Daily Worker
October 31, 1925
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hina st Cat Se os BB To = tions of a wild animal to be perse- cuted, hunted, tortured and burned. at} the pleasure of white individuals or Ly Ha, 1 N * — Hf s ous 1 . 1. 10 . * * . 65 2 A Published Daily except PUBIASHING CO., 11138 W egy, 3 eee Ok } the ku klux Klan | class character of the irnmen which brings into being and pro such organizations as the klan cal upon the workers of all pont id tions to unite in a stru: | | Klan. . In the measures taken during = past two or three years against the migration, proposed laws to print immigrants—the American gro Labor Congress sees the out of the klan ideas with | workers who are not n class which the American government resolution adopted by the congress follows in full: , Ku Klux Klan, | “The ku klux klan declares its: purpose to preserve white supremacy’ meaning to keep the Negro perma- nently out of ‘his rights of equal. ci- tizenship and degraded to the condi- mobs not content with the legal foreign-born worker—restrictive um- r is interested in keeping down. The means of suppressing the Page un- N i Ichin, for “violating the unton con- Shefir that Duane Swift produce the article- in the American Federation of Labor or bank clerks’ constitution which he violated all Duane Swift could do was read an article in the Federation News attacking Shafir. When an article exposing the col- lusion of the bank heads and a num- ber of hirelings who were in the move to drive Shafir out of the union was printed, Mariempietri told Shaflr, that if he “acted right” he could stay until January 1. Shafir instead of re- maining quiet and allowing his ex- pulsion from the union to quietly pass by, published a statement telling of the conspiracy to get rid of him from the union and the bank. A few days later, a meeting of the bank’s board of directors was held, where the question of Shafir’s ex- Pulsion from the union was discussed ud his discharge from the bank de- cided on. Wednesday. fifteen minutes before quitting time at the bank Mariem- piétri called Shafir to one side and Sam Levine, one of the heads of the bank, head of the Chicago joint board of the Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers, and general executive board member of the union, discharged Shafir after a well-memorized piete tof slap-stick oratory, beginning with, „there comes a time in the life of humans when they must part — (and then after his five-and-ten oratorical demeanor and voice played out)— you're. services are no longer re- quired.” He refused to give Shafir any rea- son for the discharge. The friend of the workers is the enemy of the bosses! (NOW 18 THE TIME The series of articles on the A. F. of L. by Wm. F. Dunne, now appearing in The DAILY WORKER, keenly analyzing and ex- plaining in detail all the policies of the leading body of American labor,— ——_ — Are the kind to bring to your trade union. if you can’t order a bundle (and you should!) now is the time to urge the bro- ther or sister in your lo- cal union to SUBSCRIBE! key om r ped peg Negro but also against other working people who happen to.t been born in other countries and t here to do the hardest labor ot — industries of this country ad also against religious liberty. 1 the authority of the government ih many places; it is semi-officially rec- ognized in some states and has com- plete control of other state govern- ments. Not only does the federal goy- {ernment fail or refuse to act against’) the band of bigotry and crime, but the influence of the ideas of the klan can be seen in refusal of congress to legislation recommended to congress, including the proposals which seek to force all foreign-born working peo- ple to carry passports and be regis- tered with the police and to be segre- gated in special residence districts as the Negroes are segregated. Thére- fore, United With All Workers, “BE IT RESOLVED by the Ameri- can Negro Labor Congress that we declare the ku klux klan an enemy to humanity, and that we will fight it to the bitter end, and will make common cause with forgign-born work. ers and others who Fal d E. dy it.“ In a resolution attacking Ws clusion of the Negro from the jury in trials where Negroes are tried, was decried as an attempt to prejudice thé Nero and to sentence him long before he is really tried. The congress in the following resolution makes some of its demands that a belief in “white supremacy” be made a bar to anyone wk.» is to be impanelled on a jury: Juries. % is a general custom of 55800 and criminal courts to accord to every white defendant a jury composed of white persons, but at the same time to exclude Negroes from juries to try Negro defendants in important cases. This custom is based on the theory that the white man alone proves the presence of race prejudice in evéry such trial; therefore, be it “Resolved, By the American Negro Labor Congress that as long ag the principle of white supremacy exists a Negro cannot get a fair trial before a white jury or a mixed jury; and we demand that a belief in ‘white supremacy’ shall be a legal bar to anyone serving on a jury to try a Negro; be it further “Resolved, that no Negro owes any respect or obedierice to the de- cisions of any court in which he is discriminated against.” The American Negro Labor Con- gress scores the attempts of those in power to strangle the working class thru the curbing of free speech, press “This criminal organization werte 5 LIVES enforce the fourteenth and fiftéehth}- amendments; and can also be seen in |; R R31, 1925 = — 1 Vot Worried. About the Natives in Damascus (Spectal to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, October 29.—The United States government has ledged against the action of General Sarrail, who notified French inhabitants to leave Damascus but failed to notify American\and British oil magnates and church “mission- aries,” for unnecessarily jeopardizing American. lives during the bombing of Damascus in which thousands of Arabs were killed. To Be Used Against Druse Two American destroyers that were sent to Alexandria to be used against the Druse tribesmen in case they should have taken Damascus, are now held in readiness to aid the American magnates who were jeopardized by a protest the French General Sarrail. The American position was laid be- fore the Paris government by Ambas- sadér Hendrick, who was instructed to inform the French foreign office that this government expects France to safeguard the lives of the Amer- icans in Syria while she carries on operations against the Druse tribes- men, 4 © * Fighting Still Continue. LONDON, Oct. 29.— The death list in the bombardment of Damascus re- mains undetermined and guerilla (Continued on page 4.) for the exportation of timber. Italian shipbuildees. — Feld NINERS 10 STRIKE MONDAY FOR 9 PER CENT RAISE (Special to The Daily Worker) BRUSSELS, Belgium, Oct. 29— The Belgian coal miners threaten | a general strike next Monday if the government does not grant by that time the demand it has so far re- fused—a wage raise of only five per cent to cover the far greater in- crease in the cost of living. The government gives the same excuse that is given by all mine operators in all -countries—foreign competition. it proposes to buy 50,000 tons a mont’: of Belgium coal for the staté railways as a relief measure, as heretofore the railways have been using reparations coal produced by the German miners en- slaved under the Dawes plan. 21 Die in Wreck. MEMPHIS. Tenn; Oct. 29— The death toll in the wreck of the Sunny- land, Frisco flier, near Victoria, Miss. today reached 21, with the death in a hospital here of Frank Anderson, 19, of Hollywood, Tennessee. Fifty- four persons injured in the wreck were still in Memphis hospitals today but all are expected to recover. (Continued on page 32). * ae al — CHARGE 3350, 000,0 STOLEN FROM COTTON GROWERS OF THE SOUTH WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.—In the face of criticism and threats of a con- gressional investigation of the methods of the crop reporting board in estimating the cotton crop, officials of the department of agriculture today remained silent, refusing to comment on the charge made by Senator T. H. Caraway, democrat, of Arkansas, that the last cotton report “cost southern cotton planters $350,000,000.” The board caused a sensation by predicting a cotton crop this year of 15,226,000 bales, which knocked the bottom out of the cottan market for the second time within the month. While declining to be quoted members of the board ee consider able resentment at the. charge made by Caraway that their report “had en abled speculators to, clean up in the market.” a ] Charles ALAN LEADERS ON TRIAL FOR GIRL'S DEATH Testimony Reveals the Real Klan NOBLESVILLE, ind., Oct. 29—De- scribing it as the “foulest murder that stains the history of our state” E. Cox opened the trial against D. C. Stephenson, Earl Klinck and Earl Gentry, alleged slayers of Miss Madge Oberholtzer, with an im passioned plea in circuit court here to- day in which he outlined the case th prosecution expects to prove agains the trio. Cox, retained by the Oberholtzer family to aid the prosecution, spok: for more than an hour, told the jury that the state expects to prove the murder charges against the three (Continued on page 4) Panamian Students i in Organization Move to Fight Imperialism In the midst of the news of the slow and temporary retirement of Ameri can military forees from Panama comes word that the Panama students have taken the first step toward an international Latin-American student's federation to fight American imper- ialism. According to information made public in this country by th All-America Anti-Imperialist. League, the students’ congress called by the Panama Students“ Federation wil! meet in the City of Panama, June 22, 1926. Students’ organizations hruout Latin-Amerfen and in th Philippine islands have been invited to send delegat’~ {WHO SET FIRE GIVEN FOREIGN SHIPBUILDERS LENINGRAD? Oct, 29.—The Hrst two steamships to be built under ine Soviet regime were launched here. Leonid Krassin, commissioner of foreign trade, spoke at the launching ceremony. These two steamers are to be used it was announced that orders for two steamers for the Soviet's Far Eastern trade will be placed soon with German and | Do TO TRUCKLOAD OF PARCELS? Bosses Seek for Strict Injunction? A truck load of parcel post strip- ments, that were being carted from the International Tailoring com- pany, 847 Jackson Bivd., to the post- office, were destroyed by fire under most peculiar circumstances. What Did the Driver Do? According to the story told by the police and the company heads, a truck as it passed 727 W. Van Buren street, ‘was stopped by a number of gunmen, | Basoline poured over the parcels and | then a& match applied. The gunmen then sped away and the driver un- | hitched the horses from the burning wagon. The company officials blame the: burning onto the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ members, who are new on their eighteenth week of their Strike. Where Were the Police? The most peculiar thing about the wirning is that this company always vas police accompany all its scabs ind Shipments out of the shop. This time the driver went alone. Another Frame-up. The strike leaders claim that this vas empt to blame the union for crimes which company hirelings comm. The international Tailoring company has an dipjanction against the strikers, but under the new Illinois law, pick- eting. is permissable as long as it is carried on peaceably. The company lawyers are trying to get a more strin- gent injunction against the which will prohibit the union from Having effective picket lines in front of the shop by proving that violence is being used. The company has hired men to mash windows, according to affida- vits at Mr. Cunnea's office, and the bombing of Ray Reeder’s home, the throwing of the “acid” bomb, which later turned out to be a bottle of ci- rate of magnesia, a laxative, and The ict of violence committed now are un loubtedly done by hirelngs who will most likely be used by the company n its attempt to get an injunction rohibiting picket lines around its Hant and WIII be used as an excuse o frame a number Of active union} vil.” Streetcars are operating with jleaders and strikers each car bearing infnatrymen, A P a iN iG MELON D ES LOR ret cts ery ream apn . Rae: oad ken ag ‘| the. leadership of the deposed min Andor lender and bas among ufs sup ad nothing more than another àt- union, Rapid Fall of Franc Spells Doom (Special to The Dally Worker> PARIS, France, Oct. 28-—-Premiter Painieve has succeeded in forming his new cabinet today, The * marked change from the one whie | was dissolved Tuesday is the absenes of the former finance minister, Joe eph Caillaux. Aristide Briand is to remaln mim ister of foreign affairs in the reom ganized Painleve cabinet. Painleve will take the portfolio of finanée minister, instead of the ministry af war, while that post will go to Del» dier, A new portfolio has been ereated-—~ minister of the budget. This will be filled by Georges Bohnet and will re- move some of the burdens of the finance ministry from the shoulders of the premier. g Temporary Makeshife ~ Close observers contend that the | new cabinet is merely a temporary makeshift. Painleve is to go before the chamber of deputies today; but witbout a definite program. Then the cabinet will. adjourn until Monday to give the political leaders time to de- vise a financial me as a substi- tute of the ventures of Cail- laux, Meanwhile the decline of the franc continues. The new financial program will pro- bably be adopted in the cabinet but when it reaches the chamber it will probably. go down in defeat before the bloc that has already been organ- ized and is girding for battle under ister, Caillaux, who is an effective porters some of the most powerfu! hi that body. Briand Next Premier The present political muddle and the rapid fall of the franc has placed the stamp of death upon the second Painleve cabinet before it is really organized.- Aristide Briand, whose poliey is swinging far more toward Britain than ever before will be the next premier.. He is striving to pre- vent France falling under the dead weight. of a Dawes plan and realizes full well, possibly better than any other bourgeois politician of France, the growing antagonism in every part of the world between Britain and America. His diplomacy will be dir- ected toward utilizing that antagon- ism to get the support of England to resist the impending disaster that will ultimately place France in the same semi-colonial position fm rela- tion to American banking capital as is Germany today. R 6 ¢ Washington Optimistic WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.—Forma- tion of a new French cabinet by Premier Painleve, without Joseph Caillaux, is not expected to materially affect the debt negotiations between France and the United States, it was said by treasury officials today, The new eabinet is expected, it was said, to appreciate the advan- tages of settling the debt, and to real- ize that without such settlement French credit and exchange will con- tinue to be embarassed thruout the world. 113 Communists in French Prisons for Anti-War Activity PARIS—(FP)—The agitation of the French Communists against the im- perialist war in Morocc@ has brought severe reprisals from the government. 113 members of the Communist party have been sentenced to 68 years im- prisonment and fines amounting to 38,400 francs so far. | | MARTIAL LAW DECREED IN CHILE THOUGH ALL IS OFFICIALLY QUIET BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 29-—Re- ports reaching here from Santiago, Chile, where the military dictator- ship rules with censor over all dis- patches, indicate that the genera! strike has had the effect, ,at least, of scaring the officer clique. The ‘dictators have declared martial law over the three provinces of Santia- go, Valparaiso and Aconcagua, aitho protesting that “everything is tran- —
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by iti es ae os 1 r Ed pare eg Drei gor aston a — ere > * ates “vhs ie — - es 2 i eee 88 ws » gti Patt. 353 ‘nit . N 2 38 19 a4 N My og We , * 1 1 * — 14 bt * „ . . = ; a. * — N . * * 8 * N * 5 * “a ~ 9 11190 * . pt K 4 s 4 * 1 a 1 1 . ~ ee . er v3 ° 25 i 4 1 ‘ t* 4 1 * 3 7 10 a N ‘ r ö e eee eee, 4 ¢ + GAINST DAWES By LEN DE CAUX. BEPRLIN—(FP)— That German la- bor is not submitting to coolie condi- tions without a protest is indicated by a survey of the labor field. There is no dramatie mass protest to compare with the united front achieved by Bri- tish labor, no national strikes or threats of strikes, but if we examine the situation industry by industry we find an increasing volume of local and sectional unrest. In Berlin the whole transportation system may be tied up if the wage demands of the transport workers are not granted, and the gas, water and electricity workers are threatening action if their demand for a 2%c an hour raise is not granted. In the mining industry in lower 81 lesia the employers have given notice to 31,000 miners, in an attempt to sabotage the arbitration award of a 7 per cent raise in wages. The min- ers of the Ruhr, who were refused a raise 80 as not to interfere with chan- vention of the lignite miners of cen- ceellor Luther’s attempts to lower pri- ces, have renewed their demand for a 16 per cent raise. The recent con- tral Germany registered a threat to take action against an award which legalizes the 12-hour day. Disputes in other industries include the lockout of 30,000 glass workers in Brandenburg and Silesia, a lockout of 10,000 building workers threatened in Westphalia, and a lockout of metal workers in Hohenlimburg. Serious dis- content is felt among the longshore- men who have been compelled to sub- mit to the 54-hour week; and on the railroads the union is renewing its wage demands as the advertised re- duction in living costs has not taken place. Unemployment in Germany is on the increase. The number of register- ed unemployed in receipt of relief is now 261,000. Hungarian Legation Astonished at U. S. Protest on Rakosi WASHINGTON — (FP) — Protests from American liberals and from Americans of Hungarian birth or descent, against the threatened whole- sale execution or imprisonment of alleged plotters against the Horthy dictatorship in Hungary, have made an impression on Budapest. This is indicated by the anxious attitude of legation officials who refuse to discuss the situation. They appear astonish- ed that the arrest and reported tor- ture of prominent radicals and social- ists in Hungary should become known in the United States and should lead to public discussion. : — — — — - — — — Vegro Labor Hits Ku Klar Klan (Continued from page one) and assamblage, and in the following resolution condemns these acts as a tyrannous infringement on the rights of the working people: Free Speech, Press and Assemblage. “The constitution guarantees the \freedom of speech, press and as- semblage, but in recent years certain reactionary. groups which succeeded in winning political power in various sections of the nation, have robbed the poorer class of people of the above mentional rights. Therefore be it “Resolved, That the American Ne- gro Labor Congress condemns such acts, whether legislative or otherwise, as a tyrannous infringement on the rights of the working people.” Following the adoption of the reso- lution on free speech, press and as- semblage, the congress adopted the following resolution condemning the actions of the United States war and navy departments for the segregation of Negro soldiers and sailors and de- nies the right of any power to con script members of the race for mili- tary service as long as those mem- bers of the race are denied social equality: 7 Army and Navy. “Be It Resolved, That this congress demands that the war department and navy department of the United States government abolish all Jim Crow dis- tinctions in the army and navy; and be it further aah “Resolved, That we demand that congress pass a law forbidding the army and navy to make or keep any record whatsoever making any dis- tinction of Negro and white in the military, air and naval forces in time of peace or war or in any way to segregate the races in these services, and be it further “Resolved, That we deny the right of any nation to conscript any Negro while such nation holds our race and class in subjection and inequality.” Brother C. W. Fulp, a delegate from the United Mine Workers, Local 2012, was chairman of the evening session and after a few introductory words introduced Lovett Fort-Whiteman, na- tional organizer of the American Ne- gro Labor Congress. Lovett Fort-Whiteman read the fol- lowing answer to the telegram sent by the American Negro Labor Con- gress to Dr. Ossian H. Sweet, who is to be tried the latter part of the month with 10 co-defendents for the murder of a hoodlum killed in an at- tack on the Sweet home in Detroit: “We, Dr. O. H. Swet and ten co- defendants thank you for your sym- patby and support. With such people we cannot fail to fight to establish the right of any American citizen to buy and live in homes commensurate with their means and aspiration.” Another telegram was read from the striking’ Polish miners of Shamokin, Pa., who expressed their solidarity with the purpose of the Américan Ne- gro Labor Congress and to unite with the workers of all races to fight against the common foe. “The capitalist white and Negro — Dance and Enjoy Yourself at Any or All of These DAILY WORKER RESCUE PARTIES n Friday, Oct. 30— Rescue Party In Pittsburgh Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller St. Workers League. Auspices Party and Young Workers Saturday, Oct. 31— Rescue Party | Saturday, Oct. 31— Rescue Party | | Saturday, Oct. 31— Rescue Party Monday, Nov. 2— Rescue Party HIKE Sunday, Nov. 8— | Saturday, Nov. 14— Rescue Party || Sunday, Nov. 15— | Rescue Party | Friday, Nov. 20— Rescue Party —— Wednesday, Nov. 25— Rescue Party soc. Sunday, Jan. 16— In New York Hungarian Workers’ Home, 350 East 81st St., New York. Admission 50c. Yorkville Branches. West Side Workers’ Hall, 301 West 29th St., New York. Admission 35c. West Side Branches. : Educational Alliance, 76 Throop Avenue, Brooklyn. Admission 50c. Auspices Jew- ish Williamsburg Branch. Finnish Workers’ Hall, 764—40th Street, Brooklyn. Admission 50c. Auspices South | Brooklyn Branches. | Jamaica Woods—Daily Worker Builders’ Club Hike. 108 East 14th St., New York, at 10 a. m. or at end of Elevated, Fulton Ave., Ja- maica, 11 a. m. Bronx Workers’ Hall, 1347 Boston Road. Bronx. Branches, Finnish Workers’ Home, 15 West 126th St., New York. Admission 50c. Auspices Harlem Branches. Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th St., New Town New York Branches. Royal Palace Hall, 16 Manhattan Ave. (near Broadway) Auspices Williamsburg Branches. DAILY WORKER ANNIVERSARY BAN.- | QUET, Manhattan Lyceum. (ALL 8 P. M. UNLESS NOTED) | For tickets or information regarding any of the above affairs apply to Li E. Katterfeld, 108 East 14th Street (Tel. Stuyvesant 8100.) Auspices Auspices | J } Meet at Daily Worker office, Admission 50c. Auspices Bronx Admission 50c. Auspices Down Brooklyn. Admission branch this Saturday evening, — press said that the purpose of this congress was to promote race pre- judice,” declared Lovett Fort-White- man, after he had read the telegrams, in denouncing the attacks of the press on the congress. Here each night we ing together in a common cause. Workers who are fighting for a com- mon cause regardless of clime, color or nationality.” With a few introductory words he introduced the speaker of the evening, George Wells Parker. “Tt was five or six weeks ago that I learned of the American Negro Con- gress. When I read the article by William Green, president of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, ‘warning the Negro to stay away from this con- gress because he said it was directly connected with the Soviets of Russia, the moment I read the article I be- came interested in the congress,” said Parker. “There was a time when they said freedom was bad for the Negro. They also said education was bad for the Negro. They said association with whites was bad for the Negro, No mat- ter what the Negro wants, what he desires, it is a bad thing for the Negro. So when Mr. Green said this congress was a bad thing for the Negro I became interested.” Parker then began to show the re- lation of the Negro to the ku klux klan. In decrying the attempts of many Negro workers to ignore the klan issue, he said: “The klan is not dying. The klan is going ahead by leaps and bounds. I receive at my desk fifteen different klan papers. They are organizing chapters in every hamlet and town. They have set 1935 as the year when they shall take government. “The members of the klan who wear the nightshirts are the dumb-heads. They are pawns in the game. The men who are ruling the klan, the higher-ups, they are brilliant, they are wise, they are adopting measures to rule the world. The only thing they fear is Communism. “The future for the Negro in Amer- ica is dark. The stars of hope in your sky are gradualy being blotted out one dy one. The order has gone into the steel mills to hire the Negro last. The klan is behind this.” Parker then read a part of the ku klux klan ritual which follows, in which the klan shows that its pur- pose is the spreading of the idea of race inferiority in attempting to keep the white worker and the black worker divided: The social chasm between whites and blacks.is greater now than it has ever been and it must still be made greater by teaching the inferiority of all races excepting the white. We they are inferior and destroy all facts that might prove otherwise, but we must suit our actions to these teachings so that they will forever believe in their inferiority.’ “When I read to you another part of the klan ritual it will be an ex- planation to you why Mr. :Green is afraid of this congress. “When the workers of the world clasp their hands, I care not if they are of the red sands of Syria or of the Riff country of Morocco, if they say let us form an international work- ers’ ‘organization and let us work it out together, if the workers of the world believe that, then Negroes that is your salvation. That is what Mr. Green and the klan fear.” He then read another part of the ritual which follows, showing the aim of the klan was the division of those who opposed them in order to crush each group much easier: A world coalition of malcontents could cope with us temporarily, but (Continued on page A.) Goodrich, Back from Soviet Russia, Makes Visit to White House Former Gov. Goodrich of Indiana, Republican, back from his fourth trip to Russia since 1917, told Coolidge that Russia today is showing every sign of economic recovery. He did not directly advise Coolidge to re- cognize the soviet union, but he said that if an American ambassador were located in Moscow his presence would be of great benefit to American trade and to peace and a better un- derstahding between the two nations. ; = Company Insurance a Menace to Unionism: Ties Worker to Boss WASHINGTON— (FP) — Company insurance of employes, says the Union Co-operative Insurance Co, started un- der the Electrical Workers other international unions tends to take the place of wage increases, ties the worker to one employer because he forfeits his insurance when he changes jobs and it swells the com- pany’s till becguse the cost of labor turnover is reduced. — — A Correction NEW YORK, Oct. 29.— The address of the Rescue Party that is being ar- ranged by the Jewish Williamsburg Zist for the benefit of The DAILY WORKER and the Freiheit was er- roneously given as 56 Manhattan Ave, in recent issues of The DAILY | WORKER. Please note: The correct address is Educational Alliance Hall, 76 Throop Ave., Brooklyn. 1 * 1 see workers, black and white, meet- must not only constantly teach that th 1 SAN cision of the U. S. supreme court which sends Anita Whitney to San Quentin has caused a furore in the district wheré she has years been known and loved. People who vaguely approved of the California criminal syndicalism law ag “a good restraint on those I. W. W. s“ are now shocked and distressed by, its workings. It is possible that her mar r to a woman in frail,heglth, past middle age, and unaccustomed to hardship, it will be no less—-may, prove the final blow to this law. Will Not Ask Pardon „J will make no effort to secure a pardon from Gov. Richardson,“ says Miss Whitney. “I have done nothing to be pardoned’ for. He has had a long time to pardon the others, the poor men ut influence, who are in San Quentin of the same charges that I am fo ilty of. rel those men from prison, and t @oncern himself only with a wo- o hag the thousands of influ- enti@l, friends that I have.“ the Anita Whitney re- plies to the state and nationwide movement to secure her pardon. Rich- ardson refuses to -discuss the case with a delegation from the American Civil Liberties union and has made no telegrams from sources as diverse as the W. C. T. U., the T. W. C. A., Negro Progressive club of Oakland, and Up- ton Sinclair. Bes ‘ Destined for San Quentin Miss Whitney’s only hope of free- dom lies in a new ap} to the su- preme @ourt for a new hearing. Pres. Coolidge, even if he could be ap- proached, has no power of pardon in the ostensible reason för the convic- tion was her mem in the de- funct Communist & party, she would not have bee had she not, while under t, insisted on making a speech before a club on the Negro question. Her arrest occurred as leaving the hall. Colneidently with cident), a new protest strike has brok- en out among the criminal syndical- Uman and Joe Varella, syndicalism prisoners, be- criminal cause they were physically unable to speed up to the new tasks demanded in the prison jute mill. The men claim also that they are not recetving even the meager prison ‘ on, and that prison rules are being violated daily. It is to the overcrowded women’s department of this prison that Anita Whitney is to be sent for from one to fourteen years for telling the truth as she saw it. 1 * 0 I. L. D. Warns That Whitney Case Shows Attack on All Labor CHICAGO— (FP) — The U. S. su- preme court decision refusing to in- tervene in the jailing of Anita Whit- ney under the California criminal syn- dicalism act, indicates a tendency to outlaw all associations of workers, warns the International Labor De- fense. “At present the enemies of la- bor are devoting their main attention to the radical wing of the movement,” the national office in Chicago of the defense body stated, but they mean to destroy every organization of the workers that interferes with their rule“ Chec!--r Taxis Strike Ag in Boston, Mass. BOSTON—(FP)—Checker Co. taxi drivers are again striking for the union shop. After a recent strike 15 union drivers were discharged with- out hearings and some old men taken off the 9-hour shift which pays $4 and put on the T7-hour shift which pays $3 per day. Oct. | Ford Profit 87.6 Per Cent on Canadian Co. 1 87.6% on a stock issue of $7,000,000 327 an increase of $2,423,140 over the previous year. CHICAGO MEMBERS, ATTENTION! Notice to all international Labor Defense membegs and supporters. Demonstration meeting against Horthy terror—-Saturday, 1:30 p. m., Oct. 31, at 1480 W. Washington St., Hall 200. Every |. I. D. member must come, must add to the demand for the freedom of Rakosi and his | brother workers’ in Hungary. Let him reply to the hundreds of letters and the court’s decision (tho purely by ac- 1 — eta A 7 4 ea 15 yee r * Ne N NN 7 ee er i a N . d bse 139 i Ht oe SNe ee gh * v 1 ft 7 * > ~ 23 | . 11. . « ‘ * *. * 0 ‘ - P * f 4 i ar Prisoner ö : „ a F By J. Louis ENGDAHL. * ; 4 ö — _ while openly chains must grow in volume and determination. | * . ODAY, an echo of the refusal of the recent American Federation of Labor convention, to to the defense of the class war prisoners, is heard in resolutions adopted by the San Francisco Labor Council on the fiendish one to fourteen Whitney. To be sure, the San. Fr year prison sentence against Charlotte Anita 0 entral labor body, rudgingly consented to join in a pardon for Miss en hig rom Governor Richar for pardons are practically confessions that the law was right in winning its conviction, and Mi: hitney’s alleged crime was making a five years in conflict with Califor- eech, nia’s vicious 3 syndicalism haw. ait But at the same moment that t advanced its pardon plea, the Frisco A. F. of L. officialdom expressed its si- tion to the release of seventy me vibers of the Industrial Workers of the World, now caged in capitalism’s hell hole at San Quentin, held guilty of the same offense charged against Miss Whitney. It is certain that Miss Whitney, - staunch fighter in the cause of the labor, did not lend her- self to this double-crossing of imprisoned workers. Yet it is typical of labor leadership of San Francisco. | „„ h „ The luke-warmness with which some of these labor of- ficials rallied to the support of Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings, while others actually “undermined the fight to * save these heroic labor fighters from the threatening gal- lows, accounts for the fact that these class war prisoners are still behind bars. * * * * Just as the 1 aign of “guilty,” charged against these labor heads, U create an environment in the employers’ courts, that made it easy for a hireling judge to sentence Mooney and Billings to prison for life, so San Francisco’s Labor Council now openly proclaims that the master class had a right to sentence Miss Whitney, frail and past middle age, to prison for a long term, because it holds the l. W. W. members justly imprisoned. The best reply to this cowardly outfit is contained in courageous words by Miss Whitney herself as follows: . 3 . ris 2 b pe “1 will make no effort to seoure a pardon from Governor Richardson. 3 six weeks het 18 actually et have done nothing to be pardoned for. He has had a long time to ordered to San 5 ‘Although : on the others, the workers without influence, who are in San Quen- tin on the same charges that | am found gullty of. Let him release those ‘men from prison, and not concern himself only with a woman who has the thousands of influental friends that I have.” ! 2 2 „ Miss Whitney's own words are a challenge to the whole left wing of American labor. The American Federation of Labor regime, now in the hands of the Greens, the Duncans, the Wolls and the Tobins, may desert Sacco and Vanzetti, 3 = are in in the ba 92 2 a Massachusetts court next month; may turn their backs on Mooney and Billings, Ford and Suhr, Sohmi McNamara * tray 18. 1. V. r em zut that onl fight SY bors wamtioe ter eir b N means that When California labor permitted its most valiant fight- ers to go to prison, in the days before the war, it paved the way for the passage of the present oppressive criminal syn- dicalism law during the after-the-war labor-baiting hysteria. There is no doubt that the labor bureaucracy was glad to see the fighters of the l. W. W. imprisoned. ſt made it easier for them to act their comfortable role of class collaborators. The logical development of this treason now results in the prison gates opening to receive Anita Whitney. Right here California labor must make its stand:. Against the impris- onment of Anita Whitney, for the release of the members of the Industrial Workers of the World, for the repeal of the criminal syndicalist law, for the liberation of all other class war prisoners now held in the exploiters’ dun ons, including the two military prisoners, Paul Crouch’ and Walter Trum- bull. In this battle they can arouse the workers of the nation for new struggles for all America’s labor victi ing class struggle. ictims of the grow- 8 * 18 in to J. it CAPITAL TRYING “TO CET FARMERS Alliance Attempted with A new attempt to organize an alli- ance between anti-labor and conservative farm organizations auspices of the Natl. Founders’ Aggn., whose president Wm. H. Barr, made war upon the molders and other metal trades unfons for many years past. was in financial difficulties, which the American Federation of Labor charged This proposed conference nounced by Henry Harrison Lewis, former editor of American Industries, an openshop propaganda magazine MONTREAL—(#P)—A net profit of | which died in 1924. He is now styled e director of Better Under- ae | wan tent ie the ‘Mora Motor Co. of | Standing Between Industry and Agri- | Canada during l ows. ending July | culture.” His list of members of the 31, 1928. Net profits totalled 36,132, advisory council for this Better Under- standing includes national and state 4 Officers of the Grange, Bureau federation and minor state groups of reactionary farmers. Con- spicuous officers of the enterprise are O. A. Dyer, legislative agent, Ohio Farm Bureau federation and Ohio State Grange; W. J. Thompson, for- mer chairman national executive com- mittee of the Grange, and Sherman tional Grange. the DAILY WORKER and give lunch) to anise American Legion Is After You Already ce FOR OPEN SHOP tional emergency, is proposed in Rural Region employers December. seen in the plans for a conference New York, Nov. 18-19, under the the 0 * he legion says Recently Barr’s own company his anti-labor policy. is an- of the emergency.” ; Minimum Wage Law | Holds No Terrors the Farm perienced women workers Lowell, former master of the na- Wrap your lunch in a copy of (the DALLY WORKER, not the } a 7 for the Next War WASHINGTON — (p) — Universal draft of the man- power and material resources and industrial organizations of the United States. in time of na- bill which the American legion, thru its; national legislative committee, an- nounces it will offer in congress in “The bill gives to the president the authority to take the necessary ‘steps to stabilize prices of commodities,” a “It will dtaft into the service of the United States all persons between the age of 21 and 30 or such other limits as may be flxéd, without exception on account of in- dustrial occupation, and will proclaim the material resources and industrial. organizations of the country under government control during the period for Calif. Bosses SAN FRANCISCO—(FP)—The su- preme court decision in the Arizona minimum wage case imperils the Cali- fornia minimum ‘wage for women, of longér standing than in any other state. It is possible that the Califor- nia minimum of $16 a week for ex- may be maintained, since it is by constitution- al amendment, and the wage is fixed by the industrial welfare commission, not directly by the state as in Arizona, California employers favor the law as they contend that if invalidated the result would be intensive unioniza- tion of women workers. They believe the present law holds this in check, * a F ° , “ Ps tt . 1 ‘ ' 1 8 — Cale ’ F 1 5 3 ö 7 . | N 2 A Se . nf Ts * N. a, i 7 ‘ { . n'y . J * * q 7 1 3 x 4 * : e i es ~ 78 es 1 „ 0 ion i a? * „„ : (By Worker Correspondent) Central Labor Council the officials passed around a sort of “scab” catalog in the form of a year book, supposed to have been published by the working | class of Pittsburgh. When the regular order of business, consisting of noth- ing buat petty gosstpinz, had ended, Vice-President Miller called for “Good and Welfare” discussion and report. A delegate from the Miners’ Union named Hughes got up and inquired Who got the ad for the year book from the Pennsylvanian Steel Co., the scab company responsible lately for the death of Fannie Selins. And the vice-president’s answer was a lot of raving about it not being his fault because Beaty, a former spy, went around to gét the ads and forced everybody to give him an ad regardless of whether it was a scab or union firm. 85 Delegate after delegate got up to — 7 show that all those firms that adver- tised in the “labor” year book were hostile to organize labor. Bspecially one delegate must be mentioned. That is Gordon of the bakery workers, This young fellow pointed out that the year book has a kick coming from both sides, Not only has it to be criticized for its ads, but for its composition in general. : “What do you find here,” he asked, “except articles by four labor of- ficlala? Where does it tell you how the workers of Pittsburgh live, how many were killed in the past year, how much profit the master class piled up?” | He made a fine speech, but, the only result of it all was that a motion was adopted that hereafter all ads collect- ed be referred to the executive com- mittee. MASS MEETING (oy Werner Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct. 29.— Join an industrial union and beat Ford and the General Motors Co. at their own game! This is the slogan that Local 14 of the United Auto, Aircraft and Vehicle Union of America has raised in Phila- delphia for their mass meeting Mon- day night, Nov. 5, at their hall, 1534 Ridge Ave. Thousands of leaflets have been distributed in the auto factories factories calling on workers to join Local 14, which is an industrial union open to all auto workers. The leaflets point out that the only way for the auto workers to meet the miserable conditions that are being forced onto them in the shops is for them to join this union and oppose the bosses with a united front of all crafts. Special protest is to be made against wage cuts and speed-up devices. The meeting will be held at the union headquarters of Local 14, where business sessions take place the first and last Thursdays of every month. Rail Telegraphers on Strike for Increase Against U. S. Board WASHINGTON—(FP)—Reports re ceived by rail labor officials in. Wash- ington from division points along the Atlantic Coast Line indicate that the strike of the 1,200 members of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers on that road, begun Oct. 19, is effective. From Richmond to the tip of Florida traffic has been crippled. The issue is a demand made by the men last February for an increase in wages of 7 cents an hour, together with a two weeks’ annual vacation with pay. The U. S. rail labor board rejected both demands, and then tried to avert the strike by an inquiry into possible adjustment of wage inequalities. This inquiry has how been abandoned. The Atlantigs Coast Lime is advertising for agents, telegraph operators and signal tower- men to take “permanent positions.” Now Pickets Must Warn Anybody But Prospective Buyers WASHINGTON — (FP) — Police judge McMahon hag reversed police judge Schuldt, who in September held Dorothy Ferguson guilty of vio- lation of the police regulations when she picketed a downtown clothing store a8 unfair to organized labor. Henceforth, pickets will assume that the passers-by whom they warn were not intending to make purchases. Me- Mahon held that picketing is still law- ful, under the Clayton act, as claimed by the lawyers employed in this case by the American Federation of Labor. * individual * 7 AUTO WORKERS’ ? 1 4 1 4 ” IN PHILADELPHIA? Local 14 Issues Call for 83
