The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 25, 1924, Page 5

Tuesday, March 25, 1924 THE DAILY WORKER Page Five memenemensores, BURNS’ COPPER SPYING EXPOSED IN MORE LETTERS Private Dicks Worked Under D. of J. Men Further disclosures of the Burns’ labor spy in the copper industry are being made by the Industrial Work- ers of the World in this issue of In- dustrial Solidarity which is publish- ing more of the 200 confidential let- ters which have fallen into its posses- sion, Today’s disclosures show that De- partment: of Justice agents acted as foremen. over the private Burns Dicks who were retained in behalf of the associated copper companies in Arizona and Southern California. Former disclosures showed Burns sending D. of J. men to assist his private operatives in the work for Jess his agency was being paid for the magnates. These letters reveal the D. of J. men as the expert direct- ‘ors of the lower grade private dicks. Under Noonan’s Direction, For instance we find the Log An- geles branch of Burns agency in- forming J. G, Crowley, who is repre- senting their espionage interests at Jerome, Arizona, July 19, 1923: “This is to advise that an opera- tive will call on you soon, identify- ing himself as Z-3, and giving you his name and address. He will be in and around Jerome for some time to come and will be more or less under the direction of Noonan of the Department of Justice, who will probably be in Jerome in the near future, “I am of the opinion that this operative, while not a whirlwind, will make a very good man in that district...” The letter is marked PLEASE DESTROY. The “Z-3”, referred ‘to, is J..J, Spear, an 1 W. W. delegate until he was expelled following these disclosures. Z-8 was appointed dele- gate thru the influence of Fre Haines, alias Harris, a Burns spy who was also a delegate in the Metal Mine Workers Industrial Union until he was uncovered. Operated in AX F. of L, Burns agents operated in the A. F. of L. unions freely. Reports to the Los Angeles office from “Inspector L-42”, “Inspector L-43” and Opera- tive “N-1”, transmit to the Burns Los Angeles office odds and ends of data on wage conditions and gossip picked up in union halls in various Los Angeles cities. Writing from Miami, May 14, 1923 Inspector L-42 tells that he overheard “Barry of the Cooks and Waiters” say that the heads of the Mexican social organizations tell of plans to organize the ning. worker under the banner of the “International”, mean- ing the Mine, Mill and Smelter Work- ers of the A. F, of L. The “Club de Mineros”, a Mexican organization, is particularly mentioned in the stool’s report as active for the union. The rest of the letter deals with I. W. W. miners’ organization movements at Globe. A later letter from “Inspector L- 42”, May 28, brings in President Moyer of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers union, passing on the in- formation that a local citizen had re- ceived a letter from Moyer, saying he was sending two organizers to the Globe-Miami district and would have co-operation from the United Mine Workers. Inspector L-42 goes on to report who will speak at the Miami central body’s meeting. Don't Know Labor Movement. The Burns agents, however, show slipshop methods and lack of. knowl- edge oF the labor movement, as when “Inspector L-42” says a union speaker represented the “Trades Department of the American Federation of Labor”. i Long letters from operatives deal with such “shadower” details as the trailing of A. F. of L, and I. W, W. organizers from town to town in Ford ears. The agency in turn writes sheriffs and other officials telling where the men are and what indict- ments they have over their heads. Raise Stool’s Pay. This Fred Haines, listed in the Burns files as operative “W-1" turned in so many unionists to the companies ‘that H. D. Dowell, who handled the paying of the detective agencies for the associated copper companies, writes from Globe, Arizona to George P. Pross, Burns’ Los Angeles man- ager, July 19, 1923, that “W-1’s” sal- ary be increased $50.00 a month, “same to be charged to the clients concerned”. Haines and J. J. Spear, “Z-3”, were the two operatives sent to Globe sev- eral weeks before in response to a request by William J. Burns, Washington, on the stationary of the Department of Justice, Stool’s Expense Account. Z-8's expense account the day he lined up in the I. W. W, luminating Red bor It reads: Oargens $6; betes tees anee wd Z tion, $4,505 $15 total, $34.36. OUT WITH DAUGHERTY! a at eS A Sc ROA PA RRR we A De I AE wis REE EE i EE OD RT Ei a PR PEE bh Wnt BE SE a ste Niel Pit A te Bath WB RS i FB SE DE seed 28 OE eA $1—| roads, Taxi, be Stalin Discusses Russian Party Problems TOLEDO |. A. M. NOTE—The DAILY WORKER