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December 9, 1925
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5 fora e * ae Government — 8 * ama . NEW YORK EDITION Published Daily I. * 1 y THB DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W ‘ashi Price 3 Cents ngton Bivd., Chicago, Ul. RO SLE M CURES By WILLIAM F. DUNNE (Special to The ‘Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 7—Martin Plettl, representing the German “Peder Trades Union and the Needle Section of the International ration of Trade Unions, addressed the con- vention this morni n He told of the ; a of the German needle workers to resist wage reductions and the lengthening of hours, but said, nothing about the Dawes plan or world trade union unity. remarks were all of a general nature except when he urged the delegates to . internal differences and unite for struggle — His s WE SEE IT By T. J. O’)FLAHERTY a you have not yet read “Whither England?” by Leon Trotsky, hurry up and partake of a mental feast. It is as easy on the eyes as anything that ever came from the pen of one of the best writers in the revolution- ary movement. It is a polemic against imperialist England’s politicians, against the labor lieutenants of -Brit- ish capitalism and at the same time an exposition of Communisf tactics in the war for the overthrow of capital- ist rule. 8 * = CTICALLY every important capitalist paper in the world gave liberal space to a review of this book. Trotsky asks the, question “Whither England?” and answers it in several prilliant chapters. The answer how- ever, can be stated in too words: “to | hell.” The organs of American cap- italism, even those that represent economic forces at war with the in- dustrial powers of Britain, indulged in sneers at Trosky’s ain's decline as a the r e s of the wad those of the United States. „„ „„ ROTSKY applies the lash merci lessly to the renegade hides ‘of, England’s leading right wing social- ists. MacDonald, the recipient of gifts from a tory biscuit manufacturer, is his pet aversion, sharing honors with the lady known as Ethel Snowden. Here is a gem that might well tempt any reader to spend $1.75 on “Whither England?“: Let us overcome our natural aversion and read thru the article in which Ramsay MacDonald expounded his views a short time be- fore leaving office. We warn the reader in advance that we shall have (Continved on page 2) NEW YORK LABOR PLANS TRIP 10 SOVIET RUSSIA Purcell Committee to Get Delegation D — By ELIAS MARKS. NEW YORK CITY, Dec. 7.— The trade union committee for organ- izing the Purcell meeting, in the course of its three successful confér- ences, has enlisted the enthusiastic support of 50 local unions. represent- ing 150,000 workers of New York City, 5 1 fe! Wt 2 - tow anton. Ant to any. oo ‘ against their enemies. The progressive cloakmakers of New York sent a delegation with a basket of flowers to the convention containing the following note read by Secretary Baroff: “We greet the convention and hope that it will result in granting to all members full freedom of political ex- pression and that every member will be able to contribute to the union to the limit of his abilities.” The presentation of the flowers was 11 accompanied by a demonstration end- r ing with the singing of the chorus of N. e “The International” while all but the 7 — — 7 x right wing delegates stood. Green Awaits 8. O. S. Call. n President Green remained here un- til this morning, it is said. ‘Phen he left for New York where he will re- — — a — — main awaiting an S. O. S.“ call from the Sigmanites. * No change has been made as yet in the committee appointments against which the progressives protested Sat“ urday, but over the week-end at least one prominent labor newspaper cor- respondent was approached by ma- chine elements on the question of ar-“ 1 | fanging a conference with nn ' [ives of the progressives. 2 1 5 nelir 7 4 5 2 7 i + re ; progress — dete to its strength in 00 N centers. Philadelphia is an exa A: Lor this development: Altho the wing was practically forced into ille- gality here so far as the union W. concerned, at the get-together affair arranged Saturday evening by the lo. te of Berlin and other German cal progressives, the attendance w citles looking formwork. Soup kitchens double that expected and the meeting for the long lines of pauperized work- was characterized by a spirit of strug: | ers are set up in the working clase gle, hopefulness and determination ih- districts. Prostitution flaunts insist- dicating a militant and organized re- ant invitation everywhere. A tidal vival of the left wing and union| Wave of bankruptcies is beginning. activity. This is the “stabilization of capital- As they proceed the base ot Sigman| ism” resulting from the Dawes plan. support is narrowing while that of the During November a new high re- left wing is broadening. cord of bankruptcies was made the Hold Back G. E. B. Report. figure being 2,158. An estimate of twice that number is made of those The convention adjourned until settled out of court. More than 5,400 Tuesday morning. No committee is drafts were protested during Novem- ready to report except that on the ber. No less than 60 per cent of all General Executive Board report, but companies announce no divdends at the machine is now trying to delay the close of the year’s business and action on this controversial document many are shutting down, even the until the end of the convention. This great firms like Krupp, Thyssen and is a reversal of its original policy. Mannesmann are shutting down part which was to smash the left wing infor their works. the debate on the New York situation] he official or registered unemploy- with a long array of documents pur- ed figure is going away up. It stands porting to show the activities of the] now at 500,000. The estimated unem- Communists in the union. These doeu- ployed is twice the registration figure, ments, once the trump card in the| of 1,000,000; hand of the right wing, are now a] working only part time. source of embarrassment as a war The merchant class faces disaster on the Communists in the union canin the Christmas trade, only the cheap- be waged only by fighting about 78 est lines being saleable and only the per cent of the membership. small genuine upper class in the mar- ’ -lket for costly purchases. The poor MARYVILLE, Mo., Dec. 7. — One cannot buy. The middle class buy Cy ommunists Foresaw “BERLIN, Dec. 7.—The Dawes plan jis “saving Germany.” ‘Thousands of bless men and women tramp the with at least 2,000,000 . * „ 1 +5 Hops 2 12 U they are for tions on all other 4. Check- off. 5. Arbitratiom@t demand for raising wages 10 per cept. 6. No means Mor winning this or other strikes. * * 2 THE OPERATOR'S PLAN. 1. Five-year coentract. 2 Mining to begin at once regard- less of union demands being granted or not granted. 3. Present wages to be reduced bY negotiation or arbitration. 1. No check-off... The open shop. 5. Arbitration of all disputed points without reservation. 6. Means to prevent strikes to be provided in the agreement. ing industry. No government. ald to operators. 2. Full recognition. of the union, the wage increase demanded and better working conditions. A min- imum wage not less than full union scale. 3. The six-hour day and the five- day week, with unemployment. relief furnished by the state or federal gov- ernment, disbursement to be made through the union machinery. 4. Abolition of the Conciliation Board. 5. Nationalization of the mines with workers’ control. 6. A 100 per cent strike by with- drawal of the maintenance men, a national general ‘strike of all coal miners. and an alliance with the rail- road workers to block scab coal. b. P. P. A. DOESN'T KNOW WHETHER IT 4S DEAD OR ALIVE Dismal „„ at Cleveland Hotel By HERBERT BENJAMIN. (Special to Tie Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, O., Dec. 7-—In a small room of thesHollenden Hotel in this city, some ‘thitry delegates and | FOUNDRY LABORER IM COMMAND OF RED ARMY AND NAVY OF SOVIETS ment to dover: the canal eos in COOLIDGE PAYS POLITICAL VISIT TO CHICAGO UNDER GUISE OF By H. M. WICKS. Arriving in Chicago from Washington this mor Coolidge was rushed,from the depot to the roof of the hotel where an elegant georgian cottage had been co for his accomodation during his six-hour stay in the city,” usual mobs of police thugs, detectives, federal secret’ service spies met him at the station and accompanied him to the hotel. His speech on the farm question was delivered at eleyen o’clock before a gang of impostors calling themselves represen- tatives of the farmers of the middle west. The gathering is called the seventh annual convention of the American farm federation bureau. Customary Stupidity. The speech was the customary Coo- BRITISH LABOR lidge dirge, a monotonous intonation Backs Imperialist Aims of stupid platitudes to conceal the vicious hand of dollarocracy that is * * in India and Mosul BY JAMES H. DOLSON. throttling the workers and farmers of this country. If there has been any doubt as to what is in store for the farmers this speech of Coolidge, particularly its main part dealing with banking schemes to aid“ them, will, with only superficial analysis, reveal to them their future under capitalism. Under the guise of “extending finan- cial aid” Coolidge continues the gov- ernmental policy of supporting the bank combine that is rapidly throt- tling the farmers, burdening their 5 land with mortgages that they cannot 8 1.— The Right Hon. pay and thereby making them serfs | orable” etc. etc. Brigadier General of the great financial and industrial Lord Christopher Thomson, secretary combines. f state for the air ministry in the “For financing the farmer,” said British labor government, and a Soolidee, “we are developing the farm. prominent member of the labor party jean and intermediate credit bank. „ England, revealed the calibre of These. have put out about 51.200, 000,-[that party most clearly in his speech 900 ‘of loans. at moderate rates to here recently before the Evanston (Continued on page 4.) Women’s Club. The meeting was un- 7 der the auspieces of the International Relations Council, Which had given the “Honorable Lord etc.” a feed at the aristtocratic North Shore Hotel. the ladies so attractive that the dough- ty general was half an hour late for his address. The speakers’ stand was approp- riately draped with the Union Jack, and decorated with the figures of three stately dames, representatives of the Daughters of the British Em- pire. They had condescended to attend for the purpose of hearing what the distinguished laborite had to say. The rector of the local episcopalian es of the sixty-ninth congress opencd! church introduced the speaker, hav- today. The clownish vice president, ing gained his knowledge of the lord, MEEK AND MILD ie ee eee of House | (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—Both hous- ‘eral. Tharies G. Dawes was late, as usual, he stated, from some golf stories. o not so notoriously late as on the Thomson announced his subject as day he forgot to get up in time to International Relations in Europe.” cast his vote for t confirmation of | T} ae oe : ; hides B: Ware da’ attotney-xen-| 1e peace of Locarno, he stated, mark ed a probable turning poifit in Europe- an history. Its importance, according to his analysis, lay in its recognition of the necessity of breaking the econ- Opening the senate after his tardi- ness, Dawes’ demeanor was vastly different from his slap-stick perforn:- ance when he first “blew in“ to the|omic barriers which separated the senate chamber last spring. Where-| countries of the old world. He be- as, in his initial appearance, Dawes lieved it was a step towards a United criticised venerable senatorial cus- a “ a States of Europe. toms, belabored the desk with gavel and fist and in general made a ludic- The “Right Honorable, etc.” de- rous farce of the whole affair, today] lared that the MacDonald gevern- he was as meek as a lamb and at all} ment had not sympathized in the times consulted the rules that he had| lishtest with the Russian Bolsheviks pasted on a card to hold before him and Was more detested by the real for his guidance. radicals than even the most reaction- LaFollette Seated. ary out-and-out capitalist government. At today's brief session three sen-] Lenin himself, according to Thomson, ators, Robert M. LaFollette of Wis: had told the latted on the occasion of consin, George H. William of Missou- his visit to Russia before the Commun- ri, and Arthur R. Robinson of Indiana, | t leader's death, that the British la- were sworn in: All of them are re-| Per Party chiefs were a “lot of pink publicans, tho LaFollette has definite- humbugs” and enemies of the interna- ly aligned himself with the tional working class revolution. The insurg- AIDING IMPOVERISHED FARMERS niin -fact, the supper was so Mod and ; - ati ] it b t th ents. rae adier and his fellow politicians, ~ in the campaign for world trade union] man is dead and another perhaps|Ittle and cheap, the middle class be-|D4tiona! committee members of the According to custom Senator 1 ch. however, are realists (he classifies unity. |fatally injured as a result of a wreck ing slowly reduced to the same eco- 8 tor . ee en root of Wisconsin led young LaFol- sel as a philisopher). There were \ Two large mass meetings were held on the Burlington railroad near here.] nomic level as the proletariat. ction (C. P. P. ] met in a vain at- jette to the rostrum where he took 1'290,000 unemployed workers in Eng- . at which 7,000 trade. unionists listen- tempt to resuscitate the ill-smelling 5 ‘J é CK tend Wardhiuses ea ae a , ‘cell’ corpse whose identity they were even e oath of office. The gallery full of | goods ed to Mr. A. A. Purcell’s inspiring ‘ meg females tittered at this spectacle as °° the bursting point. Something must ' message and unanimously adopted a PROGRESSIVE MACHINISTS WIN unable to establish. With William H. der ecke de ads, So: putting asida’ bite ' resolution calling for the sending of a Johnson absent because of ilness, 8 | judices lng de ‘Mantian trade union delegation to Soviet Rus- CHICAGO DISTRICT ELECTIONS ignored by Wheeler, young LaFollette, negotiated a treaty W ane sia. a Guardia and other “leaders” of the SMALL STATES BORDERING der to get the wheels of Britis fa. This resolution marks the first step ‘ aFollette campaign, the conference Guster n ks Gace t d the establishment of a closer in one of the most ‘spirited ‘elections held by the Machinists’ Union since found itself in the:position of a ship RUSSIA | y ag Sento exchange the Seat of 5 and solidarity be war time, the combined Anderson progressives and the left wing candidates without a rudder. FORM MILI TARY. 1 PRL fecal e e of Britain for 6 i 1e Taw Aterlals ¢ P thus far. Plans will be discussed for nan Seas ‘mittee, vice-chairman, Mercer C. the hands of Clemeny Voroshiloff, | fensive. deen arrested at Ravenna, Italy, developing our campaign with a view ite es ec veh wilti 5 8 Johnson gave the number as flfteen. who was formerly an ordinary la- This pact follows the Locarno | following an attempt at mutiny dur- nancial Secretary, am . ' to raising a fund large enough to send = a good-sized labor delegation to So- When the list of those elected was 235 tho it was found that there were peace pact which was afso aimea against the Soviet Union by. the borer in a foundry, but who has won his right to command by ability ing which the headquarters of the Sergeant-at-Arms, Carl Schlimbach. \wenty-eighth Italian infantry were 5 viet Russia. Business Agents. J. Daly and J. J. Uhiman. : (Continuedton page 6) | shown in the revolutionry civil war. | capitalist powers of Europe. invaded, ‘a 82 N 1 5 ae ae ** A \ ö . 15 8 * ' 1 NN
