Daily Worker
October 17, 1925
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Cetin | 4 —— ve J N ; ; 1 *. ‘ * 3 eienr ke reer es” Gs * n 5 8 2 4 4 * g gy * é r e : ae Se ee ae ~NEW YORK m 4 ——— . K a ae Ta he ae ‘Analgenative 1 tion Worries Fakers By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. STEEPLECHASE PIER, Atlantic’ ity, N. J., Oct. 18 Amalgamate the unions,” Was the challenge that was ‘thrown Into the c6hvention of the A. |e of L. here, when the resolutions committee brot up the declaration on introduced by Detegate V. Fitzsi member of the Moulders’ Union, sent here by the Central Labor Union. Green was very much an- 3 anyone should dare speak 8 after the commit- non-concurrence. His grew when he saw not Delegate Fitzsimmons on the ready to put up a fight for his fesolution, but also Delegate Frank Basky, of the Stone Cutters’ Union ready to support him. Vote For Scab Hotels. The amalgamation resolution came before the convention after a lengthy discussion on scab hotels frequented by A. F. of L. conventions, especial- ly the Strand Hotel here, non-union from cellar to roof, that not only houses the A. F. of L. headquarters and many delegates, but was also the scene of the gathering of the union label department meeting that wants $100,000.00 to carry on a union label campaign. 7 The convention. voted against an amendment offered by. the delegates of the Hotel and Restaurant Workers’ Union, that urged that the convention city be changed hereafter by the ex- ecutive council if it is unable to of- fer union conditions. The report of the committee, ot. to do better next ume. as cae ü incensed fac * A the hotel workers had not — stressed union conditions in construo- tion of hotels as well as the unioniz- ing of the kitchen and dining room help after the hotel was put info op- eration. A Necessity—Not a Theory. Delegate Basky referred to this petty bickering and craft divisions as he opened his plea for amalgamation. “Delegate Woll says that the com- mittee is not interested in theories,” said Basky. “Amalgamation. is not a theory alone. It is a necessity. We have had debates here arising out of jurisdictional disputes that are leading to destruction. What are you going to do about it? “We are breaking down organiza- tions and throwing out organizations,” de declared in referring to the fight Tuesday between the Teamsters’ Union and the railway clerks. “That condition is a challenge to all you @elegates, How are you going to meet it? “Amalgamation provides for the or- ganization of the workers in conform- ity with the development of evolution in 5 Weill, Then; Go Ahead! Basky cited the repeated declara- tions in the convention that there has been a revolution in industry, that the 5 8 is entering upon a super-power quoting especially 8 of Elizabeth Christman, of the Women’s Trade Union League, that the times demanded new forms of organization. n you have the courage to carry these declarations into action, if you believe in solidarity, then you will support this resolution,“ declared Basky. - Delegate ‘ Fitzsimmons, supporting his resolution, told of the disasters in various strikes, due to the division of the workers in many craft unions, > with their craft prejudices and jeal- ousies. He referred especially to the from the een 8 * (Continued on page 2) J while dealers in New York are nego- DAILY WORKER. I pointed out there wat sat e America shortly, tiating with J. P. Routh and com- pany, representatives of German an- thracite. Costs of German coal are said to be a little lower than Welsh coal ‘and to be about the same Pennsylvania anthracite. No f elgn coal has been distributed yet. One eqns Se eee ee Now Section of “Our (Special to The. Daily Worker) paign in the capitalist press to raise a “red scare”, the British government sisting Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks, England’s chief “red baiter”, raided the offices of the | British Co tional Mi Movement of the left. |eeizod all fiterature and files. Those arrested include Ross Camp- Albert Inkpin, A of the Com- mun Em pire” By MANUEL pues Sec y. All-America Anti-Imperialist League ARTICLE II. “The mame of Panama, which is associated with the most not- orious fi ial scandal of the nineteenth century, is associated also with one of the most form- idable scandals of American di- plomacy.”——Carlos Pereyra, in “El Mito de Monroe.” How American troops happen to be so much at home in Panaman terri-, tory was explained in the first article of this series, printed in yesterday's that U. S. control is not limited to the Canal Zone, as popularly supposed one icles propagated, but includes of the National Minority Movement and a member of the 1 — Union. First Step To Cut Wages The raids indicate a further step of British capitalists to prepare to de- feat the working class when the mine owners again try to reduce wages next. May. Harry Pollitt, in explajning the po- sition of the Communist Party says in a recent issue of the Sunday Worker . Preparation For Next May “The period between now and next May is looked upon as a preparatory one in which the capitalists are pre- paring the greatest attack upon the wages and conditions of the whole meee class that this country has yet own. “It was in this hii. that the 3 * 2 4 — is thus an integral part of the. American empire. New light is now thrown on what Professor Pereyra, member of the Hague permanent court of arbitration, calls “the most formidable scandal of American diplomacy“—that is, the steal of Panama from Colombia, in 1903. Scandal has long been connect- ed with the action of the United States government in this episode, but few have realized how great the scan- dal was. Rough-riding Teddy Roose- velt did more than simply foment a revolution in order to be able to lease a strip of land six miles wide across the Isthmus of Panama and construct a canal; he carried on a war of colon- ial aggression against the republic of Columbio, tore away 33,800 square miles of her territory, baptised it as the “republic of Panama” and then leased the Canal Zone from himself to cover up the nature of the proceed- ing. Canal Central Factor Of course the proposed canal was the central factor in the affair. Con- gress authorized the president to pro- ceed to construct a canal at Panama, provided he could secure a clear title to the property of the French com- pany which had previously obtained the franchise. The French company was able to give a satisfactory title; the company was virtually bankrupt and was eager to boost its stock by a deal with the United States. But Panama was a province of Colombia, and the Colombian senate unanimous- ly rejected Roosevelt’s terms for the lease of the Canal Zone. Whereupon Roosevelt, after consultation with the French company, decided upon a revo- lution. Proclaim Independent—Marines Land On November 3, 1903, Panama pro- claimed its independence from Colom- bia,” and American marines were im- mediately landed on the isthmus with | instructions from the president to (Continued on Page 2) 50,000 ORGANIZED WORKERS SUPPORT WORKERS PARTY CANDIDATES IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, Oct. 15—The conference for a united labor ticket called by the Workers (Communist) Party on Sunday, Oct. 11, at Manhattan Lyceum, met with an excellent response from the organized workers in New York. The socialist party and the socialist labor party have again proven by their absence, that they thoroly disregard the fundamental need for unity on the (Continued on page 5) a eee COMING Tues.--V Com Deere — bene Me . f. taken was to commence a campaign among the forces, not for armed insur- rection, but to insure. that our com- rades in the forces should thoroughly understand the difficulties and strug: gles of their comrades | in the factories | and the unemployed, so that in the | event of big strikes and lockouts, the workers in the forces will refuse to be used as scabs or refuse to shoot upon their industrial comrades if the situation provokes such a neccessity. “The question before us, then, is we educate the workers who have al ready got arms, so that they will realize they are part of the working class, and are prepared to act ac- cordingly. . “If the workers attempt to resist the coming attack of the capitalists, it is impossible for the capitalists to ac- cept such a situation without resort- ing to every weapon they possess to defeat the workers. ‘In the last analysis they depend upon the obe- dience of the mass of armed forces. The mass of the forces are workers, drawn from our class. “We must remember our class is engaged in a life and death struggle. We must have not only the unity of the workers in industry, but unity of the workers in the forces as well. If our movement neglects this, we shall pay very dearly for it during the next two or three years.” These are the sort of arguments which have stirred the British capi- talist government to attempt to sup- press the Communist Party before the crisis comes between labor and ca- pital next May. 4 May Expel Saklatvala « An” English financial writer who keeps Wall Street informed of British : irs, recently wrote that an at- tempt will be made to expel Saklat- vala, Communist member of parlia- ment, from parliamertt for sedition, ‘under the precedent’ established by the expulsion of Wilkes in 1869. An indication of the close co-opera- tion between the recently engaged fa- scist O. M.S. ces of government, is the boast of ca- pitalist spokesmen that the O. M. S. is quartered at St. Stephen’s House, close by the quarters of Scotland Yard. The O. M. S. is headed by a dozen big capitalists, many bearing titles from the crown. When that argument begins at lunch time in your shop tomor- row—show them what the DAILY — Capitalists Begin Attack on Labor | “LONDON, Oct. 15.—After a cam-| tae night, with Scotland Yard as. labor unionists, arrested six | bell, editor of the Workers’ Weekly, ; iT ’ that one ot the first measures to be not should the workers arm, but shall! and the suppressive for- | | Moscow in November, = . Union and : leader jailed in a st service. raid by Britioh de ’ all based on the erivient mutiny act of the British crown in 1797. Under this act the six arrested last night were charged in the Bow Street court this morning with in- citing his majesty the king’s sol- diers and sailors to sedition.” The mutiny act was that under which the leaders of the Thames mutiny of the British fleet were hung at the yardarm, after, having for many weeks held contro! of the Thames with all ships flying the red flag and demanding better con- ditions for the sailors. That move- ment was led by Richard Parker. STEEL WORKERS OF PITTSBURGH TO HEAR ENGDAHL (Specia! to The Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 15.—The small group of left wingers who man- aged to break into the hand-picked congregation of the great “leaders” of American labor at the American Fed- eration of Labor convention at Atlant- ic City carried on a splendid fight for the recognition of working class Rus- sia, the amalgamation of the unions aceording to industry, the organizing of the unorganized, the admission of Negro workers into the unions on an equal basis with the white workers, the condemnation of the B. & O. class collaboration plan and their insistence upon other measures to make the un- ions better organized and more power- + ful units to combat the capitalist class. The “fat boys” hated the Communists, who were the leaders in the fight to make the unions in America real fight- ing units. J. Louis Engdahl, editar of the DAILY WORKER will speak to the workers of Pittsburgh at a meeting arranged by the Trade Union Educa- tional League at the Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller St., Saturday evening, Oct. 17, at 8 o’clock on the American Fed- eration of Labor convention and the American Communist movement. Chess Tournament in Moscow MOSCOW, Oct. 15.— Preparations are in progress for the International Chess Tournament to be held in to which the foremost world-players have been in- vited, including Dr. Lasker, Capa- blanca, Marshall, Mimzovicz, Roti and others. — } NEW YORK, Oct. 8 N 5100,00, 00% project of Harvey S. Fire- stone, president of the Firestone Tire 4 : sagen hem e the undertaking. thas been said, 2 > 13 irestone been 6 Hundred Million (Special to The Daily Worke.» 15—The new and Rubber company, for developing rubber plantations in Liberia was hailed in financial and manufacturing circles here today as an important in- ftial step in breaking the monopoly of f British and Dutch rubber growers over the world’s crude rubber producing markets. “Firestone. is in New York conferring with financial experts and laying eee the Jungles. on is to be brot to the jungles | and, according to: Mr. Fire- stone’s report, employment is to be given to 300,000 inhabitant! now idle. It seems that without investments of capital the natives manage to live . tho they are idle. Henceforth, if v goes all right, they are to have ee privilege of werking for a thing is to be m ote There are to be model towns, el rail- roads, harbors and highways. Instead of the irresponsible life they have formerly led the inhabitants will heneeforth live in houses that look just alike. The greater part of their lives will be spent as dehumanized in- dividuals with numbers instead of names. Challenges England. Thru this venture Mr. Firestone hopes to break the Eneglish-Dutch crude rubber monopoly thru which, it “England hopes to ee Instead of the 3 per cent of produc- tion which America now controls, Mr Firestone hopes eventually to control an output of 250,000 tons of crude rub- ber a year—50 per cent of the world’s present production. Mr. Firestone déscribed how he had sent out exploring parties of experts three years ago to look the world over for acreage suitable for rubber grow- ing, after he had been led to the de- termination to grow his own rubber because of the British restrictions which kept down the output of raw rubber and kept the price up. Tried Other Fields. Politics, difficult. laws and revolu- tions kept him. out of the Philippines, Mexico and Central America, but his agents reported ideal conditions in Li- beria. Having made this decision, Mr, Fire- stone met in New York Edwin Bar- clay, secretary of state for Liberia, and a concession for the work was granted. Revisé Control. The work of rebuilding the country already has started. The corporation has let a contract to the J. G. White Engineering company of New York to build a harbor at Monrovia, the capi tal and principal city of Liberia. Thus American finance is taking up again the work of American citizens who in the middle of the last century were the creators of Liberia, as the government and civilized part of the country was originally founded by American Negroes—escaped slaves and freed men who were sent to Li- beria by abolition societies. For many years America manifested a moral. if not actual, protectorate over Li beria. U. S TREASURY WILL APPROVE WALL STREET LOANS TO GAILLAUX (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Oct. 15— If France agrees to the five-year debt agreement carried back tp Paris by Minister of Finance Cail- laux, the American government would “be inclined to regard with approval certain classes of private loans” to French industry and to the French government, it was 4n- nounced at the treasury. The toans under question are those Caillaux tried to negotiate on Wall Street. WORKER says about it. | FORMER LEGION HEAD AND BANKER GETS JOB OF ASST. SEC'Y OF WAR (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Oct. 15—Col. Hanford MacNider, former national commander of the Améfican legion, was appointed assistant secretary of war by President Coolidge. MacNider is a native of Mason City, la., and formerly vice-presi- dent of the First National Bank of Mason City, la. RAINS ASSIST RIFFS IN WAR AGAINST FRENCH Imperialist 7 roops. on Rations FEZ; French Morocco, Oct. 15— France, and Spain have much to fear from the native tribesmen of Mor- occo. Heavy rain, mud, and swollen streams have cut off the French and Spanish imperialist troops in many sections from their base of operation. „ Troope Nationed. The armies of these two nations are pow on rations that are ‘very scant. Food convoys are sent from the base of operation toward a detach- ment of French or Spanish cavalry troops. On the way the heavy food trucks sink into mud. Before the French and Spanish mercenaries are wagons out of the mud, the Riffs have surrounded them and taken the supplies. Fe The imperialists in their despera- tion are now attempting to tr rt food and other needed articles 85 air- plane, Large nets are erected at the | posts and as the airplanes fly by, they swoop down and drop .their load. This system has not been able to feed any number of soldiers. Riffs Harass Imperialists. With the coming of rain, tne Riff Tribesmen have been harassing the lines of the French.and Spanish com- manders and have made many serious dents. The center of the battle front solidly held against shock troops. Attacks have been made Sidi Bouroukba by the Riffians where heavy losses were inflicted on the French cavalry. * „ is the imperialist at Labor Party to Send Ambulance. LONDON, Oct. 15—The council of the independent labor party has approached the labor party exe- cutive with the proposal of equipping and sending an ambulance and other medical supplies to the Riffs. able to drag the heavy food supply} national — BiG DRIVE T0 SAVE LIVES OF Bloody Reign of Terror Opened in Hungary On receipt of a that the bloody government of the Hungarian hangman Horthy has what promises to be second edition of the murderous regime of the fascist Zankov in Bulgaria, in preparing to try before an extraordinary court- martial several members of the in- dependent socialist party and Mathias Rakosi, a former commissar in the short-lived Hungarian Soviet govern- ment, the International Labor Defense has organized a nation-wide N ‘ n to mobilize every aval an effort to save the of the workers who have valiant tlie toe cruel clutches of the “hangman of Hun- gary” whose bloody. government is bolstered -up by the dollars of Wall Street. The outstanding figure among those recently arrested by Horthy's gen- darmes is Mathias Rakosi, a thirty- six-year-old revolutionist, who is marked for slaughter by Horthy be- cause of his participation in the Bela Kun government. Rakosi returned to Bulgaria know- ing that there was a price on his head and he courageously proceeded to or- ganize the Hungarian workers for their liberation from the rule of the bourgeois tyrant Horthy. His arrest followed. Working Class Bravery. The conduct of Rakosi before the Hungarian court challenged the ad- miration even of his foes. Calmly and firmly he said in answer to questions: J knew precisely what I was doing. [ knew that in case I would not suc- ceed, or something may interfere, that it may cost me my life. I also know + that no exchange with other .prison- ers with Soviet Russia would be pos- sible and I had that clearly before me as well. I believe that the Buda- pest police would not be able to find me because it is not the first time since the fall of the Soviet govern- ment that I have been in Hungary.” And when asked to name his other associates he said: “I can no more remember, but even if I could I would not be ready to betray my comrades or deliver them over to the police.” But the police and the magistrtates continued to grill Rakosi expecting to break down his resistance by the third degree methods used by the capitalists in all countries in which they have power. Rakosi finally stated: “Gentle- men, you may question me as long as you see fit. I can only state that 1 was perfectly aware of the conse quences, when I declared myself ready to go thru this great task of mine. { know that the Hupgarian authorities {Continued on page 2) V. T. COMMUNISTS OFFER TO WITHDRAW CANDIDATES FOR UNIFIED LABOR ELECTION FIGHT Workers (Communist) Party, elections by the Communists and left wing socialists as an example of what can be accomplished by united action. The statement continues: “The Workers Party sought to unify the political forces of the workers in ticket in opposition to both the repub- lican and democratic. parties. The Workers Party is prepared even at this late date to make such a united front. The Workers Party is prepared to withdraw its candidates to achieve such political unity among the work- ers. It is now up to the socialist par- ty to show where it stands on the proposition. If the socialist party and Norman Thomas turn down this pro- posal then they are acting in the in- | terests of the capitalist political par- ties by helping to further divide the | forces of labor. In the face of the | Outrageous activities of the capitalist politicians against the workers, a solid proletarian political front to capture New York City for the workers is ab solutely necessary.” „ (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Oct, 15.—The Workers (Communist) Party has proposed to the socialist party that both organizations withdraw their candidates in the municipal elections in favor of a united labor ticket. The statement issued by Benjamin Gitlow, mayoralty candidate of the calls the attention of the socialist party to New York City behind a united labor the united front formed in the Berline | CANTON GOVERNMENT IN DANGER OF ATTACK BY TOOLS OF IMPERIALISM (Special to The Daily Worker) CANTON, China, Oct. 15.—The efforts of the counter-revolutionary tools of imperialism to crush the Canton nationalist government has led the Canton forces to mine the Canton river to ward off the attack expected from the presence of two Chinese warships sent into the vi- cinity by the Peking government. Other signs of a war against the na- tional revolution is those given by the military movement of. Chang Tso-lin, who has ordered 15,000 troops from Shanghai to an undies closed destination. If you want to thoroughly un- derstand Communism—study it. 4--Oct. 21--22~Henry drd-Pacifist Turned Imperialist inaugurated |
