Daily Worker
November 7, 1925
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A | amy: at Chicago, llinofs, under the Act of March 3, 1879. This Issue Consists of T ef Ma tions. - si bai ne by s” IBLI piisped Daily except Rape. by THE DAILY WORKER . Washington Bivd., Chicago, Il. SHING CO.,, 1113 Niiscon 3 Cents f/ Pa. ft dry ‘union omiGiats. iy Seuciaia abe. y Co hte eee + : © $ ene . Bit) Pt ov tee s ° : ihe com 5. Rh following is is the fourth article of a series wpon conditions of ‘dial 158,000 anthracite miners now striking for a’ ten per eént wage viraise, theecheck. off and other demarids. Alex Reid, head of the Pro-_ % ‘ gfeasive Miners’ Committee, was recently released from the Scranton, — | ‘jail Where he was sentenced by a venal 8 aided. by the re- By ALEX REID ii. » (Secretary Progressive Miners’ Committee). A veritable flood of propaganda is being circulated thruout pl Do y the anthracite mine owners, injan attempt to mis- Wren public of the wages and workin hard coal miners. “By a clever manipulation of figures the coal ’ statisticians are attempting to show the miners are a ates paid group. _Their favorite method of falsifying is by using conditions of the} WA. LOGAL 39, T0 RESIST WAGE SLASHING Demands _ Joint Board At the last meeting of Local No. 39, Amalgamated Clothing: Workers of America, the. following resolution in- structing the delegates of the union to. ‘the Chicago joint board to resist. any attempts on the part of the bosses raise the volume of production and tg! the wages: of the clothing work- “wow being purpose to reduce the cost.of the gar- ment, and ; “In view of the fact that our ex- periences with the a rs for the: last year, have ta at the ‘promises of a heede-atved e ‘of work,’ if readjustments and reconstructions will be made, didn’t materialize, and “In view of the ‘fact. that we are again faced with the. sathe conditions as stated above; “therefore, be it “RESOLVED, That we, Local 39, of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America hereby at this meeting in- struct.our delegates to the joint board to bring the following for its appro- val: “That in the negotiatiéns with the manufacturers our representatives shall not grant anything that will tend to lower our, standards; “That we hereby resolve to protect: the interests of our members with all our power, and we further “RESOLVE, That a copy of this re-) solution be forwarded to our national president, Sidney Hillman, as our un- animous expression to guard: ourselves *percent “haw jeans cones give 5 aa | under. actual. suman 4 of overyeay | year investigated, e of wage increases} jJinstead of actual money paid. The miners’ wages are cut very of- ten thru no fault of their own, by be- ing prevented from work by falls éf roof, accidents, bad air, gas, lack of material, lack of: cars, bad working conditions and injuries: The United States coal -commission has thé ” ‘tol. result of their recent investigation: “Loss of time involving a pirian et ed afinual intome. A _ considera number of miners lose some time a ing places or other causes beyon their control. Frequently when, ; contract niiner ‘finishes his working | 4 4a > secures another Place ‘to work. “To give the earnings, therefore, . of only those who work for the a year would eliminate’. all. Blas. oF earnings which were mine workers’ control, | nae Ge idea of the earnings of the miners life.” When we patie pee fact that there are over one hundred differ ing the year thru illness, acciden S, shut downs, bad condition of Mi [: +4 a lowing to’say on this quéstfon as” a} | place, it ‘may be some ‘time before he} i | Two American destroyers, the Lam- son and the Coghian, |} crews, are rushing from this city to» | Beirut, as dispatches tell of the con- - public with a unified army to. drive % BULLETIN. (Special to The Daily Worker) . ALEXANDRIA, Egypt., Nov. 5.— with full Solidation of the rebel forces in Syria and the proclaiming of a re- out the French ravagers. ~ = * (Special to The Daily Worker) dential reports reaching tls city of desolation have aroused hope in the breasts of these elements fighting against imperialist aggression. Re- ports from Homs are to the effect that the numerous groups that arose in spontaneous revolt when the storming .of Damascus became known are now | DAMASCUS, Syria, Nov. 5.—Confi-/ 19235 ims e head with one PAnat henceforth the scourge of France “with war-like pre- “peo Lor mer leader of the - People's party,” whose ia the storming of pe been infiuent- we bringing many ee mder his leadership, : jen. i military leader of operart between Da- " ; Whd has proclaimed a 2 nal president of will insist upon the Ssion of the league of 2 a phim as the spokes- he challenge of the tid i movement col —_ rnational str | countries. You. festo of the ee | -Exploiters Armin OU, the workers of all countries; have ' le of the prolet ue rr ve broken down the b not yet ended. The international band’ International. * “ Nationalist Republic Pipes Junie of’ Syria is based upon the authority of'a mandate im- posed by the treaty of Versailles. The nationalists hold that this mandate has been violated by the aggression of the French dnd the habit of French military officers engaging in business ventures to plunder the nation. The one demand upon which all ele- ments unité'is: “smash the mandate.” If the mandate is revoked it. means evacuation of the occupied territory. If not the gauntlet is thrown down to France and it means war to the limit of human endurance. Forces United The wnification of the forces for a determined stand against the French | invasion embraces the rebels under Hassan- el Kharsat, several thousand under Gonima Sussa, and the most _ (Continued on page 2) hei reap —- . ~ nd ° ; : : . ' WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.—Another Tmove has been made by the Coolidge administration, thru the interstate d the deacte’ maint min a BY opment is paid a différent até’ of wages will be readily seen how difficult it is mating the’ earnings of the miners: We must deal with the average earn | the famous visitor to begin and end his speeches: of Oe Sa MIKHAIL FRUNZE. NOW LIES UNDER KREMLIN WALLS Soviet War Head Rests Near Lenin (Special to The’ Dally Worker) MOSCOW, Nov. 5.—The body of the late Soviet war minister, Mikhail Frunze, has been laid at rest next to that of late Soviet premier, Ilyitch Lenin. As Frunze’s body was borne in a coffin draped with the Red Flag of Soviet Russia to its final resting place in the tomb of the Red Square before the Kremlin, thousands of Rus- ‘sian workers and peasants with hats in hand and tears in their eyes watch~ ed the procession, Fifty -hours before Mikhail ‘Frunze was laid at rest, peas- ants and workers and Red Army sol- diers began to gather in the Red leader of tite world’s. invincible. Red Army. Over 250,000 passed. by the bier and took their last look at Mik- hail Frunze. Twenty thousand soldiers of the from the Caucasus, the Ukraine and other parts of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics stood rigidy at -at- tention for’ many hours as their final tribute to their dead comrade, “The Communist Party mourns the loss of a most loyal and devoted mem- ber; the Soviet government mourns the loss of a daring and efficient serv- ant, the Red Army mourns the loss of a fearless and popular chief,” de- clared I. Stalin to the assembled throng. Stalin was followed by Gregory Zi- noviev and other leaders of the Com- munist Party and the Red Army, who showed the devotion of Frunze to the cause of the working-class and told of how he had died of overwork trying to better the condition of the workers ‘in Soviet Russia and called upon the as- sembled Russian workers and peas ants to emulate the example of Mik-+ hail Frunze. Following the speeches a small group of Soviet leaders bore the coffin to its grave under thé wall of the Kremlin while the cannon inthe for- tress boomed ¢ a huadiees Salute. Purcell Wri By ALBERT A. PURCELL. HE question of the unity of nation- al federations within one interna- tional labor federation constitutes a most highly interesting problem for our consideration. One must, how- ever, only consider it from one par- ticular point of view, which could in- dicate the surest, and hence the short- est way to its realization. In the first | place we must admit that all parties jhave committed a great number of errors and that hardly anyone can be freed from this reproach. - But to investigate exactly to what extent the one party or the other is deserving of reproach would be a use- less waste of valuable time and en- ergy. Therefore we can disregard the past, as well as the. question of ap- ‘portioning blame, and once and for all give up indulging in mutual re* criminations. We have already lost too much time with. such things, which has = not helped to narrow down our. differ- i Seeks ie Unity | ones whe ences but-on the contrary had widen- ed them. Personal différences have often created friction ‘which could easily have beem removed if . both sides had not proclaimed them from the house tops. FURTHER hindrance has been thé following: Many comrades have proclaimed in the loudest man- ner the mecessity of declaring that only an energetic. attack upon. capi- talism cafi lead to the. broad highway of the solidarity of the working class; the other side has regarded this 4s something superfluous, urging that such a declaration has been repeated a hundred times in the course of the} last tWenty years, etc. Whatever the case may be, and’ apart from the question what sacri fices it may require, the cause of in- ternational unity is of such enormous importance, that not a single person, not a single nation can consider themselves as too big to remain out- side the great international family. ALBERT. A, PURCELL. “on World Trade Union Uni their midst for évery member, regard- lesS as té how far he may differ from the point of. view 6f the leadership, the ift@rnational’ must also serve all national organizations as a powerful instrument, Strong enuf to lift the whole working class out of the slough of capitalism; an aim in ‘order to achieve which itis absolutely neces- sary to make-use of every means. But if there exists a capitalist sloligh there also exists a ‘slough of the international’ trade tnion move- ment. ’ O.far°as I am aware the national organizations which we’ have in mind are permeated by the infinite de- sire to work for the. overthrow of cap- italism. .Our. chief difficulty now con- sists in finding -out methods. It is this which has roused a great storm. But a storm always arises when dif- ferent poitits of view clash with one another. Our chief’ task at present is to unite the divided heads of the in- tte federations aliow a place in In the same way as the national trade ternational,labor movement Neither the Intérnational ” .- tion of Trade Unions nor the: In- tefnational of Labor Unions cat in any way satisfied with the situation at present obtaining; aeither the one nor the other can say that they really comprise the working cless of the whole world—and this expression is to -be-understood inéthe actual sense of the” Word. ~~ But if this is the case there natur- ally. arises a simple proposal, and I believe that if the general council of the British trade unions were re- quested to take over the task of unit- ‘ing im the near future, the divided Buropean labor movement, my col- leagues would regard this as a request to perform a. useful-service in the in- terest of solidarity, and.1I am convinc- ed that itv will certainly be possible to Obfain their camsent.te this: But if we,, are. contemplating a ruth 3 ‘Of “this sort, then I believe that e past must be regarded as dead and buried, and that the only (Continued Sea 2) the body of Square to pay their respects to the Moscow garrison,’ ‘with detachments id ee eee ee it Wires te aN Le reer oe - ee = ee — SE ee
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Teeth Marks Were an Attitude of Mind (Special to The Daily Worker) NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Nov. 5.—The defense here in the trial of D. C. Ste- phenson, ku klux klan dragon who or- ganized that order in both Indiana and Ohio, and his two companions, Ear! Gentry and Ear! Klinick, on trial for the murder of Madge Oberholtzer, is to be that the giri died of “psycholo- gical suicide.” The mass of sores and bruises in- flicted upon her body by the trio which became infected had nothing to do with her death. The reason she died is because she wanted to. Had she desired to live the prurient infec- tion resulting in gangrene could have been eliminated by the simple exercise of mind over matter. Teeth Marks Psychological The marks left upon various parts of her body by Stephenson's teeth were there because of the attitude of mind of Miss Oberholtzer. If her phy- chology had been different the teeth would have left no marks. This sort of defense is relied upon to release Stephenson and his de- praved associates in one of the most repulsive crimes in the annals of this country. ‘As Usual the Worker and Not the Company Gets Blame for Wreck WASHINGTON, Nov. 5—Responsi- bility for the collission of two electric interurbans on the East St. Louis and Suburban railway at Grandy, Illinois, on July 7 was placed today upon Mo- , torman Miller and Conductor Smith by the interstate commerce commis- sion. One was killed and three in- jured in the accident. British in Palestine Reinforced. LONDON, Nov. 5—Tho aware of the seriousness of the situation in Syria, the foreign office stated today that no information has been received, in- dicating that there need be no ap- prehension regarding the British posi- tion in Palestine. Tho reports have stated that Syrian rebels are within two miles of the Palestine boundaries the foreign of- fice stated that the British troops in Palestine are sufficient to deal with any emergency. If you want to thoroughly un- derstand Communism—study it. | PRIESTS WILL NOT HAVE TO MARRY TO HEAR CONFESSIONS MEXICO CITY, Nov. 5.—The gov. ernment has issued a manifesto de- claring that the action of the gov- ernor of Tabasco, ordering that the priests of the church must marry, was in violation of the constitution and a restriction “of their personal liberty.” The manifesto directs the governor to withdraw hie order for- bidding unmarried priests to conduct services in the churches. A number of priests fled Tobasco when the governor announced that the priests must marry if they want- ed to preach and listen to the con- “fessions” of the gentler sex. thracite miners to the level of the CAPITALIST GOVERNMENT’S COAL COMMISSION PROVES ANTHRACITE OPERATORS MISREPRESENT WAGES (Continued from page 1) mine workers averaged 248 days per year and made $1700 gross for the year,” which in no way compensates for the risks, the hazards or the re- sponsibilities of their employment. From these earnings found by the commission must be deducted the ex- penses of the miners for marching and the many supplies that they must have to enable them to dig the coal, such as drills, and jack hammers, etc., etc., the cost of which is well over two hundred dollars per year. When we deduct this amount form the highest skilled anfl highest paid workers it leaves them with less than $1400 per year; but the wage of the average mine worker is a great deal less and far below the average standard of living. In referring to the miners’ labor- ers the coal commission said, “Their families have a very uncertain and inadequate income. They are fre- quently in economic distress.” That statement was made by John Hays Hammond, chairman of the coal commission, a commission that spent $600,000 of government money. Hammond, the other day, suggested that the Pennsylvania mine certificate law be repealed, that scabs may be brot into the anthracite region to break the strike. John H, Hammond, the South African mining engineer, would not hestitate to reduce the an- coolie slave labor of the mines in South Africa. As an indication of the _ terrible working conditions in the pits we need only glance at the labor turn- bettering their unbearable conditions. In some instances the labor turnover reaches ag high as 416 per cent. Amazing Labor Turnover. The turnover in the Lehigh district ran from 56 per cent to 416 per cent; in the Wyoming district from 100 per cent to 225 per cent; in the Schuykill district from 115 per cent to 194 per cent. Anyone with any experience in mining will realize the terrible con- ditions that exist in a mine to cause such a labor turnover. The conditions of the inside day men with those of the day men work- ing on top are of anything worse than the contract and consideration miners in many respects. Their wages aver- age from $4.62 to $5.96 per day flat rates, ' The coal commission says that, “any outside men who are earning $1600 per year are working as many or more days than there are in the calendar year, thru overtime, work at night, or ninety-five days more _than the industry averaged as found in the commission’s investigation.” The foregoing facts as supplied by the official coal commission, squelches the lying statements of the hard coal barons and shows their propaganda now permeating the anthracite region and the rest of the country to be in- tentionally erroneous and mislead- ing. ; The workers will not be mislead by such propaganda, and _ such state- ments can only more firmly bind to- gether the miners of the anthracite region with the soft coal miners and the workers of the other industries. Tomorrow's article will deal with over. The workers are continuously changing jobs in the forlorn hope of the social conditions of the anthracite miners). ANITA WHITNEY SENDS DONATION TO INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE TO FIGHT AGAINST SYNDICALISM LAWS —- (ft. L. D. News Service) Charlotte Anita Whitney, who was sentenced to serve from one to four- teen years imprisonment for alleged violation of the California syndicalist law and who is about to begin serving sentence as a result of the refusal of the United States supreme court to accept jurisdiction on her appeal, sent a contribution to the International Labor Defense to aid in the defense of persecuted workers. Tho prominent socially in California and numbering among her personal friends men and women of influence in bourgeois circles, Miss Whitney refuses to take advantage of her po-*+— sition to secure relief from the sen- tence imposed upon her, while hun- dreds of workers are still tasting the bitterness of prison life. Referring to Governor Richardson’s refusal to pardon Tom Mooney, the I. W. W., and other innocent inmates of California’s dungeons Miss Whitney said: “He has had a long time to pardon the others, the poor men without in- fluence, who are in San Quentin, prison on the same charges that I am found guilty of. “If the governor wants to show! that he is a true representative o the people, that he intends to stand} for the principle of liberty upon which” this country was founded, then let him release those men from prison and not concern himself only with a woman who has the thousands of in- fluential friends that I have.” No sonner had the news of the ac- tion of the United States supreme court reached the public than thous- ands of messages of encouragement from all over the country poured in to Miss Whitney’s home. Scores af women called in person and hardly a minute passed without the arrival of flowers. The International Labor Defense is conducting a campaign for the release of Miss Whitney and the other victims of the California syndicalism law. DEFIANT SYRIAN NATIONALIST LEADER, PROCLAIMS REPUBLIC (Continued from page 1). formidable forces in the present con- flict under Rama Dantibu Shallash, and also the bands of Druses, who in ad- dition to the main body under chiefs of tribes were scattered thru all the armed groups above mentioned. Recruits from Arabia are streaming into Syria to aid in the defense of the country against the French. French Steal Arms Wholesale pillaging of the villages between Damascus and Homs is being carried on by the French. Every hut within their reach is being searched, the arms and other useful articles con- fiscated and whole families murdered in cold blood. Damascus itself is under a pall, the former historic Street Called Straight, resounds only to the tread of soldiery and the rumble @ftanks and artillery; gone are the crovVded bazaars and the fascinating scenes that made this street world-famous, Maurading bands of French soldiery are ripping down walls and blasting their way into the ruins seeking what- ever of value they can confiscate, with- out hindrance from the military au- thorities. Valuables are taken from the dead bodies of their victims, .They do not even stop to remove rings from swollen fingers, but cut them off and rings and /human flesh go into their sacks that they carry with them, later to be assorted when they return to their quarters with the rewards of the plundering expeditions. Arouse the World The true facts of the atrocities are being heralded to the world by every means available and is producing the desired results in spite of the terror and censorship. Couriers from Da- mascus, Homs and Beirut have been dispatched to every part of the Mo- hammedan world to arouse the masses against imperialism in all its forms and, disastrous as have been the ef- fects of French occupation here, it is felt that no sacrifice is too great if only the millions under domination of the imperialist nations can be broght into battle to overthrow the European B * 7 g ‘Monday, Nov. 9 “The Movement for World Trade Union sis Unity” By TOM BELL. World Trade Union Unity is one of the burning prob- lems of the world labor movement today. British and Russian labor are holding conferences; A. A. Purcell, a leading ad- vocate of world labor unity, is touring the United States in its interests; official bodies of labor are sending delegations to Soviet Rus- sia; steps for unity are be- ing taken by the Interna- tional Federation of Trade Unions and the Red Inter- national of Labor Unions. ~ VL ee di » is _2 &» + & & 4 AA AAAAAAAAAAA AAA AOS SO Oe bt te bed - It is at this time that the basis for unity,. steps al- ready taken, the outlook for the future—are all brought to the attention of American workers in this timely series of articles. Look for this series in future issues of The DAILY WORKER. SUBSCRIBE! le i i i hi hi hi hi hi hi hi he hi hi he hi he i Build the DAILY WORKER. apaarnhithbiih is iii iii bi ih hihi Ap hap Ahr bah AAAAAAAAAAASA w"vvTrrV"vVVYTYeYYwYrYreYrereyyreyreyreyreyryrvyrwryryvVwrvrvV*Y a ‘ . _ - ‘Alleged Plot New Terror a Plot Excuse for (Special t© The Daily Worker) ROME,, Italy, Nov. 6—One of the most savage conspiracies ever con- cocted by the bandit hordes of Mus- solini came to light here today with wholesale attacks upon the political enemies of the butcher when new of- fensives were launched under pretext of reprisals for am alleged attempt on his life. ‘it 6s The anti-magonic outbreaks in Flor- ence were eclipsed today when a sweeping order was issued command- ing prefects to take charge of every masonic lodge in Italy, confiscate re- galia, records, and arrest the officers. Socialist Arrested. Former socialist deputy, Zaniboni, has been arrested charged with aiding in the plot against Mussolini. General Capello, a war veteran and leader of the masons has @ff0 been placed un- der arrest charged with the same crime. 4. 8 The socialist unitarian party has been ordered dissolved and raids were conducted ag it thruout the day, accompanied by tial beatings and other torture methods used by the fascists. This is qa further attempt of Mussolini to crush the petty bourgeois elements organized around the masons of Italy. This savagery has long been prac- ticed against the Communists, but no complaints were then made by the so- cialists. Now, however, the drive has expanded and all elements not subser- vient to the dictator are being ruth- lessly exterminated, Insubordination Is One Reason Given for Ousting 13' Teachers A significant factor fn Superintend- ent William McAndrew’s recent rec- ommendation for the dismissal of 13 teachers from the Chicago public schools is the charge of insubordina- tion given as one of the reasons for their dismissal. Added to that is the fact that all ratings are secret. k The teachers have registered their protest against - secret ratings system by before the board once more with the appeal that “un- and others who wish to get rid of her. In connection with these dismissals a fight has arisen between the board of education and McAndrews over the reappointment of William H. Camp- bell to the board of examiners. Mc- Andrew sponsors Campbell and charges politics are back of the at- tacks upon the examiner. The rea- sons advanced by the board are that he is ‘over the age limit for service which is 70 years and that he 1s im- polite in carrying out his duties. Take this copy of the DAILY: WORKER with you to the shop tomorrow. eget’ Roumanian Peasantry May Get a Chance to Eat What They Raise BUCHAREST, Noy. 5—The Ruman- ian grain export market is in a de- moralized state, and grain dealers say this is due to the persistence of Rus- sian grain offers in the Buropean markets at low prices. It fs stated that the shipment of barley from Rus- sian ports last week exceeded 100,000 tons. With winter about to close the Danube river for shipping, Rumanian exporters are abandoning hope for any improvement in the grain export | situation this year; , Purcell Writes on World Unity (Continued from page 1) question which has to be considered and solved is thé question of the present and future organizing of the international working class of Europe. To speak and to judge of other mat- ters would be a huge mistake. It will be the duty of everyone taking part in such a conference not to rake up questions regarding the dead and regrettable past, but to go there with the sole purpose of leading the great working class movement out of the wilderness. I may be asked: Why only the Eu- ropean organizations?. Because this is the most important thing, the rest will follow. In addition to this other and American yoke. organizations will soon understand that their affiliation is also desirable. World Basis of Bolshevik Revolution B Bice Union of Soviet Republics is increasing in strength both within and without. not only the government of the Russian proletariat; the international significance of the Russian revolution created a government which has its basis in the proletariat of the whole world. This is the basis for the irreconcilable hate of capitalists and imperialists.—Mani- festo of the Communist International. It is Po | J, THEREFORE, appeal to all to all to enter into this campaign for a real anti-capitalist and genuine proletarian clasg,.international, in the spirit of thessincere desire for brotherhood and unity. If every- body follows this course, then we shall succeed. We are able to do innumerable things. We can arouse and fill with joy the hearts of millions of \fellow-workers who are hopefully -awaiting a real iIn- spiring leadership, which there is no doubt a strong, united, all-em- bracing federation can give them. This would mean a blow at the very heart of international capital- ism, and this alone justifies such an attempt. Forms Chain Stores P The Sears-Roebuck mail order con- cern with offices at Chicago is going into the chain store business. It re- cently opened two more retail stores in Chicago. It now maintains three stores in Chicago and one in Phila- delphia, Dallas, ‘Tex., Kansas City, Seattle and Evdiéville, Wash. This company is note@® for the low wages Republican Party’s Ranks der this system hum@reds of teachers have been rated gpor who would oth- erwisé be fair” because under the | ervcan be given, any k the examiner into Is Sel ularity ~ By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. to| the AY, President Coolidge sits in aot white house Pr pros ington planning his message to congress that con- vonae uate next month; the congress that was elected a > angel ago in November, 1924, but has not yet been in session for a single day. - It is written in the law of the land that new congresses must cool off for 13 months after election before getting down to work. During that time European governments. was elect- come and go. For instance, the co + ‘ Europe, with resent ed during an era of “democratic pacifism” | MacDonald, the labor premier of England,-and Herriot, the “radical socialist” at the head of the French government. Since then the tories have come into in London, and Herriot is out and Painleve in for the second time in Paris. * * . ? Altho there has been no change.in the government at Washington, except for the replacement of a few members of the cabinet, and the death of some members of congress, like LaFollette in Wisconsin, nevertheless, it seems that Coolidge feels the temper of the masses is not the same that it was when they rolled up a landslide vote in his favor last year. | | | This is indicated to some extent by,his calling Senator Borah, of Idaho, head of the important senate foreign rela- tions committee, into conference on both international and domestic matters. Coolidge has been trounced by the sen- ate too often not to realize the necessity of having the Idaho senator on his side, if possible. * * “ * Since Borah is from the west, he must necessarily put up some sort of a fight for the farmers, especially for the irrigation farmers of his own and neighboring states. Borah denounces Secretary of Agriculture Work’s “hard-boiled” policy on the vast reclamation projects in the west. Cool sustains Work. Borah declares the Work policy is destined to bring financial ruin on thousands of hard-pressed settlers, unable to make the payments demanded by the Neeson Considerable discontent has resulted. Borah might be used as a fig leaf by Coolidge to cover up in part the republican administration as a bitter eneuy at the farmers. Coolidge realizes this. wit e > ‘s#. ® Borah is also a bridge between the Coolid tration and Soviet recognition. Coolidge, like fore him, has been the political mouthpiece of American capitalism's attack on the Union of Soviet Republics. Borah has always been in favor of recognizing the workers’ and peasants’ government. When ‘the developing forces become owerful enough to push Washington into oscow, Coolidge may well Say that he did not reverse the recognized republican policy, but that he merely surrendered to the senate’s spokesman on foreign relations. | Je * * ” Energetic efforts are,also being LaFol mi adminis- 4 made to win Robert lette, Jr., successor to his father; for the Coolidge re-. gime. This is not impossible. Some concessions can easily be made. The reward for the Coolidge-Butler-Mellon out- fit will be the opportunity to claim that this shows its friendly attitude toward le a I. | f Coolidge’s message to congress can therefore be depend- recognition of vernmental control - arding be-. ed on to be a campaign document for the 1926 congressional elections, not a statement of the real position of this strike- breaking government. Glib*words and high-sounding phras- es will appear as bait for unsus ng and unthinking work- ers and farmers, whose votes are needed, —— in the cities and on the land, must realize that the Coolidge administration has not changed. Concessions to Borah, LaFollette, Jr., and others, do not change by an iota the anti-labor character of the big business government. It is merely an old-fashioned method of bringing these wav- ering elements into line. Republican regularity for 1926 is the goal sought. . * a € Let the workers struggle for the same regularity in-their own ranks organized into a labor party that will present a class front to the capitalist class forces now entrenched in ower in Washington. Every move of the Coolidge admin- stration, when interpreted correctly, is an argument for independent political action on the part of labor. | BABIES SOLD TO “CHILDLESS” WIVES F OR $25 AND $35 EACH | it pays its employea, ; Lemme CINCINNATI, Ohio, Nov. 5.—Charges that babies were sold at prices ranging from $25 to $35 each, to women, desirous ef offspring, but denied them by nature, were being probed by lowing disclosures made in a divorce suit filed by Thomas Brummer Samuel railroad employe, against his wife, Mrs. Helen Samuels, who is alleged have purchased three babies from an AW. the Hamilton county grand jury, fol- unnamed woman, residing in Coving-| ton, Ky., just across the Ohio river from here, Indictments are expected this week. The woman, according to Samuels, maintained offices where women made their purchases of young babies, which were delivered “as the grocery boy brings around a dozen of eggs.” Samuels, according to his wife, wanted a large family. When she found that this was not to be, she got in touch with the “baby woman.” For this she paid, $25, he declared, and awaiting a time when his duties on the railroad took him from home, arranged to have it delivered. A tele- gram was sent him announcing the “birth,” For a time, Samuels said, he was | TWO WORKERS KILLED ‘AS DUPONT. DYNAMITE WAREHOUSE GOES UP TACOMA, Wash., Nov. 5.—Two men were brown to bits and four more were injured when the dyna- mite cartridge warehouse at the Dupont power works exploded. unsuspicious, his wife. She, down and confessed the hoax, If you want to see the Com- munist movement grow—get a sub for the DAILY WORKER. but finally questioned he declared, broke ‘|near the apartment building. BEB ¥ __ a number of hours uni P had searchéd every rodm éf the 65 apartments in. the building ‘im the bed early and putting them thru the inconvenience of having their fl mauled and searched bya group of “fearless” coppers.- "©. ~ These coppers came near to killing one of their own number who in his teagerness to “get” Durkin; had climb- ed onto the roof of one of the. houses 9 raid- BEE! i . | I i 4 i into supporting the~LaFollette ticket last year. Wheeler is a valuable ‘servant of capitalism, even as an in- surgent, and the fact that he is con- nected in any way with Gordon Camp- bell proves his subserviency to the predatory interests, whether it con- stitutes a crime in bourgeois courts or not, Instead of trying to send him to jail the large capitalist parties ought to give Wheeler the highest reward for joining in the LaFollette campaign to throttle the rising demand for a labor party in the last election. Bandits Get Cash, Five automobile bandits held up the Bremen State Bank, in Tinley Park, a suburb of Chicago, locked John C. Andres, cashier, and Mrs. Elizabeth Hardinger, his assistant, in a vault and escaped with $3,000 in cash. Must Be “Spicy” GALESBURG, Il. Nov. 5.—Grade and high school children will be ex- cluded from the courtreom during the trial of John Looney, former Rock Island vice-dictator charged’ with mur- der, The trial starts here Nov. 23. U..S. Subs Visit Jamaica KINGSTON, Jamaica, Nov, 5—Fire submarines of the United States navy are due here from the Canal Zone for a two-day visit. Twenty-five officers and 225 men are coming in the sub- marines. tee FOREIGN EXCHANGE. NEW YORK, Nov. 5—Great Brit- ain, pond sterling, demand 4.84%, cable, 4.84%; France, franc, 3.96%, 3.97; Belgium, franc, 4.52%, 4.53; Italy, lira, 3.93%, 3.94; Sweden, krone, 26.74, 26.77; Norway, krone, 20.36, 20.38; Denmark, krone, 24.91, 24.93; Germany, mark, (no quote); hai, taels, 79.50. munist International. Wreck All Capitalist Expectations A** capitalist expectations have been wrecked upon the Union of Soviet Socialist Repub- lics. The proletarian dictatorship is embracing ever-widening sections of the working people. The conditions of living of the Russian: proletariat are visibly improving. Slowly but steadily wages are increasing. The Soviet government is able to satisfy to an ever in- creasing extent the cultural requirements of the working class.--Manifesto of the Com- | ee st —————[ | | ay MS RZ Shang-
