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— Slightest evidence produced to show January 24, 1924 THE DAILY WORKE COMPANY UNION | What Congress Wants to Do|SE IN RHGDE ISLAND PUT ON SHELF Schemes of Crompton Company Defeated {Special to The Daily Worker) ARCTIC, I.—“Industrial dem- oeracy” as interpreted by employers has met decisive defeat at the hands of unionism in the village of C>omp- ton, near here. The Crompton Com- pany, manufacturers of velvets and corduroys, employing about eleven hundred workers, after a running fight with the Amalgamated Textile Workers of America lasting six months, has given up its attempt to establish, the company union in its mills. John Leach, @ professional promo- ter of the scheme which embodies a sort of replica on a shop scale of the federal government of the United th States, who has been on the payroll of the Crompton Company for about six months, has been dismissed. He had held several meetings of the em- ployes at which he attempted to have them vote in favor of the plan, but each time he was defeated. Late last fall a committee of work- ers was picked to visit certain plants said to be working under this scheme and they made a trip at the com- pany’s expense. Despite the fact that the company made much of theiz reports the workers again turned down the industrial democracy plan. Local Pawtuxet Valley, Amalga- mated Textile Workers, issued a se- ries of leaflets against the sclyeme, the main argument being that it was nothing but a i Sol union, which would be controlled by the bosses and their pets; that if the company really wished to deal fairly with the workers it would recognize the union. About 90 per cent of the Crompton workers are members of the local, with headquarters at Arctic. During the past two ‘months the Company has twice charged that workers employed in the plant were practicing sabotage. The first oc- casion was when.a worker cut a piece of cloth, according to mill_ offi- cials, and the second when a chunk of tar was found in a copper mix- ing kettle in the dye house. William H. Derrick, general organ- izer for the Amalgamated, who is in charge in the Pawtuxet Valley, de- clares that the charges are utterly unfounded, and that the company is merely trying to get the workers sus- poise of one another. Union mem- ers point out that the finding of the chunk of tar by the foreman be- ‘fore any damage was done, coupled with the fact that there is not the that a worker was responsible for placing it there, would tend to indi- cate that some over-zealous boss had “done some detective work.” ’ “We regret to see the Crompton Company taking the attitude of fight- ing its workers,” said Organizer Der- va, “The Amalgamated Textile Workers is ready at any time to confer with the company and arrive at satisfactory means of adjusting everything that is of mutual concern to the firm and workers. A reason- ably friendly attitude toward the workers, who are determined to maintain their own union, would smooth out nine-tenths of the diffi- culties now confronting the manage- ment of the Crompton mills. We realize it is hard for textile manu- facturers to assume such an attitude, as they have been little czars too long, Be the Crompton Company officials would display good business sense in addition to humane senti- ment if they would get over the old | habit of thinking of themselves as feudal lords or slave owners.” Don’t be a “Yes, But,” supporter of The Daily Worker. Send in your sub- scription at once. Telephore Diversey 5129 | ED. GARBER j QUALITY SHOES For Men, Women and Children 2427 LINCOLN AVENUE i Near Halsted and Fullerton Ave. CHICAGO { AN RELIEF FOR WORKERS’ GERMANY Ashland Auditorium Van Buren St. and Ashland Ave. Sunday, January ———-SPEAKERS——_ Prof. Robert Morse Lovett, Max Selinsky, of the Journey- men Tailors’ Union, Albert Hearst's Unofficial Congressional Commission for Investi- gation of Soviet Russia, Jas. P. ers Party, Max Bedacht, Editor Soviet Russia Pictorial. Freiheit Singing Séciety and Film—“RUSSIA AND GERMANY” All Proceeds Go for the Relief of Workers in Germany, ADMISSION rat Pi Weeandomaraey aie un ea MASS MEETING FOR RECOGNITION OF SOVIET RUSSIA Auspices Friends of Soviet Russia'and Workers’ Germany. E LEFKOWITZ With Foreign-Born Workers} HOWLING WITH NOTE:—This is the second of a series of articles which the DAILY WORKER will publish on the laws which are now pending before Congress, directed against foreign- ‘horn workers who wish to come to this country and those in this country. By C, E, RUTHENBERG House Bill No, 639, introduced Pa., is more frank in its provisions by Representative Philips, of Butler, for safeguarding the employing class of this country against workers of trade union or radical tendencies. While the bill introdweed by Representative Raker, merely gives the Secretary of Labor the right to prescribe the information which the immigrant must give, Representative Philips fr: ankly tells what. the employing class desires to know about the immigrants before permission is granted to come to this country. The Philips bill makes it discretionary on the part of the Commissioner-General of Immi- gration as to whether any particular immigrant shall be permitted to come to this country and instructs that the Commissioner-General shall take into consideration the physical condition, the mental capacity, the moral quali- fications of the applicant and also the ony, of the applicant as a resi dent or citizen of the United Sta from a social, economic and indus- trial viewpoint. i There we have the real réason for e avalanche of bills against the foreign-born workers, The employ- ing class for which Congress is act- ing is very much concerned about the social, economic and industrial view- point of immigrants who May want to come to the United States. They want te bar all