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November 28, 1925
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ue 9 ary W 1 - 1 1879. NEW YORK EDITION Pubtished Dally PUBLISHING CO., 11 d. aten Blvd., Chicago attain by THE DAILY, WOU! WORKER „II. * rav r. DUNNE. 145 Article X. WIK ESGSARRE, Pa, 50 25.— President Le letter’ to Coolidge, that a gener led as a result of co ent, and the increasingly “hardboiled” of the anthracite operators, have put an end, tempo- hopes of an early settlement of the strike here. contained in his coal i y ma of the Jacksonvil ea attitu. rarily at least, to One of the the local papers, The vis’ intimation strike in the ed violations Tel whose policy is some- egram, What — to the United Mine Workers of America, says: Pleads Need of Study for Full Reply — (Special to The Daily Worker) - WASHINGTON, o. c., Nov. 25.—"! got your letter,“ such is the- meaning and comparative brevity of President Coolidge’s reply to the hesitating sug- gestion that if the government did not make the soft coal operators live up to the Jacksonville agreement, the United Mine Workers might strike in all bituminous fields. Cal adds that he would make a be reply “after study.” 7 * a € | emen 7 . ive Inst ee anten of — to * al, compromise settlement in the anthra- cite strike, shrewdly delays indefinite- ly any real answer to Lewis’ threat“ and let the continued hunger of the anthracite strikers’ families do the work of the operators. How many months Coolidge is going to “study” he did not say. Fakers More Worried Than Cooldige. That William: Green, president, and Frank Morrison, secretary, of the American Federation of Labor are more worried oer the possibility of a strike in the bituminous mines than is Coolidge himself, is seen in their’ obvious anxiety that there should be no such strike. They take the view that if a gen- eral mine strike were to take place, congress would enact some legisla- tion outlawing strikes entirely—and of course, they would have to take the position of all class collabora- (Continued on page 6) Dairy Concern Takes Steps to Create Milk Trust i in United States NEW YORK, Noy. 25— The National Dairy Products company has con- tracted to buy 84 per cent of the com- mon stock of the Sheffield Farms Co., Inc., and 89 per cent of the common stock interest of the Sheffield Farms By-Products company, Inc., and 84 per cent of the common stock of the Sheffield Condensed Milk company. Sinee its incorporation in 1923 the National Dairy. Products company’ has acquired more than seventeen ice cream and milk companies in the east and middle west. In order to finance its purchase of the common stock of these companies in order to perfect its grip on daity products industry, the company is trying to raise $15,000,000 by the the Hopes for the settlement of the hard coal strike, running so high in some quarters just a week ago, have gone glimmering. The past week saw a definite end to the expecta- ion of a “back-to-work-by-Christ- mas” move. In fact, at this time the deadlock in the hard coal industry. gives every evidence of a fight to a finish, This is sorry news indeed for @ community that has been fed up in the last two weeks on prom- ises of early compromise, but as it is the truth, as unpalatable as it is, it should be faced and the reality that confronts the community realized. The operators are standing pat on their demand for an agreement con- taining a “no-strike” clause. Accept- ance,of this means suicide for the United Mine Workers, A new plan for the settlement of the strike has been brought into this region the. last week, by one Barker, who is said to he an emissary of Governor Pinchot. , Pinchot's Fel Shop Plan. His proposal is that the new con- tract, containing the provisions want- ed by the operat ra be submitted to the rank ang : unten and that One member (Nh board is to be named by Pinchot, com by the United States chamber o Srey one by New York and’ adelpaia newspa- pers, one by Candida Dougherty and one by Thomas Mittel, head ot the Philadelphia traction system, The outrageous * nature ot, this pro- posal is obvious and id a good indica- tion of the kind bt aid the miners can expect from ‘Pinchot, but it has (Continued 5 on page 6) PITTSBURGH WILL HOLD MASS MEETING AGAINST FRED MERRICK’S TRIAL. PITTSBURGH, Pa., Nov. 25.—On November 29, the night before the trial of Fred Merrick starts, a mass meeting will be held in Pittsburgh, Pa., to explain the arrest and in- dictment of Merrick and the nine others who were arrested and In- dicted at the same time. The meet- ing will be held at the International Socialist Labor Lyceum, 805 James street, N. S., at 8 o’clock, The speakers announced are Dr. William Van Essen, Ella Reeve Bloor, organizer for the Internation: al Labor Defense, and a prominent speaker who is associated with the Civil Liberties Union. | | There is a real ‘United front of workers of all shades of opinion behind the defense of Merrick and his fellow workers $2,500 must be collected for the Merrick defense before the trial starts on Nov. 30. The Pittsburgh workers are doing their level best to accomplish this task. A big ball will be held on Wednesday evening, sale of bonds thru New York brokers.“ Nov. 25, under the auspices of La- bor Defense, at 35 Miller street. SWISS COMMUNIST PARTY WINS THREE PLACES IN THE NATIONAL COUNCIL AT RECENT ELECTIONS GENEVA, Switzerland, Nov. 25.—In the recent elections to the Swiss national council, the Communists captured three seats: In a number of the cantons in Switzerland, elections were not held. The leaders of the social _Memocrats, the clericals, nationalists, etc. met and decided at their confer- ence, who would get the delegates to“ the national assembly. Tho the _ social-democratic party here claims that the Amsterdam Trade Union International and the Second (Socialist) International <are |, mot Marxian enough for it, it outddes these internationals in their policies of collaborating with the employers. to, exploit.the workers. The incoming national : 0 1 will consist of 3 Communists, 60 rad - icals,” 49 socialists, 42 catholic con- servatives, 30 from the farmers, in- dustrialists and citizen’s party, 8 liberal democrats, 3 social politicals, and 3 independents. The social-democrats are Shntag ing an alliance with a group of the petty-bourgeois radicals wrk a ‘Gruet- assembly lianer group. 7 ö . — — 2 PAT TOOHEY AND|| DUNNE SPEAK ON THE ANTHRACITE Tell Chicago Workers of Coal Strike Chicago workers heard the story of the anthracite strike from Pat Too- hey, youthful leader of the progres- sive miners in that region, and Win iam F. Dunne, who had just returned from the anthracite where he wrote special articles for The DAILY WORKER. Dunne gave a history of the anthra- cite coal miners’ union in this coun- iry tracing the different nationalities that it is composed of. First, he said, game the Scotch and the English and Welsh to this country and now they will be found mostly among the su- perintendents and mine officers. Then came the Irish and they can be found in positions of local officials and union officials. Underneath or at the botiom of this line-up are the Bo- hemians, Spaniards, Italians and Slavs who compose the rank and file. The American elements compose the main- tenance men who are holding on to their jobs instead of being in the strike where as union men they be- long. He compared the conditions exist- 7 ing in the bituminous coal fields to those of the anthracite miners. The anthracite miners’ jobs are more stable than the bituminous. Here the population is not migratory, they buy homes on the instalment plan. They are linked up with the established groups of the bourgeoisie such as the small business men and churches, It is quite easy for union officials to convince workers that there is an identity of interests between them and the bourgeoisie. But that is be- ing shattered now and one of the chief factors shattering this falsifica- tion has been the progressive min- ers. Lewis launched an onslaught on the left wing in 1922. From that time until the beginning of the strike the task of the progressives has been to re-establish. itself. The second on- slaught came thru the.state’s attorney who works hand in hand with the offi- cials and which resulted in the ar- (Continued on page 2) The international Labor Defense of Chicago and its affiliated organ- izations, such as Machinists No. 84, Painters No. 275, etc. have sent de- mands for the release of Anita Whitney and Benj. Gitlow to the governors of California and New York. A campaign against the “criminal syndicalism” laws of those states, and all such states- laws, is on. The local committee announces that among the speakers at the Protest Mass Meeting on Dec. 4th, at the West Side Auditorium (Ra- cine and Taylor), will be Pete Jen- sen of the Federated Shop Crafts (Machinists); Fred Mann, a. mem- ber of the l. W. W., Wm. H. Holly of the Liberal “Club and Robert Mi- nor, organizer tor the International Labor Defense. To Boost Water Rates. SPRINGFIBLD, II., Nov. 25.—Ap- plication for imereased water rates in Peoria, Averyville and Bartonville has been filed with the IIlinois commerce commission by: the Peoria Water- works company THE RISE OF SOCIALIST ECONGMY SATURDAY Magazine Section of } The Daily Worker The economic facts on the development of the Soviet Union presented for the first time. — — yet others to read it and SUBSCRIBE! READ IT! Pal » ~ * . „ PROVED TO BE A PLAIN LIAR Italian Debt Head Ex- poses Himself (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Nov. 25—Count Giu- seppe Volpi, finance minister for the blood-streaked Mussolini terror of Italy, talked here the other night at a banquet given by the Italian chamber of commerce at the Plaza hotel and while paying lavish tribute to the braggert whose flunkey he is, proved himself a bare-faced liar. He said that “Italy ts the first nation which has been able to rehabi- litate itself from the war. It is the only nation which has balanced its budget and reconstructed itself with- out aid from the outside.” How About Washington? This declaration in direct conflict [with the tearful plea Volpi is alleged ito have made at Washington before || the debt settlement was reached. The ||| seventy-five ar supposed to be imperative in or- i der to save Italy from total ruin. H | cancellation ties presented by Volpi purporting to show that of all IN RUSSIA ö per cent cancellation The was based upon statis- European nations Italy was the most sorely beset by the calamitous results of the war and would’ surely perish without assist- ‘ance from Wall Street. The question arises: Did this scoundrel and defender of a govern- ment by assassination lie at Wash- ington or lie at the Plaza hotel ban- quet or at both places? } Zankov Entertains League of Nations Greco-Bulgar Body SOFIA, Bulgaria, Nov. 25. — The league of nations commission to in- vestigate the Greco-Bulgar incident, wnich threatened to cause a war in the Balkans, is now being officially entertained by Zankov, the brutal murdered of many of the class consci- ous workers of, Bulgaria * Locarno pact here today. (Special to The Daily Worker) 5 BERLIN, Germany, Nov. 25.—Not only Communists, bi even the nationalists, in the reichstag ripped the mask from the * faces of the hirelings of Great Britain who voted to endorse the | The socialists were exposed by the Communists as the e treacherous tools of the most reactionary elements of British imperialism. This betrayal of the German nation into the hands of the British conspirators against the Soviet Union is but the logical culmination of the treachery that flared forth in 1914, when the socialists voted for the kaiser’s war credits; was repeated on a more vile scale in 1919, when they murdered the leaders of the working class, Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Lux- emberg, amplified in the crushing of the March action in 1921, and again their infamous role in the October up- heavals of 1923. The working class of Germany is accustomed to foul treachery from the gocial-democrats that no infamy they can now commit can ‘exceed the crimes they have already perpetrated against the working class. Nationalists Join Attack. While the Communists attack the pact from a proletarian point of view in order to expose the despotic char- (Continued on page 2) Co ommttnists F ight for Ne Elections PARIS, . ane. Nov. 25—Senator Doumer, whom Aritide Briand recom- mended. _ yesterday as prospective premier, when Briand, himself, failed to get support for a cabinet, an- nounced this evening that he also had failed to get sufficient support and President Doumengue has called upon former Premier Eduard Herriot to at- tempt to organize a government. Herriot is head of the bourgeois party calling itself radical socialist and is the man directly responsible for the butcher, General Serrail, be- ing appointed Syrian high commis- sioner. Socialists Want Premier. Both Briand and Doumer failed to (Continued on page 2) | DANISH WORKERS TAKE PART IN CELEBRATION OF RUSSIAN REVOLUTION (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U. 8. S. R.—(By Mail) —The Danish workers’ delegation which is now. in the Union of So- cialist Soviet Republics recently visited Moscow where they partici- pated in the celebration of the eighth tion. During their stay in Moscow the Danish delegation visited the trade union headquarters and have also visited many shops to study the condition of the workers in Soviet Russia. They expressed great sur- prise when they learned the extent of power which the unions have in determining the conditions of the workers in the shops. anniversary of the Russian revolu- | val chimants. i U. S. Stirs Up Trouble ae to Excuse Occupation (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Nov. 25. — The United States govegnment took a new step in the furtherance of its imper- * ialist designs to accustom South Am- erica to the rule of Yankee authority | by dispatching the cruiser Denver to sail at midnight from Balboa, in the , “under secret | Canal Zone, to Arica orders.” The order was issued to the Denver by wireless from the flagship of the U. S. naval squadron already at Arica in the disputed region over whieh Chile and Peru have jong * Means to Stay. Dispatches indicate that Pershing pe is carrying out a policy of extended occupation by U. S. armed forces in the region; under the guise of labor- jous arbitration in the arranging the plebiscite. The plebiscite commis- sion was supposed to meet yesterday, but was postponed indefinitely at the behest of Pershing. Also, Pershing has not yet replied to the note of Senor Augustin Edwards the Chilean delegate in the cothmis- sion, who witadrew from the commis- sion and charged in his note that Per- shing was unfavorably partial to Chile in forcing thé passage of a re- solution at the last session of the commission calling for the “control of residents” in the Tacna-Arica area. Stirs up Trouble to Keep Job, Edwards asserts that the resolu- ion infringed upon Chile’s constitu- tion and was not based upon fact, The resolution was condemnatory Of al- leged deportations from the zone in ispute, of persons hostile to Chile. Chile’s former president, Alessand- ri in a speech yesterday at the funer- al of a Chilean soldier who died in an =. attack on an outpost, accused the United States of. “stirring up con- flict, discord and hatred” between Chile and Peru imstead of trying to solve the Tacna-Arica dispute. The longerthe conflict is perpetuated, the longer the uniforms of.United States armed forces will be an accustomed sight to South Americans, Another Rail Merger. WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—Examin. ers of the interstate commerce com- mission recommended that the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley railroad and the Illinois Central be granted authority to acquire control of the Alabama & Vicksburg, and the Vicksburg Shreve- port and Pacific roads. SPECIAL REPORTS ARE COMING! The trial of the some time ago. Zeigler miners Monday will be reported in The DAILY WORKER thru special dis- patches from the court room sent out thru the |. L. D. press service. Max Shachtman, special representative of the International Labor Defense, is already in southern lilinois. First hand reports will appear daily showing up the vicious frameup of the militant miners, one of whom was murdered by a ku klux klansman at a local union meeting WATCH FOR THE STORIES SEND CONTRIBUTIONS TO DEFENSE, 23 S. LINCOLN ST., CHICAGO, in southern Illinois beginning INTERNATIONAL ILL. LABOR ‘ / . „ *
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ee — me. ve 4 «Sp Sy er vn 3 * — r el sa 9 e 5 eas ry „1 7 it ‘aan 4 . DLISH SOCIALISTS ö R * * * 5 ih OF CRACOW RAILROAD WORKERS ENTER — — — * = —— (Special to Tne Dally Worker) WARSAW, Poland, Nov. 25.—The Polish socialist party, noted for the terrorist tactics of its groups of action” against the Polish Communists, has entered into a coalition with the _ murderers of the railroad workers of Cracow, to form a coalition cabinet in Poland. Skryznski, who was minister of foreign af- fairs in the Grabski cabinet, after a number of unsuccessful at- tempts has been able to form a cabinet in which the socialists, the big landowners, the clericals and the nationalists have Fear Workers’ Protest. The representatives of the Polish socialist party in the cabinet is one of the obscure members, who was formerly an Austrian officer, by the name of Ziemierski. The Polish so- cialist party did not dare put any of the well-known socialist leaders in the ministry of labor, as they have been so thoroly discredited for their actions that they feared that wide- spread demonstrations of the work- ers would take place against the new government. Ziemierski, who is now the minister of labor, represents the policy of the socialist party which has entered into an alliance with the Wi- tos party to prepare war against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Murder Cracow Workers. In the new cabinet, Kiernik, who was a member of the Witos cabinet, which was in power before the Grab- ski cabinet, has been given the post of minister of agriculture. Kiernik was the minister of internal affairs in the Witos cabinet, which is directly responsible for the murder of the railroad workers of Cracow in 1923. The Cracow railroad workers went on a political strike against the gov- ernment. The government immediate- ly sent troops to shoot down these striking railroad workers. In their combat with the strikers the first de- tachment of soldiers were defeated. More soldiers were dispatched and when the workers strike against the government was broken, the Witos cabinet instituted a reign of terror in Cracow. Many of the strikers were killed and many were thrown into prison for long terms at hard labor. At this time, the Polish socialist party protested the actions of the Witos cabinet. Its protest and demand for an impeachment of Kiernik was look- ed upon and treated as nothing more than a gesture to curry favor in the Ses of the workers. Today the socialists are in the same government with this butcher of Po- lish workers. entered into a coalition. + Skryznski, who formed the cabinet will be minister of foreign affairs, minister of finance and prime minis- ter. He is looked upon with great favor by the group following Gen. Pilsudski. Skryznski attempts to pose as a liberal. Grabski Remain In Cabinet. Wladislaw Grabski, who was the head of the cabinet which fell, is now minister of education and religion. Grabski represents the big landown- ers of Poland and during the world war was a spy in the Russian ochrana. His record as a spy has been found in the archives of the ochrana. Osiecki has been appointed as min- ister of commerce and industry. Gen. Majewski, who is opposed by the nationalists, holds the post of minister of war. Soviet Russian Policy. It is hard to tell as yet what the attitude of the new cabinet will be towards So] Russia. The big land- owners aati industrialists of Poland see in an alliance with Russia, a market for their products and a means by which Poland may keep her head above water. The socialists and the Witos party are opposed to any alliance with the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics and demand prepar- ations for an immediate war against Russia in which they claim they will have the support of the reactionary powers of Europe. Skryznski, who poses as a liberal and favored commercial relations with Russia in the last cabinet holds the balance of power in the new cabi- net. It is not known. what agree- ment he has entered into when the new cabinet was formed. One of the first matters to come before the new cabinet will be the matter of commercial relations with Russia and then it will be seen what concessions were made by, the big landowners behind Grabski and the group behind Skryznski, in this re- gard, to the ‘socialists and the Witos party. 3 * WORLD CONDITIONS FORESHADOW. TRADE RIVALRY FOR U. S. BOSSES AND LOWER WAGES FOR WORKERS By LELAND OLDS ; (Federated Press Industrial Editor) A new argument for high wages is sprung by Director Klein of the federal bureau of foreign and domestic commerce in an address on international trade rivalries. We've heard that domestic demand is necessary to keep America’s huge productive machinery profitably employed. But Klein adds that this tremendous domestic demand by supporting mass production enables American industry to meet foreign competition. Commerce figures of the four leading commercial nations show that we are entering a period of more intense trade rivalry. The foreign commerce of the United States in 1924-25 was“ 30 per cent above 1913, that of France 5 per cent above, Great Britain within 1 per cent of the prewar level and Germany still 27 per cent below. German Exports Gaining Fast. In four years these nations have in- creased their foreign commerce as follows: United States 24 per cent, France 22 per cent and Great Britain 32 per cent. The postwar inflation muddle in Germany makes it impos- sible to state the increase in exact figures but Klein says “it represents a more rapid advance than was made by either of its two leading competi- tors.“ The share of U. S. exporters in the import trade of all other countries was 20 per cent in 1923, the latest year for which statistics are available, compared with 15 per cent in 1913. America took 16 per cent of the ex- ports of all these countries compared with 9 per cent in 1913. To keep in- dustry employed it must hold this in- creased share. Labor Efficiency Aids Imperialists. Choosing electrical goods, automo- biles and steel as examples, Klein at- tributes the ability of the United States to compete to “the tremendous domestic demand” and “tremendous mass production due to employment of far greater efficiency both in man- agement and in labor.” But in a previous address and experiment * tools of production, trying the of applying American methods.” He asserts that this almost certainly portends stronger competition for American 2 porters. He refers to the installation of up- to-date machinery in France, Italy, Europe is the United textiles. It and especially in can capital building up foreign com- Klein | | pointed out that in Europe the “antic | | quated equipment of prewar days is gradually replaced by more modern || Spain, Holland and Scandinavia since | the war as giving these countries the edge on England States, would be interesting to know what proportion of this represents Ameri- | petition for American labor. How Long Will It Last? Whether the United States can hold the market which it requires in the face of foreign competition will thus depend less and less on its technical and more on a greater home market sustaining more intense mass produc- tion with lowering of production costs. If the Locarno treaty is followed by an economic United States of Europe, such as the French industrialist Loucheur hopes for, then European industry may also have its assured do- mestic market. Two capitalist giants will then face a fight to the finish un- less the revolt of the rest of the world against the exploitation of foreign capital has eliminated the market for which they are fighting. The question of immediate interest to labor is whether the domestic de- mand under existing wage rates can support this mass production. Ex- perts suggest that much of this de- mand is temporary, based on install- ment purchase plans. If so, a slump will come, with rising costs and in- ability to compete in foreign markets. Then, unless labor is strong enuf to force the other view, employers will resort to their time-honored method of meeting competition—wage cuts. * Are Germans im Locarno Pact Against Soviet Rule (Continued from page 1) acter of all capitalist parties and capitalist governments, the national- ists have their own interests to serve. Count Westarp, nationalist spokes- man, demanded the removal of hos- tile troops from German soil and ob ject to becoming a pawn Of Britain in the world struggle of imperialist am- bitions. The landowners realize that their own interests will be sacrificed to the interests of the agents of Bri- tain. Westarp said, in his speech: “If England is working with special energy for Locarno, it is only to force Germany into the circle of nations of the west in the common struggle against Bolshevism. Our political and economic interests point eastward. We must have full liberty of action in the east.” Voting Strength. The socialists are the largest single group in the German reichstag and their 131 votes will be in favor of Lo- carno when the pacts are up for final voting. With them will vote the people’s party with 51; catholics, 69; democrats, 32; and Bavarian people’s party, 19; making a total of 302. Against the pacts are the Commun- ists with 45 votes: the nationalists with 111; the fascists with 14, mak- ing a total of 170. Communist Strategy. Tho in their opposition to the Lu- ther government the Communists find themselves counted with the nation- alists and fascists in the voting, their motives are entirely different. The nationalists and fascists want to dom- inate Germany in the interests of the old junker class and restore a mon- archy or a bourgeois dictatorship in the interests of extreme nationalism. On the other hand the Communists vote against the government for the same reason they vote against all bourgeois governments. Without a vote against the treachery of the so- cial-democrats the Communists could not logically go before the working class and denounce the conspiracy that Britain, with the assistance of the German socialists, tried to launch against the Soviet Union. Just as the French Communists did not vote with the nationalists, but against the government of Painleve so the Ger- man Communists voted against the Luther government. At the same time, in case of an ef- fort of either fascists or nationalists to establish a government of their own the Communists would fight them to the bitter end as they have done in the past. N.Y. WORKERS - PROTEST JAILING OF BEN GITLOW New York Labor Fills Webster Hall (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Nov. 25.