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¥ . Be | Dis Ray fhe anda oes nah ees By LAURENCE TODD, (Federated Press Staff Cofrespondent ~ WASHINGTON—Frank W. Mondell of Wyoming, former old guard ma- in nate for the senate against Ken- Boy then consoled by appoint- ) the war finance commission nched upon a career as; ‘adviser to big corpora- national capital, has ap- titled. “National Tax Reform and Re- duction,” and it was delivered April 15 last before the Louisiana Bankers’ association, at New Orleans. The next was called “Federal Tax Policies and Oheir Effect on the West,” deliv- éred June 17 at the South Dakota Bankers’ association convention at Brooikngs. The third was entitled “Federal Tax Reform,” and was heard by the Hamilton Club of Chicago on low Pay, June 15. 1 ig Mondell’s pro- Make Little The substance | gram of tax-shifting from the big and strong to the little and patient shoul- ders is set forth in resolutions adopted by the Louisiana bankers after he spoke. They denounced the federal income tax rates as excessive, favored maximum surtax rates of ‘less than 25 per cent,” demanded abolition of the federal inheritance tax, call upon democrats in congress to deal with taxation as a nonpartisan ¥ question, and“call for repeat of the publicity clanse in the income. tax : law. Raeaty of Labor. 'Mondell -was known in Washington for many years,as an active agent of every interest, opposed to the. farm- ers and to organized labor. He was retired from congress. on his record. . He was for tha treason taken up by Coolidge. -He can. now be seen, often enuf, in the entrAnce lobby of the White House offices, conducting vari- ous “substantial” individuals into the presence of Coolidge. He ‘offers ad- vice to Coolidge,,and hig clients seem to find satisfaction in the fact that he puts away -coet-and hat and looks quite at home when he-gets to the White House. Now that congress is - about to take tax legislation he is ee 7 “more patvonizing. in man- Cy ever. , Praises : Large Fortiines, His clients. who new print. and cir- ‘culate his tax-shifting arguments are assured of his loyalty by this’ typical paragraph in his talk to the Hamilton Club: “I know) of no excuse that can be offered for the-present federal state tax, except the possible one of s0- cialism, and | agree with President Coolidge * that governments . should not seek social legislation in the guise of taxation, and that large fortunes properly managed are not necessarily a menace to our institutions,” Preliminary exchanges of views among the progressives in congress who will follow the lead of Senator Norris indicate that the administra- tion tax scheme will, be fought every inch of the way. The progressives will insist on publicity of income tax returns, retention of the federal es- tates (inheritance) tax, ‘and reduction of the income tax on smaller incomes before reduction is made on the larger incomes, | ner t __ Send for a catalogue of all Com- munist literature. _ hi Agi, ode CLEVELAND GALLS ON UNIONS TO JOIN IN ~ NOV. OTH CELEBRATION CLEVELAND, Nov. 5—The Work- ers Party of this city has issued a letter to all local unions in this city, were! upon them to jain in a de- mon myer for defense and recogn- ition the Soviet government, which being arranged for Sunday, Nov. 8th. The principal speaker at the Cleveland demonstration which will be held at Moose Hall, 1000 Walnut St. at 2:30 p. m., will be Comrade Jay Lovestone. -_ Hear Max Bedacht , speak on “THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION” Sunday, Nov. 8 at ODD FELLOWS HALL Cor. Albany and 12th St. A meeting arranged by the youth un- der the auspices of the West Side ' -Freiheit Yugend Club. — Meeting Begins at 7:30 p. m:— Admission Only 15 Cents, © | ) f| men, women and children are work- : organized workers of the country.” (Continued from page 1) ~ ing, often as long as 36 hours at a stretch. Children are born in the mines. a All Workers Must Unite Often among the unorganized it is said, “Why bother about the trade unions?” But they have brought to labor the gains it has made. The sixty-hour week of the British miners has been cut to forty-two, But now the competition of Asia compels the ‘British workers to seek unity with all ‘workers, No mattér what one may think about Soviet Russia, it has 6,000,000 organized unionists, working out problems that will help other workers. solve theirs. Each people must be allowed to work out their own destiny. Hands off; Russia, and England and America, too, when the masses of people are making their government to their own liking. But we must achieve labor unity, unity. Labor must set foot everywhere capitalist sets foot and bring into one great international all labor led by the unions of the world. Not Afraid of Russians Purcell told of the horrible condi- tions that existed in Baku, Russian Caucasus, before the revolution and the wonderful change made by the, workers’ government with the back- ing of the Russian unions. The re- presentatives of each nation’s unions would do more in five minutes to abol- ish war, end the opium trafic, etce.,, than all the capitalist conferences ever organized. Russian unions must be represent- ed. We need them, they need us. We must help workers’ Russia with ma- chines. They will help us with food. We need not fear the Russians, they would have only two representatives to our eighteen. Even if they would eat sixteen of us we would “still have $ KANSAS CI ONISTS IN MESSAGE — |. ‘TRADE UNION UNITY | All Cards on the ‘Table | We call for world unity of All anions —all cards on the table. We want to have American unions in. We want to say to the capitalists of the world, “If you want war go fight it yourself.” Here the audience rose spontaneously and burst into cheers. their lives and everything to war. No so we get it. The great fact stands out that Russia can no more be used imperialism. There has been a big czar. Well, England has killed kings and queens. BEngland has made the most savage of wars, but the war waged by labor is always humane. The workers of the world hold the future in their hands. They may make plenty and security for those who create the wealth of the world, but there must be world tfade union unity to get them. Events Move Faster and Faster Events are moving faster and faster to compel the workers of the world to set foot on the pathway that leads to power, We must be prepared. battlers that have gone before have| suffered and are suffering. Capitalists have filled the jails of the nations they rule with thousands of leaders of the trade unions. One nation alone has 9,000 in prison. We must get power to fight this thing to the death. We must get power to approach the master with terms by throwing the whole weight of one great world or- ganization of unions into the balahes|° in all nations on the side of the work- ers and their emancipation. As Purcell closed three rousing cheers, led by Alex Howat, militant as ee many as they. miners’ leader, fairly rocked the build- ing. CLEVELAND WORKERS WAGE FIGHT AGAINST POLICE PERSECUTION Gordon were. distributing the election CLEVELAND, Nov. 4—The Workers Party of Cleveland is now engaged | in a free speech fight, fighting the efforts of the local police department to bar Workers Party literature and speakers from the streets of Cleveland. On last Friday night, Witt, ithe, independent, was holding a meeting at the public, theater. .Comrades- Herbert Benjamin; Sadie Amter and Marian leaflets issued by the district commit-, tee of the Workers Party. They ‘were warned by the cop that this “wa against the law. Retiring to the ner, where they. saw persons aistti- - arrested. rday, the Workers held a protest meeting at . public square againist the threatened execu- tion of Rakosi and the other Huitigar- ian comrades. Comrade I. Amter; "the district secretary spoke for mdre than an heur, while the policeman and a captain listened. They, maved up to the stand, but did not interfere. The captain then crossed the ‘street with a plainclothesman. Shortly af- terwards, Comrade Benjamin toék' the stand and was criticizing Sécretary of State Kellogg for refusing to’ admit even an alleged Red, Countess. Kar- olyi, when he was dragged.from the platform by the captain and taken to the station. He was charged with disorderly con- duct and held under $1,000 bail. The police stated that the reason they ar- rested him was to protect him from the ku kluxers. They tried to trump up a ease of criminal syndicalism— but even that seemed too much for them, for ‘shortly afterwards they of- fered him his release provided he would sign a waiver. It. is a clear sign that the police intend to deny the Workers Party the Tight of free speech in Cleveland. The Workers Party has decided to fight back. The district committee has sent a letter to the city manager and safety director asking whether the Workers Party is to have the same rights as the other parties or not. It has asked whether the Work- ers Party is to have the right of free speech or not. The letter states that “either this right obtains or we have been shorn of the democracy that is supposed to prevail. . This is a vital question not only for the Work- ers Party, but for the organized work- ers of this city. For we are conscious that when members of thé Workers Party are harassed and attacked, this generally precedes an attack on the Protest Meeting Arranged, The International Labor Defense, which is conducting the defense of Comrade Benjamin, has arranged a mass protest meeting together with the Workers Party at public square on Fa oe buting leaflets of other parties, 'théy ‘ continued to distribute the- Workers*| Party leaflets and were er Po Molest. Protest. Mesting. 4 , b+ z r- |” ORD’S GANDIDATE WINS IN DETROIT } WITH LABOR AD | py? DETAOIT, heey. a acta John 'W. Smith, supported by the Henry 4} Ford-Detroit Federation of Labor united front won the election yes terday by a very narrow margin over his opponent, Charles Bowles. Bowles was supported by the ku kiux klan, and altho defeated, nine of the klan candidates for the city council were tlected. Considerable disturbance and a spectacular auto parade by klans- men wound up the campaign. The political labor fakers expect to get in on the spoils and some of them expect to be protected in their bootlegging activities because of their betrayal of the workers of De- troit in lining up behind Henry Ford’s candidate. State Opens Trial of Dr. Sweet and 10 Co-Defendants DETROIT, Mich., Nov.—The state of Michigan has begun to present its witnesses against Dr, O. H. Sweet and 10 co-defendants in the hope of con- victing them for the murder of a white hoodlum “that was in a mob that threatened the lives of the Ne- groes that had come to visit Dr. Sweet. Clarence Darrow and Arthur Gar- field Hays are defending the Negroes in their fight to live wherever they please with no interference on the part of klansmen. Hi Johnson Says He Will Fight for U. S. Minimum Wage Law PHOENIX, Arix., Nov. 5.— Senator Hiram Johnson of California will in- troduce in congress a resolution pro- viding for an amendment to the con- stitution giving states power to enact laws governing minimum wages for women. He so announced when he arrived here with the senate sub- committee on irrigation and reclama- tion. Saturday, November 6, at 4 p. m. REACTION TRYING TO SEIZE CANTON WHIPT BY THE KUOMINTANG HONGKONG, Nov. 5.—Cantonese forces under Chang Kai-shek have captured Swataw and the followers of Chen Chiung-ming have retreated into Fukien and Kiagsi provinces. Opposition on other fronts appar- ently has collapsed leaving the Can- ton forces in control of the prov- “he supreme court recently held the Arizona minimum wage law for women unconstitutional. The workers bear the cost, they give matter how we get the change—just to raise armies to fight the battles of to do about Russia killing the poor’ great things of the world, a world of | The ING BUCK nN GRAFT QUIZ isiey Dodging “Payroll’”’ Expose y Since the charge made by Attorney O’Donnell that 300 of the Chicago po- licemen Were on the Genna payroll, in the trial of the Genna gunmen, Albert |Alselmi and John Scalisi, State’s At- torney. Robert Crowe and United ‘States Attorhey Edwin A. Olson have passing) the buck back and forth | to whose duty it is to get the Genna “payfoll’ and prosecute the of- fenders for Corspiring to violate the ; law. United States Attorney Olson re- fuses to hafidle the case until after ithe state’s’ attorney his been given “ample” time to act upon it. State’s Attorney Crowe refuses to handle the case claiming that the ‘United States attorney must first take action in this case as it concerns a violation of*the feedral law. The various heads of the police de- partment are still threatening a shake- up of the Police force, but they will not do 60 af the present moment, “as it may @fddnger the state’s cases”! against the ‘two gunmen. It has be¢onie known that the day that. the Génna gang and the police shot it out, that a number of police broke into the Italian-American So- cial Club headquarters, 1022 West Taylor street, in an attempt to seize the Genna “payroll” records fearing that an exposure would result. + Benjamin’ ‘Can Safely A ’ to House of David , BENTON HARBOR, Mich., Nov. 5— “King Bénjamin” Purnell, years a fugitive from the House of David colony, which he organized here more than 20 years ago, may return without danger of arrest how. It was jJearned that suits for $100,- 000 each filed against him by Ruth Bamford Reed and Gladys Rubel as Tan outer of the expose of the House vid in 1922, have been dismissed, e suits were based on alleged yg relations which the be ed Purnell had forced on Gives 28 Per Cent. strike of 90, 000 govern: ment employes has ‘béen averted by a salary increase of 28 per cent. Jury Hard to Pick. Holdup victims are so plentiful in Chicago that fifteen of the first six- teen veniremen questioned in an ef- fort to get a jury to try Henry J. Fernekes, “midget bandit,” on a charge of murder were disqualified. Fernekes, ‘accused of many robber- ies and two murders in the East, was brot back for trial from Joliet pris- on where he is’serving a 1 to 14 years for a bank holdup. His alleged victim was Michael Swinatowski, cashier of a_ building and loan association, slain by bandits as he took teveral thousand dollars to a bank. RECOGNITION OF SOVIET RUSSIA WILL BE DEMAND ~ OF NEW YORK MEETING NEW YORK, Nov. 5—“The United States must recognize Soviet Rus- sia.” That is the growing determina- tion of ever greater masses of the American workers. The new plot against Soviet Russia, hatched at Locarno, ins which an attempt is made to unite France, Germany, England, the Wnited States, and other similar ;powers in a common drive for th $yerthrow of the Rus- sian workers’ republic, has only in- tensified this determination on the part of the American workers that their government shall recognize and open the fullest and freest trade relations with®Soviet Russia. This answer will be the central feature of country-wide demonstra- tions on the *eéasion of the eighth anniversary 6f the November, 1917, Russian revolution. The workers of New York Gity will pladge their solidarity fom'the defence of Soviet Russia and make their demand for Russian recognition at two great mass meeting: in Central Opera House, 205 East 67 St., New York City, and in Grand Assembly Hall, 318 Grand St., Brooklyn, N. Y., both on Nov. 6, at 8 mpm m, GREEK FUR WORKERS WIN STRIKE IN UNION ORGANIZATION DRIVE NEW YORK CITY, Nov. 5.—The jeint board headed by Ben Gold, have days of spirited strike. ince of Kwangtung. ontan Y shops. ized, but lately brought into the Furriers’ Union with the aid of the left wing The bosses’ association have granted all demands and only a few small shops remain to settle. ing the streets with bands playing and Greek fur workers, hitherto unorgan- won a complete victory after several The triumphant. strikers are parad- banners flying omethe way back to the ‘* for twot Nees We Lane Wanye pen * as.""4 iW mie TRUSSIAN SCIENTISTS WILL LEAVE FOR AFRICA TO CARRY ON STUDIES'" MOSCOW, Nov. 5.—Hopefut of proving the theory of evolution in the : wilds of Africa by cross-breeding man with the higher station in Port Konakry, French means, Dr. I. I. Ivanoff, member of the Russian Academy of Sciencés and world famous biologist, will leave for Africa the end of this month. Dr. Ivanoff’s expedition is being backed by the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Pasteur Institute is giving him the use of its experimental ; ms: Ry Ae he ¥ American air squadron that they were violating American law by at- tacking a friendly people. The state department has done nothing to force the aviators out of Morocco. The Great Leader Books by STATE AND REVOLUTION One of the most widely known of the .works of Le- nin. Written just before the Bolshevik revolution, it is a Marxian analysis of the capitalist state “the armed protector of Capitalism”, and a lesson in the revolutionary necessity of the establishment of the workers’ state, “the Dictatorship of the Proletariat”, during the period of transition from Capitalism to 8tolg. Communism, State and Revolution is the final re- futation of the nonsense spread by right socialists, anarchists, pacifists and syndicalists regarding the state. The book contains some of the most import- ant Communist theory which must be read and un- derstood by every Communist. 96 pages 25 Cents. PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION or KAUTSKY THE RENGADE Lenin led the fight of the revolutionist against the reformists and diluters of Marxism for 20 years. In this book he delivers a permanently annihilating at- tack on Kautsky the chief theoretician of the Men- sheviks. Commpnists would do well to read and re- read this all too little knowf book. 128 pages (paper) .25 Cents THE INFANTILE SICKNESS, or “LEY TISM” IN COMMUNISM In all jy zw revolutionary movements there de- velops an exaggerated tendency toward the “left” — a systematic opposition to participation in reaction- ary trade unions, and a wish to remain “pure” in the face of necessary and advantageous compromises. Lenin completely unmasks the hollowness of the ultra-left phrases, shatters their positions and leaves a ringing and crystal declaration of the true political line of Communism. 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Milk number of unions individually are ervehaoe and 1925 were: — Bir. 2s per gallon, altho the small farmers | supporting the meeting through.a con- ; Carp 7 4". are forced to sell it for 1s 6d at the| ference, so that one can say that paysper hr. 1913 1920 1925 wi P roceeds of All Metee Goes to Fund most. practically the entire organized labor Baltimore mers »$0.438 $0.90 $1.00 r A British ex-soldier, now residing | movement of Cleveland is back of it.| Bostdt@2ii.. 50 «100° 120 ‘! | . in Cork declares, “Tuberculosis still The admission is 25c —a fee that | Gnicago I" 1.25 1.25 i | scourges ‘Dear Old Cork.’ Treatment’ allows every worker to be present | cleveland» x:......... 50 125 125 ee | ey f ) is most essential in some cases. Neyer-| and hear this brilliant speaker. No) penyer. gony...:...... 60 1.125 1.125 ¥ 2 ’ | the less concessions by the government workers interested in the progress of Detroit scsi... 50 1.00 115 ‘tou a | _9 are “withheld from many. Immediate | the organized labor movement should Indianapolis ... 50 1.00 . 1.10 ons.” alten ee Pa = { treatment is the only prospect of re-| fail to be there. Kansas Gily .. BS 1.00 1.125 =a . ' covery. I am awaiting institutional Los Angeles ...... 50 875 1.00 ° : | ] treatment, — hoping that those who Firemen Rescue 100 New Orleans ...... .40 75 90 D 3g are responsible will procure my ad- mas midthnce 7 00] NEW YORK, Nov. 6-One fiundred | OOM, @tio—- -£0° Te Lae Family Lives in Stable. negates Pettis. «ic My aneap Mags POE OPS 50 1.125 1.125 an apartment house fire in Brooklyn. wae There are numerous evidences of Women and children .t d fire | Pittsburgh. ..,....+. 55 90 ‘1,375 the acute housing problem, The last pie if pe wabdnee i 4h fe of St. Louis AOS ES > Se 1.50 r riday, Saturday and Sinden: November 6, 7 and 8 session of the Cork county council ae Reg tat 2, ite ered San Francisco .. .625 1.063 1.044 was forced to consider the case of scaling —_ PIII | skbcchensaceaince 563 1.00 1.90 Look for r lace and Date i in. Your City Mrs. K. Neligan Morrissy, 2 widow| ¢ ) Washington ........ 500 95. 1.125 supporting eleven children ‘and living MILWAUKEE CELEBRATES ‘Cities. in which union carpenters in a stable. P. H. Barry of the board ' FAMOUS SPEAKERS \have secured increases since 1924 are MUSICAL PROGRAMS Gent c house for hat than toyeeka ner| | CH YEAR OF RUSSIAN | (rece Newarn Providence! an coe. . and her children to the workhouse. WORKERS’ GOVERNMENT Seattle. Decreases were reported , : This woman continues to reside in her stable at Doneraile, and has de- clared that she will die on the road- side rather than receive charity from’ from Charleston and Los Angeles. South Has Poor Showing. Cities in which union carpenters NEW YORK CITY. Central Opera House, 205 E. . DENVER; COLO. ROCKFORD, ILL. Social- Turner Hall, 10th and CLEVELAND, OHIO. | Workers’ Hall, 511 7th Street. Moose Temple Hall, 1000 Wal- MILWAUKEE, Nov. 5.—A._ mass meeting and celebration of the 8th Whe Free State. | anniversary of the Russian revolu- |‘@l! materially short of the average 67th St., Nov. 6 in the evening.| Larimer Sts., Nov. 8, at 7:30 p.|nut St., Nov. 8, 2:30 p.m. Jay!/Nov. 8, at 3:00 p.m. Max Salz- Conditions in Ireland are but a| tion Will take place Sunday evening, |clude Atlanta, Birmingham, Charles-|C, E. Ruthenberg, Moissaye J.jm. Wm. Dietrich. Lovestone. man. Sharp reflection of conditions prevail-| Nov. 8 at the Labor Temple Hall, | (on) ‘eckannving, ine TOSk Sine | gin, Benjamin Gitlow. ee CANTON, OHIO PULLMAN. ILL : ‘ 7 ¢ é : : ing in England, which have been given | 8th and Walnut Sts., at 7:30 under SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. | . BROOKLYN, N. .. Grand Assembly Hall, In these cities the minimum Tak- south. hourly rate is 90 cents or less. ing the 38 cities as a group the aver- wider publicity. Just as Premier Bald- win mutters about “discussing the . “housing problem with the house of the auspices of the Workers Party and the Young Workers League, Canton Music Hall, 812 Tusc St. E.,. Nov. 8, in the evening. 107th St. and Indiana Ave., Nov. 8, at 6:30 Strumils Hall, 318 California$Hall, Polk & Turk ith D. E. Earl hn E , lords,” while thousands of unemployed Chicago aanhion > Sa ceca age for TARP nareneny 5 ONAL E eae wet ose » bes poe Be a Nov. 6, at 8 p. m. Tom|Jay Lovestone. p.m. Martin Abern, Nat Kap- face eviction in. overerowded slums,| Significance of the Russian workers per cent over. 1913. - E Rutnenverg, oissaye J.| Lewis. lan. BELLAIRE, OHIO. Bohemian Hall, 41st & Harri- |" son Sts., Nov. 6, at 6 ass m. Wm. J. White. ” CONNEAUT, OHIO. Workers’ Hall, Broad Street, Nov. 7. Olgin, Benjamin Gitlow. BERKELEY, CALIF. ROPES TS Seley Finnish Haljl, 1819 10th St., Labor Lyceum, 580 St. Paul! Nov. 8. 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, ry Y. Labor Temple Hall, 714 Char- Notte St., Nov. 6, at 8p. m. Rose Pastor Stokes. aoe “ JAMESTOWW®, N. Y. Swedish Br. Hall#3rd a Main 80 does the Dail do nething but pass resolutions of “sympathy.” Just as the British home secretary, Joyrson- Hicks, declare that his government will “protect the community,” by doing the work of strikers, so does the Free State government intimidate the Flax Spinning and Weaving com- pany employes at Cork who are revolution and Herbert Zam, repres- enting the Young Workers League and speaking on the youth and the Russian revolution, Sylvia Selender will speak for the Junior group. Besides this array of speakers there will songs from the Jewish Freiheit, the Russian and Ukrainian “Bright Star,” and the South Slavie “Future” singing societies. A small admission will be charged. FRANKFORT, ILL. Majestic Theaters W. Mair St., 300 Bik., Nov. 8, at 2 p. m. Manuel Gomez. SOUTH “BEND, AND. 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. FIFTY WORKERS ESCAPE DOOM AS HOTEL COLLAPSES Bosses Tied to Rush Construction wow WS BOSTON, MASS. At Scenic Auditorium, Berke- ley & Tremont, Nov. 8, at 2:30 p.m. C. E. Ruthenberg. WORCESTER, MASS. Beimont Halll, 54 Belmont St., Nov. 7, at 7:00 p.m. C. E. Ruthenberg. SPRINGFIELD, MASS. Liberty Hall, 592 North St.,| \ threatened with starvation because they resisted wage cuts, ? EIGHTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF THE HARTFORD, CONN. Labor Educational - Ailiance, 287 Windsor Ave., Nov. 6, at 8 p. m.- Bertram D. Wolfe and Sam Darcy. NEW HAVEN, CONN. Fifty building trades workers nar- rowly, escaped with their lives when five floors of the John Evans Hotel, now under construction at Hinman Avenue and Davis Street, Evanston, collapsed and fell to the ground a DETROIT, MICH. Hermanson’s Hall, 158 Crown|__ Finnish Hall, 5969 14th St., e e . + + : N Union of Socialist Soviet Republics mass of twisted girders and shattered |St, Nov. 8, at 8 potty Rose Pas-|Te\cifernoce Ph ™ Alexander) _ Titov. 6 at Bp. m, J. 0.|Nov. 7, at 8:00 p.m. J. Louis concret. In an &ttempt to hurry the |4,) StoKes. nberg cl - p- Mm. » VV. Engdahl ' construction of the hotel so that it : . SATURDAY, NOVEMBER Re 1925, 8 P. M. could be paying the proprietor profits BINGHAMTON, N. Y. WATERBURY. CONN GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. : as soon as possible the supports hold- WASHINGTON, D. C. ’ ‘ ; : p pp Son's & Daughters’ Hall, 1057 ing up the building were taken out Lithuanian Hall, 271 Clinton ’ o | PLE HALL, Playhouse, 1814 N. Street, Garden Hall, East Main St.,! Hamilton Ave. N. W. Nov. 8, at before the concrete pillars that were St., Nov. 8, at 7 . nie Al Schaa 4 “ (Van Buren and Marshfield, One Block West of Ashiand) to hold the building were dry enough P cd P. N.W., Nov. 8, at 8 p.m. Bert- + pana sg 2:30 p. m. Charles }2:30 em J. L. Engdahl. : to stand the strain. ram D. Wolfe. Whe MASS, MICH. ; SPEAKERS: As the men were working on the BAYONNE, N. J. er iceaenailenitcca . AN i fi they noticed the floors} - CO ass Fire Hall, Nov. 8th. tee EARL R. BROWDER, Director Research Dept. Workers (Com- ee: has’ deceann’ mee ate se Workmen’s Circle Hall, 725 BALTIMORE, MD. CHICAGO, ILL op munist) Party MAX BEDACHT, Member C. E. C, Workers (Communist) Party MARTIN ABERN, Dist. Organizer, Workers (Communist) Party W. 25th St., Nov. 8, 2 p. m. NEWARK, N. J. got down to the street as fast as they could. Shortly after the last building trades worker had reached the ground, Brith Sholom Hall, 1012-14 E. Baltimore St., Nov. 10, at 8 P. m. Rose Pastor Stokes, MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Moose Hall, 43 So. 4th St., ‘Temple Hall, Van Buren & Marshfield Aves., Nov. 7, at 8 . M. Bedacht, E. R. Brow- MAX SHACHTMAN, Editor YOUNG WORKER one of tthe carve gave in and fell to Newark - Labor Lyceum, 704 IAS Aw p.m ’ Nov. 8, at 8 p. m. James P. Can- H. ZAM, Secretary, Young Workers League ng se inertia aaa Sl ee PHILADELPHIA, PA. = | : ane | : : , e Hotel | Joseph Manley. WAUKEGAN, ILL. ST. PAUL, MINA. MUSIC: ran to the street fearing that one of Labor Lyceum, 6th & Brown German Place. 444 Rice St —# the walls might fall across the alley JERSEY CITY, N. J. Sts., Nov. 6, at 8 p. m. Jay| Workers’ Hall, 517 Helmholz|,.) -g at 2:00-p ie een oe p - F reiheit Singing Society and Mandolin Orchestra |*"* °""° ‘Be east wall of the hotel.’ Workers’ Hall, 387 Grand St., Lovestone, N. H. Tallentire. Ave. Mot Sat 2pm Mla ‘ Admission 25 Cents Nov. 7, at 8 p. m. PITTSBURG aie arian ae , . When that argument begins at MOO 4 H, PA. : xe , DULUTH, MINN. ; Peano stot ham e+ gg emer Neenee lunch time in your shop tomor- PATERSON, N. J. Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller St., BAS? Sts LOUIS, FL. Workers’ Hall, 19 Ave. W. and: a rew—show them what the DAILY| Carpenters’ Hilf) 54-56 Van|NoV. 8, at 2 p. m. William F.| Painters’ Hall, Grand & Page Ast Bis NeVoBa 8pm m. Shey woo a WORKER says about it. | Hauten St., Novi™at 7:30 p. m.] Dunne | Blvds#'Nov. 8, at8p.m =: J Angerver-— gad «4 Ray! wos ye Ri é kN SA SIAR SA RS
