question of the injunetion§ agalnat picketing and we use of police 4n str 7 consider the bresking up of pick- et lines by the police an@ the issu-| s against strikes and} _ ing of injuncti picketing to be\ the major issue Ba this municiple campaign from the point of view of the workers of this city. Courts Enjoin Strikers. “In the case “ining babies AM Wei a ee triking bitiead ‘ae enjoined the strikers trom moth fying other workers that a &t ri existed. The Machinists’ Union Was enjoined from even declaring that 4 strike was on in the. priating - factory of the Robert Hoe ¢ “Supreme Court Justice we , ‘Carswell in September la&t issued \&r injunction restraining thé. Laund Drivers, Chauffeurs and Helpers Union from supporting strikers dur ing a strike. Pickets were arrested for picketing the J. Kayser and com- pany factory and held under $2,500 bail. In the case of a strike of 15,000 dress and underwear workers in this city in February, eight girls were ar-| rested for picketing and inducing other workers to join their strike; * Police Break Lines. “Only a week or so ago, the, 8: Taylor Co. and the International Clothing Co. succeeded in getting the aid of police reserves to break up the mass picket line of the Amalga- mated Clothing Workers. These are only a few of the. innumerable ex- amples in which Hylan and his repub- -lican-fusion predecessor as well, have used the police and the courts and the entire machinery of city govern- ment for the bosses and against the workers. The.courts say in effect: ‘Do not strike. Do not organize. not unite with your fellow workers to defend yourselves.’ “They reduce the workers to the status of slaves and the’ policeman’s'} club takes the place of the slave drivers’ whip. Stands For Workers, “T regard it as the major issue of this campaign that the machinery of government be wrested fyom the hands of the bosses and their political parties and put it’ into the hands of the workers.. The Workerz (Gontinued on page 6) | TRACTION VERSUS REALTY ARE TWO , BIG ISSUES IN NEW YORK CAMPAIGN \ \ By SAM DARCY. | \ NEW YORK CITY—(By Mail.)—The first stage in the New York elec- 0 * (that of choosing a democratic nominee) witnessed a struggle between the group and the reajty group. ‘wo dominating capitalist groups within that party-—namely, the tsaction The swift growth of-industry which occurred everywhere in the United States within the last fifty ‘years brought this city from a position of being a comparatively insignificant port engaging almost exclusively in commerce to that of being one of the largest manufacturing centers in the world. Parallel with this development-and in the greatest measure resulting from it ” eame the great real estate boom to¢ sccomodate the increasihg number of factories which set up.in the suburbs and also the land promotion schemes for housing the increasing uscd Uae This gave rise to the great public service corporations operating under city franchises which gave them ex- (Continued on page 5) Do 8 | ; ' att 1€ yp ew “3 poets obs the : | | — e i ines cations 9 at Chieage, nets, under the Act of March 3, ists. — Special New York | Campaign Issue SS Published Daily except Sunday PUBLISHING CO., ts Ww y THE DAILY WORKER W Washitigion Blvd; Chicago, UL Price 3 Cents ICTOBER 6, 1925 ang : ‘\ 2 : (AT SHOOK THE WORLD a d inpriaism i Jefend the Wor The Workers (Communist) Party is launching an immediate campaign to warn the work- ers of America of the preparations bei ma all those sympathetic to the wo ense of Soviet Russia. mate fora new drive against the Soviet Unionsand to rs’ and peasants’ government in a nationwide move in In special instructions issued by the Central Executive Committee of tHe party to district and local officers outlining the campaign, the executive points out the im- ‘minent danger of a new anti-Soviet alliance. Thé negotiations with Germany for a security pact, the present debt negotiations, the in- tensified struggle for colonial markets and the growing power of the Soviet Union, all lay the basis for a concerted imperialist effort to reduce the Soviet Union to a position of impotence. The following instructions make clear the reasons for the present campaign and lay the organ- izational basis for a united front movement of the American vores class against. this new CAPPELLINI IN BETRAYAL OF COAL STRIKERS Writes Lethe of Praise to Police — = ’ (Special to: Tae Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Oct. 4.—The reaction- aries in control of the official posi- tiohs in Districts 1,'7, and 9 of the United Mine workers of America are part amd parcel of the corrupt pol- itical machines of the coal companies. Many of the officials play important roles in the activities of these pol- itical machines. It is no wonder therefore that you find the United Mine Workers of America in the an- thracite officially bitterly opposed to every progressive manifestation in the United Mine Workers Union. Willing to Be Stooipigeons It is for that reason ‘that you find the official gang in the anthracite sup porting solidly John L. Lewis and his/ outrageous betrayal of the workers’ interests. And when a fight.is started in the anthracite against the interests ‘of the coal companies and -for the benefit of the miners, rest assured the officials in control of the United Mine Workers in the antnracite wil? do everything in their power to inter- fere, even if prosecution and the jail- (Continued on page 6) ernment of Russia: .' #* * * O ALL DISTRICT ORGANIZERS, GUAGE SECTION SECRETARIES, AND PARTY BRANCHES. 4 Dear Comrades:—- World imperialism is mobilizing for a new attack on ftheworkers’ and peasants’ govertiment of Russia. workers of every country muygt rally to the defense of thé Soviet Union. of the Communist International, faces the duty of nifobilizing all its forces in defense of the Soviet Union. It must rally the workers of this country for a fight in support of the workers’ le peasants’ government of Russia. The imperialist capitalist countries have found the Soviet Union in the pathway of their imperialist adven- tures. In China the workers are car- rying on a bitter struggle against the imperialist powers. Their great- est inspiration and support in the ‘struggle isthe Soviet Union. The im- perialist French goverhment finds the French Communist Party a determin- ed opponent ‘to its efforts to enslave Morocco. Wherever oppressed col- the exploitation of the imperialist powers they look to the Communist International for aid in their fight. Great Britain is threatened by the swing to the left of its. labor move- ment with a great increase of the in- fluence of the Communist Internation- al. Thé resolution of the British Trade Union Congress against British imper- : (Continued on page 6) CITY SECRETARIES, LAN- The | Our party, as the American section | onial peoples are ‘struggling against | ~~ attack upon the workers’ ees Se CONVENTION OF Y, W. L, OPENS; 55 DELEGATES ‘Pass Resolution on Mine | } | | national” rade Williamson, secretary Jack Begler, Strike third national convention of the Young Workers League opened Sunday afternoon at the Workers’ Hall, 1902 W. Division street, Chicago, The oe aed his report to the metal tradés consist- A. F. OF L. DEPARTMENTS HERALD REACTIONARY WAR ON LEFT WING AT ATLANTIC CITY CONVENTION First ; no union in particular. The Communist problem came be- fore the building trades gathering as a result of the protest of the district council of Painters No. 31 of Seattle, Washington, against the seating of W. H. Jones as delegate to the Se- attle Building Trades Council. The decision was to notify Jones that the action of the Seattle Building Trades Council in unseating him was in ac- cordance with the action of the Port- land convention of the American Fed- eration of Labor to the effect that no avowed Communist could be seated in any state or local council or central bodq. Denies Local’s Right of Choice. In spite of the ruling against Jones he was .eelected repeatedly by his lo- cal union as its representative. This decision of the building trades de- partment here makes no effort to at- tack his membership in the union. It merely attacks his right to represent his union in an official position. No other case in any other city is men- tioned. No mention was made of the situation in the Carpenters’ Union. The Portland decision referred to was that rendered as a result of which William F. Dunne was unseated as delegate of the Sittver BoW (Butte, Montana) Trades and Labor Assem- bly. F Ancient Dodo Opposes Prépress. baiting, attack in ed mostly of the usual cheap flow of billingsgate used by reactionary labor officials who have no arguments with which to attack the progressives in their organizations. It contains the conclusion, however, that may be in- terpreted as veiled support of the ex- pulsion policies adopted in the Mach- inists’ Union, that: “IT trust that this convention may declare its position so clearly and emphatically as to bring home to the minds of all the trade unionists, that membership in Communist organiza- tions or similar organizations means nonunion membership in the trade un- ion movement.” O’Connell included the Trade Union Educational League, William Z. Fos- ter and the DAILY WORKER in his that he referred to the Machinists’ Union, his own organization, when he said: “I congratulate the trade union that it is attempting to cleanse its membership from this outlaw organ- ization”—meaning the T. U. E. L. A Gift from “B. and O. Bill.” It was William H. Johnston, the re- negade ‘socialist, now the anti-Com munist head of the Machinists’- Union, who defeated O’Gonnell in order to win his present job. O’Connell was thereupon given the presidency of the metal trades department as a pen- sioner’s job by the Gompers’ regime. But O’Connell and Johnston now have a united front against the machinist 1 militants. Abandon $51 ‘hiiain. ABOARD U. S. S. CAMDEN, Oct. with a spirited singing of:the “Inter- | 4- Winds and seas again this after- and rousing chéers. Com- W. L., called the convention to order. Comrade Nat Kaplan, member the National Executive Committee, in making the majority report of the} committee, recommended | the following dele- credentials the seating of gates: List of Delegates. District 1, Boston—Nat Kutisker, S Winokur. District 2, New York—Jack Stachel, Herbert Zam, S. Don, S. Darcy, W. | Herberg, A. Thompson, J. Rubin, Rubin, S. Milgram, I. Rijak, I. Glass, S. Raskin, Jack Rosenblatt, H. Fox. District 3, Philadelphia—-Dominick Flaiani, I. Lazaravitz, M. Yusem, D. Milgram, S. Whiteman, J. Duga. District 4, Buffalo—J. Ahlquist. District 5, Pittsburgh—-Steve Boyan, M. Schindler. District 6, Cleveland—-George Pap- (Continued on pare. 2) B. | | noon. forced Of the Y.| of the | marine of | | | : ) ! | a rise in food prices. temporary abandonment salvage operations on the sub- S51. By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. (Special ‘to The Daily Worker) ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Oct. 4.—Departmental conferences that are staged preliminary to the opening of the American Fed- eration of Labor convention ended tonight after a double assault agdinst the Communists, both of which were regarded as “weak” attacks against the militants in the trade unions. the building trades department meeting at the ex- clusive Strand Hotel decided that no avowed Communist may sit as a delegate in a local building trades council. Second; the metal trades department approved of a four hundred word attack against the Communists in the report of ey president James O’Connell that offered no specific recommenda- att@ck, and it is taken for granted! tions, however, and mentioned* . PEASANT TRIAL IN BESSARABIA BLOW AT RUSSIA Peasants Punished for Soviet Sympathies By A. BADULESKYU, Member of the Central Committee of the Roumanian Communist Party. According te the latest advices, the Roumanian parliament has suc- ceeded in having the trial of the 500 peasants who rebelled in Souther Bessarabia held behind closed doors and without counsel for the defense. And it could not very well be other- wise. The present interests of Brat- iano’s government, as well as the aints which the government desires to realize by this action, could not per- mit the trial to take place, more or less, “legally” and openly. Government Defeated. Last month, during the parliament- ary by-elections in Kishinev, the gov- ernment suffered a shamef As a result, the rural council e me which were dated for August 28 raised — especially in Bessarabla — a hitherto unprecedented terror. The trial of the Communists, which took place a few months ago, and in which foreign counsel for defense ap- peared, raised a storm of protest against. the government. French, Italian and Czech lawyers were to have taken part in the defense of the accused peasants in the Tatarbou- nar case, but their appearance at the trial would have meant suicide for the Roumanian government. What are chief points of this trial? About 1,000 peasants and rillage (Continued on page 5) Wild Cat Mine Stock Had Approval of God Said His Sales Agent SAN JOSE, Cal., Oct. 4~—Charges have been brot against Rev. W. K. Towner, pastor of the first baptist church of San Jose, who is acetsed of selling gold mine stock to his con- gregation on the representation that the mine has “the presence and ap- proval of god.” It is stated that Rev. Towner applied for a permit to sell $25,000 additional stock when he had only $5.58 cash on-hand and $890 in bullion from the mine. He has al- ready sold nearly $35,000 worth of the stock, mostly to members of his con- gregation, who swallowed the agser tion that the mining venture was “prayer born” and had been graced by various evidences of the special providence of god. The minister blames “reactionaries” in his church for instigating the state investigation now under way. - ——— POLISH SOCIALIST PARTY NOW DEFENDS CAPITALIST SYSTEM AGAINST COMMUNIST ATTACKS By L. DOMSKI, _ The economic position of @oland day by day grows worse, and with thie there is the possibility of a political complication. The fall of the Polish money on the exchange, tho slight and not very decisive, has already caused of Having long The fightifNg groups rathér nervous. which it is now hated, the cialist party’ owes its position only to the role which it plays in the in- terests of the bourgeoisie. lish socialist party is under the pro tection of the government, as it acts capital ago k he If this sendency continues, the st Polish so-#——————--_—_ Sans BARS Ohl Po- is | new strikes are unavoidable, socialist party, is getting yore Classes, by Polish its hold on the ed as its strikebreaker guard. But woe to the Polish socialist party if it hould turn out, unfit for this role. And the “red” elements in the trade (Continued on page 6) FULL REPORTS OF a 3 , ag THE AMERICAN FEDERATION: OF LABOR CONVENTION IN THE DAILY WORKER! SUBSCRIBE OR RENEW NOW! me ll lll a we e te s