—The protest meeting arranged by the International Labor Defense against the jailing of Benjamin Gitlow, member of the Cen- tral Committee of the Workers (Com- munist) Party and Communist candi- date for mayor in the New York elec- tions, and calling for his release, jammed the Webster Hall. Many work- ers were not able to get into the hall. Bertram Wolfe, Sam Lipzin, Robert Dunn and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn were the speakers, who demanded the immediate repeal of the New York state criminal syndicalist act, the re- lease of Benjamin Gitlow and the building of the International Labor Defense into a powerful shield with which it will be possible to protect members of the working class against the onslaughts of the bosses. Cos- grove was chairman of the meeting. Every appeal for the release of Git- low, the repeal of the criminal syn- dicalism act and the strengthening of the International Labor Defense met with an enthusiastic approval from the assembled workers. The collection to aid the International Labor Defense to continue its task, netted $220. Jailed For Bootleg. BALTIMORE, Nov. 25.— The two Jones brothers, Winfield and Neufield, sons of the former head of the anti- saloon league in Georgia, left here to- day for Atlanta to serve a two-years’ sentence following conviction‘of di verting alcohdl to bootleg channels thru a drug company they managed. CONCERT at LABOR TEMPLE, ADMISSION 50 CENTS. S LL Lb bb NEW YORK CITY Class War Prisoners’ Xmas Fund Saturday, November 28, 1925, 8 P. M. > 7 > 4 7 - 7 > > > > > . > 9 given by the G. A. Uthman Saenger Chor > > > * * > > ‘ All proceeds go to the International Labor Defense. > > * rere & DANCE 243 East 84th Street. AAA hb in hb hb it hb hh hihi AA AA AAAAAAAAAA! COME ONE, COME ALL! — (Continued from page 1) rest of Pat Toohey and Alex Reid. With the result that the miners are turning more to the Progressive Miners’ Committee. Progressive groups are forming everywhere with two things in mind, t, to prepare efficiently for the waging’ of the strike and second, if the Strike is declar- ed off by officials by the means of the five-year agreement with a no-strike clause, at the coming’ convention, the progressive miners will bring a euffi- cient number of militants to prevent the betrayal of the men on strike. All over the anthracite region there is propaganda for the five-year con- tract. The miners are asked to con- sider the welfare of | less men and bankers. And being done by the offizials to nter-act this propaganda. For sponsibility for saving upon the progressives. Toohey Speaks. Pat Toohey spoke after Dunne and his speech gained for him the repu- tation of the most interesting and promising of youthful workers, for his speech showed an understanding of the workers’ struggle, the class-col- laborating union officials and the sources that make up the advocates and upholders of the capitalist gov- ernment of America. Toohey said the strike of the an- thracite miners is a puzzle to the min- er. “Is it a strike or not?” they ask. In the soft coal regions in a strike all the trimmings are put on. There are mass demonstrations with jail- ings and every -sort_of persecution. This does not exist in the anthracite. The leaders of the miners’ union set forth the proposſtion that this strike will not be s 2 unless the miners win the check-off, basing the entire struggle on, the check-off—an issue that does not! take in wages, hours of labor, ng of condi- tions. And the operators say we will not concede the chtex-off until we are good and ready. “What is this checkoff?“ you may ask. What is this mighty issue? Just a little proposition hereby the op- erators become the collectors of union dues for Lewis so he or the other officials do not ne selves. Soon you miners have won. that Mr. Lewis will guat the check-off and the operators willthave gotten rid of their surplus coal. 9 Going back to thelgtrike, Toohey told how, under the De vis machine system of coneucting this strike, which they call a vacation, 10,000 union men are now seabbing in the bituminous arthracitegregions. These 10,000 maintenance men are really do- ing everything which mes under the class of scabbing and still Lewis thinks the miners are going to win the strike as long as he permits these union men to scab on their fellow workers.” } He then related the deplorable con- ditions under which the anthracite miners work in a way that only one who has gone into the mines daily with them and been all his life one of them could relate. He said they slave like beasts in gas, water, mud and slime and get home without a decent day’s wage. One-third of the anthracite miners, he said, is made up of children between the ages of 12 and 17. These children are suposed- ty working eight hours a day but every miner knows that in reality *ney work 12 hours for the operator loses none of the time on the nu- merous preparatory moves which take time and which is not counted into the eight hours. 9 He told of the demands of the pro- gressive miners, thé chief among them being world trade unity which Lewis calls a pipe“ dream. But steamers that are today coming from Wales and Scotland With 25,000 tons of coal mined by union miners to this country while the miners here are on strike could fever happen if this ‘pipe dream’ were made a reality by the miners’ union. Very vividly and with much wit and humor he told how he and other pro- gressive miners were! arrested. Halt Meeting. Gangsters descended upon a mass meeting of the progressive miners’ committee which was packed to the roof. August Valentine was in the chair. Several 200-pound sluggers walked up to him, dragged him out of the hall and to jail and kept him there four days under the most vile conditions. The next day a miner who worked beside Valentine in the mines, read of the arrest in thé paper. He had a warm spot in his heart for Val- entine and decided to give bail for him. He walked into jail and he was retained as a dangerous red. For five weeks they lay in jail un- der the most miserable conditions while the Lewis and Cappellini, fake leaders, continued to betray the in- terests of the miners and to advocate the expulsion from the union. But the local men told Mr. Cappellini and Mr. Lewis: “We knéw the policies of the progressive miners and we'll —r———* not expel them and you can go plumb to hell.” 510 2 rennen, „ 18 BAB 5. Ps tris J SMB yee Me e n te oh 3 f a aed oe et ye — 7 ap ö P * 7 1 J 127 4 an 2 f 1 * ＋ * N ' N E eee 8 n 1 ae a of + WAS 5 r 9 #3. : ** ~~ N . N, S on, * 5 ry 1 Ne“ woe A 8 9 ye ioe 1 4 . League of e of Nations A 7 J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. 1 1 5 “ts 5 N " L. Gal * 5 2 * * — * * 4 12 4 | : . > yo ODAY, Maxim Litvinoff, acting commissar of foreign affairs in the Union of Soviet Republics, while George Chicherin is travelling in western Europe, gives an explana- tion of the league of nations that should be memorized by every worker interested in the triumph of his class over its exploiters. Here it is: “The league is a mere screen for the ‘and weak nations. It is chiefly a diplomatic stock exchange where the stronger nations arrange their affairs behind the backs and at the is . expense of the smaller and weaker nations.” | Capitalist diplomats have been frantically the Soviet Union join the league of nations ar stamp of its aprpoval on the league’s The profit press has been : over the world the belief that the Soviet U This resulted in Litvinoff again stating Soviet Union, and he does not mince words policies. the league bandits. further oppression of small spread the * * ; At the moment that Litvinoff was issuin ‘his statement in Moscow, the socialist 1 member, Otto Wels, at alo Berlin, was reiterating the hope, of German labor oppressors, of all shades of a “The only e whole flock ng with iation, that, way out of the dangers of isolation is for Russia to abandon its voluntary isolation, and take up the road to the league.“ Communists do not go to the social-democratic parliamentarians for advice. Moscow will have a good laugh at Wels’ very comical antics in the role of bait for the league of imperialist robbers. Now that Germany has been * mitted to enter the league, Wels can play the part in the reich that J. Ramsay MacDonald assumes in England. One of the first demands that the German capitalist statesmen made, after they had been admitted to the league, was that they be lost as a result of the war. iven mandates over the colonies that were It was urged that the colonies __ could be exploited to help meet the demands of the Dawes plan. The German socialists, supporters of the league, the Dawes plan and the Locarno “security pact,’’ must favor such a scheme of intensive colonial oppression, that led Mac- Donald, while labor premier, into championing the worst i perialist policies against India, Egypt and China; that h led French “socialists” into giving their aid to the butcheg'’ wars against the Riffians, in Africa, and the Druses in Syr and similarly, Spanish “socialist” support of the government that wars, altho very unsuccessfully, ples of Morocco. That these “socialists against ‘the native peo- should even hint the desire to have Soviet rule join such imperialist hangmen’s company, shows how little they understand the Bolshevist revolution that rose to power in Russia on November, 1917. . 2 — The Soviet Union is not isloated. It has mi in the growing class conscious masses in tries. Oppressed colonies and subject na are turning more and more to it for guidance and inspiration. The Communist theory that forms the bedrock upon which 2 * dee d ght friends Nen alist coun- ions everywhere Soviet rule has been built proclaims the identity of interest between exploited industrial workers in the homeland and the enslaved colonial peoples. Wels, in Germany; MacDon- ald, in England, Leon Blum in France, and their “socialist” counterparts in all lands reject this fundamental, as they give their allegiance to their various national capitalisms. * * * _ There is only one international league that the Soviet Union is interested in and that is the World Federation of Soviet Republics that alone, in the words of Litvinoff, fur- nishes the basis for “independence and self-determination of all nations.” * Doumer Fails and Herriot Is Called to Form Cabinet (Continued from page 1) organize a cabinet because the Her- riot group refused to support them, insisting that the left bloc have the premiership otherwise they would boycott any government that might be formed. Up to now Herriot hag steadfastly refused to attempt to organize a gov- ernment, but in view of the decision of the left bloc of bourgeois parties to. participate in a government pro- viding the socialists are given ade- quate representation, he may accept. His acceptance will mean a capital levy, which will affect all holders of property and capital and will play directly into the hands of the big bankers who will thereby be able to crush the small fry by advancing money for taxes and taking mortgage security,.thus enormously extending eeeswg4sesissisaeeeee! the power of bank capital. Communists Active. The Communists are arousing the workers of the country against all bourgeois parties on the issue of the colonial wars as well as the question of French finances and preparing for the time when elections to the cham- ber of deputies will have to be held. Regardless of whether the radical so- cialists under Herriot or any other single group form a temporary cabi- net the economic and political situa- tion is such that no government can last long and the Communists will fight all governments in order to force new elections. Saves Chapman From Gallows. WASHINGTON, Nov. 25—President Coolidge has signed a commutation of sentence for Gerald Chapman, notori- ous bandit, sentenced to be hanged in connection for the murder of a police- man, it was announced at the White House today, following the request of the Connecticut state’s attorney, Al- corn. Miners! * . * ¥ 1. the reason given being the con- r . * Tot VP aye rf . sh * - * Ta * 1 a ys aan . R Met PE ae (Special to The Daily v “LONDON, Nov. 26.— Startiing ro- ports from China today include an unconfirmed Central News dispatch from Tientsin reporting that Gen. Chang Tso-lin has been slain in a mutiny of his own troops at Mukden. The Daily Telegraph's correspon- dent at Peking cabled that Chang is being held prisoner by his mutinous 904 dops. This is also lacking in di- The armistice agreement, Gen. Feng-yu-hsiang was to be definitely at an tinued military activity of their re- ttive lieutenants, both of whom are aiming at Peking. pe RSE Another report stated that Feng had joined forces with Gen. Wu Pei Fu, and were operating against Chang with a view to setting up a Soviet government at Peking. Chang Tso Lin's troops to Chin wan tao, who mutinied, are reported to have fought reactionary troops for several hours, with heavy casualties. The Mukden mutiny is said to have been influenced by Kuo Sung Ling, one of Chang’s field generals, who had Chang placed under restraint. Chang’s agents in Shanghai are hastily recruit- ing a counter-revolutionary force of White Guard Russian monarchist re- fugees. The first boat load left this morning for Mukden. Dismiss Case Against Morse for War Frauds WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—The last of the war fraud indictments obtained by the department of justice was wiped from the records of the District of Columbia supreme court, It was the indictment of E. M. Davis of New York and Ernest C. Morse of Cincinnati, former director of sales of war material for the war department, for conspiracy in connec- tion with the sale of the dia Hickory Alexander Phillips, also indicted in this case, died in August, 1922. The indictment was nolle prossed by Peyton Gordon, United States dis- trict attorney, All available coast guard forces were rushed out into the stormy waters of Lake Michigan in search of a man who was seen on board a | launch a few minutes before it dis- appeared in a sheet of flame and smoke a mile off the Diversey bathing beach here. N Fascist Mission Leaves U. 8. NEW YORK, Nov. 25.— With the Italian debt settlement in his pocket, Count Guiseppi Volpi di Misurata, ac- companied by other members of the Italian debt commission, sailed for Italy today. r An attractive, popular month maga - zine, published by International Labor Defense, with lots of pictures and car- toons, and feature articles by the best Writers—16 pages of live, important news and photos every month. Editor, Tom O'Flaherty. Subscriptions—$1.00 Per Year (12 Issues) 60 Cents for Six Months THE LABOR DEFENDER 23 So. Lincoln St., Chicago, II. Enclosed $ for months subscription to: Name . 1 Address City n · EITIIHITITETEITHTEIT EIA FI 2 9 (75) he F ramed - up Zeigler Help Save Them From Prison! Do your utmost to give them the best possible defense. 52,500 is needed by Dec. 15. Local Chicago, International Labor Defense, has guaranteed 15 51.000 which has been advanced already and is out to raise the full amount. t DECEMBER 10 to 13, 1925 at the NORTH-WEST HALL, Corner North and Western Avenues HOW? By means of a BAZAA Donations Are Weapons in This Defense Fight! * 4 Ask your shopmates, your organizations, your neighborhood shops for con- tributions of any kind of article—foodstuffs, coin, clothing, anything and let the local I. L. D. office, 23 So. Lincoln St., know that YOU are on the job— by bringing, sending or reporting what you collect or donate. BE A LABOR DEFENSE BUILDER AND BOOSTER! i eee FEIERN State 7 on = =O | - r * 17 — — 4 4 * 4 —— ——4—— — — ~ riety ’ 4 — * — 5 rere. ae See | Their trial begins Dec. 1. ~ — ‘ 4 . . — 4 — 4 4 2 — ee eae * 1 7 — * ° cr — — — power plant at Jacksonville, Tenn. Search For Victim. 8 E
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— eee EO — e my “ye ena n nara nae ro — 10404 OS! 8 MESSINGER L LUNCH ROOM WORKERS SLAVE 12 HRS. DAILY, 7 DAYS PER WEEK: DAY OFF ONLY BY SPECIAL REQUEST ; 4 1 which forms a link in the food trust. The employment office is located at 17 Quincy street. for a job, must be there at 7 a. m. Alas whether they need any help. He ey RUFUS b. HEATH, Worker Correspondent. Messinger Lunch Rooms in the city of Chicago make up a corporation If you don’t get a job then, you must leave and return at 9 a. m. If you don’t get a job then, you must leave and return at 7 p. m. You have to wait out on the sidewalk in the cold, rain or snqw, while the inspector takes the phone and calls up the houses, to see Anyone looking his time about calling, while you wait and shiver. Wages, Hours and Conditions. The day crew works a 10-hour shift and the night crew works a 12-hour shift, for the same weekly wage scale, which is as follows: Cooks, (they call them pantrymen), $22.00; wait- ers, $19.00; porters. and dishwashers, $14.00. The day crew is divided in half, where possible, so that half be- gin at seven a. m. and quit at five p. m., while the other half begin at nine a. m. and quit at seven p. m. The day crew works a half-day Sun- day, making six and a half days a week. The night crew begins at seven p. m. and quit at seven a. m., twelve hours a day, seven days 4 week, Neither crew has a day off, except the wait- ers or countermen, and they can only take a day off by special arrange- ment with the ‘manager, which is very hard to do. Sm Manager’s Job to Drive. The manager is the slave driver. They're short on nearly all the dish- es, silverware and glasses. When a rush is on, the porters are kept on the run getting the dirty dishes out to the dishwasher. The waiters must rush to get their tables and counter clear in time for the next customer. The cook and waiters are constantly hollering, “glasses,” “silverware,” “pie plates,” or “platters up,” while the manager is right there »with the dish- washer yelling, “Come on, get these dishes out there, quick.” Of course, the manager would rath- er work the help to death, than tell the boss to get more dishes. In fact, he is afraid he will lose the job if he asks for more dishes and to get more dishes would mean less profit for the boss. The Spy System. The workers realize the need of a union and most of them talk in fa- vor of unions. But the boss has one or more spies (stool pigeons) in each house to report anyone who tries to talk a union or organize one in the Messinger houses. Therefore, they are afraid to talk union, for fear that they will get fired and blacklist- ed. Just like in any other industry, you will find the scissor-bill there that don’t care anything about the conditions that he has to work and live under, just so long as he has a place to sleep and coffee and rolls to eat. When you speak to him about a union, he says, “Oh, what do I care? I won't be here long. I'll be a sales- man or a bricklayer next week. I’m just here to make a stake, so for the length of time I’m here I don’t need to waste my money on a union.” You see the same sap a year later, still on the same old job. The Union Needed. The union is the answer to the twelve-hour day. It is only thru a strong, well-organized industrial union that the twelve-hour day can be smashed. If the workers in the food industry, will only organize, they can get the eight-hour day and make the food trust sit up and take notice. If not, they will die working twelve hours a day. ‘IN BOWERY MISSIONS F YOU FALL ASLEEP YOU GET THROWN OUT By A Worker e NEW YORK, N. V. —it is very cold. The weather changed all of a sudden. |! got my overcoat out of hock today. I am glad | have an overcoat. On the Msi wery this cold night | can see usands of men suffering from cold, Mager and pov- erty. When you are homeless and broke, you er dritt to the Bowery. f i The missions are open: vation Army hotel ne * church institute, have the price. It is so cold that I decided to sleep in the mission, . there are also hundreds of others. But there are no beds to siéep on. One sits and sleeps in * heir all night long. 2 At midnight, they ‘wake everyone up to listen to the religious services and to join in signing! it, after they wake you up, you should fall asleep again—out you go into the cold street, The Sal- Seamen's $ — A Miner Is Never Too Old to Have His Wage Docked By A Worker Correspondent WEST FRANKFORT, [1l.—‘Fritz,” an old coal digger who has worked for the Peabody Coal company for the last 14 years and whi should be on a pension, is still not too old to learn new tricks that the bosses can put over. Not long ago, he “struck a role in his room,” as miners say. Any coal miner with horse sense knows that in such cases the roof becomes bad and is ver} dangerous to work under. So Fritz notified the face boss and de- manded a timberman to timber the place. “Nothing doing,” says the face hoss. “If you want it timbered, do it yourself!” Old Fritz went home, the only thing he could do. The next day it was the same story and again he went home. When he came back the following day, he wa stold, “You are discharged!” When Fritz took the matter up with the pit committee, the committee, as usual, referred it to the superintend- ent, and there was a disagreement and the case went to a union board member. The board member told Fritz, Don't you worry! You go home until the roof is fixed and I'll make them pay compensation for every day you lose.” Three weeks went by before the board member told Fritz that he could go back to work. But when Fritz asked him about compensation, he said, what Fritz had heard so often before, Nothing doing.” If you want to thoroughly un- deistand Communism—-study it. —— Another “Charity” Hold-Up! charity fund in their annual drive. their jobs. By J. G. SOLTIS,. Worker Correspondent. “MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Nov. 25.