Daily Worker
November 14, 1925
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— ——ů— 4 ** . 9 * ; Bn ** Wa r n Organ 2 9 Stands Back of Mussolini (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.—Musso- i _fini’s debt commission has reached an agreement with the agents of Wall Street, known as the United States debt commission. This means that the obligations to the United States of the third largest debtor nation has been settied on terms that will enable Italy to establish its credit with the House of Morgan so that it can ab- sorb some of the enormous surplus of gold that has accumulated in the United States and is piling ever higher, until desperate measures are necessary in order to dispose of it. It furthermore means that Musso- lini and his bandit government is to be subsidized by American imperial- fism, and the fascist leader and his predatory bands of cutthroats will become the official agents of American bank capital. Coolidge Sits In. Announcement that an agreement had been reached was made shortly after noon, following a conference be- tween Coolidge and members of the American debt commission, which was followed, in turn, by a joint session of the two full commissions. Secre- tary of the Treasury Mellon an- nounced the agreement. The actual terms will be announced late this afternoon after the experts of the two countries have worked out the figures involved in the huge mass of documents submitted. it is definitely known tho, that they are the most liberal terms granted to any debtor nation under the pretext that the Italian internal situation is far worse than that of any other gov- ernment in Europe. Saves Fascismo. The Italian currency would have fallen to nothing on the exchanges of the world had it not been for a satis- factory agreement having been reach- ed. The terror of Mussolini and the frame-up against the yellow social- ists and free masons on the charge of conspiring to assassinate Mussolini combined with the fall of the lira would have wrecked the government of the tyrant. Only the conclusion of the agree- ment saved the situation. This desperate position of the fascist gov- ernment gives the lie to the claims that Mussolini has re-established the economic system of Italy on a firm basis. Sculptor Dies. MILFORD, Conn., Nov. 12.—Charles A. Bartelli, one of the nation’s lead- ing scuptors, died at his home here during the night of heart failure. He was 42 years old. Unmasked Bandits Busy. MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 12—-Two un- masked bandits today entered the -fifth floor store of B. M. Kaufman, dia- mond merchant, and $40,000 in gems. escaped with 8282 — a > Ma Cw 4 — * NEW YORK WORKER TENANTS EX LANDLORDS WHO CHARGE HIGH. FOR DISEASE-LADEN APARTMENTS ~ are forced to pay. by the landlords by the use of beaver out at present for an average rent of NEW YORK, Nov. 12.—The commission on housing and regional planning ) that is now “investigating” the housing conditions of New ‘York City had all it could do when more than forty witnesses that have appeared before it, told of the miserable apartments they must live in and the amounts they Use Coal Bins for Rooms. Coal bins and storerooms in cellars have been converted into apartments board for walls and are being rented $12.50 a room, The witnesses described how their homes were overrun by mice, rats and vermin and that the landlords were making no attempt to clean up these conditions. : Letter carriers testified that due to the low wage that they receive, their wives and young children are forced to accept employmént.in industries or in buildings doing chore-woman work in order to be able tO pay the rent. Some of the letter carriers have to work in movie and music halls as ushers at. night in order to make ends meet. Rents Increase, Wages Decrease. Other workers that appeared point- ed out that their wages were lower than they were making in 1920, but they are forced to pay higher rents than when they paid in 1920, and that inadlords are still boosting the rents. In the Negro section of Harlem, landlords refuse to keep. light burn- ing in the dark“hallways. Many of these hallways are, pitch dark with winding stairs and the Negro workers living in these houses often injure themselves by falling down stairs. Evictions Increase. The clerk of the seventh district municipal court testified that there has been an increase of over 2,500 dispossess proceedings in the past year over the number in the same period last year. In 1924, in Har- lem, which is a working class dis- trict and where this court is located, there were 29,490 dispossess cases. So far this year, with the months of November and December lacking, there have been 31,500 cases where workers’ belongings have been moved onto the street. The clerk pointed out that most of these cases were the result of non-payment of fent. Other tenants before the commis- os forcing those living on the top loors to carry pails of garbage and waste down many flights of stairs. Unsanitary Conditions. Others told of faulty plumbing, un- 3anitary apartments where the light of day never penetrates for which they must pay exhorbitant rents. Renting agencies brot in showed that there were many apartments va- cant, but that the landlords deman ed that they collect such high rents that it wag impossible to find tenants to move into the apartments. ye. Politicians Refuse Co-operation. Tenants complained that when they called at the tenement house de- partment, fire department and health department to have them remedy con- ditions in many of the houses, these commissions refused to co-operate with them in any way whatsoever. . The testimony brot out that many landlords were charging 288 per cent fore for their rooms now than they did in 1920 and that these landlords had made few repairs in the apart- ments during that period. Threaten Rent Riots. Threats of rent riots were made if the present rent law, which is far from adequate and is merely a ges- ture towards protecting the tenant, was repealed. Most of the witnesses urged the commission to extend the law and if possible to make the law more, stringent in its protection of the tenants. Liftle can b& expected from the commission appointed by the city hall crowd as these politicians work hand in glove with the landlords who main- tain filthy apartments. Many dollars are placed in the clammy palms of health, fire, and other inspectors thru the year by renting agencies and landlords so that they would emulate the three monkeys: Hear no evil, sion brot out that the landlords had sealed up dumb waiters in many plac- see no evil, speak no evil, of the land- lords and their servants. [Soft Coal Strike, Too] (Continu page 1) demanding the removal of the host of armed guards. At the hall where Papcun was speaking the state police searched the assembly, but Papcun was gone. At the big meeting last night where Tom Ray and Papcun spoke, the sheriff and state police issued a pro- clamation prohibiting picketing and marching. . a Papeun in his speech called on the striking miners to defy the proclama- tion and the injunctions. This met with the hearty ‘approval of the strik- ers, The Royal mine was picketed to- day. Various pickets were held up with guns, strikers were shot at and gas bombs thrown among the pickets. The companies are getting desper- ate. Tom Ray and Papcun are lead- ing the picket lines. Big mass meet- EVEREST F. BALCHUNAS 1893—1925 ings are to be held all over the coke region on Sunday. FTER spending three years in traveling from one section to another in an attempt fo effect a cure of consumption, Comrade Ev- erest F. Balchunas died at the Cook county hospital. Comrade Balchunas was very ac- tive among the Lithuanian workers in Lithuania and when he arrived in this country in 1913, to escape the military laws of the czar, he joined the Lithuanian socialist federation. in Left-Wing Fight. During the left-wing split, Bal- chunas fought the reactionaries in the federation and aided Comrade Stellson and others to organize the Lithuanian Communist Federation. He attended every convention that the Communist Party held and escaped the department of justice at the Bridgman convention. He was also active in the organ- ization of the American Lithuanian Workers’ Literature Association, which is today controlled by the Lithuanian Communists. Following the Bridgman conven- tion he contracted a cold which de- veloped into a slight form of con- sumption. His doctor advised him to leave the machine shop that he was working in and also to leave the city. Goes West for Cure. Balchunas left Chicago and went to California, then Arizona, New Mexico and then to Denver, Colo- rado, in his attempt to effect a cure. Unable to find work and hav- ing used up what little savings he had, he returned to Chicago. Fail-, ing to find work in Chicago and un- able to pay a doctor for consulta- tions he entered the Cook county 1 1 9585 where he died after eight 7 ee y Ve 1 * Federation of Labor Is yah 2 mde Sponsor for Meeting (Continued from page 1) entitled to it than the workers who furnish the means whereby the para- sites live. Purcell painted. the misery and the exploitation that the workers suffer in China and India. He pointed out that these Chinese and Indian work- ers are competing with the American, ers, whose masters, the British, Amer- ican, French and Japanese capitalists, have invested their surplus proflts— that they have wrung from the toil of the workers of their own countries— in factories in China and India. It is the duty—in self-protection—of the organized workers of the capital- ist countries to help the workers of these countries to organize. Without this organization, the capitalists will drive down the conditions of the work- ers of their own countries. In some instances this has already happened, and the prospect is that it will con- tinue. ~ 4 | Soviet Russia's Unions. Purcell then spoke of the trade unions of Soviet Russia. The mention of Russia brought forth a peal of ap- plause. He explained that in 1920 he had gone to Soviet Russia, and saw the parctical beginnings of the trade union movement. They were still groping, not yet having found the method of building them up. Again in 1924, Purcell, together with other prominent leaders of the British trade union movement, such as Bramley, Smith and others, went as a delega- tion to Soviet Russia, where they were shown whatever they desired. They saw the union machinery—they visited the clubs. Purcell described that the clubs are schools for train- ing trade unionists into becoming bet- ter trade unionists and to fit thém for the work of reconstruction. “They use the palaces and villag that they inherited to teach the illiterate. That is part of their function—a function that, of course, we being that more intelligent—or Russia have got | which we have not. He spoke of the miners’ federation, | * it is none of our bu tical belief.a worker h is republican, syndi¢ or Communist. All. know that he is part ne movement. “Tt is time that tg Workers are getting out of their inswWarity. It is time that they see pm their own distrièt council, their own'state feder- ation. They must look upon the ques- tion as a world question,” Against Capitalist Wars. Purcell then showed the horrors that confront the workers of the world after the “war to end all wars.” “Why are they preparing more dangerous and powerful gases chemicals, airplanes and bombs? it because war will never come again, as they said? It is not. They are preparing these death-dealing machines because they know that we are further from peace than before. These chemicals will not be used against the bellig- erents, but against the women and children. It is time that the workers of the world tell the masters in un- mistakeable terms that they will not go along in this war game. That we can do only if we have world trade union unity.” : Purcell ended with an eloquent ap- peal to the workers of this country to consider the suggestions of the British Trade Union Congress. He asked them to go beyond the confines of their immediate situation and to en- visage the problems that confront the entire labor movement of the world. “Even if we cannot prevent war, we will make the masters, the financiers, who are interested in war, the vested interests, which have something to gain by the war, be cafeful in their war talk. We will be able to tell these war gourmands that if they are interested in war, they may go out and fight them themselves.” The speaker was interrupted by rounds of applause. His appeal met with a most hearty response from the 1,000 workers present. Meeting Has Great Portent. Unquestionably the coming of Pur- cell has been of inestimable signi- ficance to the trade union movement of this city. If the workers—and par- ticularly the trade union leaders—of this city respond only in a small measure to his appeal, the movement in Cleveland will look forward. Per- haps it may not be too much to sug- gest that the Cleveland Federation of Labor, or some of the progressive elements in the federation sponsor a move to send a trade union delegation to Soviet Russia, so that representa- tive American workers may see with their own eyes what is taking place in Soviet Russia, and may see, as Pur- cell said, “that the Russian trade union is a bonafide trade union, as bonafide as the movements in Amer- ica, Great Britain or ‘any other coun- A ‘ — Brightest Spot on By J. Louis ENG DAHL. oe 15 > > : * 1 * ODAY, Number Eleven of the series of “Social and Political Facts on the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics,” the unemployed problem 83 fake or the as in the anti-Soviet nations, aspects of the developing world revolutionary ö Report Number Eleven shows that the Soviet Union is deal- ing with the future, growing ever brighter, with 7 frag, te for the days i ahead. 8. es facts, persistently p ng themselves, in in- brilliant colors, to, the oppressed of the world, ately convince the v creasi must u arrives from Moscow. here, no talk of crushing war debts, No worry about pacts,” these troubles are world. Communists in the Soviet Union, deal with these problems as situation. But “Plans and ictims of capitalism that their only escape lies along the road that the workers and peas- ants of Russia have already trod. | * 989 / New blast furnaces are being built and ovens repaired in the Southern Urals that will turn out steel now obtained in London. The Miassky File Factory is being extended and during the last few months turned out 10 amounts to 145 per cent of the p Two big facts there. A basic indust which shows continual dozen files, ram. improvement, while a factory outstrips by half what was de- manded of it. 3 Rich accumulations of new radium deposits have been discovered in two places along the White Sea coast. This is merely one of the many incidents showi success met with in the search for new fields for growin the exploitation of the Soviet tural resources. * „ One paragraph says: the Union's, untold wealth in na- “Since the commencement of the campaign up to Oct. 1, 153,318,- 300,000 poods (pood is 36 pounds) of wheat products were purchased and stored, which amounts to 90.7 per cent of the program. The loading of grain is proceeding without interruption.” Sufficient reply to the Chicago Tribune's fake reports from Riga, Latvia, of a new famine. Good news from the valley of the Volga (the Mississippi River of the Soviet Union) that was hardest hit by the 1921 famine. Here it is: “Traffic on the Volga has increased by 170 per cent as compared witn last .year. Demands for the coming year indicate a further increase. In connection with this the merchant fleet will be increased by 80 units.” And Chicago only talks about the “lakes-to-the-gulf” waterway. if * * That the funds with which to build for the New Day in the Soviet Union are increasing is shown by this statement: “The general total for the state and all local budgets amounts dur- 5 * Then this is very important: „ „ 09g RR Rn ne os ing 1925-26 to about five milliard roubles, which is an increase of about 40 per cent on the total figures of the present 1924-25 budget.“ a „ * “Donetz caal is rapidly conquering a place on the French market by its quality and cheapness,” _ This snows that Russian coal, which is being mined in ever greater quantities resulting in over-production at home, is successfully competing with German and British coal in France. N * * And again: The sale of Soviet oil on the Constantinople market has increased ve - fol d . 0 . 0 to Constantinople.“ The first consignment of 40 ploughs, manufactured in the factories of the Soviet agricultural machine trust, has been sent Thus the oil riches of the Soviet Union find an ever-in- creasing market. While the news that Soviet Russia is ex- porting farm machinery to the Near East shows that the problem of modernizing agriculture at home is being rapidly solved. * * And just to tell the world that Soviet rule is here to stay, a five-year program for tea growing in the Soviet Republic of Georgia is announced that will tend to make the Soviet ‘Union entirely independent of world. * * the rest of the tea producing * * All progress in building the Soviet Union! An advance for the world social revolution! Forms Union Branch in Germany, Report The 17th general convention of the I. W. W. yesterday voted against the proposal to sell the building recently purchased and also turned down the proposal to dispose of ths printing plant, which had been, according to Manager Kohn, running at an expense | that did not justify its being retained, he recommending that printing be done elsewhere. “ Kohn showed that the different print shop managers had varied in their efficiency. Under the manage- ment of Anz, who adheres at present in ideology and organization to the emergency program, the costs of printing one dollar’s worth of matter was $1.04, under George Williams $1.34, and while Kohn had reduced the expenditure to 94 cents, his fail- ing health impelled him to offer his resignation, He asked that another be placed in his position. Fellow Worker Joseph O’Neil of the Agricultural Workers Industrial Un- ion retired from the convention and ee Elsasser was seated as alter- nate. It was reported to the convention that the Marine Transport Workers Industrial Union, No. 510, has esta- blished a branch at Bremerhaven, Germany. Kip Rhinelander, Knew Before Marriage That Wife Had Negro Blood NEW YORK CITY, Nov. 12—A new angle developed in the Leonard Kip Rhinelander case when Attorney Lee Parsons Davis, attorney for the de- fense, showed that Kip knew that Alice was of the Negro race before he married her. Philip Rhinelander, the millionaire father, is seeking an- nulment of the marriage because the wife is a descendent of the Negro Davis charged that Philip Rhine- lander and his millions and not the husband are behind this move and “| he has used every contemptible meth- od for degrading the girl and her family to secure the annulment. Davis threatened to bring the old man's nasty letters written to the girl into court. He quoted young Rhinelander saying to Aliee when stories began appearing about the girl’s Negro ori- gin, Never mind, Alice, I'm the one who should care and I don’t.” Sanitarium doctors have been brot as witnesses by the millionaire fath- er to show that his son is all but short of an imbecile and was irre- sponsible when he contracted the marriage. | INDEPENDENT UNION FRACTION IN NEW YORK WILL MEET SATURDAY (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Nov. 12—All party members who are members of the independent unions must attend the regular Independent Union Fraction meeting at the headquarters, 108 E. 14th St., New York City, Saturday, Nov. 14, at 3 p. m. The party policy of the independ- ent unions as decided by the Na- tional Industrial Department will be considered and plans made for car- rying it out. Working Women in Demands on N. V. City Government (Continued from page 1). Even in these firetrap tenements, by the commission’s report, families with young and old boarders “crowd as many as 14 into the small space of three and four rooms. Such conditions undermine the fam- ily life of the workers, when a worker has to rent an apartment he is asked to pay one and two months rent in ad- vance, which he cannot do. The old apartments which rent for four and five dollars a room, are made over into costly apartments, and the work- ers who cannot pay more than five dollars per room must share apart- ments and undergo special hardships. In view of these outstanding facts, the United Council of Working Class women proposes: In order to relieve the great masses of workers’ families with their, young the United Council of Working Class Women, consisting mostly of nousewives and affiliated with neigh- borhood housewife councils in every horough and other housewives’ organ- fzations, proposes the following: That the city build houses or rent them to the workers at prices within their means not above cost. The united council of working class women appeals to all the working class women in the house, shop, and factory to support the demands of the United Coun¢il: of Working Class Wo- men, only thru_unity of all the work- ers, men and women, will the work- ens Deiter thelr egaditigns I 1 — nnn — Kaufman Machine Is Desperate ‘ (Continued from page 1) in South Norwalk, where it declares it won two dollar increases for mem- bers. But here the membership is in revolt against the machine for a re- actionary agreement, which tied the union to a five-year agreement for a forty-eight hour week and no shop chairmen. Ignores New York. Nothing is said in the report of ac tivities of the New York joint board, where 1,500 workers have just been added to the union in the militant strike of the Greek furriers; but much is told of their part in the La- Follette progressive“ movement, which betrayed the movement for a labor party. The report has nothing to say re- garding the betrayal, despite the fact that the union is on record as favor- ing a labor party. This is not sur- prising, since Kaufman’s machine at the A. F. of L. convention just held, voted with Green and his cohorts to damn the labor party movement and keep labor tied to the kite of capital- ist politics. The report proudly endorses the in- junction secured by the Boston local union against the firm of Isadore Mill- man, which aroused the opposition of every progressive worker in the union. Similar reactionary policies are endorsed. Left Wing Policy. The left wingers will fight the adop- tion of the report and expose the class collaboration policies which are <4 1 ee —ꝛ—2 alma! The left wing has introduced re- solutions for a labor party, the re- cognition of Soviet Russia, amalga- mation of the needle trades unions, shop committees, the sending of a delegation of needle trades workers to Soviet Russia, class conscious edu- cational program, world trade union unity, endorsement of The DAILY WORKER and Freiheit, recognition of the First of May as a holiday, demands for a fighting policy against class collaboration and for militant trade demands. “As We See It“ Monday, Nov. 16 Beginning next week, “As We See It,” the column edited by T. J. O’Flaherty, will again appear in The DAILY WORKER as one of its regular features, This bright, analytiéal comment on the events of the day—graced with the keen wit of the well-known writer, is the very best reason to induce. your friends to — —ͤ— SUBSCRIBE! | „ . 3 bn N d ela ~ — - ine 0 * 2 yer eet = 27
