Daily Worker
December 24, 1925

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——— r N cn NN Print oe aE SNe for a Workers’ 4 ’ 2 diet — 2 . 8 hee 7 22 Nr er * * any 2 ys 92 e pa \ aye 4. 4 e * — vey * 0 the struggle for emancipation of ‘the workers from capitalism means anything at all, it surely cannot be a id glove affair. The workers who are incarcerated in capitalist jails are rege A in jail! The differ- once is that the capitalists are a rob- ber class and have no right either to rob the workers of the product of their labor or put them in jail for seeking relief from such robbery. 7 f 2 * & N the other hand, the workers, be- ing the robbed class and also the . e e majority of society, are justified in using any effective means to get rid of the robber system. That is the point. If the workers are justi- fied at all in trying to free themselves the Marquis of Queensbury rules are off. Necessity knows no law and the revolution does not stand on any code of etiquette. For the Russian workers to have jeopardized the revo- lution, which emancipated 160,000,000 workers and peasants from slavery, lest they might hurt the feelings of pacifists, would be to betray their trust and they would be deservedly cursed by countless generations un- born. Me m4 * * 1 T is futile to talk of justice under 1 class rule. Every ruling group builds up its own legal system and its own moral code in order to protect itself. This is so obvious that it should be unnecessary to restate it. Gapitalism is based on the explotation of labor and subject peoples. It rules by force. It cannot exit otherwise. ‘Gradually the workers are organizing their forces. They have already con- quered power in Russia. Before long, they will hoist the banner of freedom im all countries. Only then will the human race be able to begin the task of abolishing “injustice” by abolishing: class rule. But this will be a process —it cannot be accomplished at one In the meantime there will be imprisonments and perhaps worse on both sides. 6 * * E do not believe that the capital ists can be convinced by paciff&t preachers that it is better to turn class war prisoners, loose than to to Irak, the puppet nation of Great = Bulgaria, Meaty and other ent said that England extended the hand ription Rates: — ——.— NEW YORK EDITION — Mosul: Award e by House of Commons ran away from taking a position on the league of nations and the Mosul oil land stal. The labor party mem- bers withdrew from the house of com- mons rather than vote for or against approving of the award by the league Britain, of the immensely valuable Mosul! oll district. The award was, of course, approved by a vote of 239 to 4. An Awful Fix. In vain did the socialist leaders, Ramsay McDonald and John R. Clynes, beg Prime Minister Baldwin not to force them to-take a definite stand, explaining that they, the leaders of the Second International, were in a dilemma, unwilling to be held up by an outrageous imperialist steal as the Mosul award, yet bound by their bour- geois heart strings to the league of nations, not to vote against its award, . Considering the dilemma, which to a socialist was quite appalling, the la- bor party members held a conference and decided not to vote at all, and to absent themselves when the_matter came up. Clynes led the walkout as MacDonald found it necessary to leave on a trip to Ceylon. Lots of Friendship. Baldwin. in presenting the measure, of friendship” to Turkey. Evidently Baldwin felt that he could afford to talk friendship since England held all the loot and any trouble would en- danger not only peace but British oil interests, Baldwin further stated that the 25- year mandate extension might be cut down if, in the meanwhile, Irak could WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 22— Work and play in the great outdoors were extolled to American youth by President Epolidge in a Christmas message to the boys and girls of the land. SETTLERS STARVE ON WORTHLESS LAND: WHILE REALTY FIRM PROSPERS DETROIT, Dec. 22.—Indueed to buy land and.to move there by a land development company, about 15 or more families are repo starving and suffering from cold on worth- less farms in a cut-over région near Peacock, Mich., 50 miles inland from Traverse City. Deatitute, they have been unable to leave. The suf- fering among the children is report ed intense. it is reported also that several Indian and Negro families are members of the community. Many of-the families lived formerly LONDON, Dec. 22.—The British la. bor party turned tall yesterday and Communist ridicule for voting for such Packing-house workers! On page three of this issue of The DAILY _ WORKER there is a questionnaire on the conditions in the packing- house plants thru which The DAILY “WORKER expects to get more ma- terial for its series of special artl- |. cles on the packing-houses in the United States. very worker that works in the plants or is familiar with condi- tions in the plants should make it his business to answer the quest- long to the best of his ability and mall them in Immediately to The DAILY WORKER editorial office, “as the special articles will begin to appear Monday, January 4. Stara off the New Year on the right foot! Get your story to The DAILY . “WORKER before the New Year! | Order a bundle of tribute in front of the yards in your city! FIGHT ONLY “TANG LET; SAYS in ; Doesn't Say (Special to The Dally’ Worker) SCRANTON, Pa., Dec. 22—The an- thracite operators, in refusing to meet the United Mine Workers represent- atives on any conditional arrange- ment, yesterday notified the commit- tee of anthracite mayors and bur- gesses as follows: are willing to enter the conference without reservation, we cannot attend the meeting.“ Mayor John Durkan, chairman of the Daily to die- But How to Fight He f “Until you can give us written as- surance from the miners that they — —— — 2 2 Price 3 4 rderer of al tama Miner 1920-21, when Lancaster’s militia company was doing “guard duty” in coal fields.” ue Baird was a union picket in jail for picketing, when a com- pany gang of which Lancaster, a state militiaman, was @ leader, mob- bed the county jail at Jasper, Ala., took Baird out and shot him to death. No date is set for a new trial, and capitalist organizations are scheming to see thet the case is allowed to die of old age. What Do’ You: Mean—"Fight”? “The mine workers have made every possible contribution, consist- ent with honor, toward peace in the Industry. Despite our efforts there is ho peace. There is nothing left to do but continue to fight.” Lewis showed no indication, however, of acceeding to the demands of the miners in the anthracite region for calling out the in all bituminous flelds. Wants Incomes Statistics. WASHINGTON, D. C. Dec. 22—A resolution calling on the secretary of the treasury to report to the senate the income tax of all anthracite com- panies, was introduced in the senate this afternoon by young LaFollette. The request for immediate consider- by Senator Reed of Pennsylvania, and it cannot come up until the senate meets again after the holidays. You do the job twice as well— when you distribute a bundle of The DAILY WORKER with your in Chicago, “story in it. CUBAN STUDENTS AND WORKERS URGE MELLA TO ABANDON HUNGER STRIKE| strike, considering it useless sacrific refusés to listen to all suggestions th The following cablegram was received yesterday by the All-America Anti-Imperialist League from its Cuban section: “Students’ and workers’ organizationg beg Mella to abandon his hunger e. Mella's condition very grave. He at he desist from strike. Government sieiphia, Jena 1. Lewis maintenance men and calling a strike! ation of the resolution was blocked - * ae „ Oo. moe -YOUTH STEALS SIXTY GENTS: SENT TO JAIL FROM 1 TO 15 YEARS Was sentenced to serve from one to fifteen years in San Quentin. — Finds Pearis in Oysters THIELLS, N. N, Dec. 22— Two pearls, valued at 5100 each were found by Mrs. Irving Hill while open- ing oysters. for a meal.. Aviatrix Geeimits Suicide. BERLIN, Dee: 22—Nelly Beese, the first German woman to take up avia- ‘ion, committed suicide by shooting son by fraud, deceit or falsehood,” to Drys Can Use Deceit and Provocateur Means to Arrest All Tiplers WASHINGTON, Dec. 22. — The “drys” in congress won a tactical vic- tory in the house by defeating an amendment to the treasury appropria- tion for prohibition enforcement should be used to “induce any per- violate the Volstead law. The vote was 139 to 17, and was taken with- out a roll call. Swift's Brother to Run Yard. Louis F. Swift is reported to be preparing to relinquish the presidency of Swift & company to his younger brother, Gustavus F. Swift, Jr., to be- come chairman of the board of directors, He will like it! Give your union DJEBEL DRUSE TRIBESMEN | TAKE HOMS FROM FRENCH: NATIVES JOIN IN REVOLT BAGDAD, Dec. 22.—The city of Home is entirely surrounded by Djebel Druse tribesmen, according te members of a convoy arriving here. The district of Home has arisen against the domination of French imperialism, and sentiment for the Druse tribesmen continues to in- crease. To Claim North Pole. DETROIT, Dec. 22:—Plans for a flight tp. the north pole next spring with the object of finding uncharted lands and claiming them for the Unit- ed States were announced here by Edward S. Evans, financier and avia- backward in any capitalist country. The bureaucratic leaders of the trade (Continued on page 6) unions, in place of instilling in the MECHANICAL CONVEYOR SYSTEM SPEEDS UP PENNSYLVANIA MINERS: TO INCREASE UNEMPLOYED ARMY By S Federated Press. No unnecessary motions, but loading 16% tons a day reveals the speed- ing up of bituminous coal diggers in mines.managed by the Knickerbocker company in Pennsylvania since the installation of the mechanical conveyor system described in the Coal Age. But the statement that this machinery more than doubles the output per man, raising it from 7% to 16% tons per day, (Continued . * * shows the necessity of a shorter working day if thousands of miners are collaboration and submission. In place of appealing to the pride of the workers as a class, teaching them to fight as a class, their policy is that of compromise and co-operation with the masters. The older generation in the trade unions is thoroly imbued with this spirit of Gompersism. On the new gen- eration of workers, which is just learning from bitter experiences the character of the existing system of exploitation, rests the hope of creat- ing @ working class movement in twhish“Gompersism will be succeeded ‘by The spirit of class pride, and the heonstfousness that it is the destiny of ‘the workers to create a new social or- on page 3) ! der, that it is their task to take con- bah { {4 for the enrichment of a small class of exploiters. The work of imbuing this spirit in the young workers who will be the mil- itant fighting center of the working class movement tomorrow, is the task of the Young Workers (Communist) League. In directing the work of the league into these channels in an ef- fort to reach and influence the young workers in industry, teaching them the necesity of their organizing to fight against the capitalists to make of them militant trade union fighters, the Young Warkers (Communist) League is taking up one of the most important problems of the working class movement. It is thru establish- ing contact with the young workers in industry, furnishing them action and Young Workers (Communist) League will become a powerful force in the American labor moyement. These .tasks are now being taken up by the Young Workers (Commun- ist) League in earnest. The work of | establishing its influence has been be- gun. The future promises achieve- ments and success, inspiring the fight- ing spirit in the young workers, and bringing them under the influence and | leadership of the Young Workers (Communist) League. Our party must give earnest and enthusiastic support to this werk’ of the Young Workers (Communist) League. The task of spreading our ideas and our campaigns among the young workers has not been support- ed to the full extent that the party is ee — — executing will of American imperialism, declares it will continue persecu | herself. She had been suffering from brother a sub to The DAILY I tion enthusiast, who is the principal tions. 