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8 > | ry . ‘ l GENEVA, Dec. 7. — G t erally, Humbled in public opinion by come before it will be the recognition of the Union of | ae 4 (Continued from page 1) pay Bulgaria $0,000,000 ove. (9180, (Special to The Daily Worker) its internal discord and the recent“ Socialist Soviet Republics. Over one-fourth of the milk that English workers were concerned) gave | 000) for property damages and 10,- PEKING, China, Dec. 7— A move- reading of the radicals out 2 5 the Ever since thé Bolshevik revolution, in November, 1917, enters RCE comes from herds that a unique explanation why the labor 000,000 leva (675,000) for moral“ ment which threatens immediate war | party and the frantic gag theo more than eight yéars ago, militant workers have held this are tubercular declare twenty-four government had supported the Dawes] damages are the recommendations | between major powers has taken form | tain republicans to get the LaFollette d nd shandil to the front. have fought ainst the leading doctors of Chicago in a let plan. He admitted it had met the most | of the league of nations’ commission | according to news. which reached | 8TOup back into the fold indicates to y pe. aga ter to the governor of Illinois, Len within | Harrison the wreck’ of the party. bitter and organized hostility of the official regime of the small, demanding that all cows with- bitter opposition of members that was appointed to investigate | Peking Saturday and set the diplo- : 3 . ived hun- nae on i Ge N American politics“ )When thieves| international questions ready made from the United States tor tuberculosis and that all milk and ters in the cabinet had rece The commission places the blame ifvi h i ts | | r __, dreds of letters protesting this action. for the invasion on Greece. Japaneses Troops in Chinees. Uniferme. said a 3 departm ate. Seo N State ge co 2 . 4 a tehed carefully he plan was approved because it The league of nations’ council will Tanne Chinese: has valine os their due. Likewisecwhen yal re have penned a more vindictive malicious sla 3 ee t 3 coming from tubercu- would injure England at first by the fy or reject the committee’s report * 8 0 vt th 8 names we get a glimmer ng 0 e the American Federation of L r. . ; : | * 80% of Herd Tubercular. increased competition. British workers | at its meeting tomorrow. | an. eee, * pa 5 truth. + pol ‘ 5 ere 1 ie 7 in the letter it points out that Chi- would be thrown out of a job, but * N 3 The sentiment of America’s workers on this question, |© which gets one-fourth of its milk d that Japan is sending Japanese troous the philosophical general stated: Pp D d te th f eg ti 5 1 McHenry county comes from “Things would have to get much into Manchuria, clothing them in however, surged to the Daune at t o recent convention Qt [herds of which 80% of the cows are worse before they could get better.” b Chinese uniforms of the troops of Gen- the International Furriers Union, at Boston, when resolu- — ffering from tuberculosis. ~ Finally Germany's improved condi- eral Chang Tso-lin, and is actively in, tions were adopted unanimously declaring for recognition. Health authorities point out that tions would redound to Great Britain’s the field to help Chang maintain his Coolidge’s may or may not deal with this ques- milk or diary products coming from benefit because it would thus be able power in Manchuria. tion. That will not matter. While Coolidge’s state ct pred tubercular cattle is a grave danger to to, become a more prosperous cus-| It is said that the chief of staff of ment repeatedly declares its tity, and Cal himself ar the babies and those who drink the tomer. The 32 ee 2 Chang’s armies, General Yang Tu nounces he has not altered . , Senator William * 2 eae! te yh wince gi does not kill , Evanston’s rabid open shopper E. Borah, the republican head of th ate ittee of | the tubercular germs. — Tang, went to Darien when the pres- . ’ pP e sen comm 0 ier ignorant | : , Fond er e Nation Opposed to the ure or mutinous troops became men- foreign affairs, reiterates his demand for recognition of the Sanitariume Overcrowded. F eh deeds wiend od Wik & Wart ‘ acing to Chang’s final stand, and in Soviet Union. He says the United States must get an in- A controversy has arisen in the Chi- acc tet on “Aatatic spirit” ie want Locarno Treaties Darien he contracted secretly with the e creased share of Soviet trade, and points out that full f 5g district over the tuberculin test festing itself in Far East. The rum- gad HE Japanese governor of the “leased” By SYLVAN A A, POLL . recognition and the opening of commercial relations, thru de e, naan 8 8 blings from that part of the world are . begun 8 een te eae zone for military aid from Japan. (Worker Correspondent) the necessary treaties, is the best way to get it. r r ba in ‘ lexing.” ceed ¢ * * * — 9 25 r u — 888 eee of lid. to get a majority for ratification of, The Japanese were to furnish 40,000) new yoRE OFTY, Dec. 2.—4 dras- this respect, are now attempting to — oo + Anglo-Saxon the pacts of Locarno, the Luther- oops and all needed munitions and tic censorship has been established at Last Sunday saw the opening of the Shatursky electrical carry on tuberculin tests of cattle ~ a cei tee t aa Great Stresemann cabinet resigned yester onen to crush the mutiny and re- the College of the City of New Tork, power station near Moscow, one of the bi stations in —-[atter many leading health authorities powers, the Unite R establish Chang’s fading position in] prohibiting any further discussion of the Soviet Union. All the foreign diplomats representing in the city have pointed out the reason Britain, “may be trusted to handle the day. After tendering the resignation h ti f lsory military A gel . for Chicago’s i g tubercul ly.” Manchuria. 6 the question of compulsory capitalist governments in Moscow were there. But there an ene matter (of Asia) justly and properly. [of the cabinet, Luther was asked by training, in the columns of The Cam- was no ambassador from. the United disease rate. At present all tubercu- N Side-Steps Mosul. President von Hindenberg to continue To Bolster Chang. he students’ publication, which ne Un States, because this lar. shnitariness ie the’ ef Alled pus, the ents’ pu country has not yet recognized the workers’ and peasants’ ge At the conclusion of the talk ques- the governmental business until a The Chinese who bring the news| has been leading the fight for the rad Mae. pe to overflowing and only desperate tions were called for. Like a typical] new cabinet is formed. state that 10,000 Japanese troops are] abolishment of the course in military g 5 ns rs g ic ind ek cases are taken into the county or mu- American audience the crowd sat] The Luther-Stresemann agents of already in Mukden, are quartered in| science at the institution which re- 4 u merican industr y was present in the form of the nicipal hospitals, dumb as stone. Seeing no one had British imperialism could never have the barracks of the Chinese and are} sulted in the recent student referen- 61 huge girders upon which the great building rested. Shurtleff Act. the courage to respond, your reporter obtained a majority for Locarno had wearing Chinese uniforms. It is also] dum of 2,092 to $45 against its con- America sends a greater volume of exports to the Soviet The fight centers around the legal- arose and asked whether it was true they not agreed to resign immedately | claimed that the Japanese “railway | “muance. hr Union than any other country. ity of the Shurtleff act, which was that Germany had promised at Lo- . . As a result of this edict, the latest This is only the beginn ng, however. Americans are sponsored by Judge Edward C. Shurt- after the ratification and signing of guards“ at Mukden have begun to po- 74 ed with ing, a left of M earno to stand by England in the con. ine pacts. In fact it is known that fas tre whole city and are wearing] issue of The Camptis; appeared w demanding unhindered trade with Russia. This was amply [len ot, McHenry county, where 80 per troversy with Turkey over Mosul. The On: RRO WaGe chy, Ss S two blank columns, one in the news shown at the recent ion b f cent of the herds are tubercular, which many votes, sufficient to make a major-|the insignia of Chang Tso-lin oh as recept ven by the Rambouillet speaker neatly sidestepped the query ? nsign S , section and the other the editoria Sheep Breeders’ Association to ‘the Sovi et ti states that it is declared unlawful for by alleging that Germany could bej|ity, were obtained for Locarno on the Only last week the Japanese govern-| nage, where the student editors had this count ¢ whick a to D * representatives in any city “to demand or require the 2 of little use in such a struggle and swindle of a new reorganization of ment announced its “neutrality,” but] intended to further discuss the matter ith th * Me whic wow and more sympathetic relations tuberculin test applied to dairy ani- therefore he did not believe such an] the government. It is questionable if | jt is known that Japan regards the] before prohibited by ithe college au- with the viet Union were demanded. It is clearly evident mals as a means or measure of regu- agreement had been made. He re- those who voted to ratify the pacts | Manchurian region means life or death | thorities under the direction of Presi- that the United States does ot want to lose any Russian lating, and purifying milk, skimmed marked that while Great Britain had did so with any motive other than the | for Japanese interests, and the pos- dent Sidney E. Mees. , : trade. Not only American 8 id exports, but trade as woll, milk, cream and dairy products of said but 800 infantrymen in that territory | hope that they would be called into sibflity is faced that Japan has chosen Heywood Broun, the noted column- is proceeding to the Soviet Union thru Germany. itis also animals in any manner whatever.” her air force absolutely controlled it. the next government. to risk the consequences of war with ist of the New York World, who con- declared that part of the Italo-American debt accord provides A number of milk producers who are England had shown its good faith ducts his column the way he desires,/ for the collaboration of American roial ! | contesting the right of Chicago's 8 1. he asserted, by Socialists Against Stresemann. other imperialist nations for violation irrespective of it agrees with , Men rican commercial investors with health authorities claim they are will- ——— ae queer’. = ‘ i h rgest single of the Washington treaty and other }_ Italian industry for the of trade with Russia and referring every step to the league of The socialists, the largest sing y the policy of his offered to Near East. The Ne ar East includes : | ing to have their herds tested pro- nations. He soft-pedaled the fact that | party in Germany, will be called into | peace pacts” rather than lose its tit in his ak ok: A Ge nelu the three Soviet vided the act which declares that England and France combined contfoliconference with Von Hindenberg to- footing in northern Cihna. } thal ) this offer rmenia, 0 Azerbaijan, as well as here such federal and. state inspec- ins league and omitted altogether-the}qay, It-is known that they manen VV Ft d In revolt 2 bien in maintained, that the federal fact that an investigating commsision | Stresemann, but they are expected to ra eg rt other | government” a 125 0 * ; F e . n N I is * Backs Imperialist Aims in India and Mosul ot the league has decided that Great Britain has absolutely no legal claim to Mosul! Protect British Exploiters. More questions were called for. Again the same dumb silence. So once * N - Mit a * * * 7 Irn * Nr ss ‘Pe N 7 2 + . * 1 . . * 6 1 », Vert We i i. ee 0 Pw, p 4 F P ’ i - ALL STREET AND WAR CREDITS ATHENS, Dec. 7.— The military dictator Pangalos is sending form- er finance minister, Cofinas, to the United States to negotiate a loan on Wall Street. He will also visit Washington where he will try to gain an extension of war credits. * * Greece Must Pay Bulgars. present terms that will be satisfactory to any new cabinet. Their opposition to the people’s party is based upon dif- ferent views of taxation and interest rates, and not any fundamental policy. Luther has been insisting that the 4 ** 2 ten . - 3 HEAR CHINA TH INVADED BY. p ARMIES War May Follow the Seizure of Mukden tnvetitor ‘Suse Radio Trust Subsidiaries BOSTON, Dec. 7.—Suit for $60,000,- 000 against eight prominent corpora- tions was filed in federal district om AILY E DAIL * ~*~ Pa tite Mele Be a a | 4 . 7 v day: fe EN 7 7 2 „ 2 * (Special to The Dai ly Worker) Pat Harrison, the wind-jamming acle of the democratic national on- vention, who defended the ku kx klan of the south against the T many machine of the north, has con out with a broadside against the Dawes and the republican party gen- rrange The DAI SRRER co ent has been inform sources that the stqe indignant at the la part of the college authorities, are contemplating the ing of a DT |. Tr “it Come —_— Before Congress || that Is Now in Session By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL.. * * It is plain that the United States, refusing to recognize Soviet Rule, is merely hiding behind and takin iven the Soviet Union by both G the recognition DAY, Congress convenes. One of the problems that will advantage of ermany * Sem — — pe 7 ft é * 1 M _« t * hk ag Geese: idles ess . City Fails to Figid Inspection ind; the state pay one-third and the owner lose one- third of the value of the condemned herds, is lived up to, Half of Herds Diseased, It is estimated by health authorities that if the herds in Illinois were to large protest demonstration. and Italy. In this way the United States has practic re- | be tested over half of th court Professor Reginald A.\Fes- 328 em would more your reporter took the floor to] next cabinet support the provisions of rt dy From the attitudg of President] cognized the Soviet government already. All this would in- [have to be destroyed as tubercular draw out the “Right Honorable, otherwise his | senden, inventor of international repu-| „egen, it appears tat he personally . y ; “Why did the labor government ig- nore Sun Yat Sen’s demand that Brit- ish intervention and intrigues stop in China?” The speaker at this point offered another illuminating “explana- tion” of MacDonald’s policies. There were half a dozen other governments ~~ claiming to be the real rulers of $ China and how could the “labor” cabinet know which was in power? It was MacDonald’s policy to “refrain from interference” but to “protect the Jocal British settlers who were des- cendants of previous settlers.” It was now quite evident that Thomson was : ‘ , the past year. as thorogoing a British imperialist as Alpine Village Calls Ch 1 2 = college of New York students of being a ri tng * Pg ow ; is | UCH a book-seller is Hammers- Diseased Food Sold Workers anyone else in Ramsay’s cabinet. : ° arlie Chaplin guilty of.. Compulsory training is not “ active tory that m Thousands of hogs, and ‘ By this time a few other members Upon Austria to Aid P on the prescribed courses at these work of the moths.” This little pass- a. fer e story, that ‘may 1 8 ick- of the audience acquired courage That would be illmannered, don’tcher- know, to our distinguished guest! “Empty-Minded Philosopher.” An Indian student at Northwestern University wanted to know the British labor party attitude towards India. Thomson responded that this had been aid down in two extensive declara- tions during the party’s administra- tion. the laborites had been “forced into hard measures” in a certain case because a “number of people” in In- dia had “lethal weapons” and were ready to use them against “our peo- ple.” The newly appointed viceroy, Mr. Wood, is a “gentleman of the highest character.” He “knows obso- lutely nothing of India” and will con- sequently go there with an “empty mind.” Presumably Mr. Wood, having an “empty mind,” 18 also something af a “pBilosopher,” like the brigadier. Incidentally, as if it were but a casual matter, the general stated that the present commander-in-chief of his majesty's forces in India is none other the Locarno treaties, party will not support it. Unquestion- ably the majority of the German work- ers and for that matter the German population opposes Locarno. : Communist denunciation of the con- spiracy of Locarno is taking firm hold of the working class, and on every hand thruout all industrial centers the German government is openly de- nounced as guilty of betraying the workers into the hands of allied im- perialism. Fight on Fascisti frontier appealed to the Austrian gov- ernment for protection against fascist raids from Italian Tyrol. The demand follows the fascist at- tack on the little village namel Hall, where twenty fascists tried to forci- bly release a man who had been ar- rested as a fascist spy. Arrayed in black shirts, the fascists rode into Hall in a motor truck, and tried to break into the jail, but were forced to retreat in a severely battered condi- tion after a battle with the inhabit- ants of Hall. Admiral Denies Flight Was ‘Advertising’ Stunt WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec, 7.—Ad- miral Edward W. Everle, chief of oper- ations and the one who arranged the fatal flight of the Shenandoah, admit- ted in the court martial of Colonel William Mitchell, tool of the airplane interests, that the trip was arranged tation. Infringement of his patents of send- ing and receiving devices for radio and wireless and monopoly were charged by Professor Fessenden. The suits were against the follow- ing: General Electric company; Radio corporation of America; American Telephone and Telegraph company; Westinghouse Electric company; Un- ited Fruit company; Wireless Speci- alty company; Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing company; and the International Radio Telegraph com- pany. in the 160th Infantry LOS ANGELES, Calif., Dec. 7.— Memories of the U. S. regulars’ joke at the war-time conscripts as the “Keystone army” were revived here when it was told thru local capitalist papers that Charlie Chaplin has been made “honorary member” of com- pany D, 160th infantry, at the request of Capt. Charles Hoffman and by the orders of General Mittelstaedt. Mount Lassen Volcano Erupts in California REDDING, Calif., Dec. 7.