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=" ＋ n rr | | The Movement * > The following article upon the possibility and significance of arbitra- tion and what it means to the anthracite strikers comes at a time when all their enemies are trying to force a settlement without granting the wage demands by arbitration and mediation. This is the tenth of a series of articles by Alex Reid, secretary of the Progressive Miners’ Committee, whose efforts to speak to meetings of miners was cut short by a jail sen- tence, from which he was recently released. . 7 * 2 * 8570 By ALEX REID Secretary Progressive Miners’ Committee, | (Article X.) ‘meld The claim of saving the anthracite industry, from the menace of substitutes, according to the coal owners, necessitates the im- mediate resumption of operation, with the points in dispute left to the tender mercies of arbitrators. 7 The United Mine Workers have nothing to arbitrate: They are either correct in their demands, or incorrect. It is they who place their lives in jeopardy to produce the coal that warms our firesides and keeps us from freezing. It is they who give their lives—500 of them per year—+— 2 that their loved ones may exist. per one-sided, and the elaim of Not Only Wages. operators that arbitration must Arbitrate? It is not only a ques- be accepted as a principle for all tion of wages, hours and working con- Other disputes, is very inconsistent ditions that they are asked to arbi-| indeed. and that the arbitration.is to trate. It is life itself, be applied only to one side of the The miners refuse’ to arbitrate |femce-—the miners’ demands. their demands, not because they feel] It is noticeable that the operators their case is unjust, but because they do not invite arbitration of the have had bitter experience with arbi-| amount of interest they shall receive tration before, which has always left | on their investment, or the profits on them standing with the empty bag. | their watered stock. No mention is The miners are asked to arbitrate made of arbitration about the amount the only thing they have for sale—|they shall charge for coal, or the their human labor power. They are amount they shall charge their wage asked to arbitrate how much money | slaves for rent while existing in the they will receive for a certain amount | coal companies shacks—called houses of work, that in turn determines the — Where the snow slides in and the kind of food he shall eat, the kind of | cold winter blasts roar thru. food his wife and little children shall Only for Labor. eat, the clothes they wear, the kind No, indeed, arbitration is only for of schooling they will get, the kind the labor power of the miners, but of house in which they will be| must not be used to interfere with sheltered and raised. ö the enormous profits from the min- Arbitrate Lives. er’s labor power. | In truth, the miners are asked to The mine workers remember the arbitrate the kind of environment | refusal of the Rockefeller interest to ‘their children will grow up into wo- arbitrate in Colorado in 1913, when manhood and manhood, are asked to| President Wilson asked them to do arbitrate the life of the toiler and the | so, instead they sent in mine guards very future and life of his children. | and militia and shot and killed thir- The mine workers point out that] teen men, women and children, and this propaganda for arbitration is ve-| burned them in a pit where they had * * * 1 * . = * 7 13 5 i = QMION = * Po ar ö n des 3 4 J £5, , 9 * Nr * * — This is the fourth instalment of a series of articles dealing with the question of World Trade Union Unity. This instalment deals with the British Workers and International Trade Union Unity. Following instalments will deal with the Communists and World Trade Union Unity, and the American Federation of Labor and Unity. By TOM BELL. (Continued from Last Issue.) At the meeting of the executive bureau of the Amsterdam International in June, 1924, the British representatives, led by Fred Bramley and A. A. Purcell, president of the international, stood for the opening up of negotiations with the Russian unions on the question of unifying the trade union movement. This was bitterly opposed by the right wing of the Amsterdam International. However, this proposal of the British representatives opened the road toward making the question of unity one of international significance. At that time these British leaders looked upon the Amsterdam International as being the logical unifying center, but today they stand along with the Russian trade unions for a world congress to establish a single united trade union inter- national. In June, 1924, the Russian unions sent a delegation to the Hull meeting of the British Trades Union Congress, headed by Tomsky, secretary of the All-Russian Central Council of Unions. This delegation raised the question of the creation of a united working class movement to meet the offensive of the capitalists and the dangers of new wars and fascism before the British trade unions. In return the British Trades Union Congress sent a delegation to the sixth congress of the Russian trade unions in December, 1924. There the question of working for trade union unity in a practical manner was taken up with the result that the Russian unions invited the British unions to join them in establishing an, Anglo-Russian trade union unity committee to work for unity on an international scale. The representatives of the British unions agreed that this was necessary and that they would recommend that their general council endorse the plan. This has been done and the Anglo-Russian unity committee co-ordinates the efforts of the two strongest trade union movements in the world for trade union unity. On its return from Russia the British delegation published its report on conditions in Russia under the title of “Russia Today.” This report has become famous thruout the world since that time. The reactionary leaders of Amsterdam and the capitalist press attacked it. viciously. The delegation was slandered and vilified and every effort was made to prejudice the workers aganist the report because it was favorable to Soviet Russia. The following is the gist of the conclusion regarding Soviet Russia, arrived at by the British delegation. It explains why the capitalist press attacks the report: A report on labor conditions in the Union of Socialist -Soviet Republics must begin by pointing out that in Russia the workers are the ruling class. For unless the reader bears this in mind throughout he will be misled by much in the Russian labor conditions that at first sight seems very much the same as with us. Really everything is quite different; because in Russia we have a regulation of the workers’ rights that they have put upon themselves for their own well-being. Elsewhere we have a restriction of the workers’ rights put upon them by the wealthy. . . No one who grasps this will ever be misled by the lies he can read almost daily that the worker in Russia tess a life as limited as, and even less liberty than, with us. The Russian workers are the ruling class of Russia. They enjoy the rights of a ruling class. They-are beginning to exercise its responsibilities. They still have much to learn, but they have made a start. In a village school visited by one of the delegates the chil- dren were learning to write in copybooks in which over “God save the ozar,“ had been pasted, “Once we were slaves, now . srt ! — vie ies cos taba ° for Wo —— For World Trade io The Russian delegation to the Anglo-Russian Trade Union Unity Con- ference held in London recently. From the left to right: W. Michailov, M. Tomski, chairman of the delegation; O. Chernyshev, I. Lepse, G. Melnichanski, secretary. we are free.” The following few extracts from the captalist and socialist press will indicate how bitter they were against this report: The London Daily Chronicle (Feb. 28, 1925) under the head- line, Trade Unionists Who Were Hoodwinked,” said of the report: “It is a naive document, and where it is not naive it is mis- leading.“ ; | The following headlines appeared in the London capitalist press regarding the report: Daily Mail: ““Eyewash: For Blind Lead- ers of the Blind.“ Westminster Gazette: Labor's Soviet White- wash.” Daily Express: “Red Whitewash.” The socialist press was no less bitter in its efforts to discredit the report. Le Populaire, organ of the French socialist party had a leading article under the headline: “The Naive Delegates of the Trade Unions Will Deceive No One.” Every paper supporting the right wing of Amsterdam against international trade union unity denounced the report. In America the conservative labor press attacked the report, led by the reactionary Jewish Daily Forward of New York. | During the last year the movement toward the left of the British workers has shown itself in no uncertain manner. A. J. ‘Cook, on the basis of the R. I. L. U. program, was elected to the position of secretary of the Miners’ Federation of Great Britain over the reactionary Amsterdam leader, Hodges, who was civil, lord of the admirality in the the MacDonald cabinet. The revolutionary wing of the trade union movement or- ganized in the National Minority Movement, led by such staunch revolutionary fighters as Harry Pollitt of the Boilermakers’ Union, and Tom Mann of the Engineers’ Union, has grown to great pro- portions. In February, 1925, the conference of the National Min- ority Movement held in London, had present over six hundred delegates representing over six hundred thousand trade union- ists. This is no fake membership because the membership of the Minority Movement is based upon dues payment, both individ- ual and collective. This movement has as its basis the program of the R. I. L. U., and is making rapid headway in winning over great masses of British trade unionists to their revolutionary program. The capitalist attack on the wages of the British miners pro- duced a wonderful exhibition of solidarity ſh the formation of the le Union Unity Union ress also secured the support of the transport workers of contin’ tal Europe in refusing to ship coal to Britain in the event of a miners’ strike. This alliance pledged itself to strike along with the miners and actually issued strike orders. This display of solidarity and militancy forced the capitalists to halt their offensive on the miners. The government.subsidized the mine owners to the extent of £50,000,000 on the understanding that there would be no reductions in wages and that the existing contract be extended until May, 1926. | That the British ruling class understands that this swing to the left on the part of the workers means a challenge to the cap- italist system is shown in the preparations being made to ad- minister a crushing blow to the trade unions. The fascist move- ment is openly organizing. Strikebreakers are being organized on approval of the government in an organization named the Maintenance of Supplies. Cabinet. ministers openly threaten the use of force against the working class. The Communist Party and the National Minority Movement leaders are arrested charged with seditious propaganda, especially among the armed forces. The right wing trade union leadership was repudiated at the Scarborough Trades Union Congress, and the left wing leaders assured of the support of the overwhelming mass of trade union- ists. In the labor Daily Herald a discussion raged for some weeks on the question: Shall the workers arm? The parliamentary labor party is still dominated by MacDonald & Co. But the masses of the trade unionists are following the left wing—the battles being fought between the left and right wings inside the move- ment today are preparatory steps towards an effective challenge of British capitalism. The new outlook of the British trade union movement was given concrete expression at the Scarborough Trades Union Con- gress held in October, 1925. The following constitutes the pro- gram of the British trade unions according to the decisions of that congress: , 1. That capitalism can no longer function in the interests of the working class and must be replaced by a system of societ) based upon the socialization of the means of wealth production. 2. In the struggle against capitalism new forms of struggle are necessary; therefore it is necessary to organize shop commit- tees to mobilize the workers for the fight against capitalism. 3. The actions of the general council regarding internation- al trade union unity were endorsed, and the council instructed to continue to work with the Anglo-Russian Unity Committee for this aim. : 4. Definitely broke with British imperialism and declared that the British empire was based upon the exploitation of mil- lions of colonial slaves, that it was the duty of the unions to aid in the destruction of this slave empire, and that the Trade Union Congress must help the colonial workers to organize themselves in trade unions and political parties for the fight against British capitalist exploitation. This program, in conjunction with the growing class con- sciousness of the trade unionists as shown by the growth of the Minority Movement, has laid the basis for the renovation of the British trade union movement. That movement has always been held up as the ideal conservative, craft union movement of the world. So conservative was it that the great deeds of the found- ers of the first trade unions at the beginning of the last century, and the heroic deeds of the Chartists between 1830 and 1849 were forgotten. But the misery brought upon the British workers by the capitalist crisis has forced them forward as a matter of self- preservation. The British workers will prove in the future that they are able to perform even greater deeds than the heroic Chartists in the coming great class conflicts. The movement for world trade union unity having for its basis the 11,000,000 trade unionists of Britain and Russia repre- sents: a powerful force in the working class movement today. The opposition of the reactionary Amsterdam leaders, encouraged oy the American Federation of Labor officialdom, to this move- ment will be swept aside, by the sheer necessity of the workers to workers’ alliance composed of the n and trans. port workers, backed by the Trades Union Congress, The Trades defend themselves against the coolie standard of living forced upon them by, capitalism. | , — — ne ony 9's ‘ 1 y — - ‘ ‘ * 2 * é Fabulous Pay Offered by Silk Mills By Albert Welsbord. (Worker Correspondent) HILLCREST, N. J., Nov. 12-— How the slik owners’ association of Hud- son county, with headquarters at a New York employment agency, Is vassing the entire nation to get wore ers and money to break the strike et the Hillcrest Silk Mill and even offers as much as $70 a week, exepnses am $30 commission for securing seabs, Suspicions Verified. Growing suspicious on reading ad- vertisements in New York papers calling for weavers for out-of- town work, these two silk strikers went to apply, saying that they were from another state. It didn’t take them long to find out that the employment | agent wanted to send them to the very mill on which they were striking, the Hillcrest Silk Mill, altho no hint was given of the strike. The strikers were able to point out secretly to go. In the meantime, one of the strikers gained the confidence of the agent to such an extent that he was offered a job as assistant to secure scabs in Connecticut, with $70 a week salary, each scab secured. As the striker pretended to agree, the agent invited. him out to the plant to make final arrangements. Nation-Wide Plot Revealed The following important informa- tion was wormed out of the agents First, that the silk owners associa- tion of Hudson county is supporting the Hillcrest mill owner, De Barr, to the limit, This is for the very good reason that the strike is against an attempt to introduce the three and four loom system. Not only would this system be established in Hil- crest but in all of Hudson county, if the strikers lose, and it would effect thousands of workers there, as well as bringing wage cuts for Astoria, Long Island, Brooklyn and New York City. Second, that a fund has been esta- besides to have free railroad fare, with room and board en route paid by the company. On Sunday, free “en- tertainment” was to be furnished. Third, that the bosses and govern- ment agents are trying to frame-up the strike leaders,—Albert Weisbord, secretary of the United Front Com- mittee of Textile Workers’ central bureau, and George Pearlman, of the Hudson county committee. Strikers Give answer * Strikers declare that their answer picket line, to fight harder than ever to spread the united front by moré workers for the strike, and by spreading the warning that the fate ot all silk workers depends upon the outcome of the strike,—that the bos- ses are ready to cut wages nat a and to, put all silk workers on a three and four loom basis. ‘ All workers are urged to get their Jersey. : e . commissariat of education is orgam zing a series of “factory schools” im which homeless children and waifs will be taught various trades in add facilities for 10,000 youngsters. 2 pupils for skilled work in factories and work shops after graduating from the schools. 2 The factory schools will be run ip close connection with industrial en- terprises, co-operative organizations and other public bodies. The system of work in these schools will bé harmonized with the discipline exist- to conform to the character of the youngsters. The working time will be from 4 to 6 hours daily, depending on the respective ages. Such schools will be opened at Ivanovo-Voznessensk, Orel, Moscow and other industrial centers. Special funds for this purpose have been granted by the council of people's commissaries. HELP SAVE THE DAILY WORKERI Amummmumummumummmummumuumumnemm FOR RENT: FURNISHED ROOM by com- rade. Telephone Keystone 8539, SO others who had answerea the add that they were to be shipped out as scabs and so persuaded them not to to this plot will be to double the The chief attention in these schools Will be directed towards equiping the ing at the adult factories and work shops, with the necessary deviations © was revealed by clever detective work on the part of two strikers, 8 all expenses paid and 330 extra for blished to secure strikebreakers thru- out the country, Scabs are to be paid forty dollars a week, much more than the strikers ever could make—and — ~ organizations to join the United Front Committee, which has its headquar& . ers at 393 Broadway, Union City, New Factory Schools Teel ace Russian Orphans Trades MOSCOW, Nov. 12—The people™ tion to general education. There Pa to be 20 schools of this type, onk
