Daily Worker
December 23, 1925
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22 2 7 * ets —— tad 1 F fe ng» ENS F 5 * . e R vi - * . 5 . N NEW FORK EDITION 5 At Chlonge, Sino, andar the Act of March & 188 MBER 23, 1925 — 1 * ‘WORKER "chicago, Ik r ee ‘Published Dally except 8 PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W Price 3 W Washington Blvd., Charge .Coolidge in Deal | with Democrats of t be a South to Get I. C. C. Job: 58 (Special to The Dally Worker) ; 5 Be N WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—A sensational charge that President Coolidge entered a deal 2 ‘ Southern democrats to secure confirmation of the appointment of Thomas F. Woodlock, of 15 2 York, to the interstate commerce commission, thru the appointment of Richard V. Taylor, of Aa- bama, to another vacancy on the commission, was aired on the senate floor today. oodlock'’s 5 He charge was 7 . y the senate last year. The ch into debate by Senator Cole Blease, (D.) Senator Under Jof Alabama, to make an impassioned cores of Taylor's ANTHRACIT = OPERATORS REFUSE TO NEGOTIATE WITH MINERS ON Tanne hunt) Lae a ee time in two * Premier ‘Briand — and Senor Quinones de 2 the Spanish ambassador, were in pro- longed ‘conference. it le believed — they are discussing the Rifflan peace terme wiioh have been made by }; Abd-el-Krim, thru the English of- dor, Gordon Canning. ; Druse Fighters Rally for New Syrian Fight} * ~ (Special to ‘The Be Daily Worker) BEIRUT, Dec. 21—-Djebel Druse tribesmen are concentrating in large | numbers in the vicinity of Mount Her es Fight or Party NUTSON + Daily Worker) Dak., Dec. 21.—The North Dakota as wil ‘be a burning — eague : in afl probability, 4 22. The of South Carolina prove — 5 — W party at this time. tack Ae nato j te bade! ot shay Reporte ego _ PINCHOT PLAN; SEE LONG FIGHT| er 8 mp to’ the farmer: SCRANTON, Pa, Dec! 2k—-The heralded meeting bet he anthraci reset at — aa oked on. Sale: a * N es and union eee sak nk: gilibitaled ween 0 pons 2 ö 3 of ag the state. here, is called off by reason of the refusal of the operators to enter negotia- tions on the basis of. the Pinchot proposals. This was made known by the were received | Spokesman for the operators, W. W. Inglis, who said: og league | “There can be no meeting of the operators and miners until such time as state. [President Lewis agrees to am open discussion of any and all plans for 2 Use Hounds to Find Prisoners. Houston, Tex., Dec. 21—A posse with bloodhounds is pursuing 15 con- victs, who escaped from the state Race Oppressed Here 4 g published : “I really cannot see how our entry prison farm at Otey, near here. The Party. settlement and does not confine the miners to the Pinchot peace proposal.“ and 4 br d . | into the : f 5 . M 3 oa re ae | league can be expected to | prisoners, all serving long sentencés,} Other — rank and : ant Still More. * 11 promote a settlement of dutstandings cut their way to freedom thru the f filers, on , Tue Pinchot proposal, it is to be) now organizing the defense of the Prelimi for . . oe (Continued on baue 2) | floor of the do?mitory building. fervent s 1 the formation remembered, constitutes for the union| anthfaclte mine workers in Wett, i N a? ! of a real f or party in North a surrender of the Tri-District con. tion of a continuance of the present dent antiimperialist demonet , : 7 . , 7 Dakota 2 vention demands and an unheard of struggle to 5 ne on the South Side of Chicago, to re- ö 2 . > ruggle to the fall of 1926 or the ‘ h ~~ COM T MAYOR RE-ELECTED mer league lead- Contract for five years’ duration. In spring of 1927. Funds will be pro- est against the oppression of Ne- f ae , er, is BOWE @rilling for oi] in| View of the fact that the operators vided so that the hungry will be fed den in the United States and by | Zr . ß . .. ee | + | |is looking fort 2 a re-entrance | Cession, the conviction is growing . — made last Friday evening, at the | | into the: poltt js not in sym- that the operators are out to destroy a an vi ghting 5 yea meeting of the executive committee of (By Cablegram to The Daily Worker) pathy with farmer-labor the union entirely in the anthracite ecanwhile, miners in the anthra-| the Chicago Negro branch of the All- ATHENS, Greece, Dec. 21—Despite the action of the Greek Pan- cite are becoming increasingly dissat- party. ae region. 9 | America Anti-imperialist League (U. galos military dictatorship. voiding the election in Saloniki of the Com- To Bu . in Dakota Lewis at a speech to the real es- isfled with the sort of defense 8. section.) munist mayor, Patrikios, the Communists were able In the new elec bree tate board of Philadelphia last Friday Thlch 18 Promised by Lewis to be-] it was pointed out that while the gin some time. The miners are an- gry at the washeries being allowed to run, the shipments made of anthra- cite of any grade, but above all the miners are angry at the failure of Lewis to call out the maintenance men, several thousand of whom are working keping the mines in good (Continued on page 2). 6 conference, under tions to have Patrikios William Lenke and | The Communists. in Sa sloniki made a united front with the refugees and the labor elements in putting up Patrikios as Sen tor mayer. |AMALGAMATE D 1 WORK | MEMBERS CALLED. TO ACT FOR WAL OF une, 1 igs declared that the operators and the | “financial interests behind them“ were ready to pay a billion dollars to crush the United Mine Workers’ Union. What Lewis intends to do about t may be.seen by his other ut- terances. He said: “Knowing the operators’ plans, the United Mine Workers of America is persecution of Negroes in the United States continues, the U. 8. govern- ment is now taking a whole series t decisive steps to completely crush thb only Negro republics in the world - Haiti and Liberia. “a Ruled by Marines. 3 American sailors and marines have dominated Haiti for a number of a a - 4 of ‘€ Wen has happened to Ida Tar- ben?“ asks Labor, official or- gan of the sixteen rail labor unipns. Twenty years ago she burned up the Standard Oll company in a bock that helped to make her famous. Today writes a culogy of Judge Gary. What's the matter with Ida? Nothing so very uncommon, we venture to say. She has been smitten by a disease that has reaped a handsome toll of many American liberals who once snapped their fingers at our pluto- crats. But a little taste of the ,good things of life made them wish for . an page 2) COMPANY ATTEMPTS TO UNION WORKERS’ STRIKES LONDON, Dec. 21—The condur- tors and drivers of the London Gen- ‘eral Omnibus company have been * x t+ In the last struggle 4 Denn * + Anil a 17 f T over the country, the Hillman machinery Comm ** 3 be 0 * n 55 7 9 — * eo N ‘HIE set to work thru two channels; first, to scare off the membership thru organ- What le This our trade as a native. The demand, and the tendency to reinstate the downgrade. ized gangsters; second,’ thru peace negotiative talk by which he meant to make the membership believe that the struggle will be brot to an end. Struggle For? “tt is no secret that conditions in the shops are becoming unbearable. Reduction in wages, the discharge of employes is becoming a more and more frequent occurence in our, trade. The terrible “rush system” is entering Sreadjustments” that the Chicago manufacturers piece work, prove that our trade, is on The Hillman administration instead of combatting the wild appetites of the manufacturers sought a policy of peaceful collaboration with the em- ployers. And the more he sought col- laboration the more he was forced to concede. It is an irrefutable fact that the Hillman machine has done noth- ing else but organize manufacturers’ Forget They Are Servants. To them, to the leaders, these bosses’ organizations meant bodies, responsible groups, with whom the BATTLE OVER WORLD COURT IS ON AGAIN pose Reservations WASHINGTON, Dec. 21—The world court fight was resumed in the senate 1 7 |e 2 Brey: 2 Tim it party in North«Dakeota would give a great impetus toofarmer-labor. move- ments in otheristates and inasmuch as many farmerseand workers of the noxthwestern aud central western states are still Mmoking to North Da- kota for guidanee: and leadership in a wide- awake farmers' and workers’ political movement, that it should re- assert its original militancy. Workers and Farmers Must Unite. J. G. Soltis from Minnesota gave a zood talk on how the capitalist system exploited both the farm and worker and the necessity of forming a class party of their own. There is yet a good deal of timid- ity in this new farmer-labor move- ment, but a start has at least been made and it is destined to grow wider and deeper as the political experience CALVIN COOLIDGE BUTT | OF SATIRIGAL ATTACK tarmer- labor Bribes and Bulldozing Completes the Grab (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Dec. 21— The capitalist journals report that King Ali of Hed- jaz has “abdicated and fled to Irak” | is the version given out by the British foreign office twas corrupt a piece of British imperialism as has been pull- ed off in many a long day. The king of Irak, the territofy held ruled that because the Turks had been, so it alleges, guilty of some “atrocities,” therefore Irak should get the “valuable Mosul; oil region—pro- viding the British would permit“ the i 1 0 LD EDISON PLANT , WORKER CORRESPONDENTS writes. us: “We have elected textile workers employed in the mills here / to become worker correspondents | and send The DAILY WORKER régularly articles on conditions in ‘the Patsaic textile mills. The party has also selected comrades to have charge of the distribution of DAILY WORKERS in which these articles appear.” What has your city done to push this important party activity? Send your report to the editorial depart- ment, DAILY WORKER, 1113 West Washington Bivd., Chicago, III. Free passalc, N. J. a comrade | UP FOR WORK IN — ta peer 4 the Sak! | torous Borno goernment, fm the pay of American im Liberia, the big rubber enterprise announced bx. ey Firestone, marks the beglühins o f a concerted Lmove / to subject this A9 1 repub- lic to the lords of Wall Street, with n imperialist rule. interested In Liberia. Chicago Negroes are vitally ti terested in the fate of these two re publics, particularly Liberia, which was founded by Negroes from the United States. The Chicago Negro branch of the All-America Anti-limperialis League (U. S. section) is working out a spe cial program, based on race issues, to be brought forward in ‘all phases of its activity. A program committee was elected Friday night and will re- port at the next executive committee Raise Price of Bread in Paris After Xmas (Special to The Dally Worker) unions could negotiate union prob- today with indications pointing more . PARIS, Dec. 21—The workers of sirsularized to Join the company; |lems. But these leaders bare and more to its becoming, in tho ON FLOGR OF SENATE | asd et nations to extend the British Paris will have to pay the highest 2 vision a ene iin 83 forgotten entirely they were to final analysis, a battle of reserva- man a cyl ra ; years so gig bl price yet charged for bread after Dec. e eee wee serve the workers. In the last tions“ such as featured the protracted . Company Is Unable to 29. It was announced today that from Whenever the “commissioner of po- Hee declares that an emergency has arisen in which the services of this ‘support to the regular police are re- quired for the preservation of law and order.’ The appeal is signed by one H. ‘Lansdown, calling himself command- few years they hanven’t even made the slightest endeavor to check the eonftnued infringements upon the righte of the workers. Not only have they done nothing to improve the con- ditions in the shops but they have not even tried to get into the organ- struggle over the league of nations. It was reservations that in the end accomplished the defeat of the league, and the foes of the world court apparently are hopeful that his- tory will repeat itself in the present struggle. (Special to THE Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Dec. 21—Presi- dent Coolidge as the basis of a satirical attack in the senate by Senator Pat Harrison, democrat, of Mississippi, Who charged the exe- cutive’s Chicago speech to the farm oil out of Mosul. Britain, accustomed to bearing the white man’s burden, agreed to accept the burden of being responsible for getting the oil out of Mosul. So that’s that. But now to compléte the “pacifica- Recruit. Strikebreakers The Edison Electric. Appliance com- pany, 52nd Ave. and 19th St., had fewer scabs enter the gates yesterday morning than at any other time dur- that date the price will be 1 franc 70 centimes a kilogram (about 8 cents a pound.) Rald Dope Dens. BALTIMORE, Dec. 21.—Twenty-five ; bureau and feddération resulted in tion“ of the country, the British pay ing the strike of the sheet metal arrests had been made and $5,000 ant. All, those that joln this strike- 8 those who were yet on the out- Battle Against Reservations. lower prices for farm products. out a bribe of $2,500,000 in cold cash workers. Worth of narcotics seized in a series breaking crew for three years get = Recognizing: the situation, and re- “The day after the president (to the king of Irak, with the under-| The deputy guards have not been of Taide on drug peddlers and narcotic a. uniform and all the “equi ent” They bowed to every demand made membering their history, the demo- made his plea For the farmers in diminished. The number of guards still “speak easier.” The arrests are con- . standing that he is to buy off his Weeded to carry on thelr work. oe ee age ee crats and pro-court republicans are] Chicago,” saidsHarrison, “the price brother, the king of Hedjaz, who has remains the same. Yesterday morning tinuing. Girls of 15 and 17 were found Those that try the scheme for one vise ttl t production and permitted pointing their efforts to the rejeetion| of oats went dbwn, meats went been holding out against the British those on the picket line missed the Pledging their clothing and jewelry your onty get a policeman’s hat and 7 of any and all reservations other than] down, live stock) went down, corn in the mountainous section. England deputy who had come near drowning tor cocaine, heroin and morphine. “equipment.” (Continued on page 2 those originally proposed by - Presi 4 went down, wheat went down, got the father of the two kicked off in his bowl of soup in a nearby, , Soy dent Harding when he submitted the poultry went down and cotton went the throne in 1924. Ali went on the restaurant. The deputy failed to UNEMPLOYED ARMY | START THE NEW YEAR RIGHT! | PDQEGINNING immediately pointing the way out. Hundreds of thousands Hundreds of thousands o story of the workers in these plants will be told, their grievances set forth and the program laid down in “the stockyards” of Chicago, St. City and many other meat packing centers. taining these articles should be distributed at these plants. The DAILY WORKER wants the names of all those ill help, not only in the work of distribution, but als hering information to add to the large amount, ial that has already been assembled. Address al nications to the Editorial Department, The DAILY after New Year’s Day The anized workers toil aul, Omaha, Kansas of unor of copies of the issues con- ho in a. P \ question to the senate. Protestant President Presides as Papal Nuncio Is Elevated been elevated to the cardinalate. The ceremonies were held in the salon of the Elysee palace and Cardinal Ce- retti received the red-hat while kneel- ing on the cushion formerly used for the coronation of the kings of France. Premier Briand attended the cere- monies. Expects Fat es William Sproule, pres@€nt of the Southern 'Pacific, believes this year’s ‘ofits. will. equal the showing made st yea when the Southern Pacific ed $10.24 on common stock. down. “Another facter connected with that speech was that the president of the federation praised it. A few days later, the farm bureau met in convention and the man who prais- ed Coolidge’s speech was defeated for re-election while a Mr. Thomp- warpath, while his brother became a well-paid British puppet. cated and fled to Irak” from Hedjaz, | is simply another way of saying that Ali has suecumbed to the bribe and that British imperialism now holds almost all the great Arabian empire, FARRINGTON ENTERS CONSPIRACY WITH OPERATORS TO CUT MINERS’ WAGES FORCING MEN TO STRIKE TROY, III., Dec. By f. MASULIO, a Worker Correspondent. 3 minexrs of Local 691 are on strike as a protest against the cut in wages which was pulled off on them in a secret conspiracy between the operators and the yellow president of the United Mine Workers of Illinois, District 12, Frank Farrington, to violate the agreement... At one mine the operators put on a few new loading machines, but in- stead of the uniom officials taking advantage of the s (Continued on page 6) tion to give the min- #s 10 show up. The pickets believe that he has been transferred from this plant The news that King Ali has abdi- to some other tied up during the busy season and ders is looking around to do their struck work for them. „job.“ Production in this plant has been the company in order to fill its or- for someone British Monopoly of Crude Rubber WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—Investi- gation by the house of the British | crude rubber monopoly became assur- ed when the house rules committee | approved the resolution introduced by | Representative Tilson, of Connecti- cut, republican floor leader, calling for the inquiry. The investigation has | the support of Secretary of Commerce | Hoover, and will be launched after | the Christmas recess, plans of administration. leaders. according to GROWS LARGER IN NORTHWEST CITIES (Special to The Dally Worker) PORTLAND, Ore., Dec, 21.—The DAILY WORKER will launch an exposure ainst PARIS, Dec. 21.— With President son, who criticized the president, with the blessing of the league of na- a number of unemployed In the larger oonditions under which workers are forced to toil in the Doumergue, a protestant, presiding, wag elected in his stead.” 3 1 5 | cities of the northwest is cortinual- many plants of the meat packing industry. Cardinal Dubous gave the red-hat to Will Investigate ly increasing as many workers from the papal nuncio Ceretti, who was other sections keep piling in. About 600 men were lald off in one of the fir logging camps near here, while most of the camps are shutting down for two or three weeks for the holiday season. In the inland empire where saw- milling has been brought to a sea- sonal close, and where few woods “operations ere running, the unem- ployment situation has become even more acute than on the coast. Spo- kane has a large number of unem- ployed with absolutely no prospects for many months of ever getting @ | job, 1 333 of the farmers and workers in the by Great Britain under a league of meeting. * | FORM CREW 10 SMASH pon tg E . other Ad ö ti Will state becomes riper thru capitalist nations mandate, is merely a puppet PEM St ABS SHOW . 8 tration Op- oppression, of Britsh rule. The league recently | —_—