—Mount Lassen, the only live volcano in the United States, was in eruption for the first time in several months. The steam and smoke pouring forth was wafted far northward and the snow clad summit and slopes were quickly blackened by ash, Svehla Will Form is not a free agent, ‘his actions being governed by the f of politicans, who are in turn governed by money interests, He is afraid that further financial support for the college may be curtailed, if student unrest and revolt continues, hence his suppressive measures. N Many Colleges Have No Training. All the leading colleges in the country, Vale, Harvard, Columbia and others, do not have compulsory mili- tary training, and there is no impu- tations of treason, which many super patriots are now charging the city colleges because students have some at City College of New York and is crammed down the throats of unwill- ing students who cannot afford to go | elsewhere. . Protest Develops. It is believed that. this student protest will develop,sand result in the abolishing of compulsory military training, and at the,same time, make the students, who arg mostly of work- ing class and petty heurgeois families, realize that the capitalist class, which controls City College.of New York is not their friend, buß an enemy that must be fought. —1 Twenty F ederal Agents Accused of, Violating Prohibition Amendment NEW YORK, Dee. 7. — Wiliam Dwyer, prominent politician and well known race track owner and gambler, was arrested along with 20 federal |. dicate that Sovjet recognition is a rather bitter pill for the Coolidge administration to swallow. But recognition will be forced by an awakening Ameritan working class that is continually developing its solidarity with the workers an peasants who have established their Soviet rule. The left wing in the organized American labor movement has a major issue in the demand for the recognition of the Unio f Soviet Republics. It should make the most of it. ao AS WE SEE IT By I. J. O’Flaherty’| (Continued from page 1) to enter a mental junk shop in which age alone was worth one dollar six- monious imperialists that pose as so- cialists in Great Britain, — * * es is not a review of the book or anything like. Many reviews do more harm than good. If the re- viewer is windy and teatous the read- er says in effect: “Well, so is the book,” and spends the $1.75 on a musical comedy, I advise everybody who wants to be informed on the sub- ject discussed by Trotsky to secure a copy of “Whither England?” and if you feel this way about it, wend your way to 19 South Lincoln street, and presario of that book store, Sam Ham- mersmark, will “have only one left” and will abstract the only remaining one from the lower right hand drawer of his desk—just as he did to me— the next customer, five minutes later, should customers come that fast. * a ALKING of book-sellers, they are it is more than likely that the im- even tho he may do the same thing to | the title, author or subject of a book you desire to purchase. bring some business to South Lincoln then in business for himself; he is now managing a store for the Work- ers Party—a customer walked in, and announced that he would like to pur- chase a book. Sam was so pleased— it was his first customer—that he presented the potential buyer with a cigar. After lighting the weed for his prospective client, he asked for the name of the book. The customer did not remember. The author? Ditto. The color of the cover? Nothing doing. Where it was published? There was an improvement here. The seeker for knowledge thot it was published either in England or the United States. 8 s 8 AMMERSMARK was just begin- ning to fear that his cigar might be a total loss when he took one more chance and asked the mental defect- ive if he remembered anything at all about the book. “Oh yes” came the reply, between puffs of Sam’s cigar: “I got a good laugh out of the second Many Illinois cities, despite the Shurtleff law, maintain rigid milk and dairy inspection laws, and as Chicago has not maintained them, the milk from diseased cattle has been shipped jin regularly. It is also pointed out that not only 15 this milk used for human consump- tion, but that the skimmed milk from diseased cattle has been used as food for hogs and chickens. be Over $50,000,000 worth of hogs were sumption because of their being fed on milk from tubercular cows during ens having the disease have street, provided my veracity is in | Sold over the counters to wor 5 enough to ask a question. Not the as Honorary Member’’| choice. They pay for their tuition e : ae Bred ee ae aan vied A — days aster Sam | Cause of the laxity in Be sii — Americans, however, who comprises VIENNA, Dec. 7.—The local gov- and would not attend colleges where tai lovine 2 ses 2 ee at r opened his first book store—he was | health laws by the officials. f nearly the entire audience. Oh. no! ernment of Innesbruck on the Alpine By A Worker Correspondent the course is required. It remains . P . sence Ford Buys a Pile of Junk; Not for Tin | Lizzies—for Museum PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 7. — Henry Ford, Detroit flivver magnate, journeyed out to Doylestown near here today and: pillaged the garrets of some of the old houses of hoopskirts and other grotesque habiliments of by- gone days, looted the hay lofts of an- cient grain flails and gathered up a few wagon loads of junk, for which he paid the owners $3,000. Henry says fie is going to transport them to Dear- born, Mich., where he has some sort of museum. fle didn’t announce whether he would have the log of the Oscar II on exhibition for the edification of future historians, condemned as unfit for humag con- . interesting tribe, excepting the | last chapter.” “Oh, hell!” exploded Going to Soviet Russia. ‘“ at the request of the chamber of bite 2 prohibition enforcement officers for an ‘ ( i Sent 6 3 pr ag commerce, civic organizations, the Coalition Cabinet conspiracy to violate the Volstead 3 r. ie payne ~ rings as pe gee bag Bas Age Sb 1. eee e tis Gee e “ “milli . . : ly oor bell and attempts to pass | you at before? You have m. se tor his imperialism! American legion, and “millions of in Czecho-Slovakia act. Forty-three indictments were is To a question about the status of India, Thomson replied by a long disquisition alleging the benefits to the natives of British rule but ad- mitting that the necessity for protect- ing the Suez Canal was the real rea- son for England’s control of that land. people,” but declared it was not an “advertising” stunt. Wrap your lunch in a copy of the DAILY WORKER and give it (the DAILY WORKER, not the lunch) to vour shop-mate. PRAGUE, Czecho-Slovakia, Dec. 7.— It is announced that M. Czerny is to head a temporary government, com- posed of officials, and that former Premier Svehla later will form a coali- tion parliamentary cabinet. sued in all. It is charged that Dwyer bribed the prohibition officers with “wine, woman and song” and occasional “tips” to al- low ship loads of booze safe passage into the harbor and to reach thirsty throats in Manhattan isle. off on you a load of rubbish endorsed by such mental question marks as “Bill” Taft or Calvin Coolidge. But to the bookworm, there is no greater thrill than patronizing*a book store whose manager has the canny ability to refresh your mind in case that piece of mechanism fails to remember wasted a lot of valuable time. What you want is—” and he mentioned the name of a rare book published in Seattle, With such a wizard in charge of the bookstore at 19 South Lincoln street, you should have no trouble, in getting a copy of: “Whither Eng- land?”—for $1.75. 1902 W. Division St., to members of the commune Red Ray who are leay- ing for Soviet Russia. Admission free. All comrades are welcome. . The DAILY WORKER sub- scription list is a Communist honor roll. Is your name on it? Attention! Workers of Philadel i Then See Are You Against War? VICTORY and other one-act plays about the NEXT WAR. All Proceeds Go to the Defense of Class War Prisoners. The Most Entertaining Evening of the Year. Eagle’s Hall, Broad and Spring Garden Sts. 9 —— — U— Wednesday Evening, Dec. 9, 8:15 Sharp GIVEN BY THE WORKERS’ THEATER ALLIANCE, 4 5 N i | l ld (Right Across from Lulu Temple.) ¢ MTT Admission 50 Cents, Violin Recital and Singing. : 2 1 8 * " * . aa —— . „ * “A ~ : 2 Ne N NN i D n 8 N * sz N 5 (
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RE A | Social Affairs NEW YORK, Dec. 7.—The course in the Social Interpretation of Modern Literature with Eli Jacobson as in- structor, has been changed from Thursday to Friday night and will be- gin next Friday night at 8 o’clock. The course in “The Living Revolu- tion,” with M. J. Olgin as instructor, has been temporarily postponed be- cause the instructor is sick and un- able to give the course at the pres- ent time. Those who have registered tor Olgin’s course may either change to the course in Modern Literature or the course in the Ma tic Phil- osophy, given the same evening, or may wait until the postponed course by Olgin begins. Those wishing to be notifled of the date of the opening of Olgin’s course, if they have not al- ready registered, should leave their name and address at the headquarters of the Workers School, Room 34, 108 ‘East 14 St. Registration Claae Will Close Next Week NEW YORK, Dec. 7.—Due to over-. crowding or to the nature of the courses, the New York Workers’ School has decided that the following courses are ‘closed to registration or will close to registration within the coming week: Monday Night:—Elementary Eng- lish; Russian language (one week more to register). | Tuesday Night:—Party Training Course; Intermediate English (open one more week). Wednesday Night:—Advanced Eng- lish; Intermediate English; Party Training Course Group I; Party Training Course Group II (open for one more week). Thursday Night:—Elementa ary Eng- lish. Sat. Afternoon: 5 (open for one more week). The following courses are still open for registration: Monday Night: History of the Am- erican Working Class; History of Re- volutions; Workers' Sorrespondence; Composition. Wednesday Night: — Trade Union Work—open to a few selected, lead- ing trade unionists providing their fraction has not already too many people registered for this course. Thursday Night: — Marxian Econ- omics; Fundamentals of Communism; Shop Nucleus Training Course; Social Interpretation of Modern Literature. Friday Night:—Public Speaking; Shop Nucleus Trathing Course; Ma- terialistic Philosophy of Life; Living. Revolution. This last course is de- layed in starting on account of the illness of the instructor, M. J. Olgin. All those desiring to take any course at the school should hasten to register as the registrations are being rapidly closed. Registration can be accomplished any afternoon or éven- ing in Room 34 of the Workers’ School 108 East 14th Street. * * Class Put a copy of the DAILY WORKER in your pocket when he -_ © 8 " 4 oe i ae * 0 ann "Questions kor Faowth Ledeen th Capital (Panes 81 to 96; The Fetishism of Commodities to the End of Chapter l.) 1. Do commodities, tn their char- acter as different objects of a use- ful character, enter into relations with one another? 2. Is the commodity a mysterious object because of its relation to other commodities? 3. Is the value of a commodity a characteristic which resides within the commodity itself? 4. What is the actual nature of the relationship which is expressed in the exchange relation between com- modities? 5. Give a definition of the fetishism of commodities. 6. Does the discovery that values are but the material expressions of the human labor spent in their produc- tion, place the actual process of ex- change upon a different basis? 7. What are the conditions which are necessary for the development of the idea that the different kinds of labor which are carried on independ- ‘ently, are constantly being reduced to the quantitative proportions which so- ciety requires? 5 8. How does the money form con- the individual producers? 9. Make a comparison between the social relations in the performance of labor, in feudal society and under capitalism. 10. What does Marx mean when he says that the formtflae of the bour- geois economists are the products of a society in which the process of pro- duction controls the men, rather than the men controlling the 3 of production ? * * * ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS OF THIRD LESSON IN CAPITAL (Pages 64 to 81, Volume I, Capital) 1. When a commodity is in the equivalent form, this expresses the fact that it is directly exchangable with other commodities. 2. Inasmuch as a commodity cannot express its own value (e. g., it would be meaningless to say that 20 yards of linen equals 20 yards of linen) it must find another commodity which will stand as the expression of its value. 3. Me body of the commodity that serves as the equivalent, figures as the materialiZation of human labor in the ,abstract and is at the same time the product of some specifically useful concrete labor. This concrete labor becomes, therefore, the medium ‘of expressing abstract human labor. In the equivalent form of value, use- value thus becomes the form of mani- festation of itss opposite, value, and concrete labor becomes the form un- der which its opposite, abstract hu- man labor, manifests itself. 4. The labor of private individuals takes on a directly social form when it produces the commodity which is established as the equivalent form of value, 5. The fact that prevented Aris- totle from completing his analysis of value was that Greek society, founded upon slave labor, had for its natural basis the inequality of men and of their labor powers; this prevented the concept of value (a mode of expressing all labor as equal human labor) from arising in the Greek society. 6. The value of a commodity arises from its nature as a product of human labor power. Its exchange you go to your union meeting. THE ITALIAN Dr. V. A. CAMERA announces the opening of his own office at 835 East 75th Street, corner of Maryland Ave. General practice of medicine and surgery with special va.c for social- venereal diseases and obstetrical gynecological cases. Office Hours—9 to 12 a. m., Zeigler frame-up case of 15 we have the money. involved. National Office, 23 South Lincoln Street, Chicago, Ill. value is the independent and definite E 2 to 4 p. m., 7 to 9 p. m * — ceal the social character of private labor, and the social relations between expression which value receives when the commodity is brought into the exchange relation with a commodity of another kind. 7. The elementary form of value (so much of commodity A being equal to so much of commodity B) brings forth the commodity A only as a use- *alue, the value of which it is sought to express for purpose of exchange, while commodity B is brought forth, not as a use-value, but merely as the bodily form which expresses the value of 8. The expanded relative form of value, is that in whieh a single com- modity expresses its value in terms of a series of other commodities. 9. The expanded relative form of value is defective because it is in- complete and can only “be fully ex- pressed by naming every other exist- ing “commodity; because it consists of disparate and independent expres- 1 of value; and because each com- ty must in turn, under this form, — thru its own series, different in every case, and consisting of an in- terminable series. 10. The general form of value is arrived at by reversing the series of the expanded relative form, so that the commodity in the expanded rela- tive ‘form becomes the equivalent form’ of value for the series of commodities. Under the general form of value all commodities now ex- press their value in an elementary form, because in a single commodity; with unity, because in one and the same commodity. 11. The elementary form of value occurs practically only in the first beginning, when the products of la- bor are converted into commodities by accidental and occasional exchanges. e expanded form distinguishes more adequately the use-value from the value; it comes into actual existence s0 soon as a particular product of la- bor is habitually exchanged for other commodities. The general form of value ‘expresses the whole world of modity set aside for that purpose, and are kor the first time effectively brotight” into relation with one an- other as values. 12. K commodity can become a general expression of value inasmuch as all ori commodities make it the mat i ivi in which they uniformly ex eir value. e universal equivalent is a tort 155 value in general, a can be assumed by any commodity, be- cause and insofar as it has been ex- cludéd ‘from the rest of all other com- moditiés; and has been set over against them as their equivalent; only trom the time this exclusion becomes finally restricted to one commodity does the general form of value obtain general social validity. 