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pd “teak ale A 7 ee 1 =f 18. ag * ret Pe 729 Be 7 . 1 . 7 Sash » _ GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.—Efforts of deal comrades to make the eighth an- versary celebration a big demonstra- Hon in behalf of workera’ rule in the 8 sviet Union, resulted in a great re- 7 sponse from Grand Rapids tollers, * oR the S. and D. Hall. Late information reaching here that, because of his editorial duties on The DAILY WORKER, forcing him to return to Chicago immediately after his Detroit meeting, Comrade J. Louis Engdahl could not be present at this event as advertised; and the further augmentation of this disad- vantage thru the failure of two other scheduled speakers to appear at all, made a complete last minute rear- rangement of the program necessary. Comrade B. A. Faulkner, veteran fighter of the revolutionary move- ment in Michigan, acted as chairman. Following his opening remarks he in- troduced,Comrade James Barkin, who, himself well remembering the old Russia of czarist days, made a brief address, treating the relation of the American working class to the Union of Soviets. . Bechtold Principal Speaker Comrade Eugene Bechtold, local or- ganizer, reviewed the economic and political developments of Soviet Rus- sia during the last eight years, which today have reached a stage of utmost | importance, constituting a victory not merely confined to the Russian work- ers, but a triumph for the proletariat of the entire world. After assailing the Locarno secur- ity pact as the latest scheme for at- tacking the U. S. S. R., the speaker treated in detail the demands formu- lated by the Workers (Communist) Party, the struggles for which will teach the working class the true nature of American capitalist demo- cracy and will lead them onward to the workers’ and famers’ government of the United States. Honor Frunze Bechtold asked the audience to rise and stand in silence in memory of the late red commissar of war, Michael Frunze, following which the speaker made the collection appeal for The DAILY WORKER, which, thru the cooperation of Y. W. L. Comrades Louis Druker and Dena Van Heck on the floor, amounted to 529,50. Copies of the anniversary edition of The DAILY WORKER and the : a The Young Comrade A Monthly Paper Issued for Work- ing Class Children by the Young Pioneers of America INCLUDING: Articles by children of the lives of the workers, and their children; stories; cartoons; pictures and many other fea- tures that appeal to children and teach them the truth of the present system. Make your child a fighter for the workers’ cause—give your children | The Young Comrade 50 Cents a Year. 1113 W. Washington Boulevard, CHICAGO, ILL, WHAT OUR SHOP NUCLEUS HAS DONE cussion on this subject. By ANDREW HOLMES, Worker Correspondent. f ; After having accepted at the 1923 convention a resolution dealing with the reorganization on a shop nuclei basis, our party had we a lengthy dis- The German, French and Czecho-Slovakian parties, at the time of the last convention of the Workers Party, had reorganized many of their units into . — shop nuclei, Our party, on that oc solved immediately to start the task of reorganizing the we on the basis of shop nuclei. In our factory there were enough party members last May to start a nucleus. We therefore proceeded with t formation of such a shop nucleifs. Previous to the actual forma- tion of the nucleus; we were, as party members, working as a unit in this factory. Our union, the Amalgamated Cloth- ing Workers which, it is well known, not only solidly supported LaFollette and the LaFollette movement, but as- sessed the membership of the union one dollar each for the LaFollette campaign. In our shop, however, we, the party members, put up such a splendid campaign, that many of the workers there, who were members of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Féfused to pay their LaFollette as- sessment. We succeeded in collecting $11 among these, workers for the Workers n Party cam- paign. After we were bes ane into a shop nucleus, we mapped out our activities. Because of the precarious position we were in there was at first difficulty in carrying on intense activity. In the first place, a general attack was launched against the par- ty members. With the assistance of the Jewish Forward and other yellow sheets our enemies succeeded in spreading prejudice and antagonism against the Workers Party and the Trade Union Educational League. Naturally our struggle was made more dificult by that. Two of our members, as a result of a collaborative frame-up between the boss and the shop chair- man, lost their jobs. However, we soon gained three new members. The conditions in the tailoring in- dustry are very bad. For the past year, the majority of the workers have been employed on the average only half time. In spite of these handi- caps, we succeeded in selling consid- erable literature and tickets for the various party affairs. Two months ago we helped organ- ize a branch of the International La- casion, reaffirmed its stand and re. „ with flf- us forging bor Defense in our facto teen members, and are ahead. What is our activity at present? On the first of May this year a new eee was concluded with the facturers. There was a universal — a general wage cut agreed ‘to. Namely: they took most of the sec- tions in the various shops and, under the cloak of readjusting economy, thousands of members lost their jobs. Those remaining were hardly in a position to eke out a livelihood. This collaborative method carried in itself the germ of another catastroph- ical occurrence. As stated above, } President Hillmarewssisted the manu- tacturers in cutting the standard of pay of the workers. The International Tailoring company, which is enjoying huge profits and is still unsatisfied, asked repeatedly for such enormous reductions that even the Amalgamated officialdom. could not comply with them because they realized it would} mean the loss of their official posi- tion in the union. The result of this was the strike against the firm. This strike has been in force for the last four months. If the Amalgamated officialdom would have rejected the first demand of the manufacturers, for a wage cut, they surely would not have forced the alternative—a general strike because if the International Tailoring Co. could not secure scabs, the entire: local market would have its last chance to manufacture garments with scabs. To sum up, what has been the mission of our shop nucleus? Thru education fhe membership was made more acquainted with the meaning of the class struggle. We did everything to familiarize the workers with the class collaboration which exist be- tween the manufacturers and the officialdom of the union. Thru such activities our own membership would be welded into a more militant body. We are now in a better position to withstand and repel every attack against the standard of living of the workers. Workers Monthly were sold, and sev- eral orders taken for the highly in- formative book “Russia Today.” Sokal Speaks in Lithuanian Joe Sokal, particularily well known among Lithuanian workers concluded the meeting with an address to the remaining audience in his native tongue. — General satisfaction prevailed among the comrades as to the out- dome of the celebration despite all obstacles; it being the third of a series of mass meetings of major im- portance arranged and conducted by local Communists. > Bellaire Authorities Forbid Celebration of Bolshevik. Revolution By A Worker Correspondent BELLAIRE, Ohio. Nov. 12.—The municipal authorities have stopped the eight anniversary meeting ar- ranged by the Workers (Communist) Party on Friday, Nov. 6. The com- rades were notified me night before the meeting that they could not hold the meeting. The hall keeper was intimidated, and was told that he would get a fine of $500 if he allowed the meeting to take place. The district office of the Workers Party is detérmined to get the right of free speech in Bellaire. As far as can be learned, the Wheeling Steel company and the coal operators are HELP SAVE THE DAILY WORKER! — NEW YORK, ATTENTION! = 14th street, Room 42. 14th street, Room 42. * WHO IS TO ATTEND: must attend this meeting. All housewives, tradesmen, MEETING. PARTY. PARTY REORGANIZATION MEETINGS _ SECTION THREE will meet Monday, Nov. 16, 6 p. m., at 108 East SECTION FOUR (23rd St. to 34th St., east and west), will meet on Monday, November 16, at 6 p. m. at 301 West 29th St. SECTION NINE (Williamsburg, Ridgewood, Boro Hall), will meet on Monday, Nov. 16, at 6 p. m. at 66 Manhattan Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. NIGHT WORKERS will meet Monday, Nov. 16, at 2 p. m. at 108 East Every party member working in thle section retail dealers, doctors. dentists, lawyers, agents (who have no steady place of em- ployment) who live in this section will attend this meeting, All those who are unemployed, and whose last place of employ- ment was located in this section, will attend this meeting. All those living in this section who did not register and do not know in what section their shop is located, will attend this meeting. LET EVERY PARTY MEMBER ATTEND THE SECTION HELP REORGANIZE THE PARTY. 7 5 4 HELP IN THE BUILDING UP OF A STRONG BOLSHEVIK © } small. businessmen, j —o f ff RETEST Ee AR OO tees “OTS eR Wo 4 shind the action of * municipal iuthorities.. The Workers Party = Pepi to wage the fight for free speech. Re- cently a meeting of the party in Cleveland was disrupted by the po- lice. Putting two and two together, it would appear as if the authorities are preparing a campaign against the Workers (Communist) Party, prelimi- ary to a general attack.on the organ- ized labor movement. The open shoppers are carrying on a broad campaign. They are utilizing the-newspapers to the full, and every- where are agitating for the open shop. The coal operajors are work- ing overtime, to beat down the stand- ard of the miners; Only recently it was announced that anthracite coal- fields in West Virginia, which have not been operated: for years, will re- open if the international commerce commission will reduce freight rates. This means a regular campaign’ against the anthracite miners “which attacks the bituminous miners as well. ’ 2 „„ Rochester, N. V., Is Proud of Celebration of Workers Republic ROCHESTER, N. V., Nov. 12.— The anniversary of the Russian revolu- tion meeting in Rochester was one of the very best held. The hall was beautifully decorated with red bunt- ing, large palms adorned the windows anf platform and banners were hung everywhere in the large hall with “Hail to the Workers “Greetings to the Communists of the World” and other appropriate slogans. The music was furnished by a large Lithuanian chorus, Speeches were made in Italian, Jewish and | English. When Mother Bloor> ~who | spoke in English rose to speak, a young comrade stepped out on the platform and led the large audience in singing The International. Mother Bloor's address was received with the warmest appreciation, She re- viewed the stupendous achievements of Soviet Russia in the last 8 years and pointed out the significance of this to workers of the entire world. RUSSIAN BRANGH GIVES ‘RETURNED FROM SIBERIA AT WORKERS’ THEATER NEW YORK, Nov, 12.—The Rus- sian’ Branch No. 2, of the Workers (Communist) Party is arranging a five-act play, “Returned from 81 beria,” for Saturday, Nov. 14, and Sunday, Nev. 16, at the Russian Workers’ Theater, 431 East 6th St. There will be a symphony orches- tra of 35 pieces to accompany the play. After the play there ‘will be Republic” | OMAHA, Neb. Nov, 12. — The elghth anniversary celebration of the R revolution will be held at the Labor Temple Bali Room, 19th and Davenport Sts., Sunday afternoon, Nov. 22, at 2:30 p. m., under the auspices of the Omaha Workers (Communist) Party, the Independent Ladies’ Club, and the Workmen's Circle Branches 626 and 258. Comrade Robert Minor, member of the ntral Executive Commit tee of the Workers ( ‘ommunist) Party, will be the main speaker. ‘Minor has been in Soviet Russia a number of times and every Omaha worker should take this opportunity in to hear of the conditions as they are in the first workers’ a farmers’ government. : A small admission of 25 cents will, be charged.” All proceeds are to go to aid our en. The DAILY WORKER. * . .. No. 1 Grand Masque Ball Saturday Night To raise funds to n carry on the league work in District No. 8 and to help maintain The Young Worker, } Working Area Branch No. 1 of the Young Workers (Communist) League is arranging a grand masque ball on Saturday, November the 14th at the Workers Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Blvd. Young Workers (Communist) League Area Branch No. 1 meets every Friday night at 8:00 p. m. at 166 W. Washington St. and is carry- ing on activity among the young workers employed in the downtown shops and stores. All members of the party and the league are expected to — this affair. The admission charge is bly 35c. Music is furnished by I. Letchinger’s Mid-West Syncopators.—‘“‘Nuff sed!” Famous Musicians to Play Saturday for Rescue Dance 0 1 8 NEW YORK, Nov. 12 Two cele- brated artists will donate their talent for the benefit of «The» DAILY WORKER at the Rescue Party ar- tha ranged for this Saturday, evening, Nov. 14, at the Bronx 1347 Boston road. he Liese Soskial, violinist, will ‘are two numbers, the Sonata in G Minor ‘by Tartini movement), and Tamburin by Rambeau Kreisler. Josephina Arinea will. give a num- ber of selections on the pane Not only residents 0 the Bronx but music lovers from all over the |. city who know of the splendid work of these two artists will fleck to the Rescue Party to hear them and in that way help The DAILY WORKER while spending a most pleasant even- ing. And, of course, there will be dancing until early morning, YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE TO HOLD MASQUE BALL SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14 To raise funds for The Young Worker and the District No. 8 of- fice of the Young Workers’ League which is planning a wide field of ac- tivity, Working Area Branch No, 1 of the Young Workers’ League Is holding a masque ball on Saturday, November 14, 1925, at the Workers’ Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Bivd. All the Workers Party and Young Workers’ League members and sympathizers of the Young Workers League and its activities are urged to attend and to come masked as valuable prizes will be given to best single costumes or a group portray- ing some revolutionary event or epoch. Admission to the dance is only 35 cents. PAR ORGANIZATION — With Introduction by JAY LOVESTONE. A most valuable pamphiet | Communist i} movement containing: American | | The letter of the Commtn- ist International on re- | organization; the shop nuc- | lei; the constitution—in- dexed and with charts. | A Communist should not be without it. 15 Cents. dancing to the wee small pure of | the morning. — fore we reached camp we had another on the composition of the {| } 7 History TORT. 8 About Communists By W. J. M. (Worker Correspondent) SPOKANE, Wash., Nov. 12.—While walking along the “skidway” (Trent avenue, where the lumber jacks hang out) the Worker correspondent talked with a number of lumber jacks in their hob nailed shoes and short legged pants. * 10 Generally speaking their opinions as expressed by themselvos, as regards conditions in the woods are “rotten”, “bum”, “not worth a dam.“ While talking to these “working stiffs,” as many. of these old time Wobblies rate themselves, your cor- respondent as them to explain ber camps so severely. | One old timer Said: „Well, the last job I shipped out to we had to hike 15 miles after we left the train. Be- hike up a ravine. At the head of this ravine stood a shack, its logs almost ready to crumble down. Too Rotten For Pigs. “Inside was straw in the bunks, the floor was covered with filth; no bull cook to keep the place clean. 1 never saw a pig pen look so filthy, and the grub was equally rotten. “The wages were a little more than $3.00 per, and out of that you paid} $1.25 per for your flop on the straw in the filthy, lousy bunk house and for} the stuff they doled out to you for food, and that’s why I say the woods are rotten.” When They Fought The Bosses. When reminded that the I. W. W. once made the lumber barons of the Northwest furnish libraries and show- er baths, and asked why they had failed to maintain these conditions, he replied: “In those days, the Wobblies fought the lumber kings. Now the Wohblies fight each other, that is, a bunch of. pie card artists fight each other while the rank and file are shot to hell.“ Don’t Believe Anarohiet Bunk. Your correspondent then asked him 2 oe 9 that circulates among e Wobblies that the Com the Wobblies. Pay a ere “Communist split hell!” he repli “Ain't Harrison George, an old aan Wobbly, a Communist? No, its only the. ; ignorant Wobblies that swaHow gag. “Any Wobbly that™is posted mani | Communist did all in their wer to keep the Wobblies from splitting, but because the Communists showed up, same disrupters and pie card artists in the Wobbly movement ‘they sought revenge by telling ‘the rank and file that the Commusiet split us. And He Is Not a e “If the I. W. W., as an organization would let a handful of Communists’ split us, then we are not worthy the name of a labor organization. Did the Communists split any of the A. F. of L. organizations? No, then how in|) hell could they split the I. W. W.? “The I. W. W. permited themselves to be split by a bunch of anarchistie pie card artists in spite of the Commun: munists split us is an insult to a think- ing Wobbly!” When asked if he was a Communist he replied “No.” Lost Union—Lost Conditions. The above statement as regards con- ditions in the lumber camps of the Northwest was corroborated by other lumber jacks, while a few of them spoke of conditions not quite so bad, but none of them interviewed by your correspondent had any praise for wages, hours and working conditions in the woods. Some laid the bad conditions to the 4 L. a company union, others to the unorganized state of affairs among the ‘umber workers and others to the lack of the fighting spirit of the old time I. W. W., but all agreed that the trade of a lumber jack in the woods of the Northwest was nothing for a slave to envy, their reason for ondemning the lum- ists, and that old stuff that the Com- . — ma? Bh eT Me: 2 vt — ETS } bie cle * 5 RR 3 N,. f iS £ tn) 20 . ao. N * . si Oh 4 “ 7 eae v7. 8 = 4 G e 7ͤã 7 :(dü Seo v 7 1 1. 8 * * (Opecial to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, Nov. 12. Many courses of special ists are offered by the New York Workers’ School tn tts bulletin of coursss au x Abe ä N union- unfon officers and union members be taken up. Some Se oe ar caer organized ; laboration; shop committess; labor movement; and the fight against re- ists wil, take up the problems technique of wage and price neg tions and agreement and other topics. | iar titled . “The History and the Needli e Trades Industry.” Twen five or 30 of the most active 8 in the various needle trades unions will be admitted into this special. active workers in the ne les industry for responsible work in their problems facing officers, ex board members, business agents, de- partmental heads and the active union workers will be taken up, in- | E the problems of seasonal fluctua- tions, contractors, jobbers, inside shops, etc. and the tasks of shop chairmen, organization committees, campaigns, finances, office manage- ment, etc. This course will be con- ducted by specialists in their respec- tive fields, under the general direction of a commitee of which Alexander Trachtenberg is the secretary and whose other members are Ben Gitlow, Sascha Zimmerman, J. Zack, and Bert Wolfe. Public Speaking. , A course in public speaking, in-. structor Carl Brodsky, is also attract-’ ing much attention among organized nomic and technical problems met by + and the law; politics in the labor | action reformism. Instructor is Bert Miller; leading trade unionists will participate in round 7 cussion of strike strategy sae tet. * not training course. It aims to prepare, | respective unions. The various vital cluding the history of the industry, grades for such trade. euloniate es: W222 training f workers in the unions, Among them are especially recommended: Amer. ican Economic and Political History;” Anton Bimba and Jacob Mindel. All of these courses open the last week in November so that workers interested should hasten to register at the Workers School now if they hope to get admited. The fee for each course is $2.50 for three months. Registration takes place every after- noon and evening at the Workers School, 108 East 14 St., Room 34. Courses in English, trade unionism, economics,’ politics, and history, are also offered to the unions at their Workers Schoo] will furnish compe- tent instructors for such courses. ‘Workers Sch for small fees and the workers as it is of great practical use BATTLEGROUND; LEAVE Word from Syria has been receiv- ed in Chicago, but it does not con- | cern the sanguinary conflict raging there now, except in a remote man- ner. The Oriental Institute of the University of Ohieage has received word from Prof. James H. Brea- stead, in charge of the Armagedon expedition of the university, that the uprisings today will not halt the excavation of Megido Ridge, “the battle ground of the ages.” In- vestigations and excavatlions have been going on here for consider- able time, and preparations are un- der way to slice off the top layer of the battle ground to discover what happened thousands of years ago. If these gentlemen want to find ghastly remains among ruins they could dig into the ruins of Damascus, “the mother of cities,” and discover horrors that the an- cient conquerors never dreamed of. — L6G. “Threatens” Expose of St. Paul Railroad Financing WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.