1 mental depression. WORKER. | backer of the proposed flight. * By C. E. RUTHENBERG, he an e Trade Unions minds ot the workers the ideology of trol of the produetive forces of so-; leadership, aiding them to organize able to give support. We have not HE. Guat union movement of this|struggle against their exploiters and feiety and so order and organize them for the struggle and imbuing them built the Young Workers League 8 . that they will serve the interests off with the spirit of class struggle wherever there are units of the Work- a ee eee eee eee e eee ee those who produce wealth in place of [against the master class, that the ers (Communist) Party. The ener- getic campaigns now being undertaken by the Young Workers (Communist) League must receive the full support of every party unit. The party mem- bers must study the proposals, organ- ization plans, campaigns initiated by the Young Workers (Communist) League and devise ways and means of ‘aiding them in carrying out the cam- paigns. The way this aid can be given best Is thru the organization of units of the Young Workers League wherever units of the party exist and the full support of those units of the Young Workers League which are now in existence. * „„ Turn to Page Four for Full Page About Young Workers. Showing Progress By J. E. SNYDER. (Special to The Daily Worker) KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 22—The eral jolts this coming national ‘paign for congress in the year Texas and Arkansas have joined ces for a labor party. The mocratic party, on March 13-15 at 4 convention to be held at Forth Worth, the field. Altho Arkansas does not show as much pep, as yet, as Texas, the farm- tees they will have to have a party of their own to get them and not depend on the “good men” to run “independ- tory for the committee rule will help drive their forces to fight for and in a labor party. There is too much of a splendid iso- lation on the part of the “independ: ent” candidate. The Farm Labor Union of the United States has quit the democratic party and will no longer participate in the primaries of that party. That will leave the membership of that large farm organization free to join the forces of the labor party, and it is predicted that many thousands of them will do so in Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and in other southern states where that organization func- tions. E. R. Meitzen of Texarkana, Tex- Ark, is chairman secretary of the Texas committee for the labor party and has a group of good substantial men behind him in the preliminary organization, UNSUCCESSFUL GETTING SCABS — Employment | Manager Throws Some Bunk The picket line at the Edison Elec- tric Appliance company, 52nd avenue and 19th street, turned back a num ber of electrical workers, who had entered the employment office and were seeking work. The company is very anxious to get scabs into the plant as the number of those in the plant continues to grow smaller. in Union There le Strength. The employment manager, unsuc- cessful in his attempts to hire any scabs declared to the sheet metal workers on strike, settle with the company yourselves instead of thru the union?” and then he went on to say that if the union was recognized only six or seven of the workers would be allowed to work and all such bunk. His tirade on the unions had little effect on the strik- ers, who know that the minute they dicker with the company as individ- uals they will be crushed and that their strength lies in their organized power in the union. Fire Deputy, Sheriff. The deputy sheriff, who came near drowning in his soup, has been fired. The company was afraid that the ex- pose in The DAILY WORKER of these gunmen staggering around all lit up would lead to an investigation, got rid of the deputy who was not able to carry his load. Reease “Bankrupt” Merchant. DANVILLE, III., Dec. 22—Wolfe Fagin, clothing merchant, who went into bankruptcy last July was dis- charged by United States Commis- . sioner Ralph Jenkins of charges pre- ferred by Chicago and Indianapolis creditors of using the mails to re- fraud, holding that the government failed to produce evidence to prove the charges. BRIAND REFUSES Jö CONSIDER ABD-EL-KRIM’S TERMS TO END WARFARE PARIS, Dec. 22.—France refuses to consider the peace terms of Abd- El-Krim brought to Paris by Gordon Canning, an English officer, Premier Briand declared. Canning deciares that Abd-Ei- Krim is willing to end war in Mor oo on the basis of the offer made | last July. ers there have decided, that since con? gress’ is ruled by party committees. 88 buce if the farmers want any commit: j nonpartisan elements will receive weit a farmers and some of the wage work ‘<a ers have decided to launch a real op- “8 2 position party to the old hag, the de ent” for them. 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N — a . ’ — — — 9 Norn 6＋„33V́ „ d er DOORS ea Ye eee ORKER 78 the city in only , hours of cap-| Ultra- reactionaries. An indictment of the * a a ed to the scene by the signs that were — e * neee Pee ture. The revelations should ve another bod 3 tie: the officialdom of the a. F. of a} 5 @arried by the pickets. The district To Resume fF y Service et “balance of power” theories, not only of LaFollette- delineation of the insufficiency of 5 ‘became as the workers] 1. South Manchuria, where the with Japanese troops, rushed across] when it jg the suspended p P ia mere trade Onism | > 5 milled around the pickets to be able | mutinous army of Chang Tso-lin has from Japan in violation of the Wash-|servicg on the ‘failway between reactionary farmers’ bloc in congress, but also of the official- ment of the | : “to Detter read the demands on the|defeated Chang thirty miles from ington treaties but with tacit consent | Peking and Tientsin,*supposedly in-“ dom of the American Federation of Labor, which makes it mation into industrial unions American sugar trust for the release | Mukden, the capital. of the other imperialist powers who) zured by the between China| the basis of its “non-partisan” policy inherited from ‘the re- the American labor movement. A 5 e the Cuban labor leader who dared 2. Urga, the capital of the inde- do not wish to see the nationalist a Sugar trust exploitation. 4. The immensely rich and import: twel 0 5 The sre slogans were carried ‘government, friendly to the Soviet ant area of Central China along the — aa — 5 *. d 28 ogy ti tnt i | develops yong = 0 A i ) f Union. This is the scene of much Yangtze river, whose complete win- rehip the unity of his own pa in congress, but o ying w f World | ‘ . a 4 uted Cuban Workers. capitalist propaganda, which paints e to the side of the nationalist Pye yo „ “egy adlestacapns this power all available democrats. The present exposure T 1 2 is i 8 ae th American Imperiatiam. impossible pictures of “Soviet muni-/ liberation movement would unite] master of North China rs 1 shows how places of prestige are used to win over ao poem rade Union Unity 3 tions” being sent thru Mongolia, China from North to South. sympathetic with South China and the democrats in this case Underwood, perennial p residential By Tom Bell. | : higg Neige Cuban) which is, in fact, largely desert land 5. The radical, so-called “Bolshe-| radieal government at Canton, Feng’s| sibility on the democratic ticket. Coolidge uses this a ded In this brief, co wy „Wal “street | le Strangling the Cuban] (Gobi Desert) and nearly impassable, | vik,” but really nationalist independ- power may spread to embrace even strength, as has been 41 genes shown, to beat his own in- the worker will find oF Anti-Imperialist League Demands with no railway lines and incredibly | ence movement, is centered at Can-| the rich provinces along the Yangtze| surging party members n congress Into line. plete, | berty of the Workere’ Champions. | bad roads. ton, capital of the republic W river of Central China, altho Wu Pei factors | gdh tela Otes on Wall Street Lies the 3. South Manchuria is being filled | ed by Dr. Sun Yat-Sen. Ju te pot reseed ae altogether 1 for world trade union unity. The | 1 el Julio Mella, Cuba’s Anti-Imperial. r iiaas ond bins The case now in the * ght is typical. Two places are I steps = Mella and 12 Other Cuban Workers are tims of the mill owners, who are show-| , on initial 3 grows. The “balance of power“ theory is based on the sup- n + er—fi buildings sta- rere WASHINGTON, Dec. . — With 20 ing no mercy. ‘The strikers Rel ee north aide which wil] Position that republicans and democrats are o agen to each ciate 2 Defense of Labor’s Vanguard. toy production estimated at over tor months with remarkably fine sol- other, and that a small bloc can 8 influer N pein INDUSTRIAL. REVIVAL IN de Sugar Trust Dictates ze ce. 378,000,000 for 1925, American manu- Idarity and fight irit. | ser : K. | SOVIET RUSSIA. 5 The Sugar interests Enslave Cuban transf d Santa ann ghting sp ing its vote back and forth between | Me whe ion facturers have sterre The bosses now have plenty of 40 1 idea is also based a iia ont | a By A. A. Heller. f rincipal of Christmas Hig non-partisan” idea is also base — tite bioe of { Melia is imprisoned by Agents of the Claus’ principal source workers. Many of those who struck School, b ilt to te 1.200 40 90 Tells in detail for the first time American Sugar Refining Company. supply from Germany to this country, are being teld that they are “thru” ool, bu r e 1,2 friends“ can exercise influence in the same a Coolidge the practical resalts of the “New E Wall’Strect's Gees. 1 PY! ing department of commerce an- at the mills. At the Mohawk Min rns an 8 Nun 000. is effectually shattering that fond dream. Underwood may || Economie Policy . intro@uced _ Down With the American Sugar Re- nounced today. a weaver went to work when the 5 proposa 9 . indignantly deny the latest deal“ with 3 But there Lenin in the Spring of 1921. fining Company. it Enslaves Cubas“ 4 ttered collection of Japanese struction of a 0,000 technical it stands Cloth—-$1.00 ; Toilers. en * find strike was called off. He started his] senlor high school, an $800,000 ap- . cs ge ie 4 The mass picketing, which took German and French toys will des set of 12 looms. The boss came prenties school, a 500, 00 junior ate | 5 place in the financial heart not only] ther way into the 2 mes ” around and told him he must run 24 high school, a $1,500;000 normal col- With these dreams of a short cut to power effectively THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, 5 ot America but of the world, was or- American children, ime “ ee looms. lege, a $1,500,000 junior college and] shattered, labor will be able to build on a firmer foundation By Wm. Z. Foster. 0 ganized by the All-America Anti-Im- Christmas longings * 4 eee The weaver agreed because he had a 3100, 0% stadium. The estimated in the creation of its own class strength. Against all fruit- A history of the Russian Revolu- : perialist League, American section] from the products’ of domestic to. Then the boss told the other] cost of the site of sixty acres is $420,- less maneuvers within the old parties the building of the tion enlivened by accounts of the & and the International Labor Defense, try. weaver on the next loom that he ooo and which the eity plans to buy, class labor part author’s varied experiences in 1 New York section. In 1904 Germany supplied to the could go get his time, the mill didn't] is adjacent to the Riverview ee party. Soviet Russia. i Telegrams were sent to Washing- children of America 56 per cent of need him any more. This second] ment Pek, - ash - 50 Cents, 3 ton, D. C., protesting the jailing of|their toys—this year Germany has weaver saw what was going on and Frank Munsey, Purveyor b Antonio Mella and demanding his im- sent toys valued at probably 85,000 told the boss he, too, would run 24 Mil 1 Bi H i. Bank WORKERS WILL ENJOY Co i mediate release. The following tele- 000, : very 2 per ond of acc Mave looms. But it didn’t do any good. Bov, Get Fe ty Bis . 0 oratio Fork C “pen 5 mmunism $ gram was sent to President Calvin|mestic output. Japan outranks Ger-] This is the result of reactionary s Get 1 i o it CHRISTMAS” IN . 1 Coolidge and the Secretary of State] many as a toy producer. Imports leadership of the United Textile Littl 3 Col 3 Dies In New Y r y THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO. 7 Kellogg: from Nippon have increased gradually, | Workers, an American Federation of e Ones (Special to The Daily Worker) ST, PAUL ON . y Karl Marx and | 4 “The International Labor Defense, since 1920 having exceeded those ot Labor union, which crippled the in- NEW YORK. Dec. 22-—- F A rederick Engels. . New York section, in name of forty Germany. itiative of the atrikers, wheedled (Special to The Dally Worker) ; 22. rank A. ov; wats. ides ca eek ah The first and greatest statement — ä — me — 5 x . dus ceremonies for the sake of the tion. If he dies Cuban workers as |may take the commanding position in ee ee eee snk FL Se 9 well as their fellow workers in Am- the world toy market. . 