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= r m oie ¥, yet os Fi a tied « “be af ; Swit av ery os \* oe hog 2 y iy 4 aga aL ee Da , ? a5 i ' ToT TBE STTLAN DEBTS) 23 ace a a Americans Will Do All the Talking YOUNGSTOWN & WARREN TO CELEBRATE EIGHTH YEAR OF RUSS SOVIETS CLEVELAND, Nov. 5—Herbert Benjamin will be the speaker at two meetings which are being arranged in Ohio to celebrate the overthrow of czarism by the workers and peas- -HICACO, REORGANIZES || | INTERNATIONAL BRANCHES| pee ae ey MARTIN ABERN. At the Section No. § membership meeting, Workers (Communist) Party, i) ret ~ CERES Roe SSeS t tat Local Chicago, held on Thursday, October 29, three street nuclei of eleven, A mass meeting and concert in | ants in Russia. 2290 Carper ater St. twelve and seventeen members respectively were organized. - honor of hth anniversary of These meetings will be held in (Speci) to The Dally Worker) ° meee ak Wr, tinea j 2 Seventy-one | efs appeared at the meeting from the bianleés is | bvolution is arranged | Warren, Saturday evening, Nov. 7th, WASHINGTON, Nov. b--The tak! ses Electriciana, 19 aR ms St. ‘ a Oey nis aid. 30 of thied Wore found to ae. eae and living {p other |’ by t ‘Branch of the Work- | at the Hippodrome Halil, and in /|ian debt commission presented to the! 683 and e ‘ | ieee : cea eg ligrasbingeast vce ypin both king ive » Hows for Sunday, Nov. 8, at | Youngstown Sunday, Nov. 22, at American mission today facts regard- 845 eset mene. w. Cog Washington fi : (Special to The Daily Worker) —_| cordingly es a aed ae en, Werter’ Houne, 1° the Onesie ris” |. | Meseolind Matetonshtp, No-etler wes| ci asta | 3 | : . rou as e befo ; ussolini dictatorship. offer was g 1902 W. Division St. Admission Dp. NO 46 be BOSTON, Mass., Nov. 5.—The first| Section No. 5 on the North Side is | neeting. The comrades felt that it Siac Come and bring your friends. Worker Correspondence will make 17117 8 Ro mage made by either group to settle the - | of a series of DAILY aaron for the most part 4 residential area} ther comrades who wére absent at Ttatian debt of $2,138,000,000, the Ita-| 4, The DAILY WORKER a better paper ally” Moston Grows.» as eae r tion: + wae *e*% 4444 444 ©4444 444444444 4% 34444444464 4%4%5% 4% 444444 Newark—Friday, Nov. 6, Labor] " ’ ; : Lyceum, 704 S. 14th St., at 8 p. m., MEETING FRIDAY NIGHT g ? | é with J. O. Bentall and Joseph Man.| '@ e —— ’ . ) - | 3 ley as speakers. : ve NEW HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 5.— 4 fm ; : ‘Perth Amboy—Saturday, Nov. .7, | S After an energetic election camp- é . & > 7:30 p. m., Workers’ Home, 308 Elm . aign which closed last night, on ? . ) : — St., with Rebecca Grecht as speaker. Workers (Communist) Party o ; e ‘ a 3 , West New York—Saturday, Nov: 7, New Haven is preparing for the 8th |} J orn Your Local Co-operative Store. a 3 8 p. m. at Workmen’s Circle Hall, 17th anniversary of Soviet Russia, to $ ! é St. and Tyler ‘Place, Union City, with take place in Hermanson’s Halli, 158 jf | g William W. Weinstone as speaker. Crown St. Friday, Nov. 6th at 8 |} Demand from your ce-opetative ; Passaic—Saturday, Noy. 7, (place to p. m; It ig expected that many of /|ff ey ) S267 be announced later), at 8 p. m., with the workers addressed at noon shop ¢ | LADIES’ BLOUSE Berth Miller, Albert Weisbord and meetings during the campaign will ; a ' ; 5240." Cut in 7 sizes, 34, 36, 38, 40, BOYS’ SUIT. Abrahms (Jewish) as speakers. | attend. fy ee , RTE, SEM 1 ; 42. 44 and 46 inches bust. measure. Aj 5246. Cut im 3 sizes: 2, 4 and 6 Paterson-—Saturday, Noy. 7, 8 p. m., + _ The speakers will a Naot om _ $ eT TT mae ; ; ¢ 40-/ years. A 4-year size requires 1% yard |at Carpenters’ Hall, 54 Van Houton What do.you- earm? What are con-| in English; A. Chramoff in Russian; (- i) : 38-inch size requires 2 yards 0 of 40-inch material with % yard of|St. with Ben Gitlow as speaker andj ditions in your shop? How do you| Carl Weissberg for the Young Work- g es — 4 inch material, with % yard of con- contrasting for collar and vest por-|Albert Weisbord as chairman. live? Write a story for The DAILY] ers League; and Ida Rothstien will |% , trasting for collar, cuffs and belt. euie -ihan Abe. Jersey City—Sunday, Nov. 8, 2 p.| WORKER. | preside, $ : Le é Price 12c. i a aii CHILD’S DRESS. m., at 387 Grand St., with Julius Cod- Fait ¢ AS {l | [ 8 = eae ee Wits Star, tine, Yellow, | quired. Price 12c. Elizabeth—Sunday, Nov. 15, at 615 : : > Sta B d inch material. The width at.the foot Coust: Stat 7. U. m.. with Ben Lie : ; r Bran s) : cee. SS eee ee nen) 06 Ory The bureaus of the Russian and Slovak sections of the party have elected ; ? PASHION BOOK yy ORKER pattern aripiet yng “2 a k N. Y—s reorganization Commissions of three each, to supervise and push the work of $ Distributed by the che guapartny wholesale. ¢ f Send fe in silver stamps out| nished by a New York firm of pattern onkers, N. Y.—-Sunday, Nov. 15, at! reorganization of the Tespective sections ¢ ¢ \: p-to-date Fall and Winter, 1925.26 manufacturers. Orders are forwarded by | 20 Warbursp Ave., 8 p. m., with Bert h i 4 > % : i the BS age WORKER every day as re-| wie, as sneaker. The Russian cOmmission consists of Comrades Omelian, Striz, Chramoff, ; CO OPERAT } misses’, rm Ho t ymer. All the above meetings will also while the Slovak, commission is made up of the Comrades Zuskar, Tuhy, and é a IV E CENTRAL EXCHANGE, ; ofan ane coe "ome rinse ca serve to commemorate the death of | Dendur. 7 Cc. ( Superior, Wis. (i the head of the red army Comrade | ; re ge at ie a’ ae foe SUX DEAE SEXES EEE EE EEE SESE ST “Without The DAILY WORKER, our and four housewives | pd one comrade | TO CELEBR. To Start Nucleus. that the Italians were not to divulge 2 pr pail ( Men), distribution of Telegra hers, O, R. T. Cort Club, movement would languish. Let us| at present. unemplo . The success of the anything that: ty A yy , At ity ers, © pe ” issues at his g anspired in the meet-| 4,, - 59 8 save it for as we build The DAILY! deci OF UNION EPUBI is the special “Henry Ford is gets wae terers, 1 tate WORKER.—we build our party. Our} In’ Many Indbete! ; | S factories here has resulted in a) ‘785, 4m at all the talking to the/| 301 tchmen en (Stock rards), 49 8. Workers Party is the instrument thru which the workers will accomplish their revolution and The DAILY WORKER is our party’s voice. Come to its rescue!” The rescue party raised $250 in cash and $50 in pledges. The Russian, Armenian, Jewish and other branches are also arranging rescue parties. A Correction. Editor, DAILY¥ “ighaie tuiee Tees article there is a The article is eniiog Wh mat Will We Gain from Reorg In column four, line 4 there ts an ommission which makes me look like a philosophical anarchist. The sentence should read: “The Com- munist movement arising out of the real struggles of the workers in the period of imperialism, has made it clear that the culmination of the Street Nucleus No. 2 eelitaina the following: Two laborers, iron work- er, dressmaker, blacksmith, two car- penters, (unemployed); housewife, party worker, painter, (unemployed) ; ; printing ink worker. Street Nucleus No. 8 contains: clothing worker, (unemployed); cabi- net maker, university student, three carpenters, one of who mis wunem- ployed; rigger, custodian, journeyman tailor, (unemployed); bookkeeper, housewife and a painter. Those who be a be ee to other ent, [shop or let. ther sec- tions ‘had thé toligving octupations: |Three machinists, Janitor, three party workers, two stenographers, two jour- neymen tailors, tailor, two clerks, pharmacist, three housewives,. er, two bookkeepers, printer, iron worker, painter and auto bedy worker, cigar maker, carpenter, barber, hair dresser. Amter, district secretary, and Martin There will be a fine. entertainme Several choruses and mandolin orchest P< oh 7 CLEVELAND, Nov. 5.—The eighth anniversary of the proletarian revolu- tion in Russia will be celebrated in Cleveland in resplendent style. demonstration will be held at Moose Auditorium, 1000 Walnut St., on Sunday, November 8, at 2:30 p. m. The speakers will be Jay Wovestone, member of the Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party, Israel compan of the Young Workers League. The mass in conj etion with the meeting. s, atid in addition a revolutionary tableaux. The arrangement tee is preparing an entertainment such as Cleveland has seldom heard or seen to make the occasion a mem- orable one. After the meeting and entertain- ment, there will be a supper which is being prepared by women comrades of the party. The celebration will end twe-uB-lin a dance at 11:30 that night. employed, student, sheet metel-work-+- ‘cabinet: maker, | ~The major part of the proceeds of : the célebration will go to The DAILY WORKER. Therefore, every comrade is asked to make the attendance at this meeting an overwhelming one. Let there be no standing room in the large auditorium. Let us make this anniversary of Soviet Russia one that will not soon be forgotten.’ The ad- mission is small—35c for iether the afternoon meeting or the dance at night; 50c for a combination ticket. MINNESOTA DISTRICT MAKING bundle being ordered for daily sale at the factory gate. This is the prelude to the establishment of nucleus in this assembling plant. The initiation of this work by the newly organized worker correspond- ents’ gfoup here will result in con tinuous, concerted, organized group effort that’ will remove'the job of sup- porting the party press from the domain of sporadic “campaigns” and will result in establsihing The DAILY WORKER on a firm foundation in this city. Send Appeal to Ford Workers. press done by Secretary Winston of the American commission, was to be done in the presence of one of the Italian commissioners. The reason advanced for this unusual secrecy was that it was desired to avoid a repetition of what occurred during the French negotiations, when French spokesman announced prematurely that an agreement had been reached. committees, on which will fall the major part of the negotiations, was not divulged. A special letter addressed to the workers in the automotive industry | has been written and will be issued with the papers this week. The final assurances of success lies in _ the | pressing need the paper supplies aaa the highly effective group of young workers who will constitute the back, bone of our sales oe ,: Moves House When Dry Agents Try to Serve Injunction (Special to The Daily Worker) “TRON MOUNTAIN, Mich., Nov. 5.— Federal authorities were baffled in an attempt to padlock the road house of Even the personnel of the two sub-’ 9 a. ead” 265." A. 6. W.—Meets every 2nd Friday, 1564 No. Robey. (Note—Unless otherwise stated all meetings are at 8 D. m.) Philadelphia Winner Dies as Votes Are Counted Electing Him (Special to The Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 5.—An un precedented situation exists in Phila- delphia politics today with the death of John M. Patterson, who was elect- ed district attorney on the republican ticket yesterday. Patterson died short- ly before midnight last night after several days of illness, Who is to succeed Patterson, or how his successor is to be named or who names him, are the questions pussling politicians, lawrert: and others here. Such a situation, several prominent attorneys sald, never has come up a | | kers, a musical pro- | rescue parties was held here which accounts mainiy for the. fact | -he meeting were drawn into the shop pee Ae hie oh. about your shop. ‘lians simply contenting themselves ington St, 6 p i & week at a Dudley St. Bg gh eo shop nucle! “ee not formed as | and street nuclei and work with vio. send in a story y asl @ith::“presentation in detail wnat| (9% iene Workers, Emily and Marsh- with a program mus yet. newed energy. * ee oe they claim to be their economic situa-| 8 Hoe Csvtermys 1850 Germee St., dancing and a playlet by the Young] Among the 29 members who are be-| In Section No, 5, altho having no| BOSTON COMMITTEE OF : ACTION. TO ton. 1 Janitors. 168 OW. Workers League. ing assigned to units in other sec- | shop nuclei at present, there are many After discussion of nearly. two eq’. Ga arment : Comrede John J. ‘Ballam, in an tions, there are mahy who work in | of the livest wires in the party. They RAISE F U v DS F OR DAILY. WORKER hours, it was agreed to create two a Lenore othaee. 660 | appeal for The DAILY WORKER, on large eee Where it is known that | are certain make aa ee ee sub-committees, composed equally of iis Mesb miata, H J : the story of the first DAILY WORK there are other party members. These | we can anticipate the formation o dling dad Alawickes. oe to co intol te tee ‘ poarircae 2 and how our paper is part wit be formed inte shop nuclei. shop nuclei even in that generally BOSTON, Nov. 5.—Continuing the senile initiated last week at oe ie eabackty ot Tale to ay, aba the oe ¥ ach % h . of the American working class. i As fast°as posible, the members residential area. automobile factories in this weer the committee of action, comp re re At other to discuss actual terms of pay-| 1225 Machinists, 63a “re a dear friend were dying,” said |among the three street nuclei formed| Three of the six sections in’ Chi- ‘Workers Barty and Young Workers League members are also engaged 1D ment. No further session of the full| 4, Painters Pages peo Ballam, “and your contribution of a|at the section meeting will be attach- cago have now held reorganization | intensive money raising campaign to save The DAILY WORKER. commissions will be held until these 78 Patt hers: 1 few dollars would help to save his/ed later shop units. nggenrenags The en aaa ag soe ~ sa To Start Nucleus. sub-committeés are ‘ready to report. at ed i at life, would you hesitate? The DAILY | Im street nucleus 1, are to be found 4. hes sis Pitas otame A mp Ss gar) The DAILY WORKER rescue party run by Local Boston this week will Secrecy Prevails. 310 swe mas . 5212 ted WORKER represents our movement,/the following classificatfon: black- otiéek ; be followed by another rescue party sponsored by the English Branch of the} A magtle of secrecy was draped by ai? Plumbers, 3251 °&. Chicago it is the collective organizer and/agi-| smith helper, teacher, carpenter, cab % _*Workers Party. The date has not yet! treasury officials around the actual A +4 way Carmen, ‘Bigs tator for our party; it is the organ | driver, sign painter, furrier, mechanic, | yeen set, but. will be announced in a discussions, due to the “unfortunate 1207 Cte ee is at el eee oman, store | CE FVELAND ARRA FF AIR later issue of The DAILY WORKER. | Publicity” that attended the French | of} Baws By clecay su ake the bearer of the Communist message. | cashier, car inspect “party worker : b negotiations. It was mutually agreed 31 wa t George Meehan; when Meehan moved class struggle will not. be’—and| Neari Per Cent Belong to Union before. ta then should follow the . clauses Near 16% cet hot rl, : H EADW AY IN REORGAN | Z A TION Russian Tea and J Baked hes: ae a Parts tinknown under at ~ “thru the casting of votes, but thru| tered nly OK section ore en Potatoes Aplenty ‘for | whan eo TE ‘ Wiid Storm Hits Ships. sterner measures—thru turning the ‘aiailations.. _ The Minnesota district organizer reports considerable progress in reor- Jamaica Woods Hikers. SPESsaee- CHERBOURG, France, Nov. 5. — ~ tables against the oppressors.’’—Is- rael Amter. TOLEDO, Ohio Nov. 5.—The cele- bration of the eighth anniversary of Russian revolution will be held at the Auditorium Hall of the Labor Temple, Nov. 8, at 8 p. m. with Com- rade Sadie Amter of Cleveland as | tivity. tended. Every comrade enthusistic- he St. Paul ness payroll weekly. A total of the main speaker and local speak- | The street nuclei organized, Pro- | ally supported ‘the reorganization. pro- ponent 7: weepntne “t'3 i ge 168th St. at rales clock. de twitenlemaitt $67,600,000 was spent in the industry Author of “tinder Fire,” etc. ers in Russian, G ahd Polish. q 4 ceeds to elect fé porary officers and gram. Section one was immediately the tank of rid Sidition. Don’t expect a_ colle | during 1924: aie An entertaining program has been The 34 union members Most of these comrades are live wires in their local unions. In the street and shop nuclei. to which, they are being attached,“they can be ex- nal section commit- a provisio forme 4 , 4 4 ‘ constituted, an executive secretary Branch Functionaries Meet. h ldn’t | arranged for the evening. We ap- | tee which is meeting Monday, ep was elected and a provisional execu-| [p Minneapolis meetings of’ all scdele Ney aids oe totsions wid hat Fink Beats Up Passenger. A new novel marking peal to all readers of the DAILY | ber 2, to take up general party Prob-| tive committee of five was also! branch functionaries were also held. wy to bake and good hot Russian |.“S®RINGFIELD, \Tll., Nov. 5.—When another important 4 WORKER in Toledo and Workers | lems. elected. Then there were organized| They were well attended by all com- f 1] ‘George McGill refused to stop smok- contribution to 4 | Party sympathizers to participate in One of the immediate tasks aaen two shop nuclei, one in a clothing/rades except the Finnish. These ae gee ana ftlends of The ing on a street car after the street car literature. } | this celebration and varies to make fed wes the dentally from tha! section factory and one in a leather goods) meetings unanimously endorsed the| pal.y WORKER are invited. The |©°™Pany fink had insulted him, the ‘ | ita Success. vrs ao pt ad ws 2 factory. Besides, there are organized reorganization of the party. Sectional | palt.y WORKER builders will have fink drew a revolver from his hip 12 mo. 2 vols. $4.00 ; . Vim 7 oe ie Ob | _ two street nuclei in this section. reorganization commissions werej an official meeting at the camping pocket and beat McGill over the head. 7 | ou R D AILY P ATT ERNS .. Section No. 2 also set up its tem-| chosen, composed of the secretary, or- grounds. McGill was then taken to a hospital Onder trom ‘ | porary executive committee. One shop/ ganizer, and industrial organizer of| we will hike 4 miles thru the finest and upon regaining consciousness was . nucleus was organized in a bedding|every branch. Within the sections] woods of Jamaica and the trail is |@7Tested for disorderly conduct and me LY WORKER | ' | |manufacturing company and three} these commissions work under the| pjazéed. Come along—bring your sweet- resisting an Officer. : UBLISHING COM \ | street nuclei were organized here. control of the district executive com-| heart and your pals. Start early—on Tis! y WASHINGTON 6 Com ~a pected to increase their union ag-\ihese meetings were very well at- : d held to receive an ‘expldition of the Central Executive Committee reorganization program. Section meet- {ings were then called in each sec- tion, to proceed with reorganization. In section No. 3 two street nuclei the -party.on the basis Of shop nuclei. The city of St. Paul has been into three sections. Section No. 1 includes all the territory east of ice and Webasha and north of the Mississippi river. Section No. 2 is made all the territory west of Rice and Webasha and north of Selby. Section No. 3 consists of territory west Of Rice and We ashi and — of Selby, ed to explain the work of the various nucleus and laid the basis for the election of permanent officials of both the nuclei and the sections. The district committee unanimously adopted the resolution commending mittee sass eh commission. RUSS REVOLUTION CELEBRATIONS ARRANGED BY NEW YORK DISTRIC r NEW YORK. Nov. 5.—In addition to the | two big Seatities in New Yack on Friday, November 6, one at Central Opera House and the other at Grand Millers Assembly, Brooklyn, the New York district has arranged the fol- lowing meetings in celebration of the 8th anniversary of, the Russian revolu- (Special to The Daily Worker). » hike ont in the woods? If you did you'll be tickled at the chance th cdthe us in front of the headquarters—108 East 14th St, this Sunday morning ‘at 10 a.m. That’s where the big crowd starts. The Brooklynites can meét us as we leave the station on the Jamacia Ave. line B. M. T. at the last stoD, wont be any. Of course we will have time Sunday at 10 at 108 East 14th or at 168th St. Jamaica B. M. T. at 11 o’clock. Your neighbor will appreciate the favor—give him this copy of the DAT WORKER. ed the former site of the house, they were confronted with a ‘billboard an- nouncing the plotting of the site into NEW YORK, Nov. 5.—Did you ever | lots for residential purposes. Motion Picture Payroll LOS ANGELES, Nov. 5.—Motion pictures led Los Angeles industries with the heaviest payroll in 1924, ac- cording to a survey completed here to- 4 day,. $1,300,000 being the screen busi- Flood inundates Welsh Villiage. LONDON, Nov. 5.—Thirty persons are dead as the festul tof the flood which wiped out the Welsh village of Dolearhog when adam broke. Ten bodies have been recoveréd. Many towns in North Wales are today with- out electric power ag the lake, empti- ed when the dam broké, provided water power for a great electric power NEW: HAVEN WORKERS TO HAVE RUSS REVOLUTION ~”.. & 3 ~~ ahead f bee ny or thore passengers landed from the steamship Berengaria today with bandagéd heads, arms in splints or pager! legs, from injuries received gest from New York.in-the.. det te ‘Storm, in the captain's territory south of the river. +—— out with us. If you didn’ t—step _ out estimation, the ship naa ever encoun-. 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ata - * k sy SUBSCRIPTION RATES ‘emai Qn Chieage only): P $4.50 six months | $6.00 per vear $2.50 three months — By mail (outside of Chicago): $3.50 six months $2.00 three months LY spe Sa ‘all mail and make out checks to tHe DAILY KER, 1113 W. Washington Btvd., Chieaye, fitinote eee” mee J. LOUIS ENGDAHL } WILLIAM F. DUNNE { MORITZ J. LOEB Rccain oan Manager eee a, ‘cago, Uil., under the act of March 3, 1879. = as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at t Chi. Advertising rates on application. Undisputed Party Leader ‘The Tammany victory in New York elevates Governor Al. Smith to the position of undisputed leader in the democratic party in the! United States. The defeat of the Hearst-Hylan petty-bourgeéois com- bination and the campaign of vituperation preceding and following the primaries in September did not adversely affect. the*party im that city. The triumph of Walker, the Tammanyite, over Waterman, the republican candidate, almost equalled the last. victory ef Mayor Hylan when all elements of the New York democracy were united. Capitalist editors, usually incapable of astute political analysis, regard the elections of Tuesday as of no national Consequence. A Marxian analysis reveals that it has considerable ‘national signi-| ficance. The democratic party has been without a recognized leader since Woodrow Wilson was stricken with his fatal illness while cam- paigning for the Morgan issue of the league of nationsi “A fierce internal conflict ensued when, after the 1920 national defeat the petty-bourgeois elements tried, thru the late Bryan, ‘to regain con- trol of that party. At the 1924 convention the Bryan-McAdoo forces engaged in a titanic struggle to wrest the party from the ¢lutches of the House of Morgan and bring it back into middle cs hades. This effort failed and the Morgan forces won. “t Bryan’s death removed the most powerful of the petty- nolibjetile leaders. William G. McAdoo can never hope to fival the hold that Bryan had upon the imagination of the middle class. Four powerful and corrupt political machines the democratic party: Tammany in New York, the Frank Hague fuctore:és mewhereee avident:.es: in -a@ situation like this. Japan’s mast im- machine in Jersey City that placed its candidate in now ‘dominate the governor’s chair, the George E. Brennan machine of Chicago and the Tom Tag- 5 gart machine in Indiana. These sections of that party are as one behind Smith. _ The eastern wing of the democratic party is triumphant, | but that does not mean that the national party is thereby révived. Me Adoo will challenge Smith’s desire to head the ticket in 1928 and the Madison Square convention of last year will be repeated, with thé possible nomination of Smith as candidate for president of the United States. His candidacy will sound the death knell of the oldest political party in America; as such a defeat will demonstrate the undisputed sway of the republican party as the representative of finance-capital. _By 1928 the ever accelerated pace of gigantic mergers in all in- dustries in this country will have forced the completion of the transition of the republican party from an agency of industrial .cap- ital to the political expression of finance-capital. _._{. Im spite of the absurd notions of the muddle-headed socialists that capitalism is.one wnited reactionary mass and that,it maintains parties identical in nature, Marxians know that only in periods of rapid changes in the economic structure of.a country do we have anything approaching two parties representing idéntical class in- terests. Finance-capital will throw its support entirely to the re- publican party and the three units of the democratic party will vegetate in the mire of local politics, while its petty-bourgeois wing will for a time fitfully strive to exist and then vanish. Viewed nationally the victories of the democratic party in Tues- day’s elections, are rattle. — ot signs of new vitality, but With one reactionary party dominating American politics, the “gi working class, now for Ahe most part unconscious of the class char-} | gles can more easily be rallied to the support! acter of political st / of a working class party. The Persian Puzzle only’ ‘its death The new importance in world affairs of strategically located nations like Persia aside from their wealth in natural resources is brought to our attention by the attention paid by the capitalist press to the deposing of Shah Ahmed by the national assembly. Northern Persia is rich in oil. American and British oil con- cerns are waging a struggle for control of the deposits ‘with Britain, thru the Anglo-Persian Oil company, having a little, the best of the competition at present altho American imperialism has an emis- sary in the Persian government—Dr. Arthur Millspaugh, who acts as “budget adviser.” But the real importance of Persia is not in its dendettis but in that it lies in between Irak and Afghanistan and borders on the Persian Gulf opposite Arabia and is an outer parwurk for British India. In this sector the forces of western impertalisai repented by Great Britain conspire against the Soviet Union. Télieran,' close to | the southern point of the Caspian Sea, is the center of imperialist intrigue for to the north and west are the rich oil fields of Baku. What the overthrow of the present dynasty actually means, given legal sanction by a vote of 80 to 5 with 30 representatives absent in the national assembly, is not clear at this distance, but the trend seems to be toward a republic fashioned after the Turkish fashion. Riza Khan, a Persian cossack, is the chief personage in the new government. Whether he is a tool of British imperialism, a friend of Soviet Russia or what is more likely, a Persian ‘nationalist, will be shown sharply when the new government makes its statement on foreign policy. In Turkey the establishment of republican rule was followed by the ‘overthrow of the caliphate and an orientation away from reat Britain. The attempt of Great Britain to grab the Mosul oilfields has in- ereased the antagonism and it is probable that in Persia a movement that is of a nationalist tendency will soon find itself the British imperialists. Some sections of the in conflict with capitalist press hint that the deposing of Ahmed by the national assenibly was the result of British intrigue; if so Great Britain is playing with dangerous weapons, for these are the days when colonial and semi-colonial countries are no longer con- fént to groan under. rulers picked for them by the foreign offices of the imperialist powers. Get a member. for. the, Workers Party and a new subscription for the DAILY WORKER. - tay >. bale 2 ae Oe , | | proletariat with the liberating move- | PART Il | de JAPAN AND THE CUSTOMS CONFERENGE. . — HE Japanese press, reflecting the interests of its ruling’ class, is agreed that the proposal to allow /China to raise her customs duties presents a grave danger” ‘to ‘their country, Japanese exports to China, they contend, are possible in large measure only because'of the ‘nominal Chinese tariff. Therefore if China were to impose a high export tax, it would so increase the expense of the raw materials which Japan must im- port from that country as to make Japanese competition in the « world market impossible. An examination of the silareitter - of the trade between the two countries proves this contention is well based. Japan takes a larger part of China’s exports than any other country. .On the other hand one-third of her-own exports find their market in C Any general increase in Chinese toms therefore will injure” her lade, cutting both ways like a scissors. HE bulk if her exports - to China consist of yarns and cotton goods of a cheap grade, which her experts admit can easily be made in the Chi- nese mills, and which in fact are to an ever greater extent being mafu- Sactured there. There {s. an increas- ingly heavy investment of Japanese capital in China, and a pronounced tendency to transfer the cotton spin- ning industry thére where raw’ ma- terial is abundant and labor - still cheaper than at home. According to the Japanese press this same tend- ency exists in the matchmaking and flour industries. Silk Industry Threatened, The ‘interconnection of economic portant market: is the United States to which she sells a third of her total exports. Of these, raw silk makes.up 80 per cent. Yet an expert: for the Mitsui. company, one of the biggest orporations. in the country, after an investigation of conditions in Kwang- tung states that this single Chinese province could produce more mul- igaves than all Japan. (The érm feeds on this leaf only). If a had customs autonomy she be able to make the raising of such. trees. and .the consequent. .build- eS &@ huge industry so profitable Aapanese silk industry would a death blow. Take from »:@8 one writer says, the -silk Nei te the United States.and the cotton, goods and yarn to China and ° Va % y a “Lf R: ra oa) Te 4, o 7S, m°) | - = te (From Lansbury’s Weekly, London) three times that of. he United States. In 1880 Japap had but 3 per cent of China’s foreign trade. In 1899 this|* had increased to i per cent and in} 1913 to 20 per cent. During the world war she made a huge gain, her proportion reachi in 1917 over one- third, 35 per cent. of all China’s ex- ternal commerce. "from 1899 to 1913 the tonnage of J teamers en- gaged in the Chin tra e increased by five times, and has iv growing ever since. [bape ov to the building ‘up of this commerce are the thous- nds of Japanese firm th China itself. Yere there is also "5 the of an 2normous growth. In 875 there ‘Was one such company in nghai. There were 195 in 1899. rteen years later in 1917 this number had jumped to 1,269. Out of.42, .foreign-owned banks in China 29 ane China’s Tariff, Ad There. is little,d ness interests. of .Gh 3 to * such additional income. * : build.aup~« the, na ind ry th compfication comes fro BY protective -tariff. ee autonomy | fact that in the fierce internal is secured. rally they struggle for control of China would -seek to. tes in such a] ings of the Chinese people pemee way as 'to- build up export trade| must be taken into account, in coal and do .a » b importations frqm. , n; and at the same time hindey the export of iron ores and encourage the growth of steel satan er Kagh of these meas- |not ‘sword at Japan’s throat. with . China.” The Mitsui dustrial] nation to maintain itself.” 'the Chinese conference? absolute autonomy would be. disaas- outdtanding loans_owed to Japan . creased government fevenue and, cus! rth s seem the only metho larly because the Soviet Union ' the workers and peasants of Ch It is this latter and comparatively n the usual secret diplomatic under- | tween Japan, the United States, and. jout, and whethér ther eshall be any beat would become a _ double-edged JTAPAN’S economic life,” as a cor- respondent states in the Trans- ‘Pacific recently, “depends on the free \and regular exchange of commodities expert whom we have previously quoted be- lHeves the prospects facing Japan are so threatening that “Japan must de- velop into a highly technicalized in- Under such circumstances as these | what can Japan’s policy be towards |, It has al- ready been pointed out that from the standpoint of her commercial inter- ‘ests any increase in the Chinese tariff would work to her disadvantage and cua On the other hand, the exe paid unless Cltina has an. ‘in; fully exploit any attitude a factor in the tangled sia tin t drastic. action to end. the | finer i pete in, distarte, policy, it will. be her tactics to keep. South and North China at ground methods to reach an agree- ment between the powers for a united front against the Chinese. The Osahi, published at Osaka, Japan, in an officially inspired article recently stated: ment ha salready been reached _ be- Great Britain to-object to Wiscussing that question; altho they are willing. to give their kind. consideration to. it.... Should China press the par- ticipants to give her their immediate reply, her reuiast would be immedi- ately refused.”.- If the ‘tariffs. ‘conference is to progress it, must then be. confined | ees to sacs in’ her ‘customs, how the ad- ditional income shall be portioned relaxation in the present measure of foreign control. The appointment of. Hioki Eki as chief of: the Japanese | delegation indicates ‘that on the tariff Japan will make a last-ditch fiight: Eki is. characterized by the Japan Weekly Chronicle ‘## ‘with: Mr. Obata, “having done more bullying work in respect’ of China than probably any other ‘diplomatist, living or dead.” will ‘offer concessions in regard’ to extra-territoriality as’ a ‘set-off to their ven ‘on the custonis.° «© * Great Britain’s Attitude. on ‘have ‘noted ‘that: Great Britain’s ‘Sostand has been frankly hostile to} the conference .so far, as, extra-terri- toriality ds concerned. In this her for- epart prefentsy the die- ! »Shanghai rents who re on a “strong” seliny which means one of using mili- ary force to’ ‘suppress, all” “PpPosition to, explditation: , As regards the tariff, tie will fight} bitterly to retain her right of naming ne. lead ofits administrative Staff. @ proposal to raise the Chinese cus- oms to 12% per cent on condition the “likin” y ie has already been approved by gland. Even: — tariff autonomy, ‘aside from control of its, administration, grou not meet the ‘same opposition | rom England which it — will from Japan, despite the agreement above Ny “ nid ae ee Japan reverses entirely her} each other’s .throats. She eo Te nD | “With: reference to China's} Ei |claim for tariff autonomy, an agree- The paper intimates thatthe: ‘Japanese | the - Federal trolled over half of China's eign commerce. In ‘direct trade with China had Poend but 49 per cent.’ The t eae Bi ish steamers in the Ch greased from 60 per c tal staal tonnage eit ina 13, t actual rye itself iner apnea! r 15,874,352 tons ams: of the foreign banking ° i uses” time all but one were Britist out of the 7,055 commercial 590 were English. Tt ‘as many Japanese and | banks: but four were °} These figures show that he affairs of China: ” oF ES Britain Versus the Sbplat on. jisolate the Soviet Union, before the world war it was her pol to isolate czarist Russia. Of of the reasons for this maneuver are al- together different tho. many of the same considerations, suriously uf, apply. There fs the same 74 the buffer states as there. was in , old. days. But. today it is Great Bt ain, representative of world ism, confronting the Soviet 0 representative of the new working class society. So The British ruling class knows that the success of the workers and ae ants of. Russia sands, thea all D pre ey ‘composition, 7 sreat Ww hope and a growing: their common interests in seniine | perialism, personified. particularly . English , Niateresteet BG Bed Armorial English do not forget that ft fas a $300,000,000 ‘standing credit made 4 “Reserve Bank of United States fo the Bank a , land which tn Great on a Ran. 8, they the - ond trade retacliua, and therefore ae . at least a minimam amount of hijssibhdet to. _ This, is. because the cot} eration in Far | Eastern ‘Mplemeny. omdas By MANUEL GOMEZ | § the lordly powers, of. the -world meet each other today across the table at the Chinese customs confer- ence in Peking, there is one great nation, deeply concerned in, all, the affairs: of China, that is conspicuous- ly among those: missing. That nation in Soviet Russia, now the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Soviet Russia was not. invited, and her request to be included was re- fused. The reason must be clear to everybody. Soviet Russia’ would scar- cely be of ‘help to the other great powers in such imperialist aggres- sions against the Chinese people as are being re-forged at the conference table, in the name of “guarantees” for eventual Chinese customs autonomy. If Soviet Russia were at the confer- ence she would not side with the im- perialists. She would expose them. She would defend the interests of ex- ploited China. Lenin calléd Russia the bridge be- tween Europe and Asia, capitalist newspapers tell us that this is the bridge between civilization and bar- barism. They do not; however, go so far as to cite in evidence the bloody assault of British “civilization” against the defenseless students of Shanghai, or the most recent exploits of French “civilization”. in wiping out whole Moroccan villages and in un- loosing upor the old city of Damascus such a mad orgy of fire and destruc- tion that even the capitalist world stands aghast. Happily for the future of the world, the British and French militarists do not constitute all of European civilization, any more than the United States government, fresh from its latest rape of Panama, con- stitutes all of American civilization. The revolutionary proletarian ele- ments of the west, the class-conscious vanguard of the oppressed masses struggling against exploitation and imperialism—it is of these elements that the Union of Socialist Soviet Re- publics is the triumphant expression. They stretch out-the hand of alliance to all peoples fighting for national liberation. Russia is thus no longer merely the bridge between Europe and Asia. She is the bridge connect- ing the class struggle of the industrial amma | 5 Kal ments of the oppressed of all coun- tries. was only natural ‘salen the Amer- | T° ican soldiers, Walter Trumbull, their role of Street’s interests termined to help the. Crouch - and of Wall throw off the yoke of ‘American im- perialism, that they turned their eyes toward Soviet Russia. And converse- lyf it was to be expected that when the Soviet steamship ‘“Vorovsky” touched at Latin-American ports a month “ago, the Coz munist nucleus aboard would send a message of fra- ternal greeting to the oppressed peo- ples of Latin-America. At the time of: the November revo- lution in 1917 the Russian government had special priviliges-in ‘China, as well as the “right” of. extra-territor- | iality and all the-@ther “rights” en-- joyed by the greaf ssors of China, | became her friend and ally: In every {+ instance where the diplomatic repre-|~ | suppressed peoples of the world. By. their emancipation from that social order which has always been. based upon slavery, war and injustice. | leave behind me a party which, as |! always hoped, will be. allied with you in its historical task of ‘Wherating China and other suppres- sed peoples from the yoke of im- perialism. My charge to the Kuomintang party before all is that it shall con- tinue to promote the cause of the _national revolutionary movement for the emancipation of China, which has been degraded by imper- ! therefore charge my party to maintain permanent contact with you. _L- cherish the firm belief that your support of my country will remain unaltered. |}. Im taking my last leave of you, dear comrades, | express the hope that the day is approaching when the Soviet Union will greet in a free and strong China its friend and ally, and that the two states will proceed hand in hand as allies in the great fight for the emancipation of the oppressed of the whole world. With brotherly greetings, _ SUN YAT-SEN. Is it any wonder that the imperialist robbers do not want Soviet Russia to sit in at a Chinese customs confer- both which all China is denouncing? The people of India, struggling for freedom from the crushing rule of imperialist Britain, find in Soviet Rus- sia no less a friend than the Chinese. It was Soviet Russia~ who, following the massacre of Hindus by the British soldiery at Amritsar—a lesson in “civilization” comparable only to the French fury at Damascus—launched the. protest that went around the world. In the great Bombay strike, Russians workers helped liberally with funds.. So great and so apparent is the Soviet support of Hindu liber- ation that Great Britain has repeated- ly insisted as a first condition before opening negotiations with the U. S. S. R. that it refrain from anti-imper- ialist propaganda in India. But not all the pledges in the world can des- the immorta! ye has bert. to all pathy) for the. cause of Hindu -libera- means of this heritage the victims | of imperialism will inevitably win) 4 consummated by the g outspokenly with the nationalist move- ialism into a semi-colonial country. . | troy ‘Soviet Russia's elemental sym-| fonsps) LY using the ; ‘first ‘foreign alliance / rnment of utionary Russia’ was With Must- ’ ‘Kemal Pasha and his Turkish ration movement; this alliance | maintained thruout the course emal’s struggle’ to free Turkey from imperialist rule and was an important factor in his success. In Egypt, Russia’s syfifpathies have beén ment headed by Zaglul Pasha—even when Zaglul himself threatened to desert it. ‘ British® “civilization” has just seized control again in Persia, by means of a particularly venal coup d’etat, but a wholesome regpect for the red army of Soviet Russia has been, and remains, the constant friend of Persian independence. , Soon perhaps the forces opposing the British-inspired coup in Persia will be denounced in the press of Eu- rope and America as “Communists and Bolshéviki.”