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7 ‘ * 0 ” : . * „ vom 4 7 N 1 3 af 5 . 1 1 * 1 ARON og ay dye ae fiat rae . . 1 ela? - 1 0 ' * K 5 * — hae 4. Big! Ff + * se : y 1 shoddy shop. RECALL Spencer Miller at the He had not thie picture the vast increase in savings by workingmen in the past ten years which amount to over ten 7 TWO ARTICLES—PART I. T'HERE is no need for revolution 2 ' ara „ THE DAILY WORKER i 05 al * eee, oe an 7 F |Something Different A. F. of L. and the Class Struggle 2yWilliamF. Denne is the Line of Labor | * . 3 0 — > 1 : „ : Banks->.Think It Over | TI f 3 tHe third of a series of articles on the proceedings | of e A. F. of L. convention, which deal with “The Portland convention. 2 PARIS—(FP)—The latest in labor } + „ America, no need for the as yet lost all of his honesty and was A. F. and International Relations,” “The A. F. of L. and a asks cane — 4 — anf aes n th the Workers and Peasants ' class war, no need for the class | what might be described as a demi- the Unorganized Workers,” “The A. F. of L. and the Class e se 1 fact of bank founded in Paris by the French struggle. Here every citizen is a | virgin. But from the status of one Struggle,” “The A. F. of L. and the Left Wing,” “The A. F. Communist party. It has a capital importance. sovereign and every sovereign a | who was flirting with the libertines the first imp of L. and Militarism,” etc. This is the first installment of And, if we begin to examine the | of 8,000,000 francs (1 franc, 5c.) and is citizen. 0 8 Names Confuse (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Oct. 29.—So_notori- ‘Tammany has as one of its lead- ing candidates on the Walker demo- cratic ticket in the municipal elec- tions, an individual unfortunate enuf to be known as Major General Chas. W. Berry. Many people who have heard of the notorious George L. have senfused the two. This confusion.en- dangered whatever chances the Tam- manyite might have had, so he hastens to disassociate himself from the great (?) labor leader. I’m Not the Man Major General Berry wants it known that he is in no way connect- ed with or related to Major Berry. The following letter explaining this fact has been sent to every labor or- ganization and every unit of organ- ized labor in Greater New York. This particular one was received by the chapel (shop) chairman of one of the publishing houses in New York: October 20, 1928. Dear Mr. President:— - Frequently during the campaign my name has become confused with that of Major George L. Berry, whom you know much better than myseit. Healizing that it is not fair to the major for me to profit by his national reputation | am tak- ing this means of informing you that our families are no way con- nected and that Major Berry and myself are not related In any way. My own record speaks for itself and my sympathetic. attitude to- ward organized labor is well known of the democratic party. “X7TO need for the class war.” “No need for the class struggle.” “Every citizen is a sovereign.” Uttered by a small the first two, be- cause they would believe them, and DUN for Gary because : they are part of the stock in trade of one wild plays the role of captain of industry and leading propagandist for the ruling class. In such mouths they arouse only aversion. 151 TTERED by William Green, presi- dent of the American Federation of Labor and ex-secretary;treasurer of the United Mine Workers of America, whose members have been NE 111 shot down by the gunmen of coal com- panies and the armed forces of the bosses’ state in a thousand bloody strikes, they become a treasonable protocol which the masses of workers —organized and unorganized—must repudiate and prepare to fight or ac- cept and hold out their wrists for the very real shackles of which Green’s statements are the verbal expression. SS collaboration was the key- note of the Atlantic City conven- tion as it has been of all recent A. F. of L. conventions. But at Atlantic City class collaboration, like the in- ternational policy of the A. F. ‘of L., took definite form. The yellow thread of a united front with the bosses to increase produc- tion in return for preferential treat- ment for privileged groups of, the working class, runs thru all of the proceedings at Atlantic City. In some instances the increased reward for la- of the A. F. of L. bureacracy, he has What part the class struggle plays in the education dished up to the union man and woman of America by the W. E. B. can be judged best by cull- ing a few blossoms from the intellec- port this conelusion and these quot- ations are entirely germane to the subject of the attitude of the A. F. of L. toward the class struggle. Miller, Jr. continues; trolled and openly anti-working class public schools? Only that given a dash of labor coloring it is all the more insidi- ous and subversive of every spark CLASS COLLABORATION IN ACTION i aca b ~ 500,000 in a little over two years, we ONLY UNDER RULE that nowhere except where the toil- STILL STRIKING Labor Builds Unions of these are held by wage earners, which means that of the total amount of 83 billions of dollars of insurance for more than 60 billions, that two-thirds are held by workers. ownership which today in this country represents many hundreds of millions of dollars. BSERVERS in attendance at Atlantic City report that as the above juicy figures rolled from the lips of Spencer Miller, Jr. in an ¢@cs- tatic stream, a joyous moan, similar to that heard during the period of the religious orgasm at a methodist camp meeting, arose from the convention, while the labor officials present, with drooling mouths, followed the words of the speaker. They had a vision of entering the combination of the cave of Monte Cristo and King Solomon's mines which he pictured and which the magic key of class collaboration would open, HAT this is held by Spencer F. of L. policy, to be the key to the solution of the problem of the rela- tionship of capital and labor which has remained unsolved by weaker in- tellects, is shown with convincing completeness by his quotation from a recent work on the subject by Prof. Carver. Said the intellectual leader of the A. F. of L. in speaking of the ad- vances of labor banking, labor insur- ance schemes, the B. & O. plan, etc. Indeed, so significant is this whole economic change that it has been properly characterized as an econ- omic revolution by students of our economic life. Professor Carver in WAR, BUT TO CONQUER THE difficulties at all. Miller, Jr., avatar of official A. | 1 (William Green, during the course | descended to the level of a common “The A. FE. of L. and the Class Struggle.” distribution of life woe a poli- 2 we e „ — N N f d (He ies we discover according to one forsa . 8 nt he an ng t· 0 vi 1 Issues tateme as 3 F J 51 N 3 4 15 a There je aéilitional evidence to sup- workers’ children in the capitalist con-| authority that more than two-thirds ] Workers and Peasants bank,” says Humanite, official Communist daily, “will render useful service in aiding labor organizations, cooperatives, labor temples etc. to bring about the Communist regime which will put an ous has become the strikebreaking, There js a second observation | of militancy in the minds of its | As a noted economist has pointed com to capitalist disorder and anar- .-seabherding record of Major George | town banker a pro- tual bouquet with which Spencer Mil- nich | belfeve will interest you be- victims. out, this amount is greater than the 1 word bank“ says Maresl L. Berry, president of the Internation- | prietor of a corner ler, Jr., presented the Atlantic City | cause it means much for the peace NE of the best ways of determin- estimated wealth of our country in e Weston 1 » al Pressmen and Assistants’ Union of | grocery or by Elb- convention. 0 of the world, it is the growing spir- ing the combination of eel- and 1890. Taken with the increases in : evokes the idea of super-exploitation, „North America, that even the most ert H. Gary, the The unctuous Mr. Miller, it appear- it of reconelilation between the peo- | leech-like characteristics possessed | building and loan associations, and l vc nals er and the degraded political machine on earth, above sentiments ed, had been lecturing abroad during ples of Eu 9 — desire to come to- | by and actuating the purveyors of you are facing an economic fact of a e * capitalivt e of the Tammany Hall, objects to even the would be manifest- the summer at the schools established | gether, and live ahd work together | spurious education to the workers is | an importance equalied perhaps on- e ple grin to them thoroughiy taint of Berryism. ly appropriate—for under the auspices of the Amsterdam for a better future. The historic | the liplicking manner, accompanied | ly by the vast diffusion in stock 7 © , justifies this evil reputation.” He bases his plea for support of the new labor bank on an exposition of the stranglehold over enterprise which the control of credit gives to the cap- italists. JUST ENOUGH TO BUY PAPER FOR FRIDAY! Lowest Mark Reached in Campaign Scarcely enough to buy print paper for one day, but nevertheless repre senting faithful effort on the part of those militants contributing, Thurs day’s remittances to save The DAILY WORKER totalled only $176.60. This is about the least amount received in a single day since the dange: signal went out. The following comrades and Work- ers Party branches donated, many of ä Lettish Br., W. P., Chicago, III. . 22.00 SF. ‚ ⁰‚⁰=ů̈ Kelowna” bo doctrine of class collaboration. The I do not want to do the enthusiastic | wounds “of one and prevent new face an economic fact of importance. | CIRCUMSTANCES THAT we Rose Kuntz, Bronx, N. V. 10:00 knows the members of his own organ- term “class struggle” is sufficient to Mr. Spencer Miller, Jr., an injustice, | miseries for the workers from another When we realize in the thirty odd | RISE TO CLASS WARFARE.” | city Central Committee, W. P., iaztion have many times repudiated bring a velvety white froth to the de- but would we be far wrong if we con-| imperialist war. labor banks in America there are (Emphasis Mine—W. F. D.) o 5.00 3} Maier Na Nr and that licately chiseled lips ot Spencer Mil- eluded from the above that he was] In what way does the education of- capital resources of over 8150, 000, T° destroy the circumstances that E. Karsten, Long Island, N. Y... 1.00 no Meise “trade e ee ler, Jr., who sole function is similar | in Hurope as a propagandist for the fered. the workers by an institution | 000 we face an economic fact of the give rise to class warfare without East Side Eng., W. P., Cleve- | vote fob him that the Tammany dan to that of a well-dressed -manikin | Dawes’ plan? guided by this type of mind ditter | first significance. waging a class war impresses we land, O. 6.00 Se Pt catamaran Rares Shay | placed in the show window of a I think not. from the péisonous brew given to When, in addition, we include in | feebler spirits as a task that most I. Adis, Newark, N. J.. ~ 5.00 ing that may prevail. ; a ad Ae * * of us would approach with some fear gg: » English Br., One must be rotten j educational purposes ste y increas- . ° and trembling. But to the giant in- ey kland, Cal 14.00 even Tammany derne. M SCIENCE BLOOMS ed and the day is not far distant when REPORT SEAMEN Arbitration Proven tellects of the A. F. of L. Workers’ Finnish Br., W. P., Belleville, 25 him. And it should not be forgotten a increased resources of the country Failure, New Zealand Education Bureau its presents no JP» 20.00 that the major himself is a member will enable us to prove to the world Ukrainian Br., W. P., Newark, And why? reer 5.00 ers have been completely emancipat- Because, stripped of all the balder- | @nglish Br., W. P., Seattle, L bo D 8 ed is it possible to develop such WELLINGTON, New zealand — dash of the middle class pseudo- 1 17.80 a r f e egations widespread educational activity for (FP)—Throughout New Zealand there | economists who cluster around the J. Katchinar, Wateroliet, N. V.. 2.00 Visit Soviets to the benefit of the masses of the is discontent among the wage work- pay-windows of the A. F. of L. unions, | Alexander Spence, Cleveland, See for Themselv . — 8 f gon oie mer te ata ee * 1g the class struggle is to be liquidated | Ohio eee 5.00 2 ne of the educational grants of the : 5 ue to bad conditions of employ- 8 7 es Science Progresses Un soviet government is hp Aker. Meeting ' with ‘ Owners ment and low wages. The minimum 4 1 gfe pid yaa * „ „„ BERLIN—(FP)—The stream of der Soviet P ower increase for the Academy of Sciences, Ends In Failure wage, just increased by 2 cents per Previously reported 15,948.08 labor delegations from European — xT: which makes the estimates for 1926 . . hour, now is $19.86, $20.24, and $21.12 S Lenin said of Kautsky and his 4 countries, whose workers want to see . ee nearly double 1925. The wage and By W. FRANCIS AHERN. for a 44, 46, and 48-hour week. une: f Total to date f $16,124.68 kor themselves how Russia fares, LENIN GRAD— (FF) — The : prole-| publishing funds are more than SYDNEY, Australia (Fr) There Recently the New Zealand Alliance “We” recognize the class War, a === =60°°ees ws continues unabated. Delegations from tariat in power, as an organized class, | doubled. The academy has 7 research | js no change in the strike of British of Labor demanded a higher basic| it is recognized by the liberals: that 3 Norway and Austria is the natural friend of science and institutes, 4 biological laboratories, 4|seamen in Australian ports. A con- ee 25 the eee euere — eue the overthrow of the 7 are at present in Russia and a Fin- ” ‘ bureau of eugenics, 6 large museums | ¢ b appoin a commission, contending ourgeoise. technical progress,” said Soviet educa- erence between the shipowners and : * nish trade union delegation is ready clam ri ee Sn 222222224 ing the strikers. 3 . 5 — In most cases the ' —— — men have been lodged in the homes B os h I . li We HERE ARE FUNDS TO BUY PAPER N .. — of unionists, while the remainder are British Imperialism N FOR OUR DAILY — 2 { os A 4 — quartered in union halls. Australian Mobilizes Its Press i — f ‘ 5 1.5 5 unionists have subscribed large relief 3 1 Name: . Whi England very well - informe ess ther a reader will want this 1 5 , eee wuss 9 : Address: - is England’s supremacy > ä r . owners of influential tory newspapers 75 N n By Leon Trotsky book. Order it now, Aims to Break Speed Record in Britain and the dominions are now fi F 2 N be war between Eng- With a special “Preface for CALCUTTA, Oct. 29.—Commander jin Australia to attend the empire 1 f f he U. 8. A.? America” de Pinedo, Italian aviator who having | Press conference at Melbourne. No- 1 ö land and the 1 n ’ aby flown from Rome to Tokio is now | minally a conference to improve news- n eee e 12 mo, 192 pp 31.78 striving to break the speed record be- [Fathering, the empire press confer- M 13 WWASHINCTON rn CHICAGO, DL * rr Rome, hopped off tween Tokio an trom here ‘nin eee ence is in reality an imperialist propa- | ganda stunt 2. ; * pan . = 7 1 * * * — n * * — —— —— — * . se to all. 1 ee Hee a“ the — — * * r- is 1 N n discussion of 3 8 se 4 third 1 : 4 forgotten completely the 5 ; ary, Ind., Shop Nucieus e ay i. hey 1 3 3. gp scramble to be more loyal to. mee No Need for Class Struggle in America,”——William Green, president of the A. F. of .. “The only economic revolution | A. Siperstein, Chicago, III 1.00 > coming election will be greatly ap- can capitalist institutions—the wage "oe 1 | now under way is going on in the |W. W. Denton, Ann Harbor, an preciated, . 1 system included than the capitalists International. He was enthusiastic | ecision . Was taken yester- | by an abnormal flow of saliva, with United States. It is a revolution Mich. . 4.00 4. Very truly yours, themanives, lover the reception accorded him and day fapreeentatives.of England, which they invariably enumerate the that e to wipe out the distinction | English Br., W. P., Los Angeles, * Charles W. Berry, OWHERE, not even in the fever- the work of the schools. He had, it France and Germany at Locarno on | various methods by which the savings | between laborers and capitalists by Cal. 3.95 , brates Major General. ieh 100 per cent ‘patriotic speech- een from his report, chosen An | the pate Wanye entrance in- | of the wage-earnérs can be sequest-| “#king laborers their own capital- 0s. Kessler, Suyuamish, Mich... 1.50 0 Although Charles W. does not _}es ot Green and Woll, is this tendency | Can history an institutions,” and “the | to the léagué of hations marks, | be- rated and auriferous chunks corraled tete and by compelling most cap- John Lee, West Duluth, Minn. 1.00 . t N arles W. does not open more evident than in the den of. ideals and achievements of the Amerl-! lieve, a e chapter European re- by the fraternity of the itching palm, italists to become laborers of one FE. M. T., Chicago, III 1.00 98 attics "cua tend “tabvoes Spencer Miller, Jr., representing the can labor movement” as his subjects ) lations u pe by the home in which the liberal intelligentsia with kind or another, because not many W. B. Landell, Springfield, O. 2.00 thé lines and recognize the fact that Workers’ Education Bureau. ‘The PEAKING of these schools he governments. a statistical bent and the thick-necked of them will be able to live on re J. Kettula, Finlayson, Minn. 2.00 : he wants it made plain that he is Workers’ Education Bureau is the said: Accornne,: then, to this bell- labor officialdom are full-fledged mem-| turns from capital alone. This Re Steve Vukas, Jeannette, Pa.. 3.00 é not the man with a “national reputa- child of the A, F. of L. bureaucracy. The schools, in a word then, are wether of the thirsty flock of | bers. ae new in the history of the ges. Gravitt, Bloomville, Wis..... 7.00 1 tion.“ It received official recognition at El] the symbols of a tolerance in both trade unionists which he is leading to Spencer Miller, Jr. qualifies in all world. Russian Br. 2, W. P., Detroit, If the reputation of George L. were Paso and since that time 42 national | our domestic and International re- | the Pierian spring, it is the represent-| respects; we quote again: —_| This higher strategy of American Mich. 10.00 such ‘that it would attract votes and international unions have affiliat-| lations, about which PRESIDENT | atives of capitalists governments and When it is reported that the Fed- labor based on the solid ground of | Russian Br. 3, W. P., Detroit, among the trade unidnists, the Tam- on ween l EN COOLIOGE SPOKE YESTERDAY | the robber Jeague of nations that will eration Bank of New York has in- — ownership represents the de- Mich. 12.00 many candidate would remain dis. It specializes in broad educatlon“ IN OMAHA WITH SUCH POWER | bring peace, to Europe. The Locarno e . a“ oie 2828 of labor in this coun- A. E. Johnson, Warren, Pa......... 2.00 cretely silent hoping he would profit ary vi 5 ee in debauchmg AND GONVICTION.— (Emphasis, | pact, not world trade union unity as its capital resources to $12, | try. “NOT TO WAGE A CLASS Anthony Korbel, Endicott, N. V. 2.00 by his name being confused with e organized labor movement with aj Mine—W. F. D.) proposed by Purcell, will heal the — — Sees ee LAGI C2 ORL E LE i ee eb — „ —