today concludes publication of a speech made by I. Stalin, of the executive committee of the Rus- sian Communist Party. He takes issue with the position of'Comrade Leon Trotsky and his group, whose views we have already pub- lished. I * * * STALIN SAID: Il, Comrade Trotzky's Letter. A Vas resolution passed by the C. C, and the C. C. ©. (Central Control Commission) on the inner Party de- mocracy, published in December, was unanimously accepted, Comrade Trotzky voted for this resolution. It might therefore be assumed that the members of the Central Committee, including Comrade Trotzky, would apply unitedly to all members of the Party and call upon these to support the C. C, and its resolutions unani- mously, This assumption has, how- ever, not been realized. Comrade Trotzky has just published a letter to all Party corporations, which can only be regarded as an attempt to weaken the will to unity among the Party members, with respect to sup- port of the C. C. and its decisions, The reader may judge for himself. Comrade Trotzky mentions the bu- reaucracy of the Party apparatus and the danger of degeneration threaten- ing the old guard, that is, the Len- inians, the fundament of our Party, and goes on to say: Degeneration of Old Guard. “A degeneration of the ‘old guard’ is to be observed several times in the development of history. Lut us take the most recent and most striking hisorical example; the Leaders and parties of the Second International. We know perfectly well that. Wilhelm Liebknecht, Bebel, Singer, Victor Adler, Kautsky, Bernstein, Lafargue, Guesde and others have been direct and immediate disciples of Marx and Engels. We know, however, that all these leaders—some partially, others totally—degenerated towards oppér- tunism ... And we must say—we, the ‘old guard’—that our generation, which, of course, plays the leading role in the Party, does not by itself include any guarantee sufficient in itself, against a gradual and imper- ceptible weakening of the proletarian and revolutionary spirit, if the Party tolerates the further development of the bureaucratic methods of the ap- paratus, which transform the young generation into a passive object of education and unavoidably confirm the alienation between the apparatus and the mass, between the old and the oung...” ...“The youth is the arty’s surest barometer, it reacts against Party bureaucratism in the most energetic manner...” “The youth must make the revolutionary formulas their own by fight....” I must in the first place dispel a possible misunderstanding. It may be seen from Comrade Trotzky’s let- RAILROADS YIELD WAGE INCREASES TO EMPLOYES B. & O., Pennsy, L. I. And Southern in Line NEW YORK, March 24.—Wage in- creases similar to those negotiated by the Big Four railroad brotherhoods with the New York Central are spreading in the east. Agreements have been signed with the Baltimore & Ohio, the Pennsyl- vania, the Long Island and the Southern railways providing increas- es ranging from 5 per cent to 6.2 per cent to engine and train service em- ployes. 30 Cente A Day More, The new Pennsylvania agreement with the train service brotherhoods provides the following increases: 30 cents a day to conductors, 2~ men and brakemen in passenger service; 32 cents a day to brakemen and switchtenders in yard service. Financial writers have expressed some surprise at the fact that other large roads are following the lead of the New York Central in view of the statement of railway executives that the Central’s action was out of line with what other roads would grant. They expect a real controversy to de- veop at the conference now in ses- sion at Chicago between the train service brotherhoods and representa- tives of ten of the largest western carriers. These carriers contend that their last year’s profits were not up to those made by eastern railroads. Poverty Plea the Buck, The hypocrisy of this poverty plea is apparent upon examination of the 1923 financial reports of carriers in question, Altogether they earned a total net income of $238,268,988, or enough to afford a return of 5 per cent on their com- bined capitalization including stocks, bonds, equipment notes, etc. As this capitalization is excessive the retyrn on actual investment appears to be nearer 7 per cent. Five of the ten operat nearly 60 cent the total mileage earned profits in excess of 11 per cent on their common stock. While only two of the ten earned Hi f shop-mates read |less than 4% per cent for their com- ait ae eee * them to subscribe today. Get f|mon stockholders and these two are one o! al represent speculative in- Siseabot Wesene the seta require- ments of the territory sh bg All earned sufficient profit charges so that a deficit on ter that he counts himself among