Daily Worker
November 4, 1925
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| ‘ ‘ eognize the revoluti ey (Spécial to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK,’ Nov. 2.—Represent- atives of over 100,000 trade unionists meeting at Beethoven’ Hall Sunday aftern igid the final plans for the big | ion planned for A. A. Pur cell official representative of the British trade unions in this cquntry. Mr. Purcell is to address a mass meet- -ing here on Tuesday, Nov. 17, at the New Star Casino, under the auspices. of the trade union committee for or- ganizing the Purcell meeting. The conference was addressed by Alfred J. Boulton of the Stereotypers’ Union and a prominent figure in the local labor movement, in reference to Purcell’s ‘visit Boulton said: Labor Crisis Demands Unity “We are glad to have him here to speak on world trade union unity. Eng- land instead of going forward, has gone bagkward since the world. war, / altho the sun never sets on the British | empire, according to an old byword, we can now say that wages never rise. The crisis in England demands ae union unity.” - Boulton then went on to con- ar conditions inEngland with those in Russia. According to the re port of Col. Haskell, of the American relief administration, Moscow is one of the busiest centers in Europe. Con- ditions in Russia today as compared with those of:four years ago, are noth- jexton and Hamilton decided to re- of France, while the factionaries re- fuse to recognize Russia altho she has been established for eight years. We want a scientific investigation of Rus- sia. We are going to hear both sides in spite of Coolidge and the other re- actionaries, The conference is planning a mid- night banquet for Purcell. The next ae will be held Sunday, Nov. 15. aH s Svea iption Rates: me ey NEW YORK EDITION : — | Day, Sept: 7, 1925, shows: atone) he > - Pi ~~ t -2 —— % me Oe ae - me * oo rh i or — < “a ‘Ayan i Mek 5 FOF. ah oe “+ Se — ¥ deal sa ac ih nea ve an eo pieetet th the ge aye Stony a ede cong the New York DAILY WORK Builders’_Club, which consists ‘of” the, most devoted and energetic conrad in New York. Membership in the club ig iin ited to those that prove their ldyalty., to the movement not merely with Swords: but with works. To become: d@'mem- | Parise Daily UB) ISHING rn a Price 3 Cents 7 , - : a” i a a mart b a 5 Le * = conan ay os a re rd sp ‘doliars’ ‘worth. of yubberip: tions or donations for The DAILY ‘WORKER within three months, sell that amount of tickets for DAILY WORKER Rescue Parties, of work at least. twenty: hours under the direc- tion of the manager of The DAILY WORKER New York agency. There are three hundred in the club at present and a campaign is now being j launched to increase this number to ber of The DAILY WORKER : Build: one thousand by the date of The 2 "mo meat @e-. (a IN Se! NEN To celebrate.that ea emese is being atrenged!to beheld iti Manhat- tan Lyceum on : Sunday, January 16. No tickets will!be sol@ for this anni- versary. banquet). and only those will be admitted who have first qualified for membership in The DAILY WORKER. Builders’. Club by produc- ing the-fequirediten dollars worth of subs, donations;) tickets sales or twen- aa 2 in hd ™ (a tyy hours wore “for The DAILY 0 , September 7, 1925 “6 tKEF Ce «es a ate” oe national. Ladies’ sweeping victor Pressers’ Local nest of gangste rism. (Special to The Daily Worker) ‘NEW YORK CITY, Nov. 2—The left wing of the Inter- Garment Workers’ Union has won another in the election held for the Cloak and Dress , hitherto a stronghold of the “eyemgenennenrgs . The left wing elected the entire administration, consisting of the manager, the chairman and twenty-four executive mem- bers, carrying also the entire delegation of ten for the coming a convention at Philadelphia of the I. L, G. W. For the First Time in Years This is the first time in the last six or seven years that the pressers had an election of their own under the supervision of a ‘rank and file election. committee elected by them- selves. Being led by the militant group of progressives, they have suc- ceeded in the course of a short per- iod in ridding their union of the most ‘vicious clique—Breslau and company ~—who was made to resign. ¢ The election that took place Satur- lay was the culminating point of this militant left wing struggle. For five long. hours the pressers stood in line Shi ess " ~ ew & * “RST; os ae ‘ nd - ‘The next cabating of The ney WORKER Builders’ Club will take place this coming Sunday, Nov. 8,-in Jamaica Woods. All readers of The DAILY WORKER around New, York are invited to participate in’ this DAILY WORKER Builders’ hike: thru the glorious autumn woods and to bring their friends along. The crowd will gather in two places at 108 East 14th street at 10 a. m., and at the end of the elevated line, Fulton ave- nue, Jamaica, at 11 a. m. SF ar Beeene anxious to cast their vote wr for the left wing. They were determ- ined to complete the job of extermin ating strong arm rule and misrepres entative officials, and the results ere evidence to this determination, Left Wings Nine to One Of the twelve hundred ballote cas§ fn the election, the left wingers J, Goreabky and H. Gerchikoff, the can didates respectively for manager and chairman, polled respectively 917 and 821 votes, while the opposition candi- dates who were supported by Sigman afd company, polled respectively 121 and 105 votes. The left wing has won Local 36 of the I. L. G. W. U. pressers, by an overwhelming landslide of nine to one, i gated ane be i aad ~ the foilowin the anthrac PS elit Ne Be “Reallers ‘of The DAILY WORKER will be ‘bbboeded to read article, the first One of a series to be written upon miners, their strike, its. significance, and the pro- posals of the Progressive Miners’ Committee for the miners, by the secretary: of the committee, Alex Reid, a miner who has spent 29 years working in the mines and who, while speaking for the Progressive Miners’ Committee in the anthracite region, was framed up on by treacherous union officials and local capitalist authorities and railroaded into, the Scranton jail where he re- mained for a full month before release a week ago. articles will follow daily. * TWO GREEK COMMUNISTS ELECTED | AS MAYORS DURING MUNICIPAL © ELECTIONS DESPITE MARTIAL LAW ATHENS, Nov. 2.—In the recent municipal elections held in all Grecian cities, Communists were elected as mayors of Xanthi, the biggest industrial center of Thrace, where the American Tobacco company has its largest ware- houses and factories, and Saloniki. eVE., Pitkin Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. FLECTION EVE REVEL Brownsville: section of Workers Party and Young Workers League will hold Bolshevization Rally, election Tuesday “Nov. 3, 1925 at WORKERS’ HALL, sate Fine E ntertainment - Dancing "Till Morning (Upiess the Neighbors Object) Radio News of Elections Good Music (jazz)? ADMISSION. 350.) Be SOS EET ee iidoddddddddoddso = KRUMBEIN, HEAR JOS. MANLEY, HAR Cc. E. RUTHENBERG, BEN GITLOW, M. J: OLGIN, CHAS. HEAR ’ ¥, . Ww. W. WEINSTONE, Ch ” — Defend : Workers ‘of New as w.L | STRIKING DOCKERS OF PERTH, AUSTRALIA, IN BATTLE WITH POLICE PERTH, Australia, Nov. Serious rioting broke out ete net day with vigorous fighting between dock strikers and the police. There were. many. casualties and armed reinforcements were called out to suppress the strikers. Sixty strikers were arrested. Sympathizers Help DAILY WORKER: At a christening “party in West Brownsville, Pa., a collection was taken up, with the-result that $15.00 was sent to save the DAILY WORK- ER. M. Perkushick -and M. Parlov spoke for the Communist press. Train Strikes Bus NAHUNTA, Ga., Nov. 2.—Six school children were reported killed and a score injured, when an Atlantic Coast line passenger train struck a school bus at a grade crossing, several miles eaves Nahunta. York! Admission 50 Cents “Aree veeeereeererere: aE ereiarerererererereraierens ae ererere felefefelesere ueretele IrJr- eer felesesefelese 3 sereiaver fae eeefeleiereseleleleseleseserels ae REVOLUTIONARY MUSIC— The Freiheit Gesangsverein Gregory Matisevich, Concertinist CENTRAL OPERA HOUSE 205 East 67th Street, New York City _ w ‘CONGRESS TO JOIN UNION Denounce Use of Race as Strikebreakers The American Negro Labor Con- gress which closed its. sessions Satur- day, Oct. 31, at the ‘Metropolitan Com- munity Center, 31918 Giles Ave., in one of its last sessioms passed a resolu- tion urging the American Negro work- ers to join the American Federation of Labor wherever possible. Where the unions maintain color bars that bar the Negro worker from the union, the Negro is ‘urged*to form unidtns of ta =) HEAR * Negro workers and then attempt to | join the American Federation of La bor. / In the following resolution d by the congress, the use of the Negro as a scab is condemned and the con- gress promises to fight any attempt to use the Negro as a strikebreaker to break the strikes of other workers: The Negro and Organized Labor “The Negro workers, who constitute one-seventh of the workers of Amer- ica,-~are today an important . factor which must be incorporated within (Continued on page 3) Life in the Capital. WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.— Three men were dead, two policemen beaten and a woman is recovering from poi- son, as the aftermath of the national capital’s week-end crime. NEWPORT,.-R. .[., Nov. 2.—The ninth body was recovered from the ill-fated submarine S-51. The body, retrieved from the engine room, was identified as Henry L.. Crawford, radioman. ereverererasevereserelelerereratele Jodo ddodododdddoee ao Other * ° { By ALEX REID (Secretary of the Progressive Miners’ Committee.) (Article 1.) The anthracite coal fields of America situated in three counties in the eastern section of the state of Pennsylvania com- prise the hard coal industry of Prccoue coutry and employ 158,000 mine workers. It is doubtful if anywhere on ony face of the earth there exists another 450 square miiles of territory with po- litical and-economic corruption to equal that which exists here. The Hell Hole of the Mines. Truly, the anthracite region has been referred to as the hell hole of the American mining industry where the miners are politically and econom- ically enslaved. Here today we have 150,000 mine workers on strike for a tem per cent incréase in wages, full recognition of the union, and a few minor changes in working conditions. All these are members of the United Mine Workers of America, while thousands of members of the same or- ganization have been loading anthra- cite and repairing and maintaining the’ coal companies’ property, thereby aiding and contributing to their own Joddodddod brate Her Economic Victory’ Workers of Brooklyn! E. RUTHENBERG, BEN GITLOW, BORIS LIFSCHITZ, ANTON REBECCA GRECHT, Chairman. JACK STACHEL, BIMBA. HEAR defeat, and’ this with the active sup- port of the mine workers’ union offici- als, who seem to be entirely incompe- tent or traitorous to the coal-diggers’ cause, _ te = Caring for Bosses’ Property. I will return to the question of star- vation wages and hellish working con- ditions in a future article. The pres- ent article deals with a condition in the anthracite region that calls for the immediate attention, not only of the hard-coal miners; but the bituminous miners as well, namely—stock coal loading, and washing, and maintaining and repairing’ the coal companies’ property. Thruout the anthracite field the miners are slowly awakening to the fact that the strike is being misman- aged and the coalkdiggers are com- (Continued on page 2) ralerarereler” REVULUTIONARY SONGS— Three Proletarian Choruses Constance Menkel, Soprano Soloist GRAND ASSEMBLY HALL 318 Grand Street, Brooklyn Friday November Sixth at 8 P. M. HAI. TO THE EIGHTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE U.S. S. vale Admission 50 Cents ' Auspices, Workers Party and Y..W. L., District No. 2 peaeeaiiw0awiiaausaacdeedlcesinme ———— NE var, ~~ eer STMT ett eee eee ee
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The inferior stock coal hed and loaded by their own union broth- ers and sent on to the market, évery pound of coal being used to defeat them in their strike for a living wage, Finding Enjoyment in Jailing of Communists washed, loaded and hauled to the|and this with the full knowledge of By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ; market from many small washeries. | their officials. a : So cat | oroccan War Appeal in Vain to Officials. aks tak wine as Henin has ODAY, even the plaintive pleas of George Lansbury, paci- ah The mine workers’ officials: have aendehed to the officials about this . fist laborite editor, who has some sympathy for the » |hundred very well-dr (Special te The Daily Worker) been appealed to in many meetings condition, but nothing was done by wae on nee Dae wigs, ox a Union of Soviet Republics, fails to cover the y hag’ of or among row after row of gmpty TARGHEEST, Morocco, Nov. 2—A | the union to bring out all the! 11. omcials to stop it, and finally the pled | | determination | British “democracy” with even a thin veil of pretense that | * "0's wat he feature of delegation of French Moroccans, head- maintenance men and stop the wash- miners. themecives, secompaniiod. examp | | dete h k * “the em pire” have any ti ght to the enjoyment e recent meeting h under social- . ing and loading of stock coal. The ; has marked the of the hitherto the workers 0 y | Sgt ist party auspices at Which the Hon- ed by Abd-el-Kader Tazi, presented a declaration of allegiance to the Rif- fians,* fighting for the independence of Morocco, in the name of the “op- pressed millions of the Sheriffian em- pire.” .In this declaration of allegiance, which is considered one of the most important developments of the Rif- workers realize that as long as the union permits the coal companies to load the enormous stocks of inferior coal, the longer will victory tbe ‘de- layed. Pe eal.. The union officials have as yetmmade no effort to bring out tle att ance men, while the coal Ss happy with the knowledge that they their wives and families, marched to the mine and washeries, and chased the workers off the premises. Those miners were goaded to des- peration by the lack of interest in their behalf by the union officials, and were forced to act themselves, which act resulted in victory. The union officials at that particular time, unorganized Greek. fur workers of New York, | ar. These workers from " 7 English labor man to propose the en- dorsement of ajcandidate, of the li- beral or conservative parties. He was careful to state that the British labor party is not a revolu- tionary party, that it aims to con- £ = WANES - ) “ | | majority . b : ! until Morocco is totally evacuated by | some of the union officials were being | thracite region. The progressive min- No one could have known what wes cto a" ™ oa i Pl yo gin does re Wuropean troops and the French pro-| paid by the coal operators to allow|ers demand that their officials stop exercise their brute force, of course acting under orders, to supp tain any intention of overthrowing ; tectorate is definitely surrendered. the small washeries to operate. Bejall washeries froni washing coal and a newspaper. ie the present capitalist government by ; ; _. The delegation that presented thfs|that as it may, the miners have be-|stop any coal from being loaded in “What becomes of the freedom and likerty of the’press? And what |)... > 7 ' } declaration of allegiance was met with | come disgusted with this condition to} the anthracite region of any nature is the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association going to do about