Daily Worker
December 19, 1925

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. » as ers’ + fe + P , Mice at Chicago, a - : ey dim > Ri 7 > —- Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. NEW YORK EDITION vee e 4 \ 3 ‘ ; , * Dean iy f- a 7 Beiinuguiany se a . | 4 a iy eee th ; 3a% . er es “53 $e ” ia : eis J ot, Published Daily except a age A by THE DAILY PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washin gton Bivd., Chicago, LL WORKER + re SS 7? ihe : » Dec. ated the ‘ repr: tio pers fa portional repre tion shou vote and the le left the convention. | By, WILLIAM F. DUNNE. ial to The Dally Worker) 17.—The Sigman machine late most important provision of the rovidin that the question of pro- be submitted to a re m ‘wing delegation, following the lead of Hyman, _. The crisis was provoked with coldblooded deliberation by President Sigman, Dubinsky and others, and was evidently part of a preconceived plan to place the blame for a split on the left wing. This plan failed, however, because the spokesmen for the left wing ' immediately issued a statement repudiating any sug- AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'TLAHERTY Ss SIDNEY HILLMAN, president of the - Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, is running a race with Presi- dent: William Green of the American ‘Federation of Labor for the class colby laboration stakes. Green is swallow- ing Hillman’s dust, The labor faker. who nods patronizingly at the class struggle has put it all over the labor faker who preaches the doctrine of unity between capital and labor. Green is touring the country theorizing on the advantages to be gained by “both” labor and capital from co-operation in- stead: of struggle, while the members of his own union are engaged in a iife and death struggle with the an- thracite operators in Pennsylvania. — 14 My Pas e 2 Or! rer . new laurels to his class collaborationist crown, tho he never even once mentions the Hated term or anything suspiciously like it. The current issue of the Advance, official organ of the Amalgamated Clothing: Workers, unofficially edited by the, word juggler J. B, Salutsky—now }22ioR Hardman because the “sky” sounds ‘ too Muscovy—tells a story that may well mark a milestone in the degen- eration of the A. C. W. and a frésh innovation in the conspiracy to trans- form the labor unions of this country into industrial leagues of nations that will keep the workers quiet while the bosses rob them with the assitance of the labor fakers. ; ” * . HO has not heard of “Golden Rule Nash”? This fellow Nash has been running an open shop mail order house clothing factory in Cincinnati ‘Continued on page 2) the international holiday of labor, yet: is gestion of a split and voicing a determination to stay in the union in spite of all maneuvers by the real disrupters—the Sig- | manites. Force Sigman Retreat. So raw was. the provocation of Sigman and so obvious the violation of the fundamental basis of the unity agreement that even capitalist papers here, ‘like, the Evening Ledger, place the blame for the crisis upon Sigman. At nine o’clock negotiations opened between the administration and the left wing and an agreement was reached that the administration would urge the convention to adopt the re- ferendum provision upon the return of the left wing delegates to the con- vention. _The convention will resume its sessions at 9 a. m. The situation. e machine atte! ~ 2 attemnpted)to re the convention, read the left of the union and proceed with the business of the convention’ but\ opposi” tion’ to this policy came from a num- ber sof administration delegates who were not close enough to the machine tobe blinded to all reason and w Still retained some loyalty to } 4 N > & ‘Fe, Sa a Sa, ee r Y Now It Is the T - 7 4 Armed Deputies Seek “Unemployed Workers MEO By A Worker Correspondent When the worker from Council Bluffs, lowa, who had been sent to the Edison Electric Appliance com- pany, 52nd Ave. and 19th St., by the Landig award employment office to scab in the struck plant and who re- fused to work after learning of the sheet metal workers’ strike, went to get his kit of tools, he was refused admittance to the shop. He was taken into the office and there attempts were made to induce him to stay and scab. Despite the fact that he had been out | Of pwork and had a family dependent on him he told them to “go to hell” with their job and demanded his tools. The armed deputies were then told to give this “guy” his tools and let ‘Thim “get the hell out of here.” Chase After Unemployed. It has been the custom of the plug- uglies- calling themselves deputy sheriffs in this plant to run a couple of blocks after some worker whom they thought needed a job and get him ‘to come to the office and make ‘offars to the unemployed worker to seab; The deputies strenueus efforts to recruit scabs are not getting them any Where. >The deputy who was so well lit up yesterday, that the waitress in the restaurant he ate in watched him out of the corner of her, eyes so that he woudn’t drown in his bowl of soup, came swaggering out of the plant yésterday, shouting “Where in hell is that god damned DAILY WORKER.” Daily Worker Aids Strike. The DAILY WORKER has become a real weapon in this strike and the blows that it lands are telling on the scabs and the armed »plug-ugiies. Copies of The DAILY WORKER are being distributed in the neighborhoods where those that are scabbing live, so that their neighbors can know whod and what their “respectable” neighbor is doing. Threats of violence have been made by the deputies that they are going to “get” The DAILY WORKER’S cor- respondent on the picket line for his telling the truth of the strike situa- tion. s\, a] . urks “= b> - 4 S$ -2 ‘7 sh at Mosul in the Near East. ae _ a * i ainites 1f 7 y ies ij | - o_o aii6 ~ = 2 ii Millie PAT, j —_o---— Lubliner and? Tirinz, jarge Chicago moving pictureeth e magnates, have cancelledaaicontract with the struck Cribbent, Sexton & company stove manufacturing plant for the “Universal” heating system, which was to have been installed in one of their biggest and most beautiful theaters on the northwest side. This contract was a large one as it in- cluded the heating apparatus for two large apartment buildings on either side of the theater also. FINKS KIDNAP AND SLUG TWO UNION PICKETS Detective Agency Head Attacks Polishers Alexander Goréeki and Joseph Kra- son were severely yoeaten up by slug- gers, reported towbe city detectives in the pay of the struck concern, as they were picketing the Cribben, Sexton & company stove mandfacturing plant located at Chicagp Ave. and Sacra- mento Bivd. As the pickets were pacing back and forth, an automobile owned by I. (Continuedion paxeée 2) London Trades Council Sends Communists to Labor Party Meeting LONDON — (FP) —. The London Trades council refuses to enforce the Communist exclusion that the Labor party decided on at the Liverpool con- ference, and has elected three Com- munésts as its. representatives to the London Labor party. The London Trades council is the central trade union body for the whole of London. Of the 21 Communists nominated by local Labor parties in London, eight were elected in the recent mu- nicipal efeetions. The Communists were in nearly every case put forward by #ffe trade unions. S — nee, Ge | A *. nr r : % or ? “A . ' & i Vike ; 5 ist _ RELATIONS (Special to The Mosul to Irak by the ue of tered by TURKEY BREAKS DIPLOMATIC WITH IRAK OVER PARIS, France, Dec. 17.—Turkey relations Wi the cs of Irak as the result of the award of e Dally Worker) Wi has severed diplomatic nations council, it was learned ‘here today. This is the first step toward war between Turkey and Great Britain as the league mandate over Irak is adminis- Britain and the country administering the mandate is supposed to defend the territory against aggression, Under article 16 the other nations of the league are also supposed to aid in warfare against any nation violating the covenant of the league. — Paris opinions that the refusal to! recognize a decision in relation to dis- puted borders is not a violation of the covenant and therefore France will not be called upon, in case of war, to aid England. In London, however, the opposite opinion pre- vails and the papers supporting Bald- win are to state this evening that the action of Turkey does constitute a violation of the covenant of the league, and that France should aid Britain in Praege > case of war. Rushdi Defiant. | Tewfik Rushdi Bey, Turkish repre- 'sentative at Geneva, stated this morn- ing ‘that his government would break diplomatic relations with Irak “whose sovereignty over Mesul, Turkey will refuse to recognize.” When questioned he said he did not care to venture an opinion on whether or not this action would change the relations between Turkey* and Great Britain. * * LONDON, Dec. 17—No official no- (Continued on page 2) AS a a - i ~ _- = , \ i | PACIFISTS INTHE SERVICE. OF IMPERIALISM FLOCK 10 CAPITOL (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—The long-heralded world. court fight, which bids fair to repedt the memorable league of*nations struggle, began in the senate today. Three years of evasion, side-st came to an end when senate resolution No. become the unfinished business of the chambers. (Continued on page 2) tepping and pigeon-holing 5 was called up to it will hold the SOVIET UNION CELEBRATES THIRD YEAR OF PROMBANK’S ACTIVITIES three years. This event was marked by Centralize Financial Resources. The president of the supreme council of national economy of the Union } of Socialist Soviet Republics, F. B. Deer Commercial-industrial News that Prombank is the nearest assistant of the (Continued on page 3) zhinsky, indicated in an article in the jiatist League. - CUBAN RULERS OUT TO CRUSH LABOR UNIONS Mella Ends the Second Week of Hunger Strike A partial list of the other victims of American imperialism arrested in Cuba with Julio A. Mella at the behest of the American s@gar trust was made public today by the United States sec- tion of the All-America Anti-Imper- The tist, Just re- ceived from Havana, includes some of the best-known labor leaders in Cuba: Alfredo Lopez Arencibia, Manuel G. Frenandez, Sandalio Junco, Antonio Penichet, Octavio Garoia, Rafael S. Marrero, Francisco M. Breteau and Mella, who is general secretary of the Communist Party of. Cuba, is en- tering upon the fourtneeth day of his hunger struke. The Machado govern- ment of Cuba, always a’ready tool of Ambassador Crowder and the sugar barons, shows no sign of relenting. Colonos Still on Strike, The strike of the colonos against the big American-owned sugar cen- trals in Cuba still goes on, despite thé repressive measures of the gov- ernment. Military “supervisors” have been placed at all strategic points of the affected district. Some of the cén- trals (or grinding mills) have regular detachments of soldiers assigned to them. “The case of Mella and his com- rades involves more than @ mere strike,” warns Mafiuel Gomez, secre- tary of the All-American Anti-Impe- rialist League, in a bulletin issued to- day. “It makes urgently necessary @ united front between all the oppressed ; peoples of the ‘American empire’ with MOSCOW, U. 8. S, R., Dec. 17—The third year of the existence of the|the forward-looking workers of the Commercial & Industrial Bank of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics | United States against the ever-widen- (Prombank) has just been brought to a close. the whole Russian press and brought forth numerous articles, interviews and informattve memoranda, characterizing the work of the bank-for the past ing menace of American imperialism. The oppressed peoples are suspicious of all Americans, and with reason, it is up to the American workers to show that they have no part in the imperialistic schemes of Wall Street and Washington, and to lend support to their exploited brothers abroad. With Julio A. Mella dying in his pris- : (Continued on page 2) By SEN. CLAUDE C. SWANSON (Leader of the fight to join the World Court) Bi) a permanent court of interna- tional justice is an additional in- strumentality to be used by the United States, when adhered to, for the settlement of international dif- ferences and the preservation of world peace. | believe the president of the United States is earnestly ad- vocating it and believe the worid court resolution will be The subject will be debated and will be kept before the senate as con- tinuously as possibile until disposed of. There is no disposition on the part of its proponents not to have a full, fair and open débate of the subject, and | have seen no disposi- tion from any source toward a fill- buster. If a filibuster should dce- velop, there will be sufficient time to determine upon a counter course and bring about ratification of the world court plan. adopted. | By SENATOR WILLIAM E. BORAH (Leader of the opposition to the World Court) Y contention is that the world court should be divorced from the league of nations, As it is now, it is a component part of the league, a department of the league, and there is no possible way, as a prac- tical proposition, to avoid becoming identified with the league if we join the world court as proposed. What- ever may be said in favor of a world court, an independent judicial tri- bunal, that is not the proposition which we have before us. We are asked to join a tribunal which is the legal adviser and counsellor of the league and whose opinions and judg- ions, are to be enforced by the | league, even by military | mecessary. It seems to me utterly | untenable to contend that in joining | such a tribunal we do not become in all practical effect a member of the league. ments, including its advisory opin- | force if | WANSON, the democrat, speaks for the Wall Street banking com- the Instead of bine that controls democratic party. peace, as Swanson contends, guaranteeing both the. league and the court stimulate The republican party also supports Wall! Street’s proposal! that the United States enter the court. Borah is an insurgent, speak- new wars. ing for the middle and far west in- | dustrialists. He thinks the court | would be all right separated from the league. This is utopian, because every court must have its policemen to enforce its decrees. in this case | the nations affiliated with the league constitute the armed force and the '» court is the legal cloak for impe- rialist pillaging. As against the cap- | italist league of nations and world | court we. propose the world revolu- | tion in order to establish a league | of proletarian nations upon the | ruins of capitalism. , — L/PACKAGE PARTY, HARLEM CASINO, TIGTH ST. & LENOX AVE Admission Fifty Cents. Bring a Package or come prepared to Buy a Package, t . toil: SATURDAY, Deb. 19, DAILY WOR : en OPER £ - Three Views of the World Court| |