30 More Carriers. One of the most notable New York 0 r aes, ati cg This classic of Marxian Jiter- | erica will lay the blame at the door Discouraged Couple WASHINGTON, Dec. 21—The post] mergers that he put thru was the wie eee 8 er 3 ature has just been re-issued in of American imperialism. Suhr Asks Parole. Die in Suicide Pact office department atithorized the ap-| merger of the New York Herald and a new edition with a durable, ° co, Cal., James Mackay, 60, and his ILLINOIS WORKERS 10 in tein aes able evening at the Anti-Religious 1 been g Dictatorship ul Oil G ra b tried once more on a murder charge, | ite, Laura, 53, died together in a sui- ee a ee Red Christmas given by the : 100 6 5 as will Ford in January. Neither man] ide wast 1 recently. SEE A F. OF „ MOVIE Purveys Horatio Alger's Stuff. Young 8 6 pag 55 ot (Continued from page 1) has ever been accused of firing a shot] About four months ago Mrs. Mac ‘ : ; ; Long editorials and articles will League with the co-operation of we vente. . “qualify” as a full member of the in the struggle between striking hop kay, an invalid, was taken from a pub- LABOR A ARD SOON now be written in the 88 the Workers Party. It will be a Jeague of nations. workers and county officials, which je hospital by her husband when she ; * press of America telling of the “won-| real red Christmas. Those who TE THEORY. AND PRACTICE America Protects Latin-America from Wall gay eed Mella’'s Freedom . Y. Labor Demands Release of Mella (Special te The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, Dec. 22, — Over one hundred and fifty workers picketed ‘the American Sugar Refining com- _ pany main offices at 117 Wall St. at noon today, demanding the release of Antonio Mella, imprisoned by the cuban government at the request of the American sugar Interests thru its “tool, Ambassador Crowder. Thousands of workers were attract- _ organize the colonos against thes Dr League Demands Freedom for Porto = the Philippines 4 tig island Monroe — Protects Latin- ca from European Aggression. But hado is —— Street’s Lackey; PE cre Its Dict . FI — Mella. — of Cuba’s Sugar Wall Street is Killing Jullo A. Mella. American Imperialism is Cuba’s Jailer. The Cuban and American Workers have the Same Enemies.” Melia Shall Not Be Murdere 2 Mella, the Workers’ Champion. The Worke of America Demand Break the oo Bars That Hold the Workers’ Champions. international Labor Defense Is the Workers’ Shield. Mella Shall Not Die. Workers of the World Unite. ane Injury to One Worker is an Injury American Workers Demand Freedom for Mella and the Other imprisoned Workers. The Blood of Workers’ Champions Shall Not Be Shed. if Mella Dies the Workers Win Lay the Blame at the Door of American Im- perialism. thousand organized workers and af- filiated organizations, protests against imprisonment of Mella and twelve other Cuban workers in jall on frame-up charges. Mella has been on hunger strike for fourteen days and is now in a dying condi- “Rose Baron, Secretary.” tish Labor Party e Vote in Want Modified Steal. The laborites made their stand for A walkout on the excuse that they did Rot approve of an extension of the mandate for 25 years, but wanted Irak 40 be released from the mandate in 928. This they wanted to debate, but as Baldwin evidently considered that their difference was merely formal, he insisted or: forcing the vote, with the resultant walkout. Clynes stated that the government was “insulting” the opposition by lim- iting the debate to five hours, and all laborites left the house, leaving only a few liberals on seats opposing the Baldwin ministry. Cyclone Injures Sixty in Lisbon; Fishing Fleet Swept to Sea LISBON, Dec. 22.—Sixty persons were injured, the entire fishing fleet swept out to sea, and $200,000 damage wrought in a cyclone which Wirled thru this vicinity. OFFICES pendent republic of Mongolia, which seceded from China and has its own army winning. CHANG TSO LIN LOSES BATTLE THIRTY MILES FROM MUKDEN, REPORT (Special to The Daily Worker) TOKIO, Dec. 22——General Chang Tso Lin, military governor of Man- churla was defeated by the troops under command of General Kuo Sung Ling at Hsin Min Fu, accord- ing to word received at the foreign office here today. General Chang Tso Lin, according to the reports is retreating toward Mudken, thirty miles away. Santa Claus, 100 Per Center, Hopes to Be an Imperialist Soon Owing to the tremendous demand for toys in the United States, exports have been comparatively light. They are not expected to amount to over $5,000,000 this year, altho some in- crease is likely over 1924. Within a few years American manufacturers SACRAMETO, Cal—(FP)—Herman D. Suhr, sentenced to life with Blackie Ford because of the 1913 hopfield riots, has filed application for a pa- role.. If paroled he will probably be resulted in the death of two officials and several strikers. No one has ever been prosecuted for the murder of the workers. The case is expected to cost the state a quarter million dollars. | AMERIGAN SMOKERS BURN | $1,624,000,000 ON ALTAR OF HER LADY NICOTINE WASHINGTON, Dec. 22—-Smokers of United States paid $1,624,000,000 for cigars, cigarets, tobacco and snuff this year, on the basis of esti- mates made by internal revenue figures issued by the treasury. Cigaret consumption for the year will reach 80,000,000,000, about 12,000,000,000 more than last year, according to the returns. More than 7,200,000,000 cigars were smoked during the year. Officials predicted that more than 90,000,000,000 cigarets would be smoked next year. MISLEADERS OF U. J. V. DEFEAT BRAVE STRIKERS Utica Mill Workers Go Back to Speed Up (Special to The Daily Worker) UTICA, N. V., Dec. 22—The strike against the Utica Steam and Mohawk Valley Cotton Mills was called off here by the United Textile Workers, the organizers of which Joseph White, particularly, have mishandled the strike from start to finish and caused the workers now to become the vic- them back to work to wait arbitration on a wage cut, lost the strike, and are 1 the union, simply by refusal to adopt militant policies as the Com- munists and left wingers proposed for a general strike of all mill work- ers in all mill towns. : By A Worker Correspondent. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dec. 22.—Ac- cording to reports from San Francis- said she would rather face poverty vith him than remain a public charge. A month later Mackey lost his job as a glass worker. Unwilling ¢o ask for further credit at the grocery store, unable to pay the rent to the landlord, the penniless aged pair lay down on their kitchen floor and let loose a flood of gas from a broken pipe. Such is life for working people everywhere under capitalism — not least in this land of sunshine, flowers and orange groves. 800 Municipal Workers Laid Off in Chicago Layoffs for an indefinite period are what Santa Claus brings to 800 work- ers on the payroll of the city of Chi- cago. Electrical, water, street and technical men were laid off for lack of city funds, they were told on short notice. About 600 more are due for layoffs next week. Corporation tax- dodgers are blamed for the city’s money shortage. THE DAILY, Nationalist A . Win on T Fronts (Special to val Worker) PEKING, China, Dec. 22—After fierce fighting at Yangtsun, near Tientsin, in Whieh au artillery duel between Feng ‘oe and General Li Chang-Ling of nm resulted in many dead and wéurded, Feng has succeeded in . flank of his enemy and have captured Penisang,. only six miles esst ot Tientsin, with and the powers following the Boxer rebellion, will bel resumed after strong forces there, Mukden Near Capture. In another section also the people's nationalist army is winning ground. Reports from ria say that the leader of the mutiny against Chang Tso-lin, General Kuo Sung-lin, has defeated Chang’s troops at Hsin Min- fu, thirty miles Mukden and is marching in ‘pursuit of Chang’s re- treating troops. Japanese troops continue to pour across Korea into Manchuria, sup- posedly to “guard ‘the South Manchur- lan railway lines” and itisure peace“ in Mukden, from which they are ex- cluding all mne their own. Plan Education Center ee os The creation of an educational cen- MM. WAUKEE, 22.— Wage rais- es of between $120 and $300 for cer- tain lesser employes of the county of Milwaukee and boosts between $1,000 and $1,500 for the big boys have been voted by the board of su- pervisors. pointment of 30 additional mail car- riers at Chicago. order becomes effective January 1 The American Federation of La- bor movie “Labor’ssReward” will be shown in the follawing towns and cities of Illinois: .. Christopher, Monday, Jan. 4. East St. Louis, Twesday, Jan. 5. Granite City, Wednesday, Jan. 6. Belleville, Thursday, Jan. 7. Collinsville, Fridq@y, Jan. 8. Herrin, — os *** Democratic Re -Revubliéan Solidarity Laid Bare By Expose of Coolidge Deal By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. 1 . another flash of light streaks across the dark places in Wall Street's government in Washington, show- ing how the dollar dictatorship operates. The rampaging Senator kicked up another foul-smelling old party dunghill when he exposed the fact that the republican president, Coolic entered into a deal“ with the democratic senator, wood, of Alabama, to pad the Inte ＋ 5905 mission, that i making discriminating freight rates tee Hr favor of the non-union coal miners of the south, with some, more gime of Sam Gompers. | open on the powerful interstate commerce commission. The senate in its last session held up the confirmation of Thomas L. Woodlock, of New York, but Coolidge, nevertheless, gave him a recess appointment. proval. his appointment confirmed, 88 of a century he was hio railroad. Cities in the reactionary south know where to get their mayors, and when Coolidge for a job under his republican administration, he knows it is difficult to find anyone more conservative. Thus the republican-democratic compact in congress It must now come up for ap- Coolidge still sticks by Woodlock. oolidge calls Senator Under- wood to the White House and asks that he fill the other va- cancy, thus winning democratic support. Underwood does not resent this approach. He does not stand defiantly on the sacred principles of Jefferson and Jackson. All party pride is laid aside. He grabs at the op- portunity to get his man on the I. C. C. He suggested Richard V. Taylor, of Mobile, in his home state, and the suggestion is accepted. Taylor is mayor of Mobile, just as open shop” as other industrial centers of the solid south. For nearly a Blease, of South Carolina, „ had Commerce * * 3 In order to have manager of the Mobile and icks one of them Munsey, millionaire newspaper and magazine publisher, died at the Lenox Hill hospital from peritonitis. Munsey was noted for his acquiring of news- papers and applying an axe to them, merging. them into one or two publi- cations that he had in the field. the New York Sun into the Sun-Her- ald and later came to be called the Herald. Later the Evening Sun, a pa- per by Munsey was changed to the Sun. At one time he had seventeen derful” rise of Frank A. Munsey from an ordinary scribbler with $40 in his pocket, purveying Horatio Alger’s trash thru the columns of the Argosy, into the multi-millionaire of today. Little will be said of the exploita- tion of the men who set the type, man the presses and the little tots that ran the streets trying to sell his yellow journal in these editorials and articles. * U. S. WILL JOIN IN “REDUC TION” OF ARMS CONFERENCE AT GENEVA WASHINGTON, Deg. league of nations’ invi it was plainly indicat meeting, The league’s. invi Special to The Daily Worker) 22.—President Coolidge has decided to accept the tion to participate in its disarmament conference, at the White House today, following the cabinet tion is being considered from a “constructive stand- point,” the president fold callers, and with a view to ascertaining how the United States can in obtaining worl is frowned do Fe more room f st co-operate with the alleged purpose of the league Ide reduction of armament. by’ Cal, who prefers “reduction of armaments” as leaving a ts it to mean naything—or nothing. The phrase “disarmament” great surprise awaits all the radi- cal workers living in St. Paul and Minneapolis. For many years we had no ploce to go when Christmas came and some of us hypocritical- ly were obliged to follow the relig- On Thursday ovine Dec. 24, all the radical workers and their families will come together at the German American House, 444 Rice St., St. Paul and spend an enjoy- were present at the Red Wedding last year still remember what the young workers can do; but this will even surprise them. The role of re- ligion in keeping the workers in subjection and the imperialistic role of religion will be symbolized in a number of sketches. Beside but come and see for yourself and don’t forget to bring your family. Democrat Asks Repeal of Flexible Tariffs WASHINGTON, Dec. 22—Repeal of the flexible tariff provision of the existing tariff law, was proposed in a bill introduced today in the house by Representative Hull, democrat, of Ten- nessee, This provision, inserted in the law of 1922 by the = republican tariff makers, authorized the president to raise or lower tariff duties by 50 per cent whenever it was demonstrated that existing rates were not operating to the advantage of the United States manufacturers. BANKRUPTCY OF THE AME _ CAN LABOR MOVEMENT. By Wm. Z. Foster. | Soviet Russia letter and the Red International of Labor Unions, 3 288 pages, Durofiex Gevere- 1.28 of the position of Communism in relation to the working class and the decaying capitalist system. Cloth, 600— Paper, Te State and Revolution attractive cover, A great analysis of the Cap- } italist State as the protector of Capitalism, establishing the ne- cessity of its overthrowal and OF LENINISM. By I. Statin. An important work on Commun- ist theory and practice during the period that Lenin lived and led the period of Capitalist Imperial- ism. Written by a cl co-worker of Lenin—the present Secretary of the Russian Communist Party. 78 pages. Duroflex Covers—35 Cents. “DAILY WORKER PUB. Co. - 1113 W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, III. — portland s Principal Building Goes Up in Flames; $1,000,000 Loss (Special to The Daily Worker) PORTLAND, Ind., Dec. 22—Fire of undetermined origin destroyed Port- land’s principal buildizig, the Weiler Block, entailing a loss estimated at nearly $1,000,000. RESERVE NEW YEAR’S EVE IN CHICAGO FOR THE I. U. E AI ITALIAN HALL, 643 K CLARK SI. * eee Admission * a 75 Cents, — Wardrobe, ancing Until 2 A. Refreshments C RE ² A ere I