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— — — — — * _MOISSA Patched Up Affair to Save Faces —5 (Special to The Daily Worker) Loc ARNO, Switzerland, Oct. 15.— A compromise, leaving everything much as it was before, seems to be the final outcome of Locarno. Ex- ceedingly pessimistic is the mein of the allied statesmen as they continue the bluff that the “security” confer- ence has been a great success. Chancellor Luther, the German foreign minister, was informed by telegraph here that President von Hindenburg and the cabinet had ap- proved the draft of the Rhine treaty and the “gentlemen’s agreement” un- der which Germany can enter the league of nations. German Demands Win Day before yesterday Austen Cham- berlain, British foreign minister, threatened any power that dares break the conference with adverse world opinion and was openly defied by the Germans. Seeing the deter- mined stand of the Germans, and real- izing that he himself would face vi- triolic attacks at home from the op- position to the tory government he backed down on insisting that France guarantee the eastern frontiers of Germany. Instead of this proposition the question will be taken up under the provisions of the treaty of Ver- sailles. 0 Article 16 of the league, which provided that any one of the sign- atories had a right te March troops across the territory of another in case of aggression by a third, although left intact, was-rendered inoperative in ease of Germany. Germany rejected the terms of this article for fear LEFT WING] 2 * r wb 1 Maas * 43 1 a * N TGA. * re te a» aS ae oe Sy cat a A * 5 * 505 „ LE ee OS ys * RS 7 » 7 +5 * \ (SF 9 9 rn ; 4 1 he teed * * * GOAT OF PRESIDENT EP ee n # eas 3 F e el e l yee ~ te 3 1 een WY) > ft au? 105 GETS (Continued from page 1) building and metal trades. The com mitteé report upheld the decision of the Seranton. convention, many de cades ago, to the effect that it was not the purpose of the A. F. of L. to super- impose any definite form of organiza- tion upon the American trade unions. Socialists Quit Sacco-Vanzetti Fight. Needle trades delegates, mostly “so- cialists” sat mum as the resolutions committee stepped on two of their resolutions. Some of them were seen to vote in favor of the committee's report, declaring patriotically for citi- zens’ military training camps, while not one of them raised a voice for the Sacco-Vanzetti resolution that had been presented by the delegation of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. . Delegate Antonini sat especially si- lent as Delegate Woll declared for the committee that such resolution had been introduced before, and the committee resented having the same matter come up again. The commit - tee never considered that Sacco and Vanzetti stand nearer to the electric chair now than ever before. Woll Favors Capitalist Crimes; Op- poses Red Army., on citizens’ military training camps introduced by the cap makers, that Delegate Woll again turned his guns don the Communists and the Union of Soviet Republics. of L.,” said Woll. “These camps aid in the upbuilding of mind and body. They do not inculcate a spirit of mili- ‘tarism. We are opposed to the paci- fism that says we must not prepare. We are also opposed to the pacifism that preaches the overthrow of our government by force and violence. These pacifists do not condemn the red army of Soviet Russia numbering 1,750,000 men.” Furuseth—A Frightened Capitalist. Communists were again taken to task in a speech by Delegate Andy Furuseth on a resolution from the seamen’s delegation criticising the outlaw strike of the British Seamen’s France would march troops across her, Union that brot results in many parts territory to aid Poland in case of a conflict. The tentative provides that in the event of a quar- rel, France shall not be permitted to march troops across Germany to Pol- and until after the league council has unanimously declared Germany at fault. Since Germany will have a permanent seat on the council, such unanimity could never come about. Poland Peeved Poland deeply resents this turn of affairs, but is powerless to act. The plenary session yesterday was ad- journed because of the Poles stub- bornly refusing to accede to the new turn of affairs. Finally, in private discussions France assured them that she would undertake to look after the interests of the small nations on the eastern border of Germany. France Toses. The alteration of the Rhine fron- tier in favor of France has been her goal since the war, but this agree- ment deprives her of that right. Eng- land and Italy act as guarantors to see that that frontier is not disturbed. Germany gains evacuation of the Cologne zone and reconsideration of the Saar question; a plebiscite is to be arranged and the inhabitants vote on the question of affiliation to Ger- many or France. She also gains on the question of punishment in case of alleged defaltation on reparations to France. The league, instead of France, is to decide on questions of failure to fulfill the treaty. France can console herself with the knowledge that she can reduce her military budget, since the military agreement |. of the world. Furuseth carelessly ad- mitted that the strike was a protest against collaboration between the bosses and the union officials to re- duce wages. But the thing that worried Furuseth was that the Communists, as he de- clared, not only planned to use the seamen to sabotage international commerce when desired, but as Car- riers of red propaganda that could not go thru the mails. He laid this before’ the delegates as if he were a frightened capitalist revealing some diabolical red plot. | In spite of the bitter attacks of thé Printers’ Union against public printer George H, Carter, including | the charge that ‘he had organized a spy system against the printers, the convention merely voted an investi- gation. “Same As Before,” Says Foster. Resolutions were adopted favoring force wfill be withdrawn from German territory. Main Objective Collapses. The main objective of the “security” conference was a bloc against Soviet Russia, which was far from being realized. Neither will the pact so patch up conflicts in Europe that the imperialist powers can devote all their energy to throttling colonial peoples. Not one of the foreign ministers in- volved dared face their opponents at home with complete failure, so they patched the thing up as best they could, hoping against hope that it would weather the storm and keep their parties in power. 1 sai It was in reporting the resolution | “Pacifism is obnoxious to the A. F. the release of the Virgin, he control of the navy, investigation of condit Rico to the executive ing against the establishment of a radio broadcasting station as foo ex- pensive, opposing a ship subsidy and then ending the day’s session by de- feating the progressive resolution against class collaboration. William Z. Foster, secretary of the Trade Union Educational League, spent a few hours in the convention, on his way to New York, visiting bee 4 quite a number of the delegates. “I cannot see much difference between this and previous conventions of the | —* Federation of Laver” he GOOLIDGE TAX PROGRAM AGAIN IS THREATENED] Faces Ravel at Middle West Section (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Oct. 15—A_ real fight crystallized today over the Coo- lidge-Melion plan of reducing federal taxes in the forthcoming session of congress. With the actual work of framing the new revenue measure only ten days away, there is developing an align- ment of southern democnats and west- ern republicans that threaten material modification of what President Coo- lidge and Secretary Mellon believe should go into it. This same com- bination accomplished the defeat of the original “Mellon plan” two years ago. The four chief points of the admin- istration’s tax program are: 1. Reductions that, while affording relief, will not interfere with the treasury program of writing off the war debt in 25 years. Abolish Income Tax. 2. Total abolition of the federal in- heritance tax. 8. Reduction of surtaxes on big in- comes from 40 per cent to 20 per cent. 4. A less pronounced reduction of the normal rate on small ‘incomes. Democrat Program. Against these proposals, the demo- crats will set up their own program, generally as follows:? 1. Extension of the time for writ- ing off the war debt from 25 years to 62 years—the period over which all of the foreign debtors are discharging their obligations to the treasury. 2. Maintenance of the federal in- heritance tax, altho at reduced rates. 3. Reduction of the surtax on big incomes from 40 per cent to 25 per ‘cent. 4. Raise the enametion on the “‘lit- tle. fellows” to $3,000 for single men, and $5,000 for married men. This program, in the opinion of Rep. John N. Garner, democrat, of Texas, the ranking minority member of the ways and means committee, would af- ford the widespread relief intended, and at the same time “give the little fellows justice.” Should the democratic program be followed, it would regult in a tax cut this year of about double the $250,000,000 which Secretary Mellon has set. This, however, would be taken care of by alteration of the treasury program to paying off the war debt in 62 years instead of 25. K (Special to The Daily Worker) | Marine Workers Union, seamen had Wen * reduced 35 a month. The verbatim oport, which had come into Shinwell’s hands by un- lock Wilson the officers of the National Sailors’ and Firemen’s Union. When W Was Cut. 2. Of pnw ed the wate union in this country f met on July 3 no specific demand had been made by the employers and that Mr. Wilson offered the reduction of £1 a month. The chairman (Sir F. Shadforth Watts) had opened by saying that the business of the meting was to discuss the present postion of the shipping trade. He went on to preseit a gloomy picture, adding: “You understand; of course, that we have our orders ... to get a re- duction—as substantial a reduction as we can get, but I do not think any useful purpose would be served by starting to make a demand. Mr. Havelock Wilson ‘replied with announcement, said Mr. Shinwell: “With a view to helping this board along, we convened a special meeting of our delegates last Sunday at very short notice. Now we come this morning and we are going to say to you: Last year you were good enough to give us an advance of £1 a month. We will give up that £1 at once,’ without any argument, without any about what is 80 on.“ Mr. Shinwell of the union. “Danger Men.” Turning to his e eee ing the trade un movement —Mr. Shinwell drew pets ion * the fact that Mr. Wilson had gohe on to com- plain that men who were not in his union were being employed on liners. Mr. Shinwell deseibed that as a grave statement for a trade union leader to make, particularly at a time of crisis such as etisted in July. He added that many of the so-called “danger men,” although out of Mr. Wilson’s union, were members uf other unions. 4 Mr. Shinwell added that the pro- ceedings of the Maritime Board also confirmed the statement of the Marine Workers’ Union that, if the ship- owners had a case, it had never been heard. ; | LONDON, Oct. 16.—National Or- ganizer Shinwell of the Amalgamated ‘has made ' public the verbatim report of the Proceedings of the National Maritime Board on July 3, when the British movement at a time when there was | a prospect of:an industrial upheaval The report showed, said Mr. Shin- well, that when the Maritime Board. 2 which would degree tm Bp You may do — me whatever see fit—yes, you may string me Wall Street Government. retary of the Communist International and without .doubt this is another reason why the Horthy government, the tool of Wall Street and British bankers, the gallows. It is generally believed that the ar- rests of the independent socialists and of Rakosi in Hungary is the prelude to another orgy of murder that ma surpass in hideousness the In an effort to thwart the plans of Horthy, the labor movement ‘all over the world and the sympathizers with the working class movement among. the the leadership of the Hungarian work- ing class. The International Labor Defense of the United States, under the signature of James P. Cannon, national secre- tary, sent the following cable to Bethlen, Hungarian foreign minister: “In the name of 250,000 liberals and workers affiliated with International Labor Defense we demand immediate liberation of the recently arrested workers, especially of Mathias Rakosi, former peoplés’ commissar of Hun- gary. New, persecutions and death sentences of workers by the Hun- garian government will cause Sreat indignation among the American peo- ple. The cries of the tortured’ prison- jers will be heard at protest meetings Lend demonstrations which we are or- ganizing th®uout America.“ A World-Wide Protest, The Workers’ International Relief with headquarters in Berlin telegraph- ed to the Hungarian government de- manding in the name of four million adherents that e persecutions of the Hungarian ven stop. The tele- gram was sent e name of such in- ternationally t Wn. people as Henry Barbusse, France, George Ledebour, Germany, Qlara Zetkin and several (who declar meet- | Others. ing rret saree ot. The prisoners in the clutches of the union offic Tt showed clearly | Budapest police are subjected to that the As proposed by most cruel tortures that the most de- Mr. Wilson and upon without | Praved doe tools can conceive any consultation ‘the members [of. British labor papers recently car- ried a story of the drowning of a Hungarian social-democrat on the or- ders of Horthy because he dared to mildly criticise the Horthy regime. This social-democrat was taken from his office and after being subjected to physical punishment, was thrown into the river and drowned. Unless the Horthy government is convinced that the workers of the world mean business in protesting against his new reign of terror, there is no doubt but he will glut his vengeance on the workers by stringing their leaders on the gallows. A Call For Action. The International Labor Defense, according to a statement made by James P. Cannon, secretary, to the DAILY WORKER, has issued instruc- tions to all its affiliated bodies to call meetings of executive committees at once and decide on definite plans to aie to the gallows, but I will tell you noth- ing. * 0 Rakosi served for a period as sec- . is anxious to send him tol, ai _| carnival of the infamous Zankov in- Bulgaria. — | professionals, are protesting} against the plot to slay the flower ot the | present and help to issue. 2 et =. *. — — = 4 1 7 1 #. wag 2 * a amg wi Me ere Ss weng - Nen Hs ' * bs , 1 2 Ix 2 66 1 = 2 in : i ; W. Dunn, Ellen 15785 i a ~ | aa 1 jl . . BELLAIRE, O—tThe attitude of e bituminous miners to the anthra- jcite strike will be decisive if the pres- ent situation continues. The anthra- eite miners’ are fighting their fight alone, without the aid of any other or- {miners are working in great part full time; new mines are opening. The soft coal miners are beginning to feed their families anthracite strike is broken, the soft coal miners will be the next. Then the open shop campaign oe begin all along the line. What are the bituminous anit go- the anthracite miners now, or wait till they themselves are attacked? This is the question that will be taken up at the mass meeting in Bel- laire, on Sunday, Oct. 18, 7 p. m., at Bohemian Hall, 41st St. and Harrison St., and on Monday, Oct. 19, 7 p. m., at Yorkville at Miners’ Hall. Comrade I. Amter, district secre- tary of the Workers (Communist) Party, District 6, will speak at both All W N 8 ecide {COSTUME BALL IN NEW YORK SATURDAY NITE (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Oct. 15.—A colorful costume ball, with prizes and ex- cellent music will be given by the New York section of the Interna- tional Labor Defense on October 17, Saturday evening, at the Lyce- um, 86th St. and Third Avenue. the 8 ot Colon: ‘| was before any revolution had broken properly. But how long will this last? If the ing to do? Are they going to support. hear nothing of the revolution?" (This {ganized workers. The bituminous to — North Side Defense Meet Meeting of 1 Side w 0 be held ‘grag the all op, 826 N. 8 8 tr er of the evening will be S. T. Ham- mersmark who will explain why the workers must organize for their de- fense on the political field. If you want to thoroughly un- derstand Communism—study it. — ——ů ENGDAHL’S SPEAKING TOUR THIS WEEK-END TAKES IN THESE CITIES Sunday afternoon, Oct. 18, 2 p. m and Walnut street, — “| Saturday, Oct. 17, 8 p. m.—PittsBurgh, Pa., Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller St. Warren, Oo., Hippodrome building. Sunday evening, Oct. 18, 8 p. m.—Cleveland, O., Insurance Hall, lien Vote for the Workers (Communist) Party! f BENJAMIN GITLOW FOR MAYOR FOR MANHATTAN: EDWARD M. MARTIN... Sheriff ARTHUR S. LEEDS.... FRANK J. VAN PRAET ROSE PASTOR STOKEG.......... REBECCA GRECHT.................... E J. OLGIN..... ALEXANDER TRACHTENBERG.... CARL BRODSKY....... JULIUS CODKIND...... District Attorney — . County Clerk enen, Register 8 Borough President ..8th Assembly District “ATth Assembly District 8th Aldermanic District 17th Aldermanic District LEO HOFBAUER .... FOR COMPTROLLER FOR THE BRONX: WILLIAM W. WEINSTONE CHARLES KRUMBEIN FOR PRESIDENT BOARD OF ALDERMEN FOR BROOKLYN: me Sheriff BELLE ROBBINS District Attorne ABE EPSTEIN NOAH LONDON e County Cler ELIAS MARK .. JOSEPH MANLEY . . Register Borough President SAM DARCY „ „ „ „„ AARON GROSG...... CHARLES ZIMMERMAN .......... JOSEPH BORUCHOWITZ ann 4th Assembly District al 5th Assembly District .... 7th Assembly District .25th Aldermanic District 5 29th Aldermanic District Sal BORIS MORRIS ‘ROSEN . MARGARET UNDJUS . EDWARD LINDGREN ......gs sats EL NESIN e . BERTRAM b. WOLFE........ 6 JOHN b. MassO .de 4.90 2.4. 4 oo: ** Register 3 re eee dee Borough President ee HAth Assembly District 3 Assembly District ve... 35th Aldermanic. District LIPHSHITZ ....sessscooested Ben Gitlow Wm. W. Weinstone Chas. Krumbein A. Trachtenberg SIX RED NIGHTS“ Abe Epstein Rose P. Stokes FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16th— LOWER BRONX, culminating at 138th St., corner St. Ann’s Avenue. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17th— HARLEM, 110th Street, corner Fifth Avenue. On each of these nights we will hold from twelve to fifteen meetings in the resp. Noah London Margaret Undjus Chas. Zimmerman John D. Masso — FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23rd— BROWNSVILLE, Stone Ave., cor. Pitkin Avenue. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24th— Avenue. UPPER BRONX, neee Ave., corner Prospect FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30th— WILLIAMSBURG, Grand Street Extension. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3ist— ~ DOWN TOWN, Tenth Street, corner Second Avenue. section, all adjourning at 10:30 p. m., to the Grand. Wind-Up Meetings noted above. Mary Hartman ’ . : | L. Landy Chas. Mitchell E. Shafran S. Freeman L. Chernenko P. Cosgrove Joseph Brahdy George Siskind G. Schulenberg Ben Levy J. Hurwitz Joseph Manley Rebecca Grecht Sam Darcy Boris Lipshitz F. Warshofsky ’ Kate Gitlow E. Elstone N. Wilkes J. McDonald Carrie Katz Edward Lindgren M. J. Olgin . J. Boruchowitz Juliet 8. Poyntz Jack Stachel as Louis Baum Joseph J. Padgug D. Benjamin R. Nevins M. Garvitt Leo Hofbauer Carl Brodsky Aaron Gross Harry M. Wicks Otto Huiswood Simon Felshin Edward Mitnick M. Gordon A. Chorover I. Glass Morris Rosen Julius Codkind Samuel Nesin J. O. Bentall A. Markoff Irving Potash Edward Royce R. Fishbein G. E. Powers M. Plason Belle Robbins Elias Marks Bertram D. Wolfe Ben Gold Jack Jampolsky 1 George Primoff M. Scherer S. A. Pollack H. Schlachter C. Raiss For a Labor Party Against Injunctions For Lower Rents and Living Costs For Municipal Ownership and Workers’ Control of All Public Utilities 2 Recognition of Soviet Russia For a United Labor Ticket Against Child Labor For Fit Schools for Workers’ Children u f ee ih ic ae tn RHP SNe a For World Trade Union Unity For a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government For Communism g „ Iherift 50th Aldermanic Distriot