14 The commodity which becomes a universal equivalent is excluded from the relative value form, because its Value cannot be expressed in terms of itself. has become the measure of values and therefore its value cannot be meas- ured. 15. The money form of value is that in which the universal equivalent has, by social custom, become finally identified with the substance, gold. 16. The difference between the gen- eral and the money form of value lies only in the specific form which the universal equivalent takes; in the general form, any certain commodity may be the equivalent—in the money form it is the particular commodity gold. Wrap your lunch in a copy of the DAILY WORKER and give it (the DAILY WORKER, not the lunch) to your shop-mate. Worker Correspondence will make The DAILY WORKER a better paper send in a story about your shop. Societies, soloists, eta over 150 peo- form which | Mee The universal equivalent. WILL CELEBRATE RUSS REVOLTS: OF 1905 AND 1825 Rebels of 1905 Struggle Arrange Affai air A revolutionary celebration of the 20th anniversary of the revolu- tion of 1905 and the 100th anniversary of, the Decembrists uprising will be held*in Chicago Sunday, December 20, at Schoenhofen Hall, gar. Milwaukee and Ashland Aves. The following will papticipate in the concert program: Rugsjan String Or- chestra of the Workers’ House; Lit- huanian, and Jewish Singing ple in all. Speakers in English, Rus- sian and languages will address the crowd that is expected to fill the Thall. uning at 2 f. m. sharp. The celebration is arranged by the Vet- erans of the Revolution of 1905. An admission fee of 25c,will be charged for the benefit of the International Labor Defense. 1 Membership Meeting Dec. 18. Dec. 18, 8 p. m. ati!Grdinia Hall, 6021 St. Clair Ave. there will be A membership meeting at which the most important issues before the party will be presented by two re- presentatives of the Central Execut- ive Committee; Comrades Lovestone and Cannon. Every member of the party and the Young Workers League must attend this meeting. Admittance will be only on presentation of party or Young Workers League card. * * > Ruthenberg in Cleveland. Cleveland will have an opportunity to hear the general 3 3 of our party the first time. since the party convention. Saturday Dec. 19, Com- rade Ruthenberg ude speak at the meeting commemorating the fourth anniversary of the faundation of the Jewish branch of the. party fm this city. This meeting, is i only for the Jewish comrades and the Jewish sym- pathizers of our movement, but every party Young Workers League mem- bers and sympathizers, There will be a fine concert in which the Freiheit 3 will cipate. The t Carpenters’ — 5 ge ju weet Ma you earn? What are con- ditions in your shop? How do vou live? Write a story ‘for The DAILY WORKER. — — 14 0 “Living Newspaper“ to Be Out Saturday, Dec. 19. The thrid issue of Prolet-Tribune, tae living newspaper issued by the Chicago worker copfespondents of the Novy Mir, will be out Satugday, Dec. 19, at the Workers’ House, 1902 W. Division St. This living newspaper is very popu- lar among the Russian workers in Chicago. 4 Admissison will be 25 cents. ginning at 8 p. m. | NOVY MIR GIVES BALL AND CONCERT CHRISTMAS EVE AT PARKVIEW PALAGE NEW YORK, Dec. 7—The Novy Mir is giving a ball and concert on Christmas eve, Oec. 24, at the Parkview Palace, 110th St. and Fifth Ave., in which D. ‘Dobkin, ‘tenor; Lidia Savickaya, soféist of the Bos- ton Symphony; Pierte’ Matheo, solo- ist of the New York Symphony Dam- rosha (on oboe and English horn) will participate. Be- 1 * union; miners. 2 To All Members and Friends of — fl International Labor Defense: Two big cases are scheduled to come to trial on November 30th. The Pittsburgh raid case of 10 workers and the The * in each of these cases will not proceed with the defense unless FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS MUST BE RAISED BEFORE DECEMBER 15TH We call upon all members of the I. L. D. to rise to the test and raise this sum. friends and neighbors to contribute. Much depends on the outcome of these two trials. The entire working class is on trial. Rash Your Collection and Make It as Big as Possible. Fraternally yours, INTERNATIONAL LABOR BEFENSE, | J. P. CANNON, Executive Sécretary. 2 be , 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, III. £ Sign my name te the tributed to save The DAILY Name: list of those who have WORKER. | enclose $ „„ „%„%„%„%%„%„%„„%„ „ „ „„ „ „ „ eee ee eee TT eee cera 7) 2353232 „„%%%% %% %„%„%% %%% „„ „„ „%%% „„ „„ eee oe) 625 „ „„ „ „„ „„ „1 „ „ „„ eee eee eee eee
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ae SPE SN ] Tg CMD: OES 1 13 a ö d - : P 12 n } 0 N 7 al f . 5 a Ayer ae arte * * 8 renn 1 7 5 — 4 Age K * ae n 4 Lire 5 ? N " * ö N / : Pe * A. * * * ee - * . 14 Trade L * ‘ N ' ower * * _ THIS PAGE’ ed to the Activity and interests of the nion Edacational League | (T. U. E. L.) * North American Section of the RED INTERNATIONAL OF LABOR UNIONS (R. I. L. v.) — 1 * ers’ Government. THE T. U. E. I. Represents the Left Wing of the Labor Movement. Purpose is to Strengthen the Labor Unions by Amalgamation of Existing Unions, Organization of the Unorganized, and by Replacing Reactionary and Class Collaboration Policies with a Unified Program for the Transformation of the Unions Into Organs of Revolutionary Class Struggle for the Overthrowal of Capitalism and the seedy ane naa a Workers’ and Farm- ite INFERENCE OF MARINE UNIONS WESTERN HEMISPHERE CALLED WR MONTEVIDED, MARCH 15, 1926 It will be remembered that the First Conference of the Marine * Unions of the Western Hemisphere, held at New Orleans last March, Was but the beginning, small but certain, of a closer unity among the tlass conscious transport workers of the western hemisphere. A second conference was called and the following is the official announcement by the Marine Transport Workers’ Industrial Union No. 510 of the I. W. W. for its convocation at Montevideo, Uruguay. unify the revolutionary mariners of the western world, whose present makes them the victims of powerful com- disorganized conditions binations of capital. * om TO ALL MARITIME UNIONS OF THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE. Fellow Workers: We, the officials of the Marine Transport Workers’ Union No. 510 again appeal to you in the name of inter- national solidarity for the seamen of the world and hope that you will give this statement the careful consideration that it deserves and will co-operate with us to insure success for the Second International Conference of Marine Transport Workers, of the Western Hemisphere. . Due to the failure of the several marine unions, each acting on its own initiative in matters of strikes, lockouts, boycotts, Ste., with little or no harmony or co-operation amongst each other in the past and in order to solidify the ranks of the marine, workers on the economic battle ground, giving them an inter- national aspect and increased strength in their battles against the employing class, the Second Annual Convention of the Marine, Transport Workers’ Industrial Union No. 510 of the I. W. W. went. +. It promises to do much to ‘ on record to hold an inter- tional conference of marine ‘ansport workers during the of 1925. true First Conference. One of the first acts of the incoming organization committee of ‘1925 was to issue a call to the mar- Hime unions of the Western Hemis- phere, 87.in all, to sit in conference at New Orleans on March ist. 1925, for the purpose of coming to an un- derstanding and accomplishing ce- operation and solidarity on an inter- 1 scale. At the time the call sent out by the main office, it was fioped that a successful strike could + Be pulled by the marine workers of LER : * £ i Teduction in wages. ~ | the Western Hemisphere acting in ' | Barmony and conjunction with one amd other. Mention of this phase was Made in the appeal sent to the vari- ‘ous marine unions. Due to the limited time to perfect pli for a successiur strike, many eie the unions appealed to were un- ble to send any delegates to the con- snce and most of the representa- ; fnited States, Mexico and the West 1 lies with a few delegates from So. erica. tho the conference was not 100 cent perfect, and was not the ve ice of the entire organized marine kers of the Western Hemisphere, 1 many practical and progressive sug- gestions were brought forth and many bef them, such as co-operation in _ Strikes and boycotts are being prac- by those unions who were re- presented at New Orleans. ‘ M. T. W. has Proved Itself. Proof of this co-operation. by te the 1 Membership of the I. W. W. is proved 1 BY the boycott of Norwegian ships at . the request of the Norwegian seamen, 1 Who were on strike during the past summer, and also the many boycotts * originated by the workers of the West Indies and Mexico. We.also wish to call your attention to the co-operation ot the I W. W. during the “outlaw Strike” of British seamen against a | In this instance the I. W. W. took a strike vote which Was overwhelming and tied up many @hips flying the British flag as well as Many ships of other nations. We realize the evergrowing power of the master class, and the utter im- possibility of individual unions to P cope with this power of the employ- img class on the economic battle 10 0 ground. If the marine workers are to make any advancement they must act together not as individuals. This battle by the seamen for eman- cipation is a struggle for control of the job by the seamen and other Marine workers and as stated in the ™ first appeal for the New Orleans con- in terence. 8c. „„We plan the death of our ™ former policy of isolation in this conference and in its place we plan action in our struggles against our oppressors, the capitalist class. We are carrying, out this program baseu on the class struggle in society.” The marine workers are unbeatable * acting in harmony and the ship r . aicina i, — * | ot the third republic. Morocco and Syria, the American capitalist press did all it and conceal the scope and significance of the strike. ke Well the ruling class of America might fear the effect of the truth about that strike, for it, too, plans imperialist wars. For that reason, precisely, it could to belittle the Trade Union Educational League, gives to the American workers the ‘story of that strike told by the fol- lowing greeting to the French work- ers by the executive bureau of the Red International of Labor Unions: & * * The executive bureau of the Red International of Labor Unions sends warm and fraternal greetings to all the workers of France who have taken part in the strike called in. protest against the war in Morocco and Syria. This protest strike is a serious warn- ing to the ruling classes not only of France, but also of other countries; it signifies that 1914 has gone, never to return. The broad masses of the French proletariat, thanks to the Communist Party and the C. G. T. U. unions, have understood the character and sign ficance of the military undertakings The 12th of October demonstrated this amply and in the eyes of all. “Democracy” Collapsed. This strike of protest bitterly op- posed by all strata of the bourgeoisie marks an important stage in the development of the French labor movement. During the strike bour- geois democracy showed its national fascist aspect and this will serve as an object lesson to those workers who still believed in the left bloc and in bourgeois democracy. All this time the socialist party and the reformist Confederation of Labor have played a particularly loathsome role. Their conduct was that of open and shameless scabbing. It is difficult to say which have acted most abnominably in their re- cent attack on the revOlutionary work- ers—the fascists or the reformists. One thing is clear. That the Com- munist Party and the Unitary Con- federation of Labor had a united front, from the monarchist Leon Daudet to the reformist Leon Jouhaux, against them. Scabbing Now a “Socialist” Principle. is Blacklegging has always been count- éd the most disgraceful and abomin- Able act of treachery. This is realized by strikebreakers who, while accept- . owners will remain supreme only 80 db their dirty work in secret, afraid long as the marine workers are divid- to act openly and never endeavoring ed using individual action instead ot."te; support their strikebreaking ac- I ttons of any fundament of principle.| All this has been changed by the co-operation and solidarity. ’ Planned for Nine Months, The delegates at the first confer- ence of Marine Transport Workers of the Western Hemisphere decided un- animously to call a second conference’ to be held at Havana, Cuba, on Jan» nuary 15, 1926. Shortly after this dé: | cision was reached by the delegates, the main office of I. U. No. 510 sent out an appeal to the 87 unions in the, Western Hemisphere, to send dele- gates to the Havana conference. Many replies were received that showed a favorable attitude and a willingness’ of the membership of the various unions to discuss a plan for interna- tional solidarity by sending official delegates to the conference. The seamen of the world will make great strides forward if this confer- ence is successful and therefore it is up to all who have the interest of the: seamen at heart to see that nothing that will mar or prevent a successful termination of this conference is al- lowed to happen, if it is in the power of those concerned to prevent it. Changed to Montevideo. Bearing this in mind, we find that it is absolutely necessary to postpone the conference until March 15, 1926, and that the place of holding such conference be changed from Havana, Cuba to Montevideo, Uruguay. The reason for this action on our ‘part is due to our inability to communi- cate with the various labor groups in Cuba, due to the recent persecu- tions and also to the immigration re- strictions at present existing there. Montevideo is an open port and delegates to the conference will have no trouble landing there. The post- ponement of the conference for a sixty-day period will enable the unions concerned more time to pre- pare for the conference and allow for their arrival at Montevideo. (Signed) Frank Patino, Acting Sec’y. M. T. W. No. 510 of the |. W. W. Fix Printing Wages MELBOURNE, Australia—(FP) — Printing trade employes—compositors, pressmen, lithographers, bookbinders, stereotypers ahd electrotypers, paper rulers and paper cutters—employed throughout Australia are placed on a minimum rate of $27.50 per week by a new award. Proof-readers get $28.75 and machine compositors, $30.50 per week. Night shifts are to get $3 a week extra, 16 holidays a year are to be provided; overtime at time and half for the first three hours, then double time. Saturday afternoon and Sunday work must be paid at double- time rates. Hours are 44 per week. — — That worker next door to you may not have anything to do to- night. Hand him this copy of "4 DAILY WORKER. | | j in’ ag the pieces of silver given them, French reformists, with Leon Jouhaux, first vice-president Of the Amsterdam International, at their head. They came forward openly as strikebreakers and smashed the strike of protest ‘jointly with the police and fascist bands. Thus, step by step, the re- formists have sunk to open black- legging. Hundreds of Thousands Struck. Despite the wild campaign of lies conducted by the radical, fascist and reformist press, in spite of the organ- ized blacklegging, hundreds of thou- sands of workers openly and daringly demonstrated their indignation, scorn and protest in the face of the bour- geois-fascist-reformist blot. Let the French bourgeoisie rage. Let French reformism, discredited at last, lie about you. Nothing, no one, will be able to suppress the his- toric fact that only the Communist j 1 (Special to The Daily Worker) SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Dec, 77 —Two hireliftgs employed by the industrial astoclation, alias the “American plan,” alias the “open shop” to best up and terrorize un- ion construction workers in the city 7 confessed in the Sante Fe building, and others of the criminal Outfit, including one R. B. Floethe, and one Mr Patch. The gang waylaid and siugged a union carpenter with blackjacks. 5 D ‘ of Labor raised a protest against the predatory colonial wars and that hon- est workers, members of the reform- ist organizations, took part in the strike against the instructions of their own leaders. The Red International Versus—Scabs. Acting in conformity with the de- cisions of its international, the French | section of the R. I. L. U. did its duty. Can it really be that in breaking this strike the French reformist Con- federation of Labor was acting in con- formity with the principles of its in- ternational? It wguld be interesting to learn how the, Amsterdam Interna- tional views the conduct of its French section in regard,to the war in Moroc- co and Syria. All honor to the strikers! Black shame on the scabs! Executive Bureau. Red International of Labor Unions. ’ 3 Parr on 82 rs ) - 3 r 5 ¢ 3 „ 1 ; od nstitutidn of the Un- ited Mine Workers of Illinois. Far- 12 as per the rington says that only 12 locals with a membership of 6,193 voted against his proposal to postpone the conven- tion until 197, while he says 78 locals voted to postpone it, and these have 20,654 members, That Farrington is stealing votes as usual may be expected in view of the fact that he is deadly afraid of a con- vention at this time. Also, indications are that a great many more miners’ locals are against the postponement than are reported. Local 705 and local 912 both have turned down the proposal to postpone, and it would be strange if Farrington could count straight at any time in his life, particularly when he stands Party and the Unitary Confederation to win by crooked counting. A recent issue of a Philadelphia * can watch the coal pier at Philadel- 12 and starve to death 4 7 7 Furnishes a Lie By A Worker Correspondent PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Dec. 7.