The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 21, 1924, Page 4

Page Four GERMAN WORKERS SHARING SCRAPS WITH EAGH OTHER Workers Council Feeds Thousands Daily By LOUIS P, LOCHNER. (Staff Correspondent of the Fed. Press) BERLIN, April 20.— In Germany, as in every sation, there are hard ~- hearted people con- cerned about themselves alone who are spending the winter on the Ri- viera or in southern Italy while their fellow human beings at home are starving. It is true that the big em- ployers discharge thousands of em- ployes in an effort to vreak the eight- | hour day, and then, with a grandilo- quent gesture, make a donation to “charity” for soup kitchens. But it is also true that there is a heroism and self-sacrifice and broth- erliness shown by certain classes of the German people, especially by the | workers and the impoverished intel- lectuals and middle-classes, of which | little news reaches the outside world. Take the workers. There are the; postal employes, who are especially | concerned about their old people and about those who were dismissed when economy hit all departments of the government. In Berlin, Dresden, and Halle all postal employes contribute a share of their wages toward help- ing the less fortunate. Hamburg Workers’ Council. Again, in Dresden, the employes of a number of large firms have taxed themselves a percentage of their wages. The money is used for soup kitchens feeding 200 unemployed each. They have insisted that their employers furnish the rodm for the kitchens. In Lubeck and Bergen the maunicipal employes voluntarily part with a share of their wages for the waemployed. In Hamburg a work- érs’ council has been organized, which daily distributes 10,000 meals, the money for which comes from the employed workers. International Workers. In Berlin there is much activity. One channel is the International By A. BIMBA. I hope that the declaration of the Central Executive Committee on the “Activities of the Workers . Party” will be carefully read and studied by all of our comrades. The C. E. C. correctly points out that “our supreme objective, our fundamenal conception in the period inmmediately before us, must be the building of a mass Com- and that “that means that the activities of our Party must be developed upon a balanced program of education, organization, and strate- gy.” If we carefully analyze the de- velopment of the Workers Party and its present status, we WTll find that we haven’t had such a balanced program. And I think that the organizational part of our program has been and still remains very far behind all other acti- vities of our Party. Our Party orga- nization is not closely following our influence in the masses, which we have attained during the last two years. No Slacking of Education Let us be understood that we can- not even for a moment entertain the idea that we should slacken our edu- cational and political activities. We must carry them on with still greater enthusiasm and intensity. And when I say that we must pay more atten- tion to our organizational work in the Party, I do not entertain the notion that we should neglect our educational and political activities. What we need is not minimizing one or the other phase of our movement, but proper co-ordination of them. “All educational and political activi- ties must be closely followed by orga- nization,” says the declaration of the Cc. E.C. “The party must absorb dnd make use of all the workers brought into sympathetic contact with the party thru education or common participa- tion in the struggle. Organization is a question of life and death to a Com- munist movement; our activities of every sort must receive special orga- nizational attention, they cannot be allowed to drift along in a vague and uncrystalized form.” Thru our political activities we have created large spheres of influence in various organizations of the workers. Thousands of workers are our sympa- Organizational Problems of the thizers. They are with us and are working for our program. Ideological- ly they are ready for membership in the Workers Party. Now the ques- tion arises: why are they not in the Party? I see only one answer to this question and that is that we have not convinced them of the importance and the necessity of joining the Com- munist Party. They do not under- stand the role of the Communist Party in the class struggle. As soon as we convince the worker that the working class cannot over- throw the yoke of capitalism without organized communist leadership, he will join your ranks. Now the thing for us to do is to bring the message of the Workers Party to these thou- sands of sympathizers, and gradually they will be absorbed into the Party. They know that there is