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too a meeting arrangements to lighten the \ membership meetings. operation with the district executive party is developed into a mass Com- munist Party with many of members, we will find that it “= be necessary to divide the cities of the type of New York and Chicago om into more sections and perbape even sub-districts. | The party constitution vides for the election of tiation prov section and city sheets committees by the membership in the respective sub-(i-| of these executive com- visions. Hach of connections with the next higher unit and — the execution of the decisions of the committees,” The Central Executive Committee, thru itseconnection with the district organization, maintains contact with the various succeeding lower N The national party center will tor time a direct . nection every * nuel gec- — — and will — in. structions directly when the situation demands such procedure. Thus, whether 4 shop nucleus is organized in a small shop or big factory, it will be within the frame of the ap- paratus in the sub-section, section, etc., and will be directly connected with the Central Executive Commit- tee. The activity reports will be a part of the regular order of business to be attended to at every meeting of every shop nucleus. This will fur- ther help the, party's having adequate control over ‘the shop nuclei in the Small shops as well as in the big fac- tories. Question 8.— Where will the shop nuclei meet? Answer—The choice of meeting place depends on a number of cir- cumstances. In some cases it will be found that there is one or more party meeting centers, or headquar- ters, in a particular industrial section. These headquarters can and should be used as meeting places by the shop nuclei in the particular indus- trial ‘section. When a shop nucleus is small, it may even use the home of a com- rade. If the home is close to the factory in which the shop nucleus is organized, it will tend to insure regu - larity of meetings. Of 2 meeting places may also be h eve shop nuclei, if not ay ge ether on such financial burdens thus involved. While {ft may be necessary and proper for the comrades of a parti- cular shop nucleus to meet very often with each other in the factory, this should not be taken to mean that organized shop nuclei meet should be held in the factory where the comrades are employed. As a rule, the holding of such meetings in the factory would only make more difficult the functioning and very like- ly even endanger the existence of the shop nucleus, It is our task to make the shop nucleus a moving, a direct- ing force in the plant and to popular- ize as much as possible the nucleus among the workers. We must spare no pains in making known to the workers the existence and influence of the shop nucleus. But in doing this, we must avoid those methods which will undermine the possibili- ties of work. Question 9.—What are the relations between the district executive com- mittees and the party reorganization commissions? Answer.—-The answer to this ques- tion can be best given in a definition of the tasks of the party district re- organization commissions. Concrete- ly, these tasks may be enumerated as: (a) To direct the agitation and propaganda campaign for the reor- ganization of the district in question. (b) To direct the preliminary re- organization steps in the re-organiza- tion campaign under the direction of the C. E. C. organization department and in full co-operation with the Dis- trict Executive Committee. (c) To sub-divide the district into industrial sections, sub-sections, etc. (d) To direct the organization of the district membership into shop and street nuclei on the basis of in- formation gathered at the section The fullest co- \committees must be secured in or- der to achieve success in this. (e) To arrange and direct the re- Sater + commissions cease to exist. The regu- To Save THE DAILY WORKER , N 4 S 5 saat Ai : 1 Pie fone) 1 9 1 . 7 1 os * . n 19 fait eer 1 F e 0 1 5 Mh 1 * * gistration of those comrades absent. — of the reorganization eam- pin various districts. | ger M reorganization shall function only un- 0 lone portion of the be reorganized. 10.—What are the duties of yg — — 11 section reorganigatlon settee oll neipal tasks and functions of the age section re- organization commisgions are: (a) To lead and direct the 2 2 campaign for the reorganisation the party as far as their respec- tive language sections are con This is to be done thru the use of the language press, the mobiligation of language district committees, ete, (b) To see to it that the language organs and - ot their lan- ute the decisions ns of the C. E. C. 4 ot the ＋ reorganization s must serve to eoordin- ate and improve the activities of the comrades of the various language oups in our party's reorganization rive. . (e) To lead the reorganization of the present language branches when these branches are transformed into workingmen’s clubs. These commis- sions are to co-operate fully with the national organization department and the different district organization commissions in organizing Commun- ist language fractions in the various workingmen’s clubs. These language commissions must make every efffort to help the party unify and co-ordin- ate the activities of these Commun- ist fractions until the latter function effectively in accordance with the pro- visions of the constitution of the party. (d) Te help organise the fipst Communist fractions in the non-party workers’ reorganization. (c) To work in the closest co-op- eration with the reorganization de- partment of the C. E. C. to which they are subordinate ahd from which they receive their instructions for all their activities, (f) These commissions, should keep the entire informed of their work by submitting full reports to the C. E. C. organization depart- ment of all steps taken by them to- 4 wards reorganization. (g) "When the reorganization of the party is complete these language lar language fraction organ provided tor in the party constitution are then in full charge. Question 11.— Will the street nuclei be small or large? Answer. — The street nuclei will consist of those comrades who either are not organizable into a shop nu- cleus or who, temporarily, cannot be organized into a shop nucleus because of an insufficient number of comrades working in one plant. The street nucleus is limited to 25 members by the party constitution. This decision was arrived at because it is necessary to prevent the com- bination of large numbers of one lan- guage group into one particular street nucleus or international branch. We must avoid at all costs the reappear- ance in any form whatsoever of units of our party being directly or indi- rectly organized along the lines of language sections. Our party will never be unified if the old language basis of organization persists even in the most indirect form. Consequent- ly the street nucleus will be on the average quite small, reaching a maxi- mum of 25. Question 12.—Will international branches or street nuclei have voice | and vote in party deliberations? ANSWER.—Yes. T street nu- cleus is a unit of the party and there- fore will exercise full rights in all partyedeliberations and decisions. tlon will be considered. Darcy to Report on Y. W. L National onvention in Cleveland and Pittsburgh. CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 14.— The first of a series of member- | ship meetings at which N, E. C. representatives will report on the work of the third national convention of the Young Workers League, will be held in Cleveland at the district headquarters, 5927 Euclid Ave., on Friday, October 16, 1925, at 8 p. m. N The second meeting will be held on Sunday evening at eight o’clock in Pittsburgh at the Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller St. Comrade Darcy will represent the N. E. C. at both meetings and wlil report on the present situation in the league. All comrades are instructed to be present at both meetings be- cause matters of great importance to the future work of the organiza- | nuclei, number two, three, and four, | By MARTIN ABERN. HOP auclei -reorganization has new reached the point of action in the city of Beginning next Wednesday, October 21, 1926, the first of a series of section mem- bership meetings will be held, at which all party members belonging to branches in each section will be pletely reorganized either, into op nuclei or street nuclej, The meeting of Section 1, the Loop-Bouth Bection, which comprises thé mem- bership in the Englewood English, Scandinavian and the clothing shop will be held on October 21, at the Community Center, 3201 South Wa- bash Ave. Dach week thereafter, there will be another section mem- ort meeting at which reorganis- s to be completed. There are W in all into which local icago, Workers (Communist) Party is divided. In another column are given the boundary divisions, branch- es comprising ‘the sections, the time and meeting place of these section membership meetings, which all com- rades should study to familiarize themselves, both as to place of work and residence. Shop Nuclei Campaign Thruout District No. 8. PECIAL branch meetings have been held at which the practical phases of reorganization are being discussed. Wednesday night, Octo- ber 14, there was held the special meeting of ail branch and city func- tionaries (reported on elsewhere). These functionaries have been vested with the duty of getting out the full membership to the section meetings. The C. E. C. reorganization com- mission, which is taking charge of the reorganization in District No. 8, consists of Comrades Jay Lovestone, Robert Minor and Martin Abern. The Distr Executive Committee of District /No. 8, while concentrat- | ing on reofganization in the city of Chicago, is also simultaneously organ- iging the party units on the shop nu- clei basis thruout the remainder of the district. Zeigler, mining town; Gary, steel town; Dowell, coal min- ing town, are already on the shop nuclei basis. In Springfield, II., meet- ings have been held and at the next meeting, the reorganization should be completed there. Meetings are be- ing scheduled in Kenosha, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Madison, West Frankfort Johnson Oity and other cities in the district. “Reorganization in Chicago is ex- pected to be done about December 1. and the district committee hopes to have this done in the rest of the dis- trict shortly thereafter. Speakers from the C. E. C. commission and the district committee are addressing the reorganization meetings. * * * District No, 8 Pushing “Join The Unions!" Drive. ISTRICT NO. 8, Workers (Com- munist) Party, is pushing the drive to get all party members into labor unions, to develop the T. U, E. L. on the broadest possible lines, and to build Communist fractions in the local unions, central councils, etc. The district committee has outlined a structural program for the forma- tion of party fractions in the unions and has sent copies to all party units and existing Communist fractions in the district. In addition, a special letter stressing the need of union ac- tivity and declaring that disciplinary measures will be taken, if necessary, to carry out the policy of the R. I. L. U., has been sent to the party units in the district. . Special party fraction meetings are being called in all trades and indus- tries in Chicago. Successful traction meetings have already been held in the needle trades industry and the building trades industry. The party fraction meeting of the metal trades will be held Sunday, October 18. Program for Party Fractions Outlined HRUOUT the district, party mem- bership meetings are being called to push the formation of Communist the South Side English, the Bouth Side | 1 N RK | ER 1 5 tw. , 1 get the * into the unions, Comrade Arne k will tour the southern Ilinois anb-district for these meetings and Comrades Jack John- stone, Martin Abern, Tom Bell, An- drew Overgaard and others will cover the cities in the rest of the district. Importance of activity in the trades unions, especially in view of the big struggles now on in the International Ladies' Garment Workers’ Union, the Machinists’ Union, Furriers’ Unſop, Painters and others, is being made clearer to the party membership. The general letter sent to the party units ALL THE BRANCHES IN DIS. TRICT NO. 8. Dear Comrades: “The Communists must learn to do their best, most energetic and con- crete work in the trade unions; they must prove to the non-party and so- glial democratic trade union members, by means of object lessons, that they are able, in their character as Bol- shevists, to be active trade union members at the same time. This means a number of fresh tasks for eur fractions in the trade unions,” says in ‘part the Comintern to the German Communist Party on this question. The trade union bureaucracy in this country is determined to render the unions uséless as organs of strug- gle against the bosses. This is seen in the 3 development of al! forms of class-collaboration, compul- sory arbitration, B. & O. plan,” labor banks, betrayal of strikes, etc. achieve this end the labor fakers have declared war on all progres: sive forces in the unions. The brunt of this campaign falls upon the Com- munists in the unions because they lead all elements desiring to convert the unions into organs of class war- fare against the bosses. Because of this mighty drive against the Com- munists and all progressive elements, it is the duty of all party members to redouble oly efforts to penetrate the unions no matter how reaction- rary they may be. In the past too much lip-service has been paid to the Leninist conception of work in the trade unions—and not enough actual work has been carried on. In District No, 8 hundreds of party members. do not yet belong to unions. IN August of this year the C. E. C. of our party received a letter from the Communist International on the trade ‘union work of our 125 The following appears in the le “The party must wes one measures ra to join the — unions and become ac- tive in them, it must be firmly fixed In the mind of every party member „that no worker in an industrial coun- N. v. * n Meetings Pao and Monday; Very Important . NEW YORK, Oct. 15.—The begin- ning of reorganization work, with the functionaries meetings called in ac- cordance with the plan of the C. E. C. Will take place as follows: October 18th; Downtown, 108 E. 14th St., 10 a. m. Harlem, 64 E. 104th St., 10 a. m. Williamsburg, 56 Manhattan avenue, 3 p. m. Brownsville, 1844 Pitkin Ave., 3 p. m. October 19th: Bronx, 1347 Boston Road, 8 p. m. Boro Park, Bath Beach, Coney Island, 764—40th St., 8 p. m. All branch organizers, industrial or- ganizers and financial secretaries must appear at these meetings. Any one of these officers of the branches in the sections listed are to notify the other officers of these meet- ings, so as to be sure * every, one attends without fail. Special representative; ot t dis- trict office will cover these meetings to explain at length the actual stages of reorganization. All functionaries designated must be present at these meetings. Failure to do sO means cut- ting off the branches from the werk fractions in the labor unions and to hh hn he i hp hi he cettm_atutna.— OCCT CTTTTCECTCC CC CC CCC CCC CCC of reorganization. * rr Se HEAR! of the Official Body “THE A. F. OF L. PITTSBURGH Saturday, Oct. 17--8 P. M. CLEVELAND Sunday, Oct. 18—8 P. M. WARREN, O. Sunday, Oct. 18—2 P. M J. LOUIS ENGDAHI. „Editor of the DAILY WORKER With First Hand Reperts on the Decisions Speak on AND THE AMERICAN COMMUNIST MOVEMENT” — — — INSURANCE EXCHANGE, Hall, 11th and Walnut Street HIPPODROME BUILDING of American Laber i i i i i a CONVENTION LABOR LYCEUM, 35 Miller Street . 2 P. M. Nee la i i hi hi Mi hi i hi hi hi i ha he hi hi he hi he he he a he hi he i he i he he i 2 4 A „„ r hh sdb i 2 * * — 5 ? 1 : eee — ‘ my LOW, Lip , 5 : ¢ ‘ N N ogress in District der separate cover. | hall that was available for this date. this leaflet. Ps try like Amerie can be a real Com- munist unless he is an active labor snionists. The party must take a jetermined stand against any sign 4 slackness of labor union activity. The work in the labor unions must be regarded as the basis which will determine the success of the party in most other spheres of work.“ In accordance with the above the D. E. C. decides that the period of temporizing with those comrades who are eligible for membership in a union but who refuse to join has come to an end. From now on disciplinary measures will be applied, so that those who are eligible for membership in a union shall join. Disciplinary Measures to Be Used. HE folfowing instructions must be carried out on this matter: 1. The question of trade union membership of each member must be placed on the agenda for the next meeting of the unit. as 2. The secretary shall demand of those members who are not in unions and are eligible for membership that within one month they shall apply for membership in the appropriate union. 