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— wy! i — ee ee eee — ed 32 — — * erty Oe 2 N 2. n & oie 8 n weak = pe net ee ·˙˙²[ꝛ — pve — — . Ü ns are See en pe eee —— — * 8 n N 2 pes tal ot 2 — —— 1 Sa eee — — — be SR ea He iret — — FIVE BIG MASS MEETINGS Under the Auspices of the 1. Workers in the kers’ Council of Amalgamated Food Following Halls: LABOR TEMPLE, 243 East 84th Street, Manhattan SCHWABEN HALL, Corner Aves., Brooklyn of Myrtle and Knickerbocker WONDRAK’S HALL, 3468 Third Ave., btw. 167th and 168th Streets, Bronx, N. V. SCHMIDT'S HALL, 693 Ninth Ave., Astoria, Long Island * BURKE’S HALL, 98 Bowers Street, Jersey City, N. J. Good Speakers in All Meetings will explain the latest development effects upon the bakery workers. s in the baking industry and their Every bakery worker must come to these meetings and hear about the sinister designs of the BREAD TRUST BARONS against the bakery workers. Come and demonstrate and fight against any further reduc- tion of your wages or lengthening of your working day. Demonstrate and fight for a living wage and the justice and fair treatment. 9 9 t Don't d These Meetings!“ ä Organize 3 with You! ADMISSION FRE. Mes © strict 8-hour workday. Fight for Bring Neil Fellow Shop Committees! 5 ALL WELCOME. Workers
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hi ine ie 8 : N By LELAND OLDS, (Federated Prese Service.) What signs of the storms which will mark the crisis of the present | so age of exploitation and presage its nr gel One is the gradual assembl- of tribute-gathering machinery in — guise of debt collection. This will mean a greater concentration of the country’s spending power in the hans sistence subject to the — im! nah T NEED YOUR-AVICE,” ELLS DEBS i. By ababer VALENTINE. 0 the socialist party is ¢ dead as a door nail (1 guess that's why) it made the reactionaries here feel very spookey. — 9 on October 16 Gene ‘Debs and Jim Maurer ne at a mass meeting in that the coal strike is on, hardly any mention 7 75 if gyre 7 ~ W 15 8 1 1 * 3 1 1 MAURER AND The Debs meeting in itself ig not interesting as the reaction to it. pli before the meeting was held the “Paul Reveres of the American con- stitution,” as they called themselves, were preparing for a counter-demon- ‘stration. The mayor 2 Barre sa im the soclalists a — ment,“ and how close they’ were ed with the Communists, © weit! At W 5 den 3 — 88 4 : A Gert (Tonorabie” . — the port of goods from the debtor coun-. tries. This injects into the domestic markets of the creditor country f eign competition. Moreover, the ex- tensive loaning of American funds to other nations for the purpose of eco- nomie readjustment and the stimula ped in. tion of production means increased. debt payment and readjustment is clear. This hardship will fall chiefly upon the wage earner in loss of employ- ment and pressure to accept reduced standards. The bank does not show this, but describes debt payment as a process in which the foreign 1 ments deprive their peoples of pur- chasing power by taxation and trans- fer it to the U. S. government which passes it on to its people either by re-| N ducing taxes or by — 150 „ debt. This process going. on, but 1 pro- posals for redu taxes aim largely at sparing the incomes of the rich while the bulk of — on the in- ternal debt go to the same investing class.. Instead of chasing power of the 3 ple, enabling them to buy the Nea products poured in to pay the debts and still to provide a market tor | American products, this procéss only increases the investing power of the upper class. the uncertainties ofa new world war; with the di Pal lied to end the tribute, this will end in a small imperial clique riding on a tribute-paying world ‘proletariat. But before that is completely realized decay will have eaten away the roots of the system. Import Mexican Labor to Scab on the Negro (Special to The Daily Worker) CLARKSDALBE, Miss.—(FP)—With the advent of 2,000 Mexicans to under bid the Negro for employment on plantations the Clarksdale. chamber of commerce has formed a protective association to prevent labor agents from other sections from taking their help by the hein of higher wages. : ar we 7 ray & x 7 who mo inatinetivel? f creasing the, pur- in every tin can he — Harold Lord — 5 I. W. W., now of the American Consti- tutiofial 6. This was @ “fine. dunch, but would not be oémplete without “Reno” en 90 we ehip- 1 . * UR “Reno” rare a 1 At all f kinds of “isms” and said that the ’| Debs meeting was not 1 dy the United Mine Workers of America. (But the meeting went on just the game, with a thousand people pres- ent, despite of the fact that “Reno” urged the miners to attend the coun- ter demonstration.) The counter meet- ing had only about two hundred pres- ent. Listen to this wise crack of “Reno's.” He says: “At a time when the miners are struggling for better wages, James H. Maurer had no Ss Watres. here. son. Our due to the mounts the entrance in me back to the „Reds“: ot a child etc.” is anxious who cowar Raids” saw in Debs’ menace to the community. ness coming to Scranton to talk about the coal problem,” and with e high tone he “advised” Debs and Maurer that the officials can handle the situ- jation themselves. chairman was Congressman After taking a rap at the socialists and Communists, he intro- duced Joseph P. Kamp, representative of the Constitutional Educational League, This bird threw so much bull that all the cows are widows around. Clark saw in Debs a dangerous ber growth and prosperity are protection afforded us by the law and the constitution,” said 18 | Clark. Then he goes on to tell while the boys were across fighting, Debs platform where President McKinley was born and rediculed the | government, othe Street was responsible for our told his audience that the war, etc., which bringe an editorial in the Scran: 2 of October 18, in which it has following to say about the “The average Communist, British, German, Russian, or Ameri- can, has the intellectual consciousness of ten years of age. To him history is a sealed book, etc., Well, we might not know all the history, but we know enough to tell the “Paul Reveres” that McKinley was not born in Canton, Ohio. Healey urged the public to support the legion, and said if anyone does not support the government, tag him with a yellow card and send him back to where he came from. This idiot to deport anybody ap everybody who disagrees with him. Harold Lord Varney, former radical, dly recanted in the “Red philosophy a * 5 at * 8 W 8 5 R n SOM ve? * 8 Ay ng ee, : ra * 7 * 7 ree? 4 4 * * . * 1 * 6 da RKK ER a a — 1 THI S 1 SI IR OF L LATORS AND N DOCS |Making AS : Workers Pay By A MYROSK!I MOUNDSVILLB,, W. Va., October 29.— West Virginia is a wealthy state, i but its wealth ae enjoyed by either the workers some of the law makers. 9. 46257 embers of the state legislature ‘i 13 impoverished—in fact, so pov nen that its mem- ord to buy pedigreed es, their wives or erg, or countless other relatives, to fondle. So they passed a law, a law which forbids aliens the right to own a dog on penalty of a heavy fine. Now, although the members of the state le @ may be short of cash they are not ting in cunning. They thought, and thought, until they could: think no more, how best to get the most fines and the most dogs. If the law was made public the poor work- ‘ng’ foreigners would dispose of them. 30 a plan was finally concocted which would insure plenty of dogs and, therefore; Plenty of fines. The residents of West Vitginia or some of them, at least, were un- pleasantly s about six or seven weeks ago by the wholesale ar- rest of foreigners owning dogs. They were indignant. What was the matter anyway? Surely, there was no law forbidding the aliens that privilege, if privilege it be. But it developed that there was such a law, passed at the last session of the state legislature, without be- ing made public or advertised. It paid so much better to introduce it by wholesale arrests. This law hits the workers. Most of those arrested are striking ers. True, very few are striking ubwW—the strike being practically West! 1 — Nifinded a Wage gt, Others Get a Raise NEW ORLEANS — (FP) 1 55 shoremen at Gulfport, Miss., e been granted a scale of 70c an hour, n bile and Pensacola; with time an city of labor, Agents in New 0 have notified the colored longshong- | men that the scale will be reduced from 80 to 65¢ an hour. Hight hundred members of the colored longshoremen union have sent a protest to the . gte It as mc eared a strike | Will result. Four V. Years of Life Darkened by Prison; Says Note to I. L. d. From the state * in eee Maine, a class war prisoner writes to the Internationa] Labor Defense, after having served four years of his term: “The world has moved so ü that I am sadly out ot touch, I having stood still if not receded, being denied all the knowledge, the action, the hope, knowing only the fear and the pain. I stand . ne blind in the ness. A OUR DAILY PATTERNS | CARRIAGE ROBE Cut in one size—for infants INFANTS’ 4729. to 6 months of age. It will require 2% yards if made in wrap style. In coat style 1% yard is required. Price 12 cents. 5 — — * LADIES’ JACKET 5241. Cut in 6 sizes: 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 4 inches bust measure, A 38 inch size requires 2 yards of 64 inch material. Price 12c. — — ͥ̃ — N E LO PATTERN BUYERS—The Patt ans beiug sold thru the DAILY ORR DR pattern department ‘re kur- ished by a New York firm of pattern 1 and ecurecs. Orders are forwarded by a LY Won every day as re- and thes are tailed by the man- „ Gesel to the customer, in dves not keep a stock ole und. Deli very of ¢ uity will take at least 10 ty » tue mining the order. i Sete Fan if your pattern is Be wo ow Le tb The es | aan 10% Cut in 4 sizes: 6, By 10 and 12 years. A 10 year size as shown in the large view, will require 2 yards of 40 inch figured material and % yard of plain. If made with short sleeves and of oné material 2% yards of 40 inch material will be required. Price 12c. = , = CHILDS’ COAT 4852. Cut in 4 sizes: 2, 4, 6 and 8 years. A 6 year sise requires 2 yards of 40 inch material. Price 120. f WASHION BOOK NOTICE! mple half for overtime owing to the scary. ly these four years of my preted: 9 FE A Labor displacing rate in the that about would be differe: empl | forces. : -| tral station Farm Workers Put og: Market by the. Use of Power Machine Labor saving machinery has been farm workers at a rapid last generation. A study of power on farms by C. D. Kinsman, agricultural engineer attached to the 32 S. department of agriculture, shows 19,000,000 more workers required on the present farms if only the tool power of 1850 were available. been turned into the great pool of un- 4 labor from which the class draws its working These millions have | Agriculture in the United States Ivo uses practically as much primary ‘) °¢ power as all manufacturing and cen- plants combined. Kinsman estmates the amount of power used annually on farms as Close to 16,000,- 000,000 horse power hours. of this power under 1924 conditions is about 338, 009. 000,000. The cost “Whereas to make a resolution, to the office case.” Fi ire Fighters’ Union Puts Kibosh on Habit of Hogging Two Jobs - HIBBING, city firemen who use their statutory time off duty to rob the unemployed of a job will receive the unfriendly attention of their union, the Hibbing. Fire Fighters’ union, an Amercan Fed- eration of Labor organization. Minn.—(FP)—Organized the Fire Fighters are re- ceiving a living wage and it is not necessary to get extra work in order living,” reads the union “Be it resolved that we will exert qur utmost influence to put a stop to this practice by reporting any member who does any offshift job rs of the union who shall oall a special meeting to handle the | ; ; 9 1 „ ; 1 7 ; * ( ; 1 ; ( é ; ; ( 9 . ¢ * ; 7 „ 6 9 é 4 7 5 9 9 9 6 , ; 5 ; ; 0 ; ( ( * ( ; ; ; 0 0 1 9 9 4 0 ERATOR* pCOFF E = ANGE VE CENTRAL & — a en 1 (Red Star, Blue Star, White Star and Yellow Star Brands) Rr Build the DAILY WORKER. c O84 44 HHH HSS 4H OSH HE HOH SHSHEHSHSESHSHSHHS HSH HHS SET Workers Join Your Local Co-operative Store. Demand from y Distributed hy the co-operative wholésale. CO-OPERATIVE CENTRAL EXCHANGE, Superior, Wis. 1 > yoy ~+** ay inods "esse oS & © “Co-operators One dt the “dog catchers” upon be- ing question®@ what was the purpose of passing guch a law, stated that it was tu force Ab aliens to become citi- zens! Not the right way to proceed to the best citizens, is it? Even who have their first citizenship papers cannot own a dog, it developed. The “dog: er” in this section is also one @ most active prohibi- tion o le is very successful at ‘his — © FN takes a thief to catch let, and a boot- legger to get another bootlegger. His name is Burkett and he cer- de retord as a + 10 he retaind his job considering the many times ne is arrested for habituai drunkenness, driving a car while in- toxicated, ete. Hut, then, are we to question the Morals of our law enforc- ers? So lou as they are successful in arresting the alien workers, strik- ing miners, pickets, etc., what else is required? ft Surely, this law must be most pleas- ing to the coal operators—especially the way it is introduced. It is such a simple way of getting back at the im- poverished striking miners. Russian Grain Crop Larger Than Pre-War MOSCOW (Tass.), Oct. 29.—Accord- ing to calculations of the people's commissariat of agriculture, the whole crop of this year amounts of 4,100,- 000,000 poods. Since 1911 there was no such crop in Russia. It surpasses the crop of last year by 1,400,000,000 poods. The whole production of agri- culture in 1925 is estimated at 9,257,- 000,000 rubles and, in comparison with 7,800,000,000 rubles of the last year, it shows an increase of 19 per cent. — Take this copy of the DAILY WORKER with you to the shop tomorrow. 7 a 117 7 our co-operative J st” Products 1 5 2 1 3 x, i i i i i i i i — * B ——— ————————————————————.———— — — n ete e — rwe Workers is how . — — ——— ee ee | COMMON-EABOR’S AVERAGE WAGE 38 CENTS AN HOUR; POST WA ORMALCY” CUT WAGES IN we 2 > 1 wo in V. out the country since 1915. of these workers and their families. is 38 cents an hour. This has been the a By LELAND OLDS | (Federated Press Industrial Editor) The base on which wages thruout American industry rest is revealed 8. department of agriculture figures on wages of common labor thru- The figures show how wages of unorganized la- bor are determined by supply and demand without reference to the needs The average rate for common labor, taking the country as a whole today, yearly average for the last three years altho there has been considerable var- latlon from month to month as the surplus looking for employment var- ied up or down. It means $3.04 for an 8-hout day or $3.80 for a 10-hour day. Under the best possible circum- stances working 10 hours a day every work day in the year, the common la- borer in the United States cannot make $1,200. Taking uncertainties of employment into account the average annual earn- probably under $900. in the south and a high of 52 cents regions for 1915, 1920 1922 and July; 1925, were: Hourly pay of Common Labor Average in Cents 1915 1920 1922 1926 average wage of common labor 145 per cent above 1915. The return to normalcy left unorganized common la- bor a commodity with rapidly dimin- ishing demand. In 2 years the aver- age wage fell 35 per cent. Increases since 1922 have only par- tially restored the wages of common labor and the average ig still 22 per cent below 1920. The average varies from 4 per cent below the peak in New England to 44 per cent below in the West North Central region. Simi- larly, with the average 90 per cent above 1915, we find New England 135 per cent above prewar while the West North Central states average for com- mon labor is only 40 per cent above prewar. ‘ What, Price Glory? WASHINGTON— scribes the case of Capt. Villiams, who has just undergone his 27th major operation for rotting Jones, in Walter Reed hospital, Wash- ington. He is suffering from bayonet and gunshot wounds received in France. His son, who got into the navy at 18 years of age, is a per- manent “total disability” invalid in a Cotorado hospital maintained by the government. If Williams ever gets out of the veterans’ hospital he must get a job, ag he has a wife and he will get no retirement pension. He was only an emergency officer; pen- sions go to regular officers. Before he enlisted and went to France, Williams was employed in the government bureau of engraving and printing, in the capital. Now he appears at least 50 years old, altho he is but 37. However, he has an- other operation ahead before he need worry about getting a watchman’s job. Most of hig leg is already cut away. Buffalo Bandits Get $93,000 BUFFALO, N. V., Oct. 29.—Bandits held up two messengers of the Marine Trust company, one of the city’s lar- gest banking institutions today, shot Charles Clifford, and escaped with $93,000. The other messenger, Joseph Meyers, was wounded. MOSCOW, (Tass)—Oct. 29.—Thé council of people’s commissaries has decided to give to Ukrainian author- yéar in order to aid them in the cam- paign against drought and its ruinous consequences. To those who work hard for their money, | will save 50 per cent on all their dental work. DR. RASNICK DENTIST 645 Smithfield Street PITTSBURGH, PA. 4 New England 20 49 39 47 Middle Atlantic ....20 50 36 48 South Atlantic 14 37 21 28° East So. Central., 12 32 20 25 West So. Central. 16 40 24 26 East No. Central. 21 53 31 36 West No. Central., 25 62 31 35 Mountain .............. i ae e Pacific 26 60 48 52 U. S. average........ 20 49 32 38 U. 8. Steel rate. 20 46 32 40 The wartime demand for labor, coupled with the operation of sundry government wage boards aiming to stabilize the labor market by lip ser- vice to the living wage, lifted the The above de- Nathan and killed one of the messengers, ities 4,000,000 roubles for the next | 18 Ohio Workers Answer Need for Class War n Build I. L. D. f Fred Biedenkapp who is touring the state of Ohio in behalf of the Interna- tional Labor Defense reports that con- siderable success is attending his ef- ings of unskilled workers, the real in- }forts in the organization: of new dex of the condition of the working class, falls considerably under 81.000, branches and stimulating activity in those already organized. In Dayton a branch of the I. L. D. Wages of common labor vary wide} was organized. After electing officers ly, touching a low of 25 cents an hour the branch decided to hold a mass conference on November 16 to which on the Pacific coast. These wages by} representatives of working class or- ganizations will be invited Seventeen members jomed up in Mansfield and $12.50 in dues was col- legted on the spot. Great enthusiasm prévailed and a mass conference was arranged to be held on November 15. In Columbus, a branch with nine members was organized after listen- ing to Comrade Biedenkapp explain the aims and objects of the Interna- tional Labor Defense. A tentative date—November 17 or 18—was set for the calling of a mags conference. * Wrap your lunch in a copy of the DAILY WORKER and give it (the DAILY WORKER, not the lunch) to your shop-mate. Coming! In the P. GREEN The 8th Anniversary of. the Russian Revolution. WM. Z. FOSTER The Needle Trades. ALEXANDER TRACHTENBERG The Marx-Engels Institute of Moscow. JAY LOVESTONE Class Divisions in America. | Fe ***%**44%4444* 44°%4446444464 44% 44644444444 4% *% 4% 45S S&S SS *% SSS S&S * November o's Workers Monthly “Marx and Engels on the American Labor Movement”—by HEINZ NEUMANN A historical series of letters written by the great Communist teachers in the 60s, 70s, and 808 outlining tacties still appl. cable to American conditions. ARTICLES BY GREAT BRITAIN Keep Mosul BAGDAD, Mesopotamia, Oct, 29.— England grow under her feet in the row with Turkey over the question as to who will get the oil flelds of Mosul. Eng- land is preparing an air fleet of 300 planes that will carry 1,600 bombs which will completely destroy the Turkish bases and their water-wells, accordin Comman air service. The officers in command of the Hinaidi base, which is seven miles in circumference and holds 8 airplane squadrons as well as infantry and armored cars; boast of the effective bombing which: they carry on. At this base they have an album of pic- tures showing the “before and after” effects of airplane bombing. Systematic bombing of native vil- lage and homes of chieftains are car- ried on at the least provocation for practice, boasted one of the air offi- cers. Dowding of the British help : To Save THE DAILY WORKER ._* ee & @ & * 23311 C. EK. RUTHENBERO “Newest. Capitalist Of- ee N Soviet Rus J. I ENGDAHL he A. F. of L. Convention. 4450 GITLOW The Anthracite Strike. GREGORY ZINOVIEV Another instalment of “Hie- tory bf the Russian Com- munist Party.“ $2.00 a Year 27. * ee * *% %*% % % O24*O 8 * 25 Cents a Copy $1.25 Six Months — —¾ THE WORKERS MONTHLY 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, III. i i i F program each night. To close the event, a Saturday evening, 35 cents, all else free. THE CONGRESS 18 ON! The American Negro Labor Congress is now in session at the Metropolitan Commanity Center, 3118 Giles Avenue, near East 31st Street. Business session in the day, nightly mass meetings. Different Come and hear the best speakers of both races of the American Labor Movement. Elaborate musical program. Grand International Ball and Program 8 o'clock, October 31. Admission to dance, Lovett Fort-Whiteman, National Organizer. H. V. Phillips, National Secretary. $1.25 Durofiex Covers DAY DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING COMPANY nis W. WASHINGTON BLVD. Chicago— ILL RUSSIA Official Report ‘of the British Trade Union Del- egation to Soviet Russia. $1.75 Cloth Bound * a 1 * FY Om ts iy 8 Che 3 Ss. . 5 4 * 18 0 + SN ENNIS. wal RET EY RE aa TE A + ite. 1. MOBILIZES 300 PLANES FOR WAR England Determined to >. rere er eerste ee oe eS SS |S |S is not letting any grass - o Sir Harry Dobbs and Air a * wen, F + * = 2 * 8 3 9 3 — ws * * N ** * 1 ey 2 8 3 reer |
