The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 7, 1924, Page 4

\ Page Four THE DAILY WORKER BUFFALO LABOR CLOSES RANKS AT LENIN MEETING All Factions Unite in Leader’s Honor (Special to The Daily Worker) BUFFALO, N. Y.—The Workers Party, Socialist Party, Proletarian Party, Buffalo Labor’ Party, and Workmen’s Circle groups joined ranks here in a Memorial for Lenin, bringing out an audience that crowd- ed the auditorium of the Labor Lyceum. Orators representing va- rious shades of political opinion put aside their differences. All spoke in praise of the great revolutionary leader, and the audience sang the “Red Flag” enthusiastically. Eustace Reynolds spoke briefly on the deep impression Lenin’s death had made on the world. C. M. O’Brien of Rochester fol- lowed, declaring: “The men who conceived and brought to fruitition the Russian revolution were gifted with the highest standard of intel- ligence known to have been pos- sessed by any set of men in similar position.” Of these men, according to the speaker, “Lenin was the most brilliant and the most astute.” Pat Quinlan, editor of The New Age of Buffalo, spokesman for the Socialist Party, described Lenin in action as he had seen him in Russia. Kirkpatrick Indicts Capitalists A powerful indictment of the capitalist governments of the world in their persecution of the work- men’s republic of Russia, was made by George R. Kirkpatrick, vice presidential candidate of the So- cialist Party in 1916. He expressed his admiration of the splendid pro. Jetarian leadership of Lenin, and Said: “Up to date, Lenin and his |©o-operators have accomplished the biggest single job in the political affairs of mankind.” Rudolph Katz of Buffalo, speak- ing for the Workers’ Party, said: “We are not here to mourn, but to gather new courage and inspira- tion to carry on the great work for which Lenin lived, and for which he died. Lenin was of the working class, and, tho men of great intel- lectual capacity have appeared be- fore among the workers, they have nearly always used.their powers to further the interests of the op- pressors. We are not hero wor- shippers, but we recognize that men like Lenin are entitled to the re- spect and admiration of mankind. During the life of Lenin the cap- italist press maligned him, but now they fill their columns with belated praise. seep Quotes From Lenin “As Lenin himself wrote in "The State of Revolution, ‘During the tifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes invariably have meted out to them relentless perse- cution, and have received their teachings with the most savage hos- tility, with most furious hatred, and qith a ruthless campaign of lies and slanders. After their death, however, attempts are usually made to turn them into harmless saints, canonizing them, as it were, invest- ing their names with a certain halo by way of ‘consolation’ to the oppressed classes, with the object of duping them; while at the same time emasculating and degrading the real essence of their revolu- tionary theories, blunting their revolutionary edge.” Appeal To funds to feed the starving children of Germany was made by Frank Herzog of Buffalo, and met with generous response. How many of your shop-mates read ‘THE DAILY WORKER. Get one of them to subscribe today. THE DAILY WORKER ON NORTH AVENUE Discussion in the Scandinavian Karl Marx Branch Thursday, Feb. 7th, 8 P. M. at FOLKETS HUS, 2733 Hirsch Boulevard. Comrade Engdahl, Editor of the Daily Worker will speak. German Seamen Continue Strike in Ports of Br itish Isles with 75 Ships and 1,200 Men Idle (Special te The Daily Worker) By GEORGE HARDY. LONDON.—German seame: of the British Isles. cording to latest reports, 1,200 n are still on strike in the ports Over 75 ships are tied up, involving, ac- men. The strike is now in its third week and the seamen are as firm as ever in their stand for a wage commensurate with They are asking for Britis! the necessities of life. hh rates of pay. They are de- termined to save their wives and families from the starvation and misery now prevailing at home. In order to understand this strike we must know something of the struggle of the workers since the Armistice. It was the seamen who con- tributed marvelously to the German revolution in 1918. The sailors of Kiel revolted and in all the ports they were in the fore- front, which made the Weimer.con- stitution possible. But