3. At the end of this period all those who were instructed to join shall provide proof that they have carried out the instructions. 4. All disciplinary measures in chis matter must be ratified by the lead- ‘ng committee in the territory in which the, unit is situated. 5. All Sub-Section, Section and sity Committees are instructed to see that these instructions are properly explained to their membership and of these instructions are sent to the District Committee. The program and method of organ- ization of Communist fractions in the labor unions, hag been sent you un- To belong to a union is not suffi- cient—it is necessary also to be ac- tive therein. Comrades! Our party is in imme- diate danger of becoming complete- ly isolated from the organized mass- es. This will condemn us to becom- ing a sterile sect divorced from the main stream of the labor movement. We must overcome this by resolute- ly setting ourselves the task of get- ting every member eligible into the unions. The C. I. declares: No one can be a real Communist in America unless he is an active labor unionist. Those who desire to stay in the party must be real Communists. Join the union! Join the Commun- ist fraction in your union! Join your industrial and general group of the . 0. @ kat With Communist greetings, District Executive Committee, Workers (Communist) Party, District No. 8. MARTIN ABERN, Org. Saklatvala Meeting | Held in Pittsburgh, Pa., Is Big Success PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 15.— An enthusiastic meeting to protest against the exclusion of Shapurji Saklatvala was held at the Labor Lyceum in this city last Sunday. Comrades Ella Reeve Bloor, Israel Amter, George Papcun of the Young Workers League and Charles W. Fulp of the American Negro Labor Congress and of the United Mine Workers of America spoke. A resolution of protest was unanimously adopted. Another Treat in Store for All Who Understand the Russian Language Althea he was supposed to leave this week for Soviet Russia, the famous Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky yielded to the request of his Chicago admirers to give another lecture in complete reports of the carrying out} REORGANIZA TON OF NEW YORK | DISTRICT STARTS IMMEDIATELY NEW YORK. Oct. 15.— Meetings By WILLIAM W. WEINSTONE. . of functionaries consisting of branch and shop nuclei organizers, industrial organizers and financial secretaries are to be the first set of meetings in the reorganization of the New York district. Meetings Begin on These meetings will begin October 18 with the meeting of the function- aries of the down town section which will be * at 10 a. m. at 108 East 14th street. The functionaries of thee Astoria section will also meet with the dewn-town section. On October 18 the Harlem section will also meet at 10 a. m. at 64 East 104th street. In the afternoon, October Ig. the Williamsburg section will meet at 3 o’clock at 56 Manhattan avenue. The Brownsville functionaries whil at 1844 Pitkin avenue. On Monday, Oetober 19 at 8 p. m. the Bronx functionaries will meet at 1847 Boston Road. On October 19 the functionaries of Borough Park and Bath Beach and Coney Island will meet at the Finnish headquarters 764 40th street, at 8 p. m. The next set of meetings will con- sist of branches beginning October 23 to November 7. At this meeting the functionaries will report on the reorganization work to be done and all preparations be made for getting out the entire membership to the sec- tion membership meetings. Systematie Program. Members of the reorganization com- mission of the district are to attend the meetings of the branches and ex- plain in detail the work of the reor- ganization. These meetings will be followed by section membership meetings begin ning with November 9. The facts and the time of meeting will be announced later. During the period of reorganization all executive committees of branches, sections and all officers are to remain as before and are to continue func- tioning in all the work that is as- signed to them. New elections of of- ficers will be held after the reorgan- igaton is carried thru in accordance with the specific instructions of the District Executive Committee. Tho the reorganization is beginning in the month in which the election campaign is to be held all branches, sections and members must arrange that the campaign committees func- tion and that all members perform their work in the election campaign. No one must fail in the election cam- paign werk while the reorganization is going on. The task of reorganization will con- sist in getting out the entire mem- bership so that every member be comes a member of a shop nucleus or an international branch. In order o accomplish this the branches must also meet on October 18 at 3 p. m-! DETROIT FIRST TO HEED APPEAL OF DAILY WORKER n Meeting is Called for Quick Action DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 15—The Detroit membership is responding to the call of the organization de- partment for complete mobilization to save the DAILY WORKER. The organization department has received the following notice about the campaign for the DAILY WORKER in Detfoit: General membership meeting in Detroit, Sunday, Oct. 28. | The District Executive Commit tee is calling a meeting of the en- tire membership of the Workers Party in Detroit to take up the situation regarding the DAILY WORKER. The Central Execu- tive Committee has sent out a cal! to mobilize the entire party for the major task of saving the DAILY WORKER for the Communist move- ment of this country. Detroit has always responded to calls such as this. It will do so on this occas- ion. For this purpose the District Executive Committee sends out the instruction for all party members to be at the meeting on Oct. 25, which will be held in the House of the Masses, 2646 St. Aubin, at 2:30 bp. m. A comrade from the national office will be present to state the needs of the DAILY WORKER and to outline the program which will save the DAILY WORKER for the movement. — succeed in getting every member to attend the meetings. Not a single member must be lost to the party in the reorganization and this can be done if the branches co-operate with the district committee to the fullest extent in drawing the entire member- ship into this task. All branches are to meet every week hereafter in order to keep up with every stage of es reorganiza- tion. MORE LANGUAGE BUREAUS RE- SPOND TO REORGANIZATION CALL members for reorganization. The following reorganization by the Central Executive respective language bureaus. FINNISH: a C. EK. 6. HUNGARIAAN: D. Hajnal, The various language sections are on the job preparing their Committee, Fahle Burman, Elis Sulkanen, Oscar Corgan, Matt Tenhunen, H. Puro, Wm, Janhonen, V. Finberg, Theo Maki, Heikkinen, John Sjolund, Leonard Luote, Emil Parras, J. Sjoman. This commission will have a small sub-commission of four which will direct the work from the center, be the leaders. in their regpective sections. will censist of Comrades Fahle Burman, Elis Sulkanen, H. Puro and representative of the organization department. GREEK: N. Stratis, E. Chryssas, J. Manos, N. Bubous, K. Pristas. Kovess, Gardos. JEWISH: M. Epstein, 8. Freeman, M. Holtman, H. Costrell, B. Lifshitz. LETTISH: R. Zeims, Jacob Kreitz, Ernest Pulpol. 0 RUSSIAN: Striss, Charmoff, Omelian. commissions have been approved after consultation with the K. E. while the other comrades will The small committee A CALL 10 ACTION! Every member of the Workers Party, every lover and supporter of the first workers’ republic, Soviet Rusia, has been appealed to to join in the the big drive for the défense of the Soviet Union and to arouse the American workers to the new dangers confronting “the Soviet Union and make them understand that the fight for the Soviet Union is a fight for themselves. A leaflet, MENT OF RUSSIA” will do that. Chicago. He will speak here on Tues- day, Oct. 20, at Schoenhofen Hall, | corner Ashland and Milwaukee Ayes. | be too small, but this was the only | There is room for over a thousand | people. The enthusiastic crowd that cheered Vladimir Mayakovsky at his last lecture is expected to pack this hall also. An attempt will be made to arrange also a banquet with the | famous guest. MEETING OF AGITPROP AND EDUCATIONAL DIRECTORS MONDAY NEW YORK, Oct, 15.—A very im- portant conference of all agitprop directors and educational commit- tees of branches will be held on Monday Oct. 19th at 8 p. m, sharp at the Workers Party headquarters, Room 42, 108 E. 14th St. Thig meet- ing is called to plan the education- al work of the district, to connect the central school with the political units of the party and to plan the educational. werk in the political units. —— — —— San Francisco Oakland, Cal. West Frankfort, Waukegan, Tacoma, Wash. at least. Less than 1,000,000 will not do. Has your branch ordered their quota? Fear is expressed that the hall may | WORKER, ordered your supply? Let us cover every shop and factory and class is employed with the distribution of Send your order to the National Office, Workers Party, 1113 W. Bivd., Chicago, IH. Price in lots of 10,000 or more, $1.50. wildly | | lots less than that, $2.00 per thousand. Order at once. Cash with orders. USE THIS ORDER BLANK others places where the working | Washington Workers Party, National Office, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, III. Enclosed please find $... Name City 5 %%% %,ꝶ eee eT eee ee eee eee ee ee “DEFEND THE WORKERS’ AND PEASANTS’ GOVERN- This leaflet must be distributed, a million So far we have received orders for 255,500. That is not enough. Have you, reader of the DAILY ($3.06 per thousand) for which send 12. leaflets, “DEFEND THE WORKERS’ GOVERNMENT OF SOVIET RUSSIA” to the following name and address: t State . AES i The following orders have been received up to this date: New York City Bellaire, Ohio 1,000 6 ů —— 112,000 — , CECE EER meen „ „4466. Philadelphia, it. Manne, Wie. 3.000 Tee Angeles, Gal... .. 3.000 Verona, N. J. 23,000 * * — — — — — Pittsburgh, Pa. f 20,000 Albany, N. V., English................ 1,000 Daisytown, Pa., Finns 1,000 Cleveland, Ohio 3 . 20,000 Diamondville, yo. 1,000 — OOS a 1,000 Rn 1.000 ccc 50.000 Total 225,500 ” PR IE OR eR Oy
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ao. * fe, ee? mk cet TAR 11 bal sg 8885 cae ta 5 ope 9 — 4 992 8 . f = Worker BUY A ROLL OF PRINT PAPER * Never before has THE DAILY WORKER been in such immediate danger of suspension. A few weeks ago the danger signal was sounded. The militant working class was informed that unless immediate aid was forthcoming the life of THE DAILY WORKER was threatened. The response which was given bas | | postponed but has not overcome the crisis. ‘Now it is more serious than ever. For the supply 8 J of neus print paper is running low ‘and there are no funds available to purchase more. “SS ts, EPs WORKERS! In no way can such immediate and necessary service be given to the cause of proletarian revolution than in support to Save THE DAILY WORKER. Dollars are needed thousands of them. They will not come from those who can afford to give. The dollars which will save THE DAILY WORKER can come from pockets which can spare them only with great sac- | rifice. p Within a week the paper on hand will be exhausted. Unless large amounts of money oo 7 ls gare are sent in immediately THE DAILY WORKER | Send funds fo buy paper for THE DAILY WORKER. Every Workers Party branch ( every militant labor organization which knows and ap- preciates the service given to the working class by its daily paper ) should collect funds to supply THE DAILY WORKER with paper. $50.00 buys a Roll. Who will buy paper for tomorrow’s issue? Who will buy for the . days? will have to be discontinued. ORGANIZATIONS! Those who are organized to fight cap- italism are organized to save THE DAILY WORKER. ~~ Take from your treasury or collect from your members sufficient to buy at least one roll of print paper. Send in $50.00 and have an issue of THE DAILY WORKER dedicated to you. Use your organized strength to help THE DAILY WORKER over this crisis. Save The Daily Worker By Supplying It With Newsprint! -help! i °F <a To Save THE DAILY WORKER PPP Proletarians Is ~ Necessary * 8 a — . ties 7 2 * : ; 2 PIPE aK 2 ad 0 — — 5 Saeko 8 ne “nae eee: 185 ** 98 — =e 5 r DF 5 1 In this space each day will be recorded the names of those who have provided print paper to save THE DAILY WORKER Fill out this form and rush it in to 1113 W. Washington Blvd ‘= mn 6ꝙ%%%% % ²˙ A A — — 3 Here are Funds to Buy Paper * Our Daily Name 6 - —- —- — Swift, United and Generous Action by Militant — To Save THE DAILY WORKER r OY
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— . “ees : =e en on OP ae . ; a 1 1 By H * N 5 * 55 5 x _ sleeves equirés 3% yards of one mate- — . 23 5 Sat SP SAS { 7 SLATE No Rest " hes W ic Workers ors Is Rule ny decane cee Federated Press Industrial Editor Now that the vacation season is * Productive workers also receive less favorable treatment in length of vacation allowed and in length of service required to qualify for vaca- tion privileges. Where a majority of the office workers jreceive two weeks vacation the srokeative work- ers receive only one week. And where a large proportion of the office workers qualify for vaca- tions after six months and practical- ly all after a years’ service, product- ive workers must put in from one to two years to qualify. As a result a considerable proportion of the work- ers do not have vacations even in factories with vacation policies. Different from Russia. On this question Russia, where un- ions are a recognized part of the in- dustrial order, presents a strong con- trast. There the finest country estates are being developed as worker rest homes and vacations with pay are a regular feature of union agreements, In the Baku oil field, to cite a single instance mentioned in the British trade union delegation report, each worker who has completed five and one-half months’ service becomes eligible for a fortnight’s yearly holi- day on full pay.” Moscow-Peking Air Route Establishment Assured by Soviet MOSCOW, Sept. 10—(By Mail)— Together with Ambassador Karakhan there have arrived here the partici- pants in the Moscow-Peking aerial ex- pedition headed by Mr. Schmidt,. who declared that Soviet airmen had care- fully investigated the Moscow-Peking air route, thus enabling the establish- ment of air communication between the Union of Socialist Soviet Repub- lies and China via Mongolia in future. To those who work hard for their money, I will save 50 per cent on all their dental work. DR. RASNICK DENTIST 645 Smithfield Street 12 „ 2 eo 2 representing 20,000 workers. 55 als No. 2, 9 and 22, representing 20,00 members of the International Ladies ace Workers’ Union could 1350 we 3 A 1 * ett we a, ee ai vere ue 5 5 5 5 75 atl shes vill eee . 50,000 0 OR d ) WORKERS — PORT WORKERS PARTY CANDIDATES IN NEW YORK (onen from pegs 1) : delegation con- b beet trom 15 local un- board and one district 175 -4+Cleaners No. 8; H. Gordon, The resolutions committee ‘with as chairman, presented a resolution calling for the support of the united labor ticket and endorsing the candi- dates of the Workers Party as the only- ones in this campaign fighting for unity of labor on the political field. The resolution was unanimous- ly adopted. Executive Committee Elected. The resolution also recommended the election of a committee to ac- ‘tively support the united labor ticket campaign and cooperate with the Workers Party campaign committee. The following executive committee was elected: John D. Masso of the Glass Bevel- lers’ Union; Peter Darek, Window Paper Plate and Bag Makers; Alfred Miller, Hotel Workers, Amalgamated Food Workers; A. Shek, Local 45, Interna. tlonal Ladies“ Garment „1 8 Sister Joint Board of the was elected chair r Rosenfeld, a member of the Asthitectarsl Iron Workers’ Union was elected secretary. | I. L. G. W. U. Official Speaks. Brother Sasha Zimmerman, left wing official of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union said that the need for unity of labor on the political field was greater than ever, and that his union in following the leadership of the left wing were sup- porting the Workers Party in the building up of a united labor ticket. Furrier Lauds Communists. Brother Sureff, member of the Fur- riers’ Union, compared the socialist party labor fusion conference at which all militant delegates of trade unions were kicked out, and the con- ference called by the Workers Party, at which the real fighters against the bosses were organizing an honest united front. He also said that the furriers had long felt thta the united political force of the bosses, with their injunctions and court decrees, could only be fought effectively by a political organization of the workers. Therefore the entire membership of the Furriers’ Union was committed to support the Workers’ Party in this admirable attempt to unite all the workers on a united-labor ticket. Brother Rosenbaum, member of the Protegtive Shoe Workers’ Union, pointed out how successful a handful of militants, organized in the Trade Union Educational League, had been in creating a mass sentiment among the shoe workers in Brooklyn for a united labor ticket. Laber Party Nucleus. Benjamin Gitlow, candidate for mayor on the Workers’ Party ticket, speaking in the name of the Workers (Communist) Party said that the gathering was very significant, as it speaks for 50,000 organized workers in New York City. He pointed out that the Communists were the only ones who were leading the workers cor- rectly in the fight against the bosses and the reactionary leadership. The victories in the Furriers’ Union and in the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union indicate the turn to the left, which will result in a pow- erful united front on the political field, the building up of a mass labor party.*This conference is the nucleus | of the labor party. OUR DAILY PATTERNS PITTSBURGH, PA. MISSES’ DRESS. Pe a. = a * * 13 5015. Cut in 8 sizes: 16, 18 and 20 years. An 18-year size made with long rial 40 inches wide, With short sleeves 3% yards will be required. Price 12c. FASHION BOOK NOTICE! Send i2c in silver or stamps for out up-to-date Fall and Winter, 1925-26, Book of Fashions, 1 color plates and ,contal 5 s of ladies“, misses’, and c ildren’s Patterns, a con- cise and comprehensive article on dress making, also some pointy 2 the needle (illustrating 30 of e ous simple stitches), all valuable hints to the — mak r. 4 } GIRL’S DRESS. 