those who are in any way antagonistic to their specially | $20. privileged position and who may be- come part of a labor movement Fght. ing for a higher standing of a labor Movement, fighting for a higher standard of living for the workers of this country. Under the provisions of this law, not a single European worker who believes in trade unionism, who has any radical political views, or the slightest inclination to fight against the capitalist system in any form will get into the United States. In other words, thé employing class wants to bring to the United States only those workers who will be fit to become part of an army of coolie labor that will never have the spirit to rebel against the oppression and Bo dace to which these workers | will be subjected. Making Money Out of Immigration The Philips bill, in addition to what has been outlined above, makes provision for the United States to make the nice little sum of $10,000,- 000 annua‘ly out of immigrant work- ers. The bill provides that not more than 500,000 immi, permitted to enter this country each year and that each immigrant shall pay at the time of making his appli- cation, a fee of $20. If the immi- grant is denied permission to enter the United States, the government “generously” returns 50% of the ap- plication fee, but should he come to this country, it will cost him the full 20, . Another provision of the Philips bill is that the Commissioner-Gen- eral of Immigration shall “take into consideration the then industrial conditions in the United States” in determining the number of immi- grants who are to be admitted in any one year, This is another clever pro- vision making it possible for thé! employers to secure workers when they need them and to keep them away when they have no need for an additional labor supply. Of course, one of the times when the employers need labor badly is when there is a gteat strike on, such as a miners’ strike, involving a half million work- ers, UNIpT cuit a A ‘ants shall be), ANTI-HYLANITES Would Use Teachers’ Union as Catspaw (Special to The NEW . YORK CITY.—A few days ago, Abraham Lefkowitz, the doughty leader of the so-called Amer- ican Labor Party, and delegate of Teachers’ Union, Local. 5, introduced a resolution in the New York Cen- tral Trades and Labor Council, con- demning the efforts on the part of Politiciang to control the city school system, and demanding an investi- gation, Thig is the same cry that is being taised by. the Republican Party and the entire Anti-Hylan crowd. In other words Lefkowitz is using the ‘eachers’ Union as a catspaw for the dirty work of the politicians who demand a finger in the rich pie of patronage, who want the public schools controlled not by the Hylan epterie, but by themselves. _ Here was an excellent opportun- ity to introduce the idea of the ne- cessity for independent political gc- tion on the part of labor, The work- ers are vitally interested in the Schools. They want their children to be properly educated. Instead of pointing out therefore, that the ap- pointment of policy-making officials must of necessity involve politics, that the school system is but part of the machine of patronage neces- Sary to strengthen the power of the city politicians, and that therefore the workers must establish their own political party to secure political control of the schools, Lefkowitz, a teacher of history and economics, ostensibly a profound student of the labor movement and an advocate of independent political action, naively points out that we must protest Worker) ita n 2 THE MEANING OF COMMUNIST OBJECT LESSONS. Article No. 6 The Junior Groups require in their communist education neither bulky tomes nor “pedagogic systems’. .Our grist book which lies open vefore us is the crumbling capitalist social system. A working class teacher— and especially a communist teacher --needs one particular qualification— the power to observe and to under- stand what he observes. Learn to seg! Learn to hear. These are the mottoes of the leaders of the Junior Groups. And for their methods— these consist in. inducing the children to express what arises in their own unnds from what they themselves see and hear. Every shop window, eve- ry pedestrian on the street—rich and poor—his walk, his elothing, the men who push barrows and the men who ride in Rolls-Royces, the rail- toads—day coaches and pullmans— and the people who ride in them, the factories with their overseers and their workers, the barracks, soldiers and officers, the slum districts and tit fashionable parts ef the city— evuything in life reflects the pres- ent eharacter of the social system.! Everything reflects the privileges of! the possessing class and that clas- sical statement of the bible: “Te him that hath shali be given”. These are all inexhaustible sources of commun- ist teaching. How mi workers continue to go thru life with closed eyes and ears! The eyes of our children must see everything, their ears hear every- thing. For example: We are walking along the street with the children, At a corner standsa beggar, perhaps Pe Poe r—a war hero, an ef- soldier, decorated with a badge of honor. The children will be aston- ished that this man, who fought “for God, Democracy and Country,” must stand and beg for a living. We dis- cuss with them the world war. We tell them why it was fought, and for whom. r “hero” must beg while the rich. profiteers who were never in the trenches ride in ate answered, We do not Se them ready made answers. We lead them ous things. There is a class feeling in all jchildren. They all know that they | suffer under the conditions of their life, and that suffices for the begin- ning. They are brought into the idlass struggle not, thru any super- |imposed theories, but. thru,, actuali- ties. Thus we neither “teach” them Teady made lessons—we only lead ;come communists of their own a cord. For children can be commu jists!, The distribution of their paper, the “Young Comrade”, among other children is communist propaganda— sometimes even a militant activity. There are instances in the Public Schools where the existence of hos- Communism into the working class | families. They arouse ‘and inspire j their parents. They become the |The child—far more than the adult vote itself fully and without reserva- tion to a cause and on all occa: | favorable alike. | The leaders of the Junior Grou favorable and tin- children, of all the old discussions of “pede- gogic methods”. children. then, mean?) does communist Gompers Hears Borah Rout Foes of Soviets’ Rule WASHINGTON, D. * C.