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Mella and his twelve Imprisoned comrades in Cuba upon the shoulders of American im- perlallsm, a mass meeting of Chicago workers at Northwest Hall, corner North and Western avenues, Sunday ‘night protested against the intrigues of the American sugar trust on the island and unanimously demanded that the United States government recall Ambassador Crowder and abrogate the treaty which forces Cuba to main- tain the notorious “Platt amend- ment” to her constitution in the in- terests of American Imperialist dom- Ination, The meeting was one of many to be held in all the important Sies of the United States, under the the All-America Anti-imperialist League (U. 8. section) and International Labor Defense. Demand Immediate Release. The meeting further demanded im- mediate release of all those kept in jail in Cuba by American inffuence. Quick action is necessary, it was pointed out, if Mella and his com- ‘yades are to be saved. Mella is in a desperately serious condition as a re- sult of the long hunger strike he has been carrying out in prison. William F. Dunne, the principal speaker, gave a survey of American imperialist history with regard to Cu- ba, beginning with the unprovoked war of aggression of Spain in 1898. One of the slogans of this war, he de- clared, was “Via Cuba libre!” (Long live free Cuba!) but Cuba today is suffering under a reign of terror such as even the black regime of the Span- ish General Weyler did not surpass. Under the domination of the sugar trust and the National City Bank of New York, the real “owners” of Cu- ba, colonos in the sugar flelds are being forced to work at the point of the bayonet for a bare subsistence, while labor leaders who attempt to organize the sugar slaves are impris- oned, trade unions are smashed and all who protest against American im- perialism are persecuted by the sub- servient Machado government. ism,” declared the upon us—the workers of the United States. The official bureaucracy of the trade unions does not take up this task. Instead k strives to extend American imperialism by poisoning and rendering harmless the labor movements of the subject countries, while at the same time sharing the ill-gotten gains of imperialism thru the profits of socalled labor banks, in- surance schemes, etc. This makes our responsibility for determined struggle all the greater. We must win the trade unions for class strug- gle, and away from the policy of ‘class collaboration,“ built upon the foundation of imperialist exploitation. ere, inside the very fortress of Amer- ican imperialism, we can strike the most telling blows at the moneter that has bocome the universal exploiter, the enslaver of all the world!” Other speakers included Manuel Gomez, secretary of the All-American Anti-Imperialist League, George Brewer, a young Negro who told of the struggle of the Negroes against race discrimination and oppression in this country; Vicente Orbet, a Fili- pino, who described the iniquities of the rule of Gov. Gen. Wood in the Philippines, and George Maurer, sec- retary of the Chicago bran n of Ivter- uat’onal Laber Defense. Adopt Protest Resolution. A resolution demanding complete and immediate independence for the Filipino people was unanimously adopted, copies of which arg to be for- Mar lad to President Coolidge, to the Filipive independerce Mission now at Washington and to the Philippine legislature. He will like it! Give your union brother a sub to The DAILY WORKER. —7＋1 7 eee y ( — treree Fwihmem » » reer TITLED BRITISHER SPILLS IR INDIA RUBBER BEANS IN PRESS (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Dec. 21.—Government circles were not too pleased today with, a frank discussion of the rubber situation which appeared yesterday in Lord Riddel’s News of the World under the heading, “Rubber Is Wiping Out Eng- land’s Debt to the United States.” “With rubber fetching today a dollar a pound, America within four years will have paid this country the equivalent Gt the British war debt of four billion dollars,” said the News of the World. “Every American who is trund- ling about in his motor car will have the satisfaction of knowing that thru rubber tires he is helping the British pay off the debt they incurred to save humanity.” Reports that Secretary Hoovep plans to encourage the planting of rubber in the United States are descri by the newspaper as “moonshine.” The government has been prone to deny that there is any artificial in- crease in the price of rubber, and such frank discussion as that in the News of the World is discouraged, lest it calls forth American retaliation in the form of restrictions that Great Britain. | will raise the price of wheat and other staples to As E SEE Ir aw By T. J. O'Flaherty | (Continued from page 1) more. Ida found it more profitable to tickle the chins of our money kings with feathers than to place red hot tacks on their chairs. That’s abo all there is to the mystery. ' 8 % s&s MUR“ ambassador to Mexico has been snubbed by the Mexican gov- ernment, according to reports e - ating from American circles in - ico, When Mr. Sheffield returned the capital of our southern heigh . that sounded and presented the the to Sheffield remarkably like a sugges- tion to scratch his ear. Sheffield was disposed to discuss American inter- ests Mexico with the foreign of- fice. If we remember rightly, it was understood some time ago that Wall Street had everything its own way in Mexico. It has not and it wili not, no matter how many leaders fali for the gold dollar. > 2* 8 HE executive council of the Am- erican Federation of Labor favors the world court. Wiliam Green is instructed to keep in touch with de- velopments and acquaint his fellow fakers on the council with his pro- gressive studies.” Which means that whatever the agents of the Wall Street bankers in Washington whis- per in Green’s ear, Green will blow it thru the fat heads of his co-workers with a wind machine. The. world court is about as useful to labor as the electric chair is to a condemned picturés appeared in the December 6 issue of the Chicago Tribune. Three of them were related to the Armistice day celebrations in Europe. Marshals Foch and Joffre of France were shown in conversation. The caption said they may have been recalling heart- breaking reverses in the world war and “happier reminiscences of glori- ous triumphs.” Is it possible they | may have recalled the 800,000 French dead, who lost their lives to foist a Dawes’ plan on Germany and an in- visible franc on France? Premier Stanley Baldwin of England, flanked, by ex-premiers MacDonald, the social- ist and George and Asquith the liber- als, with the royal family, is shown reading a memorial to Britain’s dead heroes. Over 1,250,000 live, but hun- gry British heroes are trying to exist on a miserable dole, seven years after the glorious victory. R * ®& N the third picture, Germany “proudly lists its battles on a world arlsruhe,” and the war monumen Ge soldiers the number of over million were killed in the war are glori Many of those who lived after the dread carnage were polished off by the social-demo- cratic leaders in the two revolutions that followed the war. Still another picture shows German divers with a new diving apparatus trying to raise a sunken British submarine. What pup- pets the workers are? They are taught to hate the workers of other nations when it suits their masters and they are used to assist the capi- talists of the same nations when hate no longer serves. * * BPRMANY recently “honored” Bar- on Manfred von Richthofen, the most famous of her war aviators. There was nothing surprising about the German bourgeoisie bringing the remains of a popular hero from its French resting place in order to feel the nationalistic ego of the people. But it did create a ripple of surprise to see a represe e of Great Bri- tribute jtain’s military forces offering to a soldier on whose head they had | called set a price a few years ago. No doubt. the Communist Party of Germany called the attention of the workers to the ease with which the capitalists can forget their differences when it is to their interests to bury the hatchet. The workers have no clashing in- terests pet they clash. But they are fast learning the need for unity. Coal Barons Refuse to Negotiate | (Continued from page 1) order for the operators, while these operators are defying the union. In Carbondale, Pennsylvania, five local unions have officially protested the loading and shipping of coal by the Sweeney Brothers of Scranton, who are shipping dbout 100 cars a day from Prompton. The locals intimate that if their request for a discontinuance of this practice is not obeyed, mass pick- eting will follow. The plant is op- erating at full capacity both day and night, with a fore of men heavily guarded by gunmen. The coal is being reclaimed from the old Grav- ity roadbed, loaded into cars and shipped to New York state. Local teamsters and carters are be- ing approached to dissuade them from hauling coal from stripping opera- tions and prepared sizes of bitumin- ous coal furnished by dealers. Scran- ton teamsters have refused to accede to this call for solidarity. Need a General Strike. It is pointed out that the greatest aid to be expected is not funds for relief, altho many miners’ families are starving and living on charity at present, with prospects for the future getting darker every day. But the greatest aid that could come would be for Lewis to declare a strike in all the mines of America, a 100 per cent strike that would take out the main- tenance men, too, and let the opera- tors either yield the union demands or lose their mines to undrgeround water and cave-ins. Miners say that this would not only win the anthracite strike, but would win into the union whole districts of coal mine fields now working under non-union conditions. Iowa Farm Land One Third Depreciated, Says Congressman WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—Federal aid in the promotion of farmer co- operative marketing was commended today in the house by Representative Dickins (republican) of Iowa. He de- clared its operation too slow to be of benefit to the present day hard pres- sed farmers. Farm lands in Iowa have depreciated one-third, he said. Corn is selling at 50 cents a bushel, while it costs 62 cents to raise. Milwaukee Council Votes for Government Ownership of Mines (Special to The Daily Worker) MILWAUKEE, Dec. 21.—By 22 to 2 che Milwaukee city council approved 3 Admission sll An ln, Al Al nt, Le, A, MM, he, dl Ml, Ay Ae Mm dh, em se A, ps Mi dnp ee de tet | DETROIT, ATTENTION! Grand Concert and Ball Given by Ukrainian, Russian, and Polish Branches Workers Party For The DAILY WORKER | CHRISTMAS on Friday, December 25, 4:00 P. M. at INTERNATIONAL HOME, 3014 Yemans St., Hamtramck, Mich. ＋ eee 50 Cents. _| —e nn ne — — ree * — 7 ‘evvrVvrrrTTYrTrrTYrTrTYrTrTrrTrrrTrTVrTyrTYyT,YrTYTrY rTyrTvrrrrrrrTrTrTrTrTVrTVrTYrYreYreYreYreYrrerTewreN. * a resolution calling upon the federal government to acquire all coal mines and operate them for the public wel- fare. The aldermen were almost unanimous in regarding government ownership as the only permanent cure for fuel shortages. Fight on Prohibition. WASHINGTON, Dec. 21—An amend- ment to the constitution, wiping out compulsory prohibition and substitut- ing a government regulation of the liquor industry, was proposed in the senate this afternoon by Senator Bruce, (D) of Maryland, one of the leaders of the congressional wet bloc. You do the job twice as well when you distribute a bundle of The DAILY WORKER with your story in it. | ra 4 K 0 FN re nenen THE DAILY WORKER RTS we! 4 Tanne W Beg LA wy NUE Fee SOs ETL Lame ys ; ? poy Wy eae et 3 e KL 2 T TS hee , eer, ee et Lae 3 N Nr 2 15 » ‘0 aby * * e . * * By * A Nine * ty My N (Continued trom page 1 time and again, three times in suc- cession, a cut in wages. They only made a fuss that they would “organize the unorganized” tailors, but have done it only upon the crook of the finger of the manu- facturers’ association (the organiza- tion campaign of Philadelphia.) As — By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. 8 — 95 . . : * oes 4 * 1 Took Two Months to Get Out Letter to Aid Miners it looks now the leaders of the Amal gamated Clothing Workers have made themselves a sub-committee of the bosses’ association, The Reign of Tegror. The most active members of the union have been suspended. Locals have been disowned, ‘Workers are thrown out of shops when they dare protest against the inal behavior of has been insti- the expulsion éffect but also been beaten tory in the Workers of tuted by which not ot policy has been put individual members 8 * ‘ America has no son. Meet- ings of locals of the union have been turned into battle s by Hin- man’s gangsters. | | The official press ot the ated is turned the membership bureaucrats. Not a. syllable has been written about the livipg problems of the tailoring . Everything there had been piantbd in rosy colors. Forced to Revolt. The unbearable conditions in the shops on the one jand, the contin- uous conceding policy of the Hillman machine to the bosses on the other, the terror against the membership as a good third, were the forces that brought the membership into uprising against the bureaucrats. The struggle embraces more and more workers over the country. New York is in revolt. There is almost no local where the machine agents have not been defeated, There is no shop where the workers have the slightest’ faith in our leaders who misiead. They have tried todabricate lockouts and strikes in order to regain the trust of the membership. But they were mistaken. Themembership re- fuses to recognize them. The only or- ganization that has the trust of the membership in New York is the Amal- * the Hillman ganized the membership @@hnot ch fight. On the contraty, it acts only a spark in powdelh it spreads the- flame to its full lekgth and/ breadth. Workers of Rochester, too, have shown that they wish to have nothing to do with the corrupt Hillman meth- ods and this was shown plainly in their recent election? This is the senti- ment that is prevalént among the workers in our trade against the Amal- gamated machine. The Hillman gamé in the Amal- gamated is lost. The bureaucrats feel it. This is the one reason why they hav renewed their campaign of ter- ror on the one hand and peace nego- tiations on the other. The New York locals which elected a commit- tee to speak terms with the. bureau- crats play unconsciously into the hands of the machine. There are a few men in the committee who are in earnest and it is te them that we ad- dress the following: 1. Those who desire peace must first of all decide that all expelled members must be reinstated, The dissolved locals must be reorgan- ized. Those wo were thrown out of work becam of) their opposition to the Hillman machine must be put to work again at their former places. 