since then they have always been betrayed by the Social Democrats. Noske at the very start established his policy which has characterized the rule of Social Democracy and the bureau- eracy of central trade unions ever since, He congratulated them at Kiel upon their achievements in saving the revolution, which kept him and his colleagues in power during the Kapp Putsch, but when they contin- ued to fight to make a complete working class revolution, he replied with machine guns the very next day. The history of the last five years is one of bloody suppression. Last Year the Worst. The last year has been the worst for the German seamen since they helped to dethrone the Kaiser. The rapid decline of the mark has affected seamen most, as they re- ceived their wages upon returning to the home port. Sailors who were away on a three months’ voyage had not enough to even buy one loaf of bread. And even with the established rate at the time of signing, their wages were below that of the Chi- nese many times. Despite these facts, the leaders of the reactionary unions refused to make common cause when the Deutsche Shiffahrts- bund—the German Seamen’s Union —of the R. I. L, U. went on strike, and the seamerf were beaten back to their ships. Exasperated and desperate, in August they again revolted. The dockers and seamen struck, The roll of dead after three days strug- gie left its mark upon the memo- ries of starving women and consump- tive children. The Hamburg State in contatol of Social Democrats; and their blood-thirsty chief of police was responsible for the dea’ of our German fellow workers. A slight increase in wages was given, but the continued fall of the mark had taken it away in a few days. Then the sailors’ wives must stand. around the shops with empty bas- kets. Prices had risen, their money owas valueless. Again the familiar phrases were heard everywhere: “Keine Brot! Keine Kartoffel!” (No bread! No potatoes!) The union offices invaded by aang 2 women asking for aid for their children. Again Forced to Revolt. This went on and on. Until again in October the workers were forced to revolt. Cuno’s government had fallen in August and Stresseman’s rule had produced nothing better. The vacillating poliay of the Social) Democrats had paved the way for ultimately, their complete elimina- tion from the government. The suf- fering was unendurable and bread prices rose in one day from 35 to| 450 millard marks. The last week) in October, a culmination to their| suffering, found the workers of} Hamburg behind the fighting a desperate battle cally with 67 dead and many wound-| ed, but not until they had inflicted great losses upon the forces of Capital, The, outcome of all this is: the seamen have been forced to take action outside of Germany, The white guards of Noske are impotent when the sailors take international action, They have found another|the R. place to strike in, where the bullets of the Reichwehr and Green Police cannot be used against them. Contrary to the statements made for| called “traitors” and bread. They lost the battle physi-| and “tools in the hands of an ene- tional Sailors’ and Firemen’s Union called the men out, the sailors arrived at their decision thru cir- cumstances entirely German. ‘They contemplated intermittently striktig at foreign ports, to escape the con- ditions cited. And the British ship- ping Federation indicates clearly that they regard the strike as a dangerous precedent. In this method of striking, they see a danger, that will probably lead to similar ac- tion on the part of British seamen. It is against all maritime law in- ternationally, and, as they say: “in- volves a repudiation of legally bind, ing contracts.” They were willing to harass German shipping, but now the strike assumes larger propor- tions they line up on the side of the German shipowners—they are} internationalists when dealing with labor. Try to Cut Wages. Everywhere the shipowners are attempting to nibble down wages. And Inchape Ellermann and Pirries, ete., use the fact that German wages are only 2 pounds 18 shillings a month to justify another slash into British seamen’s rates. “We can- not compete internationally” is their cry. Recently, Lord Inchape said, “If we are to keep our ships at sea and cover our working expenses, it may be necessary to make further reductions.” But he also stated to the shareholders’ meeting, “We