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- . " pee me pe ie = ae gS ae Se Che TRE Ae “ ied & fe ee i % ; ‘ us LA ee i Gere ; si tia Fea, we ay rial " : op" é.. ; TOBE DISTRIBUTED HE anthracite coal miners are on strike. They are using the strong- est weapon at their disposal at this time, to enforce their demands for increased pay, better working condi- tions. They are fighting a hard strug- (Special te The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 4.—Despite the efforts made by| ‘tne american working lass must __ the council in charge of the interparliamentary union congress] neip the miners win this strike. The ’ to keep the exclusion of Shapurji Saklatvala, Communist mem-| workers must understand the basis - ber of the British house of commons, from the floor of the con-! of this strike; they must give the gress, Ben Riley, labor member of the British parliament, in his| strikers their support, moral and Speech scored the union for its method of handling the Saklat- otherwise. ee eerwere. It’s ne aoe ot yg ar His speech followed the transmission of the belhoiidine letter of protest by Shapurfi Saklatvala to:the congress of his exclu-| "4 militants of the American labor ’ 4d Aid Only Ce Capitalist By J Louis ENC ENGDAHL. ODAY, Joseph Caillaux, French finance ildlensi, is on his. oa “ny ith the. one his debt negotiations at a , | My san ” , ‘ from acmamea at hand, as follows: First, since Caillaux didn not pours what he wanted, the | to bring issues 1 Non _ French are of course, disgruntied. T terms, sion. volved, the. grievances of the minece, eeheataas feeling that the rich American uncle sho Mehould willingly grant Saklatvala Protests. the struggle of the miners; the short-| meeting was over the crowd unani-| them. France needs ager not for useful purposes to “] submit for the special and emergency consideration of | °°™!ms of the craft division of la-| mously voted to ) Comrade May-| fit the French people, on her wars in Morocco But in the words | States senator, 2p in the Wilson war proposals, ‘‘because the conference the question of the outrage committed by ‘the| 0" the need for a militant leader-| akoveky again to Chitago before he) and Syria, and to p ther United States government upon the rights and prerogatives of neo need for vB gy pg ds the — this country. ne of James Hami s Prepare for fo mer. our conference, and also of the serious violation of the time-| "°°", 0" trade union unity nation: meeting was opened °| from Illinois, ont very close to the. ally and internationally, to the atten-| International by the Freiheit Singing honored usage respected by ad tion of the workers of this country. | Society, and afieF @ mort introduc-| [ees France will agree to P — hosts for all intermational as-|treedom for India’s workers and for était, Keni tion by the chairman, Comrade Stolar,| he wants to —_— in vg 0K loan to be floated —- sembiages. his vigorous ptotests against British| The national offiee of the Workers| Viadimir Mayakovsky began to talk} here in behalf of Italy and France. ta, “The validity of most meetings of | imperialism, Party, has issued a leaflet: “Stand| From the start unt the end he held Second, the Wail Street bankers, like the French states- members of an organization becomes Condemn Kellogg. . by the Anthracite Miners.” This leaf-| the ¢Towd spellbound. At times they| men, are not at all a by the outoome of the debt par- Pee doubtful if any member entftled to at- “Be it resolved, that we condemn | jot ig the best means thru which to} ¥°T® at ley. Mellon is a P h and’ not a New York ban er. __—s tend the same is forcefully kept out|the exclusion of this representative | speak to the working masses, in ot ook aot until tears streamed from | . The international bankers v Id be pepey ge the nod adn he ; Of it. It would be impossible to ac-|of labor by Secretary of State Kel-| priet way, about the miners’ strug- | “°'T eves. ment at Washington would | ve the a cept the invitation of a country for |logg as an act of collusion with the | gies, against the coal barons, who w Europe their debts. That would, + Pg ofiiryee more - _ an international assemblage, if the | British empire, in its effort to subju-|are Jiving in luxury on hundreds ot . able to negotiate new loans w ese same international © | Shylocks, whose coffers are bulging with wealth stolen from - woversine, Sie. wean veg bs fg hae La 4) Oe ee 12 _ hosts undertook the duties of careful-|gate the workers of India, China, Ire-| millions of dollars’ profit wrung out ty going thru the career of each dele-|jand and many other countries to its | of the blood of the slaves of the pits, ae labor. Altho, as Mellon declares, the result of the debt talks , a to it some lia { ” ’ out. He protested against the sae con hao - eee a Regus hams mar lust for world an ete. ge will not add to, the borrowing power pire oa wegen nation, | discrimination by the _- @s8, and assumed contra] over per- Mpeg ba maorg conten’ nevertheless, France was doing pretty wel ng loans | against the workers, and pointed out - mission of delegates to confer-| - Frisco age am ap’ thee oaun, Ale Bi. e marge 2 pervs ge gr to Washington. This wll, no doubt, pes pe rer — ag ene ae ences.” SAN FRAN , Cal., Oct. : continue to do “in the name of civilization. i not enough. Many more must be dis- American imperialisms. To Expose Kellogg. —_ cape ge ony Begg ~~ ciate 1k soe ts Gas Ges . bbs =) Pron geo vey one pry one for 4 settle- ee re sae: te Saklatvala in’ his letter offered to ~- Bip. ici, 4 vA Chinese, |StTuggling miners need your mors! ment of the French war debt on the best ve ‘senibeiiene ric Ab ll nial a ba A aang a wh addressed the | S¥PPort now. See to it that you place terms possible." War loans repaid means. a reduction ‘in | to refer the resolution to the federa- an order at once with the Supplies | Soviet Republics, that would look| taxes on American industry, the essence of Coolidge-Mellon- tion executive for further report, each — a oe a Rel bye me he pond Pong Sucicmenias ehendiar arvic Department, National Office, Workers | grotesque and fantastic to the “sane| “economy.” This policy of lightening the burden of taxa- Party of America, 1113 Washington | and respectable” playwrights ts| tion o iness has been one of the pet schemes of th ey ee tthe pulpit tee , ad wasn tein: the : » Poe n on busin e schemes of the | he approved of the orem “ag gp tie ate psn nares ofl et union congress be- ge et ee ee Le ee i. “Andy-Cal” regime since it $9 versa into power. It scores in | resolution, but that the trouble was ' delegate. ing held at Washington, D. Cs, adopte®| 1 nan Teeen of the poorest branch. Compart the debt parley with France. © that an deer Wee oo |. 8 RR Oe the following resolution protesting his | HN: | Thus par Promo , Which Phe gg ty : Fourth, but nowhere did the thterests of the workers of Ct temidatal uy patatie Wak’ ae | “We have no desire,” said Ben Ril-|@elusion and demanding his immedt- nae oe ee either France or the United States receive any consideration. 4 9 umieated DY PASSE tne eters. labor member of the British par- | **¢ #d@mission: iened’ of tie Easy terms to France, or complete cancellation, would not | tion and again brot before the body. | Ramen: in his attack on the failure| “Whereas: Secretary of State —~ the “civilized” countries, he cited the| help the French workers and poor farmers. it would merely | 1: came from a Pygmy the union to protest the Saklat- mt pei J pcm orgs Pgs fact that the powerful Chicago poet,| strengthen French capitalien: the = enemy of the workers and Speaking against the committee. @ ban and also to discuss other is- Carl Sandburg, was able to draw a farmers. French canleallene ill seek this strength thru tion to refer, Anton Johansen of crowd in New York of only about 300 fnany of the reactionaries in the un- | ™e™ber of the roars gr Reiger te fon congress, “to enter into a discus- and a representative of the organ sion of how the exclusion of Mr. Sak- workers of that country, from attend- | Intvals has come about, or to question | 2S the interperliamentary conference | | the right of any country to administer / ** Washington; and, | its own laws; but we are concerned Fights Imperialism. : riew loans secured from Wall Street, an added-burden upon | ©2rpenters, Shussler of the Photo or 400 people, while the Russian) the backs of the proletariat of France. American workers read Cees aon pos the Painters, cmos of thow-| and poor farmers, the nation's $ producers gain nothing by | 40'the Sotion of the As prem scan » there were | the Mellon-Coolidge policy.” ‘Tax reductions, resulting in tera aa 2 vibe npiair$ about 1,600 people in the Be ba groan profits for business, al : net ee ae on i | ues that cortained dynamite for granted to Shapurji Saklatvala, a accomplished by wage-cut | cicar they were not in rives _—, the already low standard of living of the work- | with’ Communists on other that unless the council of this union| “Whereas: Saklatvala has carried ers. The anti-labor attack is most vicious in the textile in- | Mead stated that in the past the can make such arrangements as will|°2 4m uncompromising struggle dustry of. bo pagin. 3 $s own “England, an attack directed cderation had been over hasty in | enable all its members to-enjoy equal /@sainst English imperialism in China, . . . by the textile millionaire,. » who was Cal's campaign oting down resolutions, just because Fights, and make their particular con- | Egypt, Ireland, and particularly intn-} T ¢7hesmen Smash First manager. This attack is being pushed vigorously by the 4 oem Rao pentane ge Poggi | ; vention to the great work for which dia; therefore be it ‘ is Lait reat coal and steel co ; in the Pittsbu : L If disagreed wee the union exists, confidence will be| “Resolved, That thru this mass Of ensive | ict, | ; which the Mellon interests have a controlling inffivence t too far on this path. of ed and t blow struck at | meeting held in Workers’ Hall, San in % ger of going 00 ov nes ad Sy srg has oe R. rig s Francisco, on thie Sunday evening! oa wascus wren october 4.| , TMs while at eceiihent i ‘poet Dem-| The, Coolidge-Mellon war debt settling policies are at per oppostion to every resolution dion.” tating over cent for the c re a9) duced by. Communists. Brother Ar- es ae ae a os canal yo ‘= peerverany abt eat to onan ee alta ct area Se ceeiaetor?, By eo e@ nold, siee tomatoes upon the inadvie- ; . . a of this coutwe. Washington Protest. thru ecnictninn “c, of pony Sa with a number of serious defeats, rr 4 soe copies of nip oeus m2 American workers canget: suffer thru r epudiation by the ya Johansen made a slashing at- f WASHINGTON, D. C., O¢t. 4—The |e eee ene, ae oe cement of tha | French troops have been ambushed, |! ished since 1917, the tebks of the} | 'eneh working class of all the debts owing by Frante to | tack on Secretary Kellogg for his a¢- f workers of Washington protested |#8#inst the labor movement of the! driven out onto the desert and heavy P ” both the United States government and Wall Street's Ma | tion, which marked Kellogg as “the f whole world, and as a blow of dis- poets of the “civilized” ¢otintries are n, mal : against the exclusion of Shapurji Sak- losses then inflicted on them by the ternational banking clique... But such repudiation wil most servile tool of capitalism fn the 3 latvala, Communist member of the |‘Timimation against the foreign-born | rebeis, who demand that France re- pringes cally Sys See 800 i P n will only ° : even by the hundreds. © come by decree of a French Soviet republic. All American | American government.” The actien of ‘ house of commons, from the United | Workers, and at the same time aé 21 linquish her mandate over Syria. Writes Poems on América workers and poor farmers should join’ heartil in deolari Kellogg, moreover, proved the inter- ij Btat d the interparliamentary | Vicious blow to free speech in the This Is Hell , ‘ “ ? Bees oe | ewi f British and American im- , Ra RoE ow Y | United States; and be it . After a short intermission) between Let it come!” For the victory of the French working class | ‘W/ning © A ee cara ate ae union congress now meeting at Wash- Admit Saklatvala! Ten thousand flea-infested soldiers | the sips of Russian tea, he’ Janswered must weaken American capital ism and bring American Sov- perialism and the control of the ene- ‘ington at a well attended mass meet- “Resolved, That we demand the im-| “!th blood-shot eyes, swollen and | questions, and read spme of his own iet rule nearer. ‘ mies of workers and oppressed peo- ‘ing held at 1337 Seventh St., North- icin i ll taco sag nt antateela te parchedglips, wish they had never en-| poems, not published yet. The audi- ’ ‘ ; ples. Shussler remarked that the «act “west. re onc at Se he eastinice tered Syria on this expedition to keep | ence almost raised the roof by wildly rite a of Kellogg and Coolidga shows that in Comrade Bloor who was the main pelts geet atin ad tit a Syria for France. Many of the French | cheering his American poems, The Let American labor take notice in the hour of the America we have “hypocricy” and not speaker, attacked the exclusion tac-|) oo ie sent to Secretary ot | *diers are-saying: “This is the hell | Discovery of America, The Woolworth} debt haggling between the. beggar diplomats .of capitalist | ¢°™octacy. ‘ ;tics of Kellogg to stifle an opposition State ikelines: to Senator Hiram we get for supporting the French | Building and the Girl, and Havana France and the bandit statesmen of the United States, the Fitzpatrick Makes Usual Attacke. 