4 2. The officérs A the New York wis te -_ _ yesterday, soup was dispensed with and ODAY, William Green, president of the American Federa- tion of Labor, finally issues an appeal to all affiliated or- ganizations to contribute funds for the striking anthracite coal miners in Pennsylvania. ‘ | This is an example of the efficiency of the Green regime in control of American organized labor. It has taken two months for Gompers’ successor to write this fetter. * * * * It was two months , while the sunshine and warmth of October days were still beaming over Atlantic City, that the A. F. of L. convention by unanimous vote, all delegates rising to their feet, decided to come to the aid of the striking miners. Then the convention adjourned. The delegates went back to the bickerings of their various international unions. President Green, according to all reports, went on tour ad- dressing chambers of commerce and other organizations of the business interests, pleading for “peace,” for “friendly relations” between the workers and their bosses. He com- letely ignored the great industrial war, a crisis in the Amer- an labor movement, that is raging in the Pennsylvania hard coal fields. To be sure, the A. F. of L. office in Washington sent out a printed copy of the address delivered at Atlantic City by President John L. Lewis, of the miners’ union. This went to “the press” and came from the office of Secretar Frank Morrison. But that was all. White paper, even wit ink on it, doesn’t feed hungry strikers and their families. * * . * This is just another act in the bitter tragedy showing how the present leadership of organized labor does not func- tion in the industrial struggle that rages continuously in spite of Green’s class-collaborating orations. , The capitalist press has carefully spread the lie that the anthracite strikers are “rich and prosperous,” that they have bulging bank accounts and big automobiles, that they are enjoying the “vacation” the strike has brought them. Per- haps the officialdom believes this stuff. That is one explana- tion of their inactivity. But the Scranton, Pa., Republican, dated Dec. 19, 1925, has just arrived, and over a news dispatch from Pittston, one of the biggest mining centers, there appears the headline: “SOUP KITCHEN LINE-UP IS INCREASED TO SIX HUN- DRED”; “PITTSTON LODCE OF ELKS'TO INVESTIGATE SITUATION IN CITY TO DETERMINE EXTENT OF ACTUAL NEED EXISTING.” The item follows: PITTSTON, Dec. 18.—The line-up of youngsters between the age of six and sixteen years at the “free lunch”, handed out at the St. Regis Restaurant, on North Main street, was increased to six hundred this evening; according to a tabulation made this evening by Harold Stein, the proprietor. Patrolmen Merle Finnan and Joseph Sheridan were on duty this afternoon from 4 until 5 o’clock keeping the children in line. As on iches served instead. | ' This und Samuels, manager of the Pittston Dry aii . n Sigm Goods, made known to William Conlon, secretary of the Greater Pittston * station, he will supply the butter and bread that will be needed for the duration of the strike, the relief station to be not only for children, but for grown-ups if it is necessary. An offer has already been made by Daniel O’Shea, manager of the Montrose Beef Company, to supply meat and soup bones, if such a station is opened up. | William Coplan, chairman of the Christrhas Relief Committee of Pittston Lodge of Elks, stated tonight that an additional thirty applica- tions for aid had been received in the mail today. Owing to the number of requests reaching 350, the committee have decided to make an investi- gation in an effort to ascertain the conditions really existing in Greater Pittston. Chamber of Commerce, that if any public organization opens up a relief It is not known how many of those hungry children come from the families of striking coal miners. But it is a crime that a capitalist sheet is able to publish such a news article, flaunting in the face of the workers their own misery, that must be relieved by the charity of business interests, dispensed under the direction of the local chamber of com- merce. If some of these starving children come from the fam- ilies of workers in other trades, made idle thru the strike, then the crime of the American Federation of Labor and its affiliated international unions is all the greater. The big fact that is certain is that all these hungry boys and girls are the children of the working class. They are not the children of the coal barons and their well-paid henchmen. * * * * It is also certain that the sight of their children going hungry has a demoralizing. effect on the striking miners. This is a good time of the year to organized relief commit- tees, based upon the trade unions, in every city in the land, to furnish relief for today’s vanguard in the American indus- trial war—the anthracite coal miners of Pennsylvania. | we were, I believe, the first nation to | world to pieces, and we are whole- joint board must resign at once and a new election must take place for members of the joint board and executive committees. 3. The New York organization must be united inte one joint board and each local of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America shall be represented there on a propor- tlonal membership basis, abolishing Privileges of one total over another. Those who speak of peace must realize that the above is the 1 basis on which we ean come togethef. If those who speak of peace are in earnest they will not hesitate, a moment in accepting the above, with- out which there is no common ground for a conference. The conferees that will come to- gether upon these three points as a basis of peace will also have the pro- gram of the Amalgamated Action Committee, which ig built up upon the demands of the tailor workers. There is no other program which has for its fundamentals the economic improve- ment of the tailor. The program, in part, is the following: The Program. 1. Under no condition shall an em- ploye be thrown out of the shop. 2. To combat every attempt of the manufacturer to reduce the wages of their employes, be it in the form of “readjustments” as in Chicago or in any other form as common everyday reduction as in New York. 3. Abolish the production stand- ard. 4. To combat every attempt to resucitate piece work, 5. To establish week work over the country. 6. A minimum scale of wages. 7. Open a campaign for the 36-hour week. 8. One general agreement for the whole clothing industry of the coun- try. 9. To unite into one big needle trade union all the needle trade unions with separate departments for the specific trades. 10. Establish the system of shop delegates who shall become the legitimate body to execute and act upon all union problems. ‘ 11. Abolish the Hillman policy of collaboration with the clothing manu- featurers and in its stead, bring in the policy to defend the interests of the workers under all conditions. Enter upon the offensive whenever the first opportunity comes. Call to Action. Comrades! Werkers! The left wing of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of the country calls upon you to enter this fight against the Hillman machine. Only thru strife will the workers pre- serve their union that they have built up by so much suffering, and which was later captured by a group of ir- responsible politicians. A call to action, worketm of New York and of the country over! Or- ganize yourselves and gather about those who hold the banner of strife. [Stand with those who are ready to fight for the interests of the Amal- gamated Clothing Workers’ member- ship. Shake off the Hillman machine from your shoulders. It has sold you thru its policies to. the bosses and made the pogroms upon you and your union possible. In no other way can we save our union from annihilation. Let it resound from one end of the country to the other: Down with Hill- manism! Down with gangsterism! Forward to a clean, strong and mil- itant union! Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Action Committee. Boiler Explosion Kills Engineer on Italian Steamship TENERIFE, Canary Islands, Dec. 21 —The first engineer of the Italian steamer Asini was killed when a boil- er exploded. The steamer, bound for Buenos Aires with a cargo of coal, put in at this port to bury its dead. 7 N 2 ent. | „W. P. „A. J. Cook, secretary. Soviet Union Is Ready to Scrap All Her Armaments (Continued from page 1). questions between ourselves and other nations, when those very nations have up to the present refused to recognise us. Moreover, we reject a cardinal doctrine of the league—the idea of the coercion of some states by There is yet another reason for refusal to join the league. point out that the insistent invitations that certain members of it are ad- dressing to us come with very ill grace from countries which not only reject all our overtures for mutual ac- commodation, but are actually in occu- pation of our territories.” Referring to disarmament, Tchich- erin said: “After the termination of the war, advocate disarmament and we officially expressed our approval of this pol in our reply to the draft of the of mutual assistance. We not only hemently criticized that treaty for giving enormous international power to a few states, but we rejected it as delaying the practical settlement of the disarmament question. Incident- ally, I have just received the report of the spech made in Moscow by M. Rykoff, chairman of the council of com- missaries, in which he makes the downright offer to abolish not only the army, but also Russian war indus- tries, provided complete disarmament becomes general. He goes on to say that he is ready to give his fullest sup- port to any attempt at even part dis- armament. This readiness of ours to disarm is not a mere rhetorical ges- ture, it is implied in our fundamental attitude to the world. We renounce not only the policy, but even the very idea of conquest. And we need an army and navy only for defense.“ Tchicherin in discussing the Locar- no pact declared the pact was part of a drive of the capitalist powers on Soviet Russia and further reitertated Russia’s desire for peace by saying “Locarno or not Locarno, we want real peace and the removal of antagon- isms which would tear the whole heartedly ready to make our contribu- tion to this end.“ U. S. Court of Appeals Turns Down Plea of Teapot Dome Grafters WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.— Without assigning any reason, the United States court of appeals denied the ap- plication of Albert B. Fall, exs#ecre- tary of the interior, and E. L. Do- heny, Sr., and E. L. Doheny, Jr., for a rehearing of the appeal they made from the recent decision sustaining bribery indictments against them in connection with the Elks Hill naval oil lease. Open Air Transport Route Across Florida NEW YORK, Dec. 21.—Florida is to have an air transport line, carry- ing passengers and freight. It will be known as the Florida Airways cor- poration and will operate, at the start, across the southern part of Florida between Tampa, Fort Meyers and Miami. The first route will be opened January 1, and probably will be ex- tended to other cities of Florida, as well as to Atlanta and Cuba. Four airplanes, purchased from one of Henry Ford’s companies, the Stout Metal Airplane company, will form che nucleus of the air transport line. These planes will be flown from De- troit to Florida this week. RESERVE NEW YEAR'S EVE IN CHICAGO FOR THE I. l. EL. BALL AT ITALIAN HALL CLARK ST. Admission 75 Cents, Including Wardrobe. ivi -, — Dancin Until-2 A, Refr ts Serv
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The raise will be $5 more per week. On this question Brother F. Coco criticized the attitude of the officials. He said, “The sentiment of the barb- ers in this local is against the officials, but they fear to say anything or vote this proposition, because many tions and abuses were used en used continuously fighting for the better- local.” camouflage methods against the mem- bership. He appealed to all the varbere to open their eyes once and express their own opinion, their own indignation, against all the discrimination and camouflage methods used by the offi- cials in crippling the opposition. He said, “Be free men and vote against the raise of officials’ wage.“ es ny Speak Against Raise Brothers L. Scarffidi, ee Ca- vella, Dedore and others spoke against the raise of salary. All the above brothers demanded a secret ballot but the president, Mr. Quinto, a great reactionary, saw that the spirit of the barbers present, was against the raise and he put the question to the vote by raising the right hand. Of course members fear to lose jobs, because if they ate with the opposition the officials will never give them jobs. The barbers present were nearly 600. The vote favoring, raising wage, 142. Against 47. The great majority abstained from voting, for the reasons I pointed out above. Afterward the nominations for 1926 officials, was open. Brother Coco for nresident-organizer, opposed Mr. Quin- de, the present president-organizer. Brother Coco wished to make a statement, but the czar, Quinto, re- fused to give him the floor. . ee J. Magliacano, I, Brodow- sky and L. Scarffidi were nominated for the executive committee, opposed to the present lackey members. Broth- er Cavella for the financial committee. Brother Dedore was nominated for vice-president but the czar Quinto re- jfused to accept the motion. What. They Stand For. The above mentioned stand for the following principles: They want that the barbers should be more interested in the union affairs. They want that the barbers should be educated by lectures on unionism. They want the barbers protected by the union in case any barber will be dismissed by the “boss” for his union activity. Un- til now when a barber was dismissed he has no protection at all. And for this reason the hours are not respect- ed as they should be, because the barbers are afraid to compel the boss to close at the hour established by the contract between the union and the master barbers. The opposition proposes that all the beauty parlor workers must be organ- ized because if not they are a great detriment for the barbers in general. This question was voted at the In- dianapolis convention last year. But until now the officials promised, but never put it in practice. It is time for the barbers: to ‘open their eyes and ears and realize that until all the barbers in New York and vicinity are 100% organized conditions cannot improve as they should. If you want efficiency and progress of your local, vote for the above candi- dates in the next election of dur ‘local. Labor Officials Meet to Gild 1 Slave Chains 8286 Part ees, the coal industry to end unnecessary wastes by stabilizing employment ahd increasing safety in particular is to be discussed by the 19th annual, meet- ing of the American Association for Labor Legislation, Dec. 28-30. Presi- dent William Green, American Fed- eration of Labor; Stuart Ohase, the Labor Bureau, Inc.: Leo Wolman, New School of Social Research, and others will attend and speak on vari- ous topics. Pawtucket Woolen Mill Strikers Win Fight Against Cut WESTERLY, 200 workers of Pawtucket Woolen Mills won their eight weeks’ strike against a reduction in wages an- nounced when the plant was to begin full time work instead of three days a week. 1 | Milligan of machinists. NEW YORK, — — ot yt R. I., Dec. 21, — The W — — 7 W 1 6 f ALLOWS ALL OF THE HOOK Class Cellalioration Bait At Banquet By MAX COHEN (Worker Correspondent) PEORIA, III.