the hold guard of the Bolsheviki, thus de- claring himself prepared to take upon himself all accusations which may possibly be brought against the old guard, should this really pursue the path of degeneration. It must be ad- mitted that this readiness for self- sacrifice is doubtless a proof of no- bility. But I must defend Comrade Trotzky against Comrade Trotzky himself, for he cannot and must not, for comprehenstble reasons, take upon himself the responsibility for a degeneration in the fundamental core of the old Bolshevist guard. Self- sacrifice is naturally admirable, but do the old Bolsheviki require it? I am of the opinion that they do not require it. Why the Comparison? In the second place, it is quite in- comprehensible that such opportun- ists and Mensheviki as Bernstein, Ad- ler, Kautsky, Guesde and others, can be named in the same breath as the old Bolshevist guard, which has been fighting honorably all this time against opportunism, Menshevism, and the Second International, and will, I hope, continue to fight them in future. What is the cause of this error, of this confusion; what need is there for it, if nothing but the in- terests of the Party is held in view, if there are no ulterior motives be- hind it, aiming by no means at the defence of the old guard? How are we to understand these ‘insinuations as to opportunism with regard to the old Bolsheviki, who have been reared in the midst of a fight against oppor-| tunism? In: the third place, I am by no means convinced that the old Bolshe- viki are absolutely immune against the danger of degeneration any more than I can reasonably maintain that we are for instance immune against earthquake. Such a danger can and must be admitted as a possibility. But is this intended to signify that this danger is actual and present? I do not believe it. Neither has Comrade Trotzky mentioned any signs indicat- ing that the danger of degeneration is an actual danger. However, there does exist a number of elements within our Party who are likely to bring about real danger of degenera- tion among a section of the Party. I am thinking here of those Menshe- viki who got into the Party against their own wilf, and who have not yet abandoned their old habits. At the time when our Party was being purged, Comrade Lenin wrote as fol- lows about these Mensheviki and the danger threatened thru them: “Every opportunist is distinguished by a capacity for adaptation, and the Mensheviki, as opportunists, accomo- date themselves in a certain sense on principle to the prevailing trends among the workers; they take on protective colors, as the hare takes to a white fur in winter. It is necessary to be aware of this peculiarity of the Mensheviki and to reckon with it. But to reckon with it means to purge jthe Party of 99 per cent of the total number of Mensheviki who joined the Party after the year 1918, that is, after the victory of the Bolsheviki had first become probable, and then certain,” Oppose “Old” and “Young.” How could it happen that Comrade Trotzky could disregard this and other actually existent dangers, and place a possible danger in the fore- ground, the danger of degeneration in the old Bolshevist guard? How is it possible for anyone to shut his eyes to real danger, and to drag into the foreground a possible danger, one really not existing at all, if he is anxious to preserve the interests of the Party, and not to undermine the authority of the majority of the C. C., the leading core of the old Bolshe- vist guard? Is it not perfectly ob- vious that such methods of procedure are simply grist to the will of the opposition? In the fourth place, why does Com- rade Trotzky oppose the “old,” thus liable to degeneration, to the “youth,” “the Party’s surest baro- meter”; the “old guard” which may become bureaucratized, to the “young”, “which has to make the rev- olutionary formulas their own by fight?” Why this placing in opposi- tion, and what purpose does it serve? Have the youth and the old guard then not always marched in one unit- ed front against internal and exter- nal enemies? Is the unity between “old” and “young” not the main source of strength in our Party? phen why this attempt to deprive the old guard of its glory, and to bring | about a demagogic incitement of the vanity of the youth, so that the slight cleft between these two main groups of our Party may be widened? Why is all this being done, if the interests and unity of the Party are being pur- sued, and no attempt is being made to shake this unity in the interests of the opposition? Is this the way to defend the C. C. and its resolution on inner Party demoracy, which, it must not be for- gotten, was passed unanimously? It is probable that Comrade Trotz- ky did not set himself any