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Ra ghone take, © tely position’ on uestion. +e Z eet dese dhareamanc: te ing about it and doi ate a 3 at nothing, which is the po ‘the imperialist nated. | : plunde °e ©« @ @ gs: Ever since the Bolshevik revolution showed thet it was more powerful than all its capitalist foes, Soviet rule has ennana6d disarmament. se Ghee n, Soviet Com- missar of Foreign Affairs, ‘who is now in Paris, points out that last 5 ference discussing arr to the Benes (Czecho-Slo ear the Sov Chicherin tered into a compact for Chicherin openl are sufficiently known.” He bandits of Versailles that Germany will the Locarno developments. . * The profit press hails an Union in any disarmament con step closer to the le dream. The Soviet wards the le sailles peace. le makes ‘There is a entered on such a period.” It is this that the capitalist statesmen do the Soviet Union should have separate dealings with them all, exploiting their differences for its own purposes. Coolidge rule at Washington takes pride in Locarno. ‘It | urges joining the world court, the back door to the league of that Chicherin charges European profit nations also holds true for the United States, including the question of disarmament. Militarism weighs ° almost as heavily upon the American workers and farmers as it does upon labor in pr ay countries, altho the United nations. Everythin States boasts no great stan bud year 70.38 grow. their government, will farmers of this countr peace into the wor proposals. ) ten to sig pou he gant tual security. ah n seizes upon this occasion the Soviet attitude toward the league of r Locarno conference. The nations that talk disarmament are the same nations that the Soviet government charges en- aggressi tells the profit conspirators who would pre- pare for themselves a disarmament mask to hide their mili- tarist faces that “our apprehension ue of nations. Chicherin blasts this nion has not changed its attitude to- e. It still considers the league as an alliance of robber nations to maintain intact their colonial empires, and to perpetuate the mandates granted by the looters’ Ver- Since but one-sixth of the world is Soviet, and five- sixths still remain capitalist, Moscow must maintain rela- tions with its enemies. It does not intend to do so by enter- © ing the thieves’ lair at Geneva, ‘Switzerland, where the its headquarters. 3 vere is another way open—by direct with all the other countries on all questions r cent of all national government ex- penditures will be for wars—past, present and future. American imperialist ambitions materialize that burden will The United States is a militarist nation. tion of disarmament is becoming a vital and burning problem for American labor. -Across the broad expanse of the At- lantic, the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union, thru again and again tell the workers and how they ought to meet and solve this problem. bi will again broadcast their plan to bring d. Let American labor give ear to these 8 Willing to enter any con- e e to n restate eB and the on nst the Soviet state. regarding Locarno further. He notifies the be disillusioned by oe ‘e participation by the Soviet rence that may be held as a Chicherin says: inect and immediate, agreements . that interest us. We have not like; that a. against the army. During the coming ao The ques- 7 . Sigman in Desperate Effort to Provoke . . . s Split in Philadelphia (Continued fiom page 1) of the Sigman machine was designed to isolate the Communists by forcing a split, concentrating on a struggle against the New York left wing after it had been outlawed, destroy it by the use of an intensification of the methods used in the recent internal struggle and thus leave the Commun- ists without a mass following in the garment industry—in or out of the union. The danger hag been averted and it was not only a danger for the Com- munists but for the I L. G. W. Wed- nesday afternoon and evening the fate of the I, L. G. W. hung in the balance and one more instance of placing the entire union in jeopardy by the offi- cial war on the majority of the mem- bership and its chosen representatives must be charged to the Sigman ad- ministration. Left Wing Returns. The left wing delegation returned to the convention this morning and after the agreement for a referendum vote on important matters by the of- ficialdom, won a victory for propor- tional.representation on the New York joint board. The arrangement finally accepted on this question is that locals of not more than 250 members shall have one delegate, Not more than 500 two delegates, not more than 1,000 three delegates, not more than 3,000 five delegates and locals of more than 3,000 to have one delegate for each additional thousand or major fraction, providing, however, that no local shall have more than eight delegates. This system of See | Was accept- $t8 ; —w ed unanimously but the left wing voted against the further propagal that in cities where there is no local of a thousand members the present System of representation, five dele- gates for each loca] regardless of size, shall continue. While the New York locals have broken the control of the joint board by the maching at this convention, in all centers outside of New York the joint board apparatus remains in control of the Sigmanites, The referendum vote may upset this control, however. The convention agreed this morn- ing on motion of Antonini to consider only the election of officers, propor- tional representation . and amnesty and, On an amendment by Portnoy, such other matters as the delegates may decide upon. Unless another crisis occurs the convention will finish its sessions tonight. Utica Labor Defense Gives Entertainment on Saturday Night UTICA, N. Y., Dec. 17—Dance and entertainment will be held by the lo- cal International Labor Defense Satur- day evening, Dec. 19, at 8 o'clock; 131 Washington St. Roumanian Journalists Demand Higher Wages BUCHAREST, Rumania—(FP)-~ Journalists are on strike in Transyl- vania against wages which average little unore than $4 a week. ular, have made the most remarkable strides., . 3 ad ube ee Communists Poll Million Votes. ist Party polled close to @ mi un-. and now have 43 representatives stead of 20; and in Latvia, where Communist party is illegal and could ‘| not put up any candidates, the left Social Democrats made the biggest gains, heading the list with 32 mem- bers out of a house of 100. In Great Britain the November, mu- nicipal elections show more than 40% increase in the strength of labor since three years ago. The Labor party gained 200 seats. be The Social Democrats in Germany increased their strength in the munic- ipal elections, though not to the same extent as the Communists. In Berlin the Social Democratic party increased its representation from 46 to 75. In the parliamentary elections in Ozecho- slovakia, however, the Social-Demo- crats lost heavily, the Czech Social- Democrats receding from 52 to 29 members and the German Social- Democrats from 29 to 18. Communists Gains. In the Belgian municipal elections this fall the right parties have been outdistanced by the working-class parties. According to latest figures, the Conservatives (Catholics) have | lost 11 seats and the Liberals 23, while the Socialists have gained 30 seats. and the Communists 11. Swiss elec- tions in October showed gains for both Socialists and Communists. (Continued from page 1) jon cell, where American imperialism has placed him, instant protest is necessary.!” Attend Protest Meeting. All workers are urged to attend next Sunday’s mass meeting at North- west Hall, corner North and Western avenues, under the joint auspices of the. United States section of the All- America Anti-Imperialist League and International Labor Defense. The meeting is set for 7:30 p. m. Altho it was necessary to arrange the dem- onstration almost on a moment’s no- tice, and the date is now only two day’s off, a turnout of Chicago work- ers is expected. editor of The DAILY WORKER is to be one of the principal speakers. There will also be Negro, Cuban, Fil- ipino and Chinese speakers. Attack Labor Unions. The campaign of terror continues unabated in Cuba. lLabor organiza- tions thruout the island are being at- tacked by the government. The Na- tional University is threatened with being closed down because the. stu- dents support the sugar strikers and denounce the subservience of the government to American imperialism. Students and worker are looking for aid to the protests of their brothers in South and Central America, and especially to the working class of the United States, which; as the Cubans know, has its own score to settle with Wall Street. Anti-imperialist protest meetings similar to the one in Chicago next Sunday, are to be arranged in all im- portant cities of the United States. Rose Karsner, secretary branches of her organization to co-op- erate with the All-America Ani-Im- perialist League in the arrangement of the meetings. He will like it! Give your union brother a sub to The DAILY WORKER. RLAAAAAAA AAA AA AAAAAAAAAAAAAA The Y. M.C. A. is a club for good boys— maybe “~~ But you will learn some- thing else about it in the Magazine Supplement of The DAILY WORKER this Saturday from the pen of HARRY GANNES Look ‘in the Magazine Supplement of the DAILY ‘WORKER this Saturday. Are you going to give? Make it a book on Communism! ) od gendge to Fee nbtineed 2) trie ayy gage ea ean nee * * iv tk ke ~- = 75 _______ ag oy RB Gt PRESS e a a. Aibin weit. eter : fx , William F. Dunne, . of Interna- , tional Labor Defense, has wired to all/ f : — =

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v2 ap ee Te oe aaa bf) eas hs a g 4 ¥ x r “Ra AES a? ia ae he bail aha eee ety rey . if > fie ; oe country district is that a miniature town has been temporarily. erected. The number of men actually woek- ing en the scheme when George Hicks and I arrived there, a couple of months ago, was over 7,000. The maximum number employed was 11,- 000, but as the work is nearing com- pletion the numbers are being re- duced. Communal Spirit Manifest. There is a communal spirit every- where manifested amongst the people. They are supremely proud of the great achievement';which is being ac- complished under their eyes. Imagine these peasants workers, who for- merly knew practically nothing of those gigantic electrical developments with which more industrialized coun- tries are familiar, now themselves proudly undertaking the immense task, completing this super-power station. It is hardly to be wondered at that they are eager to display the product ee their own work to the in- terested \visitor. Moreover, there is a warm affection for the British work- ers whieh is radiated by the Russian masses, and which is almost embar- rassing in its fuleomeness. Workers Greet British. As soon as we afrived at the rail- way station we were met by several hundreds of people, headed by the workers’ band, and to the inspiring strains of the “Iinternational” we made our way from the train. Speeches of welcome were inevit- able, and before proceeding on our investigation we had to inspect a de- tachmient of the Red army, and an- other of the militia. Then we went forward with the band still tootling bravely, passing on our way concert rooms, cinemas, the- eaters, hospitals, workers’ clubs, and many other institutions which have been erected provisionally for the workers engaged on building the sta- tion.—Reprinted from the Sunday Worker, London. DMATOUIUNENANHAAULALUOUUSNUOQOUUUUUURONEONNUOUUUU00E980404004000UQ0ENNNN44NG0NOUUOUEOvOENNECOs0GG0quqoonegnOsusuoagqqnuoveegguvndsqoqdttt CELEBRATE 20th Anniversary 1905 Revolution 100th Anniversary Decembrist Uprising SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20, at 2 P. M. at Central Opera House, 67th St. and 3rd Ave., New York Prominent Speakers in Many Languages. — Excellent Musical Program. Admission 25 Cents. 5 Auspices: Workers (Communist) Party, Young Workers (Communist) League, District No.2. the event of failure of} | loping Soviet industry demands | # Ly ie, WS 8" & . ey | ' 7 « ~ 6 a? 2 = - > Pgs ee FEMA eo 3 es. wy ‘i 7 . 3 - é - ; ¥ aaa ag Pee & j mA fy) # ; R,, a ae + : C De as a) ae a; re: ee ‘ ~4 er ; i ee 6 PBR 4 Woe oe? 7 < - vu Ria é nar a * 7 3 ie ;‘ ees - ’ x : ~ . aoa Mae, aed HE lower photograph of the rich Baku oil fields shows why the American capitalists are eager for” the recognition of the Soviet Union, With the recognition of the Soviet, Union, they expect to get conces -, siofs as rich as this one in the. , Union. The Soviet government re-'. fuses to hand out concessions be- fore diplomatic relations are fully a ‘) resumed, The upper photo shows ~ some soldiers of the Red army of “the Soviet Union. It is the militant daring and courage of these soldiers workers and peasants—that has beaten the Anglo-American-Franco- Japanese intervention, destroyed Kolchack, Denikin, Wrangell Yuden- Itch, and other counter-révolution- arles and is now guarding the Union from any attacks by the capitalist at are determined to des- viet Union. The picture ‘right hand corner is “of a ship that has — as a freight-carrier. rhe } ntly brought a cargo of Russiafi'products to the United States. Theinset is Boris Skvirsky, the u representative of the | Soviet “who is now in Wash- Third Year. of the Prombank (Continued from page 1) ‘°° , Vv. S. N. H. (Supreme Council of ‘Na- Economy). . The interest of de- consolidation in the Prombank of a its credit activities, particularly cen- tralizing these financial resources. which are to be used for long term industrial credits. The vice-president of the V. S. N. H., U. L. Piatakoff, pointed out ftiiat during these three years the Promt' bank became the largest (not count- ing the state bank of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics) .credit.in-; stitution in the country, with a 500,- 000,000 rubles on its balance sheet and with a 1,500,000,000 rubles tuxn- over in loans and discounts t0, in-| of reserves for industry dnd the main organizer of its credit turn-Over, serv- ing the needs of its clients with the utmost of satisfaction. Speaking ef the fundamental problems of the Prombank in light of its activities in the immediate future. U. L. Piatakoff pointed out that the bank must take the most active part in the operating long-term industrial credits as well as to greatly enlarge its foreign opera- tions. Bank Aids «industry. On being interviewed by the repor- ter of the Commercial and Industrial News (Moscow), president of the board of directors of the Prombank, V. N. Ksandroff, gave most important figures, which characterized’ * the achieyments of the bank for these three years. Comparing the balanee- sheet of the third year as of October ist with the balance sheet of the first year, Ksandroff showed that every rouble of the initial capital increased to 35 roubles; every rouble of the first years current accounts balance increased to’ 314 roubles, and every rouble of the first year’s loans and discounts became 504 roubles in the balance sheet of the third year. The balance sheet of the Prombank at the beginning of the present year of oper- ation amounts to 571,000,000 roubles as against 276,000,000 roubles on the same date in 1924 and 87,000,000 roubles in 1923. Prombank has at present 82 branches in the territory of the Union of Socialist Soviet Repub- lics in addtion to 150 large factory and mill cash-offices. The indebted- ness of industry alone to the bank amounts at present to more than 270,000,000 roubles, USDEAEEADAGEUNELOANAEASOONUGAAOGTEUEGLENAESLOUDUOSALEUI NUE IHANIITRE Enlarge Factories. + The Peoples Commissar 6f Finance, G.