2 to the imperialist rule of Great Brit- John nd ‘ das daa mandate in Syria. Willie. Five hundred copies of his Union of Soviet Republics, rowing richer in its own ri John Fitzpatrick opened up his cus- | ain afid showed how England had “aaices - CH byl Ww ai GRI M The French are organizing a second | poems that were on hand, were sold every passing. Nour, was placing another order for $2, 500/800 pecap sad My wpleton< Sie Commennne. —_ forced her imperialist policy on In- | a J i ats » Chair-| offensive. The first offensive was | out. worth of wrought i ron log with the Readi made the rather obviously uptrue dia, Egypt, Ireland and other nations. | ™®" 0% Meeting. smashed by the Druse tribes and To Speak Here Again. ' e Reading Iron company, statement that Overgaard was “dis- ] | Ressliaion Adécied. many of the French soldiery fear that| The next lecture by Comrade May-| Subsidiary of the Phi ade phia and Reading Coal and Iron _ | joyal to the trade union movement.”. | The following resolution was unani-| Increased Sugar Output in Russia. | the second will meet the very same | akovsky in Chicago, will be held Tues- corporation. This is being followed by still other orders of Fitz said he would welcome a chance | mously adopted: In the next business year the pro- | ‘#*®- day, Oct. 20, at Schoenhoffen Hall,| greater proportions. Workers of America, march forward | to deliver a blow at British imper- “This protest ‘meeting assembled at {duction program of the Sugar Trust Frenoh Fear Defeat. corner Ashland and Milwaukee Aves-/ with your comrades under the banner of Soviet rule. ans. RES AI0 Det Went to. te Lene 187 Seventh St.. N. W. Washington, | will be brought up to 58 million poods The second expedition of the | It will be his last lecture im the Unit-|~— ed as Communist for passing a reso- aoe eee s French has a caravan of 600 camelsjed States as he has to return home. j lution introduced by Overgaard. The D. C., Sept. 30, 1925, resolves that, (1 pood—36 English pounds) of sugar, | Take this copy of the DATLY “Whereas, Shapurii Saklatvala was|against 44 million poods in the cur- carrying water and supplies to last | The request to speak here again post- : Py resolution was referred to the execu- : excluded from America by an arbitr-|rent year. In connection with this, eight days. The first offensive was {| poned his home going, as he was to WORKER with you to the shop! tive for deliberation and further re- ary act of British representatives in |the Central Administration of State smashed by a small band of Druse | leave this country in about a week. | tomorrow. | | port. tribesmen whet the supply of water Comrade Mayakovsky promised an =" y our Own government after he had | Industries will open in addition to the] 114: the French depended upon, was | article for the DAILY WORKER on : been invited to this country by the }125 sugar factories already working,| 4. og ‘ "Russian literature rt and ‘ | NOT BY TH FE STRO E OF ONE interparliamentary union, and, another 26 factories from the list of , ee ae ak : For Indian Independence. those not at present working. This] | C f Y. : " | “Whereas, we khow that this act of | year’s splendid beet harvest guarant- . * ae hs : injustice was to penalize Saklatvala|ees that sugar will be of a superior | onvention 0 W. L. Opens : 7 for his championship of the cause of | quality. | iia re | \Optimistic - About Russ we : , ontinued from page animous opinion. of the convention: 1 ” ‘euil, Tony Wishtart, Al Schaap. | Whereas, Because of the utbear- Agriculture Fraternal: M. Salzman, F. Cheloff,} able conditions prevailing.in the coal ‘ ATTENTION, NEW YORK! a Greenbers ining industry, the anthracto coal], BERLIN. Oct, ¢—Gooree lene Vv or ’ 7 District 7, Detroit—Arnold Zekit, miners have been compelled to engage i i aiesaal ai German govern- The following is a list of campaign meetings, with date, place and spéak-| Barney Mass, J. Reynolds. in ere struggle aaeeest: the mine cient ‘hiiedia Giar «<del ers noted, being conducted in New York City by the Workers Party in sup-| " istrict 8, Chicago—M. Shachtman, ger ety militant: leaders of| ‘Tade agreement, said he was con- port of its candidate for mayor, Benjamin Gitlow: ; John Williamson, Valeria Meltz, J. the striking coal miners, Pat Toohey vinced the United States would soon MONDAY, OCT. 5—14th St. and Irving Pl.: Weinstone, Brahdy, Mitchell,| Harvey, J. Angelo, U. Zelesnick, G. Atigust Valentine, Alex Reid and Ales give full recognition to Soviet Rus- Bert Miller. 106th St. and Madison Ave: Poyntz, Sorenson, Powers, Landy, | Allard. Zarack, have been arrested by the po- sia. Negotiations he had conducted Harfield. 116th St. and Lenox Ave.: Poyntz, Powers, Grecht, Horowitz,| District 9, Superior—M. Abern, A. J.| jitiog; hirelings of the cowl operators with American commercial interests Longwood and Prospect: Stokes, Pollak, Baum, Pasternak. “"? nee er aoe : incom an and thrown into jait,, because these| 224 4/8 ayaa sl PN TUESDAY, OCT. 6—Columbus Circle (58th St.): Bentall, also Greek » SOrtiand—t, Ganapole. | workers are in the forefront of this Aten eens NE Lae eer ’ F District 13, Los Angeles—Anna can busfhessmen were anxious to ers. 7th St. and 2nd Ave.: Brodsky, Grecht, Siskind, Bert Wolfe. 79th St, struggle; and : , | ke 110th St. and 5th Ave.: Lyons. Whereas, This marks the beginning deal with the U. 8. 5. and Avenue A: Pollak, also Hungarian speakers. ° " Unorganized Territory—Pat Toohey,| .¢ » tree speech fight it‘ sector of Tchicherin was optimistic about Weinstone, Benjamin, Royce, Markoff, Felshin, Bert Miller. oe pi S.| (alternate, H. V. Phillips), P. Shapiro. the country that is domitiited by the Russia’s rapid -agricultural develop- 2nd, Brooklyn, Rose P. Stokes, Valentine Nesin, Primoff, Chas. Raiss.| Workers (Comunist) Party of Amer-| pio¢ ruthl .| ment and said that the crops this Maskineon and Pitkin, Brooklyn: Bert Wolfe “Cosgrove, Mitnik, Rubenstein.|ica—Max Bedacht, Robert Minor, teh ning and “brute! reaction; year would be 26 per cent better than But by the Combined Efforts of All Will | ath Beach (Place to be announced): Chorover, also Jewish speakers. James P, Cannon, Jay Lovestone. Resolved, Th last. Tractors and other farm equip- H . auinay, OCT. 7—104th St. and Madison: Codkind, Jampolsky,| A minority om oD pag Convention of ha Se sinc ment are needed, however, said the Be Possible to Save T E DAILY WORKE Ond Ave.: Markoff, Powers, Italian | ¥@5 Made on behalf of a minority of} 7 aoy foreign minister, and negotiations ; Powers, Horowitz, Landy. 106th St. and 2nd ; * |the credential committee, eave conderans (25 Seen Oe would start at once for credits if the I am sending you my response to your appeal. I en- eakers. Claremont Parkway and Washington Ave.: Undjus, Chorover, part of the federal authorities who spea . , Youth Behind Anthracite Miners. | 21, nothing other than hirelings of U. S. recognized Russia. Rosen. Tony Wishtrat, a young coal miner] 4), operators and pledges eg ive | He agreed with the German for- CIOOE Gisccscceesiscincen * . FRIDAY, OCT. 9—10th St. and 2nd Ave.: Stokes, Brodsky, Weinstone, | ong delegate to the convention from every possible financial and bt ol eign minister, Stresemann, to send]|] Fe Colien, Chorover. 106th St. and Madison: Codkind, Bentall, Landy. 110th St./ pistrict 6,, spoke on the anthracite sistance to these valiant fighters for “an observer to the next Geneva con- ‘Name: .......... if . ° : and Sth Ave.:* Bentall, Codkind, Benjamin, Stachel. Intervale and Wilkins: | strike, calling upon the Y. W. L. to teh catise of the ‘Woskin: ~~ M9 ana | 8Te88 if Germany joined the league of Ga Ge ape Grechf, Royce, Pollak, daeteditnen Grand and Reebling, Brooklyn: Poyntz,|give its support to the striking|), 4; hg ‘ nations. Street: : R Nesin, Primoff, Rosen. : ne snug a ta het es ee Resolved, That this resolution be Fetal Teale Wreek ce Na eee ~ ee , A.: Clarence Miller, also Rus- ’ ; ve SATURDAY, OCT. Bie ae be gargs ee John McDonald. 110th| °2® of the delegates to this conven- sont ath one Comradany end the labor BESSEMER, Ala. Oct. 4— Two MOMENT X Nitsuavaaccccusncadeineiccatctaebias soese PRIN 3 iskiccncnssaessdan atl 4 e aan peceheres: 209" - mn wees tz. St ste 103rd St. and Medieon tion who could not attend because , G - |trainmen were killed and several of e: St. and 5th ANe.: Codkind, Weinstone, Poyntz, Sta Be. va ‘ tid lees he is now in jail, together with Com- Waet wielten t aa , the crew were injured, one serlously, Address letters and make checks and money orders Ave.: Codkind, Weinstone, Poyntz, Stachel, Landy. . an r ve.: | rade Alex Reid of the Workers Party, nex or tO YOU | when a freight train of the Atlanta, payable ben THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W Washingto Baum, Chorover, Sorenson, Siskind. Grand and Havemeyer Brooklyn: Nesin, | at Wilkes-Barre. Pa. ) may not have anything to do to- Birmingham and Atlantic railroad : | F ‘ n Primoff, Sherer. Stone and Pitkin, Brooklyn: Bert Wolfe, Lifshitz, J, Ruben-| Comrade Wishtart offered the fol- night. Hand him this copy of the | was derailed ut Parkwood, nine miles Blvd., Chicago, -. “~ Mitnik. | lowing resolution, expressing: the-un-4 DAILY WORKER, . jfrom here todayj-+-"- - | ~ — a meee . : ~ teeth oo a ee bs ++ . Ree BR RN tage pe ay = ee ce oe wt te MA » aa : . ¢ | }« . ee we eh OP ibs IE i
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be Bi ay if 4 by as ot f 6 ae eee ast oS, ae eae oe aU ead yongjan ey Re oe bet 490 IS ene + ‘ a Pp MITTEE ATION over 200 party and Y. W. L. members receptive to the C. E. .C. report of the fourth national convention proceed- ings and the décision to reorganize our party on the basis of the shop bis — ean in the shortest mossible time. Er. Analysis iene Jay Lovestone, head of the organization department of the Central Executive Committee analyzed the present party MAtuation and the party’s immediate tasks. Comrade Lovestone pointed out that there were By JOHN J. BALLAM. "BOSTON, Oct. 4.— The Boston District No, 1 membership meeting which was held at Paine Memorial Hall, 9 Appleton St., Boston, was one of the most instructive and important party meetings in this district, There were present and all were enthusiastic and of Party. of the Workers in December 1921 the development of a more realisti political viewpoint when our comrades began to see the masses; the correcting of the left sicknesses, etc. 3. The period when the Amer- ican masses began to see the Com- munist movement and the Workers Party thru the development of the labor party campaigns, the building of | the left wing movement in the trade unions, and the united front cam- paigns. . J Fourth Stage. Comrade Lovestone showed that we are now entering the fourth stage in our growth: toward a real Bolshevik party thru the present realization of the need of carrying out the decisions of the Communist International and the convention on Bolshevization. “The factional struggles of the past ten months, which were characterized by so much bitterness,” said Love- stone, “were the birth pangs of the new Bolshevik Workers (Communist) Party now being born.” Reporting on the national ‘conven- tion, Comrade Lovestone said that the that the convention spent three days on tHe report of its credentials committee and that there were over one hundred challenges by the former minority alone showed in itself great organizational weakness and defects. It was said by a leading comrade that this was more a convention of dues stamps than of representative Communists in conference. Nevertheless, said. Love- stone, “at no previous convention. was there more intensive political discus- sion that at our last convention.” The convention. lasted ten. dfys and it was said ‘that these were the ner pete that shook the party.” _ Stand on Loreism. ~~ On the question of opportunist devia- tions the @onvention took a firm stand as evidenced by the expulsion of Lore and the removal of Askeli. from the editorial board of Tyomies. This ‘serv- ed warning upon all those in our party who were drifting toward op- portunism that the Central Executive Committee would deal firmly and de- cisively with those who would lead our party away from the line of the Comintern. It was high time for our party to act, as it was only as late as June 1924 that our party definitely déclared itself against Trotskyism in the Russian Communist Party. The last decision of the Commun- ist International placed the leadership of our party in the hands of the for- mer minority group and the national convention carried out that decision. The attitude of our comrades toward that decision of the C. I. will be one of the best indications of the readi-* ness of our members to accept and carry out Bolshevization and of their loyalty to the Comintern. Already Lore is organizing his Workers’ Inter- national Association and bidding for support among our members. Lore at- tempts to show how the C..I) butted in and 40 delegates had to do what Moscow said, etc, This protest against interference by the C. I. in the affairs of the sections of the C. I, is charac- teristic of all social-democrats and opportunists. Frossard, Hoeglund, Levi, et al, have said the same. * Bolshevization.- ' On the subject of. Bolshevization and reorganization Comfade Love- .stone devoted the main part of his - uUSSIA ODAY The Official Report of the Brit- Ish Trade Union Delegation _ to Soviet Russia. ‘Covering every phase of Soviet life today. With maps and charts, Art work by Fred Ellis. 