such task 'when he laid his views before the public im his letter to the Party or- ganizations. Probably he had an- other object in view, the intention of using the defence of the resolution passed by the C. C. as a cloak en- abling him to lend diplomatic support to the opposition in its contest with the C, C. of the Party. The True Meaning. If we got to the bottom of the mat- ter, this also explains the ambiguity permeating Comrade Trotzky’s letter. Comrade Trotzky forms one of, the ‘block of the ‘democratic centralists” and a section of the “left commun> ists”—this is the political meaning of this letter from Comrade Trotzky. (TOMORROW ZINOVIEV SPEAKS.) LAUGHS AT COMPARISON OF DAILY WORKER WITH ONEAL’S NEW LEADER glad to hear you Were on e Worker,” writes a friend. ‘“‘They are a live bunch and it is certainly some paper. I compare it with the New Leader of New York. The comparison makes me laugh. Your paper, militant, defiant, aggressive, educational with no pretense to high brow stuff and theirs an expression of a timid intelligentsia which looks with longing envy on the respect- ables and hopes that some day they may be confounded with them. “The only consolation I get that the Walli: the Spargos and Chester Wrights must feel that it is too bad they parted from such a sterilized, denatured bunch them- selves, m if they found a shelter under. tht wing of that foul bird, not too old to long for carrion, but -far too old to fly and which can only flutter his ill-feathered wings and squawk at Russia.” Cleveland Metal Workers Demand City Ownership CLEVELAND, March 24.—Exten- sion of the muncipal lighting plant is demanded by union machinists in answer to attempts of the privately owned Cleveland Illuminating Co, to encroach on the muncipal field. The lant charges 8 cents per kilo- while the private company 5 cents. The machinists, or- ganized in 439 of the interna- tional union, for public owner- ship and for development of the city plant so that all'customers can be served by it, including the Cleveland y company, yb United States Sailors. Take Over Honduras In Bankers’ Interests WASHINGTON, March 24.—The tropical radio station at egceiestn, capitol of Honduras, is now mann city watt CANADIAN RAIL LABOR EXPECTS WAGE INCREASES Negotiations MONTREAL, March 24.—New wage schedules are expected to re- sult from negotiations going on here between the Canadian railway com- panies and the various brotherhoods. Negotiations between the Brother- hood of Maintenance of Way Men and the railway association were re- sumed. The strike vote taken re- cently among the Canadian member- ship of the brotherhood resulted in a majority in favor of a walkout. More Wages Expected. The Brotherhood of Railroad Em- ployes and representatives of the Canadian Pacific railway are in ses- sion here now to arrive at a new;wage schedule from two different schedules, used on the C, N, R. and on the Grand Trunk railway. Since the lat- ter has been combined with the C. N. R, the demand for one single wage contract for all grades of freight handlers, clerks, stére and ware- house-men, covered by the brother- ood was made. Altho the company is willing to agree to this proposition jon arose over the demand of an increase of $16 a month for monthly rated men and 8 cents an hour for hourly rated men. Here too the final result of the negotiations are expected to be favorable for la- _ Amalgation Discussed. The amalgamation scheme for the 16 standard railway unions will be discussed in a conference expected to take place here March 23. Altho in the old craft organizations there is some strong sentiment against amal- ation it is that the con- erence at least succeed in form- ing a central committee Canadian which shall combine the various sec- tions of the movement thruout the Dominion. The fact that the Broth- erhood of Railway Employes has voted in favor of amalgamation and that the conference is to be held im- Bretherhoods Conduct | WOULD EXPEL LEFT WINGERS Prosecutors Ignorant of Our Program (Special to The Daily Worker) TOLEDO, Ohio, Mar, 24.