_ Those are familiar epithets in the mouths of imperialists, and no doubt seem fearsome enough to them—but they have no terrors. for the revolu- tionary nationalists of the colonies and semi-colonies, who have learned to know imperialism 4s death-dealing oppression and Communism as the ally of national liberation, VEN the revolt of the- Rift tribes- men under Abd-elKrim has been attributed to bolshevist propaganda. This is of course untrue, for it is the brutal imperialism of France and Spain that drove the Riff natives: to war for freedom... Nevertheless, no one doubts where the Soviet govern- ment’s sympathies are‘in the strug- gle. The Communist Party of France rendered directsaid to Abd-el-Krim at the very time when.French imperial- ism was attacking him, and the C. P. of France together with the other Communist parties are the~paladins of Soviet Russia in western Europe. National.questions are now assum- ing special significance’ and acute ness, not only in Asia, Africa and Latin-America, but even in Europe. The eryption of Greeks and Bulgars which we are reading so much about |2 these days is bht an incident in the struggle over Macedonia, ‘which was ee Russia, F riend of the € Oppressed. Peoples Jin no way settled. by. the. pic ve The imperialist. powers support the claims, now of Bulgaria, now . Greece, now. of Yugo-Slavia. — their interests may dictate. Soviet Russia echoes the slogan of Theodore Alexandrov: Independence tor Mace- donia! Similarly, the Soviet Union endorses the aspirations for Croatian autonomy as originally defended ‘ty. the republican Croatian party, . its leader, Raditch, was still loyal. ‘ the interests of his peasant f " QuBIECT peoples everywhere able to have confidence in attitude of the U. S. S. R. toward ‘because it is not seeking © profits... It has no imperialist’ ee for the simple reason that it has * imperialistic ‘economic “pase, and no dominant capitalist class. ‘It’ is et even a national state ‘in’‘the older sense, but a ution of autdnomous | 80- cialist Soviet republics, welded toget- her under a- constitution “ ‘which leaves each one free 6° feave the union at will, It cannot by’ nature, acknowledge the’ s of any chosen people, of a — race. It knows phrases” such “white supremacy” are fictions op white robbery . . . on imperialism, which must be destroyed it ism is to live. One - of the great sctiinidiallibvenle of the Russian revolution, as. puts it, was to aid in converting colonies and semi-colonies from mc dels of capitalist. imperialist, power rinto citadels for the > overthrow of world imperialism. in added a few words to those ae Marx and éreated the historic slogan: werk 1 of the world and oppregsed es unite! But it is after all, ie a Slogan. Soviet Russia gives it and demonstrates by its’ relations with the subject peoples of all. lands. the unity of the proletariat and na- tional liberation struggles. Russia has established the hirst ] last- ing proletarian dictatorship. She Bee also made the first breach in the of capitalist imperialist states. is the unmistakable sign, to the_ peo- ples of the colonies and semi-colo of how the advancing march, .! th industrial proletariat in all the g. nations of capitalism will inevita shatter. the yoke of imperial | av that bears down n them. : - * > tonne BA prised sf a re +9 Sb-empe pS 4 | a *. ‘ | ul x OE SNC RE IS ane 4 Ll lag har eae Ye : : AE nate 3 Ya Ve ee ge + x : * ‘ “ te Be RD ‘ . ERE At Ne fn * Fy lagegawere ~ 43 Mh “ ft . “] Lids, Pel ~ 4 oe * $ , MI ayy at eos e Pewee Me ert Sie NUE thle aE RRR
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Bly ve PS Beb: e P we 12 i — lig wed rer a wes a ” sé I over re £4 ; eta ee an Pease ten te ety PBI E _ sentinel gt sb. lay Eh hi i b . oe the Viet acca cee ‘lz Sore the awes' plan in ‘Gormany. to. acne : ate capitalist countries anion, are | ‘them. The labor unions of the Soviet ion have taken the initiative in | Fi ahi for the Soviet’ Union and the: Workers’ Hc uniting the trade unions of the: wore against capitalism. They are seek- — ing to draw together in oné _ international organization all the or- } ii 1 ’ kimecicain workers must unite with the workers of other countries ganizations of labor. . The capi see in this movement for trade union r defense of the Soviet Union and the workers’ interests. The in- : cers and pokes were comp thr ane pla to | ough which.capitalism was seeking to. str a ment. _ They were obliged to overcome famine and hans i sr hie the ‘destruction wrought by counter-revolution ang enemies. unity a new danger and threat anee Caphaliom. é soreneaal the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union are the interests Against all these enemies the Soviet government. of oie’ SeAirabih and Because the Soviet Union: is thesinspiration of all oppressed peoples in of the,warkers of every country. They are fi ghting ainst the same peasants has triumphed. It has maintained the rule of the wencets and the struggle against imperialism, because the labor unions of the Soviet capitaligtrenemy. The'same capitalist enemies which seek to destroy the peasants in Russia and is creating a social order which is “ine to an Union are creating a = hty weapon against capitalism in trade union Soviet Union are seeking to further oppress and exploit the workers of end the oppression and Sapeertatony) of — workers by capiti unity, because of rious example of a workers’ government creating the United States. , | a better life for the varuece and peasants which exists in the Soviet Union, Every workers’ organization must place itself on record for the de- 1 : Achievements of the Workers’ Republic the Workers and pessanita UF Wysneta, ar Peete” | sive, the parang Wassemel aod polio organizations should send dele- — a fense of the Soviet Union and to fight ‘ HILE in all capitalist Europe the standard of life of the Workers has | fr eee Ls gates fo a"odnference to unite for de 3 | Woon reduced to below what it vas in 1914, before the war began, in | The New Attack on the Soviet Union MIL otha. Te ; Soviet Russia, the standard of life of the workers has been improved. over d ite | f th t it was in 1914. Capitalist society has, made worse the.Jot of the Ts negotiations now under way between Great Britain, France and Down with American imperialism and its looting of the peoples-of f Mexico, South America, China and the Philippines. workers; the Communist oak ppc alin has against great obstacles im- Germany for the creation of a “security pact” is an effort to clear the D ‘ae BD d th f the G and : proved their lot. © way for an attack upon the Soviet Union. What Great Britain, France own with the: Dawes’ plan:and the enslaving ‘0 ore ee The workers and péasants of Russia are no longer ruled by agents of aad Satashine want isthe security of capitalism, which can only be gained | A™éerican workers. sil : | the capitalists, who use the government to fight the workers. Injunctions by destroying the Soviet Union. Down with American militarism and its sacrifices of the workér? , | are not used to force workers into submission when they go on strike and The debt negotiations of the United States government are an effort lives for the capitalist profits. | 4 enemies of the workers. The courts are not used to oppress the workers; to settle the European problems in order to pave the way- for the struggle : A united front of the workers to fight for labor’s Interests. Forward 2 the courts safeguard the right of the workers. The police and soldiers against the Soviet Union. Through the Dawes’ plan in Germany and to a labor party to fight labor’s political struggles. | aré not used to force workers into submission when they go on strike and through debt settlements, new loans and investments, the American capi- Forward to world trade union unity for the fight against. the -Daple | fight g sritaiier aaknie alg a oo me 6. hea = ‘rn pt are becoming the exploiters of the workers all over the world. The talists. Rig | nger rules in Russian industry. ere is merican capitalists cannot take paymen i f erests in i 7 | ‘no boss who hires and fires the workers at will. The Russian industrial goods; they a only secure pasgaaleha ss Pag Ae yas aio‘ Thus pitty um r ee ny ae ee Newer f the Sovi vole quiche have by lay) the right to represent the workers in the industries. the interests of the American capitalists in other ceuntries grows. wi = fs es . ee re ee een hey make.the zs ements in regard to scales of wages and the workers’ American capitalism is seekingito protect its billions of inyestments Recognize. the. sowet Union. : right to work. The workers’ shop committees represent the workers in | against the danger of revolt of the: oppressed peoples and the ‘exploited Stand by the workers’ and farmers’ government of Russia. : the management. The workers of Russia are nolonger the slaves of the workers, which the existence of the- Soviet Union inspires, and it therefore Forward to the workers’ and farmers’ government of the United ) capitalists; they have won their right to full participation: in every phase follows the policy of the most irreconcilable enemy of the Soviet Union. States. of the work of production. It refused to recognize the Soviet Union. Central Executive Committee, ; The Soviet government protects the workers against injury in indus- It misses no opportunity to make an attack upon the Soviet Union. Workers Party of America, | try, it protects them against unemployment; it is creating e tional op- | The exclusion of the Communist member of the British parliament from | C. E. Ruthenberg, General Secretary. a : THE SUNRISE OF THE NEW DAY SHINES STRONGER THAN EVER‘ON THE-EIGHTH ANNIVERSARY OF-SOVIET RULE IN RUSSIA Le eae : Wes ’ ’ q ef bute iS Se % - sete Ee bce : a Nip ib Made Nh Mae d Ste OLONEL WILLIAM N. Mt a pon director of American Relief in Russia in 1921-22, returning recently from inspection tour of the Union of Soviet Republics declared, “Today there is food for everybody in Russia. tn fact, 4 | believe there is more, food, there than in the United ‘States, and the prices are much lower. The population:that was standing in line waiting for bread in 1921 and 1922 is now well fed. The destitution and suffering of Diced aes years is ht Me bitter memory.” .
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D4 | és ani me \ — heirianaetnicen ttt iaingtiass Me = ay 4 Two treaties, Brest-Litovsk and Lo- ho Be? carno, depict the advance of the ive ‘ e _ ermment at a disadvantage, compelled - had been cemented together in one the part of the rest of the world, than So = “f : r x ® we ri i A Wr als » tit - i* fas pa "y 5 pr as - Robbers ° e _ + di ss ee 7 r y ’ "h a 7 . F PRY /, F be : mt. 5 : ws a - Son The Red Army Class of 1903 Comes to Take Up Guard Duty A Organized in the Robber Clique of Nations. | From Saratov leventen,, inst the World imperialists Guard, that had gone thru the revolu- the dictatorship of the proletariat de- manded the building of an army that ian Revolution and Kautsky the Renegade. , Arm the Revolution. HE first task of any revolution is to disarm the former ruling class and its supporters and arm the revo- lution. At the time of Brest-Litovsk the workers had not recovered from the shock of the war sufficiently to engage in a further struggle. When the question of defiance to the de- mands of the German imperialists came up, those who favored a con- tinued struggle said to Lenin who fa- j vored making a strategic retreat to gain time: “How do you know the remained in the war. When the im- perialist war came to a close the Red Army of the revolution was being formed, preparatory to defending the triumph of the Russian proletariat against the world. No sonner had the echoes of the last guns died on the imperialist than the hire- ling of entente x sm, Admiral Kolchak, with a bandit gang; armed by France and started a drive against the re’ ion and boastfully announced that would wear the crown of the czarg of Russia in a few weeks. + The first iting day for the Red Army was c and the streets of kers will not rally to a further| Moscow and Pétrograd (now Lenin- struggle? Can you answer ~that?”| grad) swarmed with workers and Lenin replied that he did not need t0} peasants anxious to defend the revo- answer, that the peasants in the army} jution. had already answered “with their/ upon the ses in the streets strug- feet” as they ran away from the front.| gling to enter the ranks in def2nse of So at Brest-Litovsk the proletariat | their revolution he said “If Kolchak of the world learned from the Bolshe-| ever wears the crown of the czars he viks that there are many sides to a par } | revolutionary struggle. In this con-} not crete instance they learned that not after-a hasty only is a determined offensive neces- ee “h Bhago sary, but that it is, equally im t army, was to understand just when it ig ‘neces- sary to make a strategic retreat. They learned that retreat, no less than the offensive, is a part of the science of revolution. “= Lenin’s Strategy Wins, FTER Brest it was much easier to convince the workers of Germany and Austria-Hungary that they were fighting a war of imperialist conquest. A terrific propaganda of exposure, lay- ing bare the designs of the central powers flooded the armies of Germany Kolchak himself shot by one of his own men. Red Army Trigmphant, ‘AFTER Kolchak Deniken. after Deniken came Yudenich. Wave after wave of invading hordes were beaten back and the Red Army When Leon Trotsky looke‘|. | tries thru revolution—that the and, her allies, causing disintegration in the ranks, and doing far more to de- feat Germany than would have been possible even tho Russia could have EUROPE FEARS NEW LEAGUE ’ 7 - "he ROR ‘2 B= SP ES he : YY > Fo - fakespe 5 oi es) * * *, *e* a ae el ed “7° *.e Ye url. i oy ete. 8 00 Ti Me dk ee rrr Se s | a bee © ee i Ee thee, eee ee” 2. ee eee .,”,”** re *OO+eweee sof cea tO eee Seeee: Cece nn”, 2 92 Oteetace . oss ” OOP eee ee PAP peda ee TITY ry’y"y* "ee om ee “** +S sees -eeegeted, Pe eeee . ete (+ *eeee rae, D* Peeoawe=eH4 s*** + +m 4... ~ 4 wa Bae lt tee one, ue ee eet ee ew” OL ttt -ee en mm, L..””” OF MOSS mae * tee. Pty SE Wars SO SS SOR - 8 Ae | err OA OOS eens 2, BY "J tt teeeee ***#e + ebevetes SOOO rat) POU rr, ai CAA eere « Aa eee COs seee eee. . #+eeece et eetes *P@e@ebee PO eee e+ ee 6 05 5's, <5 "POP OSE? -seabes oOo OOe ee seve **eeeeeeese eeee DOO aa ##tee. O*Feeeeses ** of. «at.*.°.ee e-* “+. Oy ie * eee I a ae AAD Ea Lee) i) oe eee Te ee SALLI OS rrr AAA, Ae FAO +e ee aes Ot 8 8Os topes Bit Ott eeeee **o*eseeeseses O@eeteseds. ce. .9 ttt eee hee ee °F @ es sess. In order to Justify the campaign of frightfulness being waged against the colonial peoples in nations bor- dering the Mediterranean sea, the propagandists of the allied butchers have created the legend of a new league of eastern nations to chal- lenge the western league of Eu- ropean nations. The dark-shaded nations are supposed to indicate the boundaries of the potential league, while the Iight shaded por- tions represent those nations sym- pathetic to the scheme. A fable is current in London to the effect that Dr. Tewfik Pasha, Turkish foreign minister, has ap- proached the powerful eastern chief- tains with the proposition and is sounding out the Asiatic powers. Soviet Russia is reported to have ¢x- pressed its willingness to join such a league. This propaganda is for the pur- + pose of detracting attention from the maneuvers of Great britain in endeavoring to create a “sanitary cordon” around Russia, with the ob- ject of Isolating and trying to crush by force of arms the proletarian revolution. The recent. seizure of power in Persia by Riza Khan has baffled Great Britain, as Khan is known to have been friendly toward Soviet Russia. If his friendship continues, and it is reasonable to ex- pect it will, he may set up a repub- lic and enter into closer relations with Russia. Britain fears that Teharan may become a strategic spot from which Bolshevist propa- ganda may more effectively perme- ate Iraq, Afghanistan and/India. It may also endanger British oil inter- ests in the south, as the Persian gulf has long been regarded as a British preserve, e | SOT ee me: Soo ade ane A Nie See ee Bunt ar ~eriy,. ve Pow oe xe RAO pias OO OO ; . Y gel J . cose. Be’ 8 Pee seecoesees ~ v Ue a See Bees "Pee wens "eee tenee ’ See ee eri sees srecr ee eeneede es “Sreocnete”® eet De ** tee eeeee +. ee eeeene eee A league of nations against the European league may eventually be formed, but it will mot come thru the initiative of the present rulers of Turkey or other nations under domination of the imperialist pow- ers. It will come when the colonial peoples rise in their might and scourge from the face of the earth the despotic invaders who are now holding them in subjection to im- perialistic nations. Then will be formed a great antl-imperialist bloc whose blows will shatter to its very foundations the European league of nations and the governments that support it, and at the same time will send American capitalism reel- ing ‘mortally wounded out of the Near and Far East. At home the American proletar- iat will have to finish the job and was becoming ever more powerful. Then came the French-inspired drive of Poland against the revolution, and the troops of the Red Army thundered toward Warsaw and were only stop- ped by the thro of French re- cruits onto Polish The Polish white guards under Pilsudsky had in- vaded Russian territory, but this time, instead of a Brest peace, the Bolshe- viks retaliated by hurling them back across the border and driving thewh imto their own capital city with such terrific force that their sympathizers thruout the world held demonstrations against the “savagery” of the revolu- tionary forces. : All the counter-revolutionary ven- tures were financed by France, England and the United States. Even after these lessons the imperialists were not convinced that the revolu- tion was impregnable. They secured another “white hope” in the person of General Wrangel, who from the Crimea, in 1920, began operations against the revolution. He was soon removed from the scené of activity. The whole force of the victorious Red Army was hurled against his mercen- aries with such fury that after two weeks’ steady retreating he found him- self bottled up near Sebastapol and in order to save his own neck ran away on a Freeh warship under cover of darkness, where he found refuge in Constantinople. American and Japanese troops that had been harassing the revolution in the east, aiding every adventurer from Kolchak te the ataman, Semi- noff, were finally forced to evacuate. The First on Earth. ORGED in the fire of civil war and revolution the Red Army had be- come a powerful, disciplined force, capable of defending its victory against the world. It was a new army, representing a new victorious class, fully conscious of its mission. For the first time in the history of the modern world the elass that made up the army realized the fruits of .vic- tory. It was the armed force upon which rested the authority of the rev- olution, Not merely wag this army trained to fight, but ansintensive educational Campaign w give it a proper burial. woe Pea enter : Pe EN CERNE ag Aes ——— member of the army who was illit- erate, ; Famine Stalks. DDED to the throes of the civil war the revolution was faced with a devastating famine in 1921-22. Grim death stalked thru the Volga region and millions perished before relief could arrive. The recurring droughts that have frequently thruout written history depleted the population of this region caused the almost total failure of crops. Here was a new enemy con- fronting the revolution. But the re- serve forces of the revolution, the pro- letariat of other lands, rallied to the famine relief work and helped make it possible for the Soviet government to survive even that calamity, b Russta was faced with still another the economy of the nation. At the outbreak of the révolution it w hoped—and all signs indicated thé probability of aid from other aon ers of other nations would be /abié to furnish the machinery and techriié 11 instruments ry for the’ in- revival. But ‘the tempo of the movement slowed down, and in order to obtain necessary equipment an eco- nomic retreat, similar to the militéry retreat at Brest, was necessary. With the same superior statesmanship that motivated his stand on the question of: Brest, Lenin boldly enunciated the new economic policy (N. E. P.) Some super-leftists, calling themselves Com- munists, charged that this retreat was a betrayal of the revolution. But the Bolsheviks pointed to’ the fact that it was possible to permit foreign capftal to enter and participate in the de- velopment of the country if the po- litical power to determine the limits of this participation remained in the hands of the proletariat. It was a necessary retreat and altho it involved dangers, those dangers were not so great that the revolution was endangered. The power of the revolution embodied in the Red Army made unthinkable a return to the old conditions. The years since the enun- ciation of that policy have proved its correctness and vi ed again the diplomacy of the reyolution, Try Other Methods. UT the defeat of the allied aspira- tions to crush by force the power of the revolution, did not destroy their hope of-crushing it by other methods. The. new economic policy and the famine were viewed as oppor- tunities for obtaining, thru the slimy diplomacy of Europe, the victory they could never hope to obtain by force of arms. Numerous efforts were made to in- volve Russia in a diplomatic net that would open wide the gates for capi- talist penetration. The most ambi- tious of these projects was the Genoa conference in 1922. Britain, France and Italy arranged the conference to which it invited So- viet Russia and the United States. Charles Evans Hughes, the bungling secretary of state of the Harding cabinet, proposed cutting down the Red Army before entering such a con- ference. This suggestion met with the contempt it richly deserved... Hughes and his supporters did not seem to realize that it was the existence of the Red Army that made necessary the Genoa conference. The endeavor to throttle Russia by military force had failed so under the guise of “re- constructing Europe” the allies hoped they could force wide open the door to the vast resources of Russia, al- ready slightly opened to admit the functioning of the N. EB. P. When their motives were known, Lenin rudely slammed the door in their faces. On his first public ap- pearance on his return from a vaca- tion where he had gone to recuperate from a seige of illness, Lenin, in a speech before the Congress of Metal Workers in Moscow, said: “Soviet Russia’s economic retreat has end * A . ay ‘ ’ a ee ts A : My Aa ete ee VaR ‘ iv d * a fi. ae erat he - — personally. | “I ghall tell him,” he said, “that he ord can’t scare us with trivialities, after | allied armies cannon have failed to frighten us. It dispelled any hopes they had enter- tained of economically enslaving Rus- sia, thereby winning on the economic field the victory that was sna from them by the Red Army on the hod of : sanguinary field of. civil war. | ing the revolution; the arbitrary crea- Leon Trotsky, at that time war min-| tion of little ententes, the manouver- ister, in a public address asserted that if any attempt were made by those| another over the revdlution, finally nations represented at Genoa to take : from Russia by force what they could not achieve thru diplomacy “it might be necessary to tip the balance with) forming a bloc » problem, the difficult task of reviving’ plate blood.” | ithe revolution The splendid batallions of the Red | came to naught. Army that had been built up in four| By exploiting years time from the shattered and un-| the vario disciplined: remnants of the fighters of the early revolutionary period were a tee against further military guaran designs that might have been formu- | lated at Genoa, | Treaty of Rapallo. T Genoa the allied statesmen had * the audacity during the first week to propose absurd demands: that, if accépted, would have reduced Russia to. a state of vassalage comparable to that of China, with all the powers | haying a free hand to plunder to their | heart’s content. To flaunt the open}! contempt of the revolution in the aces of Lloyd George, Poincaré, Bar- and company, the Soviet govern- ‘ment met with Germany at. Rapallo and concluded a treaty that wiped the late of their mutual war obligations clean, while the allies were striving j.to force Russia to recognize the ab- surd debts of the Czar. The treaty of Brest-Litovsk was officially abrogated.| ist ,by the two nations involved, though as a gesture the treaty of Versailles had already declared for its abroga-} For more°¢han aimonth at Genoa |'f PT the allied powers struggled to create @ basis for united action against Rus- sia, but their own irreconcilable con- tradictions defeated their purpose and it dissolved with no permanent results achieved, The S-R Trials. CCOMPANYING the efforts of the allies at Genoa the social-demo- crats of the world tried to alienate the class conscious proletariat from Support of the revolution by publish- ing reams of hysterical documents ap- pealing to the “civilized world” to come to the aid of the social-revolu- tionaries who were then on trial in Russia, charged with every crime | has, thus venting an armed in sinister forces represen are still exist they will menace the will be if ever they dare step one foot of a hostile army on the soil of the revolution... - From Brest-Litovsk to Locarno: from the first feeble steps on the path to revolution to the day when the im- perialist world stands appalled before the might of that revolution, After | eight years Soviet Russia joviet Russie is still hold- ing aloft the torch of world revolution and every . year it grows brighter; its rays penetrate ever dark- er recesses of the earth until all the exploited and oppressed are turning their eyes toward it as the beacon me =< BPanrean a Baron Wrangel at the End ofrHis Bloody Adventure Against:the Soviets Is Trying to Sell His Soldiers to the Belgian Government: “They Are Cheaper , Than the Blacks, Your Honor,” He Says... “= ee BRITISH INTELLIGENCE CHIEF ©" BOASTS HOW GERMAN ATROCITY STORIES WERE MANUFACTURED NEW YORK, Nov. 6.—General J. V. Charteris’ admission at’ a’ New York banquet that as chief of intelligence for the British army in’war time and | official propagandist he manufactured German atrocity stories has aroused the indignation of many of his listeners. They were particularly, aroused at Charteris’ naive boast that he switched captions on two photographs, one of dead bodies and another of dead ne Sn ae horses going behind the German lines. THE th DAILY WOR.KER. The horse caption explained the Published by the bodies were going behind the lines to DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. be boiled down for fat. Charteris said he switched this caption to the 1113 W. Washington Blvd, Chicago, I (Phone: Monroe 4712) dead men picture and then sent the photographs. to China to create anti- German sentiment. The stories of the pseudo fat rend- ering methods of the Germans were broadcasted during the war and ob- tained a wide circulation in America, even Billy Sunday shouting them from his evangelistic pulpits. “The matter most certainly will be taken up in parliament,” declared two British labor members of parifament, now visiting in America following the inter-parliamentary union congress held at Washington, D. G, a - SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail (in Chicago only): Per year........ 8.00 6 months........ $4.50 3 monthe........ $2.50 Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER = 1118 W, Washington Bivd., Chicago, ti. Entered as second class ) Soot. 2, % - that will light the path to freedom. f re eet -_