are able to suggest a payment of 12 per cent free of income tax, as we did a year ago.” They will fight the seamen and dockers because! they are not satisfied making mil- lions of pounds. They desire to have us work under similar con- ditions to the Germans. But there is an indication that class consciousness is on the in- crease, The dockers at the Victoria and Surrey commercial docks struck in aid of the German seamen, They resumed work on condition that the consul and the brokers summon the German owners to negotiate. The owners refused. But the representa- tives of the strikers, who were sent! for from Hamburg, after touring [’ British ports, report that the men are standing firm and are deter- mined to win. Their demands for 9 pounds per month should insure the support of all the workers of Britain. The internationalization of seamen’s wages -has long _ engaged the attention of progressive sea- men. And because .both the lp ternational Transport Workers Fed- eration and the Red International of Labor Unions have decided upon this in international congress, the strikers have their support. Also, this is an international class fight with the shipowners. British Arrange Meetings. The British Bureau of the Red International Labor Unions is arrang- ing meetings in aid of the strikers, families, and all workers every- where should rally and give their whole-hearted support. The prin- ciple of international solidarity, for once should be realized among sea- men. Not only because British rates are menaced as long as the slave conditions remain, in German ships, but as a signal for an in- ternational union among seamen. Just as the strikers in Britain are always called traitors, etc., the iron- ieal German press states that the (" February 7, 1924 MINING HAZARD GREATER INU, S, THAN INENGLAND Profits More Concern Here Than Life That the work of a coal miner in America is considerably more danger- ous than similar work in England is the conclusion reached by J. T. Ryan, vice president of the Mine Safety Appliance Company of Pittsburgh, who has recently made a study of mining conditions in the British Isles. The inspection department of the English mines is composed of effi- cient and well paid men with power is ose its decrees, THe salary of| 93 ritish mine inspectors is double that of American mining inspectors. Such rH Back ae Guy, auven: ih por tragedies as the mine fatality in Bridge and Struct. Iron Wkrs., District Johnston City, woulé result in a Council, 738 W. Medison St. summary chopping of political heads Hy Aesintai ritar ARuinted iia should the neghgence that was dis- ters, 1440 Emma St. Played in the Ilinois mine be proved Carpenters, South Chi., 11037 Michigan against a British coal mining com- Your Union Meeting | Every local listed in the official di- rectory of the CHICAGO FEDERA- TiON OF LABOR will be published under this head on day of meeting free of charge for the first month, afterwards our rate will be as fol- lows: _ Monthly meeting—$3 a year one line once a month, each additional line, 15¢ an issue, Semi-monthly meetings — $5 a year one line published two times issue, Weekly meetings—$7.50 a year one line a week, earh additional line 10c an issue. FIRST THURSDAY, Feb. 7th Name of Local and Place of Meeting. Allied Printing Trades Council, 59 | E. Van Buren St, 6:30 p. m, Amal, Clothing Werkers, 409 §. Hal- sted St. Boiler Makers, 2040 W. North Ave. Boot and Shoe, 1939 Milwaukee Ave. Boot and Shoe Wkrs., 10258 Michigan, No. Ave, ee 504 Carpenters, Ogden and Kedzle, pany. 2103 Carpenters, 758 W. North Ave. Indianapolis Neglected Miners | 1° Pung, Clerks, 431 8, Dearborn Bt, _At the miners” convention in In-| 134 Electricians, 1507 Ogden Ave, dianapolis which just terminated the | 7?§ Electricians, 7475 Dante Ave. Engineers, 9223 Houston Ave. Field Assessors, Victoria Hotel. Firemen and Enginemen, 38th and Campbell Sts., 7:45 p. m. Bed Carriers, South Chi, 3101 E, 924 officials of that organization devoted much time to denounc‘ng the radi- cals and very little to the important question of working conditions under which heading the most important is| 25 the question of safety, bed . The following is en excerpt: trom 18 Ladies’ Garment Workers, 328 W. Van Janitors, 89 E, Van Buren St. Janitresses, City Hall, Hearing Room. Buren S| a statement made by Mr, Ryan: 54 Kadler cariecas Wkrs., 1214 N. Ash- ‘During 1921 there were employed yn ig ios at the mines in Great Britain a i ba a biden gaedewid beta, Treland, 1,156,938 men. Of this} 12 Leather Workers, ‘810 W. Harrison St. number, 924,629 worked under-| 288 Moulders, 119 S. Throop St. ground. Their underground acci- hae ee Ae dents were: : 871 Painters, Dutt’s Hall, Chicago Heights. Killed Injured] ,,? Pisne # Organ Wkre., 180° W. Wash, Explosions of _fire- $40 Punters, Moniee ena Prec ae damp or coal dust. 19 50 | 515 Railway Coreen, 1259 Cornell se Falls of ground... 