somewhere in existence such a thing as the Work- ers Party, but they do not know that the moving and guiding force behind all the revolutionary movements in this country is the Workers Party. Our sympathizers see only individual members of the W. P., but they doj not see the Party as such. Two Methods There are two ways of bringing the message of the Workers Party to these. sympathizers. One is thru the individual members of the Party, and another thru the mass meetings of the Party. I do not want to take too much space of the paper, therefore, I will say a few words only about the second question. I think that so far we have either been unable or did not see the ne- cessity of utilizing our mass meetings for approaching the workers with the message of the Workers Party to the extent that we should have done. Our speakers very cleverly discuss the general problems of capitalism and the working: class movement. They are real masters in condemning the capitalist system and in exposing its decay and crimes. And the workers like their speeches very much. They applaud, they contribute money to further our work, they are ready to fight with us against the enemies of the working class. That is, thru our meetings we increase the number of our sympathizers. But we do not take time and pains to tell these workers THE DAILY. WORKE what our party is doing, what is its program, and why it is absolutely ne- cessary for them to come and join our ranks. We do not tell them that it is not enough for them to help the Communists and their movement, but that they themselves must become Communists by joining the Commu- nist Party. Three Examples As examples of the neglect of our organizational work along these lines I want to take the last three mass meetings that were held in the City of New York. First, the great mass meeting in |Madison Square Garden. As far as the attendance is concerned the meet- ing was a success beyond our expecta- tions. But did it bring great organi- zational results? No! Why? Let us us look upon the arrangement of the program. We had the best speakers. Comrade Foster was to make an ap- peal for the Workers Party. He de- livered a masterful speech, But he-was left last on the program, when many of the people were already leaving the hall and about half of the dience was standing between the chairs. The speech lost its entire effect and the good appeal did not bring the desired results. The main object of the meeting should have been to convince the workers that the Workers Party is a Party of Leninism and if they want to effectively con- tinue the work of Lenin they must join the Workers Party. Instead of that the meeting turned out to be a Communist school room in which the teachers very effectively expounded Leninism to their pupils, that is, they have done good educa- tional work and increased the num- ber of our sympathizers, but the or- ganizational results of the meeting were almost negligible. Lack of Co-ordination. What was the matter? We abso- lutely failed in the co-ordination of our educational work with the organ- izational. Comrade Foster should have been placed either first or second on the program. He would have pointed the way of the entire meeting, the way that leads direct in- to the Workers Party. Leninism in this country would have been made a synonym to the Workers Party. Workers’ Aid, concerning whose soup kitchens, supported by the workers from all over the world, The Feder- ated Press has reported repeatedly. The German workers themselves are contributing loyally to this organiza- tion. The Committee for Workers’ Welfare lays special emphasis upon child feeding. This committee has branches in other cities. One form of quiet, unassuming help of which little is known is that of in- ~—-uiting.aneedy person to take meals in one’s own family. It is hard to obtain statistics om this, but there can be no doubt that the practice is widespread. The welfare organiza- tions have tried te encourage peo- ple to report to them when they ar- range for a steady guest, but many prefer not to report. The figures ob- tained speak of 125,000 men, women and children receiving free berths at the tablés of others. School Children Share Meals. In many families children take a double portion of lunch to school. The children deliver the second lunch t& the teacher, who distributes the of- fering. Another practice is that of having classes at school “adopt” an aged couple by supplying food. When considering the appeals of German relief organizations in Amer- ica, it should be remembered that the German workers are digging deep in- to their threadbare pockets to relieve distress. New Jersey Wages Drop. PHILADELPHIA, April 20.