4999. Cut in 4 sizes: 6, 8, 10 and 12 years. To make as illustrated in the large view, requires 3% yards of plaid material 27 inches wide, and K yard of plain material for a 10-year size. With short sleeves \% yard less of the plaid material is required. Price 12c. BOs TD 1 e nished by a N manufacturers. the DAILY WORK ry re- ceived, and they are mailed by 3 man- ufacturer direct to the customer. DAILY WORKE oe A. Kaufman, Amalgamated | District No. 1; D. 3 Fur. ax. Suren, Furriers ye ik: Finns oint Board; | Jacob Rosenbaum, — . ‘Workers’ No. 53; Savity, Shoe Workers’ No. 54; Crane, Shoe Workers’ No. 60; Shader, Shoe Workers’ District Council, No. 2 Kivinton, Workmen’s Circle, No. 314; M. Liebman, Workmen’s Circle, No. 356; M. Wasserman, Workmen’s Circle, No. 272; Roeder, Workmen's Circle, No. 245; Louis Zinn, men’s Circle, No. 671; Millman, Work- men’s Circle, No. 546; Rose Nevins, United Council of Working Women; H. Grossman, Workmen’s Circle, No. 620; Jack Stachel, Wm. Weinstone, and Chas. Krumbein of the District Executive Committee of the Workers’ Party; S. Dan, of the District Execu- tive Committee of the Young Workers’ League, and Bert Miller, of the Trade Union Educational e, District No. 2. Supports Russian. Recognition. Comrade Alexander Trachtenberg of the Workers Party made an appeal for an energetic campaign for recog- nition of the Soviet Union and spoke of the dangers of a new attack. The conference adopted a resolution to support the campaign and instructed the executive committee to côoperate in making the eighth anniversary of the Russian revolution a united front demonstration of labor. Demonstrations will be held at the Central Opera House in New York City on Nov. 6 and in the Grand As- , he same eve- Other resolutions unanimously adopted were on world trade union un- ity, on political labor unity, on the DAILY WORKER and on the United Council of Working Women. Pledge Financial Support. The conference delegates pledged financial support to the campaign committee in its work. 3 Great Soviet Trading Exhibition a Success (Special to The Dally Worker) NIJNY-NOVGOROD, Sept. 10— (By of the Nijny-Novgorod Fair surpassed 66 million roubles. There have been registered altogether 1,641 firms in- cluding 322 state enterprises, co-oper- ative, 454; mixed companies limited, 12; private, 699; foreign, 154. There also were istered 43,307 towns of various goods | Chinese merchants from Sinkiang; who brought raw hides, wool and sheepskins participated. They declar- ed that Russian goods, sugar, manu- factured goods, etc. can compete fa- vourably by their quality and prices with English and Japanese. Brother Spivak of the Furriers’ Union, Mail)—Up to August 20, the turnover: Work- | tions. MUR UNISTS VEN FAILURE British 1. P. Official Re- lates Experience (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Oct. 15.— How the in- sistence of the yellow socialist lead- ers of the Britigh labor party on ex- clusion of the Communists*either de- stroys the necessary unity of labor or is ignored by local labor party sections, is shown by an article by Will Crick, president of the Rush- olm divisional labor party, member of the executive of the Manchester borough labor party and president of Branch 5, of the Transport and General Workers’ Union. “The passing of a resolution to keep the Communists out, is easy,” says Crick, “but its putting into effect is up an entirely different street; and many local labor parties have found.” Disaster to Bar Communists. “In Manchester many attempts have Deen made to apply the decision, but m each occasion the attempt has \ been abandoned only when the movement has been almost over- whelmed in disaster. “The Manchester borbough labor party refused to accept Communists as delegates, and yet, in full know- ledge of this decision, the Manchester and Salford Trades Council elected two Communists amongst its gates to the borough labor party. “The Manchester and Salford Trades Council even elected a Communist as its president. “The borough labor party acting on the L. P. decisions, refused to accept these delegates, and requested the Traades Council to appoint others who were not Communists, but the latter body reaffirmed its previous de- cisions, and #aidi‘the borough labor Had to Ignore L. P. Rule. »The laboreparty refused to accept them, and then came the inevitable split forced by the right wing. What a spectacle. “Finally, better counsel prevailed and unity 1 tag the two bodies was attain by the labor party climbing down, reversing its decision, ignoring the national conference de- cision and accepting the Communist delegates. Local Unions Sullported Communists. “Even trade union branches affiliat- ed to the borough labor party were up in arms. One branch of the Na- tional Railw Union, instructed | its Conni 1 r te sit tight and refuse to leave when sked. An omalgamated En neers’ on branch * ithdrew its non-Communist delegate and appointed a mmunist instead. “The Rusholme divisional labor party has now had,the experience of two parliamentary elections with the Communist William Paul as candi- date, and it can be definitely stated that it never fought two finer elec- Communists and all the rest rubbed shoulders and gave a real in- sight of what can be accomplished when unity prevails. A representative Lehection committee was set up and its decisions were unsweringly carried out by all, Communists Worked Loyally. “As election agent for the Com- munist Paul in the last fight, I can testify to the fact that my instructions as agent were implicitly carried out by the Manchester members of the Communist Party and the Young Communist League, who were ever yeager to perform even the humblest task.” Wrap your lunch in a copy of the DAILY WORKER and give it (the DAILY WORKER, not the lunch) to your shop-mate. No charge for Display of O. Noted Artist: AT 8 P. M. SHARP eat become impatient 7 ihe pattern 8 SUNDAY OCTOBER 18—IMPERIAL HALL, 2406 N. Halsted St. The First Daily Worker RESCUE PARTY Given by the North Side Branch. There will be DANCING to good music. There will be PRIZES ot all kinds. COFFEE LIFE PRESERVERS ™ be made. iginal Cartoons by All the : e Labor Move lent. 50 CENTS ADMISSION dele- | . as : 8 4 * * G a an 85 . 82 1 in 1 PROFESSOR NE on a country in Europe where they are im- proving.” Witnessed Class Struggle Everywhere These were among the striking statements mdde by Harry F. Ward, president of the American Civil Li- berties’ Union and professor at Union Theological Seminary, New York, to nearly 250 people at a luncheon given after a year’s journey to Europe and the Orient. Russia, Germany, he found the struggle between oppres- sion and freedom still active. “Enormous creative forces are at work in Russia,” he said. “Working very intensely and rapidly. Liberal- crease. Considerable liberty ‘exists with regard to criticizing acts of the administration. Repression is felt only when criticizing the fundamental prin- ciples of the existing institutions. But then, we in America do not treat with great consideration those who ques- tion the fundamentals of the Amer- ican government. The only reason we have as much freedom now as we have is because those who are inter- ested in keeping things as they are feel that the country is safe.“ If great Britain succeeds in her present policy of isolating Russia, both east and west, Dr. Ward said, the So- viet government would probably be forced to take stronger repressive measures. “It is either the present order in Russia, or Czarism,” declared Dr. Ward. “There is nothing in between. If the old crowd gets back into power, the deaths which have taken place since the revolution will be as nothing to the killing the cross wi “carried in the fore- front of the killing. The old regime will not leave alive man, woman, or child suspected of Communist tend- encies.” Dr. Ward declared that there were only two kinds of stabilization pos- sible for the world—bankers’ stabili- zation or Communist stabilization, and that the latter was preferable. The bankers could accomplish their kind of stabilization only by raising the standard of living of the workers and peasants everywhere, and by carrying on such subtle propaganda that the * = —. — aie this TRUSSIA THE ONLY COUNT RY WHER ECONOMIC CONDITIONS DO IMP i | WARD TELLS AUDIENCE (Special to The Daily Worker) “York, October 14.—“Lenin was the cme mind functioning cal field in our generation. omic conditions in Russia are improving, and Russia is the only at the town hall to welcome him back 237 8 29 1 70 During the year Dr. Ward Me: apehe England, France, China, Japan and India. In all ot them 1 84 225 izing tendencies there are on the im | at will take place, and — ere oe i * tee Your Union Meeting | | Third Friday, Oct. 16, 1925 Sakers and Cont., 3420 W. Roose- ete 1756 W. Washington arekin 810 W. Harrison St. oo “Fer es Council, 180 W. hin Carpenters, 175 W. „ * — ist. Counci!, 180 W. Ca 4388 8. Halsted St. K 1 W. Monroe St. K 4141 W. Lake St. 5 8. H iremen ‘one ‘Enginemen, Halsted St. “eh Workers, Emily and Marsh- Carriers, Monroe and Peoria Ladies’ Garment Workers, Joint W. Van Buren St. Machi and Bivd. Machinists, 113 8. 2 Bivd. Painters, 2345 So. Kedzie Ave. Painters, Potters n. Seite Throop st. bp go Ave 4, en, V fase t Hall, Kol- e ailwa ‘Carmen, Village Hall, Kol- Railway Carmen, 5445 8. Ashland ve. 346 376 998 328 Railway Clerks, 20 W. Randolph St. Railway Clerks, 9 S$. Cli 356 Railway Clerks, Ft. Dearborn ‘ote. road Trainmen, 1 E. 64th St. 3349 ort road Trainmen, Railroad Trainmen, 9120 Commer- cia ve Meta! Workers, Ashland and Sheet South ica Trades and Labor Assembly, 9139 Seated Gite: Ave. tage Hands, 412 C tove Mounters, 3609 PWolfram aye. Teachers n 9 City Club Rooms, 4:30 p Yelegmughers * en 31 8. Clark 19 W. Adame Street, Women’s Union Label League 220 S. Ashiand Bivd. (Note--Unless otherwise stated all meetings are at 8 >. m. 484 Waitresses, 3P workers and peasants would not real- ize their enslavement... Both of these tasks were very difficult, he admitted. Japan was described by Dr. Ward as reaching out for the economic ad- vantages of an agreement with Russia, while trying to shut out Bolshevist ideas—“a difficult task.” In China, he said, he was questioned by the chan- cellor of a university where he was to speak on Communism, to see whe- ther his views were sufficiently radic- al to be put before the students, among whom there was a strong Com- munist spirit. In India he was not allowed by the British government to speak on Russia to the Hindu stu- dents, - “Until the ownership of natural re- sources, of manufacturing and finance capital, and of labor power, is settled,” concluded Dr.. Ward, “the world is on a war footing, and civil liberties can- not flourish.” If you want to thoroughly un- derstand Communism—study it. Send for a catalogue of all Com- munist literature. They are trying to break the Zeigler Spirit. They removed Zeigler’s fighting union officers. They murdered Mike Sarovich. They arrested 26 of. his co-workers. They are trying to railroad 15 of them to the penitentiary. FIGHT the Zeigler Frame-up! The mine bosses, the Ku Klux Kien. Farrington’s machine. and the State Power are all lined up in this dastardly conspiracy against the Zeigler miners. Hurry Up With HELP! Send contributions to F CHANGES U. S. R Recognition e (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Sept. 10.—(By Mail.)— Captain Paxton Hibben of the Amer- ican army arrived here lately. Mr. Hibben was in Russia’ in 1905-06 as secretary of the American Embassy. In 1921 he came to Russia with the American commission to visit famine districts and made a report which served as a basis for the. American Relief Association and in 1922 he visite? Moscow at the head of the Children Relief Committee. In 1923 he was brought to trial being accused in America of publish- tng articles and delivering speeches in favor of recognition of the U. 8. S. R. and for participation in the Society of Friends of Soviet Russia. The Hibben case was dragging for a long time and caused sensation in the United States. An ex-Russian officer who confessed to being an agent of Grand Duke Cyril was called as the chief witness against him. The court gave no verdict and Hibben retained his rank of captain of the American army. In an interview with a press cor- respondent, Captain Hibben said: “I notice enormous changes in the U. S. S. R. since 1922. The workers’ and peasants’ Republic is showing great energy in reconstruction of the country, especially in technical science. I hope that the United States will soon recognize Russia. “I know many influential people who before were against recognition but afterwards became ardent adher- ents to this idea. Senator Borah as it is known is a most influential mem- ber of the senate who stands for re- cognition, and I hope that he will be successful when there will be a winter session of congress in December.” Trade Union Congress General Council Makes Arthur Pugh Chairman LONDON, Oct. 15. — The Trade Union General Council having met at its first session since Scarborough, a chairman was elected for the coming year. He is Arthur Pugh, and as chair- man, will preside over meetings of the council and be next year’s presi- dent of the Trade Union Congress. Arthur Pugh was born in 1870, ap- .prenticed when 13 years old to a butcher, a few years later becoming a steel worker in South Wales. He became secretary of the Frodingham, Lincolnshire, branch of the British Steel Smelters’ Association in 1899, organized a branch of the imdepen- dent labor party there. In 1906, he was appointed assistant general secretary of his union, leav- ing his workshop to take office, He became a member of the parliamen- tary committee of the Trade Union Congress in 1920, and has served on the general council each year since. Act Quickly! The Danger Is Great! Time Is Pressing: International Labor Defense a 23 So. Lincoln St., Chicago, III.
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‘Se Ber FY oh aN y industry. The great industrial mergers under the aegis of bank eap- — the 1 WORKER PUBLISHING a p Blvd., Chicago, III. Phone Monroe ge aris | SUBSCRIPTION — . (in Chicage only): By mail $4.50 six months 7 7 a> ‘ 1 22 (outside of Chicago): $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 11138 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Illinois J. LOUIS ENGDAHL } “spt WILLIAM r. DUNN®. { : ee MORITZ J. LOEB. Business Manager Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, IIL, under the act of March 3, 1879. — Advertising rates on application. The Tax Fight Against Mellon On the eve of the convening of congress there again arises the struggle over the question of taxes. Against the proposition of the Coolidge administration, known as the Mellon plan, there is crystal- lizing an alignment of petty-bourgeois democrats from the southern states and petty-bourgeois republicans from the middle and far} west. It was this identical combination that two years ago defeated the original Mellon tax plan. This recuring over the administra- tion’s tax program reveals the fact that the republican and demo- cratic parties both contain within their ranks elements incapable of being reconciled to their main policy. Tho there is no petty-bourgeois party the southern democrats, who rallied around the Bryan standard for three decades, and the middle west republicans, who are much closer to the political line of the late LaFollette than, to Coolidge, form a bloc in both houses of congress that openly challenges the designs of big capital when- ever their economic interests are threatened. Obviously a measure in the interest of big capital is the Goo- lidge-Mellon proposal to abolish the federal inheritance tax and at the same time insist upon a “less pronounced reduction” of the normal rate on small incomes. A program that aims to leave intact the great fortunes when their owners die and at the same time place a heavier income tax burden upon the smaller fry. Against this is the demand of the petty-bourgeois combination for perpetuation of the federal inheritance tax and the raising of the exemption on the “little fellows” to $3,000 for single men and $5,000 for married men. So desperate has Secretary of the Treasury Mellon become at this threat to again wreck his tax program that he has already yielded to the limit. In an effort to patch up the struggle within his own party he called into conference Representative Green, of Iowa. Mellon’s program demanded a reduction, of surtaxes on big incomes from 40 per cent to 15 per cent. Green informed him that such a reduction would defeat the whole program and proposed a reduction to 30 per cent. As a tentative proposition a tax of 20 per cent was accepted. ; | But a compromise on the tax question will not settle the struggle that is taking place in both old parties, for both of them are in a period of transition. The democratic party since 1910 has been subservient to finance capital. In the east it is the tool of the House of Morgan; in the south and middle west it is petty bourgeois. The republican party, formerly the party of industrial capital, is rapidly being converted into the political expression of finance-capital. Since its spectacular triumph over Morgan’s League of Nations pro- gram in 1920, it has passed into the control of Morgan at almost the precise tempo that finance-capital has extended its control over. ital shattered the economic foundation upon which the republican party formerly stood. But no political party, in a period of transi- tion, is ever able to reconcile all elements to its new policy. The “backward” elements persist for a period of time, determined by objective economic conditions. The democratic party, tho the chasm between its eastern and its middle west and southern sections are deep-going, as an opposition party with little responsibility, will probably present a united oppo- sition. In such an event the combination against the Coolidge- Mellon program will again doom it to defeat. “A Self-Acting Body of Armed Men” Hanford MacNider, the appointee of President Coolidge to the post of assistant secretary of war, is the living personification of the American legion in politics. He is a past commander of this nucleus of the American fas- cisti, having been elected in 1921. He is a banker and his father is u banker. Having been an officer in the Mexican expeditionary force and in the world war, he is that apothesis of American capitalist efficiency-businessman and militarist. The American government is assuming, as Wall Street takes mortgages on one country after another and monopolistic capital- ism at home creates a class of millions dependent upon the whims of a handful of masters, more and more the characteristics described by Engels: The second distinguishing feature is the establishment of a public power which is no longer identical with the population and whiéh is organized as an armed force. . ; Engels was writing of capitalist society in the pre-imperialist period but the developments which he foretold have occurred in in- disputeable form. The war department is a super-government and one has only to read the capitalist press to understand that preparation for wars of aggression and suppression of the working class at home and abroad are the chief problems with which the best minds of American“ capitalism are occupied. | MacNider fits into this scheme of things beautifully. He is backed by an organization of ex-officers whose privileged position in the American armed forces during the world war merely whetted their appetites for further opportunity to exercise unquestioned authority. The legion is first of all concerned with “Americanism” and those who do not know by this that “Americanism” is synonym- ous with labor baiting of all kinds has not learned the ABC of the class struggle in the United States. Said Engels: The above mentioned public force increases with the intensi- fication of class antagonism within the state, and with the growth in size and population of the adjacent states. The day of flabby civilians in important war department posts is over. The appointment of MacNider is an omen which class con- scious workers will read correctly if they view it as preliminary to the enactment of such bloody scenes in the United States as we are reading of in Panama. With Sheriff Peter M. Hoffman of Cook county in jail, the re- publican party in Chicago faces a serious situation. -For years this ward heeler was the principal vote getter of that organization in Chicago and served many terms as coroner, previous to his election as sheriff. i — 7 7. 