—Incensed at accusations that it could have pre- vented the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad being thrown into a receivership if it had approved certain financial plans submitted to it by the road's directorate, the interstate com- merce commission is threatening to disclose some of the secrets as to how the financial end of the road was “managed” at its meeting here on November 30. The commission's threat to expose the St. Paul’s finan- clal history and methods used by various banks in railroad financing has made many of the political observ- ers in Washington smile wisely as they remember that the commission Build the DAILY WORKER. has made threats in the past, | | . Agents Tour Soviet Ukraine _4Bpedial to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Nov. 12. — enta- tives of the Ford Automobile Co. have recently arrived in the Ukraine to study the state of tractor cultivation in the Ukraine, and the working ot factory. | The Americans have toured jthe Ukraine, and on being ns ed, stated their impression that the American tractor has firmly establish ed its popularity among the Ukrain- jan peasants, who are utilizing the | tractor not only for ploughing, but. .also for other agricultural purposes. Acgording to the Ford representa- tives, it is already the dream of every Ukrainian nat to acquire a trac- tor. i, Radio Stations in Moscow. MOSCOW, Nov. 12.—The Moscow Soviet has ordered the installation of radio receiving stations thruout the province of Moscow. In evéry town and village where there are radio amateurs, radio re- ceivers and loud speakers will be in- stalled, and consultations bureaus es- tablished for the benefit of amateurs. The whole work of “radiofication” is to be completed by the coming win- ter. The peasants are manifesting intense interest in this work. Russ Tourist Association. MOSCOW, Nov. 12.— The Russian Tourist association of Moscow is completing its 30th year of fruitful activity in the organization of histort- cal and ethnographical excursions, The activities of the association in- crease year by year. In 1924 alone the association organized 170 excur- sions in and around Moscow, in which more than 4,000 members took part. At the present time the association is preparing for publication a “Guide to Moscow ‘and ~ Environs” and a series of informative booklets on mat ters of interest to tourists. ee - —— ‘TWO RECENT BOOKS ON THE NEW RUSSIA „ First Time in by Anna Loulse Strong | troduction tc this vivid New Russia in the growth, The writer whose p : rich, and complete, is well kno pen-name of “‘Anise Leon Trotsky has written an in- periences in Soviet Russia have been whose knowledge of the land and its people is intim American labor 9 undder the 9 account of process of ersonal cx- mate and wn to the class written, 0 DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Romance of New Russia by Magdaleine Marx This book of impressions of Soviet Russia is written by the noted French novelist. it is a book aglow with the color, light and life of Russia— } A picture of the mary people the writer has met there—working men 0 and women, officials—people of ali it es. is a colorful bock, brilliantly Cloth, $2.00 5 F oe. 42.00 asnington u rd, i Aad’ 1 N “CHICAGO, Le 1 oad: 5 1113 Waunneten , enen. I. 2 . — — — nee the tractors manufactured at the Ford & 4 — 1 — — — ‘ es ee
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~~ CP Ra em rr LAE LENE COE SITE LIE N as Orgentaing a: United Front Against Cut (Special to The Dally Worker) PASSAIC, N. J., Nov. 12. The unit- ed front committee of textile work ers is making a headway in organiz- ing the textile workers. This Friday will be the second mass meeting which promises to be more success- ful than the first held two weeks ago. The work of organization hardly be- gan and yet hundreds of workers join- ed the organization. It seems that the workérs of Passaic are awakening} and “beginning to see that unless they | organize themséives, they’ are hope- less. * The average elles ‘ee a 48-hour week fs $23.00. This explains every- thing. How can a worker live on $23 a Week, when the cost of living is as high as it is? ow can a worker edu- cate’ his children, who gets $23 for | 48 hours? Everybody knows that you cannot make even a half decent living on such starvation wages. It is time for the textile workers to build a strong organization and fight for less hours and more’ wages. The united front committee of textile workers is helping to create such a fighting organization. Help the U. F. C. ok T. W. and you help yourself. Come to the Friday mass meeting. Speakers in all languages. English, Ben Gitlow; Polish, Radwansky; Hun- garian, Lustig; Russian, Dmitrijov; Ukrainian, Italian and German. Be at the mass meeting at Neu- bauer’s Hall, President street and Parker avenue. The headquarters are open every night for registration, 25 Dayton Ave. Seattle Painters Demand Referendum on Expulsion Law SEATTLE, Wash., Nov. 12.—Paint- ers’ Local No. 300 makes a demand on the international union that the amend- ment which was adopted at the Mon- treal convention, held in 1925, and now used to expel Communists, be sub- mitted to the membership in a refer- endum , The Seattle painters point out that the amendment can be used to expel any unionist that may dare to “advo-| cate united and militant action against the bosses” and that this amendment penalizes union members, . who differ on union policy, from those in power and that it splits the Broth- erhood instead of uniting it in a “com- mon struggle for the better things in life.” The amendment will go to referen- dum if 25 locals in five different states or provinces demand it, according to the constitution of the Painters’ Brotherhood. To those who work hara for their money, | will save 50 per cent on all their dental work. DR. RASNICK DENTIST 645 Smithfield Street Cun Fer * EN U N COOLIDGE S nl Es WITH CHARTERIS F | 1 WORST ATRC ITER IONOR A STORIES : WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.— Frederick William Wile, a Washington press correspondent who now is an ardent eulogist of President Coolidge, and who broadcasts political “news” from the capital for a radio company, has been | identified as the original press sponsor for the story that German army /om- | W cers cooked the bodies of dead German soldiers, during the war, in order to ‘utilize the oll for military purposes. Gen, Charteris, formerly in charge of | propaganda in London, disclosed the fact at a dinner in New York, recent- *. that this story, } was a lie manufac- tured by himself. British labor and liberal circles have been aroused by the discovery, and have searched the documentary history of the lie. Dompete for “Honor |)» | Acc r to the London . Herald, ba’ rommnent war cor — N as Now. testified that told nim chis story late in 1916. The: übe made of it in the press was 7 1917. when Wile, in “the Daily Mail, owned by Northéliffe,” as- serted ‘that the Berlin Lokal Ailkzer nad eallousiy admitted what had been wn for some time in Allied countries”—that the German com- mand was frying the fat out of the bodies of German dead. Gruesome descriptions of this process were | Hun Ghouls”. The dispatch printed in the Lokal | er which was credited to Karl 1 famous war correspondent, coming into a region which ‘was oppressed by the stench from a reduction plant, in which flesh was being made into fertilizer, pig feed and oil. The word translated by Wile as “corpses” describing the raw material, was a German word which is generally used to describe only the dead bodies of animals— such as horses, cattle, dogs, etc. No- where was there a reference to the “corpses” as being human. Another Lie Nailed. An officer has also come forward with direct denial of the story that human bodies were “reduced” in a certain concrete chamber over a canal at a specified point in Belgium. The photograph taken in that spot ‘when this British officer was present, en the deadly effects of an Allied shell, which had killed the staff of a German mess kitchen. The picture was used, however, as evidence that . dead were 3 cut up for “reduction.” Denver Workers Flock Into Trade Unions DENVER, Nov. 12—Organization among Denver workers is taking a leap forward with new activity am the shoe repairers” teachers and guards. The Yellow Front shops are ‘now 100 per cent union with the for- mation of a Denver local of shoe re- pairers. The jail guards have joined the city employes’ union and a teach- ers’ local is under way with’ the staff of the Denver Labor college as the nucleus from which to penetrate the public school system. A ‘union label trick by employers was exposed by the Bakery Workers’ ‘Union. Old Homestead bread is non- union but the wrapper carries a big union label which is shown when ‘housewives ask for union bread. The label covers only the printing on the PITTSBURGH, PA. wrapper. The bread inside is as scabby as ever, the union bakers show. PATTERNS : OUR DAILY 498% | S224 LADIES“ DRESS. 4084, Cut in 7 sizes: 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46 inches bust measure, A 88 inch size requires 4% yards of 40 inch material, The width of the dress at the foot is 1% yard, Price 12 cents, LADI®S’ MORNING 5224, Out in 6 sizes: 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, and 44 inches bust measure, A 38 inch size requires 3% yards of 36 inch material, Width of ekirt at the foot is 1% yard, Price 120. et ag or stamps and Winter, FASHION BOOK Bend lac in silver up-to-date all and containin misses’, and children’s pa ro ed os reed cise and comprehensive . dress - ee also some points for the needie ustra eok of Fashions 3 * 5 cel 500 d D . on ‘DRESS. 6027, ” out m 4 sizes: 4, 6, 8, 10 years, A 6 year size requires 2% yards of 36 inch material if made with long sleeves, With skert sleeves 2% yards are required, Price 12c. GIRLS’ DRESS 3233, Cut in 4 sizesf 6, 8, 10 and 12 years, A 10 year size requires 1% yard of striped material and % yard of plain 36 inches wide if made as in the large view, Price 120. NOYIOH TO PATTERN BUYERS—The tt bei la chr the D * WOREDR pattern aig stitches). nd, e binds ts tas 8 2 nished by a New Yor rm of pattern man * ers are forwarded by the ORKER every * re they are led by the man- ufactgrer a: to e customer. The . . * stock 110 wi take a 3 least 10 = ea ee ics of mail * order. mpationt eur pattern 10 , under headlines referring to | | Your Union Meeting Second Friday, Nov. 13, 1928. 237 Bakers and Conféétioners, 34 Roosevelt Road. 1 122 | nie and 8. Ashland Boller Ma and A 4 Boller Makers 135 An 533 Boiler Ma and Halsted. — * uncil, 1 as Carpenters’ 4 — U Council, 12 E. Erie St. Carpenters, 4339 8. Halsted St. 9 ‘trait Artists, 19 9 Blectriciana? 1 * ree St. — 80, St. Enginee Aa. 1 ‘Madison and — Engineers, “Tso, W Washington St. Firemen Enginemen, 5428 Wentworth: . f Fur Workers. Gardeners and Florists, Village Hall, Morton Grove 21 Garment Workers, 178 W. Wash- ington St., 6 p. m. 84 os Workers, Emily and Marsh- 12 . e 1850 Sherman St. 7 Janitors, 166 W. Washingto Garme 1% 492 Machinists, 55th and id’ Haleted Sts. Machnis 3 Lexington 1225 Machinists Pl. * Painters, oo eel St. gravers, $14 WW. Harrison * inen, 180 W - Washington St. Plumbers, 5212 8. Halsted St. Clinton St. 8 Milwaukee Ave. 15 Plymouth Ct., 30 p. m. Ane ers, O. R. T. Cort Club, dence otel. 111 Uphelsters 159 N. State St. 301 * amen Stock Yards), 3749 S. Local 2 268. A. &. W. — every 2nd Friday, 1564 No. Robey. (Note—Unless: otherwise stated all A are at 8 p. m.) Jewish Masses Settle on Soviet Land Grants MOSCOW, Nov. 12.—In the course of the last year, with the assistance of the. Soviet authorities, 6,000 Jewish kamilies were settled on the land, which means a population of about 20,000 people. There are now exist- ing hundreds of Jewish villages. |. The desire for settling on the land is very great among the masses of laboring Jews. Land is to be alloted for another 10,000 families in the com- ing year. Much assistance has been ziven to the Jewish settlers by the “Agro-Joint” organization of America, which has spent about $700,000 in the first year on supplying the new set- tlers with the necessary implements. The Soviet government, in addition o subsidies, extends also numerous orivileges to the colonists in regard 0 taxes, etc. Before the revolution the Jewieh masses were not allowed to work on the land. The antisemitic czarist pol- icy. would not. allow the Jews to en- gage in this important branch of the national economy. Now, under the li- beral regime of the Soviets, the Jews prove to be highly capable and in- dustrious agriculturists, serving in many districts ag models to their gen- tile neighbors in the adoption of mod- ern agricultural methods. The extent of the popularity of the desire for settling on the land among Jewish masses may be gauged from the fact that more than 30,000 Jew- ish families have applied for coloniz- ation on the allotments to be granted by the Soviet agricultural authorities in the coming year. Labor Unions Will Have Fat Chance to Use Air WASHINGTON,, Nov, 12.—There are too many broadcasting stations in the congested districts of the United States, and congress should strictly limit the total number to avoid gen- eral interference and ruin of the ex- isting service. That was the burden of Secretary Hoover's speech as chairman of the fourth national radio conference, held .in..Washington, D. C. His declaration put an end to the dream that labor organizations might soon be broadcasting trade union pro- paganda from their own stations. Speakers representing existing broadcasting stations confirmed his view. The ether.is jammed full al- ready, and if labor gets its message out to the millions of receiving sets it must pay the high prices charged by the existing broadcasters. “air” of radio is no more free than is good prairie land. It is all taken up, Education In Moscow. MOSCOW, Noy, 12.—As compared with last year, the number of schools functioning in Moscow has been in- creased from $18 to 390, and the number of students from 152,970 to 180,680. During the present year 210 kinder- gartens with 6,720 children will be functioning, and also 277 children's homes for 23,460 children. 56,265 students are learning viet in technical institgtiong. The Nis SEARCHES ft RNS FINKS MB-TOSSING idk. 3 for Five 0 (Special te The Daily Worker) JOLINT, Nov. 12.—Attempts are be- ing made to locate five Burns detec- tives so that warrants that the union has had issued for their arrest can be served on them and the Burns finks brought back to Joliet to answer for thé bombing of a garage where or- ganized auto mechanics have been on strike now for 11 weeks. The strikers, who are being transferred to a local ‘lof their ohn from the railway ma- chinists, demand 85 cents an hour for day work and 90 cents for night work. They have been getting around 60 cents. The Buick garage is the leader in the fight against decent pay. Dicks Frame Strikers. The Burns frame-up, as charged by the attorney for the strikers, started in getting the confidence of a striker by a man who posed as an insurance solicitor. The striker and the sup- posed solicitdr had a few drinks and walked downtown to the Buick garage where there is a 3-foot space to the next bullding. Here the solicitor per- ,| Suaded the tipsy striker to step in with him. The Burns man after light- ing a bomb, according to the union story which led to the issuance of the warrants, told his companion to run away while he himself stayed in the backgroiind. Police Release Dicks. Just as the striker ran four other Burns men who had been planted pursued him and shot him, pursuing Robey. him in co-operation with the police. Unfortunately one policeman looked into the space where the bomb was dropped and seized the skulker in the shadow, who turned out to be the Burns agent. The police let him go the next day, but when the union at- torney got on the trial he had the sheriff take out warrants for all five Burns men in this bomb frame-up against the union, Civic Opera Offers Die Walkuere, Faust osca This Week Perhaps the most interesting fea- ture of the many characterizing the second week of the ‘season was the inclusion in the schedule of the first repeat ance of: Der Rosen- kavalier,” © Friday night, Nov. 13: This German opera in the comedy vein "eo proved the most suc- cessful novelty that the company bas introduced in years. The first repeti- tion of “La Traviata” Saturday af ter- noon and the on’s first perform- ance of Tosea Saturday night are also noteworthy features. The lat- ter, sung pular prices, with no seat in the Auditorium costing more than an ofdinary theater seat, with a cast including such artists as Elea- nor Sawyer, Fernand Ansseau, Cesare Formichi, Vittorio Trevisan, and Lod- ovico Oliviéro. “Samson and Delilah” will be sung, a spectacular opening for the third week. A star cast, including Louise Homer, arles Marshall, Edouard Cotreuil, Cesare Formichi, Jose Mo- jica, Lodovico Oliviero, Antonio Nico- lich and Desire Defrere will interpret the colorful biblical opera. Monday, Nov. 16 brings a repetition of “Manen Lescaut,” with Muzio, Cor- tis, Rimini, and Cotreuil in the cast. Moranzoni will conduct Tuesday, Gounod’s masterpiece, “Faust” will be given with Miss Sawyer in the role of Marguerite. Others in the cast in- clude Hackett, Bonelli and Lazzari. Grovlez conducting. Wednesday, “The Masked Ball” will be repeated with Raisa, Marshall, Lenska and Steel; Polacco conduct- ing. “Die Walkuere” will be given its premiere performance of the sea- json on Thursday evening with Fer- rai, Van Gordon, Lenska, Lamont, Kipnis, and Cotreuil in the cast; Po- lacco conducting. Friday night no performance is scheduled. Saturday afternoon, Nov., 21, “Martha” will be sung with Mason, Pavleska, Schipa, Lazzari and Trevisan; Moranzoni con- ducting. Saturday night “Il Trova- tore” will be sung at popular prices with Muzio, Lenska, Cortis and Bo- nelli, Weber conducting. Railway Express Workers Want 12 Pet. Increase in Wages Railway Express Co, and the South eastern Urpress Co, by the new American Federation of Express Workers, The organization, split off, fronf the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Express and Sta- tion Umployes, now claims over 15,000 members, The American Railway Express Co is reported to have agreed to a con- ference Dec. 7 on wage demands; the date for the conference with the Southeastern has not been flzed. Re- vision of working agreements has been taken to the United States rail road labor rd, as conferences | with the two companies failed te re- sult in a settlemeny 7 NAV YOUTH HAS FAT CHANCE OF REACHING TERRA FIRMA AFTER \YFLIGHT IN ARMY AND VAT PLANES WASHINGTON, Nov, 12.~-Despite air service, nation if Mitchell “spilt the beans” and showed these youths the real condi- tion of the planes they were to fly in. Air Casualities High In the few days that Mitchell has had to put witnesses on the stand, he has..been able to establish thru these witnesses that are at present engaged in the chemical war, ayia-. tion, and anti-aircraft services, that the. peace-time fatalities in the army air service from 1919 to 1924 were approximately 22 times more than in all of the rest of the army combined. Fatalities in the navy air service amounted to 226, in the army 39 and air mail 40. It has been shown that out of the 5,000 pilots in the air service but one out of ten gets proper training, and that of this number 500 would be able to “handle” a plane after two weeks training, 500 more after a month’s training and the others would be useless unless given at least three to six month’s train- ing. Wooden Overcoats Their Reward The chances that young aviators have in ever landing on terra firma safely was told by one of the officers when he showed that for the past four years the planes operated by the national guard have often been faulty and lacked parachutes, so that when the engine went dead, as a rule the aviator could resign himself to either a long stay in a hospital or a much longer rest in a wooden overcoat. The expedition commande@ by Lieut. Commander Byrd that went in- to the Arctic were sent by the navy department into ice-filled seas with a plane that was not built for Arctic regions but for tropical regions. planes had been specifically bought by the navy for use in Hawaii, the Phillipines and Panama. The planes used in the Arctic were not even giv- en the proper tests. It was brought in the course of the investigation that the flight of the Shenandoah was carried out against the wish of the late Commander Lansdowne and that its safety factor had been reduced by the use of hy- lium instead of hydrogen, by the re- moval of one of the gas engines in the dirigible and also thru the detrio- ration of one of the gas cells due to lack of proper care. Score Whitewashing The navy was blamed for the silen- cing and suppression of the facts in the disaster of the Hawaiian PN-1 and Shenandoah flights the attempt of the navy instructing Lansdowne’s widow what tp say in the whitewash investigation that took place follow- ing the Shenandoah disaster was scored. Lemberg ‘Pileon Hunger Strikers to Be Sent to Vronki Bastille MOSCOW (IRA), Nov. 12.