983 81,047 | at falvar Ckmen (Rand Dre Ave aft accidents .... 590 :! ¥ Haulage accidents .. 170 17,524 HH Rativey Ga s, isi esate re Miscellaneous ...... 84 29,471 38 Signalmen, 6236 Princeton Ave. “In 1921 only nineteen men were eg Sites, ra Teiass, ibe cages killed by explosion of firedamp and Stage Employes, Masonic Temple, 10:30 coal dust. Ten deaths were caused er by naked lights, five by matches or Stone Cutters, 180 W. Washington St. smoking, one by shot-firing (flame of explosive), one by safety lamp in de- fective condition and four by mis- cellaneous and unknown causes. The same difficulty in determining what is a gaseous mine is encountesed there as here. Davy Safety Lamp Scrapped “The result of permitting the use of mixed light mines is shown by the above table, in which ten of the nineteen “explosion fatalities were electric—is much higher than in America, In 1920 there were 924,- 629 workers undergroud, and of these 635,127 were equipped with Teamsters, 9206 Houston Ave. Team: (Dairy), 220 S. Ashland, 0. Upholetere 2180 We Wes pholsterers, z 17616 Warehouse Emp., 166 W. "Wenig: (Note—Unless otherwise stated all meetings are at 8 p, m.) The Daily Worker for a month free to the first member of any local union sending in change of date or place of meeting of locals listed here. Please watch for your local and if not listed let us know, giving time | this daily announcement complete | and up to date. On Tuesday of every week we ex-] pect to print display announcements a month, each additional line 13¢ an}. yeere, POLICEMAN TURNS TABLES ON LEGION AT NIAGARA FALLS Cop They Called Puts (Special to The Daily Worker) NIAGARA. FALLS. — Legionaires failed to break up the Lenin Memo- rial meeting here because of the’tact and courage of the chairman who took them on in debate, instead of rough and tumble, and completel: routed them, And the cop thet called to close the meeting chased them out instead. The ex-service disrupters, a dozen strong, attended the Hippodrome Hall memorial meeting, which the Workers Party had organized and sat down together, with two secret service men at their sides, whisper- ing advice in their ears. A resolu- tion for the recognition of Soviet Russia brought them into action. | Legionaires Oppose Russ Recognition When the ex-service men voted against the resolution vociferously, there might be some misunderstand- ing, knowing that there were many foreign-speaking Socialists and Com- munists in the hall, so he called for a count of the vote. This same group voted in the negative again, where- upon they were challenged by the chairman, Peter Hansen, of Buffalo, to give a reason for their opposition. | They at first refused, but after Slot- kin made a second speech explaining the reasons why the United States! should recognize Soviet Russia, a hostile speaker of their number arose and hurled a rapid fire of questions, grounded on the flimsy lies of the capitalist press about the working class government of Russta. The spokesman was evidently quite sin- bait of the capitalists, hook, line and sinker, and after his questions had warmed him up a bit, he delivered himself of an impassioned speech of appeal to the audience to convince it of the errors of its ways. The audience laughed at him but Slotkin took the questions, one by one, and answered them out of his fund of knowledge of the meaning of coe munism, and its beginnings in Rus- sia, so that the Legionaires had not | a word of come-back to offer. Their} spokesman, in his Henry Dubb-like | way, contented himself with invec- tives about the wrong-doing of the “Reds” in trying to “undermine the government.” It was pointed out to | shim that ex-service men had very lit- and place of meeting so we can keep ‘tle for which to thank a govern- ‘ment that had sent them to France to lay down their lives, while at home it permitted Big