The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 13, 1924, Page 12

Page Twelve * BOOKS ano PAMPHLETS Wholesale and Retail DON’T FAIL THIS ness to It’s gime. Cloth Binding Send for a descriptive catalogue By lury Libedinsky. Go to Russia just for | a week and be a wit- the actual | revolution, as it took | place far away from| Moscow and Petro-| grad. The first novel | under the Soviet re- a treat. Translated by Arthur | The Leader In the Struggle The Communist International Greets the Appearance of ‘The Daily Worker.” | Declaring that “The Daily Worker’? must become a power as the champion of the tremendous issues confronting the workers and farmers a, the Executive Committee of the Communist International, thru ary, W. Kolarow, has sent a greeting to “The Daily Worker” as se 8 MOSCOW, Soviet Russia, Dec. 11, 1923. |\To THE DAILY WORKER. Dear Comrades:—The Communist movement: has long waited for the appearance of a Daily in America in the Eng- lish language, and at last we see it realized thru the efforts and sacrifices of the American comrades. Altho the Party has many newspapers in foreign languages, it could not expect to reach the great American working-class except thru the medium of an English Daily. ‘6 The issues confronting the Workers Party and the Amer- THE DAILY | DEFENSE COUNCIL STARTS DRIVE FOR RUTHENBEREG PLEA | Declaring that the splendid defense {of William Z. Foster and Charles E. | Ruthenberg in the Michigan Criminal |Syndicalism cases “resulted in the | strengthening of the working class and of the Party in particular,” the National Convention of the Workers |Party, held recently in Chicago, called upon all Labor militants to } j \ January 13, 1924 | All Hail “The Daily Worker” From ROBERT STEWART, Member of the Presidium, Communist International. It delights me to wish “The Daily Worker” success. It is the best and | biggest thing yet attempted by the Workers Party. It will meet a crying urgent need in “God’s own country”, where the power of the lie-manufactur- ing, news-distorting capitalist press is so colossal. It must and will, I am sure, strike a new note in American Daily Journalism. Communism needs its own newspapers and newspaper staff, but it must be a staff which is not detached from the life of the working class. “The Daily Worker” has a big task and that task must be spread over the mem-| bership of the Party in such a way ag will not only assure the success of the Daily, but build up the Party as well. The Daily Worker can and must be made the Daily organizer always, and everywhere at work for the Party. Its roots must be dug deep in factory, field, workshop and mine, It must become necessary to the worker as the air that he breathes. The worker must see himself and his struggle mirrored (not distorted) | in its pages. It will be the fighing leader in every struggle against capital- ist aggression. It will be the rallying-point in the fight against the treach- HEARS PORTLAND. DELEGATE REPORT A lively, tho brief discussion took place at the last meeting of the Chi- cago Federation of Labor when Frank MeVey, the central body’s delegate to the Portland convention of the Amer- ican Federation of, Labor, made his report. Delegate Jack Johnstone, speaking on the report expressed the view that erous yellow leadership of the Gompers fraternity. Fierce and violent struggles lie ahead of the Workers Party of America. |rally to the support of the Labor. De- |fense Council. This unqualiified en- dorsement comes &t a time when the Council is launching upon a campaign to raise funds for the Ruthenberg ap- peal. At its offices in the Federation U.S. prosperity is once more on the decline, and a declining capitalism always breeds greater ruthlessness on the part of the boss. The Daily Worker will be a sharp weapon in the fight for Communism in America and its speedy success will bring a great intelligent body of readers, a powerful Workers Party with a growing organized Communist militancy into the fight against the centre and citadel of World Capitalism: the United States of America. the Portland convention did not re- ‘present the sentiment of the Ameri- can labor movement on such questions as Amalgamation, ite labor party and recognition of Soviet Russia. He commended the Federated Press which was denounced by Gompers as biased in favor of radical propaganda as an important news service. Building, 166 West Washington St., Chicago, there is an atmosphere of bustle