—Samuel great automobiles. ,Gompers and Chester Wright, the themsel: Publicity engineer of his anti-red bp aainn igen Be crusades, have been attending all the ‘en they 27th, 8:15 P. M. Johnson, member of the Chairman ‘Work- other entertaining features. 25 CENTS ; Senate Foreign Relation subcommit- tee Lean where Senator Borah is gaits ¢ foes of Russian recog? Borah’s demand that the State De- Parone furnish the “confidential” information which Robert E. Kelly, its Bolsheviki expert says it bases om itr. Compe eke aly “eclasee rr. that he has “tra sources I don’t want secret informa’ myself.” Borah foreed Kelly to admit that lives would be imperiled by the State Department's ‘es of the sources of such information, wich Key tentfekto “eas Cie iy, Borah decaed' thet te’ Genter to look for the causes of these - Communism or ask them to learn|$ and inspire them so that they be- ‘ tile forces is brought to their ob-|% servation and experience. They carry|% teachers of their brothers and sisters.| #% --has force and energy enough to de-| 3% to agitate for it! Not only the lead-| 42 ers, but all of us can learn from the| #¥ (Watch for Article No. 7 “What,|$4 education | 3% ot the use of polities in the schools. We can ascribe such tactics to but one of two causes—ignorance or insincerity. Russia Trades With Persia. MOSCOW.—A number of new large deals have been concluded with Persian merchants in Russian Sugar and paper to be exported to Persia. The Russo-Oriental Cham- ber of Commerce intends to export to Persia one and a half million poocs of sugar, which is 30 per cent of the prewar, exports of sugar from Russia into Persia, Watch the “Daily Worker” for the first installment of “A Week,” the great epic of the Russian revolution, by the brilliant young Russian writer, R Page Five | Youth Views By HARRY GANNES Children Write This Paper, Can little children write their own paper? The YOUNG COMRADE, issued by the Jurior Section of the Young Workers League of America, proves as much. For instance, glance over the February issue just out. It is a small paper, eight pages, yet more than half of it is written hy workers’ children 10, 11, 12 and 13 years of age. One of the kids writes an article on reform schools; and who can best feel and under- stand the brutality of these exclusive capitalist institutions than those af- fected by them—the children? Suf- fering is mainly a subjective con- dition. If we could get the child laborers to express themselves, even if in erude letters and articles, you would have some bitter human docu- ments of brutal degradation. We have heard too much about “educating” children. The YOUNG COMRADE is ‘an attempt to get away from the accepted idea of merely educating the children in es- tablished dogmas, long-continued ser- vility, A worker’s child is a rebel without any education. However, the proper systematic class education of the child, is a most necessary stop. Hig conditions of life, properly inter- preted, are enough to stamp him an enemy of capitalism. “Education thru observation of the class strug- gle and life,’ is the slogan of the Communist Children’s groups, and that is the idea behind the YOUNG COMRADE. } Tho only a fev months in oxist- ence, the YOUNG COMRADE has leaped to a 6,000 circulation, and is growing daily. The children of the working-class heave Leen neglected; we pay the proper attention to the trade vnions, polilical parties; and such things are necessary. But no Communist movement can overlook the millions of kiddies brought up in environments of misery and suffer- ing and not use this potential mass of future wage slaves in the interest of their own emancipation. Then, too, a child in the hands of some capitalist teacher is a future soldier against the working class, Workers Die in Wreck. ALIQUIPPA, Pa.—Three men were killed when the boiler of a locomotive on a Pittsburgh and Lake Erie pas- senget train exploded here today. The dead: George Clark, engineer, of McKees Rock; Urban Kuechler, fireman, and Jesse R. Meade, roa foreman engineer. He’s No High Financier. 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LYONS, France.—‘Behind Mac- Donald, Asquith will rule,” declared Walter Newbold at a Communist convention here, presided over by Mareel Cachin. “The old Lloyd George policy will continue,” he continued, “recognition of the Soviets being merely a conces- sion to necessity rather than a mark of respect to the Labor regime.” “The first social erisis in England will show that the Labor Party, in coalition with the Liberals, is in- capable of satisfying the demands of the British proletariat.” ** Form a Group of Five To THE DAILY WORKER: We a group of five readers of the DAILY | WORKER, are in favor that the in- | stallments of “A WEEK” should be printed daily. The reason is that if it be printed daily the readers will more tly purchase the DAILY WORKER. — Signed: Jaques D. Spiegel, Alex Spiegel, David Korn, Frank Ohns and Philip Siper. eee & To The Daily Worker:—The Daily is well taken by all—J. E. Snyder, Oklahoma City, Okla, Get unity thru the Labor Party! 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