— those in the anthracite region, have been running all sorts of yarné to frighten the stpiking anthracite min- ers back to work. They have recently hit upon a new one, designed to kill two birds with one stone. That is, to arouse hatred toward the workers of Soviet Russia an dthe Soviet government, and to scare the hard coal diggers at one and the same time. Another “Bolshevik Atrocity.” capitalist sheet, for example, features a story saying that 100,000 tons of “Russian anthracite” is already loaded at Riga on the Baltic for transporta- presen to Philadelphia and will land sometime in December. The paper carefully leaves all exact data on this alleged shipment com- pletely out. All it says is that This shipment is being brought here by a syndicate of independent coal opera- tors whose tines have been closed by the strike.” No Facts Given. This does not tell anybody anything, either how it has been purchased, di- rect from the Soviet government—if at all. —or thru re-purchase from some third party, what boats are bringing it, who is the responsible persons connected with this alleged “syndicate of operators” or any other supposed facts. The reason these data are not told is clear—there is no such coal being shipped from Soviet Russia! Coal dealers might import coal, but hardly ever are operators, mythically “inde- pendent,” going to do such things. Neither is the Soviet government going to part with “100,000 tons of anthracite” to any unknown destina- tion where there is a coal strike on in foreign parts. Moreover, the Russian miners have something to say about this sort of thing. Finally, any coal from Soviet Russia comes out, if it comes at all, chru the south by way of Black Sea ports, not north thru Riga. * If anyone still believes the lie they waiting for that imaginary fleet of coal 2 8 loaded with “Russian anthraci . Class Collaboration Stated as a Religion by Head of A. F. of L. NEW YORK CITY, Dec. 7.—Scarce- ly ever has the corruption of class collaboration been more flaunting dis- played than in the speech of William eration of Labor in an address here last Thursday night. He said: “The marvelous expansion and growth of American industry are due to’ the stimulating influence of private enterprise and personal initiative. “The success of management means the success of labor., For that reason labor is willing to make its contribu- tion to assist management and to bring about the right solution of prob- lems dealt with by management.” Editor’s note: The sixth instalment of Labor in the Far East treats of Britain’s maneuvers to affect a com- promise with the Chinese workers and her agreement to offer concessions. Yesterday’s instalment, article 5, told of the victory of the workers and the losses of the imperialists. * * ** ARTICLE VI. By L. HELLER. ROM the very first and to the very last England has been pursuing a policy of threats and violence. How- ever, there are already signs to the effect that England, preparing with one hand for intervention, is ready to stretch’ out the other hand with an olive branch in it. This is indicated in the replacement of the Hongkong governor, Sir Reginald Stubb, notori- ous for having introduced corporal punishment for “agitators,” whose name fills with pride, the heart of every imperialist jingo, but has be- come hateful to the Chinese masses, as a symbol of British arrogance and of the most ruthless colonial oppres- sion. This arch imperialist with whom the representatives of labor would not think of dealing, has been remov- ed from Hongkong and transferred to Jamaica. Even the very tone of the British press, after three months of threats and provocation, has changed. It will suffice to compare several extracts from the leading British organs. The North China Daily News of Shanghai, a semi-official press organ of British imperialism, wrote as fol- lows in regards to the efforts of the Chinese chamber of; commerce in Shanghai to find a.compromise in the conflict: As for the merchants of Shanghai, we appreciate their efforts to restore pedce hut. . we tell them frankly that théy are wasting their time. There is only one way in which peace can de brought back, and that is by the unéonditional surrender of the students and other agitators.” Such was the attitude of the British organ in June. in July the paper de- ciphered the meaning of the sur- render of the ‘agitators’ by openly and persistently demanding capital punishment for? them. Hongkong where Sir R. Stubbs, referred to above, did not hesitate at shooting the ac- tive workers, was offered as an exam- ple to Shanghai., ö OWEVER, at the end of August, when the front of the Shanghai and Hongkong workers remained firm and unshaken, while Lancashire ing England and Hongkong on the Pacific were feeling more and more acutely the crushing blows coming from the Chinese strikers and the un- bated boycott of British goods, the British press found a new language: “While the diplomats are disputing and flittering away valuable time,” bitterly complains the London China Express & Telegraph, a journal close- ly associated with the colonial depart- ment, “the boycott has reduced the normal movement of British goods by 80%.” (Issue of August 6, 1926.) The diplomatic parleys really mate- rialized nothing of practical value, at, least from the standpoint of the inter- ests of British itthperialism. All the efforts to line up America and France failed completely. Japan, who at one time followed in the wake of England, finally compromised and parted ways with that country taking up the path self LABOR IN THE FAR EAST HERE once had been a time in the happy days of Lord Palmerstone, when Britain was deliberately striv- ing for “splended isolation.” To-day this isolation is a fact, established against her will, and it is far from splendid, and the latest articles of the same London weekly reflects this blue blood of sobered imperialism, while the conservative finds it necessary to prepare the “public opinion,“ but more particular- ly the arrogant Hongkong bankers and shipping interests, the Shanghai municipal council, the British cham- ber of commerce, which represent the most die-hafd elements of British im- perialism in China, of tne necessity to seek a compromise, to agree to con- cessionss . The British govern- ment recognizes,” the London weekly writes in an evidently inspired editor- ial on Aug. 27, “the real grievances from which China suffers and is anx- ‘fous to remove these with the least possible delay.” “Tt is admitted,” continues the edi- torial even more outspokenly, “that the treaties are out of date and must be revised, and it is obvious that the principle of extra-territoriality must be modified in face of,the new China.” (China Express and Telegraph, Aug. 27th). So that is how the influential Lon- don circles began to see light. And this tremendous work of “en- lightening” has been carried out—of- fensive as this may seem to the “en- lightened seafarers”—by the plain, II- literate Chinesejcoolies, by the Shang- hai and Hongkong strikers, by the dockers, 2 textile wofkers un- der/ the leadership of the Shanghai Federation in south. of agreement, at g, costly price to her- ers n ia of the All-Chinese Philadelphia papers, and many of 8 Green, president of the American Fed- government, “Russian Anthracite” ‘ficers for the New York district coun ' . all ¥ 1 * 5 et Tr 8 n cil of carpenters, with candidates rep- resenting the dijeffrent groups, Progressive Program. 1. Election of district council of- ficials every year by a referendum of the membership. 2. Election of every year. 3. A five-day week of forty hours, jand a twelve dollar per day wage. 4. Each local union shall be sole judge as to its representation in the district council. | Lal Ae ck 5. Freedom of expression within the union. 6. All amendments indorsed by fiv locals to be sent out for a referendum of the membership. 7. Job control so that the can put an end to the “hire- sytem. +f — oe The Candidates. James McAdam,,Local Union! 585, for president. | , Mortimer McGrath, Local Union 787, fof first vice-president. * Waldemar Lihzis, Local Union 2090, for second vice-president. = Michal Kavanagh, Local Union 2725, for secretary-treasurer. The Officials’ Method. | The officers are elected by local un- ion delegates to the D. C. and in a leaflet that is signed by the United Progressive Carpenters the locals are urged to instruct their delegates to vote for these candidates, before Dec’ 23 when elections will be held. The formation of this left bloc is a of the present corrupt administration headed by John Halkett successor to Brindell. The method used to defeat the will of the mémbership was to fight one group at a time, stamping each as a group of reds, T. U. E. L. members or disrupters thereby divid- ing the opposition and giving them the chance to defeat one local group at a time. wre Two Allies in the Left Bloc. The two main groups are: 1. The group that supported Rosen as general president of the carpenters union in the last general election and is composed of real left wing fighters for the interest of the membership upon a concrete program. 2. The other is the group that sup ported Brown for president. It has no program and is composed of liber- 8, conservative honest trade union- ested in fighting corruption or ousting the present officials. Nature of the Alliance. The fact that for the first time this latter group was forced to unite with the former upon a written program based on the interests of the rank and file is a result of sound left wing tactics, in the last campaign for pres- ident of the carpenters’ union and is of great significance for the labor move- ment and a forruner of great fights yet to develop. It is of course ex- pected that the latter group will not at present accept the entire left wing program. They will only learn the need as the fight developes. Some of the recent local events that lead to this progressive bloc are in- teresting. Local 2163 adopted . an amendment to the district council by- laws that all D. C. officials should be elected every year by a referendum vote instead of every three years by delegates to the district council. This was indorsed by eleven locals but the reactionaries suppressed it by ruling it out of order and not allowing the district countil to send it out for a referendum vote. 5 Blocked by Officials. The demand for a 5-day week and a $12 per day wage was raised by the left wing and the membership brought so much pressure that the D. C. was eevee to send it out for a referendum vote. Local after local voted 90% for it, so overwhelming was the vote that the officers of the D. C. refused to make the tally public satisfying them- }selves by saying that it did not get the required 55% vote of the member- ships A motion in the D. C. was carried requesting the building trades council to give their approval to this carpenters demand but John Halkett who is czar of the building trades council and also of the carpenters district council, ruled it out of order. A good method by which the corrupt officers of the D. C. perpetuated them- selves in office and defeated the will of the membership is by disfranchis- ing locals that elected progressive. delegates, by refusing to seat them. Would Not Seat Progressives. A recent example is the refusal of the D. C. to seat Morris Rosen former left wing candidate for general pres- ident as a delegate from Local 376. The local sent a letter and resolution to all the locals in the district con- demning this and demanding that Rosen be seated immediately. This was indorsed by a number of locals. Ahother is the refusal to seat A. Kivowitz of Local 2717 who was dis- criminated against because he is a liberal. In his place the D. C. re- cognized Goldberg as delegate, he was at one time accused in court of asking for $2,500 graft by the parquet floor layers’ union in order to give them a charter from the carpenters’ union. Goldberg was not elected and his vote coptested by Local 2717. The local later called a new election and * result and reaction against the actions ists, and others that are mainly inter- elected another liberal Raskin, He was not seated. . le Sent “Somebody.” Finally the local asked Hutcheson to send somebody to straighten the ‘| matter out. He sent general executive board member Guerin. This worthy decided that neither Raskin nor Kivo- witz nor Goldberg shall be delegate but that Beren who has a record as a scab“shall be a delegate and for punishment he threw out the chair- man of the local who was duly elected and put Goldberg in his place. This is his reward for stuffing the ballot box with nearly 500 votes for Hutcheson in the last general election, Many members of Local 2717 openly state this. Hutcheson and Halkett thus have their best friends a grafter, or would be grafter, and a scab to run the local. ä diate this and refuse to recognize the non- elected officers. They hold meet- ings of their own without having in their possession the charter or books and they have taken their case into the capitalist courts expecting to get more justice than from the misleaders of the union, All these events are hammering the opposition groups into unity of action which will eventually force the corrupt officialdom from power. BRITISH UNIONS BEGIN FORMING ~ DEFENSE CORPS Fight Left Split in Labor > Party How things are going in England may be seen from the following culled from the Sunday Worker: There are still some curious people in the labor movement who pretend that the government and the law courts are above all classes, and re- fuse to admit that the state is simply the machinery by which the bosses safeguard. their hold on the factories, railways, mines, and other places where the workers are exploited... A long list of the British govern- ment’s acts as a astrikebreaking agency is given with the observation— “The bosses are many sided, but they have a single purpose—that is to | Smash „the working class, by fair means or foul.” Workers’ Defense Corps Forming. “When the workers realize this, we shall have moved a long step forward. That is why we welcome the decisive action taken this week by the Isling- ton Trades Council, which has cir- cularized the affiliated bodies asking for lists of trade unionists who will enroll to defend their own organiza- tions.” “The response has been excellent. It could be the same all over the country. The only way to protect the trade unions against the fascisti and the government-aided strikebreakers in the coming industrial fights is to organize a Workers’ Defense Corps.” ; Another significant item in the same issue is the editorial advising against the tendency to split the labor party because of the reactionary actions of the Liverpool conference. In part the editorial say: For Real Work in Unions, “This is not time for splits, nor is there neéd for them. No ‘Left Wing Labor Party’ will be real unless it ig based on the trade unions. But real militant work in the trade unions will win the labor party for the left wing,” “Consultation and organized co-oper- ation of all left wingers in the I. L. P. the trade unions, Plebs Leaguers, Com- munis#s; hard dogged work in the labor party, fighting to re-equip it for a fight against capitalism; no despair- ing or faint-hearted collapses or Splits.“ Utica Textile 8 to Go on Strike Again UTICA, N. V., Dec. 7.—A second strike of the 1,200 employes of the Utica Steam & Mohawk Valley Cotton Mills impends, following the 4 to 1 strike vote of the members of the weavers, spinners, carders and loom- fixers unions affiliated with the Un- ited Textile Workers Union. Joseph ae er says the date w e set W y the officers of the four The United Textile Workers de- mands the old wage scale cut 10% earlier in the year. After a long strike the workers returned on a compromise but with the promise of arbitrators appointed by the mayor that the company’s profits would be investigated to find whether the com- Ppany’s wage cut was justified. Time has passed and no definite cost data has been given out and the union is resorting again to economic pressure. — Put a copy of the DATLY WORKER in your pocket when vou go to your union meeting F 95 55 * ome N J . 5 8 N eee r 1 Pie Lhe er 2 2 Pets ad * Wr 4 Net 3 r i TT we ages. it le am ace 8 e xy 9 W e * = ied 5 * hae 157 Hi ey 7 ps * N yt SNE oe ee ak n 3 5 . r N ee gee i eee 8 : ne ra 9 n N : yf te ue r 4 R 1 * 20 n ; te Sed C Roe Oe aie opr iy A I? * ve Ag thy ; . : ? * 5 7 > ** * ‘The membership of Local 2717 repu- t. eM JEP Og. r 2