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8 hd 4 x % 7 - 29 wats, Sebel y * + pt Fa 5 2 — rf 7 — ret kd a. * N 4 = 7 ‘ 4 * 7 * 1 2 ee aa, Cie ~ r — Ain Se 1 i ’ ie date ie Bee Codes . a * i F e n Row. 41 * Fi * - — * is — * ies rr „ * 1 a * PRES PG * ] 7 os a 4 * 3 5 = te „ * 2 . 75 i? 4 1 2 . : 2 * by . wie n and other invaders SUBSCRIPTION RATES 1 ö By mall ue ee 1200 per year $3.50 six months $2.00 three months —— 3 ————— “re tHe DAILY WORKER, 1118 W. Washington Bt Bivd., Chicago, tilinole — Business Manager | Batered as socond- yet the government is go- observation ifs wie et. As a historian and 1 Mr. . fue is a good ehen pl ver. * 5 i | 5 5 1 .... ˙ —— ae . 3 tt. “se oye „ ee = we es ee eRe Meee at een | 15 tropical heat made sport too ch like work. Of course it would never do for an Englishman in Africa to lower himself by working, so after he had murdered a couple hundred “niggers” or so he usually settled down to watchful waiting, to brandy and soda, and to “mama palavering.” He rather let the Rubber Co.'s inter- ests go hang. This heraled the end; for without rubber the world can’t roll, And so he sickened and another scion came to take his place and so on, ad infinitum, and ad nauseam. Generally the returning hero was too sick or to drunk to board the boat of his own accord and had to be car- ried on as luggage. He returned as “white cargo” collect, uninsured and no damages for breakage en route. F course, as you can see, the rest of th. plot doesn’t matter; but the crux of the thing hinges on the fas- cinating expression, mammy pa- laver.” This seems to promise exotic and erotic excitement to the jaded sex tastes of the morbid’ members of the bourgeoisie, who form the bulk of the audiences: ages from 18 to 22, with a sprinkling of more mature and more debauched auditors. This term simply: means mating with a negress during the term of the exile; or for part time. Or mating with many, according to the whims of the white man, who, is more or less fancy free in his marriages both in and out of Afric The bourgedis white man, I =o course. He takes his womep where he finds “White Carg ple. 11 he boys, or take someth erotic. superior officer g * r s dé be over- . * 2 8 Fg y for Bolshe- to improve the economic position of Russia. They give concessions, they try to obtain loans, they develop the system of trat - fic. According to Kautsky, the Soviet regime is still in power because the ternational should by no means oppose international loans to Russia, but should on the contrary encourage them. But it should demand as a con- dition for these loans the promise of “reforms,” which is also good because these “reforms” are demanded by the international stockjobbers. AUTSKY himself apparently only believed implicitly in his bogey of Bolshevism and in the despotism of the “clique” over the Russian prole- tariat when he was in a condition of complete mental derangement. For that reason he is now secretly doubt- ing whether it is reasonable to build his hopes on the Russian proletariat becoming stronger. And it is thus that he arrives at the idea which is most elaborately developed in his article, which forms its core. Not preparations for armed ifsur- rection .but—speculation upon a gen- eral,, spontaneous. revolt. Kautsky nly discovers that he had count- ed on revolts of this kind “which would put an end to the three military monarchies of east Europe.” More than that! He knows that the major- ity of social democrats, have refused to hope that “we should by gradually increasing in strength, imperceptibly grow over the head of military monar- chy and into a republic.” In Ger- many, Austria and Russia this has hy & * 1 „ . 8 * 2 . ‘ eee 9 N : ae cm. 2 3 ae * ey - Ms sl * = er A 1 (as ts well Known against ty ot those social ready practiced by the Bolsheviki in such a measure that it cannot be sur- passed.” guardist reaction, he is prepared to promote it and, with this end in view. he speaks of revolt almost like a Bol- shevik. All this, Kautsky asserverates, it is true—whether it be hypocrisy or re- lapse into old Kautskyism—that he preaches neither intervention against ‘Russia, nor revolt, but peaceful means understand. As is his intention, they ‘will not however, for one moment, de- development of Ruswra. They know that bettér than Kautsky with his idée fixe. But they will be thankfal ye cial from Kautsky’s article that a Nu He accepts the worst white- |. only. But his pals, the leaders of the Second International, will quite well} will speak in favor of credits to Rus- sia if their capitalists expect that it would be to their advantage. They ludé themselves into believing, that | a they can overthrow the Soviet power out by furthering the general economic | pe ee — gay PAUL FE aaa | — ves JL FRO! 2 — CO cpa 8 : i | ms r ae 1 sie 70 ode * brd } 7 . ary generals. But even this makes no * 8 difference to him, for he — | i 1111 f #8 i 1 g g along w. whi keys in order to make life b | while he crushes the 1 It no living object can b libidinous —— acq > spe Ao: R. HARRY Win “the man who stays,” threw @ fit when his Toandelevyo, the half-white maider Who went with the position. Harry thét it no crime to do the “mammy palaver“ business, when onanism was so much cheaper and more respectablé@! ‘PSo he raved about this moral crimiésehrieked and acted as hysterical Bnd neurasthenic as you please, and de did the big scene at the close of Act II. And this is bourgeois art in the beginning of the second quarter of art from: start to The the twentieth century! What it will be at the close, one can only surmise. Let us hope the revolution will come ere that, and sweep all such filth and rot off the stage onto the rubbish heap where it belongs. Not to put too fine a point on the whole matter, one can say with abso- lute justice the whole thing was fake Or- chestra made noise gpstead of music; the scene painters gave us a daub without inspiration iu the actors whin- ed, moaned, mumbleg: and drank when all was as clapper. Vera Simonton. they didn’t shriek; merry as a marriage bell without a N Wis — program statt the thing was dramatized by. Deen Gordon, from the novel, Hell's Fuground“ by Ida and Fortunately I know nothing about eithertLartist“! Having made a bourgéois gait they are evi- local color. should be. insane subject: |. work of art; a successful ne a adapt themselves to the real; W 7 a, s.” them dently raking in thephekels and stor- ing them up for ammther search, after If so lot me advise them both that after, they. have acquired that mythical milliom dollars all the bourgeoisie is so mal, about, will they kindly take it and the novel's — Playground? Judging<from the morals and immorals of their joint master- piece, they are bound to land there in time at any rate. Lest some of my more timorous readers may shrink. at my masculine conclusions and attribute jealousy or other unworthy motives on my part, rather than, to a deep and burning love of high art and a shud- dering disgust at f their attention to to the site of aving out the to e art, let me call hat Teal art is and Studies in Here are some. andom statements taken from B n's Psycho- Analysis sane _v work on an “A neurosis ien unsuccessful rk of art is a aor © ths real to | Paige iS the contrary, they all loudly acclaim | he oe, 18218 w * 5 ~ - = , —— 2 ot Oe — ; * * „ 7 * — — Als 5 ‘ : 4 * * * * 4 5 SN 2 7 3 dh j : 8 hy a : ; : el tei cone (ee ates | 7 : * e ans ming.“ ne higher art is a dream which 1 points out the way to mankind iW search of a goal.” ITE cargo is a neurosis; the climax of the play is plain nys- teria. Instead of purging the emotions thru fear and pity, it transfers them into nervous channels. Several members of the various castes have broken out into murderous attacks on their fellow troopers. Their nerves are put’ on edge by acting as neurosthenics. Like Harry Thaw they prefer fondling rabbits on their naked bodies rather, than engaging in collectivistic activ- ities. There will be no rush to Bol- shevism amongst the authors, the own- ers, the actors or the auditors of white cargo. No drive to proletcult! On ves to the real.” That is, un- der present capitalist society they join the crowd, get into the band ‘wagon, and seek pay for their intel-. lectualism, like professionals. Artists are’ braver and saner than that. They. a longing for bPotherhood, not for sensualism; they join the rèvolution- ists and make their works master- pieces of propaganda for collectivism; not for capitalism. They try to make their’ dreams come true. Their plays are means to an end. They know that the present goal of mankind is’ collectivist society;. Communism, and ‘thei? plays, paintings, poems, musical pieces, statutes, etc., all point to that goal. They are true men and honest, not cowardly scoundrels, adapting their talents to poisonous master class themselves to be one hundred per propaganda. ZOLTAN WEINBERGER IS VICTIM OF AMERICAN-MADE HORTHY REGIME A new victim has been torn a et of the ranks of the Hungarian Com- munists, a young, fearless fighter, Zoltan Weinberger. Weinberger is representative of that generation of the Hungarian 3 tarian youth, which having joined the revolution * an early age, went Ann boldly into the fight fearing no pun ishments, serving intrepidly the cause of the revolution. Such a life does not know any rest. Comrade Weinberger wag born in 1903. He was only 16 years old, when the proletarian revolution was victorious in Hungary and then he was already an active worker in the youth movement. After the revolu- tion he fled abroad. However, his en- ergy during the emigration period has grown up and, being only 18 years old, he came back to Hungary and proceeded then to illegal party activ- ity. In 1921 he was arrested and sen- tenced to 15 years’ penal imprison- ment. During his trial Comrade Wein- berger, in spite of heavy penalty threatening him, shouted loudly “Long live the international revolu- tion!” His steadfastness won him the sympathies of the other comrades and especially of the young proletar- jans who saw in him a representa- tives of their strong, fighting disposi- tion, not the least weakened by the horrible terror. Thru the efforts of the Soviet gov- ernment he was set free from the Hungarian prison. He went to Russia in order to acquire knowledge in the school of the Russian Communist Party and Russian Youth League, He proved to be a good disciple; the great lesson of the Russian revolu- tion and the experience of the Rus- sian Communist Party raised still more his revolutiénary energy and he came back to Hungary for work. Fearless of punishment threatening him Comrade Neue appeared 9 again in the ranks of the revolution: | ary ‘fighte ers of Hungary Now “Te has fallen into the hands of the Hungarian hangmen and is be- ing Submitted to the cruelties and tor- turés'tof the Hungarian police The sytipatiies of the Hungarian: prolet: | We kake his hand and say before the faée öf the whole world proletariat: “Comrade Weinberger, you haveneted rightly,: in a r- 2 Bebbst Children's, Home Head in Jail for Criminal Assault NEW. YORK, Oct. 29 —Cringing, and on the verge of collapse, Wilson Johnson, formerly the trusted super- intendent of the children's home of the Long Island baptist association, appeared in Coney Island court to uswer to the charge of attacking young girls at the institution. Twenty one girls at the institution have been attacked, Lester Bochover, agent for the society for the prevet- tion of eruelty to children told re- porters. He said this was established by admissions of the children and by physieal wanna tion by a in physician.. Johnsen must remainein jail and th: creased his bond from $10, 000 to $25,000. * If you want to W u derstand: , Communism—study see that the real in themselves is ares arta and “Youth League are with him mts Pall — ~ * ony . “ * . evitable under | trusts and concessions gobble up all the n leaving only the to the individual. He gets ‘he. _ Soul-wrecking, mean and contemptible jobs. The jobs where the only consolations are whiskeys nies. [i told un Frank shay’s interest ing article in the National Geo graphic Magazine for last February that it is eustomary for the whites marooned: in tropical Africa to mar- ry“ Negresses. They make no bones about it. They consort openly with them and point out humorously their half-breed children; as they: meet them at the wharfs along the river. Livingston and Stanley tell the same story. In fact Stanley was bereft of many of his men thru their desertion to the black females along his route. A white man who has been nursed in infancy by a black mother acquires a Negro complex and reverts natural- ly to black consortium. That is one of the skeletons in the closet of our feudal southern society. Not that it matters much to sociological science; for miscegenation itself is an agent of progress. The contemptible attitude of whites towards their black off- | spring hurts the worst, Christian peo- ple are cruel enough towards white bästards; to black ‘ones they are merciless. 93 * iin goal of mankind” . What is that goal? Art mae much to do ite seems, and so has ce the science of politics „ of revolution. One race, one language, one country, one Class, one goal—the Soal of uni- versal brotherhood. We can't trust the “jntelectuals. . They take on the color of their en- vironment. The whites in the Congo will become blacks 1. they stay there long enough. Artists alone are the jones Who try to make their dreams, come true. Dreams are what you make them; if you look forward to a better society and work for its realization, your dreams will accom- pany your struggle. For Communism is the goal of man- kind. The dreams of. Pletnev in the pro- letcult theatres of Moscow are almost the only ones of our times which try faithfully to realize that goal. Others will soon follow. White cargo with its black mensage will not always pollute the air. One of our first duties after the revolution is to sweep into the garbage pile such refuse. That alone promises a job worth while. We must destroy before we can create; and none of us is too insignificant to take part in destruc: tion. A ü bas bourgeois art! To nell with e playground! .., . os ——ſ ᷑ .——ů— —— — i}
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4 | ‘, form of wage reduction is taxation. . 4 1 keep of the government from the 4 1 1 . F re > 2 ‘ s In. * ig 28 * ee 85 . 7 25 * a ae: — * * 1 j y : Hey ae “a 2 * * i ae ee” % — + . 9 * — n ett Wey 3 MBS . ey oF a “2 ERE of the wages. take an ind 4 of employment. Such an indirect _ Capitalist state is an agency 2 pockets of the ‘capitalists ts in the of tigh 8 This example ows clearly that t financing the state is im the last anal- ysis the art of extracting the highest percentage of contributions to the up- workers The tendency therefore is ' here: Incréase the taxes of workers, decrease the taxes of the exploiters, the rich. war with its. extraordinary ex- penses made it necessary to let the capitalist pay a portion, even tho “an infinitesimal one, of the financial burden of the state. But t was clear- ly understood that this taxing the capitalists, w as merely a war meas- ure. Since ine passing of the war period there is going on an energetic struggle for the discontinuation of ‘this tice. “Reduce the tax on the e is the slogan. : 3 of the secretary of the uly’ of the United States; the banker, Andrew Mellon, ‘Chakacteristic in that respect. several legislative periods total amount ot such tax free se- Second, the rate of exploita-| During Mellon has carried on a campaign tor the radical reduction of the sur- hn Mr. Mellon. The big sense 6f ownership in the govern-“( ment. This is a nice little joke on capitalists do- not need to get their sense of owner-| ~ ship thru taxation. Their sense of ownership is derived trom the fact by] that their lawyers, and attornies are at the same time the congressmen, t, the senators, the secretaries of state, and the presidents, ready and willing at any time to take their orders from these capitalists. . Since the owner- —_ of e 9 by the big one — 20,000 „1.017.850 25,000 1,607.60 30,000 2,317.50 60% 5,677.50 75,000 13,187.50 90,000 18,537.50 100,000 22,617.50. . 125,000 33,367.50 DEMANDING ADMISSION 9 v 5 N. * * ee V.. ’ fade he! \ ° The Negro Worker at the Door 4 the Trade | Unions — a . * Sys , 8 * es . 3 7 © e nn 7 9 ‘ 1 2 ma? ent Oi op CaF > * „ 9222. — r 142 “4 Le EEN y os . * * 160 ‘ 1 — +. 9 16 mss =“. 3-* “4° ~ * 3 . Soe pS eee os * 27 . are ae Pat te 1 a 2 2. * 2 aah 5S a * . oe > 4s Laney 22 2 e n 112 . * 1 * nn . — * 9 r r iS A mast — 2 1 . : 57 «% ** ee 3 — 5 n — could neither reduce nor daha the curities, ‘tion of present.day capitalism is such a high one that the rate of income of tax free securities looks ridiculous to the industrial capitalist in compar- ison to the one he can extract from his industrial investments in spite of high taxes. te Incidentally, big capital is\constant- ly hollering about its patriotism. ape ellon whinning about the lack of patriotism of the rich patriots shown in. their endeavor to escape taxation b¥ investing in tax free securities, throws welcome light on this dan, otism. HE Mellon “ite dubenters to the congress at the present legislative period provides for a radical reduc- tion of taxes on high incomes. ‘The proposal to eliminate completely all — itallsts is so well established. Mr. Mellon considérs it advisable not to mcrease this sense of ownership by making big capital pay for its Prop erty, the government. The masses, whose sole sources of . are their wages and salaries, have no sense of ownership toward the government, not because of any lack of taxes for them to pay but be- cause the government appears to them merely in the~-form of police- men, of judges or of jailers, always acting against them, never with them or for them. Mr. Mellon proposes the following reduction: Pres’t Law Prop’d Law Total ‘Tax Total Tax 150 000 4411780 sik 00 8 incomes over $150,000 the per- — — centage of reduction is to be the same as that on incomes of $150,000, As against this proposal by our of the treasury which, by radi reduction of the surtax on high incomes, * shifting the eae of taxation to the mass of peo whose sole source of income is the’r ele pete wages or salaries, we, the Commn- - nists, propose a progressive scale of income tax. Incomes up to $5,000 are to be completely free of taxation; over $5,000 the percentage of income tax is to be gradually ircreased per thousand until the am unt of income taxed is $60,000. The rate of tax on incomes of $50,000 is to be 50% of the total income which equals 525, 009. On ‘incomes over $50,000 the (Continued on page 5) amount of tax will be 50% of the $54, —