it? | sug- “His Majesty's Party.” i ; great enthusiasm by the Riffians who | such an extent that many of themjor grade until the conclusion of the| ing, the joint board reduced initiation gest to Lord Burnham and Lord Riddell that if they allow this precedent “When we began our work we first have successfully fought the combined |feel that if any success will attend | strike. fees for them to only 20 per cent of| to pass without protest, they cannot complain if, when labor comes to | were just a ‘labor group,’ then we ' Sr OnE S Sreney ce: Ryeee. their efforts in this strike they—the} The soft coal miners must Dass|the regular charge and in addition} power, the organized workers insist on the suppression of all papers | became ‘his majesty’s opposition,’ French Line Stationary militant miners themselves —must/| resolutions in their local unions call-| spent thousands of dollars to make sa diiees sites tory, or, as | would prefer to put It, seditious views.” but when we came into power we \ The French army has been unable | have more to say about its conduct. } ing on John L. Lewis to take immedi-| the organization drive a success. No g ee were considered ‘his mafesty’s to make any advances. On one or two The miners who worked at aminel|ate steps to remedy this situation| energy was saved and full speed ® ° e ° : party.’” fronts they have been forced to re- | near the city of Troup, have day after | and fight with a real one hundred per | ahead was the word passed down the Growing numbers of revolutionary workers in Great The audience seemed pleased by treat by the attacking Riffs. Thejday since the strike commenced,jcent strike. line. | , Britain cease to worry about the future complaints ofa capi- this proof of the non-revolutionary tye Ee 1.00 Tuauy Oster 27 ine cll for] alist clase in distress. They cheorfully at George Lansbury | narra ot the Dritah labor mar ve ’ H e gener m | shops ‘es ovement der its present leadership. ; cert 6 ste oe ee a oe Care |PRINGE OF WALES | xi:‘scmiete sit mass meet) Neve'not taught him differently: Yet he sticks hie tow into | fue. movin vas ao Tien an Riffian headquarterss here, as the Two Suburban Cars ing of Greek fur workers. The next ave n gh ¥3. Teton in E d lacking in enthusiasm that Goebel had dugouts, built by captured Senegalese . . morning the workefs inthe fur dis-| the céld waters of the revolutionary struggle in Englan to emvedene cohen: eae aiehinaatie: .Ja- and French troops, are built so that Collide in Dense Fog EXPOSURE G ALLS trict witnessed a. ca A a demon-| sufficiently to come forward to furnish bail for the arrested [1.464 to be a gladsome note. He airraids accomplish but very little. " | stration of the Greek furriers on the} Communists. Thus Lansbury at least gets near to the fight. | asxeq everyone in the audience to (Special to The Daily Worker) picket line. t ~ * 4 * . ° “get up and stretch.” our neighbor will appreciate) er cn ens our'ean ikea daa BRITI SH NABOBS _ _ Plekets Show Splehdid Spirit fact that the two Com- Eyeryone was glad to comply with tne tarongive him this copy of | Moerman on one cr waned and on sever taeigpeinttct | qu ce@ytntaret gteaches te, thowtact tet the two Com lie menee Ge DAs Oe para | wate Moment, 2, whan waste ; 5 | ea netiee ee ee ree renal tland rted from’ gow to London by 20 Sings In Welsh. njured near Nameoki, Ill., when two! Royal Family Held in| >t their enthusiasm for the strike Scotland, were esco rom Gtasgo ; y ' ‘ | interurban cars of the Hast St. Louis} “snecial branch detectives,” on the same train that Prince |. Goebel then announced that “the C swept on over les. The P | ea hen 5 Honorable Rhys Davies will sing my | COMMUNISTS CONT EST and Suburban railway met head-on in Open Contempt police clubs and a like of! Henry traveled. Since Lansbury holds out a feeler for the rote ore soln sn wide Fuca on 8 A a fog. A second motorman was seri- thrown on flames, plendid was| suppression of the capitalist press after the workers’ revolu- sont Pe inutleaiint -ebitned; ‘pot MANY ELECTIONS IN ously injured in the crash. (Special to The Daily Worker) the spirit of struggle @¥ibng the Greek} tion, perhaps he might start a discussion in his paper as to | in the International, but with a. : The injured were brought to St.|\. LONDON, Nov. 2.—The heir to the | furriers that eve bosses were} how many workers it would take to-escort a fallen “Prince” | weieh folk song P TODAY S BALLOTING Elizabeth hospital here in ambulances.},throne of Britain and offspring of that | forced to ext ress thelr : | : dt ress thelr admir | Henry back to London, from:some outlying province, after Morgan Jones joined in and the om H. Roeder, was killed and Roy Griffen,,, unspeakable embodiment of nameless oh: ca yared with the wonity 4 ;. motorman, suffered the loss of bothj:dispases known as King George, the | courage jdt these workérs who sed oe | labor had established its own Soviet power. The number _ |audience showed its first sign of in- |} _oday municipal and state elec: Jiegs. The accident occurred on the):“fairy prince” of young girls’ dreams, |fore them the g@ml of victory and be-| Would certainly fall under 20. © © © ‘acts pay a on Ghee leon ee Alton-Granite City line of the rail-)is; causing a furore in influential pw hem the backing of the union’s| hh LE . She eagle cee | . é .s ; oS a tires ’ +. pee . : ’ ¥ eS f $as \ was cipal elections and one state election rareg {gereles oe py, trio sao ST ae hs pips by Da a bitch 008, the agave ee ts Takers tate | forward. pn gf es lauding the dis- | are of particular attention to the i baat Oa power, are . vase attac |tinguished guest, explained that the working class. Of first importance |Los Angeles Party ’ ot ng pre yone canine 9 tag As rani aan ssye seclgmamae by the} wing. The American detective, William J. Burns has his | auditorium was empty because “the Workers (Communist) Party ticket against the republicans and demo- crats (Tammyites) and the labor baiting socialist party. Cleveland also has elections and a ticket en- dorsed by organized labor receives the support of the Communists, with reservations and demands that they favor a labor party. In Detroit local labor and its official organ, the Labor News, endorses the same candidate for mayor who is endorsed by Henry Ford, the notorious “open shopper.” in New Jersey the Communists are fight- on Reorganization LOS ANGELES, Nov. 2—Local Los Angeles of the Workers Party is going ahead with its reorganization program, Following the party functionaries’ meetings to be held tonight, three section meetings are to be called. A general membership meeting at which Robert Minor will speak on bolshe- vization and reorganization will be held Monday night, Nov. 16. Former Gary Mayor return from his latest trip. . Wales impersonated a female in the one-act farce bearing the salacious title “The Bathroom Door,” wore girl's clothing, a wig of curly hair, used rouge and lip-sticks, and wore dainty ribboned slippers similar to the ones worn by his father, King George, in the portrait that recently caused |@ scandal as it tended to expose the real character of the family and the effeminate habits of the rulers of no- minal Britain. Countrymen Know Him. Shops are being picketed day and night. The manufacturers as wtsua) spread false rumors “and used threats and every means tocbreak the work- ers’ solidarity. The bosses formed an association of their own, but the fight of the strikers has overwhelmed the bosses. . Oo Conferences between the bosses and the union representatives were held on October 28 and October 31. On Wednesday November 4th, the meeting of the Greek Association is to be held and the final answer given to the union representatives the next who requested Baldwin's tory cabinet to approve the raids on the Communists. Joynson-Hicks is stumping the countr demanding the conviction of the eight Communists arrested, even before they have been brot to trial. In one speech he declared: : 7 “I believe the greater part of the audience will be pleased to hear that warrants were issued, and in the majority of cases have been executed, for the arrest of a certain number of notorious Communists.” Of course, it all depends on the make-up of the audience. It would be easy to assemble a large gathering of workers in London today who would be highly pleased with and applaud any number of arrests that might be carried out in Buck- ingham Palace, among the king’s hausehold, or in the houses The opinion of your correspondent, based on a knowledge of the Phila- delphia labor movement, is that the auditorium was empty because the workers here have decided that the S. P. does not represent them but ‘the middle class elements who were pres- ent at the meeting. Collection Cheers Viadeck. Vladeck emphasized the difference between the British and American ‘workers’ living standards and then took up a collection of $127.00. As the audience began to contribute Vladeck grew more optimistic and poe rote te taking wy the matter of parliament, among the capitalist politicians. Even that announced that there was hope for ° : Ing » te _ —— 0 Released on Parole mers Banya tbo ge : ye nd penny mppeeeataiiane alensiire will be reqiized in alas just me the British imperial- the socialist party in — — . } e e ammany) ma- g such actions to : : iaili ht of even sma sums chine of Jersey City, trying to elect ATLANTA, Ga. Nov. 2—€, ©,|5ecome public. There is a strong de- salon: eee eee ngieen ~— é a ee ea en to have this effect on ; its candidate, and the nepublican | Johnson, former mayor of Gary, Ind.,|™#"@ for changing the publicity de- 1... Phe Sttees Miiee: tealbed of their own Class in . sshat’ nactiiik gaat waeaieatt party that is running akukiuxkian | and four members of a ring of Cincin- | P4rtment for the prince. 49-hours. : The Honorable Morgan Jones spoke ° ioe mal pce oficers, convicted ot on-|, Here in London most people now | ““2Pty tr on tage maiz. |GRECO-BULGAR CONTROVERSY MAY —_|t ves on carn and good wil The outcome of these contests | spiracy to violate the federal prohibi-|t®e queer antics of the royal family 3. Time and a taitiee avertime men after the best fashion of the non- will be published from a working | tion law, were enroute to their homes, |#24 !ook upon it as a part of the prod- 4. Only union workers to be pa F | N ISH AM BI TIONS OF P AN G A LOS conformist evangelical school from class standpoint exclusively in The | following their release from Atlanta}!em of maintaining a worthless orna- ployed. wah which so many leaders of the British DAILY WORKER. federal prison on parole. ment as the figure-head of the govern- 5. Minimum eeale of wages TO BE MU S SO LINI O F GRE EC E labor party have come. % ment. But the fear expressed is that 6. .Right of union represe btetiven The meeting was not raided by the | other parts of the world, particularly to inspect shops. . f the P , police as has been the case with = India and the colonies, may come to 7. Ail other unten eeaditions pre- ATHENS, Nov. 2.—Despite the optimistic assurances of the Pangalos|,.ny meetings of the Communist hold in contempt the royal crown and vailing in the industry P military dictatorship that the league of nations will render its verdict in favor} party here in the City of Brotherly decide that they will not remain in the} ‘pe eft ‘wing Joint board, thru | of Greece pecwiae the commission to investigate the controversy is headed | Love, humiliating position of being ruled} wanager Ben Gold, has stated that|by Sir Horace Rumbold, who has strong Grecian sympathies, the Greek ——— ov Pages Seon character Of | it means to carry om the struggle as | drachma dropped four per cent on the bourse. : FOREIGN EXCHANGE. 2. Among the workers of the east end long as necessary and money will be The attempt of Premier Pangalos to fill the wefknigh empty treasury of} wRW YORK, Noy. 2—Great Britain, ei MA of London the very name of Wales has]... object in making the Greek fur| the Greek government thru the invasion of Bulgaria and the demand for| pound sterling demand, 4.84%, cable, | ) : b ithet of d workers a organized power in the in-/¢ 990,000 drachmas for the death of 4.84%; France, franc, 4.19%, cable, Dance and Enjoy Yourself at Any or All of These DAILY WORKER ecome an | et of degradation. aye — their: fellow workers, two Greek soldiers and his attempt Coolidge to Speak in Chicago 4.20; Belgium, franc, rgieh 4g 4.53, mostly Jewish, but who are standing reer as the . Italy, lira, 3.95%, cable 3.96; Sweden, | BRE AD shoulder to shoulder with the Greeks. nc anh say ond with a| WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 2— Ss eS cha mn: sew. . ips demand from the league of nations,| President Coolidge’s address at the /yrone, 20.41, cable, 20.43; Denmark, | League SessionsComes to End. which will empty the treasury, to pay|American,Farm Bureau federation in| krone, 25.01, cable, 25.03; Germany, | GETS VIRTU AL PARIS, Nov. 2The league of 0@-| pyigaria for the 16 lives taken and Chicago will be delivered “Monday,|mark, no quote; Shanghai, taejs, tions extraordinary session came to the cities destroyed in the Greek in-/ Dec. 7, 79.50. anend when the special committee of} yasion is the fear that permeates the pre ‘ military officers appointed to super- : HIKE Sunday, Nov. 8— Sunday, Nov. 15— Rescue Party | Friday, Nov. 20— || Rescue Party sem In New York 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- 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. QUET, Manhattan Lyceum. (ALL 8 P, M. UNLESS NOTED) For tickets or information regarding any of the above affairs apply to L. E. Katterfeld, 108 East 14th Street (Tel. Stuyvesant 8100.) Meet at Daily Worker office, Admission 50c. Auspices Down - nea | i —— 0. K, FROM U. S, Trade Commission Not to Prosecute al trade commission, as expected, has resulted in a report that there is “no basis” for action by the government against the $400,000,000 merger of the General Baking company, the Ward Baking corporation, the Continental Baking corporation and the Southern iam B, Ward, of the Ward corporation, tho stating that “nothing had hap- pened” but the organization of a hold- ing company to take over the stock of the General Baki ompany, also stated that “‘it was acfonsble to say what might take, the future,” | me vise the Bulgarianmand Greek evacua- tions in the Balkans, reported that the Greek soldierssand the Bulgarian soldiers had withdrawn to their respective boundanies. discussed. Sir Horace Rumbold, Brit- ish ambassador to Spain, was placed at the head of a commission to in- vestigate the Greco-Bulgar con- troversy and report his findings to the December or March sessions of the league of nations commission. The league has: also discussed the well as the military dictatorship of Pangalos in Greece, as it means a loss of territory to both. —-- * Worker Correspondence will make i Greek bourse. Premier Pangalos has aspirations to become the Mussolini of Greece, and he had hoped that thru this display of militant patriotism he would not only fill the treasury, but also estab- re-establish the monarchy. His ambi- tions have more or less hit the dust. It is intimated in financial circles that if the league of nations makes a demand on the Greek treasury for loses suffered by the Bulgarians, pres- sure will be brought to bear on WASHINGTON, Nov. 2—General re- vision of the tariff act will be sought at the coming session of congress by Representative Cordell Hull, of Ten- nessee, former democratic national The DAILY WORKER a better paper | |—send in & seme 4 ie! China and the World The Far East is today the storm \ vital decisions affecting not on- ly Chinese—but all workers are being made. The analysis of the situation— the interests of America, Eng- land, Japan and France—and WORKKER. Be sure to read— By James Dolsen. “THE CHINESE CUSTOMS CONFERENCE” 7 ee f _— 5 Royal Palace Hall, 16 Manhattan A Baking company. Pangalos for his resignation of the Be inning the part that Soviet Russia | weg ve iiideaseg Broadway), Brooklyn, Admission M. F. Hudson, the examiner of the use . ne a cnc da premiership of the country for the|’ 8 plays—are keenly analyzed in H y 50c. Auspices Williamsburg Branches. commission, reports that “newspaper | 0% Tone etween the two nations./ )asty invasion of Bulgaria. Wednesday, series of articles beginning in | as reports are not well founded,” con-| This procedure is objected to by the November 4 tomorrow's issue of The DAILY | Sunday, Jan. 16— AILY WORKER ANNIVERSARY BAN- cerning the merger, adding that Will- | Bulgarian reactionary government as Seeks Tariff Reyision. f maica, 11 a. m. an at bean ace cms lish himself a4 % great Greek pateiet. center of world imperialism. A ! i (Special to The Daily Work to become absolute Saturday, Nov. 14— Bronx Workers’ Hall, 1347 Boston Road, ssearnetoneie Wh cr” nact) ce ia, | aE 10 Oe pew ee a The great powers are gathered Rescue Part Bronx. Admission 50c. Auspices Bronx WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 1—The| o>, had formulated at Locarno was wan 5: er eatin Ragen Bhar at the Peking Conference where y Branches, supposed “investigation” of the feder- position more secure he was going to