Business to rob the nation wholesale, and when of local unions. Rates will be $1 an inch, 50c for half an inch card. Take this matter up in your next meeting. Your local should have a weekly dis- play card as well as the running an- flame safety lamps and 245,900 with electric safety lamps, or a total of 881,027 protected with closed lights. The electric lamps is replacing the flame lamp at the rate of about 30,- 000 per year, and the Davy safety lamp, still looked upon by some min- ing men in this country as a safe and efficient lamp, is no longer permitted in Great Britain, its native home. There are about 10,000 still in use in this country. . “The first definite regulations cov- ering rescue wark were made in 1913, amended in 1914 and extended by general regulation in 1920. Approved Rescue Apparatus. “Briefly, the requirements are that all coal mines and all oil shale mines shall have the protection of approved rescue apparatus and tramed bri- gades. Each mine may have its own individual rescue station; the num- ber of brigades is reguiatet by the number of employes. Or a group of companies may combine to form a central rescue station, the require- ments being that the central rescue Secretary of Postal Clerks Says He Wants to Get into Congress (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, Thomas F. Flaherty, secretary-treasurer of the National Federation of Postoffice Clerks, who came here 10 years ago from San Francisco to work for legislative measures to help the postal workers, is among the labor men who are candidates for the seat in Congress occupied from 1912 to 1922 by John I. Nolan and now held by Mrs. Nolan. He proposes that a conference of all candidates be held, with repre- sentatives of the entire labor move- ment of the San Francisco district, seamen after being starved and murdered, with their sisters driven barricades to the streets in despair, are now “disloyalists” my.” At the same time Se Fas- cist dictator raids the offices of the Deutsche Schiffahrtsbund and ren- ders this seamen’s union illegal be-~ cause of its international principles and international action. Strikes are on in American, Chil- fan and Australian ports, The Aus- tralian Seamen’s Union affiliated to . I. L. U., is supporting the strikers, British workers, especially seamen and dock workers, aid your struggling fellow workers, lest Lord Inchape makes good his threats. that British shipowners are sup- porting the strike and that the Na- total, 1,000 New Subscribers for TH Stand solid for international solid- arity. Will mark the beginning of one of the greatest campaigns ever conducted by the workers of Chicago FOR E DAILY WORKER By March 10th 1902 WEST DIVISION STREET ComMmeE TroniGHT: RUSSIAN TECHNICAL SCHOOL 1901 WEST DIVISION STREET Participate and Help Plan the Great Chicago Daily Worker Sub- Campaign—Valuable Prizes for the Individuals and Branches Who Secure the Greatest Number of New Subscriptions. y 7; 7 % 43 % 4 43 % 73 7; A; 4 7 i; 43 % % ¥ % 4% 7; 7; A A 7 4 , A 43 A; 4} 7 A; 7 A; 7; station must maintain ce a irescue corps to serve e mines * ; A Fs race against the business candidate. ee bf nap seven se Labor controls the district when it idea is a popular one, and the great | iS not divided. majority of the mines operate under| Lawrence Flaherty, head of the such protection. This central rescue | Building Trades Council, and James istation idea is worked out to greater | Mullen, editor of the Labor Clarion, advaritage in Great Britain than in| are also running. * "4 ere are usuall Sieisce wanes ¢ mines in a Bs Watch the “Daily Worker” for the rea, all connected by fine, level | first instalment of “A Week", the roads. , great epic of the Russian revolution, ‘These central rescue stations are hy the Brilliant young Russian writer, Tury Libedinsky. It will start soon. to select one of them to make the manned oo hae sind bed sixteen the number of brigades which come to the station for training. The sta- tions having sixteen permanent em- ployes are combination rescue and fire stations and are located in the fields. where there is considerable trouble with underground fires. In ‘these districts they have found it orth while to have a crew of at The chart to the right shows the vol- ume of money for- warded by Americans to relatives and friends in Russia through the Amalga- mated Banks of New York and Chicago from