—Charged with being members of an organiza- tion dual to the International Asso- ciation of Machinists, eight members of the Workers Party who are also members of the Trade Union Educa- tional Leauge were brought up on trial before a committee of local un- ion 105 of this city last week. The members accused are: Joseph Willnecker, Ralph M. Huff, Charles Stephenson, Clarence Buehler, J. F. Chapman, R. E. Cook, Walt Harris and Charles E. Weber. They were also accused of cir-| culating false charges against the officials of local 105. Three Grand Lodge organizers have been busy in this city for some time since they realized that their jobs were in jeopardy thru the success of the left wing elements in the union in being able to win some of the offices in the local. A letter was sent out signed by the Grand Lodge officers calling ja meeting of a certain number of jmembers of the local. This meet- ing was kept secret from the radi- cals. Charges were preferred then against the members who are now on trial. | Toledo Under Klan Control. Being asked to appear for the de- fendants in the case, I arrived in the jcity of Toledo Wednesday the 19th, This was rather short notice to pre- pare the defense. I attempted to get all of the details of what lead up to this situation. At the present time the Ku Klux Klan and other reactionary anti-la- bor organizations seem to hold full sway in the city of Toledo, the mayor being supported by.the Klan and this white robed order recently marched undisturbed in parade thru the city with all the night caps and other re- galia. Even the Socialist Party of Toledo is said to have its majority |of membership also members of the |Klan. Under such circumstances and in such an atmosphere, we found that our comrades’ trial in the I. A. of M. resembled the Michigan trial of the Communists. Ignorant Witnesses. On Thursday night the testimony from the prosecution and the defense was taken by the committee which, by the way, is appointed by the presi- dent of the local according to the (constitution of the union. The prose- cution appecced with a great number of witnesses who all practically with the exception of the business agent, Mr. Erbright, denied having any knowledge of ever having read the Workers Party program or the pro- gram of the Trade Union Educational League. As one of those witnesses stated, “I haven’t read it and I do not want to read it!” . The defense in cross examining Or- ganizer Griffith, found that this won- derful representative, of labor had not studied neither the program of the Party or the League. The defense in eross examining several of the witnesses found that those who |hed worked with the defendants |thought that they were good union |men and loyal union men and good fighters on the job. In the defense cross examination of the defendants it was found that almost everyone of them had been active in one or more |strikes. Especially in the Overland |strike in Toledo. Amusing Testimony. Some of the testimony given by the witnesses appearing before the prosecution is quite amusing. How- ever, the documents pertaining to some are not on hand as this is being written. But one of them stated that he was disgusted because said de- fendants continually talked on Russia and China and other foreign coun- tries and he didn’t like that and in cross examination by the defense this witness was asked on what occasion speeches had been made on Russia and what particular examples he feral give as to what had been said, He stated that Brother Willnecker had spoken on an article written by Senator LaFollette describing his ex- perience while being in Russia. The defense asked this witness whether he ever studied the Journal of I. A. of M. and whether he ever saw articles by Senator LaFollette on Russia. He answered that he did and also that he believed the Brother was within his constitutional rights to speak on said question, but that he and others did not like it and consequently they would stay away from the meetings, Practically all of the witnesses for the Feo Niaye nang admitted that these brothers were within their constitu- tional rights to speak on thi tions which they thought we the good and welfare of the organ- ization. None of the witnesses were able to prove that the members of the Workers Party and of the T. U. E. L. ever dealt with the employers direct- ly which should be proven if the charges were correct, that these or- ganizations were dual in character to the union. None of them could ex- lain what a dual union really juite a number of them stated t! they were within their constitutional rights in all of the actions they had operators and guarded |Mediately prior to the conference of |taken in. the local union, by Amerian by American bluejackets, so that communications with this country may be maintained, a dispatch from ve commander iat the ‘gh tec rpt ilwaukee to. the navy ent said today. Conditions. in Hon- duran capitol are quiet at present. State department officials were closely watching the situation in Honduras Serious revolution- disorders threaten to hurt the|for of United States capitalists, fncaneate Reet, A. Fr. of Ly pone halle meee conference & special signi- ee Clack Jack” Writes Book. General John J. SP pg inspecting ofce ‘in Hig mn the battle- fields of France, ining material r4 book on the world he is writing, it was learned today, pit Levgin te yen rhe @ prosecution represen y V. S. Gauthier