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EC Hise & is > | - «* of which Green’s speech was - All this stands him in good stead and li ~ment. This was not all he said. He ' must certainly have been sad to note P Fe . : | 3 ef Pa H | sixth of the world, and capitalist rule over’ the § other fivesixths of the | Boviet rule was on the defensive the Mikado’s armies were pene- the Far Eastern Republic, sup- Kolchak white guard ‘ being the borflers of Soviet Rus- Europe. rule was on the defensive in Soviet rule was on the defensive when Yudenitch was knocking at the ONTeD STATES ALOE AMONG POWERS DODGES SOVIET RECOGNITION The complete list of countries that have recognized the Union of Soviet Republics up to the present time follows: -~ Esthonia, Feb. 2, 1920. Lithuania, July 12, 1920. Latvia, Aug. 11, 1920. . Finland, Oct. 14, 1920. Persia, Feb, 26, 1921. - Afghanistan, Feb. 28, 1921. Turkey, March 16, 1921. Poland, March 18, 1921. Germany, April 16, 1923. Great Britain, Feb. 1, 19924. Italy, Feb. 7, 1924, Norway, Feb. 13, 1924. Austria, Feb. 20, 1924. Greece, March 8, 1924. Sweden, March 15, 1924. China, May 31, 1924. Denmark, June 18, 1924. Mexico, Aug. 24, 1924, Hungary, Sept. 18, 1924. France, Oct. 26. 1924. Japan, January 20, 1925. United States? promise the Japanese Mikado one-hal of Siberia. The last soldier of fren has instead slowly treked his way out of the Isle of Sakhalin, rich in re- sources and commanding in location, a valuable but lost prize, to Japanese Seteke tan aoe Soviet Union in the ent hums its challenge to capitalist bide vr . wee Freance recognized Soviet rule. No promises made to pay the czarist debts. No surrender of any of the elemental tights of the workers and peasants. Recognition came as the seventh anniversary was being cele- brated one year ago. There was the Franco-Russian alliance of the czar- ists with the great profiteers In Paris. There is now another Franco-Russian alliance, the unity of the liberated Russian workers and peasants with the revolutionary workers ahd peas- ants of France, not only for their own emancipation, but also allying their battles with those ot the colonial slaves in Morocco, in’ Syria and elsewhere that discontent may ar and challenge the foreign maas- r. Altho the French imperialists, ye their efforts to bulwark “the en lire,” yhave almost emptied their | chests in Paris, nevertheless finda, are still found to subsidize the mili- tary budgets of Poland, Roumania, ; “does strengthen its military sway over cap- |, Czecho-Slovakia, the Baltic states and ‘border. enemies of Soviet rule. France seck to italist Europe, and to build for new: and more ambitious attacks agdingst} the Soviet Union. All this in spite of the fact that the franc is fal in. price while capitalist America is be- coming 1 more niggardly with its teh fearing for the billions already ad- vanced, while the wars in North Africa and Asia make continued de- mands upon the depleted French treasury, no matter what government is in power. O does capitalist Europe fear Sov- fet Russia. It is this capitalist fear of the Red Giant in the Bast thai forced the Locarno conference; an ef fort of the capitalist nations to rally every ounce of strength for new at- tacks against the workers’ power, while at the same time maintaining its increasing oppression over their own workers and farmers at home. Yet the hysteria in the league of na- tions council, called to consider the hostilities between Greece and Bul- garia, shows how the capitalist struc- ture creaks in every timber. HAT an inspiration for the work- ers and farmers of the United States to wage greater efforts de- manding the recognition of the Union of Soviet Republics by this nation. That should be a task to be accom- plished during “The Ninth Year.” Altho recognition has not yet been the power of the workers and’ peas-. ants are continually visiting this classic land of capitalism, purchas- ing the things that they need, getting the information that will help them or offering facts to break down the wall of prejudice built up by the lies of a well-nigh all-powerful profit press. Soviet representatives purchase trac- tors and ploughs from the farm imple- ment industry in the north; cotton in the south; cattle, sheep and hogs of special breed in the west; spending tens of millions of dollars. Soviet Russia is building. But the workers and peasants want to build faster. They want to open up the lanes of commerce that will unleash the flow of goods that they need, that will put their products on the markets of the world. They av® not begging, but de- manding credits from capitalist indus- try and getting it. But they want more. Russia was backward under czarism. The Russia of the workers and peasants strides forward, regis- tering new achievements with each passing month, an invitation to labor thruout the world to follow in its footsteps. s a * T should be enough for this short article to call the attention of America’s toiling millions to the find- ings of Colonel William N. Haskell, of the United States army, director of the American relief administration .im Soviet Russia during the famine of country after another tour of investi- gation of the Soviet Union. . » Colonel Haskell is an imperialist ‘soldier, graduate of West Point Mili- ‘tary Academy in 1901; director for several years in Wall Street’s armed forces in the subjugated Philippines; commander of a regiment along the granted, nevertheless, the builders of | 1921-22, who has just returned to this} Se ss entbale Benker in 1916-17; who went to France in the great war to help make the* world safe for Morgan’s millions, then to superintend “relief” in Rowmania and Armenia, to help save these nations for capitalism af- ter the war. Armenia went Soviet and remained so. Roumania just to hang onto the end of Wall bread line. * a2 ca OLONEL HASKELL tells in his own words how he was sent to Sov. jet Russia “when Herbert Hoover's highly philanthropic impulse moved humanity to the relief of poor Rus- sia.” It is not necessary here to argue again that Hoover's every impulse grows out of the profit hunger of the Street’s American dollar. This was proven conclusi by the story of the part played by his “relief forces” in the overthrow of the Hungarian Soviet Republic. It is merely necessary to point out that Colonel Haskell has no cause to be prejudiced on the side of Soviet rile. He is merely point- ing out indisputable facts when he says: alLY WORKER “Today there is food for every- a body in Russia. In fact, ! believe there is more food there than in the United States, and the prices are much lower. The population that was standing in line waiting for bread in 1921 and 1922, is now well fed. The destitution and suf- fering of those black years is now only a bitter memory.” That gives the lie to the stories re- tently circulated by the Chicago Tri- june that famine is again devastat- ing Soviet Russia. Again Haskell says: “Today the Russian rouble is quoted at 51 cents and is on a par- ity with the English pound and the American dollar. Moreover, it has been there more than two years and is backed by a gold reserve. All the old money has been wiped out and there is plenty of silver and copper money around. The stores and markets, except for a few ar- ticles, are plentifully supplied with goods.” All this while the franc in France and Belgium, and the lire in Italy, with the moneys of other capitalist lands drop in value, while the return f , my 2 “ ee" A TT to the gold standard in England only increases the cost of living for wide masses of labor. But again, quoting from Haskell: “Today the Russians are suffi- ciently if not fashionably clothed. The streets of Moscow and other cities hum with traffic.” Then this contrast: “The working man is no longer hungry or oppressed. His is the preferred class. “Contrast this with the popular conception of the old, old Russia— the Russia of the fabled opulence and magnificence of the upper class, of religious oppression and cruel class distinctions, the Russia of the knout and the cruel landlord. “All that, of course, has faded in- to the past. The once proud nobles of Russia are scattered over the world, some serving as butlers and waiters. “The working man, who was once less to them than the dust beneath their haughty feet, now has the first consideration.” EMEMBER that the above ig the confession of a man who not only believes in the rule of the landlord, the banker and the great exploiter in this country, but has joined the military arm of the profiteers’ social system in order to protect the plun- ler of these business bandits. He does not yet realize that the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union are striving to abolish all classes; so he still talks of classes. Thus he admits that children are having their first real chance in Russia under Soviet rule when he says: “The wotkitg man’s children, who never had a chance in the old days, are now also in-the preferred class. The government owns everything, and everything is conducted with enccial reference to the working man.” And again: “| believe that the men who are running Russia are working earnest- ly for the common good of their country, without thot of graft.” This shatters another whole bar- rage of kept press propaganda, as does the following: “The government fosters no relig- ion, but every man may worship his own god in his own way. There are no longer any restrictions on the Jews. Many of them are mem- bers of the government.” Once more: “A light of hope indubitably gleams ahead for the country they used to call the land of the white czars.” Some thore of Haskell’s ¢onclusions are as follows: “| was particularly interested in seeing the hospitals of today in Russia, because in 1922 they were stuffing’ wounds with newspapers and sewing them with thread pick- ed from old cloth. They had no | ) . cen Oat. Three Soviet Recognition by Ll U. Ss. anaesthetics. “Now the hospitals in Russia are clean and sanitary, and fairly well equipped with modern appliances. “The streets of the big cities, which were in filthy condition in 1922, are now as clean as New York and considerable attention is paid to muncipal sanitation.” OLONEL HASKELL, of course, does not admit that it was futile attack of world capital against Soviet Russia that produced the untold agony and misery of the first years of Soviet rule, an attack egged on by the United States om ernment. It is to this land, with its Soviet rule that the profiteers tried to over throw, that Colonel Haskell now Fra fers as a “land full of hope and vigor ous activity, politically tranquil, but . badly in need of ment.” capital and equip- T should not be difficult to pin great significance to this report by Col’ onel Haskell. of Herbert Hoover, secretary of com- merce in Coolidge’s cabinet, which means that he is a business getter for American capitalist industry. sansa Ky. does not talk of the “economié vacuum” that Soviet Rum sia was supposed to be in the days when the trio, Harding, Hughes and Hoover, fought against Soviet recog- nition. Secretary of State Kellogg has tak- en Hughes’ place and Coolidge hae become accustomed to Harding’s seat in the white house, but still the diple- matic wing of the government con- tinues to attack the workers’ and peas- ants’ republic, giving little himt of any change in policy, not even to its labor ‘wing, the officialdom of the American Federation of Labor, that continues its bitter onslaught. But there is a different breeze blowing in the department of commerce, if any value is to be placed at all upon Has- kell’s declarations. * * . MERICAN workers and farmers can speed the day of Soviet recog- nition by bringing their power to bear upon the capitalist government at Washington. They can help develop those rela- tions between Soviet Russia and the United States that will help flood the Soviet Union with the equipment that he Russian workers and peasants need to build mightier their new so- cial order. American workers and farmers can He is a representative — - win a great victory during the ninth : year of Soviet rule by forcing recog- nition by the United States of the first workers’ and peasants’ govern- ment, the hope of the workers and farmers thruout the whole world. Stand by the Soviet Union by demand- Ling Soviet recognition. - By. H...D.’ WENDELL. IGHT years after the Russian rev- olution a man comes to America. Standing before a gathering of four hundred delegates of organized labor he spoke a few simple thruths about } the workers’ and peasants’ govern- eaid much more and said it well. But it was what he said about the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics that frightened the greater part of the 400. It ¢rightened them so that they sat perfectly still and were not re- * lieved until their spokesman, Presi- dent William Greep, Of the American Federation of Labor, got up and did | | Saee eet went; im to de ans yale he. knew they wanted him to pS made a speech against the Soviet Union. It was a rabid, vicious h;* Secretary Kellogg, Sir Joyn- son-Hicks or Baron Wrangel could have done no better. The 400 were relieved. They could breath more easily. The icy sweat into which the speech of this man from Europe had plunged them gave way to the hot v. of their leader outdoing Abramowitch at his best. Arthur A, Purcell, fraternal del- egate of the British Trade Union Congress, it must have been at once a ludicrous and sad spectacle. Per- haps it wasn't. Perhaps he had heard his own “British Mr. Green, the Hon. J. HB! Thomas M. P., make a similar speech much more cleverly. But he that in that sea of faces there was no one to challenge the chauvirfism, the social patriotism, the utter de- morilization of this labor convention the epitome. Purcell is not a Communist. He is a British labor leader of many years standing and much prominence. He has been chairman of the British Trades Union Congress. He is now vicechairman. He «is President of the Furniture Workers’ Union of Great Britain. He is a labor mem- ber of parliament. As the represent- ative of the British unions to the In- ternational Federation of Trade Un- ions, the Amsterdam International, he was made president of that body. — - these honors og ite would dare labor circles that an arch-duke gets in Newport. But he is nidre than that. ° URCELL headed the British trade union delegation to Soviet Russia. The delegation went to the forbdden land. It came back and made a lengthy report. This report was sym- pathetic. It recommended the recog- nition of Soviet Russia. It broke down the tissue of lies about the U. 8S. S. R. that had been laboriously built up by the London Times with the.able assistance of certain silk- ‘breeched labor -ministers working hand in hand with their tory oppo- ments. It blasted the myth of the “Zinoviev letter.” In a word, it told the truth. This earned Purcell a bad name among the elite, the silk-hatted gen- try, of his own labor movement. It made him a dangerous character at Atlantic City. But it didn’t prevent the rank and file of the British trade unions from endorsing the report and sending him as their fraternal delegate to the A. F, of L. conven- tion. More than that. The British trade unions entered into an agreement with the Russian unions. They both pledged themselves to work for the world unity of all trade unions. ~J. H. Thomas didn’t like this. He did all he could to prevent it but could it, Jouhaux of France didn’t like it, it got under Oudegeest’s skin and drove President Green to make the frantic speech loudly applauded by the New York Times and the Bankers Associa- tion. Purcell had a lot to do with the agreement. He was in favor of it. He worked for it. He is working for world trade union unity now. That’s the second reason why Purcell is feared. HE prejudice of Atlantic City could not help but spread thruout the movement. But the farther down it goes the less virus there is in it. Thousands of trade unionists want to hear Purcell talk. They want to know what his message is. Purcell is talking to them now. In eight of the biggest cities of the country trade unionists have arranged mass meet- ings at which Purcell is speaking. He is telling them the truth about Soviet Russia. He is telling them why American labor should also send a delegation to Soviet Russia. He is telling them what world trade union unity means. And they are listening. Columbla-Ecuador Break BALBOA, Pananta, Nov. 4.—An im- pending rupture between Ecuador and Columbia is indicated in a dispatch re- ceived here from Bogota stating that the Ecuadorian minister has been withdrawn from Columbia as a protest to Columbia’s approval of the recent boundary treaty with Peru. Ecuador holds, it is said, that the treaty was approved without proper regard for Ecuador’s f{nterests. [If you want to thoroughly un- not. The social-democratic leaders of .the German trade unions didn’t like \ him the kind of in deistand Communism—study it. od Cradle Chorus (Schools for baby “Blackshirts” are the iate3t Fascist innovation im Britain—Daily Herald.) OCK-A-BYE, Baby, in your Black Shirt, You must begin early your creed to assert; We'll read you no longer mere nur- _- sery-rhymes But Morning Post leaders and pars from The Times; We'll teach. you to lisp, in a shrill treble clef, The new A. B. C. of the little B. F. No bright B. F. babies are safe in their beds While all propaganda is left to the eds: So pick up your rattles, while all the world harks, And drown with their thunder the doctrines of Marx; Their echo a mightier babel shall be Than the gospel put forth by the CG Fe &. FF. So battle your babel, one and-all; Till the Bolshy battalions of Muscovy falj. Grow 24 to be girls, or alternately boys Who know that the world can be conquered by noise— Continue your, antics till everyone’s deaf, brave babes ed “B. F,” ~—The Infant. . % And the Earth's Pandemonium brand- Gary Workers to Celebrate Russian Revolution, Nov. 8 (Special to The Daily Worker) GARY, Ind., Nov. 4.—The workers of Gary, Indiana and Lake county are going to celebrate the eighth anniver sary of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics at the Croatian Hall at 23rd and Washington Ave. on Sunday, Nov, 8th by a mass meeting in the after- noon and concert and dance at night. The following comrades wil] speak: J. W. Johnstone, secretary of Trade Union Educational League and Albert Gallatzky, ten years old, junior, will speak in English, Comrade Devetkin in Russian and Comrade Loyin in South Slav. Admission to the mass meeting is free. Admission to the concert and dance is 25 cents for Jadies and 50 cents for men. Meeting will open at 2:30 P. M. Concert and dance will open at 7:30 P. M. RUSSIAN BRANCH T0 CELEBRATE 8TH YEAR IN CHICAGO, NOV. 8TH 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. — | CHINA AND THE SOVIET UNION By JAMES H. DOLSEN. T was in Shanghai in 1923 that Dr. Sun Yat Sen met Adolph Joffe, So- viet ambassador to China. What the Chinese nationalist leader learned at first hand from this representative of Bolshevik Russia made a deep impres- sion on him. He discovered that the natural] bond of interest which unites the oppressed peoples of subject and colonia] countries with the workers ism was recognized by the Russian revolutionists and formed an import- International, Thereafter.-Dr. Sun came increas- ingly under the influence of Commun- ist theories, strengthened by his visit to Moscow where he met Lenin. When he died at Canton March 11th of this year his last wish was to be buried “beside his great friend Lenin.” HE treaty negotiated between the Soviet Union and China marked the first recognition of the latter country as a nation of equal rank with the great powers. Its conclusion had a tremendous effect upon the Chinese inclining them to broaden their friendly relationships with the work- ers’ republic to the north and west, and creating grave problemg for the grasping statesmen of Europe and America to face. It was a realization of the unity of interest between the workers and peasants of the two nations that led the Kuomintang, carrying on the struggle against .foreign imperialism in China, to make a historic declara- tion of their attitude towards the So- viet Union thru a public manifesto of their national executive committee, is- sued May 21st ce this year. In speaking of the way China has been treated by other countries, this statement thus refers to the Russian attitude: “As to the nations which treat us on a footing of equality, we declare, as we have stated in our manifesto on the Sino-Russian agree- ment, that only Soviet Russia de- serves the name of an equal partner.” And farther on, it virtually binds the party to an alliance with the Soviets: “This party (Kuomintang) should, therefore, continue. hand in hand with the Soviet Republics to strug- gle against imperialism for the realization of the national revolution- ary movement.” anf tactic in the work of the Third | — Canton to Commemorate Eighth Anniversary. HILE ‘countless celebrations of the eighth anniversary of the So- viet Republic will be held in China, the greatest outpouring will doubtless be witnessed in Canton, the capital of the Southern republic and the former home of Dr. Sun Yat Sen. Since the more radical elements in the Kuomintang got control Iast spring, the tendency has been increas- ingly to the left with the result that Chinese Communists are in virtual command of the city today. A correspondent of the North China Daily News, Shanghai, writing in the Kolnische Zeitung, of Cologne, Ger- many, characterizes the Communist domination of Canton as “an experi- ment which the whole of Asia is watching.” Its international aspect, he goes on to explain, “is crystallized “Red” in an embittered struggle between England and Russia, the outcome of which cannot be foreseen.” He boasts however, that “Everything is being done by the British with intellectual and material means to starve out Bol- shevik ideas in Canton.” 5 "yan commemoration of the Soviet anniversary in Canton will not be merely by enthusiastic speeches of eloquent orators at mass meetings. An army of Chinese mercenaries, with the financial and moral backing of Great Britain in particular and of the other powers as well—including, we may be sure, this country—is marching on the city. Perhaps the uiaatien of cannon:and the sharp staccato of rifle fire, with the groans of the wounded, will mark the day. Whatever happens our heroic com- rades of the Red Corps of China Can be counted on to carry the working class banners to eventual victory. The grasping ambitions of the capi- talist nations cannot permanently be reconciled, any more than a crowd of thieves can live in sécurity. More and more the masses of Chi- nese workers and peasants will come to realize their unity of interest with the workers and peasants of the Un- ion of Soviet Republics as it is and the world union it is destined to ~be- come. Therefore they greet with rTre- newed hope and courage their Rus- sian comrades at this eighth anni- | versary of the Communist revolution, a EE —_ —_ _———_— -~ _— en eet
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—— =e —~ mi 21 ay lly all the world’s workers. bit of news that comes, regis- the victories and the setbacks T ef the first workers’ government, is eagerly read by millions. Because . very one knows that a tremendous . @nmd epoch-making step was taken when the Russian workers and peas- ants’ under the leadership of thé Bol- sheviki, took power in October, 1917, | and every development since that time is either a step forward for the whole working class of the world or a defeat for the whole working class. For good or ill, Russia has for eight years stood as the vanguard of the proletarian revolution. The evi- dence that accumulates every day, that the defeats and hardships have been passing and temporary, while the victories and material benefits have been constantly growing great- er and more permanent, heartened the _ tolling millions of every land for new \struggles against their exploiters. The Organs of Workers’ Rule. HE working class cannot rule un- less it is organized. Under.czarism, the Russian workers were denied the simplest rights of organization, and could act only in seeret, conspira- torial, underground organizations. How have they fared in this respect since they broke the power of the bourgeoisie? First, let us examine the growth of the political party of the workers— the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Democratic Party which be- the Russian Communist Party. 1903, the Balsheviks had 825 mem- bers; after the 1905 revolution it rose to 46,146 members; then until the 1917 revolution it lived an un- derground existence during which it could not even register its member- ship. Beginning with 1917, the party increased its membership by leaps and bounds, in spite of the severe ob- ligations of membership, the rigid dis- cipline, and the most careful scrutiny and examination of candidates. To- day the Russian Communist Party numbers 850,000, every one of whom is a picked man or woman, pledged under the highest degree of discipline to the cause of the proletarian revo- lution and the service of the working class. The exact figures of the growth of the Russian Communist Party are as follows: ¥ 5 by? 6,1 13,800 46,146 172,625 148,000 313,766 611,978 ° ~ 1921 705,245 1925 850,000 (Figures to 1921 from Wm. %. Foster's The Russian Revolution, page 35, Chicago, 1921; for 1925, from He- ports of the eG ‘Department of the R. C. P. No. 134.) Year 1903 1905 1906 1907 1917 1918 1919 1920 VEN re striking is the tremend- ; ous os movement. This is reaching truly phenomenal propor- tions. The growth of the Young Com- munist League is aptly described by N. Bucharin, (in The ‘International Bourgeoisie and its Apostle Kautsky,) as “an unparalleled stormy and extra- ordinary organizational development.” Developed entirely since the revolu- tion of 1917, the Young Communist League (not counting the very young people who are organized in the “Pio- neers”) has in 1925 more than a mil- lion and a half members. Its course of | development is registered in the fol-| lowing (from The Young Communist League of Russia in Figures, Moscow, 1925, page 7): Young Communist League Member- ship : 1922 Oct. (5th Congress) 206,000 1923 January 303,944 1924 January 500,700 1925 January 1,140,706 1925 April 1,432,608 Where else in the entire world has the working class youth found such a free and rich social life that would result in such a truly magnificent or- ganizational growth? Surely not in the United States, where even the bourgeois-endowed boy scouts, backed by the untold wealth of the richest country in the world, gathers in lit- tle more than the children of the middle class. But if the growth of the youth or- ganization is remarkable, what then shall. we say of the dérganizations of the children (of 12 to 16 years), Called the “Pioneers”? This wonder-: ful body, of which there is nothing to [ compare in other countries, increased lion in less than a year and a half. It is training the children of Russia to take their positions as responsible members of the ruling class of Rus- sia—the working class—to become the administrators of the future socialist state, and the builders of the Com- munist society. The growth of the Pioneers is | shown in the following figures (from The Communist Children’s Movement in Figures, Moscow, 1925.): Number of Number of Groups. .. Members 1924 January 3,000 161,349 1924 July | 3,70% P 200,000 1924 October 12,000 760,000 1925 January 19,814 1,000,032 1925 April 25,866 1,299,519 N the question of the organization of labor unions, the Ru3sian work- ing class has been able, thanks to the revolution, to rise from their com- plete suppression under the czar, in the course of the eight years of work- its membership~more than one mil- | ers’ rule, to the position of the most completely and scientifically organiz- ed working class in the entire world. In the first years of the revolution, every worker automatically became a member of the union. This fact was seized upon by the enemies of Rus- sia and of the working class, in order to claim that the union membership did not mean. anything.’ But since 1921, membership is purely voluntary, and requires the continuous and con- scious action of each member to main- tain, membership fees being paid in- dividually. And still the union mem- bership continues to grow. The first period of this growth is shown by Foster (in The Russiaw Revolution, Chicago, 1921.): January, 1917 1,885 June, 1917 1,475,429 January, 1918 2,532,000 January, 1919 - 3,638,812 April, 1920 4,262,000 FTER the inauguration of the New Economic Policy, the course of , development is described by N. Bu- charin (in The International Bourgeo- isie and Kautsky its Apostle,) as fol- lows: “A long time ago we left the me- -hod of automatically organizing the working class in the trade unions; as we did during the period of war Com- munism, and went over to the method of individual voluntary membership. Nevertheless this did not result in a lecrease in the numbers of the union nembership, but on the contrary, it -esulted in an increase. On the Ist of January, 1923, the percentage of the entire working class organized in the trade unions was 95.9 per cent. “At the time of the Fifth. Trade Union Congress, the unions had a to- ‘al membership of four and a half millions. And the Fifth Trade Union Congress was able to show an in- 2rease in the total membership of 30 per cent, the total membership then -being over six millions.” Surely there has never been before | 1 working class which was so thoroly sad completely organized, that wield- jd such enormous power in society, _ acvtompanied of culture among the workers. Whereas under the czar and the petty-bourgeois pro- visional government, the working | masses had been denied largely even the opportunity to to read and write, under the on the con- trary, the workers thru their organiza- tions and led rg ~ Communist Party, have’ develc ich and ac- tive intellectual li is reflect- ed in the reports of a rade unions, and particularly in tte Mstitution of the Workers’ Correspondents. culture is of news- Daily sirisiliotlens the revolution ............ Daily circulation in One edition, all papers, 1925 7,500,000 Thus it is seen L, the proletarian revolution gave ta. ions of work- ers and peasants in Russia their first opportunity to ite’-in politics, 0 know what is going fin the world, ' .o read and to thinksand thus to act with intelligence and -power. And, quite to the contrary_of,.what exists }in the United States, every copy of the papers is written, orkers, for workers, and does not consist of the intellectual poison of the Chicago Tri- bune or the Hearst papers, of which, the more the workers read the more confused they are made. O show that these rs are ac- tually written by “Lal ton the work- ers and peasants, one needs only look at the institution of the Workers’ Correspondents. As an institution vith its own congrésses and officials, his movement was only launched in late 1923. Already ft has become a great national institution. Witness the following fi :, reported in Pravda on the eccasion of tlie second songress of workers and viflage cor- Publishing House of the Journalists’ Institute: Worker Village Cor’spdts. Cor’spdts Saebts March, 1924 ......82,570 24,800 57,370 August, 1924 43,200 57,500 100,700 Dec., 1924 .s..x. 63,280 79,780 143,060 Accompanying this development of the regular press; with its hundreds of thousands of worker-editors, there has developed (due to the lack “e printing presses and paper to fill the tremendous demand for ever more publications) the so-called “Wall Pa- pers,” newspapers which are written out by hand and pasted on bulletin boards, in the shops, mines, and vil- lages. These “wall papers” are num- bered at present in tens of thou- sands. The part taken in this work, di- rectly, by the trade unions, is grow- ing ever more important. A short section of the report of the All-Rus- sian Central Council of Trade Unions for 1924 (pages 86-87), is so much to the point, and so brief, that it must be reproduced here: , “The educational work of the unions is based mainly upon the fac- tory club. Of the 1,572 workers’ clubs (in 62 provinces), 1,049 are located in factories, the others being local and central clubs. “The unions pay special attention to the workers’ libraries, which consti- tute an important part of their educa- tional activities. The results of an examination of the educational activ- ities of the unions carried out in 62 provinces showed that in 1923 they had 1,608 union libraries, with 332,000 permanent subscribers, of whim 50 per cent were manual workers, 35 per cent clerical workers, and 15 per cent members of their families. The libraries had about 3,000,000 volumes.” (This was more than two years ago, and has been multiplied several times since then.) “There are at present (first part of 1924) in Soviet Russia a total of $85 factory apprentice schools with 60,000 students, 301 technical courses’ with 4 -espondents, and also © ‘contained in a 10,009 students, and 30 evening cours- sia anes seis alt should aleo be ‘bers of trade unions are given a hig er education.” | 8. 8. R.; in 1 The unions lish 24 newspapers.and 63 with a_ circulation of about | The biggest circulation is that of the Gudok (The Whistle), organ of the Railwaymen’s Union, which has a |} daily circulation of a quarter-million copies. | Conditions of Living. HE Russian workers are as yet. far from having achieved a com- fortable standard of living. Inherit- ing a backward country, in which in-/ dustry was only beginning to develop; | with even the backward industry com- pletely ruined by the war, the block- ade, and the civil war; being largely | cut off from access to the resources of the rest of the world; with all of} these tremendous handicaps, it will take the Russian .working class some years to realize the full possibilities of a Communist development of eco- nomic life... It is absurd, however, sei ecinpeine the material conditions vf the Russian workers with some “ideal.” The mea- sure of the reVolutionary achieve- ments must be measured by compafri- son with what the workers had before. And from this standpoint, the prog- ress of the working class is great in- deed. Production of the Russian indus- tries is rapidly approaching the pre- war level. the benefit of the exploiting’ class, is now all for the benefit of the work- ers. Today, in spite of the shortage of maby necessary commodities, the Russian workers are not only living on a higher scale than ever before in higtory—they are also, as a whole, living on a higher level than the work- ing class of Central Europe. And this production, in-| sian stead of as formerly being largely tor} (An, excellent summary of current | are free.” sii : : ; 3 é seems very. much the / ferent; because in Russia we have a regulation of the workeie’ rights that they have put upon t ‘for their own well-being. where we have a restriction n of the a the wealthy. . . grasps this will ever be misled by the lies he can | that the worker in Russia lives a live as limited a schoo! visited by wsio? ed, “Once we were slaves, now we iat, By G. VOITINSKY (Moscow) | N the eighth year of its existence the importance of the Bolshevik revolution for the oppressed peoples of the East stands out with greater clearness than ever. China with its ulation of many millions, rent as der. by, world imperialism more th ten years ago, is now in the eight year of the revolution experi- encing a great revival among her -| population, who are uniting in order to resist the intervention of the im- ‘perialists of America, England, France, Japan and other countries. With an unprecedented absence of concealment, the great capitalist pow- ers have undertaken a grand attack upon the toiling masses of China. At this moment the only ally of the Chinese masses and the Chinese peo- ple as a whole, the. only defender of their interests, is the Union of Soviet Republics. This fact is now known to the population of Southern, North- ern and Central China as well as to the peoples of outer China—Thibet, Chinese Turkestan and outer’ Mon- golia. The treaty concluded by the VU, S&S. S. R. and the Chinese republic has shown to the Chinese people that the new state is inspired by the spirit of real national equality in its relations to a people oppressed by imperialism The enslaving treaties which were violently enforced upon China by. the | The Locarno “Peace” in the Making CVBon~ i“: Chamberlain Pulling the String in the Fake Locarno “Peace” in Which Germany Was Trapped. " ROSES ERGS BS Zid afb The Bolshevik Revolution ‘tmpeveduats of all sa and by the forme? cZarist government, were dis- closed. to the Chinese masses by the Chinesé-Soviet treaty and the great danger ‘*menacing China by further penetrations of imperialism became obvious. bi which once and for all one the shameful privileges which permitted the czarist govern- ment, to,,hayvye. its own streets (extra- territoxial. concessions) on Chinese territory, its own courts, its own arm- ies, and, its.own laws, aroused a. wave of enthusiasm among the Chinese masses, Jt also intensified the hatred of these. massés towards the imper- ialists, who still continue to exercise these privileges. The annulment by the treaty of the Russian portion of the Boxer indem- nity, the’ annulment of an imposition of many millions, laid upon the Chi- nese people in favor of the im- perialists as a sign of the latter’s vic- tory over the Chinese people in 1900- 1901, will have great influence in bringing the Chinese masses nearer to the revolutionary movement of the world proletariat. E Chinese people are beginning to understand the duel between our Red diplomacy and world -imper- ialism on the territory of China. In the hegrt of China, Peking, after a bitter struggle, the red flag was finally hoisted in the stronghold of the imperialists, the legation quarter. The stone wall surrounding the. im- perialists’ quarter in Peking, thru the openings of which guns bitterly men- ace the Chinese people, has collapsed where the concession of the czarist government was originally; from this side the Chinese people have secured and the the possibility of entry into the stronghold of imperialieni’’\Here the memorial of Lenin, whose* name is honored by the entire @hinese people, will serve as an inspiration to the toiling masses: -of China and as a sym- bol of our , U 7 ples of the East in their struggle against imperialism. | enced the revolution of 1908, the}, impulse to which was our revolution: of 1905, who suffered from the inter; 4 vention ‘of impérialists after the world he, ad. fc the plun- dering ped es Ye of world imperial- ism, has at last been torn from the cluthes of the imperialists, and will henceforth serve as,the. highroad for the victorious proletariat marching to the aid of the oppressed masses of China, » See sal ot A ROR 5 Fe EP acre HL