15 2 IN Durofiex Cloth Covers Bound DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING COMPANY | 41118 W. Washington Boulevard Chicago, Il. or |tive of the C, B. C., hereby declares: speech, showing that the ‘Bolsheyiza- tion of our party means the raising of the theoretical level which is now very low; that the agitprop ‘depart- ments will strive to give the mem ‘ship thorogoing instruction on ‘baste theories. “Reorganization is not merely an! organizational problem,” said Love- stone, “but a major political problem,” Instead of having only 30%, of | members in the trade unions we mu strive to, have three times that n ber actively engaged in organizing the left wing bloc and influencing } the massesof organized workers. The Central Executive Committee will develop and intensify the anti-} imperialist campaigns as illustrated by the Saklatvala meetings in Union Square, New York, and elsewhere, On the labor party, the Central Executive Committee stands pledged to carry out the decisions of the C. I. for which it fought and it will develop a real labor party campaign. { “Reorganization is not a universal quack remedy,” said Lovestone. “It will not of itself solve all problems; but the new problems of the party will be more and more the Drona of the working class.” rey Shop and Street Nuclei, ‘j Comrade Lovestone then analyzed} the structure and functions of. the} shop and street nuclei; traced the development of our party from old socialist party to the present day) showing how we inherited our present ferm of organization from the social- ist party which wanted to reform cap- italism thru parliamentary means’ and showed how thru the shop nucle}! the party maintains contact with the’ mines, The C. BE, C. thru the local) committees, sub-districts and districts will be at all times in close contact }with the working masses and able to interpret their moods and needs, and thus become in deed as -well as in name the vanguard of the. working class. Comrade Lovestone admitted that there may be a loss of member?! ship during the process of reorganiza-f{ tion bat that in the long run our party] will begin to grow more rapidly than heretofore and that the members that) membership which does not belong in a Communist Party. The question of language branches and ianguage fractions were next dealt with and Comrade Lovestone concluded by stating the following slogans: “The Comintern is being attacked —stand by the Communist Interna-} tional! _“*Back to work—the cure for fac: tionalism ig united effort! “The party is the instrument of the revolution—THE PARTY ABOVE ALL!” Discussion. Comrade Ballam, as chairman, then opened the meeting for questions and aise sion. These questions and the discussion which took place showed real enthusiaism for the reorganiza- tion program. The speech of Comrade George Kraska caused a demonstra- decision of the C. I, was based upon false information, and that the C. L/ is not infallible. That Zinoviev made mistakes in the past and that he is) mistaken now. -That as for leaving’ the party, Zinoviev himself once left’ } the Russian Communist Party and re-’ fused to obey the decisions of Lenin’ and the Central Executive Commit- could not have made a more violent attack upon the Communist Interna- tional than did Kraska who was dele-' gate to our last national convention. Comrade Lovestone in replying said, that Comrade Kraska should add an-: other chapter to Mr. Eastman’s book, “Since Lenin Died,” as even. Eastman does not claim that Zinoviey left the Russian Party. | Comrade Max Lerner introduced a resolution which was identical with the Central Executive Committee reso- lution on every point and was there- fore declared out of order by the chairman. Comrade Lerner appealed against the ruling of the chair and. the decision of the chair was sus- tained, The following resolution was adopt- ed by the Boston membership meet- ing by a vote of 102 for the resolu- tion to 9 against: | Resolution Adopted by Reston Meet- ing September 27, 1925 “The Boston, District No. 1, mem- bership meeting of the Workers (Com- munist) Party, section of the Comin- tern, after listening to tha report of Comrade Lovestone, the ‘representa- “1. The resolutions of the Parity workers in shops, factories, mills and will remain out will be that type of} .. tion when Kraska declared that the} tee of the Russian Party. Lore himself} the work of the party members among the masses, thru which alone our party can grow into a mass Com- munist Party. We declare our whole- hearted support to the resolution on the immediate tasks of the party, on trade union work, on the labor party campaign, imperialism, work among women, agricultural work and other major campaigns of our party. “2. We welcome the action taken by the national convention for the liquidation of Loreism in our party. Our party has already reached the point of development where oppor- tunistic deviations by leading mem- bers can no longer be tolerated. In the expulsion of Lore and several of his aides from the party and in the removaly of Comrade Askeli from the editorial board of the Finnish organ,\ Tyomies, the national convention in- dicated that the fight against op- ber portunism will be intensified in , our party. We pledge our wholehearted support to this campaign. “3, The resolution on the Bolshev- ization of our party marks a new step forward for the American Communist Party. The thorogoing reorganization of our party on the basis of shop Tnuclei and the development of a cen- tralized apparatus mark necessary and Significant steps toward the Bolshevik centralization of our party and lay 4a sound basis for the party’s carry- ing on real Communist work. We pledge ourselves energetically to take up the campaign for the reorganiza- tion in the least possible time. Comintern Decision. . “4, ‘The last resolution of the C. I. sent to our fourth national conven- tion by the presidium of the a de- claring that, ‘it has finally ome clear that the Ruthenberg group is 'more loyal to the decisions of the C. I. and stands closer to its views,’ lays the basis for the unification and deve- lgpment of our party. We declare our acceptance of the last resolution ‘of the Comintern dealing with our Party and that we will loyally support the C, E, C., elected on the basis of this decision in earrying on and in- tensifying the work of the party. ‘5. This membership meeting of ‘District No. 1 declares that the in- \terests of the party demand the sin- cerest and most tireless ¢xecutions of all. decisions of the C. I. regarding our , party. This is particularly neces- sary when Lore is openly working to descredit the C. I. and its decisions wd to destroy the possibilities for ding up a powerful section of the }CHI. Especially at this moment, there- cliaracter of or to diseredit the latest C: I. decision or in any way to inter- fere with its successful execution would be playing into the hands of the Loreites and other enemies of the ,Comintern, would be a blow struck’ ‘against the C. I. and its American ‘séction—the Workers (Communist) Party. Approve Convention. “6. We declare our approval of the unanimous decision of the national convention to accept and carry out without reservation the last resolu- tion which the Comintern cabled to the fourth convention of- our party: ‘“7.* The Boston District No. 1 mem- bership meeting declares its fullest '\éndorsement of the Central Executive Committee and strongly urges all members to forget their past faction- al differences; to drop all factional strife, and to rally as one solidified, united Communist’ Payty for new con- structive activities for Communist campaigns, under the leadership of the Central Executive Committee chosen by the fourth national conven- tion of our party.” Workers ba rte Dist. 5 Expels Joe Lang of McKeesport, Pa. PITTSBURG, Pa., Oct. 4.—District Organizer Arne Swabeck of District No. 5 of the Workers Party address- ed the following letter to Joe Lang of the McKeesport Hungarian Br., notifying him of his expulsion from the party for the reasons set forth: The District Committee of District | No. 5 is in receipt of a communication addresed by Joe Lang, member of Mc- Keesport Hungarian branch, to the C. E. C.in which he in the most insiflt- ing manner attacks the C. L., its re- presentative and the Bolsheviki in general, using a language absolutely unworthy of a Communist. We were also informed that Joe Lang trans- mitted a contribution to the discus- sion now taking place in the Volks- zeitung which was published under the head “Loreism, Workers Party and the Volkszeitung” which is a di- rect polemic against the Workers (Communist) Party. The C. E. C. in forwarding this communication to..the District Com- mittee asks that the District Com- mittee take prompt action in the mat- ter, and the District Committee unan- imously carried the motion to expel Joe Lang forthwith from the party for reasons set forth above, to notify the respective party units according ly and to ask the DAILY WORKER and the party press in general to give prompt display to this unanimous action of the District Commitee of District No. 5. If you want to. thoroughly un- Commission eaeenny adopted by, =" > derstand Communism—stydy, ity 6 \ | icant th sti ‘he fourth national convention of on | party, lay down a correct basis for fore, any attempt to question the| resoly Se mens REORGANIZATION AND C. E. C. , PARTY Jakira and Baker. The meeting was opened at 7:30 p. organizer « trict 3, who eitibieaued _ Two hundred and forty Workers Party members, together with a number of Y. W. L. members turned out Saturday, Sept. 26, in Machinists’ Temple, Philadelphia, to a general party meeting to hear the report of Comrade Lovestone, together with a brief report of the convention by Comrades m. by N. H. Tallentire, newly elected Comrade Baker followed by Comrade Jakira, who briefly reported on the national convention of the party. Tallen- tire, in introducing Comrade Love-+ stone, referred to Lovestone’s recorc in A a party, showing his association with the Communist movement fron its inception, and his consistent lin« of policy, thruout, which he still fol- lows, “toward. the masses,” and indi- cated briefly Comrade Lovestone’s splendid > aa for Communism in America, | Didnives Ovation. On rising to speak, Comrade Love- stone a8 ‘C. E. C. representative, re- ceived an Ovation, the meeting rising and singing the International. Love- stone’s speech of one hour dealt with the inner party situation as it affects the reorganization of the party. Trac- ing the history of the Communist Party development from its origin thru the formative period, under- sround period, to the «open day of Communism, the Workers Party of America, ~ ~ “To the Masses.” The labor party policy, the speak- er showed, as outlined by the C. L., leads “to the masses,” and urged the membership to study and understand the underlying principles of the C. I. united front policy in order to ad- vance the cause of Communism amongst the American workers. Dealing with party reorganization. Lovestone stated that the process of the Bolshevization of our party is in- evitably bound up with reorganiza- tion, as outlined by the C. I., on 2 shop nuélei basis. Explaining the ob- soleté character of the present terri- torial units, Lovestone urgtd all mem- bers to @o-operate and speed up this work, that we may have an oppor- tunity of clearing the last traces of social‘democracy and Loreism in our party. 7: : . ort New c. E. C. Comra Lovestone: urged all mem- bers without regard to pre- -convention groupings, to rally to the support of the new itral executive committee, and. to carry out wit out reservations the latest decision of the Communist Internat E by reading the , on the party ae, The ‘chairman mande a short appeal for active support-of able members in reorganizing theparty. A collec- tion of $168.00 in cash and pledges was recorded, Unanimous Decision. Debate 4rem the floor by Comrades Lena Rosenberg, Yusem, Lyman, Too- hey, Olken, Bail, Baker, and Tallen- tire, followed after which the reso- lution submitted for the central exe- cutive committee by Comrade Love- stone was by motion unanimously adopted, a poll of the house showing 239 members present and voting. The resolution adopted by the Phil- adelphia Alistrict membership meet- ing was as follows: . The Philadelphia . District No. 3, membership meeting of the Workers (Communist) Party, section of the Communist International, after listen- ing to the report of Comrade Love- stone, the representative of the C. E. C., hereby declares: 1. The resolutions of the Parity Commission unanimously adopted by the Fourth National Convention of our party, lay down a correct line of Communist policy for our party. These resolutions provide the basis for work of the party members among the masses, thru which alone our party can grow into a mass Com- munist Party. We declare our whole- hearted support to the,resolution on the immediate ta&ks of the party on trade union work, the labor party campaign, imperialism, work among women, agricultural work and other major campaigns of the party. 2. We welcome the action taken by the national convention for the liquidation of Loreism in our party. Our party has already reached the point of development where opportun- istic deviations by leading members can no longer be tolerated.. In the expulsion of»Lore and several of his aides from ‘the party and in the re- moval of Comrade Askeli from the po- sition of editer of the Finnish organ, the Tyomies,'the national convention indicated that the fight against op- pression will be intensified in our party. We pledge our wholehearted support to this campaign. 3. The resolution on the Bolshe- vization of our party marks a new step forward for the American Com- munist Party. The thorogoing reor- ganization of our party on the basis of shop nuclei and the development of a centralized apparatus mark nec- essary and significant steps toward the party’s carrying on real Commun- ist work. We pledge ourselves en- ergetically to take up the campaign for the reorganization of our party as laid down by the C. E. C. and to give all possible help to the C. E. C. in effecting this reorganization at the earliest possible date. 4. The last resolution of the Com- munist Intetnational, sent to our Fourth National Convention by the Presidium of the Comintern, declar- ing that “it has b q —— hat the Ruthenberg group is more oyal to the decisions of the Com- nunist International and stands clos- x to its views” lays the basis for the unification and development of our party. We declare our accept- ance of the last resolution of the Comintern dealing with our party and that we will loyally support the cen- tral executive committee elected on the basis of this decision in carry- ing on and intensifying the work of the party. 