4 * . ye Gp — * as 1 1 5 eee 2 1 "af * 5 — T the end of the first month ‘of the /strike the situation in the Anthra- cite has not changed one iota. The mines are closed. ‘The men are idle. The newspapers carry heir usual line ot propaganda. The aid advertisements appear regularly, The mayors have their squabbles with the head of the Anthracite Operators association over the ff. The other demands of the minérs are com- pletely forgotten. Lewis appears now and then with a weak statement and although he does not “believe” in arbitration he appeared in conference with the Scranton chamber of com- |} merce to try and make a “settlement.” The same committee met Inglis, the head of the operators’ association the ‘next day. E Lewis-Cappellini machine is satisfied. The miners do not know what is transpiring. Ask an average miner what is going on and he can- ‘at tell you. The Communists are in the fight ; to make it a real strike. Mass meet- ings were called to defend the inte- }rests of the strikers and to put forth the program of the Progressive Min- ers’ Committee and explain the aims the Communists. Meeting after meeting has been stopped, or held without permit, permits being refused for many meetings, halls closed and crowd dispersed at several meetings. Treachery of Cappellini. After our Scranton meeting which was broken up and which resulted in Reid, secretary of the Progressive Miners Committee, and myself going to jail and Zarek and Toohey also being jailed later as a result of this meeting, followed by the conviction of Reid and Toohey on a trump-up charge of vagrancy, the Cappellini gang wrote the following letter to the authorities of Scranton. . : Sept. 28, 1925. Michial J. McHugh, Superintendant of Police, Scranton, Pa. Dear Sir: Your action in breaking up the meeting at Washington Hall, Scranton, Penna., Saturday, Sept. 26, of representatives of the Soviet movement of Russia ‘whose purpose is to destroy the orderly method of conducting the affairs of the United Mine Workers of America, incite violence and the destruction of our great labor movement was taken up at a meeting of the — Exec- ae 1 TST: 2 . eat be. - * en — ͤ ee > ei F ; oY ed Mine — of America, go on reaord commending your action taken in preserving peace and tran- quility in our great city. We realize that you are impartial in this controversy and your only desire is to promote the peace of the community and we are in hearty accord with you in this policy. We again k you and com- mend your and hope all pub- lic — who. have for their duty the it of laws for peace and harmony 1 N oe “example. Wishing 5 „los, We are, No. 1, U. M. W. of A. WILLIAMS, tet NG. 1, U. M. W. of A. ND why not? These damn Pro- gressives ant are raising hell! They are calling meetings. They are showing the work- ers the NLY Simo to victory. Meetings. On the 2 what has the berie cee, done? NOTH- ING! NOTHING! In many instances even the local ‘unions do not meet, because there is no business during the suspension as stated by a chair- man of a local union. Why? The corrupt gang ‘of officials know that if meetings are called the rank and file would want to know what's up.” What would the officials of the un- ion be able to tell the miners at a mass meeting? They would have to come out and explain a situation that is not explanable, without exposing their treachery. Speakers Defy Police. In Plymouth our meeting was brok- en up before the speakers arrived. In Luzerne the hall was closed by the burgess. the steps of the building. In Exeter the same thing happened. We took a nearby street corner. Cops inter- fered, but the crowd demanded that the speaker go on—and he went on. T Scranton meeting of Saturday, Sept. 26th, “the representatives of the Soviet movement of Russia” (long live Cappellini, the Mussolini of the Anthracite) were going to “destroy the orderly methods of con- ducting the affairs of the United Mine Workers of America.” The Scranton the Communists |. The comrades spoke from tro Be — Arrests. ing forth the demands of the miners t no arbitration, no compromise, the ten per cent increase in the five-day week, six-hour day and a labor party. was enough to brand us a “disrupters” of the unior and who might overthrow the govern- ment any minute, if we are not be- hind the bars. So dt this meeting appeared a n or so plainclothes police. After | searching us and satisfying them- selves that we had no cannons or red regiments in our hip pockets they were assured that “our” country wag saved from “another revolution.” IN jail our belts were taken away lowed us. In came the people of viks.” Thank god they were behind the bars, or we would be living in a Soviet America! We were not lonesome in the ver- min-infested cells. Sunday dwindled into Monday and about ten in the morning Reid, * and I were transfered to the city, jail of Scranton. . Officials Visit Jail. Here the officials of the United Mine Workers appeared. These great Americans, whose motto is: “never to kick a man when he is down“ surely did not live up to their motto. “Will- ing lackeys” is the least that could be said about them. After telling us that we will be de- ported or get twenty years on a hard rock pile, they reminded me of a little incident I went thru long, long ago. I was a little kid at the time I hap- pened to run across a funny paper. Not being able to read myself, dad read the cartoon-story to me. It was a man in which two boys were put thru a machine and came out old men. Daddy, Daddy, that is bad about that man putting. little boys in the machine, isn’t it?” “Yes,” said dad, “some people are bad.” HEN I was told “20 years of the hard rock pile,” I come to the conclusion that I have reached the * Fs, eps 1- i K af 1 Ban 1 237 r * 4 — 5 1 * * * * . * = 5 * . « * 1 * i} P “4 5 a ut 3 Sey — — Pil ’ * teh: j N 2 . 5 +; é m 5 ¥ — . * ** : * . — 7 Just what was our “crime”? Bring meeting was broken up we were taken to the West End police station. After from use No newspapers were al- Scranton to see the horrible Bolshe- | a cartoon of a machine invented by | N * ii 17954 , e sy e 1 82 Ve 1 : > oe A 7 \ 5 5 ee AL SERT A, PURCELL Amalgamattion, tions, Labor Unity, Labor Party, the Workers Party, the Socialist, the Communist, the Amster- dam International, the R. I. L. U., China India, Egypt, the terror in Es- thonia, Roumania, Hungary, Poland, about the struggles of Russia; ex- cept two or t of these terms, none were even uttered in their so- 1 aw iy cialist” speeches. They advised, how- ever, the workers to — fer Thomas for mayor. Thomas made a bad break, how- ever, when he burst into white heat of indignation against Ambassador Herrick for congratulating the Ameri- can aviators in Morocco. He forgot in his excitement to mention that the French socialists voted deliberately the money with which to buy these aeroplanes. The German socialist Braun was positively amusing. He boasted for half an hour about the “republic” of Germany, and how the monarchy was dead. The proof was the fact that even. Hindenburg took the oath of al- legiance to the republic. Hindenburg’s oath to the republic is no more a guarantee for it than was Lieb- knecht’s oath to the monarchy; neither of them meant it, nobody be- lieved either of these “oaths,” and it was a guarantee for no one except an out and out imbecile. JHEN Purcell took the floor the workers in the audience receiv- ed him with the singing of the In- ternational (the socialists seem to have forgotten that song.) Purcell’s speech rang with one key-note: World trade union unity, laber unity. He didn’t mention any yames, or any or- gamigations, but he said that he was tullyx aware of the many intrigues Union Miners for Loss of Business ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio, Oct. 15.— The Western Coal company of Cleve- land js suing the union miners of Steu- benville, Ohio, for damages suffered by the company during a strike which the bosses call an “unauthorized” strike, at the Franklin mine last August. 200 union miners are named in the suit for $6,417 damages. * that were going on against unity, the world over, and also in America. Coming right fresh from the A. F. of L. convention, at a meeting held un- der the very shadow of the black For- ward, with the slippery Hillquit in the chair, he knew whereof he was speaking when he referred to the many intrigues going on against unity. When he finished his plea for unity, a cloud of leaflets fluttered from the top gallery thru the ‘house, in which the Workers Party reiter- ates its appeal to the B. P. for unity in the coming election. But, of course, a plea for unity leaves the socialist party cold; they are determined to lead the few. workers who are still following them, to another bwindling of the socialist vote, to another ex- hibition of division, to another defeat. — Build the DAILY WORKER | crease over Jily. Following is a sum- which must sooner or later call a mary of latest figures: halt to the phenomenal boom now be- August ing experienced in America. But as 1925 1924 yet there are no definite economic in- Imports ..$375,000,000 $254,000,000 dications that this boom has reached Exports .. 383,000,000 330,000,000 its climax. “Both statistical records Eight. Months Ending Aug. and reports from widely separated 1925 1924 ' cities,” says Dun’s Review, “give in- Imports _....$2,764,768,000 $2,382,727,000 | creasing evidence of the upward Exports . 3,084,478,000 2,697,034,000 | course of business.” Coal Company Sues CLEVELAND TO HEAR ENGDAHL SUNDAY ON A. F. OF L. CONVENTION (Special, to The Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, O., Oct. 15.—Every Cleveland worker who wants to get a peep “behind the scenes” of the Atlantic City convention of the Am- erican Federation of Labor must at- tend the mass meeting arranged by the Trade Union Educational League East 11th St., Sunday evening, Oct. 18., where J. Louis Engdahl, editor of the DAILY WORKER will speak ¢ on the American Federation of bor convention. * 0 2 — WARREN, Ohio, October 15.— J. Louis Engdahl, editor of the DAILY WORKER, and its corres- pondent at the Atlantic City conven- tion of the A. F. of L., will speak at _ the Hippodrome Building, Warren, “Ohio, on Sunday afternoon, Oct. 18, on the significance of the convention and its meaning to American labor. Peasants to See Movies. MOSCOW, Oct. 15. A picture, en. titled “Water in Nature” is now being produced. This film will, con- duct propaganda for anti-drought measures among the peasantry, . 8 — rades. The boys were stuck into the Cappellini used radical miners to at the Insurance Center Bidg., 1783 / 7 — 25
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— oy + = — —w— — lk SS ra 2 44 . *. Fogo ae 74 , _wheat- ee It comprises those ot were the hardest +3 constitute the overwhelming bulk of fren ged in west north central di- decreased in number to a much grèat- er extent); tenantry, increasin (80.9 ben aera fo i ae 2 is the leading crop | the states comprising here is produced 36 per * EF en trom the es . Mi * je . Fae * ‘ 2 Ri 2 a 15 ta — ae ae ad eS | 2 * * K a — „ Sa ev. 8 5 ’ 7 dn, „ 8 * * vs . “ 5 . 8 r f * : * 0 4 * * “af 0 1 Rats 5 . — x f in 9 * a Irae ‘gaged in i of whom 244,- 109 are farm operators. f \ Predominantly a meat raising 4 vision, the 3 territory is turn- — Tor slaughtering, ‘together „ 1 ent with hay, make up the bulk of agrar- ian products. Always the area of great “ranches,” this division has witnessed a vast increase in the num- ber of large farms between 1910 and THER items: Number of farms, constantly in (in 1910 there were 183,446, in 1920; 244,109; or an increase of 60,663) ; acrés- per farm; increasing (detrease in the number of very small farms, increase in all sizes above 20 acres, with JDeavi- 8 in the largest farms): t try, constantly increasing (90.3 per cent increase from 1910 to 1920, the proportion to all farms rising from 10.7 per cent to 15.4 per cent); foreign-born, increasing, but not so (ast as total farms (16.8 per cent of all farms in 1920); Negroes, few in number (2.2 per cent in 1920). Aver- age equipment, buildings, $1,481; ma- chinery, $781; live stock, $2,987. Num- ber of farmers’ automobiles, 91,600. Approximate number of farmers in each category of our classification | would a 2 8 gee 428,000 Total The Paciſſe Division. 3 Pacific coast states present 1 about the same ratio between city and country as the East North Cen- tral division. With 5% million pop- ulation, of which a little over 27 mil- Hon (37.6 per cent) is rural, it is ond of the ng sections, in- | creasing since 1910 by more than 1 1-3 millions, while the percentage of rur- al population declined from 43.2 per cent to 37.6. per cent. The area — prises 10.7 per cent of the V. S. total, with 5.27 per cent of the = nelly ‘ively in hom 21 f riculture, or 496,4 are farm „ This is predominantly a. fruit ducing territory, with wheat and dairy products the principal secondary lines, domestic animals for slaughter- ing coming next in importance. The fruit farming is becoming more and more highly organized and, to a at than in any othgr branch, agricultural organization tlie producers has become an rkers and employers. THER items: Number ot n constantly increasing (in 1920 there were 44,273 more farms, 23.4 per cent, more than in 1910); num- ber of acres per farm, constantly de- creasing (all size-groups increasing in positive numbers but the farms under 50 acres increasing much more rapid- ly than the larger sizes); tenantry, increasing (43.5 per cent increase | 1919-1920, with the percentage of standing at 21.1 per cent); the total, and 4.13 — cent Sal eed 213 2 increasing but in lower pple. cogent popula proportion n total farms; - oes, ‘millions, of whom 63.6 per cent or 1 few m number but mereasing abso- lutely and in proportion to all farms. Average equipment, buildings, $2,146; Machinery, $992; live stock, $1,731. (Continued on page 8) = wes * — —ä—ä— —— — — *
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ee —v— — — , - — op drs : N * + a, * Dr 3 1 ae iy 3 * 5 n 1 8 ' A 5 4 ‘ “ Oe Se he 8 * i + poh 8 . 1 Labor has great It }' poses as a labor international repre- senting the labor movement of the western hemisphere. At its congress held in Mexico City, mber 1924, Matthew Woll, proclaimed the “Mon- roe Doctrine of American “Mabor™ modeled on the im of the U. S. go . phrase plagiarized from capitalist di- | plomacy the Pan-American Federation of Labor declared a monopoly on all | chine. workers from Alaska to Tierra del piven and denied “foreign” interna- gations forbidden to “interfere” with the labor movement of the western hemisphere were the Moscow Red rade Union International, the Berlin anarcho-syndicalist International, and the Amsterdam ation of Trade Unions—still too revo- lutionary for the A. F. of L. The grandiose gesture of the Pan- the countries of the western hemis- phere are affiliated with it. Geogra- phy lists twenty independent coun- tries in this hemisphere; the Pan- American Federation lists twelve na- tional labor federations as affiliated members. If this figure were correct there might at least be a numerical basis for the labor imperialism of the P. A. F. L. 8 An analysis of its boasted member- ship however tells another story. | labor. Only one of these, the “Fed racion de Obreros Nicaraguense” be- longs to the P. A. F. L. ay? bor federations. These are ganized and are rather mutual bene- fit societies than real labor unions. Two of them — “La Confederacion de Obreros del Salvador” and the “Union Obrera Salvadorena” — are affiliated |, with the P. A. F. L. These two organi- zations claimed in 1921 a combined membership of 2,000. Neither of them sent a delegate to the last P. A. F. L. congress. In fact the labor movement in El Salvador is so backward that „there is not a single labor. paper in 3 Dominican Republic has pulation of about 900,000 of which 5000 are organized workers. Its prin- cipal labor organization “La Herman- dad Comunal Nacionalista” (the Na- tional Communal Brotherhood) is af- filiated with Pan-American Federa- tion. Unlike other Central American members of the P. A. F. L. the Domini- can organization was represented by a delegate at the last P, A. F. L. con- delegates, Guatemala has a population of 1,500- 000. Of its 30 labor associations five are trade unions and one a federation. > ae 8 22 : ~ a . A 4 N * 4 7 4 r — N ed * Des 5 i n 3 5 aye % 5 i 11 1 N 8 r 7 Fr a * 4 3 irn * he ae 2 wht eee Feta oy 75 . . 0 ae * . 3 ed ea, ah 592 4 sak 2 +r 9 Wer ‘ 9 * wi * 2 — Ws 3 ¥ er J is * W 5 n r e ORR n r e AS. nne . 1 SOAS N 2 1778 . * 2 * an 0 * N rn an f wee 7 ever, was thät the two young deleg- ates were known to be dissatisfied with the reactionary Gompers ma- The P. A. F. L. claims bigger dame when it lists among its members Co- lombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela. The last three have never sent a de- i the country. Equally significant is O Peru also appears on mem, the fact that in the case of Salvador, bership list of the P. A. F. L. it has William Green is willing to admit never sent a delegate to any con- dual unions to the P. A. F. L., while | vention or contributed . Allowing the A. F. of L., to scab on no labor unions at all. Savage govern- yd 7 7 1 N W os 3 — 3 „ 11 * 4 3 * poe * N ee 2 * — * * * 7 the a f 7 atic Tammanyite A. F. of L., the anti-re- — — government unions of the and a few dummy „ When rege 3 * {tis then : — — or laugh at the sudden rise in member- | 45 f : ot 1 ship Haberman good i 5 e . F 4 <= - * — . * . * 4 4 * — — E 5 ; * . i P ve 7 — 22 7222 1 HG E * Co ment repression has made labor organ ies * f ‘the Charleston navy yar ‘to act the part of lambs. ward policies of the reactionary bu- Defeat the Reactionaries! reaucracy, h by Sigman. The in-“ Tho their threats and terrorization ternational now has a debt of $282,000 | have according to Sigman’s own report, ed, we due to the hiring of sluggers, etc. allow Attter a battle of fifteen weeks, the | future New York needle trades workers de-} The feated the reactionaries that tried to | judge get a strangle hold on the union. To-] terms. day the reactionaries that the] about, wackbone of their vicious attacks f mitted have been Officers of the at 14 * the ram: Island a who at- and sürvtvors of the ill-fated under- a. sea boat were among those called to ~ — , testify. = ~ ae a : 3 The hearings are expected to last To Save THE DAILY WORKER | trom five to ten days. , ae aa : 2222 5 —