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gf 2 it portant | s that » all working men and women’ of the Nn- Soviet Republics are support- US... | General ‘Results of Eight Year. BHPGIN ‘with the question of our: home he in “a wr e ‘that on the first ariniver-' . revolution our speakers perl hg pe we would be able to ke hite bread. For years Kore Wa re urgent ‘and sents question ian bor our aie, and for qeentah: of the bread ration. ‘Now « no longer troubles us. There wére times when the ques tion of fuel was for us Ifterally a question of life and death, when eyerything hung by a hair, and when we had to send the best workers of | Petrograd to the Donetz Basin fh order that they might be able to ob- tain for us some meagre consign- ment of fuel. ster we were cut off from the Donetz Basin; Russia be- gan slowly to freeze before our eyes,. one after another the factories closed ¢ down. Daily we reteived reports as to children our children’s homes. “Nowhére \was there a tay of hope..of our ev able to. es: cape from our situation. tty present we have. difficulties of quite a different’ nature; we do. not know where we shall. dispose .of our coal and“our naphta: The com- rades from Baku who yesterday brot us ‘60,000 rubles,-on behalf of the dis- tricts' damaged by inundation, related |. that. the productivity; of;,the naphta. industry is steadily growing, but it is find markets for it. This, in my opinion, is only a wowgree ‘ rs Wty: Sacks > wat ay ate tate of tout. B0v- mir Sos 2 even milliatdaires, as our salaries were réckonéd- in“‘hundreds of millions, But as ‘millionaires wé had | a fairlyehard time. We are no longer troubled with the question ‘of stabiliz- ing ouf currenéy.. We*-have now a real geritine Soviét currency, Call to mind the turn of affairs in 1921ithe transition ‘to’ the New Eco-. nomic Policy, té*the so-called Nep. That was a time of’ great ‘uncertainty. } Many workers stood at the cross road and hesitated. It was not only the} non-party workers who«vacillated, but many Communists’ too. \It:amust now : be understood that .by means: of the} Nep wd shall arrive:at socialism and the complete ennai _ the. working class. ' Even a ‘superficial glance a the id } questions. ‘} start with socialist construction, if we have no real union with the peasantry. _.s| which possesses. power, must judge fwhat is taking 3 « its rule. It: must continually keep in Pmust say that there is no more: im- - $ crouse 7 seri of the last seven years BOR without the support of the And tt its not sufficient ‘epeak of the alliance of the ‘class with the peasantry as the most fundamental of all The working class cannot raise the national economy, it cannot The working class, as the class the situation from- the standpoint of mind that if the many . millions of peasants are not perfectly. clear as to place in, the Soviet Union, we shall meet with innumer- able difficulties... «- We cannot stabilize qur budget, our | reconomy, and the wages of the work- ers merely by what is being done in ina towns. We must..always remem- ber that side by side with us there ‘live millions of ‘peasants .who. carry jon their undertakings im. the most -backward manner. Therefore we must get into closer contact with these backward sections of the peasantry. War and other calamities have hith- rerto prevented us from engaging in }building up the Soviet: power in the village to the extent which was neces- sary. We have now taken the thing fm hand; we shall attract: more non-|. party peasants into:the work and we shall devote mean pare: anteer ion to their opinion. When, : th¥ietors; we eadeiihee. the question of our inner political life, we portant question today than ‘the ne- ‘cessity ‘of promoting the -work in: the Villages, of linking up the village -with the Soviet constructive work; or’ rais- ing the activity of the nom-party peas~ ants,.of abolishing bureaucratism, and. wiping out Pee. and ,in are ay nee we issu increasing. the productivity of labor. But how was it then with the prodpe- |) tivity, of . labor?» Wages were either |’ not paid. at all, or when they were. paid the worker received worthless. 19 9 scane value, he was not able to bey anything with it. At that time the campaign for raising the productivity of labor was more or less futile. To- day it is otherwise. Today there exist the prerequisites for raising the productivity of labor. At present must somehow work with the machines which we have and carry out every possible technical im- provement. For this we need think- ing people. If we employ specialists, if we pay them better, then they are of indisputable benefit to the pro- Geation. The increase of the produc- must be really valuable workers, who The situation of the international revolution was at that time really knew what the We were sur- Everyone of us still remembers the German anes which appeared over Petrograd; ‘we still recollect the occupation of Pskov, the occupation of the Ukraine, and of the Don area by the Germans,.the capture of the Caucasus and of Archangel by the | Let us call to mind our relations with Germany, At the time of the revolution our chief enemies were the ho of labor depends, at least 50 ber our country (and also for the French | people). It resulted in that the inter- est alone’on the loans which the French bankers gratited to the czar, in order that he might maintain his secret police, and his dungeons, and to enable him’ to conduct the war against Japan, amounted to many mil- lions of rubles. We do not need such an elliance as this. By means of the Communist International we maintain connections with the French workers and peasants, as a real friendly bond between two peoples, which is inde- pendent of our recognition by the cap- italists. German imp sts. Their troops, Even the most reactionary French Workers of Pp victory. Your Own Revolt FROM THE SOVIET ANNIVERSARY, Y MANIFESTO OF THE COMMUNIST ROTECT the Union of Soviet Republics fr by the Locarno pact diplom new capitalist attack upon the your own revolutionary struggles and, in “gage w All C ATIONAL. n by rom the intervention policy of the imperialist powers which is still being ones mm revent the encirclement of the Soviet Union ay pemegeanct better conduct the struggle against a t Union a preparing, organizing and conducting h the broad masses, leading them to ! Conduct | ers, but upon the government, upon the administration, and upon the trade unions. The other half, however, de- -pends upon you, yourselves, comrades. This is what you must bear in mind. Outer Political Situation of the Soviet Union. Ww was our international situa- tion at the time of the revolution? “We were in a desperate position. Peo- ple said to us: Let us suppose that a miracle occurs, that you win the ma- jority of the workers of Petrograd, of Moscow, and: perhaps the whole of Russia; let us suppose that you seize power and drive the bourgeois govern- ment out of the Winter Palace; let us further suppose that you form a So- viet government—but don't you under- stand that that will be an absurdity, if not the English then the Japanese bourgeoisie % What will you do, with ur inexperienced Red Army; with rour feeble working class, against the pglish ironclads, against the German money, he if the money still at une against the French tanks? cent, not immediately upon the “wp0n t the foreign bourgevisie will drive} u out, if not today, then tomorrow,| if not the German, then the English,} who were to the teeth, were two steps = Dads somier We were comple¢lled to” ‘decent the humiliating Brest-Litovék peace, in accordance with which we had to pay a great in- demnity in gold and to give up a whole number of provinces, Our work- ers had to ac this treaty, while they gritted teeth, with the ex- pectation that | és would alter and that in amy casé we should not pay the indemnity, Are we threatened today with any sort of i danger on the part of the ruling ass of Germany? I think not. .Their arms are too short. Of course there still exist in Germany the arspapicls... he fascists and junk- ers who w ‘to encompass our downfall. ow their only concern is how to retain their positions against their own >. Our F with France, Let us. r another power which is hos 6 to us, bourgeois Frénce. We have already had a Franco-Rus- sian alliance (ap alliance between the czar and. the. bankers) which only resulted , : @repting misery in , —> bourgeois no longer dreams of com- pelling us to pay the old czarist debts. Of course they remain our bitter op- ponents. But behind the imperialists there stands an army, the army of their “own” workers, at the head of which there stand such comrades as Comrade Marty, who was ready to sian workers, in the same way as our workers are ready to support the French workers with all their power. The old times are past, Our Relations with England, HERE was a time, it was some years ago—even before the revolu- tion, when there was no other dictator in Petrograd than the English Ambas- sador Buchannan—the Russian work- ers know this name very well. At that time the English povernmens held everything. in “its ; hands: the ozarist govetnment, ‘and then:the: pyo- visional government’: of the Russian bourgeoisie. Before the revolution the workers did not know that the English. ambassador. lorded over everything. | The Bolsheviks were persecuted. Af- hips. against us and took possession risk his head for the sake of the Rus-| of Archangel. It was with his active participation that the blockade was organized. You are aware of the recent dispute. the. English mensheviks, MacDonald, MacDonald is prepared to guarantee a loan to us of 300 to 600 gold rubles, under conditions advantageous to both parties. Lloyd George, however, the representative of the “liberal” bour- geoisie, says: I will grant nothing, they must do without it. Thereupon the menshevik MacDonald replies that he, Lloyd George, has spent a hunt-’ dred million pounds ($500,000,000) on interventions, in interfering in Rus- sian affairs, and now he will not grant / 80 million pounds ($6,000,000) under advantageous commercial conditions. HEN the mensheviks and the lib-| erals quarrel, we learn a piquant detail, we learn the exact figures: a hundred million pounds ($500,000,000) has been expended in order to fight against our revolution. The English imperialists considered no sum too great in order to annihilate us. Revolution Demonstrates its Power. HIS shows how the power of the first proletarian revolution is grow- ing in the international arena. We were told at first: “If you attempt to seize power, it will not help you, be- cause on the very next day the Eng- lish, French or Germans will force you to restore power to the bour- geoisie,” and now you see how the attitude of the foreign powers towards us has changed. Today, nobody can force the work- ing class of our country to hand back power to the bourgeoisie. In addition to this I must tell you that the Eng- lish and French, as well as the Ger- man and Japanese bourgeoisie, are now in a position when they must rather think of saving themselves than of destroying others. They must take care that they do not lose power themselves. There has been an fexchange of roles. At the beginning of the revolution they expended hun- dreds of millions of rubles in order to help the Russian counter-revolution oyerthrow the Soviet order; today the rey -has. changed considerably. ét Union is the friend, the a ; and the teacher of the work- ers of all countries. }, Our Soviet Union, by means of the Communist International, has become the friend, the brother and the teacher shipe the revolution, Buchanan sent. war- of the working class of all countries, | be ana also of a considerable portion of between the leader of the English lib-} erals, Lloyd George and the leader of . the the peasantry. The best represeate- tives of the working class of the whole world look te us for help and brotb- erly support.. it wae 6 abd ist tor us and tot _ fnternational- “working class to make the first breach in the capitalist front. The beginning was difficult. We have made the beginning and we have maintained er under such conditions as we Hever even thot, It which our ae Ag has overcome since the b 6, up to the epidem- ies and famin e ot ) year 1922, when it-almost came to cannibalism, Nev- ertheless we have overcome them. Why? Because we relied upon the }broad, powerful, trop foundation of the working class and its alliance with the peasantry; because the revo- lution revealed such powerful creative forces. of which the boldest. revolution- aries never ventured to dream; be- cause the revolution has stirred the deepest strata of the people; because the working women, the peasants, the Communist youth and our entire gen- the revolution. The workers of all countries are interested in our success. In the difl- cult famine years of 1919 to 1922, the social revolutionaries daily prophesied our downfall. Now it is different. Now every worker in all countries feels instinctively that our cause is marching on, and that our revolution has become the tocsin rousing all workers of the world to struggle. Thruout the World. midst who, in the most difficult time for the working class, when the Russian workers hung their heads and the English and: Russian capitalists danced for joy, was firmly convinced that the working class would be vie torious, rade Lenin. thru is: When we percieve how pasionately and enthusiastically the working masses and huge masses of peasants are supporting our cause, when we perceive how, in: spite of the desper ate situation:in» which we have been not so jong:ago, a splendid young generation of workers is growing up before our eyes,:who regard the cause of the state as their own, then we say: “Comrade(Lenin is no longer tag us, but his cause lives and will victorious thruout the whole iy world. 3 I, if Sie proletarian dictatorship on the | territory of the old Russia. has now been in existence for eight years. Bight years, of Soviet republic. Right } years. .of “experiment” As, all bour- geois, Jeamed and unlearned, chooge to express. it. Hight years of “dista- torship of, an, ingurrectionary clique © conspirators, of a minority, over the. great. Russian people, “which groa under its yoke,” as. all. democratic, | atitoeratic and social- democratic. wor:., shippers of. capitalism. have declared for the past seven years. i In the course of these years-~a com ‘plete change of: ‘stage and ~scenery over the’whole globe.:: 1017-1918, an apparently victorious, .GermanAus- rain, into the “thasheds, carnage th a Ukraine, in the Baltic provinces— ithe formation of which into an inde- pendent unity with constantly modi- fied ‘trontiers, was the invention of a Gerthan or Austrian Pole—the claim los the Duke of Uragh to Lithuania (on the grounds that he was of equal stat- bure with the, Lithuanian princes of }the seventh century); the democratic ‘hapostle Wilson with the well-managed +steel trust, which supplied munitions, guns, railway material, whilst Wilson ‘bsupplied the necessary cannon fodder; the campaign of honest old England for self-deterimnation of the nations {those which were not under the sphere of influence of honest old Eng- land); France playing the part of the noble martyr in the cause of civiliza- tion and culture; Italy as a champion trian seers advance into Ben we had become clear whose “democracy” Wont I SAM CHALLENGES IMPERIALISM ~~ —_ _ ~~, { | _” 4%‘ aa © OPS CRESTS Ore a ie Siew at - oO} ats, O° Rig m é eae a eke saith 7] . > . 4 te este set be oe ; 45} site arte Hott wavage gy sore under which the peoples of the Mosiem world are held in subjection to the great powers has lately been chal- lenged in Syria. This nation is a French mandate under the provis- ions of the treaty of Versailles. In- stead of treating it as a mandate, the French has literally enslaved the people of Syria. France, in a mili- tary alliance with Spain, already, had a colonial war on its hands in trying to subdue Abd-el-Krim in Morocco. The refusal of France to allow native representation in the government of Syria and its dis- patching an army corps there to wreak vengeance upon the inhabit- ants Yor daring to ask a voicexin control of their own affairs, a pte: e ek? s yr setts tees + Ht tat rts of eit x r} fe "al e.* + . 7 hash tM eitess ; ats , sth: ae ed in seer re : ee htt . tases i Hit seetit a shissesy: . 3 sthitg i Ei gee - Nos 3353: sitth: ote 333 oe ie eae eet 2 | itt > 2 oe. Sit Hue lenged. Reserves were sent from a and Damascus was sacked furned amidst scenes of inde- ble horror. TV aheaey the news of this: vandal- ism Has been carried to other parts, of the Moslem world and the vast numbers of Moslems back of Syria, in ine territory pounded on the east by the Persian gulf and on the west by the Red Sea and on the south by the Indian Ocean are beginning to stir restlessly. The above map explains the out- standing strategic points in the struggle that is impending. when the colonial. peoples of the territories bordering the Mediterranean will rise and challenge the imperialism of Europe and America. 1 —Left arrow from this point in- * dicates the mititary- advance in s. S. =k ee ith "0; Hit oe at ae 2 pots ae Abe 8 3 *e eces8 se! setters Bisitussss et right arrow traverses the Mediter- ranean Sea and points to Damascus where French forces razed the town, murdered the inhabitants and near where the natives are mobilizing their forces to fight back. This ter- . ritory is held under mandate by France and is at present the sore- wpot in the Mohammedan world. ? —Arrow indicates the scene of ac- * tivity of the Spanish troops against Morocco. 3 —The arrow indicates the path of ¢ the Italian forces in their drive against the Senussi, who inhabit the regions of Sahara and Cyrenaica. Sass g indicates Mosul where * the British strive to control out- put of oil in the struggle of the Royal Dutch Shell against Standard Oil and where the natives resent the enforcement of its Versailles »~ 4 treaty mandate over Irak and Mosul, in the fight for democracy (after, it ; ae ae. jus); the Second In- ternational in favor df ‘war toa victor- ious end in thelr respective countries; German social-democtacy ’ suddenly against atinexations (which they ac- cepted with pleagure at the treaties of Brest-Litovsk and Bucharest) after they had got scent ‘of the fact that things were going amiss for Germany. HEN the baccHanal of the peace treaties of Versailles, St. Germain, Neuilly, Trianon; the orgies of “de- ‘mocracy” and “self-determination” thru the Balkanization of Europe, an- nexations on a most liberal scale, tributes, wars of intervention, secret treaties, military alilances, colonial in- trigues (think' only of Syria, Silesia, ‘Mesopotamia, Armenia). Added to this” ‘the change of scene in the governmetits: Wilson, the dem- ocrat followed by the ‘republican Hard- img; his successor | Coolidge already fighting against a new movement; Lloyd George replaced by the con- servative Bonar Law and he by Bald- win, he again by MacDonald the in bor leader who, in his turn, has bee overthrown by the conservatives—all this in democratic England, where, as class antagohisms intensify, a fascist movement will ng doubt not arise spontaneously, but be created. In France the change from Clem- enceau via Deschanel and Poincare to —alas, only to Doumergue the “brave garcon” of whom the best that can be said is that he has a “sweet” smile. An external change from Briand to Millerand. A chahge of ministers from Poincare. to Herriot, to Painlev. But all along the supremacy of de Wendel family and M, Loucheur. In Italy—from Nitti, the sighing hanger-on of liberalism, to Mussolini the whilom socialist, now a fascist. In Germany and Austria the whole gamut of “socialist” (the lord pre- serve us!) governments down to the j reactionary combinations of priests, generals and—“soclalists” of course. Everywhere unrest, lack of equilib- rium, problems for Which a new “pat- ent solution” is found every three months, which holds, good for exactly three weeks. ais Colonial risings, new wars and dan- gers of war in the Far Bast and the Near: East, in the Balkans. Germany a colony of a syndicate which is dis- united in itself. No rest anywhere, not even a stable govermment any- where, everywhere bankruptcy of fas- cism in Italy, Spain, Bulgaria, bank- ruptcy of the ideology of the Second International which differs in every country, is in every country, as oc- casion demands, nationalist, defends the “just” war of its “own” country, enthusiastically acclaims reparations and sanctions, praises or disapproves of the Dawes plan .as. occasion de- mands, works in Clogg-alliance with or. j lesaliy opposes fascigm, as occasion’ seul td 7, + At the same: time, everywhere, growth of the influence of the'Com- munist International. In the colofiies increasing anti-imperialist movements. Among the’ proletariat a growitig deép longing for unity and revolutionary class-war, realignment of that prole- tariat which from the politica) “and ideological point of view is most Back-') ward, the English. Il, NLY on the territory of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics: do; we see quite another picture. A pic- ture which to the fools of the bour- ists, is still an insoluble riddle, At the time of the blockade it was possible with a serious face to say to one’s neighbor: “Do you know that in Russia the Bolsheviks only rule with the help. of the Chinese; they have simply chopped off everyone else’s head?” but nowadays it is hard to palm off such nonsense. It is, how- ever tried, even if without success. But not a single reasonable person believes a word of such silly fables. On the contrary, every sensible be- ing must ask himself: Howfis it in reality possible that 130-150 million people,. of whom all the workmen Carry arms, are indeed systematically armed (not only compulsory military service for all those who do not ex- vloit the labor of others, not only a system of militia for them but also compulsory training in arms for the young), who have created a voluntary air force, who are creating a volun- tary chemica] (gas) war association, allow themselves to be “ruled” by a party of not more than about 500,000 members? And how is it that this rule, under exactly the same govern- ment, is again and again “tolerated,” nay, accepted with enthusiasm or at least with confidence by Soviet con- gresses, conferences and peasants’ or- ganizations, without any disturbances or difficulties? The “riddle” is easily solved; the answer is that the Soviet government, this dictatorship of the Communist Party (as the “democratic” fools say: “over the proletariat”) is that form of government which best suits the tran- sition from capitalism to Communism. HE demogogic talk of the dictator- ship of the party “over the prole- tariat” is easily refuted. The Com- munist Party is the party of the: pro- letariat. The essence of Leninism is that it theoretically propogates and practically realizes the thesis; there is and cam be only one party, the party of the revolutionary proletariat. Events in Europe have fully con- firmed this doctrine. Wherever it has been disregarded (as in Germany in 1923) the proletariat has experiencd a defeat. The reformists who claim that their party also is a proletarian party, know very well why they do it. ——Or demands (Bulgaria,, jtaly, Germany). | |As long, however, as the proletariat —— > geoisie and their heralds, the reform-}| ete bourgeois parties, it will en- joy the advantages of a “democracy” of a German, English, French, Italian 6r Bulgarian cut which, as occasion demands, will make use of martial law, spécial powers acts and fascist government monopoly,: but will still |remain a dictatorship of ‘the bour- geoise leaders over the proletariat and ‘lower middle classes, But this already shows ‘the differ- ence between the two dictatorships. The dictatorship of the proletariat | (the government affairs of which must naturally be organized; this is of course the party of the proletariat and as lites party rélies upon its sympathy and active help) is the dictatorship of an enormous majority over a very small minority. The dictatorship of the -bourgeoisie; which calls itself democratic, is always the dictatorship of a small clique over a vast majority. But there is nowhere a party of the bourgeoisie. For the bourgeoisie is in itself split up and therefore often consists of many not organized, but disorganized parties (Germany, France, Poland with its national mi- norities, also Jugoslavia, Czecho-Slo- vakia and Finland). Parliament, with its lack of definite grouping and ma- jorities, only reflects this splitting up while it conceals the important fact that hardly anywhere in the _ bour- geois democracies does party rule, only marionettes in the hands of quite small cliques of the capitalists as in America, Germany, France, to say nothing of the small new states. Ill. HE other objection, that in Russia the proletariat represents only a small fraction of the population, only points out the particularly fine ach- ievements of the Bolshevists. Russia is, it is true, a land with an immense peasant majority but, in contrast to the reformists, the Bolshevists real- ized that it was necessary to make an ally of the peasant population. The proletarian dictatorship has only become possible thru the agrar- iam and peasant policy of the Bolshe- viks which gives the dictatorship of | theeCommunist Party the firm hold which it has. No serious student of Russian conditions, no what camp he may belong, has been able to deny that the Soviet govern- ment is thus firmly rooted in the broad masses of the peasantry. enemies of Communism regard with indignation, astonishment and a lack of understanding this hegemony of the proletariat, rule of the Communist Party (dictatorship of the proletariat) which at the same time is a stable, reliable alliance of proletariat and peasantry. This is the solution of the riddle. On the other hand, in no country does. or,-can the bourgeoisie under- does not treat the reformist parties as | All; even Years of So-called “Democratic Government” gedisie together, If we consider the occurrences in Germany in 192%, the pitiless expropriation of the people with small possessions thru inflation and, instead of talking of the Dawes plan in empty phrases, seriously con- sider its. consequences, it is easy to see thatgthe governing cliques of the bourgeoisie themselves split up and differentiate the bourgeoisie and can- not fail to proletarize a portion of them and to drivé some into the Com- munist, some into the fascist sphere of influence.. This. ig true, on the whole, of all Evirppean countries and of the United States. The present des- perate cry of Germany “co-operation of all classes,” the symbol of which is a coalition of all parties from the German nationalists to the social democrats, has no more value than the hue and cry of pacifism; when wars are being prepared, the clamor for peace is loudest; when class structure is crumbling to the ground, the howl for solidarity of the people is wildest. The process of differentiation is de- veloping fast in Germany. It will also be accelerated in England and France. In England the way leads via class solidarity, but as class contrasts increase (which will result from the Dawes plan), the bourgeoisie even there will cry for solidarity of the people (in order to save the empire). 5 balance of the eight years of | Soviet Republic is easily drawn. Thru all imaginable difficulties, the economics, culture and physical health in the Soviet Union have gradually and steadily developed, in spite of all natural catastrophies (famine in 1921, partial failure of the harvest in 1924), in spite of all thé destruction thru war. and civil war, in spite of all the evil which arose from the low level of culture of the Russian population. And Burope? Its peoples ate fed with promises while the difficulties increase. The Dawes plan will help— 80 say the promise-mongers in France and Germany, patenfed and “approv- ed” for the fast ten years; the league of nations will help—as those fools profess who will not see that the ‘league of nations will soon help Eu- 'rope onto her feet*thru general mobili- matter to|2##on for a war in which more or less all towns have the prospect of being exterminated by means of gas, like nests of vermin. The uncle from America will help—as those swindlers whine who have not yet had enuf of the American “help” of the late man of honor, Mr. Wilson, Oh yes, Amer- ica will help, with fiire and sword and the ledger of the chief agent for repa- rations. Only the proletariat will and can: help. For it must help itself and only itself. The eight years’ bal- ance of Soviet Russia is proof ehuf | stand how to keep even the bour- that this. is is one. is hard to enumerate those difficulties | The Idea of Lenin wir Be Victorious © rT ne Wee m: Brent man in our L speak of course of Com 2 eration have taken up the cause of °° 4 The result of all we have passed 7