—Eighteen hundred workers at the Ford plant here were forced to contribute one day’s full wages to the community Altho most of the workers are absolutely opposed to the principle of Mone charity, they had to donate or to lose The only choice they had was as to whether they should pay 2 $5.00 alk nt o once or at the rate of 50 conte a ‘week. | Thi i= ‘ * 7 SS 8 vy eee A Sy 1. ied . . i ’ : rs e — a , we PAY ‘ 4 Three Arrested for a Conspiracy to Kill By A Worker Correspondent Three private detectives, alleged to be operatives ef the notorious strike- breaking Burns agency, were arrested yesterday on warrants charging them with conspiracy to murder Attilo de la Pilazza, a striking member of Ma- chinists’ Union Local 124, of Joliet, iil. Their names are Daniel Bottee, A. R. Lopez and H. L. Kendricks. The case arose over a strike by garage workers in Joliet, and a swarm of finks immediately descended on the little city with a well planned scheme ot the agent provocateur type so cus- tomary to the Burns agency. “Protection.” Windows were broken in some gar- agés and the Winston Motor company was bombed. When apprehended by the Joliet police Bottee admitted that the National Automotive Protective association of St. Louis was paying the bill. The association now knows what sort of “protection” the Burns agency deals in. Machinists’ Union members, strik- ing against the five scab firms, the Buick, Hudson, Essex, Studebaker and Dodge companies, and supported by the important Carmen’s Local 882, had already won agreements with seven- teen local garages. On a Mission. The Burns men came to town to break up the strike and crush the union. Some of them inveigled them- selves into an acquaintance with De la Piazza, a striker. Bottee was the chief “friend” in this case. Bottee fixed it up so that on a certain night, he and De Lapiazza would sit up till midnight playing cards, At midnight, Bottee persuaded De la Piazza to accompany him to a near- by restaurant for lunch. In the meantime the fink Kendricks and his equally finky companion, A. R. Lo- pez, went to Joliet police headquar- ters and told the cops that they had “information” that a bomb was to be Studebaker and Buick garages. Ready to Kill. The police sent three men, Captain McCraney and Detectives Lehner and Talkie. The two “informed” finks, Kendricks and Lopez, were joined by two more of the Burns skunks, J. A. Wise and J. J. Garvey. All seven waited in ambush across the street from the garage passageway. The chief fink, Bottee, took care when he and De la Piazza went out for lunch, to take the sidewalk along the front of the two garages and by the passageway. Bottee had a “bomb” made of rags. When the two neared the passageway, Bottee lit a match and set the “bomb” afire, tossing it into the passageway. Shot Down Striker. At once the three police and four Burns finks rushed across the street to capture the “bomb” throwers. De la Piazza, thinking a holdup gang was attacking him and his companion, ran police and the Burns finks shooting at him. He finally collapsed after being shot thru both legs and the police “captured” him. He is still re- covering in the St. Joseph’s hospital. But the police became a little indig- nant when the “bomb” was found to be a fake, and questioning the finks elicited the information of the con- spiracy which nearly caused the death of the innocent striker they had discrediting the strike. The present arrest of three of the Burns operatives is the result. Joliet labor unions and particularly the machinists, are watching the case with interest and mean to see that the finks do not get away with their usual dismissal, by secret influence on the prosecuting of- ficials. Sixty Hours and Step on It!” Says Mail-Order House By SIDNEY KELLER. (Worker Correspondent) “Sixty hours and step on it!” This threatening warning to the girls employed at Sears-Roebuck mail order house is printed on blackboards in large letters as the bosses’ means of speeding-up the help. Far ‘sixty hours and step on it,” the girls are paid the miserable sum of $18 per week, with big chances of getitng laid off after the Christmas rush if they haven't “stepped on it” enuf. Over 2,000 workers are laid off each year after the holidays. Fears of being laid off keep the workers in a frenzied rush to obey the bosses’ orders. Employment of- fices are packed daily with work seek- ers, standing around for hours anxious to fill a vacancy if some worker fails to keep up the pace. Despite the frequent changes of help, however, the bosses are bitterly hated, for it doesn’t take a worker long to catch on to their methods of exploitation. Some day, the workers * ent 2 iA will learn eguf to become organized. placed in the passageway between the. plotted to have shot as a means of ‘north on Scott Street with both the} —_—_ Hh Fane a 2 9 4 ery n 7 M * pee Abs 3 N hs. . N ‘ lair of the open labor system, tene- ment houses (and farms of the same variety where women, chil- dren and old men are forced to la- bor for less than an existence), ac- cording to a bulletin issued by the state board of health, has 19,260 tu- bercular patients in the various in- stitutions and homes, under rigs ment. This does not include many more who are daily employed in sweat- shops and les scattering the germs of the white plague to their fellow workers. and sending it broadcast in goods manufactured here for shipment to the north and east. 4 The death fate from tuberculosis in Louisiana is 13 per 1,000. By A Workér Correspondent HARTFORD,’ *Conn.—After seven detectives of the Hartford police squad had attended the mass meeting arranged by the Young Workers’ League at the Labor Educational Alli- ance here this week, the teachers in the public schools came out in an open attack. League members are “reds,” and should be deported, teach- ers warned their pupils. Wide attention had been attracted by the meeting, which was a protest against American “education week.” Altho the police did not interfere, they questioned several people and the seven dicks stayed thruout under the BY UNION HEAD Farrington’s Man F ri- day on the Job By WILLIAM SCHROEDER. (Worker Correspondent) WEST FRANKFORT, [fil.—Reduc- tion of wages from 35 to 50 per cent is being forced on miners at the Orient No. 2 Mine, by men loading from 15 and more tons of coal a day for shift work pay behind the loading machine. The men complained and their case was taken up by a union board mem- ber aftér the pit committee had dis- agreed. The board member handed the case over to his assistant, an ap- pointee of Frank Farrington, presi- dent of District. 12, U. M. W. of A. The union assistant spoke in “his mas- ter’s voice” and declared that the com- pany had a right to pay shift-work wages because the loading machines were in an “experimental” stage yet, this, despite the fact that the ma- chines have been in use for three years! The miners’ agreement with the company states that, when any ma- chine is in use more than three months, it becomes practical and can not be considered any more as in the experimental stage. Miners know this even if board members don’t. But what most of the miners don’t know is that board members are there to take care of the interests of the coal operators. And coal diggers are there to pay their dues and keep their mouths shut—and to work at from 35 to 50 per cent reduction if the board leadership of Sergeant Moriarity. members order! 6. BRIN UNION OFFICIALS AID BOSSES TO TO SANTA BARBARA ‘OPEN SHOP (By a Worker Correspondent.) SANTA BARBARA, Calif. Nov. 22— Santa Barbara is being rebuilt with scab labor after.the earthquake of last spring. The California Development Association and the Los Angeles Times offered to give Santa Barbara 4% per cent toward rebuilding the city if this nene on an open shop basis. ae Workers Witt Fire. The foreseeing trouble refused. Official! of organized labor advised the workers to collaborate with the chambér of commerce in the interest of peace and as a result or- ganized labor pledged itself not to raise wages. Thie Citizens’ Committee made a pretense at helping the union men to keep their jobs but the wolf soon showed its teeth. A notorious open shop manufactur- er of the Santa Barbara school poard brot in scab earpenters to rebuild the high school, saying he could not af- ford to employe@union men. Organ- ized labor was once more advised by its officials to work with the scabs and they even pledged donations to the rebuilding fund. One local union of about 275 members donated $1,000 toward rebuilding the schools. And Burn Their Fingers. The workers were given another lesson in class collaboration when they started on the Central Building. The foreman began driving the men working outside on scaffolds. Three men had to quit their jobs or en- danger their lives. Then the foreman began picking on the union men. He brot a charge of stealing a brush against one man and laid-off that man tho he could not prove the accusa tion. The union delegate was called in. He told the men “that the job is fair’—but the men refused to stand for that and quit, with the exception of a few. An advertisement which appeared in the Los Angeles Times recently is a signal to close the town of Santa Barbara to organized labor, a signal to scabs to flock to Santa Barbara. In line with this policy the Los An- geles Times carried a vicious story against organized labor in Santa Bar- bara. Attack Progressives Not Bosses (Worker Correspondent.) BENTLEYVILLE, Pa., (By Mail.)— —A mass open-air meeting called by the mine workers’ organization was held at Marianna, Pa. on November 15. The meeting was called for the purpose of protesting against Bethle- hem Steel corporation for trying to open their mineg under the 1917 scale or so-called open shop policy on the Elisworth branch, There are a large number of pro- gressives in thig,section. So the pro- gressives got busy and distributed leaflets to the ,, miners who came to the mass meeting calling on them to fight for their union, to close their ranks against the 1917 scale and to force their offigials to take drastic steps in this fight and stop expelling tue progressive members in the Unit- ed Mine Workers of America. Some of the miners were distribut- ing leaflets, “Hands Off China,” and “Stand by Soviet Russia” and “Don’t Mobilize for Mongan.” Officials in Frenzy Over Leaflets. When the district officials and their agents got hold ef the leaflets which criticized them for their inactivity and wrong polietes or lack of policy, they went blind mad over Tt and tried to stop the distribution. In their fury they got hold of a miner who was distributing the leaflets “Stand by Soviet Russia” and accused him of nothing less than of being paid by the steel company to break the union. The district president, Mr. Fagan himself, with several of his gang at- tacked this miner and by force took away the leaflets that he had with him. The meeting was soon called to or- der and to the surprise of everyone, the meeting was opened by a priest with the prayer: “God Help and Bless Us in This Fight.” ‘The priest was followed by, international organ- izers who spoke in Italian and Croa- tion, In their speeches they attack- ed Kaiser Bill of Germany for break ing the contract rand marching thru Belgium, The Belgians took to arms | and fought to the last ditoh against the kaiser. They further pointed out that Kaiser Schwab is doing exactly the same thing as Kaiser Wilhelm did. But we are advised to fight against Kaiser Schwab by quite dif- ferent methods—to sit home and keep quiet while the officials “with their brains and intelligence” (and by pray- ing to god!) will bring Charlie Schwab to stand by the agreement which he, himself, signed. One would wonder what would have happened with the Belgian people had they fol- lowed the advice of our union offi- cials. Kaiser Wilhelm would have marched thru Belgium without losing a single hair! The next speaker was Mr. Fagan, district’ president of this district of the United Mine Workers of America. ‘He followed he same line about Kaiser Bill and Kaiser Schwab. He opened his speech with a plea for un- ity, but soon forgot his opening re- marks and started a vigorous attack upon the progressive miners, and the Workers Party. He pointed out that Tom Ray, Myerscough, Ruthenberg and Foster are just as dangerous to the union as Charlie Schwab is and stated that they must be destroyed by all means. This attack upon the Ga — ——— WOR KERS 17. pn Instructors: J. Louls Eng- 1 1113 W. Washington Bivd. He AGO Ou 28 N09, a CLASS te CLO Worker Correspondence dahl, Wm. F. Dunne and Oliver Carlson. Text: Dunne’s Worker Correspondents”’ ) Thursday, 8 P. M. (No class this week) Daily Worker office, : WORKER-WRITERS MOBILIZING IN CORRESPONDENCE CLAS: This week, a new page centralization points, groups of work this is the task for be ordered from The Daily Worker terested workers can attend. is turned in the history of The 9 WORKER for it marks the beginning of classes in WORKER CORR PONDENCE, both in New York and in Chicago. in all possible industrial units in the United States. : Wherever a worker’s ear catches a word of workers’ news, his * is to be ready to write it down and send it to The DAILY WORKER: - which the classes are to stimulate workers. 2 In order to send in news to The DAILY WORKER, however, it is U, no means necessary to attend these classes. of encouraging and directing the work. dealin courses will be published regularly in the paper so that pe & ing will be kept in touch and be able to profit, tho not participating. The text to be used is Wm. F. Dunne’s pamphlet on WORKER COR. RESPONDENTS, which is No. 4 of the Little Red Library series, and cam In Chicago, the classes are directed by J. Louis Engdahl and William: F. Dunne, editors of The DAILY WORKER, and Oliver Carlson, secretary of the Workers’ School, while in New York, the work will be in charge | Joseph Freeman, proletarian journalist and poet. on every Thursday night,—New York classes, every Monday night. All fr 4 With these classes * er correspondents are to be rec They are only one “aa Articles Publishing Co. fe Chicago classes are 3 AND MAINTAIN SAY UNION WINDOW CLEANER NOMINATE RANK AND FILERS GOOD RECORD, By A Worker Correspondent Maintain the present policy of elect- ing Officials from the rank and file! This is the slogan which members of Window Workers’ Local 134, B. S. E. I. U., will rally around tonight at their regular meeting at 180 West Washing- ton, when officials for 1926 will be nominated: Under the bebte guidance of Steve Zaharachuk, business agent, this union has developed from a bank- rupt organization run by Tim Murphy and his henchmen to a militant union with a good financial standing and a three-fold increase of membership. Chicage “World,” Chief Scab. Formerly, laushed at by window cleaning companies, this union today is almost 100 per cent recognized, with wage scales of $1.00 an hour and the piece-work system abolished. The scabby “Chicago” World is the only firm of any importance that has no agreement with the Window Worke Union. The membership consists of 0 timers, who first formed the uni and fought to bring it to fts prese status, and of new-comers, not drawn into the militant spirit of t union. The latter group must drawn into the union’s activith These new members must be ma to feel that the union is oo that its future is in their hands.” No More Outsiders! The present policy of electing « » ffi f cials from the rank and file must be maintained. No more outside Murphys can be tolerated! In campaign for organizing the union buildings firms, the entire 7 bership must take part. The union 8 has good rank and file material, # has a fighting business agent on the job all the time, it has the COC tion of the building trades, W 45 SPEED-UP SYSTEM UNBEARABLE AS STEEL PRODUCTION INCREASES By HENRY VICTOR, No relief in the conditions of the mills of East Chicago and Hammond. With the advance in steel produc- tion, there will be no increase in em- ployment. The increases in steel production in steel mills in this dis- trict will be gained mostly thru a stricter enforcement of the speed-up system, which is unbearable even in regular weeks of average production. Dominate Press. An illustration of the united front of the manufacturers and the press is shown by the consent of the en- duction heavily increases in the Calumet district. Steel Company of Indiana Harbor, the Youngstown steel works and the steel Worker Correspondent. steel workers is foreseen as steel pro- This encircles the Inland and also the steel mills of Gary, Ind. tire press of this district to the de- mands of the officials of the Inland Steel company of Indiana Harbor which also maintains a plant in Chi cago Heights, that no news of ace dents and injuries to workers in the mills be published; only such news pertaining to the conditions of the workers as given out to the press by the steel officials themselves may be published. NU MBER FOUR The Little Red Library left wing was the cause of a great disturbance among the large mass of miners who began to protest calliing Mr. Fagan a liar and pointing out that this group, Foster-Ruthenberg, are trying to make the union a fighting organization. Fagan then made a statement that the progressive miners at their last convention held in Pitts- burgh on March 15th were led by a man by the name of Mike Halapy, who is now organizing company unions. He was then again called a liar and challenged to prove his statements. He soon finished his sptech and was followed by Vice President Murray, God helped him, as it was prayed before, with a big rain storm so he had to cut it short without showing the miners the way to fight the Charlie Schwabs who are laughing at the agreements while our union ot᷑ - ficials are busy fighting the “veds.” : | What By ment, uting One Dollar. Worker Correspondents ITH the growth of the world Communist move- developed. The question of worker correspondents re- ceives its first attention in 10 America in this booklet, Cents Here is the analysis of its 12 Copies importance and a text book for to guide every worker to success in this field. ? Where? When? Why? How? WILLIAM F. 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os 8 SCHOOL HAVE MANY BIGGEST FINNISH DISTRICT CONVENTION IS UNANIMOUS FOR THE C. E. C. AND REORGANIZATION its history. There were present twenty-two delegates, The Obio-Pittsburgh district convention of the Finnish language frac- tions of the Workers (Communist) Party of America, in which are found all the Finnish Party units in Buffalo, Rochester, Detroit, the entire Ohio and Pennsylvania districts, has just concluded the most successful convention in * In the opinion of the repre- mer ae a. — . ——— OT ee a r a 4 ; ‘ | + ot * 5 . = . peri =o ‘ Lincoln St., rot Men | They are as 1 * Monday, 8 p. 1, instructor, Ear! CLEVELAND, Nov. 26—The Work- ers“ (Communist) Party here has ar- ranged the following classes for which students are to be enrolled at once. YORK, Nov. 25—A course by J. OQlgin in the “Living on,” one by Kvitke in the istic Philosophy of Life,” Tuesday, 8 p. m., Tuesday, 8 p. m., Elements of Communism, — Oliver Car- sentative of the Central Executive Committee to the convention, Comrade Lovestone, this conference engaged in the most thoro and instructive discussion on party reorganization Two Classes in English. An elementary class (for begin- ners) and an advanced class are planned. These classes are to begin Comrades Karhu, neen. Latvala, Tuome- | ber 6. Bs sper : diately. His place is to be taken] gion St. of unions, but are unable to speak on Buffalo, Decem dee the week at the New York Work-|mously endorsed. Every delegate 2 . sion St.) una : drs School. An of these courses are voted for an energetic campaign of Dy one of the fraternal delegates who Thursday, 8 p. Elements ee Wheres eps ara dee ea arg New York, nn e, 3333 1 Friday night. wich the pos- bolshevization. The delegates ex- is being sent to the convention. Communism, i : ar, Max Be- | 800n be in the unions are in the same 13. ah 5 6 wle exception ot Olgin’s which may] pressed themselves heartily in favor The fraternal delegates are Com- dacht. we position; they are not equipped for Philadel Sender 14 and 18. — 125 delayed a short time gn account [of the party’s waging an even more rades Wick, from the Detroit branch Friday, 6 p. m., Ejeme of Com- putting forward the party position. p 16 and 17. . . iliness. . vigorous reorganization plan than it which has made quite some progress munism, ins or, H, M. Wicks. Every pat vA 75 ember who wishes to Cleveland, December 18 and 19. he course in Public Speaking is has to date. in party reorganization, and Comrade Friday, beso = lic Speak- * * — — 1 r New Haven, to be addressed | by primarily for beginners. How to pre-] The convention discussed at length Jansen, from Buffalo. ing, instructor, H. Vicks. | 1 a 1 3 * i * New York comrades. . ari ' pare a talk, overcome nervousness; | the industrial work, educational work, All in all, this was one of the most Friday, 8 p. m. vs WORKER } Speakers’ c en rere These meetings are the most im- j,» aud delivery; how to act as|work among women, Ndxrd, work, de- successful party conferences held in| Corres ents’ pup, instructors * 1 Tuesday, Dec. eA u be. hela} beten ones that the party has held Chairman, how to make an open-air] tense work, labor party activities, etc. | * meg Cme. Dunne, Engdahl, | pe tee FP bi a 8 mornings * for a long time and thore discussion _ talk; how to deliver your message in| The district committee activities were W. 1 * 10:00 and Wednesday evenings at ° the most vital questions be- 15 minutes—these are some of the| endorsed. : Form Communist. > pas: agi aa My. Mistery o | 8:00. ‘fore the party will be had. 4 ‘problems taken up. The students The convention vated to instruct nore * Movement, asl 3 2 —U— * ‘ 2 ay as — 2 * . i EE - . that has yet occured in our ranks. Is was wa e 00 son, Sunday, Nov. 29 For the many for- The dates assigned are as 5 fol : lo Speaking under the able di- ! Wednesday, 8 8 So- eigu- born ‘comrades these classes will os 2 wr eg n 0 Adopt Unity Resolution. declaring that any comrade of the] al and Labor 100 „ netructer, ien. bor mrad lows: | nucleus training course ntals of Leninism), instruc- b. Jack Stachel, will make Friday it one of the most popular nights @Miticize each other, are taught how to arrange their subject matter and also given instructions on what to use for material and practice. A Matérialistic Philosophy of Life is a “ground-breaker” course for our party since the American workers have concerned themselves very little with the problems of philosophy and The Central Executive Committee unity resolution was endorsed unani- mously. The Central Executive re- organization plan was likewise unani- its delegates to the Finnish national conference that the conference should appropriate $500 to establish a fund for the organization of a Lenin Col- lege in Chicago. Aid DAILY WORKER. A collection was made for The DAILY WORKER in which $50 was delegation who in the least deviates from the instructions of policy adopted at this conference, is to re- Iinquish his convention mandate im- Dramatic Circle ANTED: Communists and sym- pathizers who are interested in organizing a dramatic group in Chi- cago tq give Communist and other revolutionary working class plays to help build up our movement. In an- swering, please give name, address, ' Wm. F. Dunne. — Wednesday, 8 p. Purpose of the Y. Max Shachtman Aims and instructor, 48. W. Divi- structor, John A class in ele a being organized on the South Side, which will: meet VIInis, 3116 South Halsted St. All those who are unable to attend the other class- es in English which the Workers School is now conducting, will re- gister for this — n. English is a great number will attend. Class in Public Speaking. The class for public speaking will be held once a week on Tuesday nights, at 8:00. The fee for each course, which wil? last 6 months, will be $2.50 for the entire course, and must be paid in advance. These classes will be open to both party and non-party members, and will be held at the district of- Many of our comrades are members’ be of extreme value, and we hope that Chicago, six section e meetings during the dates of De- cember 4 to 11. Detroit, December 4 and 5. Ball of Red Youth in Bronx, N. l. V., Saturday NEW YORK, Nov. Mov. tte famous ‘play, “October,” will be performed at the “Ball of the Red Youth,” Satur- day evening, Nov. 28, at 1347 Boston f mmm, spy (By Worker Correspondent.) With enthusiasm and vigor, Inter- national Branch No. 9, at its first meeting launched a ign to save and build The DAILY WORKER. | In addition to a systematic DAILY WORKER stamp and subscription drive, the members assessed themsel- ‘ Road, Bronx, which is given by the gince some of the problems taken up|%@thered. The Finnish district com-] telephone number and specify what eo piss 838 are: W 3 eee of 2 1. 5 1 sn — W tor N 8 DAILY are of a controversial nature. Be- mittee also answered the appeal of] time you have free for rehearsals, tio wo U a 1 2 EP pe 4e "Other interesting numbers on the Practically all the 1 present ginning with the fundamental prob- the Central Executive Committee by] Also state what, if any, experience WORKERS LOVER 55 * N re fy a ioni program, also music and dancing. had assisted The DAILY WORKER q lens of the nature of the universe Siving an additional $100 to The] you have had in such work. No ap- Th ae es 4 2 eee e ee ee — . : A the problems of knowledge, DAILY WORKER. plications will be accepted from party here will a be conducted a limited letarian itko’s course will take up the ma- jalistic interpretation of history, problem of human conduct (eth- , bourgeoisie and proletarian Hosophies of art, the problem of Two hundred dollars was voted to help establish a special Young Work- ers League school in the Warren district. The convention also unani+ state and the nature of Commun- mously endorsed the ownership of the property now in the hands of the and Y. W. L. members without the consent of the responsible party au- thorities. Young men and women are especially desired. If a member of the party ‘or Young Workers’ League, specify street or shop nueleus and THE e n WASHINGTON, . John Reed branch of the V. W. L. Local, class in trade unionism. For this purpose each branch should select a number of active trade unionists, who will be required to attend this class. Quotas shall be assigned to the branches on the basis of 40 to attend Brownsville Open Forum Starts Sunday Evening e NEW YORK, Nov. 25—The first of a series of open forum discussions will be held in wnsville Work- — would permit, nevertheless we able to set our first donation from this new international branch, amounting to $3.00. Ways and means for 8 the union with our literature and to build- * party, to be continued in the hands of section. The dramatic work will be Washington, D. C. mourns the death the clase, “This course ee lak Sicrs Party heed — ers on Sunday, ing 1 080 ee a ey nigo The Living Revolution is also a pio- | the membership remaining and func- in English. Address all replies to] of Comrade Mikhail! Fre nzé, So- months, and members who do not di-] Nov. 29 at 8 p. m. Comrade Max 9 d abt ly 1 d r or ground-breaking course in tioning in the party fractions. James H. Dolsen, 2734 Park Place, viet commissar of Wär. it prom- rectly participate as students may at-] Gartner will be the lecturer. He will ndou . n a 2 ich M. J. Olgin will contribute the The letter sent to the Finnish see. Evanston, III, or District Office,| dees to help carry ofthe fight and tend as auditors. This course consists| speak in Jewish and the subject of | internat ranch, which is truly sults of original studies in the field sociology, criticism of literature the one hand and in the field of + Russian revolution on the other. .e course will take the form of pop- ar lectures in which the revolution ‘ll be studied as a living thing re- ‘ting upon and finding expression in @ minds of the artists that went we and came after it. “How did the forces. Comrade Lovestome stressed | Young Workers (Communist) League, and women’s clot! industry, the the different locals require different“ ? Millinery Workers, Workers, ete.