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— — — ee — — 7 ii HHH > ‘the , 5 2 ‘J ~~ 11755 i i 115 — 4 * 2 1 4 ome 4 > 4, 123 N 5 at > - on! 2 tn * 2 * i * . af 4 ii 1 f cessional. the world «it win they were good and when a great American capitalist 8 7 151 111 888 winds “tures in been noted, has raided the office of the Bri- g the closest attention to s struggle in Great Britain and The New York Times of October torial comment on the speech of Pre- mier Baldwin to the convention of the conservative party at Brighton, The n 1 for te domestic poticy that ee eae subsidy and had placed himself iv. > * i sews ' . , * * ast 1 ME <_<)? oy * 1 f B 7 — 1 * * 1 * ae Yo * ae reed 8 +. U. * 4 ö N. ty a states. There is no chance for Eu- articles end with a quotation from the editorial page of The New York Times that not only shows the close unity between the officialdom of workers in the simplest terms: Cheers from the floor of the Am- the Communist experiment in Rus- sia he was expressing the opinion of organized labor in the United States. in this respect American labor is aligned with the trade un- 7 — | . “If We Have to Fight, We Wü: „ cartoon is from the London Sunday Worker and which now characterizes the British working class and ils 3G ibn leren i 2 22 : a = oe ; 2 5 2 ee Katpil icts the stubborn fighting spirit is causing sleepless nights for the bosses fel He i 1 : 15 . FE F EF ＋ 4 Ep Be BRE: 1 i ing mutiny in his majesty's forces. To put it baldly, the armed force sof the empire constitute now almost the sole support of the empire itself. The idea of e has lost much ; the minds * ee sanctity of the whole questioned by ropean nations to solve the situa- tion of the east by “brute force,” | he says. Valyi credits Russia with show- ‘ing much better understanding of the east by its offer of social equali- ty to Oriental nations. , Russia has shown “much better understanding of the East by its offer of social equality to Oriental na- tions.” This and the Communist slo- gan of “The land to the peasants” is something that British bayonets can- not beat. Let us say it again: a‘ Saklatvala represents both these oriental nations” and the spirit of ‘the Soviet Union. It is e to Soviet Russia that torms the bond binding British and American imperialism together in the exclusion of Saklatvala. | | jon movement everywhere in Europe except in Great Britain, wl. ere the issue is now being fought out. President Green went beyond say- ing that between American organ- ized labor and the Communist trade union movement there can be no ‘cooperation. He intimated plainly that between the two it is war. The upward sweep of the working class in imperialist nations like Great Britain, the ever more powerful re- volts of sweated colonial peoples, the living inspiration of these. movements in the stalwart Soviet union, the Communist International, the general staff and the shock troops of the world revolution~this is what Saklat- vala symbolizes and this is why he is barred from American and hounded in Great Britain... . . ... f (The End.) | Negro Labor Congress Asks 1 Artistic Talent With the Union of Socialist Soviet * The American Negro Labor Congress, which will open at Pythian 3} ‘Hall, 207 East 35th St., Chicago, on Sunday, Oct. 25, has issued an appeal | to all colored and white workers to which will occupy every evening during the week of October 25 to 31. Every white and colored worker is called upon to aid in the arranging of the programs to be given at the large mass meetings to be held during the evening sessions of the congress. Recitations, monologues, classical dancing, singing, instrument playing—all these forms of talent will be welcomed by the arrangements committee, Any worker desiring to assist in this work Will please get in touch with A. Andrew Torrence, chairman of the arrangements committee, at the American Negro Labor Congress headquarters, 3456 South indiana participate in the evening programs a 3 4
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— — — st —— —— kk(kñ1I ę·ꝛꝗV7 r Turk Moldoy, ment of Odessa; his r peasant from Voronesh. father finished his — service in Turkestan, he be hospital attendant in te service. Frunze began nis studies tk + pri. 1 ee subsequently entering | | _ mary school, the college of Vierny (now Almata), where he proved an excellent student. His father having died, young Mikhail at the age of twelve took to giving private Jopnons - as a , means of div +a > 8 deaving the} |. family in ‘poor: circumstances, the; | . the revolutionary movement, working lg first in the student circles, then in the workers’ circles, as a social-democrat. He took part in the November demon- st and ent expul- of 1905, Frunze Moscow, then in the zensk Metery in Viadi. mir. During the party split into men sheviks and Bolsheviks, Mikhail de- liberately took the side of the Lenin- ists. In December, 1905, he took part in the insurrection at Moscow. In 1906, as a delegate from the party committee of Voznessensk, he partici- pated in the Third and Fourth Con- gresses of the party at Stockholm. In 1907, hé was arrested at Chovia, where he had been working under the name of Arsene, and sentenced to a long term of imprisonment. Brot be- fore the — for — to | i . strations in St; Petersburg, which led | i * = ee 79 a * : Rien MIKHAIL FRUNZE Commanderin-Chief of the Red Army the social-democratie party, he was accused. of having offered armed re- ‘o four years hard labor, Condemned to Death; Prison; Escape. two verdicts declared for the death ed to an additional six years’ hard labor. He sefved five and a half years in the central prison of Viadi then for two years in the prison Nikolaev, and finally in ‘the Alexan- drovsk prison. ‘Liberated in 1915, but sent to the Frunze was soon arrested os: ae sistance to the police, and sentenced | After being tried five times in con- nection with this affair, during which penalty, Frunze was finally condemn-, district of Verkhotensk in Irkutsk, in the district of Chovia, president of the municipal council, and of the Sov- jet of the district. time that he began his military career as military commissioner for the gov- .ernmem of Ivanovo-Voznessensk. Fol- lowing the insurrection of Jaroslav, he was named commissar »4 tary district of Jaroslav, a post which he occupied until the end of 1918. In December, 1918, he was sent to the front as commander of the. -fourth : yng aie of Shean ot 5 2 e nsive, Frunze assumed Ivanovo-Voznessensk. It wag at this for the mili- | liquidation of mmander of the Wrangel, By N. LENIN. In every part of the civilised world the intensest enmity and hate among the intenset enmity and hate among bourgeois scientists (official and li- beral alike), who regard Marxism as a kind of “harmful sect.” It is im- possible to expect them to take up any other attitude, for there can be no “impartial” social science in a state of society based on class war- fare. Both official and liberal science r 3 9 teaching followed as an cContinuation of the teaching ‘of the greatest representatives of philosophy, seek by one means or another to de- fend wage slavery, while Marxism de- clares ruthless war t this slav- ; ery. To expect impartial science in a state of society based on wage slav- ev, is as naively foolish as to expect impartiality from factory owners in the question of whether it would not be advisable to raise the wages of the workers by means of reducing the profits of the capitalists. But this is not all. The history * philosophy, and the history of social science, show with perfect clearness that there is nothing in Marxism re- sembling a hard- and-fast stereotyped teaching, taking its rise in some back- water apart from the main stream of the evolution of international civiliza- tion. The direct centrary is the case. for the genius of Marx consists in the fact that he replied to, questions which: had already been put by the adyanved. thought ot mahkind. His immediate of political economy, and of socialism. The philosophy of Marxism is mate- rialism. During the whole course of the more recent history of Europe, and especially in France at the end of the 18th century, at the time of the jan decisive struggle against all the relics | of mediaevalism, and against. teud- alism in institutions and ideas, mater- ialism proved to be the sole consist - ent philosophy, true to all the teach- ings of the natural sciences, hostile to superstitions, to hypocrisy etc. The enemies of democracy have therefore exerted their utmost efforts to con- fute” materialism, to undermine and imaginable variety of philosophical idealism, invariably ending in the defense or support of religion. Marx and Engels defended philoso- phical materialism with the utmost energy, and were never weary of Em- phasising the fundamental incorrect- ness of any deviation from this prin- ciple. Their views are stated with clarity and. detail in Engels’ works: “Ludwig Feuerbach” and “Antiduhr- ung,” books which—like the Com- munist Manifesto“ —-are among the text books of avery class _conscious worker. But Marx did not 400 at the mate- rialism of the 18th century; he car- ried philosophy further. He enriched it with the result of classic German philosophy, especially that of Hegel’s system, which again led to the mater- ialism of Feuerbach, The most im- portant of these results is to be found in dialectics, that is, in the doctrine of evolution in its completest and deepest aspect, free from one-si ness; in the theory of the relativity of human knowledge, mirroring for us the unending development or matter. The latest discoveries of natural science — radi ; electrones, trans- mutation of chemical cler are afforded a briliiatit confirmation of Marx' dialectical materfallsm as op- 1 to the teaching of ‘bourgeois philosophers; with their “new” retreats into old and decaying idealism. In deepening and developing philo- sophical materialism, Marx carried it through to its ultimate end, and extended his knowledge of nature to knowledge of human society. The historical materialism of Marx has provéd to be the greatest achiev- e pe of scientific thought. The chaos arbitrariness prevailed in the con d politics have been replaced by ‘ astonishingly consistent and well- constructed scientific 2 sbow- ing how the growth productive torces causes one system ot pom life to develop into another and higher system—how, for instancé, capitalism grows out of feudalism, | Just as the knowledge ot mankind / slander tt. 3 * — nate + mirrors the nature existing indepen- dently of it, that is, the evolving mat- ter, in the same way the social know- ledge of man (that. is the various views and teaching:of philosophy, re- ligion, politics, ete.) mirrors the eco- nomic basis. We see, for instance, that the various political forms of the present European states serve for firmer establishment of the rule of the bourgeoisie over the proletariat. Marx’ philosophy is perfected. phi- losophical materialism, placing power- ful tools of knowledge within the reach of ‘humanity, and especially ot the working class. mic structure is the basis upon which the political superstructure is erected, Marx devoted the gréater part of his attention to the study of this structur. Marx’ chief work: “Capital”, is devot- ed to the study of the present state of society, that is, of capitalist society. The classic political economic which arose before Marx’s day developed in England, the most highly devel 3 country. Adam Smith and vid Rieardo, in their investigations into the nature of the economic struct» ure; laid the foundation for the theory of value derived from labor. Marx continued the work begun ‘by these writers. He firmly establishéd and logically developed this, theory: He showed that the value of all com- modities is determined by the amount of socially hecessary labor time re- quired for their production. Where the bourgeoists economists saw relations between things (ex- change of xo goods). Marx discovered the ual re beings. D by the aid | „Money s. that this connection is becoming contin- ually o in A a binds the entire individual produ- whole ment of this association: human labor power Is converted into a commodity. ‘the » wage worker sells his labor power cry ene naa indivisible : signifies the further, develop- Having recognized that the Son- | nection between the indi- | cers, to the owner of the land: ee and means of production. The worker employs a part of his working day in covering the cost fo keeping himself and his family (wages), and for the rest of his working day the worker is working hours for nothing, producing for the capitalists that surplus,value which is the source of profit, the source of the wealth of the capitalist © Class. The Koe of surplus value As the corner stone of Marx's economic the- Viadimir Mayakovsky, the famous Russtan poet; will speak for the last time in Chicago on Tuesday, Oct: 20, at Schoenhofen Hall, Milwaukee Ave. and Ashland Blvd, at 8 p. m. If yon sae have not heard him this is ‘your last chance, a Altho the hall nolds over x pected. The enthusiastit erowd' that wildly cheered Mayakevsky at nie“ U Awe & DRG? ey thousand a bigger crowd ‘than’ even that is ex?’ * last lecture is expected to pack mis nae: 4110. Be ‘come’ “early! = SP ae MOSCOW, Oct. 13.—“Zaks” is the name of the special bureau in Mos- cow which attends to con- tracts and divorce papers, All the formality and red a blank at thie office, attach thelr signatures and to this le added the Soviet stamp. That is all there de riage contract Is definitely canecel-. led. The cost of divorce is pract- leally nothing. to the whole business, and the mar- — — — r WR 1
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— —— — — —— ae nr 4 ; UR party membership’ and those who sympathize with our program, at least in a general way, are now answering the question: shall we have a daily paper that will fear- lessly express our point of view and energetically defend our intérests? “We have no doubt that all of these workers will phatically in not doubt that every class conscious worker can be made to feel and real- wer this question em- ize the need of having A daily spokes- man for the American working class. But what we must strive to do is to make the workers not merely grasp the abstract need. for- the existence of) a newepaper like the DAILY WORK- ER. We must spare no effort to con- vince, these workers that it is their duty to insure the practical continu- ous. existence of the DAILY WORK- ER. | ä * E best way to approach the work- ers in an appeal of this sort is to resort to practical examples of in- stances where the bourgeois press at- tacks and tries to undermine workers’ movements and when the DAILY’ 1 > erm WORKER defends and tries to" strenthen these same movements of the working class. Concrete examples which will be most easily grasped by the workers should be chosen by us, if we wish to get the greatest results. Let us take, for example, the pres- ent anthracite strike. We can put it very simply and with straightforward- ness to the workers. Show the work- ers how the capitalist press is lining up with the .coal bosses, with the operators on every issue in the strike. Show the workers copies of bour- geois. papers in which the striking miners and their demands are at- tacked. At the same time GIVE AWA a copy or two of the DAILY WORKER in which the anthracite miners are defended, in which their ary breakin came Let us take the re- cent situation in the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. We can show that the only paper printed in the English language which con- sistently and sincerely fought against the vicious expulsion policy and stood up for a united labor organiza- tion, for a solid union, was the DAILY: WORKER. HE present situation in Panama where the American soldiery is serving in the role of strikebreakers affords another practical, living ap- proach to workers for getting some support for the daily. It certainly af- fords interesting and clinching argu- ment to compare the columns of the DAILY WORKER with the columns of every capitalist sheet in the country in the handling öt this critical situa- tion. In every so-called big paper, that is in every paper of 'the bosses, the poor tenants of Panama are being denounced as rioters and the soldiers bayoneting. the defenseless working men are hailed as heroes. Only in the DAILY WORKER will there be found a plea in behalf of the working men striking to reduce the rent bills tariat. American proletariat tox their miserable hovels. A rent appeal in reference to Pa ama workers is not distant from rent issue which is keenly felt by great masses of the American prole- e landlords in both in- stances are largely members of the same American capitalist class. There is much sympathy for -the “under-dog” in the ranks of the which we can exploit most: constructively for the working class and its institutions like the DAILY WORKER. E ravages of the fascisti in Italy gives mus an excellent point of ap- proach to many thousands of workers. There is considerable hatred. of the fascist murderers. by the American working masses. We can certainly . utilize this issue to disillusion the workers by showing them how the newspapers, ‘which always slander and _vilify them when they manifest the slightest resistance to the open-shop- pers, repeatedly indorse the bloody crimes of the Italian government gun- men and hooligans. Then, we should e affirmative. We do e ind way af eho ge reaction- ak l een ‘ 20 bring up the way in which the DAILY WORKER has treated the fascisti abroad and the open-shoppers at home. Strike the point quickly and bring it home to the workingman. Let us take a typical instance how to approach a poor farmer. Talk to him about the propaganda the capi- talist papers are now spreading ceaselessly in behalf of increased freight rates. Compare for him the way in which the DAILY WORKER and his bourgeois farm papers have been handling the railroad barons, the coal magnates, and the big bankers. TN short, every need and issue of the workingman affords us a start- ing point for appealing to him to sup- port the DAILY WORKER. The Pepa: 9 DAILY WORKER is not only the or- gan of the Workers (Communist) Party of America. The DAILY WORKER is the organ of the whole American working class. It is pre- cisely because the DAILY WORKER is the political organ of the Workers (Communist) Party that it is the or- gan of the whole working class. It is axiomatic for us that we Communists have no interests other than those of the working class as a class. Our members have not appealed. to a wide enuf mass of workers in behalf of our leading party organ, the DAILY WORKER. The support of the DAILY. WORKER has been too much a “family” affair, in a sense, too much restricted to a too narrow What we need now is to in- circle. crease this “family,” so to say. First of all, all our party members muet get into the campaign to save the DAILY WORKER. Secondly, our party mem- bers must approach a wider circle of workers in appealing for support for the DAILY WORKER. The DAILY WORKER is the most vital concern of every member of our party regardless of what language he speaks or reads. The DAILY WORKER must be made the con- cern of every workingman. Then only will our task have been achieved. Then only will the DAILY WORKER occupy the place in which it right- fully belongs in the ‘lives: 1 the American a masses. 8 efe |. . Uneivilized! , An ancient ape, once on a time, Disliked exceedingly to climb, And so he picked him out a tree And said, “Now, this belongs to me; I have a hunch that munks are * muttss And 1 can make them e ants: And bring the bulk of them to me By claiming title to this three.” He took a green leaf and a reed And wrote himself a title-deed, Proclaiming pompously and slow: “All monkeys by these presents . know—.” Next morning, when the monkeys came To gather nuts, he made his claim: All monkeys climbing on this tree. Must * their gathered nuts to The meats are mre, the shells are theirs. 1 a “Buy what ‘ight? amazed, Thinking ‘the ape was surely erazed. f By this,“ be answered; read | You'll find it is a title deed, they cried, & Cracking ‘the same on equal shares: i 1 “if you'll | And sworn before a fellow ape Exastly on the legal plan Used by that wondrous creature, man, In London, Tokio, New York, Glengarry, Kalamazoo and Cork, Uniess my deed is recognized, It proves you quite uncivilized.” “But,” said agree It was. not you whe made this tree.” “Nor,” said the ape, serene and bland, “Does any owner make his land, Yet all its hereditaments, Are his and figure in his rents.“ one monkey, “you'll The puzzled monkeys sat about; They could not make the question out. Plainly, by precedent and law, The ape’s procedure showed no Ww; And yet, no matter what he said, The stomach, still denied the head. en: “Monkeys are monkeys, men are men; The ape should try his legal capers On men, who may respect his pa- pers. WE dont know deeds. We do know Made in precise ‘and formal ‘shapet nuts, bp Spake one eprightly monkey | the e spite of ‘ifs’ and ‘ands’ and ‘buts’, if We know who gathers and unmeats "em, — By monkey practice, also eats em. “So TELL THE APE AND ALL HIS FLUNKEYS, No man-tricks can he play on monk- eys.“ Thus, apes still climb to get their Since monkey’s minds are crass and de, And monkeys, all 80 iH advised. Still eat their natsUNCIVILIZED.” ~—EDMUND VANCE COOKE. | (Published by special request of Waldo J. Wernicke, A Machinist, 365 Golden Gate Ave., San Francisco, Cal, —Editor’s Note. .) German Rail Heads Go West. WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—Bert M. Jewell, president of the railway em- ployers’ department of the American Federation of Labor, is escorting on a middle western tour the five German frail labor exécutives who visited the cohvention in Atlantic City. They will seé Cincinnati, Kansas City, Cedar Rapids, Chicago and Indianapolſs head- quarters of various unions. Take this copy of the DAILY WORKER with you to the shop tomorrow. Eee — — — 5 neee ad ©. ~ = — sn