-Y. Sokolnikoff, showed in the Com- 4 mercial-Industrial News the great im- portance of the functions carried out by the Prombank in the Soviet Repub- lics’ economy, and the enormous role which it must bear in the mobiliza- tion of financial resources for tHe restoring and enlarging of the basic capital in Soviet industry. The gov- ernment planning commission in the person of its president, A. D. Tzurupa and vice-presidents, G. M. Krzhizhan- ovsky and I. T. Smilga, also indicated on the pages of the Commercial-In- dustrial News the exceptional results attained by the Prombank and the igh place which it now occupies in dustry. The bank became the center|the credit system and in the whole economic life of the Soviet Union. The enormous importance of the work of the Prombank in the whole economy of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics was likewise indicat- ed in the same newspaper by vice- president of the supreme administra- tion board of the metal industry, V. Nozktauk; by president of the board of directors of the State Bank, Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, N. G. Tumanoff; by member of the presi- dium of the All-Russian Central Coun- cil of Trade Unions, M. P. Viadimi- roff, by president of the board of directors of the Sugar Trust, Kalma- novitch; by vice-president of the Tex- tile Syndicate, Eromine; by vice-pres- ident of the supreme board of the cotton committee, Nazaroff; and by ‘many others of the most important offers in the economic life of the Soviet Union. ; Importance of Oil Industry. The president of the board of di- rectors of the Azerbeidjan Oil Trust, Serebrovsky, in his telegraphic greet- ings to the Prombank expressed the wish for continued progress on the road mapped out during its former activities, and indicated the excep- tional importance of the work of the ‘Prombank in the development of the oil industry as well as its role in strengthening the financial condition of Azerbaidjan. From the numerous articles which appeared on the Prombank’s third anniversary in all the central and provincial newspapers, characterizing the role of the Prombank in the work of restoring industry and _ other branches of public economy, attention must be called to the article by the assistant manager of the foreign de- partment of the supreme council of national economy of the. Soviet Union, M. Roshal. He points out the role which the Prombank must play in the animation of the Soviet’s im- lowing words: Import Machinery. “As much as the importation of in- dustrial machinery, which is necessary for enlargement of the basic capital of our industry, requires long term credits, the Prombank, as the special bank of industry,;can and must play the main role: asi the natural guaran- tor for omr industry when it secures the ry credits from abro } port and export business in the fol-, kf Justice adlldispensed in Chicago against the Workers during labor dis- putes was luridly shown up when the 80 and more gases of Amalgamated Clothing Worker unionists arrested while the 19 week International Tai- loring company strike was on were dismissed ong and all, From the petty charge of digerderly ‘conduct to the ominous accygation of conspiracy to murder every, unionist is set free on motion of the defense counsel. The overwhelming bail bonds fixed by the municipal court, amounting in one case to $105,000 alone, have been re- leased and the Amalgamated can once more use its cash for direct trade union purposes. State Against Workers. As if to point the mofel that the police and the courts are always against labor during a strike, each case was dismissed for latk of evi- dence. The pofice and the daily papers had made a tremendous affair of the raids on the union offices, had pictures of the arrested union offi- cials and had’8tories day after day of sinister plots discovered just in the nick of tithe: Now all this alleged evidence, the’ firearms, the acid, the brass knuckles, the bombs, the threats, the ‘aS#aults, the shots, the burning of a*tfuck with mail, all are forgotten and@/#he whole case goes to pot for lack ofevidence. The explanation is simply that the union won the strike. The company settled with Yabor. The auxiliary forces of the! boss, the police, the courts and the dailies, have therefore been restored to a peace footing in _WORKER MILLINERY UNION STARTS DRIVE TC ORGANIZE SHOPS Hand Milliners Have Little Organization By ART SHIELDS. (Federated Press) NEW YORK, Dec. 17—The hand millinery workers of New York and a half dozen other great cities are highly skilled workers who put their individuality into their headgear crea- tions but their wages dare only half those of the machine workers in the industry because the latter are or- ganized and the hand workers are not. So while the winter season is at its height special organizers for. the Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Work- ers’ International Union are putting the case up to them in a continent- wide campaign in New York, .Phila- delphia, Chicago, Montreal, Los An- geles and San Francisco, Union Shop Conditions. ‘In the union shops the 44-hour week prevails; protection against discharge and a minimum wage of $65 a week for operators. In the nonunion hand work shops basic hours are longer with uncontrolled overtime; the boss hires and fires as he pleases an« wages are only half as high. The machine shops have been so! idly organized for only a few years. A big strike in 1919 was followed iz 1921-23 by a sustained organizing cam paign that brot that branch of the in- dustry into union relations and raised minimum wages $10 a week. Now in this first big drive on the hand work shops where conditions are worse than they were in the machine shops when the latter were unorganized the union finds a fertile fleld. Shops range in size to.300 workers. The first step is the formation of, shop committees which present demands to the employ- ers, the union furnishing the workers with meeting places and organization methods and. eventually the union steps in officially. ‘Supreme Court Finds Small Responsible for “Taking” State Funds SPRINGFIELD, Dec. 17--The Illi- noigs supreme court upheld the decis- ion of the circuit court of Sangamon county making Governor Len Small ‘esponsible for interest withheld from he state while he was in: office as tate treasurer. ‘The amount of de- ault was estimated at $2,000,000. Small opponents are taking steps to force him to vacate the governorship as the state constitution prohibits a debtor to the state from holding of- fice. Senate to Consider Debt Funding Pacts WASHINGTON, Dec. 17. — Altho facing a conflict of legislative powers with the house, administration leaders of the senate were ready to begin con- sideration of the six foreign debt fund- ing pacts, under which the govern- ments of Italy, Belgium, Roumania, Czecho-Slovakia, ‘Esthonia and Latvia will repay their war loans. The bills were favorably reported to the senate by the finance committee with a un- animous recommendation for their ratification. REMEMBER THEY ARE IN JAIL FOR YOU; DO NOT FORGET THEIR BIRTHDAYS (1. L. D. Press Service.) CHICAGO—The birthdays in Jan- uary of politicals confined in -Amer- ican prisons are announced by Intl. Labor Defense, 23 S. Lincoln st., .as follows: Jan. 18.—Richard Ford, Marysville prison, Cal. an. 24.—Jack Nash, San Quentin prison, Cal. Jan. 24.—F. Franklin, San Quentin prison, Cal. Jan. 27.—Peter Dirks, prison, Me. Jan. 27—Dan Fallon, — Thomaston Thomaston the Amalgamated sector. Lives and Lessons of prison, Me. Nicolai Lenin Karl Liebknecht in one attrac- tive booklet Rosa Luxemburg is radés than to distribute this booklet into every corner of the country— wherever workers congregate. Because of the nearness of the meetings we expect a great rush of orders. We therefore ask that you plenty of time to get them to you, Single copy 15c—In lots of ten or more 10c 1113 W. W ae, please find }.................. the lives of "Lenin, Liebknecht and Luxemburg. On the occasion of the anniversary meetings during January there no more fitting way to eelebrate the memory of our martyred com- —. Fill Out the Blank Below: — — — — — Young Workers (Communist) League of America, oe Bivd., Chicago, Il. . for BY MAX SHACHTMAN. get ‘yours in early so as to give us TPP ee Pee Co) Name: rr, Address: “s City: LL Maintain Deep Silence SANTIAGO, Chile, Dec, 17—Amer- ican imperialists are worried as all the Santiago newspapers are silent on the Tacna-Arica plebiscite activities. They do not even say whether Chile’s reported appeal has been forwarded to President Coolidge. Considerable interest is taken in the question whether the plebiscite commission will continue its work in Tacna and Arica or transfer its activities to Washington. There is a question as to who would be left in charge should “Black-Jack” Pershing go to Wash- ing for a conference with Coolidge. LABOR DEFENSE CHIGAGO BAZAAR AIDS PRISONERS Big Sum Goes to Zeigler Defense (i, L. D. Press Service.) One of the most successful bazaars yet held by the radical movement of ‘hicago, was the unanimous verdict of ll those who attended the bazaar giv- n by the International Labor Defense if this city and which lasted for four iectic nights. The local committee announces that i has already turned in to the national fice the sum of fifteen *hundred dol- ars as proceeds from the affair, which zo for the Zeigler defense. Not only were those who attended he bazaar given their fill of an or- linary good time but they were treat- ed to special features’ which were giv- en by the various nationalities who co- operated in making the affair a suc- cess. Besides this, Max Shachtman, who recently returned from Zeigler, gave a short account of the frame-up and called upon all to aid the miners who are putting up such a brave de- fense. Had Good Time. On the last day of the bazaar the Young Workers League orchestra played to the swaying of innumerable feet. Two young Negro comrades, Hughes and Galloway, treated the au- dience to a genuine Charleston danc- ing exhibition which was pronounced good by all those who had the slight- est appreciation for terpsichorean feats. The local committee especially ex- tends its thanks to the Karl Marx Scandinavian Club for its energetic co-operation in making the bazaar gc over big, as well as to all other com- rades and organizations who helped to put the affair over and help the Zeigler miners in their case. Criminal Syndicalism* Victims’ Strike Nears End of Third Month SAN QUENTIN, Cal.—(FP)—The strike of 21 criminal syndicalism pris- oners in San Quentin is still on after nearly three months. It has now as- sumed the nature of a lockout, for the warden has ordered that even men seriously ill from their dungeon and solitary experiences are to be kept there indefinitely. Underground let- ters state that five of the men are in a dangerous condition. One of the men in solitary is Tom Connors, twice sentenced to five years for “jury tam- pering” because as secretary of the California Defense committee he sent ‘out circulars appealing for repeal of the criminal syndicalism law. Co-operative Undersells Scabby Ward Baking Co. NEW YORK—(FP)—Three pounds of bread for 24c if you are* within reach of the Finnish Co-operative Trading Assn. of Brooklyn, N. Y. When you aren’t near the co-operative you pay Ward Baking Co., or one of the other big baking companies par- ticipating in the $400,000,000 merger, 32c for your loaf. The co-operative uses better materials and has full un- ion conditions. Every trade unionist knows that Ward is antiunion. Women’s Organizations Oppose “‘Ma” Ferguson DALLAS, Tex., Dec. 17—Women of Texas will oppose the re-election of Gov. Miriam A. Ferguson, Mrs. J. D. Claybrook, president of state demo- cratic women’s association, declared in an address before the democratic women of Dallas county. Mrs. Clay- brook said the women of Texas, re- gardless of party, are not behind Mrs. Ferguson who has been charged with the misuse of state funds. Foreign Exchange. NEW YORK, Dec. 17.—Great Brit- ain pound sterling, demand 4.84%: cable 4.85. France, franc, demand, 3.65%; cable 3.66. Belgium, “franc, demand 4.53; cable 4.53%. Italy, lira, demand 4.03%; cable 4.03%. Sweden, krone, 26.77; cable 26.79. Norway, krone, 20.29; cable 20.31. Denmark, krone, 24.86; cable 24.88. Shanghai, taels, 77.50. Watch the Saturday Magazine Section for new features every week. This is a good issue to give to your fellow worker, -— ’ Daily Worker publish a very inte esting article —written 25 years” ago while the great leader was strugs gling for the forma- tion of the truly rey= olutionary party of the working class, and to lead the pro- letarian masses into political action— This article, Vital Problems of Our Movement” was published in “ISKRA” in 1900, But this work of a master is as valu- able today as the day it was written, and has a special vitality for Ameri- can workers. a Don’t forget —The § aturday, Magazine Supple ment. Subscribe And get the new and improved ma azine section evei week. : ; : \.