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DR ae oe ek eS ee a eee — Helps Increase Army o . Jobless Workers _ (Continued from page 1) not to be turned out on the street. Under this system, designed by R. , of town, Pa., miner work in crews of a shea f . 4 3 5 fe +i 77 1 : 21 . 2 1 i 2 i 0 8 2 ‘ 9 ? 22 fi i i & TEL 241 i 7 bg * gf 1 See, ‘the this simple machine brings about, The -coaldigger must feed coal to this ma- came which carries it away steadily at. 131 feet a minute. Working on hie knees in seams as low as 30 inches, a mechanical toss of the shovel monotonously he throws 16 tons of coal onto the moying The necessity of using this ma- some belt. chine a to cutting and drilling must cafried out with regularity in or- machine may not wait its next meal. If the load- cutting do not gear into each other according to schedule the boss will: be on hand to see why. BR Build the DAILY WORKER. OUSANDS O F WORKERS UNEMPLOYED. By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press Industrial Editor) 4 Christmas presents will be showered on the ohildren of the rich this HE IDLE RICH; : year out of the abundant profits accumulated by the country’s leading cor- porations. A single issue of the Commercial & Financial Chronicle shows 84 corporations declaring extra Christmas dividends in cash, not to mention another flock of stock dividends. These extra dividends are coming from every industry. The railroads “Outlaw Strikes With are represented by the Atlantic Coast Line, Michigan Central, Mobile & Ohio, Norfolk & Western. Of the public utilities Associated Gas & Hlec- tric, Brooklyn Union Gas, Continental Gas & Electric and the Mohawk Val- ley Co. are among those present. There are six banks and trust com- panies including big bank of New York & Trust Co. Among the commercial and manu- facturing ; . N r 5 ~~ 1 Ai * 4 : 0 ull >. N ij — — 75 ; 25 1 2 ak : 1 1 4 Policemen Beat HE DAILY WORKER Is planning a drive in the packing house Indus- try exposing the low wages, unsanitary conditions and the long hours the packing house workers are foced to work in order to make tremen- dous profits for the packing interests. with Rubber (Special to The Dally W SPRINGFIELD, HI., Dec. packing house industry: companies and their locations). departments as much as possible). 3. ing forces. * * 4. ts there a conference board Every packing house worker can ald The DAILY WORKER greatly by sending in an answer to the following questions at to conditions in the 1. What packing houses are located in your city? 2. What are the hours and wages of workers employed? (List by What nationalities. or races predominate and compose the work- Company Beats Workers Before Board. which the bosses and the so-called representatives of the workers meet degree methods of police dey a must be abolished before there Wi be any decrease in crime, Judge G. H. Jenkins, director of the wel fare department and head a board of pardoms and paroles, d ed in a statement attacking the Ci 3 cago police in connection with (e ~~ Ira D. Perry, Jr., case. Perry, 66m of a Chicago millionaire, was 25 under a “rushed” law after three years of a life sentence. Brutal Methods Used. “Crime today 48 largely due to brat al methods employed by the (Names of the Me in the packing house plants thru railroad managements, a board of. — to discuss ways and means of better explolting the workers? 5. Is there a union organized in the plants? H so, to what extent are the workers organized? What is the name of the union or union organ- izations? 6. Has the plant had any strikes recently? mands? Who won? 7. Does the company maintain a pension system? function against the workers? 8. What about the police system? Is it possible to pass from one department to another without being molested? Do the yard’s police break open workers’ lockers upon suspicion? 9. Does the company maintain a spy system? What does this spy system do? What were the de- How does it + ~ Speed-up Killing Gangs. , | 10. Have the workers in the killing room and other departments been speeded up? How many cattle, hogs, sheep did they formerly kill in an hour or day? How many now? How many men did they use be- fore? How many now? 11. Are there any attempts on the part of the bosses or their lackeys to play up race prejudice, national hatred, religious hatred, etc., to get more work out of the workers and keep them disorganized? 12. What is the condition of the packing industry in your town? Tell of the unemployment, seasonal occupation, etc. 13. What is the opinion of the workers in the packing house plant as to company rule, etc. 14. What are the sanitary conditions in the plant? Towels, toilets, washing facilities? How is ventilation and heating in the plant? 15. To what extent are machines taking away jobs from workers in the plants? In the packing of the by-products and products of the packing industry? 16. How much time do the workers get for lunch? Must they eat where they work? Has the company restaurants in the shops? Have they places where workers can eat their dinners? - — — „ Women and Child Labor Increase. 17. is child labor employed in the plant? To what extent? Is it diminishing or increasing? 18. Do they employ women in the packing house industry in your town? ‘To what extent? is the number of women employed increasing or diminishing? 19. How does the foreman treat the workers? 20. Are workers often injured in the plant due to the speed-up system or employer’s negligence? What provisions has the company to care for them? What treatment do injured workers receive? Disabled workers? * 7 > * ESIDES answering as many of these questions as possible The DAILY WORKER wants every worker, regardiess of whether he is a member of the Workers (Communist) Party or just a sympathizer, to mail in a worker correspondent’s story telling of the condition of the plant he works in to be used in the special packing house industry DAILY WORK- ER drive. Besides writing, arrange for a bundle of the DAILY to dis- tribute before the gates of the plant. The DAILY WORKER fights the batties of the workers! Use “The DAILY” in your struggle! F ederal Censorship Law for Our Movies —— Watch the Saturday Magazine Section for new features every week. This is a good issue to give he said. ly known as the ‘abysmal brute © lsion, he declared, were “ad d ‘lliceman’s club instead.“ “What must a man cx think when he mets the brutality ef the police? He believes there is notB= ing for him to do but fight it as best he may.” Re Declaring that the Chicago had tortured and beaten young : “an innocent man,” until he confessem @ murder of which a companion 8 @& 7 holdup, and not he, was guilty, % kins asserted he would throw open e records to anybody with authority @ © 7 investigate. 2 Methods used to force the dp as the inhuman ingenuity of a man could contrive.” Police “Gold Fish” Victim, He asserted that two coment took turns crashing their fists into Dig” face, that denials were met „ blows to the jaw, that Perry was labored with rubber hose end that was told to get ready to die, thet police would kill him and leave mark to show it. “He was permitted no oe | sleep,” Judge Jenkins added. Peas! he reached for a sandwich held o@= to him, he received a hit from a pe Officers from Pontiac 2 Jenkins said, had told htm er ae ~~ ways could recognize Chicago prisom- 7 ers by the fresh wounds upon their 4 heads. : 4 ae Get $25,000 from Rallroad. CARLINVILLE, II., Dec. 22—ettie- ment of $25.000 has been made by 5 Illinois Traction System for the N of Robert Shannon and the injury of his mother in an accident near 3 last spring. ys. S ans, t —8 ! mie | . ew ie ee poor ‘ 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 recetved by his mother— BRIDGET CARSON, Warspite, Alta., ; Canada. for Capital’s Sake WASHINGTON, Dec, 22—A federal motion picture commission to censor all moving pictures, licensing those approved and banning those disap- proved, would be created in a bill in- troduced in congress today by Repres- entative Upshaw, (democrat) of Geor- gia, one of the dry leaders of the aouse. ° Dawes Acts Pallbearer for Railroad Magnate EVANSTON, III., Dec. 22. — Vice- president Charles Dawes heads the list of honorary pall bearers for the funeral of Charles E. Yerkes, 63, son of the late Charles Tyson Yerkes, rail- road magnate. to your fellow worker. 9 at C. S. P. 8. Hall, 1126 Watch the Saturday Magazine Pee SSS HTS SS FB HSH 4S HHS HSS SSH SSHSTSSSSSSSTSTESSTBVAS SAWS Chicago Readers, Attention! GRAND CONCERT = AND DANCE for the benefit of Delnik will be given by the F. D. T. J. OMLADINA and Czechoslovak Fractions 4 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1925 Freiheit Singing Society—Symbolic and Folk Dances by the members of F. D. T. J. Omladina—Musical Selections—Piano, Violin and Vocal — 1 W. 18th Street, Chicago. 1 9 Section for new features every week. This is a good issue to give to your fellow worker. 1 0 uy By UPTON SINCLAIR. A splendid propaganda story of a Labor spy— written by a master propagandist. The kind of a book to hand to your shop-mate after you have read it. 25 CENTS Order from THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. motoring. . 3 Solos—Recitations—DANCING DURING EVENING. Principal Speakerse—Robert Minor and Lovett Fort-Whiteman, Admission 75 Cents. Doors Open 2 B. N. — . ͤ . ti te, tt, ti th i, in, ie ie, ee en nn eee ee ree eee O84 449844444444 6 8444S HOSS SSS SSH SHS SESSETWES SESE - i ee ee ee i ee te i i i i i i i De de te te de be de i i i i i i De i i te te i te i te te i i i te IN DETROIT. “The Adding Machine’ } A Drama of the Worker Under Capitalism | 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. — — Wen a ein br . ere ei 5 ** 1 unn c e e ee . 4 e ee a LEE 1 * — — . —U— ee ee ee "aT Pike os ' be 9 NN * „ee een 1 ö

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Sas z ot the young miners in Illinois. * * 1 ae 15 i e * N * ife and Struggles o THE DAILY Hoa Kea — th yh a „ =< oT — ; 1 . a ” Discrimination Against Young Miners cialdom of the United Mine Union are shamefully ne- the interests and grievances It i seem that with close to 90 of- employes on the payroll of U. OUTH, Ill.—The ited. tine i a M. W. of A. in District No. 12, and when $135,800 is expended every three months for the salaries and expenses of these union officials that the griev- ‘ances of the coal miner would be swiftly adjusted and that justice quickly rendered. But this is not 80. i The young miner if he has a grievance a with the coal company must wait from six months to one year before it is oon ate settled. The case of the young who was employed at the Silver company Mine No. 2, Ed- =A wards, m. is only one: of many in- This young miner was employed at this mine as a trapper-boy and while the mine was in partial operation last May and his services were not re- quired as a trapper-boy, the company boss instead of giving this young miner some light job in the mine, gave him a job pushing empty cars and loaded cars of coal on the bot- tom. This is the hardest kind of work and it requires a man with a strong back to perform this work in the mines. Of course, the trapper-boy was not strong enuf to perform this kind dt work and so the boss fired him. A few days after this, the services of 33 a trapper-boy was required again, but instead of giving the job to the trap- per-boy, the job was given to a per- sonal friend of the boss. The trapper-boy d@manded that he be placed back in his former position since he was taken away from there by the company. This the company refused to do. Then the trapper-boy started his fight against the coal com- pany. First he took his case to the mine comittee; but no results, then the subdistrict, but no results, then to the district’ board member and the district executive board, but no satis- faction again; finally his case was set- tled in the joint group board. The trapper-boy after vigorously fighting for seven months and the case going thru five courts of the Mine Work- ers’ Union, the union officials were forced to act by placing the trapper- boy in his former position and com- pensation paid for all the time lost. The trapper-boy in a letter to the writer relates: “Our members are suf- fering greatly “over the delay in handling grievances of the coal min- ers and some relief must be offered to them. I believe that we should do away with one or two courts in the organization so that we will be able to get a decision without so much de- lay, and also to relleve the member- ship of the burden of paying more of- ficers than is necessary. We have too many of these labor fakers who do nothing but lay around swell ho- tels and frame-up on the progressive miners.”—Joseph Angelo. i Young Workers Strike at Edison Plant strike in the bake oven depart- ment of the Edison Electric Ap- pliance company, at 52nd and 19th St., in Chicago, has been on for about two weeks now. The men are on strike over the low wages and are demand- ing recognition of the union. The department which is on strike is separated from the main plant and the workers in the main plant know little about what is going on, since the only information they get are lies from the company about why the men are on strike. . After using every possible method ie 5 in order to break the strike the com- pany is now planning to move the tryout department (No. 51) to the at 19th and 52nd where the is on. This department will be 2 5 ‘moved ad during Christmas week layoff. In the department which is being : 9585 moved, there are many young work e Nr working for very low wages. 