and expectation, By its persistent campaigns, the Labor Defense Council has been able jean workers and farmers are so great that THE DAILY| WORKER must be¢ome a power. It must become the expres- sion of all the oppressed workers and the rebellious farmers in | the country. It must be the leader in the struggle against Amer- | William Quesse, President of the | Flat Janitors’ Union, addressed the ‘body and solicited support for his \organization whose officials are sen- tenced to indeterminate ‘sentences of from one to five years imprisonment; and price of books, Mail Orders given Prompt Attention: Address: BOOK DEPARTMENT The Oldest to the Youngest. ‘ The Daily Worker is the happy re- cipient of a warm message of greet- ings from the editor “of another one of our Communist daily newspape 3 BANKERS SEEK va Workers Party of America 1009 N. STATE STREET CHICAGO, ILL. HELLO! DAILY WORKER We Are Darn Glad to See You! THE NORTH-WEST ENGLISH BRANCH Workers Party of Chicago. Workers Party, Local Utica, New York, Sends Greetings to the First ., English Language Communist Daily. To the Saami, | EOLTACe DAILY WORKER You have well come to help us and others in making the world safe for the workers. TYOMIES SOCIETY, Superior Wisconsin. ican capitalism, which is consolidating its forces for fresh as- saults on the working-class. It must rally to its banner the revolutionary. farmers, who thruout American history have fought for their rights. THE DAILY WORKER must take up the struggle in the trade unions and force the reactionary union officials to fight for the interests of the workers and against their further de- tgradation. It must fight against the open shop drive, which the | American employers will soon renew with increased vigor. It must unceasingly demand the freedom of the press, speech and |assemblage. It must fight for the protection of the youth of the country and against the exploitation of child labor, which is a disgrace to the American workers. It must mobilize the women and mothers of the working-class of America against the shame- ful robbery of their toil and that of their children. It must con- duct an unremitting struggle agdinst the capitalist press, which jis a powerful weapon in the hands of the employers. It must expose the sham of the church, which is a tremendous force in America. It must unflinchingly raise the flag of the class strug- gle on the economic and political field and rally the workers and farmers to the struggle for the overthrow of capitalism and the establishment of a WORKERS AND FARMERS GOVERN- MENT in the United States. THE DAILY WORKER must mobilize the working-class of America against the new pians of American Imperialism. After gaining the hegemony of America by intrigue, plot and military intervention, American Imperialism has turned its face to China, which soon will feel the power of American gold and American arms. Europe is to be the next victim: Germany, bleeding and broken, her workers impoverished and enslaved, is to be reduced to a wheel in the big American machine of plunder. The ‘Workers Party and THE DAILY WORKER must call on the American workers and farmers to. prevent this sav- age act. For in the background stands Soviet Russia, which American Imperialism once more would attack in the foolish a fact that today the Soviet Power -is ime pregnable. THE DAILY WORKER must be the organ of the whole membership of the Party. Every Comrade must work for it. He must take it ‘into the factories and mines. He must furnish it with the news o: the daily srtuggles and the life in the shops. The workers and farmers of America must feel that the COM- MUNIST DAILY WORKER does not fear to tell the truth and to fight for the interests of the producers, despite the will of the oligarchy of Wall Street. ALL SUCCESS TO THE DAILY WORKER! MAY ITS POWER GROW TILL IT BECOMES A GIANT RANGED BESIDE THE MIGHTY ‘ORGANS. OF THE COMMUNIST PARTIES OF SOVIET RUSSIA, GERMANY AND FRANCE! With Communist greetings, Fraternally, Executive Committee of the Communist International. ‘Report the Little Entente Plans to Recognize Soviet LONDON — Information that the | little entente has decided to recognize | Soviet Russia has been received from |the Greek Government. Detailed | plans for recognition and relations | with the Soviet government have been worked out by M. Girsa, Czech under secretary of foreign affairs and M. Nintchitch, foreign minister of Jugo-Slavia, The entire matter was submitted to the little entente conference re- cently held in Belgrade. It is believed that this step on the part of the little entente will be used to advantage by the U. S. Senators now. favoring recognition of Russia by the United States, Wells on the Labor Party. LONDON.