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- aaciadi ae bs RED INTERNATIONAL OF LABOR UNIONS RILU) -— THE T.UEL. Represents the Left Wing of the Labor Movement. its . Purpose Is to Strengthen the Labor Unions by Amalgamation |. of Existing Unions, Organization of the Unorganized, and by Replacing Reactionary and Class Collaboration Policies with |, _ @ Unified Program for the Transformation of the Unions Into; | ae ‘Organs of Revolutionary Class Struggle for the Overthrowal - of Capitalism and: the —e of a Workers’ and Farm: th oOo . tf pictas 2 woe WAGES ND GERMAN TEXTILE § ARE THE SAME PEOPLE; ‘HsVas it 4 IN BOTH COUNTRIES _* By LOUIS KOVESS. hy ta: 4. tea a ete PASSAIC, N. J., ‘Novi 2.—The first step in the attack to, cut the wages of the Jersey textile workers was taken by the Botany Consolidated Mills, when the Botany Worsted Mills and the Garfield Worsted Mills, reduced the wages by 10 per cent and the 26 per cent overtime bonus to 10 per cent. The Botany knitting mills are in the hands of the so-called “Sthoer” group. Max W,. Sthoer is the president of the Botany Consolidated Mills. Max W. Sthoer was in Germany not long ago, where he attended the annu- ,al conference of the Kamingarnspin- ‘s~ erei Sthoer and Co. of Leipsig and the Eberfelder textile works of Eber- feld. These two companies are among the largest textile mills of Germany and have a reputation for exploiting the workers, What did Mr. Sthoer want at the German textile congress? The answer to the question is this: The Passaic Botany mills; which are under the presidency of Sthoer, have invested four million dollars in the above-mentioned German mills. The investment jis on a 50 per cent profit- sharing basis. Forstman and Huffman Exploit Germany. - Forstman and Huffman own large textile mills in Passaic and Garfield. The rumor was spread in the press already, that Forstman and Huffman will follow the example of the Botany ; mills, and will also cut down the f i , strike both companies will . textile ‘{ndustr wages. No doubt. this news did not come to the press without the knowledge of the tompany. This is how the com- pany wants the workers to get used to the idea of wage reductions. The rumor was denied by the company, but we know that the reason for not en- forcing the wage reduction at present is that they fear a united action by the. workers if the wage reductions follow each, Other_too frequently. Now this Forstman.and Huffman not only exploit the Passaic and Garfield knitters, but they exploit the German knitters, too. The Rheinland Werken Forstman and Huffman textile mills were united in April with the Kamingarnspinerei of Augsburg, Germany's largest tex- tile works. The president of this cor- poration is Mr. Julius Forstman. United Exploitation. United Defense. These two examples are enough to enlighten the workers why the Com- munists are fighting for international trade union unity. Let us say that the workers of the Botany and the workers of the Forst- man works will start a fight against their exploiters. Alone they can hard- ly break the compay, for in case of a get the bulk of their manufacture from their German works. The united fight of the equally ex- ploited German and American textile worker is required in order to wage a Victorious battle against the world- wide power of capital. Why do they cut the wages of the knitters? At the same time when the Ameri- can wage reductiéns are’ going on we see similar reductions going on in many European countries. It looks as though a plot on an international scale*is going oh—wWe see everywhere attacks to reduce the standard of liv- ing of the textile worker. With this question we will deal in detail in our next issue. Soviet ee °* 8 ¥ ', Large Order for Textile Machinery i in England (Special 7 > : a . yo 7 , 7 > . > 7 , 7 : 7 a y working class poetry in > a handy pocket volume. > Should be included in > every worker’s library— : and indispensible for re- » citation and all working > class affairs. : > ‘ > 7 > 7 > y > > a THE LITTLE RED LIBRARY 10 CENTS - verve Copies for One Dollar a ‘ 4 4 4 “ 4 . 7 - 4 a 7 4 4 4 a 4 e , ‘ A collection of choice : 4 a 4 4 4 4 fs - 4 o 4 4 : - 4 4 7 ——_— “The Daily Worker Pub. Co. 1113 W. Washington Boulevard, *. CHICAGO, ILL. => oo ae annual survey of department of labor | tional disease,” the report says. «« ,¢ arts, the lungs are called upon to in- |’ | 1. L. G. W. Designers Go 7 7 Entirely with Left i By J. P. (Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK CITY, Nov. 2.—The cleansing process in the labor unions is on. The revolt of organized labor against the organized bureaucrats and gangsters in the unions is rising high. ‘The fact that the revolt began at the lowest stratum of labor is the best .guarantee for its success. Now the revolt is reaching such “upper strata” as have been until now con; sidered too conservative, impene- trable for the left wingers’ propagan- da, and invulnerable. One of such “invulnerable unions” was of‘the United Designers of La- dies’ Wear in New York, I. L. G. W. U. Local 45. : What Used To Be Until the last $2,000,000 fake strike, staged by the notorious Sigman-Fein- berg machine, the membership of the _| designers’ local were staunch support- ers of this ill-famed gangster machine and often shouted down any progress- ive and “left winger” who attempted to expose the crooked deeds of the union bureaucrats. port of proceedings written by a left winger and appearing in the Commun- ist daily Freiheit was bitterly con- demned, and promises of bodily harm were dealt out openly by the agents of the machine inside the union. Like in all other unions, where re- actionary bureacrats rule with iron hand for the benefit of the master class, so in the Designers’ Union, this docile spirit was built on two facts.: Firstly, on the ignorafice of the membership about the true character ‘of the bureacrats, and. secondly, on ‘the gangster organization and tactics 4 used at the membership meetings. Designers Wake Up \ Sigman, the president, and Fein- ‘ibere as manager of the joint board, |were handing out promises which jthey never kept. In the meanwhile, undreds of designers were walking - the streets of New York unemployed. “The one time “cream of the trade” is beginning to feel the sledge-ham- mer of capitalism that is pounding them Wass of the proletarian class. Gradu- ally the class feeling developed gmong them. But the complete change of ‘spirit came only when the old the: Cloakmakers’ Union with ae bosses expired and was to be im- ‘pfoved and renewed. The designers Tekoned on inserting into the new gigteement a special clause, which ‘should protect them on the job, as it otects workers of other locals of the great International Union.. When the news broke thru, that the hSigman-Feinberg-Hillquit machine Wouble crossed them, and by fixing a ‘|}Becret agreement with the bosses be- ,jtrayed every branch of the garment workers’ organization, the spirit of wrath was ‘steadily mounting and the vac falling off. Endorse Left Wing Finally a resolution was adopted, condemning the crooked, old, burea- cratic Sigman machine and fully en- dorsing the left wing militant joint action committee. When later, with the victory of the joint action committee, the New York joint board was reorganized, the de- signers immediately took advantage of the new situation to send a special committee to the joint board, demand- ing full cooperation of the joint board in its organization drive, as well as a full fledged recognition of the de- signers’ demands in all future deal- ings with the bosses. Elect Left Wing Logically, the joint board accepted ‘these demands as self evident. So the one time “cream of the ‘trade” which is separated from the bosses by only one step, went entire- ly left, and in their last meeting at the Hotel Pennsylvania elected only such members as delegates to the con- ‘vention of the I. L. G. W. U., who i bhad an unbroken record of “left wing activity.” The elected delegates are: Brothers Chack, J. Prokop and Slackman. As ‘alternates; Brothers F. Moss and Mit- chell. Watch the local grow! Framed-up Railroader Tells Negro Congress of Unorganized South CHICAGO, Nov. 2.—(FP) — Trade unions, except on the railroads, have a hard time in the southern states, says Arch Lingan of Autobus Drivers’ Local 243, Houston, Tex., who dropped in at the American Negro Labor Con- gress in Chicago this week. He says unorganized Mexicans and Negroes do much of the work that is done by union labor in the north and much of the other work is done by unorgan- ized white workers. Lingan still carries his card in the Order of Railway Conductors but was dismissed from his job by the rail- road for progressive political activity. Two company detectives got on his train and later falsely swore that they had given him cash fares which he ee ee ® 7 (fet ee aide 9 Dale - * 7 ad not turned over, as an excype for dropping him. | ' There were times, when a mere re- irresistibly into the general]. ’ of 6 39 ng Workers, t itorium. 152 Amalgamated © ing nine 1564 N. Robéy St., 7: 30 p rr noe 8. Peinne A ove ot Ww 178 | ia vos I orkers, 17 A “ 180 W. Wash- 30 = y Wrkers, 19 W. Adams St., 298 Boot and Shoe Workers, 1 : oes ae pmo orkers, 1939 Mil 49 Brick ae Clay Workers, Clark and Bricklayers Wom St. 136 B. S. we : \Madleon St. aH oe enters, aot ond Shettield r n 141 Carpenters, e784 St. : Al Carpenters, a sestege Grove Ave. ore ants.” all, Chicago 1128 Carpenters, Moose Hall, La Grange, 1727 44th Hall, North bay! owt ig “oes 20." §t. ; 1786 Spri and 26th. 2786 pfield and 26th St. 2 2901 West 402 . Washington St. 188 nemen, Lake and 6 Harrison a 81 kers, 328 390 Sheffield Ave. 582 entworth Ave 478 Madison St Oilers, 357 320 1405 Michigan Ave 638 26t ° 16 ood. 180 Ee cor, California and }, b= Pa 4 S. Halsted St. + cer. State pal 225 caren Ave. 275 wr a 371 Roto ocate, Car- 396 nters, W. Harrison 521 Painters, Trumbull and Ogden Ave. 502 Plasterers, Monroe gre Peoria Sts. 468 Fort Dearborn Raley "Clerks, 2219 549 W. Washing- 12348 ar Ks, 549 Washington St., 1505 ey ts 5436 Wentworth 69 Signalm 83 g en, 7. pore St. Switchmen, 1 h St. 16024 Street yee © Ueitleies Inspec- t WMorthern Hotel. sters, Laundry, 220 S. Ash- aad , 742 Tea 8 *s: Hall. < - aaabaeca 912 Capitol 24 ble ane a9 or ag Ogden 111 Upholeterers?! 2 W. Washington . dents, St. 7 Wa ieee: 16171 was dents, Paimer ly smashing all attempts of its under- paid and overworkew porters to get a fair and square déal, the Pullman company yesterday) summarily dis- charged Ashley L;#Totten, chairman of Local No, 5, Pullman Porters’ Bene- fit Association and grievance commit- tee member on the employe repre- sentation plan (the “company” union), for “insubordination.” Totten, a very imititant, outspoken and courageous mam ‘had been a thorn in the side of the *cdaristic company officials because of-tyis espousal of the cause of the mem Bor many months he had attempted to inject a modicum of justice and demoeracy into the in- vestigations of porterB accused of mis- demeanors, real andvimaginary. These investigations are nothing but star chamber proceedings with the company always right and the ac- cused parter always wrong, even when, on occasion, he is restored to duty. Totten.aroused the anger of the company officials by his insistence on justice, and accordingly, they swore, to “get” him. He was in Chicago at the time of his discharge, having been recently elected a delegate to the P. P. B. A. convention. It was suspected that he would raise the question of hours and wages—a question always taboo at these “benefit” association meetings— so the company took steps to prevent him from doing so. Totten had been in the Pullman | service six years and ‘his record was perfectly clear. He is the third man to be discharged because of his de- fense of the men—the other two be- ing Roy Lancaster and 8S. E. Grain, general secretary-treasurer and field representative respectively, of the Brotherhood of Sleepimg Car Porters. Mr. A, Philip Randolph, general or- ganizer of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, who, with Roy Lancaster is conducting a series of member- ship meetings in Chicago, states that indignation ran high: @mong the por- ters when the news of Totten’s dis- charge was broadcasta:He adds that this action of the ompany alone brought over fifty mem into the new union inside of four hours. URGES: TO JOIN UNION Denounce Use of Race as S ers (Continued from page 1) the organized labor movement if a genuine and successful effort is to be made to maintain and improve the standards of the worker, black and white. The world war, the migration of the people from the farms to the cities, the industrialization of the South, and the stoppage of European immigration, have established the Negro workers as an indispensable and powerful labor force. “In order to improve the conditions of the Negro workers and to insure the standards of the white workers also, it is absolutely necessary that the workers of both races be organ- ized in the trade union movement. Trade unions are the ‘organizations which are created by the workers to prosecute their fight against the em- ployers for higher wages, better con- a t ditions and a proper standard of liv- ing. *““Only by the effective organization of the Negro and white workers in the ‘tinions is it possible to avoid union Gompetition and recutting between these workers which will result in their common degradation.” This was clearly demonstrated by the great steel strike of 1919 which was de- feated because the steel barons could draw upon the vast army of un- organized Negro workers pitting them against the whites to the great in- jury of both. “This perilous situation demands that white and black workers must be united solidly in the union and demon- strates that trade unions which fail to effect the unity of all workers, re- gardless of race, sex, nationality, re- ligion of color on the sole basis of their common interests as workers, fail in the most necessary task for the protection and advancement of the workers. “The unions, therefore, should neither exclude Negroes or wait un- til they are out on the picket line to start the necessary work of uniting them but should begin at once to con- duct a thorogoing, efficient nation- wide drive to organize the colored workers. They must forever break with the vicious and sticidal policy followed by many white unions in the past and still persisted in by some of the most highly skilled labor aris- tocrats who bar the Negro workers -} either by open clauses in their con-} stitutions or by secret understandings and must throw the doors of the union wide open to the Negro workers wel- coming them upon a basis of full equality. Remove All Bars. “The American Negro Labor Con- gress calls for the immediate removal of all bars and discrimination within the unions and demands equality of treatment in wages, opportunity for employment and representation in union administration and instructs its members to fight energetically to ef- fect this in all unions. “This congress condemns all scabs, Negroes who improperly recruit strikebreakers, and whites who dis- ment. It resents the branding of Ne- groes as strikebreakers and points to the fact that where Negroes have been fairly treated they have made as loyal and aggressive union men as any other group of workers. “This congress further condemns all efforts from whatever source to segregate the Negro workers in sep- erate unions and demands that all such discrimination be abolished im- mediately. “Any divisions in the trade unions and all dual or seccession movements will be firmly opposed by this con- gress, but it declares that the Negro workers must organize their own unions to protect themselves and to figh® their way into the unions as equals. “The American Negro Labor Con- gress hereby instructs its officers and members to unite with all progress- ive bodies in the American Federa- tion of Labor to eradicate the vari- ous evils of race discrimination in the unions and to achieve that unity of black and white workers which alone can insure their elevation and emapn- cipation is absolutely necessary.” Wrap your lunck in a copy of the DAILY WORKER and give it (the DAILY WORKER, not the lunch) to your shop-mate. r7TrTrrrrrrrrrrrrerererererreereere ee CHAINS Miami Rents Higher | Than Printers’ Wage NEW YORK, Nov. 2.