—Reports have arrived from Warsaw that the political prisoners of the Lemberg pri- son have again gone on hunger strike because their demands have not been fulfilled. In order to break down the hunger strike, the prison administra- tion, in contradiction to the existing regulations, has decided to transport many prisoners to the hard labor pri- son in Vronki which is well known to all the political prisoners for the brutal rule against class-war fighters. Portland. Ore., Bread Line Grows. PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 12.—The bread line is growing larger in Port- land, Ore., according to Mrs. Ida Maus who runs what is known as Grandma’s Kitchen, at 286 Front street. “Talk about starvation in In- dia, we’ve got our share of it in Port- land right today,” said Grandma Maus. The kitchen feeds men and women who are foodless and homeless, Beds are provided for homeless women and more beds are in demand daily, — — If you want to thoroughly un- the court-martial trial of Colonel William Mitchell, prejudicial to military discipline and behavior,” Mitchell is now introducing evidence to prove the statements he made that the army and navy heads were guilty of “criminal negligence and inefficiency” in the administration of the the objections of Colanél Moreland at on charges of “conduct At first the administration had hoped to avoid any discussion of the army and navy’s policies due to the bad effect it might have on the youth of the _ The Pacifist Denounces Compulsory Military Training in Schools In a pacifist speech, against militar- ‘im, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, before the Evanston Woman’s Club, attacked American colleges and “universities for states make military training compul- sory,” she declared. This is not done drop their studies to parade on drill grounds in uniform. Board of trus- tees are the bodies which foment this psychology of war.“ 2 Government Finnloves Forced to Pass Before Cenotaph of Unknown (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Nov. 12.—All the gov- ernment employes and their families had a short vacation from their regu- lar work today as they were mobilized by the Baldwin government to fur- nish the demonstrants for armistice lay. They passed before the ceno- taph containing the body of England’s unknown soldier, ° lifting their hats and bowing like rows of automatons. Many wreaths furnished by various societies were placed upon the tomb. Every year that passes sees British crowds more cynical of the war than befor. No one pays any attention to the observance of the anniversary of its armistice except those dependent for their livelihood upon a pretense to patriotism. Trans-Caucasian Project. MOSCOW—(Tass)—Nov. 12.—The government of the Trans-Caucasian Federation of Soviet Socialist Repub- lics has sanctioned a gigantic project of amelioration works to be done dur- ing the néxt fivé years on the territory covering over three million dessiatines out of which 2,250,000 dessiatines are to be irrigated, 250,000 dessiatines to be drained and 500,000 to de protected from flooding waters. | by law; students are told they must TWINNING STRIKE. | | DUE TO CONTROL BY LEFT WING Furriers’ Joint Board Im- proves Conditions NEW YORK, Nov. 12-—Fifteen hun- dred Greek fur workers who won 4 10-day strike against their open shop bosses assembled before the joint board office to celebrate before return- ing to work under full union condt- tions. Bearing signs announcing their victory and calling upon all non-union. fur workers to organize,-the success- ful strikers were about to carry their celebration thru the fur manufact-_ ufing district in a parade back to the jobs but the police at the last moment revoked their verbal permission for the parade and the workers conclud- instilling militarist ideas into the ed their rejoicing. with, a concert in [minds of the students. the joint board butidine instead. “Seventy-eight,, institutions in 28] ett Wing Leadership Wins. Substantial wage wom Those who were geting $25 a week or less than the new min- mum scale will now get at least $28 to $46, according to the grade of work they do. All. will get. 10 holidays with pay a year; 44 instead of 49 hours constitutes the working. week, Time and half pay for overtime and + only. union N in the shops are won. This n campaign, so well ended with the 10-day strike, was a comparatively short one, lasting only a few weeks. It was under the direc- tion of the left wing New York joint board of the union. Greek employers” have formed an association which will include about 150 of the larger and more important shops, and each boss signs individually with the joint board Strikes are still on against a few small bosses. | Russian Technician Invents Diving Suit for Deep-Sea Exploring ODESSA, Nov, 12.—A technical ex- pert of Odessa, by the name of Vasi- leyev, has designed a new diving out- fit which enables him to work on the bottom of the sea at a depth of more than one kilometer. Existing diving outfits do not permit working any deeper than about 1,000 feet. With the new outfit it will be possible to distin- guish the composition of submerged bodies, such as wood from stone, iron from copper, and so on. It is asserted, by specialists that Vasileyev’s invention means a revo lution in diving. activity. Your neighbor will appreciate the favor —give him this copy of the DATLY WORKER. , £ Dance and Enjoy Yourself at Any or All of These DAILY WORKER RESCUE PARTIES — — 75 os Saturday, Nov. 14— Rescue Party Sunday, Nov. 15— Rescue Party Friday, Nov. 20— Rescue Party Wednesday, Nov. 25— Rescue Party Soc. | Sunday, Jan. 16— enstand Communism—study it. In New Fork Bronx Workers’ Halt, 1347 Boston Road, Bronx. Admission 500. Branches. Finnish Workers’ Home, 15 West 126th St., New York. Admission 50c. Auspices Harlem Branches. Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th St., York. Admission 50c. Town New York Branches. Royal Palace Hall, (near Broadway), Auspices Williamsburg Branches. DAILY WORKER ANNIVERSARY BAN- QUET, Manhattan Lyceum. (ALL 8 b. u. UNLESS NOFED) For tickets or information regarding any of t the ‘abow to L. E. Katterfeld, 108 East 14th Street (Tel. Stuyvesant 8100.) Auspices Bronx New Auspices Down 16 Manhattan Ave. Brooklyn. 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— — — — ̃ —— > as . * a a 7 aes 2 e eee 9 r n 8 N : eee 2 Ags" 1 # 2 2 N > Diag 8 — «? aay ae 200 7 the DAILY WORKER. ebe, MR RR ee é * 4 * 1 * Phone Monsees 4712 a 1 ‘ SUBSCRIPTION RATES ay mal (in Chieage only): By mail (outside of Chieag): 8 year $4.50 six months | $6.00 per vear $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months a a Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Iinois J. LOUIS ENGDAHL , Editors Business Manager WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, III., under the act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rates on application. Words of Two Statesmen thank you, Mr. Root, for what you have said, but if | have been able to render any service it. has never failed to find inspiration and guidance in your achievements and think we are here not so much to do honor to Mr. Hughes as to thank him for having done honor to us. There is no better test of the character of a people than that afforded by knowing what kind of -ounseis. man they honor and trust. —Mr. Elihu Root. Mr. Charles Evans Hughes. These sentiments resounded thru the highly ornate and com- modious ball room of the Hotel Astor in New York during the course of a banquet given in honor of former Secretary of State Hughes. Mr. Root, who served in a former republican cabinet as secretary of state and whose most recent performance was helping formulate the principles of the world court of international justice, was the second honored guest. Gentlemen and scholars, both. The fulsome flattery the two statesmen accorded each other is further evidence of why the words of American diplomats are the jests gf European courts. Compared to old world statesmen they are pigmies. Tho one cannot impute to them a very high degree of intelligence, the banquet served the purpose of furthering the Wall Street cam- paign in favor of this country entering the world court. It is not what the exquisite gentleman, Mr. Hughes, said of his esteemed pre- decessor, Mr. Root, or what Mr. Root said of Mr. Hughes, but what both these very polite gentlemen said of foreign relations that divulges the motive of this affair at the Astor. It was staged as a political counter-blast to the campaign}, of Senator Borah against this country’s participation in the world court. One thousand politicians and ward heelers, described as “townsmen” of Mr. Hughes, were in attendance. Their job is now religiously to propagate the sentiments expressed there. At the coming session of congress the question of the world court will be the major problem of foreign policy. Wall Street is inclined to look with suspicion upon the Locarno conference as leading to- ward the creation of a grouping of European nations preparatory toe devising a means of resisting the steady inroads of American finance-capital. Tho unquestionably initiated by the British foreign secretary, Mr. Austen Chamberlain, in the hope of creating a “secur- ity pact” against the Soviet Union, the private conferences between representatives of al] the nations at Locarno seriously considered means of combating the extension of the Dawes plan for European nations according to opposition papers in Europe and such spokes- men for industrial capital in this country as the Chicago Tribune. Since the Locarno conference was called and future conferences will be called under the aegis of the league of nations it is necessary for the United States government to enter the league, even tho they enter, as Senator Borah says, thru the back door of the world court in order to prevent a European coalition dominated by Britain against the United States. Another noteworthy feature of the banquet was Mr. Root’s en- dorsement of Mr. Hughes’ policy in relation to the Soviet Union. The Hughes bogey of resising Bolshevik propaganda was praised as an act of superlative statesmanship. Both Mr. Root and Mr. Hughes serve the Standard Oil company, which desires to crush Russia. It was in the interest of the Rockefeller combine that the famous Root mission, including the renegade socialist, Charles Edward Rus- sell, was sent to Russia. The report was an oil report. And upon the basis of the report of the Root mission Mr. Hughes based his „policy“ on Soviet Russia, and with the usual hypocrisy character- izing baptist statesmen, declared that Russia had an “immoral” form of government which the government of Harding, Hughes, Daugherty, Fall, Denby, Hoover & Co. could not deal with. But the real motive of Hughes was OIL, just as it was the sordid corruption of Teapot Dome that determined the policy of his co-worker, Mr. Albert B. Fall, secretary of the interior. Hughes, as the good and faithful servant of Standard Oil, op- poses Russia because Rockefeller interests want to wrest from the Soviets the rich oil wells of Baku, and for no other reason. He favors the world court because he thinks that combination of international banditti can be used as a stepping stone toward the conquest of the revolution and the pillaging of the natural resources of that country, and because it may serve American imperialism against other European nations. The victorious revolution in Russia will, with its invincible arms, smash any conspiracy against them the day it is hatched and the Communists of this country and the world will do their part in destroying the effectiveness of imperialist ventures against the Soviet Union, including the world court. A Bryan University Dayton, Tennessee, the scene of the Scopes evolution trial, is to have a memorial university in commemoration of the late William Jennings Bryan. Speculation is rife regarding the curriculum of the university. It is taken for granted that nothing will be taught . there that has the remotest semblance of scientific knowledge. The} late Bryan was the foremost apostle of ignorance of the past century. A garrulous old blackguard, he roared maledictions against every- body that publicly displayed the slightest knowledge of the facts of science or history. A true representative of the petty bourgeoisie of the middle west, he was the embodiment of all the vicious stupidity of that class. He presumed to talk about everything under the sun. Lack of knowledge never deterred his dogmatic harrangues. The less he knew of a subject the more he dwelt upon it. His latest quarrel with his ancestors made him the butt of ridicule of the whole civilized world. It is appropriate that the fundamentalists of Tennessee who placed a law upon the statute books forbidding the’ teaching of the most commonplace scientific facts should subscribe to a fund to erect a monument of infamy—name it after Bryan—and call it a university. But not forever can the inhabitants of even that state dwell in the black night of fundamentalism. The time will come when the offspring of the present inhabitants of Tennessee will revere their ape-like ancestors of the een age much more than their more immediate ones. pee Get a member for the Workers Party and a nor y Cher: Die * ‘EDITOR'S NOTE:—This artitle was received some weeks ago, but owing to pressure of news and party mat- ters has not been published until now. T is seldom that a seemingly pure military matter engages the atten- tion of the average mind as has the mis-named “Mitchell” episode. There are countless conflictihg speculations and a multitude of unbridgably di vergent theories as to the meaning and outcome of the air-service con- troversy. Yet there ig a certain com- mon characteristic—they are all cen- tered around the personality of Mitchell. He is viewed as the. sole cause, the instigator and likely cul- minator of the affair. Ae The fact is, while the demoted brig- adier-general is circumstantially ap- pearing in a principal role in the mat- ter—he is but a temporarily magni- fied cog of a machine. It is with the purpose of shielding from the public eye this machine and its plan to loot the public treasury for the extension of aviation, that attention is mislead- ingly focussed upon Mitchell. - N attempt to get at the Ac of the air craft situation and its sccompanying entanglements by a mere study of Mitchell’s publicly ad- vertised connection therewith—is to see*the “fat lady” and assume her to be the whole circus. Mitchell is made - conspicuous by publicity and the “fat lady” by her poundage. Still, she is but a part of a circus, of which there are many side shows, all dominated by the “big tent,“ for there in the big tent are found the principal actors as well as the man- ager and owners. \ The “big tent” in the “air circus” is Washington, D. C., the principal actor, the government, and the man- ager and owner, American capitalism. HE United States government like any other government is charged with the duty of protectthg the in- terests of its ruling class. Since the well-being of the ‘American ruling class rests upon the exploitation of the bulk of its own people, as well as commercial supremacy over those foreign capitalist groups, who com- pete with it on foreign soil—it be- comes the duty and task of the gov- ernment so to arm itself as to enable it to subdue the potential enemies of American capitalism, both at home and in foreign spheres. For more than three years has the military eye of the goverfment look- ed with jealousy and anxiety upon the threatening development of military aviation of France and England, and so, to safeguard its master, American capitalism, the government has deter- mined to build up its own aviation to a point of being second to none. It is in this process of building its aviation that the government is com- pelled to consider and cope with a number of factors, and it is this that provides the Mitchell and other less conspicuous side shows. Hu administration must remember the next election. This demands a gesture at economy. It is deemed politically inexpedient to expend large sums for military purposes, without first paving the way for such extravagance. To meet this problem that of not driving away votes, bel cause of large aviation expenditures, the administration has set out to mold a favorable public opinion to- wards such expenditures. This is done by a widespread propaganda in favor of air craft extension. Of this, the attempted propaganda trip of the Shenandoah was a part, as well as the Hawaiian flight and the much- heralded Mitchell affair. NDER ordinary conditions “insub- ordination” or, “conduct unbe- coming an officer and ‘gentleman’ ”— of which Mitchell appears to be guil- ty, is quietly disposed of by a court martial, because it is not conductive to military discipline to make a hero of an insubordinate, or a virtue of disrespect to superior officers. Why, then, this about-face of military tra- dition in the case of Mitchell? Not only is there no attempt to silence Mitchell; on the contrary, a large sec- tion of the press is “front-paging” him, and President Coolidge has pro- | private hands. By removing govern- | While | board. Mitchell is shouting — rr a “sep- irate” air service he is not less noisy and persistent about an “adequate” air service. The saying goes: “If you like the sow, you've got to like her litter.” Since thé administration’s goal is an “adequate” air service, and Mitchell advocates that, it allows him to speak of a separate air service, even tho it is not 8 in accord with che latter Then there ts 2. pressure of the airplane interests, among. whom Mr. Henry Ford could be counted; they are for the Mitchell idea of a separate air department, because they see in its establishment the first step to- wards the discarding ot the Philadel- phia naval air craft factory, as well as the engineering air craft division of the army, thus placing the produc- tion of military planes entirely into mental competition from the fleld of plane production, the private produc- ers will be enabled to ise prices to their hearts’ content. A separate air s¢ department, being free from army and particular- ly from naval! restriction, which is quite likely that this board will of- thus to justify dirigible. This the appointment of the airboard as well as the investigation of the naval A third, and chief reason, for the creation of the board is: After the atbention of the people has been prop- erly concentrated upon that commit- tee’s doings, the latter in due time after the manner of such hand-picked committee, will with a great emphas- is show the dangers that lie in the meagerness of “our” air service. It is fer an elaborate plan for aviation ex- pansion, and it may even venture a stay . of the is, her reason for plan of administration. be for aviation extension and at the same time will take care of the vote“ aspect of the affair. The people will have been adequately propagandized, and in all probability the seventieth | congress will be called upon to eof sional a tom ing of aviation, as well as to late a plan of administration. ‘naval h 9 the: vill or: Meg upon the | — _s 4 aow the case, will develop more rap- dly both in its efficiency and quantity ase of planes. A well-developed mili- cary aviation will . e and give ‘moment: to civil aviation-—all of which will mgan increased profits to the pro- ducers, No wonder they favor Mitchell, whose platform is: A “sep- arate” and “adequate” air service. The air service controversy is ad- vertised as a clash of opinions on the part of military he: and nothing more. While it is that high mili- tary men differ in 854 opinions as to the administration of the air craft service (the reasons for which will be explained) the conflict is in real- ity between the ship building and | steel interests on the one hand and the aviation interests on the other. It is easy enough for the administra- tion to dispose ot e eee be- tween military heads, by administer- ing a “silencing” spanking. But it cannot spank ö financial groups, who are enco raging. and utilizing the conflicting. | nions and traditional conservatism... of military and naval heads. 