—Last Monday night the labor misleaders of Peoria de- monstrated that labor and capital could “get together,” when eighteen of them were present as guests of the Peoria association of commerce at its annual banquet at which nine hundred men and women were pre- sent. Hell and Maria’s Brother. The principal speakers were Wm. of commerce, who gave a lot of “va- luable information” on “methods,” and John N. Van der Vrees, manager of the northern central division of the chamber of commerce of America, who, to quote the Peoria Labor Ga- zette, “took the breath away from the labor representatives, for he came darn close to making a red hot union labor talk.” | “Ninety per cent of his address,” says the sycophant Gazette, “was along the lines that every labor union stands for. He advocated the round table discussion, sitting together and threshing out differences, rather than btanding apart, wasting time hating each other,” Brag Over Betrayal. The local newspapers printed many columns in “praise” of the Peoria workers, gloating over the fact that their “representatives” were staunch backers of the A. of G. and that they believed in the co-operation of all classes, where each grounp realize that the other fellow has some rights on the map.” This last is a quotation from the Peoria Star, which, in turn, was .quo- ted from the Labor Gazette. Among the so-called leaders of la- bor present were Joe Lynal, president of the Trades and Labor Assembly, who was & comic figure at several miners’ convention, in one or which he got up on a chair and told Lewis to go to hell, From this he was misnamed “Fight- ing” Lynal. He was a silent boy at the A. of C. banquet. Willis K. Brown There. Waldo Cross, vice-president of the Illinois State Federation of Labor was seen but not heard, as were George Rimington of the miners, Willis K. Brown of the carpenters, and W. H. Bush, editor of the Peoria Labor Ga- zette sat at the speakers table, since he was starting on his third year as vice-president of the association of commerce, as “labor’s representative” in the association, To show how, these leaders have swallowed the bunk of class peace without protest we quote the Labor Gazette as saying: Pearl of Class Collaboration. “It has been the custom in the past for the A. of C. and labor unions in other cities to be continually at war. But in Peoria we are glad to say this civic organization will bring peace and prosperity to all alike. Labor is for a square deal and no favorites, a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work, The A. of C. is more than simply a bunch of business men for mutual pro- tection, but it is for all Peorians, big and little, rich and poor.” If you want to thoroughly un- R. Dawes of the Chicago association | Walter — — THE DA LM 3 a Can en War on B. Plan of Clase Collaboration EDMO ‘alte. The Edmonton local of the 00d of Railway Carmen of North America is on the warpath to fight the notorious B. & O. plan. At the recent meeting of the West Edmonton Lodge a resolution was adopted to elect the local secretary and one other man as a committee “to be empowered to draft, publish and distribute bulletins exposing the anti-working class nature of the Baltimore and Ohio plan of co-opera- tion. The bulletins to be distributed to the members of all railroad shop crafts, so that this plan of profit mak- and rejected by nton and district, amalgamation, con- ity on national and may be adopted.” In their first bulletin the committee points out it this plan causes in- creased unemployment, speeds up the nefits no one except ich is able to produce By HYMAN GORDON (Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK CITY. — The Paper Plate and Bag Makers’ Union, Local No. 107, of the International Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers, is conducting an intensive campaign to organize the trade in New York City. We recognize that the task is hard, as we have to deal with an unorgan- ized trade, with the lowest paid work- ers, who are intimidated by the bosses and are scared fo death to meet a union organizer. But our local has decided to do everything in its power in this organ- ization campaigu. At the same time our local, thru the: efforts of the mem- bers of the Workers Party and the progressive ite doing splendid educational work. On the third et e we had a mass meeting anniversary of t republic, wher »Russian workers’ members of the nd listened with On „ nad a little rescue party for The DAILY WORK- ER at the house Brother Chanoh. A collection brought in $22.00, and it was decided to send it to The DAILY WORKER in the.mame of Chanoh’s little son, who retyrned from the hos- pital where he underwent a serious operation. 1 The executive board of the local is assisting in the educational work, and we hope that. with the organiza- tion of the unorganized workers of our trade our local will be one of those progressvie locals that will help to build up a united progressive labor movement in this country. Watch the Saturday Magazine Section for new features every week. This is a good issue to give to your fellow worker. Put a copy of the DAILY derstand Communism—study it. 1 WORKER ARKANSAS COMPANIES SUE MINERS’ UNION Operators Sta Start Second Coronado Case FORT SMITH, Ark., Dec, 21.—Five coal companies have filed suit in fed- eral court here against District 21, United Mine Workers of America, its officers, executive board, © individual members and locals in western Ar- kansas counties, for $1,080,000 as dam- ages from the union which is leading a strike in the collieries. The suit was brought on the same basis as the suit of the Coronado Coal company now on trial for the third time in United States district court here. | The Greenwood Coal company, the Mammoth Vein Collery company, Backbone Coal company, Semi-Anthra- cite Coal company and Blue Hills Coal company are listed as plaintiffs. The petition asks for the issuance of an attachment against funds now in the hands of the receiver of the district, and for writs of garnishment. Miners now on strike are charged with having caused employes of the companies to quit work and with vio- lation of an injunction order issued by the Sebastian county chancery court. DEPT. STORES DRIVE WORKERS LIKE ANIMALS Macy’s Store Enslaves Its Girl Workers By SYLVAN A. POLLACK. NEW YORK CITY, Dec. 21.— With Christmas shopping at its highest peak, the department store workers are now overburdened with work that is wearing them out. both physi- cally and mentally. R. H. Macy & Co., New York’s largest department store, both in the amount of workers it employes, as well as the amount of business it does, can be cited as a good example. Frantic shoppers crowd into the store to such an extent that daily many of the customers as well as the employes hre taken sick from the intense strain. Work From rning Till Night. The sales clérks are not the only ones who have to bear the burden of the holiday rt in fact, their lot is much easier in parison, with others who work in store, for when the store closes théy are able to usually leave within a half hour’s time. It is in the checking and shipping departments, where many young girls are employed, that we find the worst example of slave driving. Refusing to hire enough extra help for the holidays, the workers are compelled to toil from the morning to nine or ten o’clock at night without obtain- ing any extra pay whatever, receiving only a free supper in the store restau- rant which consists of the food that is left over from the day’s meals. A big proportion of these workers, WORKER in ee pocket when many of whom have been employed x. U. E. L. Ball WII Bring Out New Vork Workers Xmas Night NEW YORK CITY—On Christmas night, Dec. 25th the left wingers of the city will gather at the big dance to be held at Manhattan Lyceum at 66 East 4th St. All the leading figures now participating in the national con- vention of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ including Sascha Zimmerman, Rose Wortis, J. Borucho- vitz and others will be there. Liptzin and Nelson of the Amalga- mated, Gold and Gross ofthe Furriers, Jakopsky and Saza of the Cap and Millinery Workers, Rosen of the Car- penters, Rosenberger of the Bakers, Gitz and Obermeier of the Food Work- ers, Martin of the Printers will all be present. The notable assembly of labor lead- ers will participate in one ol the most enjoyable affairs ever arranged by the Trade Union Educational League in this city. Music will be furnished by the Broadway Bolshevik Jass Band, consisting of the first musicians from tre leading Broadway theaters. Admission is fifty cents. OFFICE WORKERS PLACE A.C. . A ON UNFAIR LIST Amalgamated Ignores Union Demands By SYLVAN A. POLLACK. (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Dec 21.—In a statement issued to the press, Ernest Bohm, secretary of the Bookkeepers, Stenographers an d Accountants’ Union has declared that the Amalga- mated Clothing Workers of America, has been placed on the unfair list for refusing to allow the office force of the Amalgamated to be unionized. “We are doing this because Sidney illman, president of the Amalgamated, has ignored our letters calling upon him to employ only union clerical help in the office of his organization,” sta- ted Bohm. When that argument begins at lunch time in your shop tomor- row—show them what the DAILY WORKER says about it. by Macy’s for several years, only receive twelve and thirteen dollars a week. Tf they ask for a raise, they are reminded that there are many unemployed to take their place at a minute's notice, and therefore, they are compelled by fear of losing their jobs, to keep quiet. Macy’s is now giving all of their employes a mental and physical test and undoubtedly as soon as the holi- days are over will fire those who do not figure up to a certain mark. Many of the questions that are being asked, especially of the girls, are of a per- sonal nature that is an insult to them. Must Organize. The department store workers must realize that only by their own strength and determination will they be able to better their conditions —ͤ—ü— — — 2 Page |FURUSETH AND BLACKLIST Pi it is not usual for a company tion for itself of the United government, but that is what is attempted now, and the bill to — complish it is being introduced by less than young LaFollette who walking about Washington in e same fog of fake progressivism as did hfs dad. As usual, all the politically mole eyed “labor” journalists swallow with typewriters to tell the world That perfectly wonderful things are being done for labor. opposite of the truth. last Saturday's issue under the head in Senate.” About this damnable scheme to blacklist all radical seamen ~ of the Marine Worker, organ of the Marine Transport Workers Industrial Union No. 510 of the I. W. W., s the following to say: “The International Seamen’s Unies - thru its president Andrew Furuseth, is advocating a law making it compul- sory for shipowners or the I. 8. U. te issue to all seamen continuous dis- charge books. These books are to contain the record of the seaman and be filled out by the officer in charge of his department. “Senator LaFollette, son of the former candidate for president and father of the seamen’s act, is to intro- duce the bill at the present session of congress. Almed at M. T. W. “The bill was originally introduced by the father of the present senator at the last session, but was defeated. to get control and fleece the seamen as they have in the past. The object of the bill is to blacklist those whe are active in bettering conditions for the seamen and it is a direct blow W.“ How Come? All militant workers will join with the Marine Transport Workers in op- position to this plot to blacklist the revolutionary and active element among the seamen, at this conspiracy to get legal authority to destroy the only militant marine union in the United States, the M. T. W. of the I. W. W. ' But the I. W. W. should also ez- plain why it is that its officials permit prominent members, such as Coving- ton Hall} to work for LaFollette’s elee- tion, as tm the last presidential cam- paign, without rebuke or loss of stand- to ostracize and bar from the organ ization press any member, however able and willing to build up the I. W. W. if he even is suspected of being They must demand to be paid for all overtime, also obtain a rafse in wages to lift the mout of the ridiculously lowly paid class they are now in. They must organize themselves intg a union and fight shoulder to should together for by their unity they wi be able to make the department stofe owners come to terms. a Communist. After that talk with your mate—hand him a copy of 7 DAILY WORKER. It will help ince him. Take this copy of the DAILY ORKER with you to the shop Class Collaboration for Export. Frank Hodges, secretary of the Miners’ International, Amsterdam leader and civil lord of the admiralty in Ramsay MacDonald’s labor“ gov- ernment, in an interview published in the American press recently (Chicago News, Dec. 18), gave expression to a definite new current in the interna- tional labor movement. Among other things, Hodges said: ‘British trade unionism must look to American trade unionism not only for its practical demonstration of economic power, but for guidance in the industrial crises of the next American trade unions have gained an incalculable advantage over us by their system of labor banking. 1 think American trade unions are to some degree responsible for the generally excellent co-operation betwen labor and employers. in that co-operation Americans have a happy advantage over us. We are miles from achieving- it. On Dec. 5, at the Amsterdam Gen- eral Council meeting, Hodges directly spoke of the desirability of the admis- sion of American labor to the Amster- dam International as opposed to the admission of the Russian trade unions — At would be a much more important event than even Russian acceptance of the (Amsterdam) constitution,” said Hodges. Oudegeest, too, chimed in with this view, saying that the real importance of the general council’s meeting was in the “approach to Ameria and Mex- ico, which is a question quite differ ant from that of Russia.” our difference with Aerio, said | Oudegeest, ig one of tactics, not of rules. These indications of an orientation toward American rules“ by European labor, synchronized with a reformist maneuver to seek support against the movement for world trade union unity by admitting the American Federation of Labor to Amsterdam, make an ex- amination of existing tendencies in American trade unions of great inter- national sifinigcance. We must remember, also, that the recent German delegation of trade union reformist leaders were stricken with wonderment at the “B. and O. plan” of class collaboration invented by William H. Johnstone of the Ma- chinists’ Union and applied on the “Baltimore and Ohio” railway at first, which gave the plan its name. The Germans went home pledged to spread this scheme of class collabora- tion all over Germany. Hence a sur- vey of American class collaboration tendencies is of world interest. Company Union and Collaboration. Two phases of one thing, class col- laboration, may clearly be discerned in the labor movement of the United States of recent and current days. These two phases are: first, the growth, forced by the employers, of “company unions.” The second is the growth of the movement for “co-op eration with employers” among the trade union officialdom. Both of these movements, which are taking on a tremendous significance, whether they come from the employ- ers or from the trade union bureauc- racy, find a common divisor in the principle of class collaboration, and the only difference between the two positions is one of application of the Both arise out of the same situation, the lack of a militant policy of intens-| ive organization of the workers by the trade union leadership, and a com- plete unwillingness to base even the existing numerical strength of the trade unions upon a clear and implac- able policy of class struggle. The lack of a program for the organization of the unorganized turns the helpless masses over to the ensployers to ex- ploit as they will, thru company unions if they so choose. Lack of a class struggle policy for the workers already organized not only fails to attract new members, but demoralizes the present membership when it faces the employers in battle with no policy but that of retreat and surren- der. Lure of Direct Dealing. Moreover, so remote has become the mode of life, the material interests and the income elevation of the trade union bureaucracy from the average proletarian, that the siren song of the company union booster, for “direct dealing,” “shop democracy” between “just we two,” has been a powerful argument aiding the winning away by the comany union of members and ex- members and possible members of trade unions which should be based on the class struggle and rank and file control. With the union membership declin- ing the trade union bureaucracy felt secure for some time in their fat-sal- aried positions, by the brilliant discov- ery of “labor” banking, with the divi- dends from the banking business serv- ing to cover the slackening income from dues. But the field is inherently too limited to take care of the whole species o e union bureaucrats, 0 unton“ threatens to reduce the trade union membership to the vanishing point. 