5. This merfbership meeting de- clares thats the interests of our party demand the sincerest and most tire- less execution of all decisions of the Communist International regarding our party. This is particularly neces- sary when Lore is openly working to discredit the C. I. and its decisions and to destroy the possibilities for building up a powerful American sec- tion of the Communist International. Especially at this moment, therefore, any attempt to question the character of or to discredit the slatest Comin- tern decision or in any way at all to interfere with its complete and suc- cessful execution would be playing into the hands of the Loreites and other enemies of the Comintern, would be a blow struck against the Comintern and its American, section, the Workers Communist Party. 6. We declare our approval of the ananimous decision of the national sonvention to accept and carry out without reservation the last resolu- tion of the Cominter® cabled to the fourth convention of .our party. * 7. The Philadelphia District No. 3 membership meeting declares its full- est endorsement of the ©. E. C. and strongly urges all’ party members to forget their bow F- tional differences, to drop all sla strife and to rally as one solidified, united Com- munist Party for’ the new construc- tive activities, for Communist cam- paigns, under the leadership of the central executive committee chosen by the last national convention of our party. if Ask All ‘New York to Be at International Labor Defense Ball NEW YORK CITY- Oct. 4-—Interna- tional Labor Defense, New York section, announces a costume ‘pall to be held on Saturday, Oct. 17, at the Lyceum, 86th Street and Third Ave., New York City. This Ball is the beginning of a ser- ies of activities to be conducted by the I, L. D. in their campaign to help the | class-war prisoners and their families. At the present time of blackest re- action, with the courts issuing injunc- tion after injunction against the | workers and the police clubbing | strikers in the picket line, there is a | crying need for a strongly centralized fight for the civil rights of the work- ing-class. The Il. L. D. is trying to fill this need, but it can do nothing without the concerted support of all elements of labor behind it. Every sympathizer must work to his utmost to make this work effective. The committee in charge of the ball announces many novelties for the affair. Prizes will be given for the best and most original costumes; one of New York's finest orchestras has been ehgaged to provide the music; and there will be many sur- prises for those who attend. The Ball promises to be one of the brightest and most successful affairs of its kind ever held in New York District. Each worker should not only buy a ticket for himself, but should get a bunch to sell in his union or his fraternal organization. For further information, apply to.the secretary of the I. L. D., Rose Baron, Room 422, 799 Broadway, New York. Courts Asquits Polish Workers Charged with Communist Membership WARSAW, (By Mail.)— The trial of Moushinski, Zatorski and Rappo- port, a woman tailor, on charges of participating in the Communist Youth organization, ended recently in the Warsaw district court. On ac- count of a complete absence of any evidence against them, the court ac- quitted all the accused, after they had each undergone three years of penal servitude. The witnesses, all agents of the secret police, founded their charge on the fact, that the egceused had a “Communist reputation.” | Build the DAILY en with subs. j | RETURN N. Y. DAILY LISTS! Every Collection list that has been distributed to DAILY WORKER Builders in New. York must be returned at once, regardiess of whether anything was collected on it or not. Either give the list to the DAILY WORKER agent of your branch, or bring or mail tt direct to the DAILY WORKER New York agency, 108 East 14th street, New York. VOLUNTEERS WANTED! Readers of the DAILY WORKER are asked to help with the work of building the DAILY WORKER contributions, but also with contributions of their time and energy. A number of campaigns in which the New York agency is now en- gaged could be increased ten fold if it makes no difference what your ability, there will be a place to make use of you, if you will volunteer your services. Call on L. E. Kat- terfeld, manager of the New York particulars, or telephone Stuyvesant 8100, Offive workers and news stand petent to speak before meetings are needed at once. ee The Lilttle in New York, not merely with cash ‘the working force was available. agency, at 108 East 14th street for collectors, as well as comrades com- Red Library Convenient, pocket size booklets carrying important contributions to the literature of the revolutionary movement. | - Number . By Wm. Z. Foster TRADE UNIONS 1 pes P, Cannon, IN AMERICA Eart R. Browder Number CLASS ig ae By CLASS COLLABORA- 2 Earl R. Browder TION Number By Frederick Engels PRINCIPLES OF Translation by COMMUNISM Max Bedacht Number > WORKER By ‘CORRESPONDENTS Wm. F. Dunne Number POEMS FOR Edited by WORKERS Manuel Gomez New titles will soon be issued. 10 Cents Each © Twelve copies for one dollar. Send one dollar and these five and the next seven issues will be sent you as soon as they are off the press, [Connecticut Takes Initiative i 1S ho Pp Nuclei anization eee The active party members in the recent strike of 400 workers in the Sidney Blumen- thal (Shelton Looms) plant has made it possible for our comrades to om — ganize a strong shop nucleus there. It is interesting to note that prior the organization of this shop ~ nucleus, the various party members | working in this factory who were oO mentbers in their different party brancves never.considered our party activities in the shop at their branch meetings. The shdp nucleus was organized after the Cammunist participation in _the strikes at this plant, which were in force last January and June. The district executive committee is taking steps to help the comrades function in this nucleus. The employers in this instance are bitter enemies of organ- ized labor, particularly militant or ganized workers. This is the first shop nucleus organ- ized in the Connecticut district. The won the confidence of many workers, as a result of their participation in the struggle of the employees the Shelton textile plant, against the at- tempt of the bosses td force them to run more looms. “British Rule In india’ Ay Speech By Shapurji Saklatvala Delivered in the House of Commons July 9, 1925 and quoted by Kellogg as the reason for barring him from the United States. Z American Imperialism aids British Imperialism by keeping out the man who made this attack. You can bring into the hands of every worker this brilliant exposure of Imperialist oppression. 16 pages with cover photograph of the speaker in action. Price: ; Single copies, 10c each 25 copies, 8c each 100 copies or more, 5c each DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING COMPANY 1113 W. WASHINGTON BLYD. Chicago- ILL participation of our comrades in the shop nucleus have’
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ya ite. Ptr 7 awe 3 on wi ee. wit a % Ser > = a as 1B. vest ts peaegeht I? — a _ ° > ple! . SRS ee a Sieben sai “” Dear Comrade: | ightily concerned about the. danger " yz | Every militant working man and worsen: 4 which faces THE DAILY WORKER. A great ly of them gave immediate response | to the danger signal and thereby helped to Pasty rors le an emergency which without their Fe | k pel support would have ended in disaster. nding catastrophe was averted, but THE DAILY WORKER is very far from being safe, s Will receive this call within the next cEY et s two weeks. There is only one way in which ED WORKER can be made safe and that Every unit of the Workers (Com- manist ) Party will get it. a Thousands of workers in the trade unions, ~ Thousands of unorganized work- ers will join. | At least fifty thousand will re- ceive this call thra the mail. ACT! oe . capitalism. other worker to help, too. ers within the ranks. \ Around this slogan every fighting We said that only by the unified e i haps you have already done so. is through the support of each one of the DAILY WORKER for leadership, inspiration ‘ana information in the struggle against — SAVE THE DAILY WORKER. conscious worker must rally. orts of all militants could THE DAILY 1 WORKER: be saved.” That is true, but there are several ways in which each one may do his share: By donating money to help THE DAILY WORKER in its work. er- If you possibly can do it again and get>s By securing new subscribers to THE DAILY WORKER and The Workers Monthly. This is a task that everyone can perform with a little effort and by doing so you not only help to solve the financial problem, but also you strength- en THE DAILY WORKER by thereasing the size of its army and strengthen the whole labor movement by increasing the number of well informed fight- By buying and reading some of the Communist literature published and sold by The Daily Worker Publishing Co. Act now, to save The + Daily tad cragsach | | Frapeenally yours, class ousands of workers who depend on THE " effort to help save THE DAILY ‘J x : g ti Incthis way you help THE DAILY eel WORKER financially and in addition you can with pleasure and profit to ae “yourself, make yourself more effective a fighter in the labor struggle. 4 ii We ‘know that you are willings to exert every | WORKER. We have suggested three “—r in which this can be done, ; i - Whatever way*you can. Every way if you can. Thrée effective | ‘ways to help the | Dail y Worker are proposed here. Act on one—two—or all three ' ways—to help the Dail y Worker to help you. 3 ‘Send your money— : Bay a Seoh— Get a sab— ee To the q db ™“ And ask for 2 jon eee y . Ld 7 Lis ; Z f . an ft " 3: . " i | e ‘3 v1 rn : 6 i i " s ; ' Manager, oh k. } . f 10 af . = — ; eh ; * LENIN MEMORIAL ALBUM. 4 : , . ,, socidlogy and Economics aM if ee | A aow booklet from Germany with text in English, RUSSIA TODAY—The Official Report of the British 7 — is a — Months German and French+-gnd)33 photographs of the great Trade Union Delegation to Soviet Russia. F t > ife } development of a healthy, snilltent eras cee 11 nefaflear ate : wt . THE DAILY WORKER is imperiled throug w (Ct g ) ex lack of funds. : COPIES TITLE — a rs | — pr seeneeett err ea eo a a CT NSNNTTA ARNIS —_ iia oO | ; - ~~
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oe ASO ee eT | Hearing WASHINGTON, Oct. 4-—(F.P.)=<J. F. Anderson, former vice-president | and recent candidate against wm. H. Jownston for the presidency of the} file of the machinists. He reviewed the history of the un- ion’s struggle to establish democracy in its own affairs, and demanded that any charge against him be tried by his own fellow-members in his own lodgé, and not by the councfl which is his accuser. - Membership Rule Lost. He declared that the disclosures of recent months concerning the elec- tions held in 1920 and 1922 and 1924 ° have disillusioned the membership as to their own control of the organiza- tion. Johnston’s demand that Anderson apologize to the council he character- ised as “a ridiculous proposal for me to recant,” and “adding insult to injury.” Rich Orientalia of Ancient Date Is on Exhibit in Moscow MOSCOW, Oct. 4.—An exhibition. of Chinese ancient books dating from. the period between the 2nd and the 8th centuries is being organized in rr it re ’ » ¥: . : | ; b? logical that the war- ‘This was finally crystallized into the Hylan-Smith fight. ¢ 2 Whe is Smith? Alfred EB, Smith is a director of the Blectric company which has interlocking directorates with the Interborough Rapid Transit com- (operating New York subway board of directors of: the VU. & Trucking corporation. He therefore ts the traction group. » He supports Walker as candidate who while on the agricultural committee to prepare food control bills accepted fees from the meat truat. Who is Hylan? Hylan om the other hand is closely botind up with the realty interests. It is not permissable that while in of- fice he himself should engage in busi- ness, However, the Sinnots, members of his famliy, are all owners of large insurance and realty corporations and we stispect that the mayor himself has more than just a sympathetic share in these enterprises. It is the Asiatic Museum of the Russian academy. An inscription ca ’ a polished stone plate and be to the 2nd century which Prof | V. M. Alexéev found in Central China in 1907 will be displayed among the, most valuable exhibits. . : A rare coll mn of about two thousand Chinese books in the Tang- out language belonging to the early era of Chinese printing art, found and excavated by fhe explorer P. K. Koslov in the Mongolian dead o Hara-Hota, will also be exhib’ as well as samples of Chjur-jen m ccripts and other species of Chinese t writings. 