—Wages are falling in New Jersey, according | to a report issued here by the Phila- delphia federal reserve bank show- _ ing that average weekly wages de- clined 1 per cent in March. Despite the customary spring tncrease in jobs, there was no more employment in New Jersey in March than in Feb; Tuary. Textile and leather manufac- ture showed a shatp decline in em- ployment. Detroit M. D.s are turning down Ford's bid to eat hash in that town at Henry's hospital because—the doc- _ tors there who use the saws out up the patients a la Ford and punch the clock for Henry's board. They sed to them it seemed to be that all Hank Ford's efficiency, as shown in running hospitals for fixing livers, lungs and galls, made surgeons into human tinkers, instead of scien- tifle thinkers. They overhaul’ the human frame as a garage man does same with one of Henry's cars of tin when any parts get worn too thin. They jack the poor cuss up in bed, shoot anesthetic in his head, roll up their sleeves, adjust their bench and fix him with a monkey-wrench. In these days workers seem to be} THAW MILLIONS ARE THE STAKE IN SANITY TRIAL Evelyn Wants Russell to Inherit Estate. PHILADELPHIA, April 20—The entire aspect of Harry K. Thaw’s san- ity trial has been changed by collapse of the orignal plan to have the mil- lionaire paranoic testify in his own behalf and tell his story to the jury. The plan collapsed when opposition counsel refused to cross-examine Thaw. Now, however, the part that Eve- lyn Nesbit, Thaw’s former wife, can Play becomes of increasing impor- tance. She was to have been used to prompt Attorney Gray in cross-ex- amination of Thaw. On behalf of her son Russell, for whom she claims heritage of the Thaw millions, she is opposing Harry’s release. Gray had been in doubt as to whether he would call Evelyn to the stand. He would not have done so had he cross-examined Thaw to his satisfaction. Now he may play Eve- lyn as his big card. Similarly, the opposition’s interest in Evelyn increases and they were considering the possible damage she might do their cause. Mrs. Mary |Thaw, Harry’s mother, still is ada- mantly oposed to a settlement with Evelyn, however. . As the case now stands, prepon- derance of evidence is on Thaw’'s side, but so is the burder of proof. His counsel has called alienists, phy- sicians and friends of the alleged lun- atic to prove him sane. The other side has alenists to declare him other- wise. Hearings resume Monday. the victims of efficiency, From hu- man beings they've become high- speed machines, fast-geared but dumb. Somehow a man ain’t just the same when he’s a number, not a name, mvhen his whole life they Taylorize, until efficiently he dies, and Manager of Personnel comes round to see the folks and tell that Number nineteen twenty-four has breathed his last and is no more, and that the com- pany’s own priest will function with the very least loose motion, friction, and lost power in this the very trying hour when Number nineteen twenty- four has punched the clock on yonder shore. I hadn't otta be profane, but we may see an endless chain pick up the workers, crushed and gory, and run ‘om straight to purgatory, ANNA GOULD’S HUBBY READY TO HOCK HIS GERMAN PRINCIPALITY PARIS, April 20.— “This prince is too much trouble.” That, in a sentence, sums up the reasons the.. duke of Talleyrand de Perigord, husband of Anna Gould, has put his principality of Sagan on the auc- tion block. “My rights as Prince of Sagan aré very limited,” the duke explain- ed in an interview with newspaper- “and there are too many “L have nothing to do with the laws, of the principality and have little authority. In fact, I’ve noth- ing except my titles, my lands and my chateau. “My subjects are dependents of Germany.” The principality, which the duke announced as “for sale” recently, is situated between Silesia and Bradenburg and has existed since.. 1649, when the King of Bohemia made a gift of it to the great mili- tary leader Wallenstein. it has been in the Talleyrand family since 1845. It includes 500 square miles with 65,000 inhabitan' a capital city and a river full of fish, Our Daily Pattern. “PETER RABBIT” AND HIS SPRING SUIT. 4692. Here is a well-known nur- sery friend, ready for the Bunny Parade, with a new Jacket and Over- alls. One could make the Jacket of satin or velvet, and the Overalls of flannel, jersey or linen. The Pattern includes the “doll” and the garments, It is cut in three sizes: Small 12, Medium 16, Large 20 inches in length. A 12-inch size requires 44-yard for the “doll” and %- yard for the jacket end overalls. To make as illustrated will require %-yard of 27-inch material for the Jacket, and %-yard for the Overalls. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 10c in silver or stamps. The DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washing- ton St:, Chicago, Il. Send 12c in silver or stamps for our UP-TO-DATE SPRING AND SUMMER 1924 BOOK OF FASH- TONS. How many of your shop-mates read THE DAILY WORKER. Get one of them to subscribe today. Monday, April 21, 1924 orkers Party Second, our mass. meeting on the celebration of the Paris Commune and the Fifth Anniversary of the Com- munist International. We had several good speakers. All of them spoke about the Paris Commune and the heroic struggle of the communards. The main lesson from the failure of the Paris Commune is that the com- munards were too lenient with their enemies. Therefore, when we get power we must show no mercy toward the counter-revolution, and hence the necessity of the dictatorship of the proletariat. None of the speakers pointed out that another reason for the failure of the Paris Commune was because they did not have a well organized Com- munist Party. None_of.them said anything about. the Communist International and its American section, the Workers Party. Only at the énd of the program the chairman of the meeting talked a few minutes about the Communist Inter- national and the Workers Party, He spoke well, but there wasn’t sufficient time to expound that very important question, the audience was already tired and their minds were more on the question of how to get home as soon as possible and not on the ques- tion of Communism, Again the great occasion for a party membership drive was entirely lost, and of course, we didn’t get any organizational re- sults from this meeting. More Organization Detail Needed. Third, the meeting on the Teapot Dome scandal. We had four speakers. They condemned the capitalist system and the capitalist government to its very roots. I listened very attentive- ly and only once heard the name of the Workers Party mentioned, and in such a way that hardly anybody un- derstood what it w&s all about. Again we gained some more sympathizers, we have done good educational work, but nothing in the line of organiza- tion. We had three mass meetings under the auspices of the Workers Party, which were absolute failures from the standpoint of organization. If we want to get the workers into our Party we must change the char- acter of the programs of our mass meetings. We must call upon them to join our ranks. Labor Party campaign: Chicago Greek Branch Chicago Italian Branch Kansas City English Branc’ St. Paul Czecho-Slovak Branch. North Hudson English Branch Frederick English Branch ... Jamestown English Branch . Gardner Lithuanian Branch . Westville Lithuanian Branch Barracksville South-Slavic Branch Erie German Branch .... The Party at Work BUILDING THE FARMER-LABOR FUND! Here is another list of branches which have done their part in helping the party win a great victory in the Farmer- Powell French Branch.. Racine Lithuanian Branch. Glassport Finnish Branch Portland English Branch Providence Russian Branch. Milwaukee English Branch. Rochester German Branch . Detroit Italian Branch .. Mountain View South-Slavic Branch Technical Aid Branch, Buffalo. 5.25 5.00 15.00 - 10.00 12.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 4.00 15.00 10.00 14,00 10,00 10.00 11.00 7.00 6.00 5.00 8.00 10.00 6.00 What about your branch? Has it sold its quota of the Mass, Class Farmer-Labor Party Labels? The party needs the support of every unit in this cam- paign both organizationally and financially. Will you help by raising your quota of the Farmer-Labor Party Campaign Fund? JACK PFEFFER. Director of Russian Opera. Last week artists from the Russian Opera under the direction of Jack Pfeffer, gave three concerts for the striking workers at 180 W. Washing- ton St. The artists who took part in these concerts were: Vladimir Swetlow, tenor; Ina Dain, soprano; Edmund Zigman, violinist, and Astor, pianist. The concerts were crowned with great success and every concert was followed by thunderous applause from the workingclass audience. Jack Pfeffer promises at all to come to the support and the workers with music and. ’ ‘ ' 4 Senators Vow They Will Pinch Brother Of Harry Daugherty By The WASHINGTON, “Apiil 200° Senator Wheeler and Senator Brookhart, fol- lowing an executive session of their committee April 16, announced that Mal Daugherty, brother of the form- er attorney general, will be arrested and brought before the senate for contempt. They decided that Howard Mannington, who has defied the com- mittee’s summons to testify and has raised the same objection that was used against the oil investigating committee by Harry Sinclair—that it has no legal authority—shall be re- served for direct criminal prosecution on charges of bribe-taking and con- spiracy to violate federal laws. Man- nington was dne of Harry Daugherty’s close associates. He is alleged to have shared the graft in the issuance of whisky removal permits and in the illegal transportation of the Dempsey prizefight films, Down With War, Say Women NEW YORK, April 20.