10 Nothing to Sell. With the numerf@al strength of the company unions of the United States attaining a figure of an estimated 1,000,000, or filly one-third the strength of the American Federation of Labor, the panio-stricken disciples of Gompers saw that their principles of “collective bargaining” would have nothing to bargain over, with their shelves swept cleam of merchandise by the company unions. In some cases the company union movement has secured the direct as- sistance of the government. Such a case is cited recently involving the Maintenance of Waymen’s Union and the Delaware, Lackawanna and West- ern railroad. A dispute arose over the pay rates, of the bridge and building painters belonging to the union em- ployed on the road. That was five years ago, and at that time the union entered complaint against the road with the United States rail labor board. The U. S. board decided in favor of the men, but it did nothing to enforce its decision which the road paid no attention to. The board even took two years to answer the union’s last let- ter. And then it reversed its decision with the following cogent observation: The situation on the Lackawan- na railroad, so far as it affects the painters in question, has been ma- terlally changed. These painters are no longer represented by the Unit- ed Bratherhood of Maintenance of Way employes, but are and since April 17, 1923, have been represented by the Federation Mechanics and and the of the “company | — *T r eee N e 3 ee eee By Harrison George ment of the company. In other words, these painters, ff they lived long enough to get the final decision of the United States rail la- bor board, were no longer members of the Maintenance of Way Brother- hood, which is one of the sixteen “standard”. railway. unions, but now belong to the “company union,” to which the board found it unnecessary to speak of wage rates. This is the systematic working out of a policy by the American employ- ing class which can truly be charged as a conspiracy against the American proletariat. But what do we figd the “leaders” of American labor doing about it? There are several excellent illustrations. Mutual “Bo “OF Adjustment.” In reference fo the railWay unions, 99 8 = a 8 — “J 2 © 5 2 = ct ~ railway Wee aa. of Railway “boards of adjustment” upon both the management and the wnion which magnificent results are foretolt in the „peace.“ The details of the bill are not yet made public, but a clear inference that the unions have surrendered the right to strike and other vital policies, can he drawn from the fact that the Penn- sylvania railroad, a die-hard enemy of unionism has voluntarily joined in the line of “co-operation and understood“ by the workers, to be suc- have representation and concern at SS “eompany unions.” This, if it turns out as indicated, will be one of the most brazen and wholesale surrender of American unionism in many a long yer his fever to outdo the company unions is burning thru the veins of every labor union in the country, And it ig voiced by the head of the Amer- ican\ Federation of Labor, William Gree}, speaking at the annual meet- ing \of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in New York recently, in the following words: “Management must either deal with trade unions organized by the work- ers, free and apart from outside in- fluences, or deal with their workers individually.” This was Green’s starting point of argument against company unions. But he goes on: The purpose of management which fosters the organization of com- pany unions is clear and under- stood. The motive behind their ac- tion is a selfish one. They seek to maintain the form of collective bar- baining without its virtues or its spirit of independence. They seek control rather than co-operation. Here we have Green telling the em- ployers that the purpose of the com- pany union is too obvious, “clear and cessful in their selfishness. Better methods are suggegted: They exert the\ power of compul- sion instead of inviting the volun- tary co-operation of their em- ployés. “Such co-operation,” says the dis- patch, “Green would have come thru agreement between the trade unions and management to make in- dustry more efficient.” Such are the funeral orations being preached over the coffin of the “right to strike” and all semblance of pol- icies of class struggle, by the trade union bureaucracy of America, Helpers of the of depart- | bo CRBC arp Artie ve scheme, which promises give the bot a companies more @ffigient la- 2 cheaper scales thaw their own 1 Another shining example is the | speech of the infamous “Major” George L. Berry, addressing an audi- ence of both employing printers and wage earning pressmen at Mason City, Iowa, Dec, 14, 1925: have no patience with the em- ployer or the employe, who takes the position that they are twe rival forces, They are not. They are interested in one common end, mak- ing money so that both worker and employer may share in it. “The strike was held up as an ecom- omically unsound weapon,“ the die patch goes on to state, “destructive alike to workers and employer. Con- ciliation and arbitration are far bebe ter.” But “age cannot wither nor time de- cay” the classic example of a bid fer class collaboration, quoted by Com. Earl R. Browder in the first artiele written in America against the A & O. plan” in The DAILY WORKER of * December 8, 1923, in which William H. Johnston, president of the Interna- tional Association of Machinists, wag said to have spoken at St. Louis, as follows: Want to emphasize as strongly as | know how the fact that in the task of positive co-operation in the railroad industry there can be no substitute for the genuine unions of the railroad employes. | maintain that such a manage- ment would never again (after using Johnston's co-operation plan), as long as it retains its good sense, desire to see the affiliated shop crafts effaced from the scheme of things on its road. The sweep of the tion movement advances. problem unionists hinges around the fight to win and hold the unions for policies of class struggle as against this laboration poison that is s oF LA FOLLETTE IN ; uncritical haste every act and utter ance of “young Bob” and rush to — * 7 a. 7 The result is a faim — 5 sounding article which tells the exact * 5 No Blacklist is “Favorable” 455 taken in by such a story, — a of “Bill Favoring Seamen — oS. fe i a off of American ships the recent issue * „The I. S. U. hopes by this means against the membership of the IL. W. ing. Yet these officials are ready enuf. zs cOllabora- . And the key of American revolutionary © . ae a. ie 7 AP 4 — 5 ; 8 “ema <j © et a ee Ar 7 5 ae 5 N 7 3 * * Bi, : FRE Laat : te a Bs eg :
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~ - mittee. Workers (Communist) aie „ .“ } district executive mitte ot * istrict No. 2 and the general ership meeting of the New York nembers of the Workers (Commun- Party have gone on record as ing the campaign for the uni- — ot the party initiated by the oe a 2 Der by a vote of 8 to 6 and the latter by a vote of 460 to 233. The meeting of the district execu- ‘tive committee was held on Thursdag, Dec. 10, and was addressed by Com- rades Lovestone_and Cannon on be- half of the unity resolution of the cen- tral executive committee. The two central executive committee repre- sentatives discussed at length the pol- itical situation in the country and in the party, pointing out that the growth of atwo-and-a-half international tend- ency both inside and outside the move- ment, the growth of a new left wing inside the socialist party and in the ‘labor movement in general, the seri- ous danger of a split in the party which was prevented only by the en- ergetic and united fight of the central executive committee representatives at the Finnish convention which end- ed in the triumph of the Bolshevik elements in this convention, and the general favorable situation for mass work required the unification of the former factions of the party for united work and that the removal of the political differences, which had divided them, made possible such uni- fication. The speeches of Comrades Cannon and Lovestone were followed by a thoro discussion of the entire question, Comrade Krumbein being permitted by the central executive committee representatives, to speak for a half hour against the central executive committee resolution altho the original plans for the meeting, as outlined by the central executive com- mittee, did not provide for any such long speech against the resolution. Comrades Olgin, Mindel, Sjoman, Weinstone, Wolfe, Stachel, Miller, Bimba, Lifshitz and Don supported 3 ew Vork Supports the Unity the resolution and Comrades Krum- bein, Grecht, Siskind, Zack, Undjus and Aronberg voted in the negative. Comrade Olgin, in supporting the res- olution of the central executive com- mittee, declared that he was convinced that the central executive committee was working earnestly for the unifica- tion of the party but that, in his opin- ion, it would still take some time and much earnest conciliatory work to dis- arm all the old prejudices and sus- picions, and he introduced an addi- tional resolution in the district execu- tive committee in which the district: executive committee should express to the central executive committee a fur- ther interpretation of the spirit of har- mony involved in the adoption of such a resolution. This resolution was adopted by the district executive com- mittee, no one voting against, but six abstaining and referred to a sub-com- mittee for editing. The resolution pro- posed by Comrade Olgin is reprinted at the end of this article. General temierehi Meeting. At the general membership meeting, which was held on Sunday, Dec. 13, at Webster Hall, the entire question was discussed at much greater length in an eight-hour meeting. . Comrades Cannon and Lovestone again spoke on behalf of the ceneral executive com- mittee and released Comrade John- stone from his obligation as a central executive committee member to sup- port a unanimous decision of the pol itical committee of the central execu- tive committee in order that not John- stone’s right to speak but the unity resolution should be the central ques- tion for the discussion during the meeting and that there could be diver- sion of the main political issue to sub- ordinate questions. The following spoke in favor of the unity resolution in addition to Comrades Cannon and Lovestone: Comrades Dunne, Olgin, Mindel, Weinstone and Wolfe. Com- rades Krumbein, Zack, Brakdy, Cost- rell and Radvansky spoke against the resolution. Comrades Brahdy and Radvansky introduced their own reso- lutions, both resolutions receiving four votes. The representatives fon the central executive committee, in closing the discussion, emphasized the fact that they would continue to work energetically in order to win over those comrades who still opposed the unification of the party and that every opportunity would be given to anyone who supports the line of the central execufive committee and the Commun- ist International to work without dis- crimination in the party. Whereas every effort would be made to win back to the line of the Communist In- ternational those who were now ob- jectively working against that line. Olgin’s Resolution. The resolution of interpretation in- troduced by Comrade Olgin into the district executive committee and adopted by a vote of eight in favor, none against, and six abstaining was referred for editing to a sub-committee of which Comrade Olgin formed a part which unanimously presented it in the following form: “WHEREAS, The abolition of all kinds of factional struggles and fac- tional discriminations is the most im- perative need of our party as a pre- requisite for the Bolshevization and for the growth of our party as a lead- er of the working masses, and “WHEREAS, Some of the comrades of the former majority, in their shock of surprise and in despair over the Communist International cable, have in various instances expressed their opposition to the Communist Interna- tional decision and some have even attempted to organize within the party an opposition to the central executive committee, thus creating an atmos- phere’ of misunderstanding and con- fusion which must result in a weaken- ing of the party and of the confidence of the rank and file in the Communist International, and 1 “WHEREAS, The unity resolution and the spirit behind the resolution as well as the declarations of the re- sponsible representatives of the cen- tral executive committee indicate a de- termination to do away with the rem- nants of factionalism nanifest in some aetiv tral executive committee iminediately after the national convention, and so to do away with the factional spir t still manifested by some comrades, now _. “THEREFORE: The district exec- utive committee, in voting for the unity resolution, requests the central. executive committee that this resolu- tion be interpreted by it to mean as follows: “1. That the former majority led by Comrade for gop mistakes and de of some of its members and notwithstanding the recent declarations’ df some of the two-and-a-half international opposi- tion within our party as being in sym- pathy with the Foster group, was and is in the main compowed of the Bol- shevik elements wh must take an in- tegral part in all che work of the party, including thé fight against the right wing oppositio&,’ * 10 tn 1 1 to 129th we 64 h to Bronx Pk * and ecember 58. 7 Browneville (All South Brooklyn, Bath Ave., Wedne 1. Dec. ALL THOSE BROWNSVILLE. s t 1 De 1 8 / TUDENTS WILE aTTENo 8 oe SALESMEN AN AGE SEGTION WHERE THEY RES! ALL THOSE END Me CITY AND CORONA WILL ATTEN J 14th Sa ALL 6 A 6 . M. SHARP. OU are to report absolutely to one of the following section membership’ meetings in the sections listed bel MPLOYED sh factory and office w o the sect — 2 ngs in the in which the — *. Heir last employ - ene iti = ee cag of work.’ section DING TRADES’ WORKERS will attend the section ee in the sections in which their contracting shop is located. 14 t Soa 108 Eldri St., Wed., Dec. 23, 6 p. m. 14th St. to 2ard dge Wes. ee. 5 6 p. m. h St., Wed., Dec. 23, 6 p. J Van Court and Pk., 1347 Boston Rd., Tuesdays 1844 Pitkin Ave., Wed., Dec. Beach, Boro 23, 6 p Pk. and Coney „ 184 Benson p. M. WORKING IN 4 r brits ATTEND meets 3 IN ty ™ LONG MEETING OF SECTION 5, 108 Bast TION WHERE THEIR TS WILL ATTEND . set 4 The “C hristmas Spirit” and the Young Workers During the month of December 0 again are faced with a spirit of ence, etc. The salvation army can already be seen with their Same te Santas” on the ‘important streets handling the pedestrians for thet loose change. Chrsitmas dinner so- cieties of “nice ladies,” save-your- money-and-soul missions, basket cir- cles and what not are already prepar- ing to pool interests for the extrac- tion of the pennies from the lucky workers who have jobs. As far as the young workers are concerned not many will be fooled by the one meal a year” Huristmas charity of the bosses. While the bosses are. engaging in this tömfoolery and inoculating the workers with the “religious-supersti- tious” bug, the young militant workers are utilizing the month for greater organization and activity in the class struggle. « December for us is economic trade union month. It is definitely linked up with the working youth conference be- ing called in eastern Ohio for the end of February. There the immediate de mands, principally of the young “brotherly love,” “capitalist benevol-|: Christmas Spirit. miners will be discussed and a fight- ing program set up. In other parts of the country the Young Communists are organizing themselves into trade union fractions in order to carry on their struggle on behalf of the young workers into the uniong in an organized fashion. The league demands that every member become a trade union member and a member of a youth fraction. In New York City the league is also laying the basis for the calling of a general conference of young workers delegated from their shops in order to discuss and formulate demands for their immediate economic interests, igainst the use of injunctions and for ? labor party separate and apart from om bourgeois political parties. : see 14 ae ee Young Workers of Other L Lands 22 2 24 wer. British Times on the Y. C, 1. LONDON In the series of articles which the Times publishes on Com- munism in England, there is a shorter section on the Young Communist Leagu eof Great Britain. | By way of introduction an incident is decribed which is alleged to have happened in Manchester and which is an illustration of the extraordinary ac- tivity and unscrupulousness of the al- leged leader of the league. After this introduction the connection between the Comintern and the Y. C. L. is de- scribed in a few words and a few sentences from the program are quoted. ee While this is going on the attack of the Balwin government on the Com- munist organizations has aroused an enthusiastic fighting spirit in the lea- gue which is resulting in a steady in- crease in membership. a, Czéch Youth Fight Militarism. | PRAGUE, Czecho-Slovakia. — The „Communist Youth has published an appeal to the Czech soldiers. The fol- lowing demands have also been pub- lished: officers. 