3 bie ry 20se who work hard for their i. ney, | will save 50 per cent on all their dental work, | * DR. RASNICK. DENTIST my 645 Smithfield Street. _ PITTSBURGH, PA. Philadelphia, Notice! Weber Printing Co. , | tate men. us} of the Five Cent Fare club, a tempor- thereforé logical that he should };champion this great Qnancial group Smi Hylan’s strength comes from Rich- mond, Queens and the rapidly grow- ing sections of Brooklyn, because he used his office to build subways, bridges and to give the realty sharks every facility that the city could of- fer them. He got the endorsement of the Staten Island businessmen’s league, a powerful organization con- sisting in a large measure of real es- He -also got the support ary election organization which is be- ing financed by the same group. Walker's Record. Walker (Smith’s puppy) gets his strength from the greater aggregates of capital—from the public service corporations and the meat trust— thru men like Arthur S. Somers who is a director of the Brooklyn-Manhat- tan’ subway system. Because of his | recent victory in the democratic par- ty Smith becomes the angel of the great trusts and will undoubtedly gain substantial financial assistance from them when the problem of nom- inating a presidential candidate in 1928 arises. Already during the campaign period he got a suite of rooms and meals free from the Biit- 350 N. FIFTH STREET, more which is owned by the méat OUR DAILY PATTERNS | | ———— LADIES’ DRESS. ; 6142. Cut in elght sizes: 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50, 52, 54 inches bust measure. To make as illustrated will require 1% yard of plain material 40 inches wide and 2% yafds of figured for a 44-ineh- size. The width at the foor {is 2 yards, with plaits extended. Price BOY’ SUIT 4829. Cut im four sizes:2, 3, 4, and 5 years. A 3-year size requ 2% yards of 36-inch material. P *I2c. NO'XICE TO PATTERN BU tterns being sold thru 0 Pattern department are fur- nished by a New York firm of pattern ufact . Orders are forwarded by the DAILY every day as re- ceived, ey are mailed by the man- ufacturer hy to the customer . DA Ww R does not keep a stock of patterns on hand. at- terns ordinarily take at least 10 4 from the date of pred the order. not pooemye impatien i vou pattern is. FASHION .BOOK NOTICE! Send i12c in silver or stamps for our: up-to-date Fall and Winter, 1925-26, Book of Fashions, showing color plutes and containing 500 designs of ladies’, misses’, and children's patterns, a ‘con- cise and comprehensive article on dress. making, also some point. for the needic ({iNustrating 30 of various simple wtitches), all valuable hints to the hoe economic groups use their most}. '| Norman Thomas of offices is $18 per week. He discrim- _|inates against Jowish employes hir- ing only enough to keep the charge of anti-Semitism from, him. He was chosen because he can lose nothing by being defeated as he undoubtedly will be. Sky-Pilot Candidate. The socialist party has this year .completed its swing to the right. They chose Norman Thomas, a sky- ‘| pilot who has been using the social- ist party as a splendid pulpit from which to preach to his lowly (in more respects than one) flock. , Several weeks ago a manifesto fa- voring Cal Coolidge’s pet scheme, the world court, was published in New York newspapers and among the dis- tinguished signers were Thomas W. Lamont of Morgan and company and the socialist party. Hiliquit for League. Morris Hillquit, another bourgeois who is boring from within the ranks of the workers for capitalism came ®| back from the congress of the Sec- ond International (incidently on a seab ship) in favor of a league of na- tions somewhat “democratized.” The same leaghe which the S. P. in 1919, when it still had some militant elements in it, called an organization of “blackguard reactionaries.” The Coal company whose leading ential politicians is our old friend Mofris Hillquit, is importing coal from Wi to break the anthracite strike. ‘The successive betrayals that the socialists have committed in the past few years with an almost bewilder- | rapidity has so thoroly discredited them in the eyes of the workers class, especially in view of the recertt needle es struggle, that their vote will to a negligible point and I dare say, were it not for the support that the. petty-bourgeois cockroach shop and store keepers are still giving ‘them, their vote would be very close to zero. : ; The Issues. An extremely “careful scrutiny of the ‘program of the two major capi- talist parties reveals not a single point which might differentiate one from the other. They are conducting their cam- paigns on the purely personal basis that Walker can serve (Wall Street) better than can Waterman and vice versa. ; “’The socialist party has taken the fmouflage issue—the five cent fare— | is copducting their campaign on elose the socialist platform comes to Hylan’s. The former advocates mun- icipal ownership of the subways, the latter nicipal control. If municipal ownership were accomplished it would haye the -effect of guaranteeing the Profits of the pfesent owners. Why? Because in order to take the subways over the city would have to float a bond issue and the same crew which owhg them now would buy the bonds and get their profits anyway, in the from of interest on the bond loan. The socialist party failed to make as its major issue the real problems confronting the workers, such ag in- junctions in strike, pergecution of the foreign-born, the increase by 100% of the child laborers in the last three years alone, etc. Instead they show their confusionist character by fight- ing on the ridiculous camouflage is sues proposed by the major capitalist parties. Communist Candidate, That each of the candidates sym bolizes the character of the party that from the above. The Workers (Com- munist) Party as is fit for its class character and. vitality, has nominated Ben Gitlow whose “jail” record speaks for the fighting makeup of the party that he represents. . The party program has'‘refused to take up the fake issues that the cap- italist parties have set forth but have entered the campaign on a program which ought to rally large masses of the workers because it meets their everyday needs. Proposed Unity. The Workers (Communist) rarvy has earlier in the: campaign issued a call for a united labor ticket the The! organization of which was effectively blocked by the yellow socialists who have made it their special job to keep the workers from solidifying their ranks, even if only on particular is- sues. We now enter the campaign un- der our own banner, tho we continue our fight for a united labor ticket and a labor party. The enthusiasm displayed everywhere augres well for the added success that we are sure to achieve during this struggle. We hope to be able to count many new members and much'new support be- (The ‘complete program of the par- 12c. Aressmaker. 0 4. 1 joc this campaign is over. ty will be printed in another issue.) ‘ Make Bu lawyer and one of whose most ‘infiu-| all ] | per cent. / that. basis. It-is curious to note how| hf. nominated him can very well be seen | © yee ee a Re Yee fee CMe Soy ek CRASS ait an hs ge 5 AS Sk, fe oi Lae "3 ; ¥, " fs b 7 am 4 : e ad pee , ' oe 4 — SeaTac age, es ae hase then in | 4S £ nO Fae ay rae Bt Ne de t ete ‘ A es : ; ; F I ; . bis dot SS: oe ee te ae gee hy ¥ + Z, My s LS i Sen RN Hea De ae RE ii Slee ah hea cake SURG R 6h Being ot he las id a =~ ; d _ ri { S\ bee "4 et N i ‘ Suit . mn '" Easy Frame-u cals . 4—Polliee Com- pring ‘ , a NEW Y ‘| miésioner Enright of New York would outdo the French and German sys- teme of ticketing and docketing citizens. In an article in the Scientific Amer- ican he urges universal fingeprinting, not only = aliens but of everybody, so that the police can keep tab on every man, woman and child. plan is seen by the work- ers as a step towards a police author- ity to czarist system. will red quite mild. . Finge nts Forged. This would allow police to frame up on many leading working class fighters, by, taking the forged finger- prints and using them in such a man- ner a8 to implicate the worker in crimes for which heavy penalties would be inflicted. Mexican ian Law Biss ) Foreign Landholding ME ) CITY, Oct. 4.—The pro- posed law, in accordance with the constitution, regulating foreign acti- vities and possessions in Mexico, is certain to pass the Mexican chamber. The constitution provides that only Mexicans by birth or naturalization may acquire or exploit real property. The. only change effected by the proposed law will be that members of stock companies will be made sub- ject to the same laws as individuals. One section of the law provides that foreigners. within one hundred kilometers,,of the border and fifty kilometers.of the sea must dispose of their holdings within three years. be co Soviet-U. S. Trade increase. MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Oct. 4—Trade with the United States during the last six months was several -mil- lion dollars greater than for the whole year’ 1924, totalling $58,779,736. Of this amount, only $6,000,000 worth of goods was sent to America. | The chief imports from the United States and the percentages of each were: Cotton, 45 per cent; grain, 35; agricultural machinery and parts, 29 | : os Take this copy of the DAILY WORKER with you to the shop tomorrow. , STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, ANAG T, CIRCULATION, ETC. REQUIR THE ACT OF CON. GRESS GUST 24, 1912. Of THE Y WORKER published every day Sundays and legal holi- days at ; for October, 1925, State of lilimele County of Cook e » Coe y of Cook. Before ;- aN Public in and for the State and county aforesaid, per- 0 of The Daily Worker and that the is, to the best of his know- ledge oe belief, a nova’ er “ne ownership, management (an a y paper, the ehoulation), etc., of the afore- said publi for the tion, required by embodied in 411, Postal Laws and Regulations, petnted to wit: er following te shown in ‘ the names and addresses of the tenis saponin editor, managing editor, and business managers are: blisher, ily Worker tata cin Co., Inc., 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, lll.; Editors, J. Louis panda, 1113 Washington Blvd., { L, an Business Manager, Loeb, 3 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il. ; 2. That the owner is: (If the publicaito is owned by an tndividual his name and address, or if owned by more than one individual the name and address of each, should be given below; if the publication is owned by a co ration the name of the corporation and the names and ad- dresses of the stockholders owning © holding one per cent or more of the tota amount of stock should be given.) Daily Worker Publishi Co., 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, 1 foe * Foster, 1113 W. Washington Blvd... Chi- cago, ll.; E. R. Browder, 1113 W. Wash- ington Blvd., Chicago, lil.; Max Bedacht, 1113 W Washington Bivd., Chicago, I1.; Alex. Bittelman, 1113 W. Washington ; Jay Lovestone, 1113 . Chicago, Ill.: W. 3 WwW. ‘Washington Bivd., . Burman, 1113 W. Wash- rn, S. Lineoln St., Ben. Gitlow, 47 Chrystie pat o S total amount wf bonds, mortgages, or other securities are: (If there are none, so state.) None. 4. That the two paragraphs next above, giving the names of the owners, pte A «hm and security holders, if any, contain not only the list of stock- holders and se@urity holders as they appear upon the books of the company but also, in cases where the stockholder or security holder appears upon the books of the ocgapany as trustee or in any other fiduciary relation, the name of the person or corporation for whom such trustee is acting, is ven; also that the said two paragraphs contain statements embracing affiant's full | knowledge and belief as to the circum- stances and conditions under which stock holders and security holders who do not appear upon the books of the company as trustees, hold stock and securities in a capacity other than that of a bona fide owner; and this affiant has no reason to. believe that any other person, association, or corporation has any in- terest direct or indirect in the said stock, borids, -or other securities than as so stated by him. 5. That the average number of copies of each issue of the publication sold or distributed, through the malls or other- wise, to paid subscribers during the six months preceding, the date shown above is 15,362. (This information is required from daily publications only.) MORITZ J. LOEB, ; Business Manager. Sworn and subseribed by me this Z6th day of September, be (SEAL) (My commission expires May 22, 1928.) ( . . Hammersmark Pe 7 of SL te gc tog BN, a : : e x =e ————— Tatarbounar Peasant Trial On | (Continued from page 1) teachers Who escaped the bullets of the Roumanian bourgeoisie during the rebellion of September, 1924, are now brot to the bar. Third Degree Peasants. The accused underwent an inquiry as only the Roumanian police know how to conduct—lasting a whole year. The material for the indictment against the accused covers 70,000 pages, and the indictment itself, which royal commissioner of the courtmar- tial in matters relating to sociological and national questions—this indict- ment covers 700 pages. Not all the 1,000 accused, however are now on trial. Mercy was taken on a few, and over 200 prisoners, ow- nig to lack of “evidence” were re leased. There now remains 350 prisoners to be sentenced. The prisoners are ac- cused of “rebellion, robbery, murder and high treason.” , These crimes are mentioned in the indictment. Officially, the rebels will be tried, and without doubt, be sen- tenced,,for rebellion against the state system of the Roumanian bourgeoisie, for “complicity, with and aiding a for- eign state’—which, in the present in- stance, is the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics towards which the Bessar- abian workers and peasants are look- ing for hélp. importance of Trial. But he who probes deeper into the conditions today existing in Rou- mania, and especially in Bessarabia, will have to agree with the folowing fact, that in reality this trial will de- cide the fate of the agrarian reforms, of the national question and of the relations with the Soviet Union. The “agrarian reform” has been completed in Roumania in such a manner that the Bessarabian peas- ants have been expropriated, and the land which they had gained as the fruits of the victorious October revo- lution, Was taken from them and given back to the former big landown- ers. The national question has been s0 “decided,” that the lesser nationalities have been deprived even of those rights which they enjoyed during the czarist regime. The present trial thas been brot about in order that, by means of a verdict against the prisoners, the idea of an agrarian reform and of freedom for the minor nationalities may be radically destroyed, The gov- ernment wishes, by means of this trial to emphasize the fact that Bes- ‘sarabia happens to be-in the power of Roumania, and will stay in Rouman- ia’s power—even tho this be against the wish of the population, even tho Bessarabia was “stolen” by the Kou- manians. GOOD POLITICAL ECONOMY Julian Borchardt. IMPERIALISM V. I. Ulianov (Lenin). HISTORY C. Osborne Ward. A. M. Simmons. SOCIAL STUDIES "GOVERNMENT, STRIKE- BREAKER Jay Lovestone. WORKERS Clarissa S. Ware. SCIENCE Anton Pannekoek. PEOPLES J. Howard Moore. FICTION CHILDREN FLYING OSIP—Stories of New Russia displays the “understanding” of the BOOKS— THE PEOPLE’S MARX............ | ‘THE ANCIENT LOWLY (2 Vol.) Each $2.50 CLASS STRUGGLES IN AMERIC AMERICAN FOREIGN BORN POP RRR ERE E ER ESE SEER OR MARXISM AND DARWINISM SAVAGE SURVIVALS IN HIGHER de eet i ae en FAIRY TALES FOR WORKERS’ SCHERER Oe eee ee eee BERR E RESET EER SERRE eee ee eee "Fulfil Allies’ Wishes. The bourgeoisie wants to know at all about the rights of the Bessarabian population to self determifiation, and Of its sym- pathy to the Union of Socialist So- viet Republics. This trial, now taking place in Kishinev together with court- martial, gendarmes, troops of occupa- tion, must prove that the bourgeoisie has no intentions whatsoever to let Bessarabia slip from its clutches, It is an open declaration of its unwill- ingness to live at peace with the Soviet Union, and that it will in the future direct a policy in the first place defending the interests of the entente imperialists. So we sée that this trial is clearly directed against the Soviet Union. Such are the intentions of the bour- geois government. But, whether the Roumanian government will after all remain vietorious or not—whether it will be victorious in the near future— remains to be seen, against this vic- tory speaks the present econimmic and political situation of the country, especially in Bessarabia—the altua- tion, which the bourgeoisie itself de- fines as follows: Economic Bankruptcy Near. Bogos, the late minister in Aver- esku’s government, lord mayor of Kishinev, writes in the Roumania for the 22 ult.: ’ “The support shown by the gov- ernment to the famine stricken suf- ferers is mostly nothing at all... The population refuses government aid, because the government maize is bad and dearer than the market maize... . We are now economically on the edge of the precipice... An unimaginable terror is reigning... The peasants are fleeing en masse to the towns, where they receive the ‘constitution.’” (25 lashes with a rub- ber whip). The Aurora, organ of the peasants’ party, adds: “This is simply prépar- ing for the revolution.” The Tatarbounar trial is directed against all the peasantry and all the minor nationalities, who are carrying the struggle under similar heavy con- ditions. Our feelings of solidarity are with the accused peasants and the whole Bessarabian population. ‘Teachers Honor Lenin. MOSCOW, Oct. 4.—(Tass.)—~The delegation of foreign teachers now visiting Moscow called on the Central Committee of the Teachers’ Union where the Chairman of the delegation expressed his admiration for the achievements in economic and cul- tural life of U. & 8S. R. The delega- tion laid a wreath on the, tomb of Lenin with the inscription on red ribbon: “To our leader Lenin from the first delegation of Western teach- ers.” i peetaiee : it ritie ' i ' j titi i} ; ; iti tTutht | ’ HT | ML i ' KUSTAR ¥ RUSSIA MOUNTS Makes Up 40 Per Cent of Entire Industry ' MOSCOW, Oct. 4—(Tass.)—The Kustar (Peasant handicraft ind ) production for this year can be esti- mated at 3,209,000,000 roubles, which constitutes about 40 per cent of the entire industfy of the Union. Of this total sum 2,406,000,000 roubles falls to the shate of the peasant kustar the town kustar industry. The total number of people produe jing kustar ware reaches 2,180,600 men. The kustar industry plays a promi- nent role in Soviet exports. The ez- port of kustar goods in 1913 Was estimated at 25,874,000,000 roubles. It has considerably fallen singe the period war revolution. Thus, the last year's export of kustar goods has Deen estimated only at 1,806,000. If has shown again a considerable in- ferease during this current year and according to preliminary estimates it has risen to 7,500,000 roubles. The kustar ware is being chiefly exported to England, Germany, Turkey and Latvia. The organization of the kustar ia- dustry on the basis of cooperative societies constitutes one of the chief problems of the Soviet government. Up to the present time, about 20 per cent of the kustar-ware workers are involved in the co-operative move- ment. Holyoke Weavers Continue Strike | Against Wage Cut HOLYOKE, Mass., Oct. 4-—~8trik- ing weavers of the Holyoke Worsted Mills, Inc., are still out, completing the fourth week of their fight against wage cuts. State conciliator Fred Knight, failed to settle the dispute. Superintendent H. W. Cowan of the mill denies the charge made in the Central Labor Union that Holyoke weavers are receiving 830% to 40% less than similar workers in other mills. The mill refuseg to take back all the strikers in a body as demand- ed. A tag day -to help the weavers is being held. Paper Bag Workers Unite. NEW YORK, Oct. 4.—The Interna- tional Union of Paper, Pulp and Sul- phite workers is aiding organ- izing paper bag makers, one of the most poorly paid groups of workers. ; il Covering the Whole’ Field of Communist Literature. The Daily Worker Publishing Co. has publications on every eubject of interest to a worker. Among these listed you will find a number of especially COMMUNISM : Jatscdiesiaaietiid 75 A. B.C. OF COMMUNISM ...........cccccc000008 OO Bucharin-Preobrazhensky. Dene eae 15 STATE AND REVOLUTION ....ccccscssee «25 V. I. Ulianov (Lenin). DICTATORSHIP vs. DEMOCRACY ...... 50 Leon Trotsky. 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—— . : ' 3 * F a ee Rte Ss “Se cage % * ey ‘La eee 4 . Ee) due Na Pinder. Say - a > » Y - 7 | by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING Co. | 8 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Phone Monroe 471 APD» « Pea SUBSCRIPTION RATES ue | (in Chleage only): By mall (outside of Chicago): - year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year $3.60 six months a three months $2.00 three months Og, - Address all mail and make out checks to yf oxi THE DAILY WORKER, 1118 W. Washington § Bivd., Chicago, IIlinole J. LOUIS BNGDAHL re Business Manager Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Iil., under the act of March 3, 1879. = Advertising rates on application. The A. F. of L. and American Imperialism The. delegates to the American Federation of Labor convention Atlantic City, consisting for the most part of officials of the af- ted unions, and true to their character as the agents of imperial- 5; Me bt ae SE reacting to the lead given by the state department in the ex- of Saklatvala, Communist member of the British ‘house of The departmental meetings held previous to the convention itself, mrs as those of the building and metal trades, have engaged in an p of red baiting. Working always on precedent in the best lawyer the departmental meetings have used the unseating of Wil- liam F. Dunne by the Portland convention as a basis for war on every sign of progress in the unions and have upheld the expulsions of militants that have disgraced the labor movement in the past year. American trade unionism is now at the lowest moral ebb ever reached ndt even excepting the belly-crawling war time period. American imperialism is extending its domination over the earth and its peoples. It is the slave master in a dozen different nations. It is preparing a new world war—a war on the workers’ and peasants’ government of Russia while the American labor movement stands alone as the only organization of trade unions opposed to the recog- nition of the first proletarian state. War on the Communists by the officialdom of the American Fed- eration of Labor is war on the only section of the American working class that is fully conscious of the dangerous path American labor is treading and which fights against all forms of treason to the work- ing class expressed in compromise with and submission to the cap- italists such as company unions, “labor” banking, participation in the capitalist parties by the labor movement, etc. The war on the Communists in Atlantic City is the best guage of the imperialist character of the American labor officialdom. China Gets a Trojan Horse The powers, so dispatches state, have sent a note to the Pekin government declaring their profound desire to “settle the Shanghai incident,” the massacre of unarmed workers and students, which began May 30 and continued for some weeks with British, American and. Japanese troops butchering Chinese like so many chickens. The imperialist powers give an appéarance, at last, of having realized that the nationalist revolutionary movement cagnot be met| in the way old disturbances were settled, with cold Jead and sharp steel and an arrogant domination of “superior” races: But that does not mean that imperialism has surrendered and is going to quit China. By no means. Imperialism merely lays aside the weapons of armed struggle for a moment to try the weapon of diplomatic deceit and “superior” cunning. Just as the imperialist powers have been striving in the west to unite the nations of western Europe against the Soviet Union, using all sorts of favors and threats alike against Germany and other recaleitrants who hold out, as may be seen in the proposed “secur- ity pact,” so in China the imperialist powers have a policy of pre- tended consideration for the political independence of China, to try to break the bond existing and increasing between the Chinese workers and peasants and those of Soviet Russia. But the trap, whether it works or not, will easily be seen for what it is when we look at the way that the imperialist powers dip- lomatize. Going formally to Peking uttering sweet words about friendship and a desire to “grant permission” some far distant day that China may be free of their “beneficient” domination, at the same time they are arming Chang Tso-lin and a host of mercenary venerals to make war upon the Kuomintang government of Canton, the center of revolutionary nationalism, and to oppose with civil war if need be any further rapprochment of China and the Soviet Union. Imperialism goes to Pekin with a lie on its lips, an olive branch in one hand and a dagger in the ether. It would be well for Chinese to recall the old saying about suspicion attaching to enemies who eome bearing gifts. Doctor Berger Ventures a Diagnosis Victor Berger, returning home from Europe, makes the remark- able discovery that “all Europe is sick.’ We hestitate to say that this is so solely because Vic has been there and because Europe has in its social intestines the fecal mass known as the Second Interna- tional—altho this last condition has something to recommend it to one’s diagnosis of Europe’s illness. Also, we think that Vic missed something. He didin’t visit Soviet Russia, tho doubtless there would have been much to engage his.time and interest there. So when he says “all” Europe is ail- ing. we rem#hd him that he did not get out of the safe guardianship of. the capitalist gendarmerie nor risk bearding the Bolsheviks in their den, and should leave out Soviet Russia from his reckoning; first, because he wasn’t there; second, because Soviet Russia is the only “healthy” section of Europe. But if “Doc Berger” wants to gp into feeling pulses and taking temperatures, we would recommende him to do a litle diagnostic work at home. We ask you, Doc, what sort of purgatives, surgery | or Physio-therapy you prescribe for the illness of American economy —which seems to have escaped your observation? There are figures to show that the average wage of American workers is around $25 a week, or $1,250 a year on a very high estimate, while the lowest estimate for a so-called “living wage” put out by bourgeois econo- mists is about $1,875. We were going to ask you, Doe, you recommend, but on second thot we in surgery, preferring homeopathy and christian “science” along with Ramsay MacDonald’s “crawling, sniveling gradualism’—which what sort of surgical operation isa way, we observe, of * ‘progressing” so. slowly that the proletariat | goes running by you on the road to revolution with no more honor left your kind than gazing at its coattails and protesting at the |" violation of, the speed laws. . - The Riffians have been weeks in = capitalist press but the war is still of ' | heart of the in the labor movement are, even before the convention begins its’ (Continued from page 1).’, ialism is a dagger thrust in ‘the ritish empire. Our American imperialism is close- ly tied up with the world situation and sees in the fight against capital- ist imperialism a fight against itself. The billions of American capitalism are at stake in every struggle against imperialism the world over, because American capitalism is spreading its investments over the entire world. The Soviet Union is not only the rallying point of all oppressed and exploited peoples, but it stands as a constant inspiration for struggle and | revolt for the workers of every capi- ‘| talist country. The workers and peas- ants of apy, thse oe in their struggle for nomic feconstructions and as they improve their standard of life and build their Communist so- cial order, they are creating an ex- ample which the workers of every capitalist country will follow. There are many signs pointing to the. fact that, the imperialist capital- ist. powers are preparing for a new on- slaught on the Soviet Union, in or- der to end the threat to capitalism which it represents. The negotiations with Germany for a security pact be- tween Great Britain, France and Ger- many represent an alliance to fight the Soviet Union. The debt negotia- tions of.our Washington government are an effort to clear the ground for united action against the Soviet Union. : The arrogant exclusion of Saklat- vala from the United States, coupled with a threat-of new persecution of the Communists, is a sign of coming fight against the Soviet Union as the heart of the world wide Communist movement, This new fight to destroy the Soviet Union which is in preparation repre- sents a great danger for the workers’ and peasants’ governme While the capitalist onslaught will be a great ‘danger it also represents a great ‘op- portunity. The Soviet Union has, the sympathy and support of tens of mil- lions of workers who are not yet Com- munist. The. attack upon the Soviet Union makes possible the rallying of these workers for a fight against the capitalists. That is the immediate task before our party. .We.must initiate an im- mediate campaign to warn the work- ers of the preparation against the Sov- iet Union. .We must rally the work- ers for a struggle in defense of the Soviet Union. .We must take our stand beside the Communist Parties all over the world which have al- ready begun the fight to arouse the workers for defense of the Saviet Union. Our party must make this fight to rally the workers for defense of the Soviet Union its major task. Every party member must be mobilized for anniversary of the | lishment of the Soviet Weglinie Meares ceabe te opening of the campaign for defense }of the Soviet Union. In every city where we have a party organization mass meetings must be arranged. 