—Make War Ilegal—Abolish the Army and Navy, said the signs carried by Women’s Peace union representatives who marched to the New York state: Re- publican convention here. The women, led by Tracy Mygatt, saw the Repub- plank should go in the G. O, P. plat- form. YOUTH VIEWS By HARRY GANNES VON SEECKT DICTATORSHIP DE- LAYS Y. C. I. BUREAU SES- SION DECISIONS. Suppression and the Von Seekt dic- tatorship in Germany delayed the arrival of the Resolutions and Theses of the Fourth Bureau Session of the Young Communist International, held in Moscow last year. Tho the decisions and resolutions were written some months back they are particularly applicable to present conditions in the league and in the United States today. What will interest our members and the workers generally in the United States most is the anti-mili- tary decisions. One of the pointe in the bureau session pamphlet that is particularly meeting the attention of the Ameri- can comthunist yourn organization, the Young Workers League of Ameri- ca, is that which calls for “the organ- ization of a widespread anti-militarist education among the children and youth, With war preparations speeding up, the anti-military resolution of the Fourth Bureau session is of imme- diate importance to the young work- ers of this country and makes very interesting reading. The members of the Y. W. L, will find it the best guide for their work in this field. What is of permanent importance to the young workers, as well as the adult members of the revolutionary movement is the experiences of build- ing shop nuclei an@ the conclusions drawn therefrom. All over the world the young com- munist leagues have been trying to reconstruct and build their organiza- tions on the shop nuclei’ basis, at the Place of work rather than in resi- dential territories; and success has been recorded by more than one country. Foremost is the young com- munist league of Germany. In the United States, the Young Workers League has_ established some shop nuclei, and continually stresses the importance of changing to this form of organization. ‘The Workers Party has also paid some at- tention to this necessary organiza- tional work. The Thesis and Resolutions of the Fourth Bureau session contains some very interesting and nerpful material for those comrades w&o work in shops, the proper places for the or- ganization of shop nuclei. Every member of league and party would find it enlightening to study and un- derstand the shop nuciei resolutions of the young communist international especially since these resolutions are based on nearly one year of experi- ence all over the world. The statements on the agrarian youth will interest our farming com- rades, and the trade union and eco- nomic resolutions are of prime im- portance to our members in the trade unions and in industry. The number of pamphlets available is limited; and copies ‘can be had from the Y. W. L., 1009 N. State St., retail 20 cents; for bundle orders (10 or more) 17 cents a copy. Show “Polikushka” At Symphony Hall in Boston on April 22 BOSTON, April 20.—The activities of the Boston local of the Friends of Soviet Russia will receive an addi- tional spurt with the showing of the film “Polikushka” and “Russia and Germany” in that city. These films, so well received in all cities thruout the country, will be shown on April 22 at Symphony Hair. Not content wits the usual promo- tion for the showing of these pic- tures groups are being organized un- der the direction of Comrade George Kraska, secretary of the local, to visit and speak at labor and fraternal organizations. The showing of the pictures in this city are only an addition to the ac- tivities of this local. A house to house canvass for funds to aid the starving German workers and their children tho smaH-in total, averaged $10 per couple. o. 02:@ SAN FRANCISCO, April 20.