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a Ang Of Telegraph’ Operators $15 YOUNG RS , By Young Worker Correspondent. KANSAS CITY, Mo. —The “Multi- plex,” a telegraph apparatus which has been perfected to an extent that it can turn out twice the amount of work of a Morse telegraph instru- telegraph operators into the army of the unemployed. This system of tele- all the principal cities thruout the United States. Girls are employed for as low as $18 a week. All one needs in order to edge of typewriting. Young workers. learn how to operate the machine ina very short period of time, thus the Western Union and the Poétal Tele- ‘Ome they dislike or have no use for. They pick on young workers, break them in on the “job”. and the rest is easy. ¢ Already telegraph operators are be- ing laid off in Kansas City where the rincipal telegraph machine in opera- tion is the “Multiplex. ” This is hap- pening ‘at the same time that . the banner 12 months ‘the company has been able to put $80,000,000 back into the property. Better Connections Needed in Young Workers (Communist) League. With the unification of the Young Workers (Communist) League and the definite start made towards mass work in most of the districts, we must begin to realistically consider the problem of having closer connections between the various units of the league and the national organization, Many of the districts have been sending in regular detailed reports on their work and life and still others have completely neglected this im- portant duty. We must acquire an organizational responsibility and con- sciousness. The first step in this direction should be the sending . of lengthy detailed reports by the dis- tricts to the national office. ¢ Concert and Dance in Chicago. Arrangements are being com@leted for the concert and dance being held under the joimt auspices of the Y. W. L..And the Fretheit Youth Tlubs at Workers’ Lyceum, Blvd., Saturday, Dec. 19, 1925: An in- teresting program has been arranged that promises a pleasant evening for all young and old comrades who at- tend. The doors will openwat 7:30 p. m. Western Union announces that for its After the program is over there will be dancing till 1 a. m. a Young Workers of Other Lands Tula Komsomols Grow. TULA, U. 8. 8. R—Tula is an in- dustrial town where some of the big factories fo the U..S. 8: R. are to be found. The Tula organization during the last year increased its member- ship by 9,190. Young ‘agricultural la- borers and workers in home indus- tries flock-to the Y. C. L. On August 1 the organization had 15,354 mem- bers and 1,174 candidates. [ OLDEST AND YOUNGEST WORKER CORRESPONDENTS NEW YORK, Dec. 17.—The Hun- Czech League ‘anhne Strike. PRAGUE, Czecho-Slovakia. — The most important feature of the mass work of the Young Communist League is the active participation in the north, Bohemian textile workers’ strike which broke out at the beginning of October and was-transformed into a political strike ‘because of the pro- vocative attitude of the employers. lsary measures foér this intervention. The district conference in Reichen- berg.on Oct. 11 adopted a manifesto to the young textile workers which takes a definite attitude to the special youth demands and the aes da — slogans of the Y. C. I. Composition of German League Con- vention Which Voted for Comintern. BERLIN, Germany—tThe recent con- "eae of the Young Communist League of Germany which voted overwhelm- ingly for the line of the Comintern on the German party question was com- posed of a majority of young workers, The congress was attended by 189 delegates, of which 108 were also mem- bers of the Communist Party and 3f were trade union officials. Youth United’ Front in Austria, VIENNA, Austria—The central com- mittee of the Young Communist League of Austria on October 17 ad drssed a letter to the league of the young socialist workers, the united young socialist workers, and to the federation of all apprentice sections inviting these organizations to hold a joint congress of the Austrian worke img class youth for the middle of December. The report of the Austrian youth delegation, the problem of world trade union unity, and the econs omic struggle of the working youth will be important questions on the agenda. Hoglund Youth Turn Communist. STOCKHOLM, Sweden—A former Stockholm district organization of the A. U. F. (Hoglund Youth) which left the A. U. F, some time ago, has joined the Young Communist League at a meeting which had _ representatives from both the Y. C, L. and the former The league has taken all the neces- Hoglund youth organization. C ome Ahead Into the Young Workers League! | 2733 Hirsch = ee ee ee es _ _

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By R. M. i. ¢ Worker Correspondent) ey _ WHEELING, W. Vas Dec. 17.—A strike, a typical John L. Lewis bes bad its beginning, duration, eh an the northern part of West. a know what ‘That means har for the minersi* pPkesids Raeeta ta howeietiing # be- ‘tray: the-anthracite miners: so has he gucceeded in losing the,demands for | ,the miners of northern West Virsinia struck—not thru secret con- ferences. or negotiations in this case ‘but ‘thru indifference and totally ignoring the fact that this section was striking. Evidently, about 4,000. men |} are not of sufficient importance to py even the slightest thought of the lahor-class, loving (7) president. " Lewie Tactics Discourage Men. section, which compromises ae of Glendale and Mounds- ville was non-union but when the coal operators attempted to reduce wages down to the 1917 scale the men struck and organized, joining the U, M. W. of A., district No. 6. Great en- thusiasm for the strike was at first shown but due to the inactivity of the John L, wewis machine some lost heart. Instead of doing anything effective and keeping up the courage of the} miners only a few hypocritical meet- ings were held presided over by. the local preachers, part of the Lewis machine, and also attended by the in- evitable representatives of the law. Yes, the usual dope was handed out— for the men to strike peacefully~and |: --- interfere with no one; in other words, let the poor scabs go to work. if ‘ee so desired. | Trouble of course arose. “Many were. arrested, prison sentences. .and fines imposed for even peaceful pick- etting. All sorts of injunctions were passed ‘and lifted until it was im- possible to tell whether a certain in- junction was yet in effect or had been lifted, Scabbing was begun shortly after the strike but the men were pees to do anything for. lack. of e right sort of Business men as usual of course also aid their share in breaking the strike, How Strikes Are Lost. od _ Now, although John L. Lewis has not declared the strike at an end it really has been lost. Practically, all of the men were forced for lack of cash ‘and the told weather to return to work at the 1917 scale, on an open shop basis. A handful is still strik- ing, but most of them were glad to return to work claiming they have steadier work than they. did—steadier certainly; for are ‘they not supplying scab coal to offset the shortage in be anthracite? » @owever, conditions are mftserable. Some of the men work as much as 12, 14, and even 16 hours on a night shift-—-forced to do it to meet their expenses and offset the cut in wages. Of course the miners’ union has met its death. Oh well, what does the loss of about 1,000 men to the un- ion mean to John L.? He is after bigger game. One poor little coal strike lost and a handful of 1,000 men to the union is not of sufficient im- portance to even give a thought to—FP front: sone L, Lewis’ viewpoint.’ You’ do the job twice as well then you distribute a bundle of} The DAILY WORKER with your story in it. Worker* Correspondence will make The DAILY WORKER a better paper —send in a story about your: shop. PER | Communist |! ’ wa sea AND. THE SOVIET UNION WILL HAVE EXCHANGE OF aris a Here is ied ews for worker correspondents. Bela Kun, head of the Agitprop national, has just written the editor plan for an exchange of worker correspondence between the United States| and the Union of Soviet Republics. Our worker goes on in the wo Union, | pondence from in the Soviet press 9's) In this way ouee” relations wi United Statés and the Soviet Union. ‘each otHe?s problems. Department of the Communist Inter-. of The DAILY WORKER outlining a spondents are all deeply interested in everything” that rkshops, the factories, the milis, the mines of the Soviet! You sith aires noticed that this section of The DAILY WORKER ‘ke age et from the Soviet Union. This Union also want to hear from the workers » been arranged to send the worker corres- ER to the Agitprop Department of the of this will be selected for publication be developed between the workers of the They will learn to understand better This service will also be Wbrenséu to include worker correspondence from othér countries as well. = «© _ .bet-us know what feature of working class life in the Soviet Union, or in other countries that you are interested In, and The DAILY WORKER will let your wishes be known and see that they are fulfilled. ‘the Editor, ‘DAILY WORKER, 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. Send all letters to The Third Prize y, . fi = ANN VWWV\ ANT HIS in ———— EEE _— Drawn for The DAILY WORKER by kK. Logan. CASE OF FRANK CORISH, COAL MINER OF MOUNDSVILLE, W. VA. By R. Ms: Mrorker. Correspondent. “MOUNDSVILLE; W. Va., Dec. 17 A petition was filed at Charleston, W.| Va., for a rehearing of the application for a Writ of é¢rrors in the case of Frank Corish, a'éoal mine picket who |. had beéh sentenced last May ‘at) Moundsville, under the Redman act, to ten yéars in the state penitentiary. Two Women i in a Grocery Store r,. By aWorker 5 Sag Seay ie Overbeard ina grocery store at West 22nd ‘street, Chicago. The woman talking is’ the -mother of four children.» She is employed in aAtactory at 39th and Robey Streets. “Working Woman—yYes; missus I had to quit my job today on account the doctor told me every girl that works there about a year gets the T. B. (tu- bereulosis) and on account I have four children. the doctor persuaded me to quit: right away. You can’t imagine how I hated to because if I worked all week I made as much as $16.00 a week, more than my husband makes. Of course, it wasn’t easy. We girls had to stand on our feet 10 hours a day—but just*think of the money we made. You know it is very slack now in the stock yards and often my hus band works only 4 or 5 hours a day and he only makes 38 cents an hour. But I’m going to hurry up with my g@ shing and look for another job. My other- in-law, will take care of the “WO little ones and the other. two, if you see them in the mud will you be 80 kindly and chase them in the. house, missus. Grocery Woman—Oh, don’t worry about those two big kids: You know one is five and the other is going on seyen y Do you rehiémber mis ant RES, sus "when lik and I were kids? Oh, say,, migsus, I think they need a dishwasier ‘in that. restaurant across the street. Why dont you go there and tell the boss I sent you. I know ‘time. He generally =yegetables that I can’t roFe . Tt you tell him that I sent you) .m&ybe he’ll give you ‘the job. It pays $9 and your dinners at noon. Working Woman — Oh, Missus, wouldn’t that be nice, I cm going right home and put another apron.on so I look a little respectable. What is the boss’s name, Jim, alright mis- sus, I thank you for putting me wise to that job. Oh, Ja-a, did you figure my book already?. How much do I owe you now?.. . $38.28, well I hope I land that job so I'll be able to pay you a little each pay day. Grocery Woman—That’s alright mis- sus, | know you are honest. But you know if you wouldn't be able to pay me some, naturally I would kave to stop you--bui,.I hope you land that job in the restaurant and then every- thing will be alright again, won't it missus? Sig ie tdi Working Woman—Well, I got to go now. I think”"my cabbage is burning. r hope not.’ te Fz) to\ Jim’s tonight and see if he’ be «sath ms, rere : “Gorish was one of the miners who at the outset of the coal strike in this region picketed the house of a scab af, Glendale, last April. About 20 al- together were arrested and indicted under the Redman act, which: carried ‘a, prison sentence of from two to ten years, Corish was tried, found guilty, and sentenced to ten years at the state prison on a conspiracy charge. ‘The scab, howeyer, who had succeeded _|imn wounding one of the picketters fa- tally was let off scot free. Needless to say that the picketting had resulted in no harm to the scab or to the coal company’s property, but of course an «xample had to be made to intimidate the rest of the miners. What shows clearly the class strug- gle and the class injustice in this sen- tence is the fact that a few months afterward a bank embezzler, who had succeeded) in embezzling funds amounting to over half a million dol- lars while acting as cashier at the Benwood Bank, Benwood, W. Va.— money deposited by orphans and wi- dows of working men—and who if the law had cared to do so would have about fifteen indictements against him, was tried only on one indictment and given only ten years. All of the other indictments were annulled, Embezzler Has;Swell Vacation. Corish, if he is to serve his sentence will of course meet with the lot of the ordinary convict. Leach, the embez- zler in question, however, is reported having a very “soft” job indeed, work- ing in the office, and it is expected that for good behavior his sentence will be lessened,.: »» Indications point towards the fact that if the state supreme court refuses to grant the writ of errors on the second hearing the gase will be brought before the fepreme court of the opener: ' ) 4 _| stressed the fac ————— al . | " the distriet If the strike is very MEETING a cs we ers Pledge t in Fight * Correspondent WES T YORK, N. J., Dec. 17. —BSilk F in Hudson county, New Jereey, pre approval. of | i, by their rousing the. speakers said at a mass eating, that they were wholeheartedly in support of the Hill- crest sik ml Pas: ers who are now in their eight h® ek of struggle. This was, ihe first time, except for a previous démenstration held by the United Front, mittee of Textile Workers, | h puch a meeting had been held in dBis part of New Jersey for many yeal s. ‘The crowd of textile filled the hall and it tically to the call ii-fnancial support of ered e. the meeting were Elizabeth Gurle oi Flynn, Carlo Tresca who spoke italian. and Albert Weisbord, orgamizer of the Hillcrest trikers.. Hligpbeth Gurley Flynn why textile. workers had to fight again and again against the same hreats of the bosses was because, while they how to fight they did not know _to hold on to what they won by tion. Organiza- tion was the g need of the hour ind their only salvation. Weisbord spoke on the significance of this strike which being prolonged so by the. bosses. “He pointed out that all over the, ld the bosses were driving gthe standards of liv- ing of the rs and now had launched big drives in Am- textile workres. The ch the working. class ® had to travel in. re- wage.cuts and doubling the textile bosses. Kgsby the speakers were pplauded by the au- in the way pic of this coun ed Front Committee in ‘ike hopes to crystall- ize the fav sentiment at the Aah M1 Of’ the mills’ of prolonged met will be necessary to exerbothemgreatest pressure on other mills t@ force the bosses to come to termg:by means of sympa- thetic strikeg, Sage be done as soon as possi) the meantime picketing is sete, on just the same before the mifl and is preventing the boss from running his plant and turn- ing out cloth fi any quantity. All textile orkers in Hudson county millg wish to organize a workers’ coppil and mill committee in their mill should write or visit the headquarters of,the United Front Com- mittee of Textile Workers there at 393 Broadway, Union City, New Jer- . that the only reason |, het WEST vA SCAB MINES (SECOND PRIZE) By A Worker Correspondent GALLOWAY, W.'Va., Dec. 17.