—-Many New| York printers have gome to Miami, | Fla., to try their fontames for the | winter but reports comimg back to the Typographical Union show that ex- horbitant rents and theodizzy height of living costs generally!take the sub- stnce out of the attmaetive looking wage scales there. at Newspaper rates at-tast accounts there were $62 and $68efor day and night work respectively) With the min- imum for job work at: $43-—the latter being the New York minimum also. ‘eee i i i i i i i i i i ee i i de i i te te te te te de te he i i he te BY HENRY BARBUSSE, Author of “Under Fire,” etc. | A new novel marking | another important | contribution to | literature. | / 12 mo. 2 vols. Order from DAILY, WORKER i113.)W. WASHINGTON BLVD. Chicago - ILL. NEEDLE TRADE UNIONS’ | NS BOOST FOR MEETINGS NEW YORK, Nov. 2—(FP)—Both Advance, organ of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union, and Just- ice, of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers are advertising the fact that A. A. Purcell, chair- man of the International Federation of Trade Unions, will speak in New York about the middle of Nov. Advance calis Purcell’s speech to the A. F. of L. convention: “one of the most enlightening addresses on the international relations of organ- ized labor thruout the world ever heard at a labor gathering.” AVERAGE WAGE FOR WOMEN IS $16.70 IN MASS. BOSTON, Nov. 2.—Average earn- ings in Massachusetts factories in Sep- tember amounted to $24.05, accord- ing to the monthly report of the state department of labor. For male workers the average was $28.95 and for women $16.70. The re- port shows a gain of 1.8% in the num- ber of workers on the payrolls as com- pared with August establishing a level 444% above September, 1924. The report shows a slight falli off in the amount of full time opera- tion. In September 37.9% of the work- ers covered by reports were in fac- tories working part time schedules. Altho in 43 of the 39 industries a majority of the workers were on full time, part time was prevalent in the manufacture of boots and shoes, cot- ton goods and wool, the three leading industries of the state. Displacement of Men by Machine Shown in Iron Mining Industry HIBBING, Minn., Nov. 2—More ma- chinery and fewer men will be the rule on the Messaba range and the job | outlook will get worse from year to year, in the opinion of mining com-' pany officials who attended an unem- ployment conference in Hibbing. The present surplus of men and the threatening winter were discussed by representatives of the towns on the range, of the companies and of civic érganizations. Production of ore was well over the average in the past year, the mining men stated, but the labor required was Smaller. The president of the Hibbing com- mercial club’s solution of the unem- ployment problem was the suggestion that it would “eventually readjust itself on the basis of the survival of the fittest.” Professional Dance Partners Form Union SEATTLE, Nov. 1—Fifty charter members constitute the newest Seat- tle union, known as the Women’s Dancing Entertainers, which has re- céived a charter as an American Fed- eration of Labor organization, thru its affiliation with the Associated Actors and Artists of America. The newly fledged unionists are employed by dance halls as partners or instructors for men who come without girls. A membership of 400 in Seattle is anti- cipated. Page Three SUB-DISTRICT 7 OF ILLINOIS IN REACTION’S GRIP But Manage | to Protest on Saklatvala By ANDREW YOUNG (Special to The Daily Worker) O’FALLAON, IL, Nov. 2—The Sub District No. 7 convention of District 12, U. M. W. of A., came to an end without anything accomplished for the rank and file. All committees were appointed by D. L. Thompson, president of the sub- district. The resolution committee brought in the following recommenda- tions: “That Frank Farrington and Harry Fishwick be invited to come before the convention to explain why they made separate agreements in violation of the Jacksnoville agree ment.” The recommendation was adopted. A motion was then made to invite Freeman Thompson and John J. Watt to address the convention. This caused much uneasiness in the convention hall. In the discussion on the motion, vice-president Bill Jocks accused Watt and Thompson of running all over the state “destroying the union.” Not Afraid, But Just Scared, He also said that he was not afraid to meet Thmopson and Watt, but at the same time he showed hie reluct- ance by not being willing to have them come to address the convention. Another delegate exclaimed that if Watt and Thompson came to address the convention that Farrington and Fishwick would refuse to come. After the assassination of the char- acters of Thompson and Watt, those unflinching, militant fighters in the interest of the workers in the U. M. W. of A., the question was called for and debate closed before the mover or the seconder had the privilege of the floor. Delegates were on their feet de- manding the floor—and Bill Jecks was in the chair—enuf said. A resolution was adopted which reads as follows: Saklatvala Resolution. “Whereas, Secretary of State Kel- logg has instructed the consul gen- eral to revoke the visa granted to Shapurji Saklatvala, a member of the English parliament representing the organized labor movement of that country, to visit the interparliament- ary union at Washington: and “Whereas, Shapurji Saklatvala has carried on a valiant struggle on be- half of the exploited masses against English imperialism in the Far East, in China, Egypt, India and Ireland: therefore be it “Resolved, That this Sub-District 7 of District 12, in annual convention held in Collinsville, Illinois, Oct. 20, 1925, vigorously protest the action of the secretary of state in excluding Shapurpi Saklatvala, as an act of un- author@ed and unjustifiable discrim- ination against the foreign-born work- ers, and as a high handed attempt to limit the freedom of speech in the United Stateg, and be it further “Resolved, That we demand the im- mediate admission of Saklatvala into this country, and be it further “Resolved, That copies of thsi reso- lution be sent to the secretary of state at Washington, D. C., and to Senator Borah and to the workers’ press fof publication.” When that argument begins at lunch time in your shop tomor- row—show them what the DAILY WORKER says about it. Communist International. 3 Pamphlets Most Important for Members of WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY OF AMERICA An Arsenal of Information. the Party’s constitution and declarations, adopted at the 4th National Convention, held in Chicago, IIl., Aug. 21 to 30, 1925. Also letter on reorganization from the Resolutions, theses, The THREE pamphlets are absolutely indispensible Jay Lovestone. Communist International; nuclei basis; the party’s By C. E. party, the different stages policy; TO PARTY UNITS: at 50 cents per set. Order organizational charts, etc. to.any member of the party. THE FOURTH NATIONAL CONVENTION. 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ad NE Yon DAILY® ORKER BUILDERS — BUSY RAISING MONEY AT ALL PARTY AFFAIRS TO SAVE DAILY WORKER NEW YORK, Nov. 2—The Brownsville English branch has officially yoted to donate five dollars per member to Help Save The DAILY WORKER. That will make over four hundred dollars. Nearly half of this amount has already been brot in by Comrade Lillian Michaels, the very efficent DAILY WORKDER agent of the English Brownsville branch. Harlem English branch has taxed its members two dollars each for the benefit of Ths DAILY WORKER. This is to be paid by @ach member personally in addition to what is raised thru collection of doMations, sale of DAILY WORKER stamps, etc. At its first meeting the branch turned in $66, at the next they raised $89, half for The DAILY WORKER and half for the New York campaign fund. The DAILY WORKER agent, Com- rade Louis Hirschman, never lets a meeting pass without relieving the members of whatever cash they may have along. Comrade Kawashima, of the Orien- tal branch, has just brot in a dozen cans of Japanese rice cakes which will be sold to the highest bidders at DAILY WORKER Rescue Parties. One DAILY WORKER Builder al- ways on the job is Comrade Leo Kling of English No. 1, Bronx branch. He is a big help as member of the board of directors of The DAILY WORKER Builders’ Club. He has just brot in an additional $38.50 and says he’s only just begun. DAILY WORKER on Stands. Gradually but surely The DAILY WORKER is winning a place for it- self on the news stands of New York. More than three times as many copies were sold and paid for during Octo- ber than during March, when the pres- ent system of handling The DAILY New York adopted. The papers are sent from Chicago direct to the news dealers by. mail, but all collections are hatidled by vol- unteer workers under direction of the New York manager, so that the total cash realized from news stand sales goes to The DAILY WORKER and this circulation is on a paying basis. The New York news stand sales can be developed as additional com- rades volunteer for this work. About twenty-five are helping now; twice this many could be used. Several are needed at once. All who are will- ing to help regularly from one to three hours each week are invited to call on L. B, Katterfeld, manager of the New York office of The DAILY WORKER, at 108 East 14th street. Office Workers Wanted. . Volunteers are wanted to help with all kinds of office work in The DAILY WORKER New York office—typewrit- ing, bookkeeping, filing, addressing, etc. Comrades who write a good plain hand, or who are competent at vari- ous kinds of office work, can Help Save The DAILY WORKER by giving a little of their time each week. Ap- ply to Katterfeld, at 108 East 14th WORKER on the news stands was'street. (Telephone Stuyvesant 8100.) BROWNSVILLE BRANCH TO CELEBRATE BEGINNING OF BOLSHEVIZATION OF THE WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY NEW YORK, Nov. 2.—While the capitalist politicians and their hanger$- on will celebrate the victory of one political machine over the 6ther on ‘Pues- day evening, the Brownsville section of the Workers (Communist) Party and the Young Workers League, in the name of the house committee, will celebrate the beginning of the bolshevization of the party and the league, The celebration will take the form of a good program to be given by the Young Workers League and the Juniors It promises to be highly enter- taining. There will also be a speech by a member of the district executive committee and the evening will vanish into the morning to the strain of an excellent jazz band that will furnish music for the dance lovers. Thus all ———— Pitkin Ave., the date is Tuesday, Noy. 3 (election day) and the time in from 8:00 o’clock in the evening until we. get ready to quit the affair. . . | tastes, (except reactionaries) will be} He admission is only 35c. Come satisfied. and bring the workers in your shop The place is Workers’ Hall, 1844!) with you. ‘ mn REPORT FENG YU-HSIANG TROOPS IN FIELD AGAINST RUSS WHITES PEKING, Nov. 2.—With Fengtien (Manchurian) and anti-Fengtien forces alleged to mumber 200,000 men, preparing for battle between Hsu Chow and Peng-Pu, 500 miles down the Tientsin-Pukow railway, martial law was pro- claimed in Tientsin late this afternoon. The Fengtien forces belong to the army of Marshal Chang Tso Lin, Man- churian war lord, while the opposing troops are part of the forces of General Feng Yu-Hsiang, former supporter of Marshal Wu Pei Fu, north China mili- tarist and stormy petrel in Chinese politics. Marshal Wu was virtually sharn of all his governmental authority recently when he objected to the influence being wielded in Peking by the Manchurian marshal because Chang was openly supporting imperialist domination in China. The Fengtien forces are said to include a brigade of “white” or anti- Soviet Russians; tanks, aeroplanes, and modern trench mortars. BAKERS: UNION DONATES $100 T0 BUY PAPER |1Revenue Collector and Politicians Named in Daniel Whisky Theft ST. LOUIS, Mo., Nov. 2—The in- dictments returned in Indianapolis Saturday in the Jack Daniel whiskey theft conspiracy included Arnola J. Hellmich, collector of United States internal revenue for the eastern dis- | trict of Misssouri, and others promi- One hundred dollars, sent in by/nent in politics, is was disclosed here Bakers’ Local 164, Amalgamated Food| with the issuance of federal war- Workers of New York, provided two | rants. rolls of print paper for today’s DAILY | Thirty-nine persons in all were WORKER, Along with the other dona-| named in the four true bills returned tions from New York, this was suf-|in Indianapolis at a secret session of ficient to spread the usual] number of the federal grand jury which lasted DAILY WORKERS all! over the coun- | several days. try. ; Today’s list from New York is a British Balance Falling. follows: | LONDON, Nov. 2—British trade Sam Corsan, English Harlem....$ 2.00} balance is still falling. There is an Jewish Williamsburg Branch... 15.00 increase of 6,000,000 pounds in the Shop BUONO BO isis i ccs. ccc ciscccces 1.75 | adverse balance for September over David Ross, Jewish No.1, Bronx 7.00;that of August. English Boro Park Branch........ 5.00 | Ray Rosenfeld, Y. W. L. No. 12 8.00 Kian Issue in Detroit. Shop Nucleus No. i1.. Sia eile 50! DETROIT. Nov. 2—One ofthe prin- Bakers’ lsocal No. 164, Amal ‘cipal “issues” in today’s election is gamated Food Workers........... 