| tactics. The purpose of the discus- revolution actually take place? What the necessity of the Finnish fractions District Eight to bring every member ‘ ion will be to make the ades ta did the men and women participating | becoming a more organic pärt of the | This meeting will Be on Thurs- | 6! b m comrades in the struggle look and feel like? What was the effect of its vast events upon bystanders, eye witnesses and participants? How did the revolu- tion find its way into Russian liter- ary: rat?” hese are some are ques- tions that the course will try to ans- wer. The above courses are each of them once-a-week, three - months courses with a fee of $2.50. Regis- tion of the Workers (Communist) Party by the Communist Party of Finland was unanimously endorsed. Lovestone Speaks. Comrade Lovestone, the representa- tive of the Central Executive Commit- tee, spoke at length about party re- organization, tra@e union work, and the unification of the Communist party and participating more actively in all its campaigns. The resolution which was adopted read, in part, as follows: “The Ohio-Pittsburgh district con- vention of the Finnish language frac- tions of the Workers (Communist) Party urges all Finnish comrades to forget their, past factional differences, to drop all factional strife and to rally as one for the new constructive activi- Workers (Communist) Party, 19 So. Lincoln street, Chicago; III. struggle which he ahd his fellow comrades have re begun. | YOUNG WORKERS TO JOIN UNIONS VERY effort is being put forth by the industrial comittee of of the league into a union. The no- cessity for this has long been realized and now the time has come when dis- cussion must give way to action, The month of December has been set aside thruout the world for Young Communist organizations to increase their economic-trade union activity and work to particularly accomplish two main tasks. 1. To bring every member into a the | NE=Le TRADES: This includes comrades who “work in the men’s day, Dec. 3, at 8 p. ft at 3118 Roose- velt Road. ul RINTING TRADE This includes all comrades who. work in com- posing, press and 5 dery rooms, or other department. The meeting will be held on Satara em 5 at 5 p. m., at 19 S. Lincoln St. 30 ee TRADES: This includes all comrades working in the of round-table discussions on the tac- tics of Communists in the trade un- ions, and all the problems that con- front the Communists on the trade union field. Intensified activity on the part of the Communists in the trade unions requires a good knowledge of poli- cies and tactics. Various unions and miliar with our policies and tactics so that the blunders of the past may be avoided and healthy constructive work carried on. The comrades. selected by the branches for this course are compel- led to attend. The fee for the course will be $2, the course lasting thru 12 sessions. The fee is to be paid either by the comrade himself or by the branch. The course will begin trations should be made at once as ties, for the Communist campaigns, trade. union. 5 building industry, such as carpenters, fon Sunday, Dec. 6. the number that will be admitted is under the leadership of the Central] 2. To form a youth fraction in every Painters, bricklayers,,etc. The meet- The class will meet every Sunday limited. 5 Executive Committee. We declare. union. ing will be held at 8. Lincoln St., at 10 a. m. at the district office. me : — — — . nemeennienmeenen - — — — — — that in order to carry out the most important tasks confronting our par- Executive Committee in this difficult work. The Ohjo- Pittsburgh district convention of the Finnish language fractions of the Workers (Commun- There is also the necessity for estb- lishing close contact with young workers in the union. dustry. In order to accomplish this the league has called meetings of com- rades in various industries, where the shoe workers, leather workers, auto Saturday, Dec, 5, ry m. FF ICE WORKERS: These com- includes all comrades working in trade not otherwise listed, such as LERKS: This course is confined to party and Young Workers’ League members, both as auditors and students. jeither thru the bragches or at the district: office. FOREIGN EXCHANGE. t — Pe a en Dann ae ee funds for the defense and The DAILY ' — the first discussion will be “Zionism.” All workers are invited. —— 15 cents. international in its composition, will hold many good things in store for our party. 4. ODAY is The DAILY WORKER'S red letter day, with over $1,600 added to the fund that is to keep America’s Commun- today thru the following. hard-won items: ty, it is absolutely necessary that full In order to do rades will meet at 19 S8. Lincoln W tac: aM: theéeclamnes | support and assistance be given by this the league will set up concrete | St., Sunday, Dec. 6 at 2:30 p. m. should take place immediately } 3 all the party members to the Central] demands for each union and each in- ISCELLANEOUS TRADES: This re,, manelol ist press in print. The bulk of this came from New York, where j . . 7 2 , Nov. 25.— Great Bri- , : ist) Party calls upon all the members | Sbeeife problems of the trade will be ans, food workers, etc, The meet- plighed ae * Ur comrades under L. E. Katterfeld’s direction have been conduct- | represented in its convention by var- dealt with and specific demands set ing will be held at 19 S, Lincoln St., 2 a 2 ma 1 aoe e ing rescue parties, leaving no means untried in their efforts not ö ious delegates to aid without reserva- ub. The meetings will be held as fol- Sunday, Dec. 6, at 2:30 p. m. e h * 3.74%; cable, 3.75. to lose this fight. The grand total of over $26,000 was reached ) tion and to prove by deeds their los: : moral a sintaitel « r 0 i This includes all depart- Belgium, franc, demand, 4.53; cable, 0 tral 1 upport of the ETAL TRADES: This includes ment store workers, mail order | 4.5344; Italy, lira, no quotation; Swed- street Nucleus 5, Chicago, III.. $ 6.00| cue Party (Koukly, Becker, Ash- entral Executive Committee in car- comrades in the machine shops, workers, and clerks in small stores. | en, krone, demand, 26.74; cable, 26.77; | Finnish Sr., W. P., Pittsburgh, Pa: 15.00 S 8 BRASS, RSM gf ying out the decisions of the Com- electrical shops, and auto workers, | This meeting will be, held on Sunday, | Norway, krone, demand, 20.33; cable, | Russian Br., W,. P., San Francisco, 38.50 al 8r cma ? Speech of munist International.” etc, Dec. 13, at 2:30 p. m, at 19 S. Lincoln | 20.35; Denmark, krone, demand, 3 or. W. pe Gieveiand, 5.—. 44.10 2 . he EN e 9 — 1 f Shapur ji Saklatvala | Elect Delegates. The meeting will be held on Tues-|St. Here the specifig problems of the 24.82; cable, 24.84; Germany, mark, | Astoria Finnish Social ist Club, aie „ ? e 6 9 6 The following were elected dele- day, Dec. 1 at 8 p. m. at 3118 Roose-| students will be discussed and frac- not quoted; Shanghai, tael, demand, acy yop Be. Chicag 88 24.00 Harry. Fore * Hung. e . | ' in the House of Commons. |f sSates to the national conference: | velt Road. tions formed in the various schools. 78.00. Finnish Br., 95 5 De poit, Mich... 83.68 Jose „ Fox, VY. V * W. L. No. 29 1 : [Tony May, C tit. (collected) 3.00 David Jewish 1, Bron | hada Porter, | Jose, 4 rr — ay Proce de 75 r 1 rg A bitter indictment of Brit- V. 4. Lene annie ean AriONS: 2 4 fate ane . — 1 e -onvention Call of the Voung loneers gee 8 ; & 4 7 nats or Dranegn cone : Jewish Williamsburg, Vogel 16.00) Steve Zimmick, German Night n barring the | | W. L. with co-operation of the W. P. school nuclei. This, with the forma- Scouts, etc.) 8 ar anne pit are 12 e N 172 as tes NEW YORK, Nov. 25.—Prior to the During that period of time we have tion of a Young Pioneers’ League will 12. The Young Comrade and, other 23 Eng 1 3 * Harry Siam, Jawieh Srownsvilte. = 725 4 reorganization of the Junior section | catried on ni rl ae — work- mean that members, will 5 to 85 ae eee : 3 Jewish Browne PAKeI Od wn 1.00 177 425 e ee 5 Add this splendid pamphlet g Class children as e Junior sec-| come more active, ey w ave to 3. ection of new D. E. C. Shop Nucleus 11, lay „ 0 W. S. ttalian: Ravera, * Rive F f | * your — or —＋ to * ae bie got baue don of the V. W. L. and now we are understand how * why to be ac-| This agenda is to be discussed at 4023 oer Bronx: Ns. 00; Sid e e Catellani, whine ti ee your anal worker in the e 2 nes s and on the ba | ready to begin functioning as an in- tive so that we can, become a power- every group following which they are Bush, $2.05; Ceibowita, $15 — 1 ‘a ion Nathan Teacher 2 ere ee 21.00 * shop and trade union of school nuclei, the New York Jun- dependent organization of Commun-|ful organization of working class chil-|to elect delegates to the convention. , "ah: * i, en 18.50 N wah celebration b | ; iors will hold their district conven- ist children—The Young Pioneers. dren. Every group is entitled to one dele-| English Brownsville "Branch pate FF 15.00 | Celia Wachow 6.00 5 * tion. The convention has been called Our activities in the past were nu-| According to the ‘decision of the D. gate for every fifteen members. The /; vale 4, Gerb By A. Hedstrand, Scand. Hi Harlem. 2 * 10 Cents tor Nov. 28 and 29, at 108 East 14th merous. We succeeded in organizing E. C. of the Y. W., L. the present number should be figured on the bas- City Central, Biizabe th, i J. 3 . Rescue party tickets, paid. in to. street. The following call has been several hundred members into 16 Pioneer D. E. C. is, to issue a call is of the average attendance at the Williamsburg Section, ono 93.65 45 Minn Section, Soke}. in lots of 100 or more—5 Cents. sent by them to all the Young Pio- Sroups. We conducted several cam- for the district convention at which a last four group meeting. Your C. C. Bess Is-ael, Enalish Williamsburg. 5.00 Yorkville Hungarian Nome | neers’ groups in District No. 2, to the paigns in the schools against religion, | permanent D. E. C. will be elected C. delegate or group leader will give West Side Section, J. Schn 1 a 1.05 8 18 man . THE DAILY WORKER PIB C0 D. E. C. of the Y. W. L. and W. P. of religious training, etc., by propagat-|and plans for future work to be laid vou further instructions on the mat-| and Sarah Schneider 4.50| Finnish Harlem Hall | , District No. 2 and to the W. P. of ing among the children, distributing | out. The committee decided that the ter. The V. W. L. D. E. C. is en- mr ; — i 1 * 3 1113 W. WASHINGTON BLDYV., District No. 15. leaflets in the schools, etc. We par- convention be held on November 28 (titled to three delegates and the W. Finnish Inwood Wannen 25.00 | CHICAGO, ILL. Dear Comrades:—It is over two ticipated in the work of the W. P., V. | and 29. The agenda for the conven- P. of District No. 2 is entitled to two . collected ............ een e veanedel 3 a years since our organization was W. L., Labor Defense, etc. Our mem tion is to be as follows: delegates and the W. P. D. E. C., Section 6 meeting, collected ............ 43.72 aa || formed due to the efforts. of the v. bers were especially active in raising 1. Election of temporary officers. District 15, one delegate. The appor-| Group at Manhattan Lyceum Res- Total to date * $26,310. 2. Election of credentials commit- | tionment of finances of the convention 8 5 —— WORKER. Within the groups we had tee | is $1.00 for every delegate from the DAILY WORKER PUBLI HING C0. 1 many discussions to make the mem 3. Report of W. P. delegate. group, that is if your group sends 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, III. . | bership understand our aims and ob- 4. Report of Y. W. L. delegate. three delegates you must pay 33.00. 5 2 : ‘ject. We supported and sold the 5. Report of Pioneer D. E. C. The Y. W. L. is to pay $5.00 per dele- : 7 voung Comrade. Our Leninist Youth| 6. Report of District Pioneer Bu- gate and the Workers Party $10.00 HERE'S MY DONATION: ; Camp accommodated some 150 chil-|reau. per delegate. | We're simply swamped! Many little jobs in the office dren, members and non-members.| 7. Bolshevization and reorganiza-| It is important that the groups elect ; are waiting to be done—and we haven’t a big enough Our comrades were trained there to tion. ‘ their best members as delegates as Name: : office force to do them. Perhaps you want to hely The be better and more active young Com- 8. School struggle and school they will have to decide on every im- ; ! DAILY WORKER and can spare a day—or a few hours nne TRESS. Were Gur: BENa AS | Work: si ee eee eee een: * n, ne over, You'll tivities in the past. 9. Child labor and our struggle will have to carry out. mae Onty Gn Nouri / . ; a . | At the present we are going thru | against it. * 4 For a strong Pioneer movement, City: State: be as welcome as a long lost friend. an educational period before we will 10. Work among Negro children. D. E. C. of the Young Ploneers, a start to reorganize on the basis of 11. Opponent ofganizations (Boy District No. 2. | athe 1 .
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‘ 2 * * te rad aD BON ee 1 3 794 0K U. * e * rang n A „ 40 _, OF 1 shop anti-labor forces are : dy the organization in Chi- | WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 25 Recently. a list céntaining 2,328 names ot prominent American bankers, newspapermen. journalists and government , | Officials that have received the legion of honor decorations for services ren- dered French tmperialism, was made public in Paris and has caused much consternation in a niimber of U. S. senators, who are demanding the why and wherefore of the wholesale distribution of honors. Among the names ot the 2,328 Americans on the rolls is the name of John Pierpont Morgan, and other leading lights in the financial world. heads the list of American officials, then comes Senator Reed of Penn- sylvania, Representative John Philip Gill of Maryland, A. Piatt Andrews of Massachusetts, Robert E. Olds, assis- tant secretary. of state; William J. Donovan, assistant attorney general, and Lincoln C. Andrews, assistant sec- retary of the treasyry.. The names of the following news- papermen are also found on the list » jot legiannaires: sides. Times Heads: Honored. Adolph S. Ochs publisher and prin- cipal‘ owner of the New York Times; Rollo Ogden, editor; John H. Finley, editor; Louis “Wiley,” ager, and the’ Farm ‘correspondent of the Times. $Y 0? +, Its program ‘wetording to the “founder and honor- ‘ery president,“ Mrs. George E. Owens ef New York, is to combat pacifism ane Bolshevism. Mrs. Owens says there are 700. tventWers*16f the New York branch, and the Blackstone hotel gathering ‘Thten@w to enlist a battalion of Ama- wohian patriots in Chicago. hes Ss vt Reeve pr ij . S is rens ente es! “Non-P litical.” rue “founding mother“ ai this: em- ‘bryo* fascist organization announces that the club is, of course: non- poli- tick?” on- partisan“ ane ere eie in its aims. How these innocent e are sek tradicted 8 be seen by the, fact General Harboard vt encouragement to . the speakers in- E. Barnes, presi- ah intelligence asso- pret of the sixth corps area; Brig- Gen. Michael ‘Lenihan; ‘commandant at Fort 9 24 1 ee Col. Will- Associated Press. : Officials of the Associated Press on the list include Frank B. Noyes, presi- dent, principal owner of the Washing- ton Star; Melville D Stone, former . tin, former general manager; Elmer Roberts, Paris o ent. business man- general manager; Fredériek Roy Mar- New York World Heads. Ralph Pulitzer, president of the New York World, and the late Frank I. Cobb, editor of the World; Ogden Reid, owner of the New York Herald- Tribune; Lawrence Hills, editor of the Paris edition of the Herald, and the Paris correspondent, Wilbur Foddest, are all on the list. Likewise is Frank A. Munsey, owner of the.New York Sun. . Even Chicago Tribune. Robert R. McCormick, president of the Chicago Tribune, and Floyd Gib- sons, special European correspodnent of the Tribune, are both.on the list. So is George Horace Lorimer, editor of the Saturday Evening Post; also Paul Scott Mowrer, Paris correspond- ent of the Chicago Daily News. For Services Rendered. These men have received these hon. | ors because of their activities on be half of the French government and the French are repaying their aid: with these honors for their services in the cause of French imperialism. ee B. G Jer er Paralyzing Preamble. Another speaker was Harry A. At- wood, president of the constitution an- ROUMANIAN BOY AR LACKEYS MURDER PEASANTS IN GETTING “CONFESSION” niveraary association, who boasted that he had challenged countless critics of the constitution to “alter one word of the preamble” and that one and all the Jelpless critics had failed. .~ Officers of the Chicago local were elected; Mrs. Sydney Leighton Smith us president and Mrs. R. L. Jordan, Mrs. A. R. Clas and Mrs. Benjamin F. pr ha as wae agi b Czech Communists and Socialists: Protest Against Rieko si Trial (Special to The. Baily Worker) MOSCOW—(E. R. Az)~—(By Mail.)— News has arrived from Prague that the club of the Communist members of parliament = has addressed to all socialist parliam ubs a letter in which they ree me Two Former N eae a “Presidents: Defend Textile 1 oyers SAINT ETIENNE, Nov. 25. Two former presidents of France, Ray- mond Poincare and Alexandre Miller- and will face each in a . r suit between two textile turers over the exclusive rights 4 a certain ay Fu belong * 3 N eae). > athe turer and Millerand the other. date of the trial is kept secret. bine presented a Bilas to the presid- lum of the parliament asking that the session be interrupted for five min- NEW YORK, | a half cents out of . the combined en people during the ast 1 to taxes, according . 7 study in tax- atlon made by e na industrial conference board. Th Stal burden of taxes has — ‘oul i since 1913 rising from 6.9 per gent in 1013 to 12.5 per cent in 1924. The natior in 1924 is estimated at 363, as against 365,000, 000,000 in 1923. clubs, who participate and two oppositional complied with the Communist club. * The bourgeois against the passé Tho it was defeated, vakian workers rea of the protests 5 against the Horthy at! OUR DAILY PATTERNS arties united this proposal a, % ud & af a i 2 BOYS’ SUIT. a oe: ; N 4 2794. Cut in four sizes: 2, 3. 4 5228 EADIE. Small And 5 ‘years. A 3-year-size requires 3436: ee 38-40; 8 42-44 12 yard of 36-inch material. Price extra large, 46-48 inches bust meas- 172 * , ure. Slip with flounce for a medium 5114 W N ph eee, 8. 10. 12 size requires 3% yards of 36-inch 2 ’ ad ° * * 88 und 14 years. A 10-year size requires terial. Without flounce % yard le is required. Price 12c. . LADIES’ HOUSE DRESS. 4989. 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K all valuable — * 4 * KISHENEYV, Bessarabia—(By Mail.)\—Thru dexterous cross-examination of the Sergeant-Mayor Socolescu, it was ascertained that the Bessarabian peasant M. Scerbaticov was murdered in a most brutal fashion at the orders of the Roumanian military leader Vindor. Vindor ordered that the peasant Scerbaticov be stripped naked and placed into a bag with a wildcat. The Roumanian boyar lackeys then tied the bag and began beating on the bag with clubs. After a number of hours of this torture, the bag was opened. The wildcat had been killed; but the peasant was still living. They then took thé peasant and placed him in a tank of hot water for several hours. The hot water opened the wounds which the claws and teeth of the wildcat and the clubs of the sig- urantsi had made. a Rub Sait in Wounds. When the hot water had opened the wounds, they then took salt and rubbed them into the wounds. The peasant was then beateh again and the process repeated until he signed a “gonfession” which is now being used in. the trial ot the 500 peasants. for | their part in the Tatarbounar upris- ing. The peasant died within a day after these tortures had been inflict- ed upon him. To Be Made an Example. Jonel Bratianu, the prime minister and dictator in Roumania during his visit to Kishinev declared that the process against the peasants must be made an example to the peasants all over the nation what can be expected if they do not follow out the wishes of those that are in power. Among other things Bratianu said: The main accused are members of the peasant party, therefore, severe sen- tences must be pagsed in order to show to all the: world that the peas- ants’ party is a party of anarchy.” The peasants that are on trial do not expect to escape the death sen- tence that is to be imposed upon them unless the workers and peasants all over the world take an interest in this case and force the Bratianu govern- ment to retreat from its purpose of murdering these peasants, who rose against the terrible conditions which the Roumanian boyars placed upon them. Bourgeois Press Fears Revolts. The fear of the Roumanian bour- geois press that the present trial of the Bessarabian peasants may mili- tate against the domination of Rou- manian boyars over Southern Bessa- rabia has caused them to issue a call’ upon the -government to halt the present military trial and td insti- tute a civil trial to be attended by newspaper correspondents from all over the world. This is strongly ad- vocated by the Frankfurter Zeitung in an article which contained the fol- lowing declaration: “It will depend upon the fate of 500 arrested peas- ants of Tatarbounar whether South Bessarabia will remain the hearth of future European troubles. It is to the Prime Minister Bratianu to decide. In the interest of justice and of Eu- ropean peace it is urgently desirable that the proceedings against the 500 that are still in the last hour be trans- formed into ordinary legal proceed- ings at which Roumanian and foreign press corréspondents may be pres- ent.” Policeman Censured for Arresting McNider, War Department Head WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 25.— Hanford McNider, secretary of war, who was recently arrested for speed- ing here, was released by the judge. In dismissing the case the judge re- primanded the policeman for arrest- ing this “honorable” citizen and told him he should not make any arrests while “off duty?’ „ 1 Bing 4 1 ” 1 11 sue . Calls po 3 to Re- sist Klan DEI ” . U 9 7 ; : E (Special to The Daily Worker) BELLAIRE, Nov, 25.—The protest meeting arranged by the Internation- al Labor Defense and the American Civil Liberties Union in Bellaire was prohibited by the mayor of the city. Refuse Permit. . Kompart, who was defeated in the last election by the candidate sup- ported by the ku klux klan, refused to grant a for the meeting to the represen of the Civil Liber- ties Union. “There will be no meet- ing in this town,” he said, despite the fact that the Mi Temple had been rented and the fneeting arranged. The chamber of commerce is be- hind this mov * On Nov. 5, the day prior to the on which the Work ers (Communist Party of Bellaire in- tended to celébrate the eighth anni — versary of Soviet Russia, the cham ber of comm. t and decided that the Worke hi ommunist) Party vould not be owed to hold the meeting. Thé Hau was closed and ne meeting proliibited. The Interna- -ional Labor se and the Civil Li- ided to fight the h. They procured and conforming to all regulation ked for a permit which was sul rily refused. Try Frame-Up. The mayor tried furthermore to frame-up a representative of the Civil LAberties Union. This representa- tive had ordered some throwaways and took them from the printer. Be- fore a single leaflet announcing the meeting was distributed, the mayor declared that ome had been put under his door. This indicates quite clearly that the r the mayor’s office with a , in order to get the repres ot the Civil Liber- ties Union on another charge. The weatherjwas cold the night scheduled for the, meeting and only a small number gfyworkers appeared at the meeting. hall, As the doors were, closed—the offigials of the hall refus- ing to open the hall—the workers gathered in the .park opposite the hall. They dggided, however, that they would not hi hold the mti and dispersed. K. K. K. Mes Too Late. In the meantime, the chief of po- lice and one of hin aides were at the street — he spied ru verties Union” ssue of free the Miners’ 3 workers in tl the aide 3 phoned the One minute after the s . the police patrol and two motor cars fill- ed with ku kluzers appeared and scoured the p for the workers. At each corner in the vicinity there were stationed more’ ku kluxers, evidently determined to e strong-arm meth- ods to prevent e workers from ex- ercising their bo- called “constitution- al” rights of free speech and free as- semblage. 28 — Attack on Workers. This campaſzi against the Work- ers (Communist) Party in the min- ing region is ket of the campaign against the United Mine Workers. In West Virginia, just across the river, the miners. cannot meet. Federal Judge McClintic having declared the United Mine Workers “an outlaw or- ganization.” In Scranton, Pa., miners’ meetings have been broken up by the authori- ties. The coal operators, assisted by the local state and federal authorities, are carrying on a vicious struggle against the miners’ organization, in- tent on breaking it up. The attack on the Workers (Com- munist) Party, the International La- bor Defense and the Civil Liberties Union must be regarded by the min- ers as the first assault on the position of the United Mine Workers. If the miners do not rally and fight back, the authorities with their self-appoint- ed aides, the ku kluxers, will over-run the country, and free speech” and “free assemblagm will go aglimmer- ing. * é' To Hold Protest Meeting. The International Labor Defense in- tends to hold A meeting in the near future. Every 1 2 and worker in Bellaire and t vicinity must be present at this meeting and demon- strate to the authorities and the ku klux klan that they have backbone— and that they will fight for their rights. This is à question for every miner to stand by the International Labor Defense mieans to fight for the right of the miners to organize and to meet, University President Suppresses Satire on God, Joseph and Mary BERKELEY, Cal., Nov. 25.