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4 - —te Pe pe k See ee We iy? 7 or, 7 . eS eee v gt is ~ Las " eA = —_ te: . ’ eet ihe a . +S, 2S a" ¢. . : a “~ se. See t | : sie’ cas afmies are massing wgikite the s t reactio united front: On the other side We have the growing armies of the = geabotariat led into struggle against capitalism by t Yolutionary party of-the world’s orking . cl Communist s totiitiontt There may be peace in the news- peeers of the bourgeoisie. But every “peace” move of the imperialist pow- ers only cloaks a’ ‘war maneuver, To- day, these “peace” moves are mainly war maneuvers against the rising prowess of the Soviet Union. The se- curity pact, the © conference and the other much-heralded “‘pacify- ing” agreements and conferences are, to a large extent, treaties and agree- ments entered into by the world capi talists to mobilize all of their re- sources for a war against the Soviet Union. What is behind these feverish war preparations of the black union against, the red union? What forces .consti- tute the black united front? Who is. to be found in the ranks of the red united front? What is the role of the Amicrican capitalists in this attack being planned by the forces of capi- talist reaction against the forces of ' progress? The Phantom Stabilization. bourgeoisie may have succeed- ed in temporarily stabilizing to gome extent. their economic order thru the Dawes plan, thru the partial resto- ration of the system of international é@zohange, and thru a temporary im- proyement in the world agricultural conditions. But no one knows better than the tmperialist junta itself the shaky foundation on which even this very limited improvement rests. The bourgeoisie realize full well that these over-advertised “reconstruction” ef- forts have not succeeded in removing any of the inherent contradictions of capitalism which were intensified by the world war and its aftermath. _But the international imperialist clique realizes even more the fact that their most dangérous foe is the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union has been making tremendous progress in economic re- construction despite the financial blockade still maintained against the workers’ and farmers’ republic by th international money lords. The So- viet Union is winning the confidence of the many millions of oppressed colonial masses ‘thru ‘its unflinching fight against the imperialist maneuv- ers of the capitalist powers in the Far and Near East. Africa, the “Dark, Continent,” is also beginning to see the light. Then," tlie ‘Soviet Union is winning an ever-increasing hold on the minds and hearts~of the” proletar- ian masses of the coufitries today . each ag on thé intéria-| Soviet Stabilization Real. HESE assets of the Soviet Union overwhelm the small stabilization gains made by the international bour- geoisie. Each progressive step of the Soviet Union is substantial and paves the way for more. and greater far- permanent steps of building the work- ers’ and fatmers’ Soviet republic. on ‘a sound, on an impregnable basis. Each instance of friendship be- tween the Soviet Union and a colonial cquntry or an oppressed nation serves only to cement the relations between the Soviet Republics and the suffer- ihg national groups and only adds to the prestige of the Soviet Union ‘amongst all colonial ‘peoples. Every occasion fiat the proletariat of other countries has to see the So- viet Union as it is, to come in contact with the workers’ republic, to have dealings with the Soviet Union only brings these proletarian masses closer to the Soviet Union and makes out of these workers champions of the cause of the Union of Socialist Soviet Repubjics which is the cause of the working class of every country. Capitalist “Reconstruction.” OW let us look at the asset side of the bourgeois dodger: What do we find? Take the Dawes plan. It has been called the panacea of capitalist pana- ceas. But the hacillus of the transfer problem is rapidly. eating the heart out of this lifesaver of the bourgeois order. Secret negotiations are already reported to be under way to revise fundamentally this “Made in America” enslavement plan of Germany. Be- sides, the Dawes plan whose aim was to bring peace to Europe and the world is only sharpening the antagon- isms between the ‘United Statess and Great Britain over the question of who shall exercise financial hegemony over Germany and hence on the con- tinent outside of Soviet Russia closed to the rapacious capitalist exploiters. Let us glance-at the vexing question of international debts. the Franeco-American. debt. negotia- tions is of. paramount significance. Of negotiations. damental economic contradictions of imperialism cannot be overcome. Germany may be “restored” econom- ically. many brings in its wake the forces making for an Intensification of in- ternational trade rivalries. Germany’s capacity to pay is‘almo ynon with Germany’s unwillingness to ] pay. These are only a few of the out- standing economic reconstruction rf | = PP dominated by the capitalist™class. | steps so loudly commended by the The failure of |. course, the French bourgeoisie , will |: make another desperate effort at fund-.| ing their deft to»-:Wall- Street. Buti), there is an unbridgeable -gap in these France cannot fund its. American debt and at the same. time, wage its wars against the Moroccan) and Syrian peoples. A debt agree-| ment may be patehed up but the fun-|. Nt But the “restoration” of Ger- |’ buorgeois statesmen.. Each ‘ad these steps has within ftself the germs of deepgoing economic disititegration. > Can Not Fool Colonies. ¥ attempt of the imperialists ‘to fool the colonial peoples with } fraudulent . with failure: - The ‘national manipu sortium, The en nese tariff conference is much more than a mere tariff conference, It is the beginning of a new wave of disil- lusionment on the part of the “hun- dreds of millions of Chinese yt the A, 4 - _ 0 a ¥ wt eae bra! . of slavery and re working and peasant:women into the Soviets and trade unions NSTEAD, of the false bourgeois “demoer (the Kerensky regime), the revolution has built up a power based on true democracy, on Soviets of workers’, ‘peasants’, and Red Army deputies, elected every year by the masses. “Tare the Soviets hundreds of thousands Of the foremost workers and peasants are brot straight from the bench and from the tri ill nto the Soviets, the Communist Party es of social and economic life in the immense Soviet country. - B ihdes Soviet Republic is steadily going forward with its task of reorganizing “society ona socialist basis. It has expropriated the ‘expropriators. It has declared factories, work- shops, mines, means of communication, b ulation, and has handed over their administration to the Soviets. PRE Soviet power is concentrating all its and trade and is building up co-operati _ in order by such means to secure complete state control of the economic activity of the country and its complete reorganization ona “ere basis. | Tie revolution has dy an end to national who re brutally’ 5p Great Britain a rote and by fascls: ~ig Soviet Republic has str at re (to Turkey, China, Afgh: aver to erevalitionery titi ( Fy UCATION and thexpress, which p capitalists and landowners, ing class and are being utilized for Commnunt t, ef ive nations (Great. iltain, France, ‘the United States, Czecho- | Rowmania and many ee) have participated in “TS . J yo acting as a screen for capitalist dictatorship } they take a direct part in the administration of all the branch- and land, the property of the working pop- energy on the development of state iitihairints ade under the control of the proletariat, eV Yoni.’ It. helped people which but a establish their own independent national rful ry nion of Socialist Soviet Repub- T ‘Bashkirs, Kirhgiz, Uzbecks and Turko- . Sed and exploited by the governments of: have become full-fle: ee memb ressed by -_ ~ ") ” ¥] . 13 8 rg é 4 .— “ 3 - y aa) ping the mass- | and wate te : je the pron of the victorious ge Bolshevik re . ion. | Soa falls, the} against’ breneg=> clash the ge yg onli. Grant aes x ee of Rat | e Balkans, drama Aeark : ean imperialism plays a major role as the leading banker and manufac-} turing nation.of the world. It is true, there was no American observer at Logan played at the London confer- ence of July; 1924. Bat it was only the heavy financing of the European governments by Wall Street that made possible this effort to unify the capitalist governments of Europe against the working’ class government | of the Soviet -Republics. , America .is; today the buttress of capitalist reaction. _American capital- ism is the mainspring of opposition to the Soviet Union everywhere.’ This} is ‘as true in the Far East. as in Eu- rope. In the Far ‘East’ American im- perialism is pajyticularly, irritated over the stinging: defeat administered Wall Street .. - hypocrisy, «sand Washington “hum m’ by the Soviet Un- The, datter. fact accounts in a large, PR ae for the apparent sharp- ening.of, the. American anti-Soviet pol- icy ata time when many superficial obseryers . believed; that. the « United States - was, already: on. the verge of So- vie " ogniiton. rat the, Pahang, Aci Up pS ‘this.as a background, it. is not: AY difficult, to. understand, the why ‘the wherefore of. the hostility of * Xmerican, . labor -bureaucracy to at recognition... , The -trade union fea cracy is. an. ‘integral. part of imperialist , machinery of oppres- ,Bhe American. trade. union .bu- racy. being part of the most im. rialist coterie, being a section of e ‘capitalist group most bitterly op- posed to. Soviet. Russia, is naturally and logically thé most reactionary ufiion ‘bureaucracy in the. world —the most bigoted enemy of the work- ing’-massés of the Soviet Union: - ~— No doubp the opposition of the American Federation of Labor leader- ship to jet Rissia is an. important factor in the determination of Ameri- \¢an capitalist policy towards the sft Locarno playing the role that Colonel} ie obvious to every : America that the nrg | ates, te 9 whee) AP is the backbone of “and pated, Sep it now ‘the t Unic tionary union ia not m holy alliance against the So | publics. The black 1 a1 pt ” ‘the head of which a | ‘ington government of Wa an imperialist band of ptosis, against the labor movement the tar over, against every organization of the -workitig class. Who can question t! fact that if it should ever come ialists should succeed to wi undermine the Soviet Union, an event would not be an the letting loose of all the resp forces of reaction, of capitalist heol- iganism, of murderous fascism against — every organization of we: ie arp thruout the worl? TE A | American Worker t HE campaign for the fense the Soviet, Union is concretely the ‘most urgent ‘task before the Ameri- ‘can workers. Every worker who sper ‘the slightest bit of consciousness of his class interests, every worker w has the slightest bit of use for } union or other labor every poor farmer who. wants to get rid of “his ‘nemesis, the. monopolist capitalist, must get into the cam} to the Soviet Union agai nefarious machinations and plots. a the American and the other capital- ists. The Ainortowt: exploiter- is in the front ranks. of the armies ¢ of the black united front. The American worker must do his bit to save the world from imperialist tyranny ‘and /plunder hy fighting energetically for the defense and strengthening of his own. labor organization. and by uniting with the. workers of all other countries for or defense of the interests of the world’ working class. It is up to. the. amen workers to strive:to become-in the red of proletarian Drosrese: what the Wai Street financial and | have already become in the lack. ion of c reaction. The | anniversary of the victorious tarian revolution in Russia is ly a fitting occasion for the Amer working class. working” forward this goal, — want By HARRISON. GEORGE MONG the many. oustanding pro- ducts of the Bolshevik revolution of eight years ago, not the least im- portant was the surging demand that arose within the trade unions all over the world for a- world-wide unity of all . trade unions on the basis of the class struggle, for a united fight against capitalism. The formation and phenomenal growth of the Russian labor union movement, born in the cradle of revo- lution with arms in hand and the In- ternational on its lips, posed the ques- tion of this movement’s international connections. UT the war which had brot the rev- olution atso brot an increase in reaction and its desire, by working thru the agents of the bourgeoisie in the ranks of labor, ‘to prevent the workers of the world, instinctively ‘urning toward the fabulous ‘“Mos- cow,” from doing as the Russian work- ers had done. The labor wunionists.of the world were demanding, moreover, some international: center that would insure them against a ‘recurrence of the horror thru which they -had just passed. The reformist socialists who had betrayed the masses in war, answered to the call of the ruling class and be- trayed the masses again in» “peace.” While the Russian unions and the new revolutionary unionists of all the world were démarding an interna- tional center and the foundation was being laid for the Red International of Labor Unions, the reformists were laying the foundations of an interna: tional -of class collaboration. HIS was the Amsterdam Interna- tional ¢the. International Federa- tion of Trade Unions) formed upon the basis of the “victory” of the al- lied arms over Germany and, there- fore, the victory of the allied social patriots over those-ef Germany, Am- stérdam took ‘the most reactionary popition, identified itself with the Ver- sailles peace and set up organizational] connection with capitalism thru the international labor office of. the league of nations, Small wonder, therefore, that. those organized workers of the world who felt the urge of class struggle to over- throw capitalism, demanded a center of revolutionary unionism, to clarify and unify the working masses upon a basis of class struggle onan inter- national scale. ND if the latest developments of this world movement’ for unity and struggle, which is the establis ment the famous Anglo-Russian 0 Trade + So Unity Commission, has shaken the world and frightened the | capitalists into a panic, it must not | be forgotten that this latest forward | step: was built upon years of earlier struggle and arose out of the revolu- pi he ’ oc ee Peak aii yh nS, -——— weaker partners in- the original p of unity gave up and did not Goins tea ‘| the first congress of the R. I. L. Wi Standing with the R. I. L. U. in those! ', dark days, even more than now, was >|Mo task of weaklings. | yar from the deliberations and de- cisions went forth a great rallying cry, and a process of clarification and organization, which brqt into exist- ence as a conscious world movement > the revolutionary unionism of today. The Second World Congress held in November, 1922, saw the R. I. L. U. exerting a most powerful influence in Europe, Asia and America for work- ing class unity and struggle against capitalism. The center of revolutio was being established for the labo unions of the world. i B* the Third Congress in July,, 1924, the movement was haosiaaa to lay down new tasks for completion of the work begun in the first two world gatherings, by reaching out for the working masses in the trade. un- ions still adhering té Amsterdam. 78b 1 gt ES SESE, rURLOR ie abtornek forth, sreposine tepthe:nadling of @,unity confress with .the amsterdam unions and pledging palkapmions, to submit to the Seociajonn of the ‘unity congress,. ‘The yellow. Amstétdamers saiainea the sproposal,: ‘Phemifohiowed the grew of rela- tions between the British and Russian unions, \whi¢h -eulminated-in the re- cent formation pf an: official joint com- congress—-the -Anglo-Russian Unity Commission, .It -is, im behalf. of. this commission, and;its program: that A. A, Purcell -is speaking in his. pronepe of Americas, )....°- NQUESTIONABLY | power of Soviet Russia has aided }the unity: movement thus. begun by the:R: L..h..Us« Fhe many delegations of trade unionists, -of reformist and syndicalist unions for the mast part, which have, visited Soviet Russia and inspected the- conditions of the work- ers under. Sgviet power, have brot back such favorable reports that the To this end proposals for world trade mittee;: approved at the .Scarborougp. ‘ the growing | eT te . P= " Php ’ ticeably turned .to the left and the revolutionary element strengthened. No. instance _Proves this case better than the report of the British delega- |tion to Russia headed by Purcell .as’ chairman, of* the’ British Trade Union | Congress. The great work of uniting thp trade unions of the world was thus launched as a result of the Bolshevik revolu- tion of 1917. And this is one of the reasons why the name of Vladimir Lenin, the organizer and leader of the Bolshevik revolution, has been e¢n- graved in the hearts of millions of revolutionary: unionists who fight un- der the banner of the Red Interna- tional of Labor Unions. : T is one of the reasons why every worker who looks upon, the Red International ‘as the leading organiza: tion of revolutionary unionism makes, his .or -her most enthusiastic holiday, the day on which the ragged Red Guards of Leningrad ‘seized state: power in the name of the workers and: whole ‘labor movement has been no- peasants and lit ghe firés of world revolution, — Ie Ee 3 tion which set up. the Soviet power. In the years f (1921. onward, this struggle had been carried into every land and every wnion by the Red In- ternational of Labor Unions, launched at a provisional conference in July, 1920, of represeméatives of the unions of Russia, Great Bfitain,. Italy, Spain Jugo-Slavia, Bulgaria and minorities of the French and Georgian labor un- ions. The first congress was held in Moscow, July, 1921. UT at the first congress the Brit- ish and Italian unions had already | weakened under the tremendous’ as- isaults of the bourgeoisie. The Ital- ian unions were in battle and their leaders were surrendering to ‘the fas-’ cisti. The British workers had just |been betrayed in the memorable Black Friday. Russia had just experi- enced the Kronstadt events, adopted the new economie policy and was fac- ing the problem of famine. It was seemingly the lowest ebb of ithe revolutionary labor movement. Under pressurd’of ‘these events, the| . ae yoy vip aa oe: ba re ' ” The Eighth Anniver: arn Has fy P\. 6 ‘, e oa ie %. ie WY, trhes vf 1k nie ee te <= a ee eee eye 4 a e. ; —— “me s as) $s 2 shox. e ) Communist Party "a EL ged with the Help of ths pate te om | ey
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Ufits p the sake oe Daneneth the: of the victims of French U eens vastness of the Mohammedam world. Tens of thotsands have been murder- ed within a few day’s time. The city that thru the ages has stood as the Aded to the tread rors and countless ge- nerations, lies again at the feet of a conqueror. . _ In its time Damascus has been un- the domination successively of Hebrews, Assyrians, Persians, Macedo- nians, Romans, Saracens and Turks. But thru all the ages it has never wit- nessed such fiendish excesses as are practiced by the French of. today. — Y virtue of the treaty of Versailles the French vandals roam the high- ways of Syria. The very presence of _ pride and-glory of the world of Islam, carer epee 2ast and west, whose _ Prench forces in that territory brands j - q seh , oF i bale S) ae TT — — of Versailles. the conspiracy at Versailles, where those ancient buzzards of imperialism —Wilson, Lloyd George, Clemenceau, about democracy, liberty, arin ination of nations, a ghastly lie. Syrians believed the soft words p En imperialist over territory rich in oil and of stra- tegic advantages in maintaining her | far flung colonial empire. Among other considerations France secured | the mandate over Syria. ETWEEN March, 1921, and August 1925, there were nine uprising in . Damascus that had to be put down by foree of arms. In September, 1923, the Syrians boycotted the fake elec- tions arranged ‘by the French and in- sisted that the mandate had no justi- fication under the terms of the Cronty When the French eéntiio was granted and the military 6ccupation began, the duly elected government of. Syria ‘was declared a band of out- laws. A request was then made to permit the forming of a provisional government under supervision of French political officials, and with- The Soeelt: came It tiiginated in an seliiedtea te source. As French Tule became more ‘dominant thruout men had never been conquéred by |‘ any ruler. They proposed to France’ that they be permitted. to share in- the government of ‘the pede they" inhabited. The Drusé 7 ceived the custo) the mailed fist, sent against it to pieces in: conflict. began. -the series of battles that culminated in the proclama- tion of the republic on last Wednes- day. When the néws of the valiant struggle “of the Druse tribesmen reached the Arabs the smouldering fires of hatred burst into flame. Crowds gathered in the villages and ne ue large sviba torces were op erating. One under Hassan el Khar sat, another. under Gamma Sussa, and} the third under Rama Danubi. Shal- piers former leader ‘people’s party,” howe house had been burned by the French in the storming of Damascui, who was compelled to fice ‘the tity ‘to save his life, succeeded in - gaining influence among the rebelli- ous tribesmen and bringing many of ooh them under his influence. After hasty negotiations in the thick of the fighting these forces were unified under the leadership of Bakri. He is now the military leader of the forces operating between Damascus and Homs eighty miles to the north, is gaining adherents daily from large groups between Homs and Aleppo. A republic has been proclaimed with Ba- discussed the situation. The French kri as provisional president and head- | THROTTLE THE ENGINE OF _ DEATH AND DESTRUC TION “The heus of Wieebiaslons of north Aivicn and: Aiabia from the rai i Frengh, English z and Italian imperialism is near at hand.” - wal of the military power. This | oer of a piece of impudence | by the French bandits and the entire government was arrested and thrown in jail. ! RY appeal was héld in open con- ~ tempt and those who dared raise their voices, even to protest violation of the treaty, were accused of treason. Brute force alone prevailed. Unspeakable indignities were heap- ed upon the population. General Ser- rail, the French high commissioner and his underlings, outraged every section of Damascus and preyed upon the whole countryside. Troops of semi-savages from the most backward French colonies were encamped with- } in the city and, in order to keep them peaceful, brothels were established | for their amusement dnd each section of the city was forced to furnish its quota of women for this purpose. ‘In addition to+this frightfulness a number of male relatives of these victims were tortured to death by the soldiery because they were caught endeavoring to impart their know- ledge of conditions to travelers. There could be but one answer to this ter- ror—armed revolt. _ mittee peach enticed sepetion) ot | the street crowds. With the most savage fury. the troops assailed the Syrians. Twenty-five - thousand © of | them were murdefed in two: weeks. As a means of intimidating the inha- bitants the troops strapped | dead bodies of their victims. ‘on camels and paraded them thru the streets of Da-}; mascus, Instead of inspiring terror, | ‘these acts aroused -the fury of-the }masses. Street fighting began. Ter- rible reprisals ensued. For more than fifty hours the city owas a veritable } inferno. Machine » guns, hand-grena- des, poison gas, airplane bombs, arm- -oured cars and tanks; all the equip- ment of modern warfare was brought into action against the population of ip city. ‘Damascus was subdued. In the smouldering ruins the uniformed French soldiers ghoulishly prowled ‘among the dead, stealing jewelry and other valuables, even cutting off the fingers and ears of their victims be- cause it required too much work otherwise to remove the jewels. IKE wild-fire the story of the storm- ing. of Damascus spread thruout Syria. Messengers were dispatched to every part of the Mohammedan world carrying the news of the ghastly’ rule of the French. Armed bands spontaneously sprang up and consolidated with others. Armies were improvised, commanders chosen, and the region between Damascus and Homs cleared of French forces in a few days. New recruits were thrown into Syria to aid the French, but the native forces in the towns government behind him, Bakri will ap peal to the mandates commission of ‘the league of nations. This will do him little good, except inasmuch as it will expose to his followers. and the oppressed of the colonial world }the fact that the league will not sup | port their cause. Great Britain will hesitate to support a policy of endor- sing insurrectisai in the mandated areas, because it would find its own domination’. challenged. If Britain | should come to the aid of Syria she would be confronted with demands for independence from Palestine. Instead of-aid to the struggling Syrians, British forces stand menac- ingly at the border ready to help stifle the uprisings at the first indica- tion of danger to its-own domains. _ free the. soil of Arabia from the ialist forces will have to be scourged from the land. That can be achiev- ed only by a determined insurrection, under the leadership of men asking no quarter and giving none. At the same time such a terrific campaign of propaganda against Britain must be launched t that government will hesitate to take action for fear of arousing to fury the masses suffering under its own yoke. That the rebellious nities now forming will be able to wipe out with blood and fire the rapacious army of French imperialism is quite probable. Already vast hordes are sweeping and villages fought them off. north from the deserts of Arabia in response to the call of Syria. One quarters willbe established at Homis. With the authority of the provisional despotism of France the imper- y By HM. Wie thing is certain, ever if or are not completely routed not suppress the rate gy Druses can retire tod thé sctentaty, country and hold off the French in- definitely. "The conflict. arising in Syria is not confined to that land alone, but is a part of the general rise of the oppressed colonies against the rapac- ious greed of imperialism. Already coordinating influences are at work to influence the colonial world both of Asia and Afric; from the north- western coast of Africa, where the Rifians under Abd-el-Krim are stub- ornly resisting the combined forces of France and Spain, thru Egypt and Palestine to Syria, from thence to Arabia and into India. An ambitio campaign, designed to drive ‘Europ ean capitalism out of Africa and Asi is already under way. Homs and’ Aleppo are centers of propaganda against England, France and Italy. From Cafro another flood of subvers- ive literature is going out. From Mor- -occo goes a steady stream of propa- ganda. BLE men, thoroughly familiar with the colonial and mandate prob- lem, are in charge of this work. The chief agent for Syria is Abd-ul-Rah- ‘| man Shabander, who as foreign min- ‘ister in the provisional government of Syria, was arrestéd by the French try, and who now directs the pro- hatred against France. He, like = new provisional president of . " ‘jis a member of the nations is ple’s party.” 2 One document put out by that" signed, “the committee of liberation of Syria,” declares the French gen- erals are a group of assassins and says “the hour of liberation of North Africa and Arabia from the yoke of French, Efiglish and Italian oppres- sion is near at hand.” The Riffians, from the north of Africa, send the following greeting to _| the struggling Syrians and Druses: “We, the- central committee for the liberation of North Africa great with joy the heroic uprising in Da- mascus. The patience of Araby is exhausted. The fire of the revolu- ‘tion is blazing on. You have acted like brave men. Help your Riffian: brethren. Get the Mohammedan. soldiers to desert the French.” — (seems SARRAIL, thé teader off the brigands who ravaged Damas-* cus has been removed and another. er of Syria. The removal of one ma- rionette will never change the hatred of the oppressed Syrians into accept- ance of French bondage. In passing it is noteworthy that Serrail_is a friend and supporter of the party of the socialist ex-premier Herriot, and ‘that the socialists‘ strenously protest- ed against the removal of Serrail. It is consistent with the hefoes of the social-pacifist. era, recently closed, that the most outrageous crimes against colonials should be laid at their. door. The fires of Damascus may forge the sword that will drive from two continents the mercenary forces of capitalism, just as the first swords of Damascus beat off the ancient con- querors. In this struggle for national libera- tion the oppressed iasses of Asia and Africa have with them the class ist countries who will use their power to cripple at home the armed forées and the industries that maintain them, until such time as we become strong enough to administer the death blow to all imperialism. +. ~ . MON DAY—“Mandates in Syria and Irak; A New Threat of World War.” paganda bureau engaged in spreading figure head appointed as commission-. conscious proletariat of the imperial- | ‘ military and escaped from the coun- — 1 - —~" RE ORT ay
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~——_— y i mensheviki are carrying on in their paper, Socialist News, a campaign fleet on the table of European de- mocracy. Ee 3 Editer’s Note.—While this article ; rT » the on of the special by Bucharin on the question of world pty obatin right m of the A trade union unity was poy: ee) oF — nh _ al, rosa fore Gompers’ death, and tells o of [he is copying the late President. Wil- activities against the unity of the. | f Fsom, who for tolerated the workers, nevertheless, everything said _}“Rarbarism” of Germany, but at the rules after Gompers. It applies very | “intervened” in the Buropean war, aptly to William Green, who succeed- thus comverting it imte the world war -e@ Gompers as president of the Amer- jand insurimg the victory of the, en- ican Federation of Laber. It is there- Ftente. - ae fore, being published at this time | Ana the same way ME Golders while, Albert A. Purcell is. making his} also believes that the left tendencies tour of the United States and Can~-} in Amsterdam have acquired a dan- ada, urging his plea for the unity of } ‘gerous preponderance. Please un- the world’s workers. It follows: derstand! The English trade unions * +8 ‘are negotiating—not in dreams but in By N. BUCHARIN. broad daylaght—with the Bolsheviki HB approehement between the/ ag: Edo | of the Soviet Union. And old Pur-/ trade unions of Great Britain and | of th i 1 weagPlascromnyatin: erg: Peageiagere- teasers those of the Soviet Union is arous-} ade _ Movement. |Tomsky! Is not the end of the world | y, the revolutionary movement. This is} Labor is dtawn into the struggle. AND Mr. Gompers ig rallying the | jur _ quite understandable; it is net with-} Hence Gompers is also beginning to|4* forces of the American Federa-|In other words, aut reason that we speak not only| interfere in “European affairs,” this|tion of Labor and is beginning to | leader” proved h of the historical, but of the world his-}old henchman of American capital, speak of returning to Amsterdam | actionary than e English er} tion which is taking place among the} who has grown grey im the service of | has helped the conservatives : , English working class. his masters, this leader of the Fed-| the Engjish labor an Henee the excitement prevailing |eration of Labor to whom even Am- | lish trade unions, among our enemies; hence the Vor-}sterdam appears as too “socialistic.” | destroy the Angle-Russian trade union | pear im the role warts (Germany) this retten paper of | ],{@R. GOMPERS is commencing an | bloc, or to suppress our trade unions messiah of @ retten secial-democracy, has twice | intervention in Europe similar to/within the Amsterdam International | International. slandered Arthur A. Purcell in charac-| that of his American masters, wha | by isolating terizing his speech as a forgery and| cross the frontiers of their beloved |ary trade has thus impudently deceived the Ger-| fatherland and go hawking round with | It is~o man workers. Hence the Russian/a sack full of dollars and put their Eee By M. A. SKROMNY. Bight years have passed since the Octeber revolution. When we recall : The Russian Workers Marching \ * i x | = Se? re . rd Sag The Embiant'of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. _ Semenov and many others. To cope with<the- situation the red guard was organized, and later the red army. To crush the pewer of the counter- revolution the Soviets begam te con- fiseate the funds of the rich, to nation- dreaded cheka, was organized. The revolution used the fulk power of the dictatorship of the proletariat to erush .. The bleckade and intervert® by the foreign imperial-' ists served only to strenghten the | power of the revolution and win more’ sympathy im the eyes of the workers of the world. | Shae Ms. anal The, terrible famine of 1921 did not shake the faith of the masses im their. Soviets.. Qn the contrary, it gave them more faith in them as they saw. the difference im dealing with the situation by the Seviets from that of the czarist government. There were many famines under the czars, the “civilized” governments never blamed the czars for it, but the Soviet gov- ernment was blamed when the famine came after seven years of war, revolu- tion and counter-revolution. . Pimally, after the famine was con- quered the Seviets got their first make advances. A great revival in im dustry and agriculture began. Day by day the growth of production and the betterment of the living conditions of whe workers. an@ peasants ‘can be noticed. The “Lenin lights”—electri- city-is beginning te shime in the) dark villages. Tractors are appearing om the land. literacy is being con- | quered, But They Like Bolshevik Gold. ' The great surplus of grains the doors of the capitatist counts -to the hated Bolsheviks. They ar being recognized officially or. unoffi¢i- ally. Bolshevik gold is accepted by the saints of the “last” war in exchange for goods, Soviet Russia is too a great. market to be ignored. — | __ It'is true that the plots against the; Soviet government are still rampant. The notorious fake “Zinoviev letter” im Great Britain, the “Moscow orders” im the United States and Bulgaria, are evidence. But nowdays there aren’t very many who believe these fakes. The workers in the capitalist coun- tries do not believe any more their capitalist rulers and their press. The workers want to find out the truth. about Soviet Russia for themselves amd they are sending delegations to ithe land of the Soviets in spite of the advice to the contrary by the cap- italists and their lackeys, the secial- democrats, The report of the British trade un- ion delegation had the effect of a bombshell in the camp of the profes- sional and revolutionary liars. vw wy The policy of the Soviets in the Near East and Asia Minor is creating more panic for the capitalist govern- ments than the so-called Bolshevik gold, for it is a policy of equality and freedom while the policy of the im- perialists is a policy of oppression and robbery. The situation in China is clear evidence. The slaughter that ts igoilig on in Morocco is more proof. All attempts to organize a united P t against the Soviet government met with failure so far. The last at- tempt, the so-called Locarno pact, will meet the same fate as the others, ‘The oppressed and crushed Germany ‘united with its oppressors against the friendly Soviets. It is a clear demon- ‘Stration that the elass interests of the Germam bourgeoisie were put on a higher level tham the imterests of the “dear fatherland.” This lessom will be understood by the workers of Germany as. well as the workers of the world.. They will also put the interests’ of their class above the interests of the country, when the proper time will ‘come for action. The Soviets will find many allies in the midst of their _ Besides that there is another danger ' growing for the imperialists in the form of a league of oppressed ' which will also help to Locarno plot against the wor peasants’ republic. If the | Suppressed Peoples With U, &. S. R. governments will again dare to attack — _ Seviet. — | 4 d ai areas the Soviet system! es aa aE SI Insists on F tie | WASHINGTON—(FP) — Secretary of Labor Davis-has again raised a ery ‘of alarm, directed at the house com mittee on immigration, against the aliens in the United States, He insists that his proposed measure requiring ‘that every alien be finger-printed and photographed and given. an official ‘record, to be checked up by personal report by the alien to a federal officer peach year, is necessary to induce these foreigners to become Americans, Davis declares there are between 6,000,000 and 7,000,000 un-naturalized aliens in the United States, and that more than 5,000,00@ of them have becn more than § years. Thi fact, he: argues, shows that they do nat. intend to’ become American citizens. Many of them. are definitely antago- uistic, he helieveasy to American civil- -ization. Hence the government should keep close watch on them through @ compulsory registration -and annwal ———$———e Worker Correspondence will make The DAILY WORKER a better. paper £ ; a on ms re i r ; oS: os < - ‘ “| eS {. i Se a a a eee ee ee ee eee wet a te i hs * at tk a i I - 3 ~ Sai Be : ae a - fb gna A ? Se ye 2 mi ce * : 2