100.00) the Klan question. It has been one Jewish Brownsville Branch..... 7.50) o¢ the most hotly contested elections Pct 75.10 the ay s history. UR © 5B Sita Melccndnnthsdhicdaccandidinens $146.75, BUY A ROLL OF PRINT PAPER! Mail Donations to the DAILY WORKER RESCUE FUND, munder capitalism. The world’s finan- jis the refusal of: American recogni- 1113 W. Washington Blivd., Chicago, Ill. i * + HERE ARE FUNDS TO BUY PAPER FOR OUR DAILY Name: ¥ Address: Sere teerrereerenae Terr TT City: State: -* ue * * Oe aN o SES - Pyrtigd ' : To Save THE DAILY WORK FR | pre 2. ANNIVERSARY F runze Memorial Part of Program (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Nov. '2—The celebra- tion of the eighth anniversary of the Bolshevik revolutoin here will be a combined celebration of that event and a memorial to Comrade Mikhail Frunze, war commissar of the Union of Soviet Republics, who died last Saturday in Moscow. The story of his deeds, his long service to the revolu- tionary movement and his career as military leader will be recounted by Comrade C. E. Ruthenberg, general secretary of the Workers (Commun- ist) Party of “America, Soviet Russia’s Advance. The economi¢ victory of the Rus- sian workers, which is now becoming apparent before all the world, is prov- ing a tower of strength for the revo- lutionary proletariat of other coun- tries. As the ‘workers’ delegations of Germany, England and the . Scandi- navian countries see with their own eyes the splendid accomplishments of workers’ Russia and come back to their own workers to report, the masses of those countries are taking great strides to the left. The Scar- borough convention of the British trade unions, the united front of the Berlin social-democratic workers with the Communist. Party, the victory of that united front in the Berlin elec- tions, the miove for world trade union uity—these are all due in a large measure, to the recent visit of work- ers’ delegations to Russia, The Locarno Pact. The eighth anniversary of the Rus- sian revolution sees the workers in possession of a sixth part of the globe and victorious in their military fight against the combined forces of im- perialism and counter-revolution, vic- torious also in the economic fight against the destruction caused by the world war, the civil war and the famine and now, for the first time, reaching, and even at this moment beginning ‘to pass the level of 1913 Russian economy. A few more years and the Russian workers will have made economic achievements not to be dreamed of «cieps understand this and their answer tion of Russia and the plotting of a new and desperate intrigue at Locarno aimed to isolate, attack and destroy the government of workers and pea- sants before it is too late. Army of ‘Speakers. The story of the wonderful political and economic achievements of the Russian workers and a warning of this new and desperate plot against | Russia will be given by Comrades| Ruthenberg, Gitlow, Krumbein, Man ley, M. J. Olgin, S. Don, Stachel, Lif- schitz Pruseka, Wolfe, Weinstone and Grecht, at the Central Opera House, 205 E. 67th St., Bronx, and Grand As- sembly Hall, 318 Grand St. Brooklyn, on Nov. 6 at 8 p. m. The answer of the workers of the United States to this new plot must be unequivocal. Demand the recogni- tion of Soviet Russia, Pledge support to the Russian workers against Amer- ican and world imperialism. Come in such numbers to these two halls that the overflow meetings will tell financial lords in unmistakable terms, “We will not tolerate a new attack upon Soviet Russia.” A fine musical program has been ar- ranged and admission to both the de- monstration and the concert is 50 cents. Tickets are on sale at all branches and at the district head- quarters. Los Angeles Workers _ to Hold Celebration LOS ANGELES, Cal., Nov. 2.—The Young Workers League and the Work- ers Party are combining their forces to tmake the 8th anniversary celebra- tion of the Russian revolution a mem- orable one in Los Angeles. A mass meeting will be held under their joint auspices at the Music Arts Hall, 233 S. Broadway, “ Sunday afternoon, Nov. 15. Robeft Minor, member of the Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party, will be the chief speaker, A suitable revolutionary pro- gram is being prepared by the Young Workers League and its Junior Sec- tion. Take this copy of the DAFLY WORKER with you to the shop tomorrow. ™~ FS ag om game ‘ ‘%& cheeidinatelinanie ence eonee ny 9 TES SR PRE AREER ee Sn Ree nee RPOORETENY Figg oe — ey ; " ie re. | ers , EE .ak penne? Pat af . ts 5 Tie ee id Clee ¢ “ , - , : , inde ait eeie — ee Y WORKER +—-————-— aa 4 a ‘ -» oo i Sar Pitas ett ng AND THE WORLD’S ONLY WORKERS GOVERNMENT ates «3 = gles THE ONLY MILITANT AMERICAN LABOR DAILY BY arrenigllas 3 GREETING | THE EIGHTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE Friday, Saturday and Sunday, November 6, 7 and 8 Look for Place and: Date in Your City FAMOUS SPEAKERS NEW YORK CITY. Central Opera. ‘House, 205 E. 67th St., Nov. 6 in the evening. C. E. Ruthenberg, Moissaye J. Olgin, Benjamin 3itlow. BROOKLYN, N. Grand Assembly Hall, 318 Grand St., Nov. 6 in the evening. C. E. Ruthenberg, Moissaye J. Olgin, Benjamin Gitlow. ROCHESTER, N. Y. Labor Lyceum, 580 St. Paul St., Nov. 8, at 7:00 p. m. Ella Reeve Bloor. BUFFALO, N. Y. Labor Lyceum, 376 William St., Nov. 8, at 2:00 p. m. Ella Reeve Bloor. UTICA, N. Y. Labor Temple Hall, 714 Char- lotte St., Nov. 6, at 8 p.m. Rose Pastor Stokes. JAMESTOWN, N. Y. Swedish Br. Hall, 3rd & Main St., Nov. 8, at8 p.m. Rose Pas- tor Stokes. . BINGHAMTON, N. Y. Lithuanian Hall, 271 Clinton St., Nov. 8, at 7 p.m. Al Schaap. our |> BAYONNE, N. J. Workmen’s Circle Hall, W. 25th St., Nov. 8, 2 p. m. NEWARK, N. J. Newark Labor Lyceum, 704 S. 14th St., Nov. 6, at 8 p. m. Joseph Manley. JERSEY CITY, N. J.° Workers’ — 387 Grand St., Nov. 7, at 8 PATERSON, N. J. Carpenters’ Hall, 54-56 Van 725 - ‘. : p ‘ Pee a ee EEE Hauten ap hie at 7:30 Ls m. DENVER, COLO. Social Turner Hall, 714 Char- lotte St., Nov. 8, at 7:30 p. m. Wm. Dietrich. _SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. California Hall, Polk & Turk St., Nov. 6, at 8 p. m. Tom Lewis. BERKELEY, CALIF. Finnish Hall, 1819 10th St., Nov. 8. BOSTON, MASS. At Scenic Auditorium, Berke- ley & Tremont, Nov. 8, at 2:30 p.m. C. E. Ruthenberg. WORCESTER, MASS. Belmont Halll, 54 Belmont St., ‘Nov. 7, at 7: nee om &, ©. Ruthenberg. SPRINGFIELD, MASS. Liberty Hall, 592 North St., Nov. 7, at 7:30 p. m. Alexander Trachtenberg. WASHINGTON. D. C. Playhouse, 1814 N. Street, N.W., Nov. 8, at 8 p. m. Bert- ram D. Wolfe. » BALTIMORE, MD. Brith Sholom Hall, 1072-14 E. Baltimore St., Nov. 10, at 8 p. m. Rose Pastor Stokes. PHILADELPHIA, PA. Labor Lyceum, 6th & Brown Sts., Nov. 6, at 8 p. m. Jay Lovestone, N. H. Tallentire. PITTSBURGH, PA. Miller St., William F. Labor Lyceum, 35 Nov. 8, at-2 p. m. Dunne. is MUSICAL PROGRAMS CLEVELAND, OHIO. Moose Temple Hall, 1000 Wal- nut St., Nov. 8, 2:30 p.m. Jay Lovestone. CANTON, OHIO. Canton Music Hall, 812 Tusc St. E., Nov. 8, in the evening. Jay Lovestone. BELLAIRE, OHIO. Bohemian Hall, 41st & Harri- son Sts., Nov. 6, at 6 p. m. Wm. J. White. “\ \ CONNEAUT, OHIO. Workers’ Hall, Broad Street, Nov. 7. y “HARTFORD, CONN. ‘Labor Educational. Alliance, 287 Windsor’ Ave., Nov. 6, at 8 p. m. Bertram D. Wolfe and Sam Darcy. NEW HAVEN, CONN. Hermanson’s Hall, 158 Crown St., Nov. 6, at 8 p. m. J. O. Bentall. WATERBURY, CONN. ‘Garden Hall, East Main St., |Nov. 1st, at 2:30 p. m. Charles Krumbein. CHICAGO, ILL. Temple Hall, Van Buren & Marshfield Aves., Nov. 7, at 8 p.m. M. Bedacht, E. R. Brow- der. WAUKEGAN, ILL. Workers’ Hall, 517 Helmholz Ave., Nov. 8, at 2 p. m." ree Schachtman. EAST ST. LOUIS, ILL Painters’ Hall, Grand & Page Bivds., Nov. 8, at 8 p. m. ‘ ROCKFORD, ILL. Workers’ Hall, 511 7th Street, Nov. 8, at 3:00 p. m. Max Salz- man. PULLMAN. ILL. Strumils Hall, 107th St. and Indiana Ave., Nov. 8, at 6:30 p.m. Martin Abern, Nat Kap- lan. FRANKFORT, ILL. Majestic Theater, W. Main St., 300 Bik., Nov. 8, at 2 p. m. Manuel Gomez. SOUTH BEND, IND. Hungarian Hall, 316 South Chopin St., Nov. 8, at 2 p. m. Lovett Fort-Whiteman. _KENOSHA, wis. Schlitz Hall, N. Main St. & Milwaukee Ave., Nov. 6, at 8 p. m, DETROIT,: MICH. Finnish Hall, 5969 14th St., Nove 7, at 8:00 p. m. J. Louis Engdahl. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. Son's & Daughters’ Hall, 1057 Hamilton Ave. N. W. Nov. 8, at 2:30 p. m. J. L. Engdahl. MASS, MICH. Mass Fire Hall, Nov. 8th. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. , Moose Halt, 43 So. 4th St., Nov. 8, at 8 p. m. James P. Can- non. ST. PAUL, MIN. German Place, 444 Rice St., Nov. 8, at 2:00 p. m. >annon. DULUTH, MINN. Workers’ Hall, 19 Ave. W. and ist St., Nov. 8, at 8 p. mr Ronn, Angervo. a James P. oy, al “* kr ‘ “| : ¢ 2
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ee ek, tee : mabe. eee e Pee se 3 ths te ei See ~~. (ankles 6 See re Fig SPO RT, ate, oa x WM. F,. KRUSE. | | (Special to The Daily Worker) ee *4 y 4 * . ; wo Ae ee eae ere os ove es Hy 3 > % : ; Lf ' s é La , i 3 Be his Pry hon) xploit ’ > at > ae ¢ ° teenie aioe , j . | : More Tham E - - lis VIENNA, Austria,—(By Mail.)—The | cutting conditions of the Austrian working class were described as the worst in present day Europe in that} not only were their real wages the. lowest but their social maintainence was the least effective. This was proven by extensive reference to com- parative government statistics in an address delivered by Dr. Schoenhof at the first National Conference of the Austrian International Workers. Aid, | » held at Vienna on October 11 and ‘12. i ee, Wage Struggles Discussed. It was attended by forty Austrian deleagtes and (for obvious reasons) unnamed representatives from -Roum-. ania and Jugoslavia, That these poor conditions were particularly severe upon the Austrian children and youth was proven by the statistics of the state school medical inspectors. constant wage struggles in Austria were not merely the reak of dis- satisfaction but rath desper- ation of a prole | ithat more and more realizes its present system. Most of the shop committees. The national organ- izations : of the carpenters, tobacco workers, cap makers and war veter- ans were represented and seven co- operatives also joined. Dr. Frishauf, a noted liberal physician, was elected chairman; Frau Dr. Adler, social dem- ‘under the ocratic leader, the vice chairman; and Franz Yabusch, head of the Independ- ent Socialist Working Class Youth, a member of the executive committee. Strikers’ Children Cared For. Toward the end of the gathering an appeal from the Donawitz strikers was answered with ft imrhediate col. lection and plans. e transport of the children of the . Further extension of the struggle ‘will be met with additiona) relief measures. Soviet Scientist in Claim of Discovery for Cure of Epilepsy MOSCOW, ‘Nov. 2.—Leningrad med- ical circles are interested in a pos- sible cure for epilepsy discovered in the laboratory of the physiologist, Professor Pavlof. Paviof's assistant, Dr. Speranski, announced yesterday to an assembly | of physicians and scientists that as the results of experiments in the ar- tificial freezing of part of the brain substance of dogs, the - voked convulsions and those in epilepsy, and similar to vestigation showed there had developed in the animal’s organism a_ specific toxin, which Dr. Speranski calls altotoxin, and desponsible for the epileptic con- dition. Further experiments, it is said, proved that the injection of this toxin into a healthy animal immunized the latter against epileptic -seizure. Dr. Speranski concluded that it similar treatment were applied to human be- ings the problem of a cure for epil- epsy would be solved. -» Read—Write—distribute The DAILY WORKER. The, inde A evresautes | zing pro. . wage cutting. ; they are s eed- p system. In the Art Works shop , Stop watches are used. An “ef- re and ficiency” expert holds pn me if the worker doesn’t requirements, he is fired. / , Only one group of shop workers are organized—the pottery workers—so the laborer has no protec st such methods. He hasn’t even got meen; against "Bill” Green! PURGELL 10 INTRODUCED A K.C. BY HOWAT U. M. W. of A. Leader to Act as Chairman KANSAS CITY, Mo., Nov, 2—/The A. A. Purcell meeting that will be held on Noy. 4 at the Labor Temple. Audi: torium with Purcell speaking on “World Trade Union Unity,” will have Alexander Howat, mifmer, former pres- ident _ of District 14 of the United Mine ‘Workers of America, as chair- man of this meeting. The arrange- ment committee finally decided that Alex Howat, militant miner of Pitts- burgh, Kansas, was the logical chair- man for the A. A. Purcell meeting. . The anthracite miners are on strike and the bosses intend to ship coal from Europe just as soon as there is need of such... The need of world trade union unity ifs manif that the chairmanship s hould 40 te one representing this wing of the American Federation of Labor at time was cons ye as most abo? to win pe Committees calling on salies oe five minute talks urging’ mem attend the meeting are’*met with thusiasm everywhere. In one un our secretary, Barney McCoy a making a talk and selling tickets found that he had brot forth some other cards instead of the tickets and sold eight for twenty-five cents eachi It took him some time to find aa men after the meeting and giva a tickets. Some unions that are meeting on Nov. 4, intend to meet early and ar- journ the meeting in time for the members to attend the meeting. The rank-and file of Kansas City need such a message as Purcell will de- liver and the rank and file are moving with their eyes focused on this event, i ¥ [OUR DAILY PATTERNS - | , 5039, “Cut in four, «sizes: medium, large and extrh laene. medium size requires 2% yards of 32- inch material. Price, 12c, MISSES’ DRBSs. 5266. Cut in three sizes: 16, 18 and 20 years. A 16-year size requires 3 yards of 40-inch material if made as iilustrated. If made with puff sleeveg -2% yards are required, Width of the skirt at. lower edge is 2% yards, Price 12c. 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AILY Y WORKER 2 does not very 8 a om op - on hand, oot ’ t } lence. | om | A oii: and ay ores ce he of Policy ROME, Nov, 2—Fascism, steeped to | the armpits in the gore of thousands of workers, ‘roared and showed its fatigs in triumph yesterday at the third anniversary of the fascist march on Rome. Mussolinj and his chief aid, Farinacci, secretary general of the fascist party spoke to hoodlum. | throngs of blackshirts while the working population, not wishing to p| provoke murderous reprisals, remain- ed silent. Fascism’s Base. The “policy of fascism,” said Fari- nacei, will continue to be “based on monarchy, religion and the army.” He was quite scornful and exultant over the crushing of the timid petty bour- geois opponents known as the “Aven- title opposition,” whose boycott of par- liament has been broken up by the “order” to return to their seats in par- liament. Fascism would not be “ferocious,” said Farinacci, “unless the opposition provokes it.” He added significantly | that the fascisti have no intention of céasing their method of rule by vio- “We refuse all offers of an armistice. If we have been intransi-. geant hitherto, we will be even more’ intransigeant henceforth.” Fascism Starts More Poorhouses. In spite of the 40,000 blackshirted ruffians mobilized for the occasion and the 300 airplanes maneuvering over the city, and all the display of force, the canker at the root of society un- der fascism was shown by the fact that Mussolini's activities for the day included the dedication of several new poor houses. The socialists remain crushed by the recent order outlawing the reformist unions and all other but fascist unions, The socialists, who had been more than half way allied with the fascists against the Communists in hopes of being permitted to maintain a semb- lance of power in the reformist unions, feel that the Communists now have their arguments of unrelenting oppo- sition to fascism upheld in the minds of the workers. The Aventine opposi- tion, in which the socialists also re- posed part of their faith, is scattered and crushed by fascist violence. ‘ . Baltimore Workers Busy at Campaign for Soviet Defense. 