—1 want to tell the readers of The DAILY WORKER how the open shop coal masters»here are treating the miners in the Bear Mountain field. | have a statement from one of the unorganized coal miners in this field in which he tells of working thirteen shifts at 12 hours each and in that time he had loaded 159 tons and 60 tons of pick coal, For this he was credited with $102.42. Out of this He was charged $27.04 ase follows: $20 for not being able to load whole cut of coal out in one day and for leaving a bottom, down, and to explain the $7.04 he received the following notice in his envelope: “What you are charged $7.04 for is none of your damned business and if you ask for the same f will turn you over ‘to the state police and they witt put you In the pen.” So this poor deluded miner came to me and asked me what to do and how to get his money from his master. The answer | gave him was “go back and organize others with yourself and then you will be able to accomplish something.” After. going over this tonnage we find that this man under the union scale would receive $179.50 but un- der the non-union or the so-called “American plan” he received only $75.38 for 13 shifts at 12 hours each, _.$o this is the way the open shop coal masters are treating their men in the non-union mines of West Virginia. We wish to. notify all men to stay away from these fields as the con- ditions are deplorable here and else- where in the non-union coal mines of West Virginia. Toledo Police Threaten Workers with Arrest for Doing Party. Work By BUEHLER (Worker Correspondent) Eight workers started from the the Workers’ Book Shop at 8.15 on Sunday morning to distribute three thousand leaflets from house to house in a working class district. This leaf- let was issued by the Workers (Com- munist) Party and called upon the workers and farmers of this country to défend the working Class “govern: ment of Russia. The comrades organized themselves into four teams and started down the street. All was going well till one of the comrades noticed a copper riding around on a motorcycle. He stopped at a fire house, the comrades con- cluded there was a fire in the district. About fifteen minutes later, as one of the teams was going up a street, along comes another instrument of the state, a policeman, dressed: in a nice blue uniform, hardware. polished to a high degree. One of the com- rades took a look at this tool of cap- italism, said good morning, and hand- ed him one of the leaflets. He accept- ed and started to read it. When he sey. Pocketbook Makers’ Convention Proves to Be Exclusive By A Worker Correspondent NEW YORK, Dec. 17.—When Syl- van A. Pollack“‘representing the In- trenational Labor Defense, handed his credential to thé national convention of the Pocketb® Makers’ Union of America, whic s being held at the socialist part} ~headquarters, the Rand School, He {was informed by the convention credential committee, that a motion had been passed by the con- vention not to give the floor to the representative aff poy “outside organ- ization.” It is remark@bla that a union con- vention can have the point of view, that the International Labor Defense, which is a workers’ defense organiza- tion, is an “@uptside” organization when its record sig the past has been one of being ‘impide” of the battles of the working ¢e4ass on every occa- sion. otabe, 3 discovered the significance of the leaf- let he ordered the comrade to halt and asked him if he had a permit to pass out. leaflets. Although the city law requires none the- comrades answered he thought that one of the committee had it. In the excitement the comrade said to this policeman: “Why! Senator Borah is making a desperate fight in the senate to have the government of this free country recognize the work- ing class government of Russia ‘and we are trying to arouse the workers of Toledo to instruct their represent- ative in congress to help in the fight for recognition of Soviet Russia.’ The copper’s answer was, “You better go and tell the gang to get out of the.dis- trict. If I find any of you around in a few minutes I'll arrest every one in the gang.” The comrade reported this threat of the cop to our team captain we im- the work of passing out leaflets, ar- rest or no arrest. cision saw us thru and we passed out all the leaflets without one arrest. A Side Line in Corporation Graft aint By A Worker Correspondent. EST ALLIS, Wisc., Dec. 17.—In addition to the direct and in- direct exploitation of the workers in the shops, there is going on, with the help of public officials, a system of unloading on the backs of the workers the greater |@rt of the corporation share of the public burdens. An in- stance of this is shown by the follow- ing facts. C. Ashenbrenner, a worker of this city, who by dint of enormous sacri- fices has managed to acquire a nom- inal title to som? real estate, is com- pelled to pay $160 on 30 feet of front- age for city light*installation; while the enormously wealthy Allis Chal- mers corporation is only required. to pay $80 per front;acre for the same purpose. There are undogbtedly many more working class wicfims of this bear- faced steal eer.” : This reprehensible misuse of public power can however be easily under- stood, when one realizes, that the city government and the Allis Chalmers corporation are to all intents and pur- poses dominated by the same crowd. But in spite of this plain domination by grafting business interests, it seems that the system is still con- sidered not sufficiently satisfactory. There is a widespread agitation being fostered here to change to a system of city manager cd@ntrol, It is made to appear, as if the work- ers ought to be interested in the ques- tion as to whether a council or a city manager shall deliver their interests to the tender mercies of the bosses . The workers, who are everywhere the vast majority, must organize for the overthrow of corporation rule and their political hirelings in the govern- ment, and establish their own exclus- oe ee oe ifs rule, both in shops and in the ty. | : mediately held a meeting on the | street corner and came to an unan- | imous decision that we would keep up | ~ | hundred people, mostly boys, wait. | Our courageous de- | The Winners! to bring to the front some of the N awarding the prizes, preference correspondence we are seeking to their efforts in the least. City. We cannot stant discharge. SECOND PRIZE—Leon mention his name. go, for Announcement by J. Louis Engdahl. VERY week The DAILY WORKER plans to present three prizes for the best stories sent in by our worker correspondents. This is not only intended to stimulate interest in worker cor- respondence, and to bring out the best efforts of our writers, but also order that it may serve as an example for others. There has been a notable increase this past week in the volume of worker correspondence that has come in. and other methods of arousing interest in this workers’ activity, we expect the number of stories to grow rapidly in number and quality. from workers actually on the jobs. being sent in by more experienced party workers, especially by those engaged In trade union activities. , But they must realize that the success of worker correspondence depends upon drawing the masses of workers in the shops, mills, mines and factories into this endeavor. upon this basis that the prizes were awarded as follows: FIRST PRIZE—Nikolai Bucharin’s latest book, “His- toric Materialism,” to a worker for the Interborough Rapid Transit Co., the “open shop” subway system in New York ive his name, for that would mean in- ut he will get his book. England?” to a nonparty, foreign-born worker in the non- union West Virginia coal fields. THIRD PRIZE—The original of the cartoon appearing on this page in a suitable frame to Henry Fred, of Chica- is story, “Hunting for a Job in Chicago.” TART now sending in your contributions for next week's. compe- tition. The prizes to be offered next week are as follows: FIRST PRIZE—“Flying Osip,” stories of New Russia. SECOND PRIZE—Leon Trotsky’s “My Flight from Siberia.” THIRD PRIZE—Original cartoon to be framed. bést material that is sent in, in . Thru this competition, has been given to stories received This is the kind of worker encourage. Excellent material is We do not wish to discourage it is Trotsky’s book, “Whither It is also impossible to TYRANNY ROBS MEN OF MEALS of strap-hangers. for the whole 800 of us. The lunch ly in dishing out filthy slum gullion cur? The grumbling and discontent oppression is at considerable pitch bling because our organization, a driving conditions. The First Prize By A Worker Correspondent, NEW YORK, Dec, 17.—Interborough Rapid Transit repairmen at Lenox & 148th St. toil 9 hours dally to prevent broken axels, split rods, stalling motors and slipping brakes from bringing disaster to millions And with only a measly half hour for lunch, and no wash up. Fifteen or twenty minutes of this half hour we spend wait- ing in line to punch our Te because there are only six time clocks established for us, is sublet to a contractor who profiteers on us cruel- patronize it, and we snatch our lunch in any haphazard way. |... Up to this week we at least had the privilege of buying our..milk.- from the milkman outside the gates of the yard before ringing out. This Monday this was suddenly stopped. Hereafter we are to buy our milk on our own time during what's left of the lunch time between ringing in and out, so that if before we had no rest mow we hardly have any time to gulp down our lunch choking on it the while. wonder that we are being maimed at the machines? Any surprise that weary of head and body we become exhausted and accidents oc- Company Union a Farce. “closed union” shop, is a company union where thé shop steward and grievance committee nelther wish nor dare take up our grievances with the management. therefore continue to suffer and bear in silence such and worse con- ditions until we organize into a real union, a union that will get for us-a 44-hour week, real representative shop committees, a full lunch hour, no ringing in and out for lunch, and generally abolish slave- “1. R. T.” repairmen, let’s get busy and bulld ® room that the company charitably at exorbitant prices. So we don’t Any among us over this latest act of but we are helpless in our grum- We shall ote ! - Hanting for a Job in Chicago (THIRD PRIZE) By A Worker Correspondent After hunting for,a job for a couple of weeks, I decided to take a job at Sears Roebuck and company. Of course I knew of the awful conditions under which they. work there but I was in debt and had to-get something quickly. I reasoned:):Now — before Christmas, and President’ Coolidge’s speech on Our present prosperity, surely I can get a job there. .On my way I even made plans’ which of my debts to pay first. As usual a big fat cop stood in front of the employment.office protect- | ing the law and @rder, pf the public | -no—of the compdapy. Inside, two) ' Thru the open door I hear the clerk | asking: “How old?” “Twenty.” “Married?” “No.” “Fill out this ap- plication and send it in there. Next. How old?” “Twenty-three.” “Mar-| ried?” “Yes.” “We only employ boys.” So | made up my mind I am not married and I am only twenty years old. After filling out my application with all the long list of questions | answered I waited. My turn now. | “Sit down.” to bottom. “Take this application and walk in there.” Looks me over from =] Young boys wait im this room. I count twenty of them. »look at them. Even in their too long pants and too big coats they do not look older than 13. I notice that the young kids were given a slip of paper in addition to their application sheets and sent to a different office. It takes almost a whole day before the red tape is gone thru and you are told whether you will be admitted to the office of the boss Julius Rosen- wald, slave driving “philanthropist” and the older ones were not even ad- ‘mitted to this office. My turn comes again. “Is your name H. F.?” “Yes.” He looks at me, at the application, at me again— “Are you twenty years old?” “Yes.” “] can’t employ you.” “Why?” I ask. “Am 1 too old for you already? Shall I send you my kid’ brother who goes to school yet? So this is your Cool- idge prosperity?” He calls out “Next.” A gmall kid about 13 years old comes in. I continue: “He will be good for your slave driving. He will be good for you at $10 a week.” I walk out. This is how children are being put into industry to«take the place of their elders. They work them ten and twelve hours a day at $10 and $12 a week and they do not need to be paid for overtime either. | our “daily.” dents. respondence page. successfully. large numbers of nonparty workers. we “LIVING NEWSPAPERS" HESE should be features of all The DAILY WORKER birthday parties to be held on the second anniversary, Jan. 13, These must be organized and carried thru by worker correspon- it will help develop interest of all workers in our worker cor- Articles will appear on this page regularly ex- plaining what “Living Newspapers” are and how to carry them thru Send in your notices of The DAILY WORKER birth- day parties so that they can be given the —— publicity and attract 1926, of