January to No- vember, 1923. The solid blocks show amounts remitted each month. The ris- ing line shows cumu- lative total to date (November 30th). tions are also equipped to take care of surface fires; this ‘tion makes possible a material reduction in fire insurance premiums, Fire Hazard Greatest “There are comparatively few ex- plosions; the majority of the calls on rescue stations are for mine fires, most of which are caused by spon- taneous combustion. In some areas this danger of spontaneous fire is so great that a single stick of timber left in the ag may start a fire, so that all timber must be removed re- rdless of cost. Underground fires iy general are quite different from those in the United States, Active, fierce-burning fires such as occur in our mines, worked on the room and pillar system, are infrequent. Con- sequently methods of fighting and controlling are different.” Watch the “Daily Worker” for the first installment of “A Week,” the $2,500,000 2,000,000 the soldiers returned, jobless and on a soldiers’ bonus, t Out In the Open. | “We are not out to ‘undermine’: fi houncement under date of meeting. |the government,” said the chairman, | “fe But we} ‘or ‘we work in the open. agree with the Declaration of Inde- 'ipendence—a document in whose principles even you 100-per Ameri-| i cans profess to believe—when it says that whenever any form of govern- ment becomes destructive of the life, liberty and happiness of men, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government which shall function in its interest. And for my part, I prefer a workers and farmers’ gov- ernment operating in the interests of t%e great mass of the population, the working class, than a political government corrupt to the core, which serves only the interests of a small group who own everything, ‘and do nothing.” The audience ap- plauded. Cop Chases Disturbers Out. He was followed by Joseph Sgovio of Buffalo, who took the floor in de- fense of the resolution to recognize Soviet Russia, but about this time the ex-service men, who had already risen to leave the hall, began pass- ig personal remarks to embarrass the speaker, and a policeman who had been summoned by the Legion- aires, dispersed the 5 For a wonder, the bluecoat took the part of those holding the meet- ing, radicals tho they were, and the defenders of capitalist reaction were the first to have their oratory ogre in the bud, and hustled out of the hall. bin He had simply swallowed that | penniless, had not one cent to spend ; —_—<—_[—<—<—_—<—X—X««—<————aanmnn@n@a@eaea®ee_eeQee_eEeeememeEEEE00_0_ 02 eee Pomerene, Trust Tool, Is Coolidge Choice as Prober (By The Federated Press) CLEVELAND.—Former Sen. At- lee Pomerene of Ohio, appointed by President Coolidge as special coun- sel for the investigation of the Tea- pot Dome and Elk Hills oil lease, is a tool of big business and an enemy spokesmen here. As the “liberal” lieutenant gov- ernor of Ohi> in 1910, he secured his election by tne state legislature to the senate with professiuns ot leve for the common people. Once in the senate, he stived the big corpora- tions so well that he was Jafeated for re-election in the last eleciton, largé- ly by an apy-val sent out to the rail- way workers of the state by the transportation brotherhods urging his defeat beruuse of his anti-labor record and his advocay of the Esch- Cummins jaw. In a statement recently filed with trust companies in the country, and the interstate commerce commission, he admitted that he fs now the attor- ney for 15 railroad companies, He is also a director and attorney for one of the largest banking and trust jcompanies in the country, and con- Them Out > the workers, according to labor Room/the speaker, Louis Slotkin, thought nected with a host of lesser corpo- rate interests closely enmeshed with the big banking powers. : Watch the “Daily Worker” for the first installment of “A Week,” the epic of the Russian revolution, by the brilliant young Russian writer, lury Libedinsky. It will start soon. For Recognition of Soviet Russia! os pon “lt To | the Workers Party [) of America The Jewish Socialist Party (Left Poale Zion) congratulates you on your splendid paper, TH DAILY WORKER. We wish the DAILY the it deserves and hope that it will carry the gospel of True Commun- ism to the laboring masses of this country. 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