2) dy Rel Gite. (Worker Correspondent.) BALTIMORE, Md., Nov. 2.—The na- tion-wide campaign for the defense of Soviet Russia, ending Tuesday, Nov. 10, in a mass celebration of the Russian revolution’s eighth anniver- Sary, is meeting with a big response from workers here. Our city has been divided. into industrial sections, where thousands of leaflets, “Defend Soviet ©! Russia,” are being distributed. Work- men’s. circle branches and fraternal organizations are active in the work. Rose Pastor Stokes of New York, will be the principal speaker at the Tuesday mass meeting at the Brith- Sholom Hall, 1012 East Baltimore street. There will also be speakers in Russian and other languages. Grigori Matusevich of New York, famous concertino player, and: Brick- man’s orchestra are on the program for English and Russian music. Ad- mission is fifty cents, with all pro- ceeds going to The DAILY WORKER rescue fund. Russian Inventor Produces New Type of High-Power Motor MOSCOW — (Tass) — Nov. 2.—A sensational discovery by Prof. Joffe, who constructed a small motor that can be put in a pocket but is strong enuf to put in action a modtor-car, has }received much publicity in Russia. In an interview with press repre- sentatives, Mr. Joffe said: “Experiments on condensation of electrical energy in minimal size have been carried on by me already for several years and at present they have reached a stage when we can talk of its practical use. New ac- cumulators certainly will lead to a technical revolution, because until now enormous weight of accumulators was their great drawback. The con- struction of accumulators of a new type is based on a physical phenome- non of polarization of certain isolat- ors. I don’t want to give exact fig- ures now, but at any rate, new ac- cumulators will have very small weight and size with capacity to store, at the same time, enormous amounts of energy nearly a thousand times more than motors now used. I hope that within a year I shall be able to come to final results of my work in this direction.” Build the DAILY WORKER. To those who work hard for their money, | will save 50 per cent on all their dental work. DR. RASNICK DEN TAS FT, 645 Smithfield Street _ RITTSBURGH, Lie THE DAI “THE ii ire eee: = eee» ety Page Five (Communist) Party | Social Affairs was prop A with In The “Am The cil. 1. ers tive best capa lems. 2. need er.” will be a 4. 5. their 6. class of te Te ter. A will ber of Our ~ “What - Is yo in the Party.” crete American problems. in Fundamentals of Communism will not only use Bukharin’s text in A. B. C. of Communism, but will add ma- terial needs here and ‘written.for American workers. These aims will necessarily revolutionize our teaching method. opinions as tions of the department.” should be reprbe@nted in an advisory outlines for students. council can thus come outlines, and, later, texts. mented by the question method, will be used by other ron permanent file! cil will give teac or students are thinkifig about them and ministrative tasks; Meet Problems NEW YORK, Not. 2—On Thursday evening, the Workers’ School held their first meeting. The object of the meeting October 22, the teachers of to organize 4&.permanent council to co-operate with the district agit- department in connection with the educational work in this district. Comrade Wolfe was chairman of the meeting. Link School With Agitprop. communication from the nation- al. agitprop department of the party read, in which the object of the educational work of the party was declared to be the political education of the party as a whole, linked up the practical problems of the party and of the working class, and which also outlined in general the nethod | conduct of school work this year. The keynote onal work should be. ef if discussing this communication, Comrade Wolfe laid before the group the party’s new conception of the edu- cational work as a part of and sub- ordinate to the political agitation and propaganda of the party, to be de- ‘Signed to definitely serve the party’s needs in its major campaigns. is the spirit in which we must ap- proach our from the olé ’ not’ only in: education, Our education should not be the monopoly of a select few or an abstract academic thing. prop department, which will central- ize all educational work of the party, is to be a flexible instrument for the major campaigns of the party. coursés are to be tied up with party Campaigns in America. English class- es will have definite political content. This "We must get away -democratic ferms, uhization, but also in The agit- All “Marxism” course will not be “timeless and placeless,” but will be ericanized,” linked up with con- The course created out of our political lecture system must be abandon- for self-activ- ity of statelite: WEP exertion method fae ye ne Representation. followed, in present gave their he objects and func- d teachers’ coun- Comrade Wolfe brot together most of these ideas in hig summary as follows: “The essential problem for the teachers’ council is to bring the teach- and students together in close contact with the district agitprop de- partment, (w. His the representa of the p ), we make for the poséible policy in the agitprop Teachers and students city on the agitprop department when it is alectiaeing school prob- The ism of getting texts together which are suitable for our s will make for a compromise be- tween the “teacher as a lecturing text book” and “the teacher as a teach- Sub-committees of the council work on mimeographing suitable Out of this These outlines, supple- suitable method. 8. The council’ ‘can cortejate the different courses. *” It can gather material°that ‘can seumeee and be kept Student re ntation on coun- De an ‘idea. of what methods, and vice versa. Council ai some ad- organization of es, collectioniqfrfees, supervision achings, etc .» It can plan foryms and correlate all party forums. Most imporfaii®of all—it can ap- ply the political policy of the party to educational work. - be made to serve’ the direct political needs of the party. practical problems such as labor party, fense of Soviet Russia, etc., Mvery course can In all courses, Loreism, ° ‘ Méishevization, de- can en- Next Meeting Nov. 5. committee was elected to report on the progress of organization of the teachers’ meeting. Wolfe, Bosse, Trachtenberg, Eli Jacobson were elected. The next meeting of all teachers council body at the next take place on Thursday, Novem- 5, 5 p. m. All teachers should _jattend. Come and; go your share in reorganization work of the party, fo suit our new needs. off the educational + Philadelphiy Notice: ‘AVIAN SECTION “SUPPORTS © ip NIST INTERNATIONAL AND — CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE} fronting the party was had. At a meeting of the executive bureau of the Scandinavian federation held recently a thoro discussion on the situation in the party and the work con- Support of the Comintern, and a united party behind the Central Ex- ecutive Committee were stressed at this meeting. The following resolution was adopted by the Scandinavian bureau: Scandinavian Federation of the Work- ers (Communist) Party of America declares, in order that all further mis- understanding concerning the result of the latest party convention will be avoided, its full agreement with all the decisions of the convention and binds itself to utilize all of its and the federation’s strength to carry out these. decisions. Importance of Bolshevization. “The executive committee empha- sizes especially the importance of the decisions concerning bolshevization of the party, reorganization, and indus- trial work. Concerning these ques- tions there must be no hesitancy among the members; all party organs must immediately mobilize all their energies to put these decisions into effect. “The executive committee declares itself loyal to the new leadership slected unanimously by the last party convention, and promises its unre- served support, especially in the bol- shevization of the party. Thru the Comintern decision, communicated to the convention, party unity on a Com- munistic basis is assured. The Scan- dinavian Federation leadership calls upon all the members of the federa- tion to support the Comintern as one man and to work for the realmation of its decisions. “The executive committee of the « Condemn Factionalism. “The -executive committee of the Scandinavian Federation declares fur- ther, its. severest condemnation of all factiopalism.and confirms the aboli- tion: of: tke old factions as such, and will, put forth all of its energy to co .the. appearance of new fac- tiong, within our party. Factionalism can, under. no circumstances, be tol- erated within a Communist Party. “The fight against the party’s right wing must be waged energetically; both the open and secret followers of Lore must.be combatted. Within the Scandinavian Federation every un- certainty in relation to the Comintern must be eradicated. The same must be said of the federations, its organ- izations, and members’ relation to the Workers (Communist) Party of Amer- ica. The federation leadership es- tablishes as binding for all the fed- erations, organs and membership, all of the decisions by the central execu- tive committee of the Workers (Com- munist) Party of America. “Long live our unified Communist Party of America! “Long live the Communist Interna- tional! “The Executive Committe of the Scandinavian Federation of the Work- ers (Communist) Party of America. “N. J. Christensen, Secretary.” CLEVELAND INDUSTRIAL WORKERS BELONGING TO THE WORKERS PARTY MEET IN TO DISCUSS UNIONS cal of the attitude of the comrades of The meeting was advertised in 4l appeared. i) Comrade Israel Amter, district sec- retary, gave the comrades a talk on the importance of trade union work, on the necessity of every member of the party eligible for membership (in a trade union joining the union and getting active. He laid down the basis tions and for the work of the ‘part thru the fractions building up the le wing movement in the Americam la- bor unions. Reads C. |. Letter. wt Comrade Amter read the letter of the executive committee of the Com- intern and the executive bureau of the Red International Labor Union to the comrades, which insisted that “disciplinary measures must be em- ployed” to force the comrades to do their workin the labor unions. sion of the issues. The comrades pre- in the trade union work is sincere of. party drac-} 2% There was earnest, serious discus-" sent demonstrated that their interest. CLEVELAND, Nov. 2.—A membership meeting of comrades working in industry was held in Cleveland on Saturday, Oct. 24. This meeting was typl- the party to trade union work. l party papers weeks in advance of the date. All the membership was informed about it, and yet only 45 comrades i” land each one of them deplored the fact that the party membership as a whole both ignored the membership jmeeting and pays in sufficient atten- tion’ to trade union work. Half Belong to Unions. A registration. was. taken, and_ it. | was discovered that of the 45 com- spades present only 23 belong to labor Panions, while at least~19 can join. The district executive committee has Porade a decision that the comrades “must join a labor union within two months. The comrades present not belonging to unions will be instructed to. join. A beginning must be made to break down the indifference and lethargy of party members in regard Es trade union work. More meetings ‘of’ the kind will be hed, till the party ‘membership at last recognizes the im- portance of this “the foremost task of the American party” as the Comin- tern pronounced it. DISTRICT SIX PREPARES WAY FOR PARTY REORGANIZATION CLEVELAND, Nov. 2.—The mem Canton. strates that the membership will sup- port the Central Executive Commit- tee wholeheartedly in the reorganiza- tion of the party. The questions asked and the dis- cussion that arose after the questions were answered, show that the mem- bership. is keen to the idea and will do everything possible in carrying on the work. Lays Stress on Union. Comrade Amter especially laid stress on the trade union work of the party, and insisted upon the de- cision of the Communist International being carried out, viz., that all com- rades eligible to membership in a trade union must join the union, be- come active in it and together with the other comrades in the union form a party fraction. He pointed out that a great part of our work is done among the organized masses, or at least should be done there. By the reorganization of the party we will come into contact with the 24,000,000 unorganized workers in this country. But in the trade unions, where the workers have already grasped the concept of organization, we will lay the basis for much of our work, work for building up the party today and for preparing the forces for the revolution. Must Join Union. The district executive committee has decided that the comrades must Am Looking for aFriend of Mine JOSEPH B, DUJMOVICH The last heard of him he was at Nia- gara Hotel, Turse. St. E., Can- ton, Ohio. “« id Write to eho Parlick, 240 West Hasard St. Sagunis Hill, Pa. } jIAG SEU bership of the district is preparing for the reorganization of the party as the first step in the bolshevization of the party. Membership meetings have been held in Cleveland and Warren. the last week Comrade Amter, district secretary of the party, has held mem- bership meetings in Ballaire, Steubenville, E. Liverpool, Youngstown and These meetings were well attended. and the interest shown demon- In yt join the unions within two months or discipline will be asserted. The dis- trict executive committee takes the trade union work seriously and be- lieves that the decision of the first convention of the Workers Party must at last be realized. Further meetings will be held in Toledo pn Wednesday, Oct. 28; Akron, on Noy. 15, and Conneaut and Fair- port on Nov. 22. At. alk the meetings already held, a resolution was adopted unanimously endorsing, the decision of the Com- munist International and party con- vention on the question of bolshe- vization and reorganization. | IN NEW HAVEN MMUNISTS IN CITY CAMPAIGN Many Shop Meetings Held at Noon (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW HAVEN, Nov. 2.