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SE” 2 — n Te * a * 4 * 8 * I 5 3 . * a 85 S * * 3 x * „ Re 7 ee aloe ‘ 5 ite ce. t : . 4 * ar ‘oe 19 Th * N 71 . FM Be Sy ee _ > ‘ 8 5 g ** 7 ye 7? - SS 4 RS Fes vg N 8 135 Aig» 8 7 ** Be. 2 ¢ 7 . ‘ . 9 5 — ae ea : 1a fat to Youngstown By WALLACE T. METCALFE (Worker Correspondent) YOUNGSTOWN, O., Dec. 7—A good- sized audience of steel workers and friends turned out. to hear Pat Too-. . hey, progressive member of the United Mine Workers of America, | when he spoke here tonight. Years | of youthful labor spent in the coal mines of Pennsylvania have given Toohey a clear insight into the prob lems of the coal miners. c “Inferior Coal on Market. 55 Pointing out that the coal operat- ors in normal times stored millions“ of tons of inferior coal which is now beiig dumped into the eastern mar- fp. kets and sold at exhor Toohey showed that the public“ being panhandled by the public“ lov- ing operators. The weak front pre- sented’ ‘by the officials of the United Mine Workers to the operators and their lack of presentation of the prob-. lems confronting the miners: was} dwelt upon showing that the official+} dom of the United Mine Workers are mainly interested in having the coal operators agree to install the check- off system whereby the operators col- lect union dues from the pay en- velopes of the miners. Hours of labor, wages and the con- tract system were treated at length by Toohey and the ever-increasing toll of life and limb resulting from acci- dents in the work day life of the min- ers was explained showing that in their mad rush for more profits hu- man life is the operators’ last consid- eration. The refusal of the John L. Lewis of- ficialdom to consider ways and means to protect the miners in safeguarding |’ their ‘union by adopting progressive} measures places the union in a lite and death,struggle with the operators, with the reactionary union officials acting in unison with the police and municipal authorities in suppressing{ any outward manifestation of discon-| tent against the conduct of the strike. Union Men Made Scabs. The fact that thousands of union maintenance men are allowed to ente the mines to keep them in shape for] the operators was pointed dut as one of the weak spots in the union egree-_ ment. In some cases it has become kon wn that these workers are perform ing other than the labor stipulated in the union agreement. Tue progressive demands for the formation of a labor party, the am- algamation of the miners, transport and railroad workers, were explained’ In full by Toohey and the confidence expressed by the miners in the pro gresslves accounts mostly for the ruthless suppression of rank and file meetings addressed by the progressive leaders. Describing with much humor the jailing of Alex Reid and himself for their activities in behalf of the miners Toohey made plain that the jails of Pennsylvania are odorous and that the coal barons and authorities are common kin when it comes to jailing workers. William J. White, e member of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers’ Union presided and urged for the united front of labor in defense of the strik- ing coal miners. White spoke upon itant prices, | SRRE: > a th alll itt » wre ONDE} ICE > YOUNGSTOWN: 1, SCHOOLS FEEL But the “Official: Investigating KICK OF V. M. „Officials Are . ait’ V By A Worker Correspondent westigation,” according to YOUNGSTOWN, O., Dec. 7.—The “school. officials are making an in- the Youngstown Vindicator — which city ‘seems to need some vindication in view ot the exploitation of its work: mg in the steel mills particularly. The “investigation,” however, is not of the long hours, the speed-up and the miserable pay of the average steel “worker, but of the “reds.” ist rs of the workers. 755 the “Vindicator” tells in Don't Like Any Difference. It seems that the capitalist dictator: ship js perturbed that there should be any disagreement with its program. of! pumping patriotism to the’ capital- system of robbing the workers into the ‘school children, sons and daugh-| indig- nant tones of a junior committee“ of the Workers Party of Youngstown,” “yhioh it deals with imaginate er party.“ V. W. IL. Busy. The sad tale is told that pupils of the South High School being dismissed from ly. as “local agency of the Communist Rus-' whe were afternoon classes, they were met with literature ’“ettacking the school charg taugh system g that the pupils are militarism.” A _ leaflet and being was given them entitled “The Fraud of American Education Week.” Thus it happens that the “school officials are investigating’—not vestigating whether or not charges made in the leaflet are but investigating who among telligent and courageous as to the tailor-made ideas these officials wish. to thrust down throats. in- the true, the youngsters of Youngstown is so in- defy school their It you want to thoroughly un- the conditions existing in the unor- ganized soft coal regions and. ms Plain that the John L. Lewis official | Fo dom of reactionary labor leat would betray the miners unless the rank and file in the entire organized labor movement supported the min- ers, and backed up the progressive demands. Los Angeles Standby of Reaction Worried Over Workers’ School By A Worker Correspondent LOS ANGELES, Calif., Dec. 7.— That old standby of reaction, the Los Angeles Times devoted considerable space in its edition of Nov. 18 to ad- vertising the Los Angeles classes of the Workers (Communist) Party. It also reprints an Associated Press dispatch from Minneapolis giving an interview with C. A. Hathaway, dis- trict organizer of the party, in which a brief outline of the workers’ school of the party is set ferth. In case any worker in Los Angeles missed reading the “Times” we will give dnew the address of the classes, which take place at 224 So. Spring St., Room 200, each Sunday. The Junior League, accvramng to the “Times,” meets each Tuesday and Wednesday at the Cooperative Build- ding, Mott St. and Brooklyn Ave., and all “children between eight and fifteen are especially welcome.” More interesting sessions may be promised, in view of the “Times” volunteering the information that the so-called “radical squad” of the police is keeping a “watchful eye” upon the classes. However, even if the cops are absent an interesting time is genen ——ů it. men Textile T eet at Pa By A Worker Correspondent the and women from the Passaic Albert Weisbord was chairman. Garment Workers’ in Hungarian, hall understand every one of languages spoken. workers that the police were friends, and not the friends o of the meeting. the platform. Weisbord told getting jts daily dozens of new bers gince the campaign began. assured, so none should stay away. WORKER says about it, ‘PASSAIC, N. J., Dec. 7. The Un- ited Front Committee of the Textile Industry held a special meeting for omen workers, in Neibauer’s Hall. The hall was packed with men When a local police sergeant, came in plain clothes, rose to tell the mills. The speakers were Rose Pastor Stokes who addressed the meeting in English, Zalkowsky who spoke in Polish and Steiner of the Interuattonal Ladies’ Union who spoke The three women speakers were heard thru to the end and heartily applauded, despite the fact that not all the workers in the the who their f the bosses, the workers who packed the hall talked right back in no uncertain terms and the sergeant beat a polite retreat after his impolite interruption Dozens of men and women joined the union, the speakers helping to en- roll them as they crowded around your correspondent that the union is mem When that argument begins at lunch time in your shop tomor- row—show them what the DAILY I. L. G. W. Open Forum Discusses Imperialism By A Worker Correspondent NEW YORK, Dec. 7.—A lecture on imperialisnr was delivered by Sylvan A. Pollock at the open forum which is being conducted regularly by Local 41 of the International Ladies’ Gar- ment Workers’ Union, at their head- quarters, 6 W. 218t St. New Tork. Pollack sketched briefly the basis of imperialism on an international scale, pointing out its manifestations in} China, Syria and Morocco, as well as its American branch, which devotes itself at the present time: especially to Soutn and Central |. America. The recent outrage against ‘the: workers of Panama, where Amer- ican: troops were used as strike- breakers, was cited as an example, as is POLICE BRUTAL = 19. HILLCREST - me 12 ven iy many other forms that it 2 ~ SILK STRIKERS Mc Up Men and Insult Women HU DSON COUNTY, N. J., Dec. 7— As the strike in the Hillcrest silk mill in Hudson county, New Jersey enters its sixth week of struggle with the workers still holding out firmly and loyally, the police have tried more and more violent means to break the strike. It has come to such a point that the United Front Commit- tee of Textile Workers in charge of the strike has determined to bring pressure on the mayor and chief of ‘police through demonstrations, and jJ2gal procedure to force the police to stop molesting the strikers, The police have personally threaten- ed many strikes with immediate bodi- ‘ly harm, threatening to send them to the hospital and in some cases actual- ly raising their arms to strike. They have cracked picketers over the shins in their anxiety to please the bosses. They have insulted the women pickets, °9 calling them many vile names. They Draws Many Members have tried to provoke arguments and quarrels. with the men go as to give them the pretext to beat them up. | They have seized strikers and flung them against the wall of the mill, os- tensibly to search them for arms, al- though they had no warrants what- ever. They have done their best to others of the strike and have actually pushed newcomers who did not know of the strike and did not want to act as scabs into the mill. And only a few days ago they ran after a striker into @ bake shop and the policeman drew @ blackjack from his poeket and want- ed to hit the striker with it, at the same time jamming him against the wall and frisking him. It has reached such a stage that there seems to be no limit to what the police will do, The United Front Committee of Tex- tile Workers thru its representative, Albert Weisbord and in conjunction with the International Labor Defense svill make all efforts to procure war- rants against the offending officers and and to restrain the police from con- tinuing their brutal tactics. A delega- tion of the strikers will visit the mayor and the board of councilmen and lay the case before them demand- fxg justice. A big mass meeting will be held in the immediate future to acquaint the workers with the facts of the strike and the brutality of the police. Efforts will be made to get Carlo Tresea or Giovennitti or Eliza- beth Gurley Flynn, who are known aa old time textile fighters to speak at the mass meeting to beheld and it is expected that all gad fighters will prevent the strikers from informing | WANT aw, “TRAINED INTO WILLING SLAVES Servility Is bs Keynote to Capitalist Education By PHILLIP SHATZ. (Worker Correspondent) CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 7.—Fif- teen hundred teachers of vocational training, representing high schools, rehabilition schools, and the voca- tional training department of some of the largest indt and commercial corporations in country gathered at the conven of the National Society for Vocational Education, at the Hotel Statlérfhere. What the purpose of this conven- tion is may be wWaglly understood from the utteraticés of some of the outstanding figures at the convention. “We must never beslect to teach the idea of service,”'Baid Vernon Riegel, state superintendé#it of public instruc- tion. “As long as the idea of service is not taught, there will be discussion between employer, and employee.“ ere Aim. The chief pro s of the conven- tion are how to train the country’s youth to be effiefént slaves and how to make them like it. Said O. W. Rosenthal, president of the Builders’ Association of Chicago and director of the National Association of Build- ing Trades Employers, “We do not care how much training you give the apprentices. in pounding nafis or handling saws. Whar we want are men who will come to us trained in the right .spirit, the right frame of mind, men who will come to us ina spirit of willingness, men who are willing to make sacrifices.” Unions a Bone | in Their Throats. This jovial re sentative of the class for whom ing in the public } further be to work in the other than to respective trad I do not say that this is either a gdod or a bad situa, tion,” said, “I simply present it as a situation for vodation teachers to think about. stay In private, however, Mr. Rosenthal admitted that. s of the opinion that the closed un-American and that wo ought to be per- mitted to have 8 as to } whether or not wanted to join | the union.“ Begin in Elementary Schools. One of the s unintentionally struck a note of th when he said that “Our teachers in the elementary schools lack background. Let us pay more attention to what is being taught and not howitt is being taught.” How true it is that che young workers of the country are taught not how to live that they may enjoy life to the full, but rather hew to live most profitably for the,bosses, can be readily seen from the above remark. Life Isn’t Sweet for Sweated Candy Workers By A Worker . NEW YORK, Dec. 7 — The candy workers should be organized. We work ten hours every day and most of the shops all day Saturday. Our wages are very low. The girls work for only $12 a week. In the summer season they get little girls to work for as low as $8 a week. The hours are long and the lighting system in most places is very poor. We turn out tong of candy a day. The foremen's job, is to drive the workers and they;gure do that. Of all the candy shops I have worked in the Advance Cay company is the worst, The bosses ars ery rich. They travel often and have all the good things of life. We workers who make them rich if we K laid off for a week we are in fear of poverty and hunger. I hope some day our trade will be organized, We need a union badly. I hope our presi will not be like John L. Lewis of th iners’ who re- presents workers Qn to betray them. I am going Communist books and literattfe and The DAILY WORKER. If Communism is as my friend tells me I will join the Work- ers (Communist) Party. I want to help my class, the working class. 7 * Will the comrade who sent us this letter and to whom the Worker Cor- respondént refers to as “my friend“ please communicate with the Editor of The DAILY WORKER. Trenton, N. J., Workers Protest Rakosi Murder TRENTON, N. J., Dec. 7.—At the first meeting here of the newly or- ganized local section International Labor Defense a resolution protesting against the contemplated execution of Mathias Rakosi and his comrades by the murderous Horthy regime was unanimouously passed calling upon all working class orgepizations to take up the fight for s saving the lives of these revolutionary workers. Copies of this resolution were sent to the Hungarian ambassager in Washington turn out to support the strike. 1 and to the labor press. | was spent for magazines, THE. DAILY WORKER Pullman. ead Has No | ian Motives to Save Workers’ Eyes NEW YORK Dee, 7. (FP) Workmen's compensation laws make it bad business for an employer to let his workers be needlessly injured, it was brought out at a joint meeting of the American Museum of Safety and the National Committee for the Prevention of Blindness. “I'll be perfectly frank,“ Harry Ben- son, manager of the Pullman company factories at Buffalo, told the conven- tion; “I‘didn’t take humanitarian mot- ives into consideration in compelling our men to wear goggles. It was a cold-blooded money proposition, for every time a workman loses an eye we lose $3,300.” Fifteen thousand of the blind per- sons in America lost their sight in- dustry and 7,000 workers in Pennsyl- vania lost one eye each in recent years, speakers brought out. WHITNEY JURY LOOKED-AFTER,’ PAPER CHARGES Extraordinary Coss E- cite Suspicion — — (J. L. D. News Service) LOS ANGELES, Calif., Dec. 7—In the Nov. 21 issue of The Open Fo- rum, a paper published by the south- ern Californian branch of the Civil Liberties Union, a story is reprinted from an Oakland, California paper concerning the inside workings of the jury which convicted Anita Whitney, now scheduled by the decision of the U. 8. supreme cort, to spend some years in San Quentin prison for her political opinions under the “criminal syndicalist” law. The Consuming “Public.” The story speaks for itself and is given as follows: “A bill amounting to $148.53 kor cigars, cigarettes, magazines, candy and chewing gum for the Whitney jury is now being held up by Frank Garrison, county auditor, pending an investigation of the expenditures by District Attorney Ezra Decoto, The bill was presented by Bercovich cigar stand in Hotel Oakland, where the jury was quartered. The total bill for the jury, including hotel accommoda- tions, amounts to about $3,000. Some Smokers. “The bill shows that four members of the jury smoked 742 cigars at 12% cents each during the 24 days of the trial, tobacco costing $95. About shaates gum and other notions. “Garrison explained today that he had held up the bill when jurors in- formed him that they did not con- sume the amount of tobacco charged against them. Did the Ladies Get Shaved? ö Six women on the jury spent 355 for toilet articles, while Abe Cohen, a barber, charged $1 each for 14 hair cuts and 50 cents each for 47 shaves. “In case the bill is presented to him for his approval, Judge James G. Quinn said today he would have a full investigation made before passing upon it.” Bill Calls for Merger of Army and Navy Into Unified Department WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. — Repres- entative John Philip Hill of Maryland, announced he would introduce a bill providing for the merging of the war and navy departments into a depart- ment of national defense, and provide therein secretaries of equal rank for the army, navy and the air service: following Coolidge’s acceptance of the Morrow aircraft investigation, reject- ing Mitchell’s proposals. Read—Write—distribute The DAILY WORKER. . C OMMUNISTS TO ADVISE STRIKING OUST IMPOSTORS AND CONDUCT THEIR OWN FIGHT NEW YORK, Dec. 1 ante of meeting in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, at 44 Sumner Ave., headquarters. Public School No. 148 neld a protest at the republican The meeting was called to protest against the board of education’s transfer of pupils from kindergarten to the eighth grade to schools almost a mile away from their residences thru the most congested districts. Sacrifice Children for Dollars. The change has brought about the utmost confusion. grades were put into lower ones. higher classes far beyond their capa- Children of high Those of lower grades were sent into city. The board of education’s object in this move ig to save building a new school. The republican politicians in whose headquarters this meeting was held were dumbfounded when following their speakers Rose Pastor Stokes and Clarence Miller were given the floor. -And they well might have been. Mrs. Stokes advised the parents not to permit the politicians to play around with them and divert them from ‘their chief object but to imme- diately organize themselves for action, to issue petitions, to arrange for de- monstrations and to go before labor organizations in the vicinity and enlist their support. Clarence Miller recited the experiences of other school con- flicts in which the parents permitted the capitalist politicians to take charge of their fight with the result of being misled and finally the parents giving up in discouragement. A col- lection was taken up for the initial expense of organization. The young pioneers will call a meet- ing this week to organize the children to fight their own battles with the aid of their parents. JURY REFUSES TO ANNUL MARRIAGE OF RHINELANDER Kip’s Attorneys Play on Race Prejudice WHITE PLAINS, N. V., Dec, 7.