8: ers, the majority of those in the de- department which is being moved be- ig between the ages of 16 and 19. The company hopes to use these young workers as strikebreakers, since these young workers are alreafly A year ago the wages in the tryout depart- ment were 70 cents an hour, but since January, 1925, with the help of the take bonus system the wages have been reduced to approximately 35 and 44 cents an hour. At the same time that the wages of these young work- ers were reduced, the work was speeded up a great deal and they were expected to work overtime. When these reductions occured the majority of the older workers quit, when they were replaced by the young workers who make up the biggest 90 of the department at the present time. Now these same young workers, get- ting such low wages and working un- der such rotten conditions, will be made use of by the company in their effort to force down the wages in the bake oven department and when they try to break the strike of those work- ers who won't put up with any worse conditions. . This reduction of wages and speed- up by the company, would not happen if the workers had some organization and if the young workers were also organized with the older workers 80 that the bosses could not use them to help force down the wages of the old- er workers.—Young Worker Corre- spondent. Chicago Young Workers Will Hold Liebknecht Memorial Celebration The Young Workers (Communist) League of Chicago is arranging a Liebknecht memorial meeting to be held Friday, evening, Jan. 8, at 8 o'clock at the Northwest Hall, corner North and Western Aves. Max Schact- man, member of the national execut- ive committee of the Young Workers (Communist) League, Sam. Darcy, na- tional secretary of the Young Workers (Communist) League and Earl Brow- der, director research department of the Workers (Communist) Party will Speak. An interesting and fitting program has been arranged for the occasion. By SAM DARCY. month it is fitting that the mem bership hear a report of our activi ties during the past two months. Lack of External Work. faster and surer. dangerous tendencies the organization must get down to work. Both these atti- the convnetion had opened. Unity Established. — steps to make this unity, work. mistic turn. Apathy of Districts. of. The districts | fault but it is outs measure solving this problem. Mass. Work. towards making this a success. also with the lack of facilities, N the occasion of our trade union The league has taken some tremen- dous strides forward put the awk- wardness with which there were ac- complished only served to bring out more clearly the things that we must correct in order to make our progress After the convention was over two manifested themselves within the league: On the one hand many comrades took the at- titude that they had fought a hard battle and were entitled to rest while on the other hand many did not real- ize that the fight was over and that immediately tudes caused the temporary continua- tion of the same condition (the lack of external work) that existed before With the co-operation and under the leadership of the Y. C. I. much has been done to liquidate this situation. On the national committee the leader- ship is not only consolidated into a solid block behind the C. E. C. of the party and for the carrying out of the decisions of the last national conven- tion of the league have taken actual not one based on resolutions merely but on the actual carrying out of real mass In the districts this development has in a large sense reflected the activities of the N. E. C. After the tour of the national organizer the attitude of the membership which was dangerously apathetic began to take a more opti- With the exception of Philadelphia practically every other district has established unity, and by this time is working hard carrying out the decis- ions of the last national convention. Buffalo, Cleveland and the Twin Cities sub-districts have not as yet learned to respond to the decisions and in- structions of the national office. This lack of discipline is a hangover of the | factional fight, when every district did more or less as they pleased accord- ing to which fraction they were part nerally.have this ding in the three. mentioned. Our comrades must learn to respond more quickly than they are now doing. The general increase in the activities is however in a large ‘The first step towards real mass work in the conference in eastern Ohio We are sending organizers from every section of the mining country into the field and are turning every energy We are of course faced not only with the external opposition in such work but fi- nances, etc. But despite all these dffl- culties the conference is making splendid advances and we expect real mass representation of young — nother part of this page is a detailed ‘eport of this work. ‘ ls Progress in ®istritcs. -| In five of our eleven districts we have succeeded in establishing full time district In two oth- ers we have part t D. Os while in three others the; H. Obs do their work in spare time enfy. In at least one of these dis we expect to establish a full time J., O. by the end of January. In Angeles dis- trict we have Comrade Schneiderman on tour thru the | rebuilding the league and taking up all the organiza- tional problems th . The N. E. C, is eg out material on the! under the new form, 1 to state as yet just -tof reorganization a that it has been practically no loss Of while in many tories must bring 2 if they fol- low the correct lines. Close study of our programs should be made and the work should be pea intensified on this basis. F We are yet having difficulty with our Y. W. L. fractions in the trade unions. In some places Boston, New York, Pittsburgh—these are beginning to funetion, Els@where no serious starts have been made, We are send- ing out material organization of fractions. Our indus ment is closely gd every unit which: ig. doir and pushing the work local comrades must greater degree in national office. ae Lack ot } There is one g work. That is the league fund nette At the same time came in on dues, e result is that we possibilities for wo carry it on with. Our the anthracite ae: raet held up on the pee yg * ers into eastern Ohio Our new pamphlet cannot be taken from the printers until we raise 8800 to pay for it. The Young Worker and the Young Comrade is alwaps late in com- ing off the press because we have not the funds to pay for t. A financial statement will be issued to the units on Jan. 1. Our comrades will then see the seriousness of the situation. perate to a fy little money ‘ etc. The » tremendous ‘but no money to Unless we can get lp quickly we may be forced to the Young Worker into a m This would be a tremendous bl t us. The dis- tricts must push subscription drive, the new pamphlet, dues and the remittances on their debt if we are to survive this crisis. Party Drive for League. The party is undertaking a mem- dership drive among their members in our behalf. The foreign | language bu- Much Progress That We Are Making and Some That We Are Not | eine young miners, there. Om reaus will at their next few sessions be instructed to take up the question of work among the foreign-speaking youth. If the Jeague is fo co-operate n these cam ns it must have more help—both financial and in the matter of getting quick response from the local units. We suggest that the | units discuss this report and — measures to increase their efficiency. This report is extremely sketchy and quite inadequate. A more detail- ed report will be issued at the end | of the year in conjunction with our financial report. i — Wate the Saturday Magazine Section for new features every ‘| week. This is a good issue to give io your fellow worker. — 4 2 lt A, Bee Be aE . 1 a Dun Young Workers’ League of St. Paul, recently started circulating a mimeographed shop paper in the printing plant of Le F. Dow Printing company. This shop employs a large number of young workers and is one of the worst exploiters. in the city. The boys start to work at $10 per week and the girls start at as low as .68 per week. This is even in vio- . of the state minimum wage law. . er al uk The work is of a hard character and the boss is ever driving us, telling us that we are two days behind in our work. However, it makes no differ- ence how much harder we work, we are always two days behind“ accord- ing to the slave driving ‘forenian. When you start work y m- ised a raise in pay to 272 << : but after you have been @ year you are lucky if you e $12 per Week. og SENT eee first time you get a promise. If you @ < ask a second time, you get fired: Th is the way we are treated. The shop is entirely unorganized. That is to say the workers are unor- ganized but the bosses are well or- ganized. They are organized five times over, belonging to the St. Paul Citizens’ association, the Minneapolis — Civic and Commerce association, the Citizens’ Alliance, the St. Paul Typo-. . thetae and several others too numer- ous to mention. * The Young Workers League is pop ularizing the following demands; 1. Equal pay for equal work. 2. No compulsory overtime. 4. Two weeks paid vacation each year. Already three shop bulletins have i been ‘issued and the response is ex- cellent—Young Worker Correspond- _ ent. ico Trade Union — Young Communist Internation- al has proclaimed December, Eco- nomic-Trade Union Month, thruout the world. The aim is to concentrate all the energies and activities of each league upon this phase of activity, which is one of the most effective me- thods of reaching the working class youth. | Recently, a great many young workers’ delegations have toured the Soviet Union, being the guests of the Russian young workers. These are now returning to their respective countries and are reporting favorable upon the conditions of the young workers in the Soviet Union. This broadcasting of the authentic knowl- edge of the conditions of the young workers of Soviet Russia, is being well utilized by the various Young Communist Leagues, where a decided contrast can be made between work- ing class Russia and the rent of the capitalist world. E Young Communist AN are especially concentrating upon pop- ularzing world trade unity; unity of the youth and adult workers; union- ization of the working class youth; removal of all barriers against the youth in the unions and equality of rights. _Eeonomic-Trade. Union Month in America, among other things, implies the following: 1. Active participation in all the struggles of the working class youth. In the present anthracite strike the league has been active in distributing thousands of leaflets. Small meetings and many contacts have been gained. This is only a nning. We should be the leading inffuence and spirit of the young miners in the strike. The small beginning the league made in the textile strike in New Jersey is also rtant. However, each of taese ggles must become the means ofAncreasing the prestige and organizational strength of the Young Workers’ League. A concrete example of successful mass activity was the participation of the league in the recent spontaneous coke workers’ strike in Pennsylvania. 2. Initiation of factory campaigns and industrial campaigns. Again we peas : Ar iF is; see a revival during E. T. U. M. of factory campaigns in various cities. Since the league is reorganized much greater stress must be laid, not on factory campaigns as they were con- ducted in the past, but upon a steady, everyday, factory activity, From time to time local or district campaigns on certain basic branches of industry must be made. A start is being made in this respect in New York, St. Paul, Chicago and other centers. 3. Initiating and calling working youth conferences.—This will be found to be an effective method of gaining contact with the young workers. Thru such campaigns we rally young work- ers from the shops and mines on the basis of our concrete practical de- mands which we must formulate and popularize. The first steps being made in this directiom are the two young workers’ conferences, which are already under way during this“ month, in Dastern Ohio and New York City. From these first conferences we will gradually After out and em- brace every larger mass of young workers under the influence of the Young Workers’ League. 4. Unionization cf the young workers.— The great majority of the young workers are unorganized and are thus a danger to ‘the\standard of living of the adult workers. It is not the fault of the young workers that cases, longer hours than the adult. Many unions still pursue the policy of not organizing the young workers, dis- criminations being common. HE league must be the driving force in breaking down such bar- nth--What It they work for lower wages and in| riers, A prerequisite tor unlonies- unionization of all the Y. W. L. mem bers. This has been undertaken en- ergetically during this month and by is January 1, every Y. W. L. member . must be in the unions. 