1 E see that the military advocates of a separate ait” service become the natural allies 0 plane pro- ducers. Their common desire is, a rapid and unckec =f 10 set opment of aviation. The navi pficers’ and ship builders’ ave a certain commonne purpose; to each for reasons of OW! us high naval officer of ‘gehool, With its con- servatism naturally ‘a new arm of service pilcism, thi this is — rg wey of aviation developing to a "hs claimed for it by its proponents, ang thereby great- navy and hence the prestige of officers. The high naval" officer pa ticularly, is fearingly ful of the fact that an excellent military plane could be had for $20,000, while the cost of a modern battle ship reaches several million. It is up to the naval officer to prove that a three or four- million dollar battle ship could not easily be sunk by a $20,000 plane. This they are trying to, do by not allowing aviation to show, up its ef- fectiveness to full advantage. Testi- mony to this may be had from the fact that during the Hawaiian man- euvers commanded by naval officers, planes were not permitted to bomb ships from a normal height. A separate air service department will become a sort of free agent with a reputation of its own to make and maintain, even tho it be at the cost of naval growth and reputation. The naval officer is not against avi- ation as such; he merely wants con- trol of it, and to limit it, particularly when it threatens to surpass the navy in importance. That is why the naval officer is against a aonarate air serv- ice. iy minimizing the ifipdrtance of 7 — ⁰ öD⁵. — > The ship building interests view a ce will be created — * the three t arms of s ied function, giving the air service 5 inde ates > than = 0 b will have its influence | and the manner Pree om cera S St Be ser Ce — > 4) eam, Separate air service with, suspicion; they see in it the ascent ot Aviation and the decline of the navy, and therefore, of their profits. Here we see the commonness of interest be- tween the naval officer and the ship builder, they are both for a limited development of aviation, one fedring’ the loss of profits and the other the loss of importance. The Role of the Coolidge Air Board. The appointment of the Coolidge air board was motivated by the need of a forum for the advocacy of avia- tion extension, upon which, thru the press, the public mind could be di- rected and favorably impressed, not only by Mitchell’s insistence for ade- quate aviation, but by other witness- es appearing before this board, who, while differing as to how such an air service is to be conducted, are at the same time in full agreement and speak loudly for aviation expansion. The disaster that befell the Shenan- doah on her aviation propaganda tour could not be passed up without some attempt to vindicate the guilty, and CIRCULATION OF NEWSPAPERS _ | INCREASE IN U. S. S. R. WHILE NUMBER OF PAPERS DECREASE I daily. MOSCOW—(Tass.)—Nov. 12.—The total of newspapers in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics is now 31.8 per cent less than in 1918 (586 against 859), but their daily circulation exceeds the pre-war figures by 10 per cent, having reached about the first. of January the total number of 7, 356,263 copies The daily circulation of the largest pre-war newspapers as the Russkoe Slovo, the Kopeika, and the Birjevye Viedomosti used to issue about 700,000; as the Pravd&, the Izvestia, and the Krestianskaia Gazeta (Peasants’ Ga- zette), has gone over 1,500,000. The circulation of Soviet newspa- pers has grown almost six times com- pared with the figures of the second half of 1922, and every year it ap- proximately doubles. Workers’ Papers Lead. Before the revolution, the newspa- pers were divided into papers con- taining Publicists' Articles, com- ments upon politics and literature,” newspapers for people and the army” and “church” newspapers. Now they fall into groups according to separate social stratas they serve. Workmen’s newspapers are 85 in number and hold the first place in circulation (2,814,087): Of em 52 dre popular ne ws papers, . 1 (papers and 17 protes sie Ones. ‘ — — — . r ing | the circulation of modern newspapers? Peasants’ papers are the most numer- ous; there were four of them before the revolution. Of the total number of newspapers appearing in the na- tional language 60 are peasant papers. National newspapers now peach the figure of 139 against 5 to 6 before the revolution. Besides, there are s€veral small groups of papers; economic, co-operative, komsomoi (Communist Youth Union), children, military and miscellaneous papers, totally amount- ing to 110. Newspapers are being published ex- clusively by state, party, trade unions- co-operative and public organizations. Wall “Newspapers.” At every factory, mill, every insti- tution, large co-operative shops, al- most in every villag in every school, club, military deta and even in many large houses Me is the “ston: 17 e PEER C6 r — — gazeta” (wall newspaper) being pub- lished commenting upon questions of interest to the particular organ- ization or locality. The total num- ber of such papers is over 30,000; they are being edited by local circles’ of correspondents. Such a newspaper is usually written by hand or a typ writer, supplied with hand drawings, mostly cartoons and pasted to the wall in a conspicuous place. Wall pa- pers are highly popular and have great success. Worker Correspondents, Voluntary correspondents from fac- tories, villages and institutions are also contribiting to large newspapers and magazines: The number of such correspondents affiliated to papers reaches one hundred and fifty thousand workers. Their task is by means of their paper to throw light upon the life of the factory they work in. By disclosing faults, cases of negligence and crimes, the worker Ccorrespond- ents thus take an active part in building new life in the Union of So- cialist Soviet Republics. Method of Extracting lodine. MOSCOW,—The Russian engineer Constantov has discovered a new means of obtaining iodine by means of electrolyte,,from oil borings. The question of ucing iodine on the Apsheron P ula is now being dis- cussed, A Returns-are beginning to come in from the various cities in which meet- ings were held to celebrate the eighth anniversary of the Russian revolution; showing that workers realize that their best wishes for the Soviet are ex- pressed in the form of aid to The DAILY WORKER. When returns are Com- plete, it is expected that almost a thousand dollars will be added to the rescue fund. In addition, the Jewish Dramatic Club of Cleveland sent 87 1.00, the ge- ceeds from a play recently given, which brings today’s total to $238.00, a tributed as follows: Freiheit Dramat Guzengs Ferein, Cleveland, O. $71.00 Finnish Br., W. P., Racine, Wis. 10.00 Street Nucleus 2, Pittsburgh, Pa. (by Paransky) 6.00 Street Nucleus 1, Pittsburgh, N. S., Pa. „ 2.00 Uniontown, Pa. (Soviet punivar- sary celebration) 12.00 Newark, N. J. (Soviet celebra- tion) 10.55 Cora M. Meyer, Milwaukee, Wis. 2.00 Lee Holton, Granite City, III. 1.00 Albert Grove, Seattle, Wash....... 3.00 English Br., W. P., e Wash. 18.25 * Springlfield, Mass, (Soviet csle- bration) 20.33 J. Dendur, Chicago, III 2.00 Slovak Br. 7, W. P., Newark, | ~~ N. J. 10.00 English,N. S., W. P., Galena. 7.00 South Slav. Br., W. P., Johnston City, III. 5 7.25 Finnish W. P. District 8, Chica sai go (Soviet celebration) . 55.00 Today's total —. J 238.37 Previously reported . . 818,046.37 Total to date pa 3 5818, 284.74 AID THE REVOLUTIONARY CAUSE BT SAVING THE DAILY WORKER! HERE'S Name: MY DONATION: Address: n — Pa en ees es . 3 ae * 8 7 N n A 1 . . XN 1 1 — 1
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5 Koen Et ot 4 nes 1% f a- Sh. 1% % rise * — ts 2 74 ere 7 Jie 8 — mare K het : 2 ee Men ails. i * 1 * * + - > 4 4 * $ 7 ~ 99 * * } a 2 ¥ 6 * and See cee with it a mass tion who have eR 1 . Cay ~ @ECOND SECTION — This magazine supple ment will appear every Saturday in The Daily Worker. SATURDAY Tecs wa 1926. — ning to exhaust itself, it is bo ie le Oe ap onic de obsolete form of the movement of such sections of a politically indifferent, actionary. The Moscow: events, however, represent one of the most definite forms of ‘a “tendency” which revealed it- self in all the borners of Russia. The new form of action was confronted with tasks of such a gigantic Character that they at course could not be solved at one stroke. These tasks are now, however, clearly confront- ing the entire people, the move- ment is being raised to a higher level, it is becoming steeled and consolidated. . The revolution can no longer be deprived of these ‘achievements. | Dubassov's eannons revolu- tionized enormous masses of fresh people: The new farce of the the advanced fighters and an in- comparably greater poor } in the ranks of the bourgeoisie than did the old Bulygin Duma. ö What is the situation now? ‘We will look the facts straight in the face. A new task now confronts us of assimilating and analysing the lessons of recent forms of struggle, a work of preparing and organiz- 80 ing the forces in the chief cen-- alckn⸗ 5 tage to the . to sup- press, as hitherto, he seated : and isolated actions of the pro- letariat. The government wWwouldd very much like to provoke the ters of the movement. It would be of (*) Admiral Dubassov, general governor of Moscow, who suppressed Duma encountered far greater hostility in the ranks of the Moscow revolt in December 1905. . - * 77 1905. The day set apart Dec. 20th. On this day strations will be held in cities. order to better ac N tr ove r. * publish from time to time power, While in pass them out among other E are now in the days preceding the celebration of t the twontietn anniversary of the Russian revolution of the Communist International is at mass meetings parts of the world. In the Union of Soviet Republics the anniversary celebrations will be held in the humblest hamlets as well as in the greatest This anniversary must receive a fitting observance from great masses of American workers and farmers. In quaint labor in this country with the 1905 the forerunner of the for Se Ghote to this historic event. Read these ee and and demon- Bolshevik. The DAILY WORKER will special articles on the 1905 December a special issue will workers. workers in St. RA to im- mediate struggle under most dis- “tito the stream of 1 mber events. The has not by a long revealed its entire breadth d depth. i Let us cast a glance at the s and ultra- reactionary press. Nobody, not even the Novoye Vremya (The New Times, organ of the re- action any nobility. 9 ee ef in the Not volutionaries, which in such a situation are a hundred times more dangerous than the de- eisive action, but obvious facts, which are even recognized by ents of the revolution, go} . to prove that the “victory” of the government in Moscow has rendered its position more des- der 185 is losing its value. fall Russia. The peasants’ revolt is grow- Jing, The financial collapse is approaching. The gold curren- The of half a milliard rubles ot be made good even with all the help of the reactionary bourgeoisie of Europe who are hastening to the aid of despot- ism. All those troops who are ready to fight against the re- volution have been called up, but the “pacification of the Caucasus and Siberia” is far- ther off than ever. The ferment in the army and in the which found clear expression after the 17th October, will of course not be stifled by the em- ployment of force against the fighters for freedom thruout The return of the war prisoners and the return of the Manchurian army will only increase the ferment. mob- lization of fresh ns of troops against the enemy at home only entails fresh dangers to vie ek The crisis ae 4 The sn ot the 3 wo ay iB revolutionary months (November and December) must “be collected.” Every- where where it is necessary we must know how to go over into Megality. The enormous tasks of the new action must be fac- ed more definitely, the prepara- tions for the same must be car- ried out with more perseve- of france and more systematically, the forces of the proletariat, ex- hausted by the strikes, must, perate than it was before Octo- (Continued on page 7) a The — Maren Against Tyranny — — 3 A coma han Fon — — . es ee sS CS- = * 1 . Fes ae * 1 SN bes pene 3 he 2 8 ne 1 N * rates — aca —
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By TOM BELL. This is the fifth instalment of a serics of articl 2 with the question of World Trade Union Unity. This deals with the Red International of Labor Unions and Interna- tional Trade Union Unity. Following instalments will deal with the American Federation of Labor and Unity, the Development * Of Trade | Union Unity, and What to do for Trade Union Unity. a coe SwThe Red International of Labor Unions and World Trade Union Unity. Since its formation, the R. I. L. U. has consistently denn, bomb the treacherous reformistic leadership of is this leadership that is responsible for the split in the movement of the world. As long ago as 2 L. U., at its Second World . parapgraph is Lips “If the workers will not succeed 1 n b the united front, they will not onl er new defeats, n — greater misery and slavery will await them, but they will even lose their organizations and remain completely disarmed.” This serves to prove that the slogan of world trade union nity leno selce Cement Om eee dauer cox te or the unist In but that this policy and this slogan flow from the fundamental conception of the R. I. L. U. as to the aps 5 ai 4 a N 0 N on oe Py . t ae Pee Oi * Ae aad W role of the revolutionary trade unions and adherents of the R. I. fo L. U. in every country. With the growth of-the revolutionary minorities within the trade unions affiliated with Amsterdam, the bureaucracies proved that they were willing even to smash the trade unions rather than allow them to fall into the hands of revolutionary leadership. The splitting of the trade union movement by the reformists has been carried so far in France and Czecho-Slovakia that the trade union movement was cleft in twain in order that the reformists could} maintain their positions of These desperate measures were taken by the social-democratic leadership in order to main- tain their position of close alliance with the capitalists that they had maintained thruout the period of the world war. The role of these labor leaders has been correctly stated time and again by) |, the R. I. L. U. as that of the last bulwark of capitalism. , The capitalist offensive upon the standard of SGG unions of the working class At the Third World Congress of the R. I. L. U., July, 1924, the question following appears in a resolution regarding the of inter- national trade union unity: “Never for a moment ing its determined fight against all maniteuitione of reformism within the interna- tional labor movement, mercilessly revealing all its treacher- ous substance, untiringly explaining this to all workers who do not understand yet the ale: of reformism as a brake to the e of the proletariat for emancipation, the Third Congress, in the interests of a united leadership in the strug- gle of the workers against the economic offensive of capital and fascist reaction, considers it the most pressing of its activity to develop a widespread campaign among the working masses in favor of the unity of the international labor union movement.” From that time on, the R. I. L. U. has not allowed this ques- tion merely to be a question of resolutions, but at the Vienna Congress of the Amsterdam International, when the British dele- gation led by A. A. Purcell raised the question of admittance of the Russian trade unions ino the Amsterdam International, the Central Council of the Russian trade unions ‘telegraphed to Vienna an offer of negotiations to heal the split in the interna- tional trade union movement. At the Vienna Congress the usual kind of hypocritical resolution was passed in order to soothe the British delegation. This resolution admitted the 8 of the entry of the Russian trade unions into the Amsterdam Interna- tional, but had reservations which said that this entry would be “on the basis of the existing statutes of the Amsterdam Interna- tional” and that “the dignity of the Amsterdam International should be observed.” At the Sixth All-Russian Trade Union Congress there was present a delegation representing the Council of the British Trade Union Congress. At this congress, these leaders re-affirmed their desire for trade union unity. Negotiations carried on during the congress between the British delegation and the Central Council of the Russian trade unions resulted in a resolution being passed by the All-Russian Trade Union Congress calling for the formation of an Anglo-Russian Unity Committee which would work for a closer alliance between the trade unions of Russia and Great oo also for the unity of the world trade union mvoement | virulent The significance of this step lies in the fact that the British trade unions form the basis of the Amsterdam Interna- tional and the Russian trade unions form the basis of the R. I. L. U., and as such the traitorous leadership of the Amsterdam can only fight against the convocation of a congress for the unifying of the trade union movement at the expense of a split with the British trade unions—in other words, a split with their main support in the European labor movement. were in the majority in the trade unions, the Bolsheviks combat- ted all splitting tendencies, considering it one of their major tasks if the proletarian revolution was to be successful, to win the ma- ee of the organized workers to the support of their policy. en sistently those misguided. Communists who have from time to time raised the slogan of “Split the trade unions.” The kernel of Linin’s teaching on Communist work in the trade Role of the Trade Unions in the Russian Revolution,” states that the revolution is impossible outside of or against the will of the trade unions. Since its arganization the R. I. L. U. has raised the question of trade union unity on an international scale and in various countries has fought the Amsterdamers and their disruption of the trade union movement. An example of his occurred in 1921 when the R. I. L. U. offered as the price of unity of the French tions in the trade unions. This the Amsterdamers rejected, with the result that the trade unions of France were split in two. It is clear, therefore, that to the Communists trade union unity is not only necessary to preserve the standard of living and condi- tions of work of the working class, but is also a prerequisite for the winning of the masses for the world revolution. N Conditions for Unity. see But, it will be objected, must not the Communists 88 conditions upon the Amsterdamers in order to prevent Amsterdam swallowing the Communist trade unions in the event of Amster- dam having a majority if unity is affected? It will be said that the R. I. L. U. should insist that the unified trade union interna- tional must fight against the Dawes plan, against the capitalist offensive and against imperialist war: To put up these conditions is unten ent to rendering unity impossible, because the Amsterdamers will utterly refuse to break their alliance with capitalism. Therefore the R. I. L. U. makes pry one demand: The convening of a congress resentative irrespective of wherther Amsterdam has the majority and will lead the new trade union intérnational or not, knowing that wnity of the working class will lay the basis for a struggle against capitalism and create a broader field in which to carry on the ideological struggle to win the workers for Communism. Amsterdam's Objections. On the contrary, the Amsterdamers impose. conditions be- cause they are opposed to unity of the working class and want unity with the capitalist class. For this reason the issuance of the slogan of world trade union unity by * L. U. me E 33 of villification against thet R. I. L. U. be formed by proportional representation? W the new trade union international allow national autonomy for the (Continued on page 7) the Bolsheviks won a majority in 1235 trade unions, they all trade union movement the liquidation of the revolutionary. frac- - of all trade union workers, whether belonging to Amsterdam, the R. I. L. U., or to neither, in order to found a united trade union international. The R. I. L. U. wants unity of the working class and the leaders of the German social “stare 8 R. I. L. U. unit ea. In the Jer the 9 ists expressed their real opposition to trade union unity when they N this world con demanded b trade unions? Will the new trade union international be inde- : — —— et ia 4 ——— — —