—The Work- ers Party is conducting an energetic Haven. Already several noon shop meetings have been held at the larg- est factories. The distribution of 10,000 election leaflets is under way, with a well-or- ganized squad of comrades, working under the direction of Campaign Man- ager Ben Marke. No other party in the campaign has printed any plat- form, Other Parties Spill Bunk. Our party has held two noon meet- ings, at which Comrade Simons pic- tured the conditéoh of the worker in the shops of New Haven, and out- lined our program on injunctions, high At both meetings, the workers listen- ed attentively. But the democratic party meeting before the Clock shop, addressed by the leading candidates of that party indulged in the usual plati- tudes, bright aggregation of citizens, honesty-service, born in this ward, ad nauseum. At today’s meeting, the diffierence between our campaign ‘and democratic campaign was pointed The republican candidate, Mr. wer, makes his chief issue the as- ssment of property and the local ate of taxation. The democrats stand on their record of building streets and bridges, of “efficient, honest” govern- ment. But not a word about what they have done for the working class of the city. At the Clock Shop meet- ing the chairman of the democratic meeting was the town chairman, Mr. John W. Murphy, also president of the Trades Council of New Haven. But from what he said, no one would have known he had anything to do with labor. He charged that their op- ponents had not shown any examples of inefficiency; referred to some can- didates as having sprung from the “pee-pul;” claimed that the,small tax- payers’ interest should be protected, that the city was doing eight million dollars worth of business, and no 0 «,| scandal had been raised over it, And to sum up, in urging the re-lection of the democratic ticket, he asked plain- tively: “What would happen to the Clé¢k “Shop if the superintendent, the president, the foremen and sub-bosses were fired?” What a horrible calam- ity! And he also reminded them that with these office-holders, others might also lose their jobs. Mr. Murphy, if you protected labor a bit more, went out and organized the workers in the huge prison shops of this damnable city, instead ® plead- ing for the return to office of a gang of cheap politicians, living off the backs of the workers, things would be a damnsite better. Communists Challenge Socialists, The socialists have not held one street meeting, no shop meetings, in the present campaign. They are dead from the neck up. The only figure they cut is among those to whom the ahead with the years. The new stream moves with Communism. The Workers Party challenged the socialist party of New Haven to a de bate on the present city campaign, but the socialists are as silent as a clam. They prefer to go before such bour- geois organizations as the league of women voters to present their views, rather than meet with working class representatives. They evidently are more at home among such an emi- nently respectable gathering. RUSSIANS WILL CELEBRATE EIGHT ANNIVERSARY. A mass meeting and concert in honor of the eighth anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution is arranged by the Russian Branch of the Work- ers Party for Sunday, Nov. 8, at 6 p. m., at the Workers’ House, 1902 W. Division. St. Admission free. Come and bring your friends. Russian speakers, a musical pro- gram. Attention—Chicago! Important Section Membership Meeting anian No, 5, Lithuanian No. 41, meeting to be held at a SECTION THREE (CENTRAL MANUFACTURING AREA) All party members belonging to the following party unite: Lithu- Lithuanian No. 93, Ukrainian South Side No. 5, Pojish South Side No. 23, Czecho-Slovak* Town of Lake, Siovak Town of Lake, MUST attend the genera! section membership VILNIS, 3116 South Halsted Street WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1925, 8 P. M. At this meeting all the party members belonging to the above branches will be registered for the purpose of being assigned to the new proper party units in the reorganization of the Workers (Com- munist) Party into shop and street nuclei, EVERY PARTY MEMBER BELONGING TO ANY OF THE ABOVE BRANCHES WHO WANTS TO RETAIN HIS OR HER MEM- BERSHIP IN THE WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY, MUST BE PRESENT AT THIS MEETING AND BE REGISTERED. Resolutions . campaign in the city elections of New cost of living, housing, schools, etc. socialist movement is a bit of senti-* ment, old timers who have not moved .
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Cdicago, Mi, nh Monroe = VERYTHING is peaceful in the | concrete tacts '§ i the premise ‘the present, democracy is a democracy | and s6 forth, in case of the disturb- 1 between the theory and ’ | SUBSCRIPTION RATES anthracite,” says tire capitalist | which they ackn as correct. | for one class—the ruling class and its| ance -of public order, that is, in case ‘| practice of American democracy, we ; By malt (in Chicage only): By mail (outside of Chicago): press. all the jst democracies | hangers-on. “These misleaders of the| of “disttérbance” by the servile class mmend the following sentence by 4 $8.00 per year $4.50 six months | $6.00 per vear $3.50 six months Four or five workers, suspected of America the most suc- | ™@sses are é most ardent defenders of its servile condition, and of at-. >i : - $2.60 three months $2.00 three months _ membership in the Communist Party,| cessful in ‘popular sup- | f American democracy and believers: tempts ~ aarine up a non-cervile. at- } democracy : ——« |who tried to point out to the miners] port. Nowhere bat right of fran-| im the franchise as a weapon for the} titude. i} ise “ Address all mail and make out checks to that their interests are being betrayed | shige mere oe e catch words | “limination of all inequalities. — ENIN ‘oiatine America as one ‘of | oa HR a ad DAILY WORKER, 1118 W. Washington a Chicago, IIlinole by the Lewis machine in that soft and | of the of the ruling age ig et gi og } vho see one coal company alone mar- " boasted democratic fréedom for min-} “We:strive for a higher form of! shafl 110 armed | deputy sheriffs ority opinion in the United 7 , democracy,” say the middle class | against them, we say that it is not growth of" military and semi- military tions in Americk policemen have been sworn in. The]'‘s one of«the o nding phenomena coal capitalists and the state are get-]| of the last five Years. Even before ting ready— ‘the ~=world) =war?'th® use of force ' igainst the workets ‘in strikes was a commonplace. Téday, an all-embrac- / Comrade Mikhail Frunze 1 The story of the life history of another of the Old Bolshevik * : | . . : For ‘what? ard is now ready for definite telling. One by one the outstanding To “protect lives and property,” of than in the following’ passage in | apostles..of. parliamentarism. Their | only a “peaceful strike” they are en- se figures of this magnificent array are passing and will pass fronmthe | course. ing net werk of patriotic, militarist,] Kautsky, the Renegade and the Pro- | expressed yiew is that it is because of | gaged in, but in the eyes of the coal ite ns stage of action. But they leave behind them in their passing” the But whose lives? And whose prop-| fascist. organizations— official and‘ letarian Revolution. Lenin andthe Anthracite—GAL 2 capitalists and their bloodsueking kin- 7 ti B stage pike y P erty? semi-official—covefs ‘the country. The fundamental laws of modern | defects in the democratic structure | dred, a ~ widespread: Perse amy ot richest heritage ever bestowed upon mankind for all the ages a are to come—the proletarian revolution. ~ Comrade Mikhail Frunze was not one of those spectacular revo- lutionaries that flash upon the scene of history in a period. of elemental upheaval as a comet flashes upon the horizon. Like his the public order." = * The anthracite miners are coins ting the crime of crimes against Amerie anit st democracy—they an action wiicli disturbs “the we e el “servile - idi and of attempts to strike up a non: They are directed against the work-} ing class as is prove in every period of local or national crisis. Not the miners, we may be sure. HE American working class is far from being class conscious, but the most ignorant worker would laugh in one’s face if one told him that these specially organized and accredited thugs mobilized by the coal owners states, take their internal adminis- |of American, capitalism that workers tration, take the right of meeting | in kes and demonstrations, even ‘ and the freedom of the press and | in election campaigns, are visited wit The socialists berals find’ it] the. so-called equality of all citizens | prison ang, bloodbaths from time hard to ex contradiction | before the law and you will see at | tir Bo. within the fr of American |. every step evidence of the hypo- democracy. General ly they come tO] cricy of bourgeois democracy, with pery misleaders are care- ful to speak of democracy in the 7 eat teacher, Lenin. the leader of the Bolshevik. wing of the old and their hand-picked local govern- the conclusion t lat ‘corporation con-| which every honest and intel- | abstract and not of its class charac- |servVile attitude.” _ e : ; . ments were brot into the anthracite | trol,” “Wall S gents in govern-| figent worker is familiar. There is | ter—thé’ or which accounts for the the Communists . who told them Russian party, he devoted himself tirelessly to forging in the. storm district to protect the lives and hovels | ment,” “official uption,” or some} not a single state, however demo- | lautchifig’ df armies of professional |these and other things have when thrown in jail—“the protection of-mi- norities” again, but before long the miners will have to begin to think seriously of these and other matters and translate thot into action. peel The Sharpening of the Class Struggle in Japan |. -he coalition is full of elements of de- or less big towns of the country there other phrase-mongerit veil for the class struggle is ‘the. cause. yar. write and speak endlessly against the Communists because the latter point out that force is in- | murderers upon stfiking workers—in- cidents which they account for by branding them “as perversions of | America’s demoécratic traditions,” etc. To all the American workers who cratic, which does not contain loop- holes or limiting clauses in its con- stitution which guarantee the bour- geoisie the legal possibility of dis- patching troops against the work- of the miners | The most backward American work- er knows better than this. But the great majority of the work- ers are not prepared to continue the and stress period preceding and during the revolutionary upheaval of 1905, and the disheartening reaction, following, the party that was to mobilize and lead the proletariat to final victory over czarism and the bourgeoisie of Russia, and to lay the foundation for the International whose destiny it will be to lead the world revolution. : \ | His life is a lesson and an inspiration to the younger comrades of today, to some of whom the routine, and many times obscure, work of the-party becomes irksome. The Old Bolshevik Guard taught the revolutionaries the essential collisions of students’ meetings with] that even this franchise will serve to | lesson that without a party steeled in the conflict, with a strong’ Marxian leadership, there can never be any revolution. Just as Comrade Frunze carried out the work of the party when it was struggling to make its impress upon the working class, just as he devoted his powers to every post assigned him in the illegal days of preparation for the revolution, so he took the post assigned him after the revolution and with tireless energy covered himself and the cause he served with glory. After filling party and government positions in places removed: from the center of the revolutionary movement, he began his military | career as commissioner of the government of Ivanovo-Voznessensk; | he soon became military leader of the district of Jaroslav, from, whence he went to the eastern front as commander of the fourth army operating in the Urals. In 1919, at the height of the Koltchak of fensive, he became commander of the whole eastern front and cut to pieces the white guard forces of Koltchak. he participated in offensives againgt other paid military adyenturers of the allied powers, and in 1920 headed the red army that drove the forces of Baron Wrangel into the Black Sea. He then became military commander of the Ukraine and Crimea. posts followed until he became vice-president of the setaneapice military council of the Union of Soviet Republics. His long devotion to the party, extending back to his student days in 1904, his military achievements and his sterling ability to work anywhere and under any conditions circumstances imposed, made him the logical leader of the red army, which position he; achieved when Comrade Trotsky became ill. Outside of Russia, and the leading circles of the Commuttiitt! ; movement in other countries, few knew of the career of Frunze until | he became chief of the red army, but his contribution to the revolu- tion is so big that as long as there is a recorded history of mankind _Ahe name of Frunze will occupy a luminous place on its pages. | As the celebration of the eighth anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution approaches, our joy will be eclipsed by the sombre thought that this loyal party comrade and. brilliant leader of the army of the Union of ee Republics fell at his post while still a comparatively In quick succession Other important But as we mourn his loss we must remember that the best way in which we can show our devotion to his memory and the cause for is to seize with a million hands the sword that he so valiantly carried and march onward to the final conquest of the capitalist system. Progress Against Reaction According to the Detroit Labor News the issue in today’s elec- tions in that city of Ford despotism is progress against, reaction. which he gave his life, —————— -_- al td By G. VOITINSKY. i. S a result of the situation in Jap- an, there is to be seen a general worsening of the situation of the working and peasant masses, as well as of the millions of middle bourgeois- ie and of the intelligentsia. The most characteristic feature of the impoverishment of the peasant ‘masses is the influx of peasants into ‘the towns in quest of work, ‘which made itself evident during the past } year. Unemployment in the towns, . wever, deprives the young peasants any chance of being absorbed in industry, and, according to the re- ports of the Japanese chamber of com- irerce, there are at present in the Whéle country about three million un- émployed. “he strike movement in Japan in 1524, is regarded as a record since time of the world war. Accord- ing to the inexact returns of the Jap- ahese government, in the year 1924 thére took place more than 700 strikes involving more than 100, 000 workers, whilst in the year 1919, when a strike Wave set in in Japan for the first time after the war, the number of strixes Rmounted to only 497 and the num- i ber of workers involved to 64,000. NEMPLOYMENT among the intel- lectuals in Japan is at present yery great, altho there are no figures available regarding the exact number. The economic crisis in the country has created a political situation in | which the governing clique is fever- ishly turning from one measure to the other in its attempts to save the sit- uation. The Japanese cabinet, with the leader of the bourgeois-agrarian party Kensekai, Vicomte Kato, at the head, consists of a coalition of three parties: Sejukai, Kenesekai and Ka- kuschin-Kurabu. The coalition gov- ernment, which was formed in May, 1924, as a result of a political crisis after the collapse of the strongest party in Japan, Sejukai, which repre- pscates the interests of the financial oligarchy, the court bureaucracy and the big agrarians, is laboring under a ‘chronic crisis. The seceded section, Sejuchonto, which has close. social connections with the above mentioned groups, constitutes against the government from right. And in spite of the fact there exists the the opposition | @ say, aS on the one hand the policy of the government runs counter to the interests of the middle and petty bour- geoisie, not to mention the sharp an- tagonism of the Snmiall holders and workers, while on ‘thé ‘other hand it is calling forth great) Bitterness on the part of the monopdlist “big