— The Occident, the principal literary maga- zine of the University of California, has had its current copy suppressed because of an article entitled Im- manuel,” a satirical conversation be- tween God, Joseph and Mary, about the coming birth of Jesus. The ar- ticle was considered blasphemous and the magazine suppressed by Acting President Woods; President Campbell being in the east. The editors have appealed the case; to a committee of English instructens- 2 Nita dpi haat ARN A 1 * — ~ — — 1 FOLLOW. IS TO SHIPPI AVERAGES 15 PCT.; REDUCE CREWS. OF U.S. TRUST: CUT . the government,” said a newspaperman over to the Muson Line by the U. S. sh es,“ the sailor answered, but not so fine for us apy more. drop $10 a month and every other member of the cre time. ” + 87 ART SHIELDS. (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) NEW YORK, Nov. 25.— This is a * ship your company is getting from o the young quartermaster who was taking a party over a 21,000 ton liner on the South American run just turned ipping board. My wages is cut at the same Heavy Wage Cut. Thousands of sailors on the high seas and the lakes are having their wages deflated an average of 15 per- cent by the transfer to private registry of the shipping board boats. And working conditions fall with the wages. Deck and engine rooms forces are reduced, making the pace stiffer for those who remain. The LaFollette seamen’s act is enforced even worse than beforé. The open shop contin- ues. Both private and government boats are non-union. The ship we visited was unloading goat skins and coffee sacks from So. America and is one of a ses of four 1.000 tonners—the Southern Cross, he American Legion, the Western World and the Pan-America—turned over to the Munson Line for $4,104,- 000, or considerably less than the gov- ernment paid under the cost plus plan of construction. Dollar Gets the Difference. Robert Dollar, the other biggest shipping magnate, and noted in sailor circles for his bum chuck and low wages, is also faring generously from Uncle Sam. The government asks no questions as to the buyer’s labor po- .licy. Earlier in the year Dollar got several of the president class ships, named after former U. S. chief exec- utives, and several smaller ships too, and today he is negotiating for five more president boats of 12,000 tons each, now chartered from the shipping board to the American-Oriental Line. Dollar offers the government $1,000 a month rent for each of these boats, or about 8 cents a ton a month, with eventual right of purchase for $600,000 apiece. The boats run to Yokohama, Kobe and other ports, in the oriental trade which Americans mean to cap- ture with the South American trade. If Dollar gets these boats it is ex- pected that he will give preference wherever possible to oriental labor. _ where. U.S, RICH ARE toe . for Vear 1924 Show Big Increase (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 25.— Wealth in the U. S. as brot out by the internal revenue bureau report on income tax returns show a picture of an ever-increasing concentration of wealth. ‘The 1924 returns show that while incomes of $500,000 and over nearly doubled itself in comparison with 1923, the total income tax re- turns decreased almost six per cent. Seventy-four incomes are over the million dollar mark. Three incomes are in excess of 35,000,000, they are assumed to belong to John D. Rocke- feller, Jr., Henry Ford and Edsel Ford. The total net income increased $183,00,000 over 1923. The incomes between $500,000 and $1,000,000 show an increase from 141 in 1923 to 242 in 1924. While the total returns show a de- crease of 5.48 per cent in the num- ber of returns the actual income shows an increase of 3.70 per cent. The net income was over $26,000,000,- 000 for the year 1924. To those who work hard for their money, | will save 50 per cent on all their dental work, DR. RASNICK DENTIST 645 Smithfield Street, PITTSBURGH, PA. i a i ee i i De De et De te te i i De ti De i ed POEMS For Workers Edited by Manuel Gomez. : i ‘ 4 > 1 4 1 4 * 4 > 4 > 4 > 7 „ 4 „ a > : 1 4 > > . ö s A collection of choice 7 Working class poetry in; a handy pocket volume. Should be included in : every worker’s library— , and indispensible for re- > citation and all working; » class affairs. ö 6 ‘ ‘ 4 ‘ 4 > 5 4 . 4 ‘ 4 > ‘ 7 } 7 r 4 4 No. 5 in THE LITTLE RED LIBRARY 10 CENTS Twelve Copies for One Dollar Daily Workers Publishing Co. 1113 W. 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JACKSON, Miss., Nov. 25.—Official reports state that 106 prisoners have escaped from the various penal insti- tutions in that state during the past year. ith the conditions revealed therein by the prison congress, which has just closed its session, nobody can blame the unfortunates for run- ning away. — Build the DAILY WORKER. (LABOR DEFENDER, . L. D. ORGAN, 10 APPEAR SHORTLY J. L. D. News Service. The first issue of the Labor De- fender will be off the press by the end of November. This new maga- tain illustrated articles of labor trials world. To Have Pictures. persecution. of labor have always been the first class. It is just as true today as it was 100 years ago and it will be | so until the workers finally free them- selves from the tyranny of a small | group of exploiters who control the machinery of government including the courts. It is to defend the workers in their efforts to progress towards the goal of freedom for their class that the Labor Defender is issued. 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During the. discussion of. ‘Tpotskyism, the capitalist press crowned | Comrade Trotsky with the imperial helmet of Napoleon and pictured him as ready to use the whiff of grape-shot thru which-Bonapart. came into power. Recently some imaginative correspondent has found a new factional struggle going on in Russia and has drawn inferences of the same character. The last few days have developed something similar in the cap- italist press in relation to our party. Some half · witted correspondents of the New’ Fork ‘World heard some rumors in regard to the inner party life and dressed them up in his own fashion and palmed them off on his paper as a realistic account of what is supposed. to. be hap- pening in our party. According to this story, the party is now run by a “dictator,” Comrade Foster is in Moscow and Comrade Ruthen- berg “is hastening there close upon his heels.“ All this is, of course, nonsense. The capitalist newspapers and their correspondents are unable to understand the inner life of a Communist Party. methods and practices of capitalist organizations. To them it ceivable that there may be sharp divisions of opinion as to problems within a Communist Party, but that after a thoro- by is They judge it going discussion of these problems a decision is reached and that all the members of the party, irrespective of their previous were unite to carry out the policy decided upon. There is a bond which unites in an unbreakable unity the mem- bers of a Communist Party. That bond is common loyalty of the members of a Communist Party to the principle that the; workers must organize as a class and carry on a revolutionary struggle to establish the workers’ dictatorship and to overthrow the capitalist system. The bond that unite’ the members of a Communist Party is stronger than any division over questions of tactics and: methods, of achieving the end for which the party is striving. +35 we \ The wish is father to the thaught in the case of the;aapitalist prophecies of a split and disintegration of a Communist. Party. That the New York World correspondent imagines Comrade dfoster’s leaving the ommunist Party is ‘an expression of a natunabelegire on the of who are opposed and fighting the Communjst Party. D The New York Worldenerrespon- dent could write such stuff, just as other correspondents:..could imagine Trotsky with the imperial crown of Napoleon eauhis head, because they cannot conteive from their capitalist viewpeint of a group of men and women submitting to an iron discipline, and sub- ordinating their personal views, in order that they may unitesto carry on the struggle against the capitalist state and the capitalist system. The Communist Intérnational is also a mystery to the servants of capitalism. The worid Communist Party is beyond thejroconcep- tion. That the national sections of the Communist Imternational bear the same relation to the executive committee of the Communist International that the sections of the Communist Party of America bear to the Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Commun- ist) Party is something that cannot be understood in- capitalist circles. That is a Communist viewpoint. For Communists it is just as natural to have the Communist International decide a contro- yersial question within the Workers (Communist) Party as it is for the Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party to decide a controversial question in one of the districts of the party in this country. ‘The representatives of the Workers (Communist) Party, serving in commissions of the Communist International, help to decide questions of policy for the German, French and Italian parties just as the representatives of these parties help to decide questions of policy for the Workers (Communist) Party. The cap- italist reporters can only view. such an action in terms of individuals, of “dictators” and others who are being “ousted,” not in the terms of organization and policy. The New York World story, Which has been widely copied thru- but the country, may be. swallewed by the credulous readers of the capitalist press as so man red stor ies are swallowed, and considered as facts. But to the Communists it will merely serve as an, illustra- tion of the ne nee and e peed of the capitalist press, Peace Prizé 72 Dawes A United News dispatch — * et : 4 de ‘ye 3 Harl from Stockholm, Sweden: states that tle Norwegian parliament plans to award the Nobel peace prize to ‘Vice President: Charles G. Dawes. Presumably because of the Mor- yanized plan whereby the U nited States and Britain éombined to establish“ industrial stability” in Germany. 1 i? Swedish statesmen must be shortsighted indeed if they imagine the Dawes plan guarantees peace, even between the two: great im- perialist powers involved. she hoped to stifle Britain entered into the scheme because German industry by. compelling it to bear the burden, of debt payments, while the United States bankers wanted a place to invest money. Their interests are opposed in Germany, altho they co-operated in imposing the plan upon that nation. Wall Street has one motive, Britain another. Aside from the merits or demerits of the plan, the very per- . of Dawes makeg ridiculous the awarding of the peace prize Dawes is the personification of arrogant militarism and Like all @&pitalist class militarists he is exceedingly ig- sonality to him. fascism. norant and swears a great deal. It is a known fact that those who indulge in unrestricted cursing do so because their vocabulary is so limited they cannot find other words with which to express them- selves. „ Still, we cannot claim it i * is inconsistent to award the prize to the ‘clownish vice president, when we recall the fact that Mr. Nobel, the founder of the prize, was a inanvfacturer of dynamite. “No wonder Greece was backward about going to war with Bul- er to take all po fi aye workers who were : Ne oF a * ee oeall 5 9 hy ras * ee "3 : 2 408 * — — 5 HE session which has just cluded of the plenum (full session) of the Central Committee of the Com- munist Party of Russia tok place on the eve of the new economic year. For this reason the work of the plenum acquires special importance. It is true the prospects of the new economic year now commencing are not yet sufficiently clear. The basic con- —-| facts however, the good harvest which as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office; at Chi- cago, III., under the act of March 3, 1879. will bring with it a special advance in all jour national economy, are no longer in doubt. In spite of the delay in the purchase of corn, in spite of the unusual movement in the price of cereals this year, in spite of the short- age of industrial goods and the fall- ing off of the revenue from taxes at the beginning of the economic year, we have no reason for rejecting those calculations for the commencing eco- nomic year which are contained in the so-called control figures of the In- stitute of Planned Economics. The basis for our calculations will prob- ably be quite clear by the end of December, at the time of the holding of the party congress of the R. C. P. Developing Industry Most Important. As regards the next tasks, all speakers were agreed that a large- scale regulation of the purchase of corn, the prevention of competition between the various buying organs is necessary. It was emphasized that one of the most important tasks of the approaching period is the neces- sity of developing industry. Only by increasing the industrial output will we be able to cope with the short- age of goods and to induce the peas- antry to sell their grain. Special em- sponsible role which the co-copera- tives are called upon to play. The co-operatives must, in view of the prevailing shortage of goods, become the chief sources for suppiying the villages with industrial products. This phasis was likewise laid upon the re- Cras, Cat 2 prices J raising of pr capi- tal practices u tions of Developing Foreign Trade. Be upon our economic revival, foreign trade is gaining greater importance year. Upon the de velopment ot foreign trade depends the further extension of agriculture, of the surplus of n can only be n markets, and placed upon the fore industry requires the import of plant and machinery, raw materials, etc. In the course of the current economic year the turnover of our foreign ‘trade will show a considéfabié increase as a result of the good Hafvest. After the acceptance of the report of the cen- tral control commisstofl on the organ- izing of foreign tradd, the plenum re- corded the fact that the monopoly of foreign trade had produced magni- ficent results and must remain in the future one of the infekible principles of the Soviet state. “At the same time there was emphasizedythe necessity of a greater elasticity-and a greater specializing of the apparatus of for- eign trade, a closen gonnection be- tween this apparatus and the inland economic organizations. . Trade Unions Grob Stronger. With the growth of our industry and the increase ot the number of workers the im of the trade unions will become nually great- er. The central eommittee of the plenum records am - indisputable strengthening of the trade unions, which finds expression in the increase of the number of members and in the development of numerous branch- es of work among the masses (clubs, relief funds, physical culture, etc.), but also in the improvement of the trade union a tus. The plenum declares, however, that now, as a re- sult of the higher economic and cul- — ‘which has not vet dene en- tirely overcome in the trade unions, and their “administrative” and dec a: a 2 4 „5 om * 7 5 . 1 2 0 7 Y a® N N . N insufficiently deep and 1 ak Sab nection of the trade unions with the masses, are making themselves more acutely than ever. Meanwhile, the trade unions must especially now, when the activity of the masses not only in the towns but also in the villages is growing, when we are set- ting ourselves the task of developing Soviet democracy, carry out their chief slogan: “into the masses” and become real organs of workers’ de mocracy. A RUTTLESS fight must be conduct · sive administration, of direct interfer-. ed against the methods of .exces- | ' ence by the party organizations in. lage. the current work of the trade unions (questions of conditions of work, of | wages, and of collective agreements). The exercise of the leading role of | the party in trade union work must; ™ be much more elastic. The trade unions must devote far greater at- te . ) tention to the fulfillment of their chief task, the protection of the. economic interests and the raising of the level! of culture of the working masses. The trade unions must do still more for the development of the activity. of | the masses. They must do everything 1 in order that every non-party work er shall regard the trade union as his organization, an organization whose duty it is to furnish him with reports | and which he can control. Only un- der these conditions can the trade a unions fulfill their function as “schools of Communism.” Raising Wages Next Task. One of the most important ques: tions for our party is the question ot raising the standard of living of the working class. The plenum declares that the revival of industrial and agri- cultural production offers the possi- bility of taking a further step in rais- al of the. proletarian. state, and at the | same time the differenta- ‘tion in the village high is partly pro- moted dy the god harvest, has induc- ed the roa, — to undertake t 0 15 central task of ning the alliance of the pro- ‘let with the middle peasantry, i party is at present adopting vari- dus practical measyres in order, upon the basis of the decisions of the XIV inference, to. render it possible for village poor to participate prac- ine waeos, af course, only so far as ea in the co-operatives and to a their undertakings, on the + a enttel trout with. the ta }-ating a bloe between the village. poor and the middle peasants Soviet Democraey. ed. Adee, ants, must be opposed by our organizations by establishing organ- izations of the village poor and = ** )OTH the trade union qu ether “the question of the organi one of the fundamental conditior 2 realizing Soviet democracy, ‘howe is the strengthening of inner p moeracy. One cannot combat | cratism in the trade unions, if the bure generations in the party organ tions which cordtiet Tier Werke | to build basis f party democracy and of the eninis unity of the party. The party confé: ence must be preceeded by a caret discussion in the various party izations of all the questions the agenda, and the elections must carried out in such a manner that the congress constitutes the most. exact and complete reflection of the, views and the mood of the entire —— + (Continued from page 1) had a splendid effect in that it has embittered the strikers and shaken the confidence which some elements among them ‘had of the good inten- tions of many of their belf-appointad friends. One of. the local papers states; ey eo the lines have hardened and the deadlock remains un- changed. Headline carrying promise of early peace in thé industry have not been borne out. Their promises have not and cannot be fulfilled. The truth must be faced. The region confronts a most serious situa- tion. The above sentiments are in strik- ing contrast to the optimism which has characterized the local anthracite press till now. No Picnic, After All, Among the miners there is also a feeling that they are in for a desperate struggle. At district headquartérs the statement has been made that relief machinery is being set up and that it will begin to function during the week. This is a complete reversal of the official policy which has been to poohpooh the necessity for any action savoring of acknowledgement * a real strike situation. As in Scranton, the need Pos prepar- ation for a fight of the union is seen in the increasing attendance at local union meetings, now held regularly. Local 289 is an example of this. With a membership of 1,500 the usual attendance has been about 50 or 60. At the last meeting more than 300 were present, A resolution calling for a broadening of the strike was in- troduced. It was discussed, no one spoke against ,it, but it was neither defeated or passed, the excuse being that if sent to the officials they would - — Reality of for relief and pay no attention to Nl anyway. Since ‘the meeting, however the resolution has been discussed among many of the members and then opinion is now that it should be pabsed and sent to the a and other Bical unions. Delicate Position. quite strong here, It is so strong in fact that the sive elements among the strikers &¥e'in a delicate position. Sp flagrant Have miners, sent the lock threatening them with p embezzlement. Followit sentiment for a retuffl to oped among the more ments of the local. In a situation of Ms kind the pro- gressive elements Malve to conduct their agitation for u militant strike with great care in order not to make Cappellini the issue and main strengthen the less eé&seious workers in their desire to eud the strike. E The situation is left wing by the f er stated openly, the washeries in the valley are working.” Some of the miners reason that others get permission to work there is no rea- son why they should work as well. Washery Number 14, owned by Judge Maxey, before whom the case of Bren- nan versus Cappellini arising out of the last district eleetion, will come, is especially odious because it is, ac- cording to the strikers, a clear in- stance of Cappelling catering to the economic interests of Maxey in or- der to get the ear the court. The 3 agühlist Cappelini is | trike Dawns ANOTHER RUMOR THAT . ' PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 25.—Sig- nificant developments today in the anthracite coal miners’ strike sit- uation indicate that negotiations 23 Will be resumed between eee and miners, 8 ö ret 2 od men nere. aa has . summoned to Har- risburg to confer with Governor Gifford Pinchot on the strike N lem late this afternoon. Re ing—that is, coal is being run 1 thru the breaker and eight big trucks are busy hauling coal all day long. The pretext for this violation of the strike rules in favor of a mine owned by a mine inspector, is that the coal is needed for a school. But the strikers, who check up on every detail of these transactions with a scrutiny of the most painstaking kind imaginable, have noted that the coal selling agency with which the mine inspec- tor is connected, has lately had no dif- ficulty in supplying its customers. Incidents of this kind could be enu- merated almost endlessly. Officials Petty Graft. They are apparently sources >of cheap graft to some of the officials, they are destructive of strike morale, causing. interminable bickering, dis- sion and distrust, but actually have little.effect on the strike situation as a whole. As a rule only small com- panies and independent operators are involved in these deals. The big concerns are idle except 9 2 In 7 7 ＋ ro ga sey? tor the lessen men, but the amount of new work, being done and the répairs made ure of an extensive character. Ait¢ the Paines mine the superintendent @laimed. that only 40 men were on the payroll but an in- vestigation by-tie strike committee disclosed. Nut at the Loomis, Wood- ward ‘and Truesiate mines, scab jron- = are wutting up huge struc- * a * the above 4 en Wing, uk development of . reorganization of the un wile “forcest Perhaps N tadaccatcae ation Se too strong a word for what is taking place since the on- slaught of the union officials co-oper- ating with the ‘fecal’ authorities and the department® of: justice upon left wing miners**meetings which culmin- ated in the arrest of Reid and Toohey and their being e e on a “va- grancy” charge. N : The. progressive groups are “yecov- ering from their defeat and recent de- velopments, notably the proposal for a mve-year contract with a no-strike clause, the unyielding attitude of the anthracite operators, the disruption of the union and the violation of the Jacksonville agreement in the soft coal fields, which Lewis has now ad- mitted, are giving them a solid basis for their work in building up strike morale, waging a militant struggle for the preservation of the union and pre- paring the ground for a general strike ‘of protest from jing what is 2 * on 1 voa Miners combination of operators, Wall Street banks and 1 government, with wie the union The most advanced section. of progressive miners n ? the history of the strike struggle” so setting the stage that upon the tivity of. the militants depends life of the union in the anthracite probably in the soft coal n b well. 4 — At present the miners are v not ‘certain e % e That the main line of the strateg of 1 ee is er. ot Slipped a Cog. 7 Most of them (that is the miner with whom I talked and w 2 > ed as representatives of the b 2 5 tive strikers) are of the opinion — of Coolidge, had been some aid which would serve to bovst his prestige in labor circles wi hurting the operators; that Cool had agreed to not interfere in strike and to persuade the coal ons to grant some minor 3 The opinion now is that Coolidge: has handed Lewis the doublecross, that the operators are detrmined to starve the miners out and that nothing but pulling out the maintenance men will alter this attitude. * Pulling out the maintenance men will bring either a settlement or war. The left wing is getting ready to fore- stall a bad settlement and to wage a winning war by rallying the mass strength of the whole union if, the operators decide on open Ww ar “I Got Your Letter, Says Cal“ to Lewis (Continued from page 1) tionists that labor must obey all capi- talist laws, or, if not, labor would have to be Bolsheviks who strike re- gardless of capitalist laws. Green and Morrison were both sum- moned to conference with Coolidge before the laconic “reply” to Lewis was written, and when they emerged from the conference they both refus- ed to discuss what was said, but Green would not deny that the Lewis hint of a general coal strike had been discussed. Don’t Take John Seriously. ‘Government officials close to Coo- lidge say he does not take Lewis’ confident that the coal operators’ as- sociation have, in conjunction with the Lewis machine in the union and often witH its assistance, allowed union territory to be lost to nonginion conditions and non-union fields to re- main unorganized. This has gone on to such an extent that Coolidge administration officials openly boast that Lewis does not scare anyone, because over 65 per cent of the soft coal output is mined by non-union miners, producing 8,000,- 000 tons a week, and that if the union calls a strike and does not get the non-union miners out, also, the non- union mines would be able to handle } ene rock-bottom’ dem d of industry “threat” very seriously, since he is A mine near Keystone is also work- wT : | and home consumpftf@fi of soft coal. So the government attitude is that if Lewis has com of contract, let hiti*@o into the capi- talist courts for re@ress, where the complaints will gather dust and mold for a dozen years while the miners’ union is being smashed. 