— A squad of six policemen in charge of ® sergeant were present to investi- gate a mass meeting held by the San Francisco local of the F. S. R. The Police were sent by Lyman Wilbur, professor at the University of Cali- fornia, and at present in charge of the General Allen Drive, a German relief campaign organized by the 1a- bor-hating “Hell 'n Maria” Dawes now in Germany, and father of the Min- ute Men of the Constitution of such ill odor in Illinois, Am explanation of the purposes of the F. S. R. and a show of the litera- ture on hand seemingly convinced the police who returned to report to their chief, Lyman Wilbur. The San Francisco local, one of the most active of all the locals in this country, on March 19th made a 647 pound shipment of clothing on the steamer “Drechdyke” and have dou- ble that amount ready for the next steamer, ‘ i pe one Bate at shop-mates read bby nd ot |THE DAILY WORKER. Get one of beard gy fon #0 Ret cent ones » | Aiveme te eubescibe teday, ee OPERATORS USE UNEMPLOYMENT IN WAR ON MINERS But Strikers Refuse to Take Wage Cuts By LELAND OLDS. (Staff Correspondert of the Fed. Press) Slack business makes this the ideal time for the coal operators to settle issues with the miners, according to the editor of Black Diamond, the lead- ing operators’ journal of the trade. Both editorially and in its news cdl- umns this periodical shows that un- der cover of the Jacksonville agree ment the operators intend war on the United Mine Workevs. “With business at a standstill.” says the editor, “and with contracts hard to secure it cannot be material to many operators wether they run their mines now or not, so_ settle- ments of the points at issue might be brought about even tho it might involve suspension of operations, 200,000 Miners Unemployed. Approximately 200,000 miners in the union fields are now out of employ- ment, according to Pres. John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers. The remaining 350,000 are not work- ing more than two or three days a week. Strikers by States. Those completely idle include 80,- 000 on strike against a cut in wages. These are distributed as follows: 40,- 000 out in Missouri, Kansas, Arkan- sas, Texas and Oklahoma; 5,000 in southeastern Kentucky and Tennes- see; 10,000 in southern West Virgi- nia; 10,000 in Canadian provinces and 15,000 in western Kentucky. i Rate at Which Fields Work. The extent of the depression in mining during the latter half of March is shown in the weekly pro- duction figures of the U. S. geological survey. These show many import- ant fields operating at less than 50 per cent of capacity with “no mar- ket” the chief cause. The percent of capacity idle is shown in the follow- ing table: Illinois . Indiara Southern Ohio . Pittsburgh rail Westmorland ... Central Pennsylvania ..... West Virginia—Fairmont Winding Gulf . New River Pocahontas Tug River Kanawha Logan .. 58° Kentucky—Northeast 61 «» Western Hazard Harlan The process of surrounding the cen- tral competitive field with open shop fields operating at a lower wage scale is slowly proceeding. The agreement on the part of the Northern West Virginia Operators’ Association to ac- cept the Jacksonville scale appears to have been made by a rump organiza- tion of that body. According to Black Diamond only 21 of the mines in that group voted for ratification and many of the remainder will attempt to op- erate independently of the union. It continues: Drive On Wages Continues, “Where there has been no agree ment with the union, mine owners are seeking business and at such times as contracts are secured expect to resume operations on an adjusted - wage scale. On the Monongah divi- sion of the B. & O. and on the Mon- ongahela railway it is claimed that, there are 25 non-union mines in op- eration in addition to many mines on the Cumberland division and the Charleston division of the B. & O. not to speak of the non-union mines on the Morgantown and Kingwood railroad. On the Monongahela rail-- way in Pennsylvania near the West Virginia line and therefore in com- petition with mines in Monogalia county 50 of the 75 mines are being operated on a non-union basis. In the Upshur county field virtually all of the mines except those of the Red Rock Fhel Co. at Red Rock are op- erating now and have been operat- ing since the first of April on the 1917 wage scale.” Canadian Government Makes Effort at Tax Cutting to Save Self OTTAWA, Canada.—The Canadian government has taken a step toward the reduction of taxation. It has not reduced the income tax, but it has made some small cuts in the tariff and in the sales tax, The tariff reductions ®re limited to implements used in agri- culture, lumbering, mining, fishing and the coke industry. There are some re- ductions in the taxes on a few varie ties of food; but these are by a low- ering of the sales tax and not by the tariff. The sales tax is subjected to @ general cut from 6 to 6 per cent, The sales tax on boots and shoes is cut in two, - . Most of these changes are in the na- ture of a reduction in protection, but there are exceptions.. The reductions are due to the political situation, which makes it necessary for the gov- ernment to get support from the Pro- gressive party, Western Liberal feel- ing, too, has been vigorously demand- ing changes in that direction, — een ae ‘ fri ea | } | |