5. Organization of youth . —K is only thru the organized ef- forts of the young Communists that we can effectively carry on our strug- gle on behalf of the youth. This has been a weak point in league activity. During this month, Y. W. L. fractions are being organized systematically in every union, thru meetings being called and definite plans for activity being laid out. These . W. L. frac- tions are separate but work in close co-operation with the party fractions. They are not the same as T. U. EB. L. ups, asthe T. U. E. L. groups should be broader units, em bs outside workers, while the Y. W. 8 fraction is limited to the I. W. L. members, who lay out our strategy . for activity within the union and to win and work for the su widest masses in our pro 2 un dd Economic-Trade Union Month are: | “Every v. W. L. member a Union Member.“ in every Union, a ¥. W. L, Pe. tion.“ Unionization ot the Youth.” These are being energetically pro- pagated, The entire league is jerk. ing toward mass work. The unified efforts of the league membership is eisai l rn Wilk. lamson. AT CHICAGO Y. W. L. RUTHENBERG AND CANNON TO SPEAK MEMBERSHIP MEET HE question of wortd trade union the international situation. unity will be discussed at a member. ship meeting of the Young Workers League in Chicago on Christmas Day. Friday, Dec. 25, 1925, at Workers’ Home, 1902 W. Division St., at 3 p. m. Comrade James P. Cannon wlll speak on this question, in connection with Comrade C. E. Ruthenberg will also speak at this meeting on the united front activity of the party in connection with the campaign for a labor party and the defense of the Soviet Union. bers of the league and the party as well as young and old workers who are ndn-members are also invited to be present. * All mem- Bastern Ohio, the majority of the young workers are employed in the coal mines. While the profits of the coal operators are increasing the con- ditions of the coal miners are becom- ing’ worse. The coal operators are gradually moving the base of operations to the unorganized fields, in an attempt to break the union and destroy its influ- ence. Unless the miners’ union acts, similar results will take place with the U. M. W. A. as happened to the Western Federation of Miners, many years ago, when a similar move of the bosses was executed. Discrimination Against Youth. In addition to the general misery of the miners as a whole, the young miners are employed at such jobs as trappers, couplers, greasers, e pickers, ete: This work requires ability to move fast. Accidents are prevalent. Wages in many cases are lower than the adults. A speed up system is prevalent. Discrimination takes place against the young miner een: . (O90 NBT LIE TP A more young miners rest of the general. Unity Yotng and Old. Such a conference will strengthen the workers’ movement as a whole, by making the young workers an ef- fective part of the entire working class movement. Workers Must Act as a Class. are in a period of prosperity, and not to the workers. for a slight increase in wages; textile workers who have many cuts in ‘wages; million unemployed workers priods of unemployment. soft coal miners in Ohio and W. Virginia. the unorganized of the workers’ ranks, effective —the labor party. together with the young workers of the Conference, to discuss their immedi- at@ conditions and adopt the neces- sary measures and demands of the young miners and young workers in N spite of all the assertions of the politicians of the country that we 1. the+ workers, both young and old, know that this extends only to the bosses itis The anthra- cite coal miners who are on strike} 5 the suffered the “clothing workers who have put up a determin- ed fight against wage cuts; the two who were unemployed thruout 1924 and the experience of the miners in the bituminous fields, where for several years they have been suffering from Starvation and misery is rampant amongst the Pennsylvania, This concerted drive of the bosses upon the workers: the use of militia and injunctions in time of strikes to defeat the workers: conditions of the workers while the bosses are well or- ganized, demands the strengthening |» greater and | | unionization of the workers, both young and old, economic field—the combining of all ot labors’ forces on the political field into an effective class political party. on the * Need For a — L ee Confer- Eastern Ohio N ** district, gather together in a. Young Workers’ With such conditions prevailing in Eastern Ohio, a call has already been issued for an all inclusive Young Workers’ Conference to be held in Bellaire in the latter part of Febru- ary, 1926. For the ext two months ing the conference and the demands being popularized far adoption by the conference. Some of these demands are as follows: For All Young Workers. A six-hour day, five-day week, with no night work or overtime. Ex- ception to be made only in case of the young workers and especially the young miners will ke eagerly discuss- The Young Workers’ Conference in East Ohio UCH 4 situation demands that the emergencies in mines, said emergency to be understood as when mine would be unable to work the next day. Over- time must be paid at time and half rate. 2. Establishment of work school for young workers, to be financed by bosses and supervised by unions, 3. Two weeks’ vacation with pay each year for all young workers un- der 18 years of age. For All Young Miners. 1. All tracks, roadways and man- holes to be kept clean; timbering and wiring to be kept in shape to avoid accidents. No leader to be responsible tor this work but it should be done by day men. 2. Equal wages for _ trappers, | couplers, greasers, car cleans or slate pickers, to 8 with adult company hands, either inside or out- side. 3. \Under 21 years of ago, initiation fee and dues in U. M. W. A., to be one- half, with full rights and benefits. 4. Abolition of the tonnage sys- tem and institution of ‘straight day wages and weekly pay. 5. A minimum wage of $7.50 for all workers in the mines, if thru no cause of their own, they do not re- ceive a full day’s work. 6. Abolition of the automatic ven- alty clause. 7. Wash houses and individual towels to be supplied free by com- pany. 8. Provision by company of pit clothes whenever necessary. — tion of the young workers, is we the The slogans of the league during — By John Williamson 9. paid during shutdowns, prevailing union wages from special fund to be establishéd by setting aside part of profits of coal operators, this fund co be supervised by local union of U. M. W. A. , 10. Two rooms for two miners in machine work in room and pillar. 11, Men to be transported to and from work when entry is over one- half mile long. 12. All tools, ments necessary shall be furnished free by the company. General Demands. 1. Free the Moundsville prisoners: and Dominick Ventureta. 2. For a Labor Party. 8. For World Trade Union Unity. aie tn 8 * 1 * * 0 — U = Ae, Unemployment benefits to be powder and émple-’ ~~ -_ - tt A eed ane \

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has ae. his lite tor the profits = the barons. The man, Spanish has worked for the steel company he just one month 150 an oller ate mill. On Nov. 70 th, which was Thanks giving day, the man went “to the oil house, filled two buckets of oll and went underneath the hot bed to oil the gears that run the cold rolls and pe: Pony chains, This was about 2 o’clock in the afternoon, and the last time anybody sa w him alive, While pouring oil on the gears his | sleeve caught in the gears, and pulled his entire 4 also. No one saw the ‘accident | ‘the place is up steel plates and used as a walkway. * — 2:80 a time- keéper passed by and thru the open- ing between the ‘plates saw the man turning in the gears. He told the oper- ator to stop the roller line, and there they found the man all crushed into This is the worst accident I have pieces of flesh and bones in a bucket. His right arm was so badly cut up that only the tips of the fingers were found. His legs were cut up into ground meat. There was no stomach to be found. His liver and heart were found on his face. His hair was pulled out, The only thing that was not torn up was his cap and dipper. This is all due to the company’s fail- ure to provide gear eovers. The mill has operated for 14 years without covers on the geers until a man lost his life, then of course covers were provided immediately. This is only one of the many acci- dents that occur regularly in the steel mill, but the workers do not know of this because they are not published in the capitalist papers. Only the workers in the plate mill know of this dccident. The coroner and undertaker were called but they were instructed by the bosses not to publish this in the Gary Post Tribune, Gary's only paper. . hey" Stöber ſence will make The a better paper 1d * 5 story about your shop. TLL = ABC OF COMMUNISM By. Bukharin and Preobrazhensky. The authors were commis- oned by the Russian Com- munist Party to write a complete and simple ex- plahation of Communism. The student will find this book a gem of Communist teachings. 50 Cents Supplement te to the ABC of Communism. “Questions and notes on the “original work for study Class use. , 5 Cents. DAILY WORKER PUB. CO. 1113 W. e Blvd. ~ 2 e aif ana n ‘About the . TAGE ya "9 a 1 eee 3 3 i ee 4 Me — * ers e The prizes offered are as follows: — We Bernd iin your — VRN week The DAILY WORKER ie presenting three prizes for the best stories sent in during the week by its worker cor- respondents. This week's prize winners will be announced, and their published on the Worker Correspondents’ Page in Thurs- s issue, since there will be no paper on Friday, Christmas Day. FIRST PRIZE—“Flying Osip,” stories of New Russia, some of which are now appearing in the New Magazine Section of The DAILY )} oss SECOND PRIZE—Leon Trotsky’s “My Flight from Siberia,” In whieh is told the story of Trotsky’s escape from exile.

—— izing active, at A fair-sized shop nuclei—hold only for places help organize a shop stances where there members employed in the employed there, only where prospects of organizing a shop nucleus” in this place, only where the attach- ment of such a third comrade will n in which three or more of the mem- must be remembered that, almost without exception, shop nuclei cannot . meet in their places of employment, cannot transact their party business in their factories. It is very advisable to find meeting places for shop nuclei and street nuclei other than the homes of party comrades. The meeting places should become the centers of general party life. In view of the fact that the sub-section is really a means for carrying on more effectively party activities, the availability of suitable meeting places should be taken into consideration when sub-section divi- sions are set up. b) The problem of congregating national groups: which wlil consist of party members, either all of one nationality or even overwhelmingly of one nationality. We should strive, in making our sub- section divisions, to have comrades of as many nationalities as possible work together thru the shop and street nuclei under the leadership of their most experienced members par- ticularly those of whom can speak English. c) The size: No sub-sections should contain more than 75 members. If subsections grow too large in mem- bership they become ineffective. In those cases where subsections grow much beyond this number in size, they should be further sub-divided. The problems of the organization of workers’ clubs and party fractions will be dealt with in the next ar- ticles. Shop Nucleus Courses to Train Communists NEW YORK CITY, Dec. 22.— The shop nucleus training courses, sched- uled to start on Thursday and Friday next, respectively, will begin Thurs- day, Jan. 8, and Friday, January 9. They could not be started earlier be- cause many of the shop nuclei were still electing their representatives and because the coming Thursdays and Fridays are Christmas Eve, Christmas New Year’s Eve and New Year, which are inopportune times to start class- es. The registration for these courses are very high, since every shop nu- cleus, factory district nucleus and in- ternational branch is sending one representative and paying his fee, therefore, it may be necessary to start many more classes, The school is prepared to start as many shop nu- cleus training courses as are required. Any unit of the party which has not yet elected should put that on the order of busi- ness for the next meeting and send the name of the one elected, imme- diately to the Workers’ School, 108 Last 14th street. DISTRICT COMMITTEE PLANS. MANY LENIN MEMORIAL MEETINGS Lenin memorial meetings are being arranged in the following places by the Workers (Communist) Party, district No. 8: Chicago, Sunday Jan. 24, at 8 p. m. — Coliseum. Gary, Ind., Jan. 24th, 7:30 p. m. Turner Hall, 14 S8. Washington. Springfield, III., Sunday, Jan. 17, at 2:00 p. m. St. Louis, Mo., Sunday Jan. 17th, at 8:00 p. m Christopher, III., Monday, Jan. 18, at 8:00 p. m. Zeigler, III., Tuesday, Jan. 19, at 8:00 p. m. West Frankfort, II., Wednesday, January 20th. Johnston ity, Ill, Thursday, re January 2ist. © Halls will announced in a later issue of The DAILY WORKER. its representative .