in its closing speech laid emphasis on the fact that these men intended to overthrow the present democratic Teapot Dome government and institute in its place a so-called workers republic in this country. | Also that they were taking instruc- ore bao “ Neat Z, ged who co} lestroy the organ- ized labor movement of the United | announced later, jin its closing argument pleaded for Tuesday, March 25, Baltimore, Md., Work- ingmen's Hall, 2509 E. Madison St. Thursday, March 27, Philadelphia, Brith Shoenn Hall, 506 Pine St. Friday, March 28, Rochester, N. ¥., Amal- gamated Clothing Workers Open Foru' Saturday, March 29, Binghamton, N. 7:20 p, m,, Lithuanian Hall, 271 Clinton Sunday, March 30, 2@ 3 p. m., Utica, N. Labor Temple, 714 Charlotte St. Monday, March 31, Rochester, N. Y., Hall to be announced later. Tuesday, April 1, at & p. m,, Buffalo, N. Y., Labor Lyceum, 376 Willi Wednesday, Hall to be a § Thursday, April 3, Erie, Penna., Hall to be Penn., Friday, April 4, EB, Pittaburg, Penn,, Hall to be announced later. Saturday and Sunday, April 5 and 6, Pitts- burg, Penn., Hall to be announced Iater. States. In fact his plea reminded me of any prosecutor against the reds in a capitalist court. Defense dropping of the whole matter inas- much as the charges had no founda- tion inasmuch as no violation of the constitution could be proven by ‘the prosecution, giving the examples of loyalty of the members of the Party and the T. U. E. L. in the Ladies’ Garment Workers’ strike in Chicago where they are the most ac- tive on the picket line and also citing the threatened split in the United Mine Workers in District 5 which was presented by the agitation of the Trade Union Educational League and the Party. Good Union Record Admitted. The defense also pointed out the fact that all those defendants had been participating in one or more struggles of the working class and that some of the witnesses appearing for the prosecution admitted that they were good and loyal members of the union. The defense warned the committee. against the expulsion of these defendants from the union and pointed out the need of the militants in the organization and gave exam- ples where their expulsions would lead to the complete destruction of the union and also the disillusionment of the workers following such strug- gles. Defendants—Loyal Unionists. The final case is to be decided at the local union meeting Friday the 28th. The defense is of the opinion that the rank and file has been aroused sufficiently to turn out in great numbers and vote down this dastardly proposal of the interna- tional officials in fact the members working in. one shop signed a petition to the local union protest- ing against the action in this case, but it was not considered by the lo- cal, This is in fact not a trial of militants but it is Machinists Union Local 105 on trial whether it wants to develop and become a real fight- ing organization to effectively wage a struggle against the bosses in the city of Toledo and again become a city where organized labor will be recognized as an economic and poli- tical force. The defendants are de- termined to carry this fight to its logical conclusion which will be vic- tory for the left wing. Lusk Probe Lawyer Resents Effort to Quiz Big Oil Baron (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, March 24.— Senator Dill, Washington, a mem- ber of the senate oil committee, today charged in the senate that Martin W. Littleton, counsel for Harry F. Sinclair, was leading “a fight against “all congressional in- vestigations that would be effective.” Dill said Littleton “challenged the right and jurisdiction of the oil committee in subpoenaing wit- nesses before it and asking private questions.” “When Will Hays is about to come before the committee and go under cress examination relative tc the receipt of 75,000 shares of Sin- clair oil stock, to wipe out a deficit in the treasury of the Republican national committee and when Harry Sinclair is about to be questioned about the Teapot lease, we find Littleton here telling us we can’t ask private questions,” said Dill, Big Revolutionary Meeting Is Held by N.Y. Workers Party (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Mar. 24.—The large crowd that packed the New Star Casino to celebrate the Paris Com- mune was one of the most enthusi- astic that has ever attended meetings conducted by the Workers Party. From the very beginning when the chairman of the meeting, District Or- ganizer Charles Krumbein, mentioned Paris Commune the crowd cheered for a long time, and this was enthusiastically repeated every time the speakers that followed mentioned the heroic struggles of the French comrades and those of the Russian comrades. The meeting was proof of the growth of the influence of the Work- ers Party in this city, for not only was the New Star Casino packed but similar meetings were held in many parts of the city. An excellent musical program was rendered and the meeting closed with the crowd singing the International. |LIVE MASS PAPER, SAYS PRAVDA OF DAILY WORKER Russ Communist Daily Gives High Praise (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, March 24.