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tae © “4 | „ ih pe ae Bs ” . — — : The following is a stenographic re- port of the speech made by Richard B. Moore, delegate’ to the American Negro Labor Congress, from the ‘Bthi- opian Students League of New York City at the opening session, Sunday evening, Oct. 25, in the M ; Community Center, 3118 Giles Ave. R *#.,.? ROTHER Chairman and Fellow Workers: 1 deem it a high honor to be pre ent on Anis dee 0 are wi . ing the era ect es n — destined to ‘of the further a people and also the down Weacen white workers of America, The Slave System. You remember half a century ago when a great system of oppression ruled in America, when men were bought and sold, there appeared upon the scene that great advocate of thé race, Frederick Douglass. In him the Slave became vöcal. When he was Aroused, and when he bestirred him- Self, the institution was weakened, and overthrown.” Tonight we are wit- ae nessing again the emergence of this as race. There are many of the hire- lings of the press present. They call- ed the abolitionists all the foul names they could think of in their day. They called John Brown, Frederick Dou- glass and eyen Abraham Lincoln, al- tho he was not a thoro going aboli- tionist, they called them everything they could think of to brand them and discourage them; and now they are calling us names, and by that talk, we know that the cause we are pro- moting is a fair one. Well may the hirelings of the capitalist press with their inunendoes say that this is to arouse the Negro workers of the country to the true conditions that surround them; it is to arouse the white workers to the true conditions surrounding them also, White Slaves. May I tell you that there are white slaves in America likewise? It is true apa that S not al- ene, 0. n te Nies s to realize it. a — ‘ute you now, and let me tell you reporters who are here to spread the tidings of this congress to the world, that the condition of the work- ers is fast becoming a condition of chattel slavery like that of sixty years ago. Must Unite. You will only be able to free your- selves from that condition by lining up solidly as one man with the Negro workers of America. And let me tell you that the Negro group is despised, burned, discriminated against, treated as dogs, yet, when the North and the South were locked in a death strug- gle, it was the Negro worker who de- cided’ that struggle, who brot victory the Union Army. And I tell you that there is a great crisis. coming, for as Tiagoln said, “A house divided AN ORGANIZER OF THE | NEGRO LABOR CONGRESS H. v. PHILLIPS National Secretary of the American Negro Labor Congress. ears. This separation extends to re- Crow laws operate that we have a i) with the Negro Wor Ere “mie Raps Pan Handlers. 2 we been posing before the Negro masses worse each year. Movement from Below. The convening of the Negro Labor Congress means that there will be a novement from below; a movement ‘ises up out of the hearts of its peo- le. Lou represent the voice of the p today. It may bea small voice. e Abolitionists were small voices when they began, but a mighty move- ment grew out of it. I challenge you, whether black or punt — . Fos 2 at fe . 5 r 1 5 ä . 8 — oe 4% be] * 1 * cg W tad . . M 8 3 i 4 oe aes 5 . a Saas 4 7 * * ra 21125 8 9 i i H every woman in this values freedom and true liberty = 8 —liberty bonds. you now to give until it hurts. I wonder if the press which under- took to brand this cause as Bolshévik, will go to the trouble to publish the truth about this cause, those whom they brand as Red and Communists. During the war it was pro-German, well, this much I know that the Bol- * Fe. os * — i 5 eee at Peis — a * 5 oe 3 1 8 2 7 i said — K Ne . ; 5 e oe 42 f i A f fire 5 i it : as 4 r bE BS il rf if : 281 rs! 17125 te i Werne of — stopped lynching | By ‘WALT LT CARM o Today in the San States, where four-fifths of the twelve million Ne- groes in this country live, constitu- tional amendments restrict their right to the ballot. Tax tests, property tests, educational tests, understand- ing and character clauses and the famous grandfather clause, all keep the Negro working man and woman from the polis. In hundreds of cities where legal requirements are fullfil- led, it would be risking his life for a Negro to approach the polls. In other cities insults and inconvenience are placed -in the Negro worker’s way prevent him from exercising rights of citizenship. ‘Jim Crowism Even in Schools Race segregation, prevelent to a de- gree thruout the country, in the South- ern States reaches unthinkable forms. In the trains, laws require seats, compartments and coaches for whites and Negroes. With the exception of Missouri, all the Southern States have laws separating the races in street sidential districts, parks, restaurants, theaters, etc. To such an extent do these Jim case of three white passengers enter- ing a car marked “for whites only” in Mississippi, finding two Negro pas- company for damages conductor would not remove“ the Negroes and being awarded $400 each in compensation for the “injury” by the Mississippi courts! Twenty-two states requires separa- tion of races in the public schools. According to the Census Reports of 1920 (for the whole country), only 53.5 per cent of Negro children bet- ween the ages of 6-20 inclusive, were enrolled in school, Though the Negro comprises one- tenth of the population of the country, reports for the same year show the Negroes as 87.8 per cent of the f- literates, These facts are not so surprising and on the farm at an early age, are added the lack of schools thruout the idm illiteracy runs to 38.5 per cent. To these barbarities practiced on the Negro must added 208 lyn- in the last years, Whether these numbers rise or fall, economic conditions take a steady toll of lives of Negro workers. Where in 1922 for whites the death rate per 1,000 was 12.1 per cent, for Negroes it was 20.5. Capitalism steps harder on the Negroe worker. Disease Outcome of Persecutions Disease ravages the race. Death from tuberculosis and syphilis, according to the Metropolitan Life Insurance company, (figures for whole country) reach startling figures. for the last disease show a mortality — The numbers of 38.7 per hundred thousand, in com- parison with only 10.5 for whites. Other diseases take heavier toll among Negro workers than among the white. White persons live nearly seven years longer according to figures of the same concern which include all classes. The bureau of census for one sec- tion, notes that “In 28 or 33 per cent of the 84 cities with the registration by color the deaths outnumber the births among the colored people”. In an article on Negro Migration”, Chas. S. Johnson says of the Negro death, rate in the South: “The Negro death rate during the period of slavery was about the same as that of the white. Beginning. with their independence (2), this death rate increased steadi- ly up to about ten years ago in spite of the increase in education and some measure of health training. The Ne- gro population has increased at a rate nearly normal. During the last decade we were surprised and shocked to learn that the gate of the increase has fallen off about 50 per cent. allowances for certain errors In enumeration, there is still room for some concern in these figures.’ This does not mean that fewer child- ren are being born in the congested district of the South, A ee when to the economic causes that „Out of every hundred thousand drive Negro children into the factory . male children born alive, 9,609 7 . Are Still Slaves more 3 boys die betore they r boys, — ag i where Ne is ever becoming a more important factor. The South is still the home of the “The slave south is not dead and slavery has not been abolished. It lives in song and story, it lives in every community where there are black and white human beings, it lives in the agricultural region of the south, it exists in the industrial feudalism of the lumber and turpentine camps. of the south, it lives in the southern non- union coal fields, it lives in the co- lumns of the capitalist press of both strife among the workers is fed and inflamed like a gangrenous wound by this filth that it exudes.” ~~ munist literature. To Save THE DAILY WORKER north and south and the prejudice and Send for a catalogue of all Com- * Fenner 8. Ss *
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é, — ee _| THE ORGANIZED - WAGE EARNERS |. -|3HOULD AID THIS DEVELOPMENT by ohly those unions which can prove their value to the capitalists as speed- peration 2 of which is cribbed | m_the gibberish of the new school oF atti machine social research ex- 3 turned out by Rockefeller en- dowed colleges. These phrases are designed to veil the conflict of interests that exists, in spite of all attompts to gloss it | ‘over, between the working class and “the capitalist class. They have the are being foisted upon the labor move- ment. UCH a scheme is the “Baltimore & Ohio Pian,” differing only from the outright company unions in that the machinery of the A. F. of L. unions is placed at the disposal of the bosses and the speeding-up of labor given the sanction of the union officials. More than that, production experts employed jointly by the union and} gor must “hit the ball,” for the honor and glory of the union—and the pro- fits of the bosses. “For,” say the exponents of this class collaborationist school of thot, “how can the boss pay wages if he doesn't make profits?” HE following was adopted on the report of the executive council dealing with new economic develop- ments: PRODUCTION iS A GROUP UN- DERTAKING. IT INVOLVES FIND- ING THE. BEST WAYS FOR THE GROUP, TO WORK TOGETHER: Th field of personnel rela- tio . it is of the utmost im © that the trade union should be adequately represented in this field in order that technicians and research workers may at all stages have their attention called to the functions of the trade union steel, coal, railways and automobile vention unanimously management“ stated ac- cording to the gospel of Spencer Mil- | let, Ir. premise with which the A. F. of I. bureaucrats and their statisti- turned out with less workers. The conclusions they draw is THAT but not struggle to seize the produc- tive machinery and the state power. This amounts to complete abandon- ment of struggle. The theory is that ers-up of production will survive. It means in practice a mad, soul * body wrecking race for ae servation in the opening paragraph above: Efforts to methods and eliminate waste must be accompanied by REASONABLE assurance of regularity of employ- ment. (Emphasis mine.—W. F. 0.) = dues-paying membership ought to be allowed to work a few days more per year if they look, upon the interest of the boss as their ‘own—this is the sole consideration asked by the A. F. of L. convention for its mem- bers who are being delivered to Am, * To Anita Whitney 87 A GEORGE WEISS. HL 7 of i oie Smee 33 wnat America, 0 be proud, 5 st rh as pre S Bok. aig i bowed tyranny? Hast thou 2 Land of Li To prate of Freedom, Justice, the whi es she, Who dared to stand for O Culture, Worth, hold That dared to clasp the freedom, goes not free? out those slender hands roughened hands of men, may * cuffed with iron bands! O Love and Truth, go to your living grave For, daring to espouse the serf, the slave— This land has no place for you, save the pen.“ S in production“ for that section of the workers who are deceived by such schemes. HE “new economic developments” which indicate unerringly the nec- essity for great struggles of the work- ers, such as the huge mergers in manufacture, the extension of the control of finance-capital over indus- try at home and in Europe and the colonial and semi-colonial regions— these revolutionary factors are ignor- ed because they do not square with class collaborationist motto that “pro- duction is a group undertaking. It in- volves finding the best ways for the group to work together.” Gary, Schwab, Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller. Weyrhauser, Robert Dollar—are going to work together in this “group undertaking” with the mechanics and unskilled laborers. The obvious fact that the captains of industry can get all the coopera- tion they need at any time by the simple process of shutting down part of their plants and thereby increasing the competition among their “assist- ants,” is something that the statistical advisers of the labor movement — not dwelt upon at any length. UT regardless of the merits of the question the “Atlantic City con- red the re- port of the committee on the exec- | utive council's report which said m part: Efforts to improve n methods and eliminate waste must be accompanied by reasonable as surance of regularity: of employ- ment. itself in an admission that class | collaboration cannot eliminate indus- trial crises. IE come now to a series of pro- nouncements which probably have. caused more comment than any other part of the proceedings at Atlantic 'City—the widely heralded “new e policy” of the A. F. of L. As finally adopted by the convention it reads fas follows: We commend endorsement of the statement of the executive council on wages. We hold that the best interests of wage-earners, AS WELL AS THE WHOLE SOCIAL GROUP, are served, increasing production in quality as well as quantity, by high wage standards, which assure sustained purchasing power to the workers and therefore higher na- tlonal standards for the environ- ment in which they tive and the means to enjoy cultured opportuni- ties. We declare that wage reduc- tions produce industrial and social unrest and THAT LOW WAGES ARE NOT CONDUCIVE TO LOW PRODUCTION COSTS. We urge upon wage earners everywhere: THAT WE OPPOSE ALL WAGE REDUCTIONS, AND THAT WE URGE UPON MANAGEMENT THE ELIMINATION OF WASTE IN PRODUCTION IN ORDER THAT -SEULLING PRICES MAY BE LOWER AND WAGES HIGHER. To this end we recommend co-oper- tion in study of waste in produc- tion, which the assay of the Feder ated American Engineering Soci- 2 We recommend endorsement of. eties, covering important industries improve production ae. erican capitalism. This reservation | producing modities for any single industry un- der consideratlon. SOCIAL INEQUALITY, INDUS- TRIAL INSTABILITY AND _IN- JUSTICE MUST INCREASE UN- LESS THE WORKERS’ REAL WAGES—COUPLED wren A, 75 TINUING N . HOUR: en uP T WORKING DAY, ARE PRO- GRESSED IN PROPORTION: TO MAN’S INCREASING POWER OF PROOUCTION.” the intelligent reader this state- ment will at once appear as a queer mixture of sound trade union policy and the most abject sort of servile truckling to the capitalists. . And this is exactly what it is And it is a document of contra- dictions precisely because of the con- tradictions in A. F. of L. policy; pro- duced by the external conditions which force the workers into struggle in spite of the attempts of the bureau- erats to evade these struggles. I have tried to point out some of the more glaring of these contradic- tions by emphasis in the ve quo- tation but a better guage of the ex- tent of these contradictions is given us by an examination of the comment emanating from the “intelligentsia,” the middle class papers and the real- al upper section * the capitalist T. liberals are jubilant particular- ly that section referred to previ- ously which in view of the magnificent and munificent opportunities afforded for “research” and “statistical ob- servation” accompanied by huge stacks of beautiful graphs, curves and charts, sees itself firmly established as a serious rival to the lawyers as ad- visers of the labor movement. Says Evans Clark, in the opening “Union Babor “Tak sy . Ne. pt American labor enters a new epoch. The trade unions of this country have now officially rung down the curtain on irresponsible warfare and militant warfare and set the stage for collaboration with the employers of the nation in solv- ing the problems of industry for . THEIR MUTUAL ADVANTAGE. ~ (Emphasis is mine -W. F. D.) Some of the federation officials are Are wise jubilant. Says President Green: This action places American la- bor in a most advanced position on Wage theories. it is a position far in advance of any position we have ever taken before. UT Matthew Woll is not so san- guine. In some things, where a sort of furtive cunning is required, he is.much more astute than the rest of the officials. So during the debate which preceded the a — — — paragraph of an lartieb entidted statement on wi scholarship, Molders’ Union, Won sade! .. am led to believe that to do with theory the b off we | — we find ourselves con- baer with n sorts of conditions, and environments, — — we find oftentimes that theory win lead us nowhere, while our crude judgement expressed in trade union activities has gained more for us. Woll is a worthy pupil of his late master — Samuel Gompers. Like all really cunning fakers he wants nothing in black and white un- less it is entirely meaningless. It is extremely doubtful if under the lead- ership of the veteran Samuel the A. F. of L. officialdom would have been jockeyed by fell cirumstances into the “unhappy position,” to quote the well known phrase of John Fitzpatrick, in which they have been placed by pressure from above, below and by reason of their own avariciousness. been justified. The A. F. of L. of- (Continued on page 6) . by 7 the only official pa] any pretensd to John P. Frey of the 1 Ts fears of the waty Woll have —