— After a trial which lasted a number of weeks, the jury has decided that the marriage of Leonard Kip Rhine- lander, son of a wealthy family and considered one of the “blue bloods” of New York, and Alice Jones Rhine- lander must stand and cannot be an- nuled. Plays on Race Prejudice. In the attempt to prove that the marriage with Alice Jones Rhine lander must be annuled, Kip's lawyers played upon race prejudice of the jury to the nth degree trying to make it appear that Alice, who has Negro blood in her, forced him into the mar- riage. When his passionate love notes to her were read and it was estabish- ed that Kip was the one responsible, his attorneys attempted to make it appear that she had represented her- self as white. Alice soon blasted the hopes of the “blue blooded” Kip Rhinelander by baring her shoulders and showing the court that she was colored. From then on, Kip’s lawyers tried to make it appear that Kip was not only color blind but even put him in the position of being a fit candidate for an insane asylum. Then followed the plea of the lawyers for Kip filled with race hatred in an attempt to get the jury to annul the marriage. For Separation. Alice Jones Rhinelander, who won the suit, is now filing a bill demand- ing a separation and separate main- tenance. Glut Labor MaFket. WELLINGTON, New Zealand—(FP) —Immigrants are being rushed to New Zealand from Britain though there is no work for them on arrival and houses are scarce, Many of them are homeless and starving. Many offering themselves as scabs for em- ployment on the British steamers laid up in New Zealand because of the seamen’s strike hope thereby to get back to Britain. = *% 444444446444 r w] ̃—̃̃̃ . 8 * FIRST BALL NEW MADISON SQUARE GARDEN 49th Street and Eighth Avenue. DANCE OF 25,000 The Largest Workers Party Affair Ever Undertaken REIHEIT MASK BA Saturday Evening, December 12 Your Union Meeting Second Tuesday, Dec. 8, 1925. Name of Locat and Place of Meeting Boot and Ghee Werte 1939 Mil- waukee Av Cone Joint Labor Council, 814 W. 117th Street. Carpehtnes, Witten’s Hail, High- land Park, I. Oe Grocery, 59 Engineers — cape 5058 Went worth 826 Engineers (Locomotive), 2647 W. t 381 Electricians, 505 S. State St. 8705 Egg Inspectors, 418 N. Clark St. 27 Hod e 62nd anc La Vergne Ay 15441 8 1 3046 W. 26th St. 12 Leather Workers, 777 W. Adame n 777 W. Adams St. 84 Machinists, 2548 8. 1 se 915 Machinists, 4126 W. 275 Amalgamated Clothing nne 409 8. Halsted St., 5:30 p. m. 180 ag ey — 175 W. Wash 21 a htie" ers, 912 W. Monroe St. . Van Buren 302 58 Carpenters, Diversey one Sheffield. 141 Carpenters, 1023 E. 75t 272 Carpenters, Moose Halt, Chicago Heights. 1786 Carpenters, Springfield and 26th. 402 Eaginesers. 180 W. Washington $t. 5 mod Carriers, 225 7 15th Street, Chicago Heights, 6 ae Py 3 14 . Harrison St., cag 81 Ladies’ ran Workers, 328 W. Van Buren t. 1494 Machinists, 6234 Princeton Av 546 a Cutters, 1756 W. Washingten tre et 571 Meat Cutters. 9205 Houston Ave. 17358 Nurses, Funk's Hall, Oak Park. 130 Plumbers, 1507 Ogden Ave. 40 Plumbers, 4111 „Madison St. ey Carmen, 11037 Michigan 5324 8. Haisted Railway’ no Hall, Chi- cago Hei eights. Railway Clerks, 5438 8. ogy St. * Trainmen, 3359 W. Madl . Téametere’ District Council, 220 8. Ashiand Boulevard. bay ere 188 W. Washington Railway Carmen, Av Railway Carmen, Stre 8617 Vincennes Av 7:30 p Railway Clerks, "549 W. Washington Marine Fire and Oilers, 357 N. lark St. Painters, 20 W. Randolph St. Painters, N. E. cor. California and ‘Madison. nters, 6414 S. * St. Pa nters, N. W. cor. State and S5th. t w. Oa k St. 52 a nters, Trumbull and Ogden Ave. Railway Clerks, 509 and Peoria Sts. 2275 Railwa erks, 509 W. Washing- 7 Walters, 234 W. Randolph St. Anita Whitney Fights for New Hearing in U. S. Supreme Court WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—Charlotte Anita Whitney, under 14-year sentence for alleged violation of the California criminal syndicalist law in 1919,-has for a rehearing of her appeal which was denied in October. Here counsel! urges that the court was in error when it held that no constitutional question was involved in her claim that she was convicted of no specific act of lawlessness. Constitutional questions were raised in the lower courts, a- cording to the digest of the 0 “<a presented in her petition. She wants a ruling on the „ syndicalist law itself. Instruction in English Foreigners and others wish- ing to improve. Georgiana Bonita, 1843 Lincoln Ave. Tel. Diversey 6089. To those who work hard for thelr. money, | will save 50 per cent on all their dental work. DR. .RASNICK DENTIST 645 Smithfield Street, PITTSBURGH, PA. . $1,500 in Prizes for Most Interesting Masques | Advance Sale of Tickets at: SS SSS FF BSS SSS SSS SPST SVS SSS SWS —„— | One of the Largest Bands Ever Heard. Admission 50c, Hat Check 50c Freiheit Office, 30 Union Square; Workers Party and Young Workers League Offices, 108 East 14th Street; Offices of Locals 2, 9, 22 and 35 of the In- ternationalLadies’ Garment Workers’ Union; Furriers’ Joint Board Office, 22 East 22nd St. 7 —— — — . -W. ẽůͥmůTud̃̃̃ aw ss Sess ss SSP ssesssVPPsesSsswe ses sess ese sesseses ses Vee aeae 47 4 i v3 — ——— applied to the federal supreme cou 1 r onen nnn 3 * — po 2 —_" * —
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* 4 2 * 5 * ** 3 me i et eite by ‘the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING.cO. 5 1 Phone Monroe 4712 . zy NE ; Washington Bivd., Chicago, III. 85 a SUBSCRIPTION RATES _. By mali (in chicago only): ey By mail (outsids n 8.00 per year $4.50 six months | $6.00 per vour $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months ‘ Address all mail and make out checks to | THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, IHinois — J. LOUIS ENGCDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE { ae MORITZ J. LOEB Business Manager ees as second-class — September 21. 1923, at 17 post-office at Chi- cago, III., under the act of March 3, 187 — 290 Advertising rates on application. Socialist Wants War Memorial Harriet Stanton Blatch is one of the br ight and shining lights of the decrepit socialist: party. She has been its standard bearer for’ many important political offices during the past few years. There: fore her published opinions can be interpreted as expressing the attitude of a large section of that party. Recently, in a letter to. the New York Times, this elegant bourgeois lady airs her views on memorials “to the fallen*in the great war.” She advocates a memorial to be placed in Central Park, New ' York, to cover thirty acres of land and to be planted with “our | Is not this socialist treason to assume noblest American trees.” that it is possible for anything in America to be anything other than noble? After these beeches, oaks and sequoias wax strong “they will]; lift ever higher in the minds of our,children the ideas they were planted to exalt.” Surely everyone but yellow socialists knows that the motives of the world war were those of imperialist war and. plunder. The bones of the dead are strewn over the battle fields of Europe because Morgan’s billions that he invested on the. side of the allies were in danger. was fought; every drop of blood that was spilled by soldiers was for the purpose of making Morgan richer. That is the only reason the war American The fact that the soldiers thought they were fighting for laudatory aims does not change the fact. Furthermore, Harriet Stanton Blatch is playing the contemptible game of the war mongers when she tries to paint the blood letting in glowing colors. She slaughter of the workers in the next imperi list war. yrepares the way for the But what can one expect of a party that has such leaders as Algy Lee, who, with others, voted in the New York board of alder- men for the infamous memorial arch, containing inscriptions of the names of the “great” battles in which American soldiers participated ? Among these “battles” was Archangel in North Russia, where American gunmen in the uniform of the army, without a declaration of war, tried to crush the workers’ republic. The Retreat of Green If his utterances before .the convention of the International EDITOR'S NOTEsrsThe agricul- tural situation in the Union of So- cialist Soviet Republics and its needs were presented to a Chicago audience of cattle, horse, hog and sheep breeders, and representatives of various commercial concerns by D. N. Borodin, head of the Russian Agricultural Agency in America, in an address in part as follows: By O. N. BORODIN, . Director, Russian Agricultural Agency in America, HE Union of the Socialist Soviet Republics covers the area of the former Russian empire except for the territory of new states established after the world war such as Poland, Finland, Esthonia, Latvia, Lithonia and Bessarabia, annexed by Rou- mania and a small part of the Karsk province Caucasus re- turned to Turkey but with the addi- tion to the former territory of the | Russian enipire of Khiva and Book- hara. The Union of Socialist Soviet Re- publics covers 21,480,500 square kilo- meters or about one-sixth of the world area and is inhabited by 139. 750,000 people of different nationali- ties. HE Russia in Europe is the part 1 usually called “Russia” in Eng- lish and American maps and is al- ways reproduced separately with Moscow in center, the Black Sea on the south, White Sea on north; Baltic sea on the west and Urls on the east. It is correct that such a4 map shows Russia proper but that is only a small part of the vast territory of the union and to this map must be added Sibe- ria, Russian Far East, Kerghiz, Stee+ pes, Central Asia and Turkestan. 4A. the present iime the Union of Social- ist Soviet Republics covers 21,210,- 500 square kilometers with the follow- ing subdivisions in separate repub- lics: 1. Russia 19,683,000 sq. kim. 2. White Russia 109,800 ” ” 3. Ukrainia 429,700 ”. ” 4. Caucasus (Georgia, Armenia, Azarbeijan) 193,000 5. Turkomania 473,000 * ” 6. Usbekistan (Turk estan) 322,000 ” ” 21,210,500 sq. kim. The population of the Union of So- | cialists Soviets Republics in 1925 was Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union are to be considered other than the : estimated according to data of the bid of a politician for the favor of the moment, William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, has retreated from his red-baiting proclivities. If he really means that radicals are necessary to the labor movement and. that “they inspire us to ré- newed activity and service,” and if he does “prefer the living, fight- ; ing run we never mistake words for action. of Green seriously we want to see some action on his p 1 to dry rot,“ he should suit the action to the word. e have been flattered before, we might say by “experts,” and Before we take the statements 2 his influence over the various internationals affiliated with the A. F. tionals. regarding his high regard for radicals. d ment Workers’ Union at Philadelphia. The Farm Journal Menace the homes of agricultural districts. year—far below the cost of production. of L. is confined to that imponderable fetish dubbed “moral forge,” his maledictions against every vestige of radicalism has been used to advantage by the reactionaries directly in control of the interna- We will believe that Green’s utterances were prompted by some- thing other than political expedieney when he appears before a solid body of hide-bound reactionaries and repeats the same sentiments Until then we must be par- doned for suspecting that the action of the president of the American Federation of Labor was caused because he was duly impressed by the left wing strength, rather than by voluntary revision of policy, ing his visit to the convention of the International Ladies’ Gar- One of the greatest menaces to the political maturity of the farmers of the United States is the cheap fagm journal that floods Innumerable magazines and other publications are sold to the farmer as loW as 25 and 50 cents a All these papers contain the most vicious propaganda, designed to keep the farmer in ignorance regarding his real condition. Under | ‘the guise of benefitting. the farmer and enabling hhim to solve his problems they inveigle him into all sorts of traps set by the meat “packers and the manufacturers of farm machinery. In fact all these papers are subsidized by the farm machinery trust and mail order housés. A systematie propaganda of hatred against the industrial worker creates distrust against trade unions and working class polit- ical parties. The bankers and industrialists know that so long as they can keep the two great producing groups divided, so long as they can make the farmer believe that the high prices he pays for his ‘products are due to the high wages of the industrial workers, and make the industrial worker believe that high prices of produce is due to the high prices.received by the “independent” farmer, their own game of plunder of both groups can continue uninterrupted. The natural ally of the farmer is not the banker and the in- dustrialist but the wage worker in the city. Calm the Rising Storm The agricultural crisis and the coming congressional elections that will be held next fall constitute a menace to the republican administration at Washington. It is not fear of the recalcitrants in the republican party that causes overtures to be made to young LaFollette or that causes the Coolidge machine to speak less con- temptuously of Norris, but that they fear the storm that is brewing in the middle west. With the price of corn at 50 cents the farmers of Iowa are not going into ecstacies over the fiction of Coolidge prosperity. People forced to use corn in place of fuel because it is cheaper to use it that way than to sell it and buy the commodities ordinarily used as fuel cannot be hypnotized into believeing the lying reports of the cabinet officials, all of whom have entered into a conspiracy to falsify the real conditions in the country. Coolidge’s trip to Chicago is part of the desperate efforts of the administzation to calm the tempest that is rising and that will surely sweep their majority from power unless perity becomes a reality N 4 1 5 1 Aeta — — . —— — ‘fictitious pros- Cetitral Statistical Bureau of the U. 4,813,600 139,753,900 | 12 most important fact is that the vast majority of the population of U. 8. S. R. is concentrated on the farms and only a small proportion in poe 2 sha needs of the nation. tion varies in the republics com- prising the union. In Russia proper, the vast majority belong to the “Great Russian” element with a small pro- portion of the Ukrainians but the last nationality has the majority in Ukrai- Russia proper and Ukrainia, HE racial character of the popula- 4 nia. A few figures can illustrate the racial character of the two republics, | 5 bike ) Greeks scare 8 . 06% Soa ie “to cee Gypsies 15,8389 oe ee BECO Fr: eB SM “ee, — — , mar — 210,689 7. Greeks — 103,968 16 963,312 nter b ter wheat e : 1925 —ö . — 80, 700,000 g The crops sown in 1924 can be di- vided according to the verietieg en * — Dessatins * yi eee e 200 a 149,400 5.171.800 Spring wheat . 11,888,800 Barley 6.286, 200 Oats . 10,725,700 Buckwheat 2,416,800 Millet 4,449,300 Corn . 1,870,200 . Sunflowers and other oily plants.... 3,921,200 — r{ Potatoes... 