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Condi- “favorable. nen a See * re It N Beat os * Safeguard Dividends?” It then gives the answer that “the drive to cut wages is an industrial necessity,” and “the future of profits requires reduc- production costs.” 2 tive wage cuts it mentions the fol- lowing: Industry Pct. of Wage-cut Colorado Fuel and Iron Co.........,...,29 A {Bad luck was sure to go, Northern Colorado Coal Fields.......35 Bates Shoe Factory. ij 1 5 your wages. 1 ? ri ; 85 K ge i i f Ei F g Fe a 125 145 f : i : Fy i 7 17 & F a 7175 i N not been cut more than they have. The Magazine of Wall Street says: “it is understood by keen observers that the United States Steel corpora- tion would like to reduce wages but dare not. They fear that Foster might succeed in doing in 1926 what he almost accomplished in 1919—the unionization of the industry. Until that industrial pace-setter, the United States Steel corporation, disregarding this possibility, deflates wages, the tendency towards wage cutting will not have ‘received its full impetus.” Is that clear enough for you, union men and workers? It is the fear of Educational League, the fear of the Communists, that has kept the great corporations from further reducing It was the presense of Foster and the left wing that kept your wages as high as they are. That is what the capitalists say when they are talking to one another in their of- ficial organ, the Magazine of Wall St. It is not without some meaning that this same magazine asks “labor leaders“ to contribute to its columns —provided they are “leaders” who expel Communists. It is not so very sal? 1 2 The Magazine of Wall Street kindly gives us an answer. Speaking as a . | articles | cate, this organ of wage cutters, the long ago that the president of the s Union, Wm. H. Johnston, pS a a 7 — Ls “open shop” advo- Magazine of Wall Street. Kill Foster and You Can Cut Wages. ND while this organ of. Wall Street explains that wages must be cut, it warns that it will be im- possible to make a real job of it, im- possible to cut right down to the bone as they wish, until Foster has been defeated. “The figure of Fos- ter,” says the Magazine of, Wall Street, “still casts a sinister shad- ow.” Foster and the left wing are _ |“sinister” to the enemies of the work- ing class. If, it goes on to say, in the “major conflict going on within the unions between the ‘yellow’ and ‘red’ fac- tions,” victory goes to the “yellows,” to William Green, to Sigman, to John- ston, to Lewis, and to all those who to Chasse It. the capitalist class want- Foster, the fear of the Trade Union * power, to attack the workers, to Then What Should T shall we do? This is are clearly indicated. | wood, of Spencer Miller and the the A. F. of L. official family, of B. & O. plan sharks—the Karl Marx protect us!) who pre to increase production in tion has already half-wrecked the will itself destroy the power of ests of the workers’ revolution. sow to fight him. 4 guides to action on our part: Any union man who supports officials, such as Johnston of the the Trade Union Educational nates, and all the enemies of working class. tariat from wage slavery, for workers’ government. With the Magazine of Wall Street ing class? 1 me fight Foster so bitterly, then it will be possible to slash wages right down to the bone. But while Foster is a cut Workers Do? the eternal question of the workers everywhere, faced as they are with Seemingly insoluble problems. From all the foregoing a few things to do Profits are climbing higher and higher. The higher they go, the more intense the drive to cut wag- es down. These facts are clear. They ‘should dispose forever of that sickly school of pseudo-economics of Brook- 80- called Workers’ Education Bureau, of the “econo- mists” (shades of Adam Smith and thereby to get more wages.“ That ‘poisonous theory of class collabora- - la- bor movement, and if not destroyed, the working class to protect its smallest interests, not to speak of the inter- By studying the enemy, we learn And by studying the Magazine of Wall Street it is pos- sible to learn quite a few things about how to carry on the struggle that now faces the workers. A few simple conclusions present themselves from the facts cited above, which are good the Ma- Those who support. the left wins, League, who become what the Magazine of Wall Street calls “Foster’s followers,” help to throw fear into the hearts of the steel kings, the Wall Street mag- the Support for the left wing is support for the struggle of the working class, for higher wages, for stronger unions, for the organization of the unorgan- ized, for a strong party of the work- ers, for thé emancipation of the prole- the Which way will you go, workers? and towards slavery, or with the left wing towards victory for the whole work- * a+ capitalist to capitalists, the writer ex- MARY - - 2 ory Mary ud a little frame, ; A little heart, 15 A little brain. Mary had a little mind but not a friend Yet plenty wash had she. III. b And everywhere where Mary went Her twisted hands, Her wrinkled face, All, of Mary dry and bent pila TV. It followed her in life r * 2 1 f 88 N. r And every rain would maké her Iker pain outburst, By MINA ESKENAZI, Written for the Juniors. Or Mary joked. The only time that Mary liked Was a plain, sunny day. VI. “My wash is sure to dry today, Dry today, Dry today, My wash is sure to dry today,” Was all our Mary spoke. VII. And every cloud that Mary saw, Mary feared, So Mary quired. Any cloud that Mary saw Was sure to spoil her day. worse, Would make her curse. = es 1 some day, n make her swear, st Than every dap. IA God who had. no sense. . Then all that da 14 e ec ae | stood near her at wasn. So from her cradle till today, n Just till today, 5 Iswingins her to and fro. ; _ [Our Mary knew no hour of play. v > And from her cradle l Until her grave, The only time when Mary laughed. Or Mary grinned, . * * Shell have no holiday. | X. Her dues she paid, Forgot her rent, So Monday was a moving day, Her pain was then immense. | XI. Mary knew no politics, She never heard of polemics, Her priest she cursed quite day, On rainy day, On sunny day, More on collection day. XII. Mary knew of Xmas day, From windows nice, And great display, Mary knew of Xmas By other people's say. ~~~ . AH. & J She cried her eyes out all that day But could not pray In any way; So she sat in bed on Xmas day, Her gnarled joints to rest. Mary with her little frame And little head, And little brain, Mary lonesome just the same On Xmas cries her best. On Sunday tho to mass she went. . 2 — „ “day, e t= cS +f Aa re 9 every - rn re * * 3
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2 wa The | By MORD WILGUS. | PART II. Profits in the Railroad Industry. N order to arrive at the actual rate of profit and the total profits for any given year, it is imperative to know exactly how much capital—not watered capital but real cold capital —hag been put into the enterprise. lroad magnates claim that 22,- 000,000,000. dollars have been “in vestad,”*iABtromomidal figures of that kind may ‘be necessary when one studies the celestial bodies but cer-|,, tainly when dealing in cold cash, it is a horse of another color. What do they mean by 22 billion dollars in- vested”? Have these capitalists for-] gotten the enormous grants of 155; 273,560 acres of public lands which |, they bribed the congress and the state legislatures to vote“ them? Have these captains of industry lost their memory about the extension of state credit to them—a direct violation of the constitution—enabling them to build the roads with the state’s money as in the case of the Union Pacific} which received $23,213,000 in govern- ment bonds? And have the railroad kingg lost sight of the fact that what- ever original investments“ were made have been repaid in interest and dividends many times over? E imagination is staggered when confronted by the unheard of cor- ruption, bribery and trickery which marked the construction of the rail roads. The M’Cormacks, the Macys, the Mortons, the Pullmans, whose des- cendants today are looked upon as “honest” and “respectable” million- aires, were directly involved in enorm- ous embezzlements of public ‘ The records of this gentry as given in detail by Gustavus Myers in his work “History of American Fortunes,” are unparalleled for shameless corrup- tion, so far as we can make out, in all history. It makes the old Roman aristocracy look like pikers in com- parison. us take. one Sart The Norther®’ oad was granted 200 t of public land on each side of its tracks along the entire road in 1864. As the road was in the process of construction, numerous villages and towns grew up alongside without the slightest protest by the railroad of- ficials. Naturally this caused the value of the fand to increase many times. Suddenly in 1877, the railroad brings suit to eject all the so-called tres passers and the supreme court, faith- ful to the interests of the capitalists, upholds its contention. The result was that the towns and cities had to pay millions of dollars in tribute to the railroad magnates or be sum- marily evicted. What was this but trickery by the railroad pwners to en- rich themselves at the expense of the public? 2 NOTHER important fact to re member is that practically all of the failroad stock now outstanding represents no capital at all. The method of financing railroad construc tion consisted of a public offering of bonds witn stock generally given away free. According to the U. S. de partment of commerce, che “stock,” both) common and perferred, of the railroad for the year 1922 was valued at over $9,000,000,000. For this imag- inary investment“ the investors re- ceived for the year 1922, $275,721,615 —all velvet on fictious or watered stock. To give the reader an idea of what an enormous tribute the capital- ists are forcing from the public—that is to say the working classes—-we will give the dividends as paid year by year starting wi%: 1908: — . Dividends Vea doses Declared J une 30, 1908 2. $329,062,261 1910 — 351,202,272 1911 403,417,363 1912 347,354, 133 1913 ‘ 327,967,396 1914 380,339,400 1915 .. 2864, 267, 107 1916 — 268,6 18, 168 Total 82,944, 37 1,599 Dec. 31, 1910 . 311,876,409 12338 „ 325,600,752 1918 — 279,929,286 repaid many times. ö : E HASN'T Hat 1 enn sis gage wand e N men ae BP. — @ustry in the U. S. this fraud has been carried to its highest possible deve- lopment with the aid and connivance of the government at Washington. now come to the fixed charges on the railroads in the form of interest on the funded debt. From the years 1891 to 1922, the yearly in- terest charges for all Class 1 roads have been between $221,500,000 and $538,594,000. The total runs into bil- lions afid if original investments only be considered, they have been fully Let us now place the wages and profits side by side and observe the. great discrepancy between them. We will take the figures for the year 1922 as those of 1923 are nat avail per week for their ardous toil? Are we to be amazed at the “inability” of the roads to pay its workers a living wage when over eight hundred million dollars and more each year are allocat- ed to the coupon cutters of Fifth and Park avenues and their counterparts all over the country? 8 4 Criticism. 2 T win not do if pondering oyer 1 these facts we grow excited and will never bring capitalism to heel. tent in the channels of militant or- letarian duty, To acgompligh this ob- jective we must intensify our propa- ganda among the oppressed and low- paid railroad workers first. The prop- able: aganda must not deal exclusively with It is necessary to direct our discon- ganization; in awakening the masses of the railroad workers to their pro- 1 lose our heads. Indignation alone industrial organization must be in- tensified. The fraud underlyin 2 company unions and the B. & O. plans must be systematically exposed. And within the unions, agitation for a la- bor party to defend and extend the political power of the workers in their struggle against capitalism must be initiated on a major scale, 1 Foreign Exchange. NEW YORK, Nov. 13.—Oreat Brit- ain, pound. sterling, demand 4.34 5-16; cable « 4.84 11-16. : mand 4.06%; cable 4.07. Belgium, tranc, demand 463; cable 4.5314; Italy, Ura, demand .. 4.04%; Sweden, krone, demand 24.72; cable 26.75. Norway, krone, demand 20.18 cable 20.20, Denmark, krone, demand 24.78; cable 24.75, Germany, mark, | not quoted, Shanghai trade, 78.75. Frante, franc, de- cable 4.05. 4 „ ss. BPD att]
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for the armies with which the imper- jalist nations wage war on one an- other, on Soviet Russia, on the colon- clusive field of Great Britain, France, Belgium and Holland—and in an im- perialist industry monopolized by Great Britain. “We declare that this new rivalry arising over the question as to whe- ther British or American imperialism shall have the power to oppress and rob millions of our race, means an added menace of imperialist. war in which our race, unless awake to its danger, will be conscripted by both sets of imperialists and slaughtered by the millions, Break Chains of Bondage. “But there is encouraging evidence that our race, and the natives of India, China, Egypt and Morocco, are sit e aaa: e eee bondage. 8 “In China, Se with .a strike. of E35 workers in Shanghai, the liberatioh movement has swept to the farthest corners of the nation, based itself upon the workers and farmers, developed a definitely anti-imperialist and a firm working class character. „All of the Chinese masses are uniting against the imperiallst rob- bers of America, Great Britain, Jap an and France. “In China, only Soviet Russia ap- ese people . Look to Soviet ‘Une: , pats “Only in the Soviet union have: the darker peoples attained to full social, economic and political equality. But the workers’ and peasants’ government’ of Soviet Russia, because it hails as equals and because it aids all the op- pressed darker races in their strug- struggles, with the rulers of the most ; * 27 2 N 3 7 * | 5 ne ’ — 3 * * 8 4 7 * — J * ‘ cs 5 i 9 * 1875 118288 98527 ge 5 al 1 i and marines, farmers in Asia and Africa. pears as a friend and * of rr ‘ 3 8 — 2 2 ers have been murdered and the mas- ses drowned in blood time and time again. Moroccan Struggle. “In Morocco, the combined efforts of France and Spain, aided by an Am- erican airplane squadron, have been unable to crush the heroic Riffs and to end their struggle for national liberation. | “In the Philippines can be seen the s of a national liberation movement whose advance guard has ween Brazil and Argentine. enten F Pershing imposes the will of American imperialism upon Chile and Peru. “All thru South America the mil- lions. of Wall Street debauch the na- tive governments while the natural resources pass into the hands of Wall Street’s agents backed by cunboats Cruelest Mockery of rea a “In the United States, the Negro masses are given the cruelest mock- ery of freedom. Their social status is that of a colonial people, In the southern states our race is subjected to lynching, accompanied by bestial tortures, victimized by vicious peon- age and contract labor systems, “In the north we are denied en- trance to many unions, murdered in race-wars fomented by real estate agencies and capitalist enterprises bent upon fanning race hatred and further dividing the Negro and white workers, discriminating against the’ Negro workers in wages and condi- tions of labor. Our grievances and our cause are those of our race brothers in Africa and the darker-skinned peoples in the colonies of world imperialism, , „Our oppression, our cause and our enemies are the same as those of hundreds of millions of workers and This congress declares for unity of the masses of our race in Ameriea with the masses of Africa and Asia. In the world struggle against im- periallsm. we, Negro workers are to qeceupy an important place. Get Gained Valuable Experience. : “Cursed. tho we are with intoler- able oppression, we have, thru our independence movements, the krow- ing tnity of the working class and colonial peoples against their com- n] mon enemy, United Effort Needed. | “The white workers cannot free themselves without the aid of us dark-skinned people, and we cannot liberate ourselves unless they join with us in an assault of the world fortress of imperialism. “We hail the workers’ and farmers’ government of Soviet Russia as the first to bring into being full social, political and economic equality for all peoples, white and dark-skinned. We call upon the members of our race to recognize this signal accom- plishment of the first workers’ and peasants’ government manual of what the future holds for the toiling masses of the world when the workers and farmers {follow its example and jmperialism has been driven from the face of the earth. — “As a first step in connecting the struggles of our race in America with its world-wide struggle against im- perialism, this congress of Negro jailing b eee, e | of our race and to make this organization a leader and fighter in the liberation movements of all the darker-skinned peoples in the col- onies of imperialism everywhere. “Welcome Soviet Russia—the friend and ally of the oppressed of all races! “Welcome to all who join with us in the fight for emancipation from imperialist slavery!” Condemns Segregation. The American Negro Labor Con- gress in the following resolution con- demns the segregation of Negro work- ers and demands renting of homes be taken out of the hands of private real estate concerns and placed in the hands of public agencies that will rent and sell to workers regardless of their race or color: _ “The American Negro Labor Con- gress declares itself unalterably op- posed to the segregation of our peo- ple in separate residence districts. We declare the discrimination against Negroes in regard to which part of a city they may live in and which part they may not live in, is a political question and must be dealt with just as we deal with discrimination in voting. The time has come when the | living accomodations of the public, cannot be left to the private control of a few wealthy. parasites who de- cide where the colored man may live and where he may not live, or whe- ther he can have a house to live in at all: Demand Protective Legislation. “We. demand legislation by which all. tenements, apartment houses and homes to let, shall be subject to the claim of the first comer, regardless of race. or 3 - the will of e : landlord. 1 At is common a that Ne- groes are customarily charged rent at a rate of twenty per cent to one hundred per cent higher than is char- ged for the same apartments rented to white people. We demand legis- lation for a fixed rental for all places “We declare that any Negro real estate agent who connives in charg- ing more rent to his own people than cai gov vernment building modern apartment houses to be rented on the above basis. Score “Company Houses.” „It is also a custom of large em- ployers of colored and white labor, such as mine operators and mill own- ers ,to house their employees in ‘com- pany houses’ and thereby to control the lives of the workers being able. to throw them out of house and home. whenever the bosses please and when- ever there is a disagreement about wages or working conditions, we de- mand any legal measure that may be necessary to prevent any employer of industrial labor owing or controlling the homes rented to his employees. “Pending legislative relief, and dur- ing the present period when the Ne- gro’s rights are ignored by govern- mental agencies, we call upon the residents of all Negro communities to organize colored tenants’ unions so as to be able in an organized way to refuse to pay exorbitant rents, or to consent to live in inferior build- ings or segregated districts.” Demand Ousting of Trust Friends in U. S. Trade : Pe „1 r tag WASHINGTON, Nov. 13. — De mands are being made here for the removal of three members of the fed- eral trade commission for their re- fusal to prosecute the gigantic bread trust that has now been formed. It is charged that the committee at first passed the buck to Atty. Gen. Sargent, and that the attorney general just as promptly passed it back tell- ing the commission that it had full powers to act. Following Sargent’s refusal. to in- vestigate the case, the board by a miss proceedings against the atid 000,000 bread trust. It is also pointed out that of the 55,000,000 loaves of bread produced in the country, the bread trust, con- trolling 157 bakeshops, produced 31,- 000,000 loaves thus controlling 56. per cent of the bread production in tuns United States. The three men, Van Fleet, Hunt and Humphrey, hit by the charges, are the men that Cal Coolidge appoin- ted for those jobs, 80 that big busin- ess would be able to carry on its mergers with fewer obstructions from governmental bodies. It should be remembered that the campaign pledge that Coolidge was elected on was, more business in government and less government in business, McAndrew Rating Plan for Teachers Aims at Further Subordination The new rating plan for teachers submitted by Suporintendent of Schools William McAndrew. to the Principles’ Club aims to whip teach- ers into line with the new system of larger classrooms for each teacher. and conformity to McAndrew open ‘shop rule. The teachers. disciplinar- lan abilities will supercede all other requirements. The plan applies to all teachers in the elementary, junior and senior high and continuation schools. Its purpose is to provide a basis for ridding the school system of those teachers considered “undesirable.” vote of three to two decided to dis- ' dane = =