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— — , — : * * 2 6 SYLVAN A. POLLACK _ _ TT is interesting to compare the mayoralty platforms of the g ist and Workers (Communist) Party in this campaign. the people.” In contrast with the Communist slogan of A workers' and farmers’ government.” te j For a Labor Party: * 7 ; r im the socialist platfown 5 A oe creat is made of the labor socialist party that is a 3 issue while on the other hand in the Work ers (Communist) Party platform we find a readiness to withdraw their candidates at any time during the ticket, as the platform says plainly: “The Workers (Communist) Party: for the past three years been the ost fighter for the formation of a r party. At the earliest oppor- tunity this year, it proposed to the workers of w York the formation of A united labor ticket for the pres- ent campaign as a first step for the complete unity of labor’s political forces in a labor party. It proposed to the socialist party at its confer- ences in June, the calling of a con- vention ofall labor organizations for this purpose. But the socialist party in its servility to the labor bureau- crats and in its complete heedlessness of the elementary needs of the work- ers, gave no answer to this proposal. Therefore the socialist party must bear jointly With the labor bureau- crats the responsibility for dividing the forces of labor and preventing the realization ofa united labor ticket against capitalism. | ME Workers Party has therefore been compelled to put forward its own cand But it realizes the crying ne or working class politic- al unity, ol 3 to call upon the socialist party and all other labor ps to joſirt together for a united campaign against the, Bapitalist 4 s for the immediate needs of the divided and exploited workers. THE WORKERS PARTY STANDS READY TO WITHDRAW ITS CANDIDATES IN FAVOR OF ONE UNITED LABOR TICKET AT ANY TIME DURING THIS CAMPAIGN. Workers of Nev’ York, raise this demand for a united labor ticket leading towards a labor party in all of your organizations and ompei the labor bureaucrats a acherous socialist leaders to cea dividing the workers. Out of this ca paign must emerge concrete steps to- wards the formation of a labor eT 8 Child Labor On the duestion of child labor read in the socialist platform: pledge ourselves to maintain the New York standards and work for the idoption of the federal amendment.” So we see that the socialist party}. h fore has sunk so low and has become 80 meek and submissive that it is SATIS- FEED with the child labor laws of Néw York. Everything is so perfect that Kere can be no 1 is it line ry fitting infleed, 176 nie 1 ete claims to represent the working class that it accepts the laws of capitalism without one bit of criticism or sug- gestions for improvement. HE Communist platform demands the abolition of all child labor under the age of sixteen, and a sys- tem of compensation for those famil- ies upon whom such a law would work a hardship. Municipal Employers On municipal employers the social- ist party writes vaguely, on no politio- al interference and speaks of ade- quate pay and the recognition of abil- ity, while the Communist platform comes out openly with a proposal for the right to strike for municipal em- ployers,. the prevailing union rate of wages and the 44-hours week, all of which are ignored in the socialist party platform. Housing ’ On the question of housing the so cialist party provides for the building apartm. “these should be of a sort for which thé rent should In the ,socialist party platform. we find the slogan} “Win New York for the | tor landlords to build new campaign in favor of a united labor} are the bulk of the working cannot afford more ee tion on build! : 4 ake 6 per ‘cent interest. on. rent rooms at $7.50 and legitimate profit, ~~ HE Workers Wen ye proposés the construction | dwellings for the workers by the city to be rented to them without profit Ind what is much more important. for the immediate terrible housing situa- tion, “the fixation by the state of a, ing’s- of workers’ families and their ability to pay.” (From the Workers Party platform.) This of course, is a revolutionary demand, whereas the so- cialist party does not even propose 1. reformist demand as moderate as that of the commission on housing, appointed by the democratic governor. ‘Health. On the question of health, we see that the socialist party does not view that quegtion from a working class point of view, their entire health pro- gram could be adopted by any cap- italist legislature with a guarantee that no representative of the bosses would ever have any remorse as to have violated the interest of the class he represents. Various “practical” measures for the consolidation of hospitals, for a change in the number of bureaus of the health department; — socialist 3 is 80 far re- moved from the workers that it per room.” This governor’s commis- e ot low rent scale based upon the earn“ for a deputy commissioner to en e 2 “es are spicuously * mike socialist plat- form. ~ Unemployment. 4 On the question of unemployment, there is no mention of it in the social- munist) Party demands the establish- | ment of a system of unemployment insurance, maintenance of the unem- ployed by the city at trade-union rates until work can be found for them. Also the complete elimination of the employment agency sharks the establishment of a city monopoly in job placements, with workers’ control of the agencies thru participation in the management. It also demands two weeks’ pay for all workers dis- missed from their 10bs. f Schools. 41s on the question of schools the no mention being made of it. * The Workers (Communist) FF tore that time. The Overthrow of. a e Once more the nosialiat, party is not ist platform, while the Workers (Com- | socialist party r a * rerward to EN Linley: In. the League there are no longer Aitterences on political ques- tions! The League completely and unquestionably accepts the decisions: of the E. C. C. I.! A decisive strug- gle against the right danger against e right elements which openly ‘or vertly lead à flight against the line ‘of the Executive of the Comintern The unity of the League! The | solidation and utilization of all Com- munist forces! The unanimous sup- port of the N. E. C.! mass work! A mass League!“ These are of . factionalism generated almost two years of struggle in the League and Party and remaining after the recent Party and ‘League conventions have ‘finally been liqui- dated and complete, organe, unity established in the Wound, Workers (Communist) Leagt of America: * Altho the decisions of the been intern, the fourth ren don of the W. P., and the third convention of the V. W. L. had removed the polit- ical basis for the internd) differences in the organization, the remains of the factional spirit naturally hung over and did not disappear immediately in the ranks of our League. It also be- who agree with him in his attitude on the relation of the Comintern to thé American Party center of crystallization of a right wing fraction and was ‘tending to strengthen and group around itself the right wing elements of the Party. not exceed the rent of nine or ten On the other hand, signs began to formation of an intermediate group,“ the slogans. upon which the remains | gan to grow apparent that the posi-“ tion of Comrade Foster and those was becoming the ba RESOLUTION UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED BY THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE V. . 1. * jappear of the „5 ot an or intermediate group and a new frac- tion, It was on the basis of the com- * ‘plete liquidation of the remains of |i factionalism, the struggle against the | the right dangers” involved in the pos- tion of the group that continues tc follow the line of Comrade . Foster after the cabled decision of the C. I.,“ “the decisive. struggle against the and the consolidation of all Bolshevik. was | finally accomplished in the Thru the initiative of the Executive Committee of the Young. Communist nternational, the political committee of the N. E. C. in conjunction with all | the members of. the N. E. C. who ſoduld be summoned considered the situation in the League and finally = to the conclusion recorded in This resolution, providing polit- itical basis for unity, is a registration of the fact that henceforth there are no longer any “groups” in the Y. W. L.; henceforth there will not be any “groupings” on committees and in the units of the organization. Henceforth.. the League is a united whole. the factional struggle a thing or past, the League is now turn ing — face, to mass work. The N. E. C. d the resolution reads, that the first task on the basis of the accepted political line is to con- centrate all efforts to accomplish real mass work by the League. The work in the mills, trade unions, sport or- ganizations and others, reorganization 5 the unanimously accepted resolhtion printed elsewhere in this issue. ese are the tasks eae ake be made the center. of our attention.“ A new page has been turned in the history of the Communist youth movement in this country. With unit- ed forces, forward to the building of a a Taree League of Youth in a erica elements in the League, * 0 strength lies in unity under e leadership. of the the V. C. I. SE oes The t Unity Resolution. : 3 e 285 The National Executive Committee of the Young Workers 1 League, after considering and ing the situation in the —— ee ers (Communist) League, came to the following conclusions: f o loten aue diherences on political questions. The League completely and unquestionably accepts the de- cisions of the Executive Committee of the Communist International and the Fourth Convention of the Workers (Communist) Party and greets the beginning of the process of Bolshevi- zation. 2. Considering that the. right dan- ger is great, the N. E. C. declares that it will lead a decisive struggle against all right elements, elements which“ will openly or covertly lead a Acht against the line of the Bxecutive of the Comintern. The position of the group which continues to follow the line of Comrade Foster after the car bled decision of the C. I, tends to (Continued on page 55 A * 2 822 ; LA * — > *¢ 4 7 r N 7 — 2 * — > a -" a ~ ; n.. ͤ——P— —EmFñ— — IRE ov)
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the subject ot this meeting. Workers Give Self. N I" IS. human life in action, and all life is action; no action, no life. Labor is human life, from the very highest conceivable plane. For when the | : has to give ‘himself, he can not send it by special messenger, he has to go with it himself and stand by it every minute of his working hours every day of every year. The great cause of labor, then, is a cause of humanity at bottom. It is the greatest of all causes. It is the greatest of all human movements. The parasite group are generally 80 blinded by ‘their beliefs that they can- not co-operate with it. Bisbop Thinks Little. ee A BISHOP does but little work, they are too busy to work. They are ie, busy to think. I did not do much thinking until after I had resigned from my diocese. My time during the whole period had been taken up the international labor mor „ and politics and many ‘manif that the gods in the skies, Je- sus, Buddha, Jehovah, Allah, all of them were only symbols such 48 our Uucle Sam and Santa Claus. I found lution and revolution too. I made this great discovery that the words “evolu- | tion and revolution” go hand in hand. The greatest movement I know of is There are many theories of of them, but theer is really: only human race. We are the mothers, daughters of one family: It does not | Mills, trade [matter whether you are protestant, catholic or a Jew, I could be all of them. It makes no difference whether vou are christian, heathen or atheist. It still remains that we all belong to the human race. That is all there is n res , When you see this-as I do it will change your ideas about everything, even as it did mine. This fact has now become so obvious that even some of the theologians are beginning | to realize that it is the truth. When a theologian realizes that anything is true, it is interesting. | 8 Religious Change. : ization of all Communist forces—| _thesé are the fundamental prerequis- ites for successful development of the American Communist movement of the youth. 4] 4. The N. K. C. declares that one of the biggest failures of the last con- vention of the Young Workers (Com- munist) League was complete neglect of the problems of the Communist wement ot the youth. ~ : I 5. The: N. E. C. declares tat the { first task on the basis of, the accept. Jed political une is to concentrate all forts to accgmplish mass work by. the League. The, work in the tions and work among the Negroes, work in op- ponent organizations, etc.—that is the task which must be made the center of our attention. As a first practical accomplishment along this line, the N. FE. C. considers it necessary to or- ine striking miners, A United League! Decisive end to the factional. fight! Fight against right dangers. and for the line of the E. C. C. I. and for the Central Com- N ee of the Party! Real mass work, ganize quickly the campaign amongst Wrap your lunch in a copy of the DAILY WORKER and give it (the DAILY WORKER, not the lunch) to vour shop mate. 1 r ; ee i 1 ' 72 1 oa | ab } , | 11141 ' ; 114 : N ; 14 14 ö 14 | i ae 14 Bi ' =" Negro Slavery, Crime of the Clergy By Pasquale Russo. This interesting and ed- — —— ucational Bock is a treatise on chattel and wage slave- ry, presenting a brief his- torical discussion of the Negro problem in THE UNITED STATES. 25 CENTS Send your order for book and ad- dress all communications to: Modern School of Pedagogy, 833 Sedgwick Street, Chicago, Ill. CET pce hasty ag oe . i tie joo Dees eae 4 x birttr, as if that, or any of their other su , is could have anything to do with the needs of the world. They cannot trade any longer on the fall of Adam and the blood of Jesus. They cannot appeal to a twentieth ; century earth with a tenth cen- tury hell. We have lots of real hells fF ot our own, and we want to get rid of them, among them are: the bells of unemployment, disfranchisement, } y-jlynthing and all the other kinds of hell that the church holds up to—t f heils, I know as well as you do, which should claim our attéftion’ = 9 = Fou workers are saints outside the 0 church, and the unbelievers and the 1 sinners and owners inside the church. b c g ; 12 , , have come to deny religion. -- tide 2 155 ne | As I said the labor movement] Down with capitalism! should have a place for bishops and a] Long live Communism! place for Darwinian and Marxian) Down with race hatred.. schools ap See Long live the universal brother. #. . | Capitalism. is politically Lager hood. | pe , and the churches that support capital „ rie ism are religiously bankrupt. The peo- Down with wars. — e classless, raceless, warless world and] and the Chinese. 4S capitalism is always stirring up en] d now, down with Jim Crowism. mity between nations and the races] Long live the American Negro La- |The church is busy questioning if|bor Congress on the same footing with | they believe literally in the virgin’ American Caucasians! other world to imperialism. The German eo 2 . : ops, they too, did not say what heresy bs a — : ; ~ gape „ The T. W. I. Unity Resolution | Living In Age of Science. perialiam; imperialent to burn. It bas 2 . ng va : t age been evolved into despotism. (Continued from page 4) factivity and accomplishments. now, an age of science, and he- „ bediene Think: strengthen the right elements of the] Herbert Zam, Nat Kaplan, Will Her- resy is unknown in this age of science. 4h ab 7), |, Paety and to the crystallisation Of a) berg, Jobn Harvey, H. V. Phillips, || In the course of this lecture there There is no time to tell the whole] new fraction. The N. E. C. complete- John Williamson, Al Schaap, Max | will be several references to the un- story of the war, but twenty million] I supports the present Central Com-|Schachtman, Max Salzman, Valeria finished case of the bishops against | young lives were crushed out and the mittee of the Party and calls upon Meltz. Jay Lovestone. é me. o Aes ed ‘world flowed with blood before this all units of the League e This resolution has the support of You workers think von can get |quarrel of the gods in the sky and-the|*upport. The N. B.C. thinks that it/the K. C. Y. C. I. and the Central along without the bishops,’ but they |capitalists on earth came to an end.] is necessary to combine all elements) Committee of the Workers (Com- Pe: rer 1 asy in my Jous| im the Party which honestly want to] munist) Party. , : : | 8 follow the line of the C. I. The N. : need you. They need to understand church activities, I would have whoop-| °°" © 7. ** — 7 9 need to teel ed it up for the church. But 1 had] E. C. thinks it is necessary to cee pee des your point of view. They n home to die. I didn’t die, I am | *ttensthen the work for winning and Workers and Taxation — st itke [still living. I had alittle time to{ Attracting all” vacillating comrades ( Jar think, something I bad never had be-. _ (Continued from page 17. . e and no Op bo 0 N ies . Adah ö [ : . 000 plus 1 i . : etapa . ¥ ik N 5 „ daha * rf ont ae NN 5 — ver that snr — ps new toy. -I thought, nd 5 <a Rigen ea fee gnttis eT Pe. Tae | proposal leave untouched 4 | II tound that neither the American god, group. The N. E. C. thinks that the | most of those incomes which are bas- ee eer ste logic of the struggle must Inevitably | d éyciusivel | nor the German god was real. “bring such a group to a bloc with the vely on wages or salaries The gods in the skies, Jesus, Jeho- fight wing cloments in the Party and will at the same time limit all vah, Buddha, Allah, hadn’t done any- destroy the line of the E. C. C. 1 ble incomes to $25,000 income thing. They didn’t cause the war and pa oh goal tee per year. This system of taxation } ; couldn't stop it, or prevent future] 3. In regard to the . situa-| Will place the major portion upon do lots of work, every stroke is a wars. And so long as we look to them | tion, the N. E. C. thinks it is neces- high incomes and will thus make saintly act. That is why you are for any help we shall be in a hopeless| sary to fight against the remaining those pay for the expenses of gov- saints. Human acts depend upon/plight. 1 found that if,¢hese’ gods | factional spirit seriously pre- ernment who own it. ‘ani xt work. | „ ais Se were real that I had taught to] vents the development of the League In connection with this tax question 1 am not u war with the church. I worship, they w A that The N. E. C. greets these comrades it must be made clear that the gov - am simply trying to liberate it from a derent man would have nothing i-! of the former majority who began the | ernment is not a power which is over its ‘ruinous supernaturalisms. Tou do with them. The only criticism II fight as<in«+ the right wing elements and above all clgsses: and in wich know that divided masses can not could make of the christion god was] and have now taken the logical step every inhabitant has an equal share * get anywhere. I know that your that he had evolved into such a terri- towards the complete unification of} but that it is an instrument in the unions that are divided cannot get ble god and that he was not real. He the league. Complete unanimous hands of one class, the capitalists, and anywhere. You have converted me to was supposed to have written thé bi- u work is possible and necessary. | used against all other classes who are your v. Iam now going to convert | ble, but the bible was written by man. The unity of the League, the unanim- | exploited by the capitalists. 4 you to mine. I shall not ‘stray from | He was supposed to have handed ‘ous support of the N. E. C., the util- Vie e eee ol whY. 20 2390 jas with building up the church. I had #8 a mass League, these are the funda- I e e Shah deen extremely busy bringing souls to HE big religious institutions do not mental slogans upon which the N. E | MIA god. I did not know what the church “readily disappear, they simply C. calls all the units of the league to *