—The anxie! of the Labor Party to get into ‘e will re- sult “ th “getting aaa ey pe not into »” according to Wells, ‘they will ut their to save 32 staunch fighters of the, working class from prison. But. it has done much more than this. It has carried on a defense which was jat the same, time an attack, making use of the Michigan emergency +o |create a united front of labor against into ‘effect | HIND Liberal PEAL, Jed to comngronnias the vicious agents of the employers, Raised Large Sum Organized scarcely a year and a jhalf ago, the Council ‘has raised close to $100,000 for the defense of the accused Communists Over 90 per cent of this money was contributed by working people, in small amounts. What is this Labor Defense Coun- cil that is defending the Communists? It is not a Communist organization, but a non-partisan body endorsed by {the Detroit Federation of Labor, the Minneapolis Trades and Labor As- sembly, the Milwaukee Trades Coun- cil, the Butte Trades and Labor Council, and various other central labor federations. At its head ig Robert M. Buck, editor of the New | Majority. official organ of the Chi- jeago Federation of fabor. Eugene V. Debs and Rev. John A, Ryan, D. D.. are vice-chairman. Others on its national committee are Rogers N, Raldwin. director of the Civil Liber- ties Union; J. G. Brown, netional secretary of the.Farmer-Labor Party; John Havnes Holmes, of, the Com- munity church, New York; Max S. Hayes, nationally known leader of the Tynographical Union, and Hulet M. Wells, of the Seattle Central La- bor Union. The Famous Raid The resolution just adopted by the Workers Party recalls vividly to mind the famous Michigan labor on the convention of the Com- munist Party of America near Bridg- man, in August of the preceding year. The trials were among the most spectacular in American labor history. Foster and Ruthenberg were the central figures, and they refused to budge an inch from their principles. ‘ But the real reason for the raid was that the Communists had been taking a prominent part in the strug- gle of the workers against the capi- talist “open shop” drive. The coal miners’ strike and the railroad shop- men’s strike were being fought out at the time, and Spolansky himself declared to some of the defendants later on that if these strikes had’ not | been in progress the convention would probably not have been raided. The trial of William Z, Foster be- gan March 12, before a jury con- sisting of nine farmers, one grocery clerk, one non-union railroad man and one housewife, whose husband is a factory superintendent. No per- son was allowed on the jury by the prosecution unless he first said under oath that he believed the “criminal syndicalist” law of Michigan was a good law and should be enforced. Notwithstanding innumerable ob- stacles placed in the path of the de- fense, Foster was not convicted. The jury divided, six and six, In the Ruthenberg trial, which came next, the prosecutors had a more favorable opportunity. Ruth- enberg was admittedly a member of the Communist Party. His convie- tion was secured by an appeal to the prejudice of a hand picked jury. Basis of Appeal An appeal is now being taken in the Ruthenberg case. The outstand- ing point in the appeal is that noth- ing illegal happened in the state of Michigan, and that its criminal syndi- calism law could not apply to the formation of an ctgaiieenen in an- other state where fo such law exists. If the appeal is won, it is extremely unlikely that the other Communists indicted with Foster and Ruthen- berg will ever be by it to trial. Tf it is lost, the final decision will be in the hands of the United States Supreme Court. The Ruthenberg appeal thus becomes the cornerstone of the whole defense in the Michigan cases, In view of this central fact, the Labor Defense Council, which is bad- ly in need of funds now, is carrying on.a Ruthenberg Appeal Drive to se- cure money to meet the expenses of the appeal. Letters are being sent out to labor organizations, as well as to individuals inte; ing the suileoeeng find that they can-|!abor men. The THE R PROP FOR CHAOS SINKING EUROPE (Continued from Page 1) made the ,other day by the noted banker