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— — - . — + —U— 2 — "SCIENCES REVEALS | RESEARCHES OF EARLY SAVANTS MOSCOW, October 16.—From a canines publication prepared by the Russian Academy of Sciences for its 200th anniversray we take the follow- ine Gute shout ts , e to ward tdleaas a) the domain of mathematics, physics and chemistry. Founder of Mathematics. The first mathematicians of the Academy of Sciences, Leonard Biler, modern mathematics, and partly of} physics. The -international commission engaged in the publication of his 7 was one of the principal founders of \ works has already been working about 20 years, but has not yet pub- lished a half of his researches. The complete edition of his works will make about 50 volumes of 1,000 pages each. The work began by Eiler was con- tinued by Daniel Lomonosov, the son of a peasant fish- erman, whose prolific researches could be fully appreciated only after the lapse of a century or more. The French physicist Lavoisier used to be considered as the creator of modern chemistry; but the famous “Law of the Conservation of Matter” proved far more convincing than those of Lavoisier in demonstrating the aforesaid law. eee eee Impetus. chemistry were laid by the Russian peasant, Michael Lomonosov. From his works it may also be seen that he knew already the law of the con- servation of energy, subsequently dis- covered by Myer and Helmhols. Lomonosov’s works containea also an outline of the fundamentals of modern physical chemistry. The in- troduction of weights in chemistry, was done by Lomonosoy 20 years be- fore Lavoisier. The basic ideas of the modern me- chanical] theory of heat were express- ed by Lomonosov and it was only a centry after his death that they were developed. Electricity Experiments. The first experiments in electricity, then recently discovered by Franklin, were also made by Lemonosov, who discovered the effect of ascending and descending currents upon the develop- - ment of electricity in the atmosphere, pointing out, their importance in me- terology. He was first in appreciat- ing the importance of lightning-con- ductors and in expressing the idea of the aurora borealis being due to elec- trical force. He began a great work v. A. STEKLOV Vice-Pres, of the Academy of Science Bernulli. Mathe- | Viestnik, Workers’ | Branch of the Workers Party, Russian * bi bs . © _ General . of Science of the U. S. S. R. — on The Theory ot Blectricity treated in mathematical terms. Freezing of Gases. Lomonosov was first in observing 2 Sipe we rp ote Be be converted into a liquid state by cooling and increased pressure. It was also Lomonosov who estab- lished the geographical department, thus laying the foundation for the study of the country. Nearly the whole of the basic Russian scientific terminology was created by Lomono- SOV. : Celebration Sunday in Chicago for U.S.S.R. Academy of Science anniversary of the The 200th Socialist Soviet Republics will be celebrated on Sunday, Oct. 18, at 1 p. m., at Schoenhofen Hall, Milwaukee Ave. and Ashland Blvd. There will be speakers and a musical program. Admission 25 cents! ! The following Russian organizations will participate in the celebration: The Federation of Children’s Schools, Independent Peoples Society, Society for Technical Aid to U. S. S. R., Work- ers’ Mutual Aid Society, the Co-op- erative Society, Women’s Progressive Mutual Aid Society, White Russian Peoples Society, Worker Correspond- ents of Novy Mir, Chicago Russky} House, Russian | tific Branch of International Labor tense. De- the city for the entertal Board of Education Plans to Establish Provincial Theaters MOSCOW, Oct. 16-—According to the board of education investigation in Moscow there are 344 theatres, clubs and moving picture houses. in oyt and education of the workers, ; are enough of these institutions to pro- vide accomodations for 75,000 daily. The board intends to close some of the theaters and send them into the provinces and in the places left va- cant by the theatrical troupes, they are to establish moving picture houses. Acadpmy of Science of the Union of M.KARPINSKY President of the Academy of Science Education Budget of Soviet Growing, Says Lunacharsky Speech MOSCOW, Sept. 12.—(By Mail)— Lunacharsky, people’s commissary of education, addressing the Academy of Sciences recalled that moment when just in the beginning of the revolu- tion of Nov. 7, the academy being faithful to the spirit of the time de- K its readiness to work on scien- jointly with the Soviet government. | Lunatcharsky noted the public zeal lu the Union of Soviet Socialist Re- publics towards education and point- ed out that the reconstruction of the country requires energetic collabora- tion of science and the government. Refering to the careful attitude of authorities towards scientific men, an idea of creating the state planning committee where Russian non-partisan scientists are working hand in hand with representatives of the govern- ment. In conclusion, Lunatcharsky men- tioned that the budget of the com- missariat of education is rapidly growing and soon will surpass ex- ‘penses of other commissariats. If you want to thoroughly un- derstand Communism—study it. W ve Lunacharsky quoted, Lenin, who gave ~ countries, all stressing the fraternity of scientists of the world with the Russian peoples. Professor Betson of England said 90 felt proud of his membership in the academy. S. F. OLDENBURG — Secretary of the Academy of Science justly fulfilled their duty towards highest scientific institutions in country. ; oy unn _ — — ͥꝗꝓ-'o»i— re N
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© ci Cai Bee al a salen 6 ee 9 ees 5 * « 7 1 S07, n OR wer Pee * — J . n — . 2 22 . * r : 1 . 2 9 “Bs ’ N . 8 f 7 2 . ; * 7 : 5 ‘ nate : a 1 * a+ . * fog « 7 8 —_— — ‘ , 7 * , * ’ ~ eS a , 7 5 1 2 K N 5 a. : > a RFR. a 8 3 a * ö 1 7 = = * : 7 be — Pot 4 — 7 * 5 i 4 ¢ 1. 1 1 * a ; is, ee bl } + 5 * Ay * N „ 8 in Mae : e * a b = i. * 2 0 * ¥ i +» ae 0 . = ~. arr rn r and in all ng just now : } 1 . 20 * phe 2 4 i. . ö em in its | “And what the ö _appreciated ‘many bore already the ‘at aft is Set that . reconstrue-· Wer network of poldiggs’ ad wert. 18 te leader of the only victorious | 1 | ae eee d ‘wen social-de-| and actual revolution in the world.” “ 8 mocrats who” liquidated these coun- ‘They Enjoy Listening. sunburnt, plished revolution, who inflicted on it | r light i a defeat worse than the defeat of the 2 | . Paris Does such an bis- 8 very coarse caricature of the social- 4 democrats in the Rote Fahne? And the famous collaboration in Saxony? It did not come to an end : somehow, but because the social democrats sent Just at the moment’ | armed forces from Berlin to Dresden. “There are many, secrets in the Comintern and in life in general. The question is, what is to be considered a a secret. 8 2 N Proud of Our Aim. : f ea be ice be | ease listen. We cam maintain that} a 7 proached dif up till now our cause has been a 25 thotful.. ; So ouch: the he is a Saxon. What a pity it was an : | : 1 : 0 NN ernment did not alize in Sax i 1 3 2 and yet it did not] — — * come ; 8 7 i cor , : nibs oe ee And the guests went on talking. Every member of the Workers Party, every lover and supporter of the 1 t such boundless 1 | How ex 1 ‘first workers’ republic, Soviet Rusia, has been appealed to to join in the They Meet Zinoviev. talk between the big drive for the defense of the Sovlet Union and to arouse the American 1 TTC rege Mh ge Banka) pn . eee one ten ee sow oom 5 ry the matter to the end. They open- Jof inte a — has ah * R ed the last door, they sat down atjity? A leaflet, “DEFEND THE WORKERS’ AND PEASANTS’ GOVERN- } is 8 nee a MENT OF RUSSIA” will do that. This leaflet must be distributed, a million . myst . at least. So far we have received orders for 255,500. That is not enough. = fact manner the great sécrets of the Less than ieee tas not do. “Mone” ) Orange 3 | Has your branch ordered their quota? Have you, reader of the DAILY |] 1 2 | WORKER, ordered your supply? Let us cover every shop and factory and to listen. Only one such meeting others places where the working class is employed with the distribution of was worth the long journey which this leaflet. Send your order to the National Office, Workers Party, 1113 W. the German delegates had made Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Price in lots of 10,000 or more, $1.50. in RE were secrets and such | lets less than that, $2.00 per thousand. Order at once. Cash with orders. 7 » secrets. They were worth hearing Re ee e eee , the C tern never made a 7 USE THIS ORDER BLANK — ye of por gg was only 2288 Workers Party, National Office, Date 3 | of taking out thé } woo w 1113 W. Wach! Bivd., | ae been plugged 22 4 ears by Chicago, In. en 0 S press and of listeningg ~_~ | . : to the serious, bitter and joyous truth | . please find — ($3.00 per thousand) for whieh send : : of the historical progress of the pro-. . leaflets, “DEFEND THE WORKERS’ GOVERNMENT VIET | ot weg es RUSSIA” to the foll name eres, ¢ | out of ‘place in] “you want to know if we recognise} 9 roi e i There are other |the mistakes of the German Com- . | 5 a tor ¢ e me Name Addr n l . recognize our own mistakes. | } Tonn. of Ham- shortcomings and mistakes past and city 25 8 State ö i pe // but eB. 7 . The following orders have been received up to this date: gh 4 22 a New York Hy. 100,000, Pittsburgh, Pa. 20,000 en by the} — prt e. 15,0001 Albany, N. v., English... 1.000 r Oakland, Cale .. Jg DRIIOWE, Pa lone e 100 ¢ tad cad-| ciahe. cad | West Frankfort, III. 112,000 | Cleveland, Ohio.... 20,000 in the class} “Now, | [Phitadelphia, Pa.. .. 30,000} Diamondville, WYO. . 1,000 struggle. -de: y | Waukegan, III. 2,000 oR Mass 1,000 : Tacoma, Wasn. . . 1,000] Washington, D. G0. , 1,000 - German Communists Bite. Milwaukee, Wis, :scsccccsssecscosssss $,000| Detroit, Mich. . . 50,000 NN complained of the German ‘ , Los Angeles, Cal. „„ rr 3,000 — Communists. He said they are jr- quite ordinary Verona, N. J. . . 3,000 i Total ..... 225,500 *
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AP BI Prete PS — — — e Le * 7% | By L. LAYFULINA. NOTE—This episode is taken from real life. In 1919, in Orenburg the wife of the Commissary of Justice Bursiatzev, who was shot was also sentenced to death although she was a non-party woman. The only charge against her was: wife of the commissary of jus- tice. Her husband’s parents petitioned | for merey, pointing out that she was pregnant and that by sentencing her to death, a death sentence was also passed on an unborn human being. decision rested with the head of the army administration, General Du- his decision in connection with petition was: Sentence to be car. out after the birth of the child. L E old . face bore an ex- pression eloquent either of hatred or of love. The wind was merciless _in its force driving blinding dust into “her eyes, and, as if mockingly played havoc with her new black Sunday skirt and with the ends of her shawl. She remained standing at the cor- nex. her eyes fixed on a long building ed by two sentry boxes and their d cable sentries. The street lay twéen» her and the house. But the old woman was not concerned with the traffic of this street. People walked, drove, laughed, hurried, *talk- ed or were silent—she saw them as in a mist. YOUNG red-cheeked man in offi- cer’s uniform passed her. He looked at the old woman, his lips twitched as if in annoyance, he looked round and then approached her. The old woman was startled, and turned her inflamed eyes from the house to- wards him. He asked awkwardly: “You are the mother of Commissar Br” ges old woman made a movement as tho roused from sleep. A smile of abject painful supplication dis- torted her Her eyes were like those of a dog begging a favor. She made one low obeisance after the other. a yes, sir. . his mother. Iam his mother. ME officer avoided meeting the old | - woman’s eyes. It seems as if he could not meet her gaze. He recalled how three days ago this old woman and her husband had been to see him. She had thrown herself at his feet, and had wanted to kiss his officer’s | boot. And the old man had stood with | his head bent and said imploringfy over and over again: “The only son sir, our as son, we are christians. We did every- and even weit without food to be able to do so.” * the same words over and over “We did everything we could for The officer thought then: ten eevee rifices than about his son.” promised. to do the best for their son watching General Dutov’s tor? And then it struck him what This brought the following ; before his mind’s eye: These tian” people had put on their best clothes, not to offend the eye “of the the court, to the generals and colonels in their homes, to the Zemstvo (coun- try estate, the party ttees, in fact every where where admittance could be gained. They humilated themselves, they supplicated for their son. This last and fruitless humilia- tion filled the cup of their life long humiliations, the officer had a sudden choking sensation in his throat. 1 officer shook his head. He was brought up in an intellectual fam- ily: had heard much about humane- ness. This whole affair stirred hinr deeply and he was worried. “Why is she outside General Dutov’s house?” The old woman told him her- self, she said: “My son has left a wife, and she is too to be shot. . they told me and my old man, Only think, sir, she is not yet nineteen .. . 1 she is but nineteen. It is not her fault that he was a commissary. Just think of it—only 19 years old.“ officer did not know what ke * ay. palate Pens at try to submit te it: she is the wife of your son, not your.daughter.” “For Christ’s sake, sir, do some- thing for her. I have never seen her. Mishenka married her in town . It is not so much for her that I am asking mercy, but for the child. | born She is pregnant. She is soon to give birth to a child. Do not shoot her, - her live for her child. UT you see. Laws must be observed. . .” “Think of it sir, she is only 19. I have been told that she is non-party. She is with child, sir. + Misha’s child. . She shed no tears, but her supplicant voice was like a sob.. 98 * STATISTICAL BACKGROUND OF THE AGRARIAN QUESTION IN THE U. S. (Continued from page 1 Number of farmers’ automobiles, 110 600. , Approximate number of farmers in each category of our classification would be (in round numbers): Workers 260,000 Poor fALPMeTS .....c0..00-00 41,000 Middle farmers ............ 94,000 _ Well-to-do farmers ......103,000 2 Total : 498,000 a 6} e E foregoing figures, which are in- ‘deed only rough approximations of the social and economic stratification ef the agrarian producers, are yet of great value as the approach to a Totals by Divisions In thowsande--000 omitted.) 2. N. Pe x A poor Middle Well to-do ALAS af Nes USIC ? Division Number Workers Farmers Farmers Ferme New England . 258 99 35 57 65 Middle Atlantic 660 235 70 104 2511 E. No. Central 1634 550 176 382. 586 W. No. Central 1700 590 130 369 . : So. Atlantic 2200 7 1020 625 280 275" . E. So. Central . 1812 755 507 260 290 Wa So. Central . 1808 810 508 225 265 OLGA s OLGA SAMAROFI Mountain 428 180 29 108 111 Pacific 498 260 41 94 103 Total 10,996 4,499 2,121 1,879 2,497 11 more Set extimate to be obtained when more information is awailäble. At the same time they give a pic- ture, which for general purposes of estimating the fundamental forces in agriculture and their direction of de- velopment, is entirely sound as a cussgd in another Artiele. For the ticle, we may sum up with a recapi- whole. and Classifications. a . HEAM was a dull expression gn ine 4 Tan man's taco and be repeated | to be worrying more about his sac- The officer’ was counsel for the de- tense at the courtmartial, He had} just to get rid of them. He wast well-}' aware that they shoot without trial. “The sentence has already been car-] "© ried out,” and yet the old woman is}r two old people were Len thetr * 8 clothes. b high and mighty, they had gone to Mishenka was in his 25th year, and | “It is dreadfyl but what can you do, | working basis. Some of the more important aspects of this will, be dis, purposes ol this second ar- ‘ulation of the figures by divisions, which give approximately the same numerical relations between the class- ification as that obtained in the first article dealing with agriculture as a re fei J # EE * N sf ees nel | » different; it ‘seemed as lived and suffered 70 she was carrying, and -ortured her: to lie down and be com- fortable. Yesterday, she was beside gerself, she had cried and sébbed. let her live for the sake of her child, the general had written: Sentence the general had said: “like father, like son, but we are cultured people, and can allow the child to live.” something which did not cakes oem A child whose 8 ei ea ether wich Datov's father had had a stroke. an is still alive, but last, after all this wants the child, why should it live? What does it all matter? She had no tender teelings, nor pity for the un- born child. General Dutov wished to preserve its life, but she not be ‘there. She will be shot, but what of it? Her only thought was to lie down somewhere comfortably. If she co a Suddenly she remembered à sentence in the letter which Michael had writ: tten just before he died. pains me that you are still, a mere girl with no experience of lite. which gives courage. You have not re found your place in the world, and I have brought about your ruin. Win you find consolation in the thought that we are right .. .” Just now her mind is vacant, ruin seems ; They had given her General Dutov's decision. In answer to her petition to not know this, . but 2 3 only sleep, but sleep would not come. — SE — N ‘ : 8 * 4 * 333 ‘ rr “ 3 4 = — a = a 5 eee - 8 ss Q . « N E . 4 ais . . 2 sok - . = ete N 2 4 tty 4 — d a *. 2 © bbe a4 4 +e 22 e 3 5 * — ’ 4 2 n 928 . She could only feel the heavy burden] to be * ‘ All of a ia i a Poe? Pee eee BS agony and fierce : * AMNATIONW damnation But „nom was ne cursing? She Probably — she 5 5 | ER, 1113 W. Washington hop 307 — Court ere State and Dearborn Just South of Jackson) S CHICAS - i i i te De De De SD te 25th ANNIV ERSARY CELEBRATION — 1 the SINGING SECTION of Pranen-Kiashendéter= Me " stuetzungs-Verein Fortschritt“ 8 1 8 18, 1925, at 4 0 clock sharp at Northside Turner Hall, 820 N. 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