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44! 5 * ot PL eet BARE Ge > ; pirate a 5 38 42 N ey * ogee FALL? 2 ** 4 Loa 2 22 ae” at ah ar, oe oes N 2 o~ . 1 ö * R EN F — eee e ; 1 ** 3 * * — . — 5 7 5. e 0 0 Ty aie 4 ie ie > irr. * — Pr. * * Wi 2 w >: ‘ . . 1 . 8 te, * 4 j , F ; 5 R 3 N VV Mee ieee aS" : * 4 ae ö NEW YORK, Oct. 30.—~The problen } teaching adult workers 8 8 4s a technical and or- 7 question that agitpror and teachers of our classes al over the country are up against at the present time. Educational | 2 work is beginning, altho slowly, due * il ‘| yf 117 aL 1 i 1115 ous. oe 7 1 on p + peepee : Working Class Education. . + : lecture method, iht Our aim is not to help the worker }giving them a chance commits 4 3 . oh 36 : coming to our classes. to make up for ** reference books, fl ings, a lack of culture. Our party member] Just a few more suggestions,—and \ aS x-|dexes, etc. tatot 4 or sympathizer hasn't ae * it ts the duty ot the student, to him- ™*iming. E oe 8 ' * him 3 er Ae = its | Self and to the class, as well as of e . perso’ . N own sake, or the like, The difficulties | the teacher, to see that a ee ces, failures oar : 9 facing him and us are very great, and sone ke erat The teacher should es ‘ial methods and devices, and the 1 un u almost @ miracle that we accom-] be simple patient in presente une. we shall be able to compile a : a much as we do. I shall tion, proceeding step by step, and body of experim experier and || ‘enumerate but a few of the difficulties eee tested methods that will make our | ve must consider. ae agp rol gt work easier every term, and will en- | After a hard days work, the Aas. often ° able us to put advanced and quali- K worker-student is too tired for ver non when this is so, but it can be fied students into the work of teach- effective studying. His vocabulary is C ing. To raise the level of the whole often poor, courage and self conft- 8 22 party, and to penetrate with our dence are lacking. He hasn't had a ee lag anon attention, and when agitation, propaganda and education | change to develop the habit of — winded rn 70 teen them by 2 to every party member and sym- ing, and abstract thinking comes with uf 50 * vely touch, a change pathizer—that is our task, and proper some effort. The difficulty of sum- iba pitch, rapidity, te.). 2 methods will in large measure enable marizing rapidly, of getting the cen- Provocative: statement, @ “heresy, de te. | tral thot of a page or 1 discussion, of | takin notes, of reviewing, etc., mu ' , a oe be tabon imto account by the teacher The A. F. 07 Struggle or class leader. Most workers have : baa 28 se J no facilities for home study (a quiet e less pressure from every side brought corner, time, books, and the like), (Continued from page 3) in which world cap-_ especially if they are active in the | fciaidom has succeeded only in satis- forces the bosses party, their shop, and their union. tying the amorphous liberal group than “No Wage Re- And we must remember that most Of | which has no economic power. Cut Down the Hours of those coming to 1 rde big bosses who speak thru the ot Real Wages,” etc. | | — * movement. The small — The — 3 F Id to deny and avoid | amount of general education most cept willingly enough the sections of |’ ass struggle, the A. F. L. workers have, and the “natural” dis- the statement lage ) aon to every con- inclination on the part of adults to have to with Nat such a rt needed for | tion aud “elinting : : ag cg ce difficulties | :nébe sentences de “tacing the instructor. These are but 1 Bh agate moc Pons ttt | of the us ee are enough to put teaching methods interpreted correctly them the dort, * f consideration and for 1 ot labor to go out and raise 8 ö 5 — question Faulty. 6 earn- . ͤ d Seopa co | mare ne te forte [a omens rete ana thoughts are not only for the teacher; | pany union polciy endorsed by the big f ill the student who sees in them a way | bosses and blessed by Green, Woll and ) | T the left wing has to do now out must insist on the teacher of his Co. ‘ a | is to further expose the double- class giving some thought to them, AT the A. F. of L. officiakiom : 5 @ jdealing of the officialdom—to show ‘and some trial) must consider wheth- | Wet out to do was to demand a 6 that even their truckling to the im- d er the old lecture method is not ready larger return for the aristocracy of perialist masters “by repudiating the aan *.— 8 labor as à further reward for its sup-| . „ Would be no better off for Purcell, the British and Russian port of the Dawes plan, war on the n "ew investment .... in many |unions and world trade union unity, purpose is not to provide a laboratory Communiats and the left in fields they (the employers) have by expulsions of Co — : wing in gen- st. mmunists and war for the perfection of the teacher’s ral, oppositi t found. that shorter hours are not | on the left wi : io he — art. We don't dispense knowledge; 5 oF to recognition of ne fusal dorse ucing as much per worker per and work for a labor by bi _we try to help our comrades use e Russia Ang werkt .tende aalon hour ae did the-tee-hour day... Itzayal of the German worker oe ) their brains, think out problems for unity and the betrayal of the Mexican Also aggression on one side causes | Da : | ’ ifica ea ° themselves and finally to put their 2 movement, to Wall Street. Nuker. aggression on the other. Employers sara aad gos Be Bibione * thoughts into clear language. There- 4 m going to take steps to get crament may stand on the principle that la- | Russia, by eulogies of American ¢ fore’ the lecture method should be a larger share of the loot—nothing bor should get less in return in SS, ee more. 05 used sparingly, if at all. Cut and da proportion to the slacking it is do- —— ae against industrial unionism and their dried lectures poured into the brain- Put the entire absence of theoretical] ing . . . Logic would come as close Lperpetuation of 107 warring unions— all have failed to alter one hairs- 2 knowledge which characterizes the the ee i. dre e, t ai ggg labor leadership, ied thom» Sarg, . . one Peaion w : : into making a grave error. rupees and. stereotyped formulas, , | gees Nation characterizes the con- which disable us in a new situation the usually comatose Mil-|+ vention as “optimistic and ag or an unexpected attack. waukee Leader is able to see the | gressive.” ene When the lecture.is absolutely ne- implications involved. It Says edi- B. C. Forbes, financial writer for the cessary, (and it sometimes is, to give | torially: Hearst papers, has his article on the information not otherwise easily if labor succeeds in its efforts convention headed: | | attainable), it should be short, n- to enforce a general eight-hour day American Federation of Labor : nx Fenn formal, and must permit interruptions] or shorten it, keep up real wages, | Wage Policy Should Meet Approval [Norkers. coupled with a negation of 0 in the way of questions, brief, re-] raise them with productivity, and of Bosses. the class struggle by the workers | levant discussion or disagreement,| attain to a voice and vote in the He concludes by saying: themselves, are upon what the life etc. The argument that it breaks the | management of industries; it will |. American labor leaders have acted [of capitalism depends. is train of thought of the teacher, that | amount to an economic and political | much more sensibly at their con- Forcing down the standards of the X. it prevents him from making a beauti-| revolution. vention than British labor leaders | Workers intensifies the class struggle. fully rounded and polished oration,| CAPITALISM HAS REACHED A | have been acting at their recent con- It is for the left wing leadership to must be given short shrift. The lec-| STAGE IN WHICH EVEN A PURE- | ventions. | give it conscious direction in spite ture should be self-contained, giving] AND-SIMPLE TRADE UNION DE- chop suey mixture of opinion ot the A. F. of L. officials, The Com- only the necessary facts and should MAND CAN SET OFF REVOLU- from the American press and labor munists in the left wing must and not overflow into a complete handling| TIONARY RESULTS. THIS is |officialdom is a result of the conflict-| Will direct the whole struggle against of the subject. Discussion by the case | DRASTICALLY ILLUSTRATED BY | ing interests in the economic and po- the state power—that power which should take up most of the time, the THE SITUATION IN GREAT BRIT- | litical structure, but it is also probable has murdered so many of William instructor only directing its relevan- AIN, WHERE THE SIMPLE og. that the labor bureaucracy has been Green's fellow unionists, but in which cy, preventing verbosity and showing-| MAND OF THE MINERS FOR A |stung by repeated criticism that it has he claims we are all “sovereign.” « » off, and encouraging the shy or back-| MAINTENANCE OF THE OLD no theory to guide its actions either] “Increase in Real Wages,” “No Wa ward students to participate. WAGE SCALE THREATENS TO ſon the industrial or political field. In|Reductions,” “Shorten the Hours of The Discussion Method. START A GENERAL LOCKOUT attempting to correct this error it has Labor“ and “Organize the Unorgan Instead of telling, the teacher] OR A GENERAL STRIKE, thrown the doors wide open for the|ized,” these are the immediate slogans should ask questions, even if often] The New York Times says that class conscious elements in the unions. for building up a left bloc which can they must be leading questions, such The. circumstances that gave rise : T better slogans could any be developed into a real revolutionary as, “Isn’t it a fact that... :“ or] to thiadeciaration somewhat dampen left wing want, when the relent-j force. . 2 * * 4 pa ee 2
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ef 2 0 ES f > 4 * 1 ¥ K — 2 ; . — + > » 9 * 8 >. a — . ~~ + 1 4 4 a 4 ELTA a 5 1 99 : 1 5 7 4 P . * 41 * ea 2 >. a= t =. “a ‘Gast gt Bad : = * 5 — yw hr 6 2 ’ 2 21 7 ‘i *. : : 5 * 5 1 t 13 0 ord Pe ve 14 1 1 120 EE 1 * 7 4 4G 7 * oy 55 5 * — a 7 4 — g 3 1 Pu a * * f N 99 2 1 7 . „ * py & 3 * x ; pers > 4 ‘ * 4 > N 3 8 et 7 1 * 1 ** . " are = party. are excellent broletarlan ica 2nd ary party, by approaching them in ssiona have the proper manner, making clear to n * 1 business and the duties of its bers. + 2 * * — to the We must abolish the present federa- at the end our party on the basis of shop nuclei. 2 the greater This new form ot organization 5 in Casual views oc the party distr ict * — * ¢ 6 th «9% 2 i 1 AEF i i 7 if i 41 leading comrades of the language sec- tions. I will quote a letter from a certain well-known comrade of the New York district, which he sent me the other day. After making a reor- ‘ganization tour thruout the district, he writes the following: | ei met so much hésitation and fal- tering among the membership that the situation in our propaganda in our press and speeches the necessity for the Com- munist organization forms and activi- ties. And now when we have to start to build up a Communist form of organization and to get more clear- ness of the ideological views of the party we find the masses, that have been under our innuence and who should now become the best elements of our party, unripe. Even those com- whom we have considered the vanguard of our federation, we find hesitating and faltering; not to speak of the masses who have been with us only for social purposes.” This same comrade writes that in his second meeting in the New York Finnish branch, when he was elaborating such an important question as the resolu- tions and proceedings of the national convention of our party and also the question, of reorganization, only twelve people were attending, altho the New York branch has a member- ship of about 400. . Comrades, this_letter speaks a seri- ous language about the situation we now find ourselves in. It shows to us, as this comrade rightly admits, how . i. > “ . : ef — : 11 155 | * 6 — - = == — - in = ae a ae tlt aa SS eS — ss * E „ ö A Book for the „Social Struggles and Thought,” by M. Beer, Boston. Small,. Maynard 4 Co. 1925, 82. It is not often that a book from the flood poured forth from capitalist pub- listing houses can be highly recom- : The large field covered dicated by mentioning the Combe, Gray, Thompson, Morgan, Bray, the Chartists, Blaaqui, Prou- dhon, Pecqueur, Cabet, Leroux, Blanc, and many lesser lights. Beer has ac- complished the seeming impossible in giving not only the essence of the ideas of each of these writers and leaders, but also the social and eco- nomic setting, the background and significance of each, in a manner which is thoroly in the spirit of the modern revolutionary worker, all with- in the compass of one small book. Of particular interest are the brief pages in which Beer shows that the demand for “democracy” in the early revolutionary movement, and in the Communist Manifesto of Marx and Engels, had nothing in common with the sickly conception of the present- day social-democrats—the Bergers “rule of the people” was demand for the dictatorship of the proletariat. Thus Beer.quotes Louis Bland (‘‘His- torie de dix ans”): “The people is the whole of the citizens who, pos- sessing no capital, are-completely de- pendent upon others for the necessi- ties of life.” And Charles Beranger (in a petition to the Chamber of Dep- uties, Feb. 3, 1831): “The people is the whole of those who work, who are robbed of their social existence, who possess nothing; you know whom I mean: the proletariat.” And En- fantin’s criticism of the July revo- lution: “the people or the proletariat fought on the barricades, but after the victory the bourgeoisie armed ag- ainst the proletariat.” Beer goes on to say: Worker's Shelf. | Democracy m the sense of the Com- unist Manifesto accordingly means the rule of the working class.” note of proletarian revolution was struck by the first working class fighters, whose glorious tradition was to be by and brot to fruition under Viadimir Lenin. Earl R. Browder. mn Verdict May Save Finnish Worker The United States circuit court of appeals of the eighth circuit of which the district of Minnesota ‘s a part, handed down a decision in two cases involving the same question of law as the Sanna Kannasto case holding that the so-called wartime passport act is a wartime emergency legislation and that it is no longer in effect. This decision is expected to com- pel the court to release Mrs. Kan- an alleged violation of this notorious Iwa. Mrs. Kannasto is of Finnish na- tionality and her arrest was brot about thru the efforts of white guard Finns, who hated her because of her activity in behalf of the workers. Her deportation is sought by the federal authorities, j Wrap your lunch in a copy of the DAILY WORKER and give it (the DAILY WORKER, not the lunch) to your shop-mate. - „ r 1 ge Pyke from Deportation 3 2 nasto from criminal prosecution for * * *
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7 ‘ASSIST SEATTLE, Wash. Oct. 30.—The Seattle district organization 4 , a : ee" ‘ Wilh wa 3 a * : . et ie ä 1 * f * ea A 2 J — N 5 . r > " 4 4, 5 a cesT tom, mer te mr rei, | £3 4 ing the party membership to save The DAILY and loyal member must and will res- — ca and join in our ef- forts to help save our greatest medi- um of education and the most for- midable weapon we possess against the common age “Surely, es, no Communist and loyal member of our party would dare even think of remaining indif ferent, site nil to do his or her duty when our DAILY WORKER is to bring The DAILY WORKER into existence and were successful in keep- ing it going ever since, certainly can- not afford to allow its publication to be suspended. This must not happen and will not happen so long as every member answers this most urgent appeal to duty. At is therefore evident that unless we can mobilize our entire member- ship and money rushed to The DAILY WORKER, we shall have cause to re- gret our failure to perform our duty as it becomes Communists and the loss. of our paper which has been fighting our battles and served us as an inspiration ever since it came into existence. “Every branch secretary is called upon to follow immediately these 1. structions: “1, Immediately call a 8 meeting of the branch membership and ore * Dare all members . F Meet shall at once e- lect a Help Save The DAILY WORK- committee who will immediately start raising funds from the members present by the sale of Help Save The | DAILY WORKER stampts and rush the full amount to The DAILY WORKER as an advance of the mem- bership quota. | “3. Every member should be given a set sheet of Help Save The DAILY WORKER stamps and urged to sell same to friends and 1 and ‘turp in lo the comm of which the secretary should be a member, the amount from the sale and con- tributions, as speedily as possible. “4. The Help Save The DAILY WORKER Committee shall visit sub- scribers of The DAILY WORKER urging support, renewal of subscript- ions, visit friends and sympathizers and members who have failed to at- tend the meeting and urge them to act at once we must not Par - “Conirades, The DAILY WORKER t= piration to the thousands of of our class. It is the only n their homes, hovels abode, in most distant parts at times and places when and where no one and no other medium will or can. “Comrades, let us demonstrate that we Communists not only can save The DAILY WORKER, but make it the greatest Communist and * paper in America. Rush, funds—much or little—to The DAILY WORKER. : . “Secretaries are urged to keep in touch with the acting District Organ- izer informing him of funds sent and) progress made, etc. - “Fraternally yours, “Aaron Fislerman, 5 our sae propagandist, | news| ew ) and the a . 8 0 and as- | Bi and places of| ¥® 2 en following appeal has been 8 to the entire ‘membership in the ab me! of. Jersey City, N. J.—Workers’ Hall, 387 Grand St., Nov. 7, at 8 p. m. Bayonne, N. J.—Workmen’s Circle Hall, 725 W. Pate ate 8, 2 p. m. cee N. Nov. 7, at Sts., Nov. 6, at 8 p. m. 3 255 H. Tallentire. ington, D. C.— Playhouse, 1814 Street NW. Dor. 8, at 8 p. m. D. Wolfe. — District car en 12.” plan for the reorganization the regis- tration wag taken. It is worth While the city proyed to be in the lead of comrades registered. The Finnish. branch has registered ee 100 per cent. The ‘reorganization committee is now classifying the results of the re- gistration and about 6 or 7 funttion- ing nuclei will be formed within the next few days. The rest of the com- rades will be organized into Inter- national -branches. 75 Per Cent Attendance. contribute and assist in the rasing 3 The second city to begin the reor- of — “This committee shall keep ganization was oe eit which is COMMUNIST SCHOOL IN LOS ANGELES INFULL sw ING a „ ae WM. SCHNEIDERMANN LOS ANGELES, Oct, 30,—The. school conducted by the ies and the party is one of the first steps we are taking toward Bolshevization. The four classes, conducted every Sunday afternoon, are now in their third week. and we have between 30 and 40 comrades registered and enthusiastically par- ticipating, also many outsiders have been attending the: classes and taking advantage of the educational opportunities offered. The class include the History of the Labor ee Public Speaking, Marxian Hconomics, and History of the Three Internationals, The members are beginning to realize that * out a revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement,“ and not only are the classes well-attend- ed, but the members are taking an active part in the discussions, 80 far the lure of pleasure hag not yet been able to diminish the attendance, and altho the courses will only run for six weeks and thus will not be able to go thoroly into the subjects discussed, they will lay the ground work for the correct theoretical back ground necessary for all Communists to have if they expect to carry on their revolutionary tasks among the workers, At the end of the four courses, there will be another set ot knowledge we will be able to utilize to good advantage in the various ac tivities of the party and the league, Members wishing to. attend, register any Sunday afternoon at 224 8. Spring — Room 200, Los Angeles, — courses prepared on Communist pol. owned and . by. the steel in attendance and in the 3 pee ting 1 nish comrades again resented but the South Slav branch was in the lead. Committees rnd | appointed both in Pittsburgh and in McKeesport to secure the Barapa of those members who to be present at the membership meetings. The registration in McKeesport | shows that practically all members there will be no need for any street nuclei. Work COhttinues. ee > It is worth while mentioning that while the registration is being taken and the reo is taking place thé party work is not being hindered in any way. Quite to the contrary, Iffe everywhere in the district. wark, J Newark Labor Lyceum 704 8. 14 St, Nov. 6, at 8 p. m. Joseph Manley f 4 *% 27 4 speaker. 2 Pa. —Labor Lyceum, 6th _ q noticing that the Finnish r In . pat oF about 75 . 5 were well rep-| will de organized into shop nuclei and the organization shows signs of new | Waal, oper ne. Ave., Nov. 8, 3 —— Ave., 8 p. m. Local W. an a Tom Lewis. Hartford, ‘Conn Labor Sam Darey. 158 Crown St., wr 6, J. O. Bentall. Waterbury, . Charles — abe New Haven, — 8 nan Main Street, Mn ae ete — 4 83 Hall, 517 e . Loree: . siti a at 2 b. m. = will proceed under the direct supervision of this reorganization committee. * gd Wee x. 3 Pittsburgh was the starting point. A membership meeting was held | which was attended by at least 75 per cent ot the. — After. the district organizer outlined a detailed + Nov. 6, at speaker Pullen, Inl.—Strumils Hall, 107 St. Indiana Ave., Nov. 8 at 6:30 p. m. Kaplan. Disfuth, a ee Hall, ei 5 at Ronn, [att ee det An Polk & Turk St., Nov. 6, at 8 p. m. Berkeley, Calif. Finnish Hall, 1819— 10th Street, Nov. 8. Local speaker. Educational Alliance, 287 Windsor Ave., Nov. 6, at 8. p. m. Bertram D. Wolfe, me at 8 p. m. — — — * atm PI TTSB 400 URGH FINNISH COMRADES PT GOOD SYSTEM TO ASSIST PARTY ORGAN, THE DAILY WORKER needs of Te DAILY WORKER. . spent In “free subscriptions.” nish branch of Pittsburgh. > fone ‘PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct 30.—At the läst meeting of the Pittsburgh Fin nish branch of the Workers Party, considerable attention was given t to the Upon the recommendation of the b branch executive committee the following proposition Was adopted: ‘To rush im- mediately to The. DAILY WORKER 680 and to set aside another $30 to be | Several names of workers were submitted by the comrades to whom The DAILY WORKER should be sent for a certain period 0 time ‘free of charge, The branch will pay The DAILY WORKER for scriptions.” In this way The DAILY WORKER will be benefited financially and will Increase its circulation at the same time. Other branches of the party should follow the example set by the Fin- “free sub- . «| ; " * — — * } — we REE ———U— 4 — —