3 Automobile Merger. NEW YORK, Nos. 24.— Clarence Dillon, of the bankfüß firm of Dillon, Read & Co., bankers Yor the Dodge Brothers Motor company, confirmed today the reported purchase of Gra- ham Brothers Truck Manufacturing company by the Délige concern, for cash. Roy A. Graham, retary of Gra- ham Brothers, becd general man- ager of Dodge Brothers, Joe E. Gra- ham, and Robert C. Graham, of Gra- ham Brothers will Beeome directors of the Dodge concern. “Close” Booze Dens. Federal Judge Adam C. Cliffe of Chicago granted seventeen permanent and sixteen temporary liquor injunc- tions in the drive to “close” booze dens. The injunctions tmoluded a per- manent” one against Edward Zine, owner of the Silver Leaf Inn at Lyons, who was killed ou his home last week after attending the funeral of one of the Genna Bans. TTS That worker next door to you may not have anything to do to- night. Hand him copy of the DAILY WOR ts of violations | „Ma' F eteusdn F ears | Impeachment Moves (Special to The Daity Worker) AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 25.— Thirty- two names have been affixed to two petitions by legislators of Texas who demand that a special session be call- ed by the governor or the speaker of the house. Petition in Special Session. In one petition addressed to Gov. “Ma” Ferguson, the legislators de- mand a special session to amend the highway act. In the other petition addressed to the speaker of the house, Lee Satterwhite, it calls upon him to convene a special session for the pur- pose of impeaching the state high- way commission for the “misuse” of public funds. Hand Out Juicy Plums. Tho “Ma” Ferguson was elected governor, her husband is the real gov- ernor. During her administration millions of dollars worth of contracts. have been let to contractors, who in- stead of submitting the lowest bid, submitted the highest bids and favors in the forms of well-padded contracts. have been handed out to those who are line with the Ferguson gang. Fear Impeachment. The legislators insist. upon a spe- cial session being called. If “Ma” Ferguson does not call a special ses- sion, fearing chment charges; in the — a an ans wer to the lew moa ak nt © 22 va -will be made. Slames Klan Not Graft. AUSTIN, Texas. Nov. 25.— Breaking her silence for the first time since she announced the resignation Mon- state highway commission, Gov. „Ma“ Ferguson N demand for a spe- cial session e Texas legislature to investigat rumors of graft in highway matte as a “move by the ku klux klan th discredit her admin. istration.” ö Bones. Bandits | Raid ‘Town. CASSOPOLIS, Mich., Nov. 25—Five ‘bandits, who invaded Cassopolis in the early morning hours, held posses: sion of the town three hours, firing }, scores of shots and terrorizing | citizens while they attempted to blow the vault of the First National Bank. To Amend Gonstitution. is to be made by United States Sen- ator Wadsworth and other “wet” re- publicans to amend the constitution and the Volstead act to allo wevery state the right to decide whether alcoholic beverages are to be sold within: its boundaries. . * 4 Badly Hurt ‘In Accident. face and neck, which required 72 sur- gical stitches, four, of Geor stown holds a new record at local hospitals. The wounds the speaker will 2 session and cid 3 * — + = = ’ * ae / he 17 zan automobile % — a 3 4 day of two of her appointees on the NEW YORK; Nov. 25.—An attempt, DANVILLE, III., Nov, 25.—With 37 wounds, all on ‘the left side of her alie Woodrom aged I ere wi. Se eg en mange ase — , Virgin Islands Editor Appeals Court Verdict (Special to The Daily Worker)... WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.--Rhe. ap- peal of Rothschild Frargeis of the Vir- gin Islands from his conviction for criminal libel and contempt of. court will be heard before the United (States court of appeals at: ' Philadel- phia early in January Francis was convicted by a local judge who: was his political enemy and who’ tried the ise without a jury. The appeal will be argued by A. A. Berle, Jr., of New York. David Wallerstein of. Phila- delphia, appears on the brief With Mr. Berle and will assist in the It is expected that the E,! the case will largely determine the rights of natives in relation to the United States naval administration of the islands, against which a stant agitation has been conducted by native leaders. Francis is a member of the colonial council, editor of the Emancipator and president of the American Federation of Labor bi at St. Thomas: “Goodbye God” . DANVILLE, III., Nov. 25 —The Rev. William A. Shelley, cowboy, rodeo winner in Chico, Cal. „Boise, Ida., and Miles City, Mont., has resigned from the pulpit of the first church * here. He explained that he micht pay “Goodbye to god and go to Florida.” he is said to be papers. Ay the real estate n tik) — ie village poor are links tn the chain | * development of Sovi “racy Soviets and in 1 Sh | . 0 „
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* — ~ a 2b... - & ROSS se. . ꝗ2e—̃— 1 iy | 1 ee Fé — executive board of United Mine Workers ot America, by ed pretty good and the boys were in i 8 SECOND SECTION This magazine supple- ment will. appear every Saturday in The Daily Wei : 2 — NOVEMBER 28, 1926 20 Tanzen, thousand dollars is the amount. turned in to the district ‘District No. 12, the Zeigler Local 992, in year. Tunis same Zeigler: local . having a Nr this money used against machine which ; the frame-up to p best union men in „and one of them, perhaps, to the The astounding frame-up is based on what took place one night at the local union meeting, and what hap- pened there is told in the following story which was related to me by one of the defendants, a lean, leather- necked miner who was born and raised in the Arkansas coal mine re- gion. Miner Tells Story. This Bell and Zoller Mine No. 1 has a pretty big output of coal, being one of the biggest mines in these parts, and they have a very complicated system of weighing. And they run the cars over the scales so swift that one man can hardly keep much track of the weight. It’s been so had that we've had eight checkweighmen in two years. Well, this time we gave the check weighman an assistant and for con- siderable more than a month he work- ~ “the mine and we chlled in sub-district Vice-President Cobb to handle the case. That same day the company ran more than one car over the general average on the scales each minute and the checkweighman comes and tells Henry Corbishly, president of Local 992, that he couldn’t weigh the coal right. Miners Léave Pits. Henry told him he was under affi- davit to weigh the coal right and that if he couldn't do it it was up to him to know what he could do. Pretty soon the checkweighman walks out of the scale room and tells Corbishly that he couldn’t weigh the coal and was going home and for Henry to tell the miners, And Henry tells them, and pretty soon all the miners but a few walks out too, no one wanting to stay in the mine without there being a checkweighman. At night the boys got together in the park and Henry spoke to them for more than thirty minutes and told them to go back and let the sub-dis- trict officials settle the dispute which they did. Next morning, in comes Cobb again from West Frankfort and for four days they hear evidence from the boys. The company wanted to have Corbishly, young Farthing, Pete Blazin, who was checkweighman, and Steve Meanovich removed. So finally Cobb and E. L. Berger,—that’s the mine superintendent—bring in.a deci- sion giving the company what they want, and this with only four union men out of a hundred testifying for the company, and them four being Jiars as was proved in the other test- imony. Klansmen Rally Forces. The boys were pretty mad about the decision and they refused to go back to work. So Lon Fox, our sub- district president, orders a special meeting of Local 992 to elect new offi- cers, which he thought we would. Tuesday evening, we see a few car- loads of Klansmen circling around and driving over to West Frankfort and then coming back with D. B. Cobb, Lon Fox, Darby Babbington and Hezza Hindman. We kind of felt there was something coming because they’d been scheming around in the sub-dis-vich is going out, , igler F rame-up trict office all the time. Anyhow, we were quiet. Frank Skibinski opened up the meeting and Lon Fox gets up and tells the boys to elect new officials and 80 back to work. and Bab- EA ays. Spay thing too, Then Corbis a ti ‘was. pretty: good for Mess 0 85 showing that the sub-district — always did what the operators ted. Well, they ie Illinois to the state penitent- | told us to elect new officials and go back to ‘work, but we just sat tight and didn’t. So-there was nothing to do for it, and we adjourned the meet- ing. Klansmen Assault Aged Miner. There was about seven or eight hundred miners at the meeting and when they had most of them weft the hall and only fifty or sixty .¢f inside, old man Bert Farthing said some- thing. The old man and the young Farthing used to stick by the klan but turned bitter on it in the last months, and began helping Henry Corbishly, ing me — * = im the belly which it goes thru and lands in Board Member Hindman. Hargis Shoots Sarovich. A few days later Mike dies, suffer- ing terribly all the time. But before he died we asked him who done it and Mike says/ “Alec Hargis done it, look- aight in the eye.” Also, the night of the shooting, Roy Martin, the state’s attorney finds Hargis with the 38 and looks at it and says: “Alec, this gun’s been shot off right recent. There's still powder smoke smelling fresh from the barrel. Did you fire the shot?” And Alec says: “I ain't saying nothing.” - So the coroner's inquest gave a ver- dict that Big Mike had come to his death by a bullet fired by Alec Hargis and they held Alec for “$10,000 bail. And Lon Fox puts it up for him. Well, this looked bad for the reactionaries, and so they went to work pretty hard to get out of the hole they were in. Cobb and Lon Fox swears out war- rants for twenty-six of the boys char- : By Max Shachtman boys in Benton with the coal oper- ators and the kluxers and Lon Fox and Farrington planning to do every- thing to send them up the road. And every man in six counties knows why, too, because they’ve always been plan- ning to get rid of our boys because they was always strict and honest, by the men and wouldn't let the company run the cars fatzt over the scales, and because Local 992 was always pro- gressive and fighting Mr. Lon Fox and the Farrington machine; 2 in Springfield. And the’re using, th séssments and suchlike tun Tocal p92 sent in to them to put our own bers into the pen. But they ain’t going to. Terrorize Rank and File. This is the story in brief. There have been stories before of a reaction- ary officialdom terrorizing a progres- sive rank and file. But this case is practically unique. The reactionary prartington-Fox-Cobb machine has combined with the ku klux klan, the 1 “LAW AND ORDER” IN GREAT BRITAIN. —— “its al Riau, OFFICER , HES Lasour! : * * 6 — From the London Daily Herald. British . Winks at the Crimes of the Fascisti. Well, no one knows what the old man said, but Asa Wilson and his brother, who support the klan, begin -hitting him, and he being well nigh seventy pretty soon he’s on the floor bleed- ing. Oscar Farthing’s half out of the hall when he sees his old man being beat up and he runs in to help him, dragging off the Wilson brothers. Cobb Pulls Blackjack. Just then Cobb pulls a blackjack from out of his hip pocket and was attempting to use it when someone gets it on him and stops him. The boys got mad, Cobb trying to use a blackjack and none of the boys arm- ed, or showing it, and so the fight be- gun. Some of the boys got pretty well bruised and Cobb got a couple of chairs bust on him which wasn't serious but laid him up in the hospital for a while and no one feeling sorry about it or sending him flowers. Anyhow, when the fight was about over, Alec Hargis come in. He ain’t got much standing in the union be- cause he was part responsible for Mike Rosko getting away with $11,000 union funds, and Hargis himself being found guilty of stealing $67 from the benevolent society of the union. Well, Hargis had a .38 automatic in his hand and just when big Mike Saro- Hargis shoots him ging them with assault with intent to murder and conspiracy for same, when Cobb’s the man who tried to sap up on the men with a blackjack. And then they get to work pretty hard and in a month or so we find that the grand jury won't indict Hargis for the murder of Big Mike and he's let off scot free, - Frame-Up Corbishley, Well, Mike was dead and someone shot him and they just couldn’t turn Hargis loose without saying someone else did it. So they indicts Frank Corbishly for having shot Mike dead and wounded Hezza Hindman. And anyone that knows anything about the shooting knows Frenk wasn’t even in the hall when the shooting took place. But old man George W. Payne from Alabama, who we know is a kians- man, testified that he saw a bulging under Frank’s shirt which he said he thought looked like the print of a gun and Bill Hogan also gave some kind of testimony. So they picks on Frank as the killer when everyone knows Frank was a good friend of Mike’s and never hadenothing against him and wasn’t even in the hall when it took place. But someone had to be the goat so’s they could turn Alec Hargis loose. Well, now they're going to try the coal operators, and the republican party machine to bring progressive union members into capitalist courts on a frame-up of the bureucrats’ own construction. Such a flagrant act of treason to the miners has seldom been seen in any labor organization in this country. Defend Miners! The twenty defendants may be rail- roaded. Determined and unscrupulous working class enemies have succveded in framing-up on labor when the “ev)- dence” was even more flimsy than it in this case. Men can still be found anywhere who will swear to anything and against anyone. Juries can still be handpicked and sewed up. The Franklin county miners are appealing to labor everywhere to assist them in this struggle against reaction and to remove from the shield of the union the blight of a united front against the membership of the officialdom and the instruments of capitalist injust- ice. Victor Cernich can be reached with money and mail at Christopher, Hlinois. He is the treasurer of the Franklin Connty Defense Committee. Or else you can send it to the Inter- national Labor Defense, at 23 S. Lin- coln St., in Chicago, which is actively cooperating in the defense.
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7 28 ee el 1 i r Ger SR * ae 7 — 4 ne * O feck area 4 in Nen 1 “5 . aa > a FS „„ „ aie Fi oe . Py : pre Z . Siti. Bee iS ; 1 es ot alee » tr * n. N 94 1 tid , 1 2 HAT labor has failed to do, the Negro church has done: It or- ganized the Negro. How strongly it binds him can be seen in thé fact that there is a church to every 256 Ne- groes in the country. The church gives him his ideas, gets his energy and takes his slaved for earnings— for capital. Belong to More Than One Church. There are today in the United States, with a total of twelve millio1 Negroes, approximately 47,000 churches with a membership of 5,000,- 000. The number of churches com- pared to their memborship and the total population, point to a strong penchant for the prviilege to belong to even more than one church—a religious dual unionism, one could call it! Add to the number of churches the 46,000 Sunday schools with some 3, 000,000 pupils, and one begins to realize the enormity of the influence of the Negro church. Here is a giant j C. A. exist in fourteen cities, having a-total Negro population?’ of @43,312, w the Y. M. C. A. has a paid member- ship of approximately- 26,000 among both sexes. The employer, ever-ready to asdist Negro church activities, gives the activities of the Y. M. C. A. among am, Ala. and among the 6.000 Negroe employes of the Newport [News (Va.) Shipbuilding company. This “philanthropy” is, of course, a obstacle to progress, with property | ing figure to be sure, when compared | trap tor the Negro laborer to keep him estimated at nearly a hundred million | With Negro en tats in the mixed | trom taking such steps as would real- dollars taken from the pockets of the | trade unions! ly bring him some advantage thru deluded, trusting Negro worker, who Tentactes of the Body. elt organization. even today in the south, where four-| That is the sum total of the various fifths of the Negroes live, is paid the church bodies and its membership. beggarly wage of one to three dollars | But to build such in institution, it Church Aids Imperialism. - Hand in hand with imperialism, the hurch marches to all corners a day. must also build its supporting units Negro e In Chicago alone, a city with the its tentacles to absorb the energy and of the globe, together with the ie = ~ — 0 By times of peace of class war. Today it plays sae of a willing tool of capitalism, as church has always played the aides a — W. tory. To the Negro workers perhaps noth- here f ing could prove this more convincing- ly than a slight reading of the history of the abolition movement and the fighting church that only yesterday approved chattel slavery, today also approves wage slavery. The fact’ that on the méans of progress for the race,” only ‘Today increasing. numbers of —— workers, particularly in industry, are learning what their white brothers, thru bitter experience, have learned also— that the church is the hand- maiden of capital. The Negro, per- meated with religion even more than the white worker, because the Negro masses have been more extensively held in backward agricultural life in the south, will also learn—and quickly —that religion is only what Karl Marx called it, “opium of the people.” world, a survey taken in 1920 showed | Ploited membership. 15 churches in an area populated by’ For this the Negro church has 92,000 Negroes—a church to every 614 built its propaganda bureau—its “mis- | Negroes! sion work.” For “home mission work“ This all pervading influence of the | Alone, $350,000 is spent yearly. The church among Negro workers is in-|catholic church, a comparatively in- deed surprising. For after all, the significant unit of the Negro church, heaven that the Negro church prom- has stafted sixty-nine new centers in ises is a white one! A Jim Crow the south with a hundred and seventy- heaven, where the Negro will keepf two teachers engaged exclusively in his place” as in a Louisiana village. colored missi k. Explanations to this puzzling problem ee The missionary is the propaganda are being asked often these days by 5 ö Negro workers as attested by the let- mainatay Of the charet: .. Word of ters carried only the other day by a mouth must necessarily be the chief ending Negro journal, means of opium!“ purveyance to Ne- 7 a n IS gro masses when among them are Despite competing units, the Negro 1,842,161, ten years of over, who have : church has its highly developed and been deliberately swindled of the centralized body. Of the remarkably right to public school education and high percentage of churches to the] Who, therefore, form 37.3 per cent of population, about 25,000 churches, or all the illiterates in the country. well over half of the total number are} But this is only one arm of its of the baptist church (“national con-| extensive propaganda. Five denomina- vention,” “free will” and “primitive” | tional publishing houses are another, baptists) with a membership of about | reaching the Negro with “inspired 3,250,000, which would include more literature,” injecting into the Negro than one out of every four Negroes in| worker the dream of another world | the country. and shutting out from his understand- The methodist church with its 57— ing and his vision the drab, unlovely fourth largest Negro populatior in the pio meager finances of its sorely ex- The national democratic party in voting for recognition. the Soviets. more or less—varieties is next in size.] picture of the one he lives on. Some 14,000 churches belong to this One of its distribution units is the PRAGUE, Czecho-Slovakia, Nov. 27.—Following the victory in the recent Czecho-Slovakian elections to the national assembly, the Communist Party has launched a drive to force the recognition of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, lost very heavily? daiither cf | elections and the anti-Soviet bloc has been badly beaten! 9 © ~°"! Sof The social-democratic party’s executive committee has approved | de jure recognition of the Soviets and will align with the Communists Czecho-Slovakia will be the fifteenth country to recognize the Soviet Union. if the drive that is now being launched by the Com- munists is successful, and the first of the petit entente to recognize Czecho-Slovak industrialists are eager for Russian trade and are bending every energy towards the early recognition of the Soviet Republic. Recognition of the Soviet Union will be one of the first things to be discussed by the incoming national assembly and un- e go Russia eee be recognized. which has ee the ee e domination with a membership of ap- American Bible Society among Ne- Churches of the whites for the en- proximately a million and a half. groes, established in 1901. It now an-|Slavement and suppression of its own These are the most influential] nually places over 30,000 copies of Peoples. Oppressed and exploited in bodies, binding the Negro to his class the “good book” in the hands of Ne- Africa, Asia, the West. Indies and interests. But in addition to these] groes and in 1923 bettered this ‘aver- other parts of the world by capitalism there are many others, among them: | age by over a thousand copies in its] (Preceded often and aided by the the churches of “living god,” “evangel-| “most successful year,” with illiteracy | church always), the Negro in America ical,” “Zionist” and—the catholic’ gradually on the -down-grade. church. Varied Activities. contributes thru the chruch $200,000 annually to enable capitalism to bet- Even among Negroes the catholic} The extent of the church activities | ter continue the process. church has laid claim to a member-|bespeak the tremendous hold the The Negro baptist church has con- ship of some 250,000 with a parochial church has upon the Negro. Not only | ducted its foreign mission work since school attendance of 22,000 Negro does the church reach him thru the 1880 and is now the humble servant children, and a good many more at schools from childhood, but also in of capitalism in Central, South and its 134 lower and 15 Negro industrial later life. thru the religious clubs, so-| est Africa. and high schools. cieties, fraternal orders and other or- Strange as it may seem up to the | ganizations. The ‘African methodist “episcopal Zion church (what name could be present time, the salvation army has The . M. C. A., befuddling the] more imposing!) has in its foreign made but little progress among Ne- minds of all American youth, is most] mission field some 52 stations and 52 groes despite many efforts to reach| active also among Negroes. Founded |churches with approximately 7,000 them. first among them in 1853, there are] members. In addition to the Negro churches, | today associations in 110 Negro edu- In this country the Negro church as- there are also 639,326 Nogro mem cational institutions and sixty-two Ne-|sists the employer in keeping the Ne- bers of white churches—an interest- gro city associations scattered thru [gro worker contented at low wages in Says 2,300 Pal sed are Bribed by Foreign Nations’ Decorations WASHINGTON. Nov. 27.—(FP)— Sen. Norris has asked Secretary of State Kellogg fo send him a list of American officials to whom France, Italy, Belgium, Poland and other coun- decorations. He has learned . that some 2,300 Americans have been given the legion of honor ribbon. by the French politicians in power. He des- cribes this French and Italian policy, Press, as “morally, an attempted bri- bery. ” “Tf I had a lawsuit to be tried be- fore a jury,” he commented, “and I sent baseball tickets to each of the jurors, even though I declared that I did not Want to influence their judge- ment I would be sent to jail for that act. “Here we find hundreds of newspa- per editors, press correspondents in Europe, university presidents, preach- ers, bankers, diplomats and politicians getting favors from the French gov- ernment, And presently, when French artillery bombards a Syrian city and hundreds of helpless women and chil- dren are killed, the gratitude of these public men to Paris is supposed to have no influence on their discussion of the affair!” Take this copy of the DAILY WORKER with you to the shop tomorrow. gives aid in time role to every governing class in his- attests to the fine sensitiveness ofthe | church to its dangers. tries—owing war debts—have given in an interview with The Federated | — De n —— 4