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S 2 er iia —_ and chaos in the industry. The effects of all this on the miners in the various countries is disastrous. In Germany the introduction of a long- er working day and the low wages prevailing has provided the coal own- ers of other countries such as Belgi- wage reductions have taken place and assisted by the existence of large armies of unemployed, the owners are now making attempts to smash the trade unions. N Britain the normal effects ot the - crisis have been intensified by the political boycott of the U. S. S. R. ing and the operation of the Dawes plan. The industry has plunged into one of the most distressing periods in its whole history. Already there are no fewer than 160,000 unemployed min- ers, and a large percentage of the re- mainder are working part time. The coal owners making the most of this situation, are attacking the already low standards in the various districts. through partial reductions, etc., and further, the coal owners are develop- ing a new offensive whereby they hope to re-introduce the eight-hour day. In view of this situation it will be very instructive to compare the condi- stances that have prevailed in the two countries during and since the war. In Britain, for example, the mines were unmolested during the war. Since 1918 the industry has had suffl- cient time and opportunity to stabil- ize, and in addition, there has always been ready access to an abundance of the necessary modern machinery and up-to-date equipment. the Donetz Basin, however, the industry was practically ruined as the result of the civil war and the organized sabotage of the mines by the counter revolutionary forces, as- sisted by Britain and the other im- perialist powers. Tne work of the reactionary forces could be traced in the wilfull destruction of. both the transport system and the mines. The systematic blowing up of bridges and the smashing of mining plants, done by the enemies of Soviet Russia d _ ing the civil war, are known to every- one, and testified to the tremendous tasks presented to the revolutionary forces after their final victory. Peace has.only prevailed three years and even after open hostilities - ceased, reconstruction has been re tarded by the systematic boycott of the U. S. S. R. by all the imperialist W bow Ot a Nevertheless, desp obvious “ditterences in opportunities, it is a fact that the mining industry in Brit- aim has failed to provide for the most elementary needs of the miners. Un- employment, as we have seen, is wide- spread, wages at the lowest ebb, the there is undeniable evidence of gradu- al improvement. Tremendous difficul- and most of these companies are in- terlinked thru their directorates with and going, the coal industry in Britain must pay roughly a shilling ton the form of royalties to the landown- ers. Obviously such a preponderous machine must have a profound effect on the conditions of the miners. Production and Costs. OME interesting facts are disclosed hundredweight per man shift, and the approximately ages are 11 hundredweight per man shift and 22- per ton. These figures show only too clearly the adverse cir- cumstances under which the Russian mines are operating. The low pro- ductivity is almost entirely due to the lack of machinery and the results of the white guards’ devastations. Here we can draw some interesting comparisons. In Britain a large per centage of the total cost of production goes towards the payment of royal- ties, employers’ insurance, etc. In the Don Bas nine per cent of the total cost of production is set aside for social jusurance, cultural funds, miners, rest homes and other mediums for better- ing the lives of the miners. And it is still more interesting to note that works a six-hour day, 18 days per month, and has one month’s holiday with full pay every year. When sick tor coal in Russia depends to a large bers. extent upon the home markets and] Let us compare has frequently been restricted due to|the Russian union, which it may the backward state of the other in- 22 eg iH i 2 21223 rll a 4 25 1 f 121 i The Role of the Trade Unions. ERE again it is necessary to have | department. a clear understanding of the] has this been done, but It is understood everywhere that the | now provided for them. bers for the world trade ment, and me opr miners’ 7 Ss /e~ : men , has union move- 8 2525 2 d 5 5 — A 7 N - = * „ 0 . 1 A 5 5 a . 7 . ** — N 5 . 7 - we ee . : 4 . E rf * * 7 * 4 L 5 — 2 5 * — * * 7 F Hu authorities in the industry, It @ real part in the 11 175 i et ee 5 = i ee 57 1 72125 aE LE peed 4 15 F f ‘ a : 5 1 f F 2 te Sal ey: 7 standards of its n aa? : | Not only take full advantage of the Still another function of the union which cannot be omitted is that of safe- | suarding the health of its individual strongest sections | members. Mansions in the Caucasus this with the able be to ish unions are meager and insignifi- cant. | 15885 role of | Class movement, inspired by the fact that their deeds (Continued on page 7) 5
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subjects dealt with during the curse. commodities, The currency of money. Congress, that the R. I. a co-ordinating : gles of the workers against the capitalists. | With an innocent air, these Amsterdamers pretend that “their” trade unions are independent of all political parties, but in thise countries in which they are not the backbone of the so- cial-democratic and labor parties and act as the handmaidens of capitalism, they are altogeher dependent on the capitalist parties, as in the United States. But what the Communists are advocat- ing is international trade union unity and have already declared that even though they are in the minority at the world congress, 7 in the international, obey its discipline, and working class the working class for the abolition of the wage sys- tem is expressed in their demand that the trade unions shall be vie 2 24 re Ee 1115 i: 5 ize of even the most elementary re 3 desperately fight st unity since they i unity will — the basis for a fight h they will be forced to oppose to defend themselves to the mass of the organ- their social standing, the alliance with Bea 243 pel the Russian trade unions on the question of inter- nal trade union unity. Up until that time the British lead- had held the idea that the entry of the Russian unions into the Amsterdam International would secure the unity desired. But the bitter antagonism of the right wing Amsterdam leaders (Jou- haux, Merrheim, Oudegeest, etc.) against having anything to do with the movement for unity or the Russian unions, has dis- illusioned the British unionists regarding the possibility of secur- ing the co-operation of Amsterdam in securing trade union unity. Today the British unions support the program of the Rus- sian unions on the unity question: To secure world trade union unity by an all-inclusive international federation of trade unions. This can be achieved thru an international congress of represen- tatives of the workers from the factories, shops, mines and unions irrespective of whether they belong to Amsterdam, the R. I. L. U. or neither of them. | The Anglo-Russian Unity Committee, composed of official representatives of the British and Russian Unions is the center of the world movement for unity. The Norwegian Federation of Labor has gone on record for affiliation to the Anglo-Russian Unity Committee. The reactionary trade union officials denounce this move- ment for unity, the capitalists and their press are bitterly attack- ing it. The agents of the bosses in the trade union movement are mobilized to maintain the divisions in the ranks of the trade » * U e eee tacks. of capital. who or unity are f — ~ CHICAGO WORKERS’ SCHOOL Outline for Study Class in “Capital” Volume l. Course to run thru three semesters of eight weeks each: Instructor—Earl Browder. ; : Course covers Parts I, II, and III of | 96-106. Exchange. Volume 1, beginning at page 41 and] Sixth Week: Chapter III to Section concluding at page 331. “Commodities and Money,” “Thejure of values. Transformation of Money into Capi-| Seventh Week: Section 2 to sub- tal” and “The Production of Absolute|section c. Pages 116-139. The medi- Surplus Value” are the three basic] um of circulation. Metamorphosis of All students entering this course} Eighth Week: Section 2 to con- must give satisfactory evidence that|clusion of section. Pages 140-146. they have obtained a fair grasp of Coins and symbols of value. Review the elements of Communism andjof semester work. Marxian economics. The course will] Outside and Supplementary: As- include outside reading and the pre-|signment and recommendations to be paration of written pages for each les- made by instructor. Marx’s Critique of son besides the regular work in the Political Economy to page 162 should class itself. | Ide studied as a earlier elaboration of * 7 e material covered during this semes- Outline for first semester, Nov. 15/ter. His Poverty of Philosophy can to January 15. also be used occasionally. Part I, Chapters 1, 2, and 3; pages] Herman Cahn’s Capital Today 41 to 146. should be referred to, since the ex- First Week: Organization of class. amples given are more up-to-date and Chapter I; section 1. Pages 41-48. American in terminology. Commodities: ‘The two 9 of el commodity. Use value and value. The 8 substance of value and the magnitude Young Workers Class | of ane. for Correspondents Second Week: Sections 2 and 3 3 * (to sub-head 3) pages 48-63. Two-fold Meets on Saturday character of labor in commodities. — Form of value or exchange value.] NNW YORK, Nov. 13.— The first Relative and equivalent forms. Rela- tive form of value. Its nature and import. Quantitative determination OB once. gf ore RA ot Nov. course | Some Impressions from the Donetz Basin | as a Consequence they are ready and ihe (Continued from page 6) in a manner beneficial to the pro- by the workers in other countries and ducer. N the present crisis our duty is willing, when necessary, to make still clear. Let us take a different more sacrifices in safeguarding their stand on the principles of no longer hard won gains and in extending a bours and a living wage for the min- helping hand to the international lers, and above all, let us make the working class. | | ee preparations to insure that our The question before the British min-| definite class issues. Only by acting ers is, “How can we benefit from a in this manner will we be able to knowledge of the past and present ex- show our appreciation. Lip service periences of the Russian miners?” to these achievements is so much ET us remember first of all that humbug, unless we are prepared first advantages similar to those en- of all to follow the example set. joyed by the Russian miners are only 7 class collaboration that have so often capitalism and exploitation have been brought defeat. Let us present our destroyed and the proletariat have demands and struggle determinedly captured power. In the midst of the | for their attainment, refusing to coun- present crisis in Britain we have ten , many elements, even in our own ranks ance all attempts at side tracking that would gladly help us to forget By this means and only by this means this er will we pay our tributes and earn the tund esteem of the Russian working class ments led by Hodges and other lead- sat eee -ers who aim at bettering the condi- tions of the miners by persuading the government and the coal owners to | Russian Labors Tasks. reorganize the coal industry along | more scientific linés are simply aim- | Twenty Years Ago (Continued from page 1) ing at perfecting the machine that is Wort that ection where possible, be preserved. nit Sg Bi Te One wave is followed by @no- ther. The capital follows the provinces. The Border States are followed by the heart ofRus- sia, the proletariat by the town petty bourgeoisie, the town by the village. The defeat of the reactionary government is un- avoidable in the face of its wide- ly divergent tasks. Upon our We, a 22 Ressian workers ana preparations for the spring 1906 peasants in. our struggle for power depends to a great extent the -lonly after that has been gained, can issue of the first phase of the we hope to apply science to industry | great Russian revolution. In our present crisis we must for. ake, on b Aon 3 te ote ce and for all, the paths of who oppose unity are aiding the cap-
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YS . for existence is his political pull with _ the political representatives of other class pictures. - part: “The unfair methods of the big companies (the motion picture trusts) canada By WM. F. KRUSE federal trade commission has spent many months of testimony- taking to find out whether there is such a thing as a “movie trust.” That such a trust exits is certain to the] dwindling army of “independent” | producers and exhibitors; that such a st must sooner or later come into ing is clear to any one wi. o under. the laws of capitalist deyel The movies have entered * big business. Famous Play- ers“ earned a profit last year of 48. 350,000, more than a million increase 01 over 1924. “Metro-Goldwyr’ re net profits of almost half a million | for | 2 three months period ending Nov. The little fellows are squi The Motion Picture Theatres Agsociation is complaining. The ifde- pendent producers and distributors: are yelling for help to Will Hays—the trust’s own umpire whose chief reason big trusts. One of the latest of these appeals is made by Murray M. Garsson, one F of the most solid of the “independ- ents, ” who has turned out some first This letter states, in are more throttling to competition to- day than ever before in the history of the industry, with the possible ex- 30. menace, the Big ree 8. time, drive every 8 I picture exhibitor out of In the “1925 Film Year Book,” arch W. Saunders, comptroller for New York City, states bluntly; “The greatest progress, in my opin- has been along the ; totlowing a A at Bs a * N ception of the old General Film Co. A great number che industry on backers. | : “10. Among ‘benefits to the industry in ‘be mentioned the ad ing, whieh nas gained in beauty and drawing} ‘power; the improvement in trade which are more calm and judi- subjects; ‘al thruout the 6 ‘a industry, arrange- | ; or r an ns are beginning the pro- Uustmer j@ucing and showing of labor ame iu der own interests—financial apd 8 A list of labor films can id n ** ; x La 10 rhe Church of atidhs will be the battleground. of warting poimts of view on the sub ject: “Resolved western civilization,” this Sunday evening at 8:30, when a representa- tive of the socialist party and one from the socialist labor party will de- bate with William W. Weinstone, spokesman for the Workers (Com- munist) Party on this subject. The Church ot All Nations runs a forum on New Vork's East Side at 9 Second Ave. As this is the heart of a work- ing man’s district, the socialist party, the socialist labor party and the Workers (Communist) Party are ex- pected to be well represented in the audience that night. Admission is free and Workers Party members and sympathizers should be there early to be sure to gain admission and get all the best seats. No clue has as yet been given as to whom the socialist party and the socialist labor party will send, but assurance-has been re- ceived that each of the parties will be rerpesented by a good speaker. As this is the first time in a long time that the socialist party. -has been compelled to go on record as to what its attitude is toward the Soviet form of government, not for “oriental peo- ples”. but for our own precious “western civilization,” there is a special interest attached to this dis- cussién, The socialist labor party also has been “up in the air“ on the question of the applicability of the Soviet form of government to the United States and may be expected to declare that nothing but industrial unions will be accepted by them. Thus; the whole question of the po- liticat significance of industrial union- ism will. also be examined during the discussion. Wrap your lunck in a copy of the DAILY WORKER and give it (the DAILY WORKER, not the lunch) to your shop-mate. That worker next door to you may not have anything to do to- night. Hand him this copy of the that the Soviet} ’ form of government is applicable tc | cor 2 2 25 5 2 — . > 3 By CLA RENCE MITLER Along with the reorganization of the party and league our Pioneers are also in the process of reorganizing on party, cannot become a real Bolshevik the basis of the school. They, like the Pioneer organization without changing their present form of organization. Just like the party. and léague cannot become Bolshevik organizations ‘without making every shop their s stronghold, ; must make every 8 — so the Pioneers school their stronghold. ideological Preparation. Bc At present the entire district of our Pioneers are undergoing an eran? reorganization, In al preparation for every group there is going — vik. (Pioneer),” “How did the Rus- sian Bolsheviks act to bring about the Russian revolution,“ What does a Bolshevik do to make his o ation a Bolshevik organization?“ The unc- tioning of the organization,” What will the Pioneers have to do to read their organization a real organization?“ These discussion place at the group meetings, at City Central Committee meetings, at Dis- trict Executive Committ meetings. A special. city membership meeting was held Saturday, Nov. 14, where the problem of reorganization was dis- cussed. The discussions of the Dis- triet Executive Committee and City Central Committee are such as to pre- pare the more active members to take the initiative in the discussions. The District Convention This ideological campaign in our groups will culminate with the district. convention to be held during the | week-end of Thanksgiving. The da drawn up by the Pioneer District Executive Committee and City Cen- tral Committee jointly, is rather ela- borate. It contains among 0 points a discussion on reorganization and bolshevization, school struggle and school work, child labor and the struggle against it, opposition organ- izations (Boy Scouts) etc. All of these | topics will be introduced by a mem ber of their district Executive Com- DAILY WORKER. | mittee or City Central of discussions on “What is a Bolshe-| Plans are deing ane to have as many 2 ‘possible out-of-towp com- present at this convention. 6 4 will lay down the steps to be taken in the re- lon which is to follow short. ly after the convention, ‘Recruit gant! During Education . Week. Along with ‘ Sobganization we are „starting a membership drive. During education weék, a lot of propaganda will have to be carried on to counter act the concentrated propaganda of | all capitalist institutions that are education. We mn utilize this for gaining new members. Our Pioneers will have to show whether they are really by working hard during this week to get in new mem- bers. The party and league have been mobilized for this purpose also. Dur- ing this week we expect to get at least 200 new members. The juniors will also participate in the Young Workers League mass meeting and in the distribution of leaflets. Special arrangements have been made for 3 tributions in schools. Other Activities. The question of building the Young Comrade is also being considered. We will try to raise money and sell subs tor the Young Comrade. We are also going to issue “wallpapers” in every section. The comrades who will edit these papers will have to attend class once or twice a month in which the question of editing these bulletins will be discussed. The comrades will then begin to contribute more to the Young Committee. 3 * Comrade.. A training course for the This was. an error. Chua: will be as follows: | Gary, Ind., on Monday evening. South Bend, ind., on Tuesday evening. , “Waukegan, ill, on Wednesday Milwaukee, Wu, on Thureday i 3 wilt continue for eight weeks, 4 “Comrade Oliver Carison - is * instructor. The course ‘will de in : the Elements of Communism” and lers has ‘been decidea u upon. It American History, ‘Fundamentals. will be taken up. ae — is” to start a week after the convention. of Communism and orgenization- work A plan has also been drawn up on For Our ‘Sceptics, the formation af parents’ councils during national education week. The party and league ought to get in on this and help make a success of it. There are always comrades, Who have what one might consider, a pa- tor adults but not for children... them I want to say, come down etrnesie, in spite of their youth, ternal attitude towards our children’s et * a do not consider the ren capable of doing things. They will say that the above plan is * 2 our meetings and judge for yourself. See the Pioneers respond to their pro- gram of work and you will agree that they are worthy comrades in the French Tire Firma om Fail Due to High’ — failed and large firms are finding to increasing rubber prices caused output. he Raw Rubber Prices 1 PARIS, No. 13—8everal n French automobile tire firms have it dificult to make both ends meet, due by the British monopoly of the A 4 : 8 “2 enn felt ian a 2 8 28 *