capitalists, the agrarian ‘y, the higher officials and the matBtarihte. bi So ggag the earthquake, that is with- in the space. of,. about eighteen months, four governments have suc- ceeded one “another,, in Japan (the cabinets of Admiral,Kato, Jamamoto and Kiura), which have, been wrecked between the financial oligrachy and the government byreaucracy on the one hand and the ete groups of the rest of. ite eoisie on thé other. hand, ts over. the; differe opolist bourgeoisie the remaining bourgeois’ classes, as a means of decreasing the ee a mood among the peasants, workers and pet- Y bouregois, ole ‘ The cabinet, which on the one hand employed and still,employs, cruel re- pressive measures,against the labor movement, the movement of the small peasants and the intellectuals, who are continually becoming more revolu- tionary, was compelled on the other hand to extend the’ffanchise, to set up the institute of &grarian inspection in order to allay th®*tohstant conflicts between the simailtioffing peasants and the big landowhe?S ,, and to pro- pose arbitration cddf#té for the work- ers without, however, formally recog- nizing the trade unions. UT as is to be seen from the recent events in Japan, these measures have brought about results contrary to those which the government eapect- cd. The congress Of the:smai nolders oemti peasants which recently tovuk rlace decided to boycott the institute of agrarian inspect’cn, and meetings and demonstrations of workers which Sree against compulsory arbitra- #m*and demand labor l-gislation ia thé abolition ‘of excep-ional laws against “dangerous ideas,” demon- strate the cor 8s of our asser- the police, as an answer to the meas- ures of the governmert to militarize the high schools, are arousing indig- nation against the government in al- most all sections of society, Sullen and bitter resentment has been aroused against the government among the working masses and the revolutionary intellectuals by the ex- ecution which recently took place of a young revolutionary named Namba, who made an attempt upon the life of the crown prince. The inequality of the development |. of capitalism in Japan, which was his- |: torically determined by the economic ripéhess of feudalism in the country at the moment of the revolution in thé year 1868, after the military clique caine into power, which developed in- | du chiefly on the basis of war pro, | n (especially after the Japano- ese war in 1895 and after the war in 1904) appears at present to be the chief cause of the -| growth of the revolutionary tendency bh in the country. UT the character of this develop- ment of capitalism in Japan showed itself especially after the earthquake, when monopolist capital the country of “rationalizing” indus- try. The advance of the process of. the swallowing up of the little banks. by the big banks, the bankruptcy of’ many middling commercial and indus- | trial firms and banks, and the sfmul- taneous increase and extension of the enormous Mizui and Mizuibischi con- cerns are extremely characteristic pecularities in, the present eoanomg life of Japan. The introduction of male waftrane some weeks ago. was an enforced con- cession in view of the ever increasing hate of the mass of the people; and in order that the working masses and the revolutionary organizations shall not be able to make use of even this mutilated franchise (the law provides. that only people over 25 years and possessing at least 2,000 yen will be able to vote, while only people over 30 can be elected), there has been intro- duced at the same time the law against “dangerous ideas,” under which membership of an illegal organ- ization is punishable with 10 years years hard labor. and the ruling bureaucracy were faced - with the proposition which had never previously existed in the history of — Ss rally the forces in the country against the existing governing clique and against the monarchy itself. Among the 10 to 11 million new electors who, under the newly passed law, will par- ticipate in elections, there is a con- siderable number of small-holders, poot péasants and workers, and these ‘will undoubtedly promote and expe dite the process of the creation of a workers’ and peasants’ party which pil ‘already commenced some years . We must here call attention to ‘important question in the de- ent of this movement: up to now there exists no capitalist and pet- ty bourgeois parties in Japan. , pee radical intellectuals, who con- stitute the most active political factor - ih the country, are beginning to penetrate more and more into the trade, union movement and into the small-holders’ leagues in order to gain ideological influence there. The idea of a workers or a workers* and ants; party, which was first promul- gated. some years. ago by the Com- munists, has now been taken up by these, elements and there exists the danger that they will play too great a le.in the organizing of the workers’ ' The trade unions and also the small holders’ leagues, however, are in favor of collective membership in thé coming workers’ and peasants’ party, which will prevent the petty ‘botirgeois intellectuals from penetrat- ‘pérs ‘into the party.- It is, of course, the task of the Communists to enter ‘this ‘party for the purpose of combat- ‘ting ‘the petty bouregois ideology of intellectuals: of the type ef Kagava ‘and ‘others, who wish to convert this bo Sg parliamentary party of de- mocracy . During the past year the working /masses have organized themselves in trade union which numerically surpass the trade unions which were destroyed as a result of the earthquake. Thus, to quote an example, in the past year there has been created for the first time a union of shipbuilding workers (Kaikun Renmei) with 42,000 mem- bers, as well-as a union of tramway workers, etc. In this labor movement, which is fully organized, a consider- able revolutionary minority has made its’ appéarance, which in cities like Tokio’ and Kioto‘and in the centers of the métal industry constitute the over- Ne a tendency on the part of the trade unions towards centralization and amalgamation. T the same time the small-holders and the poor peasants are organ- izing themselves more and more. The peasants’ league for the whole of Japan already has organizatory con- nections with the.trade unions. The organizing of the radical intellectuals is following after the model of the Fabian societies, of circles and leagues, which aim at democratizing the country... There exists no doubt that the re- vival in the labor movement will pro- duce new revolutionaries and that the young Communist Party will succeed in penetrating into the dépths of the # working class and to leading in the atreaighe against tasking R. e Strikers Stick "Blocked with Pode “ BALTIMORE, Nov. 2.—Reports re- ceived at strike headquarters of the Locomotive Engineers and Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, in Balti- more, for the Western Maryland rail- way dispute, show that traffic at main points on the road is badly crippled. The strike began Oct. 15. On Oct. 19 the Hagerstown division reported ih in\more or less considerable num-: 1300 cars moved in five days, com- pared with an average normal daily traffic of 800 cars. At Cherry Run an average of one train a day has been handled during the strike, compared with a normal average of 600 carg.a ‘day. Cumberland is the second largest city in Maryland. The struck road has moved only one freight train out of Cumberland since the fight began. The yard@® at Shomoc, which is the junction point of the Western ° land with the Norfolk & Western, was reported jammed with cars which the Western Maryland was unable to move. At Hillen the normal 50 to 75 cars daily traffic has been reduced to a total of 23 in 5 days. The company issued denials of this success. It claimed all yards were functioning perfectly. The DAILY WORKER sub- is a ‘Communist ae i? \ Not the class struggle, not the striving to create a mass labor party : against the capitalist parties, not a fight against use of police, in- scription lis no o organized opposition from the left| tions. ‘The ee and the There exists no doubt, whelthing ° Keeaeesbaek In all the more PRM S — What Will We Gain From Reorganization? however, honor har Is.your name on ae junctions and terroristic methods in strikes, but just progress against reaction. How perfectly delightful! It is still more illuminating when we learn that the Labor News supports the present mayor of the city for re-election, it also sup- ports a candidate for a minor office who received in the primaries These are the heralds of progress, ‘according to the official organ of the Detroit Federation tof Labor. Henry Ford supports the same mayor. In apologizing for its vile betrayal of labor in this election the “Their actions in office have shown them to the support of the ku klux klan. * News also says: be fair to all elements in society.” Dennis E. Batt’s name flies at the head of the editorial At one time he claimed fo be a revo and Marxian and today his paper speaks of those who have been fair This rot is a complete negation of the class struggle and repeats the dull monotony of the phrases of the philistine apologists of capitalism. column of that paper. to all elements in society. Those who talk thus and do not r are simply unconscious apologists for capitalism, but when people who have received training in the revolutionary move- ment repeat such imbecilities it amounts to deliberate prostitution. Rather than quit the gang of labor fakirs in the Detroit Federation ef Labor who regularly play the filthy game of capitalist politics rather than go to work to earn an honest living, Batt prefers to re- main close to the pie counter and repeat the drivel that appears in the Saturday Evening Post, Colliers,and other scab sheets. Surely Lenin knew how to choose apt quotations when speaking of this identical type, he asked, “Tell me, what is a philistine?” He answered it by the quotation; “A philistine is an empty, god will have mercy on his ut, filled with fear, who hopes that . Es By ISRAEL AMTER The American worker is not so dif- ferent in psychology from the Europe- an worker. Whatever difference does exist is due to the development of the capitalist system in its concentrated form in the United States and to the capitalists and the government em- ploying their own peculiar measures in order to keep the workers doped. “Americanization” is having ;a stupi- fying effect on the psychology. The American worker — even the foreign- born, who has been somewhat accli- matised — does not regard himself as a worker. He is ashamed of being a worker, and does everything in his power to conceal the fact. He dresses as the bourgeoisie deos, he polishes his manners in confirmity with the bourgeoisie. Americanization hag as its motive to make the worker forget that he belongs to a class, and to instill in his mind the false idea that he is a citizen of the United States with rights and gestae sae equal to any mans. Not to “rise in the world” — which means not to escape from the condi- tion of a worket’- is a demonstra- tion that the m stupid, And A | man fears nothing more than to be considered stupid.”"Therefore the mo- ment a worker leaves a shop — after taking off his oVeralls and washing his hands — hé¢onsiders himscif not a worker but’ citizen. With our presént social-demidcratic form of organization we approach the worker after they Have taken off their overalls—and hj e become “citizens with rights the gs ime as Rockefeller.” The result is that’ ‘they do not listen to us — for they have forgotten, or are trying to forgét the class struggle. When the party is reorganized’ on the basis of nuclei, we will-do our work work at the place where a worker must be conscious that he is a wage slave. He is driven by the foreman of the boss, he silently revolts against the conditions that he must work under. His mind is opem,to every kind of sug- gestion. It is the gunction of the Com- munists to nourigh this ‘discontent, help to crystallige it, point the way out, formulate tye policies and lead the struggle aggimst the system. For some year, the party has issued the slogan of egrganizing the unor-: ganized.” It was a slogan worthy of a Communist P. but to every party task. How could the party with a mem- bership of about 20,000 conceive of organizing 24,000,000 unorganized workers in this coutry? This was a stupendous task, and remains one. But it was inconceivable particulary because, altho the party members are working in the shops where the other 24,000,000 are employed, nonethless, they were not working in an organiz- ed manner in carrying on the general work of the party among the masses in the shops, factories and mines, and particularly in achieving the task of organizing the unorganized. It was an idle task that the party set itself until such time as the party itself was organized in such form and at the proper place to carry out the work. The shop nuclei offord the only possibility of accomplishing this task. For some years we have spoken of organizing shop committees, and thru these committees, aiding in re- volutionizing the labor unions. But how could we organize shop commit- tees effectively if we, the Communists, were not organized in the shop, in order to ‘systematically perform this work? T -nucleus made up of member it~ an ‘ insuperable the par affords this pos- ibility, . ' Since the time of Karl Marx, we have been. telling the workers that the, working class is robbed at the point of production. What should have been more natural than that the Com- munists who wish to end this robbery ‘of, the, working class, should organize at the point of production? Instead, owing to the or basic to the social- ist movement outside of Russia where thesshop. nucleus system. obtained from the very beginning, the parties were built) in such form as to enable the ‘workers to “capture” the state by means of pariamentary elections. The Communist movement arising out of the rea! strugzgies of the workers in the period of imperia'ism, has made it clear that the culmination of the class struggle will not be thru turn- ing the tables against the oppressors. Hence, in order to do this work, the Communists must be orgarized at tne ‘point of production, in order, from the pont of production to lead the work- ers into the struggle for power. « | The immediate tasks of the party— and the developmen: of the: struyvgl: of the party take place as | izatic quick] y as possible. There 1 .wo dun a, for power—demand that the reorgan-. ger of the party losing any of its real ( mmunist elemerts. Di-gruntled, apathetic members of the party, who have regarded the party as a social institution, or- as an adventure; will drop out. The party ‘will weld its for- ces together dnd begin to do real Communist work. ; \ At the present time some of the branches meet each week, every two weeks and some even once a month. The class struggle goes on day by day, and our comrades meet at the end of the feventh, fcurteenth or even thirtieth day to reflect on it! Again, comrades are given tasks to perform -— tasks essential for the whole party organization — and only at the end of seven, fourteen or thirty days, can one ascertain whether they party is reorganized, discipline and control will become possible for the first time, Coordinated action of the party membership in the real strug- gle will become possible. What has the party to gain’ from reorganization? The party has evety- ‘thing to gain — for the first time it will be able to become a Communist Party not only in name, but in aub- acai Bee 66 Ls CRIMI bien and action, have performed their duty. When the .