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In comparison to pending. collapse of the building in- ie $2.50 three months $2.00 three months November of — year, however, it oy agp based upon t : ; 5 : ] _ . wr -" - ae } + | F - dicates our position. slegpanse of town and country. At. the ther Phe tpg ine CHE abot be fully Smee A pve ha nice oth dyes = 2 he Pa , Manifesto Out ‘the: | , ) é care avor ‘ In a desperate effort. to‘eliminate the left wing, after his array Rai a Paap hatte. <2 _— conditions of the’ ¢ pitalist regime ! professional interest of the inadtenie | i Ba = ers’ ‘ogram Against Coolidge Ss" } of paper delegates and his fake majority. had. been exposed, Sigman tended to obviate the**1an@-tamiine, with its inherent nisms. Never-}| We must also combat the formation’ bi | Be Sammenet P rogram. “A OW rie | brought about a condition verging upon a split. But the same de-} put te benefit only a small group of theless this is ce 7 no utopia. of professional groups in parliament: 1 a ae a an J one on’ f termination to at all costs ayoid..a split that characterized the long| the peasant population. eens sce already ff Germany sah sr, oe oo ong hcg apn ‘oe? by “HE party ‘ten wrinted: in. ‘an attractive four-page leaflet the manifesto « of a fight of the three big locals,in New York-again. prevented its con-| Furthermore, in the fight for the 3 Soph beagiigag ve GE array Aone & : 5 Ba: BE : peasantry, the landlords are trying it is to be regrett ‘that this does It goes without saying that ‘we shali “the ‘Central ExecutivesCommittee manees President Coolidge’a: mes- summation, to get entirely into their hands the not attract the du tention of our |fight against any formal pledges of! sage from the workers’ staridpoint. The stragety of the left.and its denunciation of Sigman’s union-| qgistribution of the state -eredits German comrades. ‘The landbund of | obedience to the landlords (which are| ~~ This leaflet should *be distributed in millions of copies among the workers { wreeking motives caused his own ranks to waver... When he an-| granted for the assistance pt agri- Os da control | to bi demanded from cindidates in arid exploited farmers of this country. x “eae: / nounced his intention to eliminiate the left there.was such an up-| culture. eee ee A aphavcngragedyl Patarh segues sa Para eda ge He Every unit of the Workers Party should immediately or2s¢ supply sf 7 N bidding for the support of the | °Tedits by epee | the peasants’ | Public offices.) thése leaflets and alan iaut ¢ them in the trade’ unions and oth k of heaval in his own. ranks that he was forced tq yield to the left. ] peasantry, the landlords are now credit organizations the “Renten- And finally, we must in every way ailandten $¢. ¥ s and other wor ere The immediate crisis arose oyer the question of ‘referendums on iIm- playing arty trump card of credits, bank” has succeede@ in laying the | hinder the organization of the black BA +a, e SEE Sas isin % portant questions and different representation at conventions. Sig-| and the Warsaw congress, discussing ee ee ares ellyenebacascm gees BP ee a PAs bs i a mene ately. Distribute the manifesto to every worker ? : ; hilt . . . 4 , , nr oR OTR man knew that that wold destroy the possibility of his again obtain- ie mone ev a “< junkers has established a aon nh: Seendbiadaney sends obits Beni ni Make Coolidge’s drive against the workers the beginning of a great strug- ing a fake majority, rep senling a minority of the membership, In poses fei pA retain bread factory; in Pomerania it has| every country, creating efficient sec- gle of the workers in support of their own interests. order to“continue in power against the will of the overwhelming powerful factor towards the success- already organized its sugar refineries; | tions for village work in connection The price of the leaflets is $3.50 per thousand. Remittances should be majority. ful development of agriculture, and ls _ Milo . number of a the wip nn committees of the|sent with the order, — The left wing, thru defeating the Sigman machine in its} whereas the proper organization erent factories for the conversion |Communist Party and youth organi-| « lespicable manenvers, |} won a double victory; it has laid the| thereof cails for the existence of a of ‘naricalturel peas end ite own |SAtions in every, country. USE THIS ORDER BLANK | despica n 1 . has n a dou j v3 4 b ti ; 7 te central crediting organ in every coun- tg and distribugive agencies, and secendly, we myst sufold and: in- - ' | foundation for the complete defeat of Sigmanism and at the same try. the conference therefore con.| it8 dictatorial appetites grow day by | crease our propaganda work studying time saved the union from disruption. sideva dcaiskble’ tks Glee at Caen at the same time the methods used Workers Party of America, ‘ | permanent contact among the respec- Altho the wholesale purchasing ex-| by the reactionaries to influence the 1113 W. Washington Bivd., - S li F li B k tive organs of all countries for the | Pe™iment of the Cooperative Alliance | Peasants, and resorting to new meth- Pileage, Wines, | ocia 1st 0 ows anrRers formation of an international instiute ee a not convince us of 9 i here taxing -tnto. oom: . Dear Comrades: Enclosed you will find $ f hi Mr. Victor L. Berger, socialist congressman from Milwaukee,| of agricultural credit, and the con- y serlou® success to be achieved | sideration the low cultural level and salah Fe ea ato <b a ae or which please | | oe gE bel 0 aa. ay eress instructs the international by the landlord organizations in this | even illiteracy of the backward rural send us | copies of the manifesto of the Central Executive ) introduced a joint resolution in favor of recognition of Russia, fol- agrarian .commission to convene for | @T@ction, nevertheless it ought to be | masses. eldsttlied ah tien Workers Party entitled “Coolidge'e Chall a lowing the Borah senate resolution. Victor says that since the bank-| inj, purpose a special conference. borne in mind thatiithese actions will the euceeectit ‘attainmedt’ wT Lakes* y ee. ee ers and business men favor recognition, it must be evidence that the] This means paving the ground for rote strong illusions among these ends, it is necessary to in- | Soviet government “is here to stay, at least for @ considerable time.”| the big agrarians. tos,.become the coir fis 4 one mag tongege crease the activity of Krestintern in| } Name: Like social-democratie leaders in the old world,/Victor Berger, who| ®¥4"dians of the Peasant masses in! (° 14. back agramian reaction upon Ler. CONstty, Mea te Make full Gop a | é li foll in tethiaf ti need of credit during™the period of| 16 ios of this radical international peasants’ Street: «05... | | strives to carry out their po icies here, fo ows the lead of the somewhat stabilised capitalism. | toiling peasants. orzanieation. which embracés the tail . \ bankers. The fact that--workers have long-ago demanded Soviet N?? content with-thispthe congress| [TN view of thse “fa@ts, we must out- ing peasants ofali:shades of political | City: nce bs State: recognition did not seem to impress Victor as do the bankers. : went even farther. In order to line a definite :plan of counter-ac- | opinion. ee y* setseone As ‘ : - ~ : 5 ‘ ; ; . “et : ; { ; ; ‘ ‘ ; : . n ‘ ®

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- ' & rfl s ERE ie Ss 3 iE ‘Fe & . movement are expressing doubt as to the correctness of the above mention- ed solution of the question. It is said that the economic struggle is of pre- dominant importance; the political ‘problems of the proletariat are pushed to the background. The Robochaya Misl (The Work- ers’ Thot), especially in its supple- ment, has explained itself essentially in the same sense. The Russian so- cial-democracy is living thru a period of doubts, bordering on self negation. On the one hand the lahor movement is breaking away from socialism; the - workers are being assisted in the car- __ Tying on of the economic struggle, but. ‘the socialist aims and political prob-| “lems of the movement as a whole are ““pot at all made clear to them. On the other hand, socialism is breaking .,away from the labor movement. The Russian socialists again begin more and more to say that the intelligentsia -™must carry on the struggle against _ezarism with its own forces, because _ the workers are limiting themselves to the economic struggle alone. Conditions of a threefold kind have, in our opinion, prepared the soil for these said phenomena. First, at the beginning of their activity the Russian social-democrats limited themselves to the propagandist work in small circles (Kruzhok). Having passed to agita- tion among the masses, we have not always been able to refrain from fall- ing into another extreme. Second, at the beginming of our activity we were very frequently. compelled to defend our right to exist in the struggle against the Narodovoltsi, who con- ceived of “politics” as a form of ac- tivity detached from the labor move- ment, and who narrowed politics down to a conspiratorial struggle alone. Re- jecting such politics, the social-demo- crats have fallen into the extreme po- E ete 5 errr erase , , _ ; mts : " ve —— >.» ~~ 2a et” _ * > > . 5 . *? 4 ae y "> as Peg AC 2 RR a. eT ER er ei ac Cee ee ; 2 i Si ty ma ed ae oe foto we ere 7 ios Sees o* eae eal) ap cee ee heh pie tap SD tee ae hy F Z + LAYS pa fer Sh eB ~ : . a xs Ls Me es ro a — > ae ‘is de Te cn Paice 2 IS A i airs ie a a ae a Boye a a¥"s Pa ar ‘ a - : ae “Ya as , ie Se abe e % po 4 : : Be oe hes FF ay ? Ye - +s 2 h : PHP, > aay sey Pa Sa! ve - nd ° we pet x ew, see Bu ad 2, " fi eens we Pe Le er Peo Rae ss ¢ ‘ ee he ‘ a a oe restr) a ees ee : : og . ee Eee ete Pete wot am nd d , Pad, gh ae ie Le Pde i tite na yay —— 2 i PP yoraee.. s if | i the economic struggle only, the work- ing class loses its political indepen- dence, becomes the tail of other par- ties, betrays the great injunction “the liberation of the workers must bethe cause of the workers themselves.” In all countries there was a period when the labor movement and socialism existed separately and followed a sep- arate road—and in all countries such a separation brought about the weak- ness of socialism and of the labor movemént; in all countries the connec |* Political party, organize for decisive tion of socialism with the labor move- ment alone created a solid foundation ,}both for the one and for the other. But in each country this connection of socialism with the labor me has worked itself out in -@pectliar » depending upon the conditions of | Potency; and with its’ funds, circles place and time. In Russia the neces- sity of the connection of socialism and the labor movement has: been proclaimed theoretically long ago,— but ~ practically this Connection is being worked out only at the present time, The process of this working out is a very difficult one and there is nothing remarkable in its being ac- companied by various vacillations and doubts. ‘What lesson for us, then, flows from the past? ob The history of the whole of Russian socialism has brought about the fact that its most vital problem became the struggle against the autocratic government, the conques politica] freedom; our socialist movement has concentrated, one may say, upon the struggle against autocracy. On the other hand, history has shown that the separation of socialist thought from the advanced representatives of the toiling classes is much greater in Russia than in other countries and that with such detachment the Rus- sian revolutionary movement is con- demned to impotence. Out of this there flows of itself the task which the Russian social democracy is call- ed upon fo fulfill, to instill socialistic ideas and political consciousness into the mass of the proletariat and to organize the revolutionary party, con- nected inseparably with the elemental labor movement. A great deal is al- ready accomplished in this respect by the Russian social democracy; but a great deal more still remains to be done. With the growth of the move- ment the field of activity for the so- sition of pushing politics, generally, to| cial democracy becomes even wider, the background. Third, acting in a disjointed manner in the small local workers’ circles, the social-democrats did not pay sufficient attention to the necessity of organizing the revolution- ary party, unifying the entire activity of the local groups and furnishing the possibility correctly to establish the revolutionary work. But the predom- finance of disjointed work is naturally tied up with the predominance of an economic struggle. ‘ ™ t the work ever more many-sided, an ever greater number of the active members of the movement concen- trate their forces upon the accom- plishment of various tasks which are pushed to the forefront by the every- day needs of propaganda and agita- tion. This phenomenon is entirely legit- Imate and inevitable, but it compels particular attention in order that the special tasks of activity and the par- ticular methods of struggle are not anne | LO raise itself to a conscious struggle; an organiza elevated into self-sufficiency, and in order that the preparatory work should not be raised to the status of ms of Our Movement careful to trade off the political strug- gle against autocracy in exchange for demands for some partial concessions from the autocracy, and who are not careful enough to elevate these de- mands for partial concessions into a systematic and unflinching struggle of a revolutionary party against the au- tocracy. “Organize” repeats the newspaper “Robochaya Misl’”, to the workers in many various ways. “Organize” repeat all the partisans of the “economic” tendency. And we, of course, join wholeheartedly in this appeal, but we will without fail add to it: Organize; not only into mutual aid societies, strike-benefit associations and work- men’s circles, but also organize into tend to devote a series of articles in the earliest issues. This is one of our sorest questions. We have in this respect lagged considerably behind e old actives of the Russian revolu- tionary movement; it is necessary di- rectly to acknowledge this shortcom- ing and to turn our forces toward working out of a more conspiratory arrangement of activity, toward a sys- tematic propagation of the rules for conducting activity, and of methods of deceiving the gendarms and avoid- ing the nets of the police. It is neces- sary to prepare men who will devote to the revolution not only their free evenings but their entire lives; it is necessary to prepare an organization so large that it will permit a strict division of labor between the different kinds of our work. Finally, as to the question of tactics, we shall limit our- selve here to the following: the so cial democracy does not tie its hands, oe oe eee Se avery Satere preconceived plan or-method of polit- ical struggle; it recognizes all means of struggle, if only they correspond to the available forces of the party and afford the possibility of achiev- ing the greatest results attainable under the given conditions. With a strongly organized party a single strike can be transformed into a polit- cal demonstration, into a political victory over the government. With a strongly organized party an uprising in a single locality can grow into a. victorious revolution; We must: re- member that the struggle against the government for partial aomands, the conquest of partial concessions—that this is only small skirmishes with the enemy, that this is small clashes at the outposts, and that the decisive struggle is yet ahead. , struggle against the autocratic gov- ernment and against the entire cap italist society. Without such an or- the proletariat is not able ation the la and mutual aid societies alone the working class will never succeed in fulfilling the great historic task which rests upon it: to liberate itself and the whole Russian people from polit- ical and economical slavery. Not a single class in history ever attained domination, without having put for- ward its political leaders, its advanced representatives, capable of organjzing the movement and of guiding it: And the Russian working class has shown already that it is capable of putting forward such men; the wide-spread struggle of the Russian workers “for ‘the last five or six years has proven what a volume of revolutionary forces is, hidden within the working class, how the most desperate governmen- tal persecutions do not diminish but increase the number of workers striv- ing for socialism, for political con- sciousness and poltical struggle. The congress of our comrades in 1898 cor- rectly formulated the problem, and did not merely repeat the words of others; it did not express merely the preoccupations of the “intellectuals.” And we must decisively begin to ful- fill these tasks, putting on the order of the day the question of the pro- gram, organization and tactics of the party. How we view the basic theses of our program, we have already stat- ed, and to develop these theses in de- tail is, of course, not in place here. To the organizational question we in-. Before us stands in all its power an enemy fortress from which are show- ered upon us thousands of shells and bullets that carry away the best fight- ers. We must take this fortress and we shall take it if we unite all the forces of the awakening proletariat with all the forces .of .the Russian revolutionaries into one party, tewa which will stream all that is live and honest in Russia. And only then the great prophecy of a Russian worker revolutionist, Peter Aleyev, shall be fulfilled: “The muscular hand of the millions of the working people will be raised, and the yoke of despot- ism guarded by the soldiers’ bayonet will be shattered to dust!” Mr. Bryan in the Embrace of the Angels

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x y w ’ Pm, . Fa . ae, eae he’ De eS mth a aah att Lain He ta Hi e aes - os? ee 3 a e : : ¥ . A. Sasoen ts Sh ei 5 et mye P pe ‘ : ‘ 1 Ses - ws ia: 28 ee by fs Py : eit _“Where’d you get it?” 0 Fe aa | ~ “Comrade Lenin gave it to me. RR And suddenly Vanka realizes that ~ had seen only in a dream—and that nothing had really happened. With bitter sadness he told Gis about it. . Mitry was touched: . | —“T see, Vanka, that:you’ll shihinh ciples Seiamaniaade. Only,’ you and I are now in the same boat—you “want to join the Comsomol, I the party... I’m in a fix, just. like you;—I'm too. ‘young —that's whet they gay. 6h - His brother’s words echo with a low peal in Vanka’s heart, “That's right, that’s right, Mitry;: swe: ‘beth need jist | one year; Jet’ 8 make an attains aaa tet: xe together next year.” “That’s a go!” And their tongues rattled till sunrise, Again the samovar grunts like a dulle@ged toobbit ) ~ = ”

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a i * ¥ Poa “37 4 ® ate , e + oeuaren —* a 4 * \ : Pak F - - , «ues ‘ fiery ieten ¢ in sit-} ‘ Ye UA, ,_ & “he nes * . . ; vs > ’ * me . ~ a, P 2 ~ % ie mi, , ~ md ¢- 3 8 AS : ‘ a” rey = ; 1 es S . ‘yates wt ” al co im . a " eye ey: 7) gr 7% by % We pi i sae atk) oy 5 me a Re eS pte: kathy OR oes 5: oat nae iw y * po a ee pee ¥ J “ oe ‘ i 1 5m = id he y : a \ Wee pac ie ah: RASS en : ‘ = , bh we od , rm. ‘ eh Pt et Ya £ Bess nwa be — 4 | 3 5 aife vEa8s the w rie; 2 Rg TE Y isvjust how t Salil day th Abd there wil ko yards in the house—no, four—Mitzy wil remain or eed, i suffered—ah, but he, The scoundrel, soon deserted me." ; The sounds fill Vanka’s ears and taunt his throat. ike a little rooster, he bursts forth: ~~ -. 4... “Forward; to meet the dawn! Comrades, thru struggle! We go to blaze the trail, . -.\. Comrades, to meet the dawn!” . ’ The wind was softly spreading twilight over the : arth, but the twilight would not come, and the wind -rew angry. Then the twilight came, driven by the rind. And the-workers were returning home from the | pati and the. wind a urging the OSEAER, Om = / “he back to winter, the other forward toward pon Bergen a lathe-hand, owly toward the gate the repair-shop. On seeing Vanka he wee and 358 POS KY Hs Rhee na) ie $y pate ike little, gleaming plates. “It’s taking you awful long. . .” . | “No; now we'll join together with Mitry. Ts ae __“How. can: that be, when. Mity: is aD ective member dready?": age “No; we made an nineubien': oa next a a join he party, ant be the oe both need one more ear. a3” ae i % Aers | “So you've coeak on “ate” “Yes;,and it'll be.on the same day, too, anil the main emer wore now it’s not so hard, for I’m alone like before. , .. “Well, kid, this makes it easier for you?” -Vanka flushes with, embarrassment, then’ he says: | “Surevit does! ee B “ aha te The dathe-hand smiles Ba: his white teeth sine bi eff al, came, called a general meeting of the local, gathered the factory youth. The -|} comrade spoke about the local. Then came a sailor “wi a gold tooth in the front of his mouth and spoke about the existing situation in the fleet. It was decided to render assistance with men and money. In order to help out with men—Senka was sent. At} the nucleus, at the headquarters, on the Red Square, they threw Senka up in the air and caught him again with shouts of “Hurrah!” And because of this Senka walked about as stiff as a ramrod. The girls pestered him, gazed at his sailor’s clothes, and sang the .mavy ditty: “‘Ho!l little apple—where are you rolling?’ ‘Oh, mother, my sweetheart is calling! Not Lenin or Trotsky I'm going to meet, But a young sailor o’ the Baltic Fleet!’” - Old workers glanced up at him and said, “There's the ° | salvation of the fleet.” In short, Senka was a hero. ps They escorted Senka to the depot. They instructed him: “Don’t be a slouch,” promised him presénts, ed him to write. Senka was all excited and his swagger was —. _Mewetent Newt: not to | “compromise” the local. —, In the Red Navy we’re going to en i.” And when the intoxication of joy had passed, Vanka again wished for the coming of at See that would bring with it his membership card Old Petro stuck up a poster in a prominent place in the repair shop: Official Announcement . In view of a considerable turn for the worse, a daily bulletin will be issued from this date, about the state of health of V. I. Lenin. From early morning people keep crowding about the poster. They read the announcement and disperse sil- ently. Foreheads frown, shoulders stoop, eyes grow cold beneath the eyelids. “It’s pretty bad with Vladimir Nyich. . “Pretty bad. . .” And at the nucleus of the R. C. 8S. M., the secretary reads to the meeting: Circular Letter . Concerning the 25th anniversary of the R. C. P. - (Bolsheviks). The best gift that the Comsomol can make to the party would unquestionably be the transfer to the party of the pick of the youth from the workers’ wuciol, Secretary, M. C. On this. day eonke would not go forward at the fac- tory. Women continually broke threads in the basons, and deft hands struggled clumsily with the clutching | steel-spiders. The weavers got their designs all wrong, their machines stopped suddenly, and sharp experienced , comrades. ‘ime, and eset awhat pas argadh seems you are ‘for ay “For whom else?” Joy flooded Vanka’s brain. He shouted in a ringing, challenging voice: “But he is a Communist. . ' The old man rose, pros tit out his mighty Pt ure, and grumbled: *“Let’s work. Never mind jabbering now. .~” And choked. And when the fire was roaring again, . the bellows panting, and the iron hissing, the old man mumbled slowly and grudgingly, in tune with the iron: “Well, what of it? Suppose he is a Communist? There are all sorts of Communists. If they were all like him, there wouldn't be no need of this here Commun ism—it would be just a name. . And at the bason shops and repair shops little groups gathered to discuss, and nobody bade them disperse. fe | The young people even watked out into the yard. Jolly Manka cast down her eyes and was as quiet as ‘a hen. _ “Friends, where can we find the secretary? ” “He went away to the Raicom.” “And ye “He too: . - Bach of them sbstaien. becoming like a . heavy. lw “ ,jand their hearts shrink; forebodings dart about jit shuttles.. And Vanka stands at the window. Vanka anal join his gang. Tremulously and nde Ap he says: “Tl be back in a second, Antipych. .. I'll find out everything. . “Well, go ahead. ‘a The bell rang Gautiiety | in the factory school. The youngsters ran out like rabbits. Long Petka, in front of all, shouts: “Well, friends, why do you hang your heads?” ..Manka, angrily: “Don't you know?” Long Petka assumes an oratorical air: AT know, but what of it?’. . . What’s the good of here desperation? Help, doctors,—that’s what’s ned for there ain’t no god to take pity on us, and they'll get doctors without us. But here is what we can do, A circular just came to the nuceus about the party jubilee. We must get up for the party a present that’ll beat the present to the fleet—that’s how we can help Ilyich, the devil take you... For there ain’t many workers in the party, and Ilyich has over- worked himself. . .” The youngsters felt a bit bitter, as if Long Petka had blown with long bellows into their hearts and had cleared and spread apart the contracting walls. Eyes sparkled and. blossomed beneath the open eyelids. Little Vanka shouts eagerly: “Brothers, but whom shall we send?”™ | “It. won’t be you, shpingalet.” res MINOT OF Oh, what a sting Vanka felt in his breast! Some- thing struck his brain, parched his throat, the whites of his eyes turned moist. He whispered ip embarrass- ment: | “No... . ’course I ‘ain't talking "bout myself. ae: “Don’t ‘butt in, then. .. Vanka slunk to the background, but he felt first of all like smashing Manka’s face with his little fist, and then saying to all of them aloud: “Do you know, all of you, if you want to know, that Mitry, whom you’re surely going to elect, won’t join the party till the very time when you'll take me into the Comsomol, for we've agreed on that. We're both a year short.” But he did not say it—let’ ‘Mitry himself amnounce that at the meeting. “ Lea. Then Jolly banks. pensively: “Well, and whom are we really going to send?” ' Senka, thotfully: “I think, friends, that this is up to the booreau; we'll send whom they'll propose, because .. .” : - Long Petka interrupted, mockingly: “Because, because, you dumbell. What kind of a Comsomoletz is the fellow that’s always depending on the bureau, and ain’t got a penn ’orth of ’nitiative? ...” “And what d’ye think the bureau’s for,—just to run érrands?” Manka, pacifyingly: “Cut it out boys,—just nonsense. . . must talk it over. Senka, scenting defeat, bristled up and clenched: ‘tils . of course, we eyes could not locate at once the cause of the trouble. Asts: Shear ce when ann ye Songstterbagaachasneetinags in the button department, in the winding department; and even the old blacksmith,all shaggy and hirsute, who never spoke to anyone except to his tools, scorched his. long, gray beard, after which he said to Vanka (Vanka was the old man’s assistant): “Bh, it won’t go, somehow. . _ And then, frowning, “and. Geniplite the ‘tre: “Listen, youngster; even tho’ you are a Comsomoletz and don’t know beans: from nothing, and less about work, still I will ask you, for it ain’t proper for an’old man like me to ask the grown-up Communists. I don’t like them, they ain’t real Communists; they just about their pockets, and they ain’t got a proprietor’s eye to things;—not they.” . Little Vanka dries the Beads of sweat, and wipes his nose, too, with his hand. He atreightens up and his eyes dance toward the old man. “Gladly,: Antipych. ...” “Giladly. ... 1 know myself about cio You're always glad to chatter, just to get away from work; I know you, you s0n of ee, But tell. me ees Pa His voice trembled, . “It it true that-Ilyich is ...er... pretty bad?” “It is true, Antipych. .. .” The old man quietly sat ‘down on the anvil, crossed ae ‘| for you...’ “We'll talk it over, all right. tm a& dumbbell)...am I?” . And whack! Petka got it under the ee, . “There’s a dumbbell for you! ... Take that! he fumed and shouted, - Long Petka became distorted with rage: “Oh, you dog! Just wait; I'll trim your dirty mug Take that, and that, and that, you son of But now, -aneceg tell: me a fascisti!” ” A fight started. Little by little all joined in. Vanka pushed eagerly at Manka; he aimed to give her a blue eye, but missed,_-Vanka cannot reach the cursed eye; in his rage he began to punch her below the breasts. The non-Communist workers from the repair shop, and the women from the bason department look on: “There, just look what's going on; see what keeps the Comsomol busy! .. .” The master-mechanic appeared. He sees the tray and shouts: “Hey, you, vamoose; this is no time for tomfoolery.” And while they were dispersing, Vanka rejoiced; he felt the realization of his eager wish close at hand. That would be a nice pill for Manka to swallow! And on the next day the Comsomol gathered at the club, The party-secretary, Pal Mironych, spoke about (Continued on page 6) et ee ee Ee ¥ a

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Pwe % ie - ae ee. . | es — oH missionary, reeking syphi- lis and booze, is out of style. Mod- ern capitalism requires improved me- tho bayonets hold conquered terri- tory and permit the flow of capital in-| to it, a system of simple training is necessary to transform colonials into submissive proletarians. vignaWork, hy, international capitalism general, and by its American rep- resentative in particular, is the Young Men’s Christian Association. Pleased with dts excellent work \in the amount; and a long list of catho- ~ 2 p Si ie ager | i: oh er, nar 4 1 ie saa iJ Piers po r tds roi mi " ages ee. ge - Z rn, * " + See #5. m e horg ls Pr Ae ay WR cA ene bh IS Paar te a Ace PRE ae 1303 ho Siri + It Me ee ft ae Rae. BA rs if ah Ly ee, ee ee + 4 (6. A ery , me ae ae ss ©. pia Dein he Q HO ga a eae te Fb est syed Bae act ok ‘LES eet af EO ade plane Oe se a oe pe ee a = bs i. he Pr / Ss — . ’ : . stg wa eS RRO NEED ee ee Tee hb ond Sag te ae ean MAE (ae a ihe y ‘ aida Me ek a gt fee » . . > CONES nt M ¢ Hey e to. “yy? - ms i ee | ‘ MER tE.. 2 vc? % ef P os 5 - f ; 7 " | seemed to rise the odor of new-formed callus, unspent sweat, untilled grains. And when the elected were being transferred from the Comsomol to the party, and as each of the trans- ferred, swayed by a whirlwind of emotions, made his way to the table, received the candidate’s card, Buk- harin’s booklet—“The A. B. C. of Communism’”—and a jubilee badge, the audience choked in the frenzied clamor of the youngsters’ throats. og A Naiwind of Sterne: JB eNOS Sie he petiones. t beat against the : and began to scrawl on it an uneven hand; then he passed it to his neighbor and whispered; - “Write. . .” a “Sure. . .” | “Once more... please, please, send greetings ... | to the dear leader of the ploritariat, V. Lenin,” ..: | By V. N. of the | | “Comrades, I have here another motion to send greet ings to Viadimir Ilyich, Any objections?” Not a single one, e > ie: sssFg 3 HT g te; Ww spirit . aoems W 9 propaganda under the gious and social welfare : prevented merely by the prejudice of Communist an ifrreligious guise of reli- Regs ef : of national- _ for work. And govern- | i z 9 > a: — > } veel ee ee