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‘MEE 2S — lords willingly and gladly promised * do 80. ‘sand by the dancers and the enormous everything in sight finally disappear By M. A. SKROMNY. (Reminiscences of the Revolutionary Days of 1905, By an Old Rebel). * „ „ Editor’s Note. — In connection with the 20th anniversary of the revolution of 1905 we will publish a series of word pictures of the revolution ag told by a comrade _who participated in the events of that time. We know they will prove interesting to our reades. This is the second story. * 8 s II. The Slaughter of the Innocents. FTER the first successful street demonstration the revolutionary organization rapidly began to grow. The downtrodden, exploited and dis- satisfied workers of the city began to flock to the .organization. The twelve and,, fourteen-hour day, the endless fimes, the beatings from the foreman and the bosses, the inability to organize legally in any way or man- ner drove the workers into the ranks of the underground revolutionary party. In the spring of 1903 the or- ganization had grown to such an ex- tent that it was decided to arrange another and bigger demonstration. _Preparations for this demonstration were under way when suddenly stran- : ge and wild rumors began to spread all over the city: At first we laughed at these rumors. What sane man could believe that the Jews are using christian blood in baking matzos“ (the Passover bread used by religious Jews on Easter)? It seemed so ridi- culous that any sane man would just laugh at it. But thousands of circul- ars appeared and were spread on the market places, tea rooms, saloons etc., warning the christian population to watch its children, for “in connection with the approaching Jewish Easter they will need christian blood for matzos.* The local subsidized anti- semite newspaper at the same time began à violent campaign along the Hines. And then a christian child — disappeared. The alarm quickly spread all over the city. The backward elements of the christian population, mostly illiter- ate, “the dark people” as they called themselves, began to repeat the} stories of the “christian blood in the Jewish matzos.” The antisemite newspaper carried warnings in big type: “Christians! Watch your chil- dren!” E Jewish population, the shop keepers, the poor market peddlers began to tremble with fear, The class conscious Jewish and christian work- ers were indignant and did what they could to stop these wild rumors. The shopkeepers had recourse to their old and tried means of dealing with the government officials: a rich collection was taken up and sent with a delega-| tion to the chief of police and the gov- ernor. Both promised to keep. “law and order,” but at the same time warned them to keep an eyes on the workers. The shopkeepers and land- Two days before Easter the child ben found living with some relatives in the suburb of the city. The anti- gemite newspaper forgot to mention the fact.. The Jewish shopkeepers were happy and doing business as usual. “You see, it worked, —they told those who participated in making up the collection for the chief of police. “he found the child.” The revolutionary organizations de- cided to postpone the demonstration to a more opportune time. 2 ~ * ERRILY clanged the spurs of the dragoons who were dancing with their girls to the tunes of the mechan- ical organ of the merry-go-round on Easter. The big square of the new market was crowded to capacity with drunken soldiers, peasants from the nearby villages, and pleasure seekers in general, The square was not paved and the clouds of dust raised from the crowd, floated over the square cover- ing them, the pleasure devices and ing way above in the clear blue sky. fantry when the dragoons were patrol, and the next time by the goons, when the infantry was trol. — 0 the ringing ot the broken windows, the knocking of the wooden stands that were being broken up, the rattling of the furniture and goods that had thrown out thru the broken doors and windows, the howl of the drunken robbers, all blended into a terrific roar that spread terror all over the city. | The terrible word “pogrom” struck the city, and covered it with a blanket of death. From the market place the pogrom spread in all directions. The police and. military patrols? Yes, they were there on the spot. Every group of ‘rioters was followed cA Memory: of the Pogrom ] reminder of the dark days, signing it: Days of 1905.—B. Patla jan.“ ™ oe — The father of the sculptor was blinded in the pogrom and he made this sad “To My Father, Blinded in the October At this time the . was on patrol duty. Suddenly a cry arouse on — square 3 the merry-go-round, A woman probabiy . dauere ed to climb up into the round while it began to move. The owner pushed her aside. She slipped, fell and raised a cry. Someone near- by began to fight with the owner, An- other raised the cry: She is killed!” | Still. another informed those in back of him who tried to find out what had happened, that “A Jew killed a christ- ian woman.” The rumor spread like wild fire. The local fight near the merry-go-round grew into a general riot. “Kill the Jews!”—cried a stout red faced fellow jumping up on a stand where lemonade was sold. He was later recognized as a local gendarme, The cry was picked up by the drunken crowd: “Kill the Jews! Kill the Jews!” ; UDDENLY a gang of about twenty- five boys appeared armed with short clubs and began to smash win- dows and break up shanties and stands in which goods was sold in the market. On account of the holidays all the stores and the market were closed. The crowd from the square at Once joined in the robbing and nu- merous new gangs formed on the spot armed with clubs hatchets, legs from smashed tables, etc. The windows of the richer stores were protected with metal shutters and plain wooden clubs could not smash them. Then axes appeared. The clang of the axes in the metal by a captain of the police and a squad of soldiers. I watched many of them from across the street. When a store or building was sufficiently smashed ip cand» @ebbed,; the captain would borders (|? “ewronte- © “Now, boys, move on.” They willingly obeyed and moved on to the next building or store to start all over again. Usually they met with no resistence as most of the Jews had hidden away in the cellars or garrets, or fled to the houses of friendly christians. Holy pictures of saints (ikons) be- gan to appear in the windows to de- signate the homes of the christians, and thereby protect them from the rioters. Many a christian loaned some of his ikons to a friend—a Jew, to protect his home. N some instances the rioters met with resistance, with revolver shots. In such cases the police and soldiers would reply with their rifies and guns, as the rioters did not carry any guns the first day, except the leaders who in most casés turned out to be gendarmes. But where the pol- ice and soldiers were absent, two men with revolvers would drive off a crowd of a hundred rioters, or more. The rioters did not venture into unknown streets without the escort of police or soldiers. There weren't many casualties the first day. Only a few were shot by the police and soldiers, a few stabbed with soldiers bayonets, and many beaten up by the rioters. - When darkness fell upon the doom- ed city fie terror of the day turned Victims of a Pogrom Driven from Their Homes. ‘into a Wei tene. No lights could be seen anywhere, the street lamps being smashed and the inhabitants afraid to show any signs of life in the houses, for it meant the invitation of burglars and rioters. From afar could be heard the raise, of gangs the mad barking of dogs, and occasional shot, a scream, a volley, and dead silence again for awhile. And then a squadron of dra- goons would madly rush by, the hoofs of the horses clattering on the cobble- stones. As the gang of rioters would move nearer the noise turned into a roar. By this time they were all drunk and mad. Many saloons were broken into and the content8 freely passed around during the day. They were informed (as it was later proven at the trial) that there will be no objection to rob- bery. But the “damnable Jews” ob- jected to being robbed, the Jews who killed the christian child, the Jews who. were using christian blood for matzos! OME of the gangs already saw blood, and like the wild Blood- thirsty animals they longed for more. In fact the gangs of rioters were a horde of ferocious beasts under the skillful leadership of the organized power of the state. The police and sol- diers were also tired and mad. If any resistence was shown they would fire volleys into the building pfepairing the attack and then the rioters would rush in. Anyone found alive in such ‘la building was killed on the spot. Women and children were attacked and in many instances horribly tor- tured before being killed. In one case, a blacksmith was cructi- fied and his eyes gouged from his head, in another, a pregnant woman was outraged and after the abdomen was cut open the baby was thrown into the mire and the belly filled with feathers. In one building a baby was thown out of a third floor window and then picked up by the frenzied crowd and torn in two. ‘There were many other bestial atrocities, were started before the rioters left the place. In the streets huge bon- fires were made of the furniture strewn all over the streets and squares, The glare of the bigger fires lit up the darkened-sky throwing more terror into the hearts of the already terrorized population. The firemen were not allowed to extinguish the fires, and even if given a chance they would not be able to do it. There were many fires and only one fire fighting squad. Most of the streets were closed. When dawn came the first rays of the sun looked down upon a miserable world. The city presented a view like in mid-winter: everything was cover- ed white with feathers from the rip ped bedding as if with snow. The buildings, the trees, the fences, the mud, everything was white. Feathers were floating in the air. The streets were littered with broken furniture, household goods, utensiles, torn cloth- ing. The yawning gaps of the burned buildings sadly looked upon the hun- Fry dogs that were fighting over the | corpses strewn in the mud here and there. HE calm that came just before dawn was broken by the arrival of the peasantg from the nearby vil- lages. They were informed that the stores in the city are wide open and that everybody can help himself to anything he wants. They were not robbers, nor murderers, just plain poor, dark peasants. They were bad- ly in need, and when told that they can take anything they want free of charge, they did. They did not see anything wrong about it. After all, they were taking things from the Jews, those people who were using christian blood for matzos. They knew about it, because they were told about it by good people, by christian people. They came in wagon; loads and help- ed themselves. Nobody interfered. The bands of ribtere appeared again and the attacks renéwed with more savagery, Now they were out not only to rob, but also to kill. Vodka again appeared and was passed around free- ly, also to the peasants. A house was attacked in the neigh- (Continued on page 7) a In some of the raided buildings ‘fires
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HE question if the national 88 5 my of the first socialist republic is developing and whether this devel- opment is in the direction of social- | ism is of the greatest interest to | every cfass-conscious European work- er. Figures are the best answer to these questions,. A few days ago, a special group of Russian university economists (most of them non-party) instruction of the dorsed by the state planning commis- sion. 5 The work of these economists was extremely) complicated. It was per- formed for the first time in history, tor no esühtry in the world has ever elaboratsd perspective plan for the coming economic year, for the simple reason that the economic order which prevails everywhere is the capitalist, that is to say the anarchist order. Therefore, the commission does not claim absolute correctness for its de- ductions. But whatever science can give by way of foreseeing the econom- ic prospects of the socialist republic, has been given thru the said group of economists. 1. Production. e us begin with production. In 1915-26 the total production of our rural economy amounts to 11,436,000, 000 rubles, (“) including agriculture, 10,236,000,000 rubles. As compared with 1913 (prewar period) this will mean 89 per cent for rural economy as a whole, and 87 per cent for agri- culture. As compared with the previous year (1924-25) agricultureal produc- tion will increase 26 per cent, namely, more than a quarter, But is we ee 8 8 only main kinds of corn the ingre will be nearly one-half (49 per cent) and will equal 79 per cent of prewar production. as to the production for culture manufacturing purposes this will exceed prewar figures. With regard to industry we get the following picture: At the conclusion of the civil war, previous to the N. E. P. (New Economic Policy) big in- dustry fell to one-sixth of the prewar production. The economic revival which followed the introduction of N. E. P. gave in 1923-24 already 45 per cent of the prewar production, in 1924-25—70 per cent, and in the com- ing year 1925-26—94 per cent, which means that the prewar level will be almost reached. In absolute figures we get the following picture: For 1913—5,620 million rubles. — een * The prewar value of the ruble is For 1923-24— 2,570 million rubles. For 1924-25—3,950 million rubles. For 1925-26—5,280 million rubles. Key Industries Grow. 13 it Ys not enough to give only D the figures showing the growth of industry as a whole for a proper characterization of the reconstruc- tion process of industry. If we study this process in three directions: a) the bigger enterprises of the U. S. S. R. importance (“key” industries); b) lesser enterprises under the admin- istration of local Soviets of national | economy and c) small state, private and co-operative enteiprises, we get the following picture: | — producing menas of consumption. On the other hand, at present the in- crease Wi. be in connection with man- ganese mines (9141 per cent), the electro-technical indus - ry (i. per cent the glass industry (71 per cent), the rubber industry (67 per cent), the metal industry (63 per cent). The latter, for instance, produced in 1924-25 a little over one-half of the prewar norm (55 per cent), whilst in 1925-26 it will almost reach prewar le~el (90 per cent). 2 N Exceed Prewar Level. HE fact that in 1925-26 the produc- prewar. level deserves special atten- tion. Particularly, production of el- ectrical power will be almost four times that of the prewar norm. We | will more fully realize the meaning ‘thé immortal words of Lenff: cialism is the Soviet power plus el- ectrification. The total production of the country (agriculture and industries) in 1925-26 will amount to 18.1 millard rubles. This sum will represent a growth as compared with 1924-25 of 28% and will be equal to 90% of the 1913 production one more such economic year and the national economy of the U. S. S. R. will exceed the levels of the pre-war period. This will mean that in the 10th year of proletarian dictatership the country will not only have healed the wounds of the imperialist and civil wars, but will be far ahead of the reeord prewar year. This ‘will be the best answer to our caluumniators of the type of Kautsky. 2. Manufactured Goods and Fliuctua- tion of Prices. HE manufactured goods in a coun- meant, unless stated to the contrary. try with a peasant population of | many ‘millions ‘are closely General growth of production 4,34% _, tion of fuel and power will exceed of this fact if we recall to. ourselves. . 72 with the progress of the industrialisa- tion of agriculture. This industrializa- tion has made rapid progress during recent years, and this program will be reflected in the process of agri- cultural reconstruction. In 1925-26 the industrial production of agriculture will increase 27% as compared with the preceding year (3,639,000,000 this industrial production amounts in 1924-25 to 64% of the pre-war level; total industrial production of the country will increase 25% in 1925-26 (9,149,000,000 rubles, and 7,307,000,000 it to take place in the rubber industry (over 20%), in the mining industry (over 10%) and in the metal industry (up to 10%). | 3. Goods Traffic and Transport. increase of nfanufactured goods will make great demands on trans- port facilities. The absolute and rela- tive growth of goods traffic in 1925-26 will be greater than in the preceding million poods “(approximately 11%), in 1925-26 it will increase by 1,524 millon poods, namely an absolutely more than three-fold increase, and as compared with the preceding year 33%. . With relation to 1913, the volume of will be 80%. In connection with the growth of. good reconstruction work on a large scale, much new rolling stock, etc. The state planning commission has fixed for the * construction. This sum will be obtain- ed in the following manner: 1886, people’s commissariat of ways and communications, and 50,000,000 rubles from the 300,000,000 loan for economic construction, 4. Export and Import. In conformity with the general growth of industrial production, export and import are making great strides (178%) from 270,000,000 ‘rubles, to 750,000,000 rubles. This increase will be mainly in connection with agri- cultural export, which will increase from 204,000,000 rubles to 559,000,000 rubles, (174%). Industrial export will almost double (83%) from 66,000,000 rubles to 121,000,000 rubles. As to import the figures are as follows: in 1925-26 518,000,000 against 339,000,000 connected | rubles and 2,857,000,000 rubles). Whilst | it will reach 81% in 1925-26. The bies) and will be 79% of the prewar} — abe es ON . eit, Te * As to prices, prospects. for 1925 trial 9%, and the agricultural 8%. . ed, the greatest d is expected | ° year. In 1924-25 it increased by 460 goods traffic in the perspective year traffic, we witness | railway transport development fund, 236,00 O00. rubles. D A som | sel fae Nana aod ) 000,000 rubles, from the funds of the forward. Export will almost treble | EUROPEAN SHOWING POLITICAL AND / REFERENCE INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY * ® PROVINCES AS S“AUTONOMOUS SOCciAUST — ARCTIC. Oo TURKEY BOUNDARIES OF REPUBLICS C OMPPRESING THC UNION GF SOG Rep. * AUTONOMOUS REPVBLKS & PROVINCES — — ee SOMET: GF.S = Following his flight from Siberia, Stalin took up his work in the party. He was a member of the committee of the Caucasian Union, principally oc- cupied in journalism, and was editor ot many Bolshevik organs, legal and illegal. Visits London. In 1905 he appeared at the confer- ence at Tammerfors. He also took part in the congresses of London and Stockholm, speaking under the name of Ivanovitch. The revolution of 1905 was followed by the blackest reaction. Scared by the terror of the czarist government, the intellectuals and petty bourgeoisie desert the revolution. The Bol shevik Party, however did not slacken its revolutionary activity towards the organization of the masses, Stalin worked in Georgia, but, not- withstanding that he had changed his tions! the secret poll. discovering him. | In 1908 he was on behalf of the com Once more, prison de This time he was se aw: government of Vol of years. 2 But he could inaction, and in cape and re resumed his 4% Once more he is follc lice, and once more : This time he was d@po years to SolvuitCchego¢ A year later he esqped 7 1 to ak] onen ed b ted ec to St. Petersburg (r Le where, within a month he w. ed in connection with fhe act the Central Committe of t. After several months dete: was deported for th ogda, escaping again In April, 1912, he the region of Narim. Septe the- same year finds hip once St. Petersburg. name and taken all kinds of precau- In March, 1913, he was arr * — —
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RA TIVE DIVISIONS ay, ot the State Bank in forei f workers, eto. etc. rubles in 192425. Thus the increase will be 538%. The payment balance which will amount to 150,000,000 rubles will go to the accumulation of valuta funds, and to increase the c unts banks. The enormous growth in “exports imports shows that great p made in the direction of the . of economic relations _ | between the Soviet Union and foreign ays states. The Soviet Union appears in * the role of an exporter and importer oe on a large scale. The life of u number of countries. .. E $8 3 5. ivity of Labor, “wages and | ete Houeing.. 4 3S <a wt 8 ig ens have been ah raising 2 on about * met} . aber among the Soviet Russia, the exploitation of. itis Figures give the e to this fiction. In 1925-26 the num- ber of workers will increase by more than a quarter ofa million, over 20% With respect to the growth of output, the prospects are as follows: output will increase 10% (in 1924-25 31%), and as it is proposed to lower prices also 10%, the value of the workers’ output will be on the same level as in the previous year. Just the opposite will be the case with wages. Wages show a great stride forward, especially in heavy industry. For instance, wages in the metal industry will increase 19%, in the mining industry 23%. The growth of the real wage will be greater still, because of lower prices for all produce (for the metal indus- try, this growth would ual to 32%, and for the mining | ndustry to 35%). For industry as a whole the increase of the nominal wage will be 16% (the increase takes also into con- sideration the rent increase, which will take eig in 1925-26 in view of ey tee . 55 o ous Asc tenet st 20%, nip) . a wage increase up to ‘the prewar level. (In 1924-25 the increase was 83% of the prewar level). But if we compare the total production and wages and see that in 1925-26 the wages percentage in production as a whole will exceed the prewar level. (14.5% and 13.9%). In bringing to a conclusion this review of wages, it should be men- tioned that the. year 1925-26 will be port workers whose wages were lower than those of all the other categories of workers. In 1925-26 their wage will increase 45%. The above-mentioned. Senta show primarily two things: carried on a campaign for increased productivity of labor as a prerequisite particularly auspicous for the trans- 1. That the Soviet government and the Communist Party, who last year for an improvement in the economic conditions of the workers, and who pointed out that this economic im- provement was bound to come, were right. The promises which were made are being realized. Wages in 1925-26 are making a stride forward although the average output is almost the same as before. In 1925-26 the proletariat of the Soviet Union reaps the fruit of its efforts in 192425. Secondly it is a significant fact that wage increases in the Soviet Union are coinciding with a fierce attack on the proletariat in the capitalist countries in the di- rection of. lower wages. Russian min- ers, had added to every ruble another real, 35 ae _railwayment—more ‘seit the mest cerning housing. The housing ques- tion in the Soviet Union is very acute, for seven years of war and the growth of the population in large centres ex- ceed’ng prewar level have created a great disproportion in supply and de- mand with respect to housing accomo- dation. The proposed housing expen- diture for 1925-26 is 375,000,000 rubles. Out of this sum 100,000,000 rubles are for house repairs, 100,000,000 rubles for the prevention of the further dillapidation of houssés and 70,000,009 rub-es for the construction of new houses in lieu of those which have become uninhabitable, and 105,000,000 rubies for néw houses to cope with the growth of the population, 6. Capital Expenditure. HE year 1925-26 we shall witness the complete re-establishment and further growth of the basic capital of dur industries. (Benches, machinery, buildings, etc. ). Capital expenditure bin, of course, take place in those 5 1 industry where progress t ad m industry, the aoa: try, etc. The proposed expen ia will amount to nearly billion rubles. (970,000,00), out of which two-thirds (646,000,000) on new works. The branches of industry which will require the largest amounts are the metal industry (182,000,000 rubles) the textile industry (145,000, 000) the oil industry (116,000,000 and electrification work (80,000,000). The sources from which these expenses are to be covered are as follows: the industries themselves can provide 466,000,000 million (i. e. almost. one- half of the total amount), 233,000,000 can come from the state budget and 271,000,000 rubles will be obtained by means of long-term credits. 