2. We shall endeavor to organize united front bodies for the support step for the ob ers in support of t party organ least a million copies re this went festo. 4. The DAILY WORKER, as the open defender and for ‘the Soviet Union must t prot | before all the masg er ance 4 an effort made to have all supp of the Soviet Union read the DAIL FURTHER PROGRAM. : a) + only Fa Phin Me gre annive is ° the cam _ The campaign must be carried er in accordance with the ‘olteariine program: (a) Our objective shall be to create in every city and eventually to unite on a national scale an or- ganization of all workers’ organfZa- | tions sympathetic to the Soviet Union for the “Defense and recog- nition of the Soviet Union.” (b) The united front bodies set up in support of the November 7 celebration shall be used as the nucleus for the creation of a broad- er united front (c) -ate and energetically earry.,on a campaign to secure the,adoption of resolutions in’ ay eer cognition of the fin 1. All local trade ynions, cen- tral labor bodies, state, federations of labor. yeh 2. All workers’ fraternal _ ‘organ- izations, benefit sociggige co-opera- tives, etc. — The resolutions a given wide tion shall include dorsement of a united front organization for defense f of these mass meetings. The new n abt ondordd ine sending 8 body sR = ’ lish one or two additional oka will issue stickers] : We shall immediately ‘{nitt- 4 VPA [SPE ES AR ER Te i" SB FS. ie Ra ays ‘ tae oe wend > WL acy aA Pie. ; eae i, 4. The party with suitable slogans. . Agitprop and Party Press. | 1. The agitprop department shall prepare an outline for party speakers. covering the tlew danger of Soviet} party Russia and the reasons why the work- ers must rally to the defense. — 2. The agitprop shall mobilize the party press for consistent support of the campaign and shall furnish mate-/an rial for the campaign. The first _ lications shall be: a) Publishing of party mnantteate: Pr ee Fa semen eave Sat, ay bare So Sah 4 4AT ms PRBS ac Ee aa PEE COPS ee wat Got poarkes fe il i J . s . _ Vv. Z J - : : + é i . . ; , a ' Mae’ > . wa?@ 4 a class of 8: - are divided instead vot “ elidee™ and “ptibite. ” of New York. Pre is nothing in the socialist progrsm that distinguishes it gram. In fact, the socialist party has so debased itself in the pres *7:t cam- .paign that it includes in its program an appeal for law and order thru the increasing of New York’s police force.” The program of the Workers (Com- b) Publication of plan of campaign. c) Publication of editorial on eam- all phases of ‘the campaign. Party Membership Campaigni’?: 1. The party shall carry on a/cam sistent appeal for membership. int the Workers (Communist) Party in. 0on- nection with the campaign. SSLSE Comrades! This campaign for the} defense and recognition of the Séviet Union must assume greater propor tions than any of the past canrpaigns of the party. It must be carriéd ‘on the metal our party is made of ff this recall that at don’t believe | City Violence Against Labor Campaign Issue (Continued from page 1) Party stands, for a workers’ govern- ment. The republican and democratic parties have always given us a boss- es’ government, To separate the work- ers from the-bosses, to unite them in a single labor party for the winning of control of the powers of govern- ment—this is the immediate aim of the Workers Party. “To this.end we proposed to the socialist party.and other labor organ- izations that a joint convention of all workers’ organizations be called to nominate a single united labor ticket. The socialist party rejected the pro- posal, thus making itgelf responsible for the continued division of the workers. “In this connection it is interest- ing to compare the program of the Workers Party and the socialist party on the question of the courts and the police. The program of my party calls for the. abolition of the use of injunctions in labor disputes, no in- terference with or limitation of the right. of striking or picketing on the part of the city government, no use of the police against the workers in labor struggles, and the repeal of the criminal syndicalist law and the release of all workers imprisoned be- cause of their activity on behalf of r the working class. “The socialist party; on the othgr hand, actually calls for ‘the maintgn- ance.of an adequate police force.’ In view of the fact that the city police are used. by the bosses against the workers, ‘an adequate police force’ un- der capitalism can only mean a force adequate to break all strikes and break up all picketing lines no mat- ter how many there may happen #0 be at the given time. The socialist party omits,entirely the fundamental ques- tion..as to who controls this police force and against whom it is used. What we propose is in reality a work- ers’. police, that is to say, a police force organized by and under the control of a workers’ government for use in the defense of the workers and against the bosses. The socialist party is so far away from the work- ing class point of view that it. for- gets all together the role of govern- ment. The municipal government like the national government, must serve either the workers or the bosses. Un- der capitalism and with the adminis- ‘tration of capitalist parties, it serves the bosses against the workers. Only under a workers’ government would it serve workers. Thus, the demand ‘for a labor party capable of rallying all the workers in a united fight for |'a workers’ government is the central “erushed” "every day for the last three; qemand in the platform of the Work- | ers Party in this campaign 2’ 7. - | . (Continued trot’ page 1 anions do not let a s unity slip by, to shatter the rei ts of in- fluence which the socialist party still holds "rll working masses. Recently this party of black- legs suffered a new moral defeat. Not the defeat of the capitaligts—they in reality were the winners brok- en the strike of the 26, ‘Warsaw metal workers, and giving them but a 10 per cent increase, im wages in- stead of the 60 per cent to 100 per cent increase which was;demanded by the trade union bloc, but,of the Polish socialist party which lost-this strike, because the trade union,. which was directed by the bureaucratic Polish socialist party turned out to be isolat- ed in the struggle and a united front in' the form of a bloc _ created against their union. The nationalist christian-democratic trade unions which joined this bloc did so out of | hatred and competition against the Polish socialist party, and for once at- tempted to defend the workers’ rights to the very’énd. But fm reality, the chief guidifig role in this strike was played by ‘he opposition Metal Turn- ers’ Trade Union, whi¢h was com- been expelled by thd Polish socialists. The opposing “metal. turners” not only did not allow themselves to be isolated in the ‘strike,’ but they suc- ceeded in organizing all the unions, with the exception of the Polish so- cialist party in a single bloc. Accord- ing to their wont, the Polish socialist party went over to the other side as strikebreakers, but were suddenly con- fronted with the bloc, which demand- ed the further contin ce of the strike, and which y ted the strike. The foul game,ef the menshe- vik blacklegs was s sup in all its glory. It was emphasiged. by the leaf- lets published by the. Communist Party. The Warsaw committee of the Communist Party published three leaflets one after the other, exposing the treacherous role of the Polish so- Cialist party and appealing for the prolongation of the struggle. The strike was broken. It was broken due to the open co-operation tof the men- sheviks, capitalists and police. And now they stoop to assassina- tion. The Italian fascisti, against whom the Polish soéfalist party, in duty bound as socialists, thunder forth condemnation from ,their organs— these fascisti have found imitators in Poland—imitaters, eavering them- selves. with the red flag. The assassins, amehg other things, lay claim to an histonical precedent. In 1907 and 1908, when the class strug- gle in Lodz took on™® tnoat flerce as- posed of those elements which. had. dered by them. +. OF] pect, when the strike wave was fok lowed by a wave of lockouts, and when the capitalists forcibly deprived! the workers of their victorious pg then the Polish bourgeois party; ‘the national democrats, led their ‘figniesg | 2?¢ groups against the revolutionary ’ workers. Protected by the czarist: police, the nationalists armed. them- selves and arranged a real pogrom against the social democratic and: Po-' lish ‘socialist party workers jin Lodz.. Many of our comrades were then mur-. How times have phanged. These very “socialists” who twenty yéears} ago were murdered by the Polish fas- cists, today have taken up this dirty role for themselves. And the, “peo- ple’s” unions lag far behind the Po. lish socialist party when it comes to meanness and cowardice. But the motives for the ‘murders now are the same as they were twenty years. ago ae pure fight for the interests’ of capital. ° The Polish socialists, in August of last year, killed our Comrade Bialgo at a workers’ meeting for the simple reason that they did not want the Communists to spread the strike ‘of: 200 Silesian workers to Warsaw, an thus increase the workers’ chances of } winning the strike. The murder of our comrade by the Polish socialists am - 2 te we jis not the outcome of political eno | tion, but the foul, intentional work of paid assassins uired by the pace class. ‘The Odeisiaiie use the very sated Polish Socialist Party Now .... T methods against these bandits, which | the social democrats used They are mobilizing the working class. in protest against the foul methods of the special traitors, and are organizing a united ‘front of the masses against: the attempts to incite a fratricidal.} war. “Their attempts to deprive the; : workers of their leader, the Commun- ist Party in the cldss war thru assas- sinations of its members will not lead the Polish socialists out of their isola- tion, but will widen the gulf’ between them and the masses: The workers have protested against the bloody death sentences imposed by the bour- geoisie, against the working class. Still less can they, calmly stand } at-a meeting ofthe district execut- - ‘ive. beard, held.Sept, 28, 1925, and it was unanimously decided the executive board of district No. 1, United Mine Workers of America, go on record commending your act- ion. very highly and thank you very much for the action taken in pre- serving peace and tranquillity In our great city. : We realize yoy are tmpartial tn this controversy and your only desire is to promote the peace of the community and we are’ in ge accord with you in this pol- cy. We again thank you and com- mend your action, an hope all pub- room in Brinkley. coal mine in which four men were crushed td death died | as ‘ ——" aC ‘d an Chae (eases - lic officials who have for their duty the enforcement of laws for peace > »* ted -— . 5 . ease SFI Ped : The calibre of the reactionary ; +. »Miolencevand, the.destruction of our and harmony follow your example. Wishing you continued success, we are, Yours truly, y RINALDO CAPPELINI Pres., District No. 1 U. M. W. of A. ENOCH WILLIAMS, Sec’y. District No. 1, U. M. W. of A, Miners Arrested. Two: progressive miners, Patrick Toohey and Alex Reid, who were con- ducing a fight in the anthracite to make the strike a struggle in the in- terests. of the miners, have been ar- rested. Lewis’ official supporters in -the anthracite, Rinaldo Cappellini and others, immediately began to demand that the police arrest the progressives and. that the authorities jail them. The authorities and the police acted upon the demand of these reaction- aries. miners were. prohibited in the anthra cite, _$ix,.Months’ Jail for Progressives. Alex Reid and Patrick Toohey, the leaders of the progressives, were sent to prison for six months on a charge of vagrancy because the reactionary officials.of the United Mine Workers wanted them out of the way to per- mit Lewis to sell out the ‘anthracite strike for the check-off. i The Lewis and Chppellini crowd in the United Mine Workers is a lead- ership that is a menace to the labor movement. It must be rooted out of the United Mine Workers’ Union if the United Mine Workers is to be- come 4 real union fighting in the in- terest of the miners who belong to it. Cappellini’s letter to the superin- tendent of police in Scranton is a challenge to. the progressive militant © miners to build a rgnk and file move- ment in the miners’ unjon that will drive Cappellini and his \ ve forever out of the union. oo &» ' } | | All meetings of progressiveA — ot = eae Ae