2) Smaller salaries for these officers. 3) Cessation of pensions for the officers of the old Austro-Hun- garian officers. 4) Higher pay for sol- diers “and non jioned officers. 5) Re-introduction of care commis- sion. 6) Permission to serve in one’s birthplace. 7) Prohibition to use sol- diers as strikebreakers; 8) Prohibi- tion of deduction from pay as penalty. PARTY ORGANIZATION With Introduction by JAY LOVESTONE. A most valuable pamphlet on the composition of the American Communist movement containing: The letter of the Commun- ist International on re- organization; the shop nuc- lei; the constitution—in- dexed and with charts. -A Communist should not be without it. 15 Cents. 9) Free selection of political news- paper and literature. 10) Soldiers’ free participation in the political life at their own discretion. 11) Preven- tion of the abolition of soldiers’ franchise. 12) Liquidation of the church administration in the army. 1 Reduction in the number of higher, German Children’s Congress New | Departure. BERLIN, Germany. —At the W national congress of the Junge Spar- takus-Bund (Communist Children’ 8 Movement) and its leaders a new de- parture was made for more effective work among the masses of proletarian children. Among the important de- cisions. were: 1) The children’s move- ment must not remain isolated sets of the more advanced children, but must mass organizations. 2) No isolated groups but a centralized children’s league. 3) Not only the school struggle but an energetic strug- gle against child labor and mela misery with economic demands. Austrian Young Socialists for Soviet Russia. VIENNA, Austria —On the return of the Young workers“ delegation from the U. 8. S. R. the young socialist workers had organized seven Soviet Russia meetings in Vienna, but the at- tendance at these meetings was only 1,900. It so happened that the majori- ty of the social-democratic members of the audiences favored Soviet Rus- sia, so that at one meeting even the social-democrat Kanitz was compelled to speak of his “warm regard” for the Russian working class. The young so- cialist workers have decided to hold a course on Soviet Russia. Thig is, of course, to counterbalance. the én- lightment on Soviet Russia by the young workers’ delegatiog!. Otte Bauer’s (!) wife will.lead the course. 1 | Come Ahead Into the Young Workers League! | Special articles will appear on the young workers in aie oe and and shops. The Daily Worker Pub. Co. 1113 W. Washington Boulevard, CHICAGO, ILL. . The page will be edited by | League. | SEND IN SPECIAL ORDERS TOMORROW! What Do the Young Commanists Want During December, the Economic Trade Union Month? ban | This question answered in an entire page of THe DAILY WORKER on WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23rd. N Bundle orders for league and party units 20 per copy. SS various phases of the conditions of their special activities in me unions tthe Young Workers eee | FOR THIS ISSUE. | —
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(Continued from page 1.) ers some of the benefits derived, the absolute contrary is the case, The bosses were permitted in this agree ment to cut the miners’ wages from $10.32 to $8.04 a day. This holds good for miners who load coal by hand as well as by machine. Very often the machines get out of order and the men are forced to load by hand. Be sides only a very few load coal by ma- chine, the large bulk of the miners loading by hand. Formerly if a miner loaded more than 12 tons of coal a day which at 86 cents a ton makes $10.32 the regu lar union scale, he was also paid. for the extra amount produced; but under the new Farrington agreement, in ad- dition to the reduced wages of $8.04 for twelve tons a day at 67 cent a ton, he is not paid extra no matter how many tons over twelve he loads. When this cut was announced by the operators, the miners immediately applied to the officials of the union for an explanation of the violation of the agreement. The miners worked for many months waiting for this. expla- nation which was never made. Then the miners, humiliated and outraged, went on strike demanding the return ot the former scale. CORRESPONDENTS’ CLASS WILL MEET THIS WEEK ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT The Chicago Worker Correspond- ents’ class will meet on Wednesday evening Instead of Thursday, this - “peek and next, due to the holidays. Thore is to be no let up in the work e this class. The DAILY WORK- ER comes out regularly. as usual and Worker Correspondents must . keep on the job. Send in your con- tributions. New students should --.@mroll on Wednesday, Dec. 23. Class meets at 8 p. m. in The DAILY WORKER editorial room, 0 W. nee e be e a s omar! „ ite Bey or Gi BY HERMINIA Tun MUHLEN “TRANSLATED BY ina DAILES With over twenty black and white drawings and four beauti- ful color plates and cover de- signs by Lydia Gibson. 75 Cents, Durofiex Covers $1.25, Cloth Bound The Daily Worker Pub. Co. 1118 W. Washington Blvd, Chicago, III. sot a a 2 0 EAA} A em =~ — — te About. the W > The prizes offered are as follows: FIRST PRIZE—“Flying Osip,” WORKER. Chicaga, I. VERY week The DAILY WORKER Is presenting three prizes for | the best stories sent in during the week by ite worker cor- réspondents. This week’s prize winners will be announced, and their contributions published on the Worker Correspondents’ Page in Thure day’s issue, since there will be no paper on Friday, Christmas Day. which are now appearing In the New Magazine Section of The DAILY SECOND PRIZE—Leon Trotsky’s “My Flight from Siberia,” in which is told the story of Trotsky's escape from exile. THIRD PRIZE—An original cartoon framed, a reproduction of which will appear on the Worker Correspondents’ Page. Send in your contributions immediately. partment, The DAILY WORKER, stories of New Russia, some of Address, Editorial De- 1113 wor Washington Blvd., STEEL MILLS CUT WAGES WITH : INSTALLATION OF MACHINERY; BOYS REPLACE SKILLED MEN New Castle is one of the pla By W. J. WHITE, a Worker Correspondent. NEW CASTLE; Pa., Dec. 21.—The United States Steel corporation is a gigantic combination of manufacturing capital with its tentacles reaching into hundreds of branches of manufacturing. Towns and cities of this coun- try have felt and are feelltig the deadening effect of its presence, with its open shops and in some cases, the ownership of even the towns themselves. This corporation is at the present time having its plants overhauled, and the waste of back number units of its numerous works wiped out. where this concentration and elimina- tion is being rapidly carried out. One of their blast furnaces here is already down and dismantled and at least two other are marked to go the same way in the near future. These fur- few years ago, are now slated for the junk heap. New and more up to the minute heating systems are being introduced by the efficiency engineer of the company. One such just been put in at the local steel mill, has displaced twothirds of the fire- men at the plant. Instdad of the 270 men who were employed on the three turns, they now have the work done by 90 men, thus saving the labor of 180 firemen. The patent doubler aes bas 5 intro- duced into the tin mills they are being handled by ware . — and sixteen, who are fast dis placing the higher priced men. Some idea of the number of men displaced may be The. who formerly lived in them nave had to geek work. elsewhere), In the tin coating plants they have introduced the latest machines which make it possible for one man to do the work formerly done by five. This work is largely done by the clored and the foreign-born workers and they have been especially’ hard hit. al sr * & Sat! * * > — * * ~ 9 : 5 * « pe f* rt) K om be 1 0 0 | | By UPTON. SINCLAIR. A splendid propaganda story of a Labor spy—written by a master propagandist. The kind of a book to hafid to your shop-mate after you have read it. 25 CENTS Order from THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. * 7 i > E rr PU ³·¹mꝛ1 · mmm 0 Detroit Workers, Attention! “The Adding Machine” . a A Drama of ‘the, Worker Under Capitalism 5 * will be played by the DETROIT REPERTORY THEATRE CO. THURSDAY, DEC. 24, at 8:00 P. M. in the HOUSE OF THE MASSES, Gratiot and St. Aubin Avenues, Detroit. Auspices Daily Worker Press Club. General Admission 75 Cents. bp + » + + +» + & + + » » » » L b & & Db Db i i i bp i i i i ip iy i ip i by i i i i bp i bp i i i i i De ie nbd dA AMAMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA naces, the pride of the capitalists a NOTICE TO NEW YORK WORKER CORRESPONDENTS OMRADE H. M. WICKS will be in New York City, Saturday, Dec. 26th, and will hold a meeting of worker correspondents and those Interested in taking up this work at the party headquarters, 108 East 14th St. All eomrades who want to know the details of this work and to get practical suggestions that ‘will aid them in becoming efficient worker correspondents should at- tend. The meeting will start at 2 o’clock sharp in the afternoon. Many of them are in dire straits be- cause of the lack of other work to be had in the town which is largely a United States steel fortress. Wages are about 40 cents per hour on the average. The boy who now runs the patent doubler gets about $4.50, while the doubler whose place he is taking got about $10.00 per day. The tin house Man now runs five machines, formerly run by five men, gets in the neighborhood of the wage of one of the men he now displaces. The company recently bought 800 acres of land for the purpose of put- ‘ing up coke ovens, and they are lismantling the coke ovens in Sharon and evidently intend to put in im- proved coke plants here. Concentra- tion and improvement and displace- ment of man power is the order of the day, and here you see it in the process of instalation. The local officials are largely the tools of the steel company consequent- ly nothing is being done to turn the ; situation into one of benefit to the workers. How to Fan Workers Party Seen in Street Nucleus —— (By a Worker Correspondent) With a Czecho-Slovak comrade act- ing as chairman, a Bulgarian as agit- prop director, a Scandanavian as The DAILY WORKER agent and a Ukrain- ian as financial secretary, street nuc- leus No. 13, section 4, of the Workers (Communist) Party of Chicago carried ‘on its branch business Wednesday night at 1532 W. 19th street with but one native-born American, the latter acting as secretary. The meeting was carried on entirely in English, with an enthusiastic discussion lasting for three hours. How to work in co-operation with the shop nuclei in that territory was the principal subject. The agitprop committee and industrial organizer will keep in constant contact with the secretaries of the shop nuclei in the district, helping in the distribution of The DAILY WORKER and of the nué- lei bulletins. Besides, an industrial survey of the neighborhood wil? be taken so that conditions in the shops where there are no party nuclei can be studied. As the first step toward the new jthe About Seab Contractor By A Worker Co Correspondent. : SANTA BARBARA, Cal., Dec. 18.— Near the postoffice on State St. where stood the e church, which was destroyed by | earthquake on June 29th, John M. Cooper of Los Angeles is excavating for a two story store and office building. This architect and contractor is well known in Los Angeles because of his to pay anything like the union or give his men union hours. The. carpenters and laborers in that city have received rough treat- ment from him. Indicatlons are he is trying to do his “stuff” in Santa Barbara also. His men work any and all hours it seems. As yet there have not been many car- penters emploged on the job, but the few who have worked for him have received $8 pez day of eight hours and worked. ie. C, afternoon for straight time, The carpenters’ scale is $9 for eightjhours. Saturday after- noon work ig gtrongly discouraged by Local 1062. Seg, 2 of the trade rules pays: 411 “There shall be no work done Sat- urday afterndem between the hours of 12:00 m. anche: 00 p. m., except to preserve lite and property.“ Painters and nlasterers are working five days a week here. The electri- cians are seeking to have their wages raised from 310 to $12 per day and week 5 ed from 44 to 40 hours. * 5 0 Feb” Sli cr. Aly WORKER HONOR ROLL. OF WORKERS AIDING PRESS English Branch, Workers Party, Boston, Mass., (balance of Rescue Party) .... English Branch, Workers Party. Boston, Mass., (Daily Worker lists.) 8.25 English Branch, Workers Party, Boston, Mass., pledges paid.... 6.50 Women’s Progressive Aol tion, Br. 129, Linden, N. J..... 5.00 Karl Marx Scandinavian Br., W. P., Chicago Sam Habor and Rubinovitch, Milwaukee, Wis. .... 1.50 J. Sambo, West Allis, Wis. (col- lected) 1.75 Shop Nucleus No. 1, Detroit, Mich., 5.00 Workers of Elbert, W. Va. (Wo- roshiloff, Hordun, Nenechuck, Gardarinuk, Warnuch, Sperin, Woznuck, eevee Covch, Sup- runuk) 6.50 Total Today $43.68 Previously reported $31,286.57 Total to date Tuberculosis Holds Second Place Among Illinois Diseases SPRINGFIELD, Dec. 21—According to the report of the Illinois state health director Dr. I. L. Rawlings, tu- berculosis holds second place this month in the sick list of Illinois work- ers. Scarlet fever comes first with 351 cases, then tuberculosis with 265, pnuemonia 228, measles 118, diphthe- ria 98, typhoid fever 40, influenza 23, and small pox 11. $31,330.25 | PICTURES OF LIFE 8 By 8. P. SLAVIN 97 (Worker Correspondent) (Worker Correspondent) STAMFORD, Conn.—In a grocery store a hard- ing woman, shabbily dressed, stood front of the counter talking to the. man in charge: “What is the cheapes tter you got?” The man told her, „dhe hesitated. Evi- dently it was too high for her. Finally she reluctantly said: “Give 6 @ pound.” Just at th ent an expensive automobile in front of the store. An dressed woman with a poodle her arms stepped out and en place. The gro- cer was imm y on his tip-toes.“ “Send me * pounds of the best butter you | abe * tie Be the lady ordered. hings in her order, ORGANIZED BY WICKS N During his tour thru the East, which startedityésterday in Grand Rapids, Comrade H. M. Wicks will devote considérable time to the or ganizing of worker corresponuents’ classes In the or cities that he visits. 1 This is 3 the most import- ant work being conducted by The DAILY WORKER and the party. It is essential that proletarian writers be developed so that a great staff of field correspondents can be created that will know how to handle ail labor news in a manner that will appeal to the working class. All worker correspondents and those who want to take up this work should attend the Wicks meet- ings and remain afterwards to take up this queer with Comrade Wicks, The ee will be visit- ed: Detroit, Buffalo, New York, Phi- ladelphia, Balt?more, Washington, Richmond, Pitts#urg, Cleveland and Toledo. Time and place of lectures announced eles Where in today’s paper. J 4 ‘How About Some Evening? Some night when you have no meeting—or some night whemqyou’re broke and you caxétego to a show —why not step over to the Workers’ Book Store at 19 8. Lincoln St.? You can help to prepare a propa- ganda campaign — and yowll spend d pleasant evening. Step over ANY night and speak to The work, the nucleus members organized Daily Worker Agent—s. for a house-to-house distribution of Hammersmark, We. sure 1,000 of the “Challenge to Coolidge” need your help! dodgers. sa UUUEEATOMOAAEOAEEOUOEONAOUESEEOGEUGANEUEEEOANUOHOUUAKEAEEEOAGEUAERUAAORAGEOUAOCUAREUET AREER AEA E SINCERE GOOD SAMPO CO for the working people of „ue ZT — 2 wer am 7 . MERRY CHRISTMAS. OP. STORE Owned, controlled and operated by the working people, HANNA, WYOMING."