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Mr ae TERS ore se t > Py, peeee pa “Rs i s Un, , el r *- Ost irs. 74 ge 7 1H: » eae ae ‘ We ee Ses 14 Cee + os - wen q * — oe - - ha fa i 4, - dire Pe ines 28 J ee ; . a f,! >. -_ J . el - 7, 7 : bo . ‘ i : ahs ‘ 27 y 4 - he aa a : 3 . , - J s Ca p - ; “*« . _e > oth ge yt ape gat r é Sy ne AS e "3 oe ALY.. Rad ‘ F fata, y ae, mee ye eka Be Ul Galt Ay PERS 4 ry tigl, 5. eta Sion eee Fad it Oe a ~f 4. Ap y Peay Agere oe ‘ : ¥ Pe ae 74 as cess 8 ee ae tae | cos haber A MEE Tey eet) ie es . ee eat v7 , wf; ™ 2 . * “2 Maes and] I asked him why he could not write out his report’and give it to me. He countered that he had been instructed to submit a report in person —and must carry out the Instructions he had received. os, son me wis ; | a bt . After further argument, seeing that Prt Sean's ce eg ae “rey ~ , | Bxecuti ) the matter was going against him, he - RIOR aS: Qi Ty eee ES se SHE A RE IPT IS ‘ as to it ec cried out: Since it has a bearing on the later| “I may be starving, and you have __ the} developments of this story, I want |not even asked me whether I had ; | have | to remark here that Nosovitsky was |my lunch,” and burst into tears. pply at this| lavish in his offer of entertainment. ie one to| He brought forth a profusion of boxes | _ 12° ‘ets of insulted virtue rolling » ¢ ts were | of candy, nuts, dates, figs, fruits down his cheeks, accompanied by + Fee ° ? ’ , etc., | in printing t news| which he pressed upon us before we all the evidence of a complete break- s| , and pamp to edu-| were able to effect our departure. down because. of the lack of confi- : ' | | as to the nature of bial dence in his revolutionary honor, tis he pl premier ow and had no partic- . In Washington Park, shook me for a moment, and J an- 3 . PRE Re ote aR eo wered, ot eo use | the. weeks which. followed 1| | : nS he could clear himself of this sus- the heard frequently from Nosovitsky,| “Give me your telephone num | picion. fag who pressed his demand that he ap |#24 will take the matter up again’ —| 1 told him I knew nothing about this pear before the Central Executive | 2%4 advise you of the decision” pamphlet and could not give him a Committee. He sent word and tele-| “Call me at Vanderbilt 6000” he copy and was not interested. in the} phoned that he had many important | said, and brightened perceptible. : matter and left him. AT petied. matters to report which he had been! We parted. sak is ewan nT i claim the com. A few hours later I had a friend | peck into the headquarters of the| wents, giving his history and work, |- call the number which he had given party accompanied by another man, in order to exonerate himself. The After many urgent calls I finally | me and asked what place it was. and demanded to see me. I sent Back} mittee which had expelled him| ointment wee mg eat The ap-| “Hotel Commodore” came back the word that I was ee thought it might have been mistaken} }onch in wash made for-a certain! answer of the telephone operator; SS 2 wy him was |i its action, and that his assistance | -omrage accompany Fark. Another | «Mr, Nosovitsky isn’t in his room.” message that man could be accepted in facillitating Michigan doctor whose papers hé The great clever, cunning interna- hall ein to te rapper ai ames the Fraina’s trip. At this meeting Nosovitsky pleaded | tional spy who pretended to be starv- @octor needed these, and wouldn’t-I/ Nosovitsky pleaded, that if he was at lenght for the right to appear be-| ing was living at one of the most find them for him. My answer waslto help Fraina he must be reinstated | ‘T° ‘he committee. expensive hotels in New York. ~ that I knew nothing about his papers|as a member of the party and be} “Don’t you trust me after the work} That was the end of Nosovitsky so and did not want given a credential as a representative | 1 have done for the movement?” he| far as any relationship with the Com- him. demanded. munist Party was concerned. "And #0 Nosovitsky left. felt the wien ot No More Deaf, No More Dumb, % No More Blind. segaagirese - Np aprted Ghost whistles from the rigging, etc péee bebe Green Ghost whispers from the trees, 4 And the Red Ghost bellows Where the black coal yellows, But their words go wasted down the breeze. 1 . a & For he hears not, speaks not, sees not, He is deaf, he is dumb, he is blind To the jingle of the keys With their-clue to mysteries e That have kept him a captive in his mind. The Ocean is still for a saying, The Mountains are mute for a word, That the Factories would siren With escaping steam on iron Could the voice of their void be but heard. Another comrade and I called upon him at his home somewhere in the, one hundred and twenties of Lenox But he hears not, speaks not, sees not, He is deaf, he is blind, he is dumb, And the Open Sesame, Ave. in New York. First he pulled out / That would set him prison-free, Ga top in overy situation. a suitcase filled with the latest books, Stumbles on his tongue and will not come. ‘Bo that this legend of Nosovitsky | Pamphlets and newspapers published : = 5 ty “ may not become the established ver- by the Communist movement in Eu- ‘ s! sion of his relation to the Communist | Tope—literature which we had been The gates are ready to glide ¢pen, movement, I want to tell a little story | ¢Mdeavoring to secure for months— The curtain of the sky to rise, which .Nosovitsky carefully omitted |@2d turned it over to us. Much of And the Earth her bosom bare, from : this literature was later translated Flowing milk and honey rare, and published in the United States. -Fora glimpse, for a glance, from his eyes, Then he handed back the note au- thorizing him to receive literature for us. | Sits’ <Apgsak Me - But he hears not, speaks not, sees not, He was evidently paving the way : He is deaf, he is dumb, he is blind, i Pitan | Se Smee ten, seen Living night hit lke a male, was some time late in November, | !n¢ in relation to the movement. ee eee eee sghoccedieeas ' 1919, The Party of Amer-| what he was playing for sooncame| __ ied ee ie \ cwhshed to’ establish contact with the| 1. central Executive Committee of Lp sk OR either oy og bog _ | international’ mor Louis C./ the party and submit a report on the onder—the rising of Red Dawn | es, Severely at oe. Communists, which he declared he Voices oe | | iere, as one able to make the neces- ee re ee hi Keen te the roar of Revolution, Si = of the! ,, wa | Quick to the clamor of his kind, party I to confer with him at| orvers of the party had béon ar He plunges to their aid the Morrison Hotel, indicted and held for deporta- By the surging barricade, He met us dressed in the full| tion imprisonment, All the mem- No more deaf, no more dumb, no more blind! ‘ regalia of an assistant surgeon of an| bers of the Central Executive Oom-| ~— J. S. WALLACE,

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a o + gy ins ”~ e | By M. A. SKROMNY. (Reminiscences of the Revolutionary Days of 1905, by an old Rebel.) ¢¢° EDITOR'S NOTE:—In connection with the 2Qth, anniversary of the _, revoluuon of 1905 -we publish this series of word pictures of the revo- | lution as told by a comrade who * participated in the events of that time. This ts the fifth story. 7 2° @ Vv. The October Days of 1905. DER the rule of the czars the censorship was so. strict that every printed word had to pass a cen- sor. The chief of police usually act- ed as the. censor. In circulars an- nowncing. a, lothing sale or a grocery saje the.tensor would cut out the "and leave only “sale” if the merchant would not come across with some graft. If they would come across, they could use the words “big,” “great,” “grand,” etc. - sor ~wuld cut out a word, a line, a Paragraph or a whole article. After the Bloody Sunday of Janu: 9, 1905, (Jan, 22, new style), when thousands of workers in Peters- om composition and the editors finally decifed to run the newspapers articles which were cut by the censor. But the truth gradually began to spread all over the country. The re- volutionary underground press of the party told how thousands of workers: with their wives and children carry- ing holy pictures of saints from the churches and portraits of the czar went to him as children to a father to beg for freedom and bread, and how he met them: with bullets, how the children who climbed up trees in| Alexandrovsky park were shot down, etc, : “You have no more a ézar! He Is the killer of the workers! Down with him! . Long live the revolution!” cried our tinderground newspapers, pam- phiets. and circulars. StrSet demon- strations became more _ frequent, strikes more numerous. The country began to. boil with revolt. Finally in the middle of October.a strike began in Petersburg which by October 17, had grown into a general strike all over the country. The railroads and telegraphs which even at that time were government owned and controlled, stopped work- ing, all the factories shut down, busi- ness was paralyzed. Only the news of the spreading of the strike was flashed to the newspapers. In Peters- burg they organized a Soviet of Work- ers’ Deputies. When the telegrams about the strike reached the office of the liberal newspaper in our city, the printers were among the first to go out on strike. By that time we had already a good underground printers’ union organized and functioning in spite of the law prohibiting unions. Only “ex- trag,” containing strike telegrams, were published. Within two days the : “ - ‘ x Pa 7 ia =} ~ ¢ ey | ae : : oe ‘ ; i x ‘ Le ae Sy ee eee a ht i=. m iin. = “a * > 7 hy eg 2 ui he ee ae 7 4 ve ‘~ o a _ J r: ae on a ee | Ds i . ‘oe bee ys eal 4 4 7 ee BT 0 %..* ‘ Sage Aa Oe ee : a , Ki Sy" Ce a Tar : > eal ge er Oe Fe =" ‘ ed, = a / y oe n> 0 Ts at ees MEMBERS OF THE FI — .- == 7 — 7 . . RST PETERSBURG SOVIET OF 1905 ON TRIAL IN CZARIST COURT. in the bottom row of this picture are the lawyers defending the prisoners. In the next row above, from left to right, ; are Chrustaliev Nosar, chairman of the Soviet, Leon Trotsky and others. i strike became general in the city. The atreet cars kept on running, but after a few of them were turned over and varnicades built of them, the rest dis- appeared from the streets. The strikers swarmed into the streets. They went in big throngs from store to store pulling out the clerks, and from shop to shop calling The local administration lost its head. Very seldom did we meet with any taken away to the hospital, > ae e DO And thei ¢ain the flash?” “Freedom! His imperial signed manifesto granting freedom of speech, assembly, conscience, Duma to be called.” And later came the manifesto on the wires. The news spread over the in an instance. Everybody swarmed into the streets. A great crowd collécted in front of the news- paper office and the manifesto was read from the balcony before it ap- peared in print. Spontareous processions formed, red flags appeared, open air meetings started all over the city. Strangers congratulated each other with the newly won liberty, friends and mere acquaintances kissed each other in the streets. People were crying and laughing at the same time. Every- thing red was at once absorbed. There were red flags, red ribbons, red streamers, red, red all over. The shop keepers, the landlords, the petty bourgeois intellectuals, the middle class in general, everybody alongside with the revolutionary workers, wore red in the buttonholes and smiles on their faces as-if trying’ to say: “I was always for the re yolution, you know.” ? A big procession went to the jail, where after a brief conference with the jail officials, the political prison- ers were released and met with en- 'thusiastic cheers of the crowds. , Other processions went to the cen- ter of the city, Alexandrovsky Pros- pect, and from there to German Square, the biggest square in town, A-monster mass meeting started there that lasted until dark. Speakers of the different revolutionary parties presented their programs to the huge! crowds. The shop keepers and the petty bourgeoisie had no platform nor party, they had nothing to present. Tired and happy the crowds went home to assemble again in the morn- ing. The ngxt day another monster meeting was held on the same square. Crowds were continuously coming and out the workers who had:ot joined}: by that time. The police disappeared. | — majesty} ote smashed into a pulp. When they tired and stopped there were still signs of ljfe jn her. Two shots were fired in- to her body as they left. The Black Hundred marched on to the athedral which was located in thé center of a big city park. There a public prayer was held for the czar and the House of the Romanovs. By the time the prayer was over a solid group of members of the “B. O.” (Boy- enoy Otryad: military organization armed, A into d all the arms found distributed to As soon as the prayer was over the patriots began to swarm out of the in the stores; and a fire was started in the biggest book Store of the city that -was located opposite the park. were called, and Gther revolvers that were on hand. The hooligans at once going. About noontime a few comrades of the battle he did not hear, Finally to show were liberated during the first days of freedom, were later hunted up by the police and gendarmes and killed in cold blood. In our city the pogrom lasted for three full days. Alt during that time the army and the police were in charge of the situation. dividuals. who were suspected of ing students, were fired upon without wmuch ado. Walking with a comrade, I came upon a squad of soldiers who suddenly turned a corner about a haif The most bitter enemies of ours dur- ing those dark days to fight alone, It was quite a valu- able lesson that‘ we rned those days, *s That me in very handy duning the October days of 1917, uniforms in czarist ad . These strange bedfellows were with — ee hb IGM8aed - © yr Lest ‘s ,