3,864,400 ' ar * : — 81.049,60 ͥ/%/9³c The other crops consist of the fibre, technical and forage plants in the same year in U. S. S. R. sowed: Flax. 1,078,700 dessiatins; hemp, 656 dessia- * south of the U. S. S. R., and is tivated only in Central Asia or ‘urkestan and Caucasas with the tendency of increase of the acreage. aie ON is a crop of the extreme ey An cotton is cultivated under the ir- ‘Trigation and outside of the irrigated it is impossible to grow the cot- the cities. From 189,758,900 men, wo- Russia (1921) en main ‘crops of v. 8. 8. R. are: men and children we 774,100 are liv- 1. Russians 66,524,563 parle ing on the farms ly 22,979,800 in 2. Ukrainians — 4,405,326 © the cities. In d nt republics of 3. Tartars 2.85 4.502 the U. S. S. R. tie division of the 4. White Russians 1.893,484 population can «ca as fol-| 5. Kirghises 1,897,371 lows: 6. Bashkirs 1,411,683 „bl 7. Mofdva 1.167.468 1. Russia 15,237,900 8. Tehuvashes 1,061,968 2. White Russ. 679,00 - 9. Germans 853,682 3. Ukrainia ...... 5,662,000} 10, Jews 653,355 4. Caucasus 1,150,900 11. Votiaks 466,181 ain and 5. Turkomania . 805, 109,0 12. Maries 399,753 00% de 6. Usbekistac I. 13. Poles — (Turkestan) ., 4,0827600 741,000} 14. Tehechens 239,954. hre b —— . , 166,760 as cs mown prensa follows: US. 8. R. 1 1400 22,979,800 16. Armenians 155,759 a wb It is clear that 8. 8. R. is primar-] 17. Osetins 13,643 7 4 ea 8 u berg try as the fig- 18. Krbardins 117,218 | OR rs . * ily an agric . . MOSCOW, Dec. 7— complete agreement h been reached be- tween the Sovi ment and Sine companies for four Japanese exploitation of the oll field on Sak- nalin Island, formerly held by the Sinclair interests. The contract will formally be signed on Dec. 10. Besides the oil wells acquired by Japan under the Peking agreement, the Japanese get tHe right to exploit an additional ared (of 10,000 square miles on the eastern cost of Sakha- lin for ten years? also extensive coal fields for „ tor fifty years. a The Japanese “witi pay the Russ- en production ans royalties © 15 per cent and ranging from f¥ on coal from five eier per cent. er eie from page 1). uuns only thirteen. Of these 2 Sin were present. Simllarly, a question was asked as to the pact te organizations in existence at e present time, one member of the national committee stated that ‘there were none actually in existence while another declared that there were some in existence altho he could not name the chairmen. - The afternoon session was devoted to a discussion of a motion by Parley P. Christensen, to instruct the national committee to call a national conven- tion for Feb. 22. Arguing for the mo- tion Christensen, who was the presi- dental candidate of the farmer-labor party in the 1920 elections, declared: “We must face the fact that altho we made a splendid showing in the past elections, the people who supported us now are beginning to believe that we are dead.” A Yonvention even with only three states represented will serve to give the impression that we are alive.” Other delegates from IIli- nois, also argued along the same line. “We must baptize the child and ex- plain the purpose for its existence” was the plea of a delegate from Penn- sylvania who also favored an early na- tional convention. Delegates from New York, Massa- chusetts and Baltimore arguisg against an early convention, pointed out that there are at present no state organizations that would be entitled to send delegates, that a campaign must first be started in the states for the organization of such bodies. “Whom shall we invite to attend this convention” the vice chairman of the national commitee asked. “The unions have withdrawn at the Chicago con- ference and what would be gained by inviting organizations who have with- drawn?“ Can Do Nothing. In the course of the debate on this motion the confusion of the partici- pants was fully exposed. Each dele- gate on taking the floor made an amendment or substitute or supple- mentary motion until the chairman realizing that nothing could be gained by permitting further discussion, be gan to put to a vote those motions that he favored. Seeing that the sen- timent was overwhelmingly against an early convention and that the sup- plementary motions and amendments and substitutes were merely the ef- fort of the delegates to concgal from each other their reaiization of ibe im- yotency of the conference, Christen- sen then made a motion to table all the motions and amendments. When this failed, he declared that the con- ference has no power to decide any- thing. That the motions and discus- sions had already enlightened the na- tional committee and that therefore all the proposais should be referred to the national committee. The dele gates all seized upon this motion as a means of evadin ponsibility. The unanimous adopti this motion was typical of the conference as a aN — — ~ OM 2 —— lt were pre licity that Will ce. Our work her “was purely of a negative character.” ws f»rence shall issue 8 statement to the rress that will reaffirm the principles of the C. P. P. Ahe failed to men- tion which principles) That we shall give out to the préBs/that the confer- ence was marked W enthusiasm and uanimity, and that“we shall adopt a resolution of tribute to the memory of our great leader whose death oc- curred since the last formal meeting of our organization.” The assembled delegates vigorously and for the first gestion. * Can't Pay Debts. While waiting for the return of the committee, Mrs. Edith Houghton Hooker, took occasion to remind the delegates that there is still a dead horse” lying about in their organiza- tion. This horse Was in the form o unpaid bills for 2,000 accumulated in the last campaigh. She called upon all present to ang that the progres- sive party would tinue to live by getting rid of th ad horse.” The conference even d to accomplish this one delegat@“@téclaring “Missouri would be glad to~help if I Mie re- turn with a progr#th but since I can bring no program back I doubt if 1 can raise any méhey.” Other dele- gates also expressed their dissastifac- tion. “I came Here not to decide whether or not we should hold a na- tional convention hut to receive some answer to the qiéktion that must be answered What W ‘a progressive?” a delegate from Massachusetts stated No one answered dhe question, for no one knew. That the question was rot answered directly. Indirectly tho, the conference anbwered to the satis- faction of the writer. The workers of this country willM&nswer this question by contemptuously brushing aside these muddle heads. who call 2 selves progressives. The conference for Progressive Po- litical Action is bankrupt because 1 can no longer continue to delude the workers into supporting them, be- cause those who constituted that or- ganization have proven their total fail- ure to estimate the needs of the work- ers upon whom they depended for sup- port; because, the “progressives” are representatives of a spineless middle class devoid of plan, program or fu- ture. The demise of the C. P. P. will not be regretted by the workers who will now apply themselves to the task of building a party representative of the those who produc wealth—a labor ruling class of oq future—a party of party. 4 | manded by a former o He proposed theréfore that the con- time applauded this “practical” sug- Maden Falls Before 2 * * Mutinous Armies China, Dec. 7— Chang “war lord of, ruthless commander of the armies of northern China whith |,’ SHANGHAI, Tso-lin, the so-called Manchuria,” have repeatedly suppressed all efforts of Chinese workers, students and pes antry to free themselves from foreign’: imperialist domination, ts overthrS WN by his own armies and his caplitat city, Mukden, is within a few hours of capture by the mutineers. 1 464 Chang Tso-lin’s vast power has of- pséd, just as many another Wär lords „ power has collapsed like a hous e of cards, when the engines 6f va and “those. who run them—ifé file of common eder was turned against him. ; wh Troops Refuse to Fight. eon Chang Tso-lin for a last stand upon his son, Chang Hsueh-liang, to hold back the mutinous armies com- cer of Chat Kuo Sung-ling, at a point one hundred miles south of Mukden near the cities of Chinchow and Kuopangtzuu. When General Kuo’s troops “ad- vanced to attack, however, the troops commanded by Chang Hseuh-liang re- | ou: Dec. 7. — Premier ‘Musso! lini and his fascist hordes not satis- fied with the dictatorship over the workers in Italy are planning to. ex- tend their control over Italian work- ers in other countries. In an official communication of the fascist government to its re- presentatives abroad, it instructs ‘these representatives to open up clubs where . Italian workers will meet and listen to fascist com- mands. ‘All of the italian ambassadors, , counsuls and ministers are ‘instruct:. ed to immediately ‘zation of these fascist groups — foreign lands. Workers, who are ‘posed to the fascist dictatorship FEN Itallan Rags dictator will use to title the opposition and exposures ee the dictatorship by wor tore. wi ‘escape his rs. These clubs 1 un" 2 (Continued fron from page 5 LuFollette defeated Lenroot's date, who was also the Coolidge didate, in the special election in cousin. di-“ can-“ fused to fight, their commanders un- der young Chang, Generals Chang N- hsiang’and Wan Fu-lin flatly dechu- ing to order their troops into aétfth against their former comrades under General Kuo. LOUNGE The capture of Chinchow toll ee a capture which sealed Chang’s fate, altho young Chang tried desperately to rally his routed troops at Hsinmin- fu. Chang Checks Out. When Chang Tso-lin heard of the defeat, he called his staff remaining in Mukden to his headquarters, dis- tributed some $250,000 in cash pre- sents to his officers and told them he would surrender the Manchurian cap- ital. Thus Chang Tso-lin passes from power. What is to come is quite an-} other matter. Rumors and reports, of unconfirmed nature, say that Japan is not so unhappy at Chang’s down- fall, and even that Japan had some- thing to do with it. There is a report that the general f 1 leading the mutiny, Kuo Sung-ling,} } spent some time in Japan not long be- fore the mutiny broke out? And there is a rumor that the Japanese manifest a strange unconcefn at the passing of Chang Tso-lin, strange considering. that they used him for years as their principal tool in north China. * Whether they have merely changed one hireling for another is uncertain. But what is certain is that Chinese, soldiers are learning the lesson and power of mutiny. It now happens that another mer- cenary, who relied upon Chang’s son maintaining his force against Kuo- Sung-ling, is in a hard fix further south. This person is the tuchun (governor) of Chihli, Li ‘Ching-lin. He refused General Feng Yu-hsiang coming from the west, the right-of-way thru Chihli to aid General Kuo. Now that Kuo is victorious, young Chang whipped and Feng’s\troops advancing, the honorable governor of Chihli is out on the end of a long, cold limb. Typical Chamber of Commerce. A typical example of the spirit of the bourgeoisie is seen in the action of the Mukden chamber of commerce. Altho it had only twenty-four hours previously sworn deep vows to stand by Chang Tso-lin, when news arrived of the capture of ‘Chinchow and the spread of the nutiny to the troops of Chang’s son, the chamber of com- merce met a nt a telegram to the advancing a Kuo, welcoming him to the city As a “deliverer.” : cee OR Bee es ee: Ser Rees ee bP te ot eel * we Wigs, Re OF Vw lone socialist those of its members who died since’ the last session. They were Robert M. LaFollette, Sr., Seldon R. Spencer of Missouri, Edwin A. Ladd of North Dakota, and Samuel L. Ralston of In- diana. Ralston was the only_democrat ‘and his place was filled by a republican, an appointee of the ku klux governor, Jackson of Indiana. Longworth House Speaker. The house of congress organized in a brief space of time and the Coolidge henchman, Nicholas Long worth, of Ohio, was elected speaker of the house by a substantial majority. The democrats voted for Finis Garrett of Tennessee and the opposition repub- licans voted for Maney Allen Cooper of Wisconsin. y The first ‘seesion was: brief me pe ‘real ‘fight will begin tomorrow 4 the president’s message is read. Nothing that will draw Decembs eworks is expected until Decem when” discussion opens on world court. Then will begin & se torial battle that will: probably rival tke great debate on the league of na- tions that sent the democratic mob | down to defeat and made a phfsica wreck of Widrow ‘Wilson: Victor Berger of Milwauks it member of this cong- ress. Nothing is expected of him ex · cept occasionally to raise an insipid objection. As far as being a ne tor the working class ‘that is the las thing ever to be expected from tl 10 defender of the Assassins of the Work- ing class. Florio H. LaGuardia of New Vork Was elected on. he is really a republican and supports the LaFollette insurgent group. The presgnt session of congress will last for six months and most of the time will be devoted to the tax ques- tion and international affairs, with the possibility of attempeted legisla- tion to force industrial conscription upon workers in basic industries of the country, ——— Women Teachers Ask Same Wages. HARTFORD, Conn.—(FP)—Women high school teachers of Hartford, Conn., are demanding that they be paid the same wages as men for the same work: The“ women teachers ask a uniform “wage scale instead of the present one with a differential of $300 to $450 yearly between men's and wo- men’s wag neh game a course. It Begin the organi- . $ doubtedly be used as a means 17 disrupting ‘union meetings and as . Wie : 4 ne 8 also paid tribute to 18 dui socialist ticket but | ‘ton crop. The area of the cotton erop also fell sharply during the war a and revolution and the cotton industry * * uttered. In 1916, the acreage under the cotton in Turkestan have imated as 1,560,600 acres ak tae haye been reduced to 140,400 Cacres. in 1928 the central cotton committee reported the increase of the acreage to the average of 486,000 acres and the approximate yield of cotton lint have been estimated as 90,000,000 pounds. The central cotton commit- tee supplied the seeds to increase the acreage in 1924 to 800,000 acres and succeeded by supplying not only the best seeds of the American origin but also organized the delivery of the wheat and flour to the population to eliminate the necessity of the use of the cotton field for wheat Qrowing. In some sections during the world ‘war, civil war and revolution the cot- n crops have been entirely replaced tp wheat In spite of the increase of f acreage of the cotton crop, the . 8. 8. R. will depend upon the ‘side world and will import the aes ant. from the United States: to meet e dure ot home textile stry. Russia is buying rast iam 8 of cotton in this country lx with no tendency to decrease the amount of the import. The textile industry of the U. 8. 8. R. is being developed. The old cotton mills are renovated and the new er- dect to be constructed in different parts of the country. Im connection with this restoration ot the textile m- stry, the U. S. S. R. is already buy- the machinery in this country. (To be continued.) f * wise FORM COMMITTEE To can American Imperialism Steps toward the welding togethér of Latin-Americans and Filipinos re- siding in Chicago for a joint struggle toward the liberation of their native countries from American imperialism, were taken Saturday night at a meet- ing of Cubans, Mexicans and Filipin- os, assembled under the auspices of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League, at the Labor Temple, 119 So. Throop St. A,telegram of fraternal psreeting was sent to the Filipino in- dependence mission now in Washing- ton, and committee of three was elected to proceed with arrange- ments for further work among the | Spanish-speaking population of. Chica- g0—to begin with another and larger mass meeting in thé near future. The conimittee includes Jose Espinosa, Nemesio Felipe and Fra Guiscetti. Speakers at Saturday's meeting were Nemesio Felipe of the Filipino Association of Chicago, Adolfo Gar- cia, editor of Solidaridad, and Manuel Gomez, secretary of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League. Despite the small attendance, due to unusually severe weather, the meeting proved to be of great significance and laid the basis for important work. Against American Imperialism. When Latin-Americans,” said one of the speakers, “whose own native countries are separated from the Philippine Islands by thousands of miles can be drawn into active sup- port of the movement for Filipino in- dependence, on the basis of the com- mon struggle against American im- (perialism, it is the beginning of a new epoch—an epoch in which the libera- tion} of all subject and oppressed péo- ples is clearly foreshadowed.” Avenge Wrongs. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Dec. 7— That Knute B. Birkeland, financier, and retired Lutheran minister, Was slain by an enemy, who rose out ot the past to avenge a wrong in a busi- ness deal, was the theory on which friends of the. dend man proceeded to- tery in their * 90 clear the mys ＋＋— Ge Se 5 ook ‘LATIN-AMERICANS y a he = 25 rei F 5 a ac at aaa Nal ap ka ee ae e * 0 — — K 333 * 2 b 2 } ~