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N 9 mt Paes e 5 * 28 1 * * f — “ N 8 ee i i ee hat ’ g r exe 1 n . i 4 * 75 a * 8 3 cc DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 5 Phone Monroe ns » Washington Bivd., Chicago, II. 2 N (in C aT. oy man (outside of Chicago): hicage only y ma $4.50 six months | $6.00 per year $3.50 six months —.— three months $2.00 three months 3 Address all mail ‘and make out checks to ‘THE DAILY WORKER, 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Hlinole J. LOUIS ENGDAHL } — F. DUNNM j{ MORITZ J. LOEB Business Manager Sintered as second-class mall September 21, 1923, at 7 post-office at Chi- cago, lil, under the act of March 3, 187 Advertising rates on application. Prspainiide for Dawes Plan The press of the United States has for weeks been carrying stories purporting to describe the economic conditions in Germany. An analysis of the reports reveals the most astonishing falsification. According to these reports Germany is steadily rising from the ruins of the world war and its aftermath that sent the mark crashing to Such low levels that it became utterly worthless. As a matter of fact the Dawes plan for Germany, which was an inventory of the industrial resources of the country and a survey of the degree of exploitation that could be imposed upon German labor, had the effect when the first heavy loans were floated of slightly reviving industry. But no sooner was the plan made operative than the inherent contradictions of capitalism ‘showed that the Dawes plan itself would produce a serious European crisis. England participated in the Dawes plan because she hoped that : Germany were forced to pay enormous sums to the debtor nations could not sell her industrial products low enough to compete with British industry.. The United States wanted to revive German in- dustry so that country would furnish a place for investments of bank capital. Whereas Britain utilized the scheme with one object, the United States had an opposing motive. Even the temporary revival in Germany weakened British in- dustry. Furthermore any tyro in the realm of economics knows that the productive capacity of the industries of the world is more than adequate to supply the markets of the world and that if German in- dustry is revived and brought back to the basis of 1914 it will create a crisis in industry everywhere. Why then do we have this exaggeration of the effectiveness of the Dawes plan? On the one hand the capitalist press speaks of the revival of Ger- many while deploring the pathetic condition of France. Some pub- lications actually compare the condition of the two countries and arrive at the conclusion that a similar plan should be imposed upon France. And a Dawes plan for France is the sum-and substance of the propaganda in favor of the Dawes plan in Germany. Finance capital in the United States ever strives to find new spheres of investment, otherwise it will smother under its own ac- cumulation. But when it seeks places.of investment it. wants to create condition most favorable to itself. The one fact to be kept in mind is that England and the United States are the two great contend- ing imperialist powers. Wall Street strives to crush Britain. This can only be achieved by creating powerful allies in Europe. If the franc is beaten down to such a point that a Dawes plan is imposed upon France, it will be handled by the United States alone, without ‘Britain and against Britain. American bank capital, now dominat- bank capital can be brought about what France failed to accomplish by military might—the consolidation of one industrial unit em- bracing the iron of Loraine and the coal and coke of the Ruhr. Such an achievement will be a staggering blow to British industry and a ‘tremendous gain for American imperialism in its struggle against its only formidable imperialist rival. Every act in the arena of imperialist struggle brings nearer} the time when the next world war will burst forth: The central point of working class strategy must be to realize this fact and prepare relentlessly and at any sacrifice to combat these prepara- tions for a new world slaughter. ) Capitalism Will Take Care of Mitchell Since the conviction by a court martial last week of Colonel Mitchell that publicity agent for the aircraft trust has beén regaled with offers of various kinds, mostly of a political nature. Mitchell, during the past few years in the army, has played a political role. The court martial decision forces him and his backers henceforth to play politics in the open. Already the chain of Hearst papers that supports the aircraft trust and tried to make a hero of this gaudy popinjay is urging him to go to Wisconsin and become a candidate for United States sen- ator. From the floor of the senate Mitchell could then continue his} propaganda for a separate air force, or at least focus sufficient at- tention upon the question to enable the aircraft trust to extort a greater share of loot from the government. But then it is question- able if Mitchell is qualified for this sort of thing. He may turn out to be as ineffective and monotonous a jackass as that other military clown, Mr. Dawes. But Mitchell must be taken care of. So one Sol. Bloom, a Tam manvyite congressman from New York City, recommends to Mayor- elect Jimmy Walker that Mitchell be appointed police commissioner of that city. Of late it has come to be the custom to seléct military men as directors of police departments. In the scab shop city of Philadelphia the notorious Smedley Butler, who as commander of the marines helped disperse the duly elected Haitian government at the points of bayonets for the glory of American imperialism, has been head of the police department for the past few years. He was selected at a time when the purity hounds became alarmed at the widespread vice in the city. Butler was to scourge vice from the city. He ordered the policemen to wear their six-shooters outside their coats so they could easily be reached and brought into action. But that was only melodrama. Instead of cleaning up vice conditions in Philadelphia the policemen became mere advertisements for dives. In that benighted city a policeman standing in front of a place in- dicates that within is to be found either a bootlegger’s joint or a brothel. And, of course, under Butler’s administration in Philadelphia there is more police interference with public meetings of labor organ- izations than ever before in the history of the city. His thugs and gunmen, when they are not busy protecting bootleggers and pimps, devote their time to trying to censure public speeches. Sunday “blue laws” are enforced everywhere but in the saloons and dives and churches New York has had many afflictions and would probably survive a siege of Mitchell, which would be one more reason why Tammany Hall must be destroyed before the rise of à political party of labor in that city. vet .a member for the Workers Party and a new subscription ing Germany, will soon dominate France, then under, the aegis of | being responsible for 6,500,000 tons, | narrowing the basis of the struggle, N nt and L 57 WILLIAM F. DUNNE ARTICLE II. S pre-convention strategy of fore- ‘ing the left wing to fight for the right of Communists to belong to and hold office in the union to the exclu- sion of all other mass issues and thus having failed disastrously, the Sigman machine decided to make a gesture, or rather a whole series of eure: ta- wards the left. So in the first day of the “convention the machine henchmen moved a vote of protest against the imprisonment of- Benjamin Gitlow ,and thus set the stage for one of the most interesting examples of what mass pressure can force labor reactionaries to do.. The vote was carried unanimously and the “impartial chairman” hurried to Alba- ny where he remained in conference with Governor Smith. The release of Gitlow had been expected around the Christmas holidays but the Sigman machine, very close to the governor rulings of his “impertial commission,” secured Gitlow’s release during the convention in order to build up its prestige against the left wing. The news of the Gitlow pardon was given to President Sigman over long-dist- ance telephone and Sigman himself made the announcement to the con- vention. by reason of its acceptance of the * ' 2 * bers of the union ag to the diferences between the yas and of be- | morale in the courts of capitalism. tion and capitalist — is thus made beautifully = to all who can read the signs The rights vied y the left wing m supporting as a labor party based on rer unions, anti- fascisti and anti-ku klux klan resolu- tions but lost no rtunity to wage war on the | and the Com- munist Party by pting to show, that only for the Communists, peace and harmony prevail in the I. L. G. W. According to manites there are two kinds of unists—good and bad. The bad‘Gnes should not the union, hold office or be de to conventions. The good ones be expelled. 4 pe Marks case Was an illuminating episode. mpt was made to unseat him ds that in 1921, when to court during the aftermath of thi Palmer raids, he had denied membership in the Com- munist Party and by this act having shown his disloyalty to the class strug- gle, was obviously.mnfit to be a dele- gate to the convention. Remember these were the arguments of the bureaucrats and their followers, The THE. Dal 1 rk The debate on this question, in which the Communists came thru with flying colors by showing that Marks had acted ynder instructions from the party, was one of the high spots of the convention. Unable to prove that Marks was a bad Communist the Sig- manites were forced to seat him, It having been shown that Marks was a good Communist, che machine was un- able to expel him owing to its defeat on this major issue before the conven- tion. The left wing bloc was ap- parently unshaken by this debate, non-Communist delegates fought strongly against the report of the cre- dential committee and the Sigmanites were compelled to abandon this direct line of attack. No such issue has ever before been debated on the floor of an A. F. of L. union convention and in itself is proof of the comparatively high level of political understanding in the I. L. G. W. N the discussions on world trade union unity, recognition of Soviet Russia and the sending of a trade union delegation to the Soviet Union, the flag-waving and 100 per cent Am- ericanism noticeable in other unions when these — are debated, was ot — tor 4 the union machinery; two, che te ation to secede and leave the aries with a third or bership with pricey) ust Nele ton a of the most important center, New York, in the hands of the left: Following close ufon*the; failure to split the non-party member from the Communists, the Sigmanites disclosed a two-sided strategy. -Abproximately, it was — to, work . ps follows F the coalfields of the Soviet Union by far the most important is the Donetz basin, which before the war produced 90 per cent of,the total Rus- sian coal output. Unfortunately, it was exactly this area which was the scene of some of the heaviest fighting in the civil war; it was at one period separated from the Soviet Republics, and the havoc wrought by the white guards and the destructive effects of war operations led to an enormous diminution in coal production. By 1921 the reconstruction of the industry in the Donetz basin had defi- nitely begun, and the succeeding years have witnessed a steady increase in output. In the other coalfields of the union there has been no such devasta- tion as in the Donetz basin, and the coal output has remained at a figure somewhat higher than that of pre-war years, increasing slightly during the last few years. The progress of the revival in the coal industry is shown in the table printed below, giving the output of the various coalfields in re- ‘ent years and before the war. HE preponderating importance of the Donetz basin is clearly seen. its relative share in the total produc- ‘ion has increased during recent years. Nearly 30 per cent of its total output consists of anthracite, as compared with 15.18 per cent before the war. During the first half of the economic year Oct. 1, 1924—Sept. 30, 1925, the total coal output in the Soviet Union was 8,650,000 tons, the Donetz basin an increase of 24 per cent over the output during the same period of the previous year. Coal Industry + Together with inereased production there has been a striking improve- ment in the efficiency of working. In the Donetz basin the amount bf coal used in the industry itself has decreas- ed from 30 per cent of the gross out- put in 1921-22 to 14 per cent in 1924-25, the corresponding decrease for the Moscow basin ye fg 28 per cent to 7 per cent, Har decreases are shown by the 6thier coalfields. The average Monthly output per worker has enormously, in the Donetz basin ‘increase being from 5.65 tons per Worker (excluding clerical staff) in 22 to 8.4 tons in 1924-25, while fii the Moscow basin the rise was trom 5.05 tons to 14.4 tons during the period. HE great made in the re- vival ot the ty and in improv- ing thé yield pe ker have been due in the first instan trating attention and most product! . * a cor- responding red ctig ip th num- ber of employes.’ Im’ 1924-25 the av. erage number ot N during 1924-26, but ti view of the ex- tended plans for industrial develop- ment, there is lixely to be a progres- sive increase in the number of work- ers engaged in coal Production during the current econoniid year. The efficiency r production, as measured by the Sütput per worker, was in 1924-25 about 71 per cent of the prewar level if the Donetz basin, and 94 per cent ofthe prewar level in the Kurnetz bral (Siberia). In 1 in the Soviet Union ) general the output per worker repre- sents about 80 per cent of the prewar figure, as compared with 90 per cent in Great Britain. improvements in the efficiency of working have been ‘obtained by a gradual improvement in the methods of extraction of coal and in adminis- tration, and not at the expense of the worker. Considerable capital expen- diture has been necessary to restore the working efficiency of the mines, especially in the Donetz basin, the to- tal amount spent under this head in the Soviet Union increasing from 6,000,000 rubles in 1922-23 to 26,500,- 000 rubles in 1923-24. Rapid progress is now taking place in the ‘introduction of mechanical equipment, In the mines of the Don- etz basin during 1924-25 about 7 per cent of the output was obtained by the use of coal cutters, while in 1925-226 there will be over 200 machines at | work yielding almost double that amount. ‘The great advances made in the general conditions of life and labor of the workers have been noted in the report of the British Trade Union delegation. Coal hewers work only six hours a day, other grades eight hours. All miners get a month’s holiday with Mull pay. ONEY wages (35-50 rubles per month in the Donetz basin) rep- resent only half, or less than half, of the real wages of the miners. Hous- ing conditions have been greatly im- proved, no rent for houses being charged, while all the municipal sery- ices such as gas, electricity, tram- ways, etc., are free, as are also social Output of Principal Coalfields. Estimate (In Thousand Tons.) Coalfield 1913 1921-22 1922.23 1923.24 1924.28 1925-26 Donetz basin ........ 25,100 6,550 8.000 11,900 12,000 19,300 Moscow basin 292 618 * 740 651 549 Ural 1.180 1.005 1,140 1,010 , 1.270 é Siberia (Kuznetz basin) 910 1,317 1.350 1,300 1.060 3,200 Far East 340 610 646 630 690 Other regions 275 — 107 175 150 Total 28,097 10,100 11,983 15,666 % 165.719. 22,500 ‘Ww “7 insurance, N 5 of rest houses, etc> 4 The legal number of working days per month, upon which the minimum wage is calculated, is 18 for hewers and 22 for other underground work- ers. Miners are provided with boots and special suits for work free of charge. - For abnormal working places the hours of work are reduced, while time lost by the miner thru no foult of his own is always paid for at full ordinary rates. In event of accident, or affliction by any industrial “disease, . the miner is paid full wages for the first three months, after which his case is dealt with by @ spectal committee on which | miners are fully, represented. E revival ot the coal industry pro- P so much faster than the re- vival of the big industries that con- stitute the largest consumers of coal fuel, especially the metal industry and the railways, that by 1924 consider - able stocks of ‘toatl had accumu The situatién was partly met by an embargo on coal-imports and a wide- spread campaign for the more extend- ed use of coal fuel in place of wood and other forms of fuel: The prosperous harvest this year and the big industrial development that this makes possible insure now that there willbe no difficulty in dis- posing of stocks. , „Already at the be- ginning of 1925, the position had alter- ed, as can be seen from. the fact that while, during the,first half of 1923-24, the net produc of coal exceeded the amount dispa ched from the coal- fields by two million tons, in the half of 1924-25 the on was only 450,000 tons. The total consumption ot coal in the Soviet Union in 1923-24 was 11, 100,000 tons, of which 210,000 tons were imported. The total included 190,000 tons of anthracite. Imports in 1923-24 consisted entirely of British coal. In 1912-coal imports amounted to about 4,850,000 tons, roughly two- thirds of which was British coal. OAL exports from the Soviet Union in 1923-24 amounted to 100,000 tons, Labor in The rising of a distinct proletar- ian class in the countries of the Far East is of the first importance to the working class movement of the West. The accounts told in this, the third article of the series by Com- rade Semaoen of Java, of recent strike movements led by Commun- ists and Red Trade Unions of Indo- nesia tell a story far more signifi- cant than a similar number of strikes with a similar number of workers an any ocidental country. For Holland lives upon her colon- ies, as do various other imperialist powers, and once the colonial peo- ples are imbued with the message of Communism, imperialism is doomed. The fourth and last ser- ies of these articles, furnished by the Trade Union ducational League, will appear tomorrow. Far East (indonesia) * 1. May * 1 strike of coach- men (800 strikersjc at the town of Solo. R 2. May 7, strikes 150 workers of the sugar factory Pétjanga-an. Police persecutions: strike could not be ex- tended into a genbräl Strike. 3. May 9, strike "OF 50 oye at the railway depot at *Jikampe Police compelled the stickers to atthe but the latter refused?“ People of the dis- trict sympathized” with the strikers. Railway management unable to get scabs. Porters Were recruited from other districts pat refused to work when they knew they were to break the strike. Strike’ Ended with Victory for the workers.“ 0 a 4. May 11, strike of 61 women in the Djombang rubber factory at Ba- tavia. Ended in a compromise, 5. May 12, strike of 32 workers in the lime-kiln at Batavia. Victory for < * & ARTICLE III HAT the trade union movement in Indonesia is only active under the leadership of the Communists is proven by the events which took place in earlier days. The small strikes which have occurred from the beginning of this year prove that our working class is willing to undertake in Offensive movement for inereased wages, guarantees for more certain vork, etc. From last May till the of August the following strikes led by the Red Trade Unions above mentioned were registered by the for the DAJLY WORKER. — 2 Reb ers ol an offensive character: ommunist organ Apy. All the strikes Ls RR, e Gurt 0 Vee the workers. 6. May 13, strike in the H. Bunning ; printery at Djokdja and in the Indo- nesische Drukkery (prints the unoffi- cial propaganda organ of the govern- ment in Malayan, Hindia Baroe, ed- itor Hadji Salin, leader of the Sarekat Islam (opposed to Communists) in Ba- tavia). Strikebreakers recruited re- fused to work. All told 300 printers involved. 7. May 16, strike of 50 printers in the De Echo printigg office at Djember and 40 artists inyéhe Tja ja Semarang theater in the town of Semarang. 8. May 28, lal strike in the Pakis sugar factgry at Paty. Strong oppression by On June 7 the strike was extended and then in- : volved 250 workers. oppression. 9. May 20, strike of 50 workers in the hospital of Sawah-lunt (Sumatra), police persecutions, 10, June 2, strike of 50 workers in the Angtjiwie Hien rice factory at Babat. The strike ended in victory for the workers. 11. June 4, strike of 30 workers in the military engineers’ service at Ku- pang on Timor Island, where many Continual police deported revolutionaries are living. In | spite of persecutions strike continues. 12. June 10, partial strike of 25 porters in the Atjeh tramway service at Langsa. Police persecutions unsuc- cessful. Strikers won. 13. June 1, strike of 50 prifters in a small printing office at Djokdja. 14. June 15, strike of 100 coolies at the public works in Banjoemas. Strik- ers won. 15. July 3, strike of 40 workers in the Weltevreden steam laundry. 1 may be added that I have no cop- ies of Apy later than July 3, but from other papers I read of the fol- lowing: From the Algemeen Handelsblad, Amsterdam, Aug. 26: Armed police dispersed a demonstration of 100 work- ers employed at the central hospital at Batavia on July 27. Twenty of the demonstrators have been discharged. Thirty-six workers then went on strike, 7 arrested. ‘ Twelve of the 86 strikers Sükrreybdt at the Semarang hospital, di rg One of the strike leaders is — A later telegram tells of this comm rade’s arrest. He is one of the cle \ ; : — eh ee da erest leaders the: e Party has. Attended the 1020 R. I. L. V. congress. I think he wi be deported to a small island 1 in the archipegalo. * 7 N harbor strike “ak ‘Semarang (where Comrade Darsona ds work- ing) is general, 1.200 mem involved; 400 more join in later. Harbor serv- ice completely stopped. ‘Strikebreak- ers from other places” réfised: to work. A law forbidding the holding” of meet- ings in Semarang province, is being | enforced. A general strike of 1,000 printers then broke out, The printing firms forthwith consented to the eco- nomic demands of the strikers so that here again a victory for the workers has to be recorded. At the same time there was a strike of printers at Makkasar in the Celebes. The harbor strike has gone down, but the port fleet is at a complete standstill on account of the sabotage that is taking place. The Konink- Hjke Pakketvaart Maatschappij has therefore established a new service’ with its own fleet and better working conditions. The new staffs include some of the strikers, 1 law prohibiting meetings will be a stumbling block to the rail- way union congress due to be held at Semarang. Of late there has been a way strike. Regarding the congress: I have as yet no news. Perhapg it has | ben postponed or held up or some other reason. great deal of talk about a fresh rail By THE LABOR RESHAR (England) ‘the greater part beltig Eastern Siberia to M amount from the Donetz only 19,500 tons. Plans were m export of 162,000 tons of coal ¢ 1925, but there is reason to that the actual figure will be. three times this amount. Ove 97,200: tons were exported in sane July alone. The first big contracts for soa] ex. port in Europe were made with Ttals which by one contract. ee a ‘agreed to take 486,000 1. spread over three years. Neg g den proceeding for t agreements for export i France and Austria. 4 i i 4 * g 8 1 + ve 1 * 8 +» » By HENRY — SRE, PITTS os „ The fact that a mal genius in Une of en a dumb: bell in . book “Quo us? of The N 181 t Dutton & company, _ obtainable in any public library. . -thruout the country. ee The book is a révelation ot the author's utter ignorance in regards to Marxian economics. He has not th slightest conception of what We tutes the real values of co 2 nor the least understandiag ot he material definition, of history. ‘of first we can be sure because he fer alludes to it; and in regards to second he makes a laughable. tion that is too good not to 2 more fully. 8 On pages 25 and 26 he states: The two great empires British and Jap- _ anese; and the two great republiés—~ France and U. S. A.—will, if they can agree, form a good nucleus tor a wad eration of the world.” | “If they can agree.“ about the forces that mig from agreeing. Noth economic factors inherent in capital ism that makes them antagonistic: t to one another. If ba. can agree, says, they will... Could “eee richer? In another part of the book th is another gem of réasoning, “A tribe of shepherds requires wat There is one man who knows the ko cation of a well. His knowledge 16 = private property ‘which he offer we for a number of cows. What 3 ld be done if the man is (a) ac cessible and undefended; (b) inacdés- sible,” Again: “A. sit, has a beauti- ful head of hair, w could de = abroad for a Ser le sum. Who property, is sy . g = seriousness. by a man of science tall be almost laughable, it it were we for the fact that ignorance—even geois ignorance— is. always a The whole book. would pass v well for the confessions. of an — 7 lec tal moron. As such We find it teren ur AS WE SEE it | (Continued from page 1). * keep them in jail. They only turn them loose when labor gives an cation of what it might do. M Billings and scores of other workit Class prisoners are ‘rotting in a fornia’s dungeons, tho innocent any crime. Yet some alleged radicals keep on hurling thunderbolts at viet Russia, because renegades: who tried to yerthrow the workers“ 9 — ernment we: -in..confinement. * Wen chat argument begins at e time in your shop tomor- | row—show. them what the bak N ac (Continued tomorrow.) 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