* WISHES FOR A a} 4 SLL always specifying she wanted “the very best” and, joyfully patting her poodle, she departed, while the poor woman was still waiting for that Auarter of a pound of the pennant butter you wae ng = It seems 1 that such per- verted conditions should be tolerated among civilized people in capitalist America. The harder you work the more you have. If you earn your liv- ing by honest work you are a nobody, but if you are a grafter you belong to “our best citizens” and you ride in limousines and you have the “very best” of everything. * ¢ @ I happened to know both women. The poor woman is my neighbor. Her husband works in a shop, their 14-year old boy works too. She herself, be- sides taking care of a family of six, takes in washing, and with all that she can only afford the “cheapest.” The rich lady is the wife of a prom- inent real estate man” who buys prop- erty cheap and raises rents, and that’s where the limousines and poodle dogs came from; and this is why our hard working woman couldn’t afford any- thing but the “cheapest butter you god.” She has to pay that high rent so that Mrs. „ whose never did an honest day’s work in his life, may roll in luxury. Information Wanted. Daniel George Carson, 34 years of age, last heard of in the state of Washington in the summer of 1917. Any information will be gratefully received by his mother— BRIDGET CARS Warspite, Alta., Canada. Have a Good Time at This Party. NEW YEAR'S ROXBURY, Mass. Friday, January 1 Singing; dancing; new year’s cele- bration with a new year's mid- night dinner. Given by the Rox- bury Jewish Branch at the New In- ternational Hall. IANT-LYNGHING | husband ; ‘like Manner as in the state courts. BILL IN HOUSE AND U. S. SENATE Law Aimed: at Curbing Southern Lynchings WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—Bills have been introduced in the senate and the house to curb lynching in the United States. Both of these bills are identi- cal and provide than any state officer who fails to make all appropriate of- forts to protect a prisoner in his charge from mob violence or appre- hend any person participating in mob violence, shall be guilty of a felony and upon conviction shall be punished by imprisonment not exceeding five years or a fine not exceeding $5,000 or both. The Bill also makes it a felony for any state or municipal officer to con- spire with any person to injure or kill or suffer a prisoner to be taken from his custody. Those who conspire with him likewise shall be guilty of a fel- ony. Upon conviction the persons 80 conspiring shall be punished by im- prisonment for life or not less than five years. District Court’s Right Defined. The district court of the judicial dis- trict in which a person is injured or F 838 £8 888 — diction fo try and punish those who ‘participate when it appears that the state courts fail or refuse to appre- hend and punish them or when the jurors obtainable for service in the state courts are so strongly opposed to such punishment that there is no reasonable probability that this guilty of the offense can be punished in the state courts. Must Pay $10,000 Forfeit. Any court in which a person is put to death by mob violence shall forfeit $10,000 to the family of the victim. If he has no family, then the money shall go to his dependent parents, if any; otherwise to the use of the United States. In the event that any such person put to death by mob violence shall have been transported from one county into another during the time interven- ing between his capture and putting to death, the two counties shall be jointly and severally liable. The bill also makes any act com- mitterl in violation of the rights of a citizen-or subject of a foreign country a erime against the peace and dignity of the: United States, punishable in „ FThree Make a Mob. Three or more persons, acting in concert, without authority of law, for the purpose of depriving any person of his life or doing him physical in- jury is defined in the act as a mob or riotous assemblage.” Watch. the Saturday Magazine Section..for new features every week, This is a good issue to give put to death by a mob is given juris- , to.your fellow worker. 8 . .. . 11. *. ad 8 7 te 1 7 ee 0 ; iy * 2 ou nion 4 ' i ; 45 N L * * * 55 16 N“N — oa 2 2 — 10 375 727 67 7 34.6 per cent; 2 8. „ 8 — NN Fourth Tuesday, Dec. 22, 1925, 144 Amalgamated Clothing er, 1569 N. Robey St. oe and Shoe Workers, 1988 Mil- kee A Bricklayers, 3 12 W. Monroe 4 e Bane paste . t Jo a Carpenters, land. * M — Carpe Sine Ere Street. Conductors ee ac Car), Capitet — 1 one a (Loe. 1222 K. w. * Ss. Engineera (Loc WEN. Sea Federal 1 64 W reet. Federal Union, 3046 W. 26th St. rl and Enginemen, Ogden and T Hatters elena. 166 W. Wash- ington Hod Carriers. * 18th St., Chi- $14 Ww. $e Bg St. ergne cago Heighte Hod Carriers, nee Sa rriers, 62nd and La V Hod 8 rriers, 814 W. Ha Ladies’ er. Workers, Van Bu entrar Werkers, eather Worke achiniets, 2548 ee ave Machinists, 4126 8 . — Machinists, 6234 P 1 Cutters, 175 — Fire and Ollers, 387 ark. Musicians, 176 W. Washington St. 7358 Perk Funk's Man, Oak Park. interes, ndolph St. rs, an dison. he 2 — bai 8. H Painters PAINTERS, 220 W. O — 0 : fit W. Mad way Odd | Biue sland, 1. ow Ca rmen, Av 6. Railway Carmen, re Railway ee ago Heights t. Railroad 2 3359 W. Madl 220 8. roe (Auto), 220 8. Ashland v Teamatere’ Dis. Council, Ashiand Bivd. Tile Layers, 180 W. Washington St. Waiters, 234 W. Randoiph St. 89,000,000 Roubles Net i Profit Rea lize d oon Soviet Union's Roads Moscow. U. S. 8. R., Dec. 21—In . the past flscal year 1924-25 the gross receipts of the railways in compari- son with the previous year have in- creased by 237,000,000 rubles, i. e., by in the year 1923-24 the railroad enterprises still N show a deficit of 19,000,000 rubles, in ee ook the year 1924-25 the net proſit amount: ed to 89,000,000 rubles. am while Watoh the Saturday Magazine Section for new features every week, This is a good issue to gwe to your fellow worker. | _w~wewwrwvwewrwvewveweerrrerwe§r"COrrCtTfT'T'tt''TTTtTtTtTTTTTT;T—,;,,r777 * . . talenne 2 and Sheffield. Chicago Witten’s 5 5 High. _ >. EE ae Ww V, 8 * st. . * W. Ada F. Adame St ; ‘Wo Washington 1 Meat Ag tters, 9206 Houston Ave. 10. 5 , cor. California and alsted St. W. cor. State ane 55th. Fellows" Ren. "Host i Michigan 6324 S. Haleted Railway Clerks, 549 W. Washington 5 Moose Hall, Chi- Halsted St. ö ’ | D. DOBKIN, the famous tenor dances vvVvVvVVVVTVvTYVyYVvYrYVyrYYVvYTYeYVrYeePeY YT Where? — | When? | | Get Ready! eee * ! NEW YORK WORKERS, ATTENTION! The “Novy Mir’ Ball LIDIA SAVICKAYA, soloist of the Boston Symphony PIERRE MATHEO, soloist of the New York Symphony Damrosha (on oboe and English horn) HILDA SHAKET, the famous interpreter of classic All Will Appear at the “Novy Mir“ Concert and Ball Park Palace, 110th St. and 5th Avenue | December 24, (Christmas Eve.) Who Will Be at the Ball and Concert? All, All. All, Buy Your Tickets in Advance. —— ‘an Admission 75 Cents. Chicago Readers, Attention! GRAND CONCERT AND DANCE for the benefit of Delnik Freiheit Singing Society—Symbolic and Folk Dances by the members of F. D. T. J. Omladina—Musical Selections—Piano, Violin and Vocal Solos—Recitations—DANCING: DURING EVENING. | Principal Speakers—Robert Minor and Lovett Fort-Whiteman. ~** *e*%*% ee % ee eee 8 4 4444 2H OTT SHES SESTTHSHSESESE SESH SESS ETE SS * i i hh he he hi he he he he he he he he he he i he he he hi be he he he be be he be be be be be be te ee te ee rr. . TTT will be given by the F. D. T. J. OMLADINA and Czechoslovak Fractions FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1925 at C. S. P. S. Hall, 1126 W. 18th Street, Chicago. Doors Open 2 P. M.
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* Cad DALY Weaken ———— Blvd., Chicago, Mt. Phone Monroe 4713 7 — 1 an”, mail (in W onty): SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (outside of Chicage): $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2.00 three months ru DAILY WORKER, 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Hlinole Address all mail and make out checks to J. LOUIS ENGDAHL } — — Wittors Business Manager Dee an second-class mall September 21, 1923, at the postofiice at Chi- cago, Iil., under the act of March 3, 1879. sl Advertising rates on application. Mr. Lowden—Farmers’ Advocate Since Frank O. Lowden, former governor of Illinois, received a staggering political blow in the primaries leading up to the repub- lican presidential elections in 1920, when his agents were caught buying votes in the state of Missouri, he has been diligently ‘trying to recover his standing. circles of industrial capital by way of the Pullman millions, he was a political creature of industrialism in the United States. Next to f Major General Leonard Wood, he was the favorite of Standard Oil and the steel trust in the preconvention fight of the republican nomination. strikebreaker primaries, where the industrial centers snowed him under in the balloting, made Wood dangerous timber. not because he did anything the others were not doing, but because he was unfortunate enough to be caught corrupting votes. Now this discredited darling of the industrialists comes forth as the advocate of the interests of the farmers while in reality endeavoring to destroy them. He proposes a federal farm board) which would federal reserve board aids the banks. As is well known the federal reserve system “to aid the farmers” is a means of enslaving them to finance capital. most of whom are directly controlled by Wall Street or La Salle street, obtain it to the farmers at 7 and 8 per cent and even more, for they frequent- ly collect interest in advance by deducting it from the loan, also when the farmer is hard pressed they actually deduet as much as ten per cent, with the result that the real interest paid by the farmer momnts as high as seventeen to twenty per cent. Now comes Lowden with a proposition that other — resources be clear thru his observation: dustrial leaders are now studying the farm situation.“ It means that those farms not already mortgaged to the banking combine will fall into Now that Col. Edward M. House has returned, after almost five years, to his the president world court project is really the threshold (whether it be called back or front door) to the league of nations. silent partner of the Morgan banking combine, whose ‘influence sent Wilson on his sea voyage to Versailles where the treaty and the league covenant were hatehed. project“ of ¢ The pacifist crew that, world eourt proposition, and trailed in the wake of Col. House dur- ing most of the Wilson administration, now again finds itself under the direct lea son, proclaimed “neutrality in thought as well as in deed” to his | fourteen points, is the history of the changing and developing in- terests of finance capital. ‘ Foreign policy at Washington is now “eye to the point where the scepter of the House of Morgan fell from the palsied hand of Wilson. After an interregnum of five years we have the complete restoration in the White House of Mr. House of the House of „Morgan. This is ominous, a herald of great upheavals that will soon rock the world in another clash of imperialist. interests, and it is a ¢hal- lenge te the working class of the world to rise and in no uncertain terms defiantly challenge the brigands of Wall Street and the con- flicting imperialist group of- Lombard street, London. It was the hand of Colonel House that directed the policy of the Wilson ad- and paved the way for the United States entering the war. become ever sharper the same hand again directs the destinies of the United States government. The silk glove of the wily colonel will soon change to the mailed (ist driving the workers into another blood bath, unless the workers themselves can concentrate sufficient power to stay the blow. ministration last world The only apace is the can only be ¢ . International. reply to the preliminaries for war that are proceeding revolutionary struggle against war and that struggle arried under the policy formulated by the Communist Against the war of imperialism toward which Wall Street is driving we mnst mobilize the batallions of labor under the slogan of changing the predatory war between nations Bolshevist into a war of r St the American Féderation of Labor, in calling for relief for tie striking anthracite coal miners, iO oly 6 e Au.. A Some a ernment aid in bringing about this condition. ' Government agents will advise farmers to purchase new ma- chinery and nitrates and other chemicals for replenishing the soil so that bigger crops may be realized. Farmers will have to mortgage their farms in order to do this. When the mortgages are foreelpsed, aas they eventually will be, the land will fall into the hands-of.the industrialists who will merge the individual farms into s ies production by introducing large tractors. 7 With the industrialists falling in line with the bankers fom: a general expropriation of the farmers, which will proletarianize mil- lions of them, it will become impossible for the capitalist news- papers and politicians to befog the minds of the agricultural work ers with the illusion that their interests are opposed to the ene of the workers. In this respect it is significant that in North Dakote; vient large scale farming is proceeding at a. rapid rate, we have a mags impulse toward independent class political action. Effective leader: ship for the labor party that will consolidate the interests of the workers and farmers into a class party. Himself adopted by marriage into the Wood was disqualified because of his vile record as a and scabherder in the steel strike. The Indiana Lowden was eliminated utilize government resources for the farmer as the Country bankers, money from the federal reserve at 4 per cent and lend used “to aid the farmers.” Lowden’s game becomes “It is significant that the eastern in- the hands of the industrials and is a plain bid for our: can only arise thru a national labor party The Next Step ar old room in the White House, so that he can “advise” as he advised Wilson, there can be no doubt that the It was House, the trusted The league is referred to as the pet ‘ol.. House. under various names, is boosting the dership of House. The entire political history of Wil- As the conflicts between the capitalist powers the oppressed peoples against imperialism. has made a belated move aid to the workers iu th important industrial to guide us in other struggles but be- — — 4 * —— — ee * et ate PE OS OR. tne Ret * ͤ . ‘ By WILLIAM F. DUNNE ARTICLE I. The Character of the Left Wing Struggle. T Philadelphia the left wing in the International Ladies’ Garment Workers convention made history. For the left wing movement in the American trade unions the proceed- ings of the eighteenth biennial -eon- vention, the actions and accomplisb- ments of the left bloc, the general line of policy followed and the tactics employed by the Sigman machine are of immense importance. Every strug- gle of the workers against the union bureaucrats is of importance and each furnishes us with additional experien cause of the size of the union—only five A. F. of L. unions exceed it in point of numbers according to the per capita tax payments given in the re- port of Secretary Morrison-for 1924— because of the high level of political consciousness of the membership as compared to the great majority of the A. F. of L. unions, because of the tre- mendous influence of the left wing in the union,-a majority of the member- machine, because the Communists en- joy the undisputed leadership of the whole rank and file opposition and because the bureaucracy is of a dis- tinct social-democratic color, the I. L. G. W. convention has given us the richest field for investigation and an- alysis of our trade union policy, tac- tics and form of organization. ship supporting it against the Sigman | one period ot left wing in the I tory of. the left 5 party playing an divided roughly 1. The period fro t ance of the T. U. B. ton convention of left ers horized. 2. From the ntion un- til the suspension and 22, and the e wing Joint Action 3. From the Joint Action Comm cessful fight for the. the suspended loonie, til the con- vention. * With the end of ‘th left wing fight for a based on the class | and file control of | new phase, Its suc pends upon strategy dopted as a oye correct esti- the convention or otherwise of e of application as wel N drawing our cc we must not be misled nato the left wing struggle m G. W. as something apart the rest of the labor movement. t look upon the fight merely as bort, an Important part, it is true, but mgyertheless only part of the broad le in which we are engaged thruout the American labor movement. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 21. — The following were elected to the exe- cutive board of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union at closing session of the convention Louls Hyman, of Local No. 9; J. Borokhovitch, of Local No. 2; Julius Portnoy, of Local No. 22, represent- ing the left wingers in the union; and Gingold, S. Ninfo, J. Halperin, D. Dubinsky, L. Antonini, H. Green- berg, E. Reichberg of Philadelphia, M. Amdur of Canada, Molly Freed- man of Chicago, C. Kreindiler of of Boston. ‘ Delegates to the American Fed- eration of Labor including B. Desti, A. Nagler, FP. Oretzky, L. Pincoffsky all represent the right wing. — 4 It can be said without hesitation that the convention gave, in testimony | submitted by the reactionaries them- selves, the most convincing proof of the correctness of bur general line of strategy and tactics. As in all other trade unions, both here and in Europe, the battle strategy of the bureaucrats has as its principle objective the iso- lation of the Communists. That is, the Sigmanites, more skilful than the average A. F. of L. bureaucracy be- cause of their socialist and anarchist kes sl § FFF gather around us every honest worker in the union. oe eine on tee ae par "HRU © ‘NEUVERI * OF ‘THE op ros! TION, THE ‘ISSUES OF THE FIGHT BECA E DIVERTED TO OTHER CH LS, which benefit- ed our opponents and befogged the real issue. of the ' THUS THERE. WERE BROUGHT INTO THIS. FIGHT suCcH ISSUES AS ee! the bureaucracy to ficht on the the bitter end to clear-cut issue of their failure to} an carry on a struggle for the basic needs and similar stories of the ers and th wrecking of the instead of building it, to gle that th had a — 12 ed and ae ahh: proved to thous- 5. ands of workers that — N Cleveland, J. Hochman, 0. WN separate . | been the loss of mands, 80 widespread nue deen revolt of the membership in. he de sive garment centers, so 8 evere had the Sigman machine when it M, ao 35355 with the left wing, that a complete re-mode ot ‘te was necessary. (To be continued.) Company N the B. & O. plan” of glass col- laboration, which has now been of- ficially endorsed by tne American Federation of Labor, we are told that the magic formula has finally been found which unites into one happy family the employing capitalists and the employed workers. As evidence of the beneficence of tne. new scheme, it is pointed out that whereas, former- ly, certain employers were militantly fighting against the labor unions, un- der the slogan of the “open shop,” they are now “recognizing the unions.” How does it come that these bitter enemies of labor, the “open shoppers,” are now so ready to sign agreements with the unions? The reason is, that the unions have surrendered to the “open shop,” and the new agreements that are being signed transform the labor organiza- tions into company, unions in sub- stance. Under such conditions why shouldn't these employers be ready to sign the agreements? ; Similarity of Company Unions and “B. & O. Plan.” How does the B & O. plan” change the labor unions into company unions? First we must establish definitely what are the characteristics of com- pany unions.” These are: (1) Re- place the union as a fighting organ- ization of independent working class power, with a machinery for con- sultation” between employer and worker; (2) eliminate strikes and speed up production; (3) soothe the workers with the form of consulta- tions about their working conditions, while keeping all power in the hands of “management”; (4) to draw the worker directly into the process of increasing his own exploitation. This is the ideal union in the eyes of the “open shop” employers. Stated definitely in the words ofthese em- ployers themselves, the “open shop” or “company” union has the follow- ing purposes (From the “Open Shop Encyclopedia” published by the Open Shop Department of the National As- sociation of Manufacttrers, 1922): “(a) To provide regular means of access. by employes thru the repres- entatives to the employer, and for consultation by the employer with employes thru representatives. “(b) To avoid interruption of pro- duction and to maintain mazimum production. “(c) To give employes an oppor- tunity to discuss conditions under which they work and the means of improvement. “(d) To further the common inter- est of the employes and the employer in all matters pertaining to work, or- ganization and efficiency.” Compare the foregoing statement o! “open shop” principles with the prin ciples of the “B. & O.” plan,” which + e iin 2 yot carrying out — principles is Jae very union organized by the men themselves. Whereas the employers of the “open shop” movement have been fighting bitterly against recog- nition of the union, they are now ask- ed to recognize the union as the in- strument for carrying out their own plans. The full for@6iof this argu- ment (which has carried weight with the employers) that the B. & O. plan is an improvement upon the “open shop” scheme fromthe employers’ point of view, is shown at its best in the words of W. MH. Johnston at a meeting of rallrosd executives in St. Louis, at the timejof the launch- ing of the plan. said: “The idea er! to the Baltimore “#iht may be compared to the idea which underlies the engine if - * * tended to rath supply with these railre sh, let us say, arch-brick, , stokers, or lubricating olls. 0 $f From all the 6, it becomes clear that the ess difference be- tween the “compahyvamion” plan of the National Assocition of Manufac- turers (the “open “stop”, movement) on the one hand, and che B. & O. plan on the other hand, simply that in the latter propositionpthe union offi- cials enter into a contract with the employers to use the power of the labor union itself te establish the principles of the open shop.” The labor union Officials had thei: own reasons for being anxious tc make this kind of a deal with the em. ployers. Their criminal mismanage- had demoralized the unions, to such an extent that the officials became alarmed at the danger to their sal- aries. They had to find a new method of renewing the flow of per capita tax into their treasuries.” As for the “open shop” employers, they began to get interested in the B. & O. plan because, first, they were having trouble with the operations of their private “compapy unions,” and second, they realiged, the need of a second line of forces inside the work- ers’ own organizations to prevent even the “company ions“ from be- ing captured by the workers—the em- ployers needed the pert assistance of the labor offici 8 So the union leaders and the open shop” employers found a common platform. And the B & O. plan spread from the railroad that gave it a name, first to the Chicago Northwestern, and then to the great Uanadian Pacific railroad. At Atlantf® City the A. F. of L. convention endé¥sed the idea for the entire labor m@Wement. Capital- ists, liberals, and labor leaders unite in proclaiming an Wa of industrial oeace and well-being as a result of he new “Holy Allfäuce.“ The “Struggle” Between Company and Otto S8. Beyer, Jr., consulting engineer” for the railroad shop unions (see the New York Times, March 22, 1925): “(1) Full and cordial recdenition of the federates shopmen’s unions as the agents of the employes. (2) According to these unions and their spokesmen constructive 48 well as protective functions in rail- road management. “(3) Agreement between these unions and the management to co- operate for improved service to the public, | “(4) Agreement to share fully any consequent benefits. “(5) Perfection of definite admin- strative machinery to accomplish these purposes.“ The B. & O. plan, it will be seen, contains all the principles of the ‘open shop” plan, with the addition ' lot the idea that the best ins 21 at 5 cn ORE WROD ER OF. — — ‘ were formulated by Wm. H. Johnston,“ president of the Machinists Union, : Unions and "B, & O. Plan.“ Of course, there are differences, as i well as points of unity, between the two plans. These differences bring about a “struggle” between them— or, more properly: speaking, competi- tion. This competition takes the form of struggle to see which can best serve the interests of the employer. Wm. H. Johnston; first sponsor for the B. & O. plan, but the case as fol- lows: “I want to emphasize as strongly as I know how, the fact that in the task of positive cooperation in the railroad industry there can be no sub- stitute for the genuime unions * railroad employes g „J maintain that, such a manage ment (as has tried the B. & O. plan) would never again, gas long as it re- tains its good ect to see the affiliated shop cr unions effaced from the scheme ot things on its road.” On the other 4 Daniel Willard, i ment of the great strikes of 1922-23 |}. HE BRIDGED THE GAP BETWEEN TRADE UNIONS AND “COMPANY UNIONS’ WILLIAM H. JOHNSTON President of the International Associa- tion of Machinists. president of the B. & O. railroad, said after two years’ experience with the Man: “I believe that it has now been ‘ully demonstrated that the co-opera- ‘ive plan has more than justified it- self from many angles.“ The reason for Willard’s enthusi- asm lies in the fact that the increas- ed exploitation.of the workers, oper- ating under “efficiency engineers” of their own hiring, had suddenly put the B. & O. railroad on the road to rich profits again, after several lean years. The men had themselves, un- der the B. & O. plan, abolished their own protective rules (seniority, etc.). speeded up production, eliminated waste, driven out the less productive workers, and received in return— nothing but “recognition” of their officials, and the same wage as paid by all other roads. Meanwhile, the operating expenses of the railroad dropped from 82 per cent to 78 per cent from 1922 to 1923, while net pro- fits increased from 23 millions to 42 millions. In 1924, the operating ex- penses dropped further ‘to 77 per cent. All of which was a “great victory” of the B. & O. plan over the company uniéns—it had convinced the employ- ers that it was even better for pro- fits than the “open shop,” and not a bit more dangerous to capitalism. Another definite result that accrued to the workers, was loss of employ- ment, and increase in layoffs. In May, 1925, the speed-up system had work 2d so well that the railroad announc- ed a reduction of the shop forces. This operation was repeated in Aug- ust, when 7,000 men were laid-off at one blow. The “Open Shop” Triumphant. The ¢ompany union is merely one side of the “open shop” drive of the capitalists. This is a well-organized movement with a definite program. In 1920, in reported definite branches in 240 principal cities of the United States. Its national center is the open shop department of the National Association of Manufacturers. Its principal organizers and boosters in the various cities are“ united in such powerful secret societies of employ- ers as the Rotary Club, the Kiwanis Club, the Lions’ Club, and the various chambers of commerce, etc., all of which endorse and support the open shop movement. And the B. & O. plan is but another one of the instru- ments of this same movement. The progress of the “ope shop" , Ds, | movement as and the N. & O. Plan” By Earl N. whole has gone for- | ward una The National Asso- ciation of Manufacturers boasts in its official publication, “American Indus- tries,” of September, 1925, page 27: “During the last few years the in- dustries of the United States, for the greater part, have enjoyed a gen- eral — dition of industrial peace. This has een due, to a seg ee to a coni décline in the prestige, {numer olitical, and financial stre ry the” American Federation of Labor, And while the forces of closed. 1 unionism have been suf- open shop method of ms, has steadily ad- wigs te vanced, jn alt manufacturing indus- Want! And, ROY, e the “open shop” been able to ach its victories? Thru a well-Ific of operating within the “unt c the agency ot the labor ff The B. & O. plan is Anis larger strategy. An- | Hy: 7 one pa other’) 0 Fs ‘the war against the left wink e expulsion of ‘Commun- ists irons e unions. This was not the or fac of Gompers, Sigman, Green,, an & Oo. These labor officials | or ook the idea ready made from t bot shop“ movement, from the bi rest enemies of labor in Am- erica. | Street lays down the strategy. und tactics for the reaction- ary labor offleials. That is how the open shop” 1s able to win. Is there. ahy worker who thinks such a. stater ent is an exaggeration? If 80, then read the following quota- tion from “The Minnesota Banker,” under date of December 16, 1920: The closed shop its zealously fought for by the radical _wing of la- bor . The open nie be the most readily brought about the elimination of this element re left wing—E. B.) as a power in or- ganized labor. The conservative la- bor man is one to whom sound argu- ment and horse sense appeah He 18 the hope of the open shop and upon him, in the final will rest the matter of 2 idea philosopohically, in the an spirit, withaut . disrupting the industrial situation by means ot oul astrous strikes and lockouts. open shop argument must be ed therefore, to. the conservative in organized labor.“ Since the war, the labor unions in the United States have lost more than 1,000,000 members. This is 2 iod of the “open shop” And during that period, we rae the years 1917 and 1924, mere wea grown up more than 800 ‘oo “unions,” with something more 1,000,000 members, approximately the same ann A. F. ot L. * lost. a i So we see the. “open shop” move- ment. triumphantly advancing outside fhe labor movement by smashing it, and inside-the labor movement by rupting it with the B. & O. plan ap similar schemes, and by smashing t! left wing thru the expulsiof policy if Green, Sigman, et al. a In another article we will e <= to more detail on the status end work ings of company unions 1 ieee forms of the “open shop” and collaboration movements. Labor i in the Far Yesterday we read of the activi- ties of the different Red Labor Unions of Indonesia and the ter- riffle persecution against them. To- day we read in the second article by Comrade Sémaoen, of the General Labor Federation, the relation of the Communists and these Red Unions to it, of the fight by the left wing for control of these unions in order to bring to the workers a beneficial, policy of Class struggle. . ARTICLE. II. ‘ By. -SEMAOEN. TPHERE is‘a Red Labor secretariat in Indonesia acting as the central body regulating the general propa- ganda ot these untons and linking them up with the movement abroad. This does not, however, mean that. these organizations’ have left the Gen- eral Federation of Trade’Unions, the, chairman of which is a so-called “neu- tral” leader (neither Communist nor nationalist, but only a trade unionist). The executive committee of the Gen- eral Federation is made up of Com- munists and nationalists. To this federation there are also affiliated the reformist teachers’ unions (6,000 members, among whom there are of course Communists to be found); the Union of Government and Public Workers (4,000 members): the Union of Pawn-shop employes (3,000 members), for the most part op- posed to their so-called “leader,” Sur- jopranoto, a reformisi-nationalist, op- posed to the Communists); and other small reformist unions line that of the service, the opium tradé*being a state monopoly, as is also the case in re- gard to the pawnshops!) These small unions have a te membership of about 3,000. The qual ity of those unions ts because in- opium sellers (who are n government f struggle between the many leaders, the neutral“ e and the Communists. ET us take for postin the pawn- shop employes’ union. Its 1924 congress decided to elect Sosrokar- dono a revolutionary as ch as well as ‘many Communists to the central committee. Thereupon retiring chairman, Surjopranoto, stay ed in to nominate himself n and, together with the minori AHationalized“ the printing office, the bureau, administration and the ‘name. The police and the courts, refused, of course, to intervene in favor of the Communist majority. The question still remains . unsettled the brazen-faced Surjo held a Pawnshop congress” last June, visited’ of course, only by the minority, the m ity not having been allowed to attend. ** It is, therefore, small cause Lor der that these organizations. have late shown no increased activity. Only when the Communists succeed in ring these unions will théy urine pes active part in a progressive movement. The history of the pawn- shop employes“ union, shows, how- ever, that the task of capturing it will be a difficult one indeed. (Continued Tomorrow) Moscow Will Need. About 60,000 New | Workers N ext Yea Moscow, .. . Dec: 21—In the Moscow industry during the cur rent fiscal year from 60,000 to 70,000 new workers will be employed 01 which 40,000 to 50,000 Will. And semi-skilled. Of pr 7000. wiv wil) enter the metal industry and 25,000 side there is a constant internecine | — 30, 000 the textile 2