7. Financial Problems (Money Circula tion, Credit Budget). HE accumulation of money grew very rapidly after the introduction of N. E. P., as this was accompanied by a complete change of our economy. „ as el a succeeded in i 7 ittee of Baku. a himself to. where he ped and went Leningrad) Ihe was arrest» activities of of the party. detention, he ot Pravda, The Worker and Soldier, ds him once again in he was arrested for “pougau, at i for activity |’ the last time and deported to Tour- Ika, north of the Polar He remained there up to the Fybruary revolution. Active in the ‘Duma. The e deportations to which Stalin was subjected never weakened his revolutionary energy. During the intervals between arrests and deporta- tions, and while working illegally un- circle. der the constant surveillance of the secret police, he maintained an in- tense activity and snes important party functions. in St. Petersburg for the elections to the fourth duma of the empire, sub- seqently leading the Bolshevik frac- tion in this duma.; 1912-13 saw him one of the editors of the Bolshevik papers Isvestia and Pravda. After the February revolution he was editor Worker’s Path, and The Worker. | = Fighting Counter-Revolutionaries. In 1917, Stalin became a member of the Pan-Russian central executive * In 1913 he organized the campaign } committee and commissar for nation- alities. In 1910-20 he was commissar for workers’ and peasants” inspection, and from 1920 t6 1923 he was a mpm- ber of the revolutionary military com- mittee for the republic, ¢° » The civil war obliged him; as with most influential members of the party, to go to the front. Here he took part in the campaigns against Yudenitch, against Denikin and against the Poles. For his military services he was dec- orated with the order of the red flag. His Posts of Honor. At the moment, Stalin is general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Russia, a member of the presidium of the Cen- tral Executive Committee of the U. S. S. R., and a member of the presidum of the All-Russian Central Executives Committee. Among his best 8 works are: (1) The October Revolution ahd the Question of Natjonalities. (1918.) (2) Collection of Articles, (1920.) (3) They National Element in the SSIAN COMMUNIST PARTY Organization of the Party and the State. (1923. (4) The Organization of the Party. (5) The Theory and Practice of Leninism. (1924.) Socialist Paper Dies With Socialist Party - DAYTON, Ohio, Nov. 27—(FP)— The Miami Valley Socialist, long the official weekly of the Socialist move- ment of Dayton and the surrounding Ohio district, discontinues — publica- tion for lack of support, Once the mouthpiece of a strong party organi- zation that was much feared as a con- tender in Dayton elections, it came on hard times after the war and its print- ing eventually fell into the control of klan interests, The paper then con- tinued as a link in the socialist chain papers published at Reading, Pa. Jos- eph Sharts, who defended Bishop William Montgomery Brown in the Cleveland heresy trial, was editor of the paper. | But in 1925-26 the accumulation of money will be almost double: it will increase from 890,000,000 rubles to 1,580,000,000 rubles. Current accounts will also be doubled. Thus in 1924-25 deposits and current accounts amount- ed on an average to 811,000,000 rubles, and in the coming year they will and ‘van operaticns will doubled (from 1, 420,000,000 to 2,800, 000,000 rubjées) ” will be considerable. In 000 to 3,242,000,000 rubles, i. e. 45%. 1925-26 will amount to 70.6%. It is K of the Soviet. Dee , the figures given above are a definite answer to the question it Soviet economy is progressing, But progress ‘in the or does our economy on the contrary, revert to capitalist methods? It is figures again which will give us an objective answer. At the be- ginning of 1924-25 of the ready money in th ecountry 11.7 million rubles be- longed to the state and to private enterprises, mainly peasant home- steads 7,500,000 rubles and to cooper- atives 500,000 rubles. This means that 62% were socialized, i. e. more than half. In the villages this socialization was very small, 4%, but in the towns it reached 97%, the socialization of means of production amounting to 99% as to the total production of the heavy and light industries, we witness the following process: j Years State and Co-op. Private. Absolute.“ % Absolute. % 1923-24 5562 76.3 1,728 23.7 1924-25 7550 79.3 1,970 20.7 1925-26 9186 79.7 2,334 203 N a slow but con- ange “#8 efi tive) of socialist ¢ : emeént of economy. Very characteristic is also the growth of the concentration of industry, as compared with the prewar period. 56% of the workers of the entire mining and manufacturing industries work in enterprises which employed over 500 workers in 1911. On January 3rd, 1925 the percentage was 68.8%, i. e. more than two-thirds. Another in- teresting fact is that whilst in Amer- ica the average number of workers for one enterprise is 151, it is 239 in the Soviet Union. Such is the material basis of socialism. More satisfactory still is the great success of collectivism in trade and commerce. ‘The following table gives an illustration of this: Years. State. Co-op. Total. Priv. Trade. 1923-24 2,942 2,653 5,595 3,994 49.6 1924-25 5,475 4,753 10,228 3,650 26.6 1925-26 6,342 5,490 11,832 3,728 24. Thus we witness in trade and com- merce not only an absolute growth of state and cooperative pee g doubled in the course of three accompanied by a certain dN .es private trading, but also an enormous growth of its relative role. In 1923-24 it controlled more than half the market, in 1925-26 its influence will attain 76%. The commission of non-party uni- versity economists concludes its re- port by the following statement: if we add to everything that has been said that with respect to steam transport and bank credit, all the means of communication and circulation of money and credit notes are already socialized in our country to the full hundred per cent all that remains to be done is to formulate the general task; to maintain firmly the prewar position and to advance steadily every year, even if it were only one step towards socialism wherever the econ- omic situation permits. Such are the prospects of the na- tional economy of the Soviet Union. Slow but sure progress towards social- ism. Real socialism; not socialism in wards—a la Macdonald, Bauer and other “socialist” soothsayers. * The calculation is in chervonetz rubles. there is one more question: Ie, this, o¢ 701 direction of. * * amount 1,733,000, 000 rubles. Discount also be The growth of the Age in 1925•206 commodity — rubles it will increase from ‘1,537,000, - As compared with 1913 the budget of 241 33 me her st a lute” and rela- =,
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* _ 8 n * * 7 ue oe * n 4 - — . os 1 % rh ww 5 N 2 28 N * ania a oe N 2 2 a * ae te $ . id : . * r ve 2 * J oy f 54 8 0 * * . 2 1 N 2 ; . : — 5 t= 5 * ? 72 ra 8 “ eS ee ee 8 Le a PEA, eit a eee le Fe * 0 ae \ Eee N 8 * . n 5 1 „ gon 38 if ff iH hal Hill i F AF | 5 : it : 75 their life was suicide or the insane asyleum. . Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekov were truly very sincere and very deep artists, but they lived and labored and worked in a period of transition when the air and breath of Russia was changing. There was an inner struggle of the personality that was torn to pieces, and the artist por- eet me 22 * . te *. 25 we: wih oY, 1 Pe K 57 0 P 8 8 ‘ f ae" a R eee r > pt . 2 1 4 1 ey >, * ot ms, -F 2 we 8 a TL hl PO r ee — — — — 7 * rT BERS ily 3 i, i rE uy fl f i is seeking his ideal in the collective ideal of the workers and peasants of the country and has an aim that is confronting the peoples all over the world. His problems are known to him. He learned how to face them with cold reason and seek a solution of the problems, not in his own inner seeking but the struggle of his class, of his country, and of the people all over the world. He has a reason why to live; even when the present is bitter and cold and hard. The workers and peasants of Soviet Russia with their new problems and ideas and ideals, brought out a new element of writers and poets and artists, the spirit prevailing in the new literature and poetry and art is entirely of a different type than the former. The personalities and ideals breathe with health, with a future, with a name. It is true that Tolstoy or a Dostoyevsky or a Chekov is not yet to be found in the new literature because the writers and poets and arists may yet be too young te grasp sve is By 8 gs Ee it rf 5 i i I Hi ri? 2 fea! 7118 i afi 2 i " : 258 i i be 4 og ¢ 2 f entire population could not under stand what is happening. A steamer came along, landed a Soviet. It occu- pied his house, It brot a change in the life of the city. Workers marched thru the streets like the most impor- tant personalities. The Kirghiz popu- lation showed opposition to every rule of the church and of the em- ployers. For the life of him he cannot grasp what it means. But the cosacks are expected. They will fight this new people. And of course he is with the cosacks, Months of struggle went on and the revolution finally succeeded in wiping out the remnants. of counter- revolution and with it went the entire old life and human relations. The peasants became firm and strong and independent in both their physical and mental life. Seytulina is a young writer that gives us the entire situation of the first revolutionary days in her volume 8 ole x i 2 ee — * * 3 4 1 J . « 2 eS gl : 2 a . Sar eS a Se ee ae 7 « * ‘ 2 “ 7 8 ree 5 * . j ae : * aie , “3 1 N = wee 4 1 * 1 — head * * Fr i. & 3 5 8 8 8 99 * > 33 . 9 * a arrested. orders to nt yamine, "Sys See Seen ee of the army has a suspicion Pavel may be bought by the enemies, and when Pavel is occupied for days and nights in saving the revolution he makes a single handed raid in his home scaring his wife, looking into geois may have sent to Pavel, and hé finds nothing. On the square the pulyamiotchiki demand alcohol from F f a i 4 will give the alcohol. They call for Pavel. He refuses to issue the per- mit, shouting: “Alcohol is for the hospitals—for the sick.” A revolver is 1 you shot.” He stands ready to die. workers of the factories are running with bayonets to save Pavel. came in time. They bear him on i 5 5 4; f i 8 5 ef of society and existence of humanity. There is no weakening, no sighing, no sentimentality in the personalities and types of the new Russian writers. They are conscious of their task, they know what they be- lieve in their they belong to the work Is Je © the old Russian literature portr a decaying and a decaying mode of life. 8 „ ** NOTE: Two books recently le- sued in America present an accur- ate view of the new Russian ter- ature. “Flying Osip,” is a collection of short stories representative of the most significant present day Russian writers. “Literature and Re- volution” by Leon Trotsky, is a brilliant criticism of not only the new Russian literature which he analyzes in detail, but also the rela- N eee sacrificed | Both books can be thru The DAILY WORKER Publishing Co. is he is a member of the all-Russian Central Executive Committee of So- rade Drezen at length recited, how Esperanto has been practically applied in the Soviet Union by the re cently visiting Swedish and German trade union delegations. He invited, in the name of the Russian comrades, | “Whereas, Comrades Paul Grouch and Walter Trumbull are revolution- ary Esperantists and, altho not mem- bers of our organization, acted more in accordance with its spirit than most of us would have done under similar circumstances, therefore be it “Resolved, that the above mention- ſed comrades be hereby elected as hon- orary members, for life, of the 8. jnationalist), defended his stand of more Communist than others. It is not his fault, he stated, that the Communist comrades are more industrious than the anar- chists or the adherents of the Second nesty for counter-revolutionaries, for the leaders of the Kapp-Putsch and for the fascist murderers. All of ta : i
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ees oa 45 if 111 it i : f i 2 Fé iz, ATE Ault 15 1 111 ih 27141111 ; ; the high 1 i ! E i i F -% * 1 r " wf 394 al Ww RE eee amy af agers e b - e Wann fe ie N * RA ey ge ries 111 apparatus, fell Sucgigige® By MANUEL GOMEZ, Sec’y. * 0 TH ih —_ > at 2 ity so8 ; 7285 f F cetved on Aug. 12, nearly four months ago, the draft of the registration and election regulations presented by the Chilean member. In the first days of October, nearly two months ago, it received the draft of the registration and election regulations presented by the Peruvian. member. The member representing the arbitrator has, there- fore, had ample time to examine the points of view of the parties to the plebiscite and to decide upon the elec- tion regulations that will guarantee the right of both.” Reports that Pershing has been favoring Peru are given out by the correspondents purely for propaganda Pershing Rule imperialism at Aziyatskaya No. 13. and some of the neighbors hid in the garret. There was a small child with them. They were all shaking to the house the child began to cry. cry smothered the baby. But the cry was heard. They were discovered. 2 f Hurra! Here they are! Let's get them! —stormed the crowd. Some of the rioters began to crawl up to the garret. In their attempt to l escape, the victims broke thru to the root,. but they were captured on the roof killed and thrown down, others jumped down. The woman was attack- ed and thrown down from the garfet together with the child that was al. ready dead. Those who were not kil- led outright died under the ironclad heels of the boots of the wild crowd. Altogether seven were killed in that one house. Some escaped by feigning re- | death. The pogrom raged all day and late into the night. In the meantime telegrams were being exchanged between the govern- or and the ministry of inner affairs. Next morning the peasants from the villages who attempted to get to town were met at the city limits by police and ordered to return back home. “Why, what happened?” they in- quired. They were informed that it was “for two days only, now you must go home.” They went home, | O crowds were permitted to con- gregate in the streets. The order of the police captain was usually suf- ficient to disperse a crowd. It was j j j : ) purposes, to hide the fact that Amer- not necessary to use arms. Occasibn- un landlord, an old feeble Jew, with fear. When the rioters broke in-} The mother in an attempt to stifle the for over a year. The blood of the victims was on its walls. People were night. There were rumors that at night wailing was heard there, that was the blood of the innocent crying. The superstitious dark people, christ- fans and Jews alike, believed these rumors. The christians would cross themselves passing that house, the ‘tig would whisper a prayer. * * = political demonstration of the | revolutionary organizations was postponed indefinitely, Later on we learned that the po grom was arranged at the suggestion of Von Pleve, the minister of inner af- fairs, for the sole purpose of frustrat- ing our demonstration. The local gen- darmes were the organizers of the po- grom, they also printed the circulars about the christian blood In matzos. The pogram was also expected to bring in race hatred between the Jew- ish and christians workers and there- by prevent their organization against the common foe, the murderous bloody ezaristic government. This fiendish plan worked for a while, but not too long, as will be ex- plained im the other stories to follow. 190 te : j * 19 a F ' 8 PtH shot and probably fatally wounded a policeman and escaped with two chests containing more than $50,000 in money. No. Get $15,000 From a Jeweler. NEW YORK, Nov. 27.—Six bandits held up Samson Blank, jeweler, In a street im Brooklyn and escaped with $15,000 in diamonds. The Labor Defender : An attractive, popular month maga- zine, published by International Labor | Defense, with lots of pictures and car- toons, and feature articles by the best writers—16 pages of live, important news and photos every month. Editor, Tom O Flaherty. Subscriptions—$1.00 Per Year (12 issues) 60 Cents for Six Months THE LABOR DEFENDER 23 Se. Lincoln St., Chicago, Il. | Enclosed . for months subscription to: State 7
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— — ing to organize themselves so as to be able to offer a stronger front to their enemy, the boss, they often meet with those who refuse to be organ- ized, who refuse to join a union of any sort, because it is “un-American” are workers! Whom do they serve and fight for? The bosses. The Janis-| series, at least, were fighting for their own interests which were at one with those of their Turkish masters, bu} these misguided workers are serving the capitalists directly against every interest of their own. When patriot- ic” workers who d not “believe” in strikes: scab on, their fellow..workers and break the strike, they are doing the same thing on a greater scale. Who are the soldiers and policemen that fire at striking workers at the command of the boss spoken thru the government? Are they not work- ers or the sons of workers? And yet. they are serving as the Janisseries, as the tools of their bitterest foes, the capitalists who grow fat on the labor of their fellow workers. When, year in and year out, workers go to the polls and vote to keep in office this or that politician who is nothing but a puppet manipulated by the House of Morgan or by the Rockefeller’s when these same workers are deaf to the call of the more far-sighted of their brethern to break with the boss’ parties and strike out in a party em- bracing all labor—are they not fight- ing blindly for the cause of their enemies? This is the situation: The workers and the bosses stand opposed as two separate classes with different and antagonistic aims and interests as two armies constantly engaged in some form or another of struggle. Yet the strongest support the capital- ists have consists in the masses of mislead workers who do not see their position in the struggle and who, con- trary to their own interests, strike out blindly in defense of the masters that enslave them. , “Give Us the Young and We Have the Future!” OW can such a remarkable situa- tion come about? Let us turn to the little story about the Janisseries for an answer. The Janisseries were turned into crack fighters for the Turks because the Turks got hold of them young and trained them for that purpose. It was one of the most fun- damental principles of the Jesuits: “Giye us the young, and we have the future.’ The capitalists go on the game principles. If they can only get hold of the working class children when they are young and their minds are unformed, then trust it to them and their learned and trained servants to make these children grow up into workers cut out on quite a capitalist model—into a strikebreakers, scabs, patriots, blind ‘supporters of the bos- ses. is a “good” ten times a 7 * ry 12 ‘is now over two years that a new force first made its appear- iss movement of New York. It is now over two years that the milit- ant workers of New York began to grow accustomed to find conscious and spirited proletarian children coming to their mass meetings and demonstrations, taking part in their everyday struggles against the cap- italists and against the forces of capitalism, and in every way living up to their role as comrades in the struggle of the whole working class. It is now over two years that the agents of the bourgeoisie, the police and the school authorities, suddenly ‘awoke to the existence of a deter- fighting the class struggle it the schools and in winning away the masses of workers’ children from the influence of capitalism and for the working class. It is now over two years that the Young Pioneers of America—then known as the Junior Section of the Young Work- ers League—made its appearance as a factor in the working class movement of New York. Pioneers First Convention. Now the Young Pioneers of the New York district are preparing for their first district convention! This is an event of historic importance in the revolutionary movement of New York City and its surroundings as well as of the whole country. The first district convention is a living symbol of the two years of activity and struggle on the part of the Young Pioneers and the Young Workers League that have resulted in a fine, conscious, active and spir- ited Communist children’s organiza- ance on the scene of the working mined and active organizations ot Communist children intent upog tion, participating in the struggles of the whole working class, carrying on the struggle in the schools, fight- . ing tooth and nail to save the work- class children from the claws of capitalists. The first district convention marks the beginnings of the reorganization of the Pioneer League on the basis of school nuclei of the consolidation of the organiza- tion into a real league, of the real struggle against child labor and child misery, of the systematization and development of the school struggle—in a word, of what may a be called without any sentimental- | proletarian ism, the bolshevization of the Young Pioneers of America! “7 For this reason, since the de- velopment of a militant revolution- Tricor he b, ate workers but for the widest masses of the proletariat and the proletar- ian youth, the whole of the revolu- tionary working class must consider the first district convention of the New York Young Pioneers as an event of the greatest significance for them in their struggle. 7 Greetings to the first district con- vention of Dist. No. 2 of the Young Pioneers of America! Long live the struggle for the win- ning of the masses of proletarian children from the clutches of cap- italism! , f Long live the Young Pioneers of America! Central Executive Committee Workers (Communist) Party of America. * C. E. Ruthenberg, Gen. Sec’y. National Executive Committee Young Workers (Communist) League of America. i Herbert Zam, Secretary. its institutions are just perfect and need only to be- maintained in their “pristine virtue.“ What is a “patriot- ic” citizen? One who goes to war cheerfully and gets butchered or crip- pled fighting for the greater profit of he is fighting “for the greater good humanity.” One who scabs on his workers and breaks their strikes because it is not in accord with “American traditions” to go on strike. What is a law-abiding citizen? One who believes that the words com- ing from congress or from the courts both of which are simply the mega- phone of the bosses, are the sacred edicts of “abstract justice” falling with equal weight on the rich and the poor. Who is “adapted” to the condi- tions in which he lives? The abject slave, who is horrified at the very thought of freedom, and who thanks god that he is “permitted” to nibble his crust in “peace.” Public Schools—Poison Factories. This is the mission of the public school and that this mission is carried we see every day around us in actual life. Who incites the children to look upon their fathers as criminals and his boss all the while believing that public school—the factory where anti- labor, pro-capitalist poison is manu- factured and injected into the work- ers’ children. | ) school Mot Alone. VERY institution in capitalist so- ciety in turned toward the “holy” purpose of corrupting the minds of the children of the workers. The movies, the newspapers, the children's books, the general run of boys and girls clubs, etc.—all can be shown to be consciously directed to that end. Above all the boy and girl scouts! Supported’ morally and financially by the biggest capitalists of this country, a bee and administered upon the plans laid down by these finance lords, the boy scouts aim at rendering the children “loyal to god and coun- try,” at “preparing them for service to their country in peace (strikebreak- ing, scabbing,- murdering strikers, etc.) and in war (slaughtering foreign fellow workers for the benefit of the bosses.)” Is there amy wonder now why the large majority of working class children grow up into enemies of their own class, into reserves for the capitalists to be used against their own class fellows, perhaps against i 0 * 1 * : : | , - ms Ne 1 7 „ eae ; 8 . 1 * : a % . 5 a a anything about it, write to the nation- vm 2 1 — * t bt oe" > 1 * i 2 2 9 1 ~ *** * 50 * » 1 * * ~ 1 > . > 5 * . 7 ct ; a : * * 0 N - * * a" * ow > N 4 * * ue + , * > > N . * 2) 1 : . bth 2 aes ; 7 7 a 7 i= ay i . a va 1 . 3 * 8 err 4 — * - * * * J 2 1 — 5 1 * 1 p * a4 . * * , a § * t ts . mn z ‘ 1 +) oe * ‘ * 3 — ae ‘ 17 — Se ees fre all workers children into the class struggle at the side of their fathers and ers. This organization, the Young Pioneers of America, has al- ready spread all over this country and there is hardly a city or town in the United States where it has not yet reached. It aims to root out the cap- ERY worker who understan what fate the capitalists are hold - ing out for his children and who wants to save his children from that fate, every worker who wants his children to grow up loyal to the work- ing class and its ideals—every such worker must see that his children join the Young Pioneers of America. There is an organization in every town, in your also; if you don’t know 5 al office of the Young Pioneers of Am- Chicago, Ill. You will receive all de- sired information there. Every work- ers’ child in the Young Pioneers of America! a The Young Comrade! The Young Pioneers of American publish a monthly paper called The Young Comrade, This paper is gotten — out for the working class by the work- |” jing children. It is full-of interesting stories, news, poems, pictures, etc. showing the truth about the world we live in and explaining the duty of the workers’ children. Every workers’ child should read it! It costs only 5c. an issue and the subscription rates for a whole year are only 5c. Let your children have the Young Comrade! It will help to combat the poison instil- led by the capitalist schools. Every workers’ child a subscriber to the Young Comrade! Join the Young Pioneers of America! The Walden Book Shop 307 Plymouth Court (Between State and Dearborn Just South of Jackson) CHICAGO ee ee ee a ee. ee ee i ee te i De i i et i te te te i te te » it is all animated by |\ one common purpose—to help the children of the workers develop so as ace is efica, 1113 West Washington Blvd. | * „eee eee 1