—The appear- ance of the DAILY WORKER, of Chicago, is hailed by PRAVDA, 6f- ficial organ of the Russian Commun- ist Party, as follows: The American Workers Party has started to publish “The Daily Work- er”, the first Communist English lan- guage ¢ in the world. The office of “Pravda” already received a few issues. Judging from these the Imily Worker is taking the right course and is a real live mass paper answering the needs of the workers, (The Daily Worker is also printing serially Libe- dinsky’s book “A Week’”’.) The Workers Party has 11 dailies in. foreign languages serving the needs of the foreign-born workers in America. The fact that the Workers Party was able to raise $100,000 for the purpose of publishing the Daily Worker proves that the American workers realize the importance of a daily Communist paper. Bankers Couldn’t Stop It. The Daily Worker is publifhed in Chicago. When it became known that the party decided to publish this paper the bankers and business men of Chi- cago, started a campaign to frighten the workers about the horrors of Bolshevism, But this attempt was futile. This organ has to carry a different character from that of the German, Jewish, Russian, Polish, Ukranian, Lithuanian, Finnish and Hungarian papers. All of these publications have a circulation of 155,000. This is a very large circulation in view of the 22,000 ‘members in the party. If we are to take into consideration that one paper is read not only by one worker but also by members of his family and friends, this circulation does not represent the actual number _ of readers. Daily Worker, Farmers’ Organ. The Daily “Worker will have to sup- ply all information regarding strikes, workers’ conferences. and conditions of the working class, The paper must also serve the farmers as well as the workers. Comrade Zinoviev in his contribution to the first number of the Daily Worker pointed out the re- lationship between the workers and farmers and stressed the significance of the farmers in the struggle as the conditions in the United States are such that the farmers are more revo- lutionary than the workers. This condition is explained by the crises in which the farmers are now passing. Before the Daily Worker lie big prob- lems, a large field and many tasks. Warmest _ greetings to the first. Communist daily paper in the ‘English greatest language in the land of the revolutionary possibilities, Committee Urges Compromise on Jap Immigration WASHINGTON, March 24.—A new scheme for the settlement of the immigration exclusion qtarrel with Japan is proposed by the Na- tional Committee on American-Jap- anese Relations, thru George W. Wickersham, chairman. ‘The com- mittee proposes a new treaty under which the Japanese would repeal all laws creating dual citizenship of Japanese children born in the United States; the migration of laborers from each country to the other to be stopped; and “most favored na- tion” treatment to be granted to all persons of either nationality resid- ing under the jurisdiction of the other. The committee asserts that for the period of 1908-1923 the net in- crease of Japanese thru immigra- tion into the United States, includ- ing Hawaii, has been 16,096, of which 8,081 came to the continen- tal United States, Electricians Win Strike; Scabs and Police Are Canned NEW ORLEANS, March 24.—The strike of electricians and linemen against the New Orleans Public Serv- ice, Inc., has been settled. The unions obtained their demands. According to the terms the two men in dispute will be reinstated, and the men who struck on their account will be givén full seniority rights, insurance, ete. All men will be in their jobs before 90 days, the strikebreakers to be fired gradually. The settlement is the work of Or- ganizer Pollard, Atlanta, who called on each director of the public utility. The boatd of directors a few days ordered the general manager to make Per hirty 7 o key dropped y-eight cops were from the police department after the settlement. How many of your shop-mates read the DAILY WORKER? Get one of them to subscribe today. NEW YORK READERS ATTENTION. CONCERT AND DANCE * Given by WORKERS PARTY SATURDAY EVENING, at 1373 - 43rd Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. PROFESSIONAL TALENT WILL ENTERTAIN Admission Including Hatcheck 25¢ the OF BORO PARK , MARCH 29TH, 1924