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It: took the lead in suggesting the call- ing of these conferences, as we have What does this government want. from China? What is it willing to concede, and why? Alone of the pow- It has not so far participated to any appreciable extent in loans to the Chinese government. Its money is’ not yet heavily invested in Chinese become the most important avenue of commerce in the world, occupying the | ; HH moved the greatest obstacle to TL qn Eseabaaees HIRE att g¢ aT tipuit, : Teta : 4 r & bb oa | 4 Cf r i § . Sith MEE Q the American missionaries—and The missionaries in general have been con | “#@W (American sidered by imperialists like Cecil Rhodes invaluable adjuncts to “civiliz cline its capitalists ‘te a lenient treat- ment of the demands of Chima. The raising of the Chinese tariff would’ effect its exports to a yery limited de- | gree, for they comsist chiefly of ma- mber, | charge that the Mitsui grant was void of which Chima is unable to supply ¢ id if i _ > z . a ® a sie 4 + | ‘ - oo ° e 4 4 these facts would indicate a , it is true, on the other nited States was the first ff : é E | 2 : E i in HH if fe j od im these words: “No one outside of the mner councils of the war and State departments at Washington knows just exactly what did happen on the Upper Yangtze about this time : strike, 1925), but any American ship armed guard got it.” significantly, you ween the lines to get . .the commander of the patrol forces was given in- Structions not to fire first, but if fired 2 a close second.” ~ r - ae + Pe > Pins ™ > ~ > .@ee these conferences will be the con- TEL a 3 j the | troversy between the United States and Japan over the erection of wire less stations in China. Some years ago the Chinese government granted the Mitsui company a monopoly of erecting wireless stations. sion. The Japanese government there- upon. protested to China. The Ameri- can government intervened with the because it violated the open door pol ies which Japan had accepted many UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT SENDS THIRTEEN BATTLESHIPS TO BULLY CHINA DURING SHANGHAI STRIKE WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.—That American naval vessels constituted 13 ou of the fleet of 20 ships of foreign powers that intimidated the Chinese ih Shanghai after the massacre of students by British police there last May, ‘jand that American naval enlisted men are still on shore serving as police in Shanghai, is set forth in a letter received by President Coolidge from Dr. Harry F. Ward, national chairman of the American Committee for Justice treaties upholding them by guns and bayonets. “Im the Shanghai strike, following | he shooting of unarmed students by ‘oreign police, May 30, 1925, we sup-i DAILY WORKER. Shanghai. “In ‘the circumstances, we may any moment by the work of a consul act of a naval officer or a That worker next door to you night. Hand him this copy of the nt attitude towards the Chinese |~ Later it CANTON erg also gave the Federal Telegraph com-j| {| Joonionc pany of America a wireless conces-, ww may not have anything to do to- By James H. Dolsen (years previously. The “Mitsui company erect=@ iis Station but it did not fulfill the con- @ Single system. The suggestion was rejected. Lately China has urged that the United States and Jz tan joiatiy joan Chima the capital for the wireless station, to be operated by | This comigoversy @lastrates the |@many complications which character- | the Chinese govormment and th® in- ; ternational comihcts which so readily }taken a prominent part in policing |°@*¥®- It also throws light upon the ‘the strike areas. American warships 2ouble dealing which goes under the patrol the inner waters of China, tho| mame of statesmanship in the capi- ino Other sovereign nation allows alien | “*#8t world. men of war‘on its rivers or-other in-| The Sacred Right of Private 5 ; t Troperty. (S peylgenate tage teenage adhcondinagmes ese government's invitation to the | conferences were all alike, stating pat the particular nation “is now pre- | pared to consider the Chinese gov- j@rmment’s proposal for the modifica- } ton of existing treaties in a measure jas the Chinese authorities dénion- j -trate their will’ngness and ability to | ‘uIf7l their obligations and assure protection to foreign rights and in- * rests now safeguarded by the excep- fonal previsions of these treaties.” » all the notes and correspondence we SCENE OF PRESENT : MAO! 7 | STRUGGLES IN CHINA | {x ; . MANC HURT ie, 7 ee : : ' : ’ CHINA i n one “~ J | aie ) ‘ ahs ; — — ‘| F es , 3 | their runs this imsistence first of all } 0m the protection of foreign property jrights in Chima. ; if the foreign nationals can get the Chinese goverument to guarantee all their present rights under some jother formula equally as binding as the present treaties, Great Britain, France, the United States, and Japan iwMm gisdly surrender their special privileges. To the imperialist powers A rose by any other name will smell of its subjects. So the powers take into consideration at Pe- the reaction of their citizens to the measures taken and the proposed. That a fundamental settlement of : j Jon the startled faces of the diplomats ad tm {prevent one. 6 —_—_e mew Wee i
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consideration of the ultimate desti- niés of England, a subject that may be of intérest to the American reader tor two reasons: First, because Bng- laid Sctupies ‘a very prominent posi- tidn im‘the world; second, the United States and Great Britain may be regarded as twin s one of which grows dim the more rapidly as the brilliancy of the other in- creases. my stédy’4é that England is heading rapidly toward an era of great revo- lutionaYy’ upheavals. Of course, the English seéret service men and their American disciples will déclare that 1 4m engaging in propaganda for a proletarian revolution, as if.it were possible for an outsider, by means of pamphlets, to alter the course of evo- lution of a great nation! As a matter of fact, I am simply. attempting, by analyzing the most important factors in the historical development of Eng- land, to explain the historical path by which that country will be made to encounter obstacles—internal as well as external—to its continued -exist- ence.. To accuse me of revolutionary meddling in the affairs of foreign countries, on the basis of such state- mo would be almost equivalent to accusing the astronomer of bringing about a solar eclipse because he has predicted its occurence, UT do not understand me as saying ~~ that astronomical phenomena are parallel to the phenomena of society. The former are accomplished outside of us, the latter thru our. agency. Which does not mean, however, that historical events may be achieved by our mere wish or directed, with the as- sistance of pamphlets, Far more books and newspapers have come out and are still coming out with the avowed purpose of defending and maintaining capitalism — including]. British capitalism—than have ever been published to attack it. Ideas of any kind may be effective only when thy are based on the material con- ditions”“6f Social evolution. England is* headed for revolution because she has already entered the stage of capi- tarist disintegration. If the guilty must be faund, if we must ask: What accelerates England’s progress on the path of revolution, the answer is, not Moscow, but New York. This answer may appear paradoxi- cal, yet it is the simple truth. The powerful and constantly’ growing in- fluence of the United States: on world affairs is rendermg more and more} impossible and hopéless the situation of British industry, British trade, Brit- ish finances, and British diplomacy. HE United States’cannot but tend to expand in the world market, fail-| ing which its own industry will be threatened with apoplexy because_ of the riéhness of its blood. The United States ¢an only expand at the expense oft the other exporting countries, which means, particularly, England. In view of the patented Dawes method of harnessing the ecenomic life of an entire mighty nation in the traces of American supervision, it almost pro- \HEpresent work is devoted to a’ The inference to which I am led by |- their aeiemonts. y. 4 3 it > .* ie © ; > ik whet 7 2h \ pointed out as “open advice rs the worker any journals in both countries have begged in for the eupresion 0f the B00, | 4 heey a Ps a: . eer es x © 7? ithe new master of the world. LEON TROTSKY vokes a smile to hear people speak of the revolutionary significance of one “Moscow” pamphlet or another. Under the cover of what fs called the pacification and rehabilitation of Europe, immense revolutionary and military conflicts are preparing forthe morrow. Mr. Barnes, who enjoys the confidence of the department of com- merce at Washington, suggests that the European debtors of the United States be assigned to exploit such por- tions of the world market as will not bring the impoverished and indebted European cousins of the United States into competition with the expansion of their creditor across the seas. In siding tg restore the continence mone- | power, American capitalism | self-contained factor, but a gl of ‘| world laboration means for; England an dau fo: creasing loss of. independence, » Hing: « 4-> land is leading the United States to |. hegemony, as it were. Relinquishing _ | their world rule, the diplomats and |}magnates of England are recomimmend- ing their former clients to deal with The common action of the United States and England is the cloak for a pro- found world-wide antagonism between these two powers, by which the threatening conflicts of the perhaps not remote future are being prepared. This brief preface is not the place in which to speak of the fate of America itself. There is no doubt - that capital today nowhere feels itself 80 strong as in America. American capitalism grew marvelously, chiefly expense of the European at the belligerents at first, now by reason of their “return to peace,” their “rehabili- © | tation.” But in spite of all its huge is not a power i edey yt imate. ent profuse Joult Seog WS be: -yendence’ on the world market. ‘ Driv- ing the Buropean countries farther and farthér’ down their blind alley, American capitalism is laying the foundation for wars and revolutionary upheavals, which in their frightful re- bound will not fail to strike the econ- omic system of the United States also. Such is the prospect for America. In revolutionary development, America does not stand in the front rank; the American’ bourgeoisie will ‘stifl enjoy the privilege of witnessing the destruc- © -tion of its older European sister, But the inevitable hour will strike for Amerkan capitalism ‘also: ‘the Amer- export leaders, the’ multimillionaires of New York, Chicago and San Fran- cisco, are performing—tho © uncon- sciously—their predestined revolution- ary function. And the American ‘pro- letariat will ultimately discharge theirs. | NOTE:—‘Whither England,” from thru The Daily ‘Worker HOW WAGES ARE BEING SLASHED _ | By EARL R. BROWDER OR capitalism, the key sear <7) economics is, how to increase profits. And for this, the principal means is to reduce the proportion that goes to labor as wages, out of the values labor created, and to in- eréase the proportion that goes for interest, rent and profit. This can be done directly in two ways; by reducing the wage rates, or by increasing” the intensity of labor. And there are various indirect ways, one of which is to keep money wages stationary while the cost of living goes up. All these means are in active oper- ation today. Government, statistics disclose to some small degree the successes of the capitalists in their schemes for increased exploitation. In “Commerce Reports” of November 2nd, for ex- ample, the following figures can be. - found which are very illuminating: Cost of living index figure (relative to 1924) Sept. 1924, is 147. -For Sep- tember, 1925, it is 159. That is an increase of about 8 per- cent. If reaf wages are to remain constant, money wages must be raised £ per cent also to cover the increased cost of living. These figures are compiled by the |x National Industrial Conference Board, je @ private organization of capitalists, which has certainly no bias in favor cf the wage workers. But what really happened to money wages during the same period? They remained the same or were actually reduced. Which means that real wages have been out to the amount of 10 per cent or more. This gained for the capitalists an extra profit of between one billion and a billion and a half dollars. Simple figures from a few states wT — wilh show how that has gone effect. The index figure, for number of workers employed in New Jersey (1923-100) was 87 in September last year, and 91 this year, an increase of 4 points. The total payroll for these same per- iods was 86 and 89, an increase of but 2 points, and therefore a positive de- crease in earnings. The official index for average weekly earnings, relative to 1923, showed September last year 00, while this year it is 98. When pared with the cost of living -here is a Clear wage slash of 19 per cent. In Illinois the average weekly earn- figs, (relative to 1922), dropped from 110.1 in September 1924, to 107.6 itn September, 1925. Delaware weekly earnings averaged 4 per cent less this year than last, And in the Meantime —: Production has been increasing by leaps and bounds. All the indicators of production and trade, point to 1925 as the banner year of capitalist in- dustry in America. 3 into éim " x Ss . Not only have money wages been reduced. Not only have wages been oor still more thru the higher cost of living. Also the workers have been to work longer hours, so that produc- tion has enormously increased. This year’s mass of surplus values expropriated by the. capitalist class is doubtless the greatest ever known. That is why the Wall Street stock market is so joyous, and why the price of stocks has flown skyward. All of this is “cashing in” on the accumulat- ed and perspective “surplus values” squeezed out of labor in such rich abundance during 1925. Postaf Receipts on Up Grade. ceipts, regarded as a barometer of business conditions, continue on the upgrade, totalling $32,489,042 in’ 50 selected cities during October, as compared with $29,118,862 in October, 1924, an increase of $3,370,179, or 11.57 per cent, the post office department announced today. ican’ oil and steel magnates, trust and which this is reprinted, can belsecured Publishing « KGo. Price $1.765). Sarroiai) s asvig ett forced to speed up, and in some cases - WASHINGTON, -Nov. 5—Postal re- see ea, y ~ » a : 3 - le |
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a ll x SBE se Sea: sini : general. A contributing cause is ‘of ‘the Tailroad. toil on endlessly on wages scarcely permitting the necessitie; of life. OWEVER, let us look at the facts. denies the more class conscious worker a source from which to make eomparisons and thus effectively ex- chicane of the bosses. The U. S. department of commerce from which our data is taken divides the railroad workers in seven groups as follows: - _1—-Executives,, asalamaaie. par staff assistants. 2—Professional, clerical ond? gen- . eral. $-taaiptamence of Way and Struc-.- tures.. ’ - 4—Maintenance oi Meutoundns and. Stores. > | 5—Transportation - — other than train, engine or yard. 6—Transportation—yard masters, switch. tenders and -hostlers, | gine service. . grouping which caiielieatiha with: the forms:of labor in the in- dustry gives a distorted picture of the wage scales in force for the workers as.a whole. _ To eliminate this. distor- tion, we. have divided the railroad workers in accordance with minimum and maximum wages they receive. To arrive at the actual weekly wages, the monthly stated wages were multiplied by twelve and then divided by fifty- two. The workers on the railroads are generally paid twice a month. Since there are fifty-two weeks in the year, it would be erroneous te divide the monthly wages by four weeks for . & man must eat fifty-two weeks in the year and not forty-eight. All data is for the year 1923, but no material changes have taken place since. GROUP _AcRailroad Workers Receiving Less Than $25 on Week. The y such an opin- ion, $ been able to| there Of workers: in ii eee cnpiayers to to make public their, pay-| _® G pose on the spot the machinations and 7—Transportation—train and en- be - ee sevens 3 17.10 permit them But to apply this the face of these facts it is prepost- erous to prattle about high-paid rail- ‘than $25 per week. Group B—Railroad Workers Receiving Between $25 and $33 per Week. $25 and $33 per week consist of skilled workers. Together with Group A they number 1,152,506 wage earners | or practically two-thirds of ‘the total} number of pared to organized trades in other if- dustries the scale is low, falling far ard of living. Group C—Railroad Workers Receiving Between $33 and $40 per Week. . Neo. of Weekly Workers Wages L 19 arial - eat itdin ri u gan ane or . 5,440 $38.35 Gang foremen —s rain ett: . aT ‘ 4,852 33.50 naimen a z ai ners mein 8,057 . 36.25 BlackSMiths ...0-0.0000-.. 10,279 37.50 Boilermakers ................. 22,152 38.25 Electrical workers oe 2.08) Re ped ; Machini 1 00 Sheet Metal Workers 12,594 37.00 Supervisory sta tion - agents ~ 38.10 - ssen r - gov Bo ina : “e 5,871 89.75 Road Sassen rbrake- — men flagmefmi......... » 14,581 36.00 Road freight brake- Bsr Bye me eee - 39.00 Kae “ 55,301 38.00 ra yy lee & he P- oo aes ‘<. Total Number of Workers Receiving Be.- tween $33 & $40 per week—310,421. HERE are 310,424 workers com- prised in Group C receiving wages which assure them the _ necessities of life but no more. To talk of main- taining a family in health and decency on a weekly avreage income of $36 is ridiculous. Of course one must live. But. to say that you are living in health and decency is false. You can- not do it. One cannot obtain a modern three- room apartment today under $45 per month. But a three-room apartment for a family of five, the average com- position of a worker’s home, is too small and causes overcrowding. And overcrowding, as every intelligent roaders, a third of whom receive less | ¥ }and justly so. employes. Com-{ behind the so-called American stand- icy a8 @ wage earner, he must live , overcrowded flat; if, on the - Site eiatig D—Railroad Woskirs Receiving Between $40 and $60 per Week, Actual Work + orkers | 1923 Kind of Work— Road passenger con- i? : uctors 10,531 $54.00 Road freight conduc- . 901 52.65 conductors & <i PS sang foremen conte 44.10 oa a engi- nee we . PA 58.65 Road gw engi- aap ia ormen.. Bae Yard en rs &@ mo-. : | grok 142 46.45 : 43.45 41.30 ae 1.60 44.10 - 59.15 52.50 59.65 56.60 58.90 Be- 17,8 “te y- the group of Gaal who are gener- ally regarded as the labor aristocracy | This class of workmen despise the word “worker” and look upon themselves as a category dis- tinct from and independent of com- mon labor. Psychologically corrupted with bourgeois ideas and standards, they have abandoned the militancy which formerly characterized their ac- | tivities and are now engaged in op- erating non-union coal mines, “labor” banks and insurance schemes in com- plete harmony and: co-operation with the capitalistic interests. It is not accidental that these work- ers known collectively as the Big 4 Brotherhoods have gained their priv- ileged position. Their gains are not the result of 4 militant struggle or the class conscious solidarity of its mem- bers but on the. contrary they are the concessions designedly granted by the railroad interests in order to split and divide the workers and render them impotent as a conscious force in the ever-increasing struggle betwen capi- tal and labor. | Hence one must not be surprised to | find this group seoeiving wages higher}; than their fel workers. It is. x Means of keeping them apart and weakening the tremendous potential power of the railtoad workers as a single‘unit. Of course, superficially it appears that the higher wages of the labor aristocracy come from the skill- ed work they do-——but then one asks how was it possible for certain sec- tions of the working class to obtain this skill to the exclusion of the vast majority of the proletariat? The answer is obvious. It was the em- Ployers who provided the means in the form of free vocational schools (mominal fee schools, Y. M. C. A.,. Baron de Hirche’s Cooper Unions) and promotions based on seniority as in the railroads. These are the two chief subjective factors which constitute the basis for the existence of a labor aristocracy. Both these factors, that s the vocational schools and promo- tions are initiated and controlled by the employers. By means of these they seduce and corrupt the more in- dividualistic and ambitious members j ‘, their contemptible ‘| two parasitical groups comprise over ‘| 14,000 so-called “employes” who pork- | barrelled the stupendous sum of over | $75,000,000. in salaries ‘for the year ) a small minority of the workers which | constitutes’ the bribery. Hence in re- | ality it is not greater skill which r}comands higher wages—it is indirect 4. bribery shamelessly accepted by. the ~ Brotherhoods of Enineers and Conduc-..; tors at the expénse of their underpaid . fellow workers the majority of whom’, receive wages decidedly below the lowest minimum prescribed by the ,. government itself. A a It should be kept in mind. that, the, , .| Big 4 Brotherhoods together with ith @ higher paid technical force comprised in Group D total not mere than 20 per cent of the total number of rail- figures furnished by the U. S. department of. commerce give the ‘| total number of railroad workers for the year 1923 as 1,879,770. This grand tal ineludes the “executives,” gen- ral. officers, lieutenants, and _ ser- geants of police, patrolmen, etc, We fail to see, however, how an execu-~ | tive or general officer can be classified |} 4s an “employe” qr how a police force organized and paid by the railroads to ‘| overawe and terrorize the workers can | be called useful or necessary to the’ | efficient ‘running of the roads. ‘The «« | well-paid “executives” are nothing but’ » | figureheads holding down sinecures | while the riff-raff rganized as police ah’s wages for “labor.” These bullies receive 1923. total amount paid in wages for the year 1923 was $3,043,161,000. This sum includes ‘the 75 million dol- lars. expended oh sinecures and “law and order.” Dividing the $3, 043 ,161,- 000 among the 1, 879, 770 workers, we find the average wage to be $31 per week, a sum absolutely insufficient to support a family in health and de- cency according to the U. 5S. ‘depart- — ment of labor itself. The ‘ ity” of the American worker exists principally in the imaginations of the bourgeoisie, in their press and in their propaganda abroad designed to entice foreign workmen to the hell-breathing ten- and twelve-hour day steel fur- naces of Gary & Co. EFORE passing to the second part of the article dealing with rail- road profits, it would be in place to | describe the hours of labor in this in- dustry, Unfortunately we cannot do so as the department of commerce | withholds all data on the subject of hours. .The “basic” day is supposed to consist of eight hours, but this is a myth. By allowing overtime, e extras, exceptions, etc., the railroad managers craftily metamorphose the “basic” v fol : eight-hour day into a “baseless’”..day;: ; Of course overtime may be necesgary.:; in emergencies but when the “emerg- encies” are more or less permanent affairs there is. an end of the eight- hour day. <n Be Continued) - Morgan Out to Grab Great Muscle. Shoals esources of Power WASHINGTON—(FP)—Once more the Alabama Power Co., which is owned by the General Electric trust, which is Morgan & Co., is reaching out to grab the nation’s yast hydro- electric power plant at Muscle Shoals, Its transmission lines are the only ones’ in the region. It is now using the power from the Wilson dam under a six months lease which it secured during the summer from the secretary of war. Its scheme is that Congress shall yield to the demand of the Cool- idge administration that the govern- ment rid itself of its power dams, and that the company shall get Muscle Shoals on a 50-year lease, with the privilege of renewal after that period. This would in effect be a sale of the plant to the power trust. It would remove the last opportunity of six southern states to have their rates for electric power and light cut by federal competition. f we . “og Kind of Work Workers om aan? Mechanical device op-. . tors 7,625 nad +08 eweeeseseeee 6,721 13.15 be Switohea. oe. 5,219 17.10 ss / en » | Janitors & Cleaners.... 7,597 18.00 Skilled Trades Helpers 1,028 22.45 Pumping Equipment Opera 6,249 18.95 Workers (extra gang work train)............ 58,310 18.68 “ t by ae) bey Sie iii watts ¢ ane rem Bky caps: BPE ae Tt nn 6 ———e ~~
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—— IAGO RH. me, Dy -¥ iS . mS * e be % wie ye. = re P9 Ph, PoP OR SST yt F ~ “7 - " t . > . 7 + -_ ‘ : ¥ “ - - “ : . ey ote i nm 4 Tie ot a se oP we ree be de eas iy yay Pte! - ent “4 ‘ag ae ee ast REE ng fahies OEM! al * ae ory ine rr - “ ny CO ae * ue " ¥ abog WARE + on > ee bas ea a ria ~ hey. \ oF Sh? Sha? ca ee f ‘ oy Santee, iy Sai My a i oh: Saal + ‘i e on trdin an : aes t * Se Pe es Shab re a ee, hai a et yb ope ye SE oS eee a ro ne Se eats tat ag eS ES ae “ oe A ES ‘ yee ae RE a Be AeES See ae, nae igh. vi . 7 Pe RATA eT ee RMS es « ¥ p. ayy, 58 a aa : .) er ‘“ *, aie Fs . t pa - i owe 7 “¢ >. : a. - Mi Sa ae + Aye . o ~Walal +s » m ‘ per. « > ~ 5 Ce RY srt ’ . ns , ‘ 7 igi a - rl - a ty hey ayer: 4 teh afea t x is a — ny “5 ‘ eS ay » ” ey | gaok ae ey ‘f ate mye ig: BS tam LSE Sys x east vod oR Ow* atin? te : . is - ‘ J - * TAP 4 - - ae? 4 - P a gata“ | Worl Shop Nuclei ie By Jay LOVESTONE. | The shop nuclei of the party have shown themselves to date to be in the front ranks of the party units in |3 rallying to save The DAILY WORK- ER. Amongst the highest contributions |. 4. 4 given se The DAILY WORKER cam- _(@ paign fund are those made by the var- ious shop nucle. The proportion of|? and 4. ghop nuclei contributing eal, oie ony DAILY WORKER is greater ° proportion of the other party units; are Frankfort, Ill.: Shop Nucleus ~~ ree likewise the average collected by the | No. . results 1 | paca har phim cams iy Micieer eel ee er ~ trades ss in the shop nuclei which % the average collected by each mem- | fe sO ty 5s An examination of the lists prepar- , "THE SHOP : LEUS bi FE | > = Shop Nucleus No. 1............8 46.00 .. Shop Nucleus No. 2............ 20.00 Shop Nucleus No. 4............. 15.00 Shop Nucleus No. 6B............ 4.00 Shop Nucleus No. 6............ 6.00 Shop Nucleus No. 99............ 12.00 Shop Uucleus No. 11............. 3.00 Shop Nucleus No. 12.......... «» 12.00; Shop Nucleus No. 13........... 1.00 Shop Nucleus No. 16......2:... 9.00 Shop Nucleus No. 22............ 5.00 Shop Nucleus No, 27............ 5.00 Shop Nucleus No. 309............ 1.00 | Shop Nucleus No. 31............ 5.00 Chicago District. Pullman S. N. No. °1 $ 7.00 Shicago S. N. No. 2 4.00 Chicago S. N. No. 5 306.34 Chicago S. N. No. &........... 4.00 eigler S. N. 50.00 Gary, Ulionis Steel S. N..... 38.60 So. Bend Studebaker S, N. 5.00 | ( wo HAS DA — | re e- an Ede Total $749.59 It must be remembered that at pres- ; Na ids ent, the average membership of a ee } v i” e 4 coins eee shop nucleus is much smaller than kh ee _ he: ; ate y ' | +5} fh Se : > . ® > : | their units have been able to collect But we must admit that a number of the shop nuclei have not yet done’ their share. A tumber of the shop nuclei have gent campaign affords the comrades an ex- ib, z an a + | a | Ff i i 3 | pF gi . i i not yet directly responded, as shop nuclei, to The DAILY WORKER call for help, follows: New York District (No. 2) Elizabeth, N, J.: Shop Nucleus No. 1 and No. 2. New York City: Shop , be: Nacieus Nos. 3, 7, 8, 10, 14, 15, 17, 18, _ 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28 and 29. Enroll for classes now. Registration fee, $1.00. For each additional EE. yy thaw RR 1.| class 5 cents. All classes begin week of November 15, Send enrollments Ohio — 2 Ae s ee to Karl Browder, director of Workers’ School, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., or Liverpool, : uc St | Oliver Carl0son, Secretary, 19 S. Lincoln street. AAR EAARAAABABBABERBAS REO acti phason ee o e- ee eee een eee + dew ae i i aceeaileamaninaaal ' fi
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& ‘ ‘ - 3 " 4 Ry a eed ym ae cc ae he Pier. Ara EI Oe ae tay re a thd oh Bhi Ces BO ee eet ae we * bd . 5 ‘, la ea — : ——s Sl a vy Pe . Psu ft Aw! . * — Tf ae : | ib i d £8 ERs 3 : E g ! ay HE aE z g coEREES eel r i Ht ‘wages will be considered in the same ‘class with those com who ins ayttigr igi ; : Housewives earning no | party. We desire to abolish the existence campaigh, let us say, for its press, or any other activity, it will secure permission from the C. EB. C. ofthe party, to 3 ganda fraction bureau desires to levy any assessment or set up a certain quota of which each member must collect a minimum portion, the C. E. C. will take the following procedure: Special permission will be granted to various fraction bureaus to circulate £.. ca, Oe * A ove—: ‘ 4 . 5 ; oe Central Executive aiidceill of the Workers Party calls upon those Armenian workers who declare | themselves to be Communists but who are still org separately from the Workers (Communist) Party and its Armenian section, to join party and to carry on their work in support of Communist principles thru the party orgarization . ‘ The Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party has for more than three years been carrying om @ con- tinuous campaign to unite all of the Xyvtrienidn Communists in the Workers (Communist) Party and its Armenian section so thatthe enetgies of all the convinced Commiunists.could be used for work among the Armenian massés,. In spite of the efforts of the Central Executive Committee, there still re- main outside of the party and its Armenian section a group of former members of the Armenian Workers Party. It is the view of the Central Executive Committee that these com- rades were. misled and that it is not their desire to put themselves in oppo- sition to the party. It is therefore that the Central Executive Committee has decided to open the way for these comrades to affiliate with the party and to carry on active Communist work among the Armenian masses’ as part of ‘the Workers: (Communist) Party. _ making this decision, the Centtg Executive Committee again em sizes. that no Communist. , under any “circumstances withdraw tom a Communist Party hecatse he is jp disagreement with the Central Exec utive Committee on some questions of tactics or policy which does not in- volve the fundamental principles and of Sunarian as well as all the mem- bers of the Armenian Workers Party tion to the organization of the Arme- nian section, even tho they disagreed iwith this decision. It was because these members did not understand. this fundamental Communist duty that they find themselves outside of the organized Communist movement in this country. It is with the understand- ing that in futgre the comrades who made this error will carry out ail the decisions of the party and its Central Executive Committee as disciplined | members of the organization that : Central Executive Committee | _* are not affiliated with the, Workers (Communist) Party to immediately’ become a part of the party. . The procedure should be that where- ever there are organized groups of the former Armenian Workers Party. which are not affiliated with the Workers (Communist) Party, these organizations should immediately adopt resolutions to Apply for a charter as a branch of the Workers Party, declaring their acceptance of the principles and policies of the party and willingness to submit to the discipline of the organization. direct with the district organization if no city committees exist. They will purchase. their dues' stamps thru the city committee or district committee as the case may be, as all branches of the party now purchase their an invitation to the existing branches | of the Arménian Workers Patty which | enian Communists--Join the Party calls the attention of the Armenian branches to the fact that the party is now being reorganized on the basis of shop nuclei and street nuclei (inter- national branches) and that they must be prepared to have their branch re- organized with the other branches of the party. At the same time that this reorganization takes place and the members of these branches become memberg of the shop nuclei and street nuclei, the members will also be organized as part of the Armenian fraction of the party by becoming in- corporated in the organization for work among the Armenian workers. Y taking prompt action to affiliate with the Wo city and atateiegcgemnana ions of the Armenian fract to establish full opportunity.for them to partici- pate in the work of these Armenian fractions and to be represented on the city an ddistriet committees of the Armenian fractions, _ So far as certain members of the group in question are concerned who were expelled from the party because of their direct violation of the discip- line of the Central. Executive Com- mittee of the party, the Central Exec- utive Committee will be glad to con- sider each such case and the circum- stances surrounding same, to do : § whieh : ee this _agtio on whatever. possible to reinstate such will -be @ ‘with the Oy. OL eee the right of party mem- mittee of nective city or} be ‘reinstatement, however, will only take place after acknow- ledgement of the errors for which ‘the member was expelled from the party. The individuals who were thus expelled must apply to the Central Executive Committee in writing for stamps. policies of the party. It was the duty } > The Central Executive Committee reinstatement in the party. The Central Executive Consmittee of Statement of the Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party the party is of the opinion that the proceedure outlined above offers the opportunity for the unification of all Communists who have a sincere desire to become part of the organized Communist movement of this country. It is time that tke wounds received by the Communist movement among the Armenian masses be healed and all the con- ‘vinced Communists join together. to build the influence of the party among the Armenian masses: It urges all the members of the group of Armenian Communists outside of the party to take immediate advantage of the op- portunity to rejoin the party presented to them in this statement and assures them that the Central Executive Com- mittee will do all in its power to per- manently heal the bréach that has existed. among the Armenian. Com- munists. | - Central Executive Conmittes Workers (Communist) Party. C. E. Ruthenberg. General secretary, RUSSIAN BRANCH TO CELEBRATE 8TH YEAR IN CHICAGO, NOV. 6TH A mass meeting and concert In honor of the eighth anniversary of the Boishevik 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. : participate in the raising of In the event that a certain propa- ‘
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