Bernard M. Baruch: “Until the reparations problem’ is settled abroad, there can be no return to the normal conditions of production and saving of which the world stands in need. The world is like a village of thatch-roofed cottages; one is afire, and we must all help put it out or have our houses burn too.” Fear German Revolt The presence of the “Big Three” bankers in the Paris conferences marks a positive step towards open American participation in European affairs. The gravity of the situation in Germany with its menace of work- ing class revolt constantly looming up has_ forced America’s hand. Tho Coolidge has not officially appointed the three delegates, he has approved of their nomination by the Repara- tions Commission and has co-operated with them. This re-entry of the United States into the European conclaves is a pre- lude to more serious and complicated entanglements. - The “Big Three” who have arrogated to themselves, with the President’s approval, the right to speak for millions of workers and farmers are notorious open-shop- pers and have only their own capital- ist class interest at heart. In the whole affair we have the voice of Coolidge but the thand of Morgan. The President ‘says his soft diploma- tic “yes” and Morgan does the hard financial wire-pulling and. manipulat- ing. Create Basis of New Wars The Paris conferences have in store for the German workers economically only what the Versailles-sessions have brought to them politically—enslave- ment. Today, Wall Street, thru the White House, is sending over three bankers to help save European capi- talism from ruin by increasing and strengthening America’s hold on Europe’s finance and jndustry. To- morrow millions of workers and farm- ers will be rushed by Wall Street, thru. the White House, to be maimed and killed on the battlefields of France and Flanders in order to en- force the arrangements made by Brigadier General Dawes and the Colonels Young and Robinson, and to protect the European investments of our capitalists. Comrades from the Scan- dinavian Branch, Karl Marx, Workers Party, Chicago; send fraternal greetings to the Daily Worker. Hans A. Pedersen Th. Laursen Ewald Johnson H. P. Klaussen Daniel Christensen P. K. Aenbole N. F. Holm N. J. Christensen Jens Olson Julia Pedersen A. Andrews Hans Arnesen Nick Bull E. G. Bergolln G. Christoffersen Ejnar Carlsen : J. A. Fenstad C. L. Hansen Harold Holter Martin Juul Claus Nicoll Ed. Patterson Marius Rod Th. Roed P. Nielsen Mrs. Doris Menne Our Communist press is growing be- cause it holds together, because the editors of our Communist press work | hand in hand, The message of Lud-} wig Lore, editor of the New York/ Volkszeitung is no empty formality, | it is a promise of cooperation and) for alleged conspiracy to boycott.) Assistance was promised. O. L. Stanley, .Prefident of the Lake County Central Labor Union, was given the floor and stated that | Frawk Fowler, President of the Milk Producers’ Association desired to af+ no and we are happy to print it be- \filiate his association with the Ameri- ican Federation of Labor and join | hands with the milk drivers’ and milk handlers’ unions against the big dis- tributing companies, Negotations to- wards that end are proceeding. A motion to assist the movement for German relief was carried un- animously. i New York, N. Y., Jan. 6, 1924. Daily Worker, 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago. Oldest working class paper in U. S.| sends to its youngest brother warmest | greetings and heartiest wishes for long, successful, healthy life. May Hughes continue to act as press agent for you and Daugherty help you by his enmity to show American workers how much they fear influence of Communist movement, May your shadow never grow less. New Yorker Volkszeitung, Ludwig Lore, editor. Don’t be a “Yes, “But,” supporte; of The Daily Worker. Send in your sub- scription at once, Watch the “Daily Worker” for the} first instalment of “A Week”, the) great epic of the Russian revolution. by the brilliant young Russian writer, Iury Libedinsky. It will start soon. Fight Convict Labor System. CEDAR RAPIDS, Ia.—The Cedar Rapids Federation of Labor has urg- ed the abolition of the convict labor system: which it declares permits the